skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand it you can one-time download and verify their java program, and it uses your password to retrieve and decrypt keys in a way that protects you from hushmail. So with that workflow it is very much like traditional PGP with no way to inject a vulnerability later. Am I mistaken?
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The docs for user pages appear to have been auto-rewritten to name the repository with a .io suffix, but the cited URL doesn't seem to work.

See https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-proje... , click the defunkt demo link.
That's exactly it. When we had that article recently about how so many Americans are on unemployment, we had people saying, "Why don't they just learn to code?"
Poe's Law strikes again. It seems fairly reasonable to me that someone in this community could actually think/say something that profoundly dumb.
A slightly related article I read recently about how should we evaluate the claims of people much smarter than ourselves. i.e. in this specific article the example is if Krugman makes some claim about economics should we just accept them as he is probably leagues ahead in terms of knowledge and expierience in the subject.

http://theumlaut.com/2013/03/13/paul-krugman-is-brilliant-bu...
Had a misbehaving page because of this.

An email notification would have been nice Github.
You could return an error 403 to the bot, if detected. Google may penalize that page in the rankings, but not the whole site. If you display spammy keyword loaded page to the bot, then Google may ban/penalize the whole site.
You need to issue more currency so that the sum total of money available is equal to the sum total of value in the world. Any currency that doesn't do that fails.

I think many of the bitcoin fans reject this. They want to be able to hold (say) 1/1000th of the world's wealth, and be able to keep on holding 1/1000th of the world's wealth as long as they don't spend any of their hoard.

It's like trying to create a financial crisis because you expect to be on the right side of it.
Thanks for all the replies made in the sibling comments and their descendants.

To me it seems that for the time being (e.g. the next 50? 100? years), as long as we have a currency alternative to bitcoin such as USD, these problems can be avoided by just switching currencies to be able to buy/sell/borrow/invest in, as long as other parties agree to it.

Or am I missing something?
I struggle with this - I know exactly the difference between being in the industry vs doing local start-ups. Start-ups are more fun and I can usually forgive the pay inequity (it's about 20-30k per year less in normalized salary).

If I could put up with the O&G corporate environment I'd be all over it - but I do prefer natural light in my work environment and an interesting problem domain over a flourescent lit grey cubicle on the 12th floor of some sky scraper and another well analysis application.
This is a bit of a nit, but the real exchange(s) does not buy or sell anything; it just matches orders. So you should probably say "...a liquidity crisis when everyone attempts to sell at once and the noobs stop buying".
Meteor's some really addicting stuff. The only regression for me with that stack was losing some of Angular's really powerful client-side functionality. I looked at a couple of the existing bridge options, but none really appealed. I'm creating some nice glue, will put it up on Github once I can ensure it is stable.

Result: get the best of both Angular and Meteor, with the ability to use either (or both of their) reactivity.
You are exhibiting a selective memory that only remembers the successes. Investors in the late 90s pumped money into "computer scientists" only to find that just because something is being done on the Internet doesn't make it automatically profitable. You look at Bitcoin and think it is so obviously Amazon.com, but it could just as easily be Pets.com.
> You need to issue more currency so that the sum total of money available is equal to the sum total of value in the world. Any currency that doesn't do that fails.

That's only if you want the currency to maintain a stable value, neither inflationary nor deflationary.

Alternatively, the currency will have deflation. It's not obvious that that necessarily implies "failing".
> Publishing the list feels unprofessional and manipulative

There's nothing unprofessional about publishing interesting data. The framing around it is what makes it manipulative. I can see how putting such a list along with the preceding blog post could feel... wrong.

> Even as a causal observer of the VC market, I was able to spot a lot of false positives in that list.

A great point. If you're going to publish data make sure it's correct first.
Best results maybe, but both MRI resolution and frame acquisition times seem to improve fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOhDqhCKQs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtBd1y0_Pvo
I'm all for supporting good, independent software shops, but $70 for a ST2 license is obscene. I use the free version and would happily pay to remove the "Buy Me!" popup at a lower price point.
You are certainly not the only person we've heard this from. We understand that there's demand for single-dyno apps that don't idle.
I do not trust 99 servers out of 100 including not only those I intend to communicate with but others sitting in the middle of my connection, to deliver the same binary my browser would render in a few milliseconds.

The web is a wild place, let's not increase our attack surface.
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Sadly, it seems that all of the audio samples are dead
At one point in time, you could add the free version of NewRelic along with a scheduler task to keep your free dyno active: https://coderwall.com/p/u0x3nw I haven't tested that... so things might be different now.
The economy is already centrally controlled. A few centuries ago, much of the world, even the outer reaches of Europe, had mostly independent, semi-nomadic people living on it - including the land the USA is on.

