skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you have the situations where a check mate is possible but cannot be forced. King and two knights against king cannot force a check mate, but if the player with the lone king knows what they're doing and wants to get check mated, they can help the other player to win. If I'm not mistaken, that counts as a draw even if the clock flags on the player with less material.
|Now maybe Amazon will eat their promotional costs themselves here.

You hit the nail on the head. If the account of the pocketcast devs is correct, in order to be featured as Amazons "free app of the day," you eat all costs as the dev. I would expect they are doing the same thing here.

http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rott...
JFK in college: Tech professors teach assassination from all angles
My elevator pitch for crawlspa.

"Worry about optimizing your site for search engines later. Use crawlspa to automate search engine indexing and focus on what matters, creating beautiful sites that convert visitors into customers."

Crawlspa
Tag Line: We index & you convert.

Edit: One more thing, have you considered manually approaching custom web shops? If they are pumping out sites, they probably wouldn't mind passing along the $5 a month to customers in order for them to not worry about indexing the trendy single page sites.
"But GC already provides better throughput than manual memory allocation in practically all circumstances"

You could drive a bus through the exceptions let through with the "practically" in that claim. In the kinds of problems I solve the single biggest driver to better throughput is cache locality/branch prediction. Every time I go up a level in memory cache I lower my throughput.

There is nothing saying that GC based solutions couldn't get to the point where they are better about cache locality than manual allocation but they aren't there yet.
Wolfram made a really useful tool. This is independent of how you may feel about NKS.

Try to take yourself back to 1988. Macs are newish. Desktop publishing is new. There's this neat new program called Mathematica. You can type in equations, solve them, and even graph them in 3D. You can laser-print the notebooks and they look better than textbooks.

Wolfram may be an egomaniacal self-promoter, but it's not all empty hype.
Agree. I saw some guy's hellbanned account who was happily commenting for over a year on HN - again nothing abusive I could see.

I tried to message him on twitter but no reply.
I haven't put up the source because it's pretty coupled with the hardware, that sign in particular is a BetaBrite. I used a Raspberry Pi and a ruby script to drive it. I was able to find a ruby library for the sign.
The point this article makes, is that FOSS are not exploited - but rather, that FOSS is a very effective way for the privileged and financially secure to gain social capital.

I think the HN articles of the past few days "We only hire people with Github accounts" demonstrate that those social rewards are real.
It's not much of an interactive shell, although it's perfectly cromulent for writing shell scripts.
You know firewalls work based on port AND host, right? Block all connections coming from the TV.
What does the green line represent?
What if you don't want to deal with the toxic mercury gases?
I still have no idea why an led bulb is better than CFL for home lighting. From what I can tell, people just like new stuff.
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I think it might be An empirical study of list structure in Lisp [1], by Douglas W. Clark and C. Cordell Green. I haven't read it because it is behind the ACM paywall. I'm pretty sure that the Clark he mentions must be Douglas W. Clark, who has at least five citations in the Jones and Lins Garbage Collection book (1st ed), and is the only Clark listed (under his own name, at least) in the bibliography (of the 1st ed).

If you are looking for a simple GC algorithm that might be suitable for use in a toy lisp language, you might check out Simple Generational Garbage Collection and Fast Allocation by Andrew W. Appel [2]. I think it has many of the same characteristics and is also pretty simple. For a while I had thought that this must be the one that Shivers meant, and that he just misremembered the author.

Edit: The reason I think it is this particular paper by Clark and Green is due to a discussion of it on page 140 (section 6.8) of Jones and Lins (this page is visible on Amazon in search inside):

> Experiments with a recursive copying collector by Douglas Clark and Cordell Green produced a cdr-cell linearisation -- the property that a cell that points to another will be next to each other in Tospace after collection -- of over 98 percent [Clark and Green, 1977]. The incidence of off-page pointers was also low (between 2.7 and 8.4 percent).

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359427

[2] http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/racelab/gc/papers/appel88sim...
Fair. I should have RTFA before commenting.
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"Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale." - Gastr Del Sol
It's the same command line flag design used by other programs at Google. The C++ library, which Rob had nothing to do with, is at https://code.google.com/p/gflags/.

The major benefit is that different parts of the program can declare their flags separately, and they all get put together. When you're doing distributed flag definition like this, single-letter flags don't make much sense: you'd get collisions very quickly. Instead, a flag only has a long name, not long and short. At that point, there is no need to distinguish between - and --, so the parsers (both C++ and Go) do not.

You wrote that the parser insists on -key=value, but that's not true. Because all flags are "long names", all of these are equivalent:

-key value
-key=value
--key value
--key=value

If you prefer one over the others, use that one.

