skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Registration step is huge and annoying. I had to add my friends in ICQ, then MSN, then Facebook, then Skype, then Google+ (well no, not this one ...).

I use Whatsapp once per month and I'm not even sure what it does or how it does it. I just know I can send group messages to everyone in my contact list who have it and it WORKS.
Wouldn't the same logic follow though if someone agreed to turn off their file sharing and/or delete the files they downloaded? The MPAA/RIAA doesn't seem to be ok with that.
Life is a gamble. Hide in the house or accept that you might fall off the bike and scrape your knees once in a while.
Does this work yet with Chrome on iOS? The last persona enabled web site I tried, simply threw an error when using the Chrome app.

EDIT: Here is a link to the progress on this issue, it was moved to the next beta https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2034
That's just the fallback identity provider Mozilla runs. The idea is that your GMail address will authenticate you using whatever GMail uses, so you can use 2-factor authentication.

If you have your own domain/server, you can easily switch out password authentication for something else today if you run your own Identity Provider. Here's my minimal Python IdP implementing TOTP (Google authenticator) authentication:

https://bitbucket.org/djc/persona-totp
Based off of what monetary statistics do you make this claim? Who is going to crash the coin - and how?
Looks like they provide a real time commenting system for sites. With any success that is going to be one heavily hit API.
This is correct. In my town, there are four used game stores. Two of these stores do not exist online in any shape or form (One locally owned, one a subsidiary of game exchange).

Searching for a seamstress in my town turns up a few results for dry cleaners. A look on craigslist returns a much larger result.
You can replace their router with one of your own. On my ONT there are two ways of connecting to the Verizon service:

1) Ethernet. If you connect this way then running your own router is trivial, but by using Ethernet you lose some services related to TV.

2) Coax. This is a bit more complicated. You'll still have to power the Verizon router, but everything behind, and including, your router still will be under your control. You need a Coax to Ethernet adapter like this one:

http://www.netgear.com/service-provider/products/powerline-a...

I don't remember all the specific steps I had to take to enable this offhand. I need to go back and write a howto. In any case, The final setup will look like this:

Verizon ONT --[Coax]--> Moca Adapter --[Ethernet]--> Your router.
Moca Adapter --[Coax]--> Verizon router.

One important point is that you must release your DHCP IP on the Verizon router before your router can obtain one.

I think you can dispense with the Coax connection to the Verizon router if you don't care about TV capabilities, but if you don't you might as well switch the ONT to use Ethernet instead and avoid this mess.

My main motivation for doing this was that the wireless capabilities of the Verizon-supplied router were terrible, but it has the added bonus of keeping Verizon's prying eyes out of my home network.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that there were 6,300 Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners (code 49-9053) in the United States in 2010 and 320 in New York State in 2008.http://www.acinet.org/occ_rep.asp?next=occ_rep&Level=...
There has to be at least one password. If you use password managers like Lastpass or Keepass, you're essentially putting all your eggs in one basket, but that is generally safer than what the typical internet user does which is use the same password for everything.
Hahahaha....Google used to have XMPP too, you know, but the Google Talk servers move more and more away from it every day. Hell, the classes for using Google Talk in the Android beta used to have XMPP in their class names, then Google Talk, then they were made private all together. If you think Google would make anything into normal XMPP you just don't know much about the space.
Pandora Now Has 200 Million Registered Users
Articles like this demonstrate why most people don't get Bitcoin in the 1st place. Let's ignore the factual inaccuracies like bitcoin production bottoming out in 2040 (it's 2140, Justin, and that's a big difference) and focus on how Justin doesn't get it.

Bitcoin is in use right now transferring money around the globe. If I buy 100$ worth of bitcoin (0.478 bitcoin at current prices) and immediately use it to purchase anything, it has served its purpose as a value transfer medium. This is regardless of tomorrow or yesterday's price. It is this efficacy that people pay for when they buy bitcoins.

Bitcoin was not designed as a storage or investment medium it was designed to facilitate the transfer of value. As long as it performs that function it will continue to defy the misplaced expectations of those who refuse to go to the effort of understanding it.
>what does everybody have against static typing?

A lack of understanding. People get very upset when you say this, but I have yet to see a single person argue against static typing accurately. Every single argument (oh look, a bunch have been posted in reply to you even) I've seen has been based on exactly this fallacious reasoning:

>When thinking 'static types', does everybody just think C/C++/Java?

Yep. Including the people who write dynamically typed languages even:

http://www.artima.com/intv/strongweak.html
>" Imagine if cavemen learning to paint on walls said, well we haven't improved in a few millennia, so this is probably the most complex thing that can be represented by drawings."

