skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suppose there are two branches, 0 and 0'. Miner receives 0 first. The probability of mining a block is proportional to the time spent mining. Miner thus (a) starts mining 0 immediately upon notification and (b) has a greater probability of finding a block on 0 than 0'.

Your mistake is in the last point. The probability of finding a block in the next X time units is completely independent of what you did in the past (unless you managed to break the underlying cryptographic hash somehow ;-)). You can think of mining as repeated coin throws (with an extremely biased coin).
...otherwise you would presumably have chosen to auction off a different prize.

Do you have something in mind? An invite to a YC dinner is free and, much more importantly, costs nobody at YC very much time.
Value for the user and the audience, not so much for the medium of expression. Excuse the lame metaphor, but the canvas Van Gogh painted Starry Night on can't exactly sell itself ;)
Hahaha, cpyright.htm

8 + 3 ftw!
Good luck everyone! Either way- our team will be celebrating or drinking our sorrows away tonight at Rye Bar in San Francisco (http://www.ryesf.com/). Feel free to stop by...would love to connect either way! Feel free to reach out nirav(at)requext.com

Who knows maybe PG will be cool enough to show up and grab a few drinks too!
What service do you use? Does it also have an API?
I don't think there will be a shortage of sick people anytime soon.

Also, the problem is that such papers don't exist, or at least not in the accuracy or certainty you'd like to have.

It's much easier to gather data from sick people and which treatments worked for them, than gathering decades worth of data from healthy people and correlate causes to which diseases they eventually may have developed.
The System Requirements brought back memories:

* Multimedia PC with a Pentium 133 or higher processor

* Microsoft® Windows® 95 operating system or Windows NT® Workstation operating system version 4.0 with Service Pack 3

* 16 MB of RAM; 32MB recommended

* 30 MB of available hard-disk space; 110 MB recommended

* Quad-speed CD-ROM drive; 6x recommended

* Super VGA, 16-bit color monitor

* Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device; joystick or race car controller recommended

* Audio board with speakers or headphones
No, there are definitely C players. People who, if you give them all the advantages in the world, will still be completely unable to perform at the expected level. It's perfectly possible for an A player to perform at a C level, but not the other way around.
That's a steal. Buying at 4bn and earning 35m a year, it'll be paid off in a short 114 years. After then, it'll be smooth sailing.
Yes, highly recommended. Just look at that chart, insanity!
Ask HN: Anyone here from Buenos Aires?
I am thinking of moving to Buenos Aires with my wife for 2 to 6 months. If you live there or have lived there and can help me with some questions, can you email me at eibrahim@gmail.com please. I have questions on neighborhoods to live in, renting cars with drivers, hacker meetups and so on. Thanks and looking forward to an awesome stay.
Huawei banned in Australia: Global digital wars take Australia hostage
Am I reading this wrong, or is this an auction for a single slot that's currently at twenty thousand dollars? If this is a standard auction model and that's what's actually going on... wow.
Social Sign-In Buttons made in pure CSS based on Bootstrap and Font Awesome
Some other oldies at http://chiliconvalley.online.fr/gamesuk.htm

http://chiliconvalley.online.fr/games/keuk/start.htm
The problem is that most people don't know what "eating well" and "exercising" really means. I will take myself as an example. When I graduated from grad. school in December of 2011, I was 270 lbs which at 5'10" is fucking fat. I had some idea that I needed to eat less. I remember going to a nutritionist and a doctor back in school. She gave me some vague ideas that were taken from the pyramid scale about how I should be having 3 full meals a day and should incorporate "some exercise" every day. It took me two years to understand that no diet actually works as well as a life style change. It took me that long to understand everything from macros, to body fat percentage and to be able to accurately predict my weekly weight based on my intake. This was all stuff that I had to learn on my own. For example, common wisdom is to exercise more, jog say 30 minutes a week. Last week, I ran 4.5 miles at 8 minutes a mile. My heart rate monitor told me I burnt 200 calories. That is one tablespoon of peanut butter. There are loads of people who spend 3 hours in the gym and then go "re-energize" with a frappucino which completely destroys the time in the gym. This shit is not easy to understand and comprehend. However, yes it is doable. I lost about 110 lbs over the past two years and have consistently kept it off but I know this will be a struggle forever to reshape myself. However, when I look back into notes I made, I realize how hard the process really is.
Vulnerability found in Linux kernel: incorrect IPv6 datagram causes kernel panic
NYC startup Archetypes goes bankrupt
The other way to look at the YC application is that it provides a good structure to write down why your business. Regardless of acceptance/rejection, the application is something you can use going forward as a discussion point for your story.
Over in .NET land we appear to be stuck on XPath 1.0 forever. A project I used to work on used it extensively, but I now use the HtmlAgilityPack (badly formatted HTML) or XDocument (XHTML strict or XML) where I have the choice.
i know you all hate on mathematica but isn't this what the CDF computable document format is all about? text, systems modelling and dynamic movement all in the one language/system? (NB i'm not a mathematica user but have always wanted an excuse to get into it)
It's not hard to setup a bunch of machines on various networks with hundreds of IPs. You can't really block people with resources.
Please share what you've found, as the sibling poster who also made this claim did not make a very convincing case.
And now he's a hypochondriac.

