skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly disrupting a lot of people's peaceful nights with all the stories that are showing up of exchanges disappearing or supposedly being hacked.
But then again, I'd presume given the nature of its economy, you'd have to be a fool if you didn't consider these outcomes possible.
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> Yes, but victims of CC fraud have numerous laws and protections on their side that make it much easier to recover from this incident.

Very true, and likewise, CC users (both buyers and sellers) have numerous laws and protections that can make transactions annoying, difficult, or even impossible, and Bitcoin fixes some of those problems. Obviously, you shouldn't use Bitcoin unless you feel that Bitcoin's attributes are favorable to credit cards' attributes.
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What you are saying is not really that different from my original point.

I claimed that ordinary people were not allowed to reference certain facts, because they had not proven that they would interpret these facts in the right way. E.g. an ordinary person cannot say that Black people commit more crime, because they cannot be relied on to believe that the cause of this is not, for example, genetic.

You on the other hand think that it is reasonable to extrapolate from things people say (e.g. crime rates are due to the America's "mixed ethnicity") from things that you imagine that they think, provided that you know that person is a conservative.

In both cases, the problem with this reasoning is that we think better of people who have wrong opinions, which sets up some perverse incentives. While the particular facts that a person chooses to focus on do indeed say a lot about their political beliefs, we should only discourage people from saying things that are wrong.
Also, if Jesus was interested in "roasting" people, he wouldn't have bothered coming here.
Makes me think of the multiple coffee brewing devices out of Stanford: Aeropress, Clover. Can't imagine something like that arising at MIT.
I was assuming after the fact as that information is not saved anywhere client side.

Also I am not sure what he did to push to 150 remotes, and in that case this output would be much more tedious to piece together (and that is assuming he was able to capture all of it).

However I disagree that force pushing is rare, I find it is a (sharp) tool I use most days (more often on private repos or branches).

I do like the idea of github providing some kind of web interface to view the reflog and reset branches to various points within it.
Docomo is also widely used in Oceania and other pacific island nations
+1. Why money and not stuff? There are literally hundreds of articles on this topic, but here's one from a professor of public health specific to Typhoon Haiyan relief:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
I've never had someone on another continent take Bitcoin out of my Bitcoin wallet, and it's incredibly trivial to ensure that it stays that way. What's your point?
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They already get that. Lyrics sites are not cutting into the profit made from the sale of music.
> Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed

I wonder how long that can remain true. The USPS has run into legal trouble by providing special services or deals for some customers and not others:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/amazon-and...

Maybe this whole thing turns into Sunday package delivery for everyone, or just gets shut down.
I also get "Failed to find test pattern on screen." in Safari with WebGL enabled on a Mid 2011 Mac Mini running 10.9 with dual monitors. View is set to "Actual Size", and I've tried moving the Safari window between monitors.

Other scores - Chrome 30: 2.4/10. Firefox 24 and 25: 1.2/10.
Who still makes significant purchases using cash?

Me. I'd been slowly weaning off credit cards due to the potential for purchase profiling and then two years ago Visa and MC both started in double-talking about selling "anonymized" purchase histories for online ad targeting -- as if you can anonymously target specific individuals.[1] That obvious prevarication was enough to convince me it was now open season on customer privacy so I cut my usage down to the bare minimum necessary to maintain one account for emergency use.

For me, $100 bills are the new credit card. I get a stack from the teller at my credit union about once every 6 months (careful to stay under the $10K mandatory government terrorist hysteria snitching limit[2]) and spend as necessary. It took a little getting used to, but it quickly became quite normal. I'm confident that my CU does not participate in any schemes to correlate serial numbers on bills with purchases. At least not any non-government schemes.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020400230...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act
You could absolutely do the same thing with Postgres (or SQL Server) and computed indexes over JSON (or XML) blobs. Of course, then you'd have exactly the same schema migration issues.

My point was more that a lot of the time, if you structure your data right (and get the right balance of denormalization) you don't need joins very much and so the lack of them isn't really a big disadvantage.
#5 on the list for any new technology is going to have problems, whether it is a social network, iPhone, or car. I'm sure all car makers had hiccups along the way to their first 100k cars. When they've sold millions of cars, they will have the issues ironed out.
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Once upom a time I - at best an amateur programmer - could quickly develop reports in cold fusion for my employer with not much more than HTML under my belt. What is today's best equivalent that I can also run locally on OSX?
I joined Line in the last month mainly because my girlfriend thought the stickers were really cute and as we started to use it more and more we have found it a very effective way to convey how we're feeling or for a quick check-in with a "sweet dreams" or a "hi!" sticker without having to type out a message.

