skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>that planet's orbit (i.e. the ecliptic about the other star) must be in the same plane as Earth.<<

(No, the plane only has to point towards us from any direction, it doesn't have to be on the same plane as earth.)

EDIT: I didn't see it from the other perspective. :(
How much depends on what day you sell it. At current prices I guess you would be a multi-millionaire.
Technology evolves over time as does bitcoin's use. Hard drives are becoming cheaper and cheaper, for example. Bandwidth is also a non-issue, as the typical transaction size is less than a KB.

However, there's also the fact that a typical user doesn't have to download the whole blockchain in order to use bitcoins--they'll be connected to the nodes that do (that are dedicated for that purpose).
The Relationship between Testers and Programmers: Interview with Matthew Heusser
Hipsters love wabi-sabi.
Huh? All you have to do is toggle a setting and you can install apps from anywhere on an android phone. They could be from some random website or even from a dirty usb flash drive you found in some back alley in Jakarta.

This is monumentally different from the state of things with iOS.
Bitcoin could revolutionize the foundation of the world's economy with a piece of software some guy wrote in a few months. You'd figure that would be the kind of thing that hackers would get excited about, as opposed to social-sharing startups (which are just a replacement for reality TV)
We Finally Cracked The 10K Problem
I've worked in the consumer electronics business for quite some time so let me present some information for your consideration, I don't expect you to like it but it will explain context:
1) Adverts: These are often used to subsidise features and capabilities. Sometimes good EPG data needs to be paid for, sometimes you need to justify the running of applications stores. This is a business choice that the manufacturer has to make, be off-putting or lose money. Targeted advertising does increase acceptance of advertising over non-targeted advertising, however if you hate advertising your just not going to get a subsidised product (if it is economically feasible to make one).
2) Viewer tracking: This has many uses a) product improvement: by knowing how users use products you can improve your designs. However this isn't usually done in such a scatter gun approach. b) You can sell anonymous information to agencies who use it to understand viewing habits and increase the value of traditional TV advertising.
3) Third party content tracking - This could be used a) to identify working and non-working content formats, not all encoders are the same and it is a nightmare debugging all the strange formats the people of the internet generate. b) to deliver improved titling, indexing and other metadata.

Above all remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.":
1) LG's response from their CS department was composed by a minimum wage agent who got a response from their mid-level supervisor who enquired with someone in product management who badly translated that from some Korean discussions.
2) Most Koreans don't care about content piracy, it is rife in Korea, especially with their excellent bandwidth.
3) Most of these policies were probably written by someone more interested in making the best product for the least money and probably not someone from the west.

I would hope that LG might pick up on this and make a better statement, but it won't change their attitude.

Finally, personally as someone who makes a lot of set-top boxes I would happily see more dumb TVs, but the business of TVs is loss making. None of the big brands has made money in the TV business in ages, most people do it either for turn-over or brand recognition. Making basic large "monitors" is a difficult business to make a profit in because you are selling something very basic in a mature market.
The Lisp Machines would seem to be the counterpoint to that point of view.
TL;DR: He believes everyone performs on a single measurable dimension and teamwork is irrelevant. He thinks that forcing a ranking is the only way to get honest feedback from a manager, and believes that a contributor's manager is the one person suited to judge that contributor.

That's not actually a TL;DR, that's all he said in his "passionate" defense.
Sorry about that, let me try to clear things up:
Cryptic itself is a online file storage, so there is really only the cloud version of Cryptic (for now).

1. The kickstarter is to fund development and servers for the online file storage + web app.

2. Anything client side will be open sourced, and can be self-hosted. You could host the Cryptic site right now locally, and use a local version to interface with cryptic servers.
For now perhaps, but it does seem as though properties are gradually being lifted into a first class language feature rather than a set of conventions.
I agree with the author that having a finite number is not beneficial for a currency -- it is inherently deflationary. I can understand a currency which is increasingly difficult to increase the supply, but limiting production to a fixed amount will certainly lead to hoarding. I've never understood this limitation in bitcoin.
I would tend to disagree: it is difficult to know whether an investment is actually overpriced until after the buyer has filed for bankruptcy due to being unable to support its acquisitions. As the poster's original housing business demonstrates.
Seeing a bit of inspiration from Quora; nice idea and execution.

