skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A VM doesn't let you use unix tools to operate on your Windows filesystem, which is my main reason for installing cygwin.
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I find my meaningless avatars very useful. It helps to see when the someone is replying further down a thread.

http://i.imgur.com/LNIXIp3.png
See also: http://www.eventedmind.com/
This brings up a sad story from my old work.

We had a coffee machine where you had 2 containers, one for the beans and one for the water, never had a problem with knowing which was which. But there was also a place to put in pre-ground coffee, which we never used.

One day a consultant came along, and not being able to make coffee because the machine had run out of beans, they proceeded to pour beans into the space reserved for the pre-ground coffee. We found this out by the horrific gear crunching noise the machine had made as the coffee beans shredded the internals to bits. It was a disappointing and sad day for the engineers, many of whom were frequent coffee drinkers.

Needless to say after the machine was repaired we taped that pre-ground coffee access port closed.
They might adopt it if it's more stable than their currency, like how Ecuador uses the US dollar.
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If email addresses worked like URLs…
For anything more serious than the occasional ipconfig, you should go ahead and download Powershell.

(Disclaimer: not the OP)
They should use the MD5 of the username instead.

Edit: You can change both so neither are permanent.

Edit 2: Not disagreeing with you. Only mentioned that username and email can both be changed to say there's no reason not to use username for the MD5
Entering email into the bottom form doesn't seem to do anything, had to go back and do it through the top one -- which seems to work.
Enormous window ?

Many startups would be using AWS and it is not inconceivable that you would have Multi-AZ/Multi-Region VPSs. Scaling out != Expensive.
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You'll feel like that even more once it hits $1B capitalization.
"I do have concerns about it scaling to handle massive amounts of transactions,"

Relevant:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1754992

Of course, Bitcoin does not really have offline transactions, so this may not be all that relevant (though lacking offline transactions is a pretty serious limitation).
Yes. I do. When they give me what I've been looking for I would click on one banner.
I'm curious, a lot of my information is snarky (location: Antarctica, religious views: Nihilist, etc) -- I wonder if they're able to realize that I'm obviously being intentionally inaccurate?
Nothing stops them from doing that. It's already been done a few times, in fact.

What generally prevents tons of fracturing is the same thing that always has for currencies with no backing- perceived value of the currency. Your bitcoins are only worth what other people think they are worth.
You can mount your Windows file system either through Samba or VirtualBox's shared folders feature.
For $300 you can buy the awesome AR Parrot Drone 2.0, which has a video camera, about twice the flying time, and runs through your smart phone.
The first question you should ask a potential customer
It can be music to the ears when a client or prospect says, “I think I’m ready to make a decision”. But how did we end up there? Let’s step back for a moment and look at the first conversation you should be having with every client…
Perhaps, but it would have to be adopted side-by-side with a currency that can be used (securely) for offline transactions. Why do that, when you could just adopt one currency that can be used both offline and online (especially since you can deploy a digital cash protocol for any currency, and thus you only really need one that is useful for offline payments)?
I find it interesting how Tumblr can frame a reply as a post, a different highlighting of the fractal flow of conversation, though ain't nobody got time for that, imo. I'll stick with plain ol' threaded HN/Reddit (though I think I remember finding a parent post for deep links to HN annoyingly unintuitive).

edit; ah, it has that - http://try.discourse.org/t/yo-dawg-heard-you-like-replies-so....

I like the new UX ideas. I'm wondering if instances will be able to federate, and the 'front page term[/hashtag](s)' for the discussion area of a certain website on a topic could be framed differently.

Some topics are going to get to crazy posting speed. Watching Reddit posts with new set on isn't that fun. An IRC/Jabber MUC format would be good for times, and Facebook autoupdates its newsfeed anyway. An IM system with text (and at least url) post and their replies upvoted, and maybe filtered in some tiling window like fashion?

There's my half-baked idea for the evening!
> Isn't that the type of thing a new dev is very likely
> to get wrong and get burned by?

I doubt it.

Hand-rolling your own authentication is trivial in Rails. There are plenty of good tutorials and blog posts about it. There's even a Railscast on it. Rails even has a secure password helper and a digest generator.

You're more likely to get burned by Devise when you want to make trivial customizations to it. You quickly get weird override methods in your User model and rigid behavior from code you can't grep.