Rob and I came from the Plan 9 (really, early Unix) world of only single-letter flags, no long names at all. That may work for small programs, but it doesn't scale very well. The GNU "short and long" is a compromise to keep backwards compatibility with the short flag world, but it ends up creating two names for many things. There's no need for that compatibility if you're not trying to recreate Unix (like GNU is). Keep it simple: one name, don't bother caring whether people type - or --.

As others have pointed out, if you need GNU getopt compatibility or even Plan 9 compatibility, it is possible to implement as a separate library. I haven't looked recently, but I've been waiting for someone to implement such a library but using the actual flag registration from the standard flag package, so that moving from one flag syntax to the other is just a matter of calling a different parser in package main. All the actual flag creation need not change.
Should we use the same approach for determining which products or services we should use?

If so, Mr. Carp and his company BayesianWitch are in trouble. I can't find either of them on github.
Can we link IP addresses and hence approximate locations to these wallets using announced transactions on the network? That might be an interesting visual. Maybe not because I doubt anybody was logging bitcoin network traffic in the early days. But doing that even starting today might turn out to be useful. And there's little doubt NSA and friends are likely already doing this.
How much would it cost to convert an amount of bitcoins valued at one million dollars ?
For those curious for more details about "He scores high on the crackpot index, but not high enough to be completely discredited as a lunatic. His litigious nature and ability to wrangle the legal system in order to label everything "mine" is what keeps him in business.", see this review of "A New Kind of Science", which begins:

> Attention conservation notice: Once, I was one of the authors of a paper on cellular automata. Lawyers for Wolfram Research Inc. threatened to sue me, my co-authors and our employer, because one of our citations referred to a certain mathematical proof, and they claimed the existence of this proof was a trade secret of Wolfram Research. I am sorry to say that our employer knuckled under, and so did we, and we replaced that version of the paper with another, without the offending citation. I think my judgments on Wolfram and his works are accurate, but they're not disinterested.

> With that out of the way: it is my considered, professional opinion that A New Kind of Science shows that Wolfram has become a crank in the classic mold, which is a shame, since he's a really bright man, and once upon a time did some good math, even if he has always been arrogant.

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...
About (a)... there:

https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/sublime-pdburger
Haskell, where to start?
If you really care, the association of LGBT journalists has a stylebook that you can use.

http://www.nlgja.org/resources/stylebook

If it were me, I would just remove the "trans" reference altogether, as speaking about trans issues is an advanced technique.
> throwing around random Marxist buzzwords

First of all, these words are not random. They're being used exactly how they're supposed to be used. Source: I read lots of Marx. I can explain any individual one to you if you'd like.

Secondly, one man's domain terms is another's 'buzzwords.' Domain terminology has value because it allows you to get to the point, once there's some amount of shared understanding. You need that understanding first, though, which I think is causing the friction here.

> is a really pretty awful way of convincing anyone but those who already agree with you.

I don't disagree, but I don't think the blog post is trying to convince anyone. As it says at the top, it's attempting to add a certain frame to the previous article: in this case, a Marxist one.

I say "I don't disagree" because, well, I actually disagree with Marx, but that doesn't hurt my understanding of the article, because I understand the terminology. It actually helps me grok the author's point and where they're coming from, because I can draw on previous bodies of work to help me understand.

> It appears that the author, rather than trying to improve anything, is merely
> trying to improve her own social capital in Marxist academic circles.

What I find amusing about this statement is that in some ways, she would agree with you: the thrust of the article is a simple assertion that 'unpaid' labor is paid, just not in {the money commodity,money}. It's paid through social capital. And ignoring the relationship between who has access to and can produce each different kind of capital misses an important part of the analysis.
How do I find "normal" weed? Is it only medical?
Since the beginning of this year, the price of a US dollar has declined by more than 98%, from BTC 0.074 to just over BTC 0.001!

Consider the last month:

2013-11-01 212.87 USD = 1 BTC

2013-11-22 733.71 USD = 1 BTC

If you think Bitcoin is a great investment and can sell your BTC to get other assets in at a high point, this is a good thing, though slightly worrying because of the boom and bust pattern and extreme volatility.

If you think Bitcoin is a stable currency, this is a terrible thing. I'm not even sure what the implications would be if buying raw materials one day cost more than selling a finished product the next due to rapid deflation, but it surely wouldn't be much better than rapid inflation which we have seen in other currencies.

Like a loaf of bread which is 1.6 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, one which cost 0.0000000001 Bitcoins would not be desirable either if that figure keeps changing rapidly and the next day becomes 0.00000000001 etc. Any extreme fluctuations in price are really undesirable for a currency, and I do think this mechanism of ratcheting up the difficulty of mining and an ever-increasing value is really damaging for Bitcoin's credibility as a currency, though presumably it was designed to boost adoption by encouraging people to see it as investment first, currency second.

