skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I get the point, if I were advertising on Facebook I'd be peeved too. But look at it this way, the Facebook news-feed is one of the most valuable assets on the internet, its a personal look into one's life, it's viewed by millions of individuals multiple times over the course of a day. If Facebook just throws ads from all of the things that you've liked over the years into that stream then there'd be less activity in general because the user's wouldn't be seeing what they came for, there friends, less activity hurts everyone invested in Facebook. Less activity wouldn't happen though, I think you would see a lot of people unlike things that they're tired of looking at, and then you'd be in an even worse position. I think the Facebook promote makes perfect sense.
They broke the one that says 'class action trolls are expensive and time-consuming to deal with'.
A very weak argument.

In many places around the world, several currencies exist and are used simultaneously.

It's only a problem for the weak currency, which according to Greshams Law, everyone tries to get rid of, while hoarding the stronger currency.

The reason the government doesn't want competition in the currency business is because they like to weaken their currency. The government currency would be discarded quickly, while the competing currency would be hoarded.
It's a fantastic book! I read it years ago (I think shortly after it came out), and I still browse it from time to time. I really learned a lot reading it.
I upvoted you myself, but please do not complain about downvotes.
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As already noted, I was referring to the Big Mac index. Continue playing at economics though, sorry for interrupting.
Democracy (+Capitalism) is not working for many countries and USA is the best example, I honestly think that even monarchy would be better; there is a small chance a prince would happen to grow up to be an intelligent good person but in your system the only 2 candidates are cherry picked by the people with very deep pockets trying to make those deeper.
Microsoft should win by letting users completely ignore their ground-up rethink of the user interaction model for computing that they're betting the company on. The one that is their only chance of catching up to iOS and Android. The one that, if it fails, will spell the end of their dominance in computing forever.

Sure, why wouldn't they want everyone to just ignore that? No big deal.
There is a way and it has already happened many times. You goldbugs need to learn some history and gain a bit of perspective.
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They do http://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml it's advertised in the head, your browser should've caught it.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Polygon" href="/rss/index.xml" />
As an aside; Celluloid is awesome and you really made concurrent programming in Ruby better by releasing it :)
I am certain that many oil producing nations would be only too happy to exchange their oil for gold.
Agreed. It's like Apple has some sort of eating disorder where they are obsessed with thin-ness beyond reason.

It certainly makes sense to make a portable computer as thin and light as possible. But I never carry my iMac around and, sitting in front of it, I can't tell whether it is 5mm or 5cm.

I'd love for them to add a small battery to keep it running a half and hour on a power outage. Or upgradable RAM, disk, etc.

Really, I think the issue is they want them to be like televisions. Nobody upgrades a television, they just go out and buy a new own.
Could someone jump from the international space station and live?
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> In many places around the world, several currencies exist and are used simultaneously.

You need to back this argument up with a good reference.

[EDIT: multiple currencies in the same country. Argentina is a beautiful country but it has had some severe issues over the years. You need to have one currency before you can do things like local currencies. URVs in Brazil were a genius way of pulling this off.]
I really like the analogy, especially regarding software that needs to run on a server vs an saas option.

Because home baked vs store bought also have some very different qualities, both emotionally and practically. Price is just one difference.

Some people just buy cakes. A few make & buy cakes. People who never buy cakes because they can make it themselves are few, opinionated, and kind of cranky in a lovable way.
The photography industry is worth fortunes, and whilst Flickr does offer 'unlimited' photo storage it's with conditions (maximum filesizes etc).

Dropbox itself can handle photography, it's what a lot of photographers use for sharing shoots back with models but a dedicated one for images only with smart meta data usage and a few other features would make it very attractive to the photographers I know.
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"as long as the oil producers are happy exchanging the world's economic lifeblood for paper IOU"

You can be sure they're still happy, especially producers like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (and Canada, of course)

Can they replace it? Sure, but there may be collateral effects, the harshest ones including 'Democracy delivery missiles' to said country.

