skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's baffling to me because it makes no sense based on everyday experience to think that things have a set amount of time that they heat up or cool down. Why would anyone think that?

If you think my comment was condescending, stop reading it in a condescending tone.
One problem I have with static HTML basic CMSes for non-personal publishers is that it can be a pain to migrate markup or templates if not rendered client-side.

If you've got thousands of pages, publishing a HTML change could require re-building of all static pages, which means it can be painful maintain once you get to a certain scale.
Interestingly enough, the endnotes and cites are often a problem for Graeber (e.g. Not supporting what he is claiming, etc.). For interesting critiques start with Tyler Cowan and Brad DeLong and work your way towards crooked timber. Graeber is trying so hard to be a Howard Zinn for the occupy generation that he misses the fact that Zinn actually did his research and knew what he was talking about, while Graeber has a "throw everything against the wall and see what sticks" approach to facts and references.
While representing yourself in court you can accidentally waive your fifth amendment rights.
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Preface: Ah, the smell of contempt in the morning! This post turned out to be pretty contemptible/cynical, but domain registration & management is a bit of a peeve of mine. I used to run an "IT consulting" company, and have thus developed the requisite jaded viewpoint from dealing with all of those customers who don't understand/value the responsibility of domain ownership.

Every day, registrars are inundated with calls from incompetent domain owners who haven't kept their domain information up to date, and have lost control of their domain in some way or another. The registrars provide a process to recover your domain name, but that process relies heavily on human judgement.

I think most programmers/technologists would be horrified at just how easily the process can be gamed. I've recovered no less than 5 domain names for friends/customers over the years, and I'm always shocked at how easy it is. If you can produce believable looking letterhead, and have done at least some cursory information gathering on the company in question, you can usually game the system.

The reason this giant hole exists is because of customer service incentives. A large number of domain owners aren't responsible technology people. They're mom & pops, or some middle-manager who kind-of-sort-of understands the internet. They're people wearing many hats, and have never used a program like 1Password or LastPass to keep track of their important information. To add insult to injury, these same people are bombarded with fake domain renewal letters that result in their domain being hijacked by some shady business.

The registrars end up handling the backside clean up for all of these incompetencies, and customers demand it. If a domain registrar began requiring the kind of verification that we'd expect, many people would simply lose their domain names and never do business with said registrar again. The registrars know this, so they make it (too) easy to recover a domain.

IMO, there are two solutions:

A regulatory body steps up and says: Domain owners are responsible for keeping your domain information and security credentials current. If you lose them, you will have to successfully navigate a lengthy and expensive verification process. The process will be standardized across the industry, and non-compliance will result in heft fines for the registrar.

Alternatively, the option is given to domain registrants to treat their registration with a higher level of scrutiny. A kind of "I take responsibility" flag for your domain that significantly raises the bar for recovering the domain should you lose control of it.

Neither of these will happen, because there is not enough incentive. The majority of domain owners will never be targeted in the manner illustrated here, so the service is unimportant to us. There aren't enough large companies to justify offering secure domain registration as a service. The rest of the world needs the easy recovery process because they're not competent/responsible enough to maintain control of their domain name.
GraphDB Benchmarks for Neo4j/DEX/Titan/Orient: Neo4j wins except parallel writes
Be aware that you don't need the blockchain to use Bitcoin really.

MultiBit or Electrum let you use the network securely without it, and have a minimal disk and memory footprint (megabytes, if that).
Working of an email explained poetically.
Responsibilities as a consumer? As a tax-payer for utilities he is no longer dependent upon?
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True, but if I recall correctly spatial multiplexing can be used to increase channel capacity.

Using the same 50db SNR for WiFi at 40Mhz we get:

((40000000)*(log(1+100000)/log(2)))
ans = 6.6439e+08

or 664Mbit/s, however, 802.11ac can achieve higher than that by using MIMO. I unfortunately don't know the formula for max channel capacity for multiple streams.

It doesn't seem like they are using this though in their experiment.
Drupal, Software Engineering, and PHPs Casual Audience
I develop with PHP regularly and absolutely love the strides the community has been making with Composer, the PSRs & frameworks like Laravel.

I have also built tooling, plugins & themes for wordpress. I personally found it to be a frustrating experience: like I had been lobbed back to the days of PHP 4 when I thought all the PHP haters might have had a point (I wish to be emphatic - I don't think this anymore).

From a development perspective:

- The "loop" is bad design - with no regard for separation of concerns and maintainability.

- The lack of namespacing means you have to go through a dance, working around Wordpress's idiosyncratic structure, in order to build around Wordpress effectively.

- I personally don't think much of their documentation.
coinbase.com is good if you are in the US.
So this really depends on how you define the "play money".
Lentils and peas seem to do better on the little graphs on the site.

