skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I moved to Oakland because I was tired of my business partner, who lived in West Oakland, getting to my office in SoMA in ten minutes while I endured typically 35-45 minute Muni bus rides from only two miles away in SF, with an astonishing variance of arrival time.

As for the crime in Oakland, some guy got shot in front of his own house in the Mission this morning. People arriving for their internships, not being familiar with SF neighborhoods, shouldn't get the impression that the Mission is some kind of picnic.
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As am I, also in the New York office :)
Why do we hate certain words?
Is there any actual evidence that paid services are more reliable than free ones? Seems like a non-viable paid service is just as bad as a non-viable free one. I guess paid services feel worse about shutting down... unless they get acquired.
Except that Whatsapp connections are actually doing something, while in this meaningless test most of them are idle.
It's simply ridiculous that ACH takes as long as it does in the US. I have a friend who works at the Federal Reserve Bank in KC who admits the same.

It's about time someone like Dwolla disrupted the industry.
How many times have you been robbed??
Thanks. I'm a designer by trade(madebyargon.com) so good user experience is a very important factor for me. I'm glad you think YouFM is relatively bug-free but I think there's still a lot of UI inconsistencies and bugs in YouFM. But I'll be working on it and hopefully improving it. I also hope to improve the overall speed of the site.

But for now, I appreciate all the feedback.
> How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies.

Near everyone I know, regardless of age, does their banking online. I don't see how this is any different than a username/password being stored on some banking server, and getting stolen.

Best case? You boot to a clean ISO, make a wallet, generate an address, write down the public/private key, transfer all your btc to it, and call it a day. There is no digital trace, and you have a paper wallet.
Insurance isn't a magic word.

Insurance works on risk profiles. Insurance also works by limiting exactly what situations they do and do not cover (see: All the people who 'thought' they had flood insurance over the years).

Something tells me insurance is going to be a lot more expensive for BTC, which can have a range of impacts that will make it unpalatable for the average consumer, if they or online services can even get (try insuring a Audi R8 under an 18 year old's name...)
Or maybe it's just the politics isn't scientifically correct.
Data-mining Twitter for personal information
> To be clear, deflation is categorically bad for a currency. It's terrible, like great depression terrible.

I hear this argument a lot, but no nation that we know of has ever collapsed because of deflation, right? We've never (recently) been in a period of significant deflation, so how can we be so certain of its effects?

> deflation makes it more profitable to do nothing than to invest.

Investment won't ever stop, it just behaves more like a there is a minimum interest rate. No matter what the deflation is, I can still loan out $100 and expect $110 back within a year and make a bigger profit than holding on to it.

People will still work, and spend what they need to. And there's a limit to how much a currency can deflate before it cycles back. And hell, how do we even know that inflationary/deflationary cycles are unhealthy? Even if it causes some businesses to die, maybe this improves an economy in the long term by churning things up a bit.
Because housing and zoning codes are controlled by city governments which are in turn controlled by owners of million dollar houses. It is against their economic interests, and also they are extremely sensitive to issues such as traffic, parking, and the like.

Reading the real estate ads in Palo Alto newspapers, it's extremely obvious that if developers could build to density where it made economic sense to, the housing bubble would disappear immediately. But it's a huge pain to get even the smallest project approved, and deliberately so.

I don't think it's right, but that's how it is.
Lovely subtext in the last section.

Good on you guys for not rising to Jeff's stubborn/dismissive attitude.
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I won't buy a game that doesn't support OSX.
Hilarious. As a bay area quarter-lifer I can say pretty much all of these are spot-on.
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OTOH, if you're the supplier, there is no risk for you to go ahead and send the stuff if you were paid in bitcoin.
Since Bitcoin can be subdivided and is used (rather than held) primarily as a medium of exchange, there's no reason for increased price in dollars to decrease its use as a medium of exchange... let alone a store of value. Unfortunately.
Ah, didn't know that!

But aren't we walking a fairly narrow line here? In order for this to be a meaningful distinction, we have to assume that mass shooters a) plan their attacks, b) are smart enough to choose gun free zones, and c) are dumb enough not to know that a gun free zone isn't necessarily free from guns?
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I know mostly folks going the other direction, moving to Toronto and Montreal from the US (and a few from Scandinavia) to start or expand businesses. But that's mostly in videogames, where it seems both Quebec and Ontario currently have very generous support programs (both outright grants and tax incentives).
I am stuck wondering if this is an ironic comment are not.

Obviously you wouldn't buy 16 Exxon Mobils. He used it as an extremely profitable company, and I guess you could say just buy the top 16 most profitable companies.

Cold fusion? Any recent research backing your claims? It's been pretty well characterized as junk science since the 90s [1,2].

However,

>I suppose his larger point is that you are better off investing your money in companies that produce value in the world vs holding onto value.

spot on.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
[2] http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/cold_fusion_12
Google's neural net used for April Fool's Easter egg
This is our first attempt to foray into physical hardware products as software developers. It's our MVP. Kickstarter is a fantastic platform for that.

