skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't pushing the power user part to say 'Oh ho ho, I'm qualified to talk here'. I was simply adding it as a caveat that I'm not a 'normal' consumer of these kinds of things.

Given that you have installed it you then saw how much it differs from the traditional android idea of a 'launcher'. It genuinely is hiding it all away. You can see the pathway that Facebook wants to push the users, essentially fully hiding the idea of having on phone contacts and messaging. That's why it's not really a launcher so much as Facebook allowing you access to your phone (IMHO).
"Paid links is not blackhat SEO"

Of course it is. Blackhat SEO is SEO that violates search engine guidelines. Here's the link that documents that paid links that pass PageRank violate Google's guidelines: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Once you secure the system however, the costs of increasing currency into that system is trivial.
I was just about to post my experiences with this. I used to play an online game where everyone used MSN/Hotmail. When things got competitive, everyone just recovered each other's accounts and impersonated each other because it was so easy. You barely had to know anything about each other to do it. I wrote to the team a few times and was finally able to speak with the team during a reddit AMA years later and they claim to have made changes, but the comments from other redditors seemed to claim otherwise.

The end result is I just don't trust Microsoft to have secure accounts for anything. I'll stick to my Google account with two-factor authorization.
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Prove it. Also, using the word "mainstream" is equivocation, you'll just say anyone who doesn't agree with this position isn't "mainstream".

Further, in support of your claim that he's not being partisan, you name a partisan spectrum of "economists". Both democrats and republicans are partisans.
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All this Apple vs Google talk is tiresome.

People: complaining about Google doesn't mean praise for Apple, or vice versa.

Defending Google's recent follies by comparing them to Apple is like telling someone to leave America if they don't like the PATRIOT Act.
Honestly? Based on my own personal past experiences, I'm more likely to assume worse of somebody who dresses nicely, at least in a technical field. Consistently all the most intelligent techies I've worked with have dressed completely unprofessionally. Obviously assumptions will get you in trouble, but my instinct when seeing a well-dressed person in a high-tech business is that they're not the one who does the real work.
]This is a pretty interesting trail to follow; it feels pretty personal. KIT. Peace.
> BUT, if the project becomes mainstream as the dollar is today, the people of the earth will have a monetary system that doesnt allow taxation through inflation, with no banking monopolies, and globally available.

First: inflation isn't equivalent to taxation (it transfers wealth from net creditors to net debtors, not from everyone else to the government.) [It also, at moderate levels, promotes investment and, thereby, economic growth.]

Second: as consensus among those who control a sufficient portion of the network can evolve the bitcoin protocol, its not actually immune to having a privileged class impose monetary policy.

Third: Except by replacing some functions of "bankers" with those of "miners", I'm not sure how Bitcoin gets away from any "banking monopolies" that actually exist.

> Isnt that a system that "facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich"??

No, it would (assuming that the features which make inflation impossible were maintained) be a system which undermines the features that were introduced to encourage productive development (and, therefore, "make the economy as a whole rich") with deflationary features which have the opposite effect.
Unfortunately yes. I don't see how you enforce anti-descrimination laws if the relevant descrimination takes place entirely in the hiring manager's head.
I've had my fair share of assholes who want to monopolize the discussion in my life. But in a team setting, even the most know it all, egocentric douchebag amongst them would not ignore me or disallow me from contributing after multiple attempts and gestures indicating I had something to say. And I'm generally not that assertive. Nor has anyone every questioned my recountings of them as "did you really have input relevant or were you just misunderstanding the boys talking?".

I've never had an interviewee doubt my credentials or question the role I claimed. Especially not regularly.

Sure I too will ask around about settings or capabilities if I'm not geting the answer I want, but I sure wouldn't go grudgingly back to the team's expert after I asked some random guy in the next cube over, and say "oh random guy said to do it the way you suggested too, so let's do that."

Finally, that there is a pattern here is suggestive of something. Given the other posts rachel has written, I'm not so sure that any of this is her just coming across some way, she seems like a pretty competent engineer, which according to everyone in these discussions of sexism seems to be all you need to not experience these issues. It really does seem to me like the type of bullshit that women generally report encountering, so I suspect it isn't just that she is the only woman who never experienced sexism, and instead has a rare personality type which results in symptoms identical to sexism.
> The computing power expended on mining is used to secure the Bitcoin network.

Could you expand on this? I'm not sure I understand it. Thanks.
Central banks and central bankers don't work for free.
How much is spent on normal banking infrastructure, cash security vans, fraud protection etc.
In this case, presumably, Google.
Yes, yelling out "put down your crack pipes!" will reduce your perf score, and rightfully so.

