skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That said, I always felt that "Finkel" would be a cute name for an FP language, service or library... I call dibs!
It very likely does. Also note there's a deep connection between functional programming and logic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond...
If any...
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Almost what you propose: The Screening Rooms. It's a very small cinema. It has to-your-seat food and drink service, including wine and beer or hot drinks. It has wide, deep, comfortable seats. It has a reduced number of seats (maybe 50?).

It's a little bit more expensive than the regular cinema (right next door) but that's good.

http://www.thescreeningrooms.co.uk/experience

They don't show any photos of the inside which is stupid, because it's nice. This trip advisor page has some user supplied photos. http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186284-d3207...
Don't forget BeagleBone Black for ~$45, with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 application CPU and two additional independent 200MHz control MCUs.
I'm not so sure that it was node.js that revolutionized paypal... seems like the gains were from switching to a more agile process (and adding some supporting tools). A lot of the fixes seem pretty agnostic to the actual platform that they switched to.

Note that all those open source modules that they talk about aren't released yet. krakenjs.com doesn't even resolve (for me at least).
You do realize that the first "doge"-image macro used more words than "wow", "aah", "so x", "very y", right?

http://cdn.runt-of-the-web.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

While I agree with you that this is forced and cancerous, it's pointless to care about it.
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I don't know, the author sounds pretty rational to me. Do you think he's mistaken?
Are you worried they might try to "disrupt" the market by selling them or something? Else, I really can't see how this poses any problem at all.
You could have just said: "comments should be succinct" :)
I was actually having a similar discussion with a friend today and we touched upon the topic of BTC getting outlawed by governments.

Hypothetically, what's to stop countries and ISPs blocking it on the protocol level, the way China blocks certain types of traffic? Wouldn't that kill it for mainstream use and make it work only on darknets like TOR?
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Gavin Andresen writes:
> Peer review works best when everybody involved is given time for conversation and debate without being contacted by reporters on deadline.

In other words, the entire institution of science (computer science in this case) is better off if the individual researchers are careful about presenting things to the press and make sure to review things carefully before publishing.

But the incentive for individual researchers may not be aligned with this. An individual researcher might be able to advance their career by going to the press (particularly about a hot-in-the-news-right-now topic like Bitcoin) and by making sensational claims ("Bitcoin is 'Broken'!") even if the overall scientific enterprise suffers. After all, had you ever heard of Ittay Eyal or Emin Sirer before this? Given these skewed incentives, at least a few people will "cheat" the system by going to the press, and those people will profit by it.

Rather like Eyal and Sirer's claim for Bitcoin miners.

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To discuss the merits of the paper itself (rather than Gavin's response), if a mining pool were to utilize the strategy described in the paper it would result in that pool repeatedly releasing new chains that are longer than the existing blockchain but which fork one OR MORE of the previously released chains. While this is allowed under the Bitcoin protocol (this is the way that forks in the chain get "healed"), it is also rather obviously visible. So if certain miners were following this protocol then it would quickly become obvious that they were doing so. The community would then be able to take actions to redress the problem.
The GNOME Remix is hobbled by Canonicals decision to stick with older releases of GNOME and GTK. Ubuntu 14.04 will likely ship with GNOME 3.8 instead of 3.12. For various technical reasons they can't just put the newer version in a PPA.
That's not entirely true. libc++ works on Linux too. In fact, Google's PNaCl has experimental libc++ support that's completely cross-platform.
Because Tesla is supply constrained. There is simply not enough production capacity.
Not sure if it was there when you looked, but I see a link[1] to the relevant question in a grey box at the top of the question. I find the placement to be awkward though, I expected the link to be within the same box as the "marked as duplicate" text.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9620586/function-in-javas...
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There is also an extremely important property that would be worth an article of it's own. Namely the fact that pointwise multiplication of 2 fourier transformed functions is the same as convolution of the functions themselves.

What does this mean in practice? Let's take a simple gaussian blur for images. A single output pixel is formed by overlapping the gaussian kernel on top of the image, multiplying then pointwise, then summing the result. Repeat for every pixels. What you can also do is take FFT of the gaussian kernel and multiply it with the FFT of the image and inverse transform and you will get the same result as actually calculating it for every point separately. Is this faster than doing it point by point? Depends on the blur radius.

You can do awesome things with this blazingly fast. As an example a simple water wave simulation can be made by simply taking a fourier transform, multiplying it with the dispersion relation of the water waves and then doing an inverse transformation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTUztfD2pg0 Just like what is done here. Normally this convolution would take O(N^2) amount of operations where N is amount of vertices but with FFT it's O(N log N).

