skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WSDL for REST is happening, but see the JSON schema discussion below.

WADL is a machine-readable XML description of HTTP-based web applications (typically REST web services).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Lan...
All three of the attributes I listed are weaknesses. Born leaders don't often lose their temper in front of subordinates.

You should read "How to Make Friends and Influence People" It contains quite a few examples of what true leadership is.
"That little K abbreviation" is kind of a common thing... I'm not sure what your experience is, but in order to understand a lot of what gets discussed on the web in terms of performance, you'll need to improve your attention to detail.
OK, we could just call it "crippleware".
Isn't the point of bitcoin that its monetary supply is disconnected from economic activity? I thought the "mining" is supposed to be analogous to actual gold mining, so that increases in supply happen very slowly, get more difficult over time, and eventually cease completely. Obviously, many (perhaps most) people think that centralized government currencies (where the government can essentially increase the money supply at a whim) is the best system, but the point of bitcoin is to challenge that system.
What will you trade me to send something to the space station?
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The 8 hours "myth" seems to come from the fact that most people sleep about that long when they don't set an alarm clock.

We are tuned by evolution.
Yes. That's what I am suggesting.

Look, I am not a doctor or neurosomething and what I have said above in that statement is based upon my experience, other's and articles I've read. Besides, it's a well known fact that you need to rest your body and mind by sleeping at night at the right time and not just anytime.
what are the differences between a vanilla `git bisect`
I read that and I have no idea what those values are. Is there an example of this with actual real-life data?
> How's that different from tulips?

The key difference is that the tulip burst happened in the past, so you can be quite certain that it was a speculative bubble.
I really like this site. As someone who will be interning in the Bay Area this summer, I will find it very useful if you guys could throw in a forum where folks could connect and find roommates and make friends with fellow hackers.
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> It may work 99.9% of the time, but BTC is the false positive IMO.

That's one of the major markers of a bubble - people convincing themselves that this time is different. There's a book about bubbles with that title.
"Saving" fails to distinguish between different uses of assets.

"Investing" one's resources means putting them to work to create value. "Hoarding" them means the assets are as good as if they were buried in the ground. Investing is riskier and takes more work and more smarts, but any idiot can hoard.

What creates (or is more likely to create) more value? 1 million dollars distributed among promising startups, or 1 million dollars spent on mining gold? 1 billion dollars spent creating an airline, or 1 billion dollars spent on vast swaths of real estate?
Not as good of a title as "What I've Been Thinking About", apparently.
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While this is true, it's extremely hard to keep your computer free of any kind of malware. There are many trojans that go undetected for enough time to do serious damage. I personally know a guy that, even with having anti virus installed, had 2500 BTC stolen from his personal computer.

So really, so far the most secure way to store Bitcoin is either to encrypt private key and only then store it somewhere, or print it out, store it in a safe and remove all traces from the computer. Better yet - use a locally hosted javascript app to generate the pair and never write it to disk, from where it could be recovered even after deletion.

I'm now working on developing a Bitcoin platform that will enable you to do exactly this - your private keys will be generated on your computer, encrypted with PBKDF2-derived passphrase from your password and only then stored on our servers. This way no one except you can ever touch the coins.
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Good suggestions, I'll definitely make these improvements. I also need to make some improvements to the UI (didn't get a chance to test it properly outside chrome on osx, seems to have a lot of annoyances on other browsers and platforms)

Ctrl click or Cmd click should let you select multiple songs that you can then drag onto playlists.
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The one problem I have with an ADHD diagnosis is the power of choosing a useful narrative for oneself. I see an ADHD diagnoses as a stepping stone to letting go of the ADHD diagnosis. Use the tools but don't let your son get stuck there.

Here are various narratives I've had for myself:

1) Child prodigy

2) Failed child prodigy

3) Something's not right about work / study. I know what to do, but in the moment I do the wrong thing or procrastinate egregiously.

