skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't justify the estimates for the custom chips in any way. Odd.
I don't mean this glibly, but just in case you aren't playing devil's advocate: you sound like an asshole, and I would not hire someone who made a comment like this one. ($0.02 and all.)
How about Amazon?
Thank you for pointing me in the direction of the Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_D... :-D
Everyone's an asshole to someone at some point about some thing. It's simply a matter of perception and unmet expectations.

You expect something from someone for which ever your reason might be and what ever their relationship to you could be. That expectation is unmet and you'll most likely think of them as assholes.
I'm actually a monarchist, but not like this. I just believe the current political system of Canada is strong and shouldn't change into a republic. I've never even heard of this movement. I hope I never have to again.
Nice implementation. Looks slick. I want to know how it's different from a similar Facebook feature... But nice job.
In my experience from debugging C programs:

- Use valgrind (or gdb)! Your segfault should be simpler to find than a memory leak, because you know what line the segfault happens on.

- If you have a value that's getting mangled (pointer getting overwritten by a write to another address) and you can't figure out why, use watchpoints to see when that address is getting touched. http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Set-Watchpoints.htm...

- Find a minimal program to reproduce the problem. It's gross, but I used to actually just take a copy of the code and cut things out until the bug stopped, then look at the last thing I cut. You can do this as a binary search - only run the first half, check for the bug, only run the second half, check for the bug, repeat on the buggy half.

As I said, segfaults are a lot easier than this kind of problem (not that they're easy when you start out). Don't be discouraged! I would help out too, but you'd need to send everything to reproduce the bug (client code, server code, server platform, etc.)
http://vimeo.com/68294884
I'm holding some bitcoin, but I'm still not sure whether I'm speculating or if I'm in for the long run.

Sure, the Chinese are plowing huge sums of surplus cash into BTC, but where can it go? If the US, EU, and China decide tomorrow to freeze out bitcoin exchanges (like the US has already pretty much done), then where does that value go? Does it sit in BTC until adoption hits critical mass? How do you reach critical mass if you can't get in and out of fiat during the transition?

All it takes at this point is for China to decide on the socialist side of the fence and seize btcchina. All that Yuan hasn't really left the country and I'm sure Beijing will make damn sure it never does.
I'd like to see how you cut bread with a gun or a fork.
Isn't this just a vulgar, shallow rephrasing of solid, old-fashioned management principles that have been around forever?

Everyone knows that there are difficult personalities out there. You have to look at what every candidate brings to the table: skills, experience, creativity, communication, etc. It's usually a mixed bag.

Some people are brilliantly creative but very difficult to get along with in an office environment, and others are extremely smooth and diplomatic but unproductive. I've run into both kinds, though most people tend to be somewhere in between.

For a start-up situation, it seems to me you want to hire more from networking than from cold-call applications. When a new hire is 25% of the work force, he or she is going to have a huge impact on the culture and productivity of the team and it's very helpful to have met and interacted with them already.

When a new hire is 1/1000 of the work force, they're going to have less of an impact unless they're C-level, so you can afford to cold-hire based on established procedures.

I don't see much value in statements like "A-holes usually are not very introspective". It seems this person has a very specific image of what an undesirable team member would be like, probably based on his own brief experience in the working world.

After a couple of decades of working experience, I find it hard to generalize what an "a-hole" would be. It's all over the spectrum, from good hard working team players to borderline or sociopathic personalities whom you feel like strangling.

I guess the bottom line is, leave your ego at the door while interviewing, try to see the value in each person, figure out what they bring to the table, and maybe get them in for a day or two to interact with the team and see if the chemistry is OK.
I've been going to China since 1985 (28 years), speak Chinese and Japanese, and read the newspapers fluently in both.
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First past the post election system is a problem, but the fact is that only a hip minority of people vote for what they perceive to be the "least evil" candidate. I went to grad school in Chicago, and all the people I know who support Obama genuine think he's a great candidate. Maybe not their ideal candidate, but one they can get behind that they think will be able to build a coalition.

If you look at American policy, it's closely representative of the views of typical voters. High levels of welfare spending for the middle class (i.e. Social Security and Medicare?) What could be more representative of a voting population that consists to a large degree of middle aged middle class folks nearing retirement who won't be burdened with the bill? Foreign wars? How many liberals urged Obama to intervene in Syria even after their ostensible opposition to Iraq? How many liberals supported arming Syrian rebels after complaining for years about arming anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan? On either side of the aisle, Americans are broadly willing to resort to military solutions. The drug war? I grew up in the 1990's and remember being surrounded by suburban soccer moms who thought drugs were more evil than Hitler. The drug war was built on a solid coalition of social conservatives and Reagan Democrats that's only now chipping at the edges as a younger generation becomes parents themselves.

