skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Financial Markets by Nobel laureate Robert Schiller
That is simply not true. You could not write a whole CMS with plugin-api, template system, image manipulation, user roles, auto-installer (and auto updater of plug-ins and entire install), comments system, image galleries, media manager as well as a administration backend (that mind you not only needs to work, but also needs to be designed visually) as well as a high quality default theme.

Where do you guys get off saying such things? It's a completely absurd statement. Of course you can't do that.
> Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

I found that interesting.
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Space heaters. Future mining rigs will just be that.
Meet the 'Refrigerator Ladies' Who Programmed the ENIAC
The San Francisco Exodus
I was trying to think of a way to say this, but I think you summed it up fairly nicely.

I've read too many articles on HN on how managers shouldn't exist. IIRC, at Google it had become something of a general complaint that there was a lack of managers. That is, there might be 100 employees to one manager, and you'd only see this guy once a year when it came to be review cycle.

Managers actually do something, and it's not just to micro-manage, set arbitrary deadlines, etc. It's quite possible for teams to organize towards a task without one. But managers do a lot of other things besides yell at people.

I think the common view is too heavily informed by bad bosses. It's true bad management is worse than none, but that doesn't mean none is ideal.
My mistake. In that case, how come there isn't a glut of housing and a bunch of abandoned buildings, ala Detroit?
I'm sure this was a pretty good talk, if you were at it. The slideshow itself is quite content-low (which is fine!), so I'm not getting a lot from this. Does anybody have a link to a video to go with this deck perhaps, or even audio?
At that point the microBTC will become the de facto denomination. It's already fairly close to that, IMO. When 1 unit of something is worth 100x the most widely available currency, it's no longer useful to list prices in that denomination.
Christopher Columbus Was Awful
WTF is an "IBM researcher" ? Why are we coupling ourselves to corporate entities in this day & age ? Just use her name & title. The research itself is pretty iffy.
I don't think anyone is much in a place to speculate on that. Hopefully somewhere in the range it is now, though, right? Because if in three years it stays fairly steady in price people will trust and use it more.
What's the point of point clouds?
It's also mentioned in the security guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#session-storage
Wait, you just deleted 50 BTC? That was possible?
I guess I had recently heard of a 10gb wireless from Batelle (pdf) http://www.battelle.org/docs/battelle-invents/g_data_wave.pd... and looks like they are also working on a 100gb. I struggled to find ideas on how to use such a thing other than say live transmission of >10 10k resolution video streams over a couple of miles, or urban office backbones and such. The rain degrading the connection is a thing with it all.
Apparently it's the same Polonium-210 used to kill a guy in London in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...

Full Lancet paper here (paywall): http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
Oops, good catch... I just edited the poll.
If they could've collocated near a landfill, they could burn methane at night. Still environmentally friendly/neutral (all landfills have to flare the methane they generate), and you don't need as large of a methane supply as you're just burning it when the sun is down.
I absolutely agree. I would also add that as scientists we have the ability to shape opinions because our statements tend to be taken as fact (whether or not we are speaking about our field of research). With this comes a responsibility to be honest and transparent, a responsibility which is shirked all too often. The idea that this study is somehow the end of the discussion and it is now "proven" that Omega-3 fats don't help curb memory loss is laughable.
That's because it goes against the common strategy of "do what you love". I experienced this personally. I had very little interest in marketing. however after I saw some success I started getting passionate about it.
Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Business Model
YC, Hacker News, Arc, and PG's essays are all counterexamples to "success causes passion." The passion came first.
Let's hope they don't run into anyone:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/teen-killed-remot...
Jack Dorsey Gives His Side of Twitter's Founding
Same; "more probable than not", which falls back on your definition.
I've always thought of most companies like machines. Some guy who is really passionate comes along and builds it, but eventually he/she leaves or loses interest and the machine grinds away until it eventually collapses. Some machines are very well built and last longer than others, but without maintenance they'll all eventually collapse.

Basically most companies, like machines, are just an extension of someone's will. Human will is the only thing that can stave off the inevitable decay, and when no cares any longer, it's over.

The only way to delay this is to hire people who are competent and passionate, and give them enough autonomy so that instead of functioning as part of a machine that will break down, they can exert their will to fight entropy and keep it going.
It's common when writing a scientific paper to write opinions like that. "We showed there is no correlation. Possible explanations for past correlation may be..." It's not just some guy throwing theories against a wall to see what sticks. It's someone who has studied this exact topic for many months or years.
It's not not not realistic enough
That popup at the end of the article totally broke my concentration about the subject at hand. I quickly fell from thought to disgust when the popup came up and covered 1/4 of the screen. Then I backed out of the site. Why do people insist on getting their users onboard a newsletter for a blog like this?
Silk Road: Trail of 11,329.89BTC
Would love to know if they can help you take up the banner for btc. It may be too 'new fangled' for Dave to get involved in, but the democritazation(?) aspect may be something he'd be willing to help out with.

