skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Option D) is to watch all your games on Monday.

Torrents usually show up first thing Monday morning (US time), and are commercial free. So if you can stay off Facebook and refuse to answer your phone or check email (just in case) for long enough to download and watch the game, you don't need any of that hassle.

Or you could move to Europe and pay the NFL a hundred bucks a season for the same thing. (Probably not as good a dollar value as your other options, though, considering moving costs and all.)

ps. Don't tell me who won the Seahawks game!
What if you allowed people to pool money for it? Give $1 a week to the winner based on up votes and then that money goes for whatever the ask is. Automatic charges on your card, reminder every week to vote. Eliminates some of the more frivolous uses.
welcome to Estonia
Of course, nothing fancy. Basic funcionality with few extra options, no clutter and unnecessary things.
I don't want to multiply numbers, I want the gate level circuit diagram, preferentially each individual gate having an LED at its output. Then feed in random binary numbers and watch the show.

Kind of like if I want to know what time it is, I'd look at my phone, but if I want to look at something cool on my wall I'd look at:

http://www.transistorclock.com/

I also find Clayton Boyer's clock designs appealing, although my electronics skills exceed my wood butchering skills by many orders of magnitude:

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm

So its a question of style or taste, as a work of art.
This is one of the most common misconceptions in my opinion of depression. Depression is not caused by self absorption. Depression is not vanity, imagine someone who has been rejected by a loved one. A depressed person might think, "I was never good enough for them," while a person who is not depressed might think, "I learned a lot and will do better next time." Viewing them as selfish or self absorbed is completely wrong. Do you think the depressed person wants to feel like they are not good enough? Is non depressed person self absorbed for their thinking?
I think if you read the announcement carefully, it is the standard aqui-hire wording. Dropbox isn't remotely in the same space as PiCloud, and doesn't want to be. They simply "acquired" PiCloud to get their team of developers, which is why they're fine with open sourcing PiCloud. They won't even be using it internally.

the team has decided to join Dropbox...
We’ll be bringing our API-building expertise to the Dropbox Platform, ...
Even though the team is moving on ...

I also hope that Multyvac will be a success. That said, I hope they'll start communicating soon. I can't really judge if they'll be able to be a success... but I hope so.
I bought 0.1BTC last Wednesday for £25.85. I thought I might have overpaid for it but, at the time of writing, it's now worth around £40.
PressureNET 4.1 Alpha
Silicon Valley's circus of innovation
So nitpickers might point out differences but you cannot deny that the basic tab looks just like Chrome's. When Chrome came out with this it was new and innovative. Now it looks like a copy.

When this blatant copying happens (and it happens in many places; it's no wonder all phones look like a variation of the original iphone) I always wonder if the designers really did convince themselves that their design is different or they tried but just couldn't come up with anything better than their inspiration.
Socialism makes every other person a potential enemy and a potential victim. Resources are scarce. People come to hate one another.

Capitalism makes every other person at worst a neutral non-threat and at best a potential trading partner. Resources are plentiful. People feel benevolent towards one another.

This is not an apology for America; America is only semi-capitalist. You can see Americans getting meaner over time as the country shifts more in the socialist direction. There is less everday that makes America distinct from Europe.
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I read an interesting article about Mint.com. I think your product could follow a similar marketing path. It revolved around a blog to establish credibility first.

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-mint-grew/
Top 20 mobile skills in demand
Swiss outrage over executive pay sparks a movement in Europe
I edited my comment with a Moldbug link. From the essay:

"So Fedco, while it still has a bit of the cooperative flavor, is mainly organized around the other model of bad corporate governance: control by contractors (essentially, employees). To be exact, most of Fedco's decisions are made by its civil service.

As a general rule, an employee-controlled enterprise will never, ever be profitable. In fact, even its bondholders are lucky if they see any payments. The primary interest of contractors is, first, if they can get away with it, in distributing profits to their own pockets; and second, if they can't, in expanding or at least protecting their own power bases. They will make as much work for themselves as they can get away with.

Of course, even the CEO of a company is a contractor. This is why corporations have boards, who work for the shareholders. (In my opinion, it's an abuse to have any corporate employees, even the CEO, on the board.)

If you combine a shareholderless governance model with an enormous revenue stream, you have the perfect recipe for massive and permanent inefficiency and incompetence, and an enormous overgrowth of pointless, self-serving tasks. This is exactly what we see in Fedco. Of course, it could just be a coincidence."
A few thoughts as an outside observer...

- You won't know until 10 years from now. Even still, it won't be enough to say they missed a lot of firms. Of course they will. They can't possibly have 100% market share. A sign of the them turning into a large boring behemoth is if they miss all of them.