I started creating new group chats with different sets of friend and find myself sharing photos and texts to selective groups instead of broadcasting them on Facebook and tagging those I want to notice it. I also feel like I have a choice on whose messages/stickers I want to see whereas on Facebook I'm constantly ingesting the entire feed.
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Two posts from HN. I am not drawing any deeper meaning. Just sharing for potential (dark) humor.
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Large Japanese cities have busy Apple stores too. Besides one to one consultation, they run regular lectures on iPhone and iPad productivity. I think people feel happy being Apple customers. My wife is Japanese and she like Apple's FaceTime more than the Google equivalent because it does not force her to join a social network. Many Japanese are not too keen on creating accounts on networks. I travel a fair bit in Asia and I see slivers of same trend. As people in India, China and Indonesia etc. get busier they will move towards products that are perceived to be simpler and less distracting.
Wasn't the point actually that even in that second example, they didn't have the foresight to ask the client about the need to cross reference tv shows ahead of time?

And for the record, how on earth is this MongoDB specific? Almost all NoSQL solutions fall into this same situation.

I was at least expecting more complaints about the early days of mongo's writes not being durable... At least that argument has merit.
There will be hardware devices that sign Bitcoin transactions securely. Your private keys will never leak or become compromised. See Trezor: http://www.bitcointrezor.com/
Cash implies a much higher degree of accountability, to do transactions involving cash, you need to be physically present. Whereas you can hid behind 7 proxies on the internet. Cash transactions are also much harder to scale (thus lower volume), limiting the potential damage an "attacker" can cause.
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The anti-government ideologues I talk to recognize this perfectly well; in fact, it's a core part of their philosophy. They argue that any center of power will actually serve as a magnet for sociopaths and eventually become infested by them, thereby empowering scumbags more than it controls them in the long term.
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Thanks, those are great resources. I'm somewhat suspicious of GiveDirectly being a top charity, because even though there are good reasons to believe cash transfers are effective, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that they are the most effective.

The report itself says "We feel that this intervention faces an unusually low burden of proof, though donors' intuitive reactions to it may vary widely."

EDIT: actually the full report deals with the relative effectiveness of cash transfers in some detail.
Your problem is that you shouldn't be doing pull with rebase so often. A clean merge doesn't have to rewrite anything.
You probably won't respond, but the other 99% non-tech world will :)
I am currently in this course.

Honestly, this is not a course that I would recommend. The most problematic part of this course is its lack of clear outline. It jumps between different fields of machine learning, which could have fundamentally different focuses and motivations, without illustrating the connections to the students. It talks about Watson-Nadaraya classiﬁer in the second class, then we have two lectures to explain most basic naive bayes algorithm. I just don't get it.

Though it gets me confusing a lot of times, the course is useful in a way that gives me a lot of keywords to search for and read article about.Also the homeworks might be challenging some time, working through them did improve my understanding of something I might think trival before, like the linear regression stuff.

And if you are really interested, I would recommend a book, which covered most of the materials of the course while being much more organized:

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

A refresher in linear algebra will also help~
I saw this earlier, I still don't get the logic of the conclusion. Can you really qualify technology B (Bitcoin) as being more disruptive then technology A (internet) when B requires A to operate?

Maybe if you look at the technologies in the vacuum in which they were created, but in reality you'd want to contextualize them as extensions of one another, otherwise you get a biased picture of their disruptivity.

edit:sp
for anyone unfortunate enough to have clicked this comments link....

the tl;dr is
"the GOOOOVernment mannnn money money govt sucks MUGGERS. bitcoin is stupid. bitcoin is GREAT! credit cards are like bitcoin but the BANKS are the REAAAAL thiefs post-modernism post-modernism capitalism 'Hello!' the government. THE government. wallets were stupid to begin with. Electronic currency is flawed i hate bitcoin/creditcard cash is flawed cash. Rousseau."

My 2 cents, FWIW... the people I see locally spoutin bitcoin aren't true patriots who believe in ultimate freedom, they're more like get-rich-quick-schemers lol
> Performance wise it should be a pretty close call: resuming a goroutine will presumably cause a branch prediction miss (due to the change in function return pointer),

Also you have to reload the register file when the goroutine scheduler wakes the goroutine up, and save it when the goroutine goes back to sleep.
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In my opinion, datalog (via Datomic) strikes a good balance between schema flexibility and queryability. It's my preferred way of working with data now, after using Mongo for a year (I was also initially attracted by the flexibility of schema-less data stores).
In my mind, the ideal startup would be middle-shifted towards MIT. Following the author's story, the only advantage the Stanford startup has is first to market vs. the MIT startup which has a technological advantage over competitors.
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"No Adsense" would probably come close to a spam-free search engine.
That's what copyright means. The right to make copies.
Fair Use[0] would cover it, I should think. The primary use of lyrics on RG is educational in nature - that is, explaining the meanings behind the lyrics.

