skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that a good thing? If crime has fallen far enough that this relatively minor antisocial behaviour now stands out, isn't that a success?
It reminds me of how people used to think all filesystems needed to be explicitly defragmented because of design flaws in FAT, which was designed for floppies (and wasn't especially well-designed even at that).

http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_do...

http://www.howtogeek.com/115229/htg-explains-why-linux-doesn...
> The cost to add the transistors to put an ARM CPU in silicon is < the cost of the metals in the USB and HDMI connector you use to talk to it.

This statement amazes me. It may be true, but it is very counterintuitive to my experience.

A micro USB connector is about $0.35/unit (for quantites of 1500). An HDMI connector is about $0.50/unit (similar quantites). These prices are from Digikey. So, in larger quantites from larger distributors, you could certainly get cheaper prices. The cheapest ARM processor (cortex M0) is about $0.78/unit on Digikey. I understand your point is about licensing the ARM design and integrating it into your silicon, but most low cost devices I've seen have just been PCBs that integrate these off the shelf components. I would have to imagine the cost of hiring engineers to do the VLSI design/integration, the cost of licensing the ARM CPU, and then the cost of fabricating/testing your silicon would have to exceed integration on a PCB. So, I would then assume that the processor, while certainly cheap, is still a very substantial portion of the cost of the device. But, I have no data on the cost of ARM licenses to back that up. You're definitely right in asserting the trend is cheaper and cheaper processors, but I don't think we've arrived at the "processors are so cheap they're basically free" world quite yet.
TRAMP. The sublime equivalent is terrible.
And then they used their expertise to buy Greece debt.
Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear
This article reminds of me of Chris Goggans' closing editorial in Phrack 48 [1] where he made a similar point about how much things had changed with regards to being able to access and learn about computers:

"In this day and age, you really don't have to do anything illegal to be
a hacker. It is well within the reach of everyone to learn more, and use
more powerful computers legally than any of us from the late 70's and early
80's ever dreamed. Way back then, it was ALL about learning how to use these
crazy things called computers. There were hundreds of different types of
systems, hundreds of different networks, and everyone was starting from ground
zero. There were no public means of access; there were no books in stores or
library shelves espousing arcane command syntaxes; there were no classes
available to the layperson. We were locked out."

[1] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=48&id=2#article
Knockoff Hawaiian Rolls Recipe
You don't owe capital gains taxes until you sell the assets.
The error is always "error opening database connection". You should not open any database connection to send back a static block of HTML.
> The only time disk encryption is valuable is when the machine is off or the disks are being transported.

I'm thinking about the case where you have a computer in the home or office environment, e.g. the burglary attack vector. It's not just notebooks that get stolen.

I'm also considering the corporate or government espionage vector, where you have a reasonably skilled on-site attacker trying to read or modify the disk contents. In this case you are typing the keys in on boot, and you either ignore the RAM extraction attacks (which are difficult to execute in practice for non-academic attackers) or you can mitigate them by storing in L1 cache and so on.

Datacenters have unusually high physical security, and in addition I don't generally store highly sensitive data there (my work doesn't involve PCI compliance etc.) Whereas I do have PCI-level data about myself on my own computers.
If you don't like the YAML format of teamocil or tmuxinator and just want to write shell scripts to do the same thing, check out tmuxstart: https://github.com/treyhunner/tmuxstart

I made it shortly after switching to tmux last year. I hope this kind of functionality will eventually be built-in to tmux.
The end must be near.
Small amounts of inflation in the 1 to 3 percentage range are generally considered good for the overall economy as it promotes investment and spending. The great depression demonstrated just how bad rapid deflation not just inflation can be, which just shows that money is more important as a medium of exchange than a store of value.
Yahoo Answers... you mean the College Student Health Care Plan?

