skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Land is a resource. If I claim exclusive use of a piece of land, no one else can use that land as they wish. Inventions are NOT like that. Comparing patents and land, the way you have, leads to a bizarre form of capitalism. "Propertizing things" is, again, a wrong way of looking at it: a patent is not a "thing" or even a resource.

Looking at things through in your "propertizing things" manner, why can't laws and regulations be "propertized" too, bought and sold to create bizarro capitalism?
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If the crash will happen it will lead to a drop in trading volume, making prices unreliable. You will not be able to sell substantial quantities of Bitcoin without crashing the market further.
Really horrible. Thank you
Maybe people really do want to buy the app for $1K? There is no way to know until you test the market.
Right now a landgrab is going on. People want to hold some btc. At some point in the future, when everyone knows about btc and purchased as much as they want/can, the price will be more stable and grows only as much as new wealth is created by the global economy and new people are born.
you are good to be suspicious into any benchmark(as even the original slides note). I dont think we really have any information as it relates to transaction boundaries present, nor clients used:

From the slides:
"Scripts read a CSV ﬁle, parse it into the
appropriate format, INSERT it into the
database.
•
We measure total load time, including
parsing time.
• (COPY will be much much much faster.)
•
mongoimport too, most likely."

Postgres does its best to use intelligent defaults, but it is only a part of the system, it is generally up to practioners to be wary. Tools like: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgtestfsync.ht... Assist in this goal, but generally have to watch out for things like raid controllers that are not battery backed etc ( depending upon your environment).

There is no mention of the number of clients used directly.

I was simply trying to highlight that with the (little) information available, it is very possible.

It is also possible, that the session(s) should themselves choose to pursue an asynchronous commit strategy ( on a session level see:http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/wal-async-commit.h... ) which would also not require modifying the configuration, I do not know as I have not seen the scripts, but it is similar to how a library could interact with:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/getLastErro...

Thanks.
In fairness to the author, this piece was written for a print publication, The Baffler, and included in that magazine's most recent print issue. Longer-form articles fit better in print than they do online.
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I really just need to turn the computer off on April 1 every year. Argh!
Heads up, your link is broken; it got truncated.
Do you know who made the original comparison? It seems like the context of the statement is the only way to groc the semantics.
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It doesn't really invalidate his statement though. The USD is not backed by anything (whether it was in the past or not is irrelevant), and aside from the fact that it's commonly accepted, has no more intrinsic value than Bitcoin.
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I tried to run the site through the GeoCitizer http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/ but it didn't turn out too well. Love the theme though, it just needs more animated gifs and it'd be perfect!
One step ahead of me - I'm also looking at what can be done with the purchase summary once logged in.

I've actually collected a few other data points for each game as well, but I haven't figured out the best way to visualize / categorize them yet.
#9 is missing, and the Peter Principle is not, strictly speaking, from Computing.
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I share your experience. I feel completely miserable on anything less than 6 hours, and I'm lucky to find myself getting anything done at all on those days.

If I sleep 9 to 10 hours, I do feel groggy/sleepy for several hours—it's not pleasant, but mellow grogginess/sleepiness is wonderful compared to the demoralizing mental and physical exhaustion I feel when I've not slept enough.
If you have an AppAnnie account you can see the grossing ranks. Looks like someone in India bought a copy. It's the #6 best-grossing iPhone/iPod app in India right now. It also peaked at #21 in Malaysia on the 29th. So it looks like 2 sales at that price.

http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/519800737/ranking/#view=gros...
I forgot it was April Fool's Day until I saw this.
I checked out the screenshots in detail. I like the concept of your app and the implementation looks at least pretty good. I would love to see more data density in situations where it's possible.

In my opinion, for the casual golf fan, you've set the price too high at $4.99. I would go ahead and buy it instantly just for fun at $1 but I won't go to $5 for something like this.

Have you considered a $1 or $2 price point? I think you'd make a lot more money that way.
10 points to the person who converts the grid system / divs to a GIANT table layout ;)
This is so well done! I just sent it to my team asking if anyone minds if I switch our apps to use this theme instead of our custom theme.
As a huge board-gamer, I always love seeing the "making-of" of different games, and this one is no exception. I especially thought the prototype was pretty hilarious, but it definitely makes sense to have one when working with a physical product.