I like the idea of a currency which doesn't allow politicians to introduce inflation, but perhaps we should have one which has a finite set of tokens on setup, and doesn't attempt to also attract people as some sort of investment with mining etc. - is that side of Bitcoin even useful except to turn it into a sort of pyramid scheme where early adopters are rewarded disproportionately?

[EDIT I am aware of the proposed 21m Bitcoin limit, which they're about half way to reaching, that's why I said on setup, which Bitcoin doesn't have]
I guess you guys missed the part about "Black Muslim Lesbian Transsexual", and the part that says it is not relevant.
Knob & tube left in place is generally safe. If you want to do anything at all with the electrical system, however, you'll need to upgrade the whole system.
Google never used them prominently. The Google brain teaser thing is some kind of urban legend.
Actually, it wouldn't be that hard over the course of a few weeks or months. Yes, the price of BTC would drop to some degree, but not necessarily considerably. Over the last 30 days, approximately $720 million worth of bitcoins have been traded on MtGox and btc-e.

http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html
http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/btceUSD.html
What about old old money? I'm talking about people that have money because their ancestors were royalty of some sort. Can you really say that they earned it? How much of that could be being in the right place at the right time? E.g.

You helped out the king and he granted you a lot
of land. Several generations later, your descendents
are ridiculously wealthy because you got in on the
'ground floor' of what would later become the world
economy we have today.
> how can they be more efficient than cfls

They are not more efficient than CFLs. It is interesting that you think they are - I guess the marketing is working.

Now, you might come across some LEDs that on the surface appear to be more efficient, but actually they are misleading you. Those efficient LEDs have worse color accuracy than CFLs, so you are not comparing equivalent products.

LEDs do have room to improve, so they may get more efficient than CFLs, but they are not there yet.
Still see that.
Well if you can't get enough hn, build something that lets you read this site faster, better, more thoroughly, etc. That shouldn't be too hard, right? ;)

You could add collapsible comments, or sortable comments. Rearrange the front page from a list to a tiled view. However you browse HN, make it better.
See "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph”,

a 2012 paper by Ron and Shamir. (Adi Shamir of “RSA".)

Preprint available here: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf

(The "Rich List” seems obviously inspired by this paper.)
> Why do Bitcoiners believe so much in a currency that allowed the originator to pull so much wealth out of thin air?

Even if you don't believe in bitcoin, the problem with fiat currencies is that they are insecure.

> Baaaaaw Bitcoiners' wealth are disproportionate to their merit

Just like in fiat currency, in Bitcoin, lots of people who don't "deserve" anything are rich. Deal with it or go back to your imaginary universe that gives economical advantages to people based on "merit". Notice how I'm using quotes around the words that have no objective definition.

> A currency is not a currency if it is so distorted that it is radically reorganizing the wealth of those who convert to it.

What is your definition of currency?
Aw, but I LOVE drop-shadow and cursive! :)

I appreciate the feedback, guys; this project was just a 48-hour diversion which I figured had stand-alone merit, but I'll be sure to take your comments to heart vis-a-vis my other work.

Thanks!
Time? It's been 25 years.
Companies have no obligation to be fair in hiring (accept for certain legally protected classes). They have an obligation to run the best hiring process they know how in order to acquire great people.

It's important to understand that.
Idea: A simple Dropbox-based web service
iPhone 5s launched in Brazil: Costs as much as a Retina Macbook Pro in the US
https://www.google.com/search?q=brl+1999+in+usd#q=brl+2799+in+usd

Search Results

2799 Brazilian Real equals
1212.11 US Dollar
site looks beautiful....how the hell did you create that in powerpoint? i don't even understand where you would even being coding
IANAL but I've been censored by the DMCA before and fought it. My understanding is that perjury is a crime against the court/government, so you'd have to convince a district attorney to pursue it which is rarely done.

Also, the takedown requires a much weaker statement under perjury than the counter-takedown. "the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed". There's (bizarrely) no need to claim good faith.

Edit: here's my story: https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/9ccd3a157914
The thing is, he didn't even make most of Mathematica. He just managed to sue all of his collaborators at the time so that he could say he did.

It's hard to know how much he has created now, because he just keeps being deceptive about it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=brl+1999+in+usd#q=brl+2799+i...

Search Results

2799 Brazilian Real equals
1212.11 US Dollar

That's for the cheapest, 16Gb version.

The 64Gb one is about USD 1558
> I still have no idea why an led bulb is better than CFL for home lighting

* They use 30-40% less power, costing you less to operate

* Cheap CFLs commonly had ballasts that died in 1-3 years despite higher life expectancy claims on the packages; LEDs are backed with 10+ year warranties

* CFLs burn out quickly if used in fixtures that are turned on and off frequently

* LEDs don't flicker/strobe like fluorescent lighting

* Virtually all LED bulbs work in dimmers, not just more expensive specialty ones

* Cheap LED bulbs don't produce bluish light like cheap CFL bulbs
Do you not have self-service checkouts at supermarkets? They usually have a counting drop like coinstar but you just pay for your groceries so no extra charge.
Is there like a demo app that we can try/download?
To give you an actual answer to your question:

LEDs and CFLs are about equally efficient, but CFLs produce their heat on the bulb, and LEDs produce their heat in the base.

