skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Routinely handing out water/food/necessities also inhibits innovation in local people starting businesses and efficient services to provide that for themselves. You could give someone water, or give someone a few thousand dollars to build a well. Even if you go in and build a well for them, it discourages someone starting their own self-sustaining enterprise or organization to do that on their own, locally.

Let's revise this old cliche:
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Give him money to start a fishing school, feed the village forever. Give him money to do whatever he wants, and he might start an institution more beneficial than a fishing school.
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That's great for us and the economy.

Personally, I'd prefer my money to increase in value.

I'm not going to avoid a currency for the benefit of the economy, nor would that be consistent with expected economic behavior.
A government entity looking to destroy the market wouldn't necessarily care about getting a return.

Even if they were, take a look at what happened yesterday when someone dumped 5k bitcoins onto mtgox.

http://i.imgur.com/K8T4F0Y.png
ZFS should be able to restore a failure in a single block quickly. With fsck you have to unmount the drive to even check. If you have a bad write operation (in ZFS) it should be detected even before the block pointer is set.

I'm not too familiar with exactly how fsck works, but it seems to mainly stitch bad metadata back together so there's still no guarantee that your data is perfectly restored.
This would be especially true if a bad FS write operation caused the data to be corrupt.

If the data is really corrupt the FS doesn't have any inherent way of knowing what the correct data should be.
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Smart Playlists now in MoviePile
Invest that money in private ASIC dev. and mine away
I'm not getting an intuitive grasp on what the days destroyed tells you? Is it how many people are holding bitcoins? What does a higher number mean, what does a lower number mean?
If you don't mind my asking, what version of SoapUI are you using? I'm not going to say that everything was fixed and all better after SoapUI 4.5, but the team did manage to fix some of the issues that we've been having on Mac.

That said, we know that our Mac version of SoapUI is still pretty rough (we actually have a blog post from a while of back referring to SoapUI 4.5 as the "suck less on Mac version"). The reason for this is partly because Apple is doing its damndest to break Java on the Mac. But we've also needed to work on improving the Windows version, since that is what most of our users use. In all honesty, the reason we even have a Mac-version of SoapUI is because that team has a childish love for all things Mac.

We do have great hopes for the long-term: The new Product owner for SoapUI, Matti, is a Mac guy, our Technology Director, Henrik, for the SoapUI team only uses Mac, and the SoapUI Scrum Master, Ulrika, is a Mac fanatic – hopefully this all pays off.

So, please bear with us; we're working on some other projects that will delay any work on the Mac. We're re-building our entire build and release process in order to be able to release tested and validated versions of SoapUI more frequently. Boring stuff, but the advantages are huge. We’re really hoping we'll be seeing improvements for the Mac over the next year.
The biggest problem with professional programmers entering the field is in my opinion precisely the lack of ability to reason about how given code meets the criteria you mentioned and how different versions of the code score using those criteria. Many people have a very hard time at all explaining why they choose to do something one way over another. You have to work on a single project for a long enough time to be able to see how your decisions from one year earlier affect the current code base to learn to do this well.
Unregulated currency seems like a way to do the former, not the latter.
"Based on what?"

From the article and from the valuation/volume charts that are available from MtGox and elsewhere. Having watched a number of things become the object of speculation (stuffed animals[1], old computers, internet stocks, real estate, Etc) if you look at their value over time and their trading frequency the traffic develops a quick jump and dump mode when folks are speculating. I attribute it to people buying, capturing gains, then buying again to capture more gains.

I don't think its "capped out" what I think is that a bunch of people are jumping into the currency to make a quick buck. And the way speculation works is very much like musical chairs, you jump in and sit down, jump in and sit down, and hope that when the music stops you were sitting down and not standing. If enough players have the stomach for it (it can be both exhilarating and scary to gamble a lot of cash) then the run will continue, once it crosses some threshold, it will come crashing down.

[1] Met a person at a garage sale that had over 1,000 "new in box" Beanie Baby(tm) stuffed animals, including some of the "really rare" ones. They were selling them for a dollar each, it was kind of sad.
How do you solve user authentication?
Better link on BATNA:

http://www.beyondintractability.org/bi-essay/batna
+1. Freakonomics a chapter on this topic.
While this is my app... I really feel like Smart Playlists make the app feel more "alive"...and helpful as far as organizing and making use of Tagmarks.
India is trying to be a "great power" in the 50s Soviet-era style.

