skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If USD was limited to currency in circulation then it would not be nearly as inflationary as it is.

Once an established lending system based on bitcoins is established it will have the same problems as our current currencies. It wasn't printing money that caused the real estate bubble, it was the way to banking system has the power to expand credit and the systemic risk that expansion of credit causes.

Once there are fractional reserve bitcoin banks it will no longer be a deflationary currency.
The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials
I'm one of the founders of http://www.RealScout.com, and we're building software that lets you search by wants like house faces east, within 0.25 miles of a Google shuttle stop, open floor plans, remodeled kitchens, and hundreds of other criteria.

We get much of our data from sources other than the MLS, so it's far more accurate than some of the descriptions from listing agents that national search portals query. We also have search pages (http://www.realscout.com/categories) that allow you to view all the photos of the features you're searching for. In other words, you can see all the backyards of Palo Alto listings on one page.

Our software is still in beta, but we're rolling out new functionality daily.
I don't care what people say, Black and White was an excellent game which was much too far ahead of its time.
Ah; much clearer now. Thanks!
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Why does the method of mining mean that a currency should not be accepted?

Gold serves as a currency yet the methods of mining have changed drastically in the last 1,000 years.
Prices (in SF, anyway) have also increased dramatically since I left the area in 2009. I got paid more and paid less for rent when I moved to NYC, which didn't make sense to me, either.
Output at http://pastebin.com/18vCegaT

grep -P '(phobe|phile|ist)\s*$'

@categorist or @pantywaist, anyone?
They're going fast now that you posted this link!
That's not the case.

You can have named ranges in Excel - in fact, you can have named ranges which are dynamically calculated based on a formula.
Best one-page "class" ever from BK: http://ellard.org/dan/www/libsq/ref/style.html
Exactly. I got burned by Fable moreso than any other game in my life, so hyped that I was by how he talked about it. In the end it was a very limited and lackluster linear RPG with some The Sims thrown in. Fun for a weekend. But no let down in my life will ever surpass B.C. To this day prehistory is the theme of the dream game I want to make.
Furthermore, it uses the term "open source" as meaning "deployment does not require a licence from the hardware manufacturer". Not a good sign.
Excel is extremely powerful for data analysis, and is getting more powerful still as new versions are released.

If a dataset is under 200k or so rows, I'll generally do analysis in Excel. Larger than that, and I'm turning to Python.

Even then, the end result has be be passed to someone who isn't an analyst/developer, so where does it go? You guessed it: into an Excel spreadsheet, formatted nice and neat, and sent up the chain.
If you want to be semantic, it is in fact a database. It isn't a good RDBMS, but it is a database.

It's also not a bad computational framework, within the bounds of its capabilities.
Baseball player 'steals first,' confounding all scorekeeping software
and also, i often wonder, what makes that grassy smell before raining?
Ah... good catch. Still, my question remains for someone.
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007 [pdf]
Upvoted for finally the only true explanation about why vinyls, despite being the inferior medium for audio signal storage, can still sound better than CD's or other digital sources.
The same number of coins will be mined, no matter how many ASICs are online.
cool - just snagged one
> Right now these A15s are just a little better than a 2011 budget aton core from intel.

Which is conveniently an improvement over my current 1st gen atom
And Jeff Bezos :)
Is the data just for Santa Clara County (and really, those specific areas), or are they really that concentrated? Seems hard to believe there are no sites in the rest of the Bay Area.
Uh, you don't know what you're talking about. ISPs dont block UDP. And IPv6 was held up by a lot more than hardware. Sorry.

Go read up on how IP routers actually function and then report back with what you've learned.

Source: I've been doing this (networking) since before there was an Internet. I currently don't touch routers that do anything less than 10Gbps/port and really prefer to work with 100Gbps/port. That's a cool couple o'million bucks per chasis, yo.
I make better photos with my old manual Hasselblad from the 1970ies. Because the interface has massive cognitive overhead.
No automatic at all, all manual, clunky, complicated.
It forces me to think slowly. Therefore it gives my head and heart the time and deep concentration about the picture I want to make. This leads to much better photos.
Yeah, it's reading between the lines. But the story is about how a father wouldn't explain the truth about the game, and I got a fairly strong sense of guilt from the article as a whole. I read that as 1 + 1 = 2 in the absence of anything explicit, since why else include it?
Domain name squatting makes that much difficult.
You will probably find the Frink language interesting: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/. http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#SampleCalculations further down is fun, especially the later ones.
"If this hypothesis is correct, then the next time you relish the scent of fresh rain, think of it as a cultural imprint, derived from your ancestors."

