skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yet, despite this the web seems to be doing just fine, apps are powerful, often better than native and nobody (else) seems to be complaining that much. Sure, some things take actual skill to implement. We live in an imperfect world, and while it's always easy to blame the tools, it's far better to just get on with improving things and making the best of what we have. It's a far better world today that the setup.exe days.
There will almost certainly be costs not covered by insurance.
Much of Bitcoin criticism (the chicagofed paper included) is very western centric and fails to take into account how utterly dysfunctional most countries' money systems are.

In most countries in the world local currencies are unstable and subject to the whim of politicans (would you keep your life savings in argentinian pesos? Neither would Argentinians!), there are no easy ways to accept online payments, there are no easy ways to transfer money to/from abroad etcetera. I would argue that adopting Bitcoin is an immediate quality of life improvement for a big portion of the world population, moreso when/if it value stabilizes.
so thats the reason why people are set on using spaces?
man :(
Your life savings is losing 4% of value a year (on average) due to inflation.

In some countries, this is as high as 20%.

Are your savings earning more than 4% a year, wherever they're invested in? If not, it's losing money, and if it is, subtract 4% from it and that's your "real" interest.

What do you think is going to happen once a bunch of countries with really crappy currency systems get wind of Bitcoin in any meaningful way? Do you think the value might rise? :)
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Does crowdtilt only accept credit cards? Fortunately https://archive.org/donate/ accepts PayPal and other methods. Personally, I only impulse donate to small causes and having finding my CC is enough to make me "just do it later" (aka, forget to do it at all).
> Have a Car2Go membership? Like free stuff? I’ve put together a script that helps you find Car2Go cars that are low on fuel. You’ll receive a 20 minute credit for each car you refuel if they’re below 25% fuel when you refuel them.

via http://x.thedeets.com/post/66223591884/have-a-car2go-members...
I had the same issue. There was no clear indication of what this does.
Giving to charity makes you happy.

http://www.livescience.com/2376-key-happiness-give-money.htm...

Statistical analyses revealed personal spending had no link with a person's happiness, while spending on others and charity was significantly related to a boost in happiness.

"Regardless of how much income each person made," Dunn said, "those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not."

n another experiment, the researchers gave college students a $5 or $20 bill, asking them to spend the money by that evening. Half the participants were instructed to spend the money on themselves, and the remaining students to spend on others.

Participants who spent the windfall on others — which included toys for siblings and meals eaten with friends — reported feeling happier at the end of the day than those who spent the money on themselves.
Someone call a surgeon. Someone's ego was hurt.
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Is it just me or do none of the intro pages explain what Pixate actually is?

I see the terms UI framework and CSS, so I think Bootstrap. But then I see developer API and engine so I think Sencha Touch.
Yes, but this information is not published to the blockchain until you spend it.

The address is literally RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(public key)), plus a 4 byte checksum. To receive coins to that address, the sender publishes the amount they are sending and that address, they never see the public key.

When the owner of the address wants to send bitcoins from it, only then do they publish the public key, along with a transaction signed by their private key.
I'm not sure this is the site for you if you use "nerds" as an insult.
I agree with this. I recently wrote a bunch of new Dockerfiles. The Dockerfile name is sort of meh, but "Deck" is not really telling me what its for.
it's also been rebutted to death.
Well yes, that's just expanded in the alias. I just find please more polite.
You're welcome of course, I suggest though that you might want to think
about this a bit,

" it just appears to boil down to a numbers and sentiment game that
doesn't seem to be a rational way to determine a company's "real" value
at any given point in time"

The interesting question is "What makes this important to you?"

I ask because there is absolutely a rational way to determine a
company's value, it involves analyzing its market, its product, its
ability to grow and develop and the its ability to stay ahead of
others who would try to do the same thing.

Putting the world "real" in scare quotes suggests that there is a
large difference between a value that you came up with internally and
the one being exhibited on the stock market today. This isn't a whole
lot different than the 'SnapChat is worthless' discussion of a few
days ago. It also isn't surprising since different people value things
in different ways. But it is important to recognize that you are not
wrong, if it is worthless to you, it is. And that is just as valid an
assesment of the company as one that thinks it's the best thing since
the wheel.

So why is it important?
Hi Pixate, looking just at your homepage, I had a hard time understanding what your product does. However, your kickstarter video is awesome http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixate/beautiful-native-...