Today's world is about soft power. India is woefully lacking there. It is beset by internal strife (the entire Northeast has been under some form of "martial law" (AFSPA) for 50 years). The central-western region has the Naxalite problem, which keeps on simmering and growing. And then there's Kashmir.

Aside from Bhutan, none of India's neighbors take it seriously. If India can't even project its power on its own borders, how will it do anything beyond?

The reality is: India's defence budget is basically a piggybank for political parties to fund the elections (and pad the bank accounts of senior politicians). The first thing a party does when it comes to power is sign some major defence deals (or "modify" deals in the pipeline, so they can get their cut also).
I already re-binded many things but I think changing the keymap might be easier in the long-term because I don't have to support my modifications and keep them up-to-date when I add more functions or when I discover more vim bindings.
The billion dollar question- is Bitcoin Myspace or Facebook?
As usual on HN, any submission about Bitcoin is met with concerned comments about its high volatility, present impracticality as a currency, disadvantages versus precious metals, current concentration of transactions in a single exchange (MtGox), potential for market manipulation by governments and/or speculators, etc.

This is analogous to being present at the creation of the World Wide Web, but instead of getting excited about its obvious potential, one decides to stay on the sidelines because it's still unproven technology, almost no content has been made available online, commercial opportunities are virtually non-existent, etc.

As hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky said, "a good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." Judging Bitcoin based on where it is today, instead of where one thinks it will be in the future, is shortsighted.

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PS. My full thoughts on Bitcoin's potential: http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adopt... -- I wrote this almost two years ago, but my views haven't changed since then.

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Edit: In hindsight, I see how my quoting Gretzky could come across as arrogant, which was not at all my intention. The only point I was trying to make is that new technologies like Bitcoin should not be judged based on what they look like today, but rather on how one thinks they will look in the future.
A larger number means that people are holding onto BTC for long periods of time, a smaller number means that people are spending BTC soon after receiving it.

In a sense, its a more granular way of looking at money velocity.
I think eCommerce was a different situation than what you describe. People were already used to calling up and ordering things over the phone from a catalog using their credit card. Doing the same thing over the internet wasn't that much of a stretch.
I think we're running into a case of differing terminology. I'm well aware of streetcar suburbs - by our modern understanding of cities they are substantially more urban than they are suburban.

And that's part of the point exactly - before suburban flight the concept of "suburbia" was transit-aligned, grid-based, focused around walkable distances and small(ish) housing. People were fine living in these places, even long after cars became ubiquitous. The modern suburb was not born until the collapse of urban centers.

Today we understand all of the above as "urban". The bulk of the American population lives in the modern incarnation of suburbs, not the 1920s version of it. Still-extant streetcar suburbs are now sold more as urban neighborhoods than not.

The modern suburb calls for large houses, even larger lawns, and subdivision-style street layouts (with an unspoken design intent of keeping out undesirables, a core part of its history and continued appeal). Map[1] is a modern suburb, full of meandering streets, deadends, cul-de-sacs, and indirection - and that's what I was referring to, considering that modern suburbs such as this grossly outnumber streetcar-urban neighborhoods in the US today.

If you took someone from a typical suburban environment in the US and dropped them in a streetcar suburb they'd perceive it as distinctly urban.

[1] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=dallas+tx&hl=en&ll=33...
I'm the guy in that tweet and this is welcome news. The reason firebase+angular gets me so excited is because it's the perfect pairing between a framework that has two-way binding and a backend that supports real-time updating. Not having to worry about asking the server for updates or having to update the dom myself reduces a lot of headaches.
That was my first thought to but skimmed it and sounded like there might be some uses for it. Then reached the link at the bottom "this font was built using only AFDKO tools" and immediately thought that AFD stood for "April Fools Day", I had been fooled, and clicking the liked would just be a page explaining the joke. I couldn't figure out what the KO could stand for though so I clicked and turned out the abbreviation was just for "Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType".
About security updates and repository "lockdown"
Yes, the SAT has a known Asian cultural bias.
Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security?
I think this group potentially represents a very large percentage of kids. I think this group represents a large amount of adults currently "stuck" in their situations, now.

For #1, I think the education system has failed these kids in a very significant manner. Again, I think a large amount of people that feel there is no way out of labor jobs (and no this is not a slight against labor or a propping up of similar dead end jobs in offices but if you think everyone vocation jobs are content with what options their educational circumstances have given them, I think you may be delusional).

As for #2.1, I never claimed that at all. I do not claim that students should not be able to have separate sections to allow more advanced students to move at a brisk pace. I simply claim we should not throw the other kids out of the academic track and into a vocational track; this is a completely different issue. One point is about pace and the other is about not being on the track at all.

