skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Topple MS? How so? MSFT hasn't been toppled, they have just failed to increase their dominance in other areas of contemporary computing.

Microsoft still makes $70+B per year in revenues. MSFT is no where near being toppled, except in mindshare, they made record revenues last year. MSFT, AAPL, FB and GOOG are the top in their own separate verticals, and none can make a dent in the other's vertical. Arguably FB and GOOG are competing for ad revenue dollars, but FB is the leader in social networking, and GOOG is the leader in search.
Looking at the client side code makes me wonder why people would ever use Backbone. It's so abstracted, mixes DOM manipulation into views. I should re-write it with Angular! :)
That's an interesting question. I spoke at a lot of conferences, ran lots of stands for companies at trade shows, then made the leap.

If you're comfortable approaching and talking to strangers, and can talk with confidence about a technical product, that's pretty much all you need to get started.
I never appreciated the difference or history of the Adblock and Adblock Plus plugins. I'm currently removing ABP from all my desktops and laptops in favour of Adblock Edge. Thanks.
The technology and 'integration' issues were mostly a side-show. The actual crime was forcing PC OEMs and ISPs to ship only Internet Explorer, which "cut off Netscape's air supply".
In theory the DA Notice[1] system is, in context of UK publishing, a reasonable solution. In practice government has abused it, and the oversight mechanisms are not working, so we have to rely on whistleblowers and journalists and FOI requests.

The UK MP's expenses scandal was scooped by an American journalist working in England who was surprised by the lack of actual investigation, so she made a bunch of FOI requests for expenses.

Circulation figures for UK press is depressing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DA-Notice

Weird that a story about two English newspapers has Americans commenting about American newspapers.
Interesting. I was going to complain, as I thought "probably" meant the probability of occurrence was greater than 50%.. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Probably: almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell

I would guess waynecochran thought something similar.
MS had a motto back in the day "embrace, extend, destroy" which was said to sum up their approach to standards and technologies they didn't control.

First MS would adopt the standard (embrace), then they'd start adding to it in ways which were useful but not available outside the MS products using the standard. Because they were so big their reach meant that these extensions would often become widely adopted and once this happened you effectively had to be running the appropriate MS software to have whatever it was work properly.

At which point the standard / technology ceased to be any threat to MS as while they may not control the paper standard, they controlled the vast majority of how it was being used in the real world.

The fear was that with IE being the defacto standard browser for 90% of machines, MS could have potentially take control of HTML and the other web standards and damaged or destroyed the open web.
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If you're asking people to download a 300MB SDK on hotel WiFi, I think it's worth it.
NY Comic Con tells attendees not to fret after it ghost-tweets for them
> I've tried other libraries like Bockah and d3py but what I really want is ggplot2.

I wonder if that's meant to say, "bokeh"... and I would be interested to know the major differences. This library might be better than bokeh if there's no dependencies on coffeescript and such. But I wonder in what way this is un-pythonic, except perhaps in its imitation of R syntax. But ggplot2 is also not very much like the rest of R either.
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cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
I understand a taxonomy overhaul for WordPress - one that thankfully doesn't require joins - to be "in the works." Should also allow term meta to become a reality. http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/07/28/potential-roadmap-...
Do I really need to? I think you can come to this conclusion on your own.

When you are born, there are already a ton a factors which will stay with you (well, mostly) till you die. Your health and innate intelligence will have a huge effect. Your carers and the early environment as well. As a biological creature, you can never be left untouched by your environment. You can never be truly free.

In fact, is there anything you can say is the sole result of your own person? That question is impossible to answer because the person you are has been molded by a ton of different experiences, both positive and negative and is not a static object.

The whole point of my post is that it's silly to to claim that some people have "deserved" their success or failure, or that you can do anything if you want it bad enough. The very fact that you are able to be deeply driven is the consequence of factors forever beyond your control.

I'm not saying you should give up and do nothing, just that we should have a more relaxed, forgiving and objective view of the moral and intrinsic value of individuals.
If everyone of us decided to live like any one of us, it would be a disaster.

The world works because we have diversity of jobs, lifestyles, etc. He is obviously an outlier case that we don't seriously need to worry will be emulated in any significant way.
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isn't fft just a different way of looking at the data?
"The reality is, the capital to fund that job comes from someone that had to first create it."

...Starting from first principles (i.e. 'try telling nature'), how exactly is capital 'created'?
> One problem with this is people as a group tend to be stupid. What stops the workforce from voting to reduce their work hours to 30 hours per week?

