skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a more relevant question should be: is a certain degree of "formulaicity" desirable or not? I believe that it is, yes. When I browse a website for the first time, I like it when it's clean and unoriginal in its presentation. First, I can find my way quickly, and second (maybe it's just an illusion) I find it less mentality taxing.

A lot of startups adopt a layout similar to that presented in the article for their website, which makes it easier to know quickly what's going on. Is it bad from a differentiation/branding point of view? Maybe, I don't know. I don't think I'm very sensitive to this, but this might be a very important point.

Take worrydream.com for instance. I checked it out yesterday, and the content of the website is absolutely fantastic (I'm a new fan of Bret Victor). But the website's design is very, very original, and it took me some time to get used to it. This is not to say that it's not good. It's different. And different requires efforts (well worth it in this case).
We learned about Fourier Series in my diffyQ course. The basic idea is that any periodic function( like say y=sinx) can be approximated by an infinite sum of sines and cosines.
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (3)
A small trick

As a developer, I'm hands-on Unix, but not very familiar with the Linux administration work. Yesterday, I was stuck at a major problem to activate the original instance of the Apache web server for the WordPress blog site. I cannot edit the httpd.conf file, although I have stopped all the other instances and made myself have root privilege to write to this file. As usual, I searched online and found people discussing some simple catches, such as caused by mistakes without root privilege, or the hosting site does not allow to edit, etc. I waited for a long time to chat with the hosting tech support and got response that it's going beyond the support area with the VPS customized environment.

Fortunately after hours of frustration, I worked out the simple answer with the root cause that I was trapped by myself due to my previous setting. I guess this is something those chef administrators do not want to share. But I'd like to share the bits and pieces with the detailed knowledge and tricks any startup company may bump into. There is a simple answer for that. How many people have the answer on the top your head now? I'm curious to see. Please let me know if you want to have the answer, send email to danmark.clara -at - yahoo.com.

Here are the links for previous two days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6670362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680208
When it's your startup, it's not "working for free"; it's "creating value".
Oh god. Not only does [2] feature extremely creative uses of eval() (always a good sign), but also features the comment gem "create a new java date" in reference to a call to "new Date( ... )". Always nice to see nothing short of profound gulfs in understanding when it comes to our $9-digit technology initiatives...
what is your project
0 but I don't fit in any of the given 0 categories.
Just FYI editing the spectra is usually referred to spectral or additive sysnthesis.

Wavetable synthesis involves a table of single-cycle waveforms that you then sweep through, either manually or preferably with some sort of modulation source. The PPG Wave is the most famous case, and Ensoniq's Transwave technology was basically the same thing. Typically you'll start with 2 waves of completely different harmonic spectra and interpolate between them. IIRC there's a quite affordable PPG wave for iPad now from Wolfgang Palm (who is the authority on this method of synthesis).
Poll Finds Tech-Savvy Users Prefer Smartwatches Over Glass Devices
How, what and why of A/B testing and optimization of mobile games
Honored to be included, their product has transformed my work.
Wonder if you tried to install KB2670838 + KB2834140 manually.
If my understanding is correct, that's about $30,000 worth.
Armed with APIs, developers will drive the composable enterprise

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/12/armed-with-apis-developers-will...

SUMMARY: The rise of APIs as a source for web services and data means that developers don’t have to reinvent the wheel on every feature — they can source it from an API. This trend brings about the composable enterprise.
I threw away 30 coins during the first year of mining when you could get a coin a day on a half decent box... It's always made me annoyed at myself because I could buy a lot of pizza with those coins.
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I'd transfer them over to another exchange and sell them, if I were you. The USD price on Mt. Gox can be considered fake because nobody can get their money out.
Why do you think 13 with 100+ is wrong? They weren't worth much a few months ago, and this is a website for hackers. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 of those 13 have thousands of coins.
I own half of a Bitcoin. I purchased about two weeks ago. In the intervening time, the value of Bitcoin has gone up 40%. I can't complain, and I'll probably buy more in the near future. It is somewhat disappointing that they can't be used for anything, though. Without practical applications, Bitcoin is subject to massive volatility and doesn't have any sort of foundation to prevent against collapse of the market.

Incidentally, I also developed a Bitcoin Twitter ticker. If anyone would like to keep up with hourly prices via Twitter, I suggest that you check it out.

http://twitter.com/bitcoin_ticker
You can do additive and additive-like synthesis with ZynAddSubFX, but instead of using per-harmonic envelopes and shift amounts, you can control the bandwidth and spacing of each harmonic.

To mimic an existing sound, such as an organ, I once used audio software to plot the FFT of the original sound, then manually entered the amplitudes of the fundamental and harmonics in a ZynAddSubFX XML instrument definition. I'd like something that automates that process.

