skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...and the people voting for the likes of her have been deliberately deprived of a decent education."

I really wish this were the case, but political views remain relatively static in the face of increasing levels of education. (see: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/opinion/sunday/college-doe... )

Unfortunately, even if we sent all the Palin-voters to college, they would still probably be convinced that Obama is a muslim, earth is 5,000 years old, etc etc. It's rather depressing to think about, since there appears to be no cure for it.
Ooh.. 118 here ;-) I bet 99% of the first 1000 are Rubyists!
So the competitor who paid the SEO is a spammer, the person who paid Google AdWords is an angel & the person who has no exposure has no traffic nor revenues, but is virtuous with great content (that almost nobody cares about other than the owner)?
More like 3600 seconds for over an hour.

The buy/sell buttons always worked, as far as I know, but when the lag is an hour I can see how it would seem broken.
I was tempted to use a longboard but it just didn't sit well with me. So I managed to do it on my shortboard and am so happy I went with that decision, although my ankles would say otherwise
Do you regularly have clients who need developers for one-time development projects (kind of like a reverse elance.com), or is it strictly for Monday through Friday full time work?

I would love to do small side projects for others, e.g. on weekends, but bidding on projects on elance, odesk, etc is a headache I would certainly pay A LOT to able to skip.

If not, does anyone know of a service that does this?
I think dotless is a security risk as far as social engineering.
A long way indeed, and mostly in a terrible direction. :/
From his website, "In my spare time, I contribute to the open source Fluentd Project's documentation." In fact, you probably don't even need to understand Git, since pretty much everything can be done via the browser now. Clicking on the "Edit" button on README/documentation pages automatically forks the repo and makes it trivial to submit patches.
Thank you! And thanks for sharing, that's a great story
Here's an interesting alternative notation that emphasizes relative pitches: http://muto-method.com/images/fig11-e.png.

It was invented for the Chromatone, a keyboard that eliminates black and white keys and treats all keys the same way, similar to a guitar fretboard. http://muto-method.com/en/index.html

Transposing then becomes easy because every scale has the same shape.
Especially not in a way where the exact order of each transaction is critical, so there is no opportunity for any parallelism.
scrape bank's website? What for? Just download your bank statement periodically :)
That's pretty awesome man. I wonder how many 360 flips you pulled off on the way ;)
Looks great. Thanks for the link!
Then how can GCC and clang do TCE in C programs?
Hardly comparable, but one of my fondest memories in Japan was a sudden trip to climb Mt Fuji with 2 other crazy gaijin.. Totally unprepared, massive storm, absolutely no knowledge of how cold it would be (about 20 degrees Centigrade difference bottom and top..). We weathered it out outside with rain in our face all night, wearing only 500 yen convinience store rain jackets, ate a massively overpriced cup noodle once the small mountain huts opened up. Was it terrible? Pretty. Was it worth it? https://farm1.staticflickr.com/144/320147593_cc5c8e82ed_z.jp... yes.
See here for the list of early accounts: https://api.github.com/users
The most skateboarding I've ever done is playing Tony Hawk but this was a really interesting read!

Congratulations on finishing and for an awesome achievement - you've confirmed to yourself you can do anything you want when you put your mind to it and you did something what a lot of people don’t do (apart from skateboarding the from Sydney to Wollongong) in that despite, previously giving up for various reasons you still achieved your goal. Congratulations once again!
Someone, please, compete with Mt.Gox more. :( Also, don't store your wallets on Mt.Gox. Oh what a target they must be.
Git's quirks were surely a catalyst, especially helping the company to build momentum as Git grew. But Github added a lot more value than just that. I mean SourceForge was basically from the CVS + SVN era, and those tools were simpler and more intuitive, but SourceForge still served a great need.

I'd say GitHub mainly succeeded because it put code first and overall focused on a great experience for developers to contribute and collaborate. SourceForge, in contrast, was heavily influenced by consumers wanting to download the latest version of FileZilla or some Linux games.

And Google Code, for the brief time it was the main event, took things too far the other direction from SF. It was just too terse and the design too raw, as was customary for Google back then. It actually had the basis for a lot of the critical functionality, but lacked the kind of design flair GitHub has shown. I don't think it was ever seen as a potential profit center, so always seemed starved of the resources to compete with GitHub.
Your analogy is incorrect.
Exactly, I have done this today!
This seems like it is going to cause issues with corporate networks. We use http://search for our internal search portal. My guess is many other companies do the same. Obviously, the local urls will resolve first, but what happens when browsers and other software expect http://search to conform to a particular api/url pattern?
From the same place you get 4chan gold accounts.
You should check out Long Treks on Skate Decks.

http://www.longtreksonskatedecks.com/

Some funny sponsored longboarders (with one of them being a cinematographer) trek from Peru to Bolivia, and down Morocco, filming their all of their antics.
Didn't Google do this same sort of "recycling built trust in channel" when they bought Frommer's, gutted it, sold it back to the original owner, BUT kept the social media accounts Frommer's built up (with the old followers) and rebranded those followers into a new Google-owned Zagat Twitter account?

