skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silly hyped up bitcoiners. Let's totally short this virtual imaginary currency thing. I mean, just look at the graph! What goes up always comes down!

until it doesn't

Value is entirely subjective, all money is imaginary and built on a trust. For bitcoin, this means trust that the network is healthy, the protocol works, the transaction system is effective and has advantages to competing systems, and that others understand and share these thoughts. However, bitcoin also reduces the trust required in several areas (this is one of its advantages): chargebacks, control of your account (it is immensely difficult for third parties to seize bitcoins), and stability of the monetary policy (systemic incentives were designed to strongly resist manipulation of the algorithm, and seem to be working well so far).

Edit: This isn't to say bitcoin will go to the moon. It could very well fail for a number of reasons. However, it is also something that deserves careful consideration. It has shown surprising resilience. People are working hard at building augmenting systems. It is programmable money. The potential applications are hard to fully fathom.
I agree to some extent. My hypothesis is that during a project you take a lot of shortcuts, because solving that last part of a task sometimes involves a lot of work to get everything perfect and working for every user. It could be making a responsive website work in legacy browsers, or it could be a script I know works in my dev environment but I haven't yet tested in production,. Even so I close my eyes, mark these task as done and move along.

So the last 20% is actually a bunch of 0.5 percenters pushed to the end of a project. At least for me.
Nokia's tablet turns Microsoft from BFF to archrival
This is really interesting. Is there any hope for a hybrid language? Like python with haskells time system, or writing lambda functions like lisp and using python to execute? Basically, taking the 'best' parts of languages and combining them.

What about multiple definitions for functions depending on what kind of input is given. Like python has no tail recursion, but lisp does. Write a python function that gets transparently translated to lisp to utilize the features of the language.
Maverick's is dangerous.
An Android Jekyll client
Nexus 4 is only $249 for the 16G version Surely some are on craigslist or google may still be selling them directly Good phone to make custom Roms for or for building AOSP
I think that the total Android revenue was greater than the total Windows Phone revenue quite a while ago. I don't know if it still holds true now that WinPho sales are more than a whisker over none.
Late 2010 MBA using the old Mavericks GM - 13A598 - is fine. No different than 10.8 at all. 4 GB RAM on a C2D. I really don't think I would have even noticed the difference had I not had to run the installer.
HIPAA isn't taken seriously until shit hits the fan, much like FINRA or any other piece of alphabet soup.

I've seen companies closed over HIPAA violations, and I've seen folks go to jail. It's totally ok to ignore HIPAA until it isn't and by then it's too late.

Some people play chicken with the federal government and some don't. As always, it is up to your particular risk profile.
"YouSB"
except Go.
No, it's very clear what he did was wrong. He works in an industry that does not allow you to email code home or copy it off of company computers. Goldman might be a little different, but where I've worked, this was definitely a no, no, and you could easily be fired for doing it.
Thanks for the reply! For a while there (I started using PhpEd in 2008 or so) the updates were coming fairly slowly but they have seemed to ramp up lately which has been nice (version 11 of PhpEd seems to be due out fairly soon but I'm not sure which features will be coming).

The main open source project I work with (Joomla) seems to use PhpStorm almost exclusively now that we have a free open source license we can use. I tried it briefly last year, but with the latest round of updates it seems like it'll be worth taking a closer look at again :-).

I have liked the native speed of PhpEd, but one thing that I think that has held me back from switching to another platform has been the lack of Mac support it has so maybe switching to PhpStorm will make that transition more of a possibility down the road.
I bought mine off ebay, there is no duty on smartphones just 5% GST
Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
June 2007: iPhone is released
July 2008: iPhone OS 2.0 is released
September 2008: Android 1.0 is released
Yeah, I was wondering that as well.
I'm also curious about this. Not even AGPL would have such a requirement.
Check the Mac Rumors forums before doing this. I heard that this approach doesn't work anymore because Apple changed some dependencies.
If you begin a statement with "It's very clear" then I expect you to back that statement up with facts so that the rest of us can see why it's so clear. Does it seem reasonable that Goldman Sachs want to send a message to their own programmers? Is that going to work well for them in recruiting?

If anything, the NSA revelations have given conspiracy theorists carte blanche to go full steam on their theories. You'll hardly find a thread related to Google on HN without the obligatory "Well, now that we know that Google has given NSA has unfettered access to all data..."
I wish Apple sold OS upgrade at $100 or so and charge less for hardwares.
Most of the FLOPS number comes from the GPU. A single Radeon 7990 (~$800) pulls 8.2 (single-precision) TFLOPS by its lonesome. You can throw a pair of those and a beefy CPU into a computer for under $2k and claim 17 teraflops.
Fixing the nfsd export option conflict in Mac OS X
Stack Traces, window.onerror, and the future
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/business/09privacy.html?pa...