- If they are too worried about missing a Dropbox, then that risk taking will cause them to miss the next big thing.

- As long as it's entrepreneurs making the decision on who gets into YC, they have a big shot of taking risks. My sense is most of the YC crew is independently wealthy, and are keeping score by "great companies" rather than "minimizing variance of returns".

- All this said, the amount of YC firms acquired by larger tech companies suggest that they are filling an important niche of being the R&D investment arm of large firms who aren't structured to chase ideas that seem too crazy.
So, it's probably not realistic to assume this particular app will help. The chance that it will make an actual difference is probably pretty low. Is that reason enough to dismiss the idea? Or to dismiss "apps" entirely as a possible tool for helping suicidal people? I said this below, but unless suicide is an area where you have more potential to cause harm than to do good, it seems like a worthwhile direction to spend resources.
I'm kind of in the same place. Bought 1 bitcoin for the novelty a while back, sold a chunk of it yesterday to get my money back, and now I'm waiting to see how high it'll go. If it breaks $1k I'll probably sell a bit more to get a profit and then hold on to a tiny fraction to wait and see if the bubble bursts.

That's kind of how BTC has been since I've been sort of paying attention to it -- it acts a lot like a stock.
Poll: How much of your investment portfolio should you put in bitcoin?
My thinking is that there are very few 1000x opportunities in life, and if you can control the downside, why not put a few chips on the table? To me 1% of one's portfolio is a no-brainer. If I were in my early 20s again (oh for the days!) and had nothing to lose, I might put as much as 50% of my savings into bitcoin (because even if it went to zero, I could make up what I lost in salary pretty quickly). For people who are older and have a lot more to lose I think 1% is an amount that isn't too scary, because most people's portfolios move that much in a day anyway.

As a bonus question, if you invest 1% of your portfolio in bitcoin and it balloons to 10%, do you rebalance it back to 1%, or do you let it ride?

ps None of this should be construed as investment advice. Bitcoin could go to zero and you could lose all your money and your friends will laugh at you. That would suck.
0% (you think this is tulip mania 2.0 and the reckoning is nigh!)
1% (you have no idea if this is going to pan out, but you're willing to risk 1% to get a shot at 100x or 1000x returns)
5% (the technology is pretty cool and you think there might be something here worthy investing in)
10% (you think bitcoin is a disruptive technology that could possibly change the future of payments and you want to bet on its success)
25% (You're certain this is a game changer and you're going to become one of the newly minted bitcoin millionaires)
50% (You're willing to put your balls on the chopping block while rapidly dicing carrots)
100% (You are Satoshi Nakamoto)
If you want to live as if you're the only person in your own little world, I recommend you find another planet. This one is kind of inhabited.

Perhaps Solaria?
Agreed. Not sure why they think it's necessary to move the menu to the right hand side (just like Chrome).
Very interesting story. I used to frequent Williams Pub in Uptown (the downstairs peanut bar) so it made the story a little more personal for me. My guess is that he will have a few offers for "full-time, permanent employment" as a writer after this essay.
This takes me back to when I was a young boy, and I used to get these James Bond magazines. They used a slightly different technique, but basically there was an image that just looked like random noise like the images shown here, and you'd place a coloured plastic filter over it to reveal a hidden message. Very interesting stuff.
> Mathematical proofs are falsifiable

No, they aren't. A mathematical proof is by definition unfalsifiable. If an error is found in a proof (as with Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem), that it isn't a proof ... yet. And mathematical proofs aren't empirical, another requirement for science.

Scientific theories are falsifiable in perpetuity because the possibility always exists for new empirical evidence to show up that falsifies an existing theory. This possibility doesn't exist for mathematical proofs.
I served a Mormon mission in eastern Ukraine (not Russia, but very Soviet), which meant I went from one day being surrounded by Americans to walking around the streets of eastern Ukraine trying to talk with everyone I met on the street (a decidedly non-Ukrainian thing to do).

One day while we were walking the sun came out for just a minute - a fairly rare occurrence during a Ukrainian winter, and I walked around the streets beaming. When I started talking to a man, he stopped mid-sentence and said, "Are you high?"

I figured what he was saying was in regard to our talking about the Bible (he certainly wouldn't have been the first to ask that question with regard to religious belief), but he legitimately thought I was high. He went on to say (I paraphrase), "You're just walking around the streets talking with people, seemingly fascinated by anything I talk about, and with a big grin (усмешка) on your face. That's not normal."

And, to be fair, it was pretty rare that I was in such a mood.

