skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife's a Realtor, so I have some insight into this. One aspect you're missing is the value of reputation, referrals, and repeat business. Going the extra mile for her clients to get them the best deal possible (which, sometimes, happens to be the offer-in-hand) has long-term consequences for getting future business. That's worth a lot more than the extra $300.

Also, "selling additional houses" isn't as easy as it sounds. There's a lot of unpaid effort involved in acquiring clients and getting to an offer, before any of the negotiation starts. Time spent negotiating and baby-sitting an existing offer at least has a high likely-hood of being paid time.
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My life partner is not a famous painter (yet :-)). I guess the painting was worth pretty much the same as the canvas it was painted on since you could paint the canvas over (apart from sentimental value of course, which wasn't that high too since she gave the painting away as a present).

Our friends house is not light frame construction, hence no studs (I guess it was build of something along the lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete ). Also the painting is frameless so pretty light so it should be sufficiently supported by a single nail (although at our home my partner prefers to hang them on wall plugs. She's overcautious with a lot of things).

I assure you that our friend was deservedly laughed at by us (and only by us, we are nice people) and we respect him all the same.
If you're looking for a good metric for BTC transaction volume, I would suggest Bitcoin days destroyed:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed

Here's a chart of BDD per week (log scale is best in this case):

http://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed?showDat...

Here's an attempt to track transaction volume, minus change transactions (the Bitcoin client almost always performs a transaction to issue change back to the sender whenever he/she sends money to someone):
http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u...

Both of these metrics point to a slow but steady growth in the number of Bitcoin transactions conducted -- this in spite of a huge increase in their exchange value against the USD and other fiat currencies. So people are spending their Bitcoins. And this trend will likely continue as more companies accept Bitcoins.
Large swaths of the corn crop were wiped out last year, yet the article says that the deaths last year rose dramatically over the previous years. Wouldn't you expect a slight reduction in deaths, if anything, given the events that transpired?
"Pretty much seems to have hit the speculation threshold."

Based on what? Are you seeing something that suggests it's capped out for now? I'm asking because I'm at a complete loss to explain BTCs charts; all seems like gambling to me at the moment. That said, I haven't seen any numbers that really suggest the gambling is over.
And the rebuttal:

http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=38402.0;wap2
The POPOS.

http://www.spur.org/files/u7/POPOSGuide.pdf
> I can't comment about the quality of the .net code since I don't have any experience with it.

I'm by no means a .NET guru, but reading his code a couple non-optimal points jumped out at me:

- after parsing the file into an Array, he needlessly converts it into a List (while calling his variable 'array'). How bad this is is hard to say -- if the .NET compiler is sufficiently smart enough, it could optimize this to just a wrap operation, since the default List implementation uses an Array internally. That seems unlikely to me though. You'd have to check the generated code and benchmark.

- by sorting with the default string comparator, he's doing a culturally-aware unicode sort. I.e., the values are being sorted to "alphabetical" order, for however Unicode defines "alphabetical" for his current culture setting. A lot of people seem to feel it's obviously faster to compare the strings than the parsed floats. I don't think that's at all obvious.
This is why I have a problem with the term "career development" in general. My career will never revolve around any one company. It sounds more like it's employee development for the benefit of the company not the employee's career.
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Are you suggesting people like big houses with large lawns in quiet suburban neighborhoods with great schools because they are racist?
No frigging way. Goodreads is a solid community, but its not a $B marginal value to Amazon.
I also was a carpenter for half of my 20's. We should start a support group. I think the building mindset has contributed greatly to my mentality for software.

Interesting thing mentioned in the article: Men are pressured to know this stuff, and women are pressured to know how to "cook and be domestic." I should add that I'm guilty of it myself. A work colleague got a flat tire, and he and his girlfriend were stranded until help came because he didn't know how to change it. I gave him flack for it before I realized I was being unfair to him. His girlfriend was much worse to him than I was FYI.

Well, the fact is that the pressure isn't equal anymore. Women, especially younger women, are pretty damned comfortable admitting they are terrible cooks. Annoyingly, I'm a much better cook than any woman I've ever dated, which I must admit is a sign of social progress. Their mothers didn't want them to feel like it was their duty to cook, so they were never taught. But rejecting a useful skill outright has its disadvantages.

