skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the BTC 2% has the same power as a government inside their ecosystem, no responsibility (ethical or other) given the complete anonymity and thus can not be held directly or indirectly accountable in any way, while a gov can.

The fact is that you know who runs the FED. You don't know who owns 95% of BTC in circulation.

They didn't stole directly, but it's a perfect Ponzi scheme if they choose to liquidate their BTC overnight :-) ... They are in a position to create "money" out of thin air. Money issued by people trusting BTC. So there is no difference from a trading Wall Street crook who sells garbage stocks for gold to naive investors (calling Goldman Sachs)...
It will - it's too compelling a proposition.
Stop spreading alarmist FUD.

Overpopulation is not a threat[0]; if you really want to prevent further damage to the planet, start working towards things like sustainable energy, or better yet, improve the system that rewards irresponsible exploitation of the environment. What do you need to solve these types of problems? Education.

[0]: http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
Depends on how motivated she is to learn (or how good of a teacher you are). If you expose too much complexity in the very beginning, you may risk her not liking it from an early age.

I can come up with one idea which would have been super fun for me as a kid (game AI with python, look at Berkeley CS188). But I would have needed a lot of direction. And maybe that idea is overrrkilll.

There are also some flash games which let you do things like programming. But it may not be fun and it exposes no complexity.

There's also this sort of thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)

I have no experience with it and I can't say whether a kid would find it fun.
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This is a stupid suggestion that has no place in an encyclopedia, then again wikipedia is not an encyclopedia, but still this suggestion belongs on a specialized community forum or website.

Wikipedia is already dying a slow and painful agony and has been for a while, no need to accelerate it by adding more trivia and irrelevant features to it.
I'm sorry to hear about your debt and hot water heater. I do hope that such stuff doesn't happen to me, and believe me I did not take this decision lightly. I think even if shit hits the fan, I hopefully will still be okay.

Thanks for your good wishes.
I love how utterly useless our intelligence agencies have become in the face of even the most basic encryption. Encrypt things at rest and on the fly with mutating keys and you defeat them. It's actually quite reassuring.
what's breaking bad ?
Not if you also offered a method to pay cash for the tickets. No discrimination then.
Defining basic data structures is a pain. See the example on the Pyret homepage.

I am already seeing a trend in Python tutorials where they just stay away from complex data, and stick to what is easy to encode in the data structures that Python does provide (lists, dictionaries, arrays).

We've seen this movie before: it's what happened when languages like Fortran, Pascal, and C dominated programming education, and the fact that they made some data (particularly of the linear kind) really easy and others a nuisance meant that curricula diverted towards the path of least resistance.

It's harder now to spot the pattern because it's better hidden. But it's still there.
Your PC anecdotes have zero credibility at this point. This is such a tired debate.
Don't worry, Inori Aizawa will stop them.
> "Litecoin uses Scrypt as a proof-of-work scheme. Scrypt uses the low-latency cache memory of modern processors to provide greater hash-speeds on CPUs in comparison to GPUs. We would like to extend our thanks to ArtForz for the implementation."

https://web.archive.org/web/20111128074850/http://litecoin.o...
I haven't seen anything yet, but I'm very interested in this area – I've got an application that uses a bunch of RasPi nodes, and running anything like Raspbian or even PiLFS feels too heavyweight for what I ultimately want (a single networked app that runs on startup).
That's true. Java in the 90s was a spectacular con job that millions of developers and managers bought hook, line, and sinker. XML was pretty big back then, too, and now nobody gives two warm shits about XML. Just saying.

Anyway the hype is surely not the reason why anyone should use go. People should use go because it has good libraries, encourages good interfaces, is fast and space efficient, has good self documentation, is easy to test, etc.
Why not just sort by time? There is an option to do this but it automatically resets everytime you visit the site. It's annoying and they do it on purpose. They have fought against extensions which improve the sorting, and heavily pushed their own sorting system. And it does suck. I notice it is much worse than just sorting by new.

Also annoying you can't find any posts older than a few days. There isn't a page 2 or anything, the feed just stops.

Not everyone has 500 people that post regularly, and it's possible to disable people who you don't know well from being visible in your feed. There are options like "show most posts from this person" or "only important" or none at all, though they hide them.

There are other possible ways to manage large amounts of content. Google reader had a nice system where it shows you how many new things from every source and you can select the ones you want to see. Reddit lets you individually subscribe to a large number of completely different subreddits and it manages sorting by votes.
You can definitely wipe out the entire ChromeOS partition and replace it with some other Linux if that's what you want. Some people do that but it's definitely less common than dual booting or a chroot.
I think the way you would do this on Tent is that you would choose from many CMS apps capable of editing your blog post type (presumably, these apps will spring up as the ecosystem matures). While you're still crafting the post, you can set its sharing permissions such that no one else can see it. Perhaps you want to share it with individuals before you go public.

