skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never meant to imply otherwise. But you are raising a good point, if one thinks about the general problem then it is not really straightforward to embed the points in |R^n instead of (for example) a torus.
Correction: bitcoin is only "not anonymous" if the transaction history network contains a contact point with the physical world, that is, if some transaction is associated with a physical good shipment or traditional world identity.
A lot of people use Excel. Some of those people are technical and do wonderful things with it. Some of those people are not technical, and they do wonderful things with it.

But of of the things done with Excel are positively scary, especially when you see just how widespread its use is, and how little scrutiny is given to the spreadsheets and the data going in and the stuff comping out.

Ray Panko has websites about human error, and about spreadsheet error. (And there's obviously cross-overs). (http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/)

And there's the EUropean SPreadsheet Risk Interest Group (http://www.eusprig.org/)

There are a lot of programmers on HN. Seeing how people get work done allows these programmers to spot niches in the market that they can turn into opportunity. There are needs for better data entry validation; better auditing of spreadsheets; better use of databases rather than spreadsheets; etc etc.
Cool. I manually subscribed to all my feeds -- slow day at work, and it let me rename things -- but this will let me suggest CommaFeed to friends and family.
I tend to dive a lot into a source code when I am working with a library. You always have missing spots in documentation but you can actually know what's going on by reading the code. This is one of the reasons I am super comfortable with Backbone.

However I cannot comprehend Angular's source code on github. Can anyone give me pointers on where to start reading it and/or how it's organized?
I liked B&W as well.

It also came out 12 years ago.
And probably the word 'open' is also missing, then I can always find an embedding such that there is enough room :)
Why did it fail? That, to me, is the most interesting unanswered question.
I wonder if what anything he has said would be considered prior art for current patents ...
Another important question is always, 'if this effect is true does this generalize to the overall population'. While I haven't read the paper, I bet that the test population were composed almost completely of undergrad students. So much of social science experiments are based on testing done on student. And there isn't anything wrong with that per se, but we must always be careful when trying to infer results, and drawing conclusions on the greater population, or human kind as a whole.
Permanent Dissatisfaction
The video tutorial mentioned[1] really is excellent, and it's recent too so it's not out of date.

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2013/04/12/video-tuto...

AngularJS' strict adherence to separation of concerns is definitely a breath of fresh air.
You can never "look" into the machine, all you can do is to put the machines under tamper-evident seals and trust the authority which distributes these.
where can you do this? it would be nice to see marketplaces develop where people can rent out spare cycles on their GPU
Apple II software still being sold
This is a common misconception, I think. If you try to model the protocol economically, it's pretty clear that it's a majority of currency holders (what the core developers call an "economic majority"), not a majority of miners that matters in determining whether a protocol change is valid.

Exercise for the reader: determine whether these sets are different in a meaningful way.
Would love to get video lectures for this.
"Its not really the advertising that is a problem. "

Read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Selling-Sickness-Pharmaceutical-Compan...

It is an advertising problem. Big pharma makes massive profits, so you can't cite profits as a source of justification for advertising drugs to people who don't need them. Maybe you should have taken 30 seconds to google GSK's profits last year, or AstraZeneca who had a bad year last year but still make 2 BILLION dollars.

It goes beyond selling drugs to people who don't need them though, they over exaggerate and create new attractive names for illnesses. "Social Anxiety", for example, is not a thing. It's actually called "Social Phobia". A research study showed that marketing "Social Anxiety" yielded a more positive result, so big pharma called it just that. I'll leave you to figure out how much big pharma made off of that little stunt.
I find people's attitudes on HN difficult to decipher on this issue. Run this search on Google:

posthaven site:news.ycombinator.com

the full URL:

https://www.google.com/search?q=posthaven+site%3Anews.ycombi...

and for App.net:

https://www.google.com/search?q=posthaven+site%3Anews.ycombi...

On HN, those 2 sites are roughly equal, or possibly PostHaven gets a little bit more attention. Why is that?

Both sites offer micro-blogging. App.net has been around longer and has devoted more resources to building an API that will allow 3rd party developers to do interesting things with its micro-blogging service.

You can post images to App.net.

You can post long-form essays to App.net.

You can post short tweets to App.net.

App.net has over 20 3rd party apps already, which offers a kind of social proof from 3rd party developers that PostHaven does not yet have.

So why is it that people are willing to talk about PostHaven, and give its model some serious consideration, while dismissing App.net?

App.net offers everything that PostHaven offers, but App.net is much further developed.
What's wrong with needing the public's help? The public did a great job in providing critical evidence.

Maybe instead of more intrusive surveillance we find more ways for the public to participate. Maybe we uphold the public's right to take pictures and video in "sensitive areas". Etc.
I'm on my phone so couldn't see the URL. I thought it was a Kickstarter, for what it is worth.

