skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Generally speaking, 10k in debt, 10k in the bank, at a non-usurious interest rate is far more stable than 0 in debt and $3.50 in the bank.

That's not usually the advice financial counselors give. Dave Ramsey, for instance, would probably say keep $1k in the bank and pay pay off $9k of the debt and [snowball] the remaining payments.

Also, assuming you can get a 12% ROI over the years, and accounting for inflation, you'd be left with 12%-5%-4%=3%

Is that hypothetical 3% gain worth keeping the debt, which has risks of its own? e.g. you are incapacitated due to an accident, or you incur a huge medical bill that you need to split into payments, but you can't pay much because, oh "i just have this loan at 5% that's not worth paying off.
Melissa Joan Hart also gained a fair amount of negative press for herself during election season, which probably has something to do with the less-than-thrilled response. She lost a lot of Twitter followers, and that was probably her main announcement vector.
Seems like this would be pretty easy for the SEC to spot if you were doing any kind of volume.
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Bitcoin itself doesn't need PayPal, but the bigger picture here is that PayPal integrating BTC could boost awareness like few things could for the currency.
Interesting idea, but it requires quite a major lifestyle change for the user. It is the type of service that takes time for people to adjust to. I wouldn't be surprised if it took you (or a competitor) a couple of years to get a decent amount of regular users.
I think that's a little cynical. Kickstarter is basically a way for the audience to act as patrons of the Arts: the rewards in this case are just a bonus. I think many people would support a project like this with no reward at all other than seeing the final product.
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Ahh. Nice point. On one hand, you could argue that "Well, it is a paradigm shift in terms of platform, so therefore people will sit up and pay attention (maybe not Grandma and Grandpa)". Yet, on the other hand, it could be just as easy to relegate it to the ilk of other "paradigm shift" tech graveyard of your Nintendo Powerglove and VR headware. I can't remember a technology that has come along for a while which has me so clueless on the prospects of its practical adoption by We The Consumers.
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"You'll never lose a penny while using Paypal."

Unless your account is frozen...
Is everyone forgetting that Paypal just sucks in general?
Since the second industrial revolution made possible the emergence of large, networked oligopolistic companies (the Edisons and Fords of the 1900s, and the Googles or Apples of today), capitalism became dependent on large credit spurts for the purposes of financing these capital corporations’ needs.

Maybe in industrial times there was indeed a need for large capital to be seeded to get something done (like say, a factory), but it isn't really the case of Google, Apple or a lot of bootstrapping start-ups out there. The cost of starting-up something is constantly falling, tending (I presume) to be reduced in the future to the mere cost of one's living.
ICanHasCheezburger must be the most advanced form of "art" to have ever graced the planet, then.
> Strictly speaking, the supply is inflating continuously

what about Bitcoins being lost? perhaps we should also consider coins that are not used in the past five years also "lost".
That's still peanuts in rocket money and scale.

All these things could have been done earlier if the politics was different.

DC-X used F-15 gyros / guidance with some software tweaks for example.
Ironically, the best way to pay off 'hacking debt' is with 'real work'.

If you want to learn technology X, the best way to do that is to build something with it. You want to build something that is motivational in itself, something that is useful or fun. Building something useful is real work.
One organization that I worked at had a firmware team that moved quickly, and wrote the interface layer to the PHY/MAC/Network devices. After they defined the interface, later on enterprise software teams, and utility software teams, would write the "User Friendly" tools that would be used to configure the networking devices, but the firmware team did write a tiny "shim" utility that they released with firmware, that could be used to control the firmware at a very raw/native level.

Whenever you were wondering what parameters to pass to this low level (very useful) utility, the answer was almost always, "Just check out the Code" - and answer that was actually surprising straightforward once you got used to it.
The oldest hamburger looks exactly the same
http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFS.html
So, if I'm understanding your comment, it is even worse than that data shows? That is a frighteningly bold waste of money.

However, the other thing it doesn't show, which is also probably hard to quantify, is how much donor money comes in to the main fund because of continued interest in sporting (I believe my link shows contributions directly to the sporting program). Another factor is the marketing impact to prospective students who choose their school off if their teams.

