skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but this has nothing to do with the point that gold is not money by statist fiat.

Gold's real scarcity and base value are what make it suitable for use as money and therefore universally accepted as money for thousands of years.

Cowrie shells might also make an acceptable non-fiat currency if cowrie shells were really scarce (they're not, because one can presumably breed cowries and generate them at will - something that was perhaps not so practical at the time when they actually were used as currency) or had a significant base value (again, they don't though they once did, but purely for ornamental uses). Similarly cigarettes are a currency in prison without any fiat being involved because they're scarce in that context and they have a base value (based on their use for smoking).

Bitcoin has neither real scarcity nor any basis for a lasting base value. It has illusory scarcity, and a transient base value based on the fact that in the current historical context, it enjoys network effects and near zero competition for certain use cases (illegal transactions where fiat currencies are unsuitable).

There's nothing sacred about gold either. If efficient nuclear transmutation of lead into gold were possible, gold would no longer be suitable as a currency. We'd have to switch to Latinum.
I thought this was a nuclear explosion at first:

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/324705609314340867/ph...
What being a product of the digital age means
It's simple really:

Because people make the mistake of constant blanket statements:

Technical people say: "MBAs always suck."

Non-Technicals say: "Techies are incessant and snarky geeks."

One blanket statement results in the retort of another statement, and then group polarization takes effect. So by making this rant, you're just setting a precedent for Techies to be flamed at MBAs even more.
Haha fair call. I actually misread and it's listed as the 2nd biggest shipbuilder. Still, people tend to be surprised as typically when I think 'Samsung', I imagine TVs, phones and laptops.
What foundation do you use to say that kids aren't good at music these days?

Katy Perry is a classically trained pianist who used to play in churches etc.; Justin Bieber taught himself the violin and piano when he was a preteen. I'm just thinking of two very popular artists that everyone likes to hate on these days; but there are hundreds of examples like that.

If a veteran LISP hacker said on HN "kids these days aren't good at computer science because all they do is write dumb web applications and iPhone apps", we'd all agree that it's a vapid hollow argument.
Etiher there are some stupid people making local policy at Samsung Taiwan, or in the places with less chances of getting caught they got away with it.
Leave your computer for a day. Go outside, enjoy life, and disconnect from your work. Worked every time for me.

If I still couldn't find a solution, I will eventually come up with a workaround during those disconnected times.
It’s time for Microsoft to give up on consumers
But 110kV into the car is totally out of the question.

It would be pretty unreasonable. But burning gas at 100% efficiency is actually impossible, so it's sort of a silly scenario anyway.

...you'd need 20kA. That'd be a fat cable indeed.

Maybe not as fat as you'd think; this guy figures 50KA here, and you wouldn't want to work with an extension cord like that every day, but it's not like you'd need a crane to lift it, either:

http://youtu.be/uXEPy6Za6cI
...what's your alternative?

Write SQL and interact with your RDBMS directly?
Preventing someone else from getting that and using it on the server, especially if the service can rack up charges.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
HTTPS will encrypt the URL, but the DNS lookup is in clear. So the "username:password@example.com" part will be sniffable/loggable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-enc...
I have a IngDirect (now CapitalOne360) checking account, which for many years was attached to Paypal and Google Checkout for receiving payments for Bingo Card Creator. One day, I got a call from their fraud/security department. Paraphrasing: "We know you're clean and well-established with us, but this use of the account with two incoming transfers a day is outside of our risk parameters, so you've got 30 days to move off it for your business use. We don't want this business."

It's highly likely that Bitfloor was receiving many times that volume from many more payers with less history and, let me be charitable here, less ability to convince the fraud department that there was a legitimate business causing the deposits. It was obvious they were going to be shut down.

P.S. If any of you think this won't happen to Mt. Gox I encourage you to consider "How high do I rate my understanding of risk controls and regulation at Japanese commercial banks?"
I think the difference is in the contract agreement. The right comes from the user agreeing in writing to forbid doing certain things with the item. Given the fact that no one is being coerced into buying it I think the boundaries can be drawn pretty wide on those agreements.

I think the question is, is it reasonable to assume that if the user broke the contract, the seller could repossess the item. I would imagine it wouldn't be any different than if someone didn't pay their car payment to the auto dealer/bank. In either case the user and seller agree to actions which each will take over a set period of time.
In 20 years time, this thing is probably going to have some memorabilia value. I wonder if this provision makes it impossible to sell as a collector's item too.
Anywhere but the US
android plz :(

I really like the idea tho :D
When I made the comment. I was looking at this line:

For an overview of the features in *fishfish*, see the

Which I took as the official name of the shell, before I later realized it was some kind of wierd typo. my name is pronounced fish-fish. I was drawing attention to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti . I hate English, you see.
Why is this Chrome extension unpacked. What? They make users download a zip file, extract the zip file, go into Chrome developer mode in the extensions tab and load an unpackaged extension. They could have done that themselves and then just have users drag the .crx file onto the extensions tab.