Now the vast majority of people are wage slaves for a very tight group of intermarrying heirs - the Waltons, the Koches, the Sauds, the Mars's, the Johnsons, the Newhouses, the Rockefellers etc.

From 1993 to 2008, the US unemployment rate never hit what the current rate is - 7.6% unemployment. Most of those people currently have no control of the economy, or their own lives. The idea that the government's protection of this central racket may lessen is of little concern to most of these unemployed.
Okay, I misinterpreted "give me actual stock" as preferring stock to options. Your definition of "actual stock" seems to be publicly traded stock.
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After reading Coinbase's response, it seems that the pages were not linked to by Coinbase, but by users posting links to their checkout page on the Internet.
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I find it curious that the idea being touted is essentially the same as the the way iGoogle works. And of course iGoogle is being shut down.

So why is one on the rise and the other falling? Is this yet another example of the apps-win-over-the-web trend? Is the problem with iGoogle that it was trapped in the browser? Is it that iGoogle was one company's little piece of the web versus an idea that is being pushed as the front-and-center UI for an OS?
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If nobody goes out then the price of babysitting approaches zero: everyone want to babysit, no one wants to go out.

Once the price is 0.0001 units, why not go out? The benefit of staying in is minimal.
Brian is very level headed- glad he wrote this up. As a merchant, I'm not very concerned (my email is already public).
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> I have a list of everyone who has paid their credit card bills in the last several months (the list only covers people who live in my apartment.) You are not on it. Is it okay if I put up a public website calling you a deadbeat? If you don't want to be on it, just send me a copy of your bank statements.

EXTREMELY uncalled for, petty, and potentially libelous. If this was not just a 'random example' and doesn't relate to Danielle herself....then this is some bullshit.

I don't know you, nor know your fund, but as an entrepreneur reading this, I would never trust you in a million years. Personally, I would steer clear of you and your fund, for fear of you leaking personal information about me when you get pissed.

If this is indeed what you meant, and were specifically talking about Danielle...not cool. Not cool at all.

But...truthfully, I am glad that you did, because we all need to know which VCs to steer clear of. You just cemented yourself (and your fund) on that list, as far as I am concerned.

Edit 1: To be clear, I am not sure if you mean the list covers people in an apartment building you (or your fund) owns - or just your roommates that live with you. I assumed it was something like the former. If it was the latter, and you were just using it as an example, then I stand corrected. If it was the former...then what I said still applies.
Almost every R-1 institution has them. But the difference I was articulating here is the difference between being required to teach 1 or 2 classes per year versus teaching 7 per year.
They also didn't have crippling mental illness to deal with.

> It will keep you from being homeless.

It does help, but it will not always keep you from homelessness. There simply aren't enough jobs.
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I presume they valued the terseness of the domain over the brand potential of 'Pages'. I do agree that there is confusion though. You can't possibly know the difference between github.io and github.com until you're actually told.
you do realise that they are using rel=canonical here?

But OMG is amazons html fracking messy or what huge amounts of white space which increases the page size.
>the deflationary argument is one of the strongest.

I'm curious as to the foundations of the benefits of inflation. I understand the principle that it discourages hoarding currency because your hoard decreases in value, but I'm not convinced that the net result is good for an economy. Wouldn't any method of hoarding satisfy the hoarders. Right now that seems to be gold.

The other aspect I find interesting is the Number of BitCoin. In one Sense there are A=21Million Bitcoin. In another sense there are B=11Million because that is the potential maximum in circulation right now. There is also C=??? Which is the amount of Bitcoin actively in circulation now (C = B - BitcoinHoarding).

Which of these should be the basis of a currency valuation? Only A can be considered deflationary (until 2140 anyway) from the principle that the quantity of bitcoin is not increasing but the economy is(hopefully).
Thanks to this post, I decided enough and enough and I started on a user script that redirects different URLs to their "pretty" version. It currently supports Google Web Search (Google Instant Search is not yet supported), although I'll be adding much more when I get home and in the next few days. I've named the script "Prettify-URL" and it is available here:

GitHub:
https://github.com/danielnr/prettify-url

UserScripts:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/164318

Note that this is absolutely not meant to be an end-all solution to the problem, but instead a ray of sun in a thunderstorm of ugly URLs. The core responsibility still lies on the developer, this just tries to make things a bit more bearable.
I've been building something like that at startupstats.com
Clearly you have not studied the subject.