I think rolling your own authentication is far more newb-friendly. You're only a handful of lines away from your own `current_user` helper, and you retain full control.
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So the question revolves about whether being born to the right set of parents is a privilege or a result of hard work. One could say that it's almost certainly a privilege -- however what about the parents? What about the work they did to give their kid(s) access to those privileges? Just the mere fact that OP's parents made a decision at some point in their lives to say no to alcohol (or heroin or what have you) is something that should be rewarded, if not in their generation, then in the next.
If it's obvious enough, it won't need labels. In fact, the right way to design these kind of products is to assume the person using it cannot read.
Nobody I talked to on the Microsoft campus tonight knew of this, so no, not "all of Microsoft". Flagged as cruft.
I like the part where it says "the secret unlock code was set to 00000000." Some things never change.
> Startups need to scale out because many of them like to deploy on mediocre EC2 instances.

No. They need to scale out because providers like AWS have outages. And so startups et al need to deploy in multiple AZ/regions in order to have as close to 100% uptime as possible. You can't do that with a well considered multi master style replication strategy which PostgreSQL frankly doesn't have.

>People that keep recommending PostgreSQL are rightfully ignoring this industry.

Sure. And soon enough they will be relegated to the dustbins of history. The trends don't lie.
Wait, your saying how awesome its trust metric is and how it will change everything. Then you say no one can see it. Then you admit that its not implemented yet.
Yes, but you have to know it's a privacy leak, and then you have to change it. And in the meantime, WordPress and Gravatar insist it's not a privacy leak at all.
Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter
I'd be shocked if those 12-16 hours you apparently put in for "weeks on end" are truly your most productive. They may certainly feel "mentally strenuous," but that doesn't mean your cognitive limit isn't decreasing as the days and weeks go on.

I find that I can focus intensely for shorter bursts over a couple hours, but then I hit my limit and need to push the really hard stuff aside for a while. Sure, I can crank through a ton of tedious or menial tasks (and there are certainly plenty of them), but that's really not the same.

When I complain about being expected to sit around for 8, 9, 10 hours a day (and I do occasionally complain), it's not because I'm rationalizing lazy habits or want to get out of work. I love my work.

No -- It's because in only 3-4 of those hours I will finish 90% of what I ultimately get done in a day. The trick is in knowing how to optimize those hours of productivity, and when to go home and give your brain time to decompress.
Here's an interesting anecdote about FreeDOS.

In South Korea, a surprisingly large number of online merchants sell brand-new PCs with FreeDOS on it. FreeDOS PCs are usually around $100 cheaper than their Windows 7/8 counterparts, so these products have an advantage when the buyer uses a price comparison service.

The official story is that since most people nowadays already have a spare license of Windows from their old PC, they can just install it on their new PCs instead of buying Windows again. Of course, this is bullshit, because the "spare license" is likely to be an OEM copy that is tied to the old PC. But it doesn't matter, because everyone understands that you're supposed to install a pirated copy of Windows on your FreeDOS PC. So for tech-savvy Korean consumers, FreeDOS just means pirated Windows. A rather unpalatable association for a piece of free software to have, IMO.

On the other hand, if you actually install a legitimate copy of Windows, you get to enjoy a complete lack of bloatware that manufacturers usually impose on PC buyers. The PC comes with a CD that contains the necessary device drivers and nothing else.
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Yes, immigrant communities historically have been known to be more collaborative and to have more upward social mobility because of that.

When I worked in East Palo Alto, which is a low-income community in the heart of Silicon Valley, I sometimes felt like it was like living and working in a bucket full of lobsters. Instead of being helped up out of the bucket, we'd get clawed down.

But slowly and surely, the work of community leaders, nonprofits and community organizers are changing this landscape and building up a new generation of kids who think differently.
For those have a project with an existing .clang_complete file (used to pass options to the compiler with the clang_complete Vim plugin), this gist [1] will allow you to reuse that file with YouCompleteMe. Better I suppose would be a patch to detect a .clang_complete file in YCM directly...

[1] https://gist.github.com/ZaneA/4719983
Disagree, the courts have to fix this. Congress (and the Obama Administration) are ignorant and corrupt, they just passed fake "Patent Reform" and won't act again for some time.
Hash randomization was actually enabled by default in Python 3.3.

http://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#summary-release-h...
The part that's missing is the part where you start your own projects so that you have something to apply the knowledge to. Else you're just reading about surfing and wondering why you don't feel ready to surf yet. Maybe just one more surfing book?

You don't need confidence because your projects don't need to leave localhost. Most don't no matter how experienced you are. They're for your own education.

I have 102 projects in my Code/ directory. I have only 5 repositories on Github.
This kind of thing has been around for ages in Japan http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/4611597467/lightbox/
My impression was that solarmist just holds a book to his/her head and immediately grasps the material.
Sorry, that's fixed now.
If their domain was hijacked and repointed to rouge nameservers, I would have expected the attackers to redirect mail (MX records) in addition to web traffic. But this article didn't mention anything about email being potentially intercepted by hackers. Did I miss something?
If you want to find out how to buy bitcoins (it's hard to mine them now), there are a set of online guides at:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

tl;dr use coinbase (just like paypal / 1%) or bitme (chase deposits / 0.75%)
Use a padlock. Put the key where only knowledgable users can find it. This will cut down on your casual visitor screwing things up.