You're capitalizing last names, whereas names can start with lowercase letters (as does mine). The content shouldn't be pushed to the right, it's harder to read, consider moving the topic list to the right side instead. The line length isn't too bad, but reading is made much worse when it's pushed to the right because of the topic list.
Resizing snaps is actually one of the next features on our list. :)
My favorite is ShiftIt. It doesn't do mouse drag but its open-source and has hotkeys - [ctrl+option+cmd+{left|right|up|down}]

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

Another useful utility is RightZoom which makes the Maximize button behave as expected:
http://www.blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac.html
Indeed I'm not! Just an over-enthusiastic community member here. :)
To buy bitcoin. This was a year ago.
I think he also said he'd rather die than launch a 7-inch tablet.
Has anybody mentioned the power costs of all the different payment methods? I mean, datacenters, helpdesk-offices, sales and marketing. I think Bitcoin does a way better job.
And Xapian, which I've had good results with.
Hi Steve! I'm a casual Office Snapshots viewer! :D

It's always exciting to come to your site once in a while just to see those nice offices (especially those outside North America).

Thanks for keeping the site up to date too!!
I'm pretty sure the conference and whitepapers the journalist is talking about are at:

http://nexsci.caltech.edu/conferences/KeplerII/agenda.shtml

"NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA Nov. 4-8, 2013"

And specifically I think you're looking for the Sobeck and Howell talks from the first day.

I have this site bookmarked and intend, in my infinite spare time, to watch the videos for several papers. "Identifying Habitable Planets with Kepler" sounds like a good one too.
No coroutines per se, but it does have really nice native threading support, and I'm nearly certain that coroutines could be easily put in userspace. It's a powerful language in that regard.

Ask the guys and gals in #Nimrod on freenode, they're super Super helpful -- I'm not well versed enough in parallelism and concurrency to answer your question, but they are!
Easily migrate/import projects from Google Code to SourceForge
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Thanks! I'll add it to the to-do list.

Update: deleted the names capitalizing. Thanks for letting me know!
Why? That's a fairly common strategy, GHC worked the same way until a few years ago (and IIRC you can still ask for compilation to go through C).

It makes for easier reading of the codegen (reading C source is easier than reading machine code, even if it's generated C source) and before LLVM made it much easier to leverage C compiler optimizations & multiplatform support.
FP Complete's online Haskell IDE is now free for community use (try it)
I Agree. I just could not resist posting this quote. :)

Actually Pencil looks nice and I always wondered why Apple did not release such a device itself.
> Without trying to spark a partisan discussion, those taking positions against voter ID requirements are the ones you'd expect to be opposed to illegal immigrants voting, and those in favor of voter ID requirements are the ones you'd expect to benefit the most from illegal immigrants voting.

I think you have this backwards, perhaps unintentionally. North Carolina, with its Republican controlled Senate, and House, and Governor has passed voter ID laws. They are being challenged by the Democrat-controlled US Department of Justice.
Is that the only significant force that would act on it, though?
One less asshole in the country...
It's an idea for a startup.
I'd argue that the most mentally taxing part isn't that it's hugely creative, it's that your decisions can make or break the company. Hiring, firing, what marketing decisions, what development decisions - that makes it a lot more taxing than a job where the decisions you make are largely determined by your superiors (and the results also affecting them more as well.)
What are you missing in the SmartOS user space? This is a genuine question and not a troll. SNGL (http://www.joyent.com/blog/jonathan-perkins-on-why-smartos-i...) takes a shot at addressing the "comfort level" problem, but I'd like to understand if the problem is a technical one.

pkgsrc (http://www.pkgsrc.org) does a good job at making sure most packages you'd need are available.

I've grown more and more frustrated with the direction of Linux distributions over the past couple of years that I'm mostly avoiding new installations. I've been using OpenSolaris derived distributions for a while for ZFS, but I've come to the realization that SmartOS covers the majority of my general computing needs as well. Anything I write and deploy goes on SmartOS.

For tools that won't work on SmartOS for a technical reason, I'm using FreeBSD more. My firewalls have been OpenBSD for quite some time.
Just kernel level, or partial state projects that were abandoned.

D - Xomb - http://wiki.xomb.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Go - TinyGo - http://code.google.com/p/tinygo/

C# - Singularity - http://singularity.codeplex.com/, Cosmos - http://cosmos.codeplex.com/

The main problem is lack of support, it is a very big effort to create an OS and it is very easy to turn attention to other stuff.

Linux and BSD distributions wouldn't have reached the state they enjoy nowadays, without the help of the existing UNIX toolset and investment of companies interested in seeing the projects succeed.
It's a bluetooth smart stylus for iOS devices, especially tablets, which integrates with their existing graphic design app "paper".

The reason it's non-trivial and potentially interesting is because it doesn't just rely on the limited resolution of the capacitive touch screens of iDevices, it has its own sensor which improves on that. If it were just an ordinary capacitive stylus it wouldn't have the precision to be very useful for drawing or even hand writing.
Beyond Snowden, what is this "trend of whistleblowers"? Why haven't we seen others come out in similar ways? Or have I missed something?
Interesting. Seems ripe for a ripoff but I hope that works out for you. It would be nice to have some sort of reliable decentralized escrow.
Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Great! Tell her to feel free to contact us online if she has any feedback or wants any more information.
This was posted in May 2009. On October 5th, 2009, $1 = 1,309.03 BTC [1], so you'd have bought about 1.3 million bitcoin. Which means you'd have over $500M dollars in Bitcoin. I bet that spending $1000 back then would have considerably changed the exchange rate though, and selling $500M now would definitely aversely affect the economy.