There are still lots of work ahead of us. We have several ideas on where we want take Thermodo project from here. We are already getting lots of feedbacks on ideas from users, too. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robocat/thermodo-the-tin...

We will probably write a post on our journey from software developers to hardware designers when we are a bit closer to the final product.
10k isnt really a limit. In linux you should consider it being about 100 for every 1MB of ram (10%) of fs.file-max. 1 million isn't really hard nowadays
Hacker News is more focused on the technical hacks than on the business side? Well, I never!
Actually, it's pretty simple to use Markov chains to calculate the expected time spent as each property in Monopoly.
Most the rents quoted are several hundred lower than reality, though the bedroom in a shared place price is pretty close. It also fails to underline the competition for cheap, or any, housing. Landing a spot within the first weeks, or even month, will be very hard for anyone new to the town.

If you want an apartment in this city you must bid several hundred over the listed price. It is also extremely common to offer 3-6 month's rent down and be ready to cut that check at the open house.
In 2s complement, the most significant bit is the sign bit. In fact all valid C integer representations have a sign bit.
Yes, this is a great reason to have nullptr, but when this occurred there wasn't even such a thing as -std=c++0x. ;)
Has anybody ever succeeded in applying the distributed development approach (forking, pull requests, multiple branches and variations) to recipes?
I'm a registered user and they did not do any notification. I didn't even know it was shut down until seeing this link.
This is for project docs and such, not for marketing people but for the people working on the project.
We actually contacted you before we launched, but never heard back.
The beauty of electrum master public key is that it can be used to generate unlimited number of "receive only" bitcoin addresses. Server script could do it for each sale. If someone hacks into server - he can't steal anything, because Electrum's master private key (to send money) never stored in server.
He isn't comparing it to forced labor of some sort. He's comparing it to the nature of the social relationship between the users/service provides.
Out of the box iPad support! Impressive :)

On a side note, I wonder why people ditched tables for divs, tables were responsive out of the box, no? Also, No floats, no clearing...this theme reminds me of the good 'ol days :)
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. They took an oatmeal comic and put it in a shitty wrapper.

Oh, wait: "inspiration credit goes to theoatmeal for making it."

Inspiration credit... to the people who thought of it, designed it, made it and published it.
It's not his best work by any stretch (its overly dense and repetitive) and some factoids are off the mark, but I do like that he has pointed out that the kind of back-patting altruism everyone likes to pretend is the best reward for their efforts is exposed as the barely upright rationalization for what is otherwise what I call "benign greed". I'm not exempt from it either; I like money, and I like doing interesting things to earn it. If I can make the world a better place for the effort, all the better, but it isn't the raison d'etre, and I won't posture otherwise...a large number of folks in the value do though (possibly to the point of self-denial).
You imply paid product somehow would be immune to being shut down. Which sounds about right - there's no precedent that product which charges subscription fees was ever discontinued. Or is there?
I have to respectfully disagree, …the expansion of money through debt is unsustainable and necessarily fuels and creates economic bubbles. This concentrates wealth in the hands of private banks as the populace is forced into debt simply to own a home and educate their children, hoping that the loans can be repaid by others going into debt in greater amounts later to purchase the assets they themselves have purchased through incurring large amounts of personal debt. However, debt expansion leads to price appreciation of assets through speculation as the financial market becomes riskier and this process is unsustainable in the long run, with the last cycle of indebted being wiped out when they cannot find anyone to buy the assets they themselves have purchased by going into massive debt.

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Criticism_of_fractional_reserve_b...
People don't like to be reminded that price is decoupled from cost.
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It's worth noting that the transfer took place two hours before the site was taken down. That's a really bad sign.
A currency rapidly increasing in value reminds you of one that was rapidly decreasing in value?
Signed integer representations. Unsigned ints do not, and you're given the full range of the integer as valid data.
Only thing "missing" were some images trailing the cursor.
That's definitely true in Palo Alto, Atherton, etc., but San Jose has been pretty open to denser redevelopment, especially around downtown and Diridon Station.
What is WRONG WITH YOU?
Make sure your gold doesn't have a tungsten center.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-24/get-your-fake-tungs...

AFAIK, the only way to make certain is via destructive physical inspection (drill a hole in it).
If it's actual cold storage, then it's probably just them taking precautions. The whole point of cold storage is to make the wallet immune to a server breach. But who knows? It sounds like their security was sloppy.
Nothing distracts good developers to write good code. There is NO excuses. Bad management? Bad mood? Fuck it. Find another job if management can't live with good solutions. Again. No excuses.
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Apple's Tim Cook says 'I'm sorry' to Chinese customers
I thought the point was that other mass-manufactured ammunition would be more likely to contain equally consistent loads that could be 'dialed in' and adjusted for.

