skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more than that other guy (in other HN topic) was hoping for. it even lets him to change layout in click of a mouse as he see fit. as opposed to spending many hours on desining new layouts and templates like he did.

they did new things but didn't broke old things. i like that approach better
I'd say the most correct answer is 'no, its not possible'.

Bitcoins don't exist as independently tracked entities in the system, as such.
Lets say an address with 10 unmarked Bitcoins receives 10 marked Bitcoins, such that its balance is now 20 bitcoins.

If it then sends 5 bitcoins to another addresses, it is not possible to make statements about what proportion of those 5 bitcoins were marked - the individual Bitcoins are not individually identified.

So, its more meaningful to think of balances getting transferred around, rather than Bitcoins.

What you can do, is the type of flow analysis we did, where you try and track the majority of flow in and out of addresses, and make inferences about how the Bitcoins flow around. As the network is currently used, this appears to work well - which is one of our main findings - but I'm sure this analysis, as we currently do it, could be frustrated by employing mixing of various types - especially if such mixing were done at a protocol level.

This still has other problems - you are then trusting the mixer to some extent, and I'm sure there are attacks that are possible where someone deploys a malicious mixer, or where someone constantly floods a mixer with coins under their control.
Perhaps that's their "shopping window", where they showcase samples of their merch ;)
You call this professional? Calm down emo kid.
I would like to see a piece of software that could mutate a new blank java project into a fully functional piece of software given thousands of failing unit tests.

Start out with something simple, have unit tests define some function that does a simple thing. Have the program guess and check on source that makes the unit tests pass.
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I think the biggest problem is your current code. It's really important part. I am working on a project, which was initially written by following all bad practices you could think off.
Well, happens, what can you do :) But the biggest issue is finding someone who is capable move forward without breaking while fixing. Experience doesn't matter in such cases, look for very detail oriented ones and if you find them drop me a line :)
Only when everything on the news page is marked as read and I'm in hyper-procrastination mode.
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Pfft. Martin Silenus does better than that in Hyperion. Of course, the age of fictional characters doesn't really have much impact on the debate about the maximum possible age of a human being, does it now...
It's fixed in 4.3.5, so if you update you'll be fine:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4824

Does anyone have any figures on what proportion of users actually bother to upgrade?
We are aware that this is an assumption.
We refer to the 'alleged thief' at several points in our paper, and I mention this in the blog comments.

We'd never get our point across if we exhaustively stated every single assumption we made - but you are right to highlight this - its good to be aware these assumptions are there.
And the next game that you want to produce? Now you have to find another team of developers, from a smaller pool (since word gets around). Seems incredibly short sighted to me - why throw away all the effort of staffing, training and tools?
His argument doesn't make sense. Personal savings don't get reinvested in capital equipment, corporate savings do. Corporate savings are being spent on all-time record CEO paychecks. Companies aren't investing in capital equipment because there is no demand. People are saving, not spending, because there is no safety net and now they have no ballooning home value to buoy their consumer habits. No spending = no economic recovery. A strong safety net won't solve everything, but in this case Greenspun seems to have things exactly backwards.
> If they had built something that looked and operated like a 747 nobody would have cared

I don't entirely agree. With a space program that "looked and operated like a 747" - assuming you mean a relatively routine and reliable spaceplane where the launches are less of a spectacle - you'd get a lot of people and hardware in space, and people would have cared about that.

I guess it's harder to get people excited about results than about spectacles, but it can be done, and it lasts longer.
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This redesign is an interesting step forward for a site who's future you would expect to be based primarily in the tablet scene. After a few moments, I found it particularly easy to use, however I believe integration with scrolling if they're going to use left-right, then let the user drag the page etc.
When I'm on the website I do, otherwise I pick up the front page posts from Google Reader.
What you're suggesting is more like MVP (Model View Presenter). Making the view "dumb" in MVC simply results in a lot of overhead and duplicate logic inside the controller, that constantly has to "translate" stuff for the view.

Having the view talk directly to the model actually makes the code a lot simpler (and a lot less of it).

If all your view can get from the model is "a giant dump of things", there is probably something missing from the model. Because in that case, all the controller can get is also "a giant dump", which means you will need to add business logic to the controller to process this giant dump for the convenience of the view. Which puts us right back where we started: bloated controllers that contain business logic that should be in the model.
Here's Valve's (well, Gabe Newell's) take on it - 'Crunch Mode', about halfway down:

http://www.develop-online.net/features/1184/The-Valve-manife...