1: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History
Then answer this bizarre question; Why would a person with the intention of doing some stunt use mismatching documents? If this person is a terrorist or some kind of outlaw, would not s/he use fake docs telling a story reputable to customs officers/TSA?

I believe this security theatre is nothing but a money sink hole. Use whatever means are necessary to make transportation unpleasant to honest travelers if it does not even mean to stop any outlaw.
> Bitcoin is different in that is the purest form of a fiat currency in the sense that it is backed by nothing and thus has no intrinsic value whatsoever.

Well, no, its not; the purest form of fiat currency is a currency backed purely by government fiat (hence the name).

Bitcoin is one of the purest forms of speculative "currency".
Very nice. My only complaint was that white text on a yellow or light green background was especially hard to read.
Some people don't recommend it, but you can work a full-time job and start working on your idea in your spare hours, saving as much as you can, quitting when it becomes feasible. I saved $20,000 from my last full time job before striking out on my own, and it made things a lot easier.
There were no exchanges before 2010.

In late 2009, the most visible seller was NewLibertyStandard[1], who had a unique pricing methodology[2].

You could buy roughly a thousand bitcoins for $1. This was widely considered overcharging.

[1]: http://newlibertystandard.wetpaint.com/page/2009+Exchange+Ra...

[2]: "During 2009 my exchange rate was calculated by dividing $1.00 by the average amount of electricity required to run a computer with high CPU for a year, 1331.5 kWh, multiplied by the the average residential cost of electricity in the United States for the previous year, $0.1136, divided by 12 months divided by the number of bitcoins generated by my computer over the past 30 days."
How is that different for bitcoin? Accepting bitcoin payments for purchases still requires datacenters as well as support, sales, and marketing staff given that the products/services being sold don't automagically market, sell, and support themselves just because you accept bitcoin. It might even be worse as a transaction needs to be verified by the rest of the network, not just by a single authority.
Why's that a big deal?

If you really care about a stylus on a tablet, a tablet with a real digitizer seems to be a much better choice -- and there are some good, reasonably priced non-Apple options out there like Samsung's Note series of products, the Surface Pro, Thinkpad Tablet 2, etc.
My website / blog is a single page app :)

http://mkeas.org/
Steven Levy wrote about how Google Drive was built long before Dropbox, but was held back from launch due to internal political maneuvering about whether desktop files are welcome in the "cloud" world.

But yeah, Dropbox went on market first with abfully supported any-filetype local client sync, not just Office docs and photos and cloud-only videos.
I love the comments by illumin8 in that first one.
It describes the seemingly only legitimate threat at the moment for the future of BitCoin (long term).
I'm suspect that governments are now probably more interested in the 'monitoring' of the system rather than governing.
In the case of Silk Road, feds seem to have done their homework when it comes to tracking down the money. But they cracked down SR, and BitCoin dipped slightly, and the crackdown actually seemed to boost confidence in the currency.
There are points to be made I think that governing entities would want to keep a system like BC alive (for a while), solely because it would be used as probable platform for money laundering. However if indeed, they are not confident that they can track down on money, or will be able to in the future, they would surely want to shut down BTC as soon as possible.
In the age of the war on terrorism, organized crime syndicates and drug cartels. One could think of many reasons to give when opting for that solution.

I might be considered a conspiracy nut: But "decentralized, anonymous, crypto" + "currency" sounds like a contradictio in terminis to me. Especially the "anonymous" part.
Indeed. It's too late to edit now, which is sad, since I was trying to avoid making party references, and got the example exactly backwards.

Thanks for the correction.
I work 40 hours a week and I already think that's too much.
It's a bit overkill for my personal (mostly static) website

Yeah, while you can use pedestal-services to create normal websites, it seems Luminus (or one of the others) would be better suited. Pedestal really shines when you build single page applications.
Hate when people use the tulips comparison. The basic protocol of bitcoin that allows people to send value anywhere in the world and solves the double spend problem must have some value unto itself. I don't know it's worth $0.10, $100, or $1000000 per bitcoin to use the protocol but to compare it to a plant seems kinda ridiculous.
Yes, but the Model S's on the road are less than a couple of years old. How many gasoline fires are caused by cars that are a couple of years old? I would guess this comparison would put the gasoline fires more in line with Tesla car rates. I would assume that most of the gasoline engines that catch fire are from older cars which haven't been maintained well.
Not really surprised by that.

