skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Accent is intrinsic to a person's sense of self

This is a bit of a truism don't you think?

> You can still be clearly understood with a strong foreign accent. cf. Gandhi.

I hesitate to argue on behalf of someone as esteemed as pg, but surely he is using foreign accent to describe the cause of their communication deficiency, rather than painting persons with foreign accents as deficient.
Be ready to hear more and more from SQLite as the world moves to mobile (iOS/android) - it really shines in that environment.
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>you can't split a blog post in half and mix it.

Hmmm. You must have never used Twitter.
This was originally done by the Google Data Arts team.

info: http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/ link to site: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/armsglobe/ github: https://github.com/dataarts/armsglobe

Looks like it has been updated for 2011 data here as well as a new weapon type 'unclassified'

edit: almost forgot, here's a great writeup by Michael Chang on the project http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/28367579774/armstradeviz
Nhan? I'm assuming that sounds like 'non', so it's probably easier to use your real name. I do know some people who abbreviate their names, though, if there's a workable abbreviation (e.g. Siddahrta / Sid).
Just for a few of the graphs, majority of the 'wow factor' is webgl/three.js
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I was skeptical about Ryan's book. He went after HARO using the stir up waters to catch fish strategy, but I respected him more after since the owner of HARO didn't deal with it well and he made valid criticisms. I ended up buying/reading the book after seeing James Altucher recommend it and I'm happy I did.

I highly recommend reading Trust Me I'm Lying if you're interested in getting any sort of press, especially for blogs. I haven't read a better book on that topic yet.

I also recommend his CreativeLive course which is more thorough.
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You haven't looked hard enough. I think you've ignored my recent comments about YAGNI and security, the follow-ups to those '[Citation Needed]' where I actually find a citation or ask for one, the one where I politely ask for direction about the entertainment industry, and the general plethora of material from a technical perspective.

Your reply also implies there's something wrong with NSA apology, which there shouldn't be intrinsically, as I'm posting an alternative perspective. Similarly, I don't subscribe to the idea that short comments or snarky comments are necessarily bad if they contain facts or point out a lack thereof - it's outright rudeness, willful stupidity/ignorance (reddit style humor), and meanness that I object to. Everything you've pointed out is stylistic.

Needless to say, this is all irrelevant, because my post history has nothing to do with my comment - that being, it'd be nice if we can talk about the early days of Google without demonizing it for its (alleged) privacy violations.

But, by all means, ignore my original point and look through my comment history for things to nitpick and argue over. I'm not going to debate it further with you.
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> I really don't like the tone of many parts of this article.

"Again and again, we warned y’all that Facebook, owner of all photos of people on the Internet and the most popular mobile photo app, was going to crush you eventually."

It really boggles the mind.
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As you pointed out, the intended audience is Jews, but I think the point made in that line is obvious - not so much that if only because the Gentiles have their churches and look with suspicion on the unchurched, rather read we feel that the Gentiles have their churches and look with suspicion on the unchurched. I.e. the point is in the psychology of the Jew, not to determine what everyone else is thinking (as that would be pretty ridiculous).
There are many programming languages, specifically structured, to prevent programmers from making a certain subset of bad programs. This is incredibly useful.
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My assumption on why Kickstarter is so restrictive is because they are trying to create an atmosphere of trust between the Backers and the Creators. They are probably choosing projects that are more likely to be funded and finish a product, so that people feel safer pledging their money. On the other hand, Indiegogo is trying to compete with Kickstarter, and has less restrictions in order to get projects that Kickstarter won't accept. This is my assumption, so I may be wrong.
I recently had a math prof with a bit of an accent and also fairly bad handwriting. He always used the variables "u" and something that sounded like "wee", where "wee" was drawn kind of like a backwards uppercase "N" where the right hand tail didn't go all the way down to the baseline.

I realized about 5 weeks into the class that "wee" was actually just "v". :( I've had other profs with heavy accents before (that other people said they couldn't understand but I did alright with), but this prof just completely lost me on some words.
That's a good question. The main reason is that the hypothetical Huge Wall Street Firm doesn't see a way to reproduce the project at scale. They don't have pg et al, and while YC is applying mass-production techniques to startups, by the standards of markets where APIs exist to conduct transactions they're still in the early industrial revolution.