Lyrics are a very small part of the completed music as a whole. It's not even the same medium as music, let alone just a small part of the same medium.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
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Money laundering is a crime for exactly the same reason that destruction of evidence is a crime.
Huh... only in the US I guess. There are many countries where cash is the main way of exchanging money, or even the only accepted way. Look at Japan: it's a cash loving country.
Given that Git is such an integral part of the workflow, I find unnacceptable the ability to push to the central repo for people that can't handle Git well. Git is distributed, if you're using it like it's SVN you're doing it wrong.

And yes, we all make mistakes. But by Git's nature, lo and behold, everybody has a copy.
Actually I think they do. Check out Fair Use[0].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Shameless plug: Bitalo [1] will solve this problem very soon, because we don't use hosted shared wallets. Instead, we use a feature of Bitcoin protocol named multi signature addresses, in which two private keys are used to spend funds, only one of which will be stored on the server.

[1] http://Bitalo.com
If considered derivative work, Rap Genius's entire site would be owned by the original copyright holders.

I assume they will argue it is fair-use commentary, not derivative work.
Pretty much. Once you get past having kids, eating animals, driving cars, or even riding a bike 24/7 you're pretty much using more energy than some bitcoin miner.
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That acm article was very interesting, than you! Lots of nice little
concrete examples - that are simple, yet not too simple.

I've yet to play much with ocaml — we had a bit of standard ml in our
programming paradigms-class at university (at the time the course used
[1] "Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs (2nd Edition) by
Ravi Sethi" — now they've (unfortunately, yet understandably) replaced
standard ml with Haskell). I've since had a little trouble adapting to
similar-yet-different languages like both Haskell and OCaml.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Languages-Concepts-Constru...
Have the things in the channel be the equivalent of C#'s IDisposable or something, then the goroutine can clean them up itself.
Personally I expect if "normals" are to use bitcoins, it will probably be structured with financial institution(s) holding the BTC much like a bank holds USD. As we move further away from cash, ordinary folk could very easily just have a BTC debit card, and never worry about bitcoin wallets and bitcoin clients.
Mitochondria maybe.
I wonder why this is such a surprise and all this hoopla ...
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/fundamentals/#what-are-ty...

The big advantage of mongo (as other nosql dbs) is the dynamic schema. Try adding a new column to your sql database ..
Just want to point out that Stanford does have its fair share of "MIT startups".

Here's a small subset:

* Alveo Energy

* Amprius

* Blue River Technology

* C3Nano

* Momentum Machines

* QuantumScape

* Solum

Although if the OP's simple model had a category for startups simultaneously validating customer demand and driving technological advantages, most of these companies would be there.
> This can't be understated

That's a bit overstated... :]

Japan's phone manufacturers concentrate on the Japanese domestic market, so there's a great deal more choice in high-quality phones in Japan than in most other countries.

Samsung is not "special" like Apple is, in that their products aren't higher-quality / more functional / better designed than the (mostly Japanese) competition, so there's no real reason why Samsung should be ahead of other companies. They may have some price advantage, but price is generally less important in Japan than it is in other countries, and is often rather obscured in phone contracts. Samsung coming in 4th is actually a vote of confidence.

To the degree there's a bias in Japan against non-Japanese products, I think it's in most cases less a case of xenophobia, and more simply a higher degree of trust in Japanese products. This isn't entirely illogical either, as Japan does have a very good record of building high-quality products. Japanese can be very, very, picky, about both quality and style. [This is one reason Apple does very well in Japan.]
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japan is no longer the 2nd largest economy. it's china. (or the US, depending on how you measure such things).
Immutable does not imply persistence/structural sharing, a key aspect of these data structures.
I've meet the folks at GiveDirectly and think they are doing great work.

That being said, effectiveness of dollars spent is just one measure of a non-profit. It's similar to asking what's the best food. Each person has their own preference, much like each community/country has their own needs. There's no silver bullet to solving the world's problems. It's going to take a wide range of non-profits to address a wide range of problems. When determining your giving, a diversified approach will likely give you the biggest long term impact.
One thing I don't like about these packages is the use of map[string] string to represent dynamic url parameters. The conversion into a useful type seems like something that could (and should?) be automatic.