4) ADHD (medicated)

5) ADHD (stopped medication due to side-effects and depression)

6) Square peg / round hole. Make (startup) or find square hole.

7) Found square hole. First non-founder programmer at regional success story mobile games company. Crucial to the company, recognized / compensated as such. In demand.

Guess what hasn't changed all that much through all of these narratives? Me. I've just become ... optimized. I'm still terrible at time-sheets and coming in before 11. I would be a failure in a place that expected that.

P.S. Check for sleep issues (e.g. sleep apnea). As a society, I think we encourage and tolerate sleep deprivation to an absurd degree. From what I've seen, chronic sleep deprivation is indistinguishable from ADHD.
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Well, $2/kWh is also an upper limit ;) - I simply didn’t expect anything remotely in this region, for me, a kWh is still about 20 cents or roughly 1/3 less than this upper limit.
The landing page is missing an important piece. The explanation of how the game works in text. Its beautiful, well structured, but missing that key part. I was ready to give it a try, but I did not want to see the video. You have to include an explanation in text. Or even an image of how it works. You are losing sales to this. Fix it.
Introducing bigger data
My son loved Scratch. The other thing that is great about Scratch is the built-in mechanisms for sharing your creations with friends. Tapping in to that popularity contest mentality can either be a motivation or a distraction depending on the kid, but it's there as an option not a core part of the tool.
This drug is expensive at $2600/month. A fresher software engineer salary in IT company is about $500/month.
Average Indian income is way low than that possibly less then $100/month.
I tried to read it, but my brain kept powering itself off as a self-defense mechanism. Then I tried to skim it, and it started getting worse, e.g.: "Another apt example of O’Reilly’s meme-engineering is his attempt to establish a strong intellectual link between the development of Unix [...] and the development of open source and the Internet." At this point I became blind with nerd-rage and headed over here to cleanse myself...

Ironic that it should deface Unix, because I think that dmr's immortal words[1] are particularly apt here: this piece is "a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271
Or what should I trade?
For starters, there will need to be a lot of court cases that will decide how the legal repercussions will look like before any major players will take the risk it involves.
Not to mention the R&D tax credit, which is transferable and instantly adds value to even failed startups. Being able to buy a startup for micenuts simply so you can write off 30% of their salaries (while still getting their employees) is pretty attractive for a lot of established companies.
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Efficient Aggregates in Julia
What your Gmail signatures say about you
> Private land works. Mostly. With a few caveats.

Tell that to all the people who could easily live on the vast swaths of property suburbanites have set aside for doing absolutely nothing with (lawns).

> Usually "governments and friend monopolists" are to blame, too.

I assume you let homeless people pitch camps in your yard, and are thus not part of the problem?

> Do patents work? Not sure. Sometimes maybe.

The U.S. is the most technologically productive society in the history of the world, and we have had patents since our founding. Much of the valuable technology around us was funded either by: 1) patent monopolies; 2) natural or government-sanctioned monopolies; 3) government research funding. Much of what wasn't was funded by other mechanisms for reducing competition (for example, Intel's trade secrets to keep its manufacturing edge).

Ultimately, there is no money in highly competitive markets. Competition drives prices towards the marginal costs of production, which not only saps R&D budgets in capital-intensive fields, but without IP protection reduces any incentive to engage in capital-intensive R&D when the results can be easily copied by competitors.

Look at one company we consider innovative today: Google. Google benefits from several features of its industry that tend to undermine perfect competition: network effects, a government granted monopoly (over the trademark Google--imagine if Samsung could redirect "Google Searches" to their own search engine), a privately-granted monopoly (domain names), government-monopolies over their copyrighted-software, etc. And of course, the half-trillion dollar advertising industry from which it derives nearly all its revenue would collapse if trademark monopolies didn't prevent companies from free-riding on advertising investments. As a result, Google makes a ton of money, and can use it to do cool things like research Google Glass and self-driving cars that don't immediately turn a profit. If Google was trying to eke out an existence in a perfectly-competitive market based purely on the quality of its search results, none of this would happen.
The 2013 Bay Area Summer Intern Group [1] on Facebook is what you're looking for.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210814239033807/?bookmark_t=...
Instead of Alt-tab, use Alt-` to switch between the several terminal windows opened.

