skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fired up a miner again recently just for fun. Took 5 days to dig out $15. That's comparable to the $3/day the same GPU could mine back when the exchange rate was $5/coin. But yes, the ASICs are coming. There are only a few in the wild right now. Pretty soon there won't be much point to GPU mining.
It's not based on netty:

> {:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]]}

netty is in the dev dependencies, but for benchmarking only I would guess.

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This project is one of the best thing that happened in the web area in clojure recently imho. Not only it is a game changer in performance/resource use, but it makes websocket and async in general trivial to use and actually production ready (same goes for its client).
Some would mention Pedestal but it forces you to learn quite a few abstractions and is totally alien compared to the rest of the clojure web ecosystem and also only supports a single async "protocol" (SSE). But pedestal is about a full stack experience, integration with the client etc, so it certainly will attract other users.
"Is the population holding empty real estate or gold instead of currency really that much better for the economy? No."

A population holding productive factories, tools, and land is a whole lot better for the economy than people hoarding gold.
TL;DR: If you can get funding from a Canadian VC or Angel fund, it'll be easier to get a Canadian visa. No links to the Government site to confirm details but this seems to be the official details: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/...

"In order to apply for the program an entrepreneur or startup must first have secured a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian venture capital fund or $75,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian angel investor group. Applicants will also need to meet general program requirements, such as language proficiency and academic experience."
Uh, do you realize big companies already put big hedges for the value of existing currencies to minimize the swings in value? That will not be possible with bitcoins with the current volatility since it will be way too expensive. That is bad for business and therefore also bad for the economy and the currency.
The server appears to no longer be responding. That would appear to indicate a non-April fools joke (coupled with the fact that they shouldn't really be pulling pranks in the first place).

edit : back online
Looks cool, I can't play anything in FF right now though it just says an error has occurred.
This is great information for anyone making the 32-bit to 64-bit transition, and at this point you really should be viewing 64-bit as your primary platform if you're writing code for x86(amd64) platforms. Just falling back to 32-bit mode with WoW or similar for your target platform is just inexcusable at this point unless you have very specific legacy support issues.

As someone who has been stepping away from C/C++ code towards Go, I'll add this for anyone in a similar boat:

When interfacing C (via CGO) or C++ (via SWIG) code with Go code the #1 thing to keep in mind with 64-bitness is that int in Go may be either 32-bit or 64-bit depending upon the GOARCH the compiler is targeting. int on the C/C++ side is virtually always 32-bit, even on a 64-bit compiler. Use int32 on the Go side to match int on the C/C++ side if you need your structs to align correctly when passing data back and forth.
Futures aren’t ersatz threads
Because of currency manipulation, some would rather think of bitcoin's value with respect to a basket of commodities instead of currencies.
The comments on this article is that it is:
"without...a thesis or a point", "hadn't...anything substantive", "stylish", "smooth-talking"

This is exactly what the author is saying about the Silicon Valley hype machine, with notable commissars like Tim O'Reilly. For myself, I'm glad the Baffler is sticking its first pin into this balloon full of hot air.

I understand why this article goes over the heads of most of the readers here. In the seventh paragraph it says "O'Reilly is the Bernard-Henri Levy of Route 101". Do you understand what he means by saying that? Do you know who Bernard-Henri Levy is? Do you know why the Baffler crowd holds him in contempt? Can you give a detailed explanation of the disagreements between the New Philosophers and the post-structuralists? Most Baffler readers can answer these questions, and it is assumed that someone reading the article could fully answer what "O'Reilly is the Bernard-Henri Levy of Route 101" means. If you don't understand that, you won't understand the article, and can not dismiss it other than to say you don't understand it.

As far as verbosity - Noam Chomsky often says if you repeat popular propaganda bromides, you can just stop there. If you say something counter to the cultural hegemony, it will need a long explanation, footnotes, multiple references and so forth. This is one reason articles like this seem long, if he is making a point about O'Reilly, he will have to point to multiple instances of things O'Reilly said, to nail down the case he is making.
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Parent was talking about 2013.
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...I can't imagine a financial company would ever actually take down their main site and claim to have been compromised just as a joke. For one thing, it's not even funny, so where's the joke? And second, it's obviously really bad for business. I think it's safe to assume this is real.
Got an internal server error when going to your website.
Gold is a piss poor investment.