My twin brother has very little building experience, but lucky for him at least has the aptitude for it.
His wife, a professional who is quite possibly the worst cook alive, has hounded him, in front of me, for not being a "real man" because he can't fix something himself in the house, and now they have to pay somebody else to do it. Over time, he's gotten confident enough to take on stuff himself, but I also advised him that everytime she pulls that shit to think of a very complicated recipe and ask her to cook it for him. When she replies that she can't cook it, give her the "you're not a real woman" treatment so she can see how unfair she is being.
Well, if they paid a "significant" amount, they will have to disclose it in their next quarterly SEC filing. I'd be shocked if Amazon even paid $100M for it.
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One of the things about emacs is its on almost every machine you can find accessible by terminal.
Except when its not, which is why I know enough vi commands to do really simple things. (vi seems to be on every *nix machine without fail).

I'll fully admit that the configuration and lisp scripts are
confusing in emacs. Its almost too configurable. But they are amazingly powerful. Plus emacs has the indispensable (M-x tetris)...

I've looked at Sublime, its a beautiful editor though. It seems to have some good tricks up its sleave as well
Well, it'll also help to shape early internal opinion about the deficiencies and accomplishments of their product and any particular fixes which need to be done to maximize the success of the later public launch.

Hardware MVPs are hard, but this certainly feels like a step in the right direction of faster hardware iteration.
OK, let's play a game. Say you had $5mm. How would you manipulate the Bitcoin market and earn a guaranteed return?
I know where the statements are literally coming from, but not why they're saying it :)
The average recruiter is a recent grad with little to no experience and often don't receive much training. Most are giving a list of people are are told to start calling until they find someone who is interested. It's sink or swim and the turnover rate for new recruiters is incredibly high.

Why do staffing agencies take this approach? Most understand to some extent its a numbers game. If you call 100 people, 10 are interested, 5 will be qualified, 3 will be interviewed, and one hired. In many cases its cheaper to hire an army of new recruiters who work mostly on commission than it is to hire experienced recruiters who know what they are doing (and understand that they could just start their own staffing agency). This is not a defense of these practices, just an explanation.

There are however lots of great recruiters out there who do "get it" and can help you make the right career portal. Personal referrals from friends who have had good experiences are usually the best way to find those good recruiters.
For some applications Ogg did take over. Music in videogames is often Ogg-encoded due to potential legal problems with including mp3 support.

For end users I'm actually not sure either MP3 or Ogg are dominant anymore. I would guess the iTunes Store's choice of AAC has pushed that format significantly.
I hope these people are carefully considering the many sources of input lag[1], especially display lag, before giving the controller a bad rap.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_lag
There are a bunch of such widgets. mtgox has widgets, bitpay has widgets.. i am sure others do as well. (for the bitcoin side not the paypal side, which there are also countless widgets for)
That's what was traded on the exchanges.

What I think you're looking for is known as Estimated Transaction Volume - https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume
I think this is from Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. After the initial publication of the book (and probably before it, since this is just a typical principal-agent case) this point has been raised and discussed numerous times, though. National Bureau of Economical Research has a paper on this topic [0]. From the abstract: "It is not obvious that sellers benefit from those services".

[0] http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13796
What are some of the problems you have with the interface? I've certainly got some issues with it, but they're mostly at at the small niggle level, rather than completely off-putting level.
Thanks. My understanding is that the amount of space junk produced per satellite launched is purposefully much lower now than in the past.
I have found that a combination of Scribus, GraphViz, and OmniGraffle are my favourite tools for making conference posters. Scribus has a few quirks, but once you learn them it's pretty easy to be very productive.
It says:

We're sorry, but this video is not available in
your region due to right restrictions.

Right underneath that it says:

Did you know? Viewers like you are
our largest single source of support.

Good one - thanks.
I get that - and my thought is that the whole concept of owning a big house is ex post facto rationalization, not a root issue. If cities were safer, transportation better, and family infrastructure competent, we'd see a dramatic move back into cities - a smaller space be damned.

And we do see this in some places, where buying a medium-sized flat in a nice neighborhood close to good schools is as desirable as a big house with a big lawn in a nice area.