Fact is, eat well and exercise is better advice than checking a bunch of numbers of unproven value for preventing heart disease.

Doctor's don't know how to prevent heart disease, but at least one knows how to reverse heart disease. His advice is a little more extensive: eat well (mostly vegetarian), exercise, meditate, have social support and don't smoke. But it does not involve, in any way, tracking your blood test results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Ornish
"Yet another communication system that offers better encryption" is not going to solve fundamental problem. Even if it is named "dark".

The communication system that conceals the very act of communication will.

The best way to conceal anything is to make others think that it never existed.

Pissing off enemies with stronger encryption will just get more people hurt and hunted for.
Executive Order 12333
They're trying to prolong the inevitable death of television.
No FreeBSD support mentioned :-(
I think Om Malik said it best "...when you have revenues, you can't get people into giving you mega valuations."
https://twitter.com/om/status/394698596320169984
'Virtual' girl used to unmask alleged child-sex predators
Ha, I think I actually disagree with each of your points individually. But it is a persuasive argument, because the idea is always only as good as the outcome.

Derision is not extremism, that is to bastardise the meaning of both words.

If the target is an extremist, I absolutely think their view should be dismissed and suppressed. However making fun of their point of view - particularly in mistaking their argument for obvious trolling/sarcasm - will render it unusable or counter-productive as evidence of suppression.

As to the last point http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA
"I programmed my home computer to beam myself into the future."
I loved this piece, but perhaps not for the reason Roy wrote it.

One of the common themes in investing is "what am I missing?" and this piece is a great walk through through a reasoned set of parameters that might make a company or project more or less valuable. The assertion that SnapChat is 'Intrinsicially' worthless is of course false. For something to actually be "worthless" in a free market would require that either no one would offer any value in exchange for partial ownership, or there would have to be outright fraud. We say a 'fake' Van Gough is worthless because it is worth much less than an original, but someone might buy it because they like the painting and they can't afford an original. As a painting it would probably be worth more than a print. But not actually "worthless."

So what is he saying? He says that Snapchat's recent valuation was much higher than he would have put it. And we can ascertain that like the forgery vs. actual painting the difference in the two numbers is large.

So what is the basis for this disconnect? It is this:

" $4bn for an easily replaceable service that is little more than Microsoft Paint duct taped to a disposable camera? A service that voluntarily throws away its own data in the golden age of data hoarding? A service devoid of the nature of competition that is the driving behind every other profitable company in the world?"

The focus here is on the tech and not the market. A pet rock was 'worthless' (the rock was just a rock) but the connection with a generation was valuable. So often in our business we look at something that we feel like we could build (or could be easily built) and a valuation, and focus on those two things. The parts we don't see we give little value to (350M snaps? Seriously? That is a boat load of engagement). Making anything that get 350M 13-23 yr olds engaged is a pretty huge deal. That is what is valuable with Snapchat, not the tech.
Chrome: "This page is in Haitian. Would you like to translate it?"

It might as well be.
I used to love this game. Wonder why they keep these sites up? I mean looking at the domain it's hardly buried deep within the MS site...
I couldn't believe that the Kickstarter video was the unedited conference recording. I don't think campaigns need to be exceedingly polished but I do expect a bit more effort than this.
> Something is wrong in this world when Tom Hanks, with access to the best doctors in the world, announces that he has type 2 diabetes

I would imagine that the client relationship in medicine in similar to other industries. Failure is often not a result of the service you provide, but from the fact that the client doesn't listen to the advice they are paying for.
Are they embedded views or from the YT view page?

I'm not sure whether 7 views from YC is good or bad. If they were all from YC, I'd say that means they might be on the fence about inviting your team to interview. When they're sure either way there is little point in watching the video repeatedly, especially when they have another 50 to get through that day.

Good luck to everyone.
Show HN: An app for logging your meals in under 3 mins/day
I think another big problem is the generic advice (eat better, exercise more, don't smoke, etc.) is incredibly effective, but doctors routinely see huge numbers of their patients not doing it at all, so why would they bother researching for more specialized advice?
You might not be aware but that's actually a lyric from a song called AssMilk by Odd Future: http://rapgenius.com/Tyler-the-creator-assmilk-lyrics#note-7...

