skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that someone who buys Bitcoins needs to think about how identity is tied back to them, but so far it's not a convincing point that Joe is at a high degree of risk if he's cautious. Those points need to be debated specifically, and not from an abstract or high level. The cell phone example was the first I heard of that, and a really good example. But it's not going to break anonymity.

It sounds way too hand-wavy to me to say things like "Well, Bitcoins.. It's a con.. the government will find Joe, somehow.. Be afraid!"

So far, my point stands that you can remain completely anonymous while buying Bitcoins. The article started out with fear mongering, and so far, I'm unconvinced that it has any substance to it. To call it a "con" is sensationalism at best.
Optimizely is a ridiculously well done product, and it's great to hear they're succeeding. I just started a test today on an app using a huge amount of Backbone, and it's incredible how easy it was to set up.
In page for sure. Will invite way more spontaneous recordings. Maybe try to mix in the background beat so the recordings sound like songs?
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Medallions exist for a very good reason: they prevent a tragedy of the commons from creating gridlock and pollution in major cities by limiting the number of cars circling around doing nothing on city streets.

Most of the time, cabs just drive around waiting for a fare. This is because cabs are often hailed when they are seen, but even if a cab is summoned by a phone call (or smartphone) the closet cab to the fare is chosen, and it's hard to get close to fares without driving around, because parking the cab downtown is expensive and slow.

So, cabs use the city's public streets as mobile parking lots, hovering close to potential fares, snarling traffic, and emitting greenhouse gasses until they snag one. Increase the number of medallions, and you have a corresponding increase in the amount of traffic in a city as cabs wander around fishing. Cab drivers don't care if they're slowing everyone else down. They just want to earn a living.

So it's better to have fewer cabs busy 100% of the time than more cabs which aren't always busy. Thus, medallions are scarce.

Recently NYC decided not to issue more medallions, because the increased availability of cabs would be more then offset by increased time to get from point A to point B due to more traffic congestion.

This is a strong argument for regulating this new breed of unlicensed cab services. They must not be permitted to loiter around in traffic hoping to be the car closest to the next fare. They must either have a medallion or be parked when not actively on a call.
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Sometimes if mutiny isn't possible, the mutineer takes another tack. Henry Singleton was an engineering and financial wizard at Litton, but he was not in the running for CEO, so he left with a cadre of Litton's best people and started Teledyne. Over the years, Teledyne grew much faster than Litton, bought many companies, and took large positions in other companies' stock. At its peak ownership, Teledyne had about 30% of the common shares of Litton, leading to many sleepless nights for the Litton executives.
Not sure I would pay on a monthly basis for this. When the video is done I see little value in the service.
"So, medallion holders speculated"

Don't agree with that at all that is what the article says. (It doesn't match up with my definition either based on my years of business experience either.)

Definition of "speculation" from investopedia:

"The act of trading in an asset, or conducting a financial transaction, that has a significant risk of losing most or all of the initial outlay, in expectation of a substantial gain."

Based on history there is no reason to believe that the purchase of a taxi medallion could result reasonably in losing "most or all" of the initial outlay. (Unless of course you decided to buy one while ignoring the current events going on of course).

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/speculation.asp

Of course you can make any investment or purchase speculative depending on how much of a chance you want to take.

If you decide to get in on an up and coming area in real estate (a run down area that you hope will change over the course of many years) that could easily be seen as speculation. Otoh, buying a condo in a well established neighborhood that has a history would not be seen as speculation which is not the same as saying that you bought because you felt that the value could double and if that doesn't happen you may feel you have "lost" something (the high gain you expected).

Even in the case of eminent domain taking of property for public good the property owners are compensated somewhat fairly for the loss of value of their property. The government doesn't come along and say "hey we need this area for a road sorry guys to bad it happened to you".

I would go further to say that these medallion owners would band together and at least attempt to do whatever they could legally to find a way to prevent something like this from happening if they could. Why? There is enough money involved to pay lawyers to muck up the process or delay it (just like with eminent domain, people even if there is compensation, will do that.)
I definitely agree about readability - I occasionally struggle to read music when there's more than about 3 people to a stand, and I had trouble reading this notation on a tablet, fairly close to my face.
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Thers a world of difference in doing a small network of say 3 buildings and 3k ports ie what you bog standard CCNA can do. And building infrastructure including the local loop is quite different to a few custom DC's which is where Googles experience lies.

Theres the whole "oles and poles" aspect and providing power to the cabs and the plant to name but two diferences.

and in Google datacentres they don't care of a blade or a rack drops off but in this case thats x subs that have just lost service.
> Quality is in design and implementation. Tests are just for increasing engineering efficiency.