I'm not too surprised at how much the costs ended up turning out to be, but I am curious as to how long it took to assemble everything together, from prototype to finish? I guess the main difference for a physical product is really the time it takes to get from prototype to sellable product, rather than just hacking something out in a weekend and getting it out there immediately.
I've been here at BB a long time and I can tell you that there has never been any rule dictating a 45 hour work week. Where did you hear that from?
Read about evergreening first if you dont understand it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
Put your face on an 18th century painting (2011)
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Er, wouldn't you give out your public key to receive bitcoins?
Why the No-Fly List Doesn't Fly
I didn't think it was so bad. I don't have time to go into detail, but briefly:

If you read it as a critique of tech culture generally (and not Tim personally) it's interesting. The critique about polluting language is the crux of it. This is a critique worth diving into more. But the author didn't do a good job of it.

It reads like the author got a whiff of some Philosophy, and then rather than expand the ideas and connect them to the larger culture, he just found a convenient figurehead and wrote some link-bait. He could have easily targeted Richard Dawkins (inventer of the term meme) or any number of others.

The reason I think the article wasn't as bad as some is because I'm just so hungry for philosophical thought in the tech world. Maybe this will make some hackers think critically.

If you like philosophy and want to delve into the discussion about the value of language and it's intersection with software, there's a mailing list here you should check out: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/philosophy-in-a-time...
The point isn't that we should take up arms and champion our causes with bullets over every perceived slight. The point is that when all those other recourses fail us, the right to bear arms is the last defense against tyranny. As for joining a militia, I need not bother... I am the militia. All able-bodied men in the United States are (and arguably women too), as defined by US Code.

Still though, there have been cases where guns were brandished to prevent tyranny. The Battle of Athens, in 1946 (admittedly not this decade, but thank god for that too) was such a case where state officials were committing voter fraud against the populace, so that they could continue committing civil rights violations against them -- apparently their pay was tied to numbers of arrests, citations, etc., so they were literally just arresting and citing people without cause. They would pull over tour buses passing through the area and cite bus riders for drunkenness, however ridiculous.

The result was an armed march on the courthouse where the ballots were being cast, a brief 'war' where custody of the ballots was fought for, and recovered, a fair election was had, and political change was enacted.

Saying it isn't relevant any more is, I suspect, short sighted. Too many acts of tyranny have been committed after disarming the population for me to blindly concede that the right is no longer 'relevant'. While I agree that there are portions of the Constitution that may not be relevant in the United States right now, that doesn't discount the possibility that they would ever be necessary again. We have a hard enough time defending our rights for the first, fourth and other amendments that are arguably more relevant than ever, while the state wishes to further strip us of those rights.

It's easy to conclude that some rights are irrelevant because it is unlikely that any foreign attackers would dare take on the US on American soil. But that's only true for now. What if the dollar collapses? What if we default on debt? What if our military forces are pared back to a hundredth of what they are now? What if these things happen in the next 50 to 100 years? Countries rise and fall over time, and historically, rights that are once restricted are never restored.
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This article, and its presence on the front page of HN, helped make it abundantly clear to me that I should probably be working right now instead of wasting my time on Hacker News.
Having to use Windows 7 at work is getting to be more and more painful to me the more I use Windows 8 at home. There are many improvements that Windows 8 brings, but all anyone talks about is the incredibly minor point of the start screen, which you're hardly forced to use. I forget it's even there. The only times I'm forced back to Windows 7 is when I'm doing hardware hacking (many custom drivers don't exist for Windows 8, and installing unsigned drivers is a pain) or in the case where a certain older game won't run in Windows 8. 99.9% of my computing time at home is spent in Windows 8 desktop mode, the other 1% split between Metro and my Windows 7 desktop.

The problem is there's a very vocal minority of unfortunately influential people who rail against the start screen and convince others that it's a bigger problem than it really is.
In my humble, XP (Pro) is the best OS MS have made. I was quite happy to see how many still use it. I still wish I could revert to it.
Perhaps, I have fallen victim to psuedo-science, as I can't readily produce any papers or reputable articles on the subject, but I thought there was something to getting certain amounts of sleep. Where, if you wake up in the midst of certain portions of the REM cycle, you would actually feel more tired for a length of time.

My own experiences seem to fall in line, but it may just be a placebo effect.
Ask HN: Is this recent trend of rails security issues anything unexpected?
My justification is that all frameworks have bugs and security risks. Java is one of them. The question is: why the hysteria?

I am legitimately curious for why people have concerns recently vs similar issues for other frameworks?
There are plenty of variables that influence "productivity" (however that is defined) but I imagine that the amount of sleep required for maximum productivity varies from person to person.

In my personal experience I've known people who require 3 to 4 hrs/night, and others (myself included) who need between 8 and 9. During times when I'm feeling my absolute best, physically and mentally, I get about 2 hours of rigorous exercise, 8 to 10 hours of productive work, and roughly 8 hours of sleep a day with the rest of the time filled in by preparing and eating food, taking short breaks, hobbies, relaxing, etc.