One of my personal favorites from OF
I feel relieved that this practice is banned throughout the European Union and Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#Legal_status_in_vari...
Most of the protein shake stuff would not solve the issue for a vegan diet. Most of the protein shake stuff is made from Whey or Casein or egg whites which IIRC are not vegan. There is pea protein or hemp protein but my quick googling tells me is high carb and low protein and can easily throw you off your calorie limits.
can you elaborate on 'children who already benefit from a massive private welfare system'?
I see nothing in this article that proves that the meat is unfit for human consumption. In fact, it seems that the meat was within FDA guidelines in residual ammonia levels post-wash. Now, is eating animal trimmings savory? No, but the patty is also extremely cheap, and I don't think most people who eat McD's harbor many illusions about the quality of meat that they are getting.
You're being downvoted for some reason, but you are right. This is a variation of the Gambler's fallacy, where the miner thinks that because it has mined on branch 0 for some time, the expected time to mine a block on branch 0 in the future will be shorter than on branch 0'.

By way of directly illustrating this, consider slot machines with identical payouts. Grandma has been inserting coins into slot machine A for twenty minutes, when suddenly slot machine A' is turned on. There's no difference between continuing to pump coins into slot machine A and switching slot machine A', the expected payoff is the same either way.
> If you want to delay it even more give them an assignment to complete (like a 3 page list of questions that they need to answer before you will take their money).

In my opinion, you are comparing apples to oranges. This is not like putting up a 12 field registration/payment form for your web app, it is asking people who are interested in getting access to one of these dinners to express why they think they are worthy of attending. The perceived value is high enough such that you should theoretically only be reading essays from people who took the time and made the effort to apply.

You are absolutely right, this is the easiest way, and it is by no means a bad idea. Donating to charity in anyway is a great idea. However, the virtue of that fact does not automatically mean that the method for raising the money to be donated was intrinsically great.

I must note that my opinion is colored by the fact that I would have loved to attend one of these dinners myself during my teen years, but my parents (nor myself) could absolutely not afford to have paid for it, but I would have been happy to compete for the spot on other criteria.
IMO, they'd still be super successful if they had gone mobile fast enough.
Well, at least you can still download the free trial:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/monstertruck20/Trial/...
A bit more balanced take on the issue here: http://www.medicaldaily.com/mcdonalds-use-ammonium-hydroxide...
Is he not just embedding a VT100 emulator and using NetBeans socket to copy the buffer back and forth? The primary focus of NetBeans integration is to pass basic state forth and not to facilitate a full Vim embed.
If this style of programming interests you check out Elm [1], a functional language made for the web that uses this FRP style. The creator was recently hired by Prezi to work on Elm full time [2].

[1]: http://elm-lang.org/
[2]: http://engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/05/21/elm-at-prezi/
Ugh. Many parts of javascript are nice but things like this (''==0?) make me wish for a browser-supported language that was clean.
And this is the trade off you make for not having the source, but it doesn't negate it as a method to keep things running for longer. If you should keep things running, without having the source, for that long, is another issue.
> Doctors are people like any other. But they've spent years specializing in evidence based medicine.

Evidence-based medicine [1] as a norm is actually a surprisingly new thing. Assuming that because someone is a doctor they've "spent years specializing" in it is probably optimistic.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine
See Page 4 for alternative plant based protein amounts

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4anS4KxXuQdUlo3NEtUZ0xROFU...
This is a cause that YC likes, and they're donating one of their assets to support the cause. Why is there so much negativity around this?

First, this is basically the most valuable thing YC can give away (without selling slots into its batches). What else would be a reasonable thing to offer? Second, this is access to a YC dinner, but it doesn't ruin the meritocracy aspect -- just because you met a partner at a dinner doesn't mean you can get into YC with a crappy idea or without a lot of work. Third, it makes sense to target wealthy people and offer them a valuable reward for their contributions. They have the most to contribute, and a reward makes them more likely to contribute, and to contribute more.

The negative responses really bum me out.
I am feeling this so hard right now. Same situation except about double the traffic and yet still losing money.

Definitely looking into SAAS as my next project.
Motocross Madness 2 is also still up: http://www.microsoft.com/games/motocross2/

And this list wouldn't be complete without Midtown Madness (1?) http://www.microsoft.com/games/midtown/

[edit] I'm sure you can find a bunch of others by browsing through the wayback machine (http://web.archive.org/web/19980214201021/http://microsoft.c...), like http://www.microsoft.com/games/outwars/
goofy plz
McDonalds discontinued the use of LFTB in August of 2011 and it was widely reported in the media.
Sadly, I have but a single upvote to give.
Hepatitis C, a Silent Killer, Meets Its Match
5 different views from embedded players in California.

Oct 24, 27, 29 and twice on the 31st. average view durations are odd though, 1:09 and 1:02 for the 24th and 27th; :23 and :22 for the others.