Yes, precisely. I couldn't have said it better myself. Your original comment came across as discounting the importance of tests a lot more than I think you meant it to.

But I was also trying to make a couple points about TDD.

The first is that watching the tests fail before writing the implementation increases your confidence that there isn't a bug in your test code. This was just to address your #2 bullet point. But this only treats tests as a verification tool, which is orthogonal to good design. Since we agree that tests are for efficiency and we're discussing design, it's not worth dwelling on this point.

The second point is that TDD is a useful design tool that can be used in conjunction with upfront design. Upfront design is great for having an overall coherent design, but there are many finer details that are inevitably discovered at implementation time. That's where I think TDD really shines.

If you think of building software as sculpting, upfront design is like chiseling out the shape of your statue and TDD is like switching to a more precise tool to etch in small details like hair texture or wrinkles. It's not a perfect metaphor. For example, if you start with a smaller chisel (TDD), you'll end up with the same statue just taking you longer to build. But if you do the same with software development, you'll end up with an arm coming out of the statue's thigh.
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It seems as disturbing to me as it apparently does to you, but it was recently in the news that the UK actually did a buyout when they abolished slavery. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britains-colo...
I would expect page turns will be going away. You can already use your iPad as a music stand, though it's kind of small.

If you're using a real device, page turns can be automated or eased. The device can listen to what you're playing (tempo shouldn't be too hard to pick out) and turn pages appropriately. Or, you could use a foot pedal or what have you - perhaps your phone.

Apps for this sort of thing already exist, though I don't know how good they are.
That's because these guys submitted using a "Player card" which is meant for embedded video streams, then swapped out the content for their widget after getting approved. A total bait-and-switch.

Player cards are meant for online video players, not any sort of interactive virtual content. Twitter wants to keep experiences consistent across platforms -- for mobile, Player card users are supposed to provide direct links to media streams. The docs are fairly clear on this. This whole thing just stinks of media stunt.
Are we really having a serious conversation on divination on HN?
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You're absolutely right. Tabs are most useful when you already know the song.

As you say, most tabs don't include much information besides pitch and order, but can include guitar-specific ones, such as bends or slides.

It's possible though to write good tabs, such as the ones available in Guitar Pro (http://www.guitaring.info/uploads/software/Guitar%20Pro/Guit...).

Tabs' major appeal is that there's no learning curve: what you read is almost a physical representation of what you play. And it only requires a text editor to write, and can easily be published and shared on a website.
That might depend upon the city, industry and your skill set if you think about it. I'm sure if you had some rare in demand skill and are based in silicon valley that people might pouch you at 1am at a bar if met the HR person by accident. By the way an argument for job hunting at a bad time is that you have a higher chance of getting a better job if the pool of applicants is smaller...
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It might work for mixed too, but I'm not sure. Honestly, I read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/binary-log-mixed.html a few times and my eyes glazed over by the end every time.

Finally I just decided that I could expect it to work forever with row-based, but I was less certain about whether it would work in mixed, or whether it might change in future versions of MySQL. I consider "I'm not sure what will happen" to be a scary answer in sysops, so I went with row-based.
I see it this way: The agent's more than earned his 15% if he gets me a higher paying gig than I could get myself (higher than 15% increase, that is). The benefit I get from not dealing with the stuff they claim to take care of is more than worth it. Unless you love doing your own billing.

I'd go for it if I was a freelancer.
the efficient market is dead and always has been.
What if I'm not thirsty? What if I have plenty of water already? What if I'm trying to commit suicide by not drinking water?
"How might you propose to compensate people who, in good faith, bought other people"

Seriously? You're making that comparison?
The accuracy of any TIMU system is as good as its clock and its ability to detect drift. Or put a different way, the error bars around your actual position grow at a rate that is controlled by the accuracy of the timing and gyro drift. Either way, given the accuracy of modules from SparkFun and others, if their clock error spread is less than 1nS they should stay accurate to the foot for at least an hour (which is only 3.6 trillion nanoseconds). I'd love to try one of these on a mobile robot.
Wake Up Productive is an awesome program.

Also books by Tony Shwartz
August and November 20 through the end of the year are bad times.
http://bitcoin-analytics.com/#charts
Sf has a population of over 6 and a half million and covers 600 square Km. I woudl love to see your estimate for how much that woudl cost to build and maintain.
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the only problem with this to me is that this new notation simply seems to add redundancy to the score, repeating information which is already there,but not adding much new.
That would be useless. I believe the point of proper tail calls is that the set of functions that may be called from a particular call site is not closed. The callee may be a parameter of the caller, for example in combinator-style libraries. You can't convert that in advance.
No, let's not at all consider the meaning of words, because the meaning of words is of no importance in a discussion.
Most likely it is being ddossed... by people trying to sell, but that's just my opinion.
What you mean by this is that the key signature tells you what the tonic is, and, conversely, what the supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, etc. are.

