skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say a store has a stereo on sale for $300 and you decide that since the wholesale price was only $120, a fair price would be $150. You're saying as long as you plan to use it personally, you could lay down three fifties and walk out with it without 'benefiting'? Your benefit in that case would be the $150 you avoided paying.
Definitely appreciate that policy change.
choult said that, as he/she understands it, mining will stop because there won't be any new bitcoins rewarded with new blocks. That's not an incomplete understanding, it's wrong.

Granted, it's wrong because of an incomplete understanding of bitcoin mining, which is that there are two parts to the reward. However, an incorrect conclusion based on incomplete information is still an incorrect conclusion.

Your statement, today, is probably correct. The percentage payout per block is probably worth a lot less than the value of the 25 bitcoins currently being rewarded. As others have stated, that'll probably change as the reward drops.

Besides only including transactions that pay a higher percentage in a block, I imagine that the higher hashrates will allow more transactions to be included in each block, so there are two ways miners can increase their return. Miners aren't just competing on speed to get the next block; they also have to get the largest block that includes the most transactions. When a transaction gets included in more than one block, the larger block 'wins'.

I suspect we're going to see a parallel to the transition from faster CPUs to multi-core CPUs that occurred when CPUs stopped getting faster. Until this year, we were seeing faster and faster software and hardware used to calculate hashes for bitcoin mining, but ASICs are almost certainly the end of that advancement. So now, I think, we're going to see miners expanding their capability horizontally by hashing in parallel... Maybe by splitting twice as many transactions as typically used today into two different blocks and trying to hash both at the same time.
I can't even read another one of these. I've noticed
one thing about these success stories; they always leave
out the people, connections, and family money that
made them successful. I've met very few Horatio Alger's.
Old reference. 99% of the "Successful" kids I went to school with had rich parents. Gavin Newsom comes to mind. He was voted most fashionable at Redwood. He was an idiot. His parents paid for every business until one stuck. I know the current Gold Rush is different, but beware of the
rich telling the poor how to succeed. Oh, and the books--
they never end. I guess the truth is hard to stomach for
most successful people? I've always questioned what real
success is anyways. Does it really matter if you have
a billion dollars if you have a tumor in your pancreas?
I certain parts of the world I hear integrity, honesty,
and true altruism are what people call Successful--not here
though.
are
I think his point was that success and passion aren't necessarily correlated, so while passion might be a prerequisite for success (but maybe not), having passion isn't a very good indicator that any one person will be successful. It's much more likely that a tried-and-true idea executed well will make money.

That point is emphasized by the fact that his bank wouldn't loan money to passionate people, so I'd say if you want advice you can "take to the bank," this is a good example of that. Of course, if you define success as something other than "make a lot of money," then this is probably the wrong article to be reading.
I can understand how pie charts can be manipulated to show whatever the presenter wants to show...

However I fail to see how they are lying because they used a pie chart... back in 2008 they are saying that Apple had roughly 20% of the market share of smart phones.

They are vague in explaining whether they are measuring - devices sold, devices in use, devices pre-ordered... however that would be the case whether they used a bar graph, line graph, or just gave the raw numbers.
Prediksi Skor Italy vs Armenia 16 Oktober 2013
Prediksi Skor Italy vs Armenia 16 Oktober 2013 – Kualifikasi Piala dunia 2014 kali ini nantinya akan segera mempertemukan tuan rumah Italy dengan tamnua Armenia didalamm laga ke 10 didalam babak Kualifikasi Piala Dunia 2014 yang dimana akan dilangsungkan nantinya di Stadion Sao Paolo yang merupakan markas dari Italy pada tanggal 16 Oktober 2013.
Author here. Append @web.de to my username. Thanks for any suggestions. :)
My recent search tendencies are very similar to the OP but for an entirely different reason: Google results have gotten really bad for me. I almost never find something I'm looking for on first try. I often do with StackOverflow and Yelp, though.
You can't talk about Windows XP like it's a single, fixed point in the release cycle. XP was released in 2001, giving you your 12 year number, but there were also major service packs released in 2002(SP1), 2004(SP2) & 2008(SP3). The last release of XP was only 5 years ago - more recently than OS X 10.4