Edit: regarding spectral manipulation, there is also SpectraLayers.
btc is easy to withdraw from mtgox...
Not necessarily, there's plenty of people on HN who could have gotten in early when mining reaped greater rewards and/or the cost of BTC was very low.

Unfortunately I can't count myself in that bracket.
it is all fashion, things come into fashion then they go out.

then they come back in.

there was an old Mad magazine that had this with cars:

1. first the cars were all chrome with a little bit of glass

2. then the glass got bigger and bigger

3. eventually the cars were all glass with a little bit of chrome

4. then a 'futuristic' car came along that was all chrome with only a little bit of glass
I checked it out pretty thoroughly. All the wrecks they test are best case scenarios. Put some obstacles in the way of the fall and results will dramatically change. Anything remotely sharp would end this holiday.
This solves two problems: 1. Your float label animation can now sync with whatever form focus style changes would occur, so it just becomes a natural extension of selecting the field. 2. It fixes the "Can't use Label and Placeholder" by letting a new placeholder animate in when the old placeholder floats out. :) This could easily be accessible and in fact, if done on focus could almost entirely be done with CSS. I've got to try this one for myself now.
That's a lot to expect. Any lawyer diligent and conscientious enough to do all the stuff you've listed will also be really high in demand and only deal with the most deep pocketed clients in the first place.
The last time someone did this, they mistakenly used "0-5 BTC" as the lowest cutoff. You've made the same mistake. There should be "0-0.25", "0.25-0.5", "0.5-0.75", "0.75-1", "1-2", "2-3", "3-4", and "4-5". Extra poll options are better because now we've lost valuable information at the low end. In 20 minutes, 65 people say they own 0-5 BTC. That's anywhere from $0 to $1385. That's a massive range. We now have no idea how many "casual" bitcoiners there are, because casuals will only have like $200 max.

EDIT: Here's what your poll looks like as of t=35min:

▆▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂

Leftmost bar is 0-5BTC. Rightmost bar is 100+BTC. Oh look, now we know basically nothing about the two most interesting ranges.

EDIT2: As of t=44min: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=bar+chart+154+21+26+15+... ... Pretty hilarious.
Google forcing users to use Google + will be it's reason for it's downfall.

There was time when IBM Rulesd then Microsoft then Apple and now Google, followed by Facebook and Microsoft will rule.
I think my assessment was dead on, get some life experience and some perspective. As for your original comments, I offer the same advice. Maybe pick one of the points you complain about and try to fix it.
I had one when it was $10 but spent it, now at zero.
Razor, Blades.

Microsoft: Halo Series has Generated $3 Billion in Revenue

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/10/31/microsoft-halo-series...
What changed to suddenly make all users jump on board?
Uh, the number of transactions is just about the best simple indicator there is of popularity. Can you think of anything better (and reasonably simple)?
I bought about 350 coins with a week's paycheck not very long ago. They didn't use to be so expensive.
So you have a new name for a communist country... That doesn't change the fact the old one exists still...

So I can say: America isn't a democracy, because it's an oligarchy. (This statement isn't true, but is equivalent to yours).

China achieves it's communism, through state capitalism... Or is that not a true scotsman... I mean communist?

Communism hasn't died, Chinese officials still study Marx and Mao, and it is well and truly part of the Chinese propaganda message. There is still a large picture of Mao hanging in Beijing, and the leaders constantly profess to be Marxists...

But of course, how could I think that communism is still alive!?
I think you're being downvoted because anyone who is interested in DSP already knows about Fourier transforms, they're fundamental and quite well known. Frankly, I'm surprised to find that they're new to so many HN readers.
Aw... Man. $8310.

I sold 5 coins at the first peak of $31/BTC. Thought I was pretty damn sly for getting out ahead of the following crash ($8/BTC). Joke's on me! I've now lost out on $1230 and counting.
I have 0.006 from when I tried out mining a while back, but gave up pretty quickly.
If we had a list of all the bitcoin wallet values (even estimated) we could use this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenks_natural_breaks_optimizati...
It's possible to calculate the exact frequencies that would be generated by FM synthesis and additively produce exactly those partials that are under Nyquist instead. IIRC, "alias-free" FM synthesis is the name of this technique when used to produce cleaner, band-limited waveforms.
I'm going to kill the next person I who writes a Fourier Transform article and doesn't talk about the phase data. Its complex in complex out, if you input is real you still get complex out!!!
What a stretch!
> The results are in line with what most people would assume; Chrome and Firefox users are more active users.

It's not true. top.mail.ru (large Russian counter, ~250M views per day) publishes both number of visitors and number of views. Visits/visitor ratio are about the same for different browser families. Also, stats from top.mail.ru are very similar to the stats from StatCounter on Russian Federation [2], while Net Applications hide their per country totals behind pay wall, and their China-weighted totals are completely outlandish.