Most big pharmacy chains have, at one point or another, been accused of selling actual prescription data to drug company marketers.
I don't get the big deal with free OS X updates. Apple sells hardware at a premium and you get the software with it. You can't buy Apple software, so why should you be able to buy software upgrades? It should have always been free, just like iOS upgrades are free.
I don't think there is something inheritantly wrong with a lib allocating on your behalf. Most non-trivial problems require memory allocation, and if you have a struct that has dynamically allocated fields (like char*'s of data derived from files you've read in), often providing a ${structname}_new() and ${structname}_free() pair is less mental overhead than making sure to free certain fields in stack-allocated structs.
"Congress specifically enacted 47 U.S.C. § 230 (1996) to reverse the Prodigy findings and to provide for private blocking and screening of offensive material. § 230(c) states "that no provider or user of an interactive computer shall be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider," thereby providing forums immunity for statements provided by third parties."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
I think TouchID is way more useful on the phone which you unlock tens of times daily vs the iPad which maybe you unlock once or twice depending on your usage.
Not according to Goldman Sachs:
"While some of those files included open source software, the Court determined that 'a substantially greater number of the uploaded files contained proprietary code.'"
It's just a bait and switch. Free OS X upgrade and yet charge 50% more for hardware than what's realistic/fair.
After the NSA revelations have shown things to be a lot worse than even the more paranoid conspiracy theorists thought

Really? Even the more paranoid conspiracy theorists didn't think that the Government could read the address and subject of your emails? The same people that think the Government did 9/11 and faked the moon landing?

Don't even get me started on chemtrails...
I, for one, and shocked.
Elon Musk Calls Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars ‘Bullsh*t’
While doing some research for an article[1] I read a paper[2] in which the main causes of underestimating are given as:

1. "Frequent requests for changes".

2. "Overlooked tasks".

Agile methodologies are good at placing #1 front and centre. But importing that fusty old concept, the checklist, might help a lot with #2.

[1] http://confidest.com/articles/how-accurate-was-that-estimate...

[2] Albert L. Lederer and Jayesh Prasad. "Nine Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating". Transactions of the ACM. February 1992.
…hence why larger sizes are available?
I'd like to see Chinese wholesalers and manufacturers accepting Bitcoin for orders as I think this would be a huge positive indicator for Bitcoin. I think the incentive is there, cut out the middle men (banks) who charge exorbitant exchange rate and transfer fees and the customer/business can both save. This would possibly be the most meaningful utility for Bitcoin to date if it happens.

It's a pretty cutthroat and competitive industry from what I gather as well so Bitcoin could be interpreted as a creative way to be even more competitive.

If this does happen, hopefully the incentive to accept Bitcoin for orders would trickle down the supply chain as well.

The volatility is probably a problem though, if you're operating on narrow margins volatility might be an unacceptable risk unless you're able to come up with a process to sell them fast.
The federal procurement process is one of those cases where separation of concerns hurts things. I know that things are this way to try and prevent bribery and cronyism etc. But it's clear that the pendulum has swung too far.

I've been part of the procurement process a few times from the vendor side and the layers of nested black boxes makes solving procurement issues virtually impossible and once the procurement is made massive overruns are almost inevitable.
This week a UK parliamentary watchdog described a failed National Health Service patient IT programme – the cost of which has spiralled to £9.8bn – as “one of the worst and most expensive contracting fiascos in the history of the public sector”. Earlier this month the Department for Work and Pensions admitted that it had written off £34m of IT costs, incurred in an attempt to overhaul how social security benefits are paid. A week earlier Co-operative Bank said it had written off the £148m cost of a new IT system that would no longer be implemented.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/794bbb56-1f8e-11e3-8861-00144feab7...
Ask HN: When will the new Macbook Pros be available in stores?
Fired is one thing, but malicious prosecution is completely out of proportion to a rules violation.
Fake Banksy Art Booth in New York City Sells Out in Under an Hour
> during which time he sent himself, through a so-called “subversion repository,”

i just can imagine how every FBI agent jumps when reading that there is a whole repository of subversion (or subversions?) out there.
Damn. That's what I thought, then saw people using CMMS and thought I'd confirmed it (on Wikipedia, even), but you're right.

Thanks a lot!

Side note: CGI Federal is responsible for cms.gov and medicare.gov, the latter of which I can attest to working well (Part D prescription plan signup and claims stuff), even if it's a bit clunky.
Is there any direct link to download this update? 5.29GB is pretty big. Would love to download it through my download manager.
Which ones? DPR's personal wallet is still intact.
Can you explain the relevance of the HP link? I'm not getting it. Is it supposed to be a positive example?
Exactly.

Me asking similar question - https://twitter.com/stefek99/status/392755432105603072 - I want to find .iso, make bootable USB and wipe everything, start fresh.
I have a full-time day job but took an offer working part-time remotely for a Joomla Extensions Developer named Joomlatools late last year and did that for a few months in my spare time.

