skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the new normal. The connector is the valuable part.

Right, and I read this as "the connector is the next thing to go". Someday (one hopes) all of this will be done by software radio, anything that needs to be really fast will be over a generic optical interconnect, and the idea of buying a particular computer because it has a bit of copper that mates with your particular display will be humorously antiquated... like steam engines, or cursive handwriting.
Original issue: "However, the problem is that the amount of time it takes for a transaction to become "verified," i.e. be part of the official block chain, can take up to 10 minutes."

https://coinbase.com/merchants : "Confirmed in 1 hour"

Underlying issue not addressed
Trying to override market prices has been tried many times, and what always happens is liquidity disappears from the official market (e.g. nobody's willing to sell you a BTC for $1) and a black market with shadow prices emerges.
This is excellent. Any explanation to accompany the graph? How about a link to the source?
Aah I see, your screenshots already looked quite detailed to me. I guess what I've been doing is more like scribbling rather than wireframing.
Every Entrepreneur is an Artist
Just because a font has "loaded" does not mean it's ready to be used. This very problem makes it hard to load @font-face fonts on demand in <canvas> apps as there is a certain amount of time you must wait for the font to actually load that is not exposed or accounted for in any browser APIs. Even if you include a font in @font-face with a data: URI, you cannot immediately start using it.
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Anybody know if it's possible to move between terminal windows (panes in tmux lingo) "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise"?
I believe a later Parsec ROM spells "asteroid" correctly. I have a couple Parsec carts, I should check that out sometime.

I always enjoyed how each level progresses in discrete mini-stages. It's like a side scrolling gladiator arena shooter.
Dave Winer Demos New HTML5-Based Outlining Tool (video)
easiest would be to use something like unity or shiva
True, apropos that today I heard someone call bitcoin "the Dunning-krugerrand"
Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately UI and code are two different things. I agree with you that they have horrible UI design. I would also say that once you got past the UI it worked flawlessly, so perhaps the internals are better than the box they came in.
Why would Mozilla add extensions to NPAPI, for more advanced plugins that must be trusted or expensively sandboxed because they are normally compiled? Mozilla is doing everything in the web, adding sound and graphic APIs to html not duplicating them for legacy native code. It doesn't even make sense for Google to do Pepper, let alone Mozilla.

Real threads essentially mean that every call must copy all data or else another thread could modify the data while it is being used by trusted code, or all threads have to be suspended. That's clumsy and not a good solution.
"Arrives instantly"

Which is faster than any credit card gives money to a merchant. As is a one hour final confirmation.
OK. Suppose you are running a buggy ZFS, and it causes problems. Why would you trust a filesystem repair tool written by the people who wrote your buggy filesystem to fix those for you without causing more problems? If anything, I would trust the filesystem more, as it (one would hope) sees way more usage.

If your OS or disks are buggy, you are hosed, anyway, as that checking tool would run on the same OS and hardware.

You should look at ZFS as having a built-in fsck that is automatically invoked when needed.
I'm not sure how closely tied the "please do this easy task for me" behavior is to gender.

I see it as a pretty common bad habit in lots of people and tie it to ignorance rather than insecurity about gender roles. If you don't know much about an area it's hard to tell what tasks within it are easy or hard, so it's easy to assume that all jobs done by other people are easy.

I've seen it expressed as "this is just a website, so I assume you can have it done by Friday" or "sounds like a 10 line Perl script to me" or "I need a favor. I'm sure it will only take you 10 minutes" or "What took you so long?", but the pattern is the same.
What is the simplest way to install tmux 1.8 on Ubuntu 12.04?? Running `sudo apt-get install tmux` puts tmux 1.6 on my system...
with that problem being addressed, I would like to see in-game auction of the prime corporate seats that sit empty (but are purchased) and are usually heavily guarded. put real fans in the best seats.
First of all, I love your idea.. wanted to do the same thing. I showed this to the product team @ lyft just FYI, not sure if they see this is a violation of their terms/data or not. We will find out tho.. love the idea. Uber may charge a booking fee.. would be nice if they would share that with you as a lead.. Will be watching your progress, please update twitter/facebook as you go..
MongoDB Improvements - What’s Next?
Your work is pretty amazing. I would suggest a freemium model where you give away a basic tutorial and sell the video/source/1on1. Definitely interested!
That's pretty much always the case when one person hires another person to do something. The hire-er wants to get as much work done for as little money as possible, and the hire-ee wants to get as much money as possible for each unit of work. They're polar opposites, yet this arrangement happens all of the time.