If pg was just a decision engine for Startup#fund(amount), a vaguely specified API which could put hundreds of millions of dollars to work on any given day and which didn't require artisanal mentorship and connection-making of the fledgling startups, you would expect somebody from Wall Street to already have said "We can offer you an arbitrarily high amount of money to do that for us."
This is more of a marketing stunt. They might as well pay you to be a merchant.
Honestly this guy was never developing a game, as he said, he was deluding himself into thinking a game would materialize if he built a game engine. He also managed to burn many bridges along the way by taking money from people in his personal network for the luxury of spending his afternoon messing around with computer graphics algorithms in Visual Studio. A total and completely expected and avoidable disaster.

Honestly if you start a company and don't have a plan and can't connect the dots to how you'll actually ship something you aren't "learning from failure" you are just being stupid and ignorant. And selfish if you are leaning on others to enable you to do this. If the guy read a little bit more he'd know "build a custom 3d game engine" is not anywhere on the list of things to do if you are bootstrapping an indie game. If anything it's on a list of what not to do. Beyond that, there was no game in mind to warrant building a new engine. At least if he had a game in mind that clearly needed a stunning new engine that current tech couldn't handle he could argue he was trying to pull a Carmack and failed. But this wasn't the case since he had only a vague idea of what the game he was creating even was.

The thing to learn from this example is that you should at least do a little bit of reading on entrepreneurism and product development before trying to be an entrepreneur and create a product. (In this case, "product development" means "game design.") Even more simple, realize what product you are even trying to build before you start building intellectually-satisfying but ultimately useless software.
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Which is why you study metadata, not content, since knowing who's talking to who (and how much encryption they're using) is always going to be more valuable against a competent adversary.

Of course, most adversaries of the US aren't competent. Planning to jihad something? A good first step to not getting caught would be to never visit a jihadi website in the first place.
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They would require lots of funding quickly if they were to grow suddenly. Think of the bandwidth and storage. Not cheap.
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I LOVE SQLITE - both only when Core Data handles it for me haha
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I think this is a great move. For one, it further cements their position as the best-funded, most-respected Bitcoin processor. Even putting $1mm figure into the ether raises their profile.

Their investors (USV et al) definitely understand marketplaces back-and-forth and are in it for the long game. It makes sense to do anything possible to spur merchant adoption, and this is an eye-popping way to do it. Without merchants broadly and happily accepting Bitcoin, the marketplace just can't mature properly.

What % of Coinbase's value of is captured in merchants that will process less than $1mm lifetime? I'm sure it pails in comparison to the potential profits on the (hopefully huge and forthcoming) merchants that will drive Bitcoin at the same order-of-magnitude as Paypal, traditional credit cards, etc.
zing. (and yeah, you don't read the damn things cover to cover. Except for my bondage and my freedom.)
Sqlite and Core Data are synonymous in my mind (hint: it's because I'm a terrible programmer)
Transmitting noise across the entire spectrum of frequencies that a cellular carrier uses would probably take a much larger and more expensive transmitter, a bigger antenna and more power. (You'd have to jam all the bands available to the carrier, since a tower can just tell a phone to switch to another frequency if there's a reception problem.) In contrast, all this exploit requires is a cheap cell phone.
Do you mind telling me what field is your large Haskel project in? I want to get a feeling of where Haskel is in the commercial world. Is it a finance industry product?
This approach should allow you to selectively block service to particular phones instead of all phones in the area.
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Kickstarter has a mission: to enable crowdfunding of projects. Within that mission they've built tools to facilitate that as well as created guidelines and limitations on projects. All of this is designed to create and enhance trust.

As for payments, a big issue is overhead, chargebacks, and failures. Using amazon payments may insulate kickstarter from some of that.

One may ask why kickstarter isn't just geocities with easy to add paypal buttons everywhere, but I think it's obvious that such a site would probably not be as successful as kickstarter.

Edit: some stats: during 2012 Kickstarter had about 18k funded projects with a total of nearly a third of a billion dollars in funding. Indiegogo doesn't release stats for the total amount of project funding in a year but it's quite evident that it is far lower than kickstarter's numbers.
Normal distribution of a sample scales with sigma, and inverse to sqrt(n-1), so effect size is more important than sample size. That's all the guy who originally posted was talking about.

I don't think anyone on hn won't know this. Everyone is just quibbling over the wording.