I'm sure the politics and internal value judgements are complicated, but, as much as I enjoy my alma matter beating up on our rivals, I would enjoy my tax burden and my kids' tuition burden (which comes out of my pocket) to be less. More transparency on the subject would be nice.
+1 for awful pun
Quake III's AI not only receives but also gives commands by chat. If you enter a team full of bots, you can see them talk to each other and "plan" to a certain extent.
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no, i'm not a student.

presentations and papers like this are what i'm referring to:

https://skatgame.net/mburo/icaps2010-pg/ICAPS-PG.2010.1.bart...

http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/icaps-pg2007/papers/Symbolic%20Ex...

http://www.slideshare.net/StavrosVassos/the-simplefps-planni...

http://abotea.rsise.anu.edu.au/data/offline-htn-planning.pdf

http://www.guerrilla-games.com/presentations/VUA07_Verweij_H...

etc etc etc. turns out a lot of these ideas people thought were failures are getting a new lease on life in games, and they're working pretty well.

curious what classic AI algorithms you think are failing. from where i sit i'm seeing them get a new lease on life. maybe it's just the natural cycle of things: they get hot and invested in, they then fail to live up to their assumed potential, they fall out of favor for a while, and when everyone who was familiar with them - and their shortcomings - is gone a new generation finds it again and starts the cycle over.
I went in 2007 as a (UK) Student and I'd really recommend trying to find a way to do it. It becomes prohibitory expensive once you're not a student.
Yea, good point, it all depends on where the volume was. I would break it up this way:

The initial sell off: These orders would be executed from traders that use a live twitter feed to make buying or selling decisions. The underlying algorithm would have been able to execute these orders faster than any human. The serious news would have driven them to sell quickly, causing the market to start diving. Most of these probably made money, depending on how they were able to react to the news that it was fake. It is possible that there were algorithms selling all the way down the entire spike with the expectation that it was going to go down even further, losing money on most of the positions during the bounce. After-all, the bounce was faster than the drop.

Secondary sell off: While the algorithms are executing sell orders, market makers would begin to realize that a huge volatility spike was entering the market place, whether they heard the bad news or not. Because market makers train their models on relatively low volatile intra-day data, this spike would have been enough to reach either max positions or max downdraw, forcing the traders (or the market making algos they created) to cover positions for a loss on the way down.
Name one that has generics and is developer friendly.
I dont know why, they are just stupid.
Certainly companies may often do things for appearance, rather than for the right reasons, but both Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch have written that one of the best things that a corporation can do with its excess cash is to buy back its own stock when the company is undervalued in the market.
Garden State resonated with me in a way few movies do. I was in a similar emotional state at the time, so that helps, of course. You can read a plot synopsis elsewhere, but what hooked me, and has stayed with me, was the emotional honesty in most of the scenes.
On the whole I think things like that are still a net positive. One of the consequences of ubiquitous communications is that it makes crazies more visible. On the one hand there is the very real ability for this to give a stronger voice to people with reprehensible or counter-factual beliefs. However, it also exposes these things to the light of day, and it empowers people who wish to put forward counter-arguments just as much.

This isn't a new phenomenon. Literacy and printing have made it possible for reprehensible ideals to gain greater traction than they might have through books such as Mein Kampf. But on the whole I think literature has still had an overwhelmingly positive influence on mankind.
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You don't need to sync your device to pair it. This someone may have connected his unlocked device to the computer, which is enough to pair the device. Once a device is paired, the file system can be browsed regardless of lock status.

I have not tested with a new 6.1.3 device yet, but if true, this would be a very serious security regression.
This seems like the kind of thing that would almost necessitate use of Twitter's API and an authenticated user, right? What exactly is someone supposed to paste into the tweet box? The link to the tweet? Or the full text? I'm assuming the former, but the form input shouldn't be a textbox then.
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it is totally fascinating to me which German words make it into the English language. "Bildungsroman", nice one. Is this actually used often?
Particle generators like this have been used in Hollywood for quite awhile, I bet you would have never have guessed it was CGI though.
Your craft
limited supply of bitcoin means that the value of bitcoin will probably inflate. equivalently, prices of goods and assets denominated in bitcoin will probably deflate.
Usually the best reply is along the lines of: Refining the requirements is an iterative process; we'll both learn more on the way about exactly what the system needs to do and how it should do it. So let's break it down into small steps. We'll implement X first, then you pay us for X based on how long it turned out to actually take, then we can move on to Y. If you're unsatisfied at any stage you can walk away and keep everything you've paid for thus far.
Has The Cupcake Bubble Finally Popped?
If it was dumb people wouldn't be making money doing it. If information like that is only accurate 55% of the time it's still better than random (and even random would break even.)
Chechnya is not Czech Republic
I have noticed the increasing paucity of documentation in many open source projects. In the past, this would annoy me when I had to context switch from a perfectly good flow state to a documentation reading state. However, I realized that I was doing it wrong; it meant that I was not spending enough time analyzing the code I was about to "adopt" and depend on for my project. Now, I read the documentation and source code for every open source program before I choose to use it. I also find correlations between the quality of the code and the documentation; good quality code sometimes lacks documentation but poor quality code rarely has good documentation.