...just because it's not for you, doesn't mean it's (totally) useless.
I think this view of things is a bit misguided. Most of the jobs available to those who should not go to college are not traditional trades. Effective vocational training has to be focused on service sector and administrative jobs as much as "traditional skilled labour",
You can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/.
I'm not sure it's worse than telling a (stereotypical, since that's where we've gone) teenage girl she has to drive an ugly car that she needs to work on every couple weeks.
Hey joss, I'm really interested in markets for data like the one you're running... Let's talk!
Off topic: if French is your native language, you'll try to use the word "serie" in English because it looks like "série" - but we don't actually have that word in modern English, we say "a series". I don't know why.
Unpaid bills go to collection agencies, overdue ones (i.e. still being paid, but not in full) are left in house.

Medical providers don't report to credit bureaus, but collection agencies do.
[1] "I once watched three German tourists -- this is a true anecdote -- attempt to get off the northbound No. 5 Lexington Avenue IRT train at Grand Central Station during rush hour."

Yeah, taking the Lexington Avenue Line is usually a mistake if there's any alternative (e.g. walking, crawling, just staying home, or getting kidnappend and carted off to southeast asia for random organs to be harvested...) Rush hour just makes it worse.
That's because I only looked at main.py.

If you want the utmost speed, you get it where you can get it the easiest. I bet the other code also can be sped up.

I would expect that the major improvements would be in main.py, though. That Pyglet library would have to be really bad to screw up what main.py does.
asking if someones a cop, or stating, 'cops can't come' shows intent.
There is nothing "natural" about it.
That was obvious for a long time.

Last big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255362
Many did poorly. Few did well. Groupon/LivingSocial was a classic pump and dump kind of business, only difference is Groupon reached IPO to dump it on your mutual funds.
> Or simultaneously measure the speed and momentum of a particle with errors whose product is less than half the planck constant.

This is easy to do actually. Unless you define error as a value that depends on multiple measurements. I prefer to just go with standard deviation and keep the ambiguity out of it.
It may not be a Ponzi scheme, but it really gives more power to early adopters (when difficult was much lower), I do not know about it, but is it known if any of the really early adopters cashed out of their bitcoins?
MIT supports release of Swartz case documents, if redacted for employee privacy
tl;dr: MIT is choosing to ask the court to relax a protection order releasing MIT documents related to the Swartz case on the condition that the documents be redacted to protect the privacy of MIT's employees.
Why haven't people patented methods for cooking food and sued other restaurants for suspected patent infringement? Patenting solutions to common problems (programming or otherwise) seems crazy to me.
It's unstable. There's no barrier to entry. I could make a competing product called ZitCoin with a different inflation/deflation profile. At some point, it comes down to weird, fickle, and not especially meaningful brand effects. Then it's just speculation.

If you buy BitCoin, you're betting on the prestige of its being the first. Do people even know what the first fiat currency is? Or care?

People who sell at the top of BitCoin are going to make a lot of money, but for the long-term value, I'm betting on zero.
Your comment amounts to a rather naive "we should get excited about Bitcoin, it has great potential and critics are shortsighted". And it is precisely this excitement (with calls for more excitement) that generates Bitcoin's current value. But where will the decline stop once the first run inevitably occurs? All other currencies have a bottom floor that they can't fall below, be it either intrinsic value (jewelry, plate, industrial uses for precious metals) or the fact that they are legal tender in some country (and must be acquired to pay debts or taxes there). Unless and until Bitcoin becomes legal tender in some jurisdiction, it is very vulnerable to a sudden death spiral in its value. Interestingly enough, MMO worlds are probably prime candidates to become such "jurisdictions".
I remember that, but wow, that was only 36 days ago.
why i stick with bash:
`scp .bash_profile new_host:`

done. all my comfort and helpers and aliases are on the new host.

with zsh, i'd have to hope the host i'm logging into have zsh support to begin with. then i'd have to install extensions and what not... thanks. no. too much work.

if you ever only work on one box, go crazy.

this is also the reason my .vimrc file is huge and i keep improving it. copy along with your bashrc and you feel at home anywhere. I avoid even vim extensions that can't be added to vimrc as scripts.
Somehow some libertarian blogger picked that quote up, and the number of times it's been cut and pasted now exceeds the length of Debt itself.

