skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the slims came out in 2010 - the basic xbox 360 has been black and silver ever since.
well yes.. LXC uses containers.. its as secure as what it uses. Heh.
i also ise rackspace mail (almost entirely via imap/smtp), and it has been very reliable. Their lack of 2-factor auth is making we consider fastmail though.
The opposite of inflation is deflation, and that's much worse than inflation.
Baby formula has rigorous research behind it.
Was not aware of /lite. Love it!
I don't have access to the original Privco report, but this article on Time http://goo.gl/iu1z3 cites it as saying the 178 employees are dvying up $66 million among themselves and goes on to say a couple of sentences later that the first 30 employees average out to $3.6 million... which adds up to $108 million.

Anyone with a basic understanding of math ought to recognize that their numbers are dubious. It's disappointing to see it echoed all over the web including publications like Time who should be expected to do some simple fact checking.
The FDA has an entire document on allowable amounts of rat feces and insect parts that manufacturers can have in their food: http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocuments....

I'll listen to what the kid has to say.
view-source on "snow fall" and you'll see that
it's bloatware underneath, through and through.

so i am pleased to see any kind of tool being
offered to creative individuals that will help
to simplify the matter of creating such sites.

if i did a replica, i would scramble the text,
and dummy the images and video, so as to avoid
any copyright issues. but that's a side-issue.

the important point is big-money corporations
usually employ cost-inefficient methodologies.
it'd be a mistake for individuals to think that
such wasteful methodologies are the only route.
so don't let the n.y. times bully you into the
incorrect perception that only it can create a
lush presentation a la "snow fall". you can too.

-bowerbird
I don't see where the point of asm.js is sandboxing.
In fact, that's pretty much beside the point. Sandboxing in NaCL is just a necessity.
Do you guys have advice for what to put on business cards?
I think it is not ok, and I think that the deflationary nature of Bitcoin is a wonderful practical example of the problem with deflation.

To the best of my knowledge bitcoin does not seem to be used as currency that much. It's explosion in popularity is not matched in explosion in currency usage. And why would it? If you, for example, buy a toaster online with bitcoin and it keeps appreciating, this toaster may end up costing you a $1000 in a year.

If bitcoin were to fullfil its promise, a large portion of online transactions should take place with bitcoins. AFAIK, thus far this is only happening for illegal drug transactions, for which there is no other alternative.

Thus far bitcoin is something people buy and hold hoping it appreciates. If they are tired of holding it, they sell it back. It is not a currency, it is an object of investment/speculation.
I believe this is the textbook definition of the word "flounce". The guy could have just banned referer URLs from HN, instead he blogs just to say goodbye. Funny stuff.

Also, what's with both his commenters and HN describing one another's commenters? There are shitty, stupid people everywhere, folks, and nobody is superior to anyone else. Except SomethingAwful goons, because, well... you know.
I can definitely understand the sentiment if you haven't tried it. I knew optional typing existed in AS3 (which I use for prototyping certain ideas) for a long time before finally taking the plunge and using it here and there. It lets you blast through experimental code and remain nimble until such time as you want/need to add typing. Also a nice way to avoid long chains of method overloads, including overloading methods that only differ by return type, which is impossible to do in some (many?) languages.
To me Dart looks like another brick in Google's walled garden. Weakening support for XMPP, Webkit, RSS, and JavaScript. Investment in so-called open technologies like NaCL and DART that are controlled by Google and optimized for Google's platform. Too bad.
This reminds me of something else -- the idea that the reason kids don't learn in school is that the material is given a dull presentation. Or that teachers are too secure in their jobs and so they aren't energized enough to engage students. If it turns out to be based on a myth, it would be best to find out before wasting a lot of resources and causing serious damage to the teaching profession.
Dart's optional typing is effectively a dynamic language that allows you to decorate your source with optional Type info that effectively just acts like documentation for other developers and automated tooling.

It's far more readable and concise having it embedded in the language rather than buried and disjointed in the comments. Not to mention it also allows for superior tooling support.

I've personally been extremely productive with Dart (most productive I've ever been with any language). It's effectively a more consistent JavaScript with less ceremony with the benefit of optional typing which has caught errors on a number of occasions, giving instant feedback and identifying errors before I've even run the code.
The comment section on the local newspaper article is comedy gold.
Note that the part where I mentioned kernel and safe used quotes because its sarcastic.

The modern oses do have kernels that are much safer than what we use day to day, however. They're indeed not in C. In general the core is typed ASM and it runs a a managed language right on top.
The kernel is generally written with that and uses various concepts that separate privileges as much as possible for security, reliability and predictability, basically.
That includes kernel components, and obviously drivers.
Messages between components are also generally declared ("contracted") with well defined types.
> I cant imagine that some Googler asked Larry face to face about XMPP

He - and the rest of the leadership - have been asked about XMPP/CalDav/CarDav/RSS/Reader/<any topic related that has ever been discussed on HN> in person repeatedly.

