skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear - he doesn't actually print these. He buys sheets of pre-printed bills and re-packages them into books instead of cutting them into individual bills.

A neat trick, but completely legal US cash money

(The US $2 bill is unusual, but legal)
This sounds nearly the same as how I manage my Inbox. People at work know that I "dont give a shit" about email, and won't send me random nuff nuff stuff.

If it's a task that needs doing, put it in the backlog or task list, and I'll get to it when it's the next task in my list.

I check my email three times a day - when I get in, after lunch, and just before I go home. If you need a response earlier than that, then pick up a phone, walk over to my desk, or speak to my manager and he'll filter out the bullshit.

Having a reputation for not responding to email, and not using email as a task list or document store prevents most people from using it for that purpose towards me.

I live at Inbox "I dont care" for the majority of the day. Don't really understand how people get so bogged down in it.
If you setup Hubot to use Freenode then be aware that you'll want to set:

heroku config:add HUBOT_IRC_UNFLOOD="false"

Otherwise just running /hubot help will flood the channel and it'll get kicked.
A lot of the scientific interest in IF started with studying Muslims during Ramadan. I assume that is why it is similar.
Better you invest $100 or $5k.
This analysis is a load of crap.

He's a beta, yet he acts like an alpha. People hate him because he should now he's not an alpha, but doesn't. Huh? Isn't a personality type defined by, I don't know, your personality? He's forward, but indirect. He's servile, but he thinks he knows better. So which is it?

Also, this entire article is seriously bigotted. The beta male should know his place, and we hate him because he doesn't know his place.

Seriously f-ed up.
Entire sections of this read like a sociopath trying to give us tips on email. I particularly enjoyed reading his thoughts on how it is better to seek trivial minutiae in emails to volley them on back to someone actually looking to get work done.

Please reread the following for those who aren't seeing it:

'You show yourself to be detail-oriented and precise. And, someone who’s vengeful and not afraid to hurt other people. All of those are excellent and useful additions to your reputation.'

Yes, it's really important you punch out other inmates on your first day of prison to set the tone. That's exactly how I want to live my life and the exact sort of people I want to hire.

What toxic rubbish.
I agree, particularly with your last point. While I feel for this guys plight, his actions could make legitimate journalistic practices more difficult.
> Which command does the equivalent of "bzr revert -r -3"? What do I do to unstage things? What if I want to only revert some files?

git has well-documented and simple commands to perform these operations (except if you're talking about reverting some files in a commit, that's not a thing git does afaik? though it might, but I doubt it would be straightforward).

If you're confused by hg & git and just wound up back where you were it sounds like you just didn't have the patience to learn a new tool. Either that or you failed to evaluate what each tool did before you tried switching.
Why is that different?

What happens when a server starts acting up and you are flooded with 10 error emails per second. Will you go click through all of them even though they're essentially the same?

That can cost you an hour of your time, easily.

Ok you can write a filter and automatically mark them as read. Which still costs you at least 10 minutes of your time.

Or you could just ... not care. This costs you 0 minutes of your time. You merely mentally update the "zero" of your inbox.
Actually, I think the bet may have been worded so that if gold gains 2% and bitcoin gains 200%, the bet is won. This makes it substantially harder to arbitrage.
Cross Platform Mobile Development tools and provisional patents...
I recently added a HTTP route to hubot `/hubot/help` that you can visit if you enable the HTTP support to view the help on a page rather than flood channels.
The great irony... 32 minutes later I post this to my blog: Cross Platform Mobile Development tools and my latest invention... just spent the weekend looking over exactly this.

http://blog.maclawran.ca/151353706
I've seen an error on Cloudflare enabled sites way more than a cached version of a page when trying to access a down site, so hopefully these changes will mitigate that on static websites.
Go, for the same reasons as Java, but because Go is nicer than Java (to me.) The stdlib net/http library is also insanely fast, handling ~40,000 (dynamic, but not DB-backed) req/s without a sweat, and without requiring any kind of callback spaghetti.
I'm a very happy Tracfone customer. I've seen people get into so much trouble with contracts, whereas with Tracfone I've experienced the best customer service.

Once, for instance, I lost a phone with 3000 minutes on it, and I was able to buy a new phone at Target and transfer the minutes in about ten minutes. Contrast this to the hours that people spent on the phone talking to AT&T people that just screw up your account.
I'm going to go ahead and answer your first question with the obvious question: "what is the longest anyone has ever been imprisoned for recording a police officer?"
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I ask because the propositions in the Tractatus are organized exactly like lists are in WorkFlowy.
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"With bitcoins, a person in California can send $20,000 USD worth of value to a person in Russia in a matter of seconds, for FREE."