Am I missing something?
What have you tried? Because staticfiles + django-storages + django-compressor sounds like it can handle that use case.
It's probably not the first time someone has put all their disposable income into what they think is a time-sensitive investment opportunity.
Should be decent on tablets, didn't get to phones yet, but definitely will.
I pay $75 a month for 500gb of data and a 20mb cable connection here in Australia... The Government is rolling out a whopping 100mbps network which is due for completion in 2025... One can only dream that Google would try and implement something like Google Fiber in Australia but the limited capacity of undersea cables probably means it won't happen for another 100 years.
I usually switch into a different task. That tends to work pretty well, and doesn't leave me feel like I'm not making progress.

When I'm completely stumped or frustrated with something, I'll shut everything off for a while. I just go do something. Enjoy dinner, watch TV, play games, hang out with people. Zero thoughts about the problem.

Most of the time, re-approaching after a cold boot like that tends to change my perspective so much that I will typically solve the problem with much less effort than I expected would be required. Sometimes this is just caused by being tired when initially approaching a problem and then conquering it after resting. Sometimes I'll suddenly have a realization subconsciously and I'll realize I figured out a solution to the problem without thinking about it.

This has worked for me since college. Getting one of those nasty algebra or functional analysis problems and being stuck, then realizing in the middle of playing a game later that you suddenly know how to solve the problem is a great feeling. It's like you're doing work without doing work.
Building a Foundation For Life Without a Job
Engineers profit financially too. Anyone that's acqhired is leaving entrepreneurship for engineering for the promise of a big financial payoff.

I'd say the main difference is that an entrepreneur "shifts resources from areas of low productivity to high productivity", while an engineer comes up with the most viable technical solution to a problem. In other words, an entrepreneur's job description includes opportunity costs, while an engineer's job description leaves that for an executive or product manager to worry about. Profit is a natural consequence of that, since if you are successfully shifting resources from areas of low productivity to high productivity, the difference can be captured as profit.
The difference is that instead of outputting HTML, it outputs JSON.

Which is non-semantic, so it cannot be progressively enhanced, does not benefit from browser updates and is pretty much not crawlable by anyone except Google.
I don't doubt this isn't an activity that most companies engage in, some more than others. There are probably a lot smarter companies who have yet to be caught and might not ever be caught. Some act surprised, but in this day and age of anyone being able to taint or inflate the reputation or a product, brand, location or business you can't really expect anything less.
They bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion... This was their deal.
Get credit? Credit for what? Forgive me, I don't mean to be harsh, but is the only purpose to obtain bragging rights over which articles you've read on the Internet? I'm struggling to find a reason why I'd want to use this.
why not just use redis for both - just curious ?
Don't forget http://www.startupwithme.com/
Will these credits be transferable? Will ADVERTISERS be able to buy credit pushes (someone requests something"interesting" and they push it to relevant users?)?
Can these credits be used for purchases?
Chrome will refuse to load .crx files from random websites, but it'll trust .crx packages loaded from the local filesystem in developer mode, because it assumes you're developing them. So, providing a .crx in a .zip and recommending the use of developer mode suggests that they want to work around Chrome's normal protections against loading Chrome extensions from random sites. Doing so rather than just uploading it to the Chrome Web Store seems very questionable.
Yeah, this is absolute nonsense. It's gamification for your procrastination, as if your procrastination was not intrinsically motivating enough, here's some pointless extrinsic motivation (Google News badges did the same thing, were equally pointless, and have been discarded).

This is garbage.
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Ubuntu 13.04: GNOME vs Unity User Interface Update
Ubuntu 13.04, which debuts next week, will have an official GNOME version. That news slipped under the radar for most folks, but it should please some Linux desktop users who don't like Canonical's Unity interface. And it could also impact Canonical's big aspirations of "Ubuntu convergence" across all devices offered by channel partners.
The thing is, when IE6 was new, it was far and away the best browser of the bunch.
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I suppose it's also a way for users to remember the gist of an article that they've read a long time ago? But honestly aside from that it does look like a Foursquare for reading articles...
Oh and just to clarify-

I absolutely believe that we need big companies and that small companies are not always better than big. Big company scale and maturity is often necessary to efficiently deliver products and services. Even where both are possible, the inherent loss of agility or individual responsiveness that comes with this scale can often be an a socially optimal tradeoff (for some things, in some areas, etc).

