skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you know how many crimes happen per day involving dollars? It's many orders of magnitude more than bitcoin related crimes. Just sayin'

This is true, yet means absolutely nothing. You're using absolutes when you should be using relatives.

If in a pool A of a hundred transactions one is a fraud, and in a pool B of ten thousands transactions a hundred are frauds, both pool present the same risk of a transaction being a fraud despite one having orders of magnitude more frauds than the other.
Yev from Backblaze -> We love Hitachi drives. They make us really happy. Unfortunately they are also more expensive than WD and Seagates, and since our #1 factor in drive purchasing is price, we don't get them very often :(
Click "A". Double click "BASICA.COM". Click OK.

Type:

load "b:\donkey.bas"
run

Enjoy the fruits of Bill's labour :)
> I'm sorry, but if you can't find time to eat human food, the issue is your schedule, not the food. Correct me if I'm wrong, but eating is pretty fucking important. If you are in a position where feeding yourself actual sustenance is inconvenient, then there is a probably a severe deficiency with your schedule and a problem with your priorities.

You don't sound very sorry. You sound incredibly judgmental of anyone who has different priorities than you.

Personally, I love food, I just hate preparing it. Spend 30 minutes to cook a meal that I will eat in 5? No thanks. So I eat out all the time, which is really fucking expensive.

You've heard of the PM triangle right? Same basic idea here. Food can be cheap, tasty, quick, and healthy, but not all at once. McDonalds is cheap, tasty, and quick but not healthy. That steak dinner you just cooked yourself is cheap, tasty, and healthy but not quick. I personally always pick the quick option, but the other items can vary. Thus I'm usually eating quick, tasty, and healthy items. I have trouble finding things that are quick, healthy, and cheap. This seems to fill that niche nicely.

It doesn't mean I'm going to suddenly stop eating out, but it will mean I spend less money in the long run, without having to spend extra time. For all of the comments on Hacker News about how time=money, even when you're not on the clock, you'd think this concept would make sense more immediately.
premature optimization, anyone
> Political system are a complicated beast. We all watch the same movies, buy the same stuff, but, somehow, vote in completely different ways. I think it's because of how incentives are set in the respective countries. They are not really culture, but just something that's there and it is very difficult to remove.

I take your point, although arguably institutional memory is an important part of culture, especially given the cultural norms which build up intertwined with those organizations.

Even beyond institutions, though, I'd say there are still very significant differences. My understanding is that Berlusconi does well partly because people admire his lad-ish lifestyle (fast cars, 18 year old supermodels, etc). Whereas in many other countries his attitude, and level of consumption would be considered vulgar. Berlusconi doesn't just get in because of the electoral system, a lot of people in Italy must like him. And elsewhere in Europe he is simply not liked.

Obviously, that's just one example. I don't mean to pick out Italy in particular.
Speaking of multiple Soylent versions, I would go further than that. It would also be nice to see a "protein-enhanced" version for power athletes and actually athletes in general. Right now, I believe the male formulation is ~120 grams (that was the beta version anyway, exact amount not publicly available yet). Worse, it's plant protein. I'd pay more for a high-protein whey isolate version.
It has everything to do with regulations - "theft is illegal" wasn't stopping bankers from simply running away with customers' deposits, which used to happen - only regulation did that.
> Not at all; it depends on how strong the effects of chance are.

A little off-topic, but I've been trying to come up with a way to quantify (or at least usefully bucket) the strength of the effects of chance on a game. Do you have any ideas for how do to that?
Does this support the Galaxy Nexus (Play Store edition)?
> Here is an idea, to steal from their idea I guess. What if we kickstarted a campaign to raise $50-100M to buy off random people's debts this same way they did?

The more money you raise for that purpose, the more you'll increase the market value of the targetted kinds of debt. Succeed enough, and you'll create a credit bubble that pops when the influx of money runs out.
Sometimes this happens. They deal with purchases every day and can't aid with money laundering.
The problem being that it's not always their own foot that gets shot. Stuff like lack of responsible disposal of projects does not directly impact the aspiring chemist, but can be hazardous for the environment. I doubt poisoning groundwater teaches anyone character.
I've been following this story since the beginning, and here's the part that I'm baffled that people always forget:

They're open-sourcing the recipe.

That should remove all the accusations of it being a scam. If it's a scam, it will be easily proved such.

If there are nutritional problems, they can be fixed, either in the official branch, or in one of the many forks which already exist.
Are you still in the old school of marketing?
OK, I'll be less snarky with this reply...

>There's a difference between "meat", and grain-fed, antibiotic treated cow meat.

The meat used in McDonald's hamburgers is the same meat you would buy in the grocery store. Is it a super high quality cut? Of course not, it's likely made from cheap cuts of meat, but that's what you do when you're grinding it up for a burger.