In any event, let us know if something comes of it! Go Dave!
Alpha Funding vs. Crowdfunding
Yea, I see your point. I think I'm more annoyed by the title which greatly overstates the implications of the study.
Facebook and Google make money selling your personal data, Apple makes money selling hardware.
Those polls are rarely accurate especially at the edges (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734). I added a "5,000,001+" option just to see how many people will click it.
Printing money and keeping score who owns how much also takes resources and energy.
Growing up in a tropical climate, I saw people "shutting-down" for a nap post lunch and kept going.
From HN I'd expect more than that. Don't confuse HN-ers with "general population".
5,000,001+
I hate to be nitpicky, but the part about always looking for a better job is horrible advice in terms of marketing yourself. It's pretty well-known that bouncing around from job to job turns pretty much every employer off.

But then again, the type of person Adams is describing is more of an entrepreneur type and not the typical desk jockey.
How to hire your first salesperson
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Exactly. Speculation from someone who is entrenched in the study of a subject is very valuable. Is it not speculation that leads to further investigation and eventually a scientific study? Educated guesses is just as much a part of science as doing an actual controlled study.
How is that any different from minting coins or printing bills?
This insight is huge:

Had I been goal-oriented instead of system-oriented, I imagine I would
have given up after the first several failures. It would have felt like
banging my head against a brick wall.

But being systems-oriented, I felt myself growing more capable every
day, no matter the fate of the project that I happened to be working on.
This is a one-hour "short version" of the talk that I gave as a keynote at a conference in Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnUD8ed3-ok

There are a couple of issues with that talk. It wasn't structured as well as it could be and it was only an hour long, so I had to gloss over or skip many topics. It also doesn't cover the topics I'm discussing here.

Also, I'm doing reading on Semco, but don't want to comment too much until I understand them better. They are, however, really fascinating. Some things would be hard for traditional companies to adopt if the company is bound into union contracts. I am, in theory, pro-union, but they're often counter-productive.

Update: for those who are into OO programming, here's a talk I give about traits (roles) versus inheritance. It's completely unrelated to this, but I love this talk so much that I want more people to know about it :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoWu4eq1Tw
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Also crashes in Firefox 24 on the same machine.
Distributed transaction verification service is of no value?
Just to be clear I'm not talking about the Tent website (https://tent.io), but the communication happening on Tent itself (or Diaspora, etc). There's a fairly strong dog fooding ethic around the decentralized projects, especially since so many of them are "social" in nature, using the projects themselves to communicate is strongly embraced by many.
I'm curious as to why the emphasis on speed here? I would think that hashes are mostly for either confirming a payload, or as a security measure against plain text passwords/keys.

I would think that at least in the latter, that less fast, more cpu/memory intensive would be more desirable. Something like SCRYPT may be overkill, especially if you use if for password hashes, under load for a lot of logins, but the comparison seems to fly in the face of that.

This also doesn't really mention random seed/salt values.
> This is not about the US. Those of us who live in the rest of the world and pay taxes would also like companies like Google and Apple to pay tax in the countries they operate in.

Hang on a minute. Maybe I am a little naive but I don't understand what all this hub bub is all about. Are you saying that people in country X (not the US) pay Corporation A real money but Corporation A legally does not pay taxes in country X? If that's the case, I think the fault is with your tax code than with corporation A.

I am sorry but if I could get away with paying less in taxes, I absolutely would. There is no shame in trying to pay as little tax as one legally can.
If you want to know more about how the command and control structures of the military align with and compare to modern capitalism you can read up on "Creative Destruction"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction) for a 1000 foot view of capitalism in general, but more importantly you should research the ways in which the unique brand of capitalism expressed by massive American conglomerations stifle competition. There is a wealth of information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy) about how the militaristic, "Grow and Destroy" mentality undermines traditional competition in capitalism and stems from the military model of management. Command and Control and Grow and Destroy capitalism is, in a sense, the antithesis of real capitalism which requires competition to function.
it's on the todo list. i was hesitant to put all of them in the dependencies list since not all are pip installable (all of the time)
I said pollution not CO2. Wood fire creates smoke, which is much much worse than CO2.
Economists, not economics.

The current people who are the "top economists" in the world, are, generally, ill-fit to their jobs.

