skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A statistic showing that many representatives have farms would be a lot more interesting than an insinuation that many of them probably do.

The excessively subsidized farms discussed in the article were collecting an average of $30,000 a year. That's nice money, but I can't see a significant portion of the body wasting their influence chasing that around.
Thank you very much for the links and the information. I've already started reading it and it is very enlightening and enjoyable.
>> Meanwhile—perhaps surprisingly—my favorite places to work are coffee houses or college libraries.

Totally agree, on days when I WFH, I drive my wife a bit crazy in that I like the TV on, yet get a bit perturbed if she interrupts with something not too important. :) The TV eases the pain of silence and does not require me to answer it. At work, there are at least a dozen direct potential possibilities for someone to interrupt me at any moment.
Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
Based on the huge discrepancy between the supply of bitcoin (which is algorithmically regulated) and the demand (China, institutional investors, etc), some have predicted that the price of Bitcoin will increase to between $500,000 and $5,000,000 per unit within a three-year time frame. Whether this will happen or not, only time will tell. But what its telling us now is that Bitcoin has already increased 50x over the last 12 month.
Open Sans has plenty of weights to choose from, I don't think you should write off the whole font! http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
The buttons are what the non-iPhones get wrong.
I think you read the wrong message about why his marriage ended.

Rather than separating over the lack of paycheck, he and his ex-wife chose to forgo his paycheck initially because the demands of his high-stress job did not leave room for his role as a husband and father. He did not work for two years by choice in order to be with his family.

When he wasn't able to go back, they continued on together as a family through foreclosure, living in a two-bedroom apartment as a family with 8 children. He didn't earn a paycheck for six years before they separated. It sounds like they continued on together until they were simply unable to pay for housing.

She took the younger children to Germany, where as citizens they had a good education system and social safety net to rely on, and he stayed in the States and kept in contact with the teenage kids so they could remain in the same high school.

These decisions do not reflect a spouse that simply does not care how many ball games her husband attended. They describe a team who consistently prioritized their children's stability and education over a paycheck or even their marriage.
By some reports they were looking at 600,000 bitcoins[1], read some headlines today that bc was at $750[2], make more people comfortable with them...

[1]FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder by Alex Hern
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/fbi-bitcoi...

[2]Bitcoin hits $750, up 107% in a week By: John Phillips
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101205416
From your second paragraph I can see that you have no idea how the NFL and NHL are structured or operate. Of course, you're too pretentious to even try to understand the business because they're just "media hyped sportspersons."
First chapters of Leaflet.js book released today
Product Patience
So why do you care if they are broadcasting sports?
No doubt that doing good to others brings happiness. So anything in this space that adds a smile to peoples' faces would probably work. Agree with others on publishing addresses. Starting out in a small niche is a must before allowing others to join in. Who would I do personal favours for? Family & friends, poor folks (specially in developing countries or poor hoods), sick people, homeless individuals, and misfortunate ones...
I was thinking the same thing. Kinda shocked this isn't standard practice since GPS came to public use in the first place.

Now, of course, we'll have to wait and see whether GPS data would also develop a habit of disappearing along with dash-cam footage.
Julia Functions for Exploring Functions (and Types) in Julia
It's a bunch of shiny chrome-plated panels, like you'd find on a motorcycle. The idea, if I recall, is that a browser (under Google's metaphor) is a web-navigating vehicle, and Chrome is some sort of stripped-down, sped-up, turbo-boosted chopper bike compared to the "pick-up truck" of Firefox and the "SUV" of IE.
That's often insufficient. For MurmurHash{2,3}, for example, you can generate arbitrarily many keys that collide regardless of the random seed. Code is on the SipHash page:

https://131002.net/siphash/
Because you can't just make up 10 new bitcoin IDs to be able to lend out against your 1 bitcoin. It would require creating bitcoin-backed bank notes. We'd be back to a reserve currency.

Not that I personally think there is anything wrong with a reserve currency, but they tend to significantly curtail the power of governments to wage war, so it's extremely unlikely we'll ever go back to such a system.
Here I'll fix your statement for you.

Go to any so-called tech conference. The majority of people are obese or overweight and look as if they'd be hard-pressed to run a hundred yards.

Stop being a douche.
Inqre: The social question revolution
With the public devouring Twitter for latest news updates, gossip, and general connectivity with their peers, people still resort to Yahoo Answers! for general questions, only to find a rather lacking design aspect and social presence. Inqre aims to resolve that with its 100% custom coded unique blend of a Twitter-esque system for two things: Questions, and Answers.
Sounds like a poorly designed system rather than a Python problem.
> A statistic showing that many representatives have farms would be a lot more interesting

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-carr/farm-subsidies-pai...

http://www.ewg.org/release/members-congress-received-238k-fa...