You should have something similar on your main home page.
This looks awesome! I currently have an AWS box for the same purpose, running a few of my docker containers. Will this support the ADD directive, or the ability to add custom files (config files) into containers?
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not every employee is an insider. Public companies that issue stock to employees can limit the number of people that are made privy to non-public information about the performance of the company, such that some/many employees are allowed to freely trade.
Always regards the last bitcoins as the tainted ones. Local wallets could simply treat tainted bitcoins as not existing, thus removing that annoyance too.
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When I first saw the new flags on another site, I thought they were horrible: Too bland, too corporate, too similar.

I still hate the new flags--but I thought the guy's analysis was interesting.
Oh, the Humanities
> In the ES paper, and in your responses, the assumption is a colluding group of miners. I find myself agreeing with you there; it looks like the colluders have more incentive to break ranks. But suppose a single individual controlled 33%. Couldn't they use this same strategy to benefit more than we previously thought they could?

Yes, I think they could. I'm currently trying to model what happens in mining pools where the pool master attempts to keep the pool's state a secret from the pool members to deter the kind of hopping behavior necessary for fair weather mining.
The underwriters who will make hundreds of millions here... (EDIT, well, many millions at least) What sort of risk are they taking that justifies their rewards and how does it help the economy? And the individual bankers who will take millions of dollars in bonuses home because they get paid for the 12th time and don't get penalized for the 11 others, what sort of innovation did they contribute to the world?

I think we all understand the deal with investors who get in early and invest money in something that has a chance to fail will make money if it succeeds.

The IPO is a suckers game. It says me as an insider value the company less then you as an information limited outsider. If Twitter is worth $50 bucks a share why were its investors willing to part with their stock for $26 a share only yesterday? Sometimes you can profit even in the presence of this information disparity because the company will outperform its expectations, but now you're 1 out of 144...

<rant over> :-)

EDIT: I think a solution to that is perhaps a combination forcing companies to go public sooner (limit IPO valuations or spread the share sale over longer periods), combine with more limits on insiders, more and earlier disclosure and perhaps combine that with a more KickStarter like model - eliminate the middle man.
I think you're missing the practical reality. Insurers cannot bring policies "up to snuff" without increasing premiums. The changes are significant enough (both benefits and costs) that they are for all practical purposes new & different plans, the old plans are cancelled and new ones must be chosen. That "minimum standard for what insurance should actually do" is now legislated to a very high, and very expensive, level; we're not talking minimum reasonable, we're talking compelling luxury plans.
I suspect the GP is more worried about community support for the language than other people making fun of them for using it. :)
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On the offline wallet thing-

For the record, BIP 0038 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0038 was released just a few days ago (although it was a working draft for a while). You can, right now, create a BIP38 encrypted paper wallet (finally!) over at bitaddress.org which means that someone with access to your paper wallet can't just sweep it unless they know the key, and the key uses scrypt so it's quite resistant to brute forcing.

I recently moved most of my btc savings into this type of paper (or in my case, pdf) wallet and entrusted the key (broken into pieces of course) to trusted people. Much better peace of mind. I set the public addresses as "Watch Only" on blockchain.info/wallet so even if blockchain is hacked, nobody can get to those wallets, they are effectively airgapped, and I can monitor any activity on them from anywhere.
> That being said, if I had a magic formula for instant huge wealth you can be damn sure I wouldn't be sharing it.

But I'd be selling it, and you can find out how by buying my book for the low, limited time price of three payments of $99.99. If you act now, we'll also throw in this great place-mat shaped like a $3 bill, and a ring-tone for your phone that sounds like money. Just pay separate shipping and handling. <insert three thousand word disclaimer here>
Your analogy rests on the absurd assumption that mission critical components don't need to be fully vetted and understood.

Shady? Yes. Dishonest? No. To be sure, both of these attributes suck, but beyond that there is an absolute world of difference between the two. One passively leaves knowledge gaps that even novice consumer programmers would uncover (the source is wide open after all, and speaking from personal experience, any claims of hyper performance should arouse enough suspicion to inspire some basic research), while the other asserts no knowledge gaps and actively inhibits knowledge discovery.

That said, they fell very far form the ideal, and for that they should be faulted. They're now paying the price by living in a dense fog of distaste and disgust. I don't think anyone believes it's a "statistics fluke" but it's a likely that a mob/tribal mentality plays some role (this is an industry notoriously susceptible to cargo cults) and that many individuals on the burn-MongoDB-at-the-stake bandwagon do not actually have deep--or moderate!--experience with it and competing products. Also, would you chalk it up to statistical anamoly that they were able to close funding and that many large scale systems use their product?

