skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. In 2011 when I got my smartphone, I remember mobile websites being simpler than they are today. My phone isn't as zippy, not because of planned obsolescence, rather the internet has become more demanding in two years. It's like PCs in the 90s. People used to complain about their PCs being obsolete in six months. You don't hear that any more because PCs are fast enough.
Any scientists or engineers out there have any thoughts or suggestions? Would you use this at your job or in your lab?
Nice touch - write comments like this while smoking grass purchased on SR2 with Bitcoins:) You have great sense of humor.
I agree with you entirely. They should use a secondary level of verification than denying service by canceling transactions randomly.
HyperText'93 was the first major conference where the web had a substantial presence. Yet the web as a topic was nearly absent from the papers and presentations due to its novelty. There were several posters at the conference though. We also had a BOF session bringing early web pioneers together to discuss how to take it forward.

Ted Nelson, who coined the term 'hypertext', said after his talk that he thought the web was an excellent step forward. By the next year it was everywhere. Twenty years later, many of the good ideas we discussed back then are mainstream.
I don't know about that. I own and have owned plenty of phones, of all three divisions (though some much less recently than others).

As an exercise, let us consider the usability of a terminal emulator on a somewhat-recent Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S3). This[0] is a screenshot of what it looks like if I want to type into a terminal emulator using a software-based keyboard. Notice that it is very cramped, and that few lines are available to see. It's pretty much a totally unworkable amount of space.

Now consider this hypothetical screenshot[1] without the software based keyboard. The difference in usability is night and day; the screen real-estate has more than doubled.

Not only does it mean you can actually use all the screen you have, you also get things that are really useful for dealing with text, things like arrow keys to move backwards and forwards exactly as many characters you want, or tab keys that allow for actual text editing/serious console usage.

I realize that for most people, these are total non-issues. And that's totally cool. I have also been in the position of not needing a high-functioning handheld device. However, there are thousands of phones for people who "just want to browse the web", or "just want to share pictures." However, there's pretty much no phones for people that want highly-functional handheld tools to get things done. That's what I'm looking for. Till then, I'll just have to hold onto my good old G2...

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/MJXgSum.png
[1] - http://i.imgur.com/fG7TFLW.png
Simple. I use public transports a lot and it's impossible to open something as big as a laptop in such conditions. With something that small, I can do some work on the go, compile it and test it very quickly. Debugging isn't ideal, true, but again I can do a lot more with this instead of wasting time.
Seems like more negative campaigns related to bit coins are getting prominence in mainstream press recently. Similar to what was observed during Wikileaks, Snowden etc time.

These articles slowly create that distrust among the public for bit coin. All they remember when thinking about bit coin would be silkroad and assassinations.
Summary: Aaron Greenspan was running a company handling money online until 2011 when he ran into regulatory issues with the state of CA. He's now suing many other organizations who are doing similar things, claiming those organizations aren't trying to comply with the law which gives them an unfair advantage. He appears to representing himself.
Agreed. I'd love to see a "build an OS with Rust" tutorial.
Could you please explain what you are doing in layman terms?
As a fellow Indian, I just want to point out that this video and any other efforts to develop people-to-people relationships between India and Pakistan have zero effect on the ongoing conflicts between the nations. Indians love Pakistani singers, cricketers, food, their language(Weird, I'm not a native Hindi speaker. But people tell me that Pakistani's speak better Hindi than most Indians). I've heard from Pak friends that they too love Bollywood and many things India. Even Pak government doesn't wish any ill on India. However the Pak army and ISI have vested interests in keeping conflicts alive. They also fund terrorist organizations in every neighboring country possible. Lack of democracy in Pakistan(Elected governments get routinely overthrown in coups) is a greater problem than religious extremism.

By that extension, lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia, and Egypt was the root cause of all Islamic terrorism. Saudi's actively promote a version of Islam that promotes religious discord in muslim populations across the world. I think the US missed a huge opportunity in encouraging more democracy during Arab spring and even the Iranian uprising.
It is but a surprise, that the states in India have not seceded.
Did you advise him to stop?
I'm curious what he thinks of sites like Sqwiggle and if that is a good idea for Remote Work
I'm from the US, my parents are of European descent. I've never been to India, and I only know English. The story moved me, and it likely would have even without the subtitles.
This is partly why I wonder if people can get the same emotional experience... Songs play such an important role in the Indian media and it can be very hard to describe. On the other hand I am glad to see that people still find it very moving (even from other cultures/languages).
Emacs has made people comfortable modifying it for decades.
There seems to be some mistake. I clicked on a news headline, but I got a incomprehensible stream of digits and a graph with no horizontal scale.
> At this point, your only option (if you want to continue selling on Amazon) is to suck up your pride and do exactly that

But he didn't mess up; if anything Amazon did. Kafka would be shaking his head with a resigned sigh at how Amazon set up their system.
many salutes to you sir. for speaking truth.
"He appears to representing himself."

