skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I had the same thought as as well. As a start, are there any podcast here that people listen to and would highly recommend ? They can be dev-related but other topics is fine too. Any must listen suggestions/recommendations ?
I really like that technique, keeps the focus on the problem and off the personalities.
the application had received 398 one-star reviews out of 834, or 47.7%, on Google Play, giving it an average rating of 2.3 stars.

1 Billion total users and less than 1000 reviews, of which 400 are really bad ones. But those reviews might set the trend
Close. Really: everything is politics (aka human nature).
The "facebook phone" is an HTC.
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This is exactly the sort of joke that I used to make that I wouldn't make now for exactly that sort of reason.

Similarly, I avoid using terms like "retarded". It all feels like shallow political correctness until you realize that there are real people out there with real things going on in their lives.
Google is big. Big companies are usually run by bureaucracy and policies. Leave and go work in startup, which are usually run by people. I know, working in Google is cool and pays well. But there's no free lunch. I've always preferred smaller companies where you can actually talk to the CEO (and all people in between) and it's not that bad a place to be.
To get copy/paste to play nice in OSX you have to go through some Herculean tasks. I made it work with netcat yesterday. I was running an http server to do it :)

https://github.com/base698/tmux-copy-paste-mac-osx
take a look at grooveshark its the best social music experience I've had
In HS. No, I just fell into it as a freshman in college.
I hold my own opinion here at least a little bit suspect. I certainly wouldn't pass it off as truth or even good advice... but my tendency is to think that by the time you're considering dress, you've already lost the battle you're fighting.

Once you've gotten past doing whatever it is that you deserve respect for in the first place, playing these kinds of games for it establishes weakness and enters into a social negotiation of sorts that I haven't seen won from this position very often.

The spoils here tend go to the person who's earned them, and doesn't give a fuck about whether any particular other person thinks that's true.
A good place to start is http://codemontage.com/ - the site has links to a few serious nonprofit project(open source) who could use help.

Also look at it's resource link, some of the links like random hacks of kindness are interesting.
I'm a fairly loud guy, and my input used to get ignored all the time. I know it's gut-wrenching to see things going down the drain where you could stop them if only anyone would listen.

In my experience it's not a curse of being a woman or even being a quiet person, it's a curse of being the most competent person in the room. Congrats on that.
I'd like to know when we can expect a documented language plugin API.
"Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"

So I've said this in meetings, hasn't everyone?

(And I bet I would say something like "Put down the crack pipe")

I can certainly believe there would be managers (and companies) that might take exception to this, but it would be justified only if their meetings were exceedingly well run. I'd hate to work for a manager or a company that took exception to that though to the point of dinging me on a performance review.

Most people work at their company's location 8, 10, 12 hours per day. It's one thing to ask employees to not harass other employees. It another thing to demand of all employees they act like robots or be accused of unprofessional behavior.
I'll agree that it's better, but it's not entirely realistic to expect (let alone require) everyone to react in a non-emotional way.

I don't agree that the crack pipes comment is exactly wise or tactful, but it's at least understandable in context.
OP here. Strange with upvotes but no discussion.

I'm curious if anyone has tried anything like this before? I'd love some guidance or thoughts.
The tax code, mainly (and remember attempts to privatize social security?). Not overt force, no, but intended to skew behavior certainly.
You dont refute his point at all. There is something inherent to bitcoin that may hamper a "country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock;" the fact that you need to take an insane amount of computing power and electricity to "create" new bitcoin. He could hate something that did not exist in his lifetime because he hated the principles that are fundamental to the process.
Does facebook offer an email system? That would explain making the emails a second-class citizen if you're meant to use your facebook email address instead... after all, making an Android device that moves away from the supremacy of the Google account is actually an interesting idea.

It does seem like Facebook skipped a step here... I mean, look at the massive suite of web-applications that MS put together before debuting their WinPhone7 thing. With Facebook's experience in webapps and their gigantic post-IPO warchest, I'd expect to see a Facebook branded answer to the MS's Live/Skydrive webapps and Google's family of products alongside the phone so they could offer a fully no-Google-account Android system.

But yeah, that other stuff is pretty damning.
When the mobile phone system was being designed, that's how it was thought of. But that only applies to systems where voice has dedicated radio channels.

Once you start multiplexing radio channels, or using CDMA, the idea of "connected" begins to blur, and the resources that would be dedicated to a call before it is connected decline.

Now, with smartphones on mobile data networks, there is no reason to limit the you may look up a number before dialing and that database might be partly or entirely server-based, so your "call" is using network resources before you dial.

