skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. After some more thinking, I think one can always win with 132 in hand by always bidding 33:

If O takes the first two, you win the next three for 33 each and win.

If O leaves you the first two for 33 each, take centre and a corner. O must take the third to block you. If he also takes the fourth, he must leave open a row that you can complete in two turns.

If O takes the first and leaves you the second, pick a corner, or, if O left it, the centre. If O takes the third, he must leave open a row for you to take in two more turns. If he leaves you the third, he can block one row, forcing you to use four X-es.

If O leaves you the first, then takes the second, pick centre. If he takes the third, he can't prevent you from completing a row with 3 X-es. If he leaves you the third, he can force you to use at least 4 X-es.

I do not rule out further improvements, maybe even to a conclusion that you need less than 100. For example, if O takes centre and corner for 34 each, you must bid 33 to guarantee blocking his win. After that, you can afford bidding 16 next. If you lose that bet, O has at most 16 left, allowing you to win the two squares you need for 17 each, for a total expense of less than 100.
> traditional and safe investments

This made me chuckle.

The "traditional" investment vehicles of US stocks, real estate and bonds are anything but "safe" these days.
Superfeedr : A Google Reader Compatible API
I'm saying it's quite possible the coins themselves would be a better investment at this point.

Casino chips aren't going to significantly increase in value. If Bitcoin succeeds then Bitcoins will. If Bitcoin doesn't succeed, then neither will the "banks".
Wasn't Google killing Reader because they had to focus on less products? How many new products this week alone have they introduced? 3, 4, 5?
We use feature branches and pull requests too for some features, but the general consensus is that they're more trouble than they're worth, because with any moderately complex branches you start getting conflicts after a few days. So most of the time we try to do everything on the main branch (develop).

Besides, even with feature branches I try to review things early instead of waiting for a pull request sometime later and then commenting "oh no, it's all wrong"...
SourceTree for Windows appears to be written in C#, but their UI is built with WPF which I believe will be a limiting factor for cross-platform compatibility.
Just signed up - when is the service actually going live?
an internet for you sir! (0.01BTC)
I agree with you in that I have a hunch Marco may be an Apple fanboi; still, as you said, it's a well written article, and one point in particular stands out to me: the fact that people are trying to kill RSS and leave the only options as proprietary-sell-your-personal-information ghettos that could be shut down at a moments notice, and much more effectively.

The Internet wasn't built on AOL or IE, and it shouldn't be forced to ad hoc proprietary standards, especially if you have to give up privacy to communicate with people. I'm eternally grateful that Facebook and Google+ haven't supplanted email in my social circles and I can still run my own web and email server.
Why It’s Hard to Give Up Google Reader
App Engine 1.7.6 released
What attack are you referring to?
This is terrific, and definitely a compelling way to intro an idea, business, concept, etc. on a mobile device. The tapping interaction is great, and the language and image-progression (incremental text width; changing exposures; etc.) feels natural and polished.

I could imagine a market for a solution that helps build these mobile-ready "decks." Of course, the creator has to conceive and execute with a native mobile experience in mind (not convert their existing deck), but a technology layer that aids in the creation (either just the implementation, or with best-practices to boot) would be terrific.

Ideally, one could find a similar experience without downloading an entire standalone app, but I suppose you'll take what you can get. I'd just love to be able to tell a new contact: "Check out CopThis.com/go and click through to learn all about the project right from your phone!" Heck, I'd even be thrilled to use: Mobile-Decks.com/CopThis
Tits in slides make a sexist environments. Blonde jokes make sexist environments. Groping makes sexist environments. Light innuendo does not create sexist environments.

This woman publicly humiliated someone and lost them their job for doing absolutely nothing wrong. That is fucked up.
YOLO is Carpe Diem for stupid people.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the problem you are referring to?
Have any loans ever been denominated in bitcoin? Given the disadvantages of a bitcoin loan, some of which you cite, when should we expect such to occur? Is there any reason to believe bitcoin could affect the supply or demand of loans denominated in other currencies?
Show HN: My PyCon 2013 diary
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-zero-opening-reception.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-one.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-two.html
http://cjdrake.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycon-day-three.html
You can do just about anything you want, it's the way you do it that matters. You went over the line when you publicly posted their photo, plain and simple.

And your defense of possible misunderstanding is, to be blunt, far short of logical. You don't know that he didn't defend himself to the organizers and that they rejected his defense (unless I've missed something).
Oh so Google never cans a free service that has an official documented API?

Google Translate? Google Search API?

>Move on.

Yes, let's just forget about all the stuff Google does that sucks and pretend it never happened.
Unlike the stock market, the startup world isn't even close to 50/50. If you say that they will fail, you're much more likely to be right than wrong.