David Graeber, on that quote:

"The endlessly cited Apple quote was not supposed to be about Apple. Actually it was about a whole of series of other tiny start-ups created by people who’d dropped out of IBM, Apple, and similar behemoths. (Of them it’s perfectly true.) The passage got horribly garbled at some point into something incoherent, I still can’t completely figure out how, was patched back together by the copyeditor into something that made logical sense but was obviously factually wrong. I should have caught it at the proofreading stage but I didn’t. I did catch it when the book first came out, tried to get the publisher to take it out, and have been continually trying since July. All to no avail. I have absolutely no idea why a book can go through eight editions and it’s impossible to pull out a couple lines of obviously incorrect text but they just keep telling me, no, I have to wait until July. Allow me to reassure the reader: You have absolutely no idea how frustrating this is, especially as the stupid line has been held out, reproduced, sent around in every conceivable way to suggest that nothing else in the book is likely to be factually accurate To which all I can reply is: well, notice how this is the only quote in the book that happens with. That one sentence gets repeated a thousand times. No other one does. That’s because it’s the only sentence flagrantly wrong like that. In fact, I’ve communicated with, or read reviews by, scholars of Greece, Mesopotamia, and Islam, Medievalists, Africanists, historians of Buddhism, and a wide variety of economists, etc, etc, and none have noticed any glaring errors—in fact, the most frequent reaction is that it’s remarkable that someone who is not an area specialist actually more or less gets it right (remember, these are scholars often loathe to admit even their own colleagues in the field get it more or less right.) The book is pretty meticulously researched and has stood up to scholarly review. The problem is I haven’t been able to get the one idiotic garbled sentence out despite my utmost endeavors. But it will be. They promise. Soon."
طريقة تنظيف الجهاز 2013
Huh? Cash is synchronous.
A wonderful point - too often overlooked.
Yeah, the Sinatra numbers really ought to be more in line with the straight Rack numbers. Something's amiss.

Glad to see that on Rack, where I'd expect us to be fast...we are doing ok. On par with PHP (not a big thing to brag about, perhaps) and Play (worth bragging about, since it's Java/Scala end to end).

Obviously there's more work needed not just in JRuby but in the servers that server it and the frameworks that run on it. The slow performance of Rails here, for example, is largely Rails' fault.

But yeah...the sinatra numbers are wack.
Original article:

http://www.petapixel.com/2013/03/26/how-i-busted-a-thief-who...
I picked up my 99/4A very late (mid-00's, I think), and the battery on MINIMEM gave out and the line-by-line assembler wouldn't load.

Still, I had a lot of fun making speech with it.

Great system, but a lot of strange ideas. The FN-key stuff, the double-interpreted BASIC, requiring the peripheral expansion box to do assembly work (mini memory and the line-by-line assembler came later).
I agree. It takes surprisingly few lines of code to make a nice wrapper with some shortcut aliases/functions to simplify the scripts. My whole tmux workflow is managed by about 30 lines of code to bootstrap by tmux session management: https://github.com/treyhunner/tmuxstart/blob/master/tmuxstar...
i don't think they try to solve this problem
Do you have a link to the video of your talk?
GNU/Linux is precise in the way alternatives aren't.

Linux kernel running BusyBox? Linux, but no GNU software; not GNU/Linux.

GNU utilities, BSD kernel? GNU but no Linux; not GNU/Linux.

These are things that exist: lots of routers and similar "running Linux" use BusyBox; Debian will let you install a BSD kernel.

Of course, "I am running Linux on my desktop" is accurate, and carries the expectation that you're using much of the rest of the GNU system because that's by far the most reasonable (and common) option... so people say that, because it's fewer syllables, and the FSF feels like they're not getting the credit they quite rightly deserve, and that's the situation we're in.