No. It would take about 15 minutes for the block chain to verify and even that would be with a commission. Maybe 4 days delay if you didn't do a commission.
Yup. That's exactly why we made this update. We'll be monitoring the hit rate to see how successful we've been.
None of the pieces in this repo explain what Hubot is!

Neither does https://github.com/github/hubot

The "preface" comes closest; it says Hubot is used for running commands on multiple servers. Does that mean it's like Fabric or Puppet, but invokable from IRC?
> If a SNES game, for perfect emulation, requires higher than per-line synchronization, it was not properly written

That's the whole point. There are games that did crazy stuff, and don't work well on many emulators. Perfect emulation requires software simulation of these crazy exploitations of the hardware.
Or you can choose to use it and base your hiring policy on hiring great people, rather than hiring "I can only speak C++" engineers.
You're either realtime or you're not. If you have hard and fast time requirements to perform certain actions then you're real time. (e.g. 3 ms. to decide whether or not to turn the cruise missile or it hits a hospital). There is no 'soft' realtime.
Prepaid is an interesting beast. In most of the rest of the world, telcos regard prepaid as a plague and only really offer it as a goteway to "postpay". Postpaid customers are predictable future revenue.

In Australia, I was with Telstra, which has by far the best coverage. I was on cotnract. The reason? For $50 a month I basically got (for me) unlimited voice, text and Internet (2-3GB/month). but the 32GB iPhone 4 only cost me $300 with $100 rebate. The handset outright cost $950 IIRC so for $1400 I got the handset and 2 years of service. I don't think I could've gotten two years of service for $450.

In the US I originally went with AT&T as they were the only GSM network that supported the iPhone (T-Mobile could support it on Edge; Verizon and other models came later). Coverage kinda sucks in NYC, really sucks in the Bay Area but in most of the rest of the country is fine.

This was originally month-to-month but ultimately I figured I may as well get the 4S on contract (the discounted price plus the ETF worked out to be no more than the outright price anyway if I cancelled early).

But prepaid? That tends to relegate you to "inferior" networks in the US. T-Mobile and Sprint can give good deals but have really patchy coverage. MetroPCS, as far as I can tell, exists solely for drug dealers and pimps.

One difference is that in most of the rest of the world you don't pay to receive calls. This makes having a phone and not using it much (to make calls) much more viable. Also texting rates in the US are essentially extortionate.

Other countries (Australia and IIRC the UK at least) seem to more heavily discount handsets. It seems like people most often buy the phone that is $0 upfront on whatever plan they want (or they bump their plan up to where it is $0 upfront). The iPhone changed this dynamic somewhat whereas most people seemed to view phones as interchangeable previously.

This article is right about one thing: people do seem to put too much importance on the upfront cost. I see things like the latest gen iPhone is $99 upfront and the previous generation is $49. For $50 you get older hardware that will be obsolete a year earlier... for something that'll probably cost you up to $2000 (or more) over 2 years anyway.
I see. Note that the amount of lookups for the hash table only holds if there is no collision, but that may be a fair assumption. Given that the data are strings, a specialized datastructure such as a Trie or suffix array might work well, especially if it is possible to exploit redundancy in the data (i.e., repeated substrings). There are specialized datastructures used in full-text search which will probably be useful. In any case dealing with this amount of data might mean that using an off-the-shelf database might be a good idea.
Not that I want to look for reasons to cast aspersions on hackers or for that matter defend characteristically poor writing at a tabloid like the NY Daily News, but the money these people won came from normal people playing the game in good faith; they weren't screwing over casinos.

If you think this is just "playing the rules to maximum effect", that's fine, but consider whether that sentiment will cost you in a later debate about Wall Street.
Also to put things in perspective, Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who killed 69 teenagers last summer, will get a maximum of 21 years in prison. This is the highest sentence possible under Norwegian law.
IFTTT seems to be appealing to the non-developer "configurator" person quite well, so maybe they don't want to complicate things by adding something so technical. I would guess you're feature request is not in the favorable half of the 80/20 equation for them as a business
if you take the (low) depreciation rate of the phone into account its probably even more true. the resell rates on iPhones is quite high. used iPhone 4's are going for apprx $250. you could think of it as a lease.
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nullify!

Whether reporting on police brutality or recording conversations. It doesn't matter. He's not guilty of theft, fraud or unprovoked violence. There is no crime here, regardless of whatever "laws" are broken.
I use prepaid T-Mobile in the UK. I buy a £20 "6MONTHWEB" booster once every 6 months and it gives me 500MB of data transfer per month for the next 6 months, which is more than I use (I have wifi at home and work). I barely ever use it for calls or SMS, so my phone costs me somewhere between £3.33 and £4.00 per month (not including the initial cost of buying the phone of course). SMS would have been an issue, but I managed to convince all of my common SMS contacts to switch over to using Kik Messenger instead.
I would have thought the definition of a successful startup would be profitability on top of paying founders decent wages.