Of the new software that still claims XP compatibility, much of it requires SP3.
Those buying bitcoins to exchange them for goods and services have some expectation about the amount of goods and services they will obtain, and the "true value of Bitcoin in USD" is the value that reflects this (aggregated) amount. Those buying bitcoin to hold in the hopes that it goes up eventually don't care what goods and services they can get for bitcoins today, just how the price will be moving tomorrow. The two types of behavior are not unrelated, but distinction is meaningful.
If everybody wants to move where the artists are then maybe people should start paying the artists so that they can still afford to live there.

I know it's not as easy as that, but there's something odd about the situation you're describing.
How Quantum Computers and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Big Data
>"It's a fine definition for an abstract"

It is not. An abstract is one of the most important parts in a paper and that's why authors tend to avoid writing definitions on them but stating something like "A definition for X is given in the paper". It is meant to "describe" the paper rather than a summary or introduction of the subject in question.

In any case, writing a good abstract is hard, and it doesn't diminish the quality of this paper.
I am not the post to whom you replied, but to share my own routine (similar thing, started seriously pursuing fitness over the past 8 months or so and have noticed a lot of cognitive reward):

- Every morning except Sunday I'll do some form of cardio; first I did C25K, then random biking, now I'm doing a sprint regimen (from half-awake to dead legs in like eight minutes; talk about bang for your buck)

- Lift every other day doing a simple weights program (started off doing Starting Strength, moved to bodyweight stuff, now back on Starting Strength)

- On weekends I do something fun: co-ed frisbee/soccer leagues are a dime a dozen and will give you quite the workout. The past few weekends I've been going to a climbing gym, which has been awesome.

I had this idea in my head that improving my level of fitness was this Herculean task that would take hours a day, but it's really not. I spend roughly thirty minutes a day working out.
I guess the question is difficult compared to what? How do you go about limiting ad tracking on Android devices?

As mentioned in another comment, the setting was buried in IOS 6, in iOS 7 it is in the Privacy section, has a link to a page that explains what the setting can and can't do (you still get ads but they won't be as targeted) and also let's you manually reset the advertising identifier at any time.

I'm not aware of anything similar or better on any platform.
Warning; the zip-file explodes into a mess, make sure to extract it into a directory (unzip -d ghost-0.3.2 ghost-0.3.2.zip).
I think you never met Brazil, where once the government even found government paid cooks earning 50k BRL month (the Brazil President wage is 19k BRL month, that is about 10k usd month)
LinkedIn Finally Adding 'Block User' Capability
Regarding you0r 'single point of failure' comment, I think indeed this would be a single point of failure and of course, the data that you own, cannot be protected in a way big corporations can do which is the crux of the argument, that is, do you care about security/reliability of your data more or privacy ? The googles and facebooks are keeping the data secure but we can't know who all have access to our private data. Are privacy concerns a big enough deal for people that they would be willing to move their data from the cloud onto their possession, and in the process, maybe take some hit on the security/reliability ?
HTC may have fixed it with the latest update:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1og2h8/critical_and...
The sequence 1,2,1,2,1,2,1... is not indistinguishable from a uniform sequence, at least in the context of cryptography. With high probability, an algorithm that checks if all the even indexed inputs are 1 and all the odd indexed inputs are 2 will distinguish that sequence from a uniform random sequence (this is easy to see, as the probability of a sequence of that form being generated by repeatedly tossing a fair coin is very small).
I also have some fractional amount in a wallet whose ID is long since misplaced. I hope one day that's not something I could have retired on :)
Wow, your notes on Nick Winter's book are amazing! I should note (for others) that the book is also fun and fascinating to read even aside from the technical content and concrete advice which you've expertly distilled.