Just some interesting links I found while attempting to sate my own curiosity as to whether such a statistic has been compiled.
I am with others, I am surprised it took this long. This actually is safer for officers out by themselves.
I hate to say this but:

"first they came for the communists,
I didn't ck.plain because I wasn't a communist..."

I don't want them to come for me. Cameras are one thing, it cuts both ways. This is different. (quote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...)
I have large databases I need to drill down on. Any help on the best way to do this would be greatly appreciated
"if Aereo prevails, it would mean sports programming would likely migrate to cable."

Which is fine. Either their new cable revenue will make up for the long term loss of public interest in these sports and the resulting loss in merchandise and advertising, or they'll slink back to broadcast.

But they don't have a right to make a living playing sports.

I don't see the problem, at least not this problem.
Potentially looking for investors. The attorney review is free for the short term. We have an immigration attorney on staff and access to very helpful attorneys. We are giving customers the platinum version of the product for $99 right now, but this is a limited time offer.

http://www.visaease.com/visaease-application-process/pricing...

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Congratulations on your massive profit, and thank you for stimulating the Bitcoin economy! However, I think that you will eventually regret this decision.
Seriously? Will the US and other major countries hold their reserves in Bitcoin?

It's not goldbugs or small-time hoarders. There's literal tons of the stuff held in vaults around the world.

This is just one vault: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247196/Pictured-Pro...

The total reserves are 31,000 tons of gold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve) which at $35M works out to about $1 trillion.

So if the sum of all Bitcoins is to be worth the same, then you'd need a per-Bitcoin price of $51,600 for all 21 million theoretical Bitcoins.

I find it unlikely that price could be sustained.
> Some of the comments posted before this one express puzzlement about his "homelessness" when, after all, he had immediate relatives who still had a house to live in. Many cases of people living on the street are cases of people who have untreated behavior disorders that make them very hard to live with, even for their immediate relatives who have living space. The case of the author here is a case of a man who was brought up (as I am sure, having come from the same generation) to feel that it is his responsibility to provide for his children, and not their responsibility to provide for him.

Sorry, but that's stupid. You have to be able to lose (http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=56 - chapter 19).
Kicking myself for all eternity...

EDIT: Or not... [1]

[1]: http://imgur.com/cp01D2m
Interesting math, really. We didn't have any revenues, so we figured we were worth a $billion dollars. But now that Twitter has IPOd, we're clearly worth a lot more billions of dollars.
Banks can effectively print money. They can take out loans from the Fed at effectively 0% interest rates, then lend out ten times as much to people. And they can lend to other banks, who they themselves can then lend ten times as much. Banks can print money.
The blackout rules aren't stupid. They're in place because the numbers support it. The teams make more money with the blackout in place than without it.

It's so surprising that people can't understand that the sports league aren't filled with idiots.
An Open Source Phone That’s Completely Unlocked, Hardware Too
I feel we're approaching this topic in very different directions. Let me rephrase both arguments, and let me know if I've rephrased correctly or not.

Your point is; how can you call suicide a bad or evil thing if it relieves pain and suffering in exactly the same way that the traditional definition of euthanasia does.

My point is; suicide prevention isn't just about demonising suicide, the act, but about helping people not get to the point where they feel/know that suicide is the only option.

Suicide/euthanasia is a tragedy. It means that we, as a society, have failed someone. Whether that is an inability to cure cancer, or cure depression.

I'm not qualified or experienced enough to really comment on the rest, so I'll leave it at that.
Dropbox Could Be A Bargain At An $8 Billion Valuation
There's no shame in being rejected from YC. Nice work to date - and fyi, I'm a fan of the hover play on the site. Looks slick. :)
Certainly, that's why Washington D.C. was built, so that the gentry didn't have to go to sewer-like New York to run the country. (Actually they moved to Philadelphia first.)
Press is a decent Android app with a lot of sync options. I use it with my reader via Fever API. The only complaint is that it has a few memory leaks which causes it to crash every now and then on memory constrained devices.
He's talking about using Maya toward the top, then 3D Studio Max later on. Using two different packages is asking for trouble! Why didn't he just pick one technology and stick with it?

