skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=user...

That is all you were after right? Posts by david-schwartz about ripple?
mrbill, not sure if you know but you are [dead]. Anyway, for me being serious about gaming is not just about playing good games of all ages, but also keep trying NEW games. I would not be satisfied playing with the Atari 2600 forever.
My father-in-law has a pair for watching TV. They are pretty awesome. Great sound quality and you can wander around the house and still hear the TV without cranking it.
Steve Job's death on Oct 5 is about as big a real spike as I'd expect to see.
An assortment of other stories following up on today's fourth quarter 2012 results report from Tesla Motors:

"As Tesla Eyes Profit, Elon Musk Wants to Punch Himself in the Face"

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-20/as-tesla-eye...

"Loss Widens at Electric-Car Maker"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732354920457831...

"Tesla’s Earnings Indicate Some Customer Cancellations"

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/teslas-earnings-indic...

"Tesla posts revenue of $306 million, larger-than-expected loss"

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-tesla-2...
They create emulators on the server side and stream the games to whatever architecture is running the client. It's one of the main reasons they purchased Gaikai.
Once humans can do it, it's probably no longer cool.
I don't know how anyone can call it a Bitcoin competitor.

Instead of a proof of work decentralized consensus ripple depends on a consensus of _trusted servers_. In Bitcoin language ripple is distributed but not decentralized.

Then multiply that out by the fact that its native currency XRP was all pre-created and given to the founders and their org... people like to call Bitcoin a ponzi scheme, but policies like this make me wonder if Ripple isn't a joke designed to point out the comparative equality Bitcoin provides.

It might be more accurate to call it a paypal competitor but it retains the Bitcoin scalability challenge of requiring global synchronization, so its unlikely to be a great one.
So, when asked "how it's changed people's lives", the best you can come up with is "they watched it on TV"? That's one of the most banal examples possible of 'changing lives'.

But I guarantee fifty years from now nobody's going to be telling their grandchildren where they were when Google came out with anything

Which is part of the romantic thing, not the merit thing. I can tell you where I was when Lady Di died, but that doesn't mean she was of any particular note in my life :)

I'm not arguing that it necessarily changed the way our societies work

This is exactly what "watershed moments of civilization" means. If you didn't actually mean that, then we've got little to debate, really.
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Never, but never, read the comments on a mainstream news site. This is for your own protection.
Welcome to 2013, 64-bit took over the world years ago.

There are no 32-bit x86 processors for sale anymore. "x86" means x86_64 as well.
I bought 2 phones on craigslist and both were stolen, so I wasnt able to activate them with the carrier. This is why I thought it might be better to remove the anonymity (it will probably be a lot easier now that people are used to giving their real names online...)

But if a substantial part of the market is stolen goods, than yeah there's no point because nobody would use it.
Looking forward to being able to adblock all the billboards in Tokyo
Since the great white shark needs to move to breathe [1] I assume that holding one long enough would cause it to suffocate, right?

[1] http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/marine-life/shark-d...
No, but they may well buy SteamBox builds that have internals upgraded each year, rather than on whatever schedule is convenient for Sony/MSs profit margin.
I'm in the produce industry and every year someone claims to have a new variety of tomato that tastes like the tomatoes " your grandparents ate". When the new variety comes to market almost no one is willing to buy the product at a premium price. It happens over and over.
> which is the problem Bitcoin elegantly solved. I like this solution as well.

Why do you like it? The ripple model depends on picking trusted servers which cannot be controlled by the same party/common interests. The system cannot automatically pick trusted servers because there is no electronic way to determine independence, except the way that it currently works— fiat of the developers: they hardcode the servers.