Likewise, I believe there is such a thing as too much "entrepreneurship" or simply mal-investment (e.g., too many me-too companies or people mindlessly an area that's doomed to fail).

But this really don't change the fact that large organizational scale is strongly associated with a certain type of dysfunction to a typically much greater degree than smaller organizations that make startups an utterly crucial part of our economic development or that certain individuals can simply be much more socially productive in smaller more entrepreneurial organizations (I think you kind of acknowledge it when you allude to knowing how to traverse the system-- this effort is definitely non-zero and takes real time and attention away from dealing with issues that can often be dealt with much more efficiently in other organizations)
Why not? As far as I can tell, it'd be feasible to write a FUSE adapter that uses Thrift to talk to the Tachyon servers.
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Data. If you and someone else disagree look at the data, hell, even if you do agree, look at the data. Don't have any data? Get some data.

You can't make decisions, particularly big decisions without data.

Gather all the data you can, analyze it, talk about it, and come to a consensus. If after doing all that you still can't come to a consensus, you need more data. If after that you are still deadlocked, flip a coin.

(*By data I mean anything from market research, user feedback, the advisers experience, your experience etc. etc.)
Yea, one of our guys got a little excited and decided to post to HN a little prematurely. Right now we are just testing out our prototype and thus the .zip file. We will probably upload to the Chrome store next week. Definitely not trying to be shady...
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to be clear DCLK had (IMO, was not in either side of the deal) many valuable assets and technologies. the self-serve stuff that became GAN was a rather small aspect of that.
I've recently been using shells inside Emacs exclusively and not even starting Terminal.app any more. I've got a couple of tips for anyone doing this, based on my (limited) experience:

1) Try eshell which allows you to use Emacs Lisp for shell scripting, as well as override some common programs to use Emacs instead (grep, man, etc). I'm someone who has never really bothered to learn shell scripting and am much more comfortable using Lisp, even Emacs Lisp which is sort of the crummiest of the popular Lisps (don't get me wrong I love Emacs) Obviously YMMV and if you know shell scripting this is a non-issue, but for me it comes down to being constantly surprised by the little bit of shell scripting I've had to do, and having Emacs Lisp work basically the way I expect (dynamic scoping, Lisp-2 and all)

2) Both eshell and M-x shell are not actually terminal emulators, so anything that requires a terminal emulator, like pagers, git log (ok this is a bad example since you should just be using magit, but anyway...) or some programs that update the terminal with their status act totally goofy and sometimes just break altogether. In this case, you want term-mode, which is a proper terminal emulator. Be sure to read up on the different modes as otherwise you'll get stuck inside that buffer ;) http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ter...

Hope this helps another Emacs novice... most of this I learned from here:

http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/11/01/running-sh...
What does digitally lynched mean?
It was so much fancier than ZSH which I've been using pretty throughly for years, but I wasn't impressed until I used a oh-my-fish like "framework". Now with a bump to ><<<+> 2.0 I'll give it a go again!

https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish
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No worries, and definitely a good question. What we have now is largely a proof-of-concept as to how accurately we can tag articles. The thought is that it could be cool to keep track of everything you read and see insights into your knowledge progression, in a way it's like a scrobbler for your news intake. It's still very early on though and we definitely have to figure out a solid way to answer the question "why do I care about credit?"
The documentary Deceptive Practices: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay was also just released.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654360/

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/movies/deceptive-practi...
One critical difference between investors and management: investors have a lot of other things to do, so they're more inclined to stay out of your way on technical details. I can't imagine a VC telling a CTO what programming language to use. Managers are under pressure to spend 40 hours per week telling others what to do, so a lot of them get trader boredom (zero-expectancy noisy activity) that adds annoying process and micromanagement.
Yes, I believe that's what I was thinking of.
Yep, the many miles of wire inside old mainframes and scientific computers (CDC, Cray, etc.) were all hand-soldered wire by wire, connector by connector, mostly by women. Must have been seen as requiring similar skills as sewing or weaving.
> Virtualenvburrito will help you set it all up.

Is it just me, or is it a little absurd to have a wrapper for a wrapper to a Python module?
I kinda see what they're trying to do. In theory, if a person reads a bunch of articles on a topic, over time they should become an "expert" on that topic.

It seems they're pushing it a little far, to be honest. I'd say "expertise" is way too strong of a word for arbitrary knowledge gained by reading news on the internet. At the very least there should be some kind of testing component. I can click through every link on HN, but that doesn't mean I've learned, or even read, anything.

On the other hand, reading through their blog, perhaps the whole thing is a clever troll poking fun of the triviality of most "startups."
Oligopoly (or duopoly in most cases) with regulatory capture.
DoubleClick Performics was rebranded as GAN. They did not improve the system after buying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performics
This is what RMS has been preaching all along.