First past the post has notable theoretical weaknesses, but that weakness tends to be entrenching the voice of the mainstream consensus, to the exclusion of minority viewpoints.

Americans love to bitch about the government, but very few would change anything in a substantial way. They argue over issues at the edges because that's the only thing they disagree about. They might disagree with the amount of penalty BP should receive, but people on the right don't want to get rid of the regulatory regime surrounding oil drilling, nor do people on the left want to abandon drilling entirely.
My ignorant BTC question is this - does knowing that this 'address' has this much money make it a target for people to crack its key?
This is really a big issue. I notice more and more metro areas are pushing their airports way back to the hinterlands. Especially for inter-European travel it seems kinda pointless to use airports when it takes already an hour just to get from an inner city area to the airport.
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A doctorate in most fields is proof of a degree of general smartness and an ability to work rigorously in the field. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with good judgement, luck, diplomacy, social skills, practical skills, or any of the thousand other things that contribute to success in life.
Google has employees in China, and making a strong-arm motion like this could put them in danger.
In the past we have strongly suggested that all sites switch to HTTPS. If this happened on "World Global HTTPS Awareness Day", i.e., at about the same time, then I think China would be faced with some tough decisions.
Please tell me you are being sarcastic. You are asking how legit a speculation about the astronomical rising price of bitcoin on a bitcoin .com website, with a graph that accurately pinpoints our location in time at the foot of a giant mountain of $$$$$, predicts the downfall of normal money, has no scientific sources.

Consider all "you should buy bitcoin now" to be bait from gamblers who want to maximize their speculative outcome. Bitcoin is nothing but speculation. And right now it is in a ridiculous bubble.

I would flag this if I could.
I'd like to recommend this article by Phil Plait aka Bad Astronomer. If there's any worthy astronomical event, he has it covered. And covered well.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/21/comet_is...
Most people who work in tech end up working with some of the same people over and over again, and they bring each other into their companies.

Oh GOD that's a huge red flag for me. Because that clique will always have priority over your needs and career track. Not all of those people are brought with because they were super-competent and worked in complete psychic harmony with their peers. Sometimes people just need a parachute out of whatever company they were struggling in.
1M queries doesn't make sense if most of them actually use Memcached as backend. You can run more than 1M queries like "select 1", it does the same thing. The magic is Memcached.
How many bitcoins does the writer/his friends/investors own? BitCoin Bait? The Bitcoin bubble will burst - there are enough reasons for that as well.
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This is being discussed further up the front page today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6785749
Is convergence.io still a viable project? Last time I checked the github repo it looked to be abandoned.
Random fact: you may know Turian, part of the winning team, by being the man who used to have this impressive moustache: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1206193071/turian-profi...

I remember his writings or events that he was involved in have popped up on HN several times in the past.
We're not giving up anything of our own, but we really have nothing to give up. If Google ignores this and life goes on, life will go on for us, too. We will continue to do what we are doing. If I could do what we suggest Google does, then I would. But we are not Google. They have the power to do this, they can do it now - we should not have to wait for ten years. Eric Schmidt is saying today that Russia is taking cues from China on web censorship - this idea can stop them, too. It can stop all of them.
Exactly. But the important point is that the current situation with CAs may be flawed, but since ultimately the user has control over which certificates to trust, it will be possible to use better trust models (like convergence.io) to eliminate censorship. After that, we can indeed use encryption to fight censorship.
> what they are exchanging it for.

I went to a Subway in Allentown and bought subs with bitcoin last week. Scan QR code, send amount with a (in fiat) .5 cents confirmation fee to get it accepted quickly, done. No signing paper, no pinning codes, no 5% vendor transaction fees for using a piece of plastic.

I've bought humble bundies, reddit gold, wordpress themes, and an sd card from a bitcoin auction site with bitcoin. I regularly tip people on reddit with /u/bitcointip and its simple syntax. I donate to various open source projects in bitcoin because I just copy paste their address and send a few USD worth in seconds.
Wait until OVH open again, they offer the cheapest professional DDOS protection in Europe right now.
Did you start with vim on the command line? Or did you learn vim-style through Vintage Mode?
Where would this madness end?
How would it affect Canada for its constitutional head of state to not be a professional descendent?
I still remember Halley's comet and Hale-Bopp's. Both were exciting sight which reminded me in what type of environment we live in. That there's more to 'this' than what we see and concentrate on in our daily lives.
I don't understand bitcoin. In the sense, for a normal person to use it. I don't understand a normal consumer using bit coin.

I can't even figure out how to setup this stupid wallet. It has been downloading a block file for over 5 days. How the fuck is this the future?