How is that behavior any less "bait-n-switch" (or influenced by money) than buying a site or renting some links?
The Wire? umm no need to turn to racist generalizations. Not really sure what a tv show about heroin trafficking has to do with this, but keep your stereotypes at bay.

And you didn't address any point other than the diction in my delivery, so way to stay relevant, with your ad hominem, non sequitur, fallacious remark.

For your info, I wasn't referring to the author with the interjection. Get some culture.
Very interesting concept, but I can't see this replacing traditional notation.
When I was younger I probably did about 85km of skating a day... in Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2. Seriously though, a skateboard requires a lot of effort and when it comes to going uphill it's not exactly a walk in the park. Massive respect, shine on you crazy diamond.
What is the alternative? (simple & cheap may be?)
The language we're talking about makes a big difference here. I have (very) occasionally been mistaken for a native Japanese speaker over the phone, but I have the reading level of a 12 year old at best.
Github would probably not have succeeded had git's command line interface been better? What rubbish. Github is a fantastic achievement. As aashaykumar92 says, making programming social and with a website that almost looks like it might be fun to normal people?? That's some achievement!
I don't see how an unintuitive CLI is 'inevitable' or 'in the nature' of such a tool.

How is it inevitable to have inconsistant flags for showing contextual help?

How is it in the nature of such a tool to have command names that are inconsistant (for example 'push' to not be the opposite of 'pull')?

I think in the end these things are relatively small oversights by Torvalds at the beginning, that have become rather difficult to fix now, after git has become such a standard tool - but it makes live really hard for every beginner. I mean imagine a GUI application where the help menu is sometimes accessed through F1, sometimes it's shift-F3. Imagine Edit->Copy would do something completely different than what people are used to form other similar programs. Even worse, in a GUI tool it's no big deal to fix those problems in version 2, but a CLI automatically becomes an API for other higher level tools such as GitHub and changing it would break it afterwards - so it's really important to get that interface right from the start.
Good point, you need to do everything right. But I think my point about over-reliance on a single source of traffic (and thus, indirectly of income) stands.
Has anyone here ever thought about trying to get robots to be able to do skateboard tricks? It seems to me that unless they could be perfect every time you would first have to teach them to fall without damaging themselves. I bet that would have lots of applications in other domains!
So while this is an astute observation, a properly run exchange would go through a lot of effort to separate the matching engine (the inherently single-threaded part of the exchange) from the portions of the system that accept orders and spew data. The registration system and web site also don't belong anywhere they could possibly contend with the matching engine. Real exchanges process orders of magnitude more volume on a single symbol than mtgox does, yet have latencies measured in microseconds rather than tens of minutes.
Nice! This would've been exciting.
I've wanted to do a similar thing with a friend for ages, where we'd go out kayaking to Sydney Harbour and watch the sunrise. It'd be pretty dangerous, but so much fun.

Whereabouts in Sydney did you start your journey?
Thanks mate.

PS clocked so many hours in Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 as a kid!
UPDATE: Here's the current abstract from the ACS.

Lead is a neurotoxin that severely impairs cognitive development and intellectual performance in children. It causes blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases in adults in addition to inducing calcium deficiency by replacing calcium in bones. Agriculture, mining and the general chemical industry are increasingly contaminating the environment, resulting in toxic heavy metal(loids) such as lead getting into agricultural food products. The level of environment contamination is not monolithic across the globe, thanks to geography and differences in environmental regulations. However, with the globalized food market, populations in both polluted and non-polluted geographical areas are equally at risk of lead exposure through food. We measured the levels of lead in rice that is imported into the U.S. using XRF and the data was validated using a NIST1568a reference sample. Lead levels ranged from 5.95±0.72 to 11.9±0.6 mg/kg and the calculated Daily Exposure amounts were significantly higher than the Provisional Total Tolerable Intakes for all age groups.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/acs-hlo031113...
On Bitfloor, you actually get up to 0.1% rebate on limit orders. From the docs:

"Any order that is on the order book will receive a rebate when filled. Think of this as a negative fee (you actually get extra funds). This is done to provide an incentive for some traders to place their orders onto the order book for others to better understand market conditions."
The value of Bitcoin is in the blockchain, and the work it took to generate it. Your crypto currency would be light work for an attacker because it wouldn't have many miners.

