skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"when you are rich, it is easier to get a better return on investment" <-- This argument is valid at a scale two orders of magnitude higher than what I am talking about. It's easy to lop people with 1M net worth in the same bucket as people with 10B net worth, but there's a very meaningful difference there (beyond whether or not you decide to get a third bugatti). A million-dollar portfolio is below the thresholds that many financial institutions would consider for an investment.

"Let's say you just get the return as high as the inflation... You still have a 2M pie you can eat from :)" <-- lets say you are 25 now and you live to be 80. Even if you can just match inflation, you have less than 40K per year to play with. In most suburbs of NYC, its hard to live on that (taxes on a house alone will eat away a quarter of that).

Your arguments would be valid if I decided to move to a third world country. I could go to India and live like a king for the rest of my life on less than 300K USD. But now you are comparing apples to oranges here: taking earnings from a place where earnings and costs are high, and exporting them to a place where costs are low.

NOTE: My goal isn't to pick a fight. You will understand when you get there that a million dollars just isn't that much (and not in a keeping-with-the-joneses sense)
Wolfram Alpha: ‘People Just Need What We Are Doing’
I think it's less useful, when picking a strategy, to know what percentage of great successes were caused by obsessive focus than to know what percentage of obsessive focuses caused great success.
He seems very impressed with the privacy: "In fact, nobody knows that he got it except me and him", "nobody can ... look at your account balance".

But every transaction is public. Is there anything stopping the NSA (or Amazon, or me) from subscribing and adding up his current balance? Sure, it'll be linked to his bitcoin address, not his name, but that can't be all that hard to map, can it?
the "link" (guaranteed amount of bandwidth) they sell to you as a home customer ends with the next hop.
Here's a fine starting point:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/351
Funny you mention this, because I read a popular book today "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child", that claims that being conpletely responsive to a crying/fussy baby tends to be less about creating a nurturing parental relationship, and more about hiding from one's relationship with one's spouse.
Do you think concepts are clear? Give me some feedback please :)
I moved away from slashdot about 3 or 4 years ago.

For, it went: digg->reddit->HN.

I check HN+Reddit a few times a day.
I do apps because I think they are useful to people. I did this because I don't like the timeline view of Facebook.

and if they shut it down, so be it.
So, the idea behind this article is that Google's supposed disregard for IP is the reason that major players are suing them and their partners? I don't see how that follows. Are we to assume that if Google was a perfect citizen and 100% complied with IP, these companies would not be suing them anyway and just pat Google on the back for doing a good job? (Not to mention that the eBay/PayPal suit is only tangentially related to Android)

I think the fact that major players are suing Android just is another sign of its crazy success and the fact that Google is a relative newcomer to the field. Also I'd really like to know why Florian keeps publishing weird, illogical attacks on Android.
Regulation, not technology is holding back driverless cars
Spot on. Hiding comments fixed a problem that never really affected me.

No longer being able to assess a large page of comments without reading them all means I rarely read comments anymore beyond the first one or two top-level comments and their immediate children. I just don't have the time.

It might be more workable if you could collapse threads, Reddit style. Often so much of the discussion is in children of the top comment, you can't determine which part to read.
>Gold has applications in MANY things.

Yes, but that's not what makes it so valuable. This was discussed elsewhere but copper, for example, has many more industrial uses than gold but because it's not this one special metal it isn't worth as much. Essentially, there are real applications for gold but those alone do not account for its high value.
Celebración del Barcelona después de vencer por cuarta vez la Champions
Just Before The 'Nigerian Annonymous' Blossoms.
I agree with the second sentence but I don't see how history shows the third is true. Foreign interests have undermined both democratic and non-democratic states... any time a nation has taken control of its interests and resources (either democratically or not), powerful outsiders tend to put a stop to it. How does that promote democracy?
You create a new bitcoin address for every transaction. Some money goes to the actual recipient, and the "change" goes back to your new address. In addition, you can attempt to "launder" bitcoins by executing bogus transactions from yourself to yourself.

Posting a static bitcoin address on your website and saying "send money here" is not considered best practice.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf
Then we get to causality;

Are active, stress-free people more likely to have a drink with dinner, or is a drink with dinner helping to relieve stress?

I quite enjoy having a drink after work, especially if it's been a lot of pressure during the day. It helps me relax, disconnect from the work situation. A couple of beers and non-work-related chat will take my mind off any stressful work I've been doing, which could otherwise carry on in my mind throughout the night.
There is no "I don't care either way" option.
The initial applications of this are interesting, but it's what comes AFTER that will be really cool.

This is the capture part of the capture and display of true 3D images.

What do I mean by 'true'? Imagine a screen that works like a window.

