skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moleskine's Smartpen Merges Paper with Digital
i.e. the market is telling you to leave San Francisco. Do it.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into swagger.
Do you mean cash or Paypal & Co?
So you buy bitcoins with dollars, Bitpay exchanges the bitcoins back into dollars, and then they hand the dollars over to Steam.

And this is meant to be a good thing?
I've always wondered why hackernews hates bitcoin so much. Can someone explain?
The great question in artificial intelligence: who will become self-aware first, Wolfram Alpha or Stephen Wolfram?
This is interesting.
My Natural Baby Care Launched NEW Online Store
A little word of warning/encouragement. I did something similar a long time ago (JSONDuit), which got posted to HN by someone else.

You will probably run into a healthy mix of "that's cool" / "I did that before you!" / "but how will it make money?". Ignore it and do your thing. If you figure out how to monetize it, great! Even if you don't or if you have no desire to, you will have learned and grown during the course of the project. That is invaluable.

Have fun and screw the haters...
By this logic, you're a motorsport enthusiast if you've spent more than $1000 on a car?

$1000 get's you a decent entry level bike to commute on, that's pretty casual if you ask me.
Its not possible to maintain a rainbow table because the server would specify the string to start with.

Server sends "randomstringthatalsoreferencescurrenttime"

Client needs to add strings to this such that the MD5 hash of the result has the first N bits as 0 where N specifies the difficulty. The client is expected to send what it added to the server's string and the server verifies the proof of work.
The Case for the PS4K reads a lot like the case that consoles are so desperate they're going to caniablize everything that distinguished them from PC.

Consoles once represented predictability, stability and ease of use. Do they have much left beyond the set top form factor, 10 ft UI and a bit more flexibility on how often you're required to be online?

I don't see this evolution of the console market as positive for consumers. But according to the article people will complain online about anything good or bad, so fuck them, right? Using your adult brain to ask if something is in the interest of consumers is not necessary when children online irk you.
On a practical level, I'm very fond of the strict evaluation and the lack of purity. Its easier to write "traditional" imperative algorithms when you don't need to use monads or monad transformers everywhere.

When it comes to resources, I don't think Haskell is strictly superior. opam, merlin, and utop are pretty nice... I'm also very fond of the menhir parser generator.

On a theoretical level, Ocaml does have some neat things missing from Haskell, like its module system (with functors), polymorphic variants, etc...

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BTW, I wouldn't dump Ocaml in the "object oriented" side of things together with Scala. Nowadays the OO infrastructure is more commonly used for polymorphic variants than for OO, to be honest.
Why not? You just calculate the refund amount based on the USDBTC rate.
I do blame news outlets going for sensational news rather than factual statements.

This is real journalism:

"Flight X234 had to emergency land due to a collision with an unidentified object right after takeoff. It is not unusual to hit birds or other objects, but at at this time we don't know what it was."

This is pimping news for money:
"OMG, terrorist drone bought at 7/11 was navigated by attackers into plane to kill citizens."

Why is libel misused to silence people, while so-called journalists can lie?
> It's just as valid today as it has ever been.

This line of thinking is the source of lots of problems. The document has been amended 27 times. It's not infallible.
Global smartphone market shrinks, year over year
> It also uses the need of a militia as the _justification_ for that right.

If you believe the comments and the code are out of sync, change one. There's a patch procedure built in. Changing the interpreter to make the output match what you think the comment is saying while leaving the actual instructions intact just increases (tech / legal) debt.
> "So you buy bitcoins with dollars, Bitpay exchanges the bitcoins back into dollars, and then they hand the dollars over to Steam."

You don't have to buy bitcoins directly, you can mine them.
Pick up a dictionary. Choose a short word. E.g. Slack, Uber, Kindle, Valve, etc.
How would the AlchemyNews API be better than searching Google News?
Instagram Is Testing a Minimalist Monochrome Look
Oh god, TripAdvisor is so horrible now. Even on the desktop, you get shown the first 3 sentences of each review and if you click "More" you get a full-screen popup asking you to login.
> no other crypto currency will gain widespread adoption

Bitcoin doesn't have widespread adoption, and it is arguably the only chance for cryptocurrency to gain widespread adoption in any reasonable timeframe.

Saying that bitcoin is getting in the way of the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency is somewhat like saying that the cart could go faster if only that slow horse weren't in the way.
I don't think this applies strictly to front end teams, it applies to any team where the manager does not understand the complexity of the project or the tools needed to complete the project.
That explains why people attach value to the house, not why it's productive.
It's that people will only remember the sensationalist news. That's why it must be a requirement to only report what is factually proven or otherwise just say "planed had to land, reason unknown".
As far as I understand, this would only work if standard sequence types were defined inside a functor, which is not the case.
Not ideal if you start with dollars, but there are other currencies in use as well.
Like anything in life I think there is a bit of 'crab mentality' here where people don't want to see something succeed if they do not stand to see any reward from it.
Yes. Why not? It gives value to Bitcoin nevertheless. I see those kinds of deals as steps towards greater Bitcoin acceptance.
I don't know if there is reason to be either optimistic or pessimistic, but let's not be simplistic.

