skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not here to discuss "the problem". Because there's totally just one problem with our government.

"Slowing down the functioning of government" is not a good thing. "The government" (by this I assume you mean legislation) already moves at a snail's pace. Making it go slower, so reforms and important issues take even longer than they already do to resolve? NOT HELPING.

People talk about the 'size' of 'government' like it's some kind of tangible property. Government is just the system by which our policies, actions and affairs are executed. It might be big, it might be small, it doesn't matter. It is whatever we need it to be.

What concerns me are the issues and how we deal with them, not some abstract idea like "too much" or "not enough" of the system. If we need to get a respectable budget planned, a "big" or "small" government will not fix that. Your budget may be smaller because your "government" is smaller, but that doesn't make it a good budget. Your regulations of certain businesses may be smaller, but that doesn't mean the new free reign these businesses have will result in customers being treated fairly or allowing other businesses to compete.

There are reason we have what we have. It's not like there's some super exponential growth formula being fed to a giant single celled organism called "government". There's hundreds of complex issues at hand, and your one-size-fits-all generic solution doesn't begin to address any of them. Rather it buries them under a carpet of obfuscation, waiting for the rug to be so choked by lack of observation that someone finally will throw it out for a new one.
That does not explain why people stopped flying after 9/11.

People are terrible at estimating risk.
'Tripwires' Can Spot Would-Be Bombers
I have a DirecTv DVR and I can skip commercials two ways, by clicking the 30-second forward skip or the old Tivo-style 1, 2, 3, fast forward gears. How does the Dish Hopper differ? Does it automatically skip with no remote-clickery? Or fewer clicks?
1 | The Life Of Steve Jobs, Rendered As An Old-School Mac Desktop
In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin price went from $90 to $64 (and decreasing as we speak), which is about a 30% drop. The volume of transactions is about as high as it was during the original crash last week.

This appears to be the "abandon ship" phase of Bitcoin. Or the system is being manipulated, which is always possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pj8QKTvRTQ

"this car can buy your whole﻿ family" - same attitude everywhere mate!!
... and the prognosis for OpenSSD is terminal.
> It seems to me that monolithic frameworks like Rails don’t have a clear notion of what does not belong in Rails, and so they tend to expand indefinitely to include everything an application could need.

Rails 4 will see _eight_ different things that used to be in core extracted to a gem. The diff from 3.2.13 to 4.0.0.beta1 was +110,000 to - 100,000, so it's grown about 10% in the next major version.

Rails is obviously 'full stack' but it's not like it's a black hole that sucks in all Ruby code.
Good, we don't need people who jumped into bitcoin without understanding what bitcoin is.
>When I left EA, I was working 40 hours a week reliably.

My last gig had me working 30-35 hours a week reliably. And I made way more than EA was offering.

>This was in large part, though, because that was a high priority for me and I moved off game teams and onto shared tech stuff because it was less high-pressure, even though that wasn't ideal for my career.

The one time I worked for a big company (well, a studio owned by Activision -- the studio itself wasn't that big) I did tools as well, similarly to avoid working in the critical path of a game Gold Master release.

That was the worst fit for me of any job I've ever had. Not because it was tools, but for more complex reasons...mostly, I guess, because the tasks they assigned me didn't play to my strengths.
Do businesses that accept bitoins for payments typically immediately cash it out on exchanges or do they actually carry the "FX" risk?

edit: since MtGox only charges a fixed %age fee for transactions, automating a conversion into USD wouldn't cost any more than doing periodic larger transactions (other than the development and maintenance cost of such a system
You should also consider seed funding. If the Open source project is in good shape and has a viable business model, you could seed fund and take some equity.

I am from India, and it is really difficult to raise even a small amount of money here. The deal I was offered by a Seed Investment firm was - give us 5% stake (for 0 investment) and we will prepare you for seed funding. This is how bad it is here: I have working compilers and a client.