"which Ben Bernanke is devalueing as fast as he can"

No problem! Barrel of oil yesterday was $X today it's $X+Y
Bitcoin is clearly not a counterfit. It is not at all similar to us currency. I doubt any us attorney will even launch a suit against bitcoin. They only file suits they are pretty sure they can win. So bitcoin is very different than the liberty dollar in this respect.
Nah, these are academics, so they would've supported and justified their work with fewer citations
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Opal does support method_missing, it's just off by default, i.e. opt-in.
Web browsers are not the best fit for Java because they require short startup times and must do their best not to waste too much RAM. Linux is an OS, requires predictability, and also must not waste RAM. Compilers certainly require fast startup, and might not even run long enough for the JVM optimizations to kick in.

Java has many advantages, and speed is chief among them, but memory footprint certainly isn't.

And I'm not sure how you can say that the software you mention beats Java (let alone easily). You have nothing to compare it to. Those programs' requirements preclude Java before any speed considerations are taken. If you can't spare lots of RAM, and don't have the time to wait for the JIT to profile and compile your code, Java isn't for you. But if you just want speed for an always-online application - especially if it requires serious concurrency - I'd say Java would be a better choice than C++, performance-wise, 9 times out of 10.

If I were to pick an example to try and disprove my statement, I would actually choose Oracle or MySQL. But I don't know what requirements make them a better fit for C/C++ if, in fact, they are at all.
I was just about to write a response to 'Scratch bashing' ;-). Luckily you have voiced most of them. So I'd like to add the following:

The Scratch programming environment, being the most child-friendly system I've ever seen so far (and I have tried to teach children, as well as adults with zero prior programming experience, using environments as different from each other as StarLogo and Python), lets children create amazing programs, but most important of all introduce the fundamentals of computational thinking and creativity with almost zero barriers for entry. From a programming perspective it definitely has a lot of shortcomings (most of which have been addresses by 'add-on's or similar systems built on top of it) but if you want to show the basics to a bunch of kids who are 7 or 8 year olds, then it is a great system.

Moreover, the social aspects of Scratch, namely easily publishing your projects and seeing the source code of others, are a gift. Try to do the same with Python and GitHub (one of my favorite combinations when I'm not dealing with children ;-), starting from scratch (some pun intended) and showing them all the tools... I'm curious how far their attention span would go.

Finally, apparently a number guessing game can be super easily implemented with a 'fake programming language' such as Scratch, too: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/emres/2859373

And the source code, plain and simple, is probably easier to explain to children (and I had kids create much more complex games, animations, quizzes, etc. with Scratch): http://www.flickr.com/photos/64416865@N00/8121602786/in/phot...

PS: For a nice account of Scratch from a veteran compile developer please see: "Teach children planning and problem solving not programming" http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/09/20/teach-...
So it is a very real possibility that an obfuscation technique that basically throws random bits of code with random extra params in another method and calls them at it would could have been used here. Interesting. It would certainly make more sense.
Yes, I was keep searching for the volume button
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[response to redacted comment]

OK:

You make an 8 gram silver coin and call it a "One Liberty Dollar". It will cost you $256 in silver alone.

You then trick a bank into accepting it, so they deposit it into your account with a value of $1.

The coin isn't a real US dollar, so you're guilty of counterfeiting currency. In reality, however, you've lost significantly more than you've gained, and the bank should be able to recover most of the lost dollar by selling the silver.

It's clearly criminal to pass off something that isn't a real coin as a real coin, and the you should be punished for that. But it seems logical to me that charges of conspiracy and terrorism should be weighed against the fact that any conspiracy certainly wasn't to your financial benefit - as counterfeiting conspiracies very much tend to be.

Other comments have suggested that the coins were indeed worth less than they were accepted for, so that makes it more clear cut. I still think the quoted paragraph is poorly phrased - it would have made sense to include that very simple fact.
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His talk was mainly what he has given before.
I found this which is pretty close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-LBSqm3xh4&sns=em
Thank you for the feedback and for pointing out the typo on the technology page.

