skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 1% shot of ruling the world is pretty useless. That's a 99% shot at failure. Also, who wants to rule the world? All taken, it's a pretty fucking ugly thing and it has some awful people in it. I know some people have that ambition, but not me.

A 75% shot at never having to take goddamn orders, on the other hand, is something I'd do things I can't put in print for. That's what I'm aiming for. I don't want to be some despot or extortionist telling others what to do, nor do I want to be told what to do. I want to have the opportunity to lead, if others will follow, without entitled and artificially empowered jackasses (i.e. typical corporate management) getting in the way of that.
Just because the NSA is building a datacenter doesn't mean shady things are happening.
I'm from Murica, and yeah, I do not care about it being Korean and I don't particularly have positive feelings for Apple. I would assume in general Americans have a neutral to positive view of Korea in general so I don't know why that would matter. I do use Mac computers and have been forced by my employer to use their crap phones but I have no great affinity for them or their company.

But yeah, Samsung ripped them off hard. It really isn't even about Apple. Sure the hipsters got upset when someone had a phone that looked like their iPhones but Samsung as a company has a long history of completely ripping off all their designs. Apple was just the hottest at the time so they are who got copied.

I can come up with dozens upon dozens more examples throughout history of Samsung blatantly copying designs but I won't because who cares? Do a search of "samsung copies x" and you will find thousands of pages showing examples.

The only time Samsung doesn't copy well is when they're implementing the "and paste" variety on their phones. As a consumer I don't care but as a designer I do vaguely resent their lack of design innovation. Or even treading water.

(someone will now please link to the blog that shows the dozens of Samsung ripoffs over the years as I cannot find it in my bookmarks)
If you do a backward history search with the prompt empty, it's the equivalent of cycling commands historically, isn't it?
Markets do not predict the future, they only represent the current state of mind about the future.

The fact that U.S. bond rates are so low does not mean that "something else is at work and the situation is not as bad as it seems." It just means that right now, folks can't think of a better place to put their money than in U.S. bonds. That mindset could change quickly if market conditions change. It was not that long ago that mortgage-backed securities were highly rated and well-funded.

Note: I'm not predicting doom for the U.S. here--just making the point that financial instruments really need to be evaluated by their business fundamentals, not how popular they are with other investors.

Furthermore, while the U.S. bond market is resistance to manipulation due to its size, smaller bond markets are not so protected. Here's one example:

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/July/11-at-890.html
If so, he's corrupt instead of bigoted. Doesn't (materially) change whether someone would want to work with the guy.
In case you didn't know, some dude wrote a pretty convincing Season 3 for SG:U. I recommend it to anyone that wants some closure.

Unofficial Stargate Universe, Season 3 (scripts)
http://laurencemoroney.azurewebsites.net/?page_id=2
What 'postulates' would they be calculated from? Does it even make sense to speak of universes following different 'logics'?

Exactly the point. What game do you know of that follows the laws of logic as we know them in the 'real' universe we habitate? It follows that it's nonsensical that we can reason ourself to reality if we are a simulation.
I disagree with this: Microsoft has Xbox which is an amazing consumer brand that can extended to a number of devices and grow a larger audience in the process. The key to fixing Microsoft is to focus on what they well: And yes while business is a huge part of that they do have something to offer to consumers.
OK, so it'll either add an auth header or not know what to do and refuse to do anything. Either way the password is not sent in the request url
I don't want to go too far down this rabbit hole, but you're still mixing taste and judgment. It sounds like you are judging live music as Good and studio albums as Bad, not describing your own taste.

If you're not telling people they should listen to live music and then studio albums will sound bland, then don't say things like, "Once you getting in to live music more, studio albums sound bland". Then you turn your nose at albums that both critics and the masses absolutely love, and would say are the opposite of bland. (And of course you have to add how you're a trained musician, throw in some passive-aggressive insults at the end, &c. This sort of stuff is not done in the service of discussion or appreciation of music.)
That isn't necessarily true. Them using small batteries to make a larger battery is what allows them to make their car sized batteries cheaper, since the smaller sized batteries are already mass produced for things like laptops. For charging time it depends on how those batteries are connected.
I'd love this for its compact nature, but I like digital for its precision. A title tag would be great!

<prompt title="12:03:33">(clockface)</prompt>
Best book ever! I asked the authors for a free copy because I was broke. I read it, then answered everything right at a job interview. Got the job and finally bought a real copy.
You can still search chronologically by hitting up arrow without typing anything. Ctrl-R still works. The only thing that's frustrating for me is not having it on computers I haven't assimilated yet. ;)
Thoughtbot guides - code review
For me, Unreal ][ music never gets old :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmhtc5S4atU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNGBzd2SLE
This was explicitly stated in the rules for the #ifihadglass lottery in advance. I'm all for railing against the decay of first-sale rights, but this seems like a sufficiently limited case that I have no worries. I find the article to be sorely lacking in such details.
I'm using exactly that setup and it does work, it just took me many hours and over 100 lines of custom storages + settings code to get it working.