Note that Google had no way of making money in 1997. It was actually Overture that pioneered pay-per-click search engines -- and Yahoo bought Overture.
You have quite a way of expressing yourself. Hopefully at the next conference I can sit next to you and let you know just how much I enjoy your opinions. You can always leave if it bothers you.
Ah that's ok then.
Are you suggesting he start work on an new computing platform because the existing market lacks diversity?

While I agree with the point that diversity begets vulnerability, I don't think starting a competitor would be the most effective idea. Monocultures usually have strong forces that keep them in existence. With bananas, it's an inability to reproduce. With invasive plants like garlic mustard, it's allelopathy. With the industr(ies) we're talking about, it's the existence of massive inter-indusrial coalitions between hardware manufacturers, software companies, infrastructure providers, and the like that instigate the lack of diversity.

If cs702 tried to take action by building a competitor, he would have about the same chance of success a sapling in a field of kudzu. Looking at the factors that cause the monoculture and finding a way to disrupt them, I think, is a more promising idea.
I just graduated from one of the largest universities in the USA and your comment about "conscientious students" complaining to the student union just isn't realistic. The issue is so pervasive across the majority of departments that to effectively complain would have to be on a scale equivalent to just voting on an ballot for legal intervention.

I envy the UK system in this regard. But the practical issues of convincing US universities to switch to the UK model are significant.
Just tested the new multi-threaded dev_appserver and so far it's an awesome performance gain.
> Are you arguing that there were no societies that had caloric surplus up until late in the XX century?

No, only that a caloric surplus is necessary to gain weight. Matter cannot be created from nothing, a surplus of energy is required to perform all the bodily functions and to also build body mass.

A people can have an abundance of food and still not get obese, if they simply don't eat too much of it, relative to their caloric expenditure.
Awesome new debate platform
New research: music piracy should not be a “concern for copyright holders”
The last few years are not representative of the long term. Over the long term stocks, bonds and real estate - in aggregate - rise in value.

If you don't want to risk short or medium term fluctuations and black swans, the ultimate traditional and safe investment is a savings account. If you're the type that thinks fiat currency is only worth it's weight in toilet paper, then buy gold.

For any of these investments you'll have more left at retirement than if you put 100% of your capital into startups that ended up going out of business.
How to tame Linux responsiveness, memory, and paging?
Ah that's ok then. Totally ok to threaten the financial future of someone and their kids because they repeated an old bit of innuendo.

Yes, there are massive issues with women in the tech community, but colossally overreacting to something that isn't even wrong isn't going to help, it's just going to create an atmosphere of paranoia and distrust.
Ah that's ok then. Totally ok to threaten the financial future of someone and their kids because they repeated an old bit of innuendo and you happened to be in earshot.

Yes, there are massive issues with women in the tech community, but colossally overreacting to something that isn't even wrong isn't going to help, it's just going to create an atmosphere of paranoia and distrust.
I disagree. I worked at Google for a year in 2010, around the time of the first reorgs around social. They were decimating teams like Calendar, Sites, and other products with millions of users that were stagnating, as far as they were concerned, and building a team 200-strong to take on "social" -- whatever that means. We joked that no one at Google knew what it meant. We felt Google was deeply clueless about the nature of social networking products. The restructuring was very top-down and heavy-handed, and it was apparently just the beginning.

In fact, if you're looking for hindsight vs reality, I don't think Google and Facebook really were competitors -- until Google decided to build a copy of Facebook's product. So what if both sites were monetized with ads, whoop-dee-doo. The overlap in their product functionality and expertise was basically zero. There's a very abstract connection that comes out of Google's central dogma: We are how people find things on the Internet. We are how they discover links. We're their homepage. What if Facebook takes all of that away? We have to eat their lunch.

Google acted out of some combination of fear, insecurity, and pressure from Wall Street, along with some grandiose thinking about their role in the universe and the threat of Facebook. I believe the changes inside Google are significant, and also not inevitable or "what anyone would have done at the time." We'll see how the effects play out.
No, prayer has not been shown to work.

Rather, what do you mean by "work"? If people who pray feel more relaxed, then yes, it works for some people. So does meditation. So does reading a book, or watching a movie. Or playing cards, or talking with friends.

If by "effective" you mean that people who pray have a higher longevity, higher rate of being cured, etc. then no, it doesn't work. This type of prayer is usually called intercessory prayer.

Take for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567 .

> Intercessory prayer is widely believed to influence recovery from illness, but claims of benefits are not supported by well-controlled clinical trials. Prior studies have not addressed whether prayer itself or knowledge/certainty that prayer is being provided may influence outcome. We evaluated whether (1) receiving intercessory prayer or (2) being certain of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with uncomplicated recovery after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ...