If you think about a window or a mirror as a display screen, you can imagine that every point on the screen is a tiny hemispherical lens, light exits the screen in all directions due to these lenses. By producing light in every direction (as opposed to just perpendicular to the screen + diffusion) you could let your eye decide on what to focus. Additionally such a system would be view-angle agnostic, so you could look from the side and see a wider 'view' into the scene (again noting this works for n viewers).

Such a display would be complex to implement, but even if you had one you'd need image capture such as Lytro is providing to make it work.

Exciting times!
1) Mobilsense

http://mobilsense.com/

I worked there for a summer a few years back. They do exactly what you described.
Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace
My guess would be that these are payouts from a mining pool. People pool their hashing capacity to collectively find a new block worth 50 BTC and the pool then splits the reward between the participants. Some pools probably do this payout step on a fixed schedule.

On the other hand, most pools have moved to include several recipients into a single transaction, so if it is a pool, it's somewhat "outdated".
Its good that you want to change things and that you tried taking matters into your hands.

While I can't offer what you are looking for I'll still go for a few pieces of advice. First, realize you have been affected by the way the java enterprise world works. Proof is the list of frameworks and technologies that you felt you needed to disclose, also is the fact that you are looking for the "cool tech". Don't see these technologies as merit badges you collect, learn to look at things at a larger scale, how they compare, how they fit together, how they help you solve problems. Get really good at finding the right fit and learning the technologies quickly. Don't focus too much on the puzzles, unless you find them entertaining.

As for the finding an itch to scratch, its easier if its your own but its better if its one many people share, even better if its one technology people usually don't have. You're more likely to find one if you spend time doing other things with other people.

Finally, maybe you just need a job change not all java jobs are the same.
Everyone who doesn't live in a totalitarianism. If you're sent to Siberia it doesn't matter if you owned your farm.
Finding enough information-dense podcasts can be difficult, and programming books on tape may not exist at all, but my occasional long commutes got much more bearable after discovering that an iPhone can read technical books out loud with text-to-speech. Turn on VoiceOver in iBooks to do it. Many O'Reilly and Pragmatic Programmers books do rely on narrative, and you can always tackle the remaining code listings later.
Wow this is amazing!!! Only the save to png function didn't work for me.
But gold is way more rare than copper!!!
There is a whole literature about it. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_Cumulative_Gain
Mark Zuckerberg will only eat animals he has killed
gold is used in jewellery because it's valuable, not because it looks any prettier than other metals

I'm not so sure about that. Gold is used in jewelry because (a) it looks cooler than silver/tin/copper/etc.; and (b) because it is really rare.

So I'm proposing the chain is:

Looks good & rare -> Valuable

I think if you were missing either "looks good for jewelry" OR "rare", it wouldn't be valuable and it wouldn't work as a medium of exchange.

This is a historical perspective. These days you could also use:

Used in industrial applications & rare -> Valuable

but I doubt that would drive the value of it up to where my former hypothesis does, if it's right.
The eBay/PayPal suit is not "tangentially" related to Android. It's about Android's new mobile payment technology.

In terms of what the other companies would do, the question you have to answer is why there isn't similar litigation in connection with Apple's iOS.
I like Wolfram Alpha, but despite being way towards the top of the "people most likely to find a use for Wolfram Alpha" list, I've only found a use for Wolfram Alpha a couple of times. I use Google Calculator all the freaking time, and only resort to Wolfram Alpha on the odd occasion that Google Calculator fails me.

Does anyone use it regularly?
I think "technical cofounder" is usually defined as someone who has the capabilities to create the entire product vision themselves.

If you feel confident that you can code almost anything you can dream up, then you are probably a technical founder with business skills. If you feel like you would need help in accomplishing your vision (like hiring a programer or outsourcing the development) then you are probably not a technical founder.
smartTextBox is also GPL whilst the OP is CC Attribution.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Famine,_Afflu...
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See http://vimeo.com/22606387

Kostis Sagonas goes over PropEr and Dialyzer for Erlang.

http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming/browse_thr...

http://dialyzer.softlab.ntua.gr/

With these two tools one can have a stronger type system than Haskell. PropEr is amazing work. Not to mention CED https://github.com/mariachris/CED which checks all possible state transitions for race conditions.
1. Too much text.

2. We need screenshots.

3. "Use your semantics" doesn't really mean anything to me.

4. It doesn't seem to do anything that I can't already get. You need to find a real differentiation, or explain it better if you already have one.
You need a better, more visual way to present what you're doing. A few sentences and a link to another page with another sentence doesn't really make a strong case for using your platform.
I would think product vision and actually implementing that vision could be considered separate things, right?
"it's very hard to imagine how the causality could run the other way, or what a common cause might be."