Not true, look at the docket.
Hindi or Urdu? Haha... I always find the "language vs dialect" thing very interesting. The distinction when it comes to Hindi and Urdu is totally political.

Two of my old buddies, one an Indian, the other a Pakistani, could completely understand each other, yet both insisted that they spoke different languages (Punjabi/Hindi and Urdu respectively)

Another friend of mind, who left Pakistan as a 10 year old, always just shook his head with a smile and said "Dude, that's like a guy from Alabama saying someone from England speaks a different language."
I have several subnets (WiFi, LAN, virtual machines, guest WiFi, etc). I don't just bridge WiFi and LAN together like most, I prefer more control.

I'll fine with 16 subnets today, but I don't know what'll change in the future. I'm sure I'll have use cases for more.
if more people try to sell bitcoins than want to buy them, the price will decline. possibly rapidly.
Interesting you would mention Reddit search because I find the opposite, that Reddit's search functionality is lacking and Google will often find it easier (could definitely be bias though).
the vmware/springsource folks have their SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) which is a whole slew of plugins for eclipse. I think you'll be surprised at the quality of integration. Regardless, IDE would not be a major concern for me when it comes to using groovy for an old-fashioned java dev team.
Yes I was suitably manipulated. Good job, mass emotional manipulation team!

But I am surprised they showed people searching for flight status and weather. Google Now is supposed to already know you're going to Delhi and just show you the weather there without you asking. Same for the flight status.
well that anti-Islam rant might work IF there was no Islamic nation that wasn't peaceful.
I think the single most compelling use case is to segment WiFi and Ethernet traffic. No point in broadcasting useless Ethernet ARPs to the WiFi network when bridged for example.
Well... They got me.
The legibility could be better. I personally find it easier to read this Bloomberg article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-19/asia-stocks-halt-th... than this TC article.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/18/mostly-believe-the-bitcoin-...

Spacing between words seem a tad insufficient, font color a shade too light, and line-height a step too tight.

With that said, it does look better on retina iPad than on my 23" ips display. (matte finish).
> Is using the keyboard with its tiny little buttons really that much better for you?

They're no less tiny than the keys on the screen, plus they're tactile.

In other words, yes, absolutely.
> and much of their problems are due Islam having such a central role in the identify of the country.

Not really. The East Pakistan/West Pakistan war (which resulted in an independant Bangladesh) was between Muslim groups with little religious difference, but huge language, class, and cultral bigotry, with the Urdu-speaking West Pakistani-dominated millitary having a significant role.

Islam was pretty irrelevant. And my impression is that much of the harshest religious conflict in India itself owes plenty to Hindu extremists.

(From my POV the biggest problem in Pakistan is that a minority of usually millitary-backed elites remain in power, no matter how corrupt or awful they are, because they attract US support so long as they pretended to battle Communism during the Cold War, and now radical Islam. But actual Pakistanis or real experts on Pakistani politics may wish to correct me.)
Seeding Life on the Moons of the Outer Planets via Lithopanspermia
Assume an average of 500K, assume total taxes are 50%, assume living expenses grow with income (i.e. once you've "made it", you live a little bit more in the now, rather than for a tomorrow that never comes); having a nest egg of 500K isn't too bad.

(I'd love to only pay 33% in taxes.)
Yes, the song is beautiful as well - thanks for translating it, although it's hard to do justice to the original.
I think Clojure is great. I even wrote -- a year or so after writing this post -- that it might be a great language as a mind expander[1].

But Clojure is so dramatically different from both Java (the language) and dynamic languages more broadly (e.g. Python/Ruby), that it's a bit of a leap for workaday programmers; it's certainly no clean-up man.

[1] http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2012/06/13/clojure
One of the patients suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, a serious autoimmune disorder, she was told it would take 6 months to see a rheumatologist

Again: rheumatoid arthritis does not kill you.

many times newer treatments such as cancer drugs are not available

Good that you say that. In many countries to gain approval the manufacturer needs to show a benefit over what is already on the market. Whatever was there was new, but it didn't prolong survival or improve quality of life. Why should the public pay for something very expensive (because it's still under patent) when something equally good is available for much less as a generic?
There are at least a couple dozen unavailable videos not yet posted. This is not a slip up, but a work in progress. The site is very new and the outline is not even fully posted yet. That being said, I just updated the outline with OS X and Ubuntu planned videos.
Find different spouses. Not everybody has money as their first priority.