I had to solve issues with custom domains, HTTPS, gzip, separate media/static files buckets, and storages/compressor not playing nicely together in general.
It's also possible that the intent was to make a purchase with those bitcoins.
MongoDB pretends to be good but it isn't. CRUD often means transactions, and my last company went broke because MongoDB doesn't do transactions. Relying on the code to track that crap meant we put our faith in the wrong system.

If you want to do anything financial, stick to a database that allows for transactions. This is why BitPay and all the other MongoDB bitcoin sites are going to fail, cause they rely on the wrong tools.
'Sense' is from the perspective of your limited (human) viewpoint. It makes no 'sense' to me that a civilization advanced enough to simulate a whole universe for the purpose of study would be stupid enough to expose such a bug/limitation that would expose their (possible) existence before we even built the first transistor.
If you have the hash, you can log into the site (just not using the typical libraries), so it really doesn't add a lot of security. That's why I was wrong :-P
Thanks for all the comments! Seems like most people have a similar solution - doing something completely unrelated to give your brain a rest.
Why Programmers Are Excited About Bitcoin
An Open Letter to Shanley (And Women in Technology)
You are missing the point here.

The claims of the MBA education is extraordinary. They claim that this will give you an edge on everyone else. It's not just a normal business education.

That's the measurement here.

With regards to how the world truly works.

The world truly works in many different ways depending on who you are, where you live and what you do.

Did you learn how africans on the savannah live? How un-educated people in the Bronx live? How people without jobs get social security. Did you learn what a person who get cancer thinks or what someone who get their family killed feels?

What you learned was how the world looks like through the eyes of an MBA, but you have not learned anything about the real world any more than someone living on the streets learn about the real world.

If anything you are abstracted far far away from reality.
Live video of the explosion. Watch the 0:29 second mark.
http://www.kwkt.com/news/caught-camera-fertilizer-plant-expl...
Wonderful!

I made a slight variation (and also posted it there):

function .runsudo --description 'Run current command line as root'
set cursor_pos (echo (commandline -C) + 5 | bc)
commandline -C 0
commandline -i 'sudo '
commandline -C "$cursor_pos"
end
bind \es ".runsudo"

Instead of outright `execute`ing the command, the above would save the cursor position. You can (theoretically) bind `\cs` so control-s adds the sudo (instead of option-s), but I couldn't get it to work.
"It surely isn't necessary that we are similar to a host universe, but I wouldn't you say it was a necessary part of this theory?"

I don't think it's a necessary part of the theory, but it's a necessary part of the test we would need to conduct. And given that such a test is simply testing for inconsistencies, artifacts and bugs inherent to our own universe/simulation, it's possible to detect whether we're in a simulation without having to test for the precise nature of it (or the nature of the simulators).

But our tests are inherently being conducted from our own frame of reference, with our own understanding of what should and shouldn't be found. Ergo, we can prove a simulation by finding artifacts of one as recognizable to us, but we can't necessarily disprove a simulation by not finding artifacts.

That being said, the proper way to think about the test wouldn't be "Physicists are testing to determine if we're in a simulation." It would be "Physicists are testing to find evidence that we're in a simulation."
thanks for the support... it is still very early for us and didnt expect to be seen yet
I don't see any reason his comment should be down-voted, the others just sound emotional and butthurt about the situation. Sorry you guys are so torn about this stuff, but if anything is useless, it's this meta-conversation about his comment.
Say you have $1000 and 20 bitcoins of capital to work with, and the current price of bitcoins is $50 on both exchanges. Put $500 cash and 10 bitcoins on each of the two exchanges. Then if the price rises to $55 on exchange A but doesn't move on exchange B, you can buy 10 more bitcoins on B and sell your 10 bitcoins on A for $550, you now have a balance of $1050 at A and 20 bitcoins at B. Since you started out with 20 bitcoins and $1000, and ended up with 20 bitcoins and $1050, you made $50 profit.

You can only participate in trades in the other direction (buying bitcoins on A, selling on B) until and unless you can move the cash and bitcoins between the exchanges, which may take hours or days.

Of course, there are a lot of assumptions built into these numbers: The numbers assume your trading is sufficiently small compared to the total market size that your operations won't change prices, and the exchanges and blockchain charge you no transaction fees. These aren't absolutely true in practice, of course, with the consequence that prices can deviate a little between exchanges without creating an arbitrage opportunity.