On the contrary, a (mind that: possible) common cause is even suggested in the article itself: "Perhaps long-distance commuters tend to be poorer or less educated, both conditions that make divorce more common."
Indie data structures
I feel I have that product, but cannot reveal what it is yet, because I have to add it on to my site, which isn't public.
Absolutely. But a technical founder is someone with the capabilities to implement product vision themselves.
Can I short bitcoins? If this guy is buying, I'll take the other side of that deal.
Nice .dotfiles collection
Make a better landing page. Yours is just super confusing. "Or or or" doesn't work. What do you do exactly?

I know you're asking about marketing, but alternatively, it's possible that nobody really wants what you're building (whatever that is). Do you have people really using it?
OK, it's clearly junk crypto, but do you know enough to explain exactly what went wrong?

I heard something about being able to generate private keys from the serial numbers of the tokens, but even if that's the case, you'd need to know what token/serial number you acutally care about. Not all users are going to have access to anything interesting.
And everyone in the West agrees that nobody should get in and really muck around with the personality internals without permission, even if the person giving/ refusing permission is, like, five years old. And even though it happens anyway.

I am under the impression that other cultural traditions don't have the same value on the "transcendent subject" -- it is easier for them to support training regimes that internalize outside values. Both viewpoints -- ok, not ok -- have their pluses and minuses. We can eradicate cultures and personal viewpoints with enough training, but it is hard to decide when a culture or personality should be eradicated or not. And the left knee-jerks to don't eradicate, period (protecting some really wacked criminal shit along with that). The right knee-jerks to there is only one correct, traditional way, screwing over those who disagree (train alternative viewpoints out of them, or kill/ marginalize them).

I hope readers will understand that not everyone on either side ignores the complexity and relies and their reflexes, but, sadly, the term "knee-jerk" applies to most.
Slow down distracting sites instead of blocking them entirely
Since the internet came about has:
Healthcare become cheaper/better distributed?
Income inequality become less of a reality?
Citizens been able to create meaningful change from politicians?
People been able to organize against large corporations?

I could go on, but the answers are a resounding no. I love the internet. It allows me to feed my family. It allows me to quickly view more information than otherwise possible. But the question is what are we now doing with these huge piles of info dropped upon us?
It's probably being poor, which also correlates with worse working environments. Remember, "drive until you qualify."
Receiving data over a transit connection may be more expensive than from a CDN. In DOCSIS networks, P2P also tends to introduce last-mile upstream congestion which is expensive to fix.
bullshit reply again?

perhaps you can show at least ONE incident that happened because "third world pilots rely too much on autopilot"? I'm genuinely interested, 'cause I'm aviation enthusiast and haven't heard of any.
I use it for unit conversions sometimes, but its parser and its understanding of Gaussian electromagnetic units leave a lot to be desired.

It's also good for a quick Taylor series when I don't feel like firing up Sage.
The article states that people prefer larger houses than a small 2 bedroom apartment closer to work.

I just moved in with my girlfriend, and we chose the small 2 bedroom apartment option, with a 20-minute commute by foot for me - it makes all the difference.

We'll probably choose a house when we have children, but for childless couples, I don't see why you'd need the space (I believe people tend to accumulate too much stuff - we had to throw away or sell a lot of things!)
On the other hand, it does look like they're interpolating between discrete frames. In their fourth example (http://lytro.com/gallery/content/lytro_50_00090.php), take a look at the piece of confetti to the top left of the middle head when the focus slider is about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. It has a sharp edge, but there's also a halo around it from a frame where it's out of focus.
1.) haven't ever thought about whether /dev/random is reliable in a VM environment.
2.) have thought about it, and chosen to hope/trust that the VM provider has implemented a reliable RNG (and that your server image/snapshot accesses it properly, especially restarted snapshots).
3.) run entropy testers against /dev/random to verify entropy (and hope/trust that the entropy you observe is uninot copied to any other instances).
4.) implement RNG independently in software (e.g. *haveged*).
nature's had a long time to sort out some decent hardware and software configurations. let's follow with computers.
Because I don't think that "humanity tends to adapt to higher population densities as it needs to" is an appeal to emotion, but I do think that accusing someone's argument of being an appeal to emotion in what is traditionally a rather intellectual discussion venue is a pretty heavy accusation.

Also, this is all absurdly offtopic.
At the time of this comment this article has 35 points and 0 comments. Over the past 6 months or so I've noticed a trend that the best HN worthy articles often have points : comments ratios of 5 to 1 or less. This is a clear indication of that.
When we finally design a simulated brain, I wonder if (1) it will be really good at spatial and behavioral behavior (balancing, motor skills, quick non-explicit decision making etc), but really bad at doing math?