Wild hypothesis: Most people would agree that the amount of sleep they require to "feel and do their best" (assuming ideal exercise, diet, etc.) falls within a normal distribution with mean 7 hours and standard deviation of +/- 3 hours.

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Ug. It was late last night, and I think I had mentally swapped out the 338 lapua for a 308 Winchester. Thanks for the correction. I dunno what was wrong with me.
I generally avoid services that operate under this model. I don't appreciate my experience being limited after some arbitrary amount of time. I vastly prefer freemium-based business models, where I know that I will have indefinite access to a limited subset of a product's features, versus becoming acquainted to the full version before being cut off in an attempt to coerce a purchase out of me.
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money laundering
ok.

Just struck me as an odd choice when posting for a seemingly suit and shirt place like Bloomberg.
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this seems like a brilliant online ordering system for heroin
I liked this article and would like to see more like it. With the maker movement, Kickstarter, 3D printing, etc there now seems to be a lot more interest in making physical products. But the isn't a lot of public information about the costs and processes involved, compared to say the number of tutorials on how to build web app or a mobile app.

I noticed that the actual cost of the 'product' is less than 40% of the total project costs. And labour isn't even factored in.

I was just involved in making a small injection molded part. I was surprised how easy and inexpensive it was. For all the hype 3D printing is getting, I think there could be lots more businesses in making injection molding more accessible.
No prob, from dev to dev. I like your software, the clear and minimal design and, sorry, why isn't a btc donate code on your project page?
For me this is really simple, i usually goto sleep at 11pm-12pm and wake up at 7-8am without an alarm or anything and i feel great, so i figure that 7-8hours is optimal for me.

I try to keep that routine during the week, because if i stay up too long only 1 night, it makes it more difficult for the rest of the week. I am more of a morning person anyway, rarely been very productive late at night.
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Throw the baby out with the bathwater? I speak from an Indian perspective. Almost everything the government touches leads to crippling corruption. Including the police force. I have colleagues from government-run research centers, and I've heard enough stories from them to never wish to deal with one.
Proposed Indonesian law threatens shamans, sorcerers with jail and fines
Thanks for the anecdote, and for comparing a 5-hr night of sleep to a 24-hour work shift.
Maybe he bought it from someone else or paid for multiple years.
Even with you pointing it out, I had to read the sentence twice to find it.
Right, and Apple debits your account for the purchase price (not the net 70% amount) when a user demands a refund. So a lot of this and you can actually run negative.
I don't think you can call any artificial technological limitation "digital rights management."

"DRM" has generally referred to limitations that prevent you from transferring media from one device to another, preventing both illegal and legal uses of that media. The obvious alternative is to let people transfer the media freely. People hate DRM because it's an annoyance that doesn't prevent people from pirating things, but interferes with legitimate uses.

In this case, however, there's no media involved. Furthermore, it seems pretty obvious that allowing anyone to modify the battery controller software willy-nilly would be a bad idea, unless you like watching cars explode. The complaint seems to be mostly that Tesla is disabling functionality the car has, but in software. However, the only obvious alternatives are to charge everyone more to be able to manufacture and stock a greater number of models, or to eliminate the 40-Wh battery option entirely. Out of these three options, it seems obvious that the one that Tesla chose is the best for the consumer.
... with built-in money laundering.
Kinsella tries to explain why: https://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf
A person who bought ~1600 USD worth of bitcoin last year instead of an OZT of gold would be quite pleased with the performance of bitcoin in category #1.
The myth of pervasive Internet & why “offline mode” is the best free marketing…
Awesome summary. Thanks.
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You had me at "bespoke"
The author states earlier in the article that we don't really understand sleep and that there is no one solution for everyone. He then proceeds to make a list of "top three" concrete and (IMO) questionable suggestions that he thinks we should follow. Not a great article.
Have you considered using your own buttons at the bottom of your page?
What is it supposed to do? I try to type a sentence but it is immediately garbled by random words. If there were two boxes, one for input and output, things wouldn't get mixed up, or perhaps a "Shakespearize" button. Right now the edit box is not really usable because the script interferes with normal editing.

EDIT: Another note, while the references to Shannon & Markov chain are correct, in NLP this would more commonly be referred to as a character n-gram model.
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It's also the first result in DDG, fwiw.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kiln
I don't agree, it's just one day in a year and as long as they don't take it overboard I find it a great laugh.
Besides if you're that annoyed by the email just send it to trash, it only takes a second.
Come to think of it, Steve would have been nothing without LSD either :-)