In the near future, with LTE, it's potentially an all-IP system, if the carrier and device maker implement VoLTE, your voice packet flow is indistinguishable from whatever data bandwidth you might have been using before your voice call.
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Apple and Google are certainly not small fish... They're two of the highlighted companies, aren't they?
> To subvert this collective decision making process would require a computation power at least equal to the bitcoin network (bigger than any supercomputer). Therefore any such attack would be absurdly expensive, and we can consider confirmed bitcoin transactions to be secure.

There are plenty of organizations that, if they wished to mess with bitcoin, could easily afford more computing power than the bitcoin network (yes, even though that is "bigger than any supercomputer".)

Included in these organizations are ones (such as the US government) that have been accused by some of bitcoins proponents of being actively attacking bitcoin.

So why should we consider confirmed transactions to be secure?
This is getting off-topic but no, that's not how it works. Android handles those chat heads as system-level windows, you don't need to know what's underneath them. The running apps list is for that "Last app" functionality (though I've no idea why reordering is needed).
This strategy has been talked about for, ummm, 20 years now? - Nailed it :)
Central planners like central banking? Get out.
To start, practice not comparing your insides to other peoples' outsides.

Everyone else is just as afraid as you are. They're just better practiced at not making decisions based on fear.

Decision making & your emotions are always at odds. Learn to make decisions based on reality instead of the way you feel, and you'll start to see the world in a very different light.
I really like the status bar with the arrow-breadcrumbs look. I will definitely be incorporating that into my config.

If others are looking for a great config to start out with definitely check out Brian P. Hogan's tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development [1]. It is a great quick intro to tmux that demos and steps through the creation of a great tmux.conf

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
Last.fm was excluded due to "licensing issues."

I don't mean that literally, I mean that in the same sense last.fm uses it when presenting it as an excuse for the downward spiral they pretend is a service. Whether they're inflexible with regards to any kind of deal with Twitter or, or Twitter was uninterested in including them, it's their own fault—and direct a product of whatever "licensing issues" really means.
That's not how quantitative easing works. Quantitative easing doesn't fire up the printing presses. Bernanke can add $2 trillion into the system within 15 minutes, and no paper money is printed or manpower expensed aside from a few clicks on a computer mouse. Once you secure your financial system network, adding currency adds virtually no costs relative to the amount of currency you put into that system. You've already secured the network.

It's akin to Facebook's security system. It works the same regardless if it's 100 million users or 1 billion users.
Ultimately I think mining protects against sybil attacks and thus helps everyone agree on a single transaction history. Without mining, it would be fairly easy to create multiple alternate histories and it would be hard to tell which one to believe.

(If you don't care about sybils, you can use Ripple which requires no mining.)
What an obnoxious reply. What they said was almost precisely what I would have said. Someone went to get someone else's opinion after you told them what to do? We all deal with that. People didn't immediately silence when you peeped in a meeting? Happens to everyone (indeed, capturing attention in a meeting is a difficult skill that most -- including most males -- don't have. Despite being extremely avoidant in my youth, somehow I gathered the skills such that I almost always end up dominating, to the point of feeling guilty afterwards).

Life is unfair sometimes (and others it is simply fair and we are unwilling to accept it). Attributing that to fundamental grievances isn't necessarily useful.

And it is bullshit to simply assume that is sexism. It may be sexism, but it might not. And from an anecdote perspective I think back through my career and many of the most powerful, final-word people I've worked with were women.
No worries. Check out the meshpotato. If you're really gonna do it, this is the key to service delivery.

http://villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/

Basically it's an Analog Telephone Adapter and a Fixed Wireless receiver built into one, so for a very small price you can deliver bandwidth+telephony to your users.

Cellular and Wired are completely fubarr'd, that's why Africa bypassed them.
So is anyone actually gonna by the phone now?
Not supporting folders for apps seems reasonable. They probably want to simplify things and folders, while handy, aren't really necessary and can be confusing for the lowest-common-denominator. I'm surprised they haven't completely eliminated the desktop/drawer separation altogether like in iOS.

Presumably the final Facebook phone will have a very short list, so app sorting/scrolling features would be simplified for convenience and intuitiveness... I mean, what apps do hardcore Facebook fanboys need besides Facebook?
I hate the term "securing the network".

Mining prevents double spends, that's all it does.

It doesn't prevent your bitcoins being stolen or make you whole afterwards, it's not analogous to a security guard standing outside a vault, or the government guaranteeing your deposits.

I'm mildly optimistic about about crypto currencies in the long term (10 years or more), but energy usage is the weak point of bitcoin, I wrote about this here http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/195k4o/the_case_for...
What exactly does a force to be reckoned with wear?