This is challenging the intelligence of it's readers. I thought that was actually the whole point of the article, and the premise rather than a doubtful conclusion? It spends the majority of it's paragraphs discussing what compounds the smell, which while really interesting, does not at all help explain why it smells good. Oh, so it's some oils, so what? Oils can smell greasy and funny. There's no such thing as a scent being inherently "good." It's all a product of our evolution.
I found the same when I started using prime lenses. Not only was the quality there, but it forced me to think about composition, where I was standing and the geometry of the shot.
The one I'm currently using is 6 years old. My boss had to replace his within a couple years and they showed him how to properly wrap the cable. He taught us and it's been fine.
I saw a suggestion on Reddit where with each million users, the headlines get even more distorted, that there be a karma penalty for distorting the headline. I think that could work if it was on a per subreddit basis.
Like Google? No. Google uses inlinks and Keyword density.

Really how do you know something is a song? It's not the finding that is hard, it is the knowing what to look for.
Gruber must be having a hard time finding sponsors if he decided to accept money from Microsoft, probably the second company he hates most (the first one being Google, obviously).
Do other universities offer similar classes?
Someone should make sure that troll tweets are removed :D
Will people want to borrow in defalationary biased currency though? Better to borrow in Bernanke Bucks where there is an unstoppable torrent being emitted monthly.

IMHO the Real estate bubble was from the Fed bailing the prior tech bubble by suppressing interest rates - which encourages borrowing. When loans are paid back, the currency created by taking the loan is extinguished but they have been juicing the system by continually suppressing rates via QE/bond purchases and not letting the real market decide the risk (ie: price of bonds). Now that interest rates have hit the floor - the next bubble to pop is the USD itself.
I suspect the reason those commercial solutions aren't very prominent is that they don't work very well. Spreadsheet compilation is a harder problem than it appears to be.
I hope people don't use this to park twitter usernames.
So, I work in one of these zones near Moffet Field. What do I do?
I started playing shooters around the time Q2 came out. I played Q3, Unreal, UT, HL and many smaller games, but the one that had the biggest influence by far was CS. To this day, no game has even come close to CS, and I can't understand why. No game that took inspiration from it ever took any detail of importance to heart. Even Valve completely failed with CS:S and whatever the name of their newest CS endeavor is, to improve on the game at all. Very strange. I guess it's so difficult to copy because it's good the way it is and has been since the beta. I look at BF, CoD, MW etc and I can't help myself thinking that the kids playing them have no idea that there were much better games a decade ago. Anyone who tries to play CS today will unfortunately be completely destroyed by any of the pro players still playing online before they can get past being a beginner.
nill was the best one I saw, looks like someone got to it.
That's not why people don't want to give up Excel. It's because in Excel they can do what they want themselves rather than having to rely on programmers. That's a really big deal and it's not something we programmers can easily appreciate.
I wasn't a CS major while there, but I did take a few CS classes. Those classes, in particular, are top notch, and a lot of time was clearly spent on at least the intro classes (the first 3-4 classes you may take). The classes are very well polished, the support staff is welcoming and teaches well, assignments are always really fascinating, and the courses as a whole are very put together. It's part of the reason that the CS department size more than doubled in the last few years!
As someone who rather wanted @root, I can say that these are not all available.
Do you honestly think the average human being is busy playing Curiosity?
Regulatory capture. Used to be a term we used to criticize corrupt developing countries. Nowadays it appears to be at the root of so many problems facing America.
What's the interpretation of comparing a contaminant level in a monitoring well (in the soil?) with a standard meant for drinking water?

The "total reading" statistic is a bit useless. 5 ug/L here, 10 ug/L there, does NOT make 15 ug/L total.
$40 per day?
Mapping the Internet
> Spending more increases odds of winning.

Does it? I was under the impression the winner would be whoever removed the last cube, which would be un-affected by how many cubes users removed earlier.
That's because the primary focus of Visual Studio is C++:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/vs_c99_support/
> Adding 500,000 cubelets costs $10.99, which implies that people have paid ~$103 to add cubelets over the course of 166 days, or around 62 cents per day. Gross revenue from all cubelet sales in either direction is ~$308 or ~$1.85/day.

Your numbers are way off, as is the timescale. The ability to add or remove cubelets is a new feature, released on April 17th. At ~$405.75 to change the cubelet levels using the most economical price ($10.99 for 500k, or $21.98 for 1 million, over 18.46 million cubelets[1]), that's ~$101.44/day.

[1]: "...users have paid to remove 13,780,000 cublets and add another 4,680,000" from http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-19-molyneux-adds-o...
I'll play devil's advocate to that. Nowadays you can use high resolution cameras with automatic everything and take lots of pictures. High resolution means cropping still yields a useful picture and taking lots means you are far more likely to have a useful picture. You are certainly far less likely to miss something. (Manual focussing is also not available to short sighted people like me since glasses/contacts don't result in perfect correction.)