You are a PROFESSIONAL. A professional does not lose her cool or insult others. When two people have entered into an increasingly intense discussion, they WON'T notice anyone else unless actively interrupted. Once you understand this, the solution to stopping the recursive loop is to force a non-maskable interrupt, like so:

"Uh, guys... Guys. Guys! Hey! Stop! Listen!"
You raise your voice just enough to ensure that they hear you, with no irritation present in your voice. Once they're interrupted, you tell them the news. Insulting them with the quip about crack pipes is absolutely the wrong thing to do, and your boss is right in chastising you.
+1 for pandora. +2 for waffles.fm and what.cd ;)
love those vim history interfaces, but can't see myself using any until they quit pathogen.

i'd love much less features and more portability. i.e. just paste a few functions on my vimrc.
It will fail as all other attempts at algorithmic music discovery have failed. Curation (via blogs, &c.) is still by far a better experience.
One way to read the "this happens to me too!" comments is that they're not belittling her experience, but validating it. All of us have been disrespected. We all hate it. That's a very shallow understanding of her point.

If something is annoying when it happens, it's also extra annoying when it happens just a bit more often because the people around might be just a little bit sexist. Once this community can realize that, without it feeling like an existential threat, we'll all be better off.
>A non-partnership relationship is all relationships with Twitter that are between Twitter and a smaller organization.

Twitter is valued somewhere in the ballpark of $5BB, so every single streaming music provider (as opposed to the download/purchase platforms of Amazon/Apple/Google) is small fish compared to Twitter.
See also: http://acerminaro.blogspot.com/2007/05/ritual-cat-and-other-...
A Prof. and his fake confernce that is running over a decade
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It is very easy to say "just move" and much harder to do. Money can move freely across borders but people can't.
I think even the non-dickheads are in competition. They just do it in non-dickhead ways, like actually being really good at what they do.

Perhaps it is a mainly American thing. I've never worked in Europe, but the Europeans I've worked with are definitely mellower.

Also, from my experience, the noisier you are, the more insecure. Like I said, non-dickheads have better ways to command respect.
New 5 minutes ago:

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I've gotten that question, but I've never gotten it until I ask if the interviewee has questions. And it's never been in the form of questioning my credentials.
Maybe, but "yet another" implied other instances too.
There is a group of highly dissatisfied users (like me) who have found that current solutions are really inadequate. You'll have to trust me on this.

Using suggestion models based on curated reputable crowdsourcing as opposed to simply volume of popularity is a way around this.

Here's a contrived example; say I'm looking for something that goes well with say, Lonnie Smiths' 1980 "In the Park" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPSf-VoDZk) and say, Jon Lucien's Listen Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bm7c0z_0ws) and let's toss Fela Anikulapo Kutis' Witchcraft in there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31cGWpe8_L0).

There is no software in the world that can curate music like that based on predictive modeling that I've seen.

I've been trying to make one for years that can span decades, nations, and genres like that.

I've found that if I aggregate a selective circle of people than I can get there. But that's the only way I've found so far.

Ok, USE CASE 2.

What's Justin Bieber or Keith Richards currently listening to? What about a talent scout at BMI? What if you could follow and tap into those people's personal playlists like twitter allows you to tap into what's on their plates for dinner and other personal things?

And I mean right now. Shania Twain hits play and it sends that to the server. Thousands of users world-wide tapping into her personal radio station immediately get a non-time-shifted instant feedback.

I think it would be compelling and addictive.

It's the classic celeb allure that's been twitter's mainstream pot of gold.
with no irritation present in your voice

If people are being irritating, showing some irritation should be expected, no?
A bitcoin faq would give you more details, but the short answer is that bitcoin is built on cryptography. Every transaction in the system is stored in a chain of blocks. These blocks are created whenever someone discovers the answer to a very hard mathematical problem. When they do this, the new block is created, and that block contains all the transactions that were done since the last block was created. To make the next block, you have to have the previous block, so the entire chain of blocks can be authenticated, thus the entire history of transactions can be authenticated.

As a reward for securing the system in this way, that is, providing a secure distributed transaction history, the miners are rewarded with some bitcoins whenever they discover a new answer and create a new block.

Thus they are providing the security of the system and as a reward are given bitcoins. To keep the rate of new blocks contstant, the difficulty of the mathematical problem is adjusted up and down. Over time, the number of bitcoins you get for finding a new solution will diminish to zero.

To keep miners finding new answers, even after the reward in BTC hits zero (in the year 2140) the system has transaction fees. These are an incentive to keep finding blocks, and the person who finds the next block gets the fees for the transactions that go into that block.

Since blocks are discovered once every 10 minutes, you'd get 10 minutes worth of fees for the whole system-- which could be quite a bit in the future.
Wow, thanks for pointing that site out. I was actually hoping to see an improvement in Bing, but I picked Google 4 out of 5 times (doing more than just programming related searches, too)
My dream wish is if someone could make a Pandora-like app ( both of in terms of functionality and quality) built on top of Spotify. I know spotify offers some API but don't know if this would be possible.