Seems reasonable to me. How much work (both input and output) is required of humans in a society is that society's choice. Many people think that, e.g., American society has a cultural expectation of working longer and harder than is necessary or appropriate. Especially when you could possibly have rebalancing schemes to employ more people for fewer hours each. shrug
In my experience running two rather massive WordPress installs the vast majority of one's bugs will not be found in WordPress, but in ones extensions of it. The liability argument applies well to UI/UX, however.
NYT helped sell Iraq war. What are you talking about?
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You should be able to recognize its 'amazing health benefits' regardless of whether or not you like it!

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?dbid=142&tname=foodspice

"Perhaps the most striking health benefit provided by quinoa is its overall nutrient richness. When the nutrient composition of this food is analyzed in depth, the results are unusual and striking."
How is that a controlled experiment, or any different from what economists do?

A controlled experiment in climate science/geophysics/etc would involve building two earths (or stars, in the case of astronomy), subjecting one to a treatment and using the other as a control.
It actually had as-high/higher rates of growth in 2011: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png
Gave it a go back when namecheap added bitcoin payment just to try it out. I have 2 BTC left in a wallet backup, but I don't have the client installed anymore since I'm not keen on devoting 10 GB disk space to a copy of the blockchain.

Back then they were super easy to get (at least in Japan - feed some cash into an ATM, enter mt gox's account #, enter your username as your depositor name)
at TOMODO.com, few months ago when Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post we have created Mod that called "The Amazon Post" (amazonpost.tomodo.me), ppl laughed and shared the Mod all over the web.
Couscous is really just white pasta, a refined carb. So I see it as an energy provider rather than something nutritional. Whereas quinoa is a wholefood. There's currently a shortage and hence it's rocketed in price. It used to be cheaper to buy for me than rice. I'm a fan. It does have a subtle nutty/smokey taste. Red quinoa is even nicer. Both nice with roasted veg, garlic and tomatoes. And as another has said a pleasant change from rice and potatoes.

It's probably a hardy crop if it's a relative of spinach. I'm in the UK, and I'd like to see more of it grown here.
0, I like the idea but I still haven't found a single reason to own one.
The last time my interest was piqued I found it so difficult to buy them in the UK (looked like the best way was to wire some money so someone in France…) that I gave up.
I apologize for that, you're right that I'm implicitly assuming some Americanisms.

Yes, as a European your email is always at theoretical risk of interception by NSA if it transits U.S. borders.

Although even there the law is murky; foreigners don't lose property rights just because they visit the U.S. for instance, and the Fourth Amendment applies to foreigners within the boundaries of the U.S.

So if you host your email on your own hardware, within the U.S., it's not as if the government has the authority to go rip your server off the shelves without a warrant. They can intercept your traffic between your home in Europe and the server in the U.S., but that's why we have encryption, you should always have been assuming people are snooping that anyways.

On the other hand hosting email abroad from your home nation may put you at risk of European intelligence agencies warrantlessly intercepting them (even the German BND appears to have that legal authority), so I suppose that's a risk factor you'll have to balance on your own.
Apart from fingerprinting that has already been mentioned, a relevant article: “ACCessory: Password Inference using
Accelerometers on Smartphones” http://www.hotmobile.org/2012/papers/HotMobile12-final42.pdf

“We show that accelerometer readings are a powerful side channel that
can be used to extract entire sequences of entered text on a smart-
phone touchscreen keyboard.”

Pending research to the contrary, I would assume that what is typed on the keyboard of a laptop can be recovered through the accelerometer by an application running in the background.
As an uninformed guess: you want to minimize the number of heating and cooling cycles because that causes joints to crack. They used to keep steam trains running for days at a time (meaning they were kept fired overnight even when not used) to avoid cooling cycles.

Actually I would also be interested to know the real answer to this too. There was an interesting article in the Economist this week about the problems of the constant power output of nuclear and coal plants.
You do realize we're discussing the Independent, a UK newspaper, not subject to the Fairness Doctrine or the lack thereof, right?
We've invested about 3% of our cash in them. It's a nice high risk high reward gamble.
For me, it's the chicken + egg problem -- the merchants that sell the stuff I want to buy don't accept them. So I don't have any BTC.
I had exactly the same experience. Kicking myself now as they were $8 each at the time...
Yeah that's the qualm I've always had with that 'experiment' in a subway you're on your way to do something else, usually on a time crunch. Add on the noise and the fact that most people couldn't tell an amazing concert level performer from a simply good performer and the result is foregone.
It doesn't mention SipHash: https://131002.net/siphash/
Since when are Fox News and the Wall Street Journal not part of the establishment?