The future is retarded.
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> You may have seen them crop-up on tech hangouts like Hacker News

I hang out on HN fairly often and haven't seen a single royalist.
I hope this doesn't gum up the inter-tubes.
That is a valid point and past Google blog posts have alluded to this danger. I made this point in the longer blog post which appears on our web site, but not in The Guardian article. http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/new-approach-to-chi...
Sure, after a while Doom 3 became boring and self repeating, but hell, it was one scary motherfucker to play in the middle of the night with your headphones on. I remember playing Doom 3 on my original Xbox and I just couldn't do it many times, as it was so damn scary.

Most of this had to do with the excellent sound design though, and this scary effect kinda ended when you got the bigger weapons in the game.
You said everything on my mind. Thank you.
ooh, no, thanks for the tip :)

I haven't had to log in for a while (about a year), so I've been happy to leave it as it is. When I migrate over to DigitalOcean (which I've been intending to do for ages now) I'll look into that instead!
yep thats how we had to work at BT as the competition for promotions was brutal maybe 20 for all of systems engineering every 18 months or so.
I'm not native english speaker, so sorry if I wrong. But does Schmidt actually means '10 days'? If I understood correctly Schmidt mean that if we (all people who do internet) starts to encrypt everything (http 2?) then it will be more difficult to do censorship. And he unlikely mean 10 days, probably 10 years.
I agree with you. OP may "introspect" on the fact that like attracts like.
My guess: Bitcoin is just facilitating the transaction. Restaurants are likely settled in Euros. I wonder how they hedge the volatility. There needs to be a BTC hedging market.
I said that coral rarely exists below 30 meters - and that was in contrast to the OP who said that "most corals live in the deep sea." As for research, beyond the scuba mention I also provided a citation from a reputable organization whose mission is to preserve coral. But in any case you're missing the main point: that the OP is conflating the diverse fauna found around warm-water tropical reefs with sea life found in in colder waters.

As I said, there are plenty of reasons to oppose deep sea trawling and I hope the ban is successful. But an infographic that implies that there are colorful Finding-Nemo-esque reefs a kilometer down with "roads, hospitals, kindergartens, dorms" doesn't help. It just makes supporters of the ban look naive.
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I have never gotten any useful information from references ever. A lot of them are afraid to say anything substantial and just confirm "yes, so and so worked for us", at best you get a vague "they did their job well". I stopped checking references completely because it was entirely a waste of time.
The Chinese central bank has said it's fine for Chinese citizens to buy bitcoins.

http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/bitcoin-gets-...
And he seams to imply that nepotism is a good thing "and they bring each other into their companies"
When things have gone up, people think they will go up forever.

When things have gone down, people think they will never go up again.

This article reminds me of this:

http://www.amazon.com/Dow-2008-Different-This-Time/dp/189395...
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There's a big difference, of course, which is that Canada already has a monarchy (of a very limited kind) on top of a democratic system, with stable institutions, a high level of general prosperity, and the rule of law. Being in favour of retaining a working system isn't reactionary.
Did the Subway accept BTC directly (or with any BTC opt in on their side), or did you out use a real time currency conversion provider on your side?

The explicit fee was 0.5c, but there is also exchange rate to negotiate, right?
Creating a new Bitcoin that is incompatible with the old would NOT massively destroy value in the old system. Look at Litecoin and other forks. Bitcoin holders collectively add value to Bitcoin (by simply willing to hold them and willing to pay slightly below the market price to add to their holdings), there is no single person who can change its fate. Even big rich guy's wealth depends on many poorer people to accept his BTC for the service they provide him with.

To switch to Bitcoin 2.0 all holders need to see no future in Bitcoin 1 and panic-sell into Bitcoin 2. If this happens, it's another huge bet (like going from USD to BTC), but the prerequisite is to Bitcoin 1 really be in trouble. Divisibility problem is not a fatal flaw, it can be patched, worked around, or counted in as an extra cost.

On the other hand, USD has tons of fatal flaws: it's being printed like crazy and it needs to be stored in banks that easily freeze, tax and censor accounts. Essentially, USD is not even an asset. It's always a chain of promises by bankers and presidents, who brake them constantly in various ways. Compared to USD, Bitcoin is infinitely better, so people are willing to make a bet that Bitcoin can replace USD. Imbalance like that is the requirement to start discussing a jump from BTC1 into BTC2.
I'll just use a concentrated laser to cut my steak! And char broil it at the same time!
The winners cheated and the business didn't follow their own rules. Sounds like enterprise to me.
To be clear, it's the memcached API on top of InnoDB - not the other way around. This is cool because it allows fast access to data in InnoDB, while exposing the same underlying data through SQL, as well as for a bunch of other reasons.
Since you are apparently very used to people doing things for you, you might want to look at online wallet services[1] that hold your money. You might think that it is less safe to do things that way, and you are right, but it is no less safe than giving your cash to the bank.