But changing the name of the GNU project to Linux is not a solution at all; they're still working on Herd for one thing.
What I learned from… Ruby on Rails
It should be known that most of the places in this article are in densely packed, residential neighborhoods. (I've been to them) Some of these places share walls with their neighbors, so sound isolation is non existent at some 'venues'. Also no attempts are made at controlling sound levels outside.

Also keep in mind many young punks are not exactly respectful of others. The word entitled comes to mind with a lot of their behaviour.

I say this as an aging punk who had a basement where we held 50+ shows with nationally touring bands playing. We never had a problem with being shut down.
My wife had Lasik about 3 years ago, and the difference was astonishing. She had always had really terrible vision -- like couldn't see me across the room bad -- and suddenly she had 20/10 cyborg eyes, and could see way better than me.

I had always had good vision, better than 20/20, since childhood. But I am 38 now, and my vision is deteriorating -- not unusually for my age, but enough that I can tell the difference.

I went to an eye doctor, and during the exam while they hooked me up to that weird device with dozens of lenses, and one of them let me see perfectly again. "This one!" I shouted excitedly, but in the end they told me that my vision was still too good to make glasses for.

Still, my wife's experience gives me hope that as I get even older and my vision gets even worse, they might be able to do something for me. Previously I had just been hoping I might live long enough to get some Neuromancer-style Zeiss-Ikon implants.
Wait isn't this selling the same lie?
Oracle's ZFS is now different then BSD/Linux ZFS. They have become incompatible file systems because Oracle has picked up their ball and taken it back home.

For OSS ZFS the only upstream is 'collection of Illlumos'
Been using this app for a little while. Indispensable!!
A few I know of:

Rise: http://www.risesf.com/

Chez JJ: http://chezjj.com/

The Glint: http://theglint.com/

Rainbow Mansion: http://www.rainbowmansion.com/
The CPU in the 99/4A was interesting. It didn't have registers. It had a "workspace pointer" that pointed to a space in RAM where your "register" slots were. So you could have multiple "workspaces" (sets of registers) and switch among them by simply setting the workspace pointer. Instant new context. Much slower than real registers of course but also quite flexible.
It really gives more power to early adopters? What, like IPv4 or the World Wide Web did?

No shit.

And no, most Bitcoins mined in 2009 and early 2010 haven't moved and probably never will.
All start-ups face unforeseen setbacks and unlucky turns of events outside the founder's control. They are a constant. It's all in how you respond.

So yes, there's a high degree of chaos. This means to succeed you must be all the more resourceful and dogged and/or experienced. Maybe these things are harder to quantify than predictors of success in the special forces. I don't know anything about the special forces. The wording used above just strikes me as true for start-ups rather than being a contrast.
"just visit this page and click "Install"" That's one (and possible more) step than is necessary.
that seems just like the kind of place I was looking for, thank you
At the cost of non-mobile gaming, and since mobile gaming requires several different platforms to support you, it's less profitable and thus will not develop as fast as non-mobile gaming. Just like mobile Apps are a pathetic joke compared to their desktop counterparts.
Announcing the Load Impact API beta
Yeah I did forget about that... as long as your program was less than 4K!
why isn't it equally confusing to choose and implement a microformat, when you don't even know if it's going to be useful?

And why do you think it didn't catch on in the past two years?
NYC Startup: Hudson River Watch Co.
The Hollywood angle was a weak lead-in for the post, IMO, but I like the idea. Getting your friends to talk you up has some interesting potential.

That said, it will of course be gamed and manipulated and still have many of the problems of current online dating models, but that's just the nature of marketing; when there are a lot of products out there, the way to sell yours is to make it stand out, and a site that imposes a handicap just gives the cheaters an advantage.
My 25+ year marriage is actually the product of "predestined love" and I think most people could end up with a love like that. The reality is that you have to keep your eyes open if you want to notice the person that's right for you ... and you have to meet enough people to find them.