Not to say we shouldn't keep trying, but we all seem to think that the best computer will evolve from solving lots and lots of partial differential equations into being like the brain, but animal brains have evolved to solve really different questions than why we have been making computers.
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Take Macs for example. The hardware does not warrant the price tag; same for the OS. Most of it is marketing and perceived/symbolic value(I'll use these terms interchangeable). Gold gets its value from many sources.

Gold is expensive not only because of its applicational value(medical, space, electronics) but also its perceive value(jewelry, shiny, ect). BitCoins are perceived value.

Also, gold is used in different conditions than copper. Remember copper oxidizes which increase resistance and can even stop a circuit from functioning.

I think the price of gold is ridiculous- 1,500GBP a lbs- but it still has real value with some of that perceived- social status- value tacted on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONRZNCuZc4 starts around 1:30

I am not a gold advocate, but a raw resource enthusiast. Copper and its alloys are 100% recyclable and very easy to do! However, gold is not as easy to recycle as copper; and usually very harmful. I think mining is horrible, but there are reasons to the madness. ...until there is a better way.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/prospect1/goldgip.html
"This extension can access:

Your browsing history

Your data on all websites"

...

I don't really care... but the worry is always in the back of my mind.
Seconded. My current commute is a choice between option A: 2*7 minutes walk plus about 10 minutes on the subway and option B: 15 minutes drive. Option A, although longer leaves me much more relaxed than B. I have yet to try option C: a bike ride.
That is really interesting. I look at that and see a strong reason to look to cheaper, non-Western medicine, which has traditionally not been able to prove why it works.

I would be very interested to see a similar study for treatment of a disease that we understand better. IBS has no real treatment of cause; all treatments are palliative and all treatments effectiveness seem to be strongly correlated with the patient's mental state. Of course, even this could be hugely beneficial for a huge range of diseases like Parkinsons and the like.

I think this would be phenomenal if you were able to show a similar level of improvement with something like cancer or staff infections.
Ah ok I was under the presumption we were talking about a family here (because the numbers mean something completely different if we are talking about one person -- who doesnt need a large house -- versus a family -- who needs more space and has other expenses)

I assume you want to have a family one day :)
1.) you haven't ever thought about whether /dev/random is reliable in a VM environment.
2.) you have thought about it, and chosen to hope/trust that the VM provider has implemented a reliable RNG (and that your server image/snapshot accesses it properly, especially restarted snapshots).
3.) you regularly run entropy testers against /dev/random to verify randomness (and hope/trust that the entropy you observe is unique, not copied to any other instances).
4.) you have implemented your own RNG (e.g. *haveged* or a WAN-accessed entropy source).
Traveling upstream in the "lawsuit gradient" might just be an excellent way for Google to find important new places to innovate.
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The individual in control of the DeepBit mining pool already has about 50% of the network's computing power.

http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/5328668205/deepbit-50-perce...
Thank you! I know I have to work on the screenshots, just tried with the most minimalistic version I could. And yes, need to get the differentiator clearer.
Poll: Do you trust VM RNGs?
When running a server instance on Amazon/Rackspace/etc, where your server relies on /dev/random (e.g. for SSL and other cryptography),
"Unlike transistors, neurons are intrinsically rhythmic to various degrees due to their ion channel complements that govern firing and refractory/recovery times. So external "clocking" is not always needed to make them run."

Transistors don't need a clock in order to run. They can in fact be set up to create their own clocks. The purpose of clocks is for synchronization across the chip so that we mere mortals can modularize the operation of a CPU. That is, clocks exist mostly so that we can think in terms of sequential gate operations (or from the programmer point of view, assembly code).

The author seems to confuse the chosen approach to designing computers (VLSI), and the actual physical capabilities of a transistor. We have opted over the last forty years to develop the CMOS logic gate way of organizing computers. There are other ways, as the brain demonstrates, but it is not clear at all that you can't do it with novel transistor topologies.
That is pretty nice, although I found myself using 'git grep' even with Textmate (before I switched to vim) because it was much faster than TM's Find in Project.
Why wouldn't the fall change our bodies. Didn't God say if you eat of it you will surely die? There are hundreds of other passages both in the new and old testament that say we are disease ridden evil individuals.
It's certainly possible I think, but what you're talking about is more-or-less asymmetric multiprocessing, which (according to Wikipedia at least) is generally more complicated to implement at a hardware level:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing#Alter...
Thanks for your comment! Yes, I know I have to work with visualization. I'll try to make another version that is more appealing, in these days!
I had to submit this three times before it would show all of the options properly. Think I lost one vote for (1). Sorry about that.

Poll prompted by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596822
Wait, so it's not relevant to ask why people think a way they think? I mean if someone makes such an uneducated assumption it makes me question their logic in general.
How I stopped being afraid, and learned to love Deflation
In fact the bible does mention dinosaurs, but you know you'd have to read it to find out.