[1] http://top.mail.ru/browsers?id=250&period=0&date=&aggregatio...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201210-201310
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I didn't say they had to paid based on output... my objection was the capitalist shouldn't be given ALL their surplus value.

Perhaps their surplus value should be shared amongst all of them? (Poor capitalist would lose out though... so that's a horrible idea, right?)
Breaking conventions without good reason is bad design.
I wonder if (and how far) Steve Jobs was looking into the future when he did this, and how well, if at all, it has served Apple considering their more impressive innovations since then.
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Yup. Not gonna mine or buy, not worth my time as I can't confirm or deny its bubble-ness.
Buy some gold or silver if the price of btc gets up to where you want it:

amagimetals.com

goldsilverbitcoin.com

I fixed up my house with a Lowe's giftcard bought with btc:

gyft.com
Came across an insightful video and presentation given at the Konsoll 2013 conference on "marketing indie games on a $0 budget" that might be of interest to folks. It was given within the context of indie game development but its really addressing a common problem.

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkEQtMP2CuA
slides: http://www.indiegamegirl.com/konsoll-2013/
The city council is trying to put forth motions to hasten his exit from office[1].

[1] http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/deputy-mayor-councillors-urge-r...
But then how do we know you aren't just making this statement up?
Zero.. I recently owned 10 but sold them all when the price jumped to $200. I guess I was too quick on the trigger, but what can you do. Will be buying again in about a month when this hype cycle dies off.
Is there a problem with USD withdrawls? It looks like I can transfer to my US bank account right now...and I have never had an issue.
Brands have value to consumers, but countless multi-billion dollar industries lie in the glue you speak of. We do not all share the interest of fighting for advertising eyes.
0 - My wife said, "No way, it's a bubble."

:(
Swedes evidently think "too much of a good thing can be wonderful": they have had a Minister of Gender Equality since the 50's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Gender_Equality_(S...) and there are efforts to introduce a gender-neutral pronoun (http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/04/hen_s..., although this has been tried in English, too). In the Global Gender Gap Report 2012, Sweden is named as a world leader in gender equality (http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2012), etc. etc. I mean, the country even has an official gender equality webpage in English (http://sweden.se/society/gender-equality-in-sweden/). It seems they can't go any further. And then this.

Even Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/sweden-introduces-new-movie-rating-system...) has to admit the "test" is not perfect:

"Sure, the Bechdel test is imperfect (Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker doesn't pass, for instance, but you could hardly argue that a female-helmed war movie doesn't empower at least one woman), but that doesn't make it useless as a starting line for sniffing out broad trends in gender bias. And that's what we're talking about here. Trends. Analysis. Examination. Critical thought. Information. I'm sure there are plenty of people who consider themselves scrupulously egalitarian who never even noticed that there are only like THREE WOMEN IN ALL OF MIDDLE EARTH."

I understand that this is just a thing introduced by a a few movie theaters, i.e. it's not the law or anything (yet). Yet, that's what riles me most: as librarians are the first to defend any censorship, movie professionals should push back on any arbitrary limitation on what can be shown. Some examples of movies that fail the test are given, e.g. LOTHR Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Pacific Rim, etc. However, the test would also exclude many art films such as Tarkovski's Stalker and Solaris. How about movies with only a single female lead that don't quite fit the purpose of the test, e.g. Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly? How to handle movies with no dialog, or experimental movies such as Eraserhead? One can easily see that this sort of simplistic testing can have little artistic or practical merit.
Fixes the complaint mentioned in the blog post of losing the ability to set both placeholder and label. Once floated, a new placeholder can be set and animate from the bottom of the box, or just fade in. Alternatively, to address the password example head on: a well-placed tooltip, or better yet a button to generate passwords or an autosuggestion to fix passwords to match complexity requirements (done locally so password need not be sent multiple times) might be interesting. Actually, hide the suggestions until a user clicks for them. Never know what environment they're in. Auto generating a password they can choose to change might be interesting too.
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What happens to the coin in your deleted wallet?
an honest question as i have almost zero idea about autism.
what does an intervention consists?
therapy, counselling, or something else?
The definition of the Fourier series is an infinite series of integer frequency multiples adding up to reproduce any periodic signal, sort of like how the Taylor series can additively reproduce a function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series
Wow, it's been a long time since CNN wrote news. I wonder if they've been coopted and the new owners are trying to piece them out by devaluing the brand.
If HHS Feinstein bill passes, then it should be assumed to make all surveillance legal, thus any following of her personal actions: location, where-abouts, transactions, conversations etc are fair game. We should post cameras outside her Presidio Terrace San Francisco home watching every ingress/egress action by anyone visiting the place.
Yes. Styles sometimes get complex when you have overlapping paragraph, character and list styles. Highlighting every instance of the style often lets you make subtler modifications.