Also, why not Blender? I'm guessing you'd probably have more luck with file formats and stuff with Blender because you can read the code for everything.
Exactly, that's the point I've raised in another comment. By the way, I've read that Bobby Lee (CEO @ BTCChina) is already dealing with Chinese authorities to see if he can expand the business out of China (read: accept €/$). Can't wait to see this happen as well as seeing Litecoin integrated there.
It's easy to get carried away with everything. My advice: start with an editor you know and use everything vanilla. You'll appreciate better tools more once you spend some time and get a feel for the pain points.
The citizenry is already pissed and it means nothing. They do what they want.
It suggests that:

you are a lazy piece of shit

you were incarcerated for bank robbery

you were on the run from the Feds living in Argentina

you went to Pakistan to attend a Jihadist training course (BTEC-diploma)

you were kidnapped by aliens and given daily anal probes (that never impresses the interviewers)

you were being trained in cutting-edge industrial espionage techniques by a rival company of the interviewer

you spent the time going through sex-reassignment procedures and changed your name to Gladys

you worked for the NSA

The average interviewer will think all of the above and more in the space of two milliseconds, whether any of these delusional thoughts have any basis in reality.
Lesson: Don't have eight kids.
Show HN: What is Math?
ParallelX compiles Hadoop Java code to OpenCL to run on GPUs
Because if there was some good stuff on cable TV then I would pay for it again.
If USD/BTC goes slightly above $1,000, it will be profitable to mine on EC2 GPU instances.

edit: Forgot to mention, only profitable with Spot instances which are significantly cheaper than the on-demand rate.
I've been on the UX branch for quite some time, but I miss the addon-bar (aka statusbar) at the bottom
Dynamic Server Management With Doozer and Groupcache
Yeah, same here. Almost all of my meaningful commits are to repositories that belong to my Organization, and not to my personal account. But this generator only seems to factor in the personal ones.

And then you have to consider the way Github routinely detects the wrong language for repos. I see Grails apps detected as "Javascript" all the time, including one of mine right now. sigh I don't know why GH don't give developers the ability to declare the (primary) language(s) of the project explicitly.

I don't care if there's 6 billion lines of JS in libraries that nobody ever touches, and only 10 lines of Groovy code, it's still a "Groovy project" in every meaningful sense, if that's what people need to hack on to modify the project. :-(
You are assuming deposits and loans both are done in terms of bitcoins.

In theory, we can design a banking system that accepts deposits in bitcoins and gives out loans in the fiat currency.
Could Amazon disallow that if they wanted?
> the removal of the "thin" address bars/small icon sets

Oh, man. :/
>History shows that the US political elite has continually aggrandized itself instead. It's like a piece of software that is going to have terrible memory leaks no matter what. If you want a blazing fast app, you can't keep working with this setup.

People aren't software running on a machine! The point isn't for an idealized system of government that functions like a "blazing fast app".

You know who you sound like?

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

> This could have been said by an 18th century British bureaucrat too.

And yeah, maybe it fucking should have been said, and really loudly as well, because the real shitty thing about the USA is that it WAS built on top of the remains of an existing people, but the colonial setting is mainly tautological and I don't think it is a very strong argument against the tenants of the American Enlightenment.
You're right, in a way. But the main issue I'm still struggling with is credit and lending, which are core features of fractional reserve banking. And the more I think about it, the less the "fractional reserve" model makes sense when applied to bitcoin.

If memory serves, this is how banking works today (beware, there are gross simplifications in here):

1. Customer A deposits $1 in Bank A

2. Customer B asks Bank A for $9

3. Bank A now needs to borrow $9. It can legally do this because it can prove to the government that its reserves ($1) are greater than 10% of its outstanding liabilities ($9). It first tries other banks, but if all else fails it can borrow from the Fed.

4. Bank A gives $9 to Customer B.

I cannot see how step 3 happens in "bitcoin banking". The whole point is that there's no "central point of trust" and hence no lender of last resort.

Or to restate, one of fractional reserve banking's key purposes is to influence the money supply. But this is clearly impossible under a "pure bitcoin" system, where the money supply is fixed by fiat.
For the time being that is.
Given bitcoin's current quasi-legal status, I don't think they'd be under any obligation to answer that question until the coins become legal tender
It'd be nice to see some description of which compiler, version and flags are used in each case.
I kinda feel the same way. In the future, no private pool can hold the whole transaction history, only governments can.
36-54 is exactly the years that you will be told by everybody you know to go to a financial planner and "get serious about retirement".
This makes me really wary of ever gaining the attention of a police officer in Boston. Police car GPS tracking technology is surely coming to my state (after all, the city buses already have it), and it will be welcome here. Minnesota peace officer vehicle dashboard camera videos are often used in investigations, including investigations of officer misconduct, and everyone expects the video to be available any time a police vehicle is involved in an interaction with the public. It has been mandatory in my state since the 1980s for all custodial interrogations by police to be videotaped from beginning to end, and the videotapes can become part of the court record any time police conduct in a case is in dispute.