We discussed the "language" issue extensively before this announcement. The fundamental challenge we faced was that this announcement - at this time - is not targeted at developers. The "gushing market-speak" and press release language were intended for a specific audience. Based on the companies who contacted us to learn more about Ameche yesterday, it appears we reached our specific target market as we desired.

We will have a more in-depth, technology and developer focused Ameche announcement and release at a later time.

You mentioned "In the past, I've [used] Voxeo IVR platforms..." and I wanted to comment on that.

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30 seconds on google would have turned up this for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies...
Iraq converted its petro trading to the Euro back in 2000, but that didn't last too long and is one of the reasons the US invaded, or so the story goes. This is the gist of a theory called "petrodollar warfare"[1].

Saudi Arabia is an ally hence they trade in dollars; there was quite a stir the last time there was a rumor related to them dumping the dollar[2]. I don't think them switching to another currency is quite that easy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare#Political_e...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1218458/Dollar-rema...
Second hand, but friends who have recently returned from Argentina described it in precisely these terms. Your mileage may vary (haven't been myself).
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Read the article, it covers that point. If MS would have wanted to compete on that front it would have either needed to sacrifice graphics performance, or go Apple's route and design a custom SoC. One isn't acceptable and the other probably not feasible given the resources they wanted to invest.
I don't think the references to "terminal velocity" are very helpful. They're calculated from the estimates of drag coefficients and surface area, which must have reduced as he became more upright. You can't† exceed your terminal velocity without propulsion, that's why it's named as such.

†Well, I suppose if you're falling through an atmosphere that changes too rapidly, you can temporarily exceed it as the TV decreases. Perhaps it's more accurate to say "you can't accelerate if you're exceeding the terminal velocity whilst freefalling"?
Correct, I worked hard on that new version and I thought a lot before finding the idea of that demo to show what you can do with maptimize.

I really like that tweet demo. You can find a lot of interesting information, like tweets in your area as you said.

The heatmap is also interesting when you need to analyze huge amount of data like this.

You can also see where twitter is very active. I was surprised to see that Indonesia is very active.
I hate it when people develop software and charge for it. Don't they know there's free, open source versions out there? Who do they think they are, trying to make money?

Yes, there's free, open source versions that do the same as Blurity. It looks like Blurity has spent time developing the user experience as well as the algo's used, even comparing with other tools on the market.
For Windows there is OllyDBG [1], it is simply the best (with tons of plugins and scripts) for user-mode assembly debugging, but doesn't work in kernel-mode.

[1] - http://ollydbg.de/
I suspect that in the situation you describe a C++ compiler using PGO would do just as well

Quite possibly, though not necessarily better. And you still won't have the memory management advantages. But let me revise my statement: if you have unconstrained development resources, you could probably make large C++ software a little faster than a Java counterpart in many cases, but that little improvement would come at a very big development cost in almost all cases.
Perl (5 & 6) also has multiple inheritance. Current best practise in the Perl community is to avoid using MI and instead make use of roles.

ref: https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Role | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Roles | http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/05/perl-roles-versus-inhe...
This is a bit of a straw man - these are either all financial products or local currencies.

The point is that they all convert into dollars and I will certainly never use BerkShares for as long as I live. I only take US dollars.

Also, the banking structure around these things is really inconvenient. I worked a short stint as a teller at Bank of America and never once have I seen anything but greenbacks. This was in Santa Cruz county as well, where people would definitely be willing to try such crazy ideas.
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Do Americans actually use the term "imperial" - I'd assumed, as someone from the UK, that this usage was only common in UK and what's now the Commonwealth.

NB Not being snarky - just wanted to know! :-)
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When I learned programming, getting arrays was one of my first "aha" moments. Moving from x0, x1, x2, x3 to x[0], x[1], x[2] was definitely enlightening.