The long run is incredibly hard to predict, with all the cool tech around the corner and scientific advances that may be available in 30-50 years, the stock market may simply not be a big factor in most people's lives.

Maybe that is the worst fear of a company like Bloomberg that exists to be the ESPN of financial randomness.
That's sooo last decade.
Cash, visa MasterCard etc. - there are many banking options. There is only one Bitcoin network, and it is currently very centralized.
It's great to know that Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. Young programmers needs to learn a lot about her and her coding skills.
That's the problem, management is bad at their jobs. Management is so bad in the U.S. that everybody imagines they can hire their way out of situations rather than manage their way out of them.

For instance, when you tell people that you went to a Burger King and it took them 30 minutes to serve you a cup of coffee, the conventional answer is "it's hard to find good help these days."

That's a loser attitude on the part of management. Management hires employees, fires employees, trains employees, supervises employees, etc. If management does not take responsibility for your experience as a customer it is definitely the fault of management that you have a bad experience.

The problem has many facets but one of them is that few people are cut out to manage other people and our illusions about "meritocracy" contribute to an American culture that creates excellent foot soldiers but mediocre to terrible officers.
Makes me think of this, Facebook vs reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1BMCpPCzM
Can you ever take money out of steam?
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Given the volume of data you're leaking online, you know that you're not anonymous online, right?
Or sell other goods and services.
Agree. If the question is answered 'wrong' by most candidates, then maybe the question isn't so good after all?
Laws already exist around flying R/C aircraft.
They already have ceiling limits.
They already have airspace limits.
I live in the US, but the UK has essentially the same laws.
In the US they already have registration requirements.

"Drones" are the new UFOs at this point.
Well, https://www.apifier.com does essentially the same thing, plus it supports JavaScript, can crawl through the whole website etc.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder there
You already may not, so there's no need for extra laws to cover that, but this will be used as an excuse to appease the public when pushing an inferior law that limits freedoms a little bit more.
Then I'm converting dollars to bitcoin via my electricity bill, with even more inefficiency.
Minecraft enters virtual reality on Samsung’s Gear VR headset
teams need to be able to self-select the processes that work for them rather than have it foisted upon them.

as steve jobs said: "it makes no sense to hire smart people, and then tell them what to do."

(edited for clarity of point.)
I just asked for a refund, because the game was terrible. I asked for the refund to be sent to my wallet, there was an option to get Bitcoin back. I think that, for the wallet, they refund you the game's store price.
The thing is, how far will the Tesla software have advanced by the time Chinese car maker Volvo is ready to launch, reportedly at some date in 2017?
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Of course science evolves in small increments.

The point of my original post was to be an antidote to the extreme hyperbole of "3 women who radically ...", and to set the recored straight.
The response from their Transport Minister 7 days ago seems fairly sane to me: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/drone-believed-to...
That's a problem with people and their memory, not the news outlet. The headline at the moment literally says it was unlikely to be a drone, but that still doesn't rule it out completely. Following your rules, that wouldn't make it as a story because it isn't factually proven.
Lawyer Submits Brief Partially in Klingon for Paramount Language Lawsuit
Honestly, why do you care what Valve does with the BTC? If people want to use it, so be it. The backend isn't your concern.
I think it's more a reaction to the culty "get rich quick" Bitcoin "investors". It seems that very few people are actually interested in Bitcoin for its UX and the things it enables, everyone is either get-rich-quick or anti-get-rich-quick.
Different reasons for different people. There are several camps of BitCoin haters:

(1) There are people who think it's a pure speculative bubble or pyramid scheme. (I disagree because it has utility.)

(2) There are also people who point out that it's a deflationary currency and therefore broken. (I sympathize a bit with this view but it's not enough to make me dismiss it completely. I think this might be a solvable problem.)

(3) There seem to be some who just take a contrarian position against things that have received a ton of hype or that are too fashionable.
Then don't?
The ones that can be printed by centralized entities?
>Can someone explain?

What exactly is the news here? Some company accepts some new form of payment that hardly anyone uses.

When it comes to "money", Bitcoin proponents seem massively misinformed on how it actually works. The blockchain technology is interesting, but a new currency isn't as exciting as they want you to believe. I don't care that my dollar has no inherent value, as long as people accept it in exchange, that's all I care about. And they do, everywhere.
I hear qt is excellent, but would encourage you to do distinct ui code for each platform, in that platform's native ui libs. You'll look like a fish out of water otherwise.
From what I understood, Babbage invented his computers himself. Lovelace was helpful to him because of her high-society connection. He was hoping to popularise his work and get more funding.
Just looked at elixer and it seems really cool, but I'd like it better, i think, if it had typing like golang interfaces.