One way to publish it would be to have your front-end platform act as a subscriber to posts with some type of "published" flag. This sort of paradigm would be amenable to having multiple aggregators acting as the front-ends for syndicating content.

Comments on your posts would themselves be Tent posts, created by readers and hosted in their own Tents. Readers could have some of their conversations on your content publicly, but could also @-mention other users by Tent Entity URL to have private conversations within their social groups.

I really think the sky is the limit, because the system puts the data in the users' wheelhouses, and there can be all sorts of innovation in presentation and interactivity, decoupled with many of the concerns about storage.

Platforms could still monetize post content that they create and mediate, it's just that users would be able to choose the platforms that serve them best, rewarding those providers.

I think there's probably a lot of stuff to figure out still, but I'm very excited to see where this goes.
Bleh... Can we just stop with the metaphors already? Maybe I'm not an engineer or a gardner or a scientist but maybe I am. I can be all of those things or none of them. I know how to make software of varying types and that's enough, how I apply those skills is a completely different thing. Maybe I'm a biologist using python to help see the migration patterns of fish better. Maybe I'm a web developer building highly scalable web systems in java. Maybe I'm writing drivers at a kernel level. It doesn't matter, programming is a skill set not a job definition.
Engineers aren't just Engineers. They are Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, etc.. Scientists are just Scientists, they are Biologists, Chemists, and Computer Scientists. When we want programming/software development to have that same level of social standing we will use programming as a skill set not a job title.
For me it comes out to $250/month for Bronze Plan, and only $170/month for Catastrophic Plan. I don't go to doctors unless I need to, and when I need to, I can afford paying cash. I can take a $6,350 bet on my health, but I still want to be covered above and beyond that.

And the question isn't about whether or not I should get catastrophic plan. I have the right to get it under the new law, and CA's Exchange site should have the duty to show me it as an option. Instead, they hide it, which is very underhanded.
Yeah, I remember two or three years ago there was a long bout of Facebook rage here, and I posted what I would like from Google as a replacement (under an earlier account). And G+ became almost exactly what I was wishing for, except they went out of their way to make it suck.
Another idea: Maintain an external database of Wikipedia articles (or sections!) that contain spoilers.
Great, now everyone in sillicon valley will pitch by awkwardly telling a story. But it's still less pathetic than the Steve Jobs imitators.
the second I read "build apps" I knew this is not even close to an alternative models.

the only alternative model is decentralized, encrypted and pseudonymous/anonymous. Maybe something along the lines of btsync, btchat mixed with pursuit [1].

[1]: http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/
Presumably they don't have the capability to filter or modify packets passing through the exchange. So when they see target's computer opening a connection, they have to generate a reply faster that reaches the computer before LinkedIn's server replies.
If large scale civil engineering projects were not muddled by politics, contracts, and bidding wars, I imagine that wouldn't be the case.

So in an abstract since, and in a world where engineers are the only ones involved in construction, I understand his point.
My Biggest Takeaway on 37Signals’s New Book on Remote Work
I've had this argument for twenty years. I had my a-ha moment in grad school when, after I'd put a fair bit of work into a build system and showed it around, my advisor asked me, "What is a file?" And then I was enlightened. So I can play this song back with fairly good fidelity.

If I could get a reliable, efficient, cross-platform, extensible, quickly-ported-to-new-platforms environment that gave me rich editing, I'd grab it. I don't know of such a platform. So we made the "pragmatic" decision, yes. That's because this isn't the problem we're trying to solve.

We are actually trying to innovate in the programming environment space, and have been running with that experiment for the past semester internally at Brown. At some point, after it's been knocked around a bit more, we'll make it public. So we're not avoiding the environment space. But this is not a battle we're seeking to pick in that space.

I wish you luck with it, and hope we can build on the work of people like you.
I don't know what you are talking about.

But polio has no symptoms at all in 90% cases, and only minor symptoms in 99% of cases, so yes, luck. Or divine providence.
I'm betting on Go at the moment, using it to build some little libraries and writing some dummy apps to test the waters.

Hopefully in 4 years when Golang developers are in demand, I have 4 years of experience under my belt. :)
I strongly suspect, that like most cops – they honestly believe they're "doing the right thing", and at the same time that "those laws don't apply to us while we're doing our job".

Having said that, as a "non-US person" it's been both a sobering realisation and an extended moment of "well _duh!_" in the wake of the Snowden revelations.

Part of me agrees that if _I_ were an American taxpayer, the NSA is doing exactly what they're paid for - invading non-US-citizens privacy on the grounds that maybe it'll help protect American interests.

Any expectation of "reasonable restraint" on their invasive prying is, in retrospect, completely foolhardy on my part.