Also, I would hardly say the institutions you listed were particularly critical of Bush. They went along with the Iraq war build up by republishing the government misinformation about WMD without question and so on.
Previous submissions/discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542797 (54 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543943 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6545963 (9 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547431
Ok - let me try a different tact:

You mention that bloggers won't care about platform choice, feature bloat or trying something new. Fair enough. Something bloggers would care about is blogging.

Ghost is a simple, focused, blogging platform which is entirely focused on this purpose. As a victim of it's own success, this is not something Wordpress can reasonably claim to be any longer.

Wordpress is a full blown CMS, a title which comes with it's own set of advantages and disadvantages.

I would argue that there is room in the market for both the "Jack-of-all-trades" approach, and the focused, "bare-bones", approach.

Furthermore - my comment was initially in response to an assertion that there were no reasons to be excited about Ghost. I would suggest that, even if they are not reasons you care about, this is untrue.

At the end of the day it comes down to a personal choice of tools. I need a screwdriver; sure, I could use my pen-knife (which also has a torch, bread knife & tweezers), but it might be slower / more fiddly; or I could use a screwdriver.

Wordpress isn't the right tool for me anymore.
"while citizen journalism can allow for unbiased reporting"

I would say that's really not true. I am trying to think of a time when we didn't have biased media or citizenry. Newspapers have picked candidates forever and its pretty easy to see their leanings. Humans believe things and it shows in the reporting.

Part of this stems from people's weird belief that politics was more polite in the early days, which is just so much trash from "a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse-swapper and the nightman."

The demise of the Fairness Doctrine was an acknowledgement of reality and a 1st amendment win. The government has no place holding anyone accountable for speech other than as an action of an aggrieved party in the courts.

Our problem these days, is that we really don't have news networks. News networks don't make money. We have pundit networks. No one is doing an actual news broadcast. They all have their political point of view.
Is this a big deal? Molten salt plants have achieved almost a day with no sun. Example: http://www.torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/gemasolar-plant/en
Those names make me wonder if mathematicians are arranged in series - Erdos, Erdós, Erdős, ...
If you already use ActiveSupport, then you can use Array#wrap http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Array.html#method-c-wrap
I've been trying to set up an exchange here in the UK, but am facing a lot of what I consider anti competitive behaviour from UK banking. I met Vince Cable to talk about it and hopefully the situation will change in the future:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinUK/comments/1n99os/met_with_v...

Although it's a big mountain to climb so perhaps it's wishful thinking at this stage!
It's called a "Chrome Experiment" for a reason.
Shouldn’t option 2 be ‘0.00000001-10’ instead of ‘0-10’? As it is stated now, someone with no BTC should vote for option 1 as well as option 2.

Actually, the other options overlap too. I suggest using ‘11-20’, ‘21-50’, ‘51-200’, ‘201-1,000’, and ‘1,001-10,000’.

EDIT: I adjusted option 2 to start with less than 1 but more than zero. Thanks for the correction. I also agree with other commenters that the ‘1-10’ range is too large.
I assume that responsiveness isn't the issue but that the economics don't work for Arizona Public Service to maintain 750MW worth of coal/nuclear waiting offline for intermittent use only.
A lot of people feel their data is exceptional, and so meta data is where I see "custom" hurt content creation the most: Whereas WordPress has a neatly rolled meta data extensions into "Custom Fields" many CMS degrade into a morass of form fields.

People should be wary of custom built CMS UIs, not only because most people have learned a UI like WordPress or Tumblr.
As with most major innovations that start with a military background, such as the Internet, SMS, GPS and satellites, when applied to a community problem they have a significant and positive impact on society.

Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Yes. I've always assumed that any useful Internet traffic crossing Chinese or Russian borders would be poached by their intelligence agencies as a matter of course. This is what they've been doing since electronic communications were proven to be valuable during WWII, after all.

Why, what did you think they were doing?

Even beyond that I have assumed that Internet communications of mine that are unencrypted are likely to be read by botnets, Internet-based organized crime, spammers, and a host of other unsavory characters that I really don't need snooping in my bidness. I have assumed this ever since reading Schneier back in 2001 or thereabouts and making my first GPG key.

As Anon has been so fond of reminding us, "The Internet Never Forgets", and I remember that every time I use the Internet.
Randomized controlled trials to study poverty:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/86...

Game. Set. Match.
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http://howtutorial.com/howto/how-can-you-get-a-free-ssl-cert...

https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free
I don't disagree. I think the greater point here is that many people are irrationally choosing to switch to Ghost because "it's better" without really know why it is better. "Because it's not PHP" is the most irrational response I've ever read....