As for the last point, we're not talking about deep analyses of Kant and Hegel or quantum physics here. We are talking about high school, if I remember correctly. Many kids are miserable in high schools because of factors much different from being forced to read Animal Farm or having to factor quadratic equations. Further, if you don't think there are clear skews toward vocational tracks from particular socioeconomic classes or you think that is just so happens that those kids from those classes are exactly those that should be in vocational tracks then I don't think you really understand the matter at all.

I think it is interesting on HN when we see views about how "everyone should learn to program" or things like "we need to prepare for knowledge based economy and citizenry" or "labor jobs will be replaced by robots" we get one common theme of views but when this issue of splitting tweens and teens into educational tracks that will affect the rest of their lives we get this popular divergent view as the norm; seems like a very interesting "contradiction."
You're not using an actual image, just an image object. Set the src attribute of the image object to the URL of the webfont and the browser will call the onerror callback when it finishes loading.

See here:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5371426
As hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky said, "Please stop trotting out that quote Steve Jobs once said because we've all heard it and there are very few hockey players who are actually great enough to really know where the puck's going, anyway. Don't automatically assume you're one of them."
He left out communication skills and ability to get along well with your co-workers.
Yeah, I stopped reading that article when I read that sloppy people produce sloppy code. The thing is I can be pretty sloppy in life, but I can also be producing code that is beautiful on a level that 99.9% of so called "programmers" don't understand.
I think the chief reason why some people make more than others is because they want more.

The reasons given in this article are interesting but they strike me as rather technical embellishments to the fundamental variable: the desire for money.

I make no moral judgement about that desire; I simply recognise that some people have it more than others.
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"At NetApp the WAFL file system is also always consistent on disk, so it too doesn't need fsck."

How does it manage to stay consistent if a cosmic ray strikes it and flips one or more bits?

How does it manage to stay consistent if you physically bump in to the drives and cause physical damage by having the disk head briefly touch the disk surface?

Wouldn't you need a filesystem consistency check and repair tool like fsck in these cases?
While I can appreciate the need for the Bitcoin model I refuse to take part of it due to level of fraud involved. How much Bitcoins have been acquired by malicious bot-nets and held by small number of black hats? How much of the value is directly linked to drug trade or worse?

Sure, similar arguments can be made about using cash but there are fundamental moral issues with Bitcoin I can't agree with. I would like to believe a better model is possible. Thoughts?
@jader
I've got over 8000M in Canabalt, a personal high score on my ouya, much higher than I've ever got on my Nexus 4. If there was significant lag I don't think that'd be possible.

I've talked to the developers of the ouya port and they're baffled by these reports as well.

People subconsciously looking for something negative? No clue.
"Long tenure at big companies" can result in higher or lower compensation than the market.
Wait a minute. Now that a court has decided mathematical algorithms can't be patented, can't we have the MP3 patent thrown out?
You're absolutely right, Bitcoin Days Destroyed only indirectly tells us about transaction volume. What it's trying to measure is the amount of "hoarding" occurring in the Bitcoin economy. More BDD suggests less hoarding. So it looks like people are spending their Bitcoins more and more.
I came across this last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvSYT7vhQY (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5459304)

The phrase that really resonated with me was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvSYT7vhQY#t=404s : "When a few get something for nothing, at some point in a zero-sum game most will get nothing for something". That point may not happen anytime soon, but I think that's a very legitimate concern.
Why is there not a place to post the auctions? It seems like you just give them a link and say "good luck."
The second thing I thought about after seeing that video was a story I had read a long time ago about a telepresence mechanical dragonfly. And then shazam, I clicked the link!
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> Parts and supplies (whether for plumbing, auto repairs, etc.) are always marked up about double what you would pay retail yourself.

See, this is acceptable, but no one told me this.
> If you want to get the fs back to a state before there was corruption, you use the transaction history.

How? ZFS refuses to mount/import a corrupt filesystem.

In my case, the latest superblock (or some internal bookkeeping structures that the superblock points to) was corrupted in a way that ZFS completely gave up. So what I ended up doing is to manually invalidate the latest superblocks until ZFS was able to mount the filesystem. I may have lost the changes written in the few minutes before the corruption, but that's still way better than loosing everything.

Before I decided to poke around the raw disk with dd (to invalidate the superblocks by overwriting them with zeros), I googled around and I wasn't the only one with that problem. One other guy asked on the ZFS mailing list and the response was along the lines of 'Your filesystem is FUBAR, restore from backup'.