If we extrapolated your approach to development then we shouldn't allow highlighting editors, debuggers (Linus has argued this), and similar modern tools. Heck you should have to wait hours/days for program output like they did in the punch card days.

I suspect that skilled people can make good use of the tools available, be they completely manual or with lots of automation. It is quite possible the automation doesn't help them that much. But the vast majority of people are closer to average.
It makes sense that the more CA's you allow into the market the less of a "total ripoff" you'd have due to competition, but intuitively there would be more of a problem on the "insecure" side due to fly-by-night companies with weak security. I don't see this as the main problem though.

In practice I feel like the whole CA system is flawed because you're trusting the CA based on the authority assigned to it by a higher governing body, a governing body you can't necessarily be sure isn't getting some blank-check signing superpowers from the CA and doing man-in-the-middle attacks on persons of interest with bogus certs. I can't necessarily trust that the authorities have my best interests in mind so I can't trust the CA signing system.

I look forward to the author's proposed solution(s) to this problem.
I was puzzled at first when I saw the license. Who would be interested in this commercially?

Then I realized the interesting thing isn't to run Linux, but some other more lightweight code that depends on the 32 bit arm architecture, but would run just fine on an 8-but micro, performance-wise.

Any idea what that use case might be?
Petrichor is one of the great neologisms of the English lexicon. An excellent word for an excellent, trans-cultural sensation.
It's like saying collateral damage that's why it's bad-ish.
I'd recommend using Pipedrive https://www.pipedrive.com/en/features

It is straightforward to use and lets you separate different flows and stages.
What do you think about the Battlefield series? As for me, I like it most of all multiplayer shooters. Even the original BF 1942 is quite fun to play.
factor makes Lisp wilt,
I was all primed to disagree with this article, but it's a pretty well placed piece.

I think an interesting pivot occurs when your start hitting the limits of working memory. Posting a photo is usually pretty immediate and doesn't max out your working memory.

Many years ago, I worked on a project to convert a Loan Application system from a VT100 "green screen" terminal to a Web Interface.

The Web Interface was actually pretty good, but it required too much navigation and too much working memory. We tried to reduce the number of clicks, but then the pages themselves became too slow and confusing.

Finally I got to see someone using the old VT100 app. It was blistering fast, and they supplemented it with codes written on a piece of paper. Crude and it required training, but it was far superior. The main thing was navigation. The codes on the paper were enough of a picture to offload that bit of cognitive processing... With the web interface, as soon as you clicked and had to pause or search - you'd lose the thread.

Unfortunately too late for that project, but a good lesson for me.
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Most of these works appear to be unavailable or banned... Unfortunately.
I don't think this conflicts with the author's post at all.

The post is quite specific about targeting the mass market.
Unveiled in Taiwan: the 10.7mm, 1.9-pound Inhon Blade 13 Carbon
I think parent, grandparent, and possibly great-grandparent share that view. The point was that back when we were having these discussions this was a lot less obvious to a lot of people. Which, to a certain extent, the video you linked demonstrates - Mancow hardly would have volunteered to undergo it if he didn't underestimate its awfulness (and he said it changed his views on the subject).
Griefing is just being annoying, while trolling is both a art and an science.
A interface that makes things easy is comfortable and probably profitable, since most people are lazy.
But convenience does not correlate with quality.
The author went with Apache v2: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/commit/201468c085d18b74e2...
In what way is a StartSSL certificate any different from a Comodo certificate? What makes StartSSL only usable for "playing"?
I use a trello board with the following cards:

|new| |no close follow-up| |follow-up| |dormant/recycle |

New is for new prospects

no close follow-up is for people who I have not closed.

follow up is for people I have closed, but waiting to be moved further along the sales ladder

dormant/recycle is for people who never respond but I still keep trying to close.

Note that I don't waste any leads.
Actually, they are not. The article indicated that the experiment had been going for 166 days (164 days, but it was written two days ago). $10.99/500K=$0.00002198 per cubelet. 0.00002198 X 18.46M total cubelets sold = $405. $405/166 = $2.43/day.
Show HN: SenderPays Email Service
This idea has been around for a long time and most recently championed by Esther Dyson with the aim of tackling email overload.

My initial version is to used as an incentive to get a reply to an email as how many of us have emailed people but don't get a response, quite a few of us I'm sure.

How it works is you type in the recipient's email address at senderpays.co and that'll create an email address which you can copy to your email client or just click the links for Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo to immediately compose your message.

After you send it you'll get an email back requesting payment, click the link, select either $5, $10, $25, $50 or $100 as the incentive, pay using PayPal and that's it! If however you don't get a reply within 7 days then you get a full refund.

If you do get a reply then it all works over email without requiring any logging in to websites or any of that nonsense.