>And last time I made bread, it didn't magically develop high fructose corn syrup or ammonium chloride, and yet, somehow it appears in the "bread" of a McDonalds hamburger.

Fine with the HFCS, but ammonium chloride is a common baking ingredient in baking. It's used as a nutrient for yeast and it's also used in medicine to acidify your urine.

>It goes without saying that the condiments are more or less by definition artificial processed foods. And let's not even get into the amount of sodium in this thing.

Tomato sauce is made from tomatoes, a vegetable. Sure it has a lot of salt and sometimes HFCS in it, but it's not "artificial". Do you consider homemade dill pickles to be "artificial" because of them amount of salt in them?

>You'll also notice there's basically no fiber in this thing (that's why it lasts so long).

The fiber content of something has nothing to do with why food lasts so long, it's the moisture content. Stuff that has no moisture will not support bacterial growth. If you take wheat and make hardtack with it, it won't rot at all, but that's natural isn't it?
Flash, Native Client, and now DartVM, too, all being built into Chrome. Is anyone else worried that Chrome may become too bloated, and more of an "OS on top of an OS"?

I'm not as worried about the file size as I am about the future performance of the browser itself, and becoming too complex and with too many bugs because of that.

Chrome for Android has already gotten a lot of flack for being too bloated and slow (as an app) compared to the previous Android browser, which was made for mobile from day one, while Chrome for Android just seemed almost fully ported over, which I think hurt its performance on mobile, and they're still working on fixing that and optimizing it.
It is probably easier to list the things that could not be considered "drug paraphernalia" by overzealous "drug war warriors" or by people actually interested in using drugs. I saw a pretty neat video about an apple and a ballpoint pen on youtube the other day...
I pretty much agree that those are fairly weak or irrational arguments. You do have to understand that psychology plays a large factor in the politics of this. If people want e-cigs to become socially acceptable in places that cigarettes currently are not, they probably shouldn't call them e-cigs and probably shouldn't style them to look like cigarettes. If they are marketed instead as vaporizers (or maybe something else, since "vaporizer" to me implies cannabis, and that's even less socially acceptable to some people than tobacco), in shapes that aren't reminiscent as cigarettes or cigars at all, they are a lot more likely to be accepted by people who have been trained over the years to cringe from anything smoking related.

However, before I'm willing to support e-cigs in indoor public places, I would like good evidence from independent third parties about the safety of secondhand e-cig vapor. The problem is that there's a catch-22; this kind of information is hard to obtain without them being popular enough and acceptable enough to reach the same numbers of people in indoor places at approximately the same concentration as smokers, and for long enough for long-term affects like cancer and heart disease to become distinguishable. I'm not really sure the best way to address that kind of problem; of safely studying something that has the potential to be harmful in the long term, but also has the potential to displace something even more harmful.
> cant offer to settle with the debtor for that amount.

They very frequently do. Usually for 1/2 the original amount.

If they do it too often people will deliberately not pay their bills in the hopes of getting an offer.
I just the whole article and now I wonder what happened to these photos and with this long article a reader would expect to see some photos... any source on this?
When I hopefully will be 70 one day, I wonder if i would actually like to see such photos of me. I think I might. "Once I was young, and I looked so awesome. Oh, those were the days..."
Classic case of increasing your luck surface area http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
Why is that evidently not possible? :) Serious question, I would guess anything that can be done in C - and bignums can - could be done well in JS, because typically C code compiled to JS runs at about half the speed of native.

If you have results showing otherwise for bignums, I would be very interested. Anything special about that particular problem?
This looks cool. My main question: why not just use Redis? Its a no-sql solution that's proven to be fast and reliable. I assume dataset isn't meant for larger datasets than Redis can already handle. The biggest advantage is the `datafreeze` command which could've been written for Redis instead.
> Some of the food problem in major US cities is lack of access to grocery stores that sell real food.

Assumed without evidence.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=11060...

From the conclusion to the paper:

> In our longitudinal study, neighborhood supermarket availability was generally unrelated to both adherence to fruit and vegetable recommendations and overall diet quality (reflecting compliance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans).

They do claim that the paper supports zoning restrictions on fast food restaurants, because of their finding that among men, greater availability of fast food cooccurs with greater consumption of fast food. Among women, not even that.
Does it take the same amount of time to load on subsequent runs as on the initial run? This should not happen. Are you running in incognito mode, perhaps? (in that case, caching doesn't happen for obvious reasons). Feel free to submit a report on the native-client-discuss mailing list or through the bug tracker.
I don't know what they're thinking, but in general with an aspirational product like this I don't think it should be too hard. They could very easily market classes, books, all kinds of stuff to their users to help them reach their goals.