EDIT:

As I thought a bit more about it, I also realized that you have to have some criteria for what you're looking for in a partner too. How will you know if you've found them? If all you can come up with is "a body like a swimsuit model", you deserve what you get. Looks might be one criteria, but maybe you'd be better off picking some other attributes to go with it? And perhaps weighting things like interests, life-goals, etc a bit higher.

I'd also recommend understanding your Myers-Briggs type and the types that are compatible (this is not your sign). Then learn the attributes that make up your compatible types and try to spot them in public.
The idea of reducing spam is great, but the method of using
blocklists has some unfortunate side effects, specifically, it
concentrates far too much influence (power) in the hands of a few
individuals. Sadly, there are occasions when said individuals abuse the
power they have acquired. [1, 2, 3]

The recent massive DDoS against spamhaus and this new BGP based routing
attack make it painfully clear that spamhaus has upset someone, but the
question of who they upset, and whether or not they are justified in
fighting back are still unknown. If you were a legitimate, non-spamming
business and some vigilante shut down your capacity to send email, you'd
be rightfully angry.

If spamhaus considered you "acceptable collateral damage" in their war
against spam, you'd be absolutely livid.

These kinds of situations happen with blocklists.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/sblbad.html

[2] http://paulgraham.com/spamhausblacklist.html

[3] http://paulgraham.com/spamhaussbl.html
In summary: MIT is choosing to ask the court to relax a protection order releasing MIT documents related to the Swartz case on the condition that the documents be redacted to protect the privacy of MIT's employees.
I guess it's not so much that bitcoin is worth a lot, but that real money isn't worth much anymore.
Completely neglecting systemic observations is just as pointless as completely neglecting individual agency.
Could you please send me a screenshot and the device you are using so I can take a look at the problem? Email is timo@obviousDomain thanks :)
All currencies can be valued in terms of other currencies. Bitcoin can also be valued directly against goods. (as can other currencies)

The price of most goods is currently tied to some other currency, because most businesses have expenses in traditional currencies. But you get similar price fluctuations in international trade.
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Ah, thanks for the correction! It makes sense in some way.

(And I confirm my first language is French.)
If you really don't see how LivingSocial caused more problems than the Yellow Pages, I don't think we will be able to start a discussion.

Nobody was forced to buy those mortgages either, right?
People usually incorrectly assume that they are special. While it's certainly possible that there are extenuating circumstances that mean you aren't going to have a heart attack, in the absence of really strong evidence pointing in another direction, it's more rational to assume that the group statistic does apply to you.
Fine, you can go back to rationalizing something substantive, like why all these "temple-created, social-credit based currencies" just happened to be silver, which holds exactly the properties Menger and Aristotle said that a plausible money would have. (Edit: or find even one company of which it's "perfectly true".)

And while you're at it, go easy on the "downvote = agree disagreement" habit.
You say this as though the founders got together and made a plan to screw people over. The people running a boiler room operate with the intent of screwing people. The founders of livingsocial, as I know them, never operated with the intent of screwing everybody involved.
Kickstarter is Radioactive
I'd like to move into science programming. How can I best do that?
I'd like to make a career move into science programming/IT or whatever work I can get in that industry. I think it would be great to know I contributed to something that may help people by writing code.

What are the most plentiful type of job in this industry, and what fields typically have a need for programmers? Is the expectation that one have an educational background in science or technology?

More importantly for my own situation, can a guy with a BA in a non-sci/tech field (with a minor in information systems, if that's even helpful) be considered if my work history is filled with over a decade of programming experience and general IT work?

An outfit named Schrodinger in Portland has caught my eye as I'm in the area. They do some really neat chemistry stuff, but it would seem they expect a science background. I'm trying to undertake a course of self-study and creating some relevant projects in hopes of sneaking in to such a company.

PS. I looove python. That's pretty much the standard language these days for this stuff, right?
The fixed number of BTC is effectively a "promise" that the value of your holdings will increase if you recruit new people into the Bitcoin ecosystem.