skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think they constantly make more gadgets - always at the same price point? And they work really hard to make sure you want the new one.

In some future world where no one wants the new gadget the price of the old one will stop falling!
Awesome, GitHub can make their own URL shortening service and replace all links in every README/Issue/Pull Request with short urls!
I think Bitcoins role as a store of value that can be used for payments makes for a pretty good tool. Like gold, except able to have ownership transferred, even in small micropayment-sized portions, without a cost incurred.
Of course a coupon is a currency. What do you thing a currency is? It's a store of value.
Yep, after the feature freeze between 3.1 and 3.2, 3.3 was a significant jump forward.
well... let's just say my 1985 PLT (programming languages and translators) class project didn't run after numerous all-nighters, and I got the grade that made the top 75% of the curve possible LOL. It's possible that another couple of weeks of all-nighters would have yielded something useful, or if I went back now I would get it...in a sense, any program with a few command line options defines a 'language'...still, pretty close to 0 in terms of a product that could be put in production or that someone would willingly pay for. Appreciate your comment though, nobody should consider themselves a zero at anything...with a just-do-it attitude you will always eventually create something useful...what one man can do another can do.
Interesting argument for the Paleo-diet (warning: partially tollboothed)
Controlling an LED with a Raspberry Pi and Android
We started a company called ChubbyBrain (CB is our tribute to that). 0% of our data is from crunch.

In terms of where it comes from:
80% of our data comes via software we've built to parse news, SEC, investor, corporate websites (we crawl about 12k of them daily).

About 20% of our data comes directly from investors. The biggest contingent is angel data which we get via a partnership we have with Silicon Valley Bank and the Angel Capital Association.
I think most people these days take scalability to mean the ability to handle more load by adding hardware without changing the architecture. That's quite different from how much load the same hardware can handle (performance).
GitHub has been having DNS issues today. Maybe they screwed something up when enabling github.io?
I'm not sure that I understand this statement, could you elaborate?

I would expect that the people who need to trust a TLD (consumers, I would presume) are not the same people who even know what GitHub is (developers, mostly, I would presume.)
> No, they always assume the value of a coin remains constant when discussing subdivision.

If you assume the value of the coin doesn't remain constant that would cause FAR far worse problems, so there is no need to go there.
Oh? Then please share your definition, as I'm working off the basis that it's something like this[1]:

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwresting, and exaction) is a criminal offence of unlawfully obtaining money, property, or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion. Refraining from doing harm is sometimes euphemistically called protection.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
Michael Arrington's History of Abuse Allegations
This is a sad day.

I always believed (hoped) you guys would never be corrupted and do the right thing for the world and not be swayed by organizational affinities / commercial gains.

You have a greater responsibility than to your company or country to keep the web open.

Think on that before you have a further public 'kiddy debate' on she said / he said and throwing the rattle out of the pram.

Disappointed.
Paul Krugman is an expert in economics, not the Internet. And while bitcoins live on the Internet, the study of their exchange is economics.
This should be common knowledge, but then again there are folks who believe we're a color blind society, so I'll assume it's just a simple lack of awareness on your part.

If you google "psychiatric stigma" you'll get plenty of peer reviewed research on the topic dating back at least 50 years. Prior to that stigma was less of a concern because we simply locked these people up, outside of our collective view and societal awareness. Better than being burned at the stake I suppose (we also used to do that).

Here's a good place to start:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489832/
You know, working in Alberta and not being in the oil and gas industry is like being a fish out of water.

Companies that are outside the industry really do have a hard time matching compensation.

It's a funny situation in a way. The average person within the industry doesn't know how good they have it if they have worked their whole career in oil and gas.

Generally people that are outside the industry have a sense of how good it is but don't really know.

Why fight the machine? You should get on the oil and gas ride and do the "fun" stuff on the side.
Be Willing To Let Go; or, "The Big Rewrite"
Try replacing the fxp with FTP ;)
If everyone changed their prices, and their salary all at once you did nothing at all. You just changed a number - you didn't increase the money supply at all.

i.e. the total amount of purchasing power didn't change.
thank you everyone for pointing out the err in my tidbit that i added and corrected… care to add something to the discussion on the subject matter that was not included in parenthesis, or is this err something thats so egregious that it takes away from main topic?

its like people feeling the need to correct grammar on the internet: most of the time they have nothing else to add to the discusion…
Everyone has access to the MIT network. There is an open guest wifi network, with a captive portal asking you to provide a name/email to register. He put a fake name (Gary Host) and a throwaway mailinator address (and was charged with wire fraud for doing so).