Owning Real Estate (and making money off of it) entails taking care of it. People taking care of their land (so that it can appreciate in value) is a good thing. The typical Real Estate "investor" adds a ton of value to their home, not just through maintenance, but also additions (ie: a new deck).

This maintenance is true value added to the economy. True value that wouldn't have been added if the investor just left his cash in something else.

No one wants to buy a 30-year old home that had no maintenance on it. Unless you're a fan of buying homes with leaky roofs and a flooded basement...
There are a bunch of forks of Bitcoin that have received approximately zero attention (relatively speaking). Standards tend to be natural monopolies.
Anybody that has ever had a master cylinder fail on them knows what I mean.

That brought a smile ;-)

And memories of the shop supervisor telling me "we'd have to drop your gas tank in order to replace that brake line, but our insurance doesn't let us work on fuel systems. Closest guy who can fix that is about 5 miles up the road. Drive carefully!"

I drove over there during noon rush using a combination of compression braking and the E-brake.

Serendipity: the E-brake had been jammed open for 3 years and I had gotten around to fixing it just two weeks before the brake line rusted through! Talk about luck. I sure miss that truck though.
I know I'm being pedantic, but Emacs actually has a really nice built-in help. You can call up a list of all active bindings, sorted by mode, and then jump to documentation, and then jump to the elisp implementation. It's like having your own cheat sheet -- something the iPhone couldn't do.

...why am I comparing iphones to emacs?
It's nice, but how is this different than from any other yt player out there?
>You can either 100 units of something today, or buy 110 units of it tomorrow.

People make this kind of tradeoff all the time. I can either purchase a product for $100 from Best Buy, or, I can wait for two days and get the same product for $80 from amazon (or $83.99 and get it the next day).

There are times when I choose to be prudent and save the extra cash and wait 48 hours until the amazon package shows up. Other times, I would prefer the product sooner, rather than later and spend more money for the item.
I'm one of the developers of this app and I can say that you shouldn't expect a price drop on this app soon. It's been 100$ for several months and now it's 1000$. It's not a special type of promotion, not a way to trick app review sites, it's just 999$ for an app and that's it. Some people can afford buying an app for 1k$ and you know what? We are not one of them so we just can't afford buying our own app for promotion purposes :) Those people who don't like our app are always able to receive their money back. Some do, but some don't and it helps us continue the development of our new project. You can continue discussing "how scum we are" but the truth is no one is trying to fool anybody. It's absolutely legal to sell an app for 999$, and those who bought it for 99$ or 999$ don't write reviews that spill dirt on us or our game, they just play it and make some effort to entertain themselves, and those who got it for free very often are too lazy to read 5 words in the training mode just to understand how to play. I'm done.
At banks, board pay soars amid cutbacks
Nice writeup. The whole "your docs site is just on a different branch" has always been weird to me though. I'm not sure what a better way to do it would be but I don't like these two options: switch branches inline or have a separate clone of the repo.
Why Keynes was right
The lack of a stabilizing mechanism is a feature, not a bug. The risk-free rate of return on dollars only exists because the central authority possesses compulsive force of taxation and/or inflationary power, to pay out the return that it guarantees. Bitcoin is of course designed without any central authorities, inflationary power, or compulsive force.

Flipping around the question, how could a risk-free rate of return exist in Bitcoin at all? Nobody has the power to create more currency or forcibly acquire some in order to satisfy a promised payout.
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anyone who says "FLOSS" is either perpetrating doublespeak, or a victim of it, because "Free/Libre Software" and "Open Source Software" are different things

They are different things - though mostly in terms of goals and priorities, since the actual definitions are very similar - but I disagree that doublespeak is required to use that term.

"FLOSS", at least the way I've used and understood it, is not intended to equate them but simply to refer to both at once. In my view, FLOSS is the union of the two sets.
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Since you will eventually be limiting the core functionality I would say it is more appropriate to say it is a free trial with persistent, exportable data.
In testament to this, Litecoin, a bitcoin-alike that creates 4x as many coins and has been designed to be harder to do ASIC mining, has just recently gone above $1
Sounds like feudalism.
The 'cryptobarons' or some currency speculators who hold large quantities of BTC could dump them on the open market and crash the price.
If it is an April fools joke, it's a terrible one. They should have been more creative. As it is, they're just destroying the trust in their brand. Nothing funny about it.
Do you actually think the problem here is informational asymmetry? Seems to be a supply/demand problem more than anything. Not enough housing. Not enough qualified summer interns. I don't see how a few blog posts will help anyone...
So you claim hoarding will kill Bitcoin. You are wrong for a very simple reason: the ultimate goal of hoarders is to eventually profit from their fortunes by spending it. They may spend slowly, but they will spend it, and this spending is what will ("should", to sound less pretentious) keep the Bitcoin economy alive.