EDIT: Sorry for being rude; last night was a long night. What I'm really trying to say is that, by running wallet software locally, you are opting yourself in to a few responsibilities that go beyond just storing your own money. If all you want is the ability to store your bitcoins, there are already services that will provide you that ability with no fuss.

[1] http://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
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Being in my "after college" years, I've moved pretty consistently once per year. That time is coming up again and I wonder: Is there one portal I can go to where I input my new information once, and then select my banks, state dmv, web host registrations, etc, and not have to do each one manually?
Some times you do need to tell truth to power though.
Windows Phone remains second mobile platform in Latin America
I think we're agreeing ... and I think what you're standing up for is admirable, so I'll stand along side you. I also have nothing to give up, so that doesn't mean much - other than we're kindred spirits, perhaps with a real libertarian bent.
If you aren't spending, you are speculating. A unit BTC is currency, not a producer of value.
That is a very interesting idea, it makes the fungibility of BTC seem highly questionable, if you can look at its history forever and do an arbitrary 'blacklist'.
Yes, for X11 the client/server roles are backwards so I shouldn't have included it in the list.

I want to use my TV as a VNC/RDP client, and either buy a wireless keyboard for it, or just let it act as a passive display.
Beer (and gas) shouldn't ever be used to benchmark wages and purchasing power, as those prices are highly determined by local product-specific taxes.

That being said, I believe that non-London UK living costs are not higher than USA; London is a different story.
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Well, it is less safe than a bank.

Most deposits in a bank are insured. Most (all?) online bitcoin wallets are not.
So the organizers and crowd behind Singularitarian movement got bored, so they moved on to Sea-steading, life extension through 'that one crazy trick' and other Paleotarian claptrap. And now, they've jumped that shark too.

What a circus.
US Bank accounts are insured by the FDIC.
Oh god, really? Is that what we have now- people on HN telling each other "you're an asshole i won't hire you" "no you're an asshole I won't hire you"?

Come on guys.
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If they do that, Mozilla, and most of the other browser vendors, will immediately revoke and blacklist that CA.

There was already a lot of debate about adding the CA, but the final consensus was, I believe, "as long as they don't actually abuse it, we should trust them; as soon as we have evidence of someone doing a MITM attack with that CA, we will blacklist it".
> I am not going to claim that fiat currency will be so enduring

I don't get what you're trying to say. Bitcoin is a fiat currency.
This isn't an attack on your response, because yours is a realistic answer to the question.

However, I find it difficult to believe these things warrant the massive increase that bitcoin has seen the past few weeks. Open source projects, indie games and one sub shop do not a currency make.

That said, I am a believer in bitcoin and hold a few myself. I also exchange it for the things you speak of. But I desperately want to get from auction sites, humble bundles, reddit gold and wordpress themes to groceries, fuel and clothing. Then we might justify this market cap.
Yes the police do show up asking you where you got the money from. And if you can't say, they take the money off you.
They have proven that SQL-based storage is faster than NOSQL databases.

The poster of the top comment doesn't understand what this topic is about.

This is actually a benchmark of InnoDB table access. You can query it using usual SQL-commands. But if you want faster access, you can use memcache API.

"Read-only" is also misleading here. This is just a benchmark of get command.
Someone appears to have fixed this. The main content was showing below the left sidebar. ( I have Chrome's default font as Android Sans, that might have had something to do with it).
Hmm Alexander , Churchill (John not Winston) and Col Tim Collins
Except that banks (in the US) are insured by the FDIC.
Are you sure Google's big enough in China to have an impact?

http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/4371/search-engine-market-...

Even worse, that's by revenue, not searches:

http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/3809/china-search-engine-m...

3% of search is a blip.

[EDIT: Fixed the links mangled by cut-n-paste from other thread]
He meant that Google could encrypt their own traffic in 10 days, and offer mirrors of blocked websites via their cache feature; not that everyone could encrypt all traffic in 10 days.
I want to hear more about Stokes' story. She was a librarian but had the money to own multiple apartments, buy 140k VHS tapes, and "192 Macintosh computers." She sounds fascinating.
I've seen one instance of a Moldbug fan:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5965530

Other than that, I agree that HN just looks like a healthy mix of democrats, (crypto-)libertarians, and an occasional conservative.
He means to distinguish it from currencies that have value by government fiat. You cannot require businesses to take bitcoin like the US government requires them to take cash.
The explanation text and login buttons flash up while loading (Nexus 7 2012 model) then disappear, leaving me with just a map and a green header with no text at all.
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