The problem with having different incentives is when one party doesn't recognize that there is a mis-alignment. If you're selling your home and you don't realize that your Realtor's time is not an endless, worthless resource at your disposal, then you may be inclined to insist on your Realtor spending endless hours of aggressive negotiation, potentially putting the offer at risk of closing at all, for an amount of additional money to you that's not really going to make much of a difference to you. (My wife's been involved in deals where one party or the other has risked a deal that's been in the works for 2-3 months over less than 0.1% of the house's value.)
This is full of half truths, and outright distortion of facts. Like.....

The decline of honey bee since 1947 has nothing to do with the top two points this guys claims. (Removable frames and opening the top)

After WWII, there was a drop off of number of beekeepers. This was due to changing agriculture and the dynamics of the family farm, with a huge surge towards cities and jobs. I will not even try to guess about the down fall of beekeeping due to removable tops, except to say that this is a key point in the narrow minded approach of the Warre hive crowd.

Up till the mid 1980's, beekeeping was healthy and productive. Losing 10% of your hives were considered a bad year. The worst thing that could of happened was getting AFB. (Which by the way was controlled by the removable frame Langstroth hive. AFB prior to removable frames were as high as 50% in some areas, and the basis of most inspection programs years ago. It was a serious matter destroying beekeeping back in it's day. The removable frame (and being able to inspect hives) was why AFB is controlled...even to this day.)

Then we had the introduction of varroa mites, trachea mites, various viral and bacterial issues associated with mites, a new nosema, and now small hive beetle. That does not even scratch the surface in regards to pesticides and the new classes of chemicals out there.

But the Warre crowd sprinkles the conversation with all the key words and talking points, to bash anyone not using a Warre hive, and tailors, or better yet,,,"warps" all information to best fit their ideology.

But how can you claim that the downfall of beekeeping is caused by the Langstroth hive with removable frames and a removable top, and yet claim the root of CCD is chemicals and farming practices. I guess the Warre hive is immune to chemicals. ;)

Anyhow...read the above post. And you can get a sense of the agenda and the promotion of the Warre hive.

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=38402.0;wap2
How do you think credit card work? They approve blindly but might later reverse the transaction. You might want to setup a holding period for big transactions, and otherwise setup a system that incurs an expected loss/scam: Visa takes 2-5% of transactions and expects irrecoverable loss in that buffer - a Bitcoin seller still could undercut that with expected petty theft. e.g. under $100 transaction: no waiting. $100-$500: 10 min wait. $500+ 20 to 30 min wait.
That code example completely breaks rules #1, #2, and #3 completely. There are probably a lot of ways to refactor that code so that it's still specific. The most common method is to define constants for each value and then pass them in as 'flags' to the method. For example:

foo( $data, Foo.NEVER_USE_CATS | Foo.DRAW_SQUIGGLIES );

This pattern lets you add in new parameters easily and makes it very clear what parameters are being passed to any function and set sane defaults. This style is widely used in Android to good effect.
If I understand it correctly:

The higher txn fee ups the chances of your txn being in the next block (it's up to the miner that wins the block which txns are included - some set a minimum fee). Once your txn is placed in a block, it is included in the future blocks too. A confirmation is generated by each block your txn is in, and a block is generated every ten minutes, so for 6 confirmations, you still need an hour.