FFT is for convolution what quicksort is for sorting. Imagine how limited would you be if all your sorts would take O(N^2) time. The examples I gave are quite limited in scope, going trough all the applications of convolution would take textbooks. It's probably one of the most important concepts in electrical engineering.

Oh yeah, convolution is just like cross correlation except in another case the function is reversed. So you can imagine the applications in data mining etc.

All in all Fourier Transform, and related ones, is an extremely huge and massively important concept, it's hard to overstate it's usefulness.

Personally I can say that I've used filter design tools to make a really smooth accelerometer data processing function. It does not jump around like a raw signal does nor does it lag a lot just like the standard exponential smoothing does.
I'm happy with 80 columns and 4 spaces in C, Python, etc. Don't see the mandate. 2 spaces would make reading harder.
I totally agree about the persistent navbars. If they are really slim, I can tolerate it. That one is obnoxious.
We are an education startup trying to decide on a name.
http://i.imgur.com/66pkWOu.png

We are an education startup based in Montreal about to make a radical shift in our UI and brand. Through extensive work on the product development front, we have every piece of the brand complete except for the name.

We have a number of contenders and we would love to get your input on this!

First, a little about our postioning - here is a brief description that serves partly as our mission statement:

"Let people participate in the sharing of skills and ideas. Captivate with activities that promote learning by doing. Find motivation and enjoyment in your own personal development."

And our tagline is : "Share Knowledge, Pose Challenges, Get Results"

Of the contenders, we have:

ChallengeU - A play on Challenging You, and of our platform as a sort of University institution of quick learning challenges.

Lumnius - To enlighten together

Noetic - an actual word meaning: no·et·ic [noh-et-ik] Show IPA adjective 1. of or pertaining to the mind. 2. originating in or apprehended by the reason.

Ideology - which I think is quite self-descriptive. We have the domain ideolo.gy

There you have it! I'm excited to hear your thoughts! Thanks again!
The asterix after the function keyword smells like a syntax hack. Firefox did it right, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_...
Would something like FreiCoin help? (bitcoin with demurrage - coins 'evaporate' over time so that there are always new ones to be mined and lost coins eventually go back into the pool)
> But the one book I am waiting for is Effective C++ 11/14 which should coming up next year.

Likewise! And from your first link there is a sort of preview of Scott Meyers' upcoming book http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/An-Effectiv...
What would make BTC obsolete?
Well the inverse certainly exists. I continuously find projects held up waiting for a developer to complete a simple task that should only have taken - well certainly a tenth of the time. I have even run into a couple of folks who never actually produced anything - ever.

As I have also met the odd developer who was both fast, accurate and complete in their execution then perhaps the range is not a single order of magnitude but 2.
>So again, you just listed a big list of things which don't actually require a covert surveillance program to implement because the whole point of suppressing people is to be rather overt about doing it.

No, he just mentioned things that could be currently done. However, only on a small scale. To truly disrupt anyone's life like that, and to do that for thousands or millions of suspects or dissidents or what have you, you would need an equal amount of auditors, cops, and so forth.

Now, if you were to automate that schema, you would have yourself a system capable of much more. And by doing it illegally to the extant that even elected representatives are not allowed to have oversight, you could achieve a very great deal.

>was the fact the government was willing to murder dissidents. Has the US government killed a bunch of your neighbors? Disappeared them?

Two arguments.
1) The signs are that we are eroding the legal safeguards that at least made it very difficult and very risky to do this. Now, however, dissidents (call them traitors if you will, that is your opinion) can be whisked to secure holding facilities the world over and subjected to torture, and it is technically legal. US citizens can be assassinated legallly. And now we hear that we have been watched for decades, illegally. Clapper commits perjury, but walks free. Torturers are given clemency, but Snowden is wanted for esponiage. All of this tells me that currently, our freedom is a facade, and soon even that will be able to be dispensed with.

2) You could subscribe to the view that we don't need to be murdered or dissapeared, just convinced that keeping our mouths shut and our eyes on the TV are the safest option. Pepperspraying OWS protesters, militarising the police - I can see why political engagement is dropping, and I'm sure you know who benefits from that. Hint: not us.
Saudi nuclear weapons "on order" from Pakistan.
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We built a "people management platform". I think this falls into the "unsexy" category.

Users can build custom forms to track any type of data for people. While the application is applicable in many different markets, our initial target is social-service agencies, non-profits, and case-managers (it’s where we think we can make the biggest positive impact).