(Though they unfortunately seem to have hotlinked the images, which are all broken :P )
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I honestly don't know how long it would take them. It would very much depend on their technical sophistication, their experience with writing network analysis code, etc.

I'm not sure it would make the analysis trivial, but you certainly could engineer a system that would have an easy user interface for conducting this sort of analysis on Bitcoin.

For example, the software tools we wrote would probably only require UI work to get them to a first draft of that - we've basically got a fully functional backend system, although I don't think we've any plans of taking it further.

I don't know if you've looked at the SVG we have on the blog, but its a pretty useful way of looking at this data, even as it stands, with hyperlinks to the relevant blockexplorer blocks.
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This endangered creature is found only in the southern part of India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_frog
Mobile sites suck; I detest when I get redirected to them on my Android phone. About the only time they are justified is when the site is heavily dependent on mouse hovering and other desktop-centric interaction idioms.
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I do it rarely - once in a 2 weeks I think - but if I do I do the first thing (flag bad posts, vote good). I think that how often you visit 'new page' has some significance in this poll, too.
Ahonen is deluded and has no idea about the state of the smartphone competition. He seriously seems to believe that Symbian in its current state is up there with Android, iOS and Windows Phone:

You the reader may think that Symbian was a dead OS, it was undesirable, it was failing in the market, it was obsolete etc. That all may have been true of the older versions of Symbian, up to September 2010. It is not true now. The facts are irrefutable. From October 2010, Nokia had an honest hit OS that powered increasing sales, increasing ASPs and most importantly for Nokia - dramatically increased profits! Only a complete fool would step on this incredible success, and kill it.

He thinks the Nokia N8 is a great phone. It isn't. I had it for 5 months until I gave up and switched to a Samsung device (after 10 years with Nokia).

Symbian^3 on the N8 didn't deliver half of what was promised. Horribly broken web browser, no portrait keyboard, unusable app store that spent two minutes downloading updates for itself whenever it was opened, outdated version of the Qt API on the device... The list goes on.

Nokia said last year that there would be quick updates to Symbian to fill in the missing functionality. Rumors said that a revamped browser would be available by the end of 2010. Then Nokia officially extended this deadline to Q1/11. Guess what? The new browser still isn't available for the N8. The update, now called Symbian Anna, may be available to N8 users next month, if they're lucky and their operator approves of the OS update...

This lethargic pace of development makes it clear that Symbian development was out of control and the whole OS is unsalvageable. They had thousands of engineers working on this system, but it had grown so complex that they apparently couldn't even update the browser without breaking everything, leaving the OS stuck with a 5-year old branch of WebKit.

Nokia never understood software. Giving it up and letting Microsoft have total control of the user-facing operating system is the best thing they could have done.
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This all sounds very likely to me. But is there a source for this information?
Yes I do use google reader
Probably the worst analysis you will read today.

How bad is it? He spends 12 paragraphs "justifying" 7% future growth alternative scenario based on the 7% observed growth from Q3 to holiday Q4.

Then he doesn't use this. He instead goes with a linear assumption of decreasing market share. Again ignores the holiday quarter and historical decline (-14% drop from Q4 09 to Q1 10 in a much better environment for Nokia). And spends the next 20-30 paragraphs fencing with straw men.
Make a 'russian doll' arrangement with your disks - put your smallest disk in the most-used computer, and make full backups of that disk on the next-larger disk, etc.

For example I have an 80gig disk (SSD) in my MBP, its the most-used disk .. I can back this disk up 5 times to my 400gig external hard disk (full disk image each time) .. to do a backup I boot from the external disk, which has a minimal OSX install on it just for this purpose, then I make a full disk image, save it, and reboot.

Do this every week, and you're set ..
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I don't use Ruby, I do use MVC (C# in my case). I honestly don't agree with your interpretation of 'MVC'.
no worries. it was supposed to say 'higher than 98%'
I assumed the other guy was angling for a job somewhere rather than trying to get himself a better NY Times layout.
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Don’t you sometimes feel like handling your Twitter profile from your Firefox browser? How easy will it then be to be active on Twitter, this is what you are thinking, isn’t it?
To be honest, these problems are probably more endemic in the Zend Framework world than most other frameworks, since ZF was specifically designed to be a toolbox, not an opinionated framework, and therefor doesn't come with a standard way of implementing models.