The only bummer for me was that I was a contracted employee so basically I was paid for the hours I worked (my full-time job is salaried so it's nice to know I'm going to expect X dollars each month) and since I was doing it in my free time it started to get difficult to balance the extra work time with family time since I ended up no longer having much free time.

If a company offered a $90,000+/yr salary + health and retirement benefits to work remotely then I think a lot more people might be interested, but in some cases (when you're working simply as a remote contractor) that's definitely not nearly as good.
Yeah his reviews are very good. I do feel it would be nice to have a bit of a comparison section at the end though, to discuss some of the more technical details within the operating system landscape. For example timer coalescing/race to sleep is something I know Windows 8 has and I assume Linux, and the App Nap sounds like a more advanced version of the Metro tombstoning, and I think Linux can do memory compression but Sprite Kit sounds rather unrivalled by first parties. I would love to have his views on it all.
You did notice the word, "Android"?
Even though mining will continue for the indefinite future, the total amount of BTC that will ever be circulated is capped. And the rate at which new coins are mined will decrease dramatically in the next few years - to the point where they will have little impact on what is already in circulation.
It isn't. The full transition happens before the animation starts. It's a simple crossfade.
so, I should stay on snow leopard? years old install + chrome uses 2.6GB
Twen cen communists failed by trying to pick winners. It proved impossible for central planners to, for example, determine exactly how many meters of type 2 copper pipe to manufacture. They would end up in absurd traps like not being able to expand copper pipe production because of a shortage of copper wire.

That is nothing like giving people €1000 and letting them decide how much if any copper products to buy.
Whitehouse has no answers on Obamacare 'tech surge'
It's easier going door to door. When I was marketing a small app, I went door to door to over 200 houses. I met lawyers, coders, bankers, and cool people that invited me out for coffee just because they're curious about my ventures.

It's also better if there is a back end. Usually means they will want some specific feature that you can charge to build and cash in on maintenance costs. A proper backend takes way more time than frontend too, and people like to be in control of their data ;)

Most of the time I'm just writing a custom WYSIWYG editor for custom written blog software. Reinventing the wheel every time.
Balloon Ride to Offer Expansive View, for a Price
No, we can't really. Being right once doesn't mean you get to throw around wild accusations without proof and avoid being called on it.
which time he sent himself, through a so-called "subversion repository," 32 megabytes of source code from Goldman’s high-frequency stock-trading system.

I can't help smile at the thought of what non-CS people might mistake a "subversion repository" for.
Nowhere close to official, but you can torrent it: http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/9085330/OS_X_Mavericks_10.9_O...
Have you seen http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/ ? No idea how well it works, but might be just what they need.
There are quite a few third-party styli available for purchase. Apple doesn't want to include one because they don't want developers assuming the user has a stylus, and thus, crafting interfaces that require that level of precision. The iPad/iOS is about touch.

If the argument is that Apple should build one, but not include it by default, specifically for people who need one, I guess the response is "Why bother?"
Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine?
Webvan got to something like $1.5b
Broadcast.com sold to Yahoo for $5.7b
It also goes by the name of principle of charity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
The article you reference is linked to within the posted article.
One caveat is that MAC addresses are not guaranteed to be globally unique. In practice they may be, but with sufficient amounts of similar hardware you can get duplicates.

Use the MAC if you're looking to make it silent. Use the free registration if you also want to harvest emails for your marketing people.
I started to give a vague answer, but I realized you asked specifically how I got started, so I'll answer that:

I took any random job that came up. First it was updating the website for my friend's art gallery getting paid $20 an hour in trade out when I was in college. Next it was helping out a friend who was doing a larger contracting project, then I did a project for someone who I randomly met at a friend's party. Before I knew it, I'd been doing little contracting projects on the side for 10 years.

That's when I decided to make the jump into full time. I didn't have the client base to do that, but I had the experience and confidence that I could present a professional front. I had business cards and invoice systems, time trackers, etc. I then did a similar thing to what rfnslyr described doing when starving: Find a product that companies need and you can build with your skills. Then it's just a matter of knocking on doors. Last year I cold called a company with a proposal on how I could augment their business. A month later they signed a $40,000 contract with me to implement stage one. Since then, they followed on with two additional contracts and now I have an open ended contract with them to work "As many hours as I have time for." The important question is to ask yourself what you can offer that will add value to a company. There are opportunities all around you for that. You just have to think a little bit outside the box. The really traditional and obvious ones are SEO type stuff and building websites, so those will in most cases have the least rewards and the most competition, but there are so many more out there.
Sounds like two different definitions of the word "proprietary" are involved here:

(1) Mechanical changes specific to the company -- this could be as simple as hardcoded hostnames that match the deployment environment.

