skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? A lot of people use Bitcoin, but it's still a very, very, very, very low percentage of people in all.
ASIC miners are, well, Application Specific Integrated Circuits -- they can't be used for anything else than their original purpose. However, I am not familiar with the original purpose -- Bitcoin mining means taking a random number, calculating the SHA256 hash twice and compare with another number. If the chips are just massively parallel SHA256 circuits then they can be reused for other SHA256 needs (if there's any on this scale...) but if their hardwired operations is the whole mining round as described then no they can't.
> No one expects an app written for OSX 10.4 Tiger to work on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.

That's truly sad.
Please don't speak for others, especially when you claim that you don't know what you're talking about in the same sentence.

And FYI CookieStore is just the default, because it's convenient and require no dependency. But you're juste a line of configuration away to switch the sessions inside your DB or Memcache or whatever.
I liked/agreed with everything in this article except the Sunday test. I get that people need to be compatible in order to work together. I don't get why people need to want to hang out together on Sundays. It all but guarantees that people who are otherwise qualified and compatible with the team Mon-Sat will not be hired. Nothing terribly wrong with that, but why not just hire your techie frat brothers or sorority sisters?
What's to say this "lunacy" will end? Seems to only have a bright future to me.
Annoying to prepare? It uses roughly the same proportion water as rice and it cooks in half the time (compared to brown rice which takes the longest to prepare). What's the problem otherwise?
I added a comment to suggest it.
For a comparison, as of 2 years ago, wired network records are over 1000 times that:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/two-differe...
Go talk to Burnley S&L

http://www.burnleysavingsandloans.co.uk/about-us/

See if Dave can help.
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Somewhere around 2, I'm not sure. I don't have any use for it at all, but my electricity bill is included in my accomodation, so mining = free money for me. At some point I'll just sell it, a kind of emergency fund.
And of course economics==financial economics.

You have a very narrow definition of science as well. If in X years penicillin stops working altogether because of anitbiotic resitant bacteria will you start calling biology/medicine not a science?!

Economics deals with an ever changing enviroment.
The following is a tangent.

When designing something, there are often many choices. If they interact, it quickly becomes intractable. It's tempting to try to keep them in mind, and work out the answer, but with exponentially increasing complexity, your limits are quickly reached (no matter how smart you are). Enhancing your intelligence, e.g. by offloading information onto paper, also has limits.

One solution is the scientific experiment: hold all variables constant, and see the effect of changing just one design choice. Holding them constant means you have made a design choice for that aspect that is almost certainly not optimal.

Ideally, you can do what is suggested in the article - create modules that are largely independent, and experiment within one module in isolation. Because there are fewer variables per module, they are less complex, and it takes fewer experiments to understand how each works.

The deep problem with this is if you don't know what those modules would be - i.e. you don't know which aspects are independent because that's the very thing you're trying to find out! Of course, you can probably have a guess, and certainly use your initial experiments to check those guesses, and maybe with the information gained, improve your guesses.

EDIT a specification is a module, in that it separates out some design choices.
Problem. Ha.
I only had to turn ghostery off for it to start working.
From the abstract of the article:

"...which had nearly universal participation among adult white males."

White males is a lot less than almost everyone. Its not even most people.
The thing is that most people will exhibit a very different risk profile when they have a (set for life) safety net. You dare to drop out, you dare to have a big mouth, you dare to gamble. Maybe Jobs was just a dare devil by nature (or, more likely, simply saw the world and his life's goals in an entirely different light than most of us). Most people will take some gambles when young but then rapidly revert to 'the norm' because they start worrying about the big, scary future where you need to provide for yourself and others. If that worry is not at all on your mind, you'll make vastly different decisions. And I do believe that matters a lot in business.

Some people I know with those funds just got very lazy in their twenties, went on drugs etc and are either dead or doing ok now. But most are very successful in what they do and as it appears never needed the trust fund as they made more on their own. I say they would never made the companies they made without that safety net firmly in place.
In a couple of years it will be nearly impossible to own ONE single bitcoin for the majority of the population of the world.

Satoshis aplenty but bitcoins, fugget about it.
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I saw the headline "Squishy Earth" and clicked on it, hoping (but not expecting) to actually be presented with an interactive squishy earth. I was pleasantly surprised.
I agree, I think his use of his entitlement should be exemplified. Are people born into wealth supposed to feel bad about it, and not make the best of the opportunity? He made the most of it, and now he is in a prime position to do objective good.