No tulips were ever exchanged during the mania - only contracts for tulips.

The contracts had near-zero storage costs, near-zero transmission cost (just membership in the trading hall), anonymous ownership (sort of), and the process for generating tulips seems fair to me - the more work you do, the more tulips you create.

(Not that is actually mattered - the entire thing happened during the dormant season of the tulip, and no one actually grew any.)
Yup. I manage a Grails app where I wanted to speed up performance on a popular part of the app. So I replace the Grails controller with a servlet. I saw a bump in performance.
Oh dear I opened Aurora and not Nightly. I feel like a dunce!

I made edits to my comment, including (thankfully) the conclusion.
Danielle,
Firstly....you have more balls that many guys I know. Kudos to you for doing this.

As Obama said, Sunshine is the best form of disinfectant. High time we get a complete glimpse into the state of VC. Who is bullshitting everybody and who is not. Who is earning their keep and who is living off the exhorbitant mgmt fees they charge LPs.

On behalf of all entrepreneuers, thanks for starting that process.
Babysitting on April 5th is a different good than babysitting on December 31st.
Now it has a password. Oh dear, I'm depressed I've missed out on this. The FTP server appeared to have quite a few interesting things on it (for example, a folder called "Samsung ARM").
> might have occasionally thrown a series A into the mix

dmor said:

> on a regular 1-2 Series A deal a month pattern before that

I think that's enough that it could lead some founders to look to SV Angel for Series A funding. It may be only a fraction of what they did, but it's still useful for people to be informed of this, because Ron Conway didn't announce his intentions in the matter.
Funny how the title of the article is "Why most economists' predictions are wrong."
I think he's really out of his element, making more technological than a economical prediction.
Nice post, thanks!

I recently started to play with Ember on a Rails 4 app for fun. On the other hand, we are moving right now at my job to a more API-style Rails app too, but with Backbone (soon)...

You might be interested in looking at http://emblemjs.com/ at some point. :)
True, the article is heavy on personal experience, but the numbers really don't look good if you want to be a tenured professor in the humanities. Just look at the number of open positions each year compared to the number of graduates. And don't forget to include the graduates from all the previous years who also want the one tenure-track job in early modern literature (or whatever your field is).

Yeah, the success rate for startups is low, but at least there are different routes to success (side project, bootstrapping, angel, VC, etc). If you want to be a professor the only option is to get a job at a university.
It helps to prioritize what you look for. 9 times out of 10 it's power related.
Thank you!!! I find myself constantly explaining this to people.

This conversation from last year comes to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4299427
The point is not that you can represent it better. The point is that you can actually run it. You can't run the original notation (as such, we know languages that are close, of course).

I agree that the terser notation is better if you're just considering the mathematics in isolation. However, I also think that the true power of this kind of mathematics isn't made evident to people until you actually add some integers and make some lists.... from "nothing"... in a language you already know.

It's the same reason he doesn't use lisp or haskell, which are, obviously, vastly more appropriate. The idea is to illustrate something using something people have readily at hand. Once you have the concrete representation of the idea, you can work backwards to whatever notation you desire and forwards again using that notation, understanding that, yes, it has a basis in reality.

It's the same reason people draw 2d graphs to represent machine learning concepts instead of solely relying upon linear algebra notation. Humans are limited in that way: we have to gain some kind of appropriate intuition, and then we can work with the abstractions after that. No one is going to argue that js is an appropriate way to develop the mathematics -- it's just a way to make it more concrete for people, that's all.
The full sentence from the above quote:

Exaction refers not only to extortion or the unlawful demanding and obtaining of something through force,[1] but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something such as pain and suffering or making somebody endure something unpleasant.

So we've gone from talking about "extortion", a well known criminal offense with an everyday, commonplace meaning, to quibbling about an alternate definition of "exaction" which may sometimes be used synonymously with "extortion". If you meant to specifically talk about "exaction" then why not say so in the first place?

And in either case, I stand by my assertion that referring to dmor's article as such is a tremendous exercise in hyperbole.
This reminds me of the Coué method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cou%C3%A9#The_Cou.C3...

I noticed this pattern too, but doubt that it is healthy.
It might help reaching goals but at the same time it distorts your perception of reality quite drastically. This again, can become very dangerous.

"serenity now - insanity later"
When I go to http://pages.github.com/, I see absolutely no way to make a Github Page. How do you set one up?