Great to see you're from Adelaide too! Keep up the great work, and best of luck. Really imaginative campaign.
Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. Users have to do stuff to be anonymous when using Bitcoin. To say otherwise is wrong and dangerous.

(http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/bitcoin...)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800790)

(https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity)

(http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/bitcoin-i...)
I've found The tutplus angularjs course to be very beginner's friendly.
I have 2x24" widescreen Dells in portrait and it's not great. They're just too big top to bottom to be comfortable.

(On the other hand, in landscape, they take up most of the desk and lead to me looking like a bobblehead all day as I pan back and forth.)
Mt. Gox down
Mt. Gox has been down for at 15-30 minutes as of 10:30 am US Central. Screenshot from a few minutes ago:

http://i.imgur.com/Y5jl57s.png

Status from Mt. Gox:
https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/459790297438716

Appears to be DDoS
I'd actually rather ride the NYC subway today than the one in the 80s or the one in Moscow today, so I guess you're presenting a false dichotomy.
I've opted out probably 20 times (protip: a lot of times if its busy you can time it so they wave you through the metal detector instead), and almost all have only taken ~5 minutes. Only once or twice have I felt the pat down was excessive or they made me wait too long.
then we should be able to select all 99 cells, and enter the formula once without any dragging.

Double-click the fill-handle (thing you click on to drag) and Excel will fill-down as far as the next empty row.

If we want to change that formula, we should be able to change it once and not need to remember to redrag.

How would it know whether you want to change it in one place for a special case, or update many places?
I think that is right (I can't claim much specific knowledge on camera lenses though), it used to be especially bad with the whole "megapixel wars" a few years back. Pixel resolution increased, but image clarity didn't, and you would get much better images on old low-megapixel cameras with relatively high-end lenses than with a cheap but new camera of approx 4-8x the resolution in pixels.

However, nowadays I am quite amazed by the picture quality of the average smartphone camera. So maybe something changed? Still, we're talking about better lenses/quality than smartphone photos. They may be sharp, but that comes from the advantage of being up close and coming in huge numbers.

And in addition to the lens, there's a lot of other expensive parts in a security system, that may need to be replaced or reconfigured because it is all integrated with the current low-res cameras. The bigger such a system is, the more expensive it becomes to change it all up when better tech has come around, even if the new parts are relatively cheap by themselves.
My undressing for the TSA is voluntary?

I must have missed the option where I don't have to get groped in order to fly to the west coast.
That assumes BFL won't just run off with all the money.
External validity is an interesting but quite different question. There are any number of other interesting but distinct features of clinical trials that we could talk about.
Worlds Away From Here
How The NRA Impeded The Boston Bomber Investigation
CHANGE IS CAUSED BY INTERNAL DISPOSITION~Welcome to H connect.
Among other things, paracetamol activates the cannabis receptors.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17227290
The government is not the people. Public spending is not the country's spending.
From a quick glance I see the following differences:

Renjin

- development started in 2011
- GPL v3 licensed
- working on a custom JIT compiler

fastr

- development started Aug 2012
- Apache v2 License
- uses Truffle and the Graal JIT
Because the product is done already and you can buy the product.

The goals seem to be different enhancements to the game, they start after their 100k has been covered.
n=120 pales utterly beside the observation that it is totally unclear what they are actually manipulating or measuring. The design is completely hapless.

If you really need to detect effects that are so small they are meaningless for almost any practical purpose, then you might need thousands of people in the study.
When I had a motorcycle I could tell when rain was on the way using a similar method.

Most of the time I could be home by the time the rain started.

If you live in a cold climate you may notice the smell of snow before it snows especially the very first snowfall of winter. Maybe I'll create my own word and call it pnemakruos or "ice breath"
Bitcoin has had several value crashing events. It takes less than a few days for Bitcoin to go from $X to $Y (where Y is very much less than X).

These events don't kill bitcoin, but they do make uptake among regular people slower.

> It's just not worth it

Governments are not rational. Look at any government and it's easy to find them doing something very expensive and very stupid. I agree that it's unlikely, but "crypto" usually implies "rigorous".
Always great to see studies looking at the mental implications of non-psychoactive drugs. I suppose it's common to overlook the implications of a drug on the central nervous system with respect to consciousness, when the drug in question never causes any subjective/noticeable change.

I suppose it's all too intuitive, though. Even slight, unnoticeable changes in consciousness - to the point that even you don't notice - may in-fact be detectable on paper. I hope this leads to more research into the mental changes for other drugs classified as "non-psychoactive" (who doesn't love more data? :). Anyways, to end off by inserting some colloquialism into my thoughts here...