To me it seems that when encountering the fundamental problem bitcoin solved, "How do you achieve a fair consensus when its cheap to make sibyls?" their response was to completely punt on the issue.
No. The suit is riddled with technical inaccuracies and Amazon's lawyers, after having a huge laugh, will probably get summary judgment dismissal because the plaintiffs are idiots.
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When we uplift them, we'll have to remember to give them shoulders. And eyebrows. Good comedy depends on eyebrows.
I take it that you are not a dog person?
It's not really a problem, though. People have mistaken what is a growing market for one that is being invaded. It's just growing. Some people want casual games, which is fine, but Call of Duty games continue to break sales records, studios get bigger budgets (See Bungie's upcoming games), and those games won't play on an Ouya or an Apple TV.
I wonder if it is still too soon to start seeing the worst failure cases given the age of the drives.

I am curious why RAID6 is (still) used given its poor behavior in failure conditions. I am guessing that Backblaze is not as worried about additional drive failure in an array during a rebuild because they are periodically verifying each drive.

Comparing to a X4540 is kind of a stretch. The use cases seem very different. Also, it for Backblaze, they wouldn't exist at the price they charge, with the price that Sun charged for an X4540.

I hope Joyent does release something about their config, that would be very interesting.
Google's PDF viewer refuses to save PDFs opened via the websites of some scientific journals. I'm not willing to play the proxy game every time I want to read journal papers so I save them locally. I stopped using Google's PDF viewer because of this misfeature.
FTA ' Ripple (XRP) is a new decentralized Bitcoin-like currency '
+1, or better yet, an on-hover for the footnote anchor which shows the actual footnote. Either way, I hate scrolling back and forth for context.
And here we see a completely typical "overnight sensation".

(interesting number - if that 6 years represents 6 years of ~30hr weeks, HN has just hit the magic "10,000 hours of practice" required to become an expert…)
I recently was locked out of several games and Netflix because they wanted additional email addresses on my Xbox live account - I already had the primary and a back up - now they have 2 back ups! And this wasn't to play games over the WAN - this was to play games locally while logged in as my XBox Live user!
Lack of epub is an issue. Amazon's format, in addition to being proprietary, is a weird and hard to deal with (due to historical PalmOS-related baggage). Also, I believe that the epubs tend to have more future-proof data (cleaner HTML, etc).

However, I have no sympathy for these publishers on the DRM front. If they want DRM then they can pay the piper (i.e. Amazon/Apple). I personally don't see a lot of merit in this lawsuit as long as Apple, Amazon, etc. allow users to load their own third party books onto the devices. (And you can make your own books for the devices.)

Nobody is stopping them from selling books for the iPad/Kindle, lots of publishers like O'Reilly and Baen do. They're just stopping them from using Amazon/Apple's DRM without paying Amazon/Apple for the privilege. The same thing happened with music, and the industry eventually decided to drop the DRM. (And I think Apple is still selling a decent amount of music without it.)
A suspected reason why domesticated animals cuter is the ideal that traits that are typically selected are traits found in youth. The general term for this is neoteny [1], which is where youthful traits are held on to into adult life.

Typical traits selected for are reduced aggression and increased docility. The hypothesis is that the animals that displayed these traits likely also had a variety of other relatively child-like traits, such as larger heads, larger foreheads (I guess this might be why dolphins look so darn cute), larger eyes, floppy ears, and etc - on the basis that the set of genes that control the development of adult traits are typically linked together.

The result being that as we selected for the tamest animals, we also selected those that were cuter. It's kind of circular in that traits that make things cute are typically those that are found as young - the young form of most animals sharing the same general 'cute' features.

One thing of note is that the concept of neoteny is often invoked to explain how humans diverged so rapidly from the other primates. If you accept that explanation, and take the idea a bit further, then you end up with a somewhat bizarre and perhaps disturbing idea that humans are actually the result of self-domesticating primates (obviously a gross over simplification... but kind of a fun thought to play around with).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
CIRC: An IRC Client for Chrome
Twitter finally opens an ads API. Your move, Pinterest, Tumblr and LinkedIn
Drobo-box: Barracuda Networks' Dropbox Alternative
5 times. Each time the bank called me, and told me they were sending a new card. (Once was a false positive).