So CFLs (and incandescents) send their heat out into the room, which cools the bulb. LEDs keep all the heat inside which is a huge problem for them.

Personally I think bulb replacement LEDs are a dead end, and instead you should look for dedicated LEDs fixtures.
+1
Thanks for being a voice of reason and speak of this pyramid scheme.
Good point - it doesn't seem unreasonable to demand to see BayesianWitch's source code in Github to see why anyone would want to work there?
But what does it do. Those are features..what is the end benefit a person gets from using your service?
That made me think of Nauthólsvík in Reykjavík:
http://visitreykjavik.is/nautholsvik-geothermal-beach
Thanks for the feedback; you're absolutely right, and it's partly intentional. The profile that's displayed on the front page isn't actually 100% indicative of what it looks like if you sign up -- more a joke than anything else. The goal of this was to present an alternative to about.me more than anything else (and thus certainly not to cater to recruiters).
:derp: fixed, thanks
How does Ionic relate to different screen sizes, orientations and resolutions? Would responsive layouts be viable or is that out of the scope? The way I see it now is that it is targeted at phones and not so much at tablets.

BTW, the word 'which' is in the wrong place on the components page: "The advantage here is that the devices Ionic which supports, all support flexbox."

BTW2: in the Getting Started guide, chapters 4 and 5 have no link to the next chapter at the bottom.
> 51% attack publication didn't kill it.

Are you talking about some new attack? The "51% attack" is a security property that fell out from the design of bitcoin: A cooperating group of people needs "51%" of the computing power to break bitcoin.
The gflags official documentation, presumably written at Google, has this to say about the different dash styles:

> Despite this flexibility, we recommend using only a single form: --variable=value for non-boolean flags, and --variable/--novariable for boolean flags. This consistency will make your code more readable, and is also the format required for certain special-use cases like flagfiles.

The one remaining inconsistency between this advice and GNU's is that the latter would spell it --no-variable.
It took me a while to figure out Shivers wasn't talking about the conventional diss - the narrative lives and dies on the technical one-ups.
Totally fair. If you want to see a more full-fleshed ("real") sample, you can check out the page I generated for myself: http://www.emblem.io/alex
Check out Apportable.

And proprietary doesn't mean narrowly used. Also open doesn't mean widely used. Bringing Cocoa was a good trial, but doesn't make the text correct.
Given tptacek and colleagues' paper on the RSA-doomsday scenario that might not be too far out in the future, I think it might be possible to reclaim (steal?) that money in the future.

Obviously when RSA's end nears, assuming bitcoin is still around then, we'll see some sort of managed transition to a newer cryptosystem. I imagine the network will probably support announcing transactions saying something like, "Wallet X will now be known as wallet Y" where Y uses the new cryptosystem. And presumably only the first valid signed announcement will count and make its way into the block chain. It's at this point that I think people with enough compute power might be able to "steal" lost wallets.
There is demographic information, but you aren't using it. Fundamentally the equation holds:

hiring_procedureX(Candidate(github, male)) == hiring_procedureX(candidate(github, female))

There is nothing whatsoever preventing a person of any sort from creating a code portfolio, and it's pretty easy to browse a github profile without learning anything about the demographics of the coder.

In contrast, basically every other screening procedure out there is potentially influenced by the demographics of an applicant. Prior employers/educators might have been racist/sexist, interviews are potentially subject to similar biases, etc.
Nice to start off the morning with a laugh. I'm not interested in the boring conversation about whether trannie is an acceptable term to our society, but the idea you had no idea what it is short for is a joke. As a graduate in Sociology, how can you understand "how technology shapes culture" and obviously never have bothered to know the name for large subsets of our culture?
You are right. This has nothing to do with native apps. It is just a css/js framework mostly leaning on angular.

When you see the word native, you expect native code. According to this framework, I can call any responsive site native.
Is this an "affiliate" link? As in, do you make money or any equivalent when I click this [and buy something]?

I see: ref_=tsm_1_fb_s_uk_mwnu2i

Probably harmless. Just curious.
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> pointing out that FOSS is paid labor is basically just attacking a strawman.

I would agree with you if that was the entire attack, but it's not. The article isn't making an attack. The point is that it's important to think about _who_ has access to social capital, and _who_ can produce social capital.
Well, of all places, an early version of the character of Doctor Who appeared on, The Canadian Howdy Doody Show (whose guest stars included a young Bill Shatner).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_in_Canada_and_the_Un...
and they rise to full brightness immediately... and they're indestructible... and they're not filled with mercury...
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