JSTOR provides unlimited access to MIT and many other schools. Anyone on the MIT network had access to JSTOR. He was not on a JSTOR network.

When JSTOR saw that one user was requesting a lot of files, they assumed a bad motive, and banned the IP address. After he got a new IP address, JSTOR contacted MIT about it, and they banned the MAC address from their wifi network.
Agreed, and I would certainly like to see the Play tests (both Scala and Java) improve versus what we have measured so far. I would not rule out a configuration glitch in our deployment either. But on that front, I'm really hoping the Play experts can lend a hand. I think we've received a couple tips about the database connection pool size.

If the contributions we've seen so far are any indicator, we're going to need to get more clever with how to show and hide rows in our results tables! :) But I'd like to see a few more rows added to cover the various permutations of the ORM and JSON options, as you point out.
here's another one with a beautiful cover

http://www.npl.co.uk/turing/intelligent-machinery

some related materials:

http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warne...

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Searle.html

http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
Is this common? What other sorts of things are blocked? At a former workplace I didn't abuse Internet browsing rights until sites I used during breaks started getting blocked. From then on break times were spent either bypassing or working out how to bypass the blocking. Even work related sites were blocked. Cat and mouse with the IT department was good fun.
And there is also evidence that you can increase you fluid intelligence[1]
[1]http://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6791.full
They already have http://git.io
The price of an hour of babysitting on a random day in April is 1 unit.

The price of an hour of babysitting on New Years eve is 5 units.

On some nights the demand for babysitting is higher. On those nights the price is higher.

Does that make sense?
Except that now the reader has to understand what you mean with your xx:xx:xx:xx syntax. Having examples is good, but then you should provide a small graphic with boxes representing bytes in memory and associated numbers indicating memory addresses. And once you do that, you've actually just provided a visual illustration of exactly what the quote says: least significant byte at lowest memory address vs. highest memory address.
I had high hope, but no, it isn't.

It would only let you build your own asm.js-based VM on top of the existing JavaScript-like VM which could implement some bytecode format and interpret it.

I have seen something like that already. Let me tell you, you don't want to download 20 MB for some simple web-based Tetris-clone.

asm.js is useless for pretty much any modern language which relies on garbage collection.

I want less indirections, not more.
Mailing, you mean postal or email?
Not a downvoter (can't, probably won't when I can), but your tone is unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive, especially considering GP just wanted a rebuttal and made no claims of their own.
Photoshop, GIMP, or photo touchup kind of apps are for the mass. The GP's app is the first stage of such app. Photo effect update and photo editing involve processing all the pixels. 10M per pass is the norm. Make that interactive and updating in real time with multiple passes.

The next wave will be audio and video processing and editing. Applying effects like cleaning up the colors in every frame is very expensive.
i think its ironic that you're putting forth the case for unmanaged economies while glossing over the results.

i think most economists (including Krugman) would agree that managing an economy is hard, and that oftentimes, the people in charge don't get it right. but that doesn't mean the alternative is better.

in this specific case (bitcoin), the alternative to managing the money supply centrally is a fixed supply of money. in an environment where the economy (the gross output of the market) is growing, that leads to deflation. krugman points out that deflation slows down economic activity, possibly catastrophically. do you disagree?
How does that fix the problem of people hoarding coupons by not going out, decreasing the underlying economic activity that creates the need for the coupons in the first place?
Right, I was (stupidly, it was early!) just using "f" as a shorthand for a function type like x -> x.
Hm, I'm not sure a benchmark like these allows one to draw such conclusions.

The benchmarks, although good, are a best case scenario and of limited aspects of those frameworks. Real applications don't behave like this. What if on the average case such huge differences in performance becomes eclipsed by other factors?
Google Fiber coming to Austin?
Seems to me it's an argument for the status quo, so if you are say Warren Buffet it is a vary valid concern. If on the other hand you just graduated undergrad and had a huge debt and your wage was actually set in bitcoins this would be great for you because the cost of paying off your dept would be from your bitcoin point of view spiraling to zero, as would the cost of everything else. That sounds like a pretty awesome situation to be in.

Be wary of financial explanations, because in most cases when a business person or economist says its good, they either mean its good for keeping things stable, its good for the elite, or its good for the average person, all of which might not be you. For example, you might see someone on CNBC saying they need to make sure they don't have a disorderly default, but really if you are in a position to take advantage of that temporary disorderly market you could gain from that.
Yes. This article gives this other little nugget.

> If you have a $10 bill and I replace it with ten $1 bills, do you feel richer?