Running a dedicated miner wouldn't help since you'd have to be the one to win the next block to be able to process your txns.
Will “hybrid public” cloud give VMware its mojo back?
Exactly. DoS Arrest was using BGP anycast for DDoS mitigation long before CloudFlare even existed. We had customers on their service back in 2008.

I'm somewhat skeptical of CloudFlare's low-cost approach to DDoS mitigation. Going for volume on low MRC clients means that you have a lot of potential targets on your network. And attacks against any one customer can always impact every other customer, which puts you constantly at risk, even if you yourself are not attacked all that often.
The original problem:

> However, the problem is that the amount of time it takes for a transaction to become "verified," i.e. be part of the official block chain, can take up to 10 minutes.

coinbase is pretty cool but fails completely at solving the posted problem. The soonest I've seen payments settle is in about an hour.
"Everyone can recognize a pattern or get a lateral thinking puzzle eventually."

I disagree, there are tests such as this:

http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/power.html

which have no time limit, yet are very difficult. I don't think "everyone" has the ability to answer all of these questions.

"Without the time constraint, an IQ test wouldn't really measure anything at all."

It may measure how well you are able to abstract problems.

Whether or not it has much to do with your ability in different disciplines is another matter, but arguing that it is simply down to timing seems somewhat silly.
That doesn't make sense. Having a credit card on file does not lead to a better app ecosystem.
I love emacs, I really do. It is really hard to share customizations with git for emacs in my experience. Right now I'm using prelude + some customizations. I can keep my fork of the prelude repo on my account, and add stuff to /personal . But other than cherry-picks, which would probably get difficult, I really don't know how to contribute back to prelude. pulling the latest version of prelude (or any other preset emacs customization set) requires me to restart emacs, which I normally only do once every other week or so. How do others handle this?
Any plans for android user? Is this setup/build for nationwide as well? What about zipcard/getaround/relayrides? can also integrate parkme and the rent my parking spaces.. some of these guys may eventually pay a bounty.
What do you think what kind of mindset brought such things as your computer (or the software it runs) to life in the first place ? Oh, the site is called Hacker News, by the way :D
Stinging rebuke for bee conservers

Since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced in 1992, 10 million honey-bee colonies have died globally.

Bumblebee and bird populations have crashed in every country where "neonics" are used. Researchers at Stirling University fed bumblebees minute doses of neonicotinoids. The colonies produced 85% fewer queens than usual. Professor Dave Goulson said: " Only queens survive the winter, so reducing their number by 85% means far fewer colonies next year - the long-term effects are likely to be profound."

The Bumble Bee Conservation Trust recently appointed Professor Michael Usher as its chairman. Horticulture Week reported: "Professor Usher said that neonicotinoids, implicated in bee deaths, should continue to be used as insecticides. The former SNH chief scientist argued that neonicotinoids have a place in crop protection, despite damning research released this spring from Stirling University."

Prof Usher was quoted as saying: "We need pollinators but we need our crops too."

The Trust itself seems confused; the pesticide issue is not mentioned on its website, even though Prof Goulson was the trust's founder. The impact of neonicotinoids on bees, birds and wildlife is catastrophic; we are facing ecological Armageddon. Usher must resign, or be sacked; if not, the Trust will be dismissed as mere "greenwash". The trustees must encourage staff to actively campaign against these pesticides. If they don't, the Trust may find its membership sliding to extinction faster than the bumblebees.

Graham White, Friends of the Bees

Philip Chandler, Friends of the Bees

Dr Rosemary Mason, life member, BBCT

Palle Uhd Jepsen, past adviser on nature conservation to the Danish Government and life member, BBCT

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/letters/stinging-rebuk...
emacs makes my vim brain hurt. kind of like dwarf fortress.
> if you think it was in the oven for a long time, why then have 2 years passed and it still isn't shipping in the browser, and the language grammar has undergone many changes?