Reading the code also provides the opportunity for learning beyond the documentation; there's a wealth of really good code out there just waiting to be read.
"After 30 days of launch, I managed to get 7000+ active users, about 100 paying users and $6129 in revenues"

Wow! That's brilliant! How did you manage to convert 100 users to pay >$60 in less than 30 days? Can you tell me more about it?
> The better solution would be to just allow any folder(s) to be synced but none of the major cloud sync providers seem to want to enable that.

This correct solution is precisely what BitTorrent Sync provides. So that's all the more reason to be thankful that a seemingly excellent sync solution has finally arrived.
Apparently you didn't bother to click on them and view the image - the first one clearly shows online as a fraction of the total revenue for 2011 - sitting at around 10% of the industry's $24bn.
I mean theoretically the old candy bar phones are much simpler than the iPhone. 10 numbers, #, *, call, hangup.

There is simple and then there is too simple.
Perhaps it is the most realistic, but I've yet to see a fluid demo, this one included that didn't look like overly "energetic" shampoo.
Yes, and that's definitely an issue we're working on. At the very least we'll notify our users of the relevant privacy laws at their current location, and we'll always encourage people to let those around them know when Retrospect is turned on.

We'll always try to prevent people from being recorded without their knowledge, but in the end it comes down to what our users choose to do. Someone today could cause the same privacy violation by walking around with a tape recorder.
The difference being that this demonstration is real-time.
Brilliant analogy!
The lizard poops on her
You should never compress the stomach, it always ends badly!
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The full "JS Objects" article series:

* Part 1: JS Objects: Inherited a Mess [1]

* Part 2: JS Objects: Distractions [2]

* Part 3: JS Objects: De"construct"ion [3]

[1] http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-objects

[2] http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-objects-distractions

[3] http://davidwalsh.name/javascript-objects-deconstruction
Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
sounds quite invasive...
It definitely depends on the language. The author mentions spring security so I'm assuming he's using java, where it's a massive PITA to manually hunt down and attach the sources to the 50 jars you have in lib/. Maven probably has something that will automatically do this but if your legacy project is just using ant then you're pretty much stuck.
Reddit and the Boston Bombers: Why what happened wasn't crowdsourcing
We're really proud of what we've built here, and we're looking for beta testers to help us continue to scale Mantis. Filling in the holes of commodity WebRTC is going to bring some really fascinating face-to-face video apps to the market a lot sooner, and we're excited to have folks come into the playground we're building and play a bit.

If you're interested in using multiparty WebRTC, then please email me at melih@tokbox.com
Insightful on how to position the right relationships to minimize risk in early stage.
> It starts syncing the recursive structure until it runs out of quota.

I was curious about this myself, but I never tried it, as I feared that this was precisely the badness that would occur.

Dropbox is so good in so many respects, I just can't understand how they could have made such an utterly terrible and wrong decision on this particular issue.
> kudos to them.

Kudos for being horribly late and reactive instead of proactive?

This should have been implemented long long ago imo. Though i do give them more slack than with all of our banking institutions that still don't offer two-factor. But these recent events show how importing two-factor(or security in general) for even things like social media are.
>I think the next time I interview a candidate I will ask them what major open-source libraries they use. Then I will ask them what they think of the quality of the source code

Sometimes, it is eye opening to read the source code to some popular libraries/frameworks and discover how badly the code is structured. Some definitely belie the notion that code is written for humans.
How to use the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
Want the most reliable Windows PC? Buy a Mac (or maybe a Dell)
Best line - "a different mind but same drive". It brings you on the same page in terms of contributions and you can work on all the different aspects.
the problem is the iphone has ONLY a easy mode...
It's a great choice for readability; cuts down on inconsistency.
The future is moving so fast that even the futurists are unprepared
If the SEC ever manages to implement it, yes.
Yes, projects that claim to be infrastructure and come with no documentation, and presumably few comments, and who knows what unit tests.

It would be an exaggeration to refer to that as minimally viable code (mvc). It is really only a statement of the lack of engineering actually being practiced, and makes me wonder about the lack of robustness, the lack of security, the numbers of bugs in the systems produced.

I am not certain this is a winning strategy for open source.
> Oh, and I think he missed the most surprising thing about Go for newcomers: that "if" creates scope!

Go is block scoped, and if statements are blocks. I don't see this as surprising.

I agree some set operations would be nice, maybe using an interface like Sort, but you can use a map as a basic generic set data structure. This is how many language implement a set anyway.
In the context of mining, I think what he really meant is neither inflation nor deflation, but rather issuance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank#Currency_issuance)
Another benefit of the snowball method is you can reduce the number of lenders you owe money to more quickly. Then, if for some reason you can't keep up with payments, you have fewer ominous phone calls to worry about and are less likely to have to file bankruptcy.