Whenever I teach key signatures this is the biggest thing I try to impart: key signatures are more than just accidentals, they define the roles each pitch plays.
Hmm, that is a fair point. One cubic meter of basaltic rock is closer to 3 tons. There is a point where a rock is too big to be usefully used as ballast.
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A debugging switch that, when enabled, turns a valid program into an invalid one is madness.

Python has decided to place very conservative requirements on what an implementation's stack must be capable of. This might indicate a certain lack of ambition but it's a justifiable engineering tradeoff.
EFnet didn't pass anything on. EFnet reported abuse, and the EFnet reporting staff members information was the information that was leaked/forwarded to the abuser. Not a third party to whom EFnet acted proxy.

You seem to misunderstand the situation.
This is amazing timing because I received a text message from my mother roughly 3 hours ago wondering if I mine bitcoin and if it is something she should look into.

If you ever wanted evidence that this was a bubble driven by speculation look no further than how closely it resembles the dotcom bubble, right up to Joe and Jane Mainstreet looking to get involved right as the whole thing crashes down.
"Please, for the sake of $DIETY"

If you worship food, that is. But you're right, people calling proper tail calls "an optimization" should be shot. Those who survive the subsequent generation scavenging should be shot again. :-)
Shape-note systems for learners have a long history; this one has some clever touches, but ultimately that's it's niche -- it's not going to replace traditional notation, but it might help more non-musicians and non-reading musicians start reading, which is a good thing.
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First and foremost, our clients are the developers.

Do you get paid by people for whom you find good developers?

Rather than thinking of it as a consulting agency, we see our job as making freelancing suck less. In the process, we're building a network of freelancers who share best practices. They even share customers... our customer development has revealed that the #1 complaint from freelancers is that it's feast-or-famine. Since each person in the 10x network brings in his/her own dealflow, one person's feast can ease another's famine. Imagine a P2P network for gigs.

I have worked very hard at developing my client base. Why should I share it with strangers? It is also not P2P because you are a middleman.

Additionally, the article only briefly touched on the lifestyle design aspect, but that's really important to us. Just like managers in the music or movie industry, we're entering a long-term relationship with our clients, and strive to understand their goals and help them achieve them. For some people, that means we save them cycles that they can put towards their startups. For others, we enable them to travel more. (I started out as a client before we founded 10x, and I spent my time on music, e.g. recording albums, touring, learning the cello.)

What programs do you have that help people like me get their life goals? I can schedule my own traveling, deal with savings, and hire an accountant to do a lot of stuff for pennies.

Also, my cofounders come straight from the entertainment world. They managed John Mayer from being an unknown singer/songwriter to playing sold-out stadium shows. They bring a really unique outside perspective to our industry.

What is this unique perspective? Can they chime in and share it with us?

And finally, as the article mentioned, our cut is only 15%. My understanding is that consulting agencies often take 50%+.

You are competing with agencies, yet you do not know their rates? No, the rate is not 50%. It is always variable. I've never had one go so high, not even half of that.

Consulting agencies do have one thing: the clients. They sell and market their services like crazy, and get a lot of work that way. Depending on how good they are, they also make sure that the place where you go to work is a good one, with good development practices.

How do you make sure that any client that comes my way will not make me sit through 5 meetings a day and then demand more work from me? Do you have any experience working with development teams?
It is hyperbole of course. Capitalism worked fine before split second trade resolution, but that happening in today's markets is a pretty big deal because a lot of people have gotten used to it. Also the Facebook IPO was isolated and shook/annoyed a lot of people it seemed. If that kind of thing happened regularly outside of huge IPOs I think NYSE would be in pretty bad shape.
Here's a suggestion: Add a sixth line to the staff. Now all clefs are identical two-octave portions, instead of getting shifted more and more as they retreat from middle C.
Surely this kind of back and forth must have happened during the last Google/Mozilla negotiation over their search engine contract, but it's a situation where while both sides will try to posture within the understood wiggle room [1], they both know that they have a lot to lose by coming to a fall out.

ex: within the range of say, $250MM ~ $350MM
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Doesn't look easier to me. More importantly this will only cause whoever teaches it as a first language to some child will make it that much harder once they are around other musicians or in a school system.
It will never fall to zero, I'll personally buy every last one of them at $0.0001 each.
The whole aesthetic seems wrong. The perfect circles and even lines seriously clash with the naturally drawn clefs. In the example music, they adopt a new font for the time signature to blend in better, I guess, but the clefs are still out of place. There's an appealing naturalness to traditional notation that this system abandons and ends up looking like a schematic or alien code. Should really work the style into a more natural feel. There's potential here, but it's falling a bit flat (a pun and also literally the lines are too flat).