Even expecting the US legal/political system to rein them in based on "fairness" or "good manners" or even "basic human rights" is also stupidly over optimistic.

The _only_ possible parties who might work in _my_ interests here, are organisations like the EFF (who I doubt have anything like the power needed to effect major change to organisations like the NSA, FBI, CIA, and FISA) - or businesses directly financially affected my loss of trust - Microsoft/Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Apple/Dropbox (the directly implicated PRISM participants) as well as less blatantly complicit but now highly suspect companies like Amazon, eBay/PayPal, Dell, HP, LinkedIn, Twitter, FourSquare, Instagram, Pintrest, all of whom I'd be foolish to assume haven't already caved to the sort of requests Lavabit refused to, and to a lesser but equally valid extent - any company hosting infrastructure in any of the Five Eyes nations. While I don't doubt that China, Germany, Brazil, Russia, and everybody else also have well funded agencies tasked with invading the privacy of their non-citizens (as well as their own citizens to a greater or lesser degree), it's likely that Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and The UK all have access to the tools and expertise of what's likely to be the most advanced digital attacker on the planet.

My personal goal now is to reduce my reliance on US and Five Eyes based internet companies, both directly financially where I'm paying for the service, and all the indirectly financial ways I allow them to monetize me - hello adblock, hello no-script, hello self destructing cookie addon, helle better privacy addon (and goodby LSO cookies), hello private browsing windows everywhere… As somebody who uses Google Analytics extensively at work, I _hate_ it when people do exactly what I'm doing - but financially hitting the only organisations with any power to change domestic US policy to better align with my interest is the only sensible option I have. (Coupled, of course, with implementing/promoting strong crypto, secure anonymity, and internet service and protocols that make metadata and network analysis much less useful and as resistant as possible to the massive-scale "hoover up everything on the backbones" type surveillance we now know is already happening.)
Software Engineering is an oxymoron.
Could you go into detail on your experiences for Go compared to JS or Ruby?
I don't think that there's any reason that as long as you offer means for paying cash you could be easily sued.

That's speaking for Germany, at least. Sadly, I can imagine what such a lawsuit would look like in the US rather well :(
My boss showed me this a couple days ago. https://teamtreehouse.com/ It isnt free, but it has incentives for people to finish projects, they try make it fun. I'll probably end up getting it for my daughter.
This sort of thing could be put to good use, for instance if they installed massive ranks of bicycle generators, they could let people get tickets by actually powering the trains.
Good memories!

My first experience with a graphical OS was with GEM on an Amstrad 1640. My Amstrad 1512 only had DOS :/
I ran these tests on my own and tried out what's been discussed here. The internal count() adds the most bulk. (Note: "real sorting" just means the array is redeclared for every nth sort).

Original
Array ( [0]...) 28.913233995438

Original - with real sorting
Array ( [0]...) 29.863515853882

HN Way - with external count()
Array ( [0]... ) 4.3388159275055

HN Way - with external count() and real sorting
Array ( [0]...) 5.5680060386658
Congratulations!

I quit my job about 19 months ago and had the luck to get immediately re-hired by my former employer as a freelancer for a few months on a much higher rate (http://steveridout.com/2012/12/30/a-welcome-delay.html). This, combined with living in Madrid now instead of London, has given me enough runway to live cheaply for another 2 years if needed.

I've been working on my current SAAS project http://readlang.com for 11 months now and despite showing a lot of promise it's still not even ramen profitable. I'm still feeling very hopeful about it though and while it's looking promising have every intention to follow through to see where it leads. May write a blog post about this as it approaches it's 1st birthday.

I'd say your 6 months is on the short side for creating and selling a product of your own, and would recommend you try to find consulting gigs to save up some more money first if this is the road you're considering. If you just meander and hop between a bunch of projects for a few months I fear that in 5 months time you'll be looking to take for a normal job again, perhaps running back to your old company! (I've actually done this before - I took a year off with no plan, didn't focus on a project, and ended up re-joining the same job I'd left.)

Anyway, good luck, look forward to see what you can create!
I find many TED talks creepy.
The one thing I really like about the ChromeOS is the way it updates. It basically has two root partitions and it updates the one it is currently not booted from. I am unaware of any other OS that uses such as scheme.
Language is ultimately about usage. The dictionary I checked with confirmed this meaning as a US neologism, I'm in the UK.

