skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Comparing Bitcoin to a fiat currency like the dollar is a little like comparing the English language to TCP/IP.

Bitcoin could not be compared to currency.

It's comparable to gold, oil, diamonds, etc.
I disagree with both your opinion and response.

First off, who are you to decide that this kind of poll is useless, and actively damage it? If you think the poll is useless, fine: we have a flag button for that. I happen to disagree that the poll is useless; I think any data set can be interesting given that you understand the limitations in interpreting it. But that's just my opinion and I totally get that other people could feel differently. Just don't ruin it for those who care. It's immature.

You may not exactly fit the profile of the kind of person that pg is talking about here, but you're definitely acting out and ignoring community standards.
@bajsejohannes that is actually a great idea.
The comment could be out of a genuine desire to understand what makes the code interesting. The brevity makes it a bit ambiguous.
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You could put some sneaky stuff in a ToS in theory
I went with BSP loading first because I'd like to voxelize arbitrary Q3 maps. It's planned to be a feature of the game to be able to load in any Q3 or QL map and be able to destroy it.
A great point, but therein lies my biggest complaint with the simplification of statistics that I see in the startup world--sometimes the technical details are actually important. As an analogy, while mass-production has given us a car that anyone can operate, we are largely helpless when one breaks down. Complications abound when individuals try to leverage an overly-simplistic view of a subject (raise your hand if you've heard "We are 95% sure the true [...] lies in this confidence interval").

To the credit of the shadier individuals in my profession, this histogram subtlety nicely highlights how it can be quite easy to bend the data to your argument using ad-hoc procedures (KDEs, hists, QQs, boxplots). A carefully chosen bin width, smoothing parameter, or covariate can present a different view of the data than some other parameter/covariate. That's why it's nice to have other statisticians capable of reproducing and disseminating the work.
> Yes, you use fractions. In that respect it is different from pennies etc.

Well, its different in that pennies are the smallest physical subdivisions of the dollar, but then, bitcoin has no real equivalent (pennies aren't the smallest usable subdivision, there's plenty of places where smaller units are used when dollars are a unit of account but not physically changing hands.)
No no, give developers something cosmetic to argue about!

If you don't they'll find something fundamental to be dissatisfied with. E.g., the lack of full TCO or a Turing complete type system.
Hi axusgrad, that's us, Flightfox. Like Kaggle and 99Designs, we're also Australian.

In reference to a few comments here about the inefficiency of crowdsourcing, we're moving more of the work to the back-end (i.e. after an "expert" is guaranteed the bounty). Instead of awarding an expert on Flightfox, you now "hire" an expert based on an initial "pitch".

So, instead of receiving work from let's say 99 experts, we're aiming to provide great results from only 3 experts. To do this, we're working on segmenting and profiling both customers and experts. Think Uber/Amazon rather than eBay.
I'm thinking of something like a Tamogotchi where you need to take action at specified intervals and push notifications would seem like something I would like as a reminder.
I'd put one vote for economics. I only took intro to economics though which one could probably add to the marketing minor requirements.
Asperger's manifests very differently depending on the individual, and does not necessarily block the ability to connect strongly. On average, it may be more difficult for an individual with Asperger's to connect strongly because they are not in tune with the majority of the population, but that's more a function of having trouble finding like-minded individuals than of not being able to connect.

The idea that Aspie individuals are paragons of logic and reason is misguided. The article even mentions individuals with Asperger's having stronger feelings, and there are theories that Asperger's individuals are actually more sensitive in general to everything, resulting in overstimulation both physically and emotionally very quickly. A world of Asperger's individuals does not mean a world of perfectly rational individuals.

I absolutely agree that Asperger's does not make an individual broken or inherently "worse" that others, and that the idea of "fixing" an Aspie through medical intervention is antiquated and harmful at worst, but I don't believe that an world full of Asperger's individuals would be logical, reasonable, or in any way inherent "better" than our current world. It would make the world different - not worse, not better - the same as how it makes the mind of an affected individual.
I agree with tptacek (hi there!) that CISPA is not that difficult to parse, and that people might as well read it for themselves. More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57579012-38/privacy-protec...