I'm fascinated that you can get so much value out of Beeminder without the commitment device aspect! For us personally that's really key. Maybe for you the commitment device is that if you derail you'll be forced to put in a credit card. :)

I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on this if you want to move this to an email discussion. Ooh, or check out the Akratics Anonymous google group. You'll probably love that.
Let's just imagine for a moment what "truthful advertising" would look like. Probably something like "1 Mbps for $50/month"; when ISPs are already offering 15 Mbps for $50 today there's no way to get there from here.
Right on. In the future, all applications are just going to be collections of remotely callable objects, with just a bit of local glue code to tie everything together.

This is going to be even bigger than Sun RPC, DCOM, or even CORBA!
I have just over 1. I have traded really hard to get here. I started with about 0.3. I wish I had put some real money in but hey ho

I see it as a curiosity that might go somewhere.I think that the govts will wake up and stop it, if it looks too successful.
If I could have been a web developer 6 years ago before college only by interest alone - things would be different. In industry, it is required to have 2-4 years experience or a degree to even get your foot in the door (or a callback).

Also, I feel like people who took the time to get degrees have the groundwork to learn new things faster. Treehouse seems redundant since youtube has videos on every topic that they teach. I don't know...maybe some people learn better with puppets.
The article reports, "'The long game here is not to make money selling kits, although the kits are essential to get the base level data,' says Patrick Chung, a 23andMe board member and partner at the venture-capital firm NEA. 'Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care.' Genetic data on a massive scale is likely to be an extremely valuable commodity to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and even governments. This is where the real growth potential is."

This statement is based on the assumption that once 23andMe has the 25 million people sign up that the founder desires, that their genotypes (at the resolution of testing that 23andMe can provide) will actually provide a lot of actionable information.

But there is a LOT of reason to doubt that hope. I was just at the weekly meeting of my alma mater's journal club on behavior genetics today, and the papers we discussed today are about rare variants in DNA and their possible relationship to human disease.

Casals, F., & Bertranpetit, J. (2012). Human Genetic Variation, Shared and Private. Science, 337(6090), 39-40. doi: 10.1126/science.1224528

Brookes, K. J. (2013). The VNTR in complex disorders: The forgotten polymorphisms? A functional way forward? Genomics, 101(5), 273-281. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.03.003

Maurano, M. T., Humbert, R., Rynes, E., Thurman, R. E., Haugen, E., Wang, H., . . . Stamatoyannopoulos, J. A. (2012). Systematic Localization of Common Disease-Associated Variation in Regulatory DNA. Science, 337(6099), 1190-1195. doi: 10.1126/science.1222794

Schork, A. J., Thompson, W. K., Pham, P., Torkamani, A., Roddey, J. C., Sullivan, P. F., . . . Schizophrenia Psychiat Genomics, C. (2013). All SNPs Are Not Created Equal: Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal a Consistent Pattern of Enrichment among Functionally Annotated SNPs. Plos Genetics, 9(4). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003449

It is dismaying likely that even millions of well-genotyped samples will provide very little illumination of the development of disease risk in human beings. For you to get actionable information from 23andMe, moreover, you have to count on 23andMe having detailed personal health information about yourself and the other 23andMe customers: "But first Wojcicki needs spit. Her goal is to sign up a million customers by the end of 2013. Eventually, she says, 'I want 25 million people. Once you get 25 million people, there's just a huge power of what types of discoveries you can make.'" Translated into English, that says that the company has very little information to offer yet, and wants you to pay for the privilege of providing highly personal information in the hope that the company can use your information to draw in other customers. I'm not optimistic that that will even help your fellow customers, as I learn more about current genomics research. This business plan certainly puts a premium on the company having ironclad guarantees of customer data privacy, and gathering lots of personal health information on the strength of those guarantees. It's an open question whether this is really a good trade-off for you or me or any other individual.
Nearly everything about human physiology can be thought about what would have worked for hunter-gathers. We're specialised in some areas, most of which doesn't require a constant practise (e.g. a 60 year old can start training for a marathon). But the one of the basics of that life was daily exercise, it's a shame it appears avoidable to us now.
I'm surprised to hear that. I've never had a problem with an ISP blocking SMTP.
Here's another stab at why ggplot2 is a Good Thing. In the easiest plotting case, there is a function that builds exactly the visualization that you're looking for. This is great as long as you don't need to do anything that deviates from the normal set of barplots, histograms, linegraphs, piecharts (shudder), etc.