Interestingly, at that point the psychology goes from motivational to avoiding extra stress altogether.
Google Glass for Rubyist
It's definitely realistic, but sometimes it seems just a little off. There are times when it seems to "clump" up like a solid would when you have water particles thrown in the air. I'm not sure if that's my own bias or the uncanny valley effect at play here.
Ultralight aviation(1) is available to the masses, but people don't want to replace their cars with them. Why? It is an unsolvable problem, so nobody knows.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation
I remember my first mac having an easy mode, back in the pre-OS X days. And didn't they add one to Mac OS X too?

I guess that "really says it all" if you've got some pre-concieved notions about something that you desperately need re-inforced.

edit: Googled it. Both were called "Simple Finder".
In mainstream discourse? No. In literary criticism, yes.
When I look at this water, it feels as though the volume of water is the size of like an acre. Is this to exaggerate the effect or is this a limitation of our current modeling capability?
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OK, I see what the downvote is for. But let me explain why I say you "shouldn't build anything" until you have traction or a strong product/market fit.

Building ANYTHING takes money. You might not think so, but it's true: you can't build some tiny part of "anything" without raising money.

You NEED have to have some resources to spend on it.

I mean if $0 is the true cost of building a pre-raising-money product to the stage of where you can show traction or a product/market fit, then I'll take the world's supply of pre-raising-a-round product RIGHT NOW.

That's right. If you have a product that is available for $0 and that has not yet shown a product/market fit or some kind of traction, I'll TAKE IT. Right now. Or whatever fraction of it you want to sell me at that valuation. Just hit me up for a reply.

If, however, as I suspect, the world supply of that is itself 0, then you have to realize that any kind of product, even pre-"raising a round", itself costs money and resources.

You should not spend EVEN those resources until you have some kind of traction or product/market fit. Really. I'm serious.

Have product/market fit, have traction, before having product. Don't build it until it's wroth building.
How much is this for? Have you considered handling this in small claims court?
I'm not sure I agree completely with his characterization of what happens. I've noticed that people, particularly in larger organizatons, will start shoehorning their "hacking work" into real projects if it is left out for too long. So, you end up with systems that are on bleeding-edge languages, tools, runtimes, and platforms because, frankly, the team was just dirt-sick of Scala/Java + Beans, even though that would've met the company's goals much more quickly and cheaply.

That said, I definitely support his statement that people should have some hacking / learning time budgeted, even if only to avoid the scenario I mentioned above.
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WebCL: Binding OpenCL to Javascript [pdf]
That's just disgusting.
Something needs to be done to address this enormous problem.

One of the worst examples I've come across lately is Zookeeper (http://zookeeper.apache.org/), which should win an award for how confusingly useless the documentation is. The Java source is probably refreshingly concise.
I know what you were meaning to say but I have actually been chastised by many a frontend dev for saying "Oh, all the stuff the frontend team does is easy".

In either area (frontend / backend) the complexity depends entirely on the problem that you are trying to solve and I am sure there are plenty of FE problems that require a high level of expertise to solve elegantly.
I don't know if this article actually claims that Kanban beats SCRUM but it was a great example of someone moving away from SCRUM. One thing I have noticed is that far too many people equate agile directly with scrum. We're now getting scrum bigots. It's so nice to see people being agile about agile!
In the not so distant future, visualizing and "walking through" the past -- ala the movie Deja Vu (but minus the wormholes) -- will become a reality. It was the lack of even a rudimentary version of this that made the Reddit sleuthing so hopeless, with most media having zero context, location, or even time taken, that metadata not available.

But imagine photo synth/streetview with a time slider: Thousands of pictures and overlaid videos time synchronized and placed into a scene. Such a tool could be incredible for such investigations.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the page.

Why on Earth was this upvoted? The quality of articles on the front page has been truly disappointing recently.

This is not tech news.
Java is exactly what I'm using, and you are correct... it is a massive PITA to attach sources. Unfortunately, we're not using Maven but plan to in the future.
Thank you for clearing that up, now this is actually impressive, although I would imagine it would require a ton of GPU & CPU power.
I agree, and sadly it's way harder to locate relevant bits of code in dynamic languages. (Hey Steve Yegge- can we have Grok now, please?) But even in static languages it's a must for me. I find that Javadoc becomes largely irrelevant if I can just click through to the actual source.
Oh, dear. If I were the president of PayPal and wanted to make quick buck, I would buy some bitcoins, released news like this, and sold my bitcoins the next day with a nice profit. And then, I could just deny the news, sending bitcoin value back where it was so that it is ready for the next exploiter... Heh.

But seriously, PayPal and Bitcoin are by nature rivals. If PayPal wanted to have a crypto-currency, it would develop its own, not validate and boost value of another one gaining nothing in the process.