But I disagree with his "Michigan Militia" analogy, which is a bit silly. Another way to look at it is that starting with Clipper, CDA, CALEA, crypto export controls (plus mandatory domestic key escrow approved by a House committee), we've lived through 20 years of ill-advised regulation. So unless the merits of a new proposed law clearly outweigh the downsides, which is not the case in CISPA, a measure of skepticism is reasonable.
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Gold and oil both have uses that are not based on them being scarce goods. Gold is arguably more similar to bitcoin than oil is, but neither is really analogous.
I majored in both math and philosophy and they have been useless in my career as a software engineer. If you want to do another quantitative discipline I'd suggest statistics. Non-quantitative, I'd suggest something like art history over Philosophy, or even graphic design if you wanted a more "practical" minor.
It's missing "This site is best viewed in IE5"... Err, I mean Chrome, but it's the same.
My TTF rendering code is based off the examples provided here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenGL_Programming
The Make Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing is a pretty good resource for "what you need to know", if you want more information on this subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Ultimate-Guide-3D-Printing/dp/144...
What is special about non-obvious ideas, that they should not be as freely transmitted as obvious ones?

The sometimes-vast sunk costs of the discoverer.
You can just parse (new Error).stack:

var __LINE__ = (new Error).stack.split("\n")[1].match(/:([0-9]+):/)[1];
>TBH with an attitude like that, you're keeping yourself dependent on jQuery and therefore preventing yourself from progressing as a professional software engineer.

Well said. Sometimes the easiest way isn't the best for your own future. jQuery will not be here forever. I can promise that much.
Didn't know it's possible, I need to read Addy Osmani's posts more often
(https://plus.google.com/+AddyOsmani/posts/TanDFKEN9Kn)
OP here, yes. I thought this was a pretty good in-depth guide, and I link to it at the end of my post.
http://flightfox.com
I'm no bitcoin expert, and you seem to be more knowledgeable than me, so I have a question regarding this trace-ability. As far as I understand it, every transaction is essentially a digitally-signed source/dest/amount tuple. Where source and dest are bitcoin wallet addresses. These wallets/addresses can be created and destroyed at any time. So if I transfer bitcoins to a wallet/address I generated that we'll call wallet1. And then later transfer those bitcoins to another wallet I generated we'll call wallet2. If I now delete wallet1, how is the flow of bitcoins traceable?

It's entirely possible that were discussing two types of traceability here. The traceability of bitcoins from wallet/address to wallet/address will always be possible. But the wallet/address to owner traceability seems impossible. But maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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Basically, Apple needs a "this notification is spam" reporter.
If you're working at a big company you're almost required to be busy. In fact you're looked down upon if you're not busy enough. How many times have you ran into co-workers only to do a little smalltalk? You talk about the projects you're working on and how slammed you are with work.

Being busy at the workplace is a way to seem important. You might run into someone at the cafe and say hey we should catch up. Well, why wouldn't you just catch up right then and there? That would be the most efficient route. You're both already together in the same place at the same time. Do you really need to rush back to your desk to do some more busy work?
We like looking at pretty things. Well-rendered scenes in games let me more easily imagine myself in a different scenario -- whether that is rappelling down the side of a skyscraper to rescue hostages, or flying an X-wing through a canyon.

I'm not going to play Bioshock or Dishonored or Call of Duty 42 simply because of "ooh, shiny!", but at the same time we won't complain if it's there. If all else is equal, we often go with the newer one. If I were to buy Bioshock Infinite (or the new Tomb Raider, etc), it would be because I'm interested in the story and the experience, of which the graphics are just part. Perhaps that's because graphics in PC games have been already Pretty Awesome for longer than I've been able to afford the hardware?
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Patent and copyright laws are both in serious need of radical reform in the US and globally. Thank you Rackspace for not caving in to the patent trolls, but as you wrote, it has become a never-ending game of "whack-a-troll".

That's because with existing legislation, the patent troll business model is financially very sound if also inherently corrosive to society as a whole. "The dynamics of local vs. global optimization" is jargon from the team-building and process-design communities that applies here: a successful business strategy for the patent trolls is a huge failure for the community as a whole. This could also be considered a perverse incentive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

There are perverse incentives in both copyright and patent law that undermine the original Constitutional goals of "promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts..." that are especially powerful in our age of ever-increasing innovation where digital computers and The Internet have created a radically different "landscape" than that which existed when the first such laws were drafted.

Ideally, thoughtful legislative reforms would prevent such perverse incentives in the future so that both copyright and patent law would once again be aligned to serve the common good rather than the good of a few.

Large and democratic communities (such as those Joel Spolsky helped create) full of good questions and answers could go a long way towards helping to craft such thoughtful legislative reforms. See Ask Patents http://patents.stackexchange.com for such a community on patents, and http://goo.gl/5YDHa for such a proposed community on copyright.

Anyone who feels strongly about these issues, please go get involved by "Follow"ing the proposed CopyrightX community and submitting 5 Example Questions. With enough voting and other participation, the CopyrightX community proposal can graduate to an actual community like Ask Patents.