What I was looking for from seed funding was about Rs 50,000 a month which is about USD 1000 a month, so that I can work full time on my project and move it forward.
Really? I at least get a new tab, a new window if I've asked it nicely to.
You dance around it, but that's what you're saying. What else would explain the < 5% female speaker rate at conferences? Obviously the good women are making it, and the rest... just aren't very good.

"Reservations" or whatever you want to call them are lowering the bar to the same level as other people, but of course the "B"s are going to scream blue murder because they now have to work instead of cruising.
See "instant exchanges" https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payouts
Does it not have business appeal in that it allows transacting parties to pay direct -- without a middle man (banker) collecting fees?

Also it being deflationary (to me) is as much as a problem as USD being inflationary. I don't spend all my USD as quickly as possible fearing next week those things will be more expensive.

EDIT: Also rereading the post there is nothing substantial in his arguments to support his conclusion -- mostly focusing on red herrings to discredit it: He may not like it politically.
Speaking of which, here's the results. They are notable because a non-Kenyan won for the first time in 3 years.

Men

Lelisa Desisa (Eth): 2:10:22

Micah Kogo (Ken): 2:10:27

Gebregziabher Gebremariam (Eth): ?

Women

Rita Jeptoo (Ken): 2:26:25

Meseret Hailu (Eth)

Sharon Cherop (Ken)
Thanks for your comment, I was afraid to be alone to thinks that quota (while not perfect) can be a good pratical solution:

- it allows the expected situation to become unsurprising/usual.

- at the team level, it encourages to select the non-white-guy to be the speaker (in order to maximize the chance to pass the selection)
While I see the point the OP is trying to make, I feel the article is not written in a neutral way, with whatever little knowledge of node.js I have.

Isn't Node.js a platform? And JavaScript the language? I looked it up and JavaScript has been around since 1995 (which makes it contemporary to Ruby and Python).
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is only for right hand use
Bitcoin itself is unable to handle the rate of transactions. Currently, the Bitcoin network can verify about 0.75 transactions per second, because of the block sizes.

This was what broke in the 0.7/0.8 fiasco. 0.8 would have increased the block size and upped the transaction rate, but broke backwards compatibility and blah blah blah.
> I don't understand this reference.

Newton and Leibniz independently invented calculus.
Now everytime I see cases like this I wonder to myself how much of the plea is because of over-reaching prosecutors and how much of it is really guilt. Anyone know more details about this case?
> Austrian economists don't ignore evidence.

I meant in terms of revising their theory to improve its usefulness in the face of new evidence.
That list is specious at best.

Take ZFS. I designed the flash integration for ZFS; it's used as a caching tier. ZFS is definitely not optimized for use with flash as its primary backing store. The same is true for some of the other filesystems in the list; offhand: CASL and WAFL.

Most of the rest are designed for embedded use cases, are research toys, or are embedded research toys.
Did China steal Japan's high-speed train?
Bitcoin was supposedly being used as an inflationary hedge, particularly in the Euro region.

Today we got news of substantially depressed Chinese growth forecasts, which caused the S&P 500 to drop more than 2% and Gold to fall close to 10%. (John Paulson's funds lost more than $1BB today apparently, since he has $9.5BB in Gold exposure in his hedge funds [1])

Given the anti-inflationary data (I hesitate to call it deflationary at this stage) that came out today and the massive drop in Gold price, a similar fall in Bitcoin price isn't particularly surprising.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-15/paulson-gold-bet-lo...
Everything works "fine" on SSDs! They were designed to drop right into place.
Seivan, I apologize deeply for getting your comment off track, and I hope others will not follow this further from your main point.