(Edited for clarity.)
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Check out Linux Mint as well, I've been using it as my main distro for some months now. It's based on Ubuntu, but very clean and easy.
Paperweights for the wads of cash resulting from their former jobs...
No Particular reason for this actually, I found this interesting so I thought I would share it
This sounds like my day-to-day.

We run the tech for a number of large eCommerce merchants. Not a day goes by when one of them doesn't do something odd/unpredictable, and send us down the rabbit-hole, only to find that a temp in a warehouse/call-centre somewhere has done something... clever.

This ranges from the experience in the article, through to warehouse staff picking by picture, rather than SKU, through to customer services writing credit card numbers in the 'customer note' field, through to infinite discounts (buy X and get 10% off your order! unlimited uses per order!).

eCommerce is a minefield.
Why is that? I think you're misled by OSX's numbering system, which uses .x where other operating systems might use whole numbers. In fact, I misestimated myself...I thought each dot-version represented a year, with Tiger being 4 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger

However, Tiger is actually 8 years old. I don't think obsolesence in eight years is too horrible.
I think there are. This guy, and the people on the similar stories that are sometimes poste here on HN, are going it alone, or as a very small group of people, in the single digits at most. He's not joining a large, homogeneous, stable, long standing community. It's very different. Being born in an Amish community would be very different from being born as this guy's baby.
This is an incredibly biased article with an attention getting title (and subtitle) that doesn't have much to do with the article.
A Fourier transform is not merely another graphical representation of data (although, it could be used as such). Among other things, it lends itself to generating features and analysis that can be used for detecting patterns by computer, not just humans.
> Digital Ocean are one of the most popular VPS hosts in the world

Where is the proof of this? Any hard data on customer account numbers or growth?

There are lots of solid VPS providers out there. I don't see why Digital Ocean gets so much hype.
This is really exciting! I've always liked ggplot2 but sadly struggled with R syntax (the only time I ever used it was for ggplot2, and found it really confusing).

For anyone reading this, I don't think this is intended to replace e.g. matplotlib which I suspect is more powerful overall. It's more for creating good looking, publication-quality graphs. A lot of thought has gone into ggplot2's default theme. A lot of influence from Tufte et al. if I remember rightly. Though, sadly, it looks like this port doesn't replicate ggplot2's graphs pixel-for-pixel, which is a shame.

Edit: Incidentally if anyone has a recommendation for a good graphing app for OS X, I'd be all ears. I still haven't found a good one. I usually use Plot (http://plot.micw.eu) which is great (scriptable, produces good looking graphs) but has a bit of a clunky interface. I personally find DataGraph's interface horrendous, even though its graphs are good, and Excel takes forever to make anything remotely decent. matplotlib and its ilk are fine but require custom scripting. I've been using xmgrace recently simply because it launches quickly, but it's (understandably) not retina and not native and just a pain really. What I'd give for a nice graphing app...
I found this to be very comprehensible. (PDF warning) https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/NewLectures/Lectu...
"I'm living proof the Model S is the safest car ever made"
And it memetically absorbs a Microsoft marketing term in the process. Great.
Yeah, you didn't live through it. You don't remember when the world was windows-only; no tech company nowadays has anything like their dominance back then. You don't remember what a great product Netscape produced, how much better they made our lives, and how quickly they were destroyed by MS's dumping.
I own ~2.4 (bought them for 10€) but I forgot the password to my encrypted wallet.
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Why lunacy? You need a huge amount of computing power to make a distributed currency resilient against attacks by the likes of NSA, hostile foreign states, etc.

And to answer your question, no, the chips cannot be repurposed for anything else.
It's a horrible sin for people who have to debug other people's code (read: team projects). Normally this team will have style guidelines on how to test, what to test, etc.

My view is that for personal projects and limited scope code you don't have to write any tests. I'm part of an operations team and nothing from the immediate team has test coverage. It's all Perl and shell scripts. Never have I thought "We need more test coverage", and I'm pretty sure only 1-2 people know of TDD. By the time you write the tests (for whatever reason it always takes me forever to get a test harness working with my code and IDE), you could have finished the code, tested it manually, and used it. If anything, I'd go back and write the test coverage before you redesign it, so you ensure functionality is the same before and after.
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Aha, cool!
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This is fantastic - I remember the pain of sorting out R issues for some finance analysts who were wedded to ggplot. So much better to be able to do it in Python.
I think I have .0005 left over in a wallet somewhere. I also said zero. Seeing all this loose change and no easy way to get it out of there I'm wondering if someone can suggest a charity who would accept the measly amounts but use the aggregate for good.
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This mechanic has an indie game written all over it. Go forth and make 1,000,000 x .99c!!!
Yeah, completely agree!
And this is why you should keep a txt file with all your passwords uploaded to dropbox, trust me.
I would expect the percentage amongst HN-ers to be way higher though.
I don't think the RPi could be much more than a status monitor for connected ASICs.