Basically Bitcoin hoarders are not going to sit on their fortunes and passively watch Bitcoin dies.
Not the same thing (since this isn't an API), but I like what balanced does: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api
Bitcoin is now regulated in the US, so it's only a matter of time until Coinbase, CoinLab, and BitPay get Lieberman'ed.
I worked in the London office as an intern, 45 hours a week was definitely the standard!.I'm fairly certain some of the teams weren't strict on it or even went with 40 hour weeks, but it's definitely 45 on the contract! Having said that, it's a great place and the internship was good fun
This article encapsulates the frustration I felt this weekend trying to help my parents find their way via their fancy new in-car GPS. I eventually realized their difficulty wasn't just the result of Ford's piss-poor UI,[1] but also a basic conceptual issue.

It seems silly to us tech-minded folk, but my parents truly did not understand what role they had in correcting for the GPS's mistakes.

It never occurred to them that it was possible to edit the route selection, or just go off-course and wait for the route to recalculate. As the poor map data[2] led them on roundabout routes veering across the state, their response to my pleading that they pre-select the best route (which they already knew about) was simply "let's see where she's taking us."

Through constant reinforcement via the media, the abstract 'cloud' paradigm has been deceitfully expanded to represent any new technology.[3] The disembodied voice of the GPS,[4] to them, is an authority rather than simply a tool.

UX problems are going to become much more complicated through all of this. We've got to figure out whether our goal is to sell people products or help people to enhance their lives with technology. To do the latter, software needs to be helpfully aware of the possibility of failure. That's what honest, understandable design means to me.

[1]: If your designers are too terrible to make a visually distinctive on/off button state, *you need to use sliders*.
[2]: (and/or impossible-to-determine avoid highways/tolls setting)
[3]: "How does it get maps?" they asked me, a process which, were I not present, they would have simply taken for granted along with the million other points of abstraction necessary for a piece of tech like in-car GPS.
[4]: (which they can only refer to as "her" or "she" rather than "it")
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I ignored this initially, thinking it had be an April Fools' joke. Then I saw the comments piling up and thought I should check it out. I will continue to treat it as an April Fools' joke.
No, it's evented, I think it's setup to use 4 worker threads by default.

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https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit/blob/master/src/org/htt...

https://github.com/http-kit/scale-clojure-web-app/blob/maste...
Unlike the land of Lords, the internet is not all bought up and unavailable to us peasants.

Yet.

What happens when all your family and friends are on X (where X is (or is like)) Facebook or Google+, and the only way to keep in touch with them is by giving in and joining?
Yea, but theoretically you could set up a new remote repo just for the site, and use a specific branch for it. I think the convenience is well worth the change in process you have to deal with.
I feel this will be shutdown before the end of the week.
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The majority of Kongregate’s revenue comes from our application platform for virtual goods-based browser games. These range from the more immersive social games to web-based MMOs and strategy games.

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I've downloaded the app using the promo code (thanks for that!) and what I notice is, the data in the app is out of date. Tiger Woods, for instance, is still listed as #2 in the world, even though he won at Bay Hill 8 days ago to take over the #1 ranking.

This tells me that your app is not polling a server to refresh its data, or that the server is not up to date at all. Either way, that's not going to be competitive at $5, for a power user, with simply going to the PGA Tour site or Yahoo or elsewhere for golf statistics which get updated within minutes of an event ending. For free.

Do you have to update the app itself for the data to be refreshed?
BrightScope is looking for a Javascript/CSS expert with a knack for design.