Technology wise, our upcoming blog posts might be something like “2 years with AngularJS” and “HIPAA Compliance on AWS”. We’ve had a great time developing with tools and platforms like AngularJS, Postgres (w/ hstore), Rails, Golang, Chef, AWS (VPC), etc.

A long time in the making, we have happy clients, and are really excited to get some more eyes on it. Any feedback is always appreciated, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks!
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Who said I abandoned voting? I said it doesn't work in this case. I research and vote every election. But I know for the more important offices at the state and national level, the system is broken. The two party system and big money means I don't get any say in selecting who runs, the corrupt system does.
A private key is not strictly necessary to receive coins, only to spend them. So while there is still probably a private key with that address (since he intended to actually be able to use those bitcoins), the public key is not revealed unless coins are spent from that address.
Ouch. They really slaughtered it.

As a hobbyist I think I'll get one; even though financially it probably doesn't make sense, it'll be fun to play with what amounts to a "modern" 486! Would be extra fun to build a small kernel for it, which is probably what I'll end up using it for :)

Using a Core processor in 16-bit real mode makes me giggle these days, but I love fiddling with toy kernels! This seems well suited with an arch that I'm familiar with. One day I'll learn ARM properly I guess
Or the companies that force the use of IE 8 or 9 are unlikely to be the kind of companies that want cloud apps.
It's SVN and revisions are sequential, so it is only a matter of time, not luck.
I put a persistent nav bar at the top of my latest site (http://bosscheck.me) so that potential customers are always looking at a "book now" option. Shallow and obvious, perhaps, but my assumption is that this is optimal for conversion.
campbx.com within the United States. They do 2 day ACH withdraws for $2 and same day domestic wire transfers for $20. After bitfloor closed down I switched and have been very happy.
std::list is a doubly linked list, how else do you propose they do this? This is traditionally how list sizes are calculated.

(libc++ keeps a track of the size somewhere, but this in occurs a 4/8 byte overhead)
I do this on Linux with ssh -w and a bit of routing.
> This should have been pointed out long ago.

It was. The creator smugly relied that it wasn't going to be an issue.
In addition to the Going Native videos, Microsoft's STL wrangler, the conveniently named Stefan T. Lavavej, has a couple of terrific series on the STL itself[1] and the core C++ language[2]. The second course is newer, and thus covers more finalized C++11/14 features.

The more technical videos on Channel 9 are terrific stuff, and hooray for download links! Kudos to Microsoft.

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavave...

[2] http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavave...
Maybe not, but I decided to do a "Just the facts, Ma'am" posting ... and since so many are using the Martin case to attack the very idea of self-defense---and don't say that's silly, for the U.K. effectively outlawed it in the courts in the '50s, by statute in the following decade or two---I don't think it hurts to repeat the well established fact that he was the aggressor using lethal force on Zimmerman when the latter was forced to shoot him.

If you want to dive into that case, it's also telling he only shot Martin once (because Martin immediately ceased trying to kill him). That doesn't really jibe with the bogus narrative.
Yes, we do have one of the biggest wealth funds. The problem is that we will probably have to spend more than we are spending today, if the income from taxes is reduced (our national budget will probably not become "cheaper" in the future). And if the demand for oil starts to decrease, maybe we'll spend more money than we are earning from oil export.
I know this won't happen in the near future, but I still think that the electric cars will be taxed more one day. Other perks for electric car owners will probably be history in a few years too (electric cars clogging up the bus lanes).

That being said, I hope I'm wrong. I wouldn't mind owning an electric car, the day I need to own a car.
no need to be combatative, he actually wants to encourage researchers to undertake this sort of work, it may lead to improvments in the protocol and could save the developers some time too.

If he tore into them then other researchers may feel less inclined to look at the network/protocol and undertake their own research.
Are there legitimate uses for JavaScript's with statement?
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I was wrong on questions 3, 5 and 6, happy surprise!
What if he did it himself to become a martyr?
Does it need to be used with promises?
Galileo doesn't have hardware graphics acceleration, and native video outputs (may be solved by capes though). That would make Galileo not so suitable for media center or streaming applications, where BeagleBone and Pi excel... unless somebody manages to fit (externally powered?) PCIe graphics card and port its drivers to Galileo ;)
When I suggest using that algorithm to pick an indent size, I mean to use long-term averages to select a standard, not to indent every line as much as possible individually :P
I would say that it is probably because a large portion of the mainstream media/ general population thinks bitcoin is for complete loonies. If Gavin's tone were confrontational, it would likely make people think he's getting defensive over his obviously ridiculous magic internet money. He has to err on the side of caution to avoid people making that assumption.
I thunk it misses a fundamental point which is that this would be detrimental to the network. the assumption is that miners would join the dishonest/unethical miner to increase their block rewards, however it would be at the cst of bitcoins overall value and succcess. So you may get 25% more coins but you have coins that are worth less.
Look at Bitcoin closing price on a log scale:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/chart.png?width=940&m=mtgoxU...