... as opposed to something like Facebook or Twitter, where people are mostly just looking for entertainment or inf0. To me the monetizeability here is a lot easier to trust.
Hoping to avert “collision” with disaster, Microsoft retires SHA1
I've had some success cleaning up CSV data in the past using OpenRefine[0] (née Google Refine, and Freebase Gridworks before that). It is a really powerful tool for getting data in a consistent format.

[0] http://openrefine.org/
At an old job, I once wrote an internal library for working with RDF. Very unsexy stuff, nobody cared. When I changed the name of the library to "Graphic Nudity" (it exposes your graphs!), suddenly a lot of people took notice.
Well, first, there are those who argue (although I’m not sure they are right) that all software the world would need would be written by people in their spare time; even many large complex software pieces have been made this way. I’m not sure if this will work, though.

However, you are implying something more insidious: That one must forbid people to share software in order to make money writing it. This is obviously false, with many counterexamples. In particular, there is a company which is mostly writing the Gnu ADA compiler which is reportedly making money hand over fist. If one were to assume that this (or variants of it) is possible in all fields of software, then there is no good excuse for forbidding sharing of software, which does some demonstrable harm.
The best collection of quotes to live by :)
CryptoLocker still asks for money, the community strikes back
if in 10 years the price fluctuated from say $50 to $1000 and then rested at $500, you gained a huge opportunity cost. You could have shorted $500, played the market, sold early and reap the rewards =P
> But giving flu shots to everyone is likely a lot less expensive than losing even a single person to a serious flu infection.

Wait, what?
If the other party is anonymous or there is an overwhelming multitude of new 'others' arriving, then it doesn't work as the repeated prisoner's dilemma, but the ordinary one.
The main way that the ACA prevents it is (well, except in the states that elected not to take the almost-entirely-federally-funded-forever expansion of Medicaid) is by expanding Medicaid eligibility criteria so that quite a lot more of the even moderately poor are covered by Medicaid.

While, in the sense of being part of the ACA this is part of "ObamaCare", its not part of the regulations and mandate for private insurance that most discussion of ObamaCare focusses on.
No one actually says stack ranking is bad. But in reality it is very effective in getting rid of few troublemakers.
You have to keep in mind that during the course of those six months, Silk Road was taken offline. SR was assumed to be driving most of the non-exchange transaction volume. The fact that its dissolution had no impact on this metric is quite surprising and I'd argue it's an indication that "legitimate" trade activity has actually increased over the last few months.
The best books, blogs and more from four years studying marketing at Google
Why do people keep saying that PNaCL is like ActiveX, when it's nothing of the sort? Is this a failing on Google's PR?
It really depends on who is offering the mentoring. "Free housing and mentoring" doesn't sound that compelling unless it's someone you're convinced will add significant value to your company through mentoring. Which should then make you question - why are they offering it for free?
PC Displays: Are They Still Needed?
Is it too hopeful to think this might be a trial run at automatically upgrading other parts of the Android framework? (I still dream of a world where, when a feature like multiple selection is added to ListView, it's immediately usable on 99% of devices.)
Taking nude photos of an entire generation of college freshmen (without proper consent) is not scandalous?

Sure, it's not at the level of secret Plutonium injection, but still...
It's nice of you to reiterate everything I covered in my original comment, but I'm having trouble seeing the point....
I have some kind of psychological problem where I chew 5x more than normal people. This causes me to fill up on very small quantities of food and it's very difficult to hit 2000 calories a day without eating a lot of small meals or taking liquid supplements. So, at least for me, a liquid diet would be highly desirable.

As for biologically normal, it all turns into a liquid sludge in your stomach, doesn't it? Past that point I don't see how your digestive system can tell the difference as long as the composition of the sludge is similar enough.
The PNaCl ABI is defined here: https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/reference/pn... - and it's definitely a work in progress we'll be trying to improve. As for Pepper, it's also all documented here and below - https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/pepperc/

Granted, this is documentation, not a standards-body spec.
Imagine people said that you could save time and money by replacing friends with Facebook. Or you could stop walking a buy a segway.

Soylent appeals to exactly those people. If we wanted to live like this we'd just buy a bag of rice and a box of vitamins. We all understand that it's technically possible to use soylent, just that like replacing all your friends with Facebook, or riding a segway, it's social suicide.
I am skeptical of Dart's utility since it is limited to what Javascript is capable of. At the same time I lament about how tired I am of javascript. What I'm saying isn't difficult to understand at all you're just being dickish.
Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable, Little-Known Model
Scala Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA [vid]
Real-time notification mirroring from Android to your computer
Generating value for your employer is not a zero-sum game. If I make the company an extra $x and the company rewards me with a bonus of $0.1x that money doesn't have to come from the guy next to me, it comes from the extra $x I brought into the company.