Law enforcement is better when law enforcement officers are subject to the law. It's really that simple. If we know what police officers are doing, we know whether or not they are doing their taxpayer-funded jobs and whether accusations against them are true or false. Every law-abiding police officer should be glad to be on record about what happened while on patrol.
No they could not, it's just OpenCL.
Also: Why would they? They still get paid and the GPU is dedicated on those instances.
I'm confused why the ACLU is objecting to this. It seems like having police be trackable by their own departments while on duty should present absolutely no privacy concern. And, for what it's worth, I think it's a good idea. At the very least, it will give police departments more data about what their officers are actually doing, and maybe it will prevent a few abuses of power.

I'd agree with the ACLU that this would be totally unconscionable if we were talking about tracking them 24/7, but that's clearly not the intent here.
That's just on Gox. On BTC China it's touched over $1000 USD in Yuan and on Bitstamp it's only $675. The global average is over $800 already. The USD only average is quite a bit below that.

https://bitcoinaverage.com/#USD
> Could Amazon disallow that if they wanted?

It would make sense for Amazon to raise the price rather than disallowing it (specifically, because enforcing a prohibition on activity would cost Amazon money, but setting the price to be at least marginally more expensive than Amazon's expected minimal-effort realizable gain from using the GPU instances themselves would make Amazon money.)
I tried using Clojure to build my personal website. I love it, and can't wait to see where it goes next. However, the documentation problem is pretty real. Clojure libraries get updated and deprecated really quickly (because the language is so new) and tutorials on the web quickly get out of date. I had a lot of experiences where I would pick up a new library or framework because it was in a tutorial, only to find out that:

-It had been abandoned by its creator in favor of a newer framework.

-The functions used in the tutorial had been deprecated.

These are definitely just growing pains and not something intrinsically bad about Clojure. However, I hope that the next year or two bring more stability and more ease of learning.

One thing that I wish was better tutorialized is LightTable. I understand Chris Granger is a one man IDE developer and that LT is still in development. However, if we could get more tutorials from users like the one that was posted earlier today, that would be fantastic.

Eventually I ran into pedestal.io. Those guys have a great framework. It covers front and back end, and involves Functional Reactive Programming, something I'd never seen before. They have an excellent tutorial that they update in sync with the framework. It's a bit overkill for my personal (mostly static) website, but after taking the time to learn it I feel like I came away with a real new skill.

One last thing that struck me about the Clojure community is how many workhorses there are. Guys like cemerick, technomancy and Chris Granger (the guy behind LightTable) have been working fast to build TONS of stuff, and a lot of it works really well. In particular, Leiningen is awesome and I imagine (I've never not used it) that it makes the process of getting started that much easier.
the actual issue you're fighting is lots of people taking particular drugs, which means what you care about are the people managing the city-wide operation

That is a complete non sequitur.

Actually, if you really want people to stop using drugs, arresting and imprisoning users is the single most effective technique yet known. It's especially effective against the middle class white population that consumes most drugs in the USA, but it works against poor minorities and addicts, also.

And if you want to stop dealers, arresting and imprisoning retail dealers is the most effective technique. It clears the ones that work in public or sell to strangers out quite quickly.

Arresting the kingpins or traffickers is totally ineffective at reducing drug use or reducing drug availability. If reducing public harm were a priority, the kingpins and traffickers could be ignored. Once the users and retailers are imprisoned, the bosses are out of business, anyway.

And if you do catch the kingpins and traffickers, your efforts are completely ineffectual. There are always more kingpins in line to get rich quickly and easily. Decades of police targeting kingpins has only seen increases in drug availability. In fact, the faster you turn them over, the more violent the whole business becomes.

The reason police agencies target kingpins and traffickers is because the purpose of the war on drugs, from the point of view of police administration, is to seize cash to fund police operations. There is no law enforcement justification for such a policy, merely an agency budgeting justification.
You mean, like how Mt. Gox has virtual BTCs and virtual USDs in your account?

It is far easier to create "virtual currency" than you seem to think.
Ask HN: What's to stop the US Government from buying 51% of Bitcoin?
Hopefully this is not a silly question.
Bid simulator is nice, but what I really wanted to highlight was the existence of profit maxima and the fact that it can be determined experimentally.

In retrospect, Bid simulator is probably the best thing to use for a starting estimate of the keyword profit optimum (if you don't have data and just use your global conversion rate across all keywords.)

Obviously google has the MOST information and is in the best position to optimize on advertisers behalf, but among SEMs I trust and respect, I've found that there tends to be a distrust for how Google applies the information and a belief that despite the inferior information, a more hands on approach tends to outperform Google's built in tools.

For example, Google doesn't use the keyword when determining what ad to show in its ad rotation optimization. http://searchengineland.com/optimize-for-conversions-using-t...
Anybody got a copy of this article's predecessors "why the X terminal will be a universal OS" or "why the VT220 will be a universal OS"? ;)
Bad systems or bad programmers?