Trippy study, mannnnn.
The first feedback I always heard from new angularjs developer is: "A completely different approach that I've seen before... it's so productive".

Great blog post :)
I think the point is that it's not like Facebook; with facebook, you, the user, are the product. With app.net, the platform is the product, and you pay for it.

Facebook makes decisions about its system based on maximizing its ad revenue, not maximizing your ability to do the things you want with it. A product not relying on advertising can focus entirely on the users, ideally.
Normally with kickstarter they ask people to contribute to the development of something before the development is done.

In this case, they've finished & released the game, and are encouraging people to contribute to recovery of their development costs after the development has been done. Hence it's in "reverse".
If I had to name individual cells in a monthly model spanning the next 10 years over 250 line items, I'd quit that job.

Why would you quit the job over a few minutes of scripting with "WorkSheet.Names.Add"?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835300.aspx
BFL ASIC hosting at affiliate data centers could control bitcoin 50% hash rate
I think the fact that Bitcoin is a community is its main problem. Miners have acted altruistically a few times in the past, but as the pool grows, getting them to do anything beyond the Nash Equilibrium will get progressively harder.

Bitcoin may prevail, but it will have to go through a painful 2.0 evolution at some point.
How did it add an hour to your screening?
You can model all you want, the majority of miners determines what is the next valid blockchain. Even if they hold 0 currency, and even if there were no more bitcoins to be mined that would still be true.
Well worth reading for the (unexpected) outcome, and the story has an underlying theory that has been discussed on HN before (you will find out which theory that is by reading the story, I don't want to spoil it).

Also interesting is that Asimov starts out with the concept of a huge supercomputer, named MULTIVAC (which is not unexpected given that it was written in the 50's), but in the story the 'AC' gradually evolves into a system of interconnected computers.
BFL has affiliate data centers where those purchasing the more powerful BFL machines can have their systems hosted, for a fee.

The default option: "Your hosted units will be added to a mining farm and you will be paid out regularly based on their collective output." Datacenter and BFL personnel will be monitoring and maintaining the machines for defects. The hosting option makes sense for new untested hardware like this ...

So, it's likely the pools will control > 50% of the bitcoin hashrate at some point.
Just legalize opiods.
Do you really need a Doctor when you stub your toe?
It seems that he is suggesting app.net to build two-sided market for social apps: users on one side and developers on the other side.

Sounds great - once they build a successful marketplace. But until then, the value proposition is not currently compelling. As a user - ad-free is not in itself compelling enough (yes, ad-free with a user base similar to twitter or facebooks is compelling), and as a developer their user base is again too small to matter.

They likely need to figure out which group is more important. If it is users, they likely need to focus on a killer app, or a killer community (perhaps by focusing the group they are targeting). If developers are more important, and they don't have a user base that is large enough to be compelling, perhaps they need to pith a different pricing model to developers (something to the effect of free to build apps and $1/user with these 100 social features).
I never got that deep into SSL, but I seem to recall there are cipher suites that allow unauthenticated encryption. I could be wrong. Also, what everyone else said.
I like the way Haskell uses it's composition function operator (.), it's very clean, e.g.

λ>putStrLn . reverse . map toUpper $ "hello world"
DLROW OLLEH
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585166 for information on BFL's hosting program. It's likely that BFL and affiliate datacenter personnel will control > 50% of the bitcoin hash rate at some point. Here's my comment on that thread ...

--

BFL has affiliate data centers where those purchasing the more powerful BFL machines can have their systems hosted, for a fee.
The default option: "Your hosted units will be added to a mining farm and you will be paid out regularly based on their collective output." Datacenter and BFL personnel will be monitoring the machines for defects and maintaining them. The hosting option makes sense for new untested hardware like this ...

So, it's likely the BFL datacenter mining pool will control > 50% of the bitcoin hashrate at some point.
There's no way to ask this without sounding snarky, but: why?
Sadly, Curiosity is not quite as good a game as PROGRESS QUEST; it still requires too much player input.
VirtualBox sur un serveur Debian Squeeze avec VBoxHeadless
Ça faisait un moment que je n'avais pas fait de tuto alors je reviens ici avec un pour vous expliquer comment procéder à une virtualisation ou plutôt exécuter des machines virtuelles avec VirtualBox 4.2 sur un serveur Debian Squeeze. Normalement vous utilisez l'interface graphique VirtualBox pour gérer vos machines virtuelles mais un serveur ne dispose pas forcément d'un environnement desktop. Heureusement, VirtualBox est livré avec un outil appelé VBoxHeadless qui permet de vous connecter aux machines virtuelles via une connexion de bureau à distance sans avoir besoin de l'interface VirtualBox.
If you liked this, you will love Greg Egans Diaspora.
How much do they have to unlock before it becomes a real kickstarter for an android version of the game?
EXTREMELY small study. Just push for a larger study on this

http://www.academia.edu/2057894/The_common_pain_of_surrealis...