New card arrived within 3 days from old card being stopped. Money was reimbursed the same day it was taken.

The false positive was when I was traveling, and it was a minor hassle (as I had multiple credit cards).

I take it from the responses from people, my experience isn't typical.
I agree with everything you said, just not that it will happen within the timespan of this console generation.
Well, you could take that as "less sentient humans should be treated like animals and abused/treated like property/eaten." On the other hand, you could take it as:

- Maybe I shouldn't eat all / some animals.

- Maybe some / all animals should have more rights and not be treated as objects, but living beings.

[Not to mention the Christian fundamentalists that will refer to the Bible stating that God gave man domain over animals, so things like lighting cats on fire for fun are ok.]
The 360 controller has the same jack on it.
No, you're right.

Seeing humans walk on the moon changed people's lives in the same way seeing 9/11 on tv changed people's lives, or seeing JFK get shot on tv changed people's lives. In that it was a monumental, historic and transfixing event.

Not at all like the first time you opened maps and saw street view.

I concede the point.
It depends where you go. Travel makes you pay attention to your surroundings. It also forces you to let go of certain things, and concentrate on a whole new set of issues, like "how to get from point A to point B", or "where am I going next."
Subsidized PC cheaper than white-box machines you can jailbreak into one?
Sony Bets On The Past, Forfeits the Future
A reddit with its present amount of users and no 4chan influence would be worth a billion. Masturbation jokes on the front page scare away advertisers.
I dug through my bookmarks/history and didn't find anything that matches your description.

Some faculty and students have their stuff actually on oxford servers
with the typical "domain/~username" directory structures. It's possible the
"blog" you mention is one these.

The most "specific" domain for the computer science department at oxford
would be: "cs.ox.ac.uk"

So to find all references to it from HN, you'd want something like this:

About 40 results

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&pws=0&safe=off...

A more general search would be for "ox.ac.uk" (all of oxford) would be
better since some obvious "computer science" stuff is located on
alternate domains (e.g. "robotics.ox.ac.uk").

About 178 results

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&pws=0&safe=off...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254933
Off the top of my head, instant sharing of anything without futzing around with a discrete device. How many moments are missed because a camera wasn't ready or the app took to long to load?

"Ok glass, record a video"

Bam.

If it works in real life at the same speed as in the video, I don't think this effect can be overstated. It allows you to share while still being a participant in the experience (as opposed to the guy just holding a camera).

Instant knowledge extension is the other one. Google's getting quite good at the whole "answering your questions on page one" thing already, but now you don't have to fish around in your pockets for it. Settle arguments with your friends instantly ;)

It's just there. Always in the corner of your vision. There when you want it, easily ignorable when you don't. It's part of your senses, you don't have to think about it, and I can see it becoming as intuitive to ask glass to search for something you want to know on the spot as it is to reach for Google when we want to find something on the internet.

I don't think people understand how big a deal this ease of access is. You've just tied two of your senses into the largest collection of human knowledge ever collected. On a more direct level than has ever been accomplished in the past.

Think about it. How many more questions would you ask if you could just ask on the spot and have an answer right there? How much more would you share if it was truly effortless?

Maybe I'm just drinking the kool-aid here, but I really, really think this will be big.
Do you have an archive of your pre-homoiconic blog? There were some very good posts, and the Wayback machine doesn't have it.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://raganwald.com/
You had me until Contra. I loved Contra when I was that age too, but it's not in the same galaxy as Tetris, Metroid, or the original Zelda.
> This is part of what I mean when I say catalyst. Got a weird problem? I hope you happen to be in just the right group or forum that happens to have a willing expert.

A catalyst, in common parlance, is something that gets a reaction going under circumstances which it would not otherwise proceed. Google cannot be a catalyst if the "reaction" was already roaring by the time it had any influence.