If there are external investors it is probably true that a liquidity event is the goal but if owner funded or bootstrapped I don't see anything particularly bad about a lifestyle business that is profitable enough to support a good lifestyle.
The main reasons behind this law have nothing to do with police work or public officials, actually. Two-party consent wiretapping laws generally apply regardless of who's on the other end. You could get charged for recording your own grandmother, not just a cop. (At least in principle you could, though it probably wouldn't happen.)

So why were these laws enacted? Basically to protect privacy. State legislatures decided that surreptitious recording of one's one phone calls was an invasion of the other person's privacy. I personally am against these laws, but that's the rationale behind them. It's not about protecting cops in particular.
This book is a work in progress, feel free to open an issue on the repo to suggest things you want to see added, and I'll add them!
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> We are both in the room, I'm claiming there's a monster and you say there's nothing. The point is, neither of us really has a coherent argument with facts until the lights are turned on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof
"Eventually"? How well does the priority inbox work for people in the real world? (I'm a curious non-gmail user)
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I travel a lot and use prepaid almost all the time - all my friends are on Android or iPhone and I can use either Google Talk or iMessage. The only person I ever send SMS to anymore is my dad who has a blackberry. I have a friend with more diverse friends and they're all on WhatsApp.

I can't imagine the panic operators are feeling over declining SMS revenue.
Same in China. I pay about 90 RMB a month for 90 minutes + 300 MB of data. Its not strictly prepay at that point, but you just remember to buy your plan every month, there is no contract, and BYOP (bring your own phone). I could go prepay if I wanted, but with data buying a plan each month makes more sense.
I came here to say something like this. It's useful to have basic skills in fields that you yourself care about. For example, I've swapped hard drives and upgraded RAM for myself and family members numerous times, giving their machines much greater longevity at very little cost. I also like to cook and have begun learning how to do simple book re-binding and gluing, since I like to eat and read.

But other things, like cars and drains, matter very little to me. So those are things I pay other people to do. For a car nut, learning about Jade 403 might be a waste of time when you can just buy a new book. But for me, that's pretty valuable.

Sewing is somewhere in the middle, and I've had friends do simple sewing projects for me, and that's been really useful.

I think the real worry isn't about whether someone knows how to replace a hard drive in a MacBook—the real worry is or should be people who seem to have no real skills at all.
Connect a capacitor to be base of a .85Thz transistor. My favorite design for the simplest form of relaxation oscillator [1].

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electronic/relaxo... can't draw the one from the Art of Electronics here but this site captures it pretty well. The 'trick' is having a .85Thz transistor.
While the author's stance is idealistic, I don't think this response addresses the author's basic point.

To address this statement: "First of all, nobody keeps all of their assets in fiat currency"

1) Bitcoin is not a fiat currency, which is the point.

2) The dollar is a fiat currency, and plenty of people (and countries) keep all their assets in the form of dollars

Of course property is not fiat currency, but lots of property these days is not owned but instead is either leased or bought using debt.

The point about torture is well taken, but torture can't be used on you if the government can't identify who you are.

I don't believe Bitcoin is a "fiat" currency. Gold has value as a currency because of its properties as a metal. Bitcoin has value because of its properties as a P2P network: anonymity, guaranteed not to hyperinflate, free transactions, and the other things the author mentioned.

So, I think as these properties become more and more valueable, so will Bitcoin.
Could be. That was what my 2nd-to-last paragraph was about. I just think that opening up that output channel to let developers run free with event data will produce some very interesting and creative uses that perhaps IFTTT hadn't considered and let people create one-off solutions for services that IFTTT doesn't yet support (such as my need last night, which I solved (sadly) with yet another Twitter poller).
Where I'm from it's so odd to think about what handsets a carrier "offer". First of all, I haven't bought a phone from a carrier since 1999, second, all the carriers here have all the phones, or you can get any phone on whatever carrier you want through an independent electronics store (where you'll still get a subsidy)
I feel like it should be possible to host a server which will hold incoming sockets which proxies back to HTTP, thereby making a bolt-on solution for real-time. Then again, maybe I'm just describing a webserver. :-/
Ctrl+A + E. (Or select all & auto-archive.)

