skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in 20 more years we can switch to polymer banknotes with unique sizes for each denomination.
Mono gets quite fast if you flip some command-line switches. The defaults are a middle-ground between fast startup time and fast execution. If you're a webapp, you probably don't care about startup time (this is off the top of my head, i forgot where i saw the stats)
At first nothing.

After some time old bills will be rarely seen so anyone using them will get extra scrutiny.

Banks will always accept old bills, but stores (and private parties) won't.
Some journalist needs to drag Berners-Lee out of his hole to answer for the mess he's making.
It looks like they threw everything they could think of onto the bill. It looks terrible...
No. Old US bills are valid forever.
Right ... but why would you assume they'd have used PHP?
It’s markdown so migrating is easy.
But "Aha" does solve it?
3-4 releases per year should be a red flag, but unfortunately it's atually pretty common in enterprise environments. Hopefully they are shipping code much more frequently, and packaging it up and calling it a "release" every 3-4 months.
The final line in what Albert writes does ask that question about the specific occupation, but right before that he had stated more generally that men are not fighting for more men to study traditionally female-dominated subjects or jobs like primary-school teacher, nurse, PR officers and therapists. So it makes sense for Dubner to address the more general "female-dominated professions" than the specific "therapists" part. I also don't see that much difference in asking "why don't more men do [some female-dominated profession]" vs. "why don't men fight for more men to do [some female-dominated profession]". I think in this situation the answers to either question are going to be largely related.
As a mathematics educator at a community college I fully agree with your sentiment. However, faculty tend to dislike the use of smartphones or tablets as calculators since one can have notes on the device and use the internet. I personally have banned all calculators, notes, and tablets during quizzes. I require my students to Mathematica for take home assignments. They do not pay extra for Mathematica as we have a site license.

The TI-84 should not exist at all. It is underpowered and way overpriced. I think it is still used since students pay for the devices and not faculty. Institutional lethargy is at play.
Paper Generators: Harvesting Energy from Touching, Rubbing & Sliding
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I agree, don't put them up on a pedestal.

Mentors are human, they are far from perfect.

It maybe a good idea to get a Mentor for different aspects of your life. Pick and choose the talents/qualities you want to emulate, don't just copy and paste their actions and beliefs.
Presumably the old one will be taken out of circulation as they go through banks, so in a few years anyone with a large quantity of "old" bills will be heavily scrutinized for fakes. Canada's old bills had a pretty big forgery problem, and nobody will accept old 50s/100s.
Housework isn't cardio, but it burns plenty of calories. I've measured it.

And who needs to exercise outdoors? You can frickin' walk up and down stairs if you have to. It's a question of priorities.

I work exercise into my daily routine and if anyone gets in the way of that, I streamroll through them or work around their existence. I have often suggested the 5 mph scrum - everyone walks at 5 mph and if they're out of breath, the meeting is over.

Finally, before it gets mentioned, having kids is a choice. If you're making minimum wage in your 20s or earlier, it's probably a bad one, but even then, it doesn't seem to stop immigrant families who simply pool together their resources and collaborate better than Agile, Kanban, Extreme Programing or any other MBA-induced methodology of the month(tm).
Yes, if they contribute patches to make everyone's services more secure and error-free.
What's the red flag?
I think you should listen to this guy, because while you're busy making something generic, he's changed it ten times and cut and paste it after each change.

You need to be a lot leaner and then make things more ideal when the code-base freezes: which is never.

For example, with JSON is nice if you're sharing data with others. But parsing anything can be done in half a minute by hand.

Likewise, if you start making changes that should be on the buyer's end, you're now consulting for free instead of working on your product.

etc etc etc. I say go with him.

After learning everything he has to teach you, you will find that some things are still easy to do your way.

The reason he REMEMBERS where you don't is because he's thinking leanly about the actual feautre; he doesn't care what the code looks like (within reason) to support it.
A similar can be implemented with this, too.

Basically, when you want to buy something, instead of sending bitcoin manually, the marketplace generates a payment request for you, with two outputs — merchant (the good price) & marketplace (the fee) + some unique ID in the comment field so that the service can link your payment to the order. It can be a QR code or bitcoin:// link or something.
There were alternatives to SR before the bust, so I imagine one will take its place, and become the biggest.

Just like with all large drug enterprises, one falls, another comes in and takes its place.