Does Google make life easier? Sure. But I'm not sure how that earns it the title of "greatest tech company in history."

> but you are more than willing to subsume any steel-using work into the provenance of US Steel. Apparently other steel companies - even other countries, don't exist.

I think you underestimate the total domination U.S. Steel and how instrumental its production was to building the U.S. as we know it today. Controlling 2/3 of all steel production is somewhat more significant than controlling 2/3 of search engine traffic.

That's the heart of the distinction I'm trying to make. Google is something that makes life online easier, but U.S. Steel was something that made industrial America possible.
Growing up, I was lucky enough to occasionally join a group of scientists aboard a research vessel off the northern tip of the Bahamas. We would spend hours a day and up to two weeks at a time on the open ocean swimming with them and making visual and audio recordings of their behavior. The species they study are Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis). One of the things that has always struck me about them is how social they are – they have social circles and "cliques", similar to humans. We would observe these social networks and monitor how they change over the years. This research project is unique because they've been following this same group of just a few hundred dolphins in the wild for over 25 years. Having watched video and high frequency audio recordings of them interacting with one another in the wild, it comes as no surprise that they have "names" for one another.

Relatedly, Denise Herzing, the founder of that organization (the Wild Dolphin Project) will be speaking at TED this year (see Session 8, "Coded Meaning"): http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/guide.php

Here's their site: http://www.wilddolphinproject.org/about-us/mission-vision/
Good point. I just finished a social history of Montreal in the 40's and 50's. TV had a lot to do with the closing down of cabarets and theatres.

You didn't have to go out for entertainment anymore. But the latter is inherently more social than TV.
Once I cornered a rabbit in my ally. The usual way out was blocked, and the rabbit was frantically searching the far wall for another escape while I watched. After a bit I was momentarily distracted, and the rabbit choose that moment to dash past me.

Apparently the rabbit knew my attention had turned. As would a crow. They don't need our special mental abilities -- language and lambdas -- to model the mental states of those around them.

(In other words, even the rabbits could tell last Saturday's party sucked as soon as they entered the room. Which is why none of them stayed.:)
Writing a grant proposal is about as hard as writing a paper. So if they apply for three grants and also write three papers in a year, then yeah - that's 50%.
I'm using it with Scala. My understanding is that Play can be used without writing any Scala whatsoever.

That said, you can start with Scala as "better Java" and ramp up to its advanced features. That's how I began. At first you're just replacing for-loops with map/reduce, eventually you'll start passing around implicit variables and using for-comprehensions all over the place.
(Yev w/ Backblaze here) -> We have drives that have remained online since the first versions of the storage pods, but we've just recently started collected drive failure rates. Typically we see that if a drive can stay up for the first two weeks, it will live happily in the pod for a good long while.
Do altcoins have any legitimate reason to exist? The whole "silver to bitcoin's gold" shtick is terribly unconvincing.
Steam has a large, loyal following and, because of this, people like myself (console gamer) and my girlfriend (not a gamer) know about it through online media. I currently play PS3 games because there is no PC gaming solution I can plop down in my living room and have it just work. But once the Steam Box comes out that will change. Not only will I have a living room compatible ready-to-wear PC gaming solution, but gaming will also be cheaper because Steam has tons of deals. Steam is also reputedly a lot more developer friendly than Sony and Microsoft so I really don't see how Sony and Microsoft are going to be able to compete in the long term.
I latched onto the part of your post about thinking in another language. Way back in school, I had these 90 minute long immersive Spanish classes. You had to speak Spanish the whole time, even for the most ordinary things. It was intended to get you really using the language, and it apparently worked. Here's why.

I eventually realized that for a few minutes after leaving that class, as I walked to my bus, my inner monologue was running in Spanish, too. I might be thinking about the same things, but the words used for them would be different. This would slowly click back over as I started hearing and talking to my fellow students, and I'd be back to normal a few minutes after that.