I think a properly made dal is pretty tough to beat for nutrition and price. The catch is you really have to soak the beans for 24 hours before cooking very well at high temp. Otherwise you get dosed with lectins and phytic acid.
Essentially, yes, that was my understanding, too. I've only used in in signal processing - converting from the time domain to the frequency domain. Not sure how that would apply to this.
Just curious, why not go with Jekyll if you want something lightweight and static?
Is This Another North Korean Photoshop Goof Up?
Exactly this. I have some nonzero amount when I mined for 1 afternoon. Technically I don't have zero but I shouldnt be in the same category as people with a thousand dollars worth.

With that said.... I said I have zero in the poll.
Ask HN: Bar table for coding
I'm thinking about buying a table or a desk where i can use for eating, coding, etc.

I'm thinking about buying a bar table set (something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Linon-Tavern-Collection-3-Piece-Table/dp/B002USUJV0/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1381764291&sr=1-1&keywords=bar+table) but wondering if it's ok to sit for a long time. Anyone have experience using this type of table for coding?
Wow, up until your comment I had no idea that BitcoinQT was taking up over 18Gb on my hard disk.
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Pretty sure coal plants are already used in that way, but on a 'grid-wide' level; based on predictions based on the time of day, time of year, and other factors, traditional power plants get scaled up / down or powered up / down, preferably with minimal waste. Wasting fuel and powering up/down isn't profitable for the energy companies either. I can imagine that the fast-responding power plants are the hydroelectric ones, since their power output can be adjusted by just closing off some valves. Of course, if their reservoir is empty or low they can't scale up easily.
Can anyone shed some light on the Hacker News story ranking algorithm?

After 1 hour, this submission was in third place on the front page, then I checked again about 15 minutes later and it had dropped to 93rd place, on page 4! There are many other stories that are both older and have fewer points that are higher up the rankings. Judging by the number of comments, this link is obviously a story of interest to HN.

Just curious what's going on..
Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M…
>Do you think his parents taught him to program the machine that he had access to?

No. But we're talking about having access to that machine in the first place.
"Establishment journalism has long slipped entirely into infotainment."

This remark, and your whole comment, is not well-informed.

When you talk about "establishment journalism" (in the U.S.), you're talking about NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and a handful of other outlets like this. Each of these papers has its strengths and weaknesses, but "infotainment" is not the main weakness. (Take a look at the NYT front page today, for example.)

In other words, your gripe about "infotainment" may be the case, but that's happening in a different segment of the media, not the one the OP was targeting.

It's too bad, because the original post did have a good point, and was heading in the right direction. Probably the main problem with the NYT (I'm a subscriber, and I at least look at its front page every day) is that it does not like to rock the boat. It's an establishment paper. Some ideas, even if having merit, are simply out of bounds. ("Everything from A to C" is what Christopher Hitchens, in his pre-9/11 days, used to say.)

This "not rock the boat" tendency explains why the (ostensibly liberal) NYT had on board Judy Miller, a largely-discredited cheerleader for the Iraq war. She had access to top Bush administration sources, and she seemed to know what was happening and going to happen. Thus, she became a mouthpiece. The NYT, in this case, was willing to sacrifice being correct for merely being abreast of the establishment narrative.

That's the real problem with the high end of establishment journalism.
It is possible that we don't know yet (at least fully). If the community never tries other things it is unlikely to ever find out.

You couldn't possible be claiming that the Wordpress interface is the pinnacle of UX research and advancements. Its fine. Just fine.
> probably better off eating a nice [...] salad nutritionally

Depends on your definition of salad. For some people it's a couple of slices of tomato and cucumber with iceberg lettuce doused in ranch dressing (maybe with some shreds of red cabbage in there).
Human brains are quite good at spotting some kinds of patterns. A visual representation is a trivially easy way to access that pattern spotting ability. Trivial as in you can do it in the time it's taken me to write this reply. It also communicates well.
I love peas and dal (as well as beans). Them being very cheap makes that even better.
It was Vizzini who kept using that word, and Montoya who did not think it meant what he (Vizzini) thought it meant.
Caramelize some onions in a pot. Toss in a diced pepper and cook to soften. Add quinoa and toast a couple of minutes. Add double the volume of liquid to the amount of quinoa. I use either chicken or vegetable stock but water works in a pinch. Simmer 15 minutes. Eat.

I'm a bit of a cooking enthusiast, so maybe it seems easier to prepare to me than many might find. The Bob's red mill quinoa has been washed so you don't have to, but use a fine strainer and it just takes an extra minute or two to wash if you are using a brand that requires it. Certainly no longer than varieties of rice that require washing to get the starch off...
Keep in mind when the first iPhone released, there was no App Store. And no plan for one, supposedly [1]. Apple had as much control over your phone as the other carriers did. And much more than it does now.