Personally I like this because it make ZF usable in a wide range of projects, but I've seen a lot of developers struggle with the concept of having to design the model themselves instead of filling in the blanks in the framework. Nine out of ten times they end up stuffing the business logic inside the controllers because "there's nowhere else to put it".
Why is it asking access to my local file system (Safari/OS X)? And if I say No the page doesn't show up at all?
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a service could be modelled as a 'model'. That controllers (and other models) use.

This fits both generic 'MVC' practice, AND Rails MVC (if you think they are different...)
Oliver Reichenstein, a swiss/japanese news designer, has been writing about some similar thoughts: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-class-news/
It's amazing how many programmers think that programming is going to look roughly the same 50 years from now. They imagine the transition from punch cards to text files was a one time thing... That from here on out it's just going to be more and more refined text languages.

I think history repeating itself, and programming becoming unrecognizably different, is much more likely.

But I've also come to terms that those who lack the imagination to start picturing such things aren't going to believe it until after it happens.
Yeah, the entire blog post is clearly not neutral at all. Claiming that people LOVED Symbian ... It had fallen so far behind.

Nokia faced a similar platform hurdle to Apple in the mid-90's, they needed a modern OS, and brought one in from outside. It is a painful transition but I think they made the right decision.
I doubt any reasonable percentage of YC readers speaks Malaysian.
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From the page:

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He still didn't clear up the conceptual understanding of "model" very well.

The Data Model. Just the data. - pure Value Objects, classes which are little more than wrappers to data, which can be assembled in more complex structures for presentation by a view.

The Domain Model. A representation of the data, the actors, and the processes. The objects are often a mix of pure value objects, object managers, actors that carry out actions on multiple data items, and facades/processes that coordinate several actors, maintain their own state (internal model/statemachine or externally in other objects).

The "Framework Supported" Model (for want of a better term). This is where the data model has some aspects of the domain model, but a number of pieces are defined outside of the "model" and in a framework. Bits that are often separated are things like: validation, keeping track of sessions (actor state), collecting multiple models together for presentation to a view (maybe typically done in a facade), dependency injection, lazy loading, etc.

Personally, if a framework has clean and clear support for things that I'd usually put in a Domain Model, I'm probably going to use it. Especially for input validation!! They usually end up in the "controller" for lack of a better place to put them. However, sometimes it makes sense to pull it into your model... especially where you may have multiple controllers/processes acting on the same data - and leaving it to the framework controller is going to be an issue.

I'm not a fan of "views" pushing data back to the models without the controller... unless you're doing your validation and access controls, etc. in the domain model then it's a slippery slope. That said... if you are tracking state in the model, then the view updating state? That sounds OK... there are no hard and fast rules!
Nov 2007!

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f8/sun-welcomes-android-w...
I agree - though since it's now made the front page I hope that I get a wider cross section of users - but I know I'll miss a lot of people who just lurk and/or don't vote/don't take part in polls.
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Really? Throwing exceptions on known states of your model... hardly exceptional.
I have no authority on the subject, but, the fact that we cannot prove nor properly evaluate solutions that emerge from evolution does not change the fact that the first solution that fits is the one that will be kept. Intuitive reasoning that not work on such a subject, but still, I have hard time to accept that it is the best. The only proper qualifier, as you state, is that it is the existing one.

The same way I am not comfortable with using dynamic verbs when describing evolution. Evolution does not find a solution. It's just that a solution that fits emerges. After producing many dysfunctional living individuals. It's still the only way life can evolve by itself, and I wouldn't dare to say if it is a laborious or great way to sustain ifself.
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The front page reminds me more of Reddit now. I have been spending less time on HN overall for weeks, and a larger proportion of what I do on the New pages. A lot of good and interesting comp sci posts don't get voted up any more.
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Not "needless to say" at all. Why are you more fucked in a federal court than in a state court? Why would you be more likely to have never heard of a given federal statue than a given state law?
The ecosystem is not anywhere near its limits? You're kidding right?

Scientific consensus for CO2 atmospheric levels to limit warming to 2 degrees C in the next century: 350ppm. Current levels: 390ppm

Massive over-fishing of ocean fish-stocks? Yep, happening right now.