I suppose I should check if the new style management means I no longer need to do this. But there were other features I needed, so I won't upgrade yet. Not worth risking breaking my workflow until I see where the dust settles.
I spiced it up a bit with a little animation. kind of hacky since I position the element over the input placeholder using absolute positioning.

http://jsbin.com/OTaYIFE/1/
No, but they should take some precaution if someone unseemly (rogue employee, hacker, etc) has network access. You don't need a NSA level fiber taps under the ocean to do packet sniffing. Passing all of their service calls, database replications/connections, etc. in clear text over the wire is just plain lazy, bad security for an operation of their scale and (supposed) sophistication. I am sure it saved them some money on server/load balancers however.
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Dropping out of law school to work for a startup
It's not "incredible sleuth work" it's completely impossible - the background radiation is more than what's left.
God is perfectly just. Zynga got big and had to get smaller. That must be hell. Maybe, they have no suffering, though. Companies Zynga stole from probably moved on and God gave them new ideas.

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

third, or a
fourth, or a fifth part of its former value. But the rise in the price
of provisions, which has been the subject of so much reasoning and
conversation, does not affect all sorts of provisions equally. Taking
the course of the present century at an average, the price of corn,
it is acknowledged, even by those who account for this rise by the
degradation of the value of silver, has risen much less than that of
some other sorts of provisions. The rise in the price of those other
sorts of
If he actually had any polonium.... Because apparently other investigators found none.
It is considered "lost forever" unless an enterprising hacker comes along and can create a private key which matches the wallet.

You'll know if that happens, though, since the technique will obviously be used on the largest wallets first.

Side note: interestingly, right now, the largest wallet appears to be Dread Pirate Roberts' seized bitcoins held by the FBI.
There's an old joke about a letter addressed to

Wood
John
Massachusetts

To whom was it delivered? Turn your monitor over:

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The file format for hadoop tools is a sequence file. For most queries this is the second slowest format, after text.

Rcfile or parquet would be a more interesting benchmark.
It isn't a bubble - BitCoin is just an inherently unstable, deflationary financial instrument.

This is why newer coins that actually correct for hoarding - like PPCoin - will start to see some traction because they will be more stable, since they encourage spending, encourage transaction volume. There will be less of a risk of the decoupling of the bitcoin economy and the bitcoin value.
I think the answer to that lies in HTTP discovery protocols. I'm imagining self-organizing applications based on the need of the user, wiring together representations of disparate data sources into a cohesive interface.

You shouldn't have to be a dev to take advantage of the API universe. You'll just need tools that are able to reason about the data available.
I feel like this comment might sum up the difference between high traction B2C and slow and steady B2B. At no point do you mention the closing or cashing the check. Your approach is perfectly valid for most B2C stuff, but as a B2B guy, this looks completely foreign. Definitely a learning experience for me at least. As a B2B, this approach would IMHO fall on its face miserably, but I can totally see how this would be effective when more users == more value and sales-guy-on-a-phone is not scalable. That said, for B2B people, I would be highly skeptical that this approach would work. When your market is small, you had better have closers on the line to ring the bell.
"Farmers" was surprising.
>Without the NSA snooping there is a higher risk of terrorist attacks, but with the NSA snooping there is more risk of attacks on democracy.

Bullshit! This is the exact thing we have been demanding proof of. There is none.

Not a single event has been proven to be thwarted by these activities.

Boston? Sandy hook? Aurora? Lax? Mall?

All actual attacks, he'll they took days to ID Boston guys and even then couldn't do a decent job in tracking locating them after they found them out!

The NSA is a criminal organization. Period. Tyre is no grey or legal area here. They need to be shut down.
There's no joke on you at all.
How about a video store that lets you watch videos, ie in-store kiosks? $0.99 to watch pretty much anything in stock. They could offer popcorn and soft drinks (reputedly the biggest profit center at movie theatres). Don't want to finish it right now? Take it home. Have screening rooms for groups of friends to enjoy a film together. It seems to me that an enterprising person could make some money using this hybrid approach. It requires some capital investment up front, and probably some ridiculously expensive licenses to serve drinks etc., but once you're set up it would be a relatively low cost operation.
I really like this post, and I feel like the only incorrect response is to respond. (although 2nd thought is that Derrida's project is to show us that none of the recursive attempts to account for this phenomenon ("employing narrative") prevent it)
You don't need to tap dark fiber for this to be poor security. They were passing all internal data around in clear text. It would have been trivial for any data center employee to gain significant amounts of open data this way. Why wouldn't you have services, db connections, etc. encrypted internally? Its certainly possible and done within many companies, it is surprising how lax google was in their assumption that once inside the network everything is going to be a-ok.