Isn't it possible that the company had shameful marketing practices that repel the programmer psyche, but that the product itself has a unique enough featureset (schemaless yet semi-structured querying, indexing, dead simple partitioning and replication, non-proprietary management language, simple backups, all at the cost of RAM/SSD) to make it compelling for some problem classes?
I'm positively impressed with responsiveness of this html project, but 170 ms in my case is the shear distance to the server :)
Is this on github?
But there was no client side language to do anything with it.
Great initiative! One thing to be aware is that Docker is using LXC for containers and LXC relies on kernel isolation and cgroup limits. The concern is about the vulnerabilities.

It is comforting that Heroku is also using LXC for dynos. Would be interesting to know how much in-house adjustments to the kernel and LXC has been made to ensure the hardening.
Microsoft absolutely does implement experimental features and use vendor prefixes when it suits them. See, for example, CSS Grid Layout: http://caniuse.com/#search=CSS%20Grid%20Layout
> "But once created, the bitcoin has no value other than in exchange, contrary to a gold coin."

How is this true. Gold has no use to the average person. The only real use for gold is in semi-conductors. Other than that gold derives its worth from the fact that is very scarce, like bitcoins.
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If you accept a 0-confirmation transaction and listen the network for a few seconds to ensure no double-spending transactions are broadcast, this is a reasonably secure way to accept those small transactions where 10-minute delay between blocks (resulting in a 5-minute average wait) would be a problem. Of course, you'd still better wait for 6 confirmations if selling a car.
And it only took a decade or two!
OS X Mavericks mandates iCloud for iPhone to Mac contact sync
Use --show-possibly-lost=no to avoid those "possibly lost" reports.
Repeating an assertion doesn't make it any more true.
Can I use a docker image I have already created?
Great link. I was looking for some actual figures, but hadn't found anything yet.

The best measure of fire 'likelihood' is probably the incidence per vehicle mile driven, because it captures actual utilization. Right now, the total number for 2003-2007 was 90 highway vehicle fires per billion miles driven. (http://www.nfpa.org/research/statistical-reports/vehicles/ve...)

The question remains: what is that number for the Tesla Model S? So far we know of 3 fires. The last piece of the puzzle is how many miles have the Model S cars driven?

The average annual miles driven for all vehicles is about 13,000 (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm). Assuming driving habits are identical between Tesla owners and non-Tesla owners, we can get a rough upper limit of 195 million miles driven (the actual number is less because most model S owners have had their vehicle for less than one year). Back of the envelope calculations show that comes out to 65 million miles per fire (rough upper limit), without additional fires. Given the above data on all vehicles, similar reporting shows that the average vehicle goes about 11.1 million miles per fire.

Assumptions and research issues:

Vehicle fire data for 2003-2007 has not significantly changed

There are 15,000 Model S's on the road (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/teslamotors-result...)

Tesla owners drive the national average of 13,000 miles per year in their Model S's, and have had their cars for an average of one year.

If the fire issue is systemic, the rate of fires will go up, and that is not captured here.
Ok, so I'm not a cryptography specialist, but I don't see how "address = RIPEMD-160(SHA-256(public key))" makes it impossible to derive the public key from the address if you have a quantum computer. Or is SHA-256 not vulnerable to quantum computing the way public/private keypairs are?
New carbon-based structure with metallic properties discovered
I think that even if [deck drop instance] is clearer than [dockerfile image container] it would be better to use [dockerfile image container] it's the standard set forth from docker, sticking to the standard makes interoperating easier for everyone.
The actual source URL: http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2013/11/07/problem-accel...
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Referring to http://agner.org/optimize, both Nehalem (Intel Core i7) and Jaguar (AMD Kabini) instruction tables: you are right that addss, subss show the same latency as addsd and subsd, resp. However, mulss and divss show better latencies than mulsd and divsd.
I can't help pondering about the implications this move could consequently bring to the perceptions of net neutrality.

Not that I see this project as something inherently bad, it is just the contrary, but it can give rise to some bad moral precedents.
Maybe I fell for it, and shouldn't feed the trolls, but did you even read the fine article? It was packed with actionable information, even down to templates you can grab to do the same thing.

This is highly relevant content for HN.
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Few things in technology polarize my feelings like Bitcoin. I get it, I respect what some people think it stands for, but I can't take it seriously. Between the rampant speculation, wild fluctuations and the cult-like attitude of its community, I have a hard time seeing it as anything legitimate.

Not to mention that it's success assures that there is a weird shadowy cabal of people who end up insanely rich because they created it. Doesn't seem like currency should work that way...
If I reword that as "services on the web", does that make it any clearer?
Not really. They're just very misunderstood words and have been used to refer to contradictory concepts.
> the goal of all government intervention in financial systems is to make them more transparent and secure.

with a whole lot of loopholes .
Not sure what you mean by "future-looking functionality". I don't know anything about TypeScript but CoffeeScript is just an opinionated way to generate JavaScript. Isn't that what both LESS and SASS do for CSS? Regarding grid or flexbox, that is ultimately a design decision/preference of the architect.