IIRC Pandora has a catalog size of about 1 million vs ~20 million for Spotify and yet they have been able to do a superb job in song recommendations. I find Spotify radio to be pretty terrible at this.
"It is being used as a currency"

Do you have a source for this? As far as I know, and I know this is a theory but I suspect a good theory, people used bitcoin as a currency when it was relatively stable and before it skyrocketed in value, and became extremely volatile. I highly doubt they're using it as a currency now because the value of a bitcoin changes dramatically within a day. Say it stabilizes at this price (~$95), you won't be able to transact with everyday goods because the price of 1 bitcoin is close to $100. Who would buy a hamburger for 1 bitcoin right now?
For a tolerant, civil, agreeable collection of intelligent human beings who are interested in perusing anti-global warming literature while taking your throbbing martyr complex into nuanced account at every step of the way, please navigate to about:blank. It loads a hell of a lot faster than HN.
Maybe, just maybe, it's not Adam Smith who hates bitcoin like this misleading title suggest, but Krugman.

The guy may have a nobel prize, but his strong leftist views seems to be clouding his judgement.

Never before in history was there anthing like bitcoin. It's not a commodity like gold - is is pure fiat money, fully based on trust. Hoarding gold or silver or any metal or rare thing was a bad idea because of the alternative uses which where then prevented.

There is nothing inherent to bitcoin that may hamper a "country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock".

In fact, by reducing friction, making transaction costs almost negligible, it will help this very thing!

How could Adam Smith may have hated something that did not exist back then, and that many economists had previously advocated for - a single worldwide fiat currency.

The only real problem is for governments, who won't be able to use the seignorage tax anymore, ie inflation, ie printing money out of thin air at the detriment of currency owners, to coerce people to do things or lose money.

Bitcoin is a game changer, the end of a tyranny - the use of force to make people work, instead of being able to live with what they have without the fear that the government will decide to reduce the purchasing power of what one owns by 20% overnight, through inflation or plain just stealing (as in Cyprus) to "transfer that wealth", reverse Robin Hood style, to their well connected and too big to fall fat-cat friends.

Also, it's quite fun that a system based on trust, of the people, by the people, is not trusting the government. It's something the founding fathers would certainly be quite proud of :-)

EDIT: And to those who argue the amount of computing power and electricity to run the bitcoin network is insane, just think for a second about Moore law, or how much GDP goes to the finance sectors. IIRC it is around 10%. That sure is a whole lot of money for the simple job of allocating resources (currency, saving, investment, transaction, etc).

It seems ripe for disruption.

A bitcoin economy will be able to do the same job for a fraction of these cost, thus allowing capital to be best spent on other uses (say actually advancing technology, or building real stuff) ie human capital and physical capital, which according to mainstream economic growth theory (from Solow to Romer) is essential for economic growth - real economic growth.

If you have some data and some time to spend, draw a graph of the log of gdp per capital and the percentage of the gdp spend on the finance sector. You'll see a strange recent trend - less growth, and more gdp for the finance sector. I'm not arguing a causation, but that's some food for throughts.

Just like Gandhi say - first they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win. We are currently at step #2. I expect the heat against bitcoin to raise in the next weeks. It's a big threat for the current establishment cash cow. It's a blessing to anyone who can provide value.
I think a lot of the negative reaction has to do with the sense that the employer did it for the wrong reasons and was excusing himself and the insult to his own business community and developer community. Specifically, he says he couldn't justify paying more than his own wage to his employees. Bulls-t. He brags that there was no shortage of talent. Bullsh-t. He could have changed the game, by offering more than a wage, to give just one example, but he chose simply to pay as little as possible and to strictly minimize his short-term expenses and income at the expense of a robust economy. Many business owners happily draw a minimal wage as their business grows, knowing they want long term value in ownership. He is operating his business like a casino.

I would actually place the local staffing at an order of magnitude more valuable to the local economy than the direct positive cash flow into the business coffers, but I'll admit it's subjective. To me, it's the difference between a ghost-town and a self-supporting economy that can thrive because it can stand short-term unemployment.

Sometimes that's the only choice (steal the loaf of bread or starve), but when everyone does it, the effect is not sustainable and he attempts to justify it for hollow reasons.

Furthermore, developers in Argentina are worth as much as their Canadian counterparts, but for whatever reason, they undervalue themselves to the tune of 1/5 and the employer's eagerness to jump on that reeks of exploitation as much as stinginess, adding insult to injury.

I don't know enough to claim he's breaking the law, but (spoken in reference to the recent RBC stuff): "'The rules are very clear. You cannot displace Canadians to hire people from abroad,' said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney." ( http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/04/05/bc-rbc-fore... )
> I suppose he actually compared the costs of mining with the costs of minting paper money?