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•Designing, developing and improving the front end of our business software assets and applications
•Helping develop the face of our analytics platform and client-facing applications
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Requirements:
•Portfolio of working samples
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•2+ years development experience and an ability to write excellent code using Agile development processes
•Strong foundation in HTML, CSS, and Javascipt (major bonus point for JQuery)
•A self-starter attitude and an ability to break large problems down quickly
•Excellent visual eye for aesthetics
•Extreme attention to detail

Nice-to-haves:
•Knowledge of browser idiosyncrasies (even IE7/8/9) and page optimization
•Experience with the Django framework for Python, or MVC development generally (we use Django)
•Experience with Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign
•Experience with unit and functional testing, and preferably test-driven-development
•Agile development processes
•JIRA or other bug tracking systems
•Knowledge of git, svn, etc (we use git)
•SQL experience (MySQL preferred), with a strong grasp of data modeling in large applications

You will:
•Play a foundational role in designing our products and services
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We will:
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Interested applicants - please email your resume and link to your online portfolio to jobs@brightscope.com. Be sure to reference "HN-FEE" in the subject line.
UK land rights are much different then the US owing to their history of kings and lords. You don't pay property tax[1] on the land you hold. As a result there isn't much incentive to ever sell your land. Since other people still want to live on your land though you set up a deal so that they can build houses and live on that land, but they have to pay you rent. You are effectively a landlord in the truest sense of the word.

[1] If you rent out your land you start paying property tax, the government wants there own piece of that pie.
The Model S has two charge modes: standard and max range. Standard is the default and charges to 90% of capacity (approximately 240 miles in rated range). Max Range goes to 100%, but is discouraged for battery health reasons and has to be set manually each time you charge. It looks like Tesla is doing things similar to the Volt, but gives you the option to override.
You appear to be living in the psychology of about a century ago.

I'd recommend Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow as a good layperson's introduction to cognitive psychology in the fields of decision-making and estimation.

I also suggest you see http://mres.gmu.edu/pmwiki/uploads/Main/Hedges1987.pdf for a review of the degree of consistency within psychology and physics.
Berkeley, CA - full-time developer

We are looking for a developer to lead development of Gaia GPS for Android. Your job might range from building a cross-platform, OpenGL, C++ 3D mapping engine, to implementing a better way to filter GPS track data.

We would eventually like to have you full-time, but it can start as a contract.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/31506/android-develope...
Bitcoins Now Worth ONE. HUNDRED. DOLLARS. (each)
Yes, it's a long-ish article but it covers a lot of factual ground (it's in effect an O'Reilly biography from a very critical perspective). It contains a lot of historical detail that is interesting in its own right; the author has done a lot of research, down to digging up some notebooks edited by O'Reilly in '76. There's a good summary in smacktoward's comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5474090
> deflation makes it more profitable to do nothing than to invest

Saving is investing. You're investing in your ability to manage your risk at a future date. If you have no savings, then you are at risk of any minor problem (e.g. an injury, decreased revenue, or a natural disaster) causing you a major setback.

The "common wisdom" you've heard about inflation being necessary for an economy is a lie. It's a lie that justifies the wealthiest class of individuals in this society to be "bailed out" again and again.
Deflation increases the value of holding cash. By definition deflation occurs when the price of a basket of goods decreases. Why invest your money in a basket of goods today when it is going to be cheaper to buy that same basket tomorrow?
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I think every good parody has some truth.
No reason for it to be shutdown. All music videos are from Youtube (provided legally by the original artists, their labels or Vevo) and I followed Youtube's requirement of not hiding the video player when playing songs (which a lot of similar sites do, and is against Youtube's TOS)
This must be trolling.

> Those people who don't like our app are always able to receive their money back.

Can you explain the refund process?
Didn't India introduce product patents quite some time back?
Which is why everyone in Washington was freaking out and throwing cash out the window in 2009. Crony capitalism aside, they were terrified of deflation(and rightly so).
Just after submitting, I realized this could be an April fool's prank! :(
Seems like you have some dups in your topic categories:

"Finding an Internship", "Finding an Internship"
"Choosing an Internship", "Choosing an Internship"

Is that intentional? Kinda confused me at first.
Deflation is just one form of asset appreciation. If this line of reasoning were true then we would never see anyone selling anything that appreciates in value. But this is a very one-sided way to consider this scenario--it only takes into account the supply side. When the asset is appreciating, the demand side takes this into account as well and is willing to discount their asking price to take this into account. You saw this play out with real estate several years ago, and with gold more recently. It may blow out the bid/ask spread a bit, but eventually there will be people who need to sell their asset to buy something else, or there will be people who want the asset badly enough to pay what people are asking.

I think this argument can be discounted simply by looking at the current state of things--people are still spending bitcoins even though the recent appreciation dwarfs any built-in deflation. Sellers may need to discount their price to get people to pay in bitcoins, but even that doesn't seem to be happening yet.