The Pi's CPU is capable of around 0.2MHashes/sec at 3.75W[0] whereas even a weedy USB ASIC such as the BitForce SC 5Gh/s is capable of 5,000MHashes/sec at 30W[1]

[0]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#ARM
[1]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#ASIC
Yes reading nonfiction maximizes knowledge absorption with respect to time and cost. But that is not the objective of literary fiction.

Literary fiction maximizes "emotional sensation". This is a futile attribute in humans who should instead be maximizing their utility.
Knowing a product inside out, being quite good with APIs in general, hacking prototypes efficiently together.. usually helps, along with having passion for tech and being a social person
I sold all that I had (about 2B) after the Silk Road thing.
Insiders publish a sizable chunk of research. Not the currently winning formulas but something that stopped working or is too general a theory to be easily applied. E.g. for hedge funds this is one of the very few ways they can advertise to investors.
Is there a reason that the dependencies are not installed via the pip call for ggplot? I ask this out of ignorance, not trying to be facetious.
2 BTC, presumably, not 2B BTC... :-)
when shit hits the fan and you need a synchronized effort by many to reach a common goal, the hierarchical organization is the best. proven over thousands of years of human development.

past a certain size these hierarchies do not work, hence you break them down and then let them compete against each other.

look outside of software and see how humans have organised, what has worked and what not. the modern army is a great test bed for any form of team effort, they try out everything in large, controlled samples. one of the few organisations where management is a distinct set of skills you need to prove to have (officers, NCO, etc.).

strategy comes from the top, defines the goals, objectives. smaller teams then take those goals and have freedom to execute against them - but only in the how, not the when.

orchestration, synchronization of those teams is management, pure and simple.

leading by objectives. then measuring the outcomes and defining what to do better the next time, executed in AARs (after action reviews). making sure the right things are done at the right time. removing obstacles, managing resources (hiring, etc.) - all of that is management.

capitalist societies still have management as well, it's called government, selected representatives to manage a country. difference to feudalism is rule of law and a process to elect people in the ruling structure.
I might trust you (I don't, nothing personal), but I wouldn't trust dropbox.
I like to think of companies like a computer program. A startup isnt written in anything it is completely implemented in hardware. As the company grows it is necessary to add these different layers of abstraction until you end up with the CEO and board of a huge company in the application layer.

I don't think you can maintain a flat structure forever. Even people within valve have written about its "flatness". I've at least read that there is just a different set of internal issues.
Ugg. I really like where you were going with that, but you lost me at this: "People shouldn't spend any time configuring a server for a blog."

Maybe some people shouldn't be spending any time configuring a server for a blog, but I have been increasingly working to take back control of my data and it's related services. That means I want to be able to install things on a server of my choosing. This also means FOSS wherever I can possibly put it. I would even happily pay for the FOSS, but the thing I hate the most about medium, svbtle, and the others, is that I can't use the platform where I want to and I don't see gpl/mit anywhere.

I understand that your intention is the hosted segment, but I really think you could gain a lot more traction by going to a one time price, FOSing the code, and still offering a paid hosting service for those that want it.

Maybe it's just because the older I get the more I am aligning with RMS.
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>Of course nobody knows how strong the correlation is.

Or if it exists at all, because it was an assumption.
WP owes most of it's success to the UI, it is the very reason it became so popular. It continues to this day to sooth and empower end users, so much so that the actual users often think they are developers, that is what you call a successful interface. WP lead the way with UI more so than any platform, much like Apple, they realize the importance of UX.

