skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was in the past, in less dynamic, less connected, less 'always on' economies. We've never seen what a deflationary currency will do in a modern, wired, 'speed-of-light/electricity' economy though.

It could lead to increased capital formation (savings) and less frivolous spending, eg spending only on necessities and appreciating assets, and less on throwaway, planned obsolete junk, while still maintaining enough velocity not to stall the economy. Leaner but still viable. Of course, getting from here to there will not be painless.

Who knows, jury's still out on it imho, will have to watch and see. Front-row seats to one of the greatest economic experiments of history, for better or worse.
>At the current exchange rate, they would be losing ~$1400 USD to 'clean' $700.

This is valid at any exchange rate, not just the current one.
Well, people love what they love. And love thinking, talking and discussing what they love. Is this any different from the sports fan who talk about old team lineups, why such and such tactic was wrong in a game, why they lost a game because of bad luck/refereeing.

Think also about common programming discussions: dynamic vs static typing, goto is the root of all evil, etc.

We love this IP. Having nothing more to explore about it, we start dissecting it to find more stuff. And finding easter egg and little details like this show us that the creator really had a lot of love for it's creation. This helps us acknowledge that our love is well deserved.

And, in the end, it's fun! Why would we do this if it weren't fun?
These look really good to me.
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price." - Richard Stallman

So to understand the word freedom in the context of free software, I tend to lean back towards liberty as a philosophy question. What freedom means, is a question famous people have pondered over for ages. So to ask a single simple question if Skype gives freedom, here is a quote from John Locke:

"Persons have a right or liberty to not be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others."

Since the developers of skype can subject their users to any number of inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary decisions, like including the NSA as secret listeners to private communications, Skype can not be defined as providing liberty.

For more details and guide to more reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty
Building an invalid string in Python 2.x
Across languages? Across speed requirements? Across locations?
A much more competent article written by the researchers themselves explained that they did contact the Iceland ISP involved in one of the attacks. Their reply stated that it was caused by a bug in a vendor's software that was resolved after a patch. The ISP wasn't interested in looking into it any further.

http://www.renesys.com/2013/11/mitm-internet-hijacking/
Carlsen is not dominant as Kasparov. He may get there, but right now, there's no comparison.
along the same lines - seems to me that the # of cars, number of buyers - is too low relative to other models to really have an apples-to-apples comparison.

the car fires are an interesting wrinkle. i like how people are arguing over the statistics of the number of incidents, fatalities, etc.

from one perspective - the entire underside of tesla is a battery pack, which would seem to make it incredibly vulnerable to punctures, scrapes etc.

in contrast, gas tanks in modern gas cars are usually buried inside the frame, outside crumple zones, in front of the rear axle. and you know why they are there? hundreds of lawsuits, car fires, fatalities, etc. basically, 40+ years of trial-and-error. (gas tank placement is one of the reasons why the ford pinto is a legendary car.)

so - if tesla is able to proceed with the model S batteries exactly as they are ... that would make tesla "miles" ... decades ahead of how the auto industry has traditionally engineered cars. will be interesting to watch for sure.
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing proportional programming fonts, but you'd have to give the non-alpha glyphs extra weight.

Alternately, IDEs that support proportional fonts could apply extra tracking to all non-alpha glyphs (and multiple sequential spaces, too).
I've tried high frequency dating once, but had to stop when all of my glassware broke.
If you're interested in the match go watch Jerry on his channel on Youtube [0]. He's uploaded some great videos so far. He also livestreams the games on Twitch btw.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork/videos
As someone with the same name. I approve.
Why is this not the top comment?
This is a video recording of the match with live commentary and analysis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_NGSn1MoI
It simply changes how much people are willing to spend. The question becomes "Does buying this thing now have more utility to me than having several times this thing's value in a few years?" The answer is sometimes "yes".
@nodemaker I think this raises some really interesting points. Based on my experience moderating an exclusive app entrepreneurs group on Facebook I have seen this come numerous times where an indie developer starts a post in frustration complaining how he needs a huge marketing budget to go up in the ranks on App Store. I hope either Tapdaq or somethings else can provide an effective solution for this problem.
I am part of the team working on this system. Yes, the SQL implementation will support left outer and inner joins. Thanks.
Give this idea 35 years, and check back then. Of course, there will be no need to escalate to meatspace by that time.
Does it start a new interpreter every time you open it or something?
Yes, he doesn't surf the web:

"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it." [1]

[1] http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I'm a tester so maybe I notice bugs more than others and I do find a lot when trying to use sites just to do my day to day business. I would report them if sites made it easy to do so but in most cases it's really hard just to find a contact email to report the problem to
Quite simply, explicit markup makes it very easy to see what formatting will be applied to what text.