However, I would just offer a quick point of advice. Don't spend keystrokes saying you might be down-voted for something. It's actually bolder to just say what you're going to say. When you reference downvoting, you stigmatize it and influence people not to do so. I would rather know if people are going to have a downvote reaction to my comment than shame them into not downvoting me. I've had the exact same tendency to observe "well I might get downvoted for this," but I think it's a tendency that should be resisted.
Prior to tabbed browsing, browsers acted like 'normal' (SDI) Windows apps. The complaint about Excel is that it's an 'old-fashioned' MDI application and is missing UI widgets for easily switching between documents. (And that it's behavior is inconsistant because you can easily open multiple root windows.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface
Finally some common sense in a world where common sense isn't so common. Don't let fear rule you, i'm glad not all media is out to scare people.
So is Gold. A lot of people are getting a sharp lesson in economics today.
I have way less experience than you, I'm 24 and still in school, but I feel like the people I work with have a much bigger impact on how I feel about work than the work itself. I don't expect or want to be best friends with everyone I work with, but I think that basically anything can be enjoyable if you enjoy spending time with your coworkers. So my opinion, for what it's worth, would be to look for people that you would be excited to work with more than a project you'd be excited to work on.

It scares me that you're 25 and feeling burned out, I worry about that sometimes.
More people died on black friday every year. Shit more people die every year falling out of bed.
Using unauthorized millions of dollars of your company's and, ultimately, putting a bullet in the company's head, leading to many people losing their jobs, seems to land in the middle, IMO. Twenty-five years is probably too many, but a plea of five seems generous,
Isn't Node also coming 10 years late to the party? It's always easier to join the race at a later time when all you have to do is copy the efforts of others and catch up. Especially since Node has quite a few users and a lot of early days hype to sail on. That being said, good on them and good on the variety it offers people.

I just wouldn't say it's "changing the face of open source" though...
Something that took me a long time to notice was that you can actually copy files directly over a RDP session from/to the local machine or other RDP sessions using the clipboard.. Even nested RDPs. Has been an absolute timesaver to know about when doing Windows admin work.
"Keep Calm and Carry On". This phrase from the British has peaked in recent times.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Calm%20and%20Carry%20...

A week hardly passes that I don't see it on a shirt, a coworkers wall, or in a meme.
With weight, power, and space constraints, you're of course going to offload as much as possible to the phone.

You could probably do Hangouts without a phone though; anything that can be done over IP should be fine not needing the phone.
Somewhere I read that you should use the 1-3-5 rule: each day do 1 big task, 3 medium and 5 small. However personally I prefer using 1-2-3.
I have never been on a plane. I'd be nervous and excited, and would take in as much as I can see. I'd look at my stupid phone for exactly zero seconds.
you can get location information and interact with any media (text, photo, video) along with contacts via the api.
The quote by Li Daokui in the article: "Don't worry too much about Chinese companies imitating you, they are creating value for you down the road" is probably the best way of putting this. The world needs to invest into bullet train technology, the world is expanding and becoming more connected and yet trains have remained basically the same for the last 100 or so years. You take the risk of having your IP stolen by any country (China just so happen to be quite good at it). If any one country can take a new technology or method of doing something and ramp it up to benefit everyone, China is probably the country best suited to the task.
IMO this is a macroeconomically driven move in the Bitcoin market rather than an issue isolated to Bitcoin only.

Described in a bit more detail in my other post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5556411
The data is from the good folks at Objective Analysis.
More likely manipulated.
Ignore the news
Bruce mentions that one of the reasons why people should stay calm is that terrorists are dumb. However, this could be the actions of a new Unabomber (let us hope it isn't), who managed to go on a bombing streak for 18 years without being caught. It's really too early to start making assumptions.

I say, don't keep calm and carry on, take this as an example that life can end any second, just like that, out of nowhere. Live your life enjoying what you do. Most of us don't, which is sad. If you're enjoying life to the fullest, carry on. If you aren't living your life to the fullest, then no, don't just 'carry on'. Life is fragile, and this should be a reminder. I for one know, I shouldn't 'carry on'. I need to improve my life.