> CONCLUSIONS: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

Take for another example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19370557 .

> OBJECTIVES: To review the effects of intercessory prayer as an additional intervention for people with health problems already receiving routine health care.

> AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: These findings are equivocal and, although some of the results of individual studies suggest a positive effect of intercessory prayer, the majority do not and the evidence does not support a recommendation either in favour or against the use of intercessory prayer. We are not convinced that further trials of this intervention should be undertaken and would prefer to see any resources available for such a trial used to investigate other questions in health care.
Guess what? Microsoft isn't being upfront about the costs of maintaining and providing a high quality email service. The bills have to be paid somehow, and that's why Google's ads are targeted using email keywords. Microsoft, on the other hand is using free Outlook accounts as a loss leader, and I can assure you with a great degree of certainty that they would do the same if they had as much of the market as Google does.
I don't know how to discover new lists now (only people but I don't care about people only interesting lists). Why was that feature scrapped? Or am I just not finding it?
Note that this conclusion runs contrary to previous, industry-funded, research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366724
I was talking about the service, it doesn't really matter for the user if it's in a form of API or not. I do "PAY" google with my wasted brainpower when I see ads they serve (adblock possibility aside). Seriously though, there's nothing free but it works both ways, it's only fair and long lasting when both sides treat the arrangement as a contract.
$0.10/query is a hefty price to pay. For comparison's sake - http://www.maxmind.com/en/ccfd_features

If siftscience turns out to be significantly more accurate, it may end up being worth it.. but at somewhere between 6 and 20x their competition's price, it will take quite the improvement.
The issue of "testing you on memory recall rather than mathematical ability" is precisely why American students (myself being one) hate the textbook and university industries in our country. When the problem is phrased your/our way, it's obviously terrible. The business interests and incentives for lots of people involved on the textbook side promote testing on memory recall and limiting how someone is to "earn" their grades.
Fix what part of it? You're talking as if we all know what is wrong and needs to be fixed but I don't think we know what you are referring to.

Google Drive works great for everyone I know, are you referring to the short downtime the other day?
No, they added 3,4,5 features to existing products, and it's fairly obvious that I'm not sure if you're trolling or not.
What large software firm publishes their own open software? Is there ANY? Maybe Redhat... If you ignore the fact that they haven't released any new technology in quite a while unless you call adding a number for Fedora distro advancement. Buinesses make money, your business doesn't survive by products, moral fortitude, even customers, etc. It survives by making money.

That's why RedHat OS isn't so great, they don't build anything they just maintain it for their customers. They simply don't have the money to develop on new products then throw that investment away by casting it to the general internet community where it will be repacked and sold as an original piece of software, or forked and tangled.

If we ever see a large company make a significant contribution, it will probably come in the form of a platform for capturing the community work into proprietary system on private hardware. Open sourcing your company is one step away from throwing in the towel, in the current economy.
Yes, I agree that the strict interpretation of Gresham's law is not exactly applicable here, since there is no enforced BTC-USD rate. But the broader sense can still inform, along the lines of Rolnick and Weber:

> They also focused mainly on the interaction between different metallic monies, comparing the relative "goodness" of silver to that of gold, which is not what Gresham was speaking of.

(from the wikipedia article)
A Faster Way to Build in Flash
The interesting thing to me is currency's role in providing certainty. In this case, about the total amount of something, and whether what you're encountering is a valid instance of it. Check out some examples and how Bitcoin compares:

Gold has chemical properties that ensure its finite scarcity (though supplies can fluctuate) and allow you to identify it as ture gold (through, e.g. density measurements).
Gold-backed paper currency has a scarcity determined by the trustworthiness of its issuer and a validity linked to the difficulty of its reproduction.
Fiat paper currency has a feature of allowing a fractional reserve system, which allows a central body to control its scarcity (and perceptions thereof), with validity again linked to difficulty of reproduction.
Open-source cryptographic currencies have a well-defined scarcity and easily verifiable validity.

Cryptography provides certainty better than a physical alternative like gold or paper, but governments traditionally have had control over currency and don't have control over Bitcoin. I think it's unlikely they'll give this up without a fight. I'm not sure that the token system you propose really gives them back that control unless it supports fiat: the arbitrary issuance or discontinuation of currency. But, the idea of Bitcoin as specie is a great one. If it is adopted it as such it becomes open to confiscation like FDR did with gold in 1933, which is an interesting prospect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

I wonder confiscation is even possible? If it's not this is a seriously revolutionary tech: property without government.
The best way to estimate resource usage is to run something and store metrics, though. I would expect better success scaling when you can see more of what's going on ...
There's also this now: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/new-research-music-p...