Also, as another poster said, the issue is market capitalization, not individual unit price.
Some of your points are valid.

With all due respect, you should be outraged too, no?
Because a LOT of feminists were outraged when similar things happened to women. My question is exactly addressed to you: Why are you outraged when it happens to gender X and why do you dismiss it when it happens to gender Y, saying things like "it's not a big problem", "we have many other things to worry about in the society" (as another commenter posted, etc.)

Assuming that gender X can withstand all this but not gender Y is sexism by itself. I appreciate your positive look on life, in general, but you are not being fair here.

>As a futurist, I don't see this catching on, let alone abuse of if becoming a big problem.

This is exactly the kind of mentality we hate. Supporting something based on the drama around it is the worst thing a feminist like you can do. Does this mean isolated incidents with no drama can be safely ignored? I think it's a poor methodology.

This is not about violence. It's about the identities of people who never opted for something. So, you're saying something along the lines of

"I don't care because it's not a serious issue (yet). And you have to deal with it."

Which is unfair. How would you like to see your face on a pornographic site uploaded without your consent? Wouldn't you and other feminists be outraged? That's exactly the feeling we've got right now, because it's our identity at stake. And you can't just ask us to live with it, just because there's no drama around it.

As a feminist, if this is the mindset with which you and your friends are working towards sexism, then, I think you would be contributing more to sexism than eradicating it. And this is disgusting. Someone should probably write a blog post about this mindset, so people like you can stop calling yourselves feminists, representing other genuine feminists in the wrong way.
I'd rather expect manipulation from Anonymous, in contrast to him they have a proven track record of manipulating online votes for teh lulz
I started from Bardwell Park in Sydney.
As an avid longboarder I have to give you props for doing that on a shortboard. I have no excuse now.
Are you interested in commercialising that system?
All hail our glorious leader Twitter, they know what's right. This isn't all too surprising, Twitter have definitely had their fair share of third party shutdowns and controversies, the problem here is that Twitter could care less about anyone else's business that uses their API, even if it means more Twitter users or even a potential offer for partnership and profit. This is an idea that Twitter themselves should have officially got behind, no doubt we'll see something like this from Twitter eventually.

It's a genius idea, but sadly Ribbon just wasted a lot of time and money building a product they can't use. A painful lesson, never build a business on Twitter.
Only in as far as people use statement-based replication on Heroku.
I love that all the comments on this HN thread are so positive! Amazing achievement and totally unorthodox.. nonetheless super inspiring. AND the HN community is renewed in its vigor. +! for online society.
Hey barbs, Parramatta river and Syd Harbour isn't too dangerous for Kayaking. Just stay close to the shoreline and you're good.

You weren't considering coming in through the heads were you? That would be quite hairy.
Does that mean that the decision to pull with merge vs rebase will be decided as quickly as 'vim vs emacs' or 'gnome vs KDE'? :)
My thoughts exactly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts too!
Very very impressive. I have walked from Bundena to Otford (along the coast) over two days which while not as far is just as hilly. I would not even attempt to skateboard from Sydney to the Gong.

My personal goal has always been to walk from Sydney to Canberra. Would take about I week I estimate, but im unlikely to ever do it mostly because I am not really willing to camp along highways especially around Belanglo.
What about moon?

I'm pretty sure that smart people will figure out the solution. I just wanted to point out that most probably we can find solutions that are safe enough and the only limiting factor is our imagination (or lack of it specifically).
Dark Lightning
Versus having it built-in in my current editor?
I'm not proposing a government-run monopoly. I'm proposing Google be publicly funded up front to take advantage of the current legal system to create a monopoly by sustaining funding that gives it a supreme advantage over everyone else (we give them money) but at the cost that the infrastructure built has to become publicly owned (by the people, not by a government) after some period of time.

No government is involved here. We'd be handing Google the funds to demolish any and all competition with an agreement that they do NOT create a monopoly.

Both local and federal government have colluded to create the trust of service providers that exists today. Public funds paid to build much of the existing infrastructure, then exclusive control over that infrastructure has been granted by local governments. That's fine within a state, but Comcast for example, is operating nationally, so the federal government (in particular the FCC) has permitted them to acquire some absurd 70%+ of all small service providers and obtain these local monopolies all over the country. We can't trust the government to do the right thing in this space, since even though every wireless provider is colluding to keep prices fixed, and every consumer-facing ISP is colluding to keep prices fixed, there has yet to be any investigation into trusts. It's extremely obvious that the $50/mo being required by every single competing company when the same service is $8/mo anywhere else in the world is a fixed price. All of them should be fined some $50B each and/or dismantled.