And with two vibrant communities full of good questions and answers related to IP law, perhaps future legislation will be free of perverse incentives, and we can once again rely on our laws to serve ALL of our best interests.

In the interim, thanks again Rackspace for being willing to continue the costly game of "whack-a-troll" on behalf of all of us.
Thanks! I went with BSP loading first because I'd like to voxelize arbitrary Q3 maps. It's planned to be a feature of the game to be able to load in any Q3 or QL map and be able to destroy it.
Yes. The authors like CBV's and make a strong case for why you would want to use them.

Like you, I found CBV's to be wanting, particularly generic views, and all but gave up. A combination of updates to the official docs with 1.5 and this book made me reconsider and I'm glad I did.
As a father or a new baby girl. I almost cried and puked at different points of this article.

I lost even more faith in humanity today.
So would you say math/philosophy would be useful in more of a research type position? In that case you would probably need even higher levels of math - so the logic behind philosophy might be useless either way?
Thanks for these suggestions. You can track progress on this here: https://github.com/adamschwartz/log/issues/1
Yes, it clearly states that on a snapshot of their old web site. They are now going around and changing that information on current web sites. Hence the cries of "revisionist". In fact, their current site says that the "A PAtCHy" version is incorrect, in spite of the snapshot you linked.

"Secondarily, and more popularly (though incorrectly) accepted, it's a considered cute name which stuck. Apache is "A PAtCHy server"."

http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ#Why_the_name_.22Apache.22.3...
I hate that term - engineers are not rockstars - don't bloat their already substantial ego anymore than necessary...
USPS Mailbox locator courtesy of "Payphone Project"

http://www.payphone-project.com/mailboxes/
> Pretty bad example. Twitter's been around for quite a while, and I still can't find anything useful to do with it.

Seconded. People say I don't "get" Twitter. I say, Twitter doesn't get it.

Not only is the community filled with conformist pop-culture freaks with IQs well below 100, but the entire system of followers and following is not efficient. The 140-char word count is not sufficient for a full thought; requiring the use of the Information Age equivalent of shorthand (I thought we got rid of this years ago).

When all is said and done, really, blogging is a far better solution.
> the computations needed to keep and confirm transactions

AFAIK, that's effectively what mining is. From my understanding, transactions exist in a limbo state (where they're relayed around the bitcoin network) until they're included in a mined block and become part of the blockchain. A "mined block" is basically just a list of transactions (including a coinbase transaction, which is the new bitcoins), the merkel root of the previous blocks, and some other data such that the hash of the entire thing is suitable, as determined by the network difficulty. Thus, mining and confirming transactions are effectively one and the same.

Sorry for the poor (and possibly incorrect) explanation, I'm still wrapping my head around it too.
I have read the 2013 House CISPA amendments and wrote about them here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57579012-38/privacy-protec...

I'd be interested to hear defenders of the legislation explain why CISPA remains such a lovely bill after the House Intelligence committee rejected these four amendments that were aimed at protecting privacy:

* Limiting the sharing of private sector data to civilian agencies, and specifically excluding the NSA and the Defense Department. (Failed by a 4-14 vote.)

* Directing the president to create a high-level privacy post that would oversee "the retention, use, and disclosure of communications, records, system traffic, or other information" acquired by the federal government. It would also include "requirements to safeguard communications" with personal information about Americans. (Failed by a 3-16 vote.)

* Eliminating vague language that grants complete civil and criminal liability to companies that "obtain" information about vulnerabilities or security flaws and make "decisions" based on that information. (Failed by a 4-16 vote.)

* Requiring that companies sharing confidential data "make reasonable efforts" to delete "information that can be used to identify" individual Americans. (Failed by a 4-16 vote.)
Note: that uses arguments.callee, which is disallowed in ES5 strict-mode.
The cynic in me says, "How Kaggle wastes the time of many talented individuals while enabling corporations to give the finger to their staff."

I should start providing prizes for the best start-up. I'll give you a $20k prize and then turn around and sell it for $1M or more. You can put it on your resume. Win win.

EDIT: Sure, it's good for various things, but it is so detached from the reality that it's a bit out in the thicket. The cynic in me just doesn't get over the value handed over by competitors to the sponsors.
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No, it's not the same principle extended. It is possible to warp a sample out of all recognition, but a great many tunes just use a sample unaltered, which is equivalent to just playing a single note on the keyboard over and over.