It finally makes sense now.
Enjoyed that article. Thanks for submitting!
This is a form of rubber-ducking, but I write a question about my problem on Stack Overflow. Often times, I figure out the answer before I finish writing the question.
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu in Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
Dell's (NASDAQ: DELL) not the only big-name channel partner with which Canonical, the company that develops Ubuntu Linux, has been forging closer ties lately. On Tuesday, as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, Canonical was also playing up Ubuntu's seamless integration into the Azure cloud platform—a move that makes much more sense than it might at first seem.
But they weren't. Samsung was.
whoops, errant asterisk that I can't edit out. unclosed attempt-to-italicize
With Ctrl-R it is the same. If you start typing a command, then type Ctrl-R it will use that as the first part of your search.
So why wouldn't publishers just make people sign a similar agreement if it's that simple?
How is Django not an MVC framework? I'm not being snarky, just curious.
Where do your BCC payments go now?
"But don't let that get in the way of your snarky libertarianism." --Snark pot, meet snark kettle.

The most amusing thing in the fraud complaint is what the US Govt alleges as the cause: The US Govt's regulations regarding money transfer into gambling sites.

So yes, job well done, US Govt. Job well done.

"The Amended Complaint further alleges that, in or about
the summer of 2010, Full Tilt Poker’s payment processing channels were so disrupted that the company faced increasing difficulty attempting to collect funds from players in the United States. Rather than disclose this fact, Full Tilt Poker simply credited players’ online gambling accounts with money that had never actually been collected from the players’ bank accounts."
Can you elaborate on why incoming transfers from reputable companies have a certain risk attached? I simply can't think of any reason why that should be the case. Isn't the primary function of the bank to receive and store your money?
Way off the mark. It's not about compensation (if you succeed, VCs will tear you to shreds via multiple liquidation preferences and horrible terms). It's about autonomy and career development.

Working at a big company makes sense if you can get allocated to a great project, and it's hard to tell from outside what the good projects are. Otherwise, you have to deal with red tape and approvals and resource requests and headcount issues that will eat your soul and turn you just as lazy as the middle managers who create such processes (who do so because they've become demoralized and lazy and realize that dysfunctional bureaucracy, like undocumented code, provides job security).
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I wonder if 2,000x more powerful means generates 2,000x more heat and the risk of exploding is increased by 2,000x as well?
Can't find 2.0 in the Gentoo repos..
anyone like to share his ebuild?
Yea but Chrome will accept any .crx file if you drop it onto the extensions tab. So it would in effect be the same thing, just a bit nicer for the user since they don't have to extract a zip and then browse to where it was extracted and load the extension.
except it's not. and nonsensical invocations, like yours, just make skeptics of his find him even more delusional.

this is a restriction on tester hardware (so-called Explorer Edition devices), which were already only available to people who paid for the privilege of being able to buy them.

and please save any slippery-slope reply for another thread.
It looks amazing and the idea is really thoughtful. Great work guys! Just another piece of the comming reputation economy.
What do you mean by FST?
How could that be the sort of thing they only decide after a few years? Does it take them that long to notice that they don't like it?
Im not talking about universes within universes. Let's take our own universe as an example, and using probability as we know it in our own as holding in whatever 'real' universe(s) that may or may not simulate itself or some subset of itself. If sentient beings evolve (taking Bostroms postulate of that probability as reasonably high) and assuming they 'dream' if they are anything like us, as he does, and since we have (yet) to develop a technology that can simulate a universe as complex as ours, it's far more probable that sentients evolve and dream universes than evolve and simulate us. Even in our own "existence" (whatever that means) you have to agree that there have been far more dreams than games played. This follows probabilistically; not all people play games but almost every human that has ever lived has dreamed. Therefore it is far more probable that we are a dream, or passing thought, for that matter, than an intended simulation. Hinduism win.
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MVC means a ton of different things. Django itself does not use "MVC" to describe itself: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-ap...

> If you’re hungry for acronyms, you might say that Django is a “MTV” framework – that is, “model”, “template”, and “view.” That breakdown makes much more sense.
Expertise is definitely too strong of a word, especially for where we are at right now... we need to refine our copy.

Our goal is to eventually build in some testing mechanisms but right now we are primarily focused on testing out our tagging accuracy. We will probably roll out some form of time-on-site metric soon that will modify the tag's relevancy score to determine how much credit you should actually earn. In addition we've played around with some word-relationship stuff and it actually wouldn't be that hard for us to roll out some form of auto-generated quizzes. Again, a lot of this is very new and we are open to any feedback...
A little too much, you see.