Their abilities to assess risk are horrible.

They are making the world a more dangerous place, not safer.

Economics is very complicated, much more complicated than most leading economists think.

I am talking about people heading the leading economic and financial institutions today.

They are dangerous because they are overly confident of their horrible "predictions".
I've found the best way to go about this is to ask the hard questions.

How to Win Friends and Influence people has a great chapter on how to give constructive critical feedback. You can't just outright say what you are thinking because you need them to believe it as well. By asking leading questions and explaining your thought process, you can make them see the critical feedback you are trying to give.
That's not exactly true. I saw a study recently that showed high protein diets increase lean body mass independent of exercise.
It was not recorded unfortunately. Happy to tell you more over a beer if you ever come to Paris :)
That is a hasty oversimplification. Apple stands to make money selling your personal data just like Facebook and Google. And, were it true that Apple makes money only selling hardware, it would not feel the need to purposely confuse an iPhone user into being tracked by using dirty language tricks.
I'd think it's far more common to use hashes for various data structures (i.e. hash map) than for cryptographic or data integrity purposes.
> Point taken re: nanoparticulates, but wood is nowhere near as bad as fossil fuels.

That is not true. Wood smoke is much worse.
IRuby: Ruby kernel for IPython Notebook
My point is that if you can teach yourself to program, and program THAT WELL, at that time, then you are going to teach yourself a lot of other things.
Truth right here. His systems thinking advice is phenomenal. Love this quote too:

"Throughout my career I've had my antennae up, looking for examples of people who use systems as opposed to goals. In most cases, as far as I can tell, the people who use systems do better. The systems-driven people have found a way to look at the familiar in new and more useful ways."

He's talking about success as simply a single point in the statistical sampling that is your life. This is an extremely correct, scientific, and most importantly helpful way to look at the world and your work.
Here's another study that found DHA did slow mental decline

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20434961
Don't not make everything not private

[ ] Not No
[ ] Not Not Not Yes

My brain was too slow!

Great game.
The original question asked for

> Example (good) uses include hash dictionaries.

which I interpret as meaning hash tables or similar. If so hash function performance matters a lot, especially for short strings.
Indeed, there's some incredible work put into the Python data analysis toolkit. Pandas is very impressive.
However, no GGplot was holding me back from switching but this and improvements to other graphing libraries really make me want to use Python in my next projects.
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German Communications giant pushes anti-spy network
Where to run your cloud database?
I disagree. I think that you have to take ownership of your own career and advancement. Until you reach a level, where you can really take ownership within a company.

Employers these days will not raise your salary at market rate without you jumping from company to company.

For example, person A stays at one company for 5 years and person B jumps from company to company every 1 to 2 years. At the end of the 5 years, person B will be making a lot more than person A.
> using less than 1% of the energy everyone else

And releasing thousands of times as much pollution. It's not worth the exchange.
ggplot is a beautiful thing - excellent job porting it to python. I only wish something similar were available for ruby.
Do you make any distinction between expected and unexpected inflation? Imagine inflation was a constant 2% a year. All contracts and interest rates could take this into account, so there would be no transfer of wealth from savers to debtors. If inflation is unexpectedly high, debtors benefit, whereas if inflation is unexpectedly low, creditors benefit. From my perspective, it's not inflation that transfers wealth from creditors to debtors, it's unexpectedly high inflation. And even then, this is a transfer of wealth, not destruction of wealth.
Yes that's very true and perceptive. It is also irrelevant to the parent comment.
What Banksy's Park Stunt Teaches Us About Pricing, Branding, & Society
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Seems like this paper answers some of those questions: http://www.energy.siemens.com/us/pool/hq/power-generation/po...

tldr: natural-gas combined-cycle power stations can achieve ~30 min startup times, and are being used to provide flexibility in the grid.
Oh, a wood fire. No question whatsoever. Non diesel cars release very little pollution.

>Do areas in which wood fires are the norm have blackened skies?

http://practicalaction.org/smoke_kenya

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/
You can move bootdisks (physically or just the image) between a power based Mac to an Intel based mac. The OS is upgradable from 10.1 to 10.8, you just have to swap hardware around Leopard to make it work. :)

I routinely have coped my bootdisk from Mac to Mac as I upgraded systems.
Is this a satire on something? I can't tell if this is a big joke or if you actually believe this "cannot do more than $X of environmental damage" absurdity.
(somewhat) Interesting sidenote: "Women in refrigerators" has been a big meme in the world of comic books the last several years. Begat by writer Gail Simone (the name of her old and long-running blog) to comment on the excessive examples of brutal to the point of blatant misogyny that exists in mainstream comics. Females, whether romantic interests or heroines themselves, have the curious tendency to meet with extremely violent ends, with the case that prompted Simone being a superhero's girlfriend found murdered and packed away in a fridge.