Also, for the menus there's the Hud. It's a keyboard interface for all menus on top. So press Alt, release the key, and then type 'Save as' when the Hud appears. It's the same for all other menu entries.
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It's not just me. You can go through a lot of the threads on devforums.apple.com, in the iCloud section, and you'll hear the same thing. The solution to almost all problems is using the Delete All hammer. It's just an unpleasant solution, but definitely fixes the problem and lets you start fresh.
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The problem we face is that Bay Street is startup-adverse, and there's not really a VC ecosystem outside of that. We've got a few YC clones, and then we have a few VCs doing series B type investments, but not a whole lot that bridges the gap.
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Except I do buy an iPhone. Because I want one. Today.

Technology always gets cheaper rapidly. Lots of people seem to buy it.

A 4% annual deflation rate would stop unhealthy debt expansion, which only stimulates short term growth and long term pain.

Higher quality growth comes when real economic value is created through transactions rather than speculation or inefficient investment.
Very cool, but I missed a board when I saw the video of the game. Still seems to be very interesting.
Nope, by definition deflation occurs when the authority controlling the money supply (eg the Fed) contracts said money supply.

Prices going down is merely a symptom of deflation, but it is not deflation.
I think the opposite is true: _Applied_ considers cryptography at a higher level, covers more concepts, has the broader charter.
Some feedback about the page design: When I first looked at the article, I breezed right past those six section links. They look way too much like generic fat-footer site nav or post-article outbound links or something, my brain must have filtered them out. I found myself scrolling down to the ABOUT section immediately and becoming confused.
I felt the same way when I first read about the acquisition/shutdown. Like the idea.

As a replacement I found http://www.yummly.com/ today.
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Indeed. And a 4% deflation rate would not seem to deflate their appetite for 100x gains.
Are they using the same box to run server and clients? I can't figure that out from TFA.

Wouldn't it be better if clients are running on different machine(s)?
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The division here is between the underlying causes of the distractibility. And that's a pretty important distinction to make.

Many things can cause distractibility, from sleep deprivation to thyroid disorders. ADD/ADHD is only one of them. The effective treatment for any of these will not help the others. That is why the DSM-IV includes as a diagnostic criteria that you have to screen for other possible causes of the behavioral issues and rule them out.

The "many doctors" that you describe are simply not doing their job properly. By comparison the screening process for my son's diagnosis took about a month. Possibly not coincidentally I live in California - a state that has one of the lowest rates of diagnosis of ADD and ADHD. (Look at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/prevalence.html to see your state diagnosis rate - I'd be suspicious of any diagnosis made in Alabama.) I am confident that my son's diagnosis is correct - my son has responded well to medication, while children without the disorder don't.

So here is my point again. If you're noticeably distractible and possibly sleep deprived, try getting more sleep. It might make a big difference. If you've actually got ADHD or ADD it won't hurt you, but it won't fix the problem either. There are other things that can also produce the same symptoms. Go to a competent doctor if you've got reason to be concerned.
There is a very informative talk on youtube [1] by Dr. William Dement, often referred to as the father of sleep study. He founded the Sleep Research Center @ Stanford University.

[1]http://youtu.be/8hAw1z8GdE8
Sorting by price (decending) shows 14.99 above 19.99. You might want to take a look at that.
did you do the math or are you just pulling numbers out of your hat?
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Curious why you chose to spend $2.06 on the tubing stateside? That's a lot of money for packaging, and then to have to assemble the kits together. I'd try and get as much done in China as possible, especially the tubing, which would run you far less and you would be shipping a finished product and minimizing costs a ton.