WYSIWYG only shows you the end result, with no clean way to see how you got there. Was this font introduced because of some theme? Was it applied because of some toolbar button? Is it the result of some template? Was it copied from somewhere else, thereby baking someone else's theming into the copied text?

These are the questions that make WYSIWYG so confusing. These are the things that make explicit markup so straight forward. I don't think you can have WYSIWYG without the confusion or while maintaining the power of explicit markup.

If anything, Markdown or RST or Org provide a compelling middle ground: Markup is still explicit but minimal, and styling tries to come as close as possible to WYSIWYG without sacrificing control.

This, I think, is a far more compelling route to take than WYSIWYG or LaTeX-style explicit markup.
How about a low powers ATSC transmitter?
Reminded me of this: http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg
How about the President release his college transcripts? "Most transparent administration in history"...
I have a feeling it might be the lenses that connect to servers. I removed all unity-lens-* packages but unity-lens-applications and it's quite snappy.
6 lessons IT can learn from 'The Hunger Games'
i don't think there's a paradigm shift. winning the world championship in Chess is not like winning a World Championship in Boxing. These players play each other all the time, including in blitz. The paradigm has been clear for a while now.
Well I have never driven one, I only asked my cousin. But you are right about Indian roads and traffic. If you are going 2km/h with a pothole you can swim in, why do you need an expensive car.
Read the thread of comments, people take him seriously and are discussing the problem. I'd say, in the short term at least, it does work.
Who said anything about a ghetto?

It is an analogy. I am starting to get the impression that you are a literalist. That's not a helpful tool in this discussion because all you do is outright deny rather than explain how what you've written does not fit the analogies and comparisons.

You could start with explaining how these two statements are meaningfully different:

"better to mistreat a small group of people rather than a large group of people."

"mistreating millions is far worse than mistreating a few thousands."

Explain the difference, don't just declare they are different.

First you associated terrorist with muslims (which I never said),

I stand by my characterization of your use of "politically incorrect" - the only people who use that term with respect to profiling are talking about profiling of minorities. Your follow-up reference to "appearance" and defense of the israeli system's racial profiling of arabs only confirm my initial evaluation.

you who must defend that fact that you need to search old solitaire playing ladies as much as young extreme radicals.

Jihad Jane is 50 years old. Your error is in believing that "profiling" works - that you can know who is an "extreme radical" with any level of certainty. As soon as you create a shortcut through security procedures, that shortcut becomes a vulnerability.
It's a shame that the dash is so slow - but there are some solutions:

apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

and then apply http://askubuntu.com/a/68552/128873

You should also disable window animations and other funky stuff:

http://www.techdrivein.com/2013/03/4-simple-tweaks-to-improv...

It sucks that I have to write this here and that countless others wasted their time researching this.
This isn't often discussed in my field (NLP) -- thanks!

We usually use averaged perceptron though, which seems like it would make this hard to analyse.
Sure there's a comparison. Kasparov maxed out at 79 points higher than the second-rated player (Kramnik). Carlsen is currently 70 points higher than the second-rated player (Aronian).

By the way, Fischer at his peak was 125 points ahead of the second-rated player, Spassky.
Wow, now that is a sexy 3 wheeler.
This graph shows a fairly consistent trend of a player´s rating peaking around the age of 30 and declining after that.

http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/AgeLists.asp?Params=
Cellist-Organist-luthier here. Don't be silly. Imagine arguing against the merits of the organ by saying "It gives up the expressiveness of the Oboe/Flute with no tangible benefit beyond being able to play more notes at once." Keyboard music is meaningful in different way. What it loses in the articulation of individual voices, it gains back in the interaction of multiple tones and voices, for lack of a better way to say it.

This critique is using a 1820+ vocabulary for what I would call a "Baroque" instrument. "The right way to evoke feeling is by using expressive articulation on an expressive, lyrical melody line (among other differences)." It perfectly befits a Baroque keyboard instrument to work better with ornamentation and polyphony.