No doubt the other site owners will learn from all this and adapt.
Looks nice, nothing new
- https://github.com/kolber/stacey
- http://bolt80.com/piecrust/

The video was down for me, but maybe the uploader makes it easier then some other systems? When I try to teach non tech people to use a db-less CMS with no online admin, they get Markdown (they can at least copy and paste my example pages). But uploading files, WinSCP, FileZilla, etc and opening its NOT in word... this blows their minds. So if anyone has seen the uploader and it makes it super simple, it might be worth checking out.
Isn't that exactly what the article said? or did I misunderstand?
Couldn't this work on RetroShare's "forums", too?

http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-fo...
Isn't the point that with a REST interface you can move your UI layer entirely to client-side JavaScript with any of Ember/Angular/Backbone. Behind the REST interface your tech can be anything and you can swap it at will.
The future of mobile apps for physical goods & services (Uber et al)
I've done my share of Clojure programming, and none of the tools you mention are usable in a serious setting. The only stuff I could use (and that was damn hard to set up in the first place, and is "deprecated" for a year now) was an Emacs based solution.
This strikes me as extremely inappropriate. Don't publicly advertise tools for subverting the state.

> there are the bad guys with guns ("the state") that can interrupt the operation any moment and try to seize the money

This is just childish. There are much worse guys with guns that lack legal and political processes. They generally don't bother us because the state protects citizens.

Handle grievances with regulations or criminal code by organizing popular support for policy changes, not by building systems to break the law. Otherwise, expect to be treated as a criminal.
It absolutely makes sense for the Treasury to generate new bills with technology/features that stays ahead of counterfeiters.

But changing bills every several years can also produce unintended consequences. If new bills are constantly arriving while multiple generations of older bills remain in circulation, it's hard to know what exactly what we should be looking for with each bill.

For counterfeiters, the best time to start generating old bills is probably right after the introduction of new ones. I'd like to think the government took this into account…
Japan asks international community to help solve Fukushima crisis
The mechanism: Prices of any commodity are determined by supply and demand. If supply goes down, prices go up.
It's nice to seem them finally attempt to reorient these lists towards Technology, which I find New York City based media is very reluctant to do.

So while this list is better than their usual Old Media & Finance heavy ones, note that on either list - "Disruptors" and "Powers-that-be" - there seems to be no mention of any person or company involved in Video Games, despite the inclusion of Hollywood/Media types.

Oh well, can't expect that much, can we?
How do you go about finding this contract work?
Technically, all that's been done so far is demonstrate that wifi is unlikely to cause these effects. "shown to be true" never happens in science. We merely run out of complaints that we can level at the experimenter.
Obligatory comment about how blech HTML e-mail (still) is.
You actually can do this: "I think it would be really cool if you could use the header from the bio page, for the rest of the site as well - then I think it would be less anonymous, e.g.:"

In "Settings," there is a field called "short bio sentence." This bio sentence will show up next to your name on every post.

I'm still playing around with different home page variations. I will consider your request (or give people more options for their homepage). I'll let you know.
He sounds battle hardened (and like he has a mortgage, which enforces a certain lucidity.) You should definitely listen to him and take him seriously, if you want to assign him the symbol of "mentor" in your head, that's up to you.

EDIT: 6-7 years older... heh.
I applied this morning. I kinda rushed my statement of purpose but hopefully it was sufficient. Wish me luck!
The New Me Decade
"This is just childish"- I checked out the twitter handle of the author. He's 16.
>"Why does he think that way? Has he tried going down a JSON route before, only to be confronted with an edge case or peculiarity that makes his method simpler?"

I was actually about to comment on the same thing. Depending on the case a simple solution would be faster to implement and potentially easier to maintain, but as always it will depend on the requirements
My wife teaches high-school math. Course material and textbooks contain step-by-step instructions for a TI-83+, and they have class sets of the darned things.

This zombie hardware is thoroughly entrenched.

At the very least if the lessons targeted MatLab, we could see OSS implementations like Octave. But all the TI emulators still rely on pirated TI firmware.
> There are only 3600 BTC per day being generated. They can't just generate a few million bitcoins.

They actually can. Generation speed is not adjusted real time, but only every few days. If you generate a mass very fast you can go over it. (And in fact historically it's always been over the expected number.)
> Porting NT 7 (or whatever Windows 8 really is) to ARM or POWER or whatever is not going to be a big deal.

I'm uncertain they kept cross-platform systems running around (whereas I'm reasonably certain Apple has a full OSX running on ARM internally, as they had OSX/x86 long before they left POWER behind). Although NT was built to support a number of architectures, it's been almost 15 years since NT last ran on non-x86 systems (AlphaNT, the Alpha port of Windows 2000; MIPS and PPC had already been dropped by this time), that's a very long time, and more than enough for x86 dependencies to creep in.