You could class this usage as "perplexed" but with a specific flavour of 'perplexity at the unimpressive nature of the subject'.
Is there any good material on learning the modern Java stack? I know Java SE from using it quite a bit in college, but it seems beyond that everything is geared towards JEE.
Future readers, #bash on freenode says of this link:

< greybot> The infamous "Advanced" Bash Scripting Guide should be avoided unless you know how to filter out the junk. It will teach you to write bugs, not scripts. In that light, the BashGuide was written: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

They felt strongly enough to learn their bot of it. Keep this in mind, I haven't read much of either resource yet.
The biggest issue that I see with crowd sourcing your sales team is that you lose control of interactions with your client. How can you ensure that your temp sales team isn't making long term promises that you can't fulfill? They don't care because they are already thinking about their next gig.
They've used to do that kind of thing in the past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barge_Haulers_on_the_Volga
Java stepped into a natural void. There weren't many safe GC-based languages being used in the Enterprise at that point.
Is bicycling a civil rights issue?
I know Ruby and some Go and never really understood why people compare them so much. Very different languages.
I certainly do know what you're talking about, and definitely agree that that should be one of the primary objectives of a company... But I think if it's the only one, then something's wrong.

The company should have an objective to do something good and worthwhile for people outside of the business. Even "lifestyle businesses", whatever they may be, should.

All three are fundamentally necessary, sine-qua-non: making money, doing something worthwhile, and doing it in a way that builds people up rather than grinding them down.
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I completely agree. In fact, this sort of two-track approach is what universities like Brown, WPI, etc. now do. Using the same ("weird") language at both levels works fine so long as you separate the crowd. Otherwise, as you very astutely point out, the two groups are asking completely different questions and answering them clearly and consistently is absurdly hard. Too bad MIT didn't think of this (or, presumably, did and rejected it for whatever good reason, that somehow doesn't seem to be applying to other places like Brown).
The nice thing about DDG is that it's extremely easy to use the DDG browser interface to search google if you decide to do so.

In Firefox, if you have DDG as your default search:

ctrl-k (next thing you type will be a search)
!g (A DDG "bang code," in this case "search google")
whatever (this search will be sent to google)

<ctrl-k>!g whatever, and you're sent to a google search result page. Bonus, you get a better results page URL than google usually gives you.

DDG gets better and better every day. I noticed recently that if you search for a street address DDG gives you a map result from open street map, and gives you links to bing, mapquest, google maps and open street map. It's great.

And btw the DDG bang code for google maps is "!gm" and the bang code for google news is "!gn".
I think it's because people use them for similar things. I have met many developers that have rewritten Ruby web services in Go (with good results).
I'm not sure why you note the Latin etymology, that would tend more towards the neologistic definition IMO.

Like "no more?" as in "isn't there anything else to it?". I don't see how "no more" suggests being flummoxed/confounded. [Yes I know that's not how "logo-genesis" works]
The Secret They Didn't Tell You In "The Secret"
> Java in the 90s was a spectacular con job that millions of developers and managers bought hook, line, and sinker

Who's to say that a similar thing isn't happening with the current latest and greatest tools?
Celebrities also generally receive large amounts of money and other perks for their loss of privacy. Facebook can film me 16 hours a day if they hook me up with a couple mil.
With advanced file-system technology, it should be possible to load a "shadow image" of the new version of the OS and "commit" it atomically. Smalltalk can be thought of as a very basic sort of OS, and some versions of that had the ability to load as a "shadow" a new version of the class library, then commit it atomically. (Including updates of the part doing the updating.)
Maybe Amazon will come out with a social network and a YouTube competitor. You can barely tell they own IMDB, and they seem content to stick with a policy of non-interference.
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We have a penalty system at work if you break the build or cause the music to skip, or any number of other frivolous "office infractions" you have to put a buck in our tip jar which is used to buy beer. If you don't want to pay the buck, though, you can optionally do 20 pushups instead. So far only one person has opted for the pushups though.
ART is an install-time compiler from Dalvik bytecode to native code. It improves CPU, RAM, and battery usage, but still requires whatever code is run through it to be converted to Dalvik bytecode.

If we don't currently have a way to run Python on a Dalvik JIT, then we don't currently have a away to run Python on ART.
Ask HN: Weblog written in Backbone?
I would like to write a blog in backbone and perhaps using Nodejs or Express on the backend.

What would be the right of going about this? like for the models I would need for backbone and things like that? has anyone written an app or blog in Backbone? this will be my first time.
I'm not so sure about that... what if you're a disabled person?

What if you started giving free tickets to people who can do 60 sit-ups, or 100, instead of 30? Wouldn't this mean free tickets for men only (or mostly)?
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That... doesn't really change the general point?
Resources, not widgets.

Because the built-in resources are very Google-brand looking. Big apps have their own style. They'll follow UI norms, but don't need to look like Google made the app.
I personally prefer the term programmer. What I do is program machines to do as I wish.

Gardener fits, but we design the plants in essence....

To me Programmer, developer, even software architect seems closer than gardener.
We'll see what happens at the next comiket.
Refactoring, upgrading and other software maintenance