Every week there is a global meeting called TGIF. The format is almost always the same - some announcements, a presentation or two about things that various teams are working on - followed by Q&A. There is an internal Google Moderator instance set up each week where questions can be submitted and voted on, and there are live microphones in the meeting room.

Generally at least one of Larry or Sergey are there (usually both) as well as the other senior leadership. They take the questions and they - for the most part - give pretty straight answers.

I can promise you that nothing that gets brought up here on HN doesn't also get brought up internally and debated intensely. The fact that this is possible and normal (even encouraged) is one of the things I love about working at Google.

Whether or not we like the answers that are given we at least get to hear the reasoning behind the decisions and get more insight into the thought processes of the people that are making the decisions.

We get to see, first-hand, Larry and Sergey talking about the larger plans. We get to see what they are passionate about. We get to see and feel their sincerity.

I truly wish I could share more of what we are told. I wish I could get across why I believe in the company and in the larger vision that Larry and Sergey have shared about where the company is going.

There is a reason that so many Google employees are so passionate about the work we do and about the company. It's not because we've "drank the Gool-aid" or because we get great food and other perks. It's because we get to see and experience first-hand what the leadership talks about and cares about - and we believe in what they are trying to do.

It's about making the world a better place. It's about doing things that nobody else can do. It's about doing things that most other people don't even imagine is possible.
RockyMcNuts: good sources tell me SelfDescribedVC got no bonus last year.

SelfDescribedVC: that's false.

PeanutGalleryPaparazzo: those sources have been reliable, if they're wrong, don't throw out ad-hominem attacks, just tell me how much you really made.

b*h please. Professional VCs don't anonymously troll top VCs.

(Account created 42 days ago, 2 submissions, both referencing PrivCo)
Heh, yet another reason I don't write HFT algorithms, ever.
This might be credible if I noticed any correlation between this kind of bad behavior and actual talent, but I don't. It's the folks who cling to their sekrit knowledge who tend to be the dicks.
Walled garden??

It's the most open language I know, fully OSS'ed with an extended license to include any implicit patents (removing Patent FUD), developed out in the open and accepting 3rd party contributions and inviting feedback to influence language design.

Lars Bak also mentioned at Google I/O that they're in the process of trying to get it standardized, not sure what's left to do to make it any more "open" and inviting.
Fair enough, that was harsh. But it does annoy me when people treat the flag button as a downvote button.
The GPGTools team had a paid version (beta) out for months. I felt the functionality was worth the minor investment and also ensured that there was some path forward for future revs.
The title is written as if unlawful statements are somehow made legal when posted on Facebook. The site then goes on to make a big deal about that: "all for something he posted on Facebook".

Of course statements made on Facebook can be criminal. Threats against another are not neutralized because they happen online. Neither is a criminal conspiracy. So the article blithely pretending that this alone should make us outraged is frankly insulting.

The statements in question don't appear to be criminal, but the submitter should link to something that doesn't start out trying to convince us of this with meaningless tripe.
With Go I feel the same way – after a long time with interpreted languages it's a breath of fresh air using a strictly typed and statically compiled language.

About your point with Bram and Google, though, I can understand it. The people you're around and the environment you're in must feel so much better than working on open-source by yourself, especially with the 20% of free time you get to work on whatever you'd like.

I can't take anything else than you're jumping on the google hate bandwagon here, which I'd love to know why. As a side note, I'd love to hear everyone's responses as to why they love Go but hate Google. Odd.

(Disclaimer, I don't know Bram but know that in an environment that fosters people you get much more done and excel much faster).
It took me less than 1 min to move all my feeds from Google Reader to Feedly. There is not really much to figure out there.
The New Xbox Kinect
I somehow hadn't noticed it, even thus its not new. Thanks :)
Dart compiles to JavaScript, much like CoffeeScript, Microsoft's TypeScript, Haxe and many others, and they still make the fastest JavaScript VM on the planet.
I apologize ahead of time for going off topic but I have to argue against the bashing of Keynesianism that is getting so popular lately.

Keynesian economics works, and it is responsible for the longest and largest sustaining economic growth ever seen on this planet. It works, and moreover it is shown to be the only thing that works over a long period of time.

The fact that the competing theory is simpler does not mean that the competing theory works. Simplicity does not mean accuracy. Also expansion of the money supply does not necessarily mean inflation. Remember that the amount of goods and services produced in the world is also expanding.
If those are actually the facts of this case, sounds to me like he just has a terrible lawyer.