My comment was more about the leverage it had over the carriers and completely squandered. IIRC, AT&T was paying Apple $10 or so per user per month. A carrier paying a handset manufacturer a fee seems like a lot of leverage. At this point, Apple had the potential to turn the industry away from fleecing customers. Instead, in 2013, we're lauding an upstart-ish company for contract-free smartphones. Great progress, but its taken far far too long.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/10/business/la-fi-tn-if...
I don't own a single Bitcoin. The problem is that it's too volatile.
It's because in those days there was little to distinguish Bill Gates besides his wealth and the ruthless business practices that Microsoft was frequently in the news for (though, analyzing those same practices retrospectively, some today might have more mercy than commenters did back then). He changed his reputation when he started focusing on philanthropy. Now he stands out from other technology billionaires not only as the richest, but also as the most generous (to charity, anyway).
The top 10% earned 43% of the income in 2009 and paid 70% of the income taxes according to several websites I've looked at (ntu.org, heritage.org).

The bottom 50% paid 2% of federal income taxes.

I was responding to this IMF report which says, in effect, that more holdings of the rich should be confiscated and redistributed. Arguably, the U.S. already has fairly progressive taxation.

The payroll tax a.k.a. FICA is a slightly different story since, theoretically, we all get that money back eventually.

As I understand it, the government's huge size and credit utilization encroaches on private sector investment and expansion. Simply put, if it didn't soak up $1T/year in loans, that loan money could be invested privately and put to more productive and efficient use.

I didn't know that companies are sitting on cash. It was my impression that money is being put to use no matter how it is stashed, except under a mattress.
So, they decided the following must be true:
- Textbooks are something that people want right away and can be delivered outside
- Students are willing to pay a premium for fast delivery from a nearby location fairly often
- A small helicopter is an efficient way to deliver thick paper books

I feel like they couldn't have chosen a worse product to deliver via drone.
I don't currently own any. However I did pick up a Raspberry Pi recently, which made me a little interesting in the bit coin thing. I'm curious if a RPi cluster could (slowly) but efficiently (from a power consumption standpoint) mine.
You can probably blame the gluten-free madness for some of it. Most of the people I know who are big fans became fans at around the same time they suddenly "developed" gluten problems coincidentally at around the same time a couple years ago when the fad started taking off.

It's listed frequently in gluten-free literature as an alternative to gluten rich wheat products.

All that being said, it tastes fine and isn't overly burdensome to cook. It's a nice change of pace from other staples as part of a well varied diet.
I think it is a bigger deal for people who haven't been following CSP tech these past couple of years.
I believe there is a difference between reality and what the legal system is able to prove. They are necessarily different, as the legal system must apply to society as a whole, which means that we require it to have safeguards that will necessarily reduce its ability to deliver convictions.

This doesn't mean that any party not convicted didn't do it; it simply means they were convicted, just as the legal system sometimes manages to deliver convictions on people who were actually innocent.

In this case there's no way to even think of how to apply a legal-style investigation except under some kind of quantum parallel-universe model. Exhaustive investigation or not, the fact remains that as soon as the U.S. learned of the leaks they took prompt action to forestall the ability of AQ and the Taliban to act on those leaks, which forever screwed up the possibility of conclusively determining which particular individuals would or would not have been slain.

That the threat was mitigated doesn't mean there wasn't an existential threat though, nor does it need a jury of 12 people to demonstrate what is plainly obvious: Loose Lips Sink Ships.
How much does it differ from millet? It has similarity in appearance, and I jokingly call quinoa 'expensive birdseed'.
I would think that, no matter how hard a company tries to hire people of the same mindset, temporary hierarchies would develop - not necessarily along the lines of seniority, but along the lines of who had more experience/comfort/knowledge of best practices, etc. regarding a particular domain, technology, etc.

Ideally, the hierarchy would be truly temporary and whatever knowledge/experience/insight caused one person to become the project "shepherd" would be willingly shared amongst the other folks.
Curious. I've just taken a straw poll in the office. I asked "if someone said something was probably going to happen, what probability would you give it?"

The answers were:

* 80%

* 50% to 90%

* 90%

* > 80%

* 80%

* 80% to 90%
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Whats stopping these ideas from being stolen?
On passenger trains what are the people taking tickets called then? I've never heard the person driving the train to be called a conductor before since that's usually (at least in US terms) a demotion for them.
Grain farming is less sustainable than pastured animal raising. You're welcome to a discussion about supportable human populations, but the idea that grain and legume farming is more ecologically sustainable is flat out wrong.
I guess they view these as two separate problems: as long as we are using physical textbooks, their solution makes sense.