As a side note, I think the tone could gain a lot from gut strings. I don't think period strings work as well with steel.
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You guys refer to "voting" based on an implicit definition which I don't think you can support empirically. Do you mean "interacting with the machine in such a way that text indicating your choice shows up on the screen"? Or do you mean "actually influencing the outcome to the extent of 1/x where x is the number of voters in the election"?

In other words, you go thru the motions at the polling place, then some official announces some numbers as the result. What assurance do you have that the numbers announced have any definite relation to what people did in the voting booths?

If you can't show, or the government officials can't prove that deterministic relation to the public, then the talk about how voting affects political outcomes is fallacious. The last vestige of democracy was abolished when computers replaced paper ballots in an electorally significant fraction of districts.
This is great if they manage to pull it off.
Solutions like DLNA are sometimes slow and are buffered.
DLNA cannot be used to duplicate or extend your monitor.
I would buy it instantly.
I wasted so much time this year getting alternative solutions to work, like
XBMC on a raspberry pi.
There is no need for a media pc, if you can just use your laptop to quickly
watch videos on your TV.
Always plugging in a laptop is a big hassle.

EDIT: Using DLNA gets annoying. I need to start a software on my laptop and then I have to use my TV remote to select the file I want to watch in the TV menu. A solution like this is so much more quicker.
Actually, I was picturing the female sending her robot to meet the robot he sent ... the restaurant bill should be pretty cheap and hopefully the wine doesn't short it out.
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I found the complete collection of Netscape releases in English and German all the way to the last 4.x versions, some Chinese service packs that were lost, old versions of the JDK, the JDK 1.0 beta 2, tons of 2001-ish Apple freeware/bugfixes, etc, etc...
It's not a joke. It's satire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Which has to be reason #2 or #3 why I hate iTunes with passion.
I actually emailed this to all my friends/managers at work, then I got to the vibrator part, then I realized it was written in jest, then I frantically scrambled to recall the email.
His lack of research about issues that he expresses strong opinions about leads to things like this:

http://lee-phillips.org/StallmanOnFinkelstein.html
In Greek, there exists the exact same construct from ancient times: "ΛΟΓΩ FOO", i.e. "BECAUSE OF foo".

It's fascinating how languages converge.
As a matter of fact, my SO gets claustrophobia in revolving doors; she always refuses to go through them if there's another alternative, even the really big ones. She's fine on planes, however. I'm not sure whether these would give her the same sense of claustrophobia that revolving doors do.
Well I don't know much about chess, but I've read some chess history off late. I think age should not be an issue.

But sometimes people go through rough times. It happens, people don't stay in form and the added pressure of the event makes people more desperate and to act in urgency. Big blunders happen in such situations. This isn't just restricted to chess. In nearly walk of life this happens.

I know some very brilliant people who make silly mistakes during urgent production issues.

We are humans after all. And we make mistakes.
>I worry that Stallman is ignoring arguments that may inform his own, or even change them.

Of course he is! It is called confirmation bias. It is very very strong, especially with people like Stallman who hold strong beliefs. We are all guilty of it to some extent.

Here's some reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/

http://socialpsychologyeye.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/confirma...

Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).

A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.

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The most interesting is the last link. They did a study about the show The Colbert Report, which is satire, He plays a parody of conservative political pundits. The study looked at the viewer's political beliefs and what they thought of Colbert's.

"More liberal participants believed Colbert was liberal and that the show was satirical. More conservative participants believed Colbert was conservative and genuinely believed his “satirical” arguments. Essentially, viewers of liberal and conservative orientations tended to perceive Colbert as supporting whatever views they personally held."
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I'm more interested in your notion that you've "figured out" your spouse.
Can you reasonably anonymize it?
Cloud Security is not a binary question
Looks great. Anyone know if WebGL is ever going to be released/enabled for mobile Safari?
Yesterday I made my first pull request to an open source project.

Previously I'd always felt like I wouldn't know where to start or wouldn't be able to contribute in a meaningful way. In the end, I decided to just get over myself and do it.