The idea that "there's a fixed budget for raises" or "that money goes into a different pot" is simply a way of refusing while transferring blame to an inanimate object.
Qt for Google Native Client
I've also used databases with more than a 100 million rows in a single table and received realtime query performance in multi-table joins. And this is using Sqlite! No expensive DB licenses - but it was using a high-end SAN since we actually ran thousands of these multi-million row databases in parallel on the same server.
I would assume that this comes from a general feeling of disengagement to the urban environment that person is living as the 1980's were a period of significant anxiety about the future. Science Fiction of this period tends to be quite dark.
After living in Honolulu, San Francisco, Berlin, Tokyo, and Singapore, I believe that only Singapore truly has a blue-print of the future laid out properly. A lot of green / smart housing developments. Deeply multi-cultural. Strong emphasis on education and personal development (plus world-class universities to support this). Of course living in an endless summer helps.
"Pink slime" is meat. If it had been invented by a molecular gastronomist, we'd be heralding it as an exciting, innovative gourmet food.

But the media-invented pejorative nickname "sounds gross", therefore that is scientific proof that it's not "real food" and will kill you.
Please do! The idea is awesome and I too am one to not use fb/twitter for signing up. Call it being stubborn, but there's plenty of us out there. In the meantime, is there a mailing list that people can join to stay up to date?
I'd tell you that you live in country on par with North Korea in terms of respect for humanity.
I've read Fast Food Nation (and have seen the Richard Linklater adaptation) and it didn't give me pause at all.
The 0% chance is simply not existing. The people who fail the 60% chance (or your 4% chance) live lives of pain and misery. Perhaps talk to someone seeking euthanasia about whether life in pain and misery is worth living?
mmm RDF, tell me more ... resources ... descriptions ... frameworks ... mmm ... just this very day I taught this in class ... mmm ...
There's a bitcode spec [1] and a stability doc [2].

1 - https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/reference/pn...

2 - http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/stability-of-the-...
'Family Guy' Creator Brings Carl Sagan Archive to Library of Congress
> Think student loans never existing.

You mean free tuition for all like we used to have?
And I believe the FHA and all the banks have threatened to end all future mortgage lending in the area if the courts actually let them go through with it. I wonder what requiring cash up front will do to home prices...
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript. It has classes, interfaces, static typing, and object oriented polymorphism. TypeScript is designed to be used on larger projects.
A feeling of general crumminess, tired all the time. Then comes the breathing problems and bone aches.

Per usual, there's a very informative wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy#Symptoms
The search for the missing link: what lies between SQL and Django's ORM?
I'm not sure how it was developed, but its popularity is credited to Jack Welch, who introduced it to General Electric in 1980. In doing so, GE experienced a "5-fold increase in revenue":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
I don't think it's been scandalous for about four decades. Even when it was happening it was an open secret. I don't think 'scandal' ever truly applied; that implies surprise.
I work as a computational epidemiologist, and believe me, there's plenty of room for good, committed developers - helping make tools for scientists run better, run faster, and be more accessible to people beyond just the folks that coded them.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you'd like to chat.
Thanks for the great comment. Let's chat sometime, love to pick your brain a bit. Send me an e-mail.
A bit earlier than 1989; the Left Party split with the Soviets in the 1960s, and became frequent critics after that. They were one of the loudest European left parties condemning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, for example.
> I'm glad to see so many people disagree with me. It means I'm on the right track.

What? No it doesn't. The rest of your post was thought-provoking, but this "teenage forum troll with a wounded ego" act drags the whole thing down. I don't recommend repeating it if you want people to take you seriously.
I don't think it's possible to do a double-blind study on Soylent.

I guess you could blend up normal food and water it down to the same consistency but it would still taste like food so I don't think it would fool anyone.
These crimes don't point to a weakness of technical protocol, but they do point out to a weakness in bitcoin as an unregulated payment system.

If you want to do business in such a system, then you must rely only on yourself and keep in mind the risks from counterparties and intermediaries that are significantly different than for "normal" currencies.

For example, if you want to wire $10 000 to someone, you can basically ignore risks of someone stealing it in the middle; if you want to give someone $10 000 worth of bitcoin - then if any intermediaries are involved, you'd have to check them yourself. If a regulated financial institution holds $10 000 of your money, you can pretty much ignore risks of it going bankrupt; but if an unregulated money transmitter holds your bitcoins or cash in the same amount, and they go insolvent or fraudulent, then your funds are gone.
I'm old enough to remember a time when using your credit card to buy something on the internet was considered wildly stupid and irresponsible. Just saying.
"For a list of currently supported models, please see our Installer wiki page."

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/CyanogenMod_Installer#Supporte...
This is generating a lot of social media buzz today.
Great idea!

What do you think about the possibility to have several projects for the same account?

Good luck
Looking at all the special casing in your code, just for dates, I can imagine the sweat and tears that have gone into producing this.

For anyone else looking for the code as I was, it's here:

https://github.com/SheetJS

https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xls