skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I have a perfectly good idea of how much of an asshole I was being. I'm a total stranger on the Internet and I have no clue about you and your circumstance beyond what you yourself proffer. That is the simple truth.

But look, you put your personal life on the line with this discussion. Did you do that in order to gain sympathy, compassion, understanding .. from an Internet stranger?

Or did you bring your son into this discussion for the sake of winning an argument about social normatives as 'an authority', having read the books, bought the drugs, gotten with the program?

I think you should examine your motives on that.

My personal position is that anyone who drugs their child, for whatever reason, is as much a part of the problem as the perceived 'malady' of the child. Thats my personal opinion - like you have your personal experiences, I have mine too. You can tread on my opinion if you like - after all you are just as much of an internet stranger with the potential to be an asshole as I am. I have absolutely no problems with being called names for having an unpopular opinion (although, careful with the name-calling: you might get us both hell-banned).

>to be able to survive in society to my satisfaction.

So you've chosen your path, as a parent, and I've chosen mine as a parent as well: two boys, neither will ever get anywhere near anyone who might consider industrialized mental health 'solutions' such as drugging them, as a means of imposing society's cultural norms, because my boys don't 'behave' per the standard set for them. Thats just simply not going to happen. I'll live with the consequences of my decision, just as you have lived with yours. To me, your chosen path seems like its more for your sake than theirs, since it is you who is having the communication difficulties, but again: I don't know all the facts. I won't judge you as I have no right..

I urge you, however, to reconsider just how much you truly know about the subject, and how much you've been told to think about the subject without questioning the authorities in power. All humans deserve a chance: drugging children at an early age because they don't meet societys' standards, is in my opinion worse than the so-called symptoms. Not to mention there is a lot of profit being made from legally drugging children in this world today.

Just an opinion from a random internet asshole. Nice chatting with you. I wish you all the best, and your son a happy and productive life, as he sees fit.
Good point. We have so forgotten how bad it used to be, that 40 mins seems so long. Kings weren't able to talk to their ambassadors in 30 mins, not that very long ago.
This sounds like MLM spiel.
Because the daily volume of global FX markets is in excess of $4.5 trillion. The total value of all BTC in existence right now is in the low, likely single digit, billions of dollars.

A major volatility event in BTC will have an almost non-existent effect on FX markets - were every bitcoin exchanged for dollars in one day, it wouldn't even make up 1% of that day's FX trades globally.

A major volatility event in a major world currency (USD, GBP, EUR etc.) would have a massive effect on pretty much every market - it would effect FX, Futures, Fixed Income and Commodities markets, not to mention stock markets and derivatives markets.

Given the absence of the later, it's pretty safe assumption that the volatility is in BTC and not conventional FX markets.
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Mostly worked for me in Opera 12.14 on WinXP. The first click showed white space instead of stars, but then the second click (after the moon) showed the scrolling starfield the whole way.
The JetBrains Kotlin webpage http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/Kotlin/Welcome still shows Kotlin as active.

It's certainly better known than any of those other languages you mentioned. In fact, the two greatest innovators on the Groovy language, James Strachan (original creator of Groovy), and Alex Tkachman (original creator of Groovy's static mode), were "encouraged" to move on from Groovy by its present leadership, and are both now contributors to Kotlin.
Congrats to Jellyfish Art. I saw one sitting in my neighbor's window about a year and a half ago and was immediately in awe.

On a separate note, I'm always excited when I see a new blog post from priceonomics. They always choose super interesting topics, do a ton of research, and express the info in a succinct way. Good stuff.
We can have a progressive tax rate that is simple. Unfortunately, people such as Grover Norquist make it extremely hard. They want our current tax system to be as complicated as possible so then they can say, "Hey! Let's just do a flat tax." Thus shifting the burden of taxes from the rich to the middle class. He actually raised heavy objections when California implemented the ReadyReturn system. [1]

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8134597/ns/business-motley_fool/t/...
$99 SBC runs Linux on 1GHz dual-core ARM SOC
Isn't this contradictory? If a significant/relevant chunk of people use WebKit, and WebKit development lags behind Blink (and the others), then how will this not affect the web?
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What newsgroups are still alive? Just knowing where to start would be a huge help.
This goes way back before 2000. See George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s 1980 book, Metaphors We Live By.
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Before you begin, listen to a lot of different songs in many genres. This will help you settle on a style that best suits your voice and personality. Do you want to sing rock music? Opera? Maybe country and western or rhythm and blues suits your style best.

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So if i move to a poorer country, I have less of a chance to get cancer?
I personally do not really mind "alienating" the "earth is 5,000 years old" crowd by not respecting their complete and total disrespect for science and logic.