As an outside observer I'd say as a company with basically unlimited money resources for a decade that Google devs probably are slacking off quite a bit, not really driven in language design to get anything done.

Asm.js is basically just a spec for what emscripten was already doing. There's not much too it beyond that other than the linking/module bit, so not much to even discuss with anybody else. Dash/Dart/Pepper is a major piece of technology that is not a subset of existing tech like asm.js is. It has a much higher expectation for collaboration.
Confessions of a developer marketplace
The oil change thing was much easier when I had a garage/driveway/flat street and I had a lifted jeep cherokee (which broke a lot, but was easy as hell to fix and change oil). With my car now, I can't even find ramps that are appropriate for it. Luckily I bought my (Subaru) new in 2009, so I just take it in for maintenance when required.

Also, living in an apartment is weird because it's not your house. I want to replace the kitchen cabinets, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to. I'd love to be able to just own my own house, I even dream of just getting an old house and redoing the electrical, fixing it, getting a 203k loan, but that's not very easy in the bay area.

I don't have any trouble letting other people do stuff for me, but I usually want to be right there talking to the person the whole time, usually learning whatever new things I can.
It is possible to do both - e.g. talk to a hot chick who is also technical about C++ templates ... and simultaneously about how to bang her.

A man has both brains and balls, to expect that he can switch one of those off or pretend it does not exist is unrealistic. (Obviously, this does not excuse a man if he sexually harasses a woman or otherwise behaves badly.)
More people should implement and accept Green Addresses[1], and that would largely solve the issue.

[1]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Green_address
This is 100% correct, and the source of the issue. The size of fees is also an incentive to cheat. I was lucky to be hired into my first job by a manager who did lots of training and had high ethics. There are some good ones out there. Some recruiters need to realize earlier in their careers that their name and reputation in the industry need to be preserved and protected through good practices.

The numbers game can be eliminated by engaged and retained search models, which is how I like doing most business.
The Difference Between What You Share And What People Want To Read
Out of curiosity, why is this such a big deal?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out -- a potential pivot for the accelerator model to focus more on established businesses and less on "black swan farming," as Paul Graham puts it.
That's an encouraging review. I am not a backer, because I'm cynical, but that's quite promising.

This paragraph got me thinking: "I can't point to a single game that would make one need to buy a system at launch. Much of the value of the OUYA hardware lies in what you can do with it, from media functions to creating your own games. It's very possible that a breakout game is coming, and we just don't know what is it yet, but at this point it's hard to point to one single game that will get you to buy a unit."

For a traditional console, that would be a huge issue. (Ask Nintendo about the Wii U launch.) Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo spend a lot of cash making sure there will be excellent launch titles. Traditional wisdom is that launch titles drive console sales.

On the other hand, the current generation of smartphones didn't have big launch titles. Possibly the landscape has changed.

On the third hand, smartphones do other things than play games.

On the fourth hand, sounds like the Ouya might be a strong media console, depending on how slick that XBMC integration is. C.f. the number of people who bought Playstation 3s as a Blu-ray player.

In any case, I'm impressed that hardware is shipping and I was wrong to think it wouldn't. I'd keep an eye on those lag reports, though; I would think Penny Arcade and Polygon are smart enough to think about video lag as a possibility.
A block is generated on average every 10 minutes. Higher txn fee makes sure your transaction gets into the block, but there is still wait time.
Running dedicated miner is not practical, as you would need huge mining power to mine a block faster than in 10 minutes.
I've done a lot of teaching programming. Mainly to beginners while at Stanford and now to beginners aged 5 to 85 using http://codehs.com
Yeah, that one. It just didn't work in the context.
Hilarious: "I'm going on a date tonight, but he's totally ogooglebar! What are the odds he's an axe murderer?"
"Recipients, who are often living on less than 65 cents a day..."

People living in Kenya on 65 cents a day is a completely different situation than, say, a homeless person in San Francisco.