Engineer a dyson-vacuum-cleaner-like apparatus which 'sucks' water and beans in different ways.

Do the first comment's ideas, but make it a two-stage event - first is to put the item on the grid/flap, second is to manually fold the gridflap into the machine, where it's dumped into a temporarily unsealed beanbox. Water won't stay in the grid long enough to hang around for the second stage.

Create a sniffer that requires the scent of a fresh bean to be presented before opening the port.

Drink hot chocolate instead

Sell special iron-laced beans and use a magnetic apparatus.
This was proposed, but especially if the bean capacity is large getting the beans wet is a big no-no. It also does nothing to dissuade users from adding more water for whatever reason (until it overflows). Thus you get potentially moldy beans, and a tray full of gross old water.
>Real businesses need a data warehouse and SQL is the right tool for that job.

SQL is NOT always the right tool for the job.

There are plenty of situations where an Hadoop or a Storm/S4 approach works better. Again it's about picking the right technology for the task at hand.
A fine mesh is also great at directing a fair amount of water along the flow of the mesh.
For more on the effect of hereditary privilege, read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
This does not bode well for those people for whom Facebook is a pre-installed (and often unremovable) app on new phones.
I would expect transactions to simply become expensive.

Then, people would go through trusted third parties (e.g. online wallets) for small transfers, and only use the blockchain for large transfers.

The small transfers would just be adding or subtracting "virtual" bitcoins between different users' accounts.

Clearly, such a system would optionally allow for fractional reserve banking.

I view bitcoin more as "digital gold" than "digital cash," for the above reasons.
"What generally prevents tons of fracturing is the same thing that always has- perceived value of the currency."

Except that "perceived value" is not what prevents fiat currencies from fracturing. A government could, at any time, issue a new currency that competes with or replaces its old one. The reason governments almost never do this is that it amounts to defaulting on a loan, at a fundamental level.

To put it another way, if a government decides to issue some new, incompatible currency, and whatever currency you had previously lost some or all of its value, would you trust that the new currency would not also be replaced by yet another currency later on?

Money does not just magically get its value; the "perception" that money has value is, like the perception that anything else has value, based on supply and demand. We are all familiar with the money supply; money demand is generally driven by the legal structure that surrounds that money. Money demand comes from things like tax codes, debt/bankruptcy laws, torts (which often deal in monetary terms when speaking of damages), civil fines, etc. Another way to look at it is that laws allow you to use money to cancel debts of some kind, and thus the demand for money can be traced to the need people have to cancel various debts (and thus people with no debt can trade money for the goods or services of people who must cancel some debt).

Bitcoin is unique in having no legal structure surrounding it, and its demand comes principally from technical features (primarily one feature, which is secure online payments). Unsurprisingly, this demand does little to help Bitcoin survive on its own, hence the overwhelming important of Bitcoin exchanges (were these to vanish, Bitcoin would die overnight; on the other hand, the Ruble had some value in Russia even during the period of time when it lacked easy convertibility with other currencies).
Facebook IQ: you cannot exceed the IQ of the stupidest friend of all of your friends.

Also known as the Randi Conundrum.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/randi-zuckerberg-be...
About a year ago, Jeff Atwood came to the Something Awful forums to discuss ideas for better forum software. Unfortunately, it seemed like he had already made up his mind on the design, blithely dismissing well-articulated arguments against things like gamification and having non-moderated hiding of posts.

As much as I like stack overflow, I don't have high hopes for this project. I fully expect it to be even more full of the terrible metadiscussion about mod points, tags, visibility, and so on that seem to corrupt half the posts on places that implement similar systems.
The Rise of The Copyright Trolls
Sounds good in theory, in practice you'll end up with dirty water and humid beans. Suboptimal...
That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?
If you enjoy Unix shells, you will probably hate PowerShell. I use a bunch of GNU utilities compiled for Windows that are probably about ten years old. Cygwin is too much effort for an unnatural feeling environment and PowerShell was designed by people who may have been exposed to harmful influences such as the VAX DCL.
Why I gave up on MS' TypeScript
How about dropping things over prison walls? Seems like it'd be pretty easy with these types of devices.
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WTF, Evolution?
Revenge of the Nerds – Engineers Have Never Had it Better [pdf]
But with 2D comments, there's rarely any actual discussion. It's mostly people stating their opinions and others individually responding to them.