Shorting would make things easier, because then you wouldn't have to keep the coins in your account at A in order to sell them, you could borrow them on demand, sell them, and then transfer from B or your wallet at leisure.

Likewise, being able to move funds quickly would help you out by reducing the time when half of your capital is out of the game because you're moving it around (I'm assuming you'll transfer 10 bitcoins to A and $500 to B after you did the trade to get back to the original situation), and the other half is half-useless because it can only be used to trade in one direction.

But neither of these features is necessary to allow you to make guaranteed profits when (or if) sufficiently large price differences appear.
thanks - in due time!
models -> models.py,
controllers -> views.py,
views -> templates,

right?
anthony, just a note, you should also buy the domain residen.ce for the other half of the world that uses a bastardization of the english language :) you can just redirect to residen.se

good luck with your venture. some thoughts on okfounder:

1. where is the return value of the site, in other words, if i found a great founder on the site and am happy with him/her, what incentive do i have to revisit? maybe your idea is that most people will start something else up, but that number won't necessarily be high. perhaps of more value is to find startup people, not just founders, but initial employees, founders, consultants, advisors, etc.

2. personally i don't feel some of the content are that relevant, such as your favorite artists/people, books you've read, there's a much better place for this information (facebook, twitter), you should link to those. you should put more things along the lines of what you're trying to build, personally, i don't think ideas need to be secret, that's what will really draw in a cofounder or employee, not whether or not you both like catcher in the rye.
I ask myself: What would Jon Skeet do?
I think the author recognizes that as well, hence the name.
... paid for the privilege of being able to buy them.

Did they buy them or not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

Edit: upon further reflection, first-sale doctrine is around intellectual properties like books and music. I presumed there was a legal right to sell goods you've bought... but maybe not?
>>It's not about compensation

Sorry, it is about the money. It has always been about the money.

As I get older, I realize nothing apart from money even matters.
From RankNet to LambdaRank to LambdaMART: An Overview [2010]
Lifted verbatim from the latest newsletter from Steve Pavlina. Nothing explicitly wrong with that as Steve relinquished all claims on his writings, but thought I should mention this if someone wants to find more from the original author.
Would you sign a contract to get a book?
Either Google manufactured a schedule, or they're using someone else's manufactured schedule.
Since recruters ask for Git profile (what you do), Stackoverflow profile (what you ask), Linkit profile (who you know), why not include one profile on what you read (what interest you)?
If you show that you mainly follows the articles on Node.js for two years, it will make believable that you are indeed interrested in this techno.
There is also a story saying that it was a reference to Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple following a forced hormonal treatment after being convicted of the "crime" of homosexuality.

But it turns out to be only a coincidence.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Recognition_and_tr...)
doesn't angelist do some of the same things?
But nowhere does this article even talk about using this for smartphones or in any form of application.
No I don't have an MBA and I wouldn't want one even if it was given to me.

But I did start a design agency built it to 60 people and ran it successfully for 6 years working for client all around the world of all different kind of sizes.

I have more case studies than I care for.

I also build friendships and a great great network of connections.

And I made money while doing it.

Business is simple (not easy)
So, what's their upgrade path situation? Are they going to try to hold out indefinitely on 2.3? Upgrade at the last possible moment? (Ick) Switch out of Rails when the situation becomes intolerable?
I totally don't care what he wanted to buy, or to chastise him for his investment decisions; I'm just curious if people are generally moving their money into Bitcoin in an attempt to move "off the grid" financially, or if this was an investment.
In other words, http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2253#c...
Update...
I changed the buttons to blue and added a blue line around the sign up section.

Any feedback for the link: "Online Dating and related topics & tips!" it launches the page http://www.soulfuse.com/OnlineDating.aspx.

It links to four other pages with online dating information.

Still working on either a video or the "what makes us different", to entice people to sign up.

As far as the design goes I am trying to keep the page looking clean and uncluttered, although I will look into trying to spruce it up without making the site look like it is trying too hard to get attention.

About the graphic, I have gotten the most compliments for the graphic for various reasons. My personal choice for using it was because I think it is more appealing to look at than a bunch of random individual's pictures plastered on the landing page. I think it provokes one's imagination.

Thank you!

Don
"they are in the business of politicking."

This can in my experience as well be said about MBAs

"They are in the business of MBA'ing or business"

It's the title not the skills that gives you access to a higher salary.

Those MBAs I met that where great where already great at what they did and clearly didn't need one. They just thought they did.
It's just a flag which adds some explanatory text on the page, rather than displaying the regular 'customer requests change of password' page.
that is not a viable practice over the long run. the entire point of using a migrations tool is so you can migrate the schema and the data forwards and backwards automatically and consistently every time. attempting to do that with raw SQL scripts is a disaster waiting to happen. its so bad that the entire idea of a migration tool was invented to solve this problem.

so I ask again: what's your alternative (given that avoiding raw SQL scripts is the problem you're trying to solve)?
That's incorrect. The URI library will parse the URL into a hostname, username, and password. Only the hostname is sent to the DNS server.