Yes, you're a team and split work, and both parties contribute - but that split can look different for different people. If you can afford it, why not take some time out to spend it with your children?
I think you misunderstand. In theory it might sound like a bad idea, but people love to feel important and if you're sick, reading get well cards from strangers might be all you need to get better. Positivity never made anyone sick even sicker.
There is no recommendation.
That's incredibly idealistic. As thasmin says, people don't know themselves when they're getting married. I think you read it as a justification (rather than an explanation - which I believe is what the thasmin meant) of why people leave.
I appreciate the link. I haven't taken a macroecon or full-fledged finance class, so take my analysis with a grain of salt.

If I recall correctly, "demand deposits" are the subject of reserve requirements, not total deposits. The vast majority of deposits are subject to strict regulation and can't be withdrawn on demand (hence the "demand deposit" distinction). They are, in essence, another form of credit. Not a cash equivalent.

If we compare demand deposits (1.1T) to securities and net loans and leases (9.63T), we get pretty close to the 10x money multiplier.

Because demand deposits are the only things that need to be backed by cash, the rest of the money is essentially re-invested from another institution in the system. Someone didn't come in to the bank and put cash on the table for those deposits. Instead, they told their bank to exchange their credit with another bank.

In other words, it's just a change in the ledger sheet between two parties. Simplistically referred to as "created money". The Fed lets banks "create" this money as long as they meet certain rules. The most important being reserve requirements.

Getting back to comparison with bitcoin, my original statement ("1000% of deposits") was perhaps an oversimplification. But it's hard to say exactly where bitcoin fits in to a "new banking order". Would it be considered money, e.g. cash equivalent? What then is used as the medium for credit exchange e.g. the other 90% of financial activity?

Or is it the unit of account for EVERYTHING, including credit exchange? If so, then how do parties loan money? Won't 90% of bitcoin sit idle for very long periods of time? And does it really make sense to use a deflationary unit of account for an inherently inflationary activity (lending)?
I replaced the mouse a long time ago with a Magic Trackpad and never looked back.
I've long thought that this sort of thing would be awesome for virtual reality applications. Add independently moving motorized ball bearings to the tips of each column and you could have an multi-directional treadmill with the ability to simulate different terrains.
This ad makes me tear up every time and the music is what takes it over the edge for me. The ad is scored so beautifully, the melodies and arrangements are incredible. Even though I can't understand what the singer is saying, I can definitely feel the emotions in his voice.
Well... the articles aren't exactly making the association between Bitcoin and illegal activity up. Bitcoin does seem tailor made to facilitate extralegal trade, and silk road was a thing.
It was absolutely beautiful, and I watched it without subtitles. The searches are in English, and there is an intro on the page that gives you enough information to let the images and the music do the talking.
Communism is bad in practice, but it's also bad in theory. It's not like if people were more moral, or more rational, or if we had the government run by a smart computer, communism would be possible. Setting that aside, there's also no reason to prefer communism over a free market, or pretty much anything.

tl;dr don't grant it moral credit.
> one can type at close to full speed on a touchscreen so long as you ignore the apparent (pre-correction) errors.

And as long as you ignore the actual, glaring errors every time you use a word that hasn't been added to the dictionary yet. Oh, what fun it is to try to discuss technical subjects, or video games, or music, or pretty much any topic whatsoever that uses jargon or slang. The time lost to noticing an error, going back, correcting it, and regaining your flow can easily cut your effective WPM in half.

And that's not even considering the joys of terminal emulators, where autocorrect is so much worse than useless that it's generally disabled by default.
I had a very different take on this book - instead of copy pasting, I'll just point you to my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/627096724
What is the best passport for travel?
The listed diseases were listed as exempt no matter what; any other disease in an emergency was listed as exempt. Therefore with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

Still, we need a better way to fund drug research. These treaties should be doing things like cooperative payments towards research. But that wouldn't be "free trade" so the ayn rand/milton friedman/greenspan zealots would have a fit =(
The http://www.keylength.com website mentions various standards suggesting key lengths. For example, from ECRYPT II Recommendations (2012) there's a mention of 2432 bit giving reasonable protection up to the year 2030.

There's also a nice answer on the crypto stack exchange: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/1982

Reviewing the sources, I admit "many more decades" might be an overestimation, maybe "a couple decades" would be a more accurate statement.

Still, the current factorization record is only 768 bit, and even the lowly 1024 bit key is orders of magnitude stronger than that.
Urdu and Hindu are essentially the same thing -- except one is written in classic Indian devanagari Sanskrit-style script, and the other is written in Arabic script. And, of course, regional dialect -- but really, those distinctions are excusable in daily speaking. The related language families are just so related across the board -- Marathi, Punjabi, and Hindi -- that one can pick up the other with just a bit of practice.
It's up again. Coinbase is YC-backed so the founders aren't thin air.
> You do realize that most of Western Europe is socialist?

Yep. I would even include America in that, just to a slightly lesser extent.

> That some of the countries that enjoy the highest quality of life and happiness are socialist?