Shameless plug: for my own use I wrote https://github.com/0xfaded/rhttp which is used with (not a thin layer over) net/http. There is a draftish blog post to go with this http://blog.0xfaded.com/.

As a side note, I use an unusal pattern of passing an empty struct as a function arguement for the sole purpose of being inspected using reflection. Undecided if this is good or bad. Thoughts?
One thing I never understood about - awful generalization - "real" functional languages is their fascination with terrible naming. What I mean is things like `car`, `cdr`, `conj` - words that are impossible to understand if you don't already know what they mean.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6711192
Here's my speculative answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6687535
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The article mentions that GBL vanished "without a trace". It's a disconcerting statement.
No, usually the term I have heard used for this is jitter.
Note that Rust does allowed shared memory, either via "unsafe" code (i.e. same flexibility & dangers as in C, but the compiler only accepts it when wrapped in an `unsafe {}` block, so it's clear that you need to be careful), or higher level wrappers around this like Arc[1] for immutable shared memory, or RWArc[2] & MutexArc[3] for mutable shared memory.

> Felix has a better type system

What do you mean by this? From what I can see, the only way Felix encodes any form of memory safety (e.g. dangling pointers) in the type system is by garbage collection.

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/extra/arc/struct.Arc....

[2]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/extra/arc/struct.RWAr...

[3]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/extra/arc/struct.Mute...
Are there any new devices coming up? I thought everything interesting is already out there, except for the iPad Mini with Retina display?
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It's almost as if they were trying to prove the OP's point :) http://www.blossomcoffee.com/
Actually, during recent visit just a few weeks ago, I was surprised to find Apple Store in Sendai and it was busy (in Tokyo, I wouldn't be that surprised me).

The main difference with phones I noticed between the visit this time and last year was the popularity of touch phones versus flip phones. A year ago most phones in subways, I noticed, were flip phones. This year not so much. Definitely lot of iPhones and Sony xperia.
Other people have apparently had less success employing incredibly trivial security to keep their bitcoins safe.
I'd think its more than an idea its something that might already be happening in some places.

There are places that are over regulated when it comes to exchanging currency. Bitcoin offers a legal or at least gray way to buy/sell stuff.

I guess not everyone likes change
When I bought a car recently, the sales person said the company would send me a survey about his service. On a scale of 1 to 10, he claimed (and I did believe him) that the company treats a 10 as a 10 and a 1-9 as a 0 when determining employee bonuses.
Is that with a fresh Firefox profile? You could try resetting it to see if that helps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-p... . For the sake of fairness you could do the same to Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en
I'm browsed it a bit. I'm hoping they will offer it again.

I've been following the self paced AI class in Udacity https://www.udacity.com/course/cs271
I don't think you can get a USB ASIC for $5. They're still in the tens of dollars range.
> The few people who enjoy sex work are not enough to satiate demand for sex workers, especially if it's legal.

It doesn't make sense to say demand is strictly greater than supply.[1] Supply and demand aren't fixed quantities, they're each mediated by price.

There's some price at which the two achieve equilibrium.

That price might be sufficiently high that there would still remain a black market retaining much of the social ills associated with the current illegal practice.

But this is a bit of a tangent. Sorry for the econ nitpick, carry on.

[1] Well, in a sense demand is always greater than supply among useful goods and services. It's true of sex, but also of socks, nannies, and cocoa. It's called "scarcity."
Yes, that's true. Protecting a branch from deletion would be another nice feature and could be tied to denying forced pushes. Both can be construed as the branch being "public".
This seems to parallel The Rise of Worse Is Better

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
1) In order to mount a fair use defense, you must admit that you are infringing on copyright. It is kind of like an insanity murder defense in that way.

2) Fair use for education and commentary is most often used to protect the publishing of excerpts, such as in book reviews or textbooks discussing a type of work.

3) Or you can do fair use transformative commentary or parody. But in this case, the work must be significantly altered (transformed). And you must demonstrate you could not make the point you were making without using that specific work as source material, usually because your commentary was about that work. In my non-attorney opinion this is closest to Rap Genius's scenario, but if you try for this and lose, your work can be considered derivative work and is wholly owned by the original copyright holder.

4) In general, it makes you less sympathetic when you mount a fair use defense while profiting from republishing the work, although that isn't a strict identifier.

5) As mentioned elsewhere on this thread, Rap Genius and other lyrics sites aren't publishing the lyrics to just one song, the lyrics are the core content of the site. That could make fair use more difficult to argue.