For what it's worth I'm not a lawyer in Massachusetts. However in most jurisdictions I'm familiar with it would NOT be a difficult or expensive task to get him before a court to test the basis for the charges against him.

The facts are straightforward, there isn't copious amounts of evidence to work through. Simply interpretation of a statute which could be sorted in a morning's hearing.
What stops you from doing business in fractional bitcoins? I'm pretty sure shift is a basic instruction in every architecture.
If you opt-in to a mailing list, and don't like it, then opt-out. Pretty simple stuff ...
Perhaps use "randomcustomer@example.com"? (see rfc2606)

(Or alternatively "abuse@localhost"? "root@127.0.0.1"? "spam@gmail.com"?)
None of these arguments is at all persuasive.

"First of all, the present value of a perpetually appreciating asset is not infinity"

Straw man. No one is claiming the present value of anything has to be infinity. And I don't see anyone saying real estate is a good medium of exchange.

"Second, there is a liquid market for Bitcoins."

Another straw man. No one is saying there will not be any trade in deflationary currencies. The amount of Bitcoins that are not being circulated speaks to exactly what people don't like about deflationary currencies though.

"Third, the marginal utility of money is diminishing."

A true fact that has no impact on the criticism of Bitcoin because it's deflationary. Red herring.
You could, but then you would be limiting personal freedoms for those that aren't part of the problem. In my opinion that flies in the face of everything this country and its constitution stand for. One of these days it will be your favorite thing (large sodas, salt, what's next, NYC?) that is outlawed because someone else might be causing a problem with it.
Certainly criminal statements can be written on Facebook, but could you point out what that is in this case? Should Ice-T have been imprisoned for Cop Killer?
Since the entire premise of Bitcoin is a fanatical devotion to the idea that no evil government will ever be able to produce more of the currency, it seems highly, highly unlikely that the deflationary "bug" in the Bitcoin protocol is one that will ever be changed by Bitcoin participants. Any other bug might be fixed. But not that one.
Your third point is good and one that I personally think is the most impactful. At the end of the day, everyone has their "price". You can't take BTC to the grave with you, so at some exchange rate, you are a seller. For some people this amount is $130, or $500, or $5000. But at every new BTCUSD high, it introduces a new group of sellers and eventually all hoarders will get shaken out.

I'm not sold on your second point "someone who sells a Bitcoin for X would have been equally happy to spend it on something they value at X." Using daily volume on Gox as an example, just because $2M changed hands yesterday, it doesn't necessarily imply that these folks would have happily exchange their coins for a good or service. A lot of this volume could represent traders getting in and out of a position, not someone ready to empty their account. However, your general point is that liquidity is a positive reinforcing signal, and I can agree with that. If liquidity is increasing because more merchants need to swap out, this is a direct indication that spenders are willing to transact.
Well it seems obvious you're posting it just because it mentions FB.
there was a similar story with an ex-marine last year.

http://www.nbc12.com/story/19396255/marine-brandon-raub-spea...

Its certainly shocking to see people being arrested over facebook posts. No sure what to do. Maybe start a campaign to encourage people to post 'terrorist' messages in protest? What can they do with 10 million terrorist messages?
Kndl Manager: Simple Google Drive to eReader
The fact that their website still doesn't have a viewable demonstration of their software suggests it actually isn't so easy to make interactive content like Snow Fall.

The only thing I could find was this very annoying video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUA62gHzVpA
> If you stuff them under the mattress, saving is harmful.

I don't see how. Isn't this equivalent to a distributed loan to everyone who holds dollars?
Absolutely! Taking 5 minutes away from a problem can bring to light the solution when you're not trying to "bruteforce" the solution in your head.

Same as sometimes when driving as I'm not focused on work can bring about good ideas.
A minor airline's frequent flier mile transactions are 10 times that. An average Target store does more than that. What convertible currency doesn't have a giant multiple of that? And Silk Road isn't even legit, enforceable transactions.
It's not just you. It's done by people who, apparently, hate the iPad pinch-to-zoom gesture --- since medium.com does not permit that.
Dealing in fractional bitcoins doesn't solve deflationary problems in the same way that Zimbabwe printing a $100 trillion dollar banknote didn't solve their inflationary problems.
Would you really want to leave it encrypted on paper though?

I would have the paper as a long term backup - including a backup in case I forget the password, or am incapacitated.
I like the idea of gettin more olive oil in my diet. Also the existing ones have too many carbs and aren't filling.
That is what I actually meant by even dimensions. I meant divisible by 2, not balanced.

It just seems impossible to take something with texture at 1x, and then scale it up. I often pick subtle textures for 2x, and then just drop or re-zoom the texture in the 1x version. How many people really have non-retina devices these days?
Some of these ideas are dubious. Indeed — pricing higher sometimes leads to greater sales.
I think miners who have invested in farms of (very application specific) ASICs would disagree.