It's much easier to send a photo on Snapchat than post one on Facebook and they all disappear so obviously absurd numbers of photos will be sent. Not really a valid comparison.
How is that even a fair comparison? Mining isn't just "creating" new bitcoins, it's verifying the transactions of the whole network. To make a somewhat fair comparison we'd have to include the electrical costs of all the physical banks and bank networking systems in the US, which is much, much more expensive. Even that's not a fair comparison, either, since bitcoin is a global currency, but let's not go there.
I've never personally used tarsnap so take everything I say with a grain of salt here. But Cryptic offers a much easier experience for the average user, being that it's entirely in-browser and not cli-based. We also give users the ability to share their files with others through the browser, which I don't think is as straightforward with tarsnap.

To play the devil's advocate, if you're already a happy user of tarsnap then you (like me, in fact) are probably quite comfortable on the command-line, and may even prefer it. As of right now Cryptic doesn't have a command-line utility, although building one is definitely on our radar! But until then you may find it more comfortable. Thanks for checking us out though!
It's a just a firm opinion.
Given that ASIC mining runs more like 10 W / GigaHash [1] (not 650W as stated on blockchain.info/stats), we are actually looking at more like ~$150K per day, or $56M per year to run.

At the moment, the value of bitcoin is $7.2B [2], so we can assume that if it scales up to $2T (about the same as M1 of the dollar[3]), then if cost scales linearly, it will cost about $15B per year to run the bitcoin network. That is probably less than it costs to pay the mint, federal reserve, and secret service.

1) http://millybitcoin.com/does-bitcoin-mining-use-a-large-amou...
2) http://www.bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/
3) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Apple remote comes to mind:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3176

I would like to hear you opinion.
> That's not actually a TL;DR

Agreed. It's stuff you made up. He didn't say everyone performs on a single measurable dimension, nor that teamwork is irrelevant (nor does stack ranking imply either of these).

He also didn't say that forced ranking is the only way to get honest feedback. He said it's the only way he knows of, which is a considerably different statement.

To be clear, I'm not defending stack ranking here. Muddying the facts with blatant mischaracterizations does not help the discussion, though.
Probably depends on why the stock market crashes.
For decades Americans have been told to fear change and the unknown. They've been told things that are different are bad, and the status quo is the way forward. Many decisions are now made out of fear.

This has all accelerated since 9/11.
I find that often that freedom comes at a cost (I could make more at a big company, when on a deadline I might have to work long hours - I can't switch off at 5pm -, and ocassionaly relying on yourself rather than a fixed salary can be stressful) but for me those occasional disadvantages are much outweighed by the freedom of time. 90% of the time I can choose when, where and what I work on. Your choice depends on what you value more.
I agree. I love Intellisense but I wish Visual Studio would stay the fuck out of the way everywhere else. It's particularly annoying how all the checkbox settings are only applied to the active configuration unless you change a dropdown menu... can't even count how many times I made a change to Debug/x64 only and then had to go back and fix it later.
I'm super excited to submit this. Hacker News was really open to messing with Haskell when I announced “Try Haskell” (http://tryhaskell.org/) a while back. Loads of people said, “yeah, great, but now what?” This is a nice next step.

I'd recommend:

1. Open Learn You a Haskell in a window: http://learnyouahaskell.com/

2. Open up anything that takes your fancy from the tutorials: https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/starting-with-haskell (they have interactive snippets)

3. Open up the IDE in another window.

Start learning and playing!

It's a full IDE with sweet Haskell-specific features like built-in Hoogle and type information of any sub-expression. This is SOOO nice for learning.

Similar to Github, for extra features there's a 9.99/mo upgrade. And coming next month is external editor support for the hardcore Emacs/Vim/Sublime. I work at FP Complete, so if you have questions, feel free.
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I've tried that, and it was too much mentally for myself. I was younger then, though, so it might be different this time! That's likely the road I'll go down, or perhaps get off my bum and start consulting again :)
Actually, all three are pretty close.
The thing about Polish is that in Polish words that are similar and understandable to Ukrainians are pronounced a little differently. My background is similar to yours, and it only took very little practice hearing Polish to adjust and start recognizing them -- and a lot of people from Western Ukraine, such as in the example above, have had that practice.

Similarly, a lot of Russians from Russia proper who have never been exposed to Ukrainian, find spoken Ukrainian very difficult to understand.
I feel silly about this, but did anyone else also get seasick from watching that video?
Properties are, but dot syntax is almost entirely not about properties.
Makes me wonder what the Rembrandts and Picassos would have thought of such a device and whether it encourages or prohibits artistic expression. I can imagine it certainly does on the tablet medium, but in general I wonder if there is any aspect of artistic creativity gained or lost when moving away from traditional mediums.
You know, of all the problems that this community has, I don't think "the echo chamber is far too dampened" is one of them.
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