The topic of the sender paying has received quite a bit of flak but I think it's been misrepresented as it's not about postage like paying to send an email which should remain free but it's the valuing of the recipients' time which is finite. Email allows anyone access which leads to email overload and in some cases email bankruptcy leaving the senders without a response.

Pay the Recipient and Get Noticed is my view, it's fair and a win-win since the recipient get's compensated and the sender gets a response, which is what we want anyway!
Boston Bomber's Mosque Has Muslim Brotherhood Ties
Experimenting with Colors and Concepts
"See, it ain't about the Benjamins or Pentiums or Athlons" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGjtlsKo4s
Awesome. This kind of well designed personal site mixing tech with demos is very appealing, because if gives you something beautiful, potentially very useful, and chewable.

Anyone knows a good "directory" or collection of such sites?

Another example of that kind of site: http://worrydream.com/
The experiment has been running for a few months yes, but like I said, the feature to add or remove cubelets is new for version 3.0, released on April 17th. Check the Eurogamer article I linked to (also linked in the original article).
Looks very interesting. What distributions package it?
What are you talking about? Regulatory capture assumes a working rule of law, and describes a process by which people subject to the rules of the game try to rewrite them. In corrupt developing countries the power owns the rules outright, and regulatory capture is no longer a process. I guess you could call it "trivial regulatory capture" but it won't get you any Nobel Prizes. The theory was developed by Chicago School economists who liked to criticize big government.

Regulatory capture has always been a bug of advanced, sufficiently honest societies. This is important because it tells us that well-intentioned rule of law is insufficient for running a democracy if you're not paying attention. I don't think anyone at the FDA wakes up and says, "I think I'll spend today getting in the way of good medical care and helping big pharma make money."
> (I used to be an endurance athlete)

That's why. A "world renowned event" is famous in the real world, not just in the world of athletics. I have never run a marathon and I never intend to (cardio kills gains, lol), yet I have hear of the New York marathon many times over the years. That is a world renowned event.
That's curious, my need for instantaneous news has been waning. This past few weeks events (local and international) have really been the proverbial straw.

I now wait. For news, I want truth not action.
Chrome PDF Viewer doesn't have PDF highlight feature which has forced me to consider it a secondary laptop.
They won't have that large of an SSD because Google would want you to use Chrome OS using cloud services as opposed to local hard drive space. I doubt they will go above the 16GB or whatever it is that they currently have.
Is that the equivalent of a "brain dump"? ;)
The genre peaked with Tribes. Anything less is embarrassing.
Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century
I guess finance folks have to get themselves educated about test driven development
how can i use for marketing purpose?
I'm building this actually (been at it for a couple years :-/). But you know what, deviantArt got a lot better at browsing pictures a few months ago, with their 'more like this' feature. You should check it out.
According to Google, 1 gallon is 3.78541178 cubic decimeters[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1+gallon+in+cubic+decimeters
Sounds (smells?) like that's just petrichor from downwind.
The 3rd generation shuffle has no controls apart from a switch between loop, shuffle, and off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#Third_generation
You're absolutely right, that was inappropriate.
> Gold serves as a currency

Not for the last 80 years it hasn't..
Kind of how your first amendment rights stop at distributing anti-war literature, as in the case that analogy is drawn from?
Fascinating. I had no idea that's what that service was being used for. Interesting, it was more or less retired as soon as Android blew up and voice search was everywhere.
Yea...i do feel depression sometimes with my work...Also to add to few points mentioned here, I am also end up doing others work when they just stuck the team work...its frustating when u end up doing others work...

But I am always in control..used to play FIFA to control my emotions until my fingers having pain issues...now i watch some movies daily...
> I doubted that these ASIC rigs would ship any time soon. Wouldn't it be more profitable for the vendors to simply to delay/cancel orders and run the rigs 24/7 themselves?

Only if they're "long BTC". What makes you think they are? They're just providing shovels & tools to "miners in a gold rush". Historically, such providers have always done phenominally well.

At least they get the rigs at production cost to run them---selling them for good ol' USD may just be a hedge or sideshow, only time can tell.
Rippln: Multi-Level-Marketing invading App store
How do you handle the visa situation?
Naming things is so hard. Descriptive names might be great at telling users immediately what your service does. But there are only so many plays on "To Do List" that work for product names.

As soon as you start actually using a product, it's really nice if it has a simple, pronouncible name. It's much easier to say: "Did you see this on Trello?" to a coworker than "Did you see this on FogCreek To Do List Pro?"

Another simple product with a great name is Doodle. Of course you could have a more obvious name, like "Cooperative Schedule Maker 3.0". But that just makes it so much harder to talk about!

Trello is a good name.
Can someone reference the post here (or possibly on reddit) that described how technically infeasible this project is to be accurate?
Would love to hear what you all think about this, self described, phenomenon. Also hope that you will warn your friend about it. :)