If you think the UI is painful that I don't have a lot of faith in your ability to objectively judge interfaces especially in the context of history.
Indeed. he was a interesting blogger while running ArsDigita and I likes his photo.net too which I think may still be going, and then apparently some idiot VCs hijacked his Arsdigita and ruined it
http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
Currency exchange, specifically Mt. Gox back when Dwolla still supported them.
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Congratulations to Ghost,i'm sure it will be a successfull plateform , and nodejs has interesting capabilities (socket.io,great libraries).It could become a serious Wordpress competitor indeed.
Just to clarify, I meant that some people are born into wealth and don't do anything but live off a trust fund, which is the opposite of what he did.
Is this "personality" model at all predictive, or is this just astrology?
The UK expenses scandal was publicised by the Daily Telegraph after a "whistle blower" gave them a CD with details of the claims on them.
Trust Dropbox, you mean.
That's interesting, I've actually never heard this before. Do you have a source?
So, playing the devil's advocate for a bit here, are the agile companies without managers delivering consistently better results than companies with managers?

Companies grasp one thing quite easily and it's their bottom line. Maybe, agile is not delivering better enough to have an impact on the bottom line and all this discussion is, well, moot.
I was born in 1983 and grew up outside the “tech bubble" during the Microsoft era and so I have a very consumer-oriented perspective about what was happening at the time. As a very young computer user I actually appreciated what Microsoft was doing by bundling everything I needed to use and build on the web (IE4, Outlook Express, FrontPage Express) with the OS that came seemingly "free" with any PC my parents bought me. The only other thing an “average” consumer really needed in those days was an AOL/dial-up account and the Office suite for school or work. These products along with the rise of Windows starting with Windows 95/98 led to Microsoft being the de facto technology company of the time. There was nobody as big as Microsoft. They were singular in their influence and scale.

You can try to argue the same against Apple and Google in the modern day but that argument would fail because Apple has arguably as much clout as Google which also arguably has as much clout as Microsoft these days. And when you throw in “pure” web service companies like Facebook, the pie gets even more sliced. So even though everyone now has a proprietary stack of apps bundled with their walled garden of devices and services the fact that there is more than one garden makes it a very different situation than what was happening in the late 90s where the only garden in technology was Microsoft's.

Side note: I don’t think it was entirely Microsoft’s fault Netscape went under. It was my impression that Netscape’s management and direction had a lot to do with their downfall. I still have bad memories of trying to use the monstrosity that was the Netscape Communicator 4 suite. At the end of the day, bundled or not, what Microsoft offered was better. Compliance be dammed.
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I'm happy you used the military as an example because I'm talking about markets. A military is precisely the place where a command-and-control structure is paramount. They do not have, and should not have "price signals" directing what they do. Their goals and motivations are entirely distinct from a profit-driven corporation. I think we should all feel grateful for that :)

Edit: as an aside, I did have a military analogy in my talk at one point and I used guerrilla warfare as the classic example of where a smaller force, with fewer resources, can take on a larger, well-organized force. In some ways guerrilla warfare can resemble Agile, but though I loved the analogy, I cut it from my training because it felt like too much of a stretch.
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Dakos was joking.
Good point. But we should be thinking about supporting the masses.

If I have a hillside that isn't being used for anything else, than fair enough, I could throw a couple of sheep/goats on it and later reap the rewards.

I'm not sure how many of these romantic pastures continue to exist though. I live in a green fertile valley, where sheep farming is rife. The sheep get additional feed on top of their grazing. I'd prefer acres of trees or some other arable crop instead. Sadly most of us won't ever get access to the land to do so.

Less than 1% of the population owns 70% of the land, running Britain a close second to Brazil for the title of the country with the most unequal land distribution on Earth. - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-ho...
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We are a combination of managed/professional services + platform development and this is exactly how our hierarchy has evolved. We have account managers that drive a lot of timelines but we don't want account managers to actually be the boss of the engineers. We had everyone "reporting" to the CTO for awhile but recently broke things up into teams. I've got a number of people who report to me but their work is not always driven by me. In the same way, I report to the CTO but it's very rare for him to give me something to do outside of maybe a high level priority. It's much more common for me to do work directly with our CEO.

Information is shared freely around the company, hiring decisions are made relatively democratically, we hand out tasks to people who have skills, expertise, time and the desire to do them, not giving cushy work to people who play the politics game.

At first I felt like I should be doing more as a manager, like I should be managing more, but there's really not a lot for me to do. I help out my team when they need it but we hire good people so everyone seems to enjoy working autonomously and being self-driven.

> With peer management, accountability isn’t to a boss or supervisor, it’s to each other, your team, your company, your customers, and yourself.

I'm frequently working for six different account managers, plus my own initiatives, plus something for the CEO. The person who knows the least about what I'm working on is probably my boss and it works out well that way.
Just a ton of SMH moments. It's really funny, and then you realize those stupid things are costing you a lot of money.