Make the most out of your precious time.
Yeah, you're focused on unemployment numbers after the redefinition of unemployment. That's not as accurate. Technically there were a lot of unemployed left out of the earlier evaluations as well, but this problem is worse now. It's to the point where the data isn't nearly as useful, or perhaps is useful in different ways. Either way it's a very poor tool for measuring long-term unemployed.

Your illiteracy studies? Not particularly rigorous science behind them. Not usually a good sign when what you cite sources no peer-reviewed studies at all. It's interesting that you chose those two places along with the correctional system to focus on, though.

But go ahead, blame my math, logic, and research skills.
Maybe you can explain why the fixed quantity is a problem?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Deflationary_spiral

If it had some way to allow bitcoins to "split" while maintaining their owner would that fix the problem?

No. The fact that Zimbabwe dollars were available in multiple of millions as a single note didn't fix hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.
Interesting point. We're considering something along those lines - a crowdfunding option for open-source projects, i.e, kickstarter for open-source. The problem with pre-funding a project, is that it's much harder to create interest (unless you hit a very common, painful need) vs. an existing solution that can be used right now. We'll be looking into it more in the future.
The related page for Trap Street (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street) is also very interesting. It talks about "secret streets" cartographers put in their maps to protect their copyright.
If he hadn't lost, would this scheme have gone unnoticed?
This looks great for a music performance stunt -- the audience doesn't know but the DJ rigged up a webcam as a trigger!
The original Microsoft Surface team (the table-top one) released a video of their huge gantry driven stress testing robot a few years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTp_DjdjVE
You define "society" far too narrowly. A society is not an economy, a government, or even a piece of land enclosed by a border. It is an abstract idea, a sort of shared culture and basic methodology.

Here is the real trick though, this "New Rome" is not a city. We don't have a seat of power from which we derive our identity and shared culture, or any sort of sackable cultural Mecca which we define ourselves by. You could level NYC and kill every last person in it, dismantle the government and turn dollars into papiermarks, but you would not have dismantled the society.

Remaining you would still have hundreds of millions of Americans with no invading army to eradicate them and what they beleived in. More importantly, you would still billions of others, across the world, who would continue to make up bulk of our society. The worldwide shared culture of the 21st century, of which Americans represents but a fraction. A culture of appreciation for scientific progress, the arts, and political theories. A collective history, solemly remembering the same wars, sharing the same accomplishments. A Library of Alexandria that (thanks to dramatic advances in publishing and distribution since the last) cannot be burned.

A few well placed bombs by a few extremists who want nothing to do with any of this could never put an end to all of this. This is a society that cannot be taken, cannot be sacked; we can only give it up. Only we present an existential threat to ourselves.

Could there be massive lose of life, and would that be worth preventing? Absolutely. Are these people the Germanic hoards, posed to sack us? Are they in a position to dismantle our society? No.
The gold bugs have been getting one since 2011, and a lot of them are still buying on the dips. what can you do.
What a neat live graphic!

(You can probably tell I'm not much into finance that such a thing impresses me.)
Strange that in a blog comparing package managers there's no mention of CPAN, which "currently has 120,446 Perl modules in 27,328 distributions, written by 10,567 authors" [0].

It's a lively community, sure. But "changing the face of open-source" is a stretch -- "quietly" even more so.

[0]: http://www.cpan.org/
The fixed quantity is a problem because of a general theory of how money works. Bitcoin is effectively an artifically limited gold standard, with all of its positive and negative attributes.

In (very) short terms: consider an economy with three goods: money, bonds, and output (i.e. stuff or servcies we buy). There's a supply and demand for all three. Except one of them (money) has a finite supply limit. When supply of bonds is high and demand low (such as when we've had a financial crisis and people are paying down debt), we eventually run into a case where price of bonds (i.e. their interest rates) are 0%. That means that the price of money soars, and the price of output tanks.