If I exchange a $10 bill for ten $1 bill, I don't feel any more wealthy. However, if my $10 buys ten times as much stuff, then I would feel 10 times more wealthy.
They're working on it; it's called ES6. But in terms of your claim that "It's no longer reasonable for people to deny that JavaScript doesn't lend itself well to optimizing run-time performance", I'm not sure what to say to that. JavaScript code is some of the fastest interpreted code around, and projects like asm.js take that even farther. It's a phenomenally beautiful and expressive language once you get around the fact that it has some minor warts.

I might have agreed with you 10 years ago, but I don't think there claim that JS simply doesn't lend itself to being performant is true at all -- all the evidence I see, both as a web JavaScript and Node.js developer, and following the recent relative news, has pointed me to quite the opposite: javascript is doing great right now.
Security vulnerability 3: Websites could sniff passwords of users with password-saving browser extensions. If the extension autofills the username and password (and some do out of the box), then a bit of javascript on a GitHub Pages site could have stolen those users' Github passwords.

Excellent move on GitHub's part here.
Has anyone got any idea about the contamination of water through pipes? Is it a real risk? I know it may be theoretically possible, but has this been documented? My attempt to search this are contaminated (sorry) by hits on stuff the pipes themselves contaminate water with.
I went to a mobile gaming summit once, and amusingly, companies were able to point out Facebook's moves away from this open season approach in their download number graphs. Facebook limits you to one picture per post? Big drop. Facebook hides game posts from people not playing the game? Big drop. Etc.. So I imagine if Facebook was forced to eventually start limiting game posts, Twitter will eventually have to follow, as you say.
> When my company's office was located on Hillview Avenue in 2010, literally around the corner from Hewlett-Packard, I heard gossip about how the tech giant had polluted the area back in the day. Once a quick search confirmed that there was some truth to the rumor, it made me a bit nervous about drinking water straight from the tap at the office, so I bought a Brita filter, and didn't think much of it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a Brita filter be completely useless for this kind of contamination?
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"...but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion, op cit.
they've been killing anything that acts remotely like a client. one of my apps was killed for letting users post scores directly. so they certainly do kill 3rd party supply of content if it looks anything like a client. it's sort of like Google Groups where I can get banned just by opening a lot of tabs at once to read later. their enforcement is pretty mindless and probably automated.
There was only one good, so the price cannot float
Just a guess, but might part of it be because in other countries it's easier to die from it? Particularly the Nordic countries you're probably referring to, you can't sleep outside for as long as you can in California.

While we do have sub-par healthcare for it, I personally think part of it is that people still don't "get" that mental illness is an illness. Even my wife, who recently started treatment for depression, finds herself "explaining" to her family "why" she was depressed, instead of really understanding that what makes it an illness is that it lacks an explanation. You aren't expected to have a reason for your flu. But for some reason in this country you are expected to have a reason for your depression (or insomnia, or psychosis, or whatever).
>>Those communities also had beachheads to move to: neighbors and family to support them while they moved.

It also helps that they are willing to take almost any job and work their asses off. It will keep you from being homeless.
Realistically, Bitcoiners can't even agree to fix unspendable UTXOs. I can't imagine that they would ever agree to devalue their own holdings.
> I have seen something like that already. Let me tell you, you don't want to download 20 MB for some simple web Tetris-clone.

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling...

> asm.js is useless for pretty much any modern language which relies on garbage collection.

That is being worked on with the Binary Data spec: http://asmjs.org/faq.html
Flask porting is WIP.

For current status see https://gist.github.com/untitaker/5321447 (Werkzeug is the most significant Flask dependency)
How feasible would it be to have webservers compile javascript and serve it to the browser already preprocessed (as far as possible)? The same URL could be used, but a different mime type acceptance signaled by the browser using the Accepts header. The webservers, instead of returning text/javascript would return application/javascript+moz22.

Then, most of this race towards hotspot optimization would be less important.
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels."

I wonder if critics (the ones who write a column every day or week) have paragraphs like this written out beforehand and look for a product to use it on? Sort of boilerplate?
Well translation software is getting better, and plenty of people in the first world with families work weird shifts.

The point is that this stuff (global working) is going to get easier , not harder in the future as is eliminating the needs for some jobs entirely.

What we need is a new industry that requires a lot of workers and can pay a middle class salary. Otherwise we risk having a global proletariat fighting over an increasingly shrinking slice of pie.
It would be very difficult to find, but John Siracusa has said the same thing when asked which of his Hypercritical episodes were his favorites. In short, he explained why he thinks some of his more emotional episodes were very popular, while actually good, well researched weren't, and that people like to like things that inspire discussion and feelings about things they already know and feel something about, not well researched new material. I may be recalling the whole idea bit incorrectly, but there was a similar angle to it as well.
Anyone can pick up coding at any age. Don't let anyone tell you different.