Well, who are you comparing to? There aren't really any or many relatively free countries (and there never have been more than 1 or 2 at a time in all of history).

It's not true if you compare it to 19th century America in terms of happiness, nor modern-day Singapore in terms of quality of life.

(In fact, a pet has a better quality of life than a typical American, since they have better access to healthcare.)

> How do you square that with what you've written?

I hope I've answered your question.
It's definitely not a straight-line good thing if you think about long-term game theory.

they are already hitting the limits of getting startups who shouldn't need their services... i.e. already proven traction and can probably go raise funding themselves.

at some point, it's like akin to business school for techies. hbs class i'm sure gets better and better every year; nevertheless, more and more top notch business people skip hbs b/c the roi (opportunity cost) is not worth it.

similarly, yc's main benefits are it's network, brand, and access to capital. if they only seek to reduce risk profile by taking premium companies that have already proven themselves, the roi to subsequent classes may not be worthwhile for that x% because top notch vc's have their own contacts and branding and yc is purely a bridge.

think about pg's own statement about yc: to help companies build a prototype to get funding... at this point, i'd say it's very few exceptional guys getting in with a mere prototype. but tis the way markets evolve naturally.

yc is probably going through its own product-market fit as they try to take on more groups per class, additional competitors are entering its space, and all the meanwhile trying to maximize its profit/minimize risk. the hard part is realizing that some of the biggest success to date are randomn at best b/c it was so early stage and pre-traction and the market steers toward reducing arbitrage scenario more and more everyday.

would reddit or airbnb make this year's class (if airbnb didn't have that election year thing to help their application)? and if not, how many of those can they miss before someone starts raising the eyebrow?
I wonder if this is an answer to PG's Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547423
The longest running head of the Pakistan Army in recent decades, General Musharraf, who was also the military dictator of the country for a good portion of that, made a lot of overtures towards some semblance of improving relations. Just pointing out that the Pakistan Army has people in it who think more about than just conflict with India.

Ironic as Musharraf instigated and led the last major Pakistan/India skirmish/war, then moved on to talking peace.
It's a software that I'll be releasing soon:

http://beta.gitsense.com/index-dev.html

Note the test drive feature isn't working yet. I'm hoping to have this working in a couple of days. The try it now feature should be working and for that I create a 512MB digital ocean VPS instance for each trial request.

It's important to note my software doesn't use any web framework ... other than what I have built myself. This is probably one of the reasons why my program has a smaller memory requirement.

Everything is pretty much one layer above the servlet/rest layer. And the only time my program becomes memory hungry is when I do the initial indexing but once that's done, 512MB is more than enough to keep it happy.

If you know Java, I would personally use it for your side project since python will be unable to match it performance wise.

Edit:

I also forgot to mention that my product uses 3 JVMs. One for the webserver, one for my worker process, and one for the indexer.
This could also partially explain Russian unwillingness to smile. Most of Russians were born and raised in relatively big cities, not in suburbia where "friendliness to neighbor" cultural protocol makes sense. There are just too many neighbors to be friendly with in Russia.
If the flagged transactions were immediately rejected it would obviate the need for excuses. What benefit do they get from putting the transaction in limbo for days before they notify the user?
> so outdated it's still got a physical keyboard.

I'll take three, thanks.
the subtitles might have been a bit more necessary if all the on-screen text wasn't in english. That seemed like a strange choice for an ad produced by Google India.
So I'm a bit confused, the article says the code is ran in 64bit mode, but before virtual memory is turned on. How is that possible?

I remember from the OSDev wiki that the only way to get a processor in 64 bit mode was by first turning on virtual memory. I remember because I was disappointed by that, it seems unnecessary.

Doesn't UEFI play by these rules, or am I misunderstanding?
IPv4 addresses are still available for free in North America.
I like to co-relate it with bitcoin value is finally being realized. Or perhaps because the difficulty for mining it is exponentially increasing.
In 30 years, people will look back and think how primitive we were to be interacting through limited screens, keyboards, and input devices. Our natural human instinct is to interact by manipulating objects.

This type of interaction will be so natural and "obvious", that future generations will look at us as and shudder to think how we managed.
Your slippery slope has a very weird angle, given that schoolchildren are hit so early and ex-cons so late.

Mind you, I'm not sure what abuses of power schoolchildren go for, so I'm open to being educated on the matter.
I'm not sure this is really the missing tutorial...it seems pretty much the same as the other tutorials I've read/watched.

Then again I've been working with docker a lot lately so maybe I was looking harder.
add &yt:cc=on to the YouTube URL [0] to enable subtitles.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&yt:cc=on
"Yes I was suitably manipulated. Good job, mass emotional manipulation team!" - thrownaway2424

Just agreeing with your sentiment, might as well share the downvotes.