I expect to see industry-funded research disputing this soon.
Microsoft recently added Git support to TFS: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/
Interesting read.

I'm still not sure I understood the role of the "HGTV" sites and how the fraudster was getting money by showing the HGTV ads (even after reading the comments on the post explaining this). Weren't the ads on those parked domains enough to generate the revenue for the fraudster?
> google destroyed the market for smaller RSS-app vendors by providing a service for free, at a loss. was it on purpose? or just stupidity? what exactly does it change? the ecosystem around RSS has been ruined, maybe beyond repair.

This is surely a joke, because the last time I checked software of my choosing can pluck RSS feeds and serve me content, whether it be a web, desktop, or mobile app. While the current quality of RSS apps can be argued, RSS is in no way near dead.
Using a Raspberry Pi as an Information Radiator
How exactly are forking and dongle innuendos offensive to women? What right do you have to be offended by them other than that you have ears?
The worst part about this is that there is no default password. It's marginally worse than doing nothing - people just voluntarily use cisco/cisco because they don't care about security.

* technically on some of the newer routers and versions cisco/cisco is a default, but after the first login it's no longer valid.
Any other actual router jockeys out there, aside from the folks just talking about it? I used to do BGP support at a regional ISP but I got out of that game almost a decade ago. Dead end job, dead end company, dead end industry, low pay, and 24x7 on call. Of course it doesn't have to be that bad.

Anyway, the doctrine pushed at the time by cisco was embedding a password into a router was only for home or VERY small business users. Anyone with more than, say, 4 routers or so should be using some form of network authentication.

We had network auth in the very early 00s although all our routers had an emergency console password configured in (had to use it once, looked like 80 characters of line noise, maybe it was). That was in a sealed envelop in a lockbox. Because he had to update every router manually if that envelope opened, our one security guy got pretty annoyed if anyone ripped the envelope open.

Anyway the point that might be missed is in a carrot and stick method, this might be a very extreme application of the stick to get people to use network AAA systems instead of configuring their console and enable passwords in each router.

I guess modern cisco routers/IOS can do LDAP and KERBEROS its not all RADIUS from 1993, although old stuff does work.

I will say that in the dark days before we went network AAA it was an absolute nightmare when someone on the team quit and someone had to go manually thru every router on the network and change the passwords and distribute the new one to us all.

This will negatively impact people with 1990s architecture, but to the extent that they're already in a living hell anyway it won't be much worse.

Unfortunately I've worked at a few places with non-internet connected routers (or so they thought, anyway) where documentation was so poor you basically had to break in each time you needed access. Physical access to do hard recovery via a reboot was a PITA. Making it "easier to break in" would be seen as a feature not a bug in those locations.
Show HN: Founders - interviews with some of the world's finest entrepreneurs
So far, out of 9.8 million sites, 1.85 million have been archived.

More info: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Posterous
Good Bye Evasi0n Tool Says Apple in iOS 6.1.3
Thing is, due to (mostly righteous) backlash, companies are running shit-scared. If you associate a company with something that could even be remotely construed as sexist (despite in this instance it not being), they will do everything in their power to distance themselves from it.
The old discovery was pretty bad and we decided to focus on launching the essentials first. We're already indexing all our lists and also normalizing links with new Kippt so it's only matter of time once we get some cool discovery tools out again. I hope this explains it.
Bitcoin Derivatives Market: https://icbit.se/
I'm fairly confident all of the revenue from one of my sites comes from botnet ad clicks. I use CloudFlare and when I set it up at first I used the standard settings for blocking bots. My ad revenue flat lined. Took the botnet protections off and my ad revenue went right back to what it was before.
I'm not sure whether you are a literal ostrich with your head in the sand scratching on a keyboard, or if you're overpaid astroturfer who hasn't figured out how to use a chatbot yet.
Ubuntu to halve support length for non-LTS releases
Blockchain.info has this chart that tracks the number of bitcoins traded on known exchanges vs the number of bitcoins exchanged in all other transactions.

This chart gives a somewhat measure of if the hoarding has gone up or not. It gives us a good idea about bitcoin speculation.

http://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio

The lower the number on this chart, the less the speculation. Recently, the number has almost always been under 20. This number was at 225 during the July 2011 bitcoin bubble.

(More explanation about this chart: http://codinginmysleep.com/measuring-bitcoin-speculation/)

So while we would think that more people would be hoarding bitcoins, the data shows thats not necessarily true.

Combining this chart with the number of bitcoin transactions per day chart gives us a good indication that the price is increasing because more people are hearing about bitcoins and using it. (Number of transactions per day have gone up from 6,000 a year ago to 70,000 today.)