But we have an opportunity here: Google could completely destroy their business. All of them. Entirely. We (and Google) understand that their services are overpriced in excess of 500%+ of the actual cost and that they don't actually invest more than ~5-10% of their profits in improving the infrastructure. This leaves a LOT of room for a company with nearly unlimited funding to step in and completely dominate. None of these companies will offer you 1gbps, not even for $500/mo. So if Google, cooperating with the citizens of the US at large, were to agree to build this infrastructure, demolish the entire ISP space, and then turn over everything at some point, I'd be willing to pay 100% of my disposable income, and I'm sure I'm not alone. The $11B it would cost (probably closer to $100B, realistically) would be entirely worth killing the likes of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner, Rogers, Sprint, etc.

We can't really win against lobbyists and every congressperson being guaranteed a job paying in excess of $800k/yr when they retire for doing what big interests want. We can win, however, by abusing the very system they put in place, by massively funding a single corporation. The problem with their logic is that they assume they will continue to have the most money to throw around. No company in existence, in the world, can compete with even 3% of our GDP. None. So if we really want to destroy the massive corruption that exists, we just have to commit the resources necessary. No government required, as the corruption has already provided the framework.
After a decade of skateboarding, I would say this is not a possibility now at least. The problem is the constant balancing and the constant shifting of weight. Even after a decade of muscle memory, I fall riding down the sidewalk regularly. Current robots seem to be hard-pressed to handle even a little shove.
Current browsers search whenever you type anything into the address bar. I don't see any reason to change that and add a cumbersome 'http://search. The http:// should indicate you are not using the browsers search shortcut.
Github succeeded because they have build a fantastic platform, order of magnitude smoother, better looking, easier to use and faster than any of the similar projects. Try to navigate http://sourceforge.net/ or http://code.google.com/intl/pl/ for a while to get a feel of how free VC hosting looked like before Github - nobody approached the problem with a normal (in the industry) professional product design approach, it was just developers throwing things together, those are almost showcases for how bad developers can be at user experience design when left by themselves.
Is this a satire? I find it hard to believe that Microsoft and Windows 8 is to solely blame for any decline in PC sales. Haven't PC sales been declining for some time now? This sounds like a pretty far-fetched claim to make here. Considering here in Australia you can still buy a new PC with Windows 7 installed, I find it hard to believe that consumers are opting not to buy a computer just because of Windows 8 comes pre-installed. Remember when Windows Vista was an even bigger failure upon launch? That didn't make people stop wanting to buy a PC, how is Windows 8 any worse than when Vista first launched? It's the best version of Windows yet, the lack of start menu is a non-issue.

I'll tell you why PC sales are declining, because PC's are no longer our sole means of downloading, playing games, reading news or running apps. Mobile phones and tablets are to blame for the drop in PC sales, this isn't a bad thing and the PC isn't all of a sudden going to disappear because a PC will always serve a purpose. Sounds like a consulting firm trying to sound insightful and draw comparisons that shouldn't be drawn.
I couldn't tell; is the key-signature completely elided in favor of putting explicit sharp/flats on all the notes? If so, it's a huge fail, as I play the clarinet, and regularly have to sight-read oboe parts, which means transposing.

This means that accidentals need to be distinct from sharps/flats in the key-signature, and in particular an explicit natural on deviations from the key signature is also helpful.
Agreed. The white girl who didn't get in might have been rejected based on a combination of factors, but she IS legally discriminated against because of her race in college admissions, which is a reasonable complaint. IIRC, putting "black" down on your college application gives you something like a +500 point bonus on your SAT score. A rich white girl is an easy target for mocking, but what about the poor white girl who has nowhere near the resources of a rich black girl? Studies show that class is now the deciding factor in relative advantages, much greater even than race, yet still our college policies are based on 1960's society. The accomplishment gap between rich and poor is far, far greater than that between white and black, and still we see fit to punish...asians. Over indulging in white guilt leads to victimization of the poor of all races, which I find ethically deplorable.

It is my hope that race based discrimination will soon be no more. Lots of important things coming up for SCOTUS, recently. Studies show that academic mismatch from race based discrimination actually hurts the minorities it is intended to help, so if race based discrimination is made illegal, then people of all races will be better off. Minority graduation rates will be much higher once we've gotten rid of it.
There was a time when I would have felt seriously behind the times using my 3.5 year old PC. Maybe I just have different priorities now, but I no longer feel any compulsion to upgrade. I'm not aware of anything that a new PC can do that my current one can't, besides an incremental, barely noticeable speed bump.

On a related note, am I right in thinking that we are currently in the longest ever gap between new HD capacities? 4TB has been the top size for two years now.
pertamax..!