That's called deflation, and it's really painful to the productive economy. People sitting on money doing nothing are fine, but output falls dramatically. The working class are wiped out in a spiral of "making less & spending less". Most of us would rather have an economy where output grows and everyone is better off.

In theory, the ability to "split" bitcoins infinitely would fix the problem, but I think people may have psychological problems with dealing with millionth's of a fraction of a bitcoin for no reason except that the Bitcoin creaters arbitrarily decided there would be no more than 21 million of them.
It's just a correction after the tremendous run-up last week, which isn't totally unexpected.
It is a brute force attack in any space.

Please supply any citation for the use of 'dictionary attack' where the attacker takes a list of words and creates pass phrases from those words.

I don't know why you think otherwise.

> you are picking guesses expected to be more likely.

That's not what defines a dictionary or brute force attack.
> Very few of the Austrians and Chicago types seem to admit to being wrong...

You either don't know what you're talking about or are just making hand-wavy generalizations and hoping nobody calls bs on your bs. Both Hayek and Friedman have multiple occasions were they would explicitly correct themselves on past statements and admit they were wrong.

They were economists, not politicians or theologians.
Triage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage
Awesome. Could open up a whole field of applications.
The worst terrorist attack in US history managed to be about as bad as a strong hurricane hitting a densely populated area. That's noteworthy for sure, but not something that sane people would compare with civilization-destroying forces. It doesn't even compare to the "wars" of recent decades, let alone truly large-scale warfare of the sort that many countries have engaged in repeatedly without suffering the fate of the Roman Empire.
"It turns out that terrorism is much harder than most people think. It's hard to find willing terrorists, it's hard to put a plot together, it's hard to get materials, and it's hard to execute a workable plan. As a collective group, terrorists are dumb, and they make dumb mistakes; criminal masterminds are another myth from movies and comic books."

He is very wrong. He is confusing foot soldiers with their leaders. Terrorist leaders are not dumb.

Yes, it's harder than we think but not for the reasons in the article. In Israel, there was a wave of bombings every few days. The bombers were not dumb. They were very successful and killed many people. I believe that it wasn't until the borders got sealed tight that the bombings subsided. That's why they had to resort to using Katyusha rockets but, believe me, if they could get in the country, they'd blow things up, no problem.

Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan all have had regular waves of successful suicide bombings.

What keeps the US relatively free of terrorism is the massive ocean that's between the terrorists and their target. It makes an operation much harder to execute because it's more remote from their base of operations. What we've seen so far is the evolution of their attempts to bridge that gap. The author is confusing these early experiments with stupidity. The terrorists are smart and they learn from the failures of their experiments. Eventually, they'll get better at blowing things up from a distance. If we write them off as dumb, we're going to be in for a surprise when they perfect their methods.

Edit: Israel is tiny and could control its borders much easier than Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and the US. We see that Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan are very vulnerable to terrorism because their borders are easy to penetrate. The US has the advantage of an ocean defending its borders. Eventually, they'll overcome that obstacle.
Fedoras, everywhere
Prediction is not the same as Diagnosis.

Peter Schiff did predict problems in the housing market. He thought there would be hyperinflation, whereas the opposite occurred. Not sure if that is a good record or not.
I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not trolling. What's wrong with empowerment points?
I haven't been amazed for a while. Thank you.
Show HN: My weekend project: Reddit 9Gag style.
Thx for the info!

It'll be interesting to see how the model and fees develop, as Btc exchanges move from the current x% model to the inevitable x% + $y, $y, or $y/share model.
I think that the proximity to the horror likely has a strong effect. The survivors know that they are survivors, and know that they must carry on surviving. Distant observers thousands of miles away are left only with the horror but little of the resolve that comes from experiancing survival.

But that is just me making up a hypothesis that fits the data in retrospect. Maybe something else is going on.
how can you not use debugger and program/find defects. I mean for sure you can do print and alert, but that is highly inefficient way of debugging.