Ascend the corporate hierarchy; how does your boss's boss's boss (or their opposite-gendered counterpart in another department) dress?
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Can you elaborate on your thesis so I know what you're specifically referring to?
The section on Wikipedia on Bitcoin mining is fairly informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_mining#Bitcoin_mining

In short: no, it doesn't really need so much computing power; miners upgrade to improve their relative chances of finding the solution first (which gives them the newly minted coins), and the software automatically increases the difficulty of the process in response. The result is an arms race among miners.
Can someone provide some backstory to this? Who is _why, and why is his reappearance interesting?
I would pick business. I have 2 degrees CS and math and the math one hasn't been that valuable so I'd avoid that.
I always thought that sucked. Its easy to take something that exists and make it better. Its damn hard to decide that something should exist in the first place and give it a try.

Like X only betterer is the ghetto of the technically talented but uncreative.
Every time a block is added to the block chain, whoever "solved" that block gets a fixed number of new bitcoins (25 is the current number, I think).

A block contains several pieces of information: a list of transactions, a link to the previous block, some other stuff and a nonce.
The nonce is a value used by the mining process.
"Solving" a block means finding the value for the nonce that, together with the proper contents of the block, hashes to a hash value that starts with a given number of zeroes.
You can't really find a correct nonce any other way than by trying new nonces until you find a correct one, hashing the block each time.
This is what the mining process is, in short.
I think I'm missing something because it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

If the first cell phone hadn't done this, what would stop a later phone from doing so? In fact, couldn't any phone buffer the numbers before sending them?
FB doesn't deserve to only be told how "FREAKING AWSOME" they are. The criticisms are very valid, outside the FB vacuum, and I expect FB will be making changes based on the feedback. How exactly are these users supposed to echo that they'd enjoy more FB integration their smartphone without hiding or neutering common features of a smartphone (or non-smartphone for that matter)?
You are right. It might be sexism. So you have a choice. You can act on that belief and sit around pining for a world where nobody judges another based on anything external, or you can get to work winning respect in the culture that exists. I think the second choice will be better for your career, and meeting a competent, confident female is a lot more likely to make the neanderthals rethink their sexism. Whining just reinforces the stereotype.

I'm 55. I guarantee I've suffered age discrimination when looking for work, and it obviously sucks. But once I'm on the job, it doesn't take long for people to see what I can do and forget the grey hair and wrinkles.
>Whatever Kurgman says, it is good to keep in mind that he is an economist turned partisan-politics hack.

Funny thing,I called MG Seigler a hack, and was attacked. Even PG came out of the word works to say he was "embarrassed" by the comment. Now we are calling Nobel prize winning economists hacks and asses?

The economic illiteracy of this place is what is embarrassing.
HN doesn't like sarcastically pointing out mansplaining, that's pretty clear.

I deleted the original reply because I made it in haste and it was rude.
I highly recommend Radiolab (http://www.radiolab.org/), it's one of the most respected podcasts out there. It's changed the way I see the world.
I think Rachel's point is not that it only happens to her because she's a woman, but that she feels that it happens to her more often or more acutely because she's a woman.

I don't dare presume to know her life enough to tell her she's wrong about that feeling. Saying that it happens to you as well doesn't exactly work as a refutation.
The only way bitcoins are being generated is by wasting computer cycles solving problems that are of no use to anyone. Krugman's problem is not with the concept of bitcoin, but the process of mining.

I may not be an economist, but the method used for mining seemed.. illogical to me as well. If a bitcoin was released into the wild based on running real world problems like folding@home or something else it would have much more sense to me.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...
Which people are those?
Calculated risk in the startup world
>They aren't blank, they're forwarded to your followers.

I meant that there's no easy way to determine which reblogs have actual responses and which are just raw reblogs. The concept of a reblog is great, but the execution isn't.
info and log are indistinguishable, at least in Chrome.
But you're both completely missing the point that mining for coins will become exponentially more efficient over time, with new mining techniques and hardware.
Shopzilla buys into big data with VoltDB for inventory management
Microsoft is in serious trouble and they are focussing on wrong things.

Chew gum and walk at the same time sort of a thing. Microsoft is more than one person so they have the resources to do many different things at the same time. My guess is that it's in Microsoft's interests to have as many rights as possible over code and languages. Also screwing Android and Google wouldn't hurt their business.

Google and MS have been going at each other for a decade plus, with attacks and counter attacks. Google won the latest round by having FTC not press any changes and by having MS pay a huge fine to EU.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e748bfc8-8682-11e2-b907-00144feabd...