The analogy between painting and programming languages has some precedent around the HN community. But the idea that contemporary painted images are more advanced than those on the walls of Lascaux is suspect because it is premised upon our acceptance of a belief that the ancient paintings were not well suited to their purpose.

It is more likely that the opposite is the case. Today, most paintings carry little significant meaning to their author's larger community. The odds that Salvador Dali's butcher was impacted by the armlessness of Venus de Milo are pretty low - never mind the $86 clown on steel collage Mission Thrift Store.

Art and programming languages have evolved. But that evolution is Darwinian not teleological. High-level languages are better adapted to the humans who write them but not the machines which run them.
Ada was the main language at my school (I graduated in 1993), they have changed a few years latter (for Caml or OCaml AFAIK).

I do not think that Gnat has increased the usage of Ada. Before Gnat, there was an army of salespeople selling very expensive compilers. After Gnat, they have switched to other expensive technologies (for example SNiFF+, Weblogic, ...) not related to Ada.
It is too sad that this looks like a lost battle. Ada is so superior to C++.
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Aaron Swartz's Raw Nerve.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve
Be glad you didn't try and figure this amazing piece of road out...

Streetview: http://goo.gl/maps/Nni7P
About: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
This is actually not a very good estimate. It has many inaccuracies, and those inaccuracies are harder to nail down than the original problem, so you made it harder on yourself.

Some questions about your result:
How many piano tuners work at any of those piano tuner companies?
How many piano tuner companies are not on yelp?
How many piano tuners are employees of instrument stores instead of working freelance/for a tuner company?

Those are all harder to answer without industry information than the simple deductions the handout makes from common sense/knowledge.

I have the feeling it is important that people understand the limits of technology. Even though we like to say something doesn't exist if it isn't on Google, things very often do irregardless.
I like the idea of the article, but it falls apart in the real world, on the individual level. Each human has a finite amount of resources, time, and energy. Therefore we tend to invest in those projects that we feel will reward us in the way we need to be rewarded. For most people that is monetary, as people we like to eat, more than bananas.

If we had a social system that had a softer cushion for failure or a start-up incubator that rewarded ideas that were creative we may see a larger group of people taking risks and interesting ideas.

One of the primary differences between humans and monkeys creating start-ups is that humans have human lives. We have bills, families, responsibilities, higher wants and needs, and so much more. The start-up arguments seem to forget that we are all people, real human people. Even entrepreneurs are people, and they will have to address their humanity at some point.
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A light creative portfolio
I assumed back then they would not photograph what would (back then) be considered "not normal".

Just an assumption, I guess it does sound stupid.
Persona is only handling authentication temporarily.

Once email providers start providing their own Identity Providers then the security falls entirely on them.

For instance, once GMail starts being its own authenticator, my two-factor authentication there will kick in.
You can bootstrap a startup quite successfully just using a few hours a week. But not all startups. Depends what you're doing.

I guess that's true, when you consider something like patio11 and his BCC. It doesn't sound like he was pouring 60+ hours a week into that (or maybe he was, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, please).

But I'm also guessing that the set of startups that you can build with that small a time investment, is pretty small. Especially if you're talking about something that's intended to be a scalable startup, something that can be a billion dollar business someday.
I find that using a Kindle or Android ebook reader really helps avoiding the task switching, as does dual monitors.

Leave your computer on the task you are working on and you won't "lose" the result in a sea of windows.

Actually, it's a great habit to use a different machine for surfing the net than the one you use for developing. Then you are very conscious that you aren't working when you are on your "other" machine.

I'm almost envious sometimes of secure locations that limit internet access to a single room rather than allowing it to be on every desktop.
It's enough to have a brief explanation right before starting the interview, there's no need to have this info before registering or anything. And no problem at all, good luck!
"Huge and annoying" one time deal, which later allows you changing your password and also allows you choosing the ID of your liking, so you'd appear to your contacts with some recognizable name, and not as some numeric #########@whatsapp.com

When you sign up for e-mail, do you think it's normal to skip the registration step and to give you some random ID and password? Why is IM any different? Also, do you think it's normal for your e-mail ID to be tied to one device, or you'd expect to be able to access and read / send it from multiple devices / computers? Why should IM be any different? That's what XMPP is about. Whatsapp tries to create a crippled service instead, but somehow manages to wrap it as a "convenience".
Exactly, this is such a smart move.
Using HBase and Hadoop to manage 100 Million Users
Persona is decentralised by design (with a centralised stop-gap to get things going). Once other companies implement their own Identity Provider it's all entirely decentralised.
Just as likely in theory and proven out in the real world in practice. Deflation is rare but this is what happens.
cool. btw email me directly at elli@hireart.com and i can hook you w some cool jobs.
Anecdotally, I think you're wrong; I spent three years dealing with PhD people in Economics. All of them used Microsoft Word; none used Latex. Many of them were absolutely brilliant at maths.