EDIT: I know I could probably find the info in an FAQ, if I needed to. My point is that the images on that page seem to show a nice wysiwyg online editor for creating and publishing pages. I'm looking for a big call to action button that takes me there, similar to how easy it is to publish to https://gist.github.com/.
And once everyone is going out, no one wants to stay in because the value (in coupons) of staying in is hardly worth (paraphrasing a member of the group) tolerating other people's children.
You're right about the decoupling, and the key mechanism for doing that is a multi-process program model built on Web Workers. With small, independent programs populating the page, you gain versatility and reusability, as components can be swapped and configured by the user. Compare this to the monolithic client of one-tab/one-app, and you have the answer to the grandparent post's question.

Because of the custom program model, Grimwire's concerns include program lifecycle, resource management, permissioning, peer connectivity, and UI toolset, so that's why we call it an OS.
If bitcoin were to be a major world currency the current community would become less than 1%. That might upset some. It'd be like being a old-guard redditor when all the digg people arrived.
> So what? They couldn't make up excuses?

?? If there's practical reasons, then you need to explain why the practical reasons are not strong enough to warrant this? Just look at what was accomplished by this, they were able to delete over 8 million lines of code that was boilerplate.

> And others argue why it will.

Then, it's still not a strong argument against this.

> [snip]

What exactly are you advocating? Look at all the chromium design docs they wrote, and all the code reviews are in the open. If anything, the WebKit reviews are much harder to look through. The rest of your rant is irrelevant. Do you want them to spoon-feed you everything Chromium/Blink engineers do?

You can argue all day if you want, but what exactly are you proposing the alternative is? How does not forking help in any of those?
Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out, I thought I got them all.
From my non-economist understanding, the biggest difference between BTC and modern fiat currencies is that the money supply in the latter is endogenous. That is, when a bank makes a loan, the amount of money in the system actually increases. When the loan is paid back, the amount of money in the system decreases again.

This means that the amount of money can fluctuate to accomodate demand at a fixed interest rate, and it does so automatically, in a decentralized way, as part of the regular operation of the system, without any government intervention. This is why it is called endogenous.

Now, there are the goldbugs who think a fixed money supply is somehow morally superior. But my understanding is that experiments with controlling the money supply exogenously in the past, i.e. where the central bank set a fixed size of the money supply as target and tried to enforce that, resulted in a wildly volatile interest rate - simply because the demand for money is volatile, and by fixing the size of the money supply, something else had to budge.

For businesses, a volatile interest rate is bad because it makes planning difficult. This is why central banks now target a fixed interest rate (with volatile, endogenous money supply) - it simply is better for the economy.

Aside from the crazy waste of energy, this is probably the most important argument against basing the economy on Bitcoin.
What is it that you think he did that was wrong? It recently came out that his project was not to dump it in a torrent like everyone assumed, but to do an analysis on who was funding research. If that's actually true, no laws, in spirit or in letter, were actually broken.
This and Summly do indeed give the feeling of a bubble, don't they.
What I want to know is why can't rent be cheaper in the Bay Area for simple apartments? There's plenty of vertical space to build more housing. But instead everything is small one or two story homes that cost a million bucks at minimum.

Part of Silicon Valley's original magic was that it was just farmland and affordable to live there. Now it's a terribly expensive place to live. Imagine how conducive to startups it would be (on top of existing success) if people could actually afford to rent a place. Right now all $1000/mo gets you is a BUNK BED! https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/134016 In other places in the US $1000/mo would get you a newly constructed apartment with all amenities and granite counter-tops.

This could be the ultimate startup: just build housing and correct the supply/demand balance!
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Yeah. It seems more useful to talk about "median CEO salary" rather than average.
There's very little reason for .io to be used as designated: .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory which has been depopulated since the 60s and 70s. It now consists of a nature preserve and a joint British-American naval base.

Now, there is an issue with the Chagossians being forcibly removed from the islands, but should they ever resettle and gain sovereignty, it seems unlikely they'll continue to call themselves the British Indian Ocean Territory, necessitating a TLD change anyway (a la .su, .tp, and .an).
Not my usecase at all, but really awesome for this to exist IMO.
Why is Krugman being thought of as a genius in predicting market trends and pricing assets? He has never proven himself in this way, he does not manage money, he is only rich from book sales. Krugman is just a politician who promotes his own opinion of how the US economy should be handled.
If I can find the time, I'll try to put together one for Nitrogen (http://nitrogenproject.com) as well.
That issue is basically fixed in most sane code, actually; I just resolved it as such. For example, on http://jsperf.com/pixel-pre-rendering/5 I see identical numbers for the two versions of the test.