Good marketing showing how to solve problems most perceive they have...
Well, yes, you can write to the filesystem, that's why I'm saying "database/storage". See, heroku for example does not provide you with a writable filesystem and it's also easier to share a database over a couple of hosts than a filesystem. Also, if you want to schedule, you'll need to store the scheduling information somewhere. You can add it to the file itself, just as jekyll does but then you'll have to open all docs just to see if they need scheduling. Or you write a schedule-file, but by the time you're doing that you're effectively building a database. Why not go and use a "real" database adapter and use sqlite for all basic setups since basically, sqlite is a specially formatted file with a library providing useful abstractions on top.
A substantial number of Democrats voted for the Iraq war.

However, a more-fitting statement would be "the establishment media supports the establishment" which is true 100%.
A good follow up question for those that have them: How did you acquire them?

Currency Exchange, Selling Goods, Selling Services, Mining, etc
He is making sacrifices, but he is also eschewing any responsibilities.
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> I agree that massive expansion of biomass generation would impact agricultural land.

It would; just look at the amount of farmland currently used to produce plants used for the production of biofuels. It's a big impact on the food production capacity of the world, and it's mainly used to mix with regular oil-based fuels so that the oil/gas companies adhere to government standards, tax reductions and customer goodwill, whilst the biofuel producers get government grants and fundings and more tax deductions.

Of course, that's (iirc) first-generation biofuel, second/third generation (or grade) biofuel uses biowaste (shells, green stuff, animal waste, stuff that would otherwise be processed into compost or fertilizer).

source: my memory
Then what do people with .001 do? I like it how it is but to be correct it would be .00000001 - 10 (I think that's the right number of decimal places.)
I'm implying what's happening in the UK is not a new or uncommon thing. Real freedom of the press is on its way out the door in general, which I think should suggest that any ideal of a healthy democracy is a pipedream, particularly when the freest nations are increasingly convoluted.
I keep various "to do" lists on my phone to track the things that I would like to get done. I find that breaking down projects into small tasks that can more easily completed and crossed off helps with my sense of accomplishment and progress. If a project doesn't seem as daunting I am more likely to attempt to complete it.

Setting reminder alarms for important things like appointments helps too.
A big portion of establishment journalism is now infotainment, but it's unclear if it's the infotainment corporations that are to be blamed here. I know many journalists who work for these 'infotainment' businesses who hate the work they're doing but keep doing it anyway because the demand for real news has severely diminished in recent time. If you're a journalist and you want to make money to pay the rent, you probably have to settle on working for an infotainment company. Right now the economic incentive is to get as many eyeballs as possible to show ads to... and the way to do that is to provide infotainment, not real news.

I think what this really underscores is another folly of capitalism, or at least the need for government funded or government owned media a la BBC or PBS.
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SipHash was developed to replace CityHash, Murmurhash as well as being a fast and secure PRF.
I think 0-10 is a too large a range. There's a big difference between having $10 worth (~0.07 BTC) and $1500 worth (~10 BTC). The first is what I have, which is basically play money. The latter is a more significant investment.
What if someone owns 0.2?

Ranges should be taken to mean A < x <= Y it seems.
When this lunacy ends and people are left with racks of useless miners, is there anything they can be repurposed for?
I wish I had looked more deeply into the protocol back when the 10k BTC pizza event had occurred.
So amazing. I'm hungover and this is delightful.
It's in the url only :(
dupe can we mark this as dead
Leaky Abstractions Are Holding Us Back
Hilarious to read people writing that they'd be better off with steak as a protein source, it might be better for you - but not the planet. We'd be better of as a species by eating the grains directly and bypassing the animals. Silly food subsidies (at least in the UK), subsidise meat and dairy over grain and veg. For example it's cheaper to buy sausages than it is to buy aubergines. Pretty senseless!
Retrospective trading is a good way to chew yourself up. It's meaningless and pointless so don't dwell on it! Look at it from todays perspective.
Nice answer. However in practice current Intel processors do CRC32 in hardware. This blows away the rest and has really nice results. So I use portable code that using Intel's slicing-by-8 CRC32 code for generic machines and then automatically uses SSE4.2 on x86's that most people are actually using.
Well I use it as the counterargument to "open source software is full of holes because bad guys can read the source". Because everyone knows that Microsoft doesn't publish their source code and has never been exploited ever.

My point was simply that obsfucation will barely even slow down a determined attacker, ESPECIALLY one with the resources of a nation state (such as the US). It won't even register as a speed bump to anything other than a script kiddie or a worm designed for the majority case.

I'm really kind of shocked that my previous comment was voted -1, when the numbers blatantly agree with me on closed source vendors getting the living snot hacked out of them, even if their source is "obscured" due to not being available.