Many of them were doing table generation using STATA and some scripting in MS Office.

I don't think it's a stretch to believe that people could be brilliant in maths, but not so great with computers.
Microsoft account to get two-factor authentication soon
> I also think there's too much yielding to the car coming from much smaller streets on the right.

That's a feature though, since it is usually used in residential areas to slow down traffic and force people to stop more frequently, instead of just rolling through at 30...who are we kidding, 40+ Km/h.
Here's the list of supported browsers:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Browser_com...
Dear YC companies, I responded. You could do the same.
This should be self explanatory, but I'm going to put it out there anyway. If you are going to spam all the freelancers in the "Freelancer" thread each month, asking for a very detailed quote, portfolio examples and an estimate, at least have the courtesy to respond.

My time is worth a lot, which is probably why you didn't respond. I don't forget which companies are rude and don't hesitate to tell others about my experience with you. I'm sure the other freelancers feel the same.

Thanks
Why is Krugman a hack?

An excessive increase in savings causes a reduction in spending which causes the economy to slow which causes people to use their savings.

Savings aren't really an investment, or at least not a very good one. The utility of savings is to smooth out changes in expenditures in relation to income. Some savings are good as a cushion to protect against temporary declines in income, in the same way body fat was a good way for our ancestors to maintain their energy expenditures when their food intake was insufficient (in the short term).

Savings aren't an investment because the return they're expected to yield is not greater than inflation. This is why someone says they "invested" in something that should ordinarily be considered an expense, you know they're making bad financial decisions.
I really wish these articles would just stay off HN. All they do is bring out the armchair economists and the gold bugs.
For most people, their email password already is 'one password' for everything. If someone compromises their email account then they can use the account recovery features of these other websites to reset their password through email.
What it comes down to is whether you will ever break even with what you put into your rig + all the ongoing expenses for what you get out.

> Electricity is pretty cheap. The kind of gear required to make the electric bill a significant problem would be a bankrupting level of capital expense.

The problem is that often Bitcoins are cheaper.
What problem does this solve? We already have ≈ for approximately equal. And how does it make anyone "better at sums"?
> A well-known curve of a calculation’s accuracy versus mental effort goes like

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Have anyone really measured this bump or it's only folklore / myth?
Wikileaks search
you'd be surprised

as an operator of a large IRC network I am forced to keep my real name off my employer's websites, websites like github and my home address out of the public record (director's addresses and such like)

it's a major nuisance
I don't see them moving away much. They had problems with federated invites lately, but they fixed it already.
Wow, every language is most coveted by employers? What a helpful list.
You could use cluster compute instances which use hardware virtualisation, and I think gives you the whole machine. With spot pricing, you could run them for about 21¢ an hour.
I don't understand. When I say, in Ruby, `"hello".upcase`, I'd say I'm expressing a concept, and a whole lot of nitty gritty - memory allocation, object instantiation, method lookup, etc, is being "filled in" for me.

This works because the code I type still expresses exactly what I want. The thing the computer can't do for me is specify exactly what I want.

Are you looking for more of the same, or some "guess what I want"?
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Fools gold
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I will definitely check out the Coursera courses. thanks!
Haskell's type system can be unwieldy (and often on the edge of experimentation, it is) but that's because it's not so different from a programming language itself. That said, both the type system and the language, Haskell, itself are based on incredibly simple pieces.
Genius.box wants to put a different experiment on your doorstep every month
> As much as I admire the dreams and accomplishments of Elon Musk, I have trouble getting past the idea that he failed to maintain his marriage (the biggest promise of them all) and rarely sees his own children.

Look at the personal histories of accomplished men and women throughout history, and you will see many examples of lives in which personal relationships and children were a low or nonexistent priority -- these are often lives dedicated to doing something important instead.

To put this in the simplest possible way, can you tell me the names of Einstein's children? I can -- they're Special Relativity, General Relativity, and the photoelectric effect. They look great together in family photographs. Einstein actually had biological children, but they just weren't very important to his life or his work.

How about the children of two-time (1903 and 1911) Nobel Prizewinner Marie Curie? She had children, but they just weren't very important, either to her personally or to her place in history -- consider that, in her lengthy Wikipedia article, her children are only mentioned in passing (she had two):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

> Maybe the answer to OP's question is, "Because many who could dream and do like Elon Musk would rather focus on the "little things" like life, love, and family.