If you think about it, the smile that Americans force a lot of the time is very fake. Think about families smiling in their pictures - they look vaguely happy, but there's a noticeable difference between that and when you can see a genuine smile. If you're a Russian, why pretend? And while I still smile in pictures, I can see their point.

When I got back to the US after having been in eastern Ukraine for two years, I got the opposite reaction. "Are you depressed?" or "Are you doing OK?" While living in Ukraine had been a culture shock and forced me to see the world quite differently than growing up in small-town Utah suburbia, I was by no means depressed. I just held myself in a different way. I also spoke more with exaggerated hand motions, had different intonation, and was shocked at how I could give a $100 bill to a cashier at the grocery store without getting in trouble.
Publishing I can understand, but a seasoned sitcom writer -- especially a Roseanne alum -- should have been able to pick up more writing work. I'm not saying he's lazy or entitled or anything like that, just that the world can sometimes be a scary place where you end up in a bad situation just by luck of the draw.
What I find depressing here is the notion that rather than actually learn to live with each-other, we should all just isolate from each other as thoroughly as we can, to the point of moving to other planets (and thus eventually covering the galaxy in virally-reproducing humans each claiming Sovereign Rights) just to get away from everyone else.

Sounds like a species of massive assholes, and I see some ethical problems with letting them off their home-planet.
I too have the feeling that this is the peak but when I think about why, I don't have any reason other than this is the highest price to date. With a relatively small total valuation you're susceptible high volatility. Bitcoin has had lots of peaks and valleys but over its brief history. But, the peaks have always been higher than the valleys. Is there any reason to suspect this trend to stop? I think the underlying driving force for the overall increae in valuation is the adoption of bitcoin as currency. As far as I can tell, this is increasing pretty rapidly and will most likely continue increaseing.
Sure, but the restrictions are
1. be from Scotland
2. be human

In the case of OP, valuation is simply what the market will pay to own the stock of a company. Sometimes it coincides with what any individual will pay, sometimes not. There is no sort of magical intrinsic value to a company. All we are really doing is arguing over the definition of valuation.
Also willing to help. This is something that hits very close to home for me. I've done both front-end and back-end work.
yeah it's looking a lot like it did in April.....
That's closer to it although a little sparse by the looks. Possibly a very short introductory course.

If asked, I tend to direct people towards the following books:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/dp/...

Note: you need both the student manual (which most people don't know exists) and The Art Of Electronics.

To cover the maths background required, I recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Birth-Numbers-Jan-Gullberg...

They are not cheap but worth it.

Oh and a calculator. Any old cheap scientific (Casio/TI/HP) will do as long as it doesn't make errors.

The big problem for me was the maths initially. It doesn't take long before you hit a brick wall at the age of 12. My 10 year old daughter is learning algebra and programming (in python!) though at school so things are looking up.
The look of it, certainly.
CUDA on a Linux laptop - is the effort worth the results?
I realize that it's all speculative and likely bubbling and all of that. The difference is, not only do I treat this as an investment/speculation (and it's not like I'm betting my life savings on BTC), but I also understand (to a certain extent) and believe in the technical merits of it. I'm not just in it for the rising value (although I'd be lying if I said that wasn't enticing), but I actually want to see this succeed.
I think it's because afterall style matters, the chrome-ish UI is more appealing to most people in comparison to the old-classic firefox's.
Wow, this is the funniest thing I've read all week!
From the article:

"Sir, are you sure you want stack loaves of bread here at Trader Joe’s? Yes, I really do. Well, we’ve decided to hire the 24 year-old woman with purple hair and nose piercings instead."

He tried to get more traditional jobs, but they don't want him.
Where has it been nearing $700? https://btc-e.com/ reports a high of $595
That said, the Russian humor page for Wikipedia is can be a real treat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_jokes#The_Golden_Fish may be one of my favorites on there.

A Russian friend of mine explained that it's sort of inappropriate to go around smiling, esp for males. There's also kind of a cultural thing going on where Russians perceive themselves as being able to screw up almost any situation. It seems there's a lot of black/gallows humor oriented around this bleak outlook.
50th anniversary of the first commercially available Touch-Tone dialing system
How Walmart could have avoided this PR disaster while still helping people: Give the employees that would be receiving food from the store itself rather than asking other employees to donate.