The thing is, this adaptive behavior isn't limited to extremes like EN vs. ES. There are different subsets of the language which swap in and out of my speech depending on who's around. I speak one way here on HN, for instance, knowing a bit about my potential audience. I wouldn't sound quite like this with random family members, after all.

What I'm guessing based on what you've said here is that this adaptation might not be a universal thing. Maybe some people just have their preferred language and use it no matter what their audience might be. Perhaps other people pick up on this and think they're "weird" since they're not using the common "code" of the rest of the group. Curious.
The problem with your argument though is that the amount of "junkiness" (if we're going with the food analogy) is directly equivalent to how well you curate your experience.

If your Facebook friends are people who share useful and enriching content and make insightful comments, for instance. Nobody's going to argue that the default front page of Reddit is anything but junk, but imagine you've unsubscribed all of those and now follow things like r/programming and r/books - you are getting more useful content.

Basically I take issue with denigrating all of social media as some kind of crap. It's precisely as crap as the person using it wants/allows it to be.
Tesla’s Earnings Indicate Some Customer Cancellations
You can work on more worthwhile things than ad targeting in industry and still get paid a full salary.

However, it is true that a disproportionate amount of jobs will follow the money.
We do (Big 4 team) - it's the only way I'll hire somebody for our team, if I have a say in it (which I normally do). I find it's FAR more effective than reading resumes sent in blindly.

We do bonus for new hires (a few $K), which helps get everybody more 'engaged' - but the main drive is to get to work with folks you respect on work you think is awesome. Our team is up to 8 new folks in the last year or so, and so far, everything has been working fantastic.
Yes you can, as long as the lights are spaced within certain multiples of a certain distance, and the speed limit in both ways are the same.
I agree about the 14 inch. I currently use a 13.3" with a keyboard to die for, but I've found that 13.3" is a little too small, and 15+" is too big. Finding a replacement is a royal pain.

Dream setup:

14" screen- 1920x1080 IPS

Full keyboard with ThinkPad-style keys (none of that flat crap)

GPU capable of OpenCL, latest OpenGL and WebGL

2.4+ GHz CPU

5-6 hours battery life

<4 lbs (preferably <3)

Complete driver support for Linux (and preferably FreeBSD as well)

I don't think this is too much to ask, and I'm willing to pay...
Time has no value for you, then?
how is pdf.js gonna be updated in firefox... i was using the dev version add-on of pdf.js and seems to work better than the one shipped in FF19
Pretty interesting topic and responses. For one more data point, I can create an internal voice and/or images but neither happens by default. If I need to verbalize my thoughts I often have a practice conversation in my head, to see how it comes out in words. I also find it very easy to not think about anything, mind blank and just taking the world in, which seems to be considered a "weird" ability in some circles.
You can copy the text itself, but much of the other stuff, i.e, the formatting, is copyrighted.

Also, I'm going to point out that non-lawyers like MacWright usually misunderstand the law (and he has in this instance), so his blog is generally not useful guidance.
Surprise, suprise Andreessen Horowitz involved in another crazy valuation.
EDIT: Removed because I'm tired and my reading comprehension is crap.
The Strength of Weak Ties
Not if the SteamBox costs twice as much.
Wishlist #1 in a pull request :)
Tuition should be covered by grant funding (RA) or the department (TA). If a university "accepts" you in a science/engineering PhD program, but is not offering tuition and salary, they're really saying they can't take you. Note that at many universities, students will cost a grant more than postdocs for this reason.
I did not check the PS4 specs for the jack, but the Xbox controller jack is a 2.5mm one, while the standard headphone jack is 3.5mm.
The hover based feedback was great for its time, but now, it breaks on
newer touch based interfaces.
That seems like a very interesting book. Thanks for sharing! I have added it my list of things to read.
Well you seem to be one of the lucky ones! What's your bank ?