Yes, and, given what extraordinary people can accomplish when they are more focused, that's often a tragedy. Consider how often one hears stories of people who inadvertently get involved in child-raising who have no aptitude for it, and who do a terrible job.

My point? Relationships and family are a choice in life, not a requirement. People -- men and women -- should feel free to focus on career instead if they wish. The idea that relationships and family are primary requirements is a persistent myth that disproportionately hurts women in their careers, but men as well.

Giving birth to a child is nice, but there's no shortage of people doing that. Giving birth to an idea is extraordinary, and far too few people make that life choice.
Hetzner offer the cheapest dedicated servers with pretty hefty resources. Hence the invitation for abuse.
Happened to me. Incomprehension is the reason I clicked the link.
Having just returned from the USA, I must admit, whilst I strongly dislike like the "car culture" the street were incredibly well sign posted. A pet hate of mine here in the UK are missing signs.
I've also found walks to be super valuable. They're times where you can't get distracted because there's nothing else to do but think, like in the shower (which is why so many great ideas happen in each). They also get a little physical activity into your day which helps the brain work.

When I take walks with my wife we have great convos that won't happen on the couch when we're exhausted. We walk this circular path around Duke's East campus, which is about 2 miles. Having a defined path like that helps too- you don't have to get distracted by where you're going or be temped to end it early.
Why are they shitting on social sign-in when this works the exact same way, but with email providers? You still need a pop-up that takes you to several domains and makes you click Yahoo's "Accept" button.

I can see the confidence people might get from the added layer of Persona talking to the external service as opposed to the website that you've never been to before (given the Persona brand builds lots of trust), but the UX is still just as clunky and awkward.
I think there's a certain kind of person that's attractive to these kind of verbose, complex bootstrapping tools. Not that that's a bad thing at all, but like you said, it's not for everyone.

I can see the usefulness, but when I try to use it, it just feels like it has a steep learning curve and I could better invest my time elsewhere.

I use node heavily, and setting up the project, `npm install express` and a few other libraries, only takes a few seconds. I can start writing code quickly. I also don't create new projects that often, but I can't imagine most people are daily creating new projects.

At work we have our own django bootstrap that we can easily hack on and clone.

I can't say exactly why it doesn't fit my use case, but it just doesn't feel right for some reason. It has a ton of dependencies. I don't see why I shouldn't just use grunt and bower directly, etc etc.
So what? what did Elon musk do for spacex and tesla other than bankroll them?

edit: meant as reply to GP :)
I would have loved to see some of the examples he was talking about.
It's not yet clear whether Bitcoin is money, or whether it is some strange new hybrid of asset and currency for which conventional wisdom does not apply and for which historical analogies fail.
Thanks leeoniya!

Just tried out my site on Insight". Wow! I scored horribly lol. This is good news though and I will learn a lot from this.

One of my favorite quotes comes from my favorite pitcher Greg Maddux. (I'm paraphrasing of course).
"You learn more when you have a game where things go wrong
as oppose to a game where things go right" (something like that)
I think it has to do with how you phrase the question. People go to job interviews knowing that they're going to be tested for their knowledge, and phrasing the question like that triggers a "how am I supposed to know that?" response.

But you're not actually asking them to know it, you're asking them to reason about it. So perhaps instead of asking "How many gas stations do you think are in this town?" try asking "Could you give me a reasonable estimate of the amount of gas stations in this town?".

I think a lot of people just lock up when they're asked something they don't know in a synthetic situation even when in a real situation they would actually make very good judgements since in any real situation the context is often so much more clear, unless you like to keep your employees in the dark..
> I hope the author spends some time learning about programming languages and programming language research.

The author is a programming language academic. See: http://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/
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They've even got your GA code in the source!
Even though RC4 is fast you really shouldn't be using it:
http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/
Because protein folding doesn't validate transactions, and doesn't solve the "Byzantine Generals" problem.
Bought 2 coined bits (http://www.coinedbits.com/) when a bitcoin was about $5.

And I also lost 50 bitcoins after a pc cleanup. A block mined solo, with my CPU. A long time ago.
The guy who's been the head of the central bank in my country for about 20 years or so, once said to make sure you get loans in the same currency you have your income, so any volatility in the currency of the loan is matched by the same currency of the income.

The only reason you think having to repay a loan in Bitcoin would be a problem, is because you think your income comes in dollars. And doing that would indeed be very unwise. But if we get to the point where we can get loans in Bitcoin, I think it's safe to assume the income of many people would be based on Bitcoin, too, so it wouldn't be a problem at all for them.
It's the well known 'this graph is true because it has unexplainable data in it' bump.
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Could the university you work for provide you with a second machine whilst the first machine runs experiments?