Your new point is very good, and I'd expect someone has used the correlation != causation argument too.
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The write up of the NGQP seems (at least superficially?) weird: they say that the reason for the rewrite was poor performance on a particular artificial benchmark (8-way join.. how often do people join 8 tables in practice?). At the same time, I was surprised to learn that the only kind of join algorithm SQLite supports is nested loops. I would think they would benefit more from adding hash and merge joins instead of rewriting the QP from scratch.
Did anyone watch the Mythbusters episode where Alton Brown cooked a lasagne in the dishwasher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaT90jhuB0
Different companies, different business models, different strategies, different risk allowance, different lawyers. Two different companies in similar spaces would be illogical if they didn't have different strategies.
In your example that would be preemptive imprisonment if there was a greater than some probability you were a criminal. I don't like the idea of preemptive imprisonment, but if that was the case, then I don't see how adding more data to make the predictions more accurate would be a bad thing.

Same thing with the second example. If there was a 99% chance of you becoming addicted to them, then you probably shouldn't be given pain killers. It would be for your own benefit by avoiding addiction. That's not a punishment, that's a good thing.

>Put yourself in the situation that you're punished because of your friends' actions, or the actions of people with the same gender, race, or sexual orientation. You'd feel it's unfair (if you're rational) because it is unfair!

This is the reasoning why people object to it. Humans have evolved a sense of fairness and unjustness that we react to, and usually it's a good thing that keeps society functioning. However it's an emotional response. There is no rational reason that the world would be better if we just gave loans to everyone at the same interest rate, or if we intentionally excluded useful data points from determining the risk of things.
Also consider cooking with your car:

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Food-on-Your-Car%27s-Engine

http://www.amazon.com/Manifold-Destiny-Guide-Cooking-Engine/...
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Wish it work on iOS...
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I hope sqlite someday add functions and/or store procedures. Plus better error messages (like when a foreign key is violated)
I did a ton of research once upon a time, and for pure charts and data, d3 seems amazing, given the time to learn it.
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Modern dishwashers have a heating element, they don't depend on an external source of heat for water. Some can use a more efficient external source to reduce heating costs, but dishwashers run a lot hotter than what comes out of the tap.
My dishwasher runs too quickly and my water is too hot to make this technique usable. I've had great success with a $20 crockpot and the Dorkfood DSV, a no-frills PID controller that you can get on Amazon right now for $99. Much cheaper and easier than the other Kickstarter projects or making your own with an Arduino or something.

And I didn't think about the energy angle until now, but I'd think the crockpot transfers heat much more efficiently than a dishwasher, where most of the joules are going down the drain in a short period of time.
Too bad it's completely impossible to use the service. It takes forever to get verified and even when you do transfers hardly go through. Total waste of time when I tried it a month or so ago.
The problem is that people almost never apply the same reasoning to political issues as they do to non-political questions of fact. There are too many tribal issues in the way, and constructing believable arguments is often more advantageous in a tribal society than being right. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/

So you might be able to arrive at a consensus on first principles, but that doesn't mean anybody will update their beliefs. They'll just come up with new reasons to believe them.
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The amount of education that requires is, unfortunately, tremendous. Learning to overcome instinctive thought patterns is difficult and requires dedication, and even at the end of all of that, you'll sometimes fail. Education can show people the way, but it can't force them to put in the practice.
I'm not entirely sure I understand what's going on. I suggest changing the explainer video to at least a talking head - yes, old, but they have much better recall and have been proven to change brand preference (even with cigarretes)a and try to find a better synonym for 'encryption' - Good luck. Going against Twitter is a tall order.
Take a look here: http://www.forvo.com/word/nh%C3%A2n/#vi

The "h" is not a silent sound, and I think pronouncing as "non" is part of the reason why American tends to mix up "Nhan" and "Nahn".
Not that I want to supply more oxygen to this deeply silly thread, but is it even possible to sue an investor for discrimination? Would not the premise of such a suit be that there are cases when an investor can be compelled to make an investment of some sort? That sounds crazy.
Merchant adoption might be key, but user and buyer adoption might be even more important. Merchants will happily adopt if theres demand.

In that direction, it seems like charging customers has become untenable since PayPal (and credit cards, really).
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Sort of the whole point of Firefox OS is that the apps are just web technology, and it's coming from people whose mission is to promote open web technology. I don't see how "ignore the web technology and write apps in C" would further that mission.
-- Even if the key is never STORED in decrypted form on the server, it still EXISTS in decrypted form during a brief moment when your password is used to decrypt that key.

-- Therefore the server COULD get your key, though it chooses not to store it.

-- In fact, the server could get your PASSPHRASE too, if it is indeed used on the server side to decrypt that key.