It hurts to think about this.
I like your site. How do you support so many stores? Did you write web scrapers for each? Or are you using APIs?
Yahoo will encrypt between data centers, use SSL for all sites
The notion that the US Federal Government is overwhelmingly inefficient and stupid is popular wisdom. However, outside the fat-and-happy military, which is eagerly overfunded beyond even its own desires by a Congress looking to make war jobs in their districts, there is an astounding lack of evidence for the proposition.
Of course it's shiny... it's Chrome!
They need to stay there to collect intelligence.
Is anyone operating a reliable bitcoin options market?
Just a room full of picnic tables, let's live the dream.
ICANN 'coalition' created to tackle concerns about the future of the Internet
The answer will always be "No!" because you can easily reverse a paypal transaction
The other day I was talking to someone that had a source at one of the satellite companies (I can't remember if it was dish or directTV) that said they were working on putting a digital antenna in their box. Basically, the idea was that the vast majority of customers could just use the digital antenna to get the local channels and since it was built into their box it would be 100% seamless to the user. And then they would only have to pay the retransmission fees for those that couldn't get good enough signal.
Even if they didn't turn them on, they would have some leverage as the networks tried to rake them over the coals for retransmission fees
> To see why, simply ask yourself: is WalMart obligated to employ every person at a certain wage for a certain number of hours? And pay all of their bills? And make sure they have a good holiday?

Well... yes. An honorable, noble employer would assume some responsibility that his workers are happy and healthy. These people do exist out there, who make an effort to be cognizant of their employees' situations, who try to resist actions that would hurt them in the long run, who go to great lengths to keep a good employee from getting fired just because upper management said so.

My uncle was one such person, he owned a store that sold farming equipment some years back, his business had been doing really bad at some point that it became clear he'd have to fire some people (he only had like 3 or 4 employees), one of whom was a family man whose wife was disabled. My uncle operated on a loss for a few months rather than fire these people. Eventually he turned it around too.
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A fair number of people get paid to make part of their work open source. I know a couple people whose github profiles are entirely populated by projects for their employers.
btcchina.com - high of $801 (¥4879)! See http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

Also coinbase.com - high of $660 a few hours ago
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/8994445994_c0939b83ca_o.p...

But I won't grant you the tab shape, unless you're the kid that couldn't figure out square pegs and round holes.
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Amazon puts 26,496 CPU cores together, builds a Top 100 supercomputer
> Having a corpus of poor quality articles does not exclude you from being a science.

That's true, but if all that exist are poor-quality articles, then it's not science -- there must be a corpus of testable, falsifiable theories beyond the chaff. This is why psychology isn't a science -- there are lots of poor-quality articles, and there's nothing else.

> if there was no dissent, there would be no science.

Nonsense. A scientific dissent must be accompanied by evidence, as does the thing being dissented against. Dissent per se means nothing in and of itself.
Where exactly in Canada are you? Also, have you tried cavirtex.com?
You do realize that most of Western Europe is socialist? That some of the countries that enjoy the highest quality of life and happiness are socialist?

How do you square that with what you've written?
What does "result of a bubble" mean?
I can somewhat agree as an Eastern-European. When I started to work for US/UK companies, I had to learn a lot about adaptation and interpreting the different signal set.

The funny thing is that many (big) companies say that they're pro-diversity, they like and must have people from different cultures while in reality it's 99% about other cultures adapting to them. For somebody from Europe that's not that hard, but people from Asia usually find it much more difficult. And they're sometimes perceived as not smart/ignorant while they're just used to different kind of communication. We (technology workers from in Hungary or EEU) are usually perceived (in the eyes of US/UK citizens) as direct, honest, straightforward but sometimes very unpolite persons, while in reality we are just used to different gestures.
XAML is not a layout engine, it's a language for instantiating objects. It does not even have to be used for GUI objects, just look at workflow foundation or BizTalk transforms.
Start-Up Leaders Recount Choice to Cash In or Stay Independent
May I suggest you review Vietnam history? In fact, if you want to skip facts and just listen to some music consider the classic Creedence Clearwater Revival Song, "Fortunate Son."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I

Some folks are born to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me; I ain't no fortunate one, one.
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate son, no no no,
Check localbitcoins.com. And avoid mentioning Paypal.
> I genuinely wonder if the climate has something to do with this. Extreme cold and very dark days tend to bring people together, and tends to make people more genuine and humble, in my experience.

I don't think it's the climate, at least it's not the sole reason. After all, Russia is a huge country and Russians live all over it - from Siberia to the Russian Black Sea coast with its subtropical climate.

I suspect it has to do with the average hardship of life and, at least with Russia, major social and economic upheavals that happen often enough for every generation of Russians to be affected.

> Extreme cold and very dark days tend to bring people together

Also, this is probably the last thing that comes to mind about Russians in general. For the most part, they are notoriously individualistic.
Rent-a-carrel seems like it could at least make a go of it in a high-density coworking market like SF. Heck, it would be cool if a coworking space had various areas with varying degrees of openness.
Incredible story. Heart-breaking and inspiring at the same time. I cannot help but think how many stories were forgotten from that recession.