Just thought the terminology, while in a different context, was notable for yet sharing a derogatory inclination.
They do have a good CS program, but all their bachelor's programs are in Danish, as far as I can tell. For example, the CS bachelor's says Danish in the right sidebar: http://bachelor.au.dk/en/computer-science/cpage/introduction...

Their CS Masters is in English: http://kandidat.au.dk/en/computer-science/

That might not be a problem, but it typically takes at least a year or so for foreign students to gain a level of Danish sufficient to enter a Danish-language program, and you'd need a way to support yourself in the interim.
This is good advice... for _some_ people.For those who might make the mistakes he's alluding to. Other people will have a different character where passion is indeed what makes them make good decisions and succeed.

So, like all advice, this works for some of the people, some of the time. As he said himself in the text: "Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. "
I suppose. I have never understood an aversion to databases in general (though I do understand the general concept that the filesystem is, in a sense, a perfectly fine database for many purposes).

I just like Postgres, that's all.
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IIRC the JIT requires an entitlement that (so far) non-Apple apps can't get, even with iOS 7's JSC.
worked for me in Safari on my Retina MacBook Pro. Running OS X 10.8.5 and Safari 6.0.5
Even for data structures, you generally want to use a cryptographic hash function, to prevent collision and other similar attacks from degrading the performance of a data structure.

For example, if I can sufficiently reverse your hashing process, I can degrade a hash tree in to a linked list for a particular set of data - something your firewalls and other security measures will have virtually no chance of stopping, but which will greatly increase the run time taken to parse (malicious) instructions about that data.

A common use of this is maliciously chosen inserts of new items, to cause the tree structure to become a list building on it.
I've long thought that the bay area's major problem is not necessarily problems with San Francisco proper (though the strong aversion to high-rises while complaining about the increasingly cut-throat and expensive real estate market is hilarious to me), but that the "outer boroughs" are so incredibly unattractive because the transit system is incredibly inadequate.

Living in Queens, Brooklyn, hell even Jersey is an incredibly reasonable option if you live in New York. You trade some commuting time for lower prices, and certainly Flushing doesn't have the same appeal as SoHo. But it's never a question of "oh my god it's after midnight how am I going to get home?" like I experienced when living in the bay area.

It almost seems like San Francisco has a huge aversion to becoming a metropolis, but the problem is that the city really doesn't have a choice in the matter.
That's right, although I think good UX is the main reason why CS got more popular than HC (hospitalityclub.org).

I joined CS several years ago when travelling across the U.S. At that time CS was a bit more popular in the States, but HC had more users overall, especially in Europe.

HC website was terrible with ads everywhere. There was a great community there and it's not website experience that matters, but many HC-ers first started using both HC and CS, and then tended to use HC less and less often. Although I've heard from a few people that while HC website sucks they had better experience with guests from HC than from CS.

Then a group of volunteers tried to rewrite HC website, but they got conflicted with the owner and started BW (bewelcome.org). I don't know what's the state today.
As far as I know, the signal strength for voice calls and the data speed are different issues. Many T-mobile towers only support edge (1x) speeds on non-LTE GSM phones. Some towers have been refarmed to support the 3G hspa+ frequencies. Here is an unofficial coverage map:
http://www.airportal.de/

In my apartment in the Upper West Side, I was getting a 3G data on an unlocked AT&T iphone 4S with a t-mobile sim, but only 2 bars of voice service. I'm tempted to try t-mobile's $30 / month 5Gig data + 100 minutes plan to use with my iphone 5s.

If their LTE service has decent coverage I may be able to get away with using facetime audio + google voice + talkatone.

Has anyone done this in NYC?
I'd like to hear some stories from the 10k crowd :)
I don't get the complaint either.

It is comparable to white rice in preparation time and comparable to brown rice in flavor and nutrition. As someone raised on lots of rice at the dinner table, I think it puts rice to shame.

No, it is not truly a simple substitute to a sophisticated foody, there are positives and negatives, of course.

And it is pricier. Let's not kid ourselves. Most of us to actually cook at home are saving so much money relative to typical American eaters, that the price point is completely irrelevant. If you not eating 20 home cooked meals a week, do not talk me about price. (Yes, I do eat 20 home cooked meals some weeks.)

Some people seem very impressed with themselves for dismissing quinoa as trendy. But I know food well enough to decide for myself, and quinoa is a very attractive addition to my pantry.