But let's say you need something a little different. Maybe you want to add additional dimensions to that dot plot. Maybe you want the dots' size or color to be mapped to different aspects of your data. In a world without ggplot2 (or more generally the grammar of graphics), you're pretty much stuck going to a very primitive drawing system in which you're specifying the virtual path of a pen, or working with basic geometric figures.

The grammar of graphics and ggplot2 occupy a sweet middle ground between being able to simply pick an off-the-shelf visualization, and needing to draw the whole damn works manually. And because the grammar really is consistent, you can also play with different facets of your data and build completely different charts to see which is better at presenting your thesis.

In short, ggplot2 rocks, Hadley/Leland rock, and a port of ggplot2 to Python is nothing but good news for the Python community.
Does the underlying article, which is not linked to, specify quality and quantity of exercise necessary to experience the benefit?
That's the problem, his books are dry and boring, but they are fascinating once you get into them. Start with Out of the Crisis -- a book basically about the concepts he used to bring Japan out of its post-WWII depression and into a world market power. He basically did that single-handedly, so that should give some weight to what he says.

The concepts are aimed at manufacturing, but they're more generally about management and how to create quality as a culture, not simply as a product. It's brilliant, but it clashes against most American business thinking in the last few generations (all about punishment, motivation, raises; basically about tuning the individual), so it largely goes ignored. It's also why you should listen to it, given that most American businesses in the last few generations basically suck.

Ignore his hokey names and lack of bedside manner. Pay special attention to his 14 points, and 7 deadly diseases. Think about everything in terms of statistics and process. Apply everything to your own business experiences, and you'll start to see how he's entirely right, and all your assumptions and everything you thought was true about business, manufacturing, quality, and especially people (your workers, your employees) are basically false. Turn it upside-down and start fresh with real science.
The last time I used the piss-laden elevator with my children there was a homeless person convulsing on the platform of embarcaderro station.

You have no clue what you're talking about - Bart is broken and their staff are near useless.

I'm not wasting time and your a pretentious jerk for trying to tell me "I don't have to pay for their service"
This is how PayPal has worked for over 10 years. It's not that big of a deal. Tampering with the form fields is discouraged both by law and by the ease of confirming either programmatically or manually.
Of course, it all depends on the ISP. I've had nothing but denials over the years each time I've tried to request a static IP address, let alone PTR record delegation.
Responding to No name Life Science Blog Editor who called me out of my name
Me and everyone I have talked to in the WP dev community have exactly the opposite experience.

I have used plugins that haven't been updated for four years without any issues.
Google is moving to one account for all of Google, like it should have been in the first place. Of course deleting your YouTube account would delete everything else.
If he had erased them he wouldn't have needed to give up the encryption key and he wouldn't have had as much of a problem giving it up unless he used it elsewhere.
Looks like (at least for now) most of the people here (including me) do not care about bitcoin (less than 10 bitcoins).
How EVERYONE has unique opportunities?

What was the unique opportunity of that kid some streets down here that got gunned down when he was 10 years old?

What was the unique opportunity of the record amount of slaves worldwide? (by the way, did you knew the world has more "traditional" slaves now than any other time in history?)