There are several elements of being a programmer that aren't necessarily well captured when people talk about learning to code.

Of course you need the syntax of your chosen programming language. But you need to learn how to think in some very specific ways. You have to break down problems into small steps, reuse previously written code, understand logic, understand how to look for a problem when your code breaks, etc.

An example is... Given a list of numbers, determine which is smallest. It's easiest to figure this question out once you understand variables, loops, and conditionals, and if you start with 1 number, then add a second, and a third, etc.

Good luck. Try to use free time, (commute perhaps) to think about programming if you can, in addition to the hour a day.
His argument seems to say that the LIQUID supply of bitcoins is shrinking because people are hoarding them. You can make the same argument for stocks or anything else that is traded for cash, but it's wrong. Everybody will have a price that they're willing to sell at - it's the fundamental idea underlying every exchange market.
I am curious: Has Krugman actually made any predictions about the potential uptake of Bitcoin?

From what I recall, his statements basically amount to saying that using Bitcoin as the basis for the economy is a bad idea because it would hurt macroeconomic developments.

Those are very different things, and obviously Krugman is much more likely to accurately predict the latter than the former.
I think it's a major flaw to this analysis that alot of those firms specialize in non-series A financing and only do occasional series A investments. Calling them zombie VCs is inaccurate and makes no sense. Examples: SV Angel, Charles Schwab, Warburg Pincus, Tiger Global, etc.

That, plus the fact that Crunchbase is incomplete to begin with, as others have pointed out.
"I will babysit for you 2 hours if you babysit 1 hour for me today".

For the coop this would work by paying extra 30 minute coupons. e.g: one hour of baby sitting on saturday might be paid with three 30 minute vouchers. Thus encouraging buyers to prioritize weekday outings.

No idea if this would solve the liquidity though.
2 hours later, still Lorem Ipsum. Hmm. I hope this doesn't reflect turnaround times if I were ever a client.
Activated charcoal is effective for 1,1,1-TCE water contamination.
From what I understand, this is the same reason Google uses googleusercontent.com
You should make your OWN social network... with blackjack... and hookers...
When I was playing an iPad game that was insisting on sharing everything, I had to set up a separate Twitter account for game spam. Still, an interesting phenomenon. I remember analyzing Xbox in-game tweets, saw interesting patterns.
> And don't think the National Forest Service will take kindly to squatters either.

Actually, for the most part, they really don't care. Particularly so if you do not build any permanent structures or have a permanent camp. They cite people from time to time, but that is the extent of it the vast majority of the time.
Never heard about Moves but it seems to record everything, send it to their server, analyze it there, then send you that notification. So, they know it's being used.
I see this more as a) an example of how well humans can learn to ignore misdirection (the word 'move' hints at src, dest arguments) and b) the first small step towards C:

- read "mov X,Y" as "X = Y"

- adjust syntax so that it allows "X = Y" (what you see is what you think)

- similarly, replace obscure syntax for indexed memory acces by such things as "X = Y[3]"

- getting annoyed with the seemingly random limitations of the language, add an expression parser that translates "X = 2 * Y + 3" into "X = 2 * Y" and "X = X + 3", each of which gets assembled into one instruction. For now, only allow expressions that get away with only using the result register for temporaries.

- use existing macro capabilities to build a library of control flow statements such as IF and WHILE.

- introduce standard way to call subroutines.

- introduce shorthand method for doing such calls: one for the call site that takes a couple of expressions as argument, and one for function entry that uses macros such as 'int' and 'char' to pop arguments from the call stack.

By that time, one almost has K&R C.
I meant the author of the original guide, who thinks that "using my ideas" is copyright infringement.
"Do single 2X dyno apps idle?
Yes. Idling affects single 1X and 2X dyno apps alike."

I genuinely do not understand this. I'm still paying for it. I run a node.js app for my school that gets decent traffic, but not enough to warrant adding another dyno (and moreover I only wrote it to work on one process). Yet I still deal with the idling problem.

I would gladly pay Heroku the money for a 2X dyno if it meant I would stop getting idled (which is extremely annoying and disruptive), or even just some express per-month fee to disable idling.

I feel like I'm being punished because my app is performant and doesn't need two or more dynos...

Am I crazy here, or does this really bug anyone else?
That's a shit-ton of TCE too. 85,000 micrograms per L is 85 milligrams per L. In comparison, there is about 100 milligrams of caffeine in a liter of coke and about 400 milligrams of caffeine in a liter of coffee. So we're talking about containment levels at about the same order of magnitude as beverages that intentionally contain an active specific ingredient.