I think everyone should try to aid open source projects in some way, especially when they use open source on a daily basis.
More women in technology jobs? If only it were true
It seems like 98% of the people "get it", what's really funny is the 2% of testimonials who honestly thought this was legit logo design for $5.
The concerning part with that anecdote is that Stallman dodged the real issue --- reading the bill he was encouraging people to complain about --- by brushing it off because of the medium through which it was available. It's not unreasonable to expect someone to have read, in part at the very least, a bill they're actively campaigning against.
>So here's my idea for a great emacs-based document editor: markdown with inline math previews coupled with a full live preview to the side. All the necessary modes for this already exist

So org-mode has you covered there, basically. Org isn't markdown, but it's close (and full of tons of note-taking features), and you can do inline latex with live preview in org-mode. I use it for notes all the time.
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Bitcoin needs to make it much further into the non-techie markets before this yields enough to make it worthwhile. Of course if this con is run by a pro, they'll actually profile each mark and return the amount promised during the first round, hoping for a much bigger score on the second round.
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Musk is not the best person to listen to on the statistical significance of fires: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768021.
Also the author shouldn't rule out Halon's razor[1]. Advertising the wrong AS is often caused by incompetence or mistakes of network engineers. Note that I'm not a network engineer (I'm a linux monkey by trade), but know you can do BGP AS path filtering[2] ala ACLs to prevent a rogue/incompetent entity from advertising routes that dont' belong to them. If more ISPs would simply lock down their routing infrastructure a bit more, a lot of these types of attacks would be rendered mostly void.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

[2] https://ftp.apnic.net/meetings/22/docs/tut-routing-pres-bgp-...
Hopefully Carlsen's becoming the FIDE World Champion will be loud in the media and will bring back the popularity of chess into our times.
Comments suggest article is a spoof. Flagged.
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I tried to work this year on contributing to open source, while looking for projects I ran into the KDE summer of code. I emailed the guy who was in charge of the project I wanted to work in. I messaged him in IRC. I never got any kind of reply.

And that sucks. I don't even use KDE I just wanted to help, to not even get a "hey sorry we're full" or something, that sucks.
A response to your post indicates that the amount isn't that large, which suggests that if there is even modest support for the ideas -- especially among even middle-income people -- it shouldn't be that hard to raise.

Sure, there'll probably be some elections in which the deposit is lost. If the approach to government is even a little bit important to more than a tiny handful of people, it doesn't seem like that should be a significant barrier.

I mean, really, I can't believe that the risk of a couple weeks wages for a single person per constituency is a substantial barrier to finding candidates who hold a view that is held as important for even a modestly substantial part of the electorate.

Historically, people who hold political views strongly have been willing to risk a lot more than that for them.
There is a nice cynical mutual recursion around here :)
Chromecast supported netflix from the day it shipped and hbo go as of today.

Also you don't have to "use macs" to watch netflix/hbo-go/etc on Apple tv... well, you only have to use one mac at least.
James Harden is may be the best shooting guard in the NBA right now.

Jordan was the best shooting guard in his time.
I defer to your musical expertise, and everything you said makes a lot of sense. One idea that came to me while listening to the video was wondering if pressure on the key controls how much pressure is applied by the string against the bow as a way to let the performer vary the sound. That might be a partial solution to what you're describing.

As a mechanical engineer, I have to respond to your terminology. The tension in a bow is the same all along the length of the bow. It has to be; it's the force the bow hair applies to the connection points at both ends, and if it wasn't the same along the whole length parts of the hair would be pulling harder than other parts which isn't physically possible.

I think the effect you're describing has to do with pressure perpendicular to the bow: how hard the performer is pressing the bow against the string. That deflects the bow hair, and for a given pressure there's greater deflection in the middle of the bow than at the ends. Also, the deflection changes the tension all along the bow, which changes the sound.

I can definitely see how you'd think the tension is different at the ends of the bow, because your feedback is the sound that is made and you can only measure the tension at one point of the bow at a time. Assuming you're applying equal pressure, when you measure the tension at the ends you're getting a different result than when you measure in the middle, because the deflection is different. If instead you reduce the pressure to near zero you should hear the same sound all along the length of the bow, because you have constant (zero) deflection and constant tension.
The dash itself is written in C++. It gets some of its data from python plugins, but a) not when it's searching for local files or applications, for which it uses services compiled to native code and b) there's no reason python should be slow for stuff that isn't hugely computation intensive like, say, searching a list of filenames. Whatever Unity's problem is, the choice of implementation language is not it.