The username and password are sent in the "Authorization" HTTP header, which will be encrypted.
This is still far less creepy than google/facebook's massive hoardings of personal information used for advertising.
That is our goal. This is definitely a very early look, but we also hope to provide you great content about Node.js from other top readers, which hopefully can help you discover useful content.

Or if you are new to a topic (like Node.js), you can find the articles that subject matter experts have read, and have at minimum a crash course "lesson plan".
I wish there was something like this for rails - well written, concise and keeps the newbies away from things that'll hurt them. In particular, some major pain points:

1. Use rbenv or rvm. Half the problems I notice with beginners stem from installing rails with apt-get or something.

2. Your controller is meant to be simple glue between model and view - if you're putting tons of code in there, you're doing it wrong.

3. Unit test. A lot. This is especially good for beginners because you often make little errors when you're starting out.

4. Unit testing isn't enough. Functional testing is important too.

5. Learn about your hosting provider. Specific to Heroku, if you're on the free plan, every dyno spin-up takes absolutely forever if you don't have a steady stream of visitors.
Yeah, because if there's one thing you need, it's another fucking Redis article.
How about don't just jump from fad to fad. Usable design is not something that changes every 90 days
Houdini: The (HTML) Escapist
Thank you for mentioning this. There's nothing illegal about it (since Steve has explicitly given permission), but posting someone else's article without mentioning the author is pretty lame.
Not Waco, West.
Can you please provide an example of where a monopoly has formed with no state power involved? I am interested in this area and want to find any real world examples.
Do you know why pyres relies on itty? Seems like kind of an odd dependency...
To me AngularJS is beatiful. Just my 2 cents.
I stated in the title "by Steve Pavlina" (after realizing I didn't do it in tumblr) but the overzealous moderators removed it! Note that I posted it to a completely anonymous blog.
True, though it's close enough to Waco to use it as a reference.
Sorry to be "that guy" but why is this on HN? The last few days I see HN get more CNNish.
Good to know, that will be a lot easier and I will fix that right now.
My apologies, I shouldn't have been so brief. Where I was going with my comment is that I don't take issue with other people's beliefs. What I take issue with is how they treat others. They may treat people badly because of their beliefs or because they're jerks... just as someone that is a biggot may still treat people well (ie "you're lesser than me, but all people deserve response").
First sale is only about intellectual properties because it is applied to copyright. That is, it is necessary to grant you the right to resell something that contains copyrighted property.

For example, without first sale you couldn't sell a book you legally bought, because the author still has distribution rights over the story it contains. (That make sense?)

For physical items, there is not a government granted monopoly to compare.
Obviously it involves some luck and you can't know everything - but you can make a guess based on what you see happening that the price will go up for a little bit before going down and that guess isn't made in a vacuum.

In this case there was an enormous amount of hype and articles had just started pouring out about it with the price jumping from $47 up to $88 very quickly. It seemed likely it would increase for some time before the drop.

I'm not saying I just used 'common sense' (which is a bullshit term), but that you can make a guess about what will happen and then just cash out immediately when things start to turn south. It has nothing to do with being smart - just paying attention, making a guess based on what's going on and getting a little lucky.
You sure? Not in the bash versions (3 & 4) I'm using... In anycase, I'll stick to C-R since I know it works universally. And I depend on C-R quite a bit.
You still need a system for tracking which changes have been applied to
your database and for distributing the changes to the rest of your team.

Even if you don't use South's automatic migration generation, its
database-independent schema modification api [1], dependency tracking,
and tracking of which migrations have been run, are useful and
necessary. In fact, the automatic generation of migrations is an
optional feature of South that was not in it when first released.

When you need to write SQL and interact with your database directly, using
`db.execute` inside a South migration is a nice way to do it.

[1]: http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/databaseapi.html
A video never do justice to a explosion, yet this looks ridicously violent, very different from the videos from Boston...
Detecting instrumentation in musical signals on a frame-by-frame basis
Five things I’d tell my 21 year old self
I'm somewhat new to Django, and I'm just curious if Heroku is the best solution out there for Django? I've heard some good things about Gondor, and apparently it's more tailored for Django apps, but I'd be curious to know what the HN consensus is on Django hosting that won't collapse on you if you get HNed/Reddited.
Salar.ly is good in that it shows actual salary data of foreign workers since this info is required to be reported by law.
Do you think there would be value in accepting HTTP requests and then automatically and immediately expiring every credential that ever gets passed over plain HTTP?