Looking at the demo page, I love how the threads are 1D, but you can still switch to direct replies if you just want to follow the sub-conversation. It's the best of both worlds.
I'm sure you're working hard on demanding things, but a world-class violinist is probably doing something much, much harder than you are. Even if you don't respect violinists, surely you have to respect that an expert mathematician trying to make a new discovery is working on problems much harder than anyone in the corporate world. So I don't think this article applies to you, or other people working long hours either, or to people who should be working long hours.
All you need is to design your bean enclosure so it's never completely empty. The few beans trapped in what I'd call a "reminder reservoir" will be enough to remind users beans go here.
I first read about the ~4 hour limit from D.E. Littlewood's book, Littlewood's Miscellany. He recommends "four hours a day or at most five, with breaks about every hour (for walks perhaps)."

Since then I've read of luminaries mentioning this in passing, but I haven't really tried to employ it. (I'm also pretty sure I've seen pg say this is empirically false with YC founders, and perhaps he and axiom are correct)

I'd like to know if there's evidence of this for learning, however, even if it is mathematics.
That's annoying and I'd probably walk away if I encountered that out of the box. Seems to be another silo`ing issue of dev teams in MS unfortunately. They have folks smarty enough to fix these types of issues.
Is there anything out there like this but less technical and more on game mechanics and genres?
I was at the hackathon too, and had a good time. It certainly felt a lot more like a Startup Weekend than a traditional hackathon- there were people there that had ideas they'd clearly thought about for a very long time, and wanted to continue to work on after the event. That's awesome. But I suspect I wasn't the only developer there that wasn't willing to make that kind of a commitment to a project, and was just there to work on some interesting ideas.

So, I suspect the key here is communication, and setting people's expectations before they walk into the room. As it happens in this case, I don't think the judges on Sunday participated in the panel on the first day, so they weren't judging based on 'real world' merit- I know of at least one "boring, back-end" solution that didn't even get the chance to present.
chris ortman just pointed to me that using the lambda like syntax would safeguard from context changes

so () => { } would work.

The compiler implied guarantee bugs me nonetheless.
Disney Earnings Beat; 'Star Wars' Spinoffs Planned
Big kudos for this post, and to you danilocampos!
MIT Builds An Open-Source Platform For Your Body
If it's like most other PBS shows, tomorrow it will be available in its entirety. They want you to watch it on your television if possible, then give you the opportunity to see it online after it's aired. It may only be available online for a limited time though, so don't procrastinate too long.
I think you define "strenuous" quite weakly. The overwhelming majority of jobs don't require very much cognitive effort, even in software. Most developers hardly ever actually do anything legitimately hard in their day-to-day work.

Proving theorems is a completely different class of work to chipping away at your failed unit tests or knocking together a CRUD app in your favourite language. Maybe a tenth of one percent of software developers routinely do work that is intellectually on a par with mathematical research; The rest are for the most part skilled tradesmen, doing work they understand relatively well.

It is universally accepted that all but the most prodigious musicians do not benefit from more than 4 or 5 hours of practice a day. They can often easily do twelve or sixteen hours a day, but the extra time is simply wasted. Once your reserves of concentration are spent, you're just going through the motions without learning anything. Most conservatories go to great lengths to persuade their students to practice less, because young musicians are often convinced that they can attain mastery through sheer force of effort.

I can sit and transcribe or arrange parts all day long. I can play from sheet music until my hands give out, all the while daydreaming about what I'm having for tea or what chores need doing. I can't usefully improvise or compose for more than about two hours at a time, or more than four hours in a day. I can feel the point at which I start playing familiar riffs rather than truly improvising; When I've run out of ideas and I'm just writing pastiche. There are composers who claim to do regular eight-hour days, but when you look deeper they invariably spend most of that day arranging or transcribing or recording into the computer, stuff that's essentially just admin.
Despite the existence of mono, the vast majority of .net code runs on Windows machines.
Good point. Although internally MediaMolecule (and Sony) will probably have very accurate stats on this via telemetry, you can get a rough idea by looking at what percentage of players have achieved which trophies.

http://exophase.com/game/littlebigplanet/trophies/

In a game such as Little Big Planet, where it could be argued that the whole point is creating levels, less than 50% have got the "Creator" trophy, but most players have the trophies you get when you complete ready-made levels.

You can repeat the exercise with other creative games on console. Here's Minecraft XBLA (unfortunately the achievements chosen for this title are less enlightening).

http://exophase.com/game/minecraft-xbox-360/achievements/

It's true that tracking sites like Exophase and Raptr only track achievements from people who sign up. These sites cater to players who really care about achievements, so the results would be skewed in that direction (and which I would say is the opposite direction to creativity, which has intrinsic fun).
Java 8: The First Taste of Lambdas
This blog item appears to have been plagiarized from Steve Bellovin's page:

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/nsam-160/pal.html