Not so scary anymore! From what I understand, people should be looking at this sort of data on a log scale.
I wouldn't say it's a bubble just yet, because it's too close to the last ramping which was a response to the Cyprus confiscations. This is just a response to what many would perceive as the beginnings of capital controls in the USA... it's probably the tail end of that. Another "Bitcoin Bubble" to me would be around $500 in the next few days... thus entailing some burst or large correction.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2013/10/17/jpmorgan-ch...

A better word would be "recapitulation."
A little off topic but that giant fixed header that obscures 30% of the vertical space I have available on my 15" macbook pro retina so I can see a lot of whitespace. This is terrible and made me not want to read the post.
try camping in Joshua Tree with a ziplock of peyote buttons and a gallon bottle of cactus juice. I lost my fucking mind there in the desert sand, and then found it two days later, in better condition than when I left it.
Most of the large wallets (with the exception of DEA/FBI) are held my early adopters who have no interest in fuckign things up,
They're trying hard not to discourage academic research into Bitcoin, or to scare off security researchers. They desperately want more security researchers. I actually think Gavin is handling this very well, and the response seems well-measured.

That said, the way this whole paper has been released smacks of sensationalism. I'll take the Eyal at his word that he's concerned with Bitcoin's future, but failing to adhere to the standards of responsible disclosure and entitling a blog post "Bitcoin is Broken" really make me wonder about what they're trying to do, other than self-promote.

Besides, this basic attack is something that has been discussed since 2010. There may be a few subtle differences in the paper, but based on my reading of the blog post, this is an attack that mining pools have even accused each other of doing a year or two ago. It's a potential problem, but definitely not a "Bitcoin is fundamentally broken" problem as the blog post claims.
Why would anyone let an unregulated internet company have control of their money? Especially one with a track record like PayPal.
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Here in our company we are also changing everything to Node.js (currently abandoning C#) and it's being an amazing experience.
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And companies seem to be responding! :) It seems workplace chargers are popping up left and right -- hooray!
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65691473318/like-many-pe...
It seems to me the real price is lower as depicted by Coinbase or CampBX which have a stable and reliable system, unlike MtGox at the moment. I think the ~6% higher price on MtGox is a reflection of people's lack of trust in MtGox being able to provide withdrawals in a reliable and timely fashion.
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A great talk by Hans Rosling that discusses many of these questions. Worth of watching for entrepreneurs, it's a kind of reality check on where we are and where we are going from a demographic perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzqJF5GhnQ&feature=youtu.be
Good feedback guys. Not only the voting part, but the comments about the strong and weak points of each one is very useful for us as well. Thanks!
> Filtering is not always bad

That wasn't the issue. The issue was the word 'censorship' being perceived as a biased word. Only censors or those with the predilection to censor would think the word is "biased".
I think it was Stripe that got a fire underneath them.
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Same on iPad. I had to save to instapaper to be able to read it.
The conclusions of http://fregepl.blogspot.jp/2013/03/adding-concurrency-to-fre... lead me to believe that the author knows significantly more about Haskell than about either the JVM or concurrency. I hope that the language is able to attract a healthy number of contributors in those areas before it begins to accrete it's own idiomatic concurrency patterns.
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Woo! 8/9, only got the number of children question wrong.

The story's a pretty good example of how badly mislead most people are by the media. There are so many extremely important issues where the majority of people have completely the wrong impression. It's not just world development, it's nearly all issues.
Which will be fine. Even with such fees, Bitcoin would remain superior to existing currencies/payement networks: instant transfers across the world, censorship resistance, etc.
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A lot of CS research really does not lend itself well to being implemented as a web-based service. A new disk scheduling policy would have all of its performance advantage blown away by network latency. A new load speculation technique would be an even worse for that format. A new static analysis is likely to be far too compute-intensive to be offered to the public on hardware the research group has the time/money to operate. It would also have to be reimplemented for whatever languages the users care about analyzing, which research funding agencies would not be thrilled about paying for (it's not research). A new complexity proof probably doesn't even have exportable functionality.

Could you point to some particular work that you would like to see APIzed?
Pretty cool. Anyone try to get this running on openwrt? Seems like the most logical place to have it.