If your wife told you that she was pregnant, but it wasn't your kid--would you believe her if she said the sperm just sort of came out of nowhere? Or would you say that it's not how conception (or marital faithfulness) actually works?

(note: that's a general non-specific "your" up there, which does not refer to an actual wife, who if you have one I do not mean to in any way impugn)
Bitcoin Is Poised To Change Society More Than The Internet Did
I was just watching a talk by him where he clearly says that it's impossible to do this all the time, that you would go insane without using analogical thinking all day. But that it's a useful exercise when you are trying to sit down and find an innovative solution to a problem.
Key Documents in the Creation of Apple II DOS (1978)
"I guess I'm off by a year or two on your growth"

or three :). We've been around for a lot longer than folks realize - just been very "heads-down" building a strong business rather "TechCrunch Hype" focused, etc.
Fool me once, shame on etc.

Bitcoin only gets so many chances in the public eye.

It's broken through enough that enough people are paying attention to Bitcoin. And it's just in time to watch the textbook crash--(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stages_of_a_bubble.png).

"Where will Bitcoin be a year from now?" Oh--isn't that that one currency that people lost a lot of money in 2013? Litecoin? BitBucks?

Good luck getting anyone to take it seriously again.
You shouldn't have to, I agree, but apparently you do have to. "Should" counts for nothing.
One of Richard Feynman's books speaks to his wedding to Arline Greenbaum. They married partly because they thought she was dying much faster than she actually was. Pain isn't necessarily regret. I think you're wrong about this.
I bet that they can get it correct for 90% of the taxpayers. They certainly could do it for me, using sensible defaults.

(e.g. mortgage interest is reported, real estate taxes are reported, local sales tax is a calculation in most cases).

Where they're not going to get it right is if you've got a Schedule C, since none of that is reported elsewhere.
edit: Dec 2012 was the worst month for VC investment since August 2012

page 10 of this report -- https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/Q4%202012%20Venture%20Cap...

Picking any month or quarter as suggestive of a trend is generally not going to work. Funding #s get skewed wildly by mega-deals (throw in one big clean tech or Groupon type of financing and things look great and if they're missing, not so good). As of late, mega deals to clean tech have been non-existent which has been a drag on numbers overall.

The Q4 2012 #s did show a decline vs the earlier quarters of 2012. The data is here - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/venture-capital-2012-r...

Re: exits -- again a single quarter doesn't make for a trend.

If we see sluggish investment and funding levels for many quarters, then there may be reason for "concern" although it is probably a healthy purging of the system in our view.

Note: Our company, CB Insights, tracks VC investment flows and exits. We compete against Thomson (the provider of the NVCA data).
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I don't quite understand the reasoning here -- it seems like you're advocating a long-term buy and hold approach with bitcoins, based solely on the fact that they've recovered from every crash thus far? While bitcoins certainly have a lot going for them as a currency, I think it's the "bitcoins will keep going up, buy the dips" mentally of the true believers that makes this sound like a bit of a tulip craze.
I think this is a highly contentious opinion (primarily mine, and any view that modern high-budget games mostly suck, which resonates with myself and a lot of once-gamers I know). It might be that way because of the technical nature of this community and probably because many readers of these comments might actually be involved in that industry, and so it comes off as offensive.

I don't really mean it to be offensive. We know a lot more about development today, and have a lot better tools, and I know what kinds of amazing creativity some of these designers have, so it personally bothers me to see the lion's share of investment in the gaming industry go into reproducing the same games over and over.

Those of you who are in the industry: what do you think about starting your own shops, or building kick-ass games in your free time? If you work at one of these large companies and are pursuing things like this, I'd love to see your work.
First I want to remember that Bitcoin cost $10 less 24 hours before the $30 plunge than it did afterwards.

Having said that, I don't believe that it will go back up, most speculators will probably be ready to sell after today. It's also hard to say though, because it looks like the volume of bitcoins traded today are equal or less than other days. I can't say for sure, because Mt. Gox isn't loading properly and I'm looking at an unfamiliar set of graphs.

People keep talking about the bubble bursting. Most people don't realize that last time bitcoin flopped, it only lost 30-50% value initially, returning to a value that was still higher than just 2 months before the crash. Bitcoin spent 5 months in a steady decline, not 5 hours. Most early speculators made a profit, even if they couldn't sell until after the crash.

As much insanity as people are predicting, everything will probably be drawn out. If you have bitcoins and are nervous, now is a fine time to sell. If you think bitcoin will keep going up and you bought more than 30 days ago, you will probably be able to come out ahead even if you are wrong.

But you have to appreciate that most of Bitcoin is speculation. Bitcoin seems safe because it is inherently deflationary. That brings an unproportionate amount of speculators to the currency, and causes the deflationary properties to exaggerate. After enough time, the currency will become clearly overvalued. The free market will take care of that in a cyclic fashion.