On the other hand, WinRT is supposedly a full NT kernel on ARM, so...
That's very naive of you.
If you replace "because" with "bcoz", my assumption would be that you're wrong or sloppy about other things. There was a popular book titled "Dress for Success" that was all about appearances ... Appearances aren't just looks anymore and you should be careful how you represent yourself digitally if you want to advance.

EDIT: Rereading that it sounds a bit harsh ... it's perfectly fine to abuse a language when you're communicating with your friends (some friends anyway). As an architect, you've also got to communicate with management. Practice by playing some buzzword bingo, then write coherent and grammatically correct sentences using those words. You may in fact be smarter than this architect, but you have to convince everyone else too. (Actions speak louder than words, but also choose your words carefully).
can i get a code for beta access plz?
If it wasn't the rich, it would be the "yuppies" out-bidding the grunge and punk. One scape-goat or another, when really all it boils down to is that they don't have enough money to live wherever they want to. Welcome to reality. I can't afford to live on the beach in Malibu, is that a social injustice too?
Actually, about the Python Paradox. If you're hiring for a C# stack but want a hacker attitude, explicitly mention the non-MS stuff you're using. So if you're using e.g. ServiceStack and Postgres on Mono instead of ASP.NET MVC on IIS and Windows, then make knowledge of that a big plus in your vacancy.

Sure, it's less obvious off of the job title than when you're hiring for $TRENDY_LANGUAGE, but it'll filter all the certified microsoft folks away, in favour of the crowd that looks further than what a single company prepared for them.
I'm skeptical about a developer who doesn't like JSON, however it's not clear what his reasoning is from this little anecdote. Maybe there's already a large amount of code using the custom method, maybe the data is not that complex and there are layers that don't have ready access to a JSON parser.

A lot of the rest of it sounds like simple pragmatism and YAGNI which is something many young and brilliant developers need to learn. That said, if he lets copy and paste code multiply and not be refactored and relies on his perfect memory of the codebase to update multiple places then that could be a red flag.

Anyway, if he has the patience so explain the reasoning to you and gives you some war stories I think you'll come out better for having listened.
I'm actually using this right now in concert w/ Coffitivity. It's like being a coffee shop during a storm.

Really diggin' this.
Users are the most important part of any information processing system, and any Pareto-optimal communication configuration requires that perfection extend to the users and their decision-making process.

You could model this with the Prisoner's Dilemma by playing it this way: in your system of perfect communication, both players can know each other's decision before they commit and both can respond to any change in the other player's position. This would lead to always choosing the mutually beneficial position. Any change to the rules would make at least one individual worse off because they would lose information. This situation requires that both players give up the freedom to conceal their decision from the other. Privacy is at odds with optimal communication.

In the move toward perfect communication, there will be changes that damage the positions and advantages of people involved in the system. It's clear that existing power differences are enhanced by rapid growth. Although perfection might not be a reachable goal, I believe there's evidence that approaching it will lead to a massive long-term benefit for everyone involved. There's no other way to overcome the mistakes we all make by being constantly misinformed.
We can't even get rid of the penny and the nickel, people would lose their mind if money changed size.
Have at it: @timberners_lee
DPR is among the wealthy...or, was. He seems to have failed to build up a network of support that a wealthy criminal would need to defend that wealth. He must have been too busy running his empire to watch Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, to learn about how all this stuff works.
Twitter's IPO in simple terms
"punishing a mere guy who turned idea into reality, but who doesn't run the operations himself, won't be a feasible option"

This is dangerously naive. This is exactly what "they" do, if only to brutally discourage anyone else from trying it.
We saw a surge of crappy American programmers in the late 90s, arriving on the other side of the dot-com boom. The exact same kinds of problems, slightly mitigated by the fact that when someone is on-site sitting next to you, it is a little easier to walk them through what they're doing wrong.

You've hit the nail on the head though - we're setting ourselves up for exactly the same kind of problems we first started seeing in the 90s, and then much more as we started importing 'cheap talent' from abroad and created a boom in demand for warm bodies that could type.
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Thanks! Actually, one of my big tasks over the next few months will be to redesign Tracktion's UI and try to make it look at bit more contemporary. Quite an interesting challenge!
I didn't say you couldn't do it but please describe how this part of the marketplace is distributed.
It's been that way for at least 4 years now.
Theres such a difference in learning "a" programming language when you already know one, and learning your first one.
I'm sure it's a commonly held version of sour grapes, but IME, the vehemence here in silicon valley against indian offshoring (and indian onshoring - shipping engineers state side on loophole visas, paying them indian salaries and warehousing them 8 to a suite in extended stay hotels by the likes of Tata and Wipro) all come from people who have had to work with them.