That said, I don't have a problem with the 'proprietary' ammunition, but gun owners tend to be informed on that kind of purchase. It should be easy to match the load profile and come up with a "Surgeon-compatible" ammunition, should the tech ever catch on to that degree.
For-Profit Fiasco: California Public Colleges Turn to Web Courses
I think Steven Johnson said it best about Mr. Morozov: “He’s like a vampire slayer that has to keep planting capes and plastic fangs on his victims to stay in business.”
This is a good point, the exact hardware comparison is as follows:

| Clojure | WhatsApp
---------------------------
CPU | i7-2600 | Xeon X5675
Clock| 3.4GHz | 3.07GHz
Cores| 4 | 24
RAM | 16G | 96G
Conns| 600,000 | 2,000,000

It seems pretty clear that the performance increase is line with the better hardware specs.
It seems that finding your optimal sleeping time in between Kripke’s finding is a good way to go. It’s certainly something I’m giving a go now.

He does say you need to experiment and not take it as gospel. But there's nothing particularly new in that article, I've heard that story of Japanese office workers napping at their desk in the afternoon many years ago.
Especially since the penalty for missing your target is so great.
True, but they is also interest in technology businesses that make money and people who say things the 'mainstream' doesn't believe but they believe passionately. Those latter aspects of the announcement haven't gotten a lot of air time :-)
re: tired after meals -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postprandial_somnolence
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I thought it was ok, and I don't actually usually like Morozov much. But I think it was confusing in being nominally about O'Reilly. The bulk of the article is only tangentially about O'Reilly, and is more along the lines of a reprise of Richard Stallman's essay "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software", but for a non-tech audience who probably wouldn't read Stallman (he does at least cite/credit that Stallman piece, though he paraphrases it in more words than the actual original piece). O'Reilly seems to get grafted on because he organized some conferences and promoted the term among businesspeople, and is taken to be emblematic of a certain kind of Valley culture.
What if is was the value of the gold remained constant? And it is the value of the Ruupia that falls. Question: Have food and gasoline become equally expensive?
Introducing Google Sleep
Very interesting. I'd have thought exactly the opposite - that without artificial lighting, it would make more sense to sleep off all the dark hours.
I guess I think of mutating a variable repeatedly as a pretty normal thing for a loop to do, nearly the only reason for having a loop, and you can see what the data flow is from the source code. In the reduce case, you kind of have to guess what the arguments to reduce() and the anonymous function are. I mean, if you'd gotten the l and r arguments backwards in your function, could you see that from looking at the code? What if you'd gotten the arguments to reduce() in the wrong order? (And you don't get to see what the initial value is until you finish reading the function that updates it.)

I think reduce() is awesome for associative operations and in general reasonable in point-free style. But I don't think its use in this case improves readability.
What? Ignoring the fact that I can't figure out what your second sentence means, obviously he's comparing it to forced labor. That's what we're talking about.
Sprint to Yank Chinese Telecom Equipment From Huawei
Earlier today this had 135 comments. Checked later, 200. Now 350! OMG BUY! BUY! BUY!
Samsung Galaxy SIII - SAMSUNG
> It's only purpose is to allow you to buy other stuff.

There is certainly utility in being able to buy stuff that cannot easily be bought with traditional (government) currencies. Namely, things that are illegal in various countries, like drugs or gambling.
Signed forms in Rails
I'm not sure that the throwaway metaphor in the seventh paragraph is in any way related to a reader's dismissal of each argument in the article. Each piece of evidence presented in the article is poorly analyzed, even when it could provide a solid foundation for an argument.

As far as verbosity goes, a longer collection of ad-hominem attacks does not equal a stronger or more persuasive argument.
You make strong points, but (and without wanting to rehash some tedious arguments) there is still the fundamental difference that "e-banking" is not dealing with "e-cash" the way Bitcoin is "e-cash." Different members of the audience perceive this variously as a benefit or a drawback, but either way it will complicate security.
YouFM v1:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404007
> I spent a few hours hacking together a little rails app which would play out 100,000 rolls in a few seconds and tell me the chances of everything coming up.

Can't people do the math anymore, they have to simulate everything?! And they have to do it with a mtf web framework?! A spreadsheet and some pen and paper to figure out the formulas would've sufficed...
Loginwall is easily removable through Firebug.
Looks like the Huff Post Labs site:

http://labs.huffingtonpost.com/

But less atrocious.
Why buy a smartphone when next year's smartphone will be better in every way?
Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme
Content Strategy: How to Reach More than 250,000 Readers from a Blog Post?
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I don't think recipes hew very well to that model. Revisions aren't as important as variations, which means each would be a branch, which is unwieldy.
I'm not convinced that the explosion of specialized types benefits anyone but language lawyers. Some of us actually have work to do, and NULL should mean NULL.

Using '0' for null pointers as mpyne suggests is less desirable because it robs the reader of context ("Is this a pointer being compared to 0, or a numeric type?") That could be worked around with Hungarian notation, but some would argue that the cure is worse than the disease.
I imagine a backseat driver shouts suggestions, but does not take over the wheel; like the way autocomplete is there without preventing you from typing something else. It doesn't have to be a translator, but there should be some distinction between user input and what comes from the model, and the user should have the final say.