If you look at suburban developments all around the country, you'll also notice an explosion of smaller houses and townhouses - places that are in many cases no larger than apartments in the city, just in upright standing form. Space is a detail to most of the population, not a core factor.
I agree. I would at MKNetworkKit too! I just want more more more! :)
Wow! Thanks for the info..here the dragon flies have a span of maximum say, something under 10 cm...so, was surprised to see something at 63 cm..
This article misses several key points that help explain why a "geek" might make less than his/her peers:

1. Failure to research the industry. This is the main reason people are underpaid. Sure, talking to friends is great but go broader than that. Glassdoor.com provides anonymized salary information on a per-company basis. Job sites like indeed.com contain salary ranges. LinkedIn can also be consulted. Finally, the stalwart salary.com provides a bell cure of salary for a specific title.

2. No B.A.T.N.A.[a] Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement. Leverage. Fall back position. Multiple irons in the fire. Call it what you will. Having a good "plan B" gives you the upper hand. Even if the recruiter is negotiating for you, you need to negotiate with the recruiter.

a. http://www.pon.harvard.edu/freemium/batna-basics-boost-your-...
The author claims that doom3 is beautiful because it has minimal comments.

Doom3 is heavily commented as evidenced by both Fabian Sangard's review (linked to in the article) and by examining the code itself(also linked).

I know it's the internet, but the very least people can do is read whatever it is they cite before offering factual statements on it.
Source on the real estate agents is Freakonomics (which in turn no doubt has a reference to the 'real' source).
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Not exactly where I live, but there's a mountain nearby and I recently happened to go trekking, there were some giant squirrels - At the size of an average puppy dog, or an over-grown cat...
Remember: "What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich." - Paul Krugman

EDIT: To be clear - this quote is not intended (by me) to be a knock on BTC. It's just an elegant statement of my own opinion that the value of 1 BTC is not all that indicative of its value to the economy.
The first comment on this article says it all:
"This valuation is preposterous, because the methodology is preposterous. There is zero evidence that either the markets or investors use some arbitrary "multiply users by a dollar amount" calculation to determine a valuation for these companies. Using such a formula to arrive at an absurd number is especially egregious here because people will now use the authority of this publication to say "Businessweek reports that Goodreads sold for a billion dollars", though that's almost certainly not the case."
Honestly, in this day and age and with some of the powers the government has been getting in projects like Stellar Wind, a bit of information impermanence for personal data might not be such a bad thing.
Even when it's not available, if vi is available chances are you can ask the administrator nicely to install emacs through a package manager.

I just wish it were easier to use it on my local machine in a terminal but still maintain a GUI version as well.
I've heard online gambling is a huge industry - 30% daily swings is great for some people.
That's an interesting take. I think Americans are probably biased against directly giving money because of experiences with homeless beggars here. Often the money does go directly toward alcohol and cigarettes or is otherwise spent foolishly. But in the US I'd argue that people living on the street usually have some sort of disability or personality problem whereas in a poor country, all the normal people who could do well with extra cash are extremely poor.
I see BTC as a proof-of-concept experiment right now more than anything else. And I think it's still too early to tell what it's actually proving.
You're totally right. The world is not ready, just like it wasn't ready for e-commerce in 1996. I mean, who's going to put their credit card online? Who wants to buy stuff without feeling it?

BitCoin may always be more volatile than other currencies. That doesn't actually matter much as long as it's liquid with other commodities and currencies. Its primary purpose is transfer, not store value. It will however stabilize the more broadly it is held and the more real commerce it is involved in.
> This was most apparent in the Ouya port of Canabalt. On iOS, Canabalt is a game of twitch reflexes. On the Ouya, I needed to react much earlier, knowing it would take an inordinate amount of time for me to get off the ground.

Have you guys not had the same experiences w/ Canabalt, or have you not heard any other reports of this?