-- The only way to get around this is to ONLY store/use the key on the CLIENT side. This way, the server never has the ability to access the key or passphrase. (Nor the need to.)

-- Services that provide client-side encryption tend to do so using a Java download app which runs on the client side. (And which runs in the browser.) A similar thing can be done using Javascript crypto which is also downloaded to, and executed on, the client side.

-- For the NSA to get your key/password, they would simply serve your email provider with a warrant forcing them to ship you a trojan Java app, or trojan Javascript. (This is likely what they did with Lavabit.)

-- To get around this, you'd need an installed crypto application on the client, instead of using downloadable browser-side crypto. (Which would probably mean it can't run inside the browser, but only as a separate application.)

-- The solution we are using for Open-Transactions is an installed systray app on the client side, which can run in a protected space, combined with separate, thin-client plugins for Chrome, Firefox, Skype, etc, which send the crypto requests on to the systray app where the actual work is performed.
That makes perfect sense, thanks.
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You could have a restaurant like that if you could get the customers to agree up front to pay whatever you decide to charge after service is rendered, as hospitals do. It would probably work if there were only a few other food sources in the area, all doing the same shakedown of their customers.
Great promotion. We just signed up. 1% of $1M is $10k, and compared to the alternatives (CC, Paypal) it's pretty huge savings. I do agree their support/responsiveness needs to be better or they'll cement a poor reputation.

PS: In terms of adoption, Bitpay has several companies doing $1M+ monthly, so this promotion isn't without meaningful value to someone.
> but 1000posts/day? Wow..

While a forum that gets 1000 posts/day is quite active, a database that does an INSERT ever 80s is not even moving.
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Apparently I'm wrong! Too late to edit. Good to know though, not afraid of saying something and getting downvotes if I'll learn something. :)
"On top of that, what's the big deal with privacy nowadays? It's the opposite of what we should aim for as a society."

That's what you (and Zuckerberg) think, but lots of other people disagree. For example, a journalist trying to communicate with a government whistleblower like Snowden (or any other sensitive source) requires privacy in any country. And some people just don't want the NSA/FBI/police reading everything they post to their group of friends.
"I’ve used multiple DNS services to attempt to set up stripping the www from my websites. WWW is a relic of a bygone age. In my opinion it kind of makes you look like a n00b if you have it."

Until you try to send mail from your domain and half of it bounces due to the stock sendmail setup. Stripping www out might be trendy but I can't say using it makes you a noob, but making that statement does.
This is an issue with AMD's branch predictor, not with the x86 ISA. The code would work fine with a single "ret" instead, however people found using "rep ret" made it nanoseconds faster. it just shows how you can find optimizations in the most unexpected of places.
I appreciate your modesty Ryan, but one should consider that your book IS about manipulating the media. In fact, in the trailer for your book, you specifically detail how you can create buzz about an article or book (through these very means). Thus, this kind of planning is just par for the course for you.
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Why can't coinbase follow Stripe's example of having a "publishable key" for payment forms? If it weren't for the headache of needing to make an API call to create a payment page (or button, or iframe), I would have added Coinbase support to Tarsnap months ago.
Currently working for a company that doesn't offer LTD, and it scares me whenever I think about not having it, but not enough to buy it on my own. It's definitely a major plus.
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> Why does this crap gets upvoted at all?

Who'd have guessed? It's an article about tech on a tech site.

> What's the big deal with privacy nowadays?

We found out about wholesale global surveillance.

> It's the opposite of what we should aim for as a society.

Just as I want to poop with the door closed, I also want to discuss private matters privately. Not everything in my life should be public and I should have the final say over that. Should every start-up be subject to absolute transparency? Kinda eliminates any competitive advantage if your competitors know what you're up to.

> Transparency is not only unavoidable, it's a good thing.

Transparency of government, yes. For the rest of us, mind your own damn business.

> ... privacy is a necessary evil ...

The good thing about having the option of privacy is that it's not forced upon you. If you're not happy with your life being private, you're free to share. When that option of privacy is eliminated, however, you're forced to share everything even if you don't want to, and that's pretty much the opposite of liberty.
For PEP-8 compliance, I would recommend looking into using an IDE in some part of your workflow that has active inspections for things like PEP-8 compliance. I personally use PyCharm.
This is a pitch of author's book. WSJ has a somewhat meatier excerpt than 'rich people pay for essays omg'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732410820457902...