Lots of ways I could analyze this but I choose to view it as positive sign.
Then there's this, built on top of the protocol:

https://bitmessage.ch/

The source code is here:

https://github.com/AyrA/BitMailServer

It's written in C#, which I don't personally like. And there's no mention of which particular 'open source' license it is. But the source code should be informative for a port/rewrite, and maybe running it via Mono is viable.

edit:

If the DarkMail people happen to be reading this thread, please consider putting your full support behind BitMessage.
Also sadly missing the Tengwar of Fëanor, though they're in the Unicode roadmap.

http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/

There are not enough elves in the Unicode committee.
My god, this waiting is killing us :D

In our case (loovin.com), we've got 7 views to the demo site and 4 views in the video (this are views we know that are from them only, yeah... we check this all day long :)).

Good luck everyone!
I don't know if you are referring to small or large tech employers, but it has been my experience that most people are willing to relocate given a job offer.
Also press MAJ then, new tab should open in background ;
There's also a risk of becoming hyper-aware of stuff that just doesn't matter.

Your heart tends to just do it's thing. But if you concentrate on it you might start noticing weirdnesses. These probably aren't your heart, but now you're anxious, so you think about seeing a doctor. But you don't want to waste the doctor's time, so you look around on the Internet to see what it is. And now you're really worried even though you know you don't have any of those things. So you go and see a doctor, and sure enough you don't have anything wrong.

Except now you caught some cold / flu bug from someone in the waiting room.
unfortunately it seems "Angel Studios" the developer of the site midtown, is out of business
Some time ago I saw the documentary "Food Inc." where they show this process with ammonium hydroxide and ignorant as I am about the food processing industry, I was negativey surprised.

There is still more going on and although the documentary may be a bit sensationalist, if just 10% is true it's still appalling what the industry is doing to cut the costs. And I wonder if impact on human health and environment can be good in the long run.

But at least for me it made a difference, I think about what I eat and I try to choose organic, locally produced and less pre-processed food. Probably I'm imagining things, but I feel better, have more strength and being less tired after work.

My partner had the idea to try an old-fashion "startup" for ourselves as soon as we can get a piece of land. With chickens (eggs), beekeeping and growing vegetables, we can hopefully take a step further away from the processing industry.
The article is nothing more than click bait: the Jamie Oliver video is from 12 April 2011 and McDonald's discontinued the use of 'pink slime' in January 2012: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092127/Jamie-Oliver...
I remember buying the steering wheel for Midtown Madness, which was larger than many desktop monitors today and required a near-bolting to your desk, and feeling like I was on the cutting edge of gaming.
I'm simply curious, did you mean to imply that this is something of the past?

The use of past tense was more to reflect deficiencies in my knowledge. I was a huge fan of PG and YC circa 2006-7 because of what the original mission seemed to be: to make funding possible for less established or connected people. I have no reason to doubt that he has deviated from his mission; however, I avoided the present tense because I do not know that he stayed the course. I can speak with more confidence on the past, hence the use of that tense.
I just heard notices will be sent out 'late this evening'. And I'm assuming that's late this evening, PST. Also we got 4 views. 1 was me, 3 had to be from YC.
Yes, or you can use CoffeeScripts which automatically translates == into ===
I actually started doing this last year with a blog (take picture, send to blog) and while it did help get a handle on what I was eating (mostly stuff like 'wow, there are really no vegetables in there') I stopped doing it after a while - partly because it feels pretty weird and anti-social to be taking pictures of your food when eating with other people, especially when out at a nice restaurant, or when someone else has cooked dinner for you.

I actually just started this again the other day - I don't think the app would make it any easier for me, but it's a nice reminder/validation of the practice :)
> The only quibble I could have is that almost everyone understands what "Quality" is yet it requires education and experience to understand "Scope"

I would say that's a feature, not a bug ;)

Everyone "knows" what quality is so nobody wants to cut it. The client expects a deliverable with a (mostly) bug free deliverable, and the developer expects to be able to try to create a codebase with as little technical debt as possible.

There are certainly situations where quality is cut (technical debt that you might avoid if you had more time, the customer deciding to skip beta testing), but as a developer I can't say, "You want this cheap and tomorrow, so we as a team are going to ship a buggy app". Because the first thing the client does when they give the app like that a spin? Come back to the developer with a bug list a mile long and say the current quality is unacceptable.

So then it's not the project management triangle of, "You take two sides, I'll take one". ;)

But if, as a developer, I say, "You want this cheap, and tomorrow, which means this thing needs to have two of these things you want, not all 10. Help me choose the most important things here." Which is a hard conversation (nobody wants to kill their darlings) but you can quantify scope (estimate and prioritize the work).

We certainly know a lot about quality from Deming, Juran, and Pirsig, but the margin is too small, and the night too short, to put this conversation in that scope.
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