I personally have a hard time noticing latency like some others report w/ games, unless it directly impacts gameplay (i.e. music games like Rock Band). I don't notice it on other games like FPSes, but many people are very sensitive to latency in games like this.
They actually don't prioritise the English version — they simply prioritise the version that the highest number of users have read/rated/reviewed. Sometimes this causes unexpected issues the other way round, such as with old English children's books by authors like Enid Blyton that these days are much more popular in Indonesia.
Exactly. Frankly, I would like to read about anti-forensic techniques.
When I read stuff like this I often think that people just don't understand what the Beatles did — and the Beatles were more than Lennon & McCartney, but two other band mates and an entire team behind them who were themselves talented. But to get into Beatles territory you have to have spent a few years at the top of your field, and then create a breakthrough product that redefines the field (in their case it was the concept album). So yes this case study of a redesign (really a facelift) looks good, but it hardly redefines the medium.
As noted elsewhere, lexographic sorting is how the .NET version is doing it.
For most people, fsck and filesystems that rely on fsck are a known quantity. They understand that a filesystem does what it can to keep itself consistent, but that sometimes outside assistance is necessary in the form of fsck. When you show them ZFS and say "Oh, it doesn't need a fsck program", they assume that you're bullshitting them to cover up for the fact that it doesn't have a fsck program yet.

As far as the Linux/Unix thing, I think you're reading way too far into it. Linux neither invented nor popularized filesystem consistency checking programs. Unix filesystems (such as UFS) often have consistency checking programs as well, though they might not be called "fsck". Windows has Scandisk. ZFS is the odd one out here, and it's not surprising for people to treat it as such. Give it time, and if ZFS's approach becomes more widespread, people will come around.

tl;dr: It's about trust, not ignorance.
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I give Ouya 5 million space points for the 'make' option. That's the most incredible part of this whole system. Develop on the box you play on... It's just revolutionary. If this thing can catch it might just revolutionize and destroy the gaming industry as we know it.
Are there are already Android applications using JGit?

By the way, the features I would be most looking for in an Android text editor are:

* Loading and saving from SFTP/SSH (automatic sync on save)
* Tabs or other convenient multiple views and file tree
* Dropbox/Google Drive support (Saving to drive as gdoc)
* Syntax highlighting including markdown formatting (maybe a preview mode for markdown with webview?)

Git could certainly be useful but it would depend on the implementation.
While building sample apps with Firebase, binding data changes to the DOM was always the part that seemed to be "missing". We think Angular and Firebase go really well together by filling that gap, and would love to hear your feedback on how we can make the combination even better!
Yes, emphatically agreed. I co-founded Fishworks, the group within Sun that shipped a ZFS-based appliance. The product was (and, I add with mixed emotion, still is) very commercially successful, and we shipped hundreds of thousands of spindles running ZFS in production, enterprise environments. And today I'm at Joyent, where we run ZFS in production on tens of thousands of spindles and support software customers running many tens of thousands more. Across all of that experience -- which has (naturally) included plenty of pain -- I have never needed or wanted anything resembling a traditional "fsck" for ZFS. Those that decry ZFS's lack of a fsck simply don't understand (1) the semantics of ZFS and specifically of pool import, (2) the ability to rollback transactions and/or (3) the presence of zdb (which we've taken pains to document in illumos[1], the repository of record for ZFS). So please, take it from someone with a decade of production experience with ZFS: it does not need fsck.

[1] http://illumos.org/man/1m/zdb
"In the end, they have to settle the debts."

This is the foundation or your argument and it is wrong.
At best, it's an assumption.

The best treatise on this subject, imo, is David Graeber's : Debt: The First 5000 years.[0]

Graeber is an anthropologist -- he's about to take the Chair as Professor of Anthropology at LSE -- so it is far from being a dry financial read.

It's a fascinating text that will, if not change, certainly make you rethink
any assumption you have about debt and money. In fact, in the early chapters he
disconnects debt from money entirely.

From page 2: "Surely one has to pay one's debts". It tackles your comment head on,
but not in the way you might expect.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
> GM crops (in general, not limited to roundup) allow a dramatic reduction in pesticide use

so the propaganda goes ... In fact, the opposite happens:

http://earthopensource.org/index.php/5-gm-crops-impacts-on-t...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-usa-study-pesti...

The way to reduce pesticide use is organic farming.
The whole beauty is that the people running the world don't have to be ready.

Of course banks are worried. If bitcoin grows just two more orders of magnitude (how many has it grown so far?) It will become a serious threat.
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I just bought a Mac Mini and attached some external drives. I run PS3 Media Server for Mac to stream content to my PS3 and app enabled TV.

It's not super slick or cool but I don't care. I spend at least 8 hours a day at a Linux or Solaris terminal. When I'm ready to relax, I want everything to just work.