(I'm assuming the comparisons to ruby mean that it is very loosely typed, but I could be wrong). I wouldn't want to build a highly distributed app without a bunch of compiler help.
maps.%67 >> mamaps.google.com/

Bizarre.
It's a bootstrapping measure. The idea eventually is that Bitcoin will be a useful currency without such heavy reliance on converting back and forth with traditional currencies.
I think the sector is full of bullshit and there are a lot of people looking for easy money because you can easily setup a gambling site without asking for regulatory based permissions.

But, again, the core innovation about cryptocurrencies/blockchain (I risk a lot of HN karma using the later word!) is strong and has long term implications beyond the current issues on PoW, miners, etc.
PVS-Studio Team: Analysis of PHP7
It's quite amusing to hear the news about new trending programming languages and the debates about the most useful ones. Nevertheless, C and C++ are still there, quietly doing their job. For example, PHP7 is written in C, so there is a cause to run the PVS-Studio analyzer and see which bugs can be found in the PHP Interpreter.
The author believes that electric cars will be better for ride sharing services than gasoline cars because the cost per ride is cheaper.

I'm not sure I agree. Unlike private cars, shared cars are in use many more hours per day and charging time versus gasoline refill time should be considered.
Yahoo's $8 Billion Black Hole
>Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

Translation: cheap publicity in tech media and goodwill from some geek sites with no impact whatsoever on its actual revenues and 99.999% of payments.
Article: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0392/

PHP Source: https://github.com/php/php-src
kimono labs used to do something similar, but shut down recently. They had a nice clicky pointy interface that allowed you to build the selectors by clicking on elements, with an immediate preview. They also handled things like pagination etc.
1: "Thing" is developed which enjoys benign use amongst small subset of geeks

2: Military discover "Thing" and develop a way to use it for evil and/or killing

That ordering is not correct.
Money is debt. Debt is a promise of something. You default when you can't keep your promise.

If you promise gold or another country currency in exchange of yours, you can be in a position where you can't pay.

If the only thing you promise is to accept your currency back as tax payment, you are never in a position where you can't pay.

That inflation is low now is relevant because it invalidate the quantity of money view of inflation. We are in the middle of a huge "quantitative easing" and we don't see inflation. In fact we see the opposite. For instance, the ECB is injecting (if I remember properly, I didn't check) 80000 millions every month.

So, the "common sense" view of inflation have been proved wrong again and again but, we continue hearing the same thing again and again.
CRUD apps are 90% brainless. The only challenge not solved by phpMyAdmin or others alike is UI and nice connections between the data. There were already attempts at generating this 90% just to decorate with UI and additional logic, but I feel it will take some time to do it well. People got burned by GWT and other backend + frontend solutions.

Also "CRUD apps put food on the table for you guys. Be grateful!" is a really broken way of thinking. Salary after a certain point doesn't increase happiness that much [1] so there is no good reason to work on CRUD apps if one doesn't like that and can cover their needs otherwise.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628...
We Are Entering the Cognitive-First Enterprise Era
Concurrent JavaScript – Part III: Events
> but realize that as soon as your ideas are public they are internationally unpatentable.

Most countries have a grace period[0] of 6 months to a year where you can still file for patents even after public announcement. The grace period is one year for US.

[0] http://mewburn.com/resource/grace-periods-for-disclosure-of-...
Thanks for the interest...

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Strange that you use the word antidote. Did this article seem particularly poisonous? I'm not seeing it.
Thanks for the tip... I will take a look at that!
Great review even though I took NKS with a grain of salt and did not get hypnotized by it. I feel like NKS is not pseudo science but lacks much rigor and it written much like a treatise for computational experimental research on entropy and information. So Wolfram still is ok in my book despite his vices
Nerds follow most propaganda like any other sector. Do a quick poll and see what level of encryption HN uses for day to day life.
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I call bullshit.

The bomb enabled communism to take over most of East Asia.

The bomb is the reason why half the world lived under communist dictatorships.

The war could have ended via an armistice, if only America was willing to negotiate one, but no, they wanted to go all in.

After the war, Korea was worse off for decades. We think of "South Korea" as an advanced nation like Japan, but actually South Korea was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship not different from third world countries (there was a story about that just a few days ago).
Very nice idea. Although scraping should always be a last resort, I could imagine using this for semi-serious purposes, i.e. when I care enough about the output, will be doing many requests, don't mind relaying data via a third-party, etc.