As for safety, I think it's good for pioneers to go ahead while making their best efforts in safety (they discuss safety in the article). Either the government bans them immediately, or they wait until things get bigger before introducing regulation. If everyone waited until the full set of safety regulations was in place, nothing would get done.
Your statements about scientists are an overfit.

Randomized controlled trials:
http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/17/100517fa_fact_pa...
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So in the article they discussed a special tax break for non-residents which was resulting in much lower tax revenue from these properties.

As it happens, living in the Bay Area I'm very aware of living in a house that, I could neither afford to 'buy' again, nor pay the taxes on should my prop 13 bill revert to 'current value'. But the way the tax base evolves in California is when property turns over or is sold. So when buy a house the taxing level is reset to the current value.

My suggestion is that by normalizing the tax burden to new owners without special "non-resident" perks, you would force the cost of ownership to be the same for everyone, and that would both discourage some rich folk from moving (lowering demand a bit and helping) and increase the tax base even though the number of residents was not increasing (which increases per capita services budget).

Now the last time I looked at buying a flat in Chelsea part of the thing that confused the heck out of me was the whole 99 year lease thing. I decided that real estate in London was going to need a lot more research than I had time for. A pity though because in 2002 when I was looking at it, I could have made a nice return.
I regret putting that in my original comment because I believe people take that to mean that I am PHP "hating" (I don't know what that even means). I set the record straight in another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547794 .

I use PHP extensively and think it has come a hell of a long way over the last couple of years. My meaning with the orignal point of "avoiding PHP" was more in the spirit of platform considerations.

You may, for whatever reason, not want to include PHP as part of your system architecture. By being written in JS, Ghost offers an alternative in terms of platform (where something like Drupal, or Dropplets would not).
Of course the easy thing to do is mix with vegetables and broth, and it's fine for that-but the nutritional advantages don't really do it for me, especially to offset the cost and weirdness factor.

I don't mind it as an addition to salads or other uses but again there's nothing really drawing me to it over the alternatives.
will they be able to repurpose them to mine other types of coins? like prime/lite coin? maybe turn them over to SETI @HOME style projects?
Thanks for the video.
I feel a little conflicted on my feelings towards Banksy.
But I'm not really that invested in him or anyone else. It's just human behaviour I guess.

I'm not sure how to feel about Banksy and his war with Robbo. I feel for Robbo, that dude just had the worst luck.(I have the issue to).
I want the Ghost admin interface.
The dominance of 0 in the answers is illuminating
You're right, or at least close enough to make my comment based on faulty assumptions.

It looks like they hired him without the "senior" title last year. I was basing my assumption on the article's statement that he made $10M "last year".
This will be crush by regulations. The future of delivery is in Google hands right now. They got two amazing technologies,Bufferbox and the Google driverless car, and a big enough lobby power to change the laws.

Things will be delivered by autonomous Bufferbox vehicles.
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The problem with the Fairness Doctrine is that it requires you to devote equal time to the other "side" without regard to how reasonable it is. Equal time for rabidly political anti-vaxxers? Oh joy.

Giving equal time to absolute nutters only serves to legitimize them.

And I also take issue with this: non-biased media is absolutely a thing of the past.

Depends on what you mean by non-biased. It's impossible to have a complete lack of bias for a couple of reasons. First because there's inherent bias in the stories you choose to cover, and second because a dry reporting of facts absent any kind of analysis is terrifically boring and less informative than the alternative.

The best thing you could do as a journalism group in such a case would be to remove yourself from commercial influence, and take an objective a stance as possible on the stories you choose to publish and how you analyze them. Being permanently vigilant of the inherent bias goes a long way towards correcting it, IMHO.
If were talking about graphics card rigs, well I guess could attempt to re-sell them to gamers and the like to attempt to get some money back out of them (although, in the end probably still a loss unless you covered the purchase+power/cooling+maint costs in mining with them)

ASIC BTC mining hardware, I don't think can be re-purposed.
No, ASIC miners will be much more efficient.
I've been an iPhone user since the first one shipped, and just changed to a Galaxy Note 3. It's neither cheap nor rubbish. But I do feel a bit uneasy about supporting them in light of their history of "extreme homage" in design. I'm not at all surprised to hear about them acting shady in this way.
Not really, there is no way you could buy mining equipment right now and make net profits. There are several calculators online that take difficulty increase into account.
The simple answer to your question is no.
Looks like despite their best efforts, the SCP Foundation has failed, and a CK-class reality restructuring event has occurred. As you have fun playing with your Squishy Earth, just remember the sacrifice that Earth has made for you.
I'm really excited for this. I might finally switch to python now!
I mined about 50BTC years ago (when it took around 1 day CPU time), but a constantly deflating currency seemed like a dumb idea so I deleted it. It still seems like a dumb idea, but now I wish I hadn't.