The sharps look like a guy flipping the bird. And the flats look a guy with a fist, ready to fight. Funny but a bit distracting.

The focus on pitch letters (abcdefg) and lack of key signatures reveals a weak music theory foundations. The key says what scale to use and then you think about the relative positions, you don't think about the letters.

It feels a bit like training wheels for reading music. Maybe thats the real purpose?
" the taxi system is a fundamental component of the transport infrastructure."

Startups, VC's and angels don't want to consider any points like that. They only care about how they can get a part of the pie (like any business.) VC and angels are business people who are motivate by profit (full disclosure: so am I). Startups are started by people who simply think everything from the old way of doing things is bad and needs to be overturned and not to trust anyone over 30 as the old saying went.

Along these lines I'm waiting for startups to try and "disrupt" the liquor control system (and liquor licenses) that are in place in various communities across the country for good reason even though legacy owners profit from that "restriction of supply" as well.
Are you only taking on developers in the US, or worldwide? I couldn't tell from your site.
It can cost a metric fuckton of money. When I worked up in scotland for BT the press officer for Scotland told me a story about how BT had miscalculated the cost of providing service to a very remote location and ended up having to pay around £200,000 to provide service to one property.
> there's no reason the free market can't provide such a service

sure there is. here's a bunch of reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
Thoughts on your essay:

Fractional reserve banking - if it's merely backed in BTC then what's the point of bitcoin? It entirely defeats the system as people will be back to fiat currency.

Early adopters and clever nation states have the opportunity to totally turn the world upside down in a BTC backed future. They should have a significant percentage of all existing (as it's finite) BTC which would distort their actual worth. A clever North Korea - estimated GDP of $40 billion, and about $4 billion each in exports and imports - could hold an incredible amount of BTC buying power. Why would any other nation want to acknowledge them? Similarly, they'd be holding onto a financial nuclear bomb if they held enough BTC. They'd be able to almost singlehandedly alter the value (in purchasing power) on a whim with a significant enough percentage.

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Next, you focus heavily on hyperinflation, but never once seemed to mention deflation. Or the fact that under a scenario like above, hyperinflation is almost feasible as suddenly a large amount of BTC could reenter the market. Long term it would get absorbed, but short term impacts could be severe.
> Doing an entire benchmark on that basis without making that clear is misleading.

A benchmark which provides source code and test data should never be categorized as "misleading." At worst it puts too much trust in the average reader's understanding of things. But look at it this way: if you littered every page that included a benchmark with all the relevant caveats, it'd be a total mess.

Or as David Simon says, "fuck the average viewer."
Statement-based replication and anything involving it just looks like a disaster waiting to happen. There's the definite whiff of hubris here. There are just so many potential ways for something to go wrong.

I'd guess there was a big win in terms of efficiency for this to have been attempted. This is the sort of thing that you'd want formal methods or an environment like Haskell for. Either that, or a decade+ of engineering wizardry with relational systems and some nifty mathematical proofs in your arsenal.
It's a tricky situation, philosophically. This may have helped the UK abolish slavery sooner (a good outcome), but its morally and legally dubious.

This was suggested many times during the lead-up to the Civil War, but (I think rightly) Lincoln as well as the more hard-core abolitionists viewed this strategy as contradicting their position that Slavery was a crime against Natural Law.
> the JVM, as a platform, does NOT support TCO.

And the x86, as a platform, does?

What, specifically, does the JVM do to make TCO more difficult than it would be in the machine code of your choice?
I think that should be, "Write better [Rap] lyrics".
No, no. You have a point. A programmer could simply develop a system that would scrape the web to get leads. Then sort them in a way that the best gigs are on top. Then an automatic email would go out to these leads introducing the coder to the company. Then, depending on the answer, the coder would simply follow up on that introductory email.

Magic? Nope. I have such system in place.
You read me as being more precise than I'd meant it. But it's basic economics that competition drives the cost down toward the cost of production (including labor cost and opportunity cost), and there's nothing in bitcoins that's preventing people from competing.

And regardless, there's absolutely no conceptual reason cost of production would represent any kind of floor.