I currently do quite a bit of scraping for my own use (generating RSS feeds for sites, making simple commandline interfaces to automate common tasks, etc.). I've found xidel to be pretty good for this: it starts off pretty simple (e.g. with CSS selectors or XPath), but gets pretty gnarly for semi-complicated things. For example, it allows templating the output, using a language I struggle to grasp. This service seems to address that middle ground, e.g. restricting its output to JSON, and hence making the specification of the output much simpler (a nice JSON structure, rather than messing around with splicing text together).
... warns "expert"

My issue with these stories, is that there generally is no go-to organisation for the new "Thing", so all the news articles end up quoting 'Jim , the self proclaimed expert on Thing"'
1.9.x was the development (aka "mainline") branch and 1.8.x was "stable". Odd-numbered releases directly become the next stable. See the graphic here:

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-10-1-11-released/
Seems more prominent in frontend team, cause "that shit is easy"
It's because it's not just comprised of tech people, who are excited about its theoretical underpinnings, but also by business savvy people, who know that it will hardly fly for numerous reasons (and if a similar technology ever catches up, it will have so many government imposed regulations as to be totally different), plus old jaded tech persons who know a marginal at best tech and/or snake oil when they see it.

Aside for people excited by the tech (and its potential applications to other fields), the core of bitcoin believes are either get-rich-quick types who buy into the pyramid scheme, tin-foil crackpots (similar to gold hoarders), and stick-it-to-the-man true believers (with a freeman-of-the-land [1] mentality) naive enough to believe it can trump regulation and disrupt "the system".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land
Yeah, but If I had to reverse a linked list without recursion to be hired, I'll be damned if I'm going to allow someone else to be hired without doing that.
SpaceX’s Plan to Reach Mars by 2018 Is Actually Not That Crazy
stop with this bitcoin bullshit. fuck that.
Maybe the lesson should be if you're a law abiding citizen you should be able to go throughout your day without being spied on for any reason whatsoever.
Freemium, professional support, expanding it into an abstraction layer above the APIs for multiple services, selling a version that larger companies can run on their own servers which they might need for data security...

In any case, not everything has to be monetised.
I dunno, you get to call your compiler all sorts of names without violating HR policy.
What’s the top mobile platform? #Android #iOS #wp #ubuntu?
>I think it's more a reaction to the culty "get rich quick" Bitcoin "investors".

Are there any other kind?

Besides, the fact that among the top 3 exchanges were the crap fests of "a man-week of amateur PHP code" and the like that were taken down speaks volumes about the kind of crap the bitcoin crowd can't see through.
Show HN: EverActiv, an ML personal trainer for iPhone
Well, don't hold your breath. I've literally never seen a positive word on this guy's blog. He posts over on Designernews quite a lot and it's predictably vitriolic every single time.

They're certainly fun to read, but does he actually think this is a remarkable insight into anything? You can pick any shape you want and then point out how logos are all trending towards that shape. Obviously by just selecting the logotypes that fit your argument.

It's a weak argument (what is it, anyways?) presented in an unhelpful way (criticizing a kid's school project?). Not that I buy into the idea that you have to be an artist to be a critic, but I do think your overall output to a community should be positive. You can either contribute critically by making good commentary or you can contribute productively by making good work. Eli does neither, and by the 3rd or 4th post you read by him it becomes painfully obvious.

Entertaining nonetheless, I suppose.
If it's going to be used for serious purposes it really needs HTTPS support, as most APIs do these days.
Me too! Ive started learning math. It seems like math is taught as number crunching but is really the philosophy and study of computation and operations on objects. Higher level math seems fundamental to CS and all the other sciences. Im now on my journey to understand the syntax and basic ideas. Wikipedia is great. And this video series is amazing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWFmjlB8v0
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I think in this case the story is different.

People have been flying models for a long time. But originally, model planes, etc. were expensive and relatively hard to fly. So people often knew each other and could have a mostly self-policing community.

Then quadcopter were made to be very easy to fly, and popularity made them cheap.

So now we have people flying them everywhere. Quads with cameras make people nervous. Quads flying over large groups of people, make people nervous. And quads flying very close to planes is just a very bad idea.

So it makes sense to have some rules. But governments go completely over board. And instead of investing in enforcement, they introduce painful administrative requirements.
And the factor rate, I assume, varies based on the amount, and the credit risk of the borrower. Which is why it isn't stated up front.
I am waiting on my new printer and have the option of getting either PLA or ABS material as part of the initial package.Can anyone help advise me on which would be best?
Even if it was the case that she was a "mere" patron who was into the science behind the machine itself and helped with popularising it, few people would downplay the importance of Steve Jobs for the course of computer history. So by that logic, either way we look at it she changed the course of technology.
> so there is no good reason to work on CRUD apps if one doesn't like that and can cover their needs otherwise.

Early retirement.