skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it pretty amazing reading physics forums where it seems clear that a lot of the people think mathematics is almost some kind of joke until substantiated by physicists. And then there was the usually insightful Lawrence Krauss's blanket dismissal of philosophy — while philosophical musings that contradict known data are problematic, much of philosophy lies outside the domain of physics.

Anyway, in regard to the idea of science "stack", I kind of enjoyed Alan Lightman's Reunion where he poses a nineteenth century astronomer's obsession with and histrionics in response to rejection by a cute young woman in his observatory as a kind of "proof" that biology studied more powerful forces. The event simultaneously lead to the astronomer abandoning his career and inspired hers in biology.[1] Though obviously meant as joke, the author himself transitioned from a successful career as a physicist to writing and teaching literature.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=4nQhY2fbX2IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA1...
Backward stepping is cool. When I was checking out various Lisps some time ago, I saw in (IIRC) Franz Lisp that they had something like Visual Studio's Edit and Continue (maybe before VS did). Not a Lisper myself, though I've dabbled in it now and then and like it, so maybe that has been a feature of Lisps from much before - don't know.
Hi, one of the MGWU founders here. Our goal with the Summer Academy is to initially provide a supplement to traditional education, and eventually provide a replacement for it. As a supplement it may seem like a programming camp for rich kids (we're doing our best to make it more accessible through scholarships). But as a replacement we hope to offer the same or better value (through practical education, professional network, and eventually even brand name) as traditional education at a fraction of the cost.
High priority transactions can be made without fees
They don't. OEMs have to license those as well. This is making the browser more like those services on Android, not less.
If you are interested by the pricing you can have a look at prerender, brombone, getseojs, ajaxsnapshots or blitline. You'll see that it varies a lot.
I suspect