Another difference is that manufacturers do not assert copyright over the preset sounds that their instrument makes (although they can and do patent the sound-generation method). On the other hand, creators and publishers of a recorded work do assert copyright over the content of the recording, while not asserting any sort of IP in the methods employed to make the recording.
You didn't think the 3-axis gimbal camera assembly was pretty cool? You need some tight tolerances to be able to correctly mount motors into something like that.
It absolutely makes sense. And I don't find it tacky at all. When you consider the cost of creating a game, especially a really good one you have to do what you must to make it profitable. If users are overwhelmingly showing that they prefer to pay for a game only after they have gotten into it and invested themselves in it, who are you to say that this is a tacky business tactic? You do realize that in this new freemium era, the games that do well are constantly getting updated with more content, more levels, etc etc offering a lot of value to users. There must be a reason that the highest grossing apps in the app store are using this model... It's actually refreshing to see that making games can still be profitable, as it was looking grim there for a while with all apps in the app stores racing to the $0.99 price point.

Its not just in the app stores either. Look at games like League of Legends. Personally, I much prefer a system where I can decide to buy content that I want, than a system like WOW where I'm forced to pay a $15.00/month payment just to connect. By your standards though, we should probably just assume that our users are idiots that can't resist our slimy business methods of enticing them with content that they want to buy. Comparing it to the scare tactics of AV software is just ridiculous. These are games, that people are playing for fun. If they want to pay more to have more fun, let them!
I really hope this means that future AMD drivers will focus on OpenGL - current AMD drivers are terrible at OpenGL. OpenGL becoming a true standard for 3d graphics (currently most high end games are directx), would be a great thing for Linux and the games industry in general.

It could also lead to faster usability improvements in OpenGL from even greater interest. One can hope...
In this case the amendments were online on a .gov site about six hours or so after the vote (thanks, I suspect, to my bugging the committee).
_why's site is updated
On a tangential note, _that_ is a nice presentation. I definitely feel inspired to do a lot more with Ruby than I get a chance to do at work. Thanks!
>and if it's not external respect, it ain't no respect at all.

To be clear, that's your claim, not mine. Ultimately, people do what they like to do.

>Noone outside of me will care about it

This I could agree with, but sure, there'll be like-minded folks that will be interested. However, that's different from being smug and superior about your hobby.
LOL, I was about to reply exactly that, then you answered your own question.
> The pie is the same size but the people saving money haven't taken any slices of it, leaving more for us.

Until they do, and then the prices increase dramatically (at least in the short term) in response making it near impossible for the poor bitcoin users to afford anything. If you're only entering the economy after 10 years of deflation your salary will be a pittance compared to the savings of those who've been active in the BTC economy during that time.

> Ideally we could import everything we need and not have to actually work to produce things to export.

But who would trade with you and what would they trade for? If you aren't producing something (physical or intellectual) you'll eventually run out of funds to support your import only state.
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I am not exactly familiar with how the Apple App Store is structured, but I know Google Play has sections for top new apps[1], which is restricted to only recent apps.

It still doesn't solve the problem of launching an app and having no one download it, but at least it means that they're not competing against entrenched apps with millions of installs.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/topselling_new...
What's important is that you're not bitter. ;-)
> A currency that actually increases in value rather than decreases would have a huge advantage over everything else. Because if you had a choice what would you store your money in?

The large part of point of fiat currency is divorcing the "store of value" function from the "medium of exchange" and "unit of account" functions of money, retaining the latter two but largely abandoning the former, in favor of the investment role being taken by productive assets.

The purpose of this is to encourage people with wealth to invest that wealth in productive assets rather than holding on to money.

Its true that, if you are looking for something to use as a store of value, something that increases in value over time is better for that purpose. Its less than obvious why this should be a feature of "currency". As a medium of exchange, it is generally good to have protection against short-term volatility, and as a unit of account the same is true, though against somewhat longer-term volatility (though not really "long-term", necessarily.)

For a long-term investment, short- to medium-term volatility is less important, but long-term expected growth is more important. The features that make a good investment aren't the features that make a good currency (medium of exchange) or a good unit of account.
One thing that should be noted is the burning smell of ABS plastic. I got a 3D printer in my office that is currently serving as a paperweight on my desk. That is until I get access to a lab with an exhaust hood.

All my previous experiences with 3D printers had been in outdoor/well ventilated environments so this issue hasn't come up. I'm surprised how little people have talked about this.
Applied math is very useful to software engineering and many other fields. However, I majored in pure math, which is not useful. Philosophy is interesting (depending on your personality) but is mostly irrelevant. Philosophy major logic courses will help you ace the LSAT if for some reason you want to go to law school.