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Yes, you are absolutely right. I forgot about this one major difference. However, you cannot generally say if-then-else is a statement; there are languages such as CoffeeScript in which if-then-else works exactly like the conditional operator and therefore has a type and return value.

As for the priority mess, I spend my brain cycles elsewhere and use parentheses, which also helps the next guy as well as me.
But what do the people get for the donation? If it's the game, then are they selling it outside the app store? And if so, how?
Interactive Voice Advertising
I highly suggest reading some of the critical reviews of Goldacre's work. He gets a lot of things wrong and some of his ideas just simple won't work with the current system.

He's writing a book about an industry that everyone loves to hate. Few people question a book when it agrees with their preconceived views.
How Twitter is becoming your first source of investment news
> This is a common misconception, I think. If you try to model the protocol economically, it's pretty clear that it's a majority of currency holders (what the core developers call an "economic majority"), not a majority of miners that matters in determining whether a protocol change is valid.

Actually, its neither, if you really think about it. Currency users (in exchange) are more important than either miners or holders (with the caveat that you need some number > 0 of miners to validate exchanges) to whether a protocol change has economic effect, but once some group adopts a protocol change, what you have is a fork into two separate currencies until a consensus is achieved.

Passive currency holders have little driving force in this; currency users are the main driving force, because wherever its being used is where it will have value. Miners have some force because without some of them, the system collapses.

And among currency users, the ones that matter the most are the ones that accept bitcoin for goods and services, not the ones that spend it. (In the "steady state" those should be approximately the same, but as long as mining is still producing coins you can have miners/spenders that aren't accepters, and even in the steady state you could have people who inherit hoards and slowly deplete them as users that aren't accepting.)
Most of these clinical trials are triple-blinded. The doctor, patient and person analyzing the data don't know who took the drug and who took a placebo.

How do they bias the results in that case?
In some very extreme/rare cases it does matter.

Something like ADHD medication can make a difference. One of the most difficult months I've had has been a month where I tried the generic and the side effects were way worse than the brand name at same dosage.
Ask HN: Please stop submitting "Bitcoin Exchange Y is down"
Please, for the love of god, stop posting Bitcoin drama. No need to further influence the already instable markets...
You should hear him talk about it, grinning from ear to ear. I loved his games as a kid, but now I'll forever regard him as a self-absorbed scumbag.
Some measure of privacy & control.

Of course, if you care enough about that you shouldn't be using any exterior service.
Google Glass Distortion Field. Remain Anonymous
Since Google is trying to track everything these days and within a few years they will have a camera on everyone, that's if Google Glass actually takes off.

I want to discuss the possibility of a signal jammer. Like ones that block mobile phone calls and CCTV or the likes. But the signal jammer would be for Google Glass and its privacy destroying little camera.

Is there anyone on here willing to discuss the issue and who knows what kind of technology/science would go into this kind of thing?

Even ninjas must remain anon.
http://ggfielddistortion.tumblr.com/
Just upgraded to rc3... my app does seem faster or am I just hallucinating. Awesome job guys.
Probably not. PDF is not for web IMHO. Plain html or other flexible format would work better. PDF has specific requirement upon screen size, etc. And clicking URL in PDF doesn't feel as fast as in a web page.

If you wanna make it polished and magazine-like, how about making a magazine App in iOS/Android?
Why is it soo expensive? Otherwise relatively good idea.
I like your analogy of "working memory".
Ah, so basically you are saying we should shift the entire cost burden of creating new drugs from the free market to the government.

Glad to have that cleared up.
Wow, that is a very inaccurate description of how clinical trials are run.

How do you explain the clinical holds the FDA puts on clinical studies? The FDA does monitor clinical studies and stops the bad ones. The often stop them before a trial is over.

I'm guessing you minimal experience with how clinical trials are run. Most drug companies walk on egg shells around the FDA since they know how much power their yield.
Sadly, can't even use it for cross-platform packaged apps (min requirement: chromium, iOS browser, android browser) because the android removed support after 2.1.
Congratulations on the launch. We never met, but I recognized your name from the PUN mailing list/meetup.
It's possible to solve it entirely "within" the box.
Oh, absolutely. Web workers are awesome and hopefully the future, but it seems a bit disingenuous not to mention the huge caveat that currently prevents their being adopted in a more widespread way.
How a bitcoin transaction works?
Did you consider using an existing platform like https://github.com/asmblah/jemul8 ? Would be nice with a multiple-CPU emulator in JavaScript.