Then again, in theory it's the "economic majority", not that miners, that matter: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority
That is a lot more processing than I expected them to have built-in. I'm also impressed with the quality of the audio processing, which I didn't really think about before.
"Nearly the entire universe of modern academic economics rests on the Keynesian and/or Monetarist foundation that increasing money supply (thus inflation) is a good thing."

Imagine my shock that user jstalin is a monatery crank.

If your currency is worth X today and more than X tomorrow you will see less economic activity than otherwise. That simple fact that is true whether or not you agree with the rest of Keynesian or Monetarist economics.
It sounds like it'll have higher resolution. Exciting to think what developers will do do once we get our hands on it.
It's not the court system post-arrest that is to be worried about. They usually have rationality in cases like this. Such as the young girl who was charged for using explosives at school when it was only a small experiment with a water bottle.

It's the fact he was arrested by the state at all in the first place.
You're maybe the fourth person I've heard who is talking about MicroConf like it was the best conference ever. I'm beginning to really regret not attending. Was it all that?
Cam's facebook and pointing to "disturbing" posts like "Fuck politics. Fuck Obama. Fuck the government!"

What's disturbing about any of that?
This is on par with a cannabis activist being held without bail because a Federal Magistrate found the accused to be "a danger to the community."

http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/author/roger-christie/
"It gets at both our desire to be competitive in the global marketplace, but also to be more fair and equitable in the way we share our wealth. True libertarians would be repulsed at the thought."

I don't think this guy really understands libertarianism. Libertarian principles don't say anything about how private actors choose to distribute ownership. Most libertarians are only "repulsed" if government forces private actors to distribute ownership in a particular way. If spreading out equity more evenly among employees makes a particular firm more competitive, then awesome, that's how the market works.
More to the point, what's criminal about it?
I'll assume that he knew of the ENIAC since it was publicized in 1946, which means he probably didn't "predict" mechanical/electrical computation. Regardless, he successfully predicted digital feedback control systems, lights-out manufacturing, mechatronics, artificial intelligence (to a limited extent), and the social ramifications of a post-scarcity society. Are these technologies obvious progressions that come from knowing about automatic computation, or was he truly that much of a visionary?
Inspiring. Thanks Chris for sharing.
As long as you're adding a type system (optional or not) it does seem a bit odd to opt for an unsound one...
As far as debunks go the Business Insider article wasn't much of one sadly. Also calling this a diet doesn't seem that accurate to me in the way that most people think of diets (something transitory); it feels like they're using the term as a pejorative.

One of the things which has interested me about this whole affair since it was first posted was the reactions of people who put timeframes on their interest "I'll be interested to see what happens after a month", "...after three months", "...after a year", "...after a decade". I wonder at what point people are going to say "well ok, that's long enough, I've seen enough".

I think this is interesting from the point of view of someone who doesn't enjoy cooking most of the time and most of the stuff I cook when I'm in work mode is probably deficient nutritionally. I also think as a portable, storable and efficient food source the potential is pretty amazing, and I don't think the fact he's not a biochem or nutrition guy is an excuse to ignore the principle of what he's trying to do here. I would definitely like to see some more critical appraisal (and there certainly seems to be some in some of the comments here).
Lots of people are OK with something until it bites them. Plenty of people are 'ok' with not backing up their information (e.g. family photos), until a storage failure takes it all away.
Not sure why you think that, and your karma is too high to be a troll...
It's analogous to job ads that spend the first 500 words describing what the company is trying to do and how much foosball and dinners yadda yadda, the actual job details being haphazardly compiled at the bottom. Narcissistic business model syndrome.
Well and the FDIC doesn't really apply here since it only covers $250k. You're right on why the treasuries are appealing though, it's basically a bank account for large amounts.
It depends on how slowly you got the radiation.

The same dose delivered fast does much more damage than the dose delivered slowly.

At least that's the theory. The NRC works on the principle that the speed doesn't matter - it's just the cumulative that counts.

It's not a settled matter, although the research does seem to point in that direction.
Sorry, accidentally downvoted when I meant to upvote.
The Citadel groupware suite[1] provides provides KVM and VMWare images[2] that could easily be imported into EC2. Found it as part of my own research into reducing my reliance on Gmail and other hosted services, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

[1] http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/doku.php?id=start

[2] http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:appliance
A good response here would probably look more like, "While we appreciate you making the effort to contribute to the project, the patches you've been submitting don't meet our quality standards because [reason - poorly structured? no tests? full of bugs?]. I recommend you [take an online learning course, write tests, read our coding guidelines] before you submit any more patches."
I'm hoping there will be the same OSS code and drivers as there are for the current XBox 360 Kinect.