March 6, 2013 6:56 pm

"Google tip-off leads to Microsoft EU penalty

Google has struck a €561m blow to Microsoft after the EU’s competition authority heavily fined the maker of Windows for settlement breaches secretly flagged up by the US internet group."
Most know of the choices made within the product. Yes, they are "going out of their way", in the same way that most of the inane complaints that Black Ops 2 is a tight quarters shooter are inane. Facebook Home expressly declares that it is about making your device a Facebook experience. Any complaint that argues something not of the Facebook experience is not the target market.
Rather abstractly Bitcoin is a scheme to solve the Byzantine General problem[1]. The problem is, how can we build a trusted history of accounting without knowing which nodes in the network are trustworthy. And the way Bitcoin does this is essentially by letting every miner vote with his CPU power and the history backed by the most computing power wins. Therefore as long as the majority of miners (weighted by their computing power) is honest, you can trust the accounting.

As to the question how Bitcoins come into existence, the miners are in control of the accounting and by design whoever "finds a new block," is allowed to create some Bitcoins (currently 25) out of thin air. The advantage of this is, that even if some very large miner is considering that he could try a 50+1 % attack, he has a strong incentive to stay honest because that way he earns half of the newly mined Bitcoins.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
Agreed. I too have asperger syndrome, and unfortunately that's a condescending and ridiculous article.
People would pick up their shiny new phone, not hear a dial tone, and return it because they think it's broken.
You can use fractional bitcoins for pricing
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right-click -> inspect element should work everywhere
Largely what textminer said. In fact they didn't use anything from the grand-prize winner because it would require too much engineering effort and because their concentration on the problem shifted. They did however use the two best methods from the "progress prize", so I wouldn't call the contest a failure.

>If you followed the Prize competition, you might be wondering what happened with the final Grand Prize ensemble that won the $1M two years later. This is a truly impressive compilation and culmination of years of work, blending hundreds of predictive models to finally cross the finish line. We evaluated some of the new methods offline but the additional accuracy gains that we measured did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment. Also, our focus on improving Netflix personalization had shifted to the next level by then.

From http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/04/netflix-recommendations-...
Maybe because some have tried it and discovered they didn't really retain what they read. This might easily be a personal thing, not an indictment of speed reading at all, only that some people can't absorb printed matter quickly.

In other words, the same training with the same goal, but completely different outcomes.

Another issue is content. Some of what I read requires great concentration and repeated scanning of complex passages. Other content can be read quickly simply because it doesn't require much from the reader. So one might say that not all reading is created equal.

Example: how quickly can one absorb "It was a dark and stormy night"? I would guess pretty quickly. On the other hand, "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana" might take a little longer. :)
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"It's quite silly to to say that a limited supply of a currency is bad for it"

I think the field of economics disagrees with you.
Mainstream economists aren't central planners. I don't mean just economists from both administrations. I meant mainstream economists from every school on the US News and beyond.
Alxp said:

> "As a man, let me explain to you why this thing you've experienced as sexism isn't really sexism."

> Thanks, Hacker News, that's so helpful.

It is helpful.

Rachel explained her experiences and her interpretation of those experiences. That's her right.

David has that right too. Got it?

Look—I realize it's trendy for feminist men to declare (or to passive-aggressively imply, in your case) that other men aren't allowed to discuss certain issues unless they express compliant views. I realize men are supposed to myopically defer[1] to women in every discussion about gender, even when those discussions can result in policies that could negatively affect large demographics.

But we need to stop giving in to those (male) bullies and realize that it's okay to have and share your opinion.

[1]: http://z33r0.tumblr.com/post/39855895875/dear-fellow-white-p...

That link is a wonderful window into the appallingly anti-intellectual worldview of modern "social justice warriors".
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Well, I agree that 3D printing is going to be a big step forward for the type of people who own CNC machines and own wood or metal shops.

But I think that's a pretty small group, and I don't it's big enough to justify all the overblown talk of 3D printing revolutionizing the world in general.
It's hard to design a proof-of-work scheme that is both secure and performs "useful" work.
Well thats your opinion.
Thanks for the info, I'll probably give them another shot in my next project after I go through the book.
I remember reading [Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby](http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/) back when I first started out learning ruby. I'm not familiar with his other projects, but I think they mainly dealt with ruby. A few years ago he randomly deleted his entire web presence and essentially disappeared.
It may just take a bit of work to make sure that the important tmux keybindings don't clash with those of the applications you will be running.
I don't think they would. All it would take is a one sentence explanation in the user manual and a blurb on the box claiming it as a new feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJob8K_OwE#t=30m20s
Apologies if I wasn't clear. I had meant the music providers "other than" Apple/Google/Amazon.

(I believe Apple/Google/Amazon only provide discrete music downloads, rather than streaming services. Apologies if I had misconceptions about their service offerings)