Or... what is my unique opportunity? Being in debt? Not having a single important connection? Going to shitty university? Yes, I am intelligent, I make games, but I see lots of people with less skill than me earning millions, just because they were friends of someone somewhere or their dad was the minister of something in the government. Ultimate example: Eike Batista, that CLEARLY is incompetent, since none of the business he started on his own had profits, yet his father that was the mining minister obviously had a hand in Eike 90% accuracy in finding minerals in areas previously surveyed by the goverment during his father tenure while this information is "secret" and private companies should not know, and the government recently happily handed him billions and kicked out thousands of people from their homes so he could make his lastest failure project.
> How does it imply that people cannot or should not be running any particular service over their connection?

To limit the number of people massively over-using their connection?

> The real barrier to hosting commercial services on residential connections should be technical.

Those are just reasons why a service would be unreliable. This would give another good reason for the split, occasional downtime wouldn't render a home connection to be branded as "not fit for purpose". You can't claim it was mis-sold if you were explicitly told you can't run commercial services on it.
Inbound on port 25? I know my ISP does
I'm working on http://mathdown.net (https://github.com/cben/mathdown).
Open, except for using Firebase.
Very much alpha at this stage - unsecure, sub-par highlighting, doesn't help with formatting, slow math rendering, if you don't bookmark all your documents you lose them...

I'm not hiding markup like Mango, except for latex formulas which I'm replacing with mathjax rendering - but they turn back into source the moment the cursor enters them.
It's inspired by emacs' auctex and more directly by https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamesmc.wr... (gratis but closed).

I'm also surprised almost nobody is taking the syntax-highlight-IS-the-preview approach to markdown editing.
I've heard the "plain markdown lets me focus on content and ignore formatting" idea, but I don't see how e.g. bigger font for headings is undesirable. It's not that variable fonts are hard to implement - CodeMirror already solved this: http://codemirror.net/demo/variableheight.html
(Variable fonts are not a pure win. They screw up indentation => I'm planning to use monospace for all leading spaces, as well as list bullets/numbers.)
How much of that trust fund - which Gates never asked for and had nothing to do with - did Bill Gates invest into starting Microsoft? All I'm seeing here is Bill Gates bashing with no actual substance.

If Gates didn't have the trust fund, and didn't invest it into Microsoft, then why are you referring to it as somehow indicting his success?

In fact, the IBM exec is not how Microsoft got the contract for DOS. Microsoft was already a very successful software company by the time the deal with IBM was signed, they had millions in profit in 1980 (in 1980 dollars).

They already had the equivalent of $60 to $80 million in sales (2013 dollars) in fiscal 1980, with 40 employees. They did the equivalent of $130 million in sales in 1981 (DOS 1.0 was first released in August 1981). If you understand anything about the software market's history, you understand how already substantial that was at the time for a stand-alone software business. Fact is, Microsoft was already one of the biggest software companies before they ever signed that deal.

IBM was looking to compete with Apple and others in a very important, fast growing market for personal computing. A multi-billion dollar market opportunity at the time (1980 dollars at that).

Your claim is that IBM would have just given that opportunity to any 'kids' with a half-way connection to an IBM exec (that one of the most powerful companies on earth would rest a multi-billion dollar, critical, opportunity with somebody just over one modest connection). It's an absurd position to put it nicely.
Deutsche Telekom to Push for National Routing to Curtail Spying
What happened to net neutrality, Google?
Plenty of people like segregation, the death penalty, imprisonment for drug use, add your own absurdity or dislike here.

Not trying to Godwin the thread, but really, like/dislikes are a terrible measure of the value of an idea.
Anecdotally, this seems true only for some iPhone users. For Android users (myself included) it's still supremely convenient to slide up and speak or tap my search. I end up on StackOverflow a lot too, but Google gets me there.
A friend of mine from college had parents that started from scratch and bought and rented ~1200 homes in Indiana during their working years. So, it can be done.