So using your example, if SASS inherently used grid that would be like CoffeeScript introducing MVC into your project.
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I read that another way. The whole article sounded like they replaced engineering with hacking/prototyping and measuring the productivity of a prototype vs the productivity of battle-hardened code. There is an admission that they have no specs and i also got the impression that they have no tests. I seriously doubt that at the claimed turnaround times they have a proper code review process. It sounded to me like they were getting false productivity and eventually would program their way back into a corner.

Having been on a team where the pendulum has swung both ways I know firsthand that you can be too agile and end up regretting it later.
Would you care to expand on these bad precedents that you are referring to?
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> I am in the fortunate position of writing an in house Django app, so basically it is in a constant beta state, and I have around 40 beta testers to tell me when things go wrong.

And I'm sure you can see that if you were in a position where you had thousands of external paying customers relying on your service (who will possibly leave and stop paying if it breaks) that you might appreciate having unit tests and other automation to help you worry less when it comes time to push the big green launch button.
I think this is very important step. If this works, then we will have real data to argue about providing free basic internet connectivity (Enough for text for example) for entire world population.

This would allow for text only MOOC's accessible by everyone at the very least.
Precisely. If Twitter IPOed at $40, they'd have $2.7 Billion instead of $1.8 Billion. Since Twitter set the bar too low, they're missing out on almost a billion in hard cash right now.
What would be even better is to decouple the idea of a drop from the containers running it. What I like about container approaches is having "machines" I can run them on. So let's say I make a "www" drop or several. I should then be able to fire up my containers into particular types of drops and have them started on those without having to think about the specifics. The benefit of this I'd that I only care about my container running and having some basic resource requirements and not so much the specific machine instance it is running on. I could even co-mingle different containers on types of "machines". Also separating out disk resources from CPU and ram would be good. Maybe you do this already buy it wasn't clear to me.
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ohh, sorry, I missed the original comment which claimed the 3000 years thing. In that yes, yes, it's a ridiculous claim as India didn't exist before 1947.

>Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.

He said that India does it as much as Pakistan, which is false, and can be found by a simple google research. Pakistan is more guilty of violating ceasefires and attacking.

relevant links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_bor...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/01/india-and-paki...
So a bit like http://0.facebook.com then :)
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Thought it was an article about particle accelerators. Dissapointed. yawn
As one of OP's direct reports, I can attest to this system working really well and, at least for me, being a much faster and more comfortable experience than doing a written peer review.
This framework is excellent. I used it to style my iOS7 game[1] and it's hard to even go back to native styling. I'm compiling all of my CSS via LESS and then using the CSS as embedded themes.

[1] - http://appstore.com/xo9
Twitter shares surge, market cap higher than LinkedIn's
This is also how you can donate with Bitcoins. The crowdfunding site doesn't seem to allow that option.
Do they even own the place, it looks like it's probably rented. How much will it cost to replace a desk and a computer?
Not yet. What we will do probably until the end of the year is choose a license, clean a bit the tree and commit.

Edit: Technically speaking, it IS already on github, just not on a public repository :)
I personally prefer Spark Inspector over Reveal after having tried both. I find the interface much easier to read, though I do like the overall darker appearance of Reveal better. One feature that SI has over Reveal is the notification inspector, which I've found useful at times. Aside from that there's no noticeable difference in the feature list that I've run into.

Reveal does do a better job of presenting views with pattern image background colors. In SI these are often not displayed at all.

Edit: It looks like one of the release note items in 1.1.1 is "Views are now rendered more correctly in the Spark Inspector. Additional support for UIColor pattern images, CAShapeLayer, and more."

I personally do not find the 3D view in either one useful at all. It's too noisy with something of any complexity to see the hierarchy, and particularly in SI's case with limited background support it can be harder to see certain elements.

My two biggest wish list items for either one would be:

1. CALayer hierarchy inspection in the same manner as the UIView inspection works. I frequently use CALayer hierarchies when building custom controls rather than UIView ones because I find it easier.

2. Constraint visualization. It would be very useful to be able to know when custom constraints have been overridden (e.g., in a UITableViewCell subclass) while trying to debug layout problems.
> "Some partner billing systems restrict the possibility of zero-rating all Wikipedia languages"

What? Their billing systems can't handle a wildcard subdomain? Even so, it isn't exactly difficult to enumerate all of the wikipedias. There are less than 300 total, and only 121 with 1000+ articles.
Stripe should do it too.