And that's just two examples I can think of now.

Claiming that we're nowhere near the ecosystem's limits is naive, delusional and dangerous. The laws of nature, despite the beliefs of most economists, don't worry about what causes "economic disaster".
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Kudos to the journalist here, it's hard to write a story on the subject "Thing, once thought to be completely fucking impossible, turns out to be completely fucking impossible".
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That's the next genetic algorithms problem :P
Yes, every so often, mainly to vote up "Show HN" posts - at peak times I think a lot of very valid Show HN posts never see the light of day, sadly.
Already being discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2805708
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Moving through the sections is ok, but reading an individual article is impractical, imho. There, I prefer the old way of scrolling through the whole article by mouse wheel...much more comfortable than using keys or clicking on small arrows.
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I do not think that would prevent this from being blown away (maybe even to pieces) on almost any day of the year

Maybe, but make 'em cheap enough and at least you've forced the enemy to waste time and bullets shooting at birds.

Battery life is no doubt an issue though.
From what I've seen, many companies do not listen to their employees, especially as they get larger. RIM in particular strikes me as a company where its employees have no voice.
But: warm up first! Stretching cold is just asking for injuries.
I don't know if the numbers are true but if they are the carriers and phone makers are doing it to themselves. I upgraded my wife's android phone a couple of weeks ago and she picked a Samsung (on verizon).

After she got it home and played with it we found it was locked to use Bing. We could not install the google search box and other google apps. It went back to the the store and I paid my $35 restocking fee and came back with an HTC.

I few days later I tried to upgrade to a Droid 3 for myself. I didn't like the 'skin' that Motorola had put on it but my original Droid is getting slow and I wanted a new phone. I couldn't buy it because Motorola added a special terms and conditions to the activation process but the T&C were on the internet. You can't get to the internet (even wifi) unless the phone is activated and I wouldn't activate the phone without reading the Moto T&C. Chicken and Egg.
Would love to read Hacker news in a similar format.

Any suggestions on the best way to read hacker news on iPad? I tried Flipboard and Feedly but not very happy with them.
Yes - to read new posts after i checked all the top posts.
Nice! But it would be nice if they could please make it work with the swipe left/right on the macbook pro... that would be brilliant.
From the layout selection, choose the one called "Stack".
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Yea well look at this, execution is everything (choose smaller font in upper right on a 1680 by 1050 res monitor)
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Only when there is nothing interesting for me on the front page. But then I first go to the Ask section, if nothing interesting there only then venture to the new section.
A friend of mine used to say i live in a building for disabled people. This is because my building has ONLY ramps and no stairs, also very handy for taking the bike.

Since the public space in the building is open, no windows :) the rain also wipes the floor clean.
Agreed. Even though I am no fan of Android, I call bullshit.
This is the same guy who predicted that iPhone sales would peak in April 2010. Judging by the length of his blog posts his mind is a cluttered mess. Do not blindly trust his opinion even though he may sometimes be right.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/20/tomi-ahonen
I find these types of sites that break normal browser behavior to be offensive. Why are developers like this and OnSwipe changing native scrolling in favor of javascript scrolling? What is the benefit, aside from lag, to moving sideways? Web pages aren't magazines, and they shouldn't be. I love javascript but just because something can be done with it, doesn't mean it should be.
I wrote a script to automate these steps as well as taking a few options to allow me to:

- adb clean (because chasing syntax errors that don't exist is a headache)

- run my (shockingly limited) test suite

- copy the .apk to a shared Dropbox directory that I use to let a few people help me test nightly builds

Without the tests the full build takes a few seconds (on MBP from March 2011).
Not just abroad: even when I travel domestically, I try to rely on walking and public transportation as much as possible to avoid the time/money/hassle of getting and returning a rental car. However, if I have to cross that threshold and get a rental car, I use it as much as possible.

Also, we recently took our daughter to Disney World. We overindulged in desserts and large breakfasts, but all of the walking around more than made up for it.
Average person:
0-18: Learning;
18-65: more or less on the same intellectual level;
65+: doing absolutely nothing intellectually challenging;

It is only natural that a brain adapts to decreased pressure. Having a large brain costs a lot of energy, which it could apparently spend in better ways.
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It caches the articles.
Extremely cool. I had no idea sound was possible with Javascript.

Let the great experiment begin!