Archiving's the perfect solution to my irrational stress, because nothing's deleted, but its out of my way.
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I love homebrew - but that isn't OS X. It's a third-party package manager. And is also useless for identifying files you install from the App Store. For better or worse, on Ubuntu, my packages are tracked through dpkg (and, 95% of the time, I just do a sudo apt-get install) - contrawise, on an RHEL system, we've all agreed to track our package with rpm (or sudo yum install).

No such universally agreed upon metaphor exists on OS X. They didn't provide a universal package management mechanism. In many cases, you just drag the package into your Applications directory and it's "Installed."
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with a profitable small business that can sustain its founders. I've done it, I think it's great.

I'm just saying that lifestyle business!=startup.

There's some confusion about the definition of a startup.

Nobody would argue that a sandwich shop that makes $200K a year is a startup, but some people would call a SaaS webapp making $200K a year with no plans for rapid growth a startup.

This article specifically applies to startups.
I have been a member in the past, and recently re-subscribed. It's a good resource.

I would prefer a free forum but haven't had the energy to start one myself. If you are interested in a "lifestyle business" or "micropreneurial" forum, shoot me an email and I'll see about putting together one.

Email in my profile.
read again with sarcasm tag on :-)
Yes, I think this is one of the top concerns. I am very forthright with investors about the fact that one of my cofounders is my husband. The fundamental question I've been asked (in various ways) is whether or not I have the balls, and we have the kind of relationship, where I could fire him it I needed to (I'm the CEO).

After 5 years of marriage and much of the drama that comes with it (deaths, lost jobs, new cities, near bankruptcy, several months spent on different continents for business) has helped us figure out how to communicate with each other about the most difficult parts of life. It can be a bit tough to convey this in a 60 minute partner meeting though, so I can understand why investors hesitate.
I'm not making a comment on ethics, just casino games. In fact, I see the ultimate goal of the people who create social games as to create a game with a clear goal, and a bit of a challenge to get there, and to immediately follow up that goal with another goal. Then you gradually make the goals harder and more attractive, and say if they pay or get a friend to join, they can get a little help. If you time it correctly, you can make it so that the only way that the player doesn't feel like they're drowning is when they're paying or bringing in new players in acceptable intervals, but you always pull them out of the water before they stop breathing and give them a cookie. It's a game, but I don't see it as ethical.

>distinguish a game from a not-game.

A not-game can be played without you. Your only choices are to watch and/or lose.

>Would you call drinking games a kind of game? Dear Esther? Sim City? This is rhetorical; you probably wouldn't. But other people would, and there's no clear reason why they're wrong.

Depends on what drinking game - if it's a drinking game in which there's only zero or one rational way to behave, it's just drinking, not a drinking game. Example: if it's a game where you pick a number, then roll a die, and if you roll the number you picked, you drink, no, it's not a game.

I know an awful lot of drinking games that are games. I can't recall one that isn't, other than the "watch X and when they say Y, drink" game. That's not a game. But it can easily be made a game by having each player choose a particular word.

I don't know what Dear Esther is.

Sim City is not a game, it's a simulation of a city. It's no more a game than building a model airplane or painting a landscape. Setting any particular goal within Sim City and achieving it is a game - just like the facebook stuff.

Casino games are completely different, though. The only object in a casino game is to gain money, and the rules reduce to: "Every 10 minutes, we will take a five dollar bill out of your pocket." They rely on a combination of the misguided common sense "law of averages" heuristic that people carry plus the illusion of control to create the dramatic rhythm that people expect from a game. They prey on an ignorance of statistics and primitive beliefs in magical qualities to keep them there. Not games. Victimization of average people by organized crime and cash-hungry governments more like it. If video poker is legal, I'm not sure why three-card monte isn't, other than it makes everything too obvious.
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Fantastic, I will. It was my first foray into Go, too, so I might do a writeup on that too (spoiler: I quite liked Go).
Why does he mentioned owning his own dye-sub printer then? He's clearly printing some part of it, no?

Edit: thanks for the replies, didn't catch that.
I was really surprised by "it gets your name on their website." Why is that cool? I think longnow is a neat organization so its not that I have something against my name on their website.
This article is right about one thing: people do seem to put too much importance on the upfront cost. I see things like the latest gen iPhone is $99 upfront and the previous generation is $49. For $50 you get older hardware that will be obsolete a year earlier... for something that'll probably cost you up to $2000 (or more) over 2 years anyway.

I think your conclusion is valid but that particular anecdote is pointless. If a customer is willing to pay $50 less up front for a cell phone, then chances are any hardware obsolescence isn't going to be particularly noticable.
He "has them printed" and also has a dye-sub printer. He never says he has them printed using his dye-sub printer.
This headline is very misleading.
In the linked article on woz.org he discusses making a fake ID with a high-end dye-sub printer.