As long as Bitcoin is used by people for it's anonymous and cryptographic properties, it will be subject to this hyperdeflation/crash cycle. The exiting bits don't last long and ultimately don't make the currency gain or lose terribly extraordinary amounts of value. After a crash, I'm sure bitcoin will still be worth at least $60, which is still fantastic if you bought back when it was less than $15.
Very psyched to see these guys launch. I've always had a soft spot for both efficient online markets and excellent food, and who knew there'd be a project that deals with both? :)

The founder (Dan Chak) is also the author of the O'Reilly book 'Enterprise Rails' so I have a feeling if these guys hit it big, they're in good hands when it comes to scaling....(cue rabid discussion of the term 'enterprise' and all issues havin to do with Rails and scaling....)

Anyway, congrats to them for launching.

(Disclosure: Dan is a friend, fraternity brother, and fellow MIT alum, so please pardon any and all bias)
probably because most activity is currently speculation/hoarding rather than actual use.
What is "manufacturing-export capitalism"? How it is working for Mexico
Yes, code that runs faster also uses less battery.
So now I guess I don't get to access my desktop computer with SSH from somewhere off campus? Also, MIT requires us to use the Cisco VPN client, which apparently doesn't work on 64 bit linux. This is absurd.
This post put me completely on Google's side: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-January/0...
Opera?

Plus with their switch to Blink on the horizon, even the old complaints about rendering compatibility are soon to be moot.
The idea is that, Webkit will have to keep up with the innovations in Blink, and maybe even try to innovate themselves, to maintain marketshare.
O'Reilly on  Morozov
I don't think you're wrong on any particular point.

But all of this is what makes Bitcoin irrelevant to the global financial system.

A currency can't be used for daily purchases if you have to account for cyclical periods where you just shouldn't spend them!

Couple this with the fact that this time enough of the mainstream media is paying attention, and Bitcoin won't recover. I'd bet a Bitcoin that this is the highest valuation of Bitcoin over its career as a highly interesting experiment in economics.
Why not?

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Please, consider Africa as Asia ;)
As a long time Opera user, I'm really looking forward to their switch.
> How can this volatility then be attributed to Bitcoin, and not the other currencies it is valued in?

Because if you were correct, that would meant the USD appreciated about 20% overnight which obviously it did not do.
Agreed. As a long-time Bitcoin participant, I'm very impressed with blockchain.info They're by far the securest online wallet. The problem is, most people aren't able to distinguish between what blockchain has set up and something like instawallet.
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Statistically, no.
OoooH. I thought the HN store was a collection of products / books that HN members have MADE or WRITTEN. I didn't realize it was just a curated list. Nevermind about my calendar then.
How do they do it? Inject into every page or just once you've exceeded the limits? (curious as i use rogers)
I think it's unlikely, too.

But Iain Banks criticizing and then praising his own work under a pseudonym is something he would think was very funny.
Visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/questions/ and choose the "CopyrightEvent4EdX" instance in order to ask the speakers questions.
Video games is a metric that is easy to verify and familiar to this audience. Sub in a loaf of bread if it is more palatable to your sensibilities.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Everybody who tried to "do it right" (TradeHill, CampBX, etc.) seems to have failed while users flock to the joker du jour.
These bits from the docs are really interesting. Can anyone here explain them in more detail? (I've also posted them as questions in moderator)

"we’d like to explore even larger ideas like moving the entire Document Object Model (DOM) into JavaScript. This has the potential to make JavaScript DOM access dramatically faster"

"Removing obscure parts of the DOM and make backwards incompatible changes to obscure parts of the DOM that benefit performance or remove complexity."
Heh. Yeah, I always find myself using the non-existent keyword now in Ruby and blowing things up by accident. It's the one place where Ruby is surprisingly unnatural.

Thanks for the catch. :)
No, you're being downvoted because fine-grained parallel programming in C++ is really hard, but you're saying that it's not.
Hey eranation, for multiple words we can use CamelCase and avoid underscore. And when we use multiple words, both 'imageModel' and 'ImageModel' are good practice, see here http://ricostacruz.com/backbone-patterns/#naming_convention

and about adding multiple things to collection the reason for using 'add' instead of 'reset' is, 'add' will maintain the existing data, while reset will clear the existing data then replace it.