You may argue that ZFS itself should do what I did (dropping a few minutes of transaction history and roll back to the latest non-corrupt state) upon mounting. Fair enough. I don't really care if that functionality is built into ZFS or an external fsck binary. The fact is that ZFS wasn't able to recover from the situation. One that I would argue is very trivial to recover from if you know the internal ZFS on-disk structure.
I've played with it a few times, and just did again. The little "minimap" preview thing on the right side is cute (and disableable) -- it actually helps to provide an aesthetic indication as to when your file is Just Way Too Long. The visual display of tab characters is subtle and attractive, and probably useful to many people trapped in editors that do that stuff invisibly or wrong (it's not as good as dtrt-mode in emacs though, which will auto-guess whitepace conventions, but I'd certainly be pleased if emacs were to implement a similar thing).

But at the same time, I can't actually use the thing. No cursor motion keys available from the home row, seriously? Opening a file brings me up a GUI dialog with minimal (and, relative to the editor, inconsistent) keyboard navigability? The waste of space is awful: six columns wasted on the right side of the screen just to tell me line numbers that emacs just puts in the modeline.

It seems like the kind of editor someone from an IDE would want to use, and which would expose them to "serious programmer's editor" features. It's not going to pull away any emacs or vim users any time soon.
It's a pity that India and Pakistan both prefer spending insane amounts of money and effort in upgrading their military toys, rather than improving quality of education, health, and life in general for their citizens. In both countries, poverty rates, education standards and quality of life are among the worst in the world.

Pakistan and India need to invest more money and effort in being partners rather than enemies, they share almost the same grass root problems, so an increased cooperation will only improve the situation. I say this as a patriotic Pakistani who has spent his entire life (except for the last three years) in Pakistan.

Peace.
Before bees there were frogs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_population...
This is cool. Just as a sidenote, myself and other people in the SocketStream community have been doing this for a while now. We integrated Angular with SocketStream + Bootstrap or whatever fairly easily, and happily sync away to the backend with rpc or pubsub. This is the right model for future webapps, IMO.

That's why I like SocketStream -- b/c it integrates with pretty much anything -- but it does have horrible marketing so too few people are aware of it. https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream
I think this is very misleading, If you want to go into one of those vocational positions are receive training in them, what barriers do you really have? Whatever they are, I assure, the barriers are much more for the reverse. If you have graduated with honors from a university, I think becoming a welder is well within your spectrum of opportunities. Also, while you may like propping up this argument or bring up some rich plumber that owns his own business, I think this dismisses people in these positions that barely earn a living enough to support their families.

I feel like we are being very coy about this.
Generally, it's better to give women the money than to give men the money. (I'm happy for polite discussion about this - especially if there's better research showing that I'm wrong)

But sometimes economies of scale and lack of education and other things come into play. For example, a charity can buy very many mosquito nets and distribute them for cheap, while individuals may not want to buy a net because they don't know just how important those nets are. (See also claims of people using mosquito nets other things (and those claims may not be true (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...)

There are also fears about money being diverted through corrupt officials, or being stolen by bandits.
Very true. What bothered me about this particular agency is that the owners were older folks who I believe were transitioning from design recruiting to tech because they knew there was more potential there. As such, they had nothing to rely on besides titles.

I just went back to their website and it looks like they are back to working solely with creatives, so a small victory there.
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I am thinking of buying these stickers: https://catalogue-ca.beaujoie.com/produits/21-Changer_la_lan... to ease the transition.

What do you think of BEPO ?
One thing that hit me recently on bitcoin is I realized that for the first time in history micropayments are 100% possible.

I'm thinking all kinds of startups should spring up from that, but I haven't thought of any yet. What are your thoughts?
I can't wait to receive my Ouya, as a $99 backer.
#2 is total bullshit.
Can you please explain what you mean by "a more granular way of looking at money velocity"? This is probably a good point, but I'm missing it. I understand "granular" and "money velocity", but am having trouble understanding what you mean here.
I've never actually needed repairs to my own computer. I live in a very strange vacuum where things tend to not-fail around me. I've mostly chalked it up to the "developer looking over your shoulder" effect.
He drew an analogy to wall street and called it a "rigged game". So, I'm curious to hear how he'd rig it.
> Coding habits are a reflection of the person

I completely disagree. I've seen cases of friends starting out programming and not indenting a single line, to having beautiful, consistent, and readable code now. They just had to learn and gain experience.
It does, however, help pay for the content you're consuming.