I applaud the emphasis on data, but I'd be really careful with painting this issue with a broad brush. If anything, the roadways are littered with the corpses of programs that tried applying simplistic ideas too broadly. You also want to make sure you are measuring something that actually means something and not just something that's easy to measure.
The issue with the NDK is that it is still a 2nd class citzen.

The few Android APIs available, are wrappers around JNI calls.

Java is the native language of the platform and Google does not seem willing to change that, even with the ongoing court issues.
Well first of all it's always a good idea to learn different languages and frameworks. A common point is that learning for instance ruby makes you a better X developer.

I'm using Node.js since almost 2 years now besides other technologies like PHP and Ruby. During those 2 years my javascript knowledge and understanding grew a ton compared to just "playing" with jQuery, Backbone etc. Also my understanding for asynchronous code (both javascript and non-javascript) increased a lot.

If you don't care about Node.js or don't like javascript (on the server), try Ruby or Python or Scala or whatever. There are so many different and awesome things out there, especially for building web applications. It would be a shame to work with PHP/MySQL all the time.

What really kept me in developing Node.js after the first few weeks was the amazing community. Basically everything is Open Source and happens on Github. New development happens basically on a daily basis, really impressive. And there a tons of awesome modules out there, from template engines to testing libraries.

So bottom line: I don't need to convince you to try Node.js, but I do want to convince you to try something else (not just in terms of languages and libraries - try different databases like Postgresql, MongoDB, CouchDB etc. as well. Working with MongoDB for more than a year also taught me a lot).

Btw: "Scaling" and "performance" doesn't really cut it, since Node.js isn't necessarily faster than other tools, it always depends on the type of application and the developers/admins knowledge.
The article explicitly says they studied this and found it wasn't true:

"The data fights conventional wisdom: Money spent on alcohol and cigarettes either decreases, stays constant or increases in the same proportion as total other expenses (approximately 2% to 3%)."

Where is your data contradicting their findings?
We can do some back-of-the-envelope math to estimate how much you could make doing this. Let's assume that the benefit from bitcoin mining is roughly equal to the cost of the electricity used. Electricity in the US costs about 12 cents per kWh. Let's suppose you can get your web site visitors to put 100W of extra power into mining bitcoins for you. And let's say your visitor spends 5 minutes (1/12 of an hour) on your page. Then each visitor is worth 12 (c/kWh) * (1/12) h * 100 W = 0.1 cents. Which would be like $1 CPM advertising.

But these are all best-case assumptions. Your visitors might not average 5 minutes per page. Your JS mining tool almost certainly won't be as efficient as the specialized GPU rigs that can mine bitcoin for less than the cost of electricity (and drive up the cost per unit for everyone else who's mining bitcoin). Or your users might not have an extra 100W of power to throw at your mining operation. Taking these factors into consideration, I'm guessing you'd be looking at CPM equivalents that you would never touch.

Also, I suspect it would be considered malware by many. Still, it's an interesting idea.
Yeah, and now look at them - all middle aged hags and gay dudes.

At least first class seems to skew toward the younger and hotter (but still competent). (Especially in Asian and Middle Eastern airlines where they haven't gone all PC yet.)
Ah, thanks! Incidentally, you can also turn the background off using the menu at the bottom right. I use local storage to remember a user's preference.
The point is maybe not everybody can do that on their own and are you going to like woken up for a key in the middle of the night?
Thoughts on Using Web Frameworks
You could potentially distill all of these reasons to desire. Someone desired more money, so they decided to go into consulting and learned a rare skill while negotiating better and speaking at conferences and so on. No argument here.
Should i finally switch from screens to tmux?
I would consider paying for an in-person tutorial/workshop, probably not for a newsletter. There's already Hack Design which I subscribe to but never find the time to read.
You got a link to back that one up?
Hopefully you're lucky enough to be born into a family that's already well-off.
:) try drawing frames. That's what I use the business card for. It definitely helps to organize thoughts a bit.