I like the code schools's part 1 and 2 which was written by Jeremy Ashkenas, it is simple but practical, I agree.
You can join the market with $1, or $10, or $20... nothing says you have to buy at least 1 BTC. If Bitcoin continues appreciating, it may be $1000 US per BTC next year. That won't stop people that only want to spend $5 from transacting in it; it's designed to be divisible. You can hold and spend a fraction of a bitcoin. We don't round transactions to the dollar even in USD.
Oh, certainly. You should first try to hold them accountable. If the rest of the table is more concerned with getting past the awkward confrontation than dealing with the aggressor's behavior, then you leave. I was arguing against this position:

> I see lots of people saying "walk away" -- you're letting the troll win. [..] TROLLS WILL CONTINUE TROLLING AS LONG AS YOUR SILLY CLINGING TO POLITENESS MEANS YOU WON'T CONFRONT THEM.

Walking away isn't just politeness and it doesn't mean you don't confront them. But this type of confrontation is not productive if there is not a consensus at the table. It devolves into the kind of situation that just makes the original victim feel smaller and worse. You end up throwing a tantrum trying to force the rest of the table to punish the aggressor.

Stand up against this kind of behavior, certainly. Hopefully this will give the others at the table courage to denounce it also and make the offender unwelcome. But becoming belligerent and trying to force him to leave, as tiredofcareer seemed to suggest, is not a productive way to handle the situation.

Best scenario is when you call the person out on their remarks and they apologize. Short of that, you hope everyone else makes it socially difficult for them to stay without apologizing. Worst case you leave.

I also strongly disagree with this:

> This isn't like high school where you can just up and walk away and get whispers going in the hallway about what happened at lunch last Tuesday, OMG!

Yes, this is not highschool. We all expect to be more mature than that. If a friend of mine left a dinner saying, "I'm sorry, this behavior is not acceptable to me and I can't stay," that would make me seriously reconsider my position. This person is my friend. I value their opinion. If they are so upset that they feel they cannot in good conscience stay then I must have seriously misjudged the importance of what just happened. That is the reaction you are trying for.
The Big Bitcoin Adventure
This is an article by Annalee Newitz with a reply by and ensuing discussion with Tim O'Reilly. I found this highly relevant to the recent HN post re: Evgeny Morozov's "The Meme Hustler"[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472759
"At the current state of space technology, it will take at least 240 days to get to Mars"

Uh, no. The person who put this together obviously hasn't read a lot about proposed plans for Mars missions or even understands how transfer orbits work. 150 days is a likely practical limit for today's technology, but it's not a hard limit. Spend a little more fuel, and you could make it 149 days.

http://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-...
Errrm, Apple did the bare minimum required by the license of the KHTML code they were using, which was to release the changes they'd made to KHTML as a single blob. It looks like Google has already done more to contribute back than Apple originally did.
I'm more bothered by the authoritative fact that 'the timeline for a manned mission to Mars is the 2030s'. Says who, NASA?

They're not the only ones trying to get there.
Reminds me of this life-cycle of a bubble [1].
I know this drop wasn't caused by a loss of confidence in the currency but in the exchange, still I wonder if this was the bull-trap.

[1] http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t106/OnlyObvious/CDOs/bub...
My apologize I didn't state that I don't use the latest version of BB, will take care of the update on next article. thanks
Yep. I rolled my eyes at this, before I even got to the meat:

"I laughed to myself briefly, thinking: “who uses Bing?”, and then realized I was a computer science grad student who had managed to get malware on a Mac, so I wasn’t in a position to judge."
I'm not sure I agree. Yes, it's a Rails problem that it is using large amounts of memory (on the other hand (2) isn't Rails specific at all, it applies equally to e.g. Node). But it's a Heroku problem that it gives Dynos just 512MB of memory. It's a Heroku problem that it doesn't have a good load balancer. Heroku is in the business of providing painless app hosting, and part of that is painless request routing. These problems may not be completely trivial to solve, but they're not rocket science either. Servers these days can hold hundreds of gigabytes of memory, the 512MB limitation is completely artificial on Heroku's part. Intelligent routing in groups is also very much achievable. Sure, it requires engineering effort, but that's the business Heroku is in.

Of course Heroku is under no obligation to do anything, but its customers have to justify its cost and low performance relative to a dedicated server. And most applications run just fine on a single or at most a couple dedicated servers, which means you don't have routing problems at all, whereas to get reasonable throughput on Heroku you have to get many Dynos, plus a database server. A database server with 64GB ram costs $6400 per month. You can get a dedicated server with that much ram for $100 per month. Heroku is supposed to be worth that premium because it is convenient to deploy on and scale. Because of these routing problems which may require a lot of engineering effort in your application it's not even clear that Heroku is more convenient (e.g. making it use less memory so that you can run many concurrent request handlers on a single Dyno).
He didn't say the Web wouldn't be affected; he said it wouldn't suffer. And it won't, because it forces the WebKit (and Gecko) folks to keep up with Blink, and the Blink folks to keep up with their keeping up. Everybody wins.
I wish I could do this, but it sounds to good to be true. I think I need to follow the postscript...