My guess is that for simple programs, you almost never have to index an array by a dynamic expression, so you don't see a need for that.
"Yes, we have initiated legal proceedings against Whirlpool on the basis of design infringement of our select models of home appliances," a Samsung spokesperson said.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/co...
So there's cause and effect: Are countries unstable because they have multiple currencies, or are people using multiple currencies because the country is unstable.

You seem (correct me if I'm wrong) to be arguing for the former, "gold bugs" will generally argue the latter.
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"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber"

That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites. I still don't get it.
Here's why I downvoted you:

>This is one of the few times I'd ever say that government crackdown is a good thing. One country having multiple currencies at the same time could become a big logistical headache.

You think governments should crackdown on and seek to imprison people because they engage in activities that cause logistical problems for the government? And you think this is one of the few times that a government should intervene? Seriously?

> It would definitely have political and social implications.
This sentence is empty of information. Every action has an implication. I would have upvoted you if you'd described what kind of implications rather than implying that having "implications" is something that governments should intervene in.
JL efficiently didn't delve into #1 monster of cofounder disagreements. An insightful point was about the large company corp dev monster.

Another must watch is Joel's talk: deciding and knowing what kind of venture one is in, so that one takes the more appropriate actions when situations arise.
You're wrong. Depending on where you look, nonverbal behavior constitutes between 60% and 93% of communication. If I really am interested in a podcast I will always opt for the video-version if it means I can't put it on my iPod and listen to it while doing chores like I could with the audio version.
I hope you realise the distribution need not be symmetric for the average value
to be in the middle.
Unless the price of gold drops which it has done in the past
I think the real problem is the name of the option, not the range of its accepted values. Should they have named it HOST_VERIFICATION_LEVEL or something similar, no-one would think it's boolean.
> It's clearly criminal to pass off something that isn't a real coin as a real coin, and the you should be punished for that. But it seems logical to me that charges of conspiracy and terrorism should be weighed against the fact that any conspiracy certainly wasn't to your financial benefit - as counterfeiting conspiracies very much tend to be.

I agree that the government's choice of language was extremely poor and wrong-headed. They certainly didn't do anyone any favors by just labeling the guy a terrorist and saying that's it.

I don't think it matters whether or not you lost money on going through with the act. If you want to throw your hard-earned money away to make a point, I suppose that's a privilege.
@shanelja Can I suggest that you dial-back the anger a bit, both in this comment and your reply to EliRivers. This isn't really the right forum for it.

jtchang wasn't making what you characterise as a 'campaign point' or politically motivated 'feminist propaganda', He was just expressing optimism that increasing childhood exposure to technology will result in a more equal gender mix within the tech sector. Thats all.

The author of the article is clearly a woman. Roughly half of the children that she talked to will have been female. It is well documented that ideas about traditional gender norms, along with other social factors, have historically discouraged women and girls from pursuing education and careers in technology. jtchang is entitled to make a wider related point here that links gender with the use of technology in education to speculate about a future where this may change - even if that wasn't the aim of the article or its author. Thats all he was doing, and HN is a place where he should be able to do it.
In that case it wasn't a honest question. Continue trolling, sorry for interrupting.
Many places have more than one official currency. Many more have more than one unofficial currency. The USD is unofficially used as a currency in many, many countries around the world, as an adjunct to the local currency.

In the days before the Euro, it was quite common for places to accept multiple currencies in the one location, especially in border areas or smaller countries with lower floats.

It's not such a big deal. Just about every international traveller works in two currencies by converting the 'away' currency into their 'home' currency in their head with each purchase. I have actually been offered the opportunity to pay with my home currency on visa POS machines while travelling.

There are undoubtedly efficiencies to having a central currency, but when the central government is systematically destroying the unit of value, inefficiency of multiple currencies is a very small price to pay for being able to escape that. That's why Zimbabwe has the highest number of currencies on the list that was linked above [Edit: position is relative, the list that ianb linked]
Maybe other people does not appreciate your work, but my girlfriend (who study marketing) and me have gained some insight about Twitter users and countries with Internet access [1].

Great work and thank you!

[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.