Myself included.
What's so good about TypeScript's type system and what problem does it solve?
Should we stop advertising Tor?
Yes - I publish directly from Visual Studio using Web Deploy (http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy).
You of course checked the latest version of Mono?
This has problems and isn't going anywhere for long:

- it makes GitHub a target

- it makes contributors into targets

First, Git (although DVCS) needs to be located in a non-extradition country where a SEAL team cannot just break in and steal dev servers. This sounds like it would require tor also.

Second, all contributors need perfect anonymity hygiene. Anyone that commits publicly is a liability. Use a new pseudonym just for this project, keep issues and discussion to information and technical matters strictly.
> I remember is being unable to push a release to a remote server without having to fly an engineer out to the console.

That is pathological. We do scripted deployments over ssh where the script uploads files, logs in, unzips files, configures iis, etc. We do this on a daily basis.
Well, what else is the state if not a group of criminals who, through use of violence, coerce people into accepting their authority and following their rules (which in most cases don't protect the interest of the people, only the interest of the state)? It's a pretty libertarian/voluntarist view. There is nothing childish about it.

I listed the state as an example because the state is seemingly the only entity which tries to outlaw voluntary peaceful exchanges. There is a term for practice of peaceful human action that for some weird reason is disallowed by the state [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics
What kind of webdev are we talking about? Large backend services or a wordpress website? Or even the Ghost [1] blogging platform? By mobile, do you also include mobile web front ends then? Do you include Twitter & Facebook as part of that kind of commoditized developer?

I'm an iOS developer and have been looking into webdev to spread out a bit. Possibly something like clojure for a backend and node.js for quick simple services.

[1] http://ghost.org/features/
Why Malcolm Gladwell Matters and Why That's Unfortunate
I think another important question is whether it will help his plea if he gives them the keys: He appears to be just an average shmo (no surprise) and I'm sure would be happy to give away his privkeys for a few years off of his sentence.

The other question is then whether the FBI would then liquidate the coins via an exchange, or just sit on them.
It's always been the cost of licenses. Startups trying to bootstrap themselves sometimes have barely enough $ to cover payroll, let alone expensive licenses for Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc.

I'm not a hater, C# is one of my favorite languages. I started using it literally the moment it was released at the PDC in 2000. Did that for years, but moved on when I migrated to mobile platforms. They didn't have the footprint in that space that they do now, which is still pretty dismal.

If you are determined to use .Net, look into the bizspark program. MS will do it's best to get you on their platform and give you a ton of tools and licenses for a relatively small price. They cater to ISVs and love to help them. That community also has a bunch of great programmers to reach out to if you need help. e.g. Scott Hanselman, Jeff Atwood, Scott Mitchell, Scott Guthrie .. I could go on and on. Those are just off the top of my head.
Boilerplate code isn't just a problem for the person creating it. It's for the 20 people afterward who are going to be browsing, maintaining and adding new features on top of it. It is also lines of code that serve no purpose.

And even the best IDEs can't help with much of what I've seen in large Java apps.
Show HN: Spark Camera
Yes, I typed the acronym wrong; that's what I get for writing HN comments in the middle of the night.

I agree with the rest of what you've said, but I don't think the typical end-user worries about "openness" until it's too late.
This guy is crazy... seems like he's trying to get stuff done in favor of engineering new problems that require more technology and longer development time...

Kidding aside... I think by posting this you already had your answer.
Are you implying that GPUs execute each hash as slowly as a CPU and are better at hashing simply because they have more processing elements? I knew GPUs had a lot of small cores, but I was unaware that mine had 54000000 / 4000 = 13500 cores.
The top people in any field in any country are not working for bargain-basement outsourcing companies. India or America, is the same.
Impractical, yet exactly what France did..
Why is it any worse than HTML web sites? ;-P But seriously, doesn't it depend on the implementation just like everything else?
Heres a hint... if the marketplace was just an API that sends and receives data and not a website that sends you the UI including EXECUTABLE code it would be much much harder to subvert... it would also allow other people to build their own UI's around it.

websites have some real limitations...
Would you call the Linux kernel a large project?
I bet you didn't read the manual. You really have to read it.
Ask HN: What problem is Facebook solving?
When we talk about startup ideas the first question that people ask is "What problem are you solving?". What problem is Facebook solving ?
If you have a flat structure (similar to rows in a database table) nothing is simpler and faster to process than a tab delimited file (or CSV).
So this site disappears one day or is sold..markdown is irrelevant, since you do not control your data. There is plenty of markdown enabled open source blog software.
> I was never a fan of PHP

Interesting how the same people who are "not fans" of PHP somehow like Javascript. As if it's better.
The Dartmouth Project - The Revolution AI Needs