Happy to help anyone who needs guidance on sourcing and manufacturing in China. I've become pretty savvy over the years.
Does anyone take into account the kind of activity done during the day?

For example, if I go on cycling trips, I can do perfectly fine with 4-6 hours of sleep per day. On the other hand, during revision times when I try to cram as much as possible into my poor memory, I tend to sleep a lot, i.e. 12-14 hours per day (and work/revise for about 6, tops). Under normal conditions, I still prefer 8-9 hours of sleep (and conversely ~10 of work).
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I'm surprised no one is making a killing converting Silicon Valley and Bay Area houses into capsule hotels like the Japanese.
The action is in the city / peninsula ;0) Also, I feel like something like this would further the collaborative entrepreneurial community in the Bay area, particularly the peninsula where there aren't many place to congregate / collaborate (with the exception of the Hacker Dojo). Plus making finding a decent place easier.
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Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

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We're a very small startup (you'd be #6), but well funded and have customers. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a really small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

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Isn't the value(not necessarily the price) of a currency the size of the market in which it trades divided by the number of units of currency in circulation.

If the market reduces because of a lack of investment, wouldn't the currency reduce because you hold the same proportion of a smaller thing, creating an incentive to stop negative growth.

There is also the factor of the OP's so-called CryptoBarons. Money is just an idea until you actually spend it. If there are a number of people living it up because they got a bunch of bitcoin really early the result would be essentially another form of bitcoin creation. Those CryptoBarons would be adding currency into circulation as they spend, currency that was effectively frozen before that point.

I'm not sure what will happen in the end, but it will certainly be an interesting ride.
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Yes, I learned it the hard way when I had around 200 BTC stolen from the online service I was using. I kept blaming the service but the fact is it's stupid to think of bitcoins = hard currencies and online wallet services = bank.
There is actually an interesting technical reason for having short names in generic Haskell functions. Because of parametricity, the behavior of the function doesn't depend on what the values actually are. The shortness of the names really is meant to convey "don't think about what this is doing, because it's not important for this function". In the traditional example for map,

map f [] = []
map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs

You're supposed to infer from the short function names that f and x could be anything. The only important bit is that you can apply one argument to f (so, for example, f could take two parameters, and then map is just doing a single partial application). In that context, x and xs is actually a better convention than "first" and "rest", because they indicate the adherence to the type system. The naming here is saying that x is of the type of elements of xs, and that this is the only important information for map. This seriously helps in more complicated functions like zip, etc.
Most businesses are started with savings and money borrowed from family. Most entrepreneurs would do just fine in a deflationary environment.
I could recommend several of the peninsula cities near the Caltrain corridor, Sunnyvale, Menlo Park, San Carlos come readily to mind. (in addition to Mountain View and Palo Alto) if you are near the Train station you can pop into SF, or stops with easy shuttle service to Facebook and Google.

East bay near BART is also good if your internship is in the city.
I've wondered about this for a while, and would love to hear additional input. My guess in that the Bay area proactively does things to limit population density (particularly a place like Palo Alto where I live) and traffic.
Do you have information for students from another countries?
Are you sure? I interned in the bay area in summer 2012, and found that my salary was more than sufficient to cover rent in MTV. I received no housing stipend, and rented a reasonably nice place with 2 other interns which was $1200/month each (which I considered absolutely extortionate, not sure if others would agree). Given that my salary was in the $5000/month range, this was, off the top of my head, about 1/4 of my monthly salary, which is to me totally fine.

I don't deny that you can get cheaper outside of SF/MTV (and indeed SF can be much more expensive; my comment is only for MTV), but I dont think that $1200 is 'trust fund' money.
Why POST for the api? This should be a simple GET.
"Expect +$2k/month for every greek letter in their name" huh?
I'm surprised too; I think that would do very well.
So I've just looked up Morozov's book and then realized I could get it at.. Safari Books Online (an O'Reilly Media venture.) Oh the irony. Still, it's free. Free as in I already pay for the subscription.