First: Coins are minted, paper money is printed.
Second, and more significantly: Most US dollars in the money supply are neither paper money nor coins, so the cost to mint or print money is pretty much irrelevant to the cost to create dollars.
Uh, Krugman's whole point is that the capped supply is inherently deflationary so the incentive is to hang on to bitcoins, ie, not the best attribute of a currency.
Each release of Call of Duty sees the same sort of bizarre behaviour -- people who are not the target market seem simply offended that the product exist, going far out of their way to desperately try to sabotage the product.

I have zero interest in Facebook Home. But I can recognize that it is interesting and useful to some.
We haven't even seen the service yet. I think there will be a lot more human curation than algorithmic discovery.
I agree with you, having a thicker skin is not sufficient, but to me it's not either/or, it's both/and. We need better communities and people with thicker skins. Sometimes things can become so evil and caustic, no skin in the world is thick enough to endure it. That's when it's necessary to leave.

HN is probably too large of a community to improve the vitriol that sometimes flows here. I like what http://lobste.rs is trying to do, where you need a recommend to submit and post.

Don't let the haters win! Let's keep trying.
Argentine? I think you did not get the point. I meant he most likely does not respect quality talented programmers in Canada and think paying 75K for his 1st engineer is overpriced, he is viewing the problem from only one lens: money.
It's far better not to add emotion to an already emotional situation. Be the defuser, not the catalyst.
What is what.cd?
So you've gone and pointed out that the dollar is worth about 2% of what it used to be.

Sure. A currency's real value is always moving relative to the underlying goods and services produced and exchanged in the economy - if it's not inflating, it's deflating, and it's never really standing still.

The key is a low volatility in that interest rate itself. The dollar's historical average inflation rate, since such records were kept, has been 3.35%-ish, and that rate has gotten much less volatile over time (e.g. 1920 saw monthly rates as high as +23% and 1921 saw rates as low as -15.8%). But since about 1980, it's been pretty level all around.

Bitcoin's value has experienced more volatility during the course of one day as the US dollar had in a whole year DURING THE GREAT CRASH OF 1929 AND LAUNCH OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

Maybe some day Bitcoin will come to be the same bastion of stability that the US dollar has been and more. That day is not today.

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Postscript.
If Bitcoin is a currency, its rise in value is deflationary. Deflation can be kind of bad sometimes. If you think back to your high school history courses when they were talking about the days that "bimetallism" was a thing during the Panic of 1893, it was because ordinary peoples' gold-backed-dollar-denominated debts and mortgages were becoming more expensive to pay off. "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"

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TLDR: Price stability or STFU
Miners choose transactions which obey the network rules. They then "vote" on which transactions to commit by exerting computational power. To subvert this collective decision making process would require a computation power at least equal to the bitcoin network (bigger than any supercomputer). Therefore any such attack would be absurdly expensive, and we can consider confirmed bitcoin transactions to be secure.
Another new file: HOMEWORK

PDF version here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/135658986/-why-Homework

(I've rotated the PDF 180 degrees; the original PCL is upside down)
I took that to mean "username or repo".
This book's meer existence has made my team's code better. Thank you.
So inflation isn't a tax on people who save their money? Or, by artificially preventing deflation through a central bank we aren't subsidizing the cost of borrowing through this tax?
That whole thing where your opinion is overlooked for a second (usually white male) opinion happens to you if you're not white or Asian or ridiculously gifted in programming too.

The first few time it happened, I thought it was just kind of odd and my fault in someway, but after 10 years in the industry, I can tell you categorically that its not a fluke.
Reminds me of this quote ...

"White men have to prove their incompetence.
Everyone else has to prove their competence"

--- Mike Perham

That is not to say that everyone in tech is racist and/or sexist, I think its more of an unconscious bias, much the same way someone (even women) might walk into a car parts store and walk right past the female attendant to a male one to ask a question about car parts or how a white kid on a basketball court might be picked last because there are black kids on the court.

I think it is pretty insidious and eventually I think we will figure out a way to help our industry get rid of these unconscious biases
How much does that program represent an economic rent dragging down the rest of the economy?
It also doesn't help Canada since people who live and support the economy by paying taxes in Canada (income, sales, property etc) don't get a paycheck.
Makes me want to read the Tesla autobiography. Is there something specific you can do to improve your own mental creativity and ability to model things visually? I have always felt some type of barrier when thinking of ideas and I usually resort to paper to draw out wireframes.

Also might help if you can dig up some research on this, to back up your thesis that its done by simply visualizing older memories in vivid detail. How long do you do it? How many times per day? Do you do it every day? All things I'm uncertain of if I'm going to participate in the experiment (which I plan on doing).