(2) Implementations of algorithms. In this case it isn't the code that is proprietary so much as the algorithm that the code is an expression of.

I suspect that downandout is talking about defintion #1 and the court is talking about definition #2. Hard to say without seeing the code itself.
Thats certainly a reason to offer it for a cheaper price. I think once you offer something free -- its hard to go back. I imagine it will tick off customers. So I dont think the incremental nature of OSX is the reason its free.
This is pretty great. In the past I've had some awful things to say about generators as compared to more powerful control flow primitives, but this transformation highlights an advantage of generators. The transformed code is tiny and surprisingly readable. If someone wanted coroutines that could yield from subroutines, or (heaven forbid) shift+reset, this sort of transformation of basic-blocks-and-gotos into loops-and-cases would no longer be sufficient. Generators hit a sort of sweet spot.

Thanks :)
I'm a big fan of FFOS, but get a cheap Android. Firefox isn't there yet (zero app selection, really), but it's well on the way.
> What is the state of the art in usability in the 3rd party iPad keyboard market these days?

Logitech ultrathin is very expensive but a must buy for ipad productivity. Ergonomics are excellent for dual keyboard and screen driving (iOS doesn't make sense completely from keyboard) and it can be used as a full laptop replacement for a lot of business applications.
Thanks. I wasn't sure how to find that, even though I did do some searches on superbiiz.

I'm not sure I understand the discrepancy. Why would the CPU be so cheap ($303.99) compared to the one I posted, which several commenters are claiming is severely under powered in comparison?
Not unless they were using it to offer some service electronically - which is conceivable, but doesn't seem hugely likely.
Question: does anyone know if software patents were declared null and void, would this case still exist? It seems he only took snippets of code and not the entire system for profit. How would this case differ if software was copyrightable but not patentable (i.e. Either you stole the manuscript or you didn't)?
Here is the story covered in more detail: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
Lessons from Startup School
Hey. I put together my top 5 lessons from startup school

Let me know what you think. Was there one that I missed?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lili-balfour/startup-school-lessons_b_4136530.html
Actually, you are allowed (and certainly able to) run OS X in up to two VMs. I installed 10.8 in VMware Fusion 5 and it was a breeze.
Presumably 1 subsumes 2.
Disappointed in the GPU configuration. I would much prefer a single fast GPU like a D700 (same hardware as 7970, R9 280X) over two slower GPUs like the D300 (R9 270x) in the lower configurations.

And even the high end options -- the D700 is the pro version of a GPU currently retailing for only 300 dollars. Nvidia has the Geforce 780 and AMD has the R290x at twice that cost. Reportedly the GPUs are downclocked as well.
This reminds me of complaints about Apple laptops. I'm sold now, but when I first purchased one I was still a Linux/Windows dual-booter. So I specced out the Macbook Pro that I wanted, specced out (roughly) equivalent systems with every major brand at the time (circa 2006, this was the Core 2 Duo CPU version). I got a lot of systems that were close enough (+/- 50GB depending on their HDD sizes, = RAM or slightly more because I had some minimum I wanted at the time, close enough clock speeds with the same CPU (+/- .2GHz)). Every one of them ran to +/-$300 of the cost of the Macbook Pro, and not all of them had educational discounts (still in school at the time so I could take advantage of that). I haven't done this comparison in years, but ~2009 I did it again because I was tired of the noise from my coworkers and it came out similarly, similar specs meant priced within 200-300 of the Mac. Spec it out, don't just guestimate, and equivalent systems aren't significantly cheaper, if cheaper at all (either BYO or from someone like Dell or HP).
>Mac Pro: 7 teraflops for a few thousand.

>Cray X1 in 2004 5.9 teraflops[1] for only ~$40M USD

Each D700 GPU is 3.5 terraflops. These are the same hardware as the 7970 which currently retails for 300 dollars. So it's even more impressive -- 7 teraflops could be nearly an order of magnitude less than that!
Close enough. $230 vs $400
The scope is very different, so that may be a misleading way to view file statics and globals.
If the requirements don't change and the domain really is well-known, why are you writing new software? Why isn't there pre-existing software you can reuse?
Don't forget the old mini at $299...
If he modified it for his own use, then that's clearly the case. If he modified it for the use of others within Goldman, they might have conceivably had a claim to a copy of the source under the GPL; he would not. I'm not entirely sure of that, or of whether employment contracts &c could limit that. For that matter, I'm not entirely sure what the answer should be there.
efi/uefi seems to be a solved problem for ubuntu. I'm running Linux Mint on Asus UX31A (which would be best laptop ever if it was more reliable) installed all-by-default without _any_ problems, even with hotkeys and touchpad. Also a colleague of mine happily runs Fedora on UX32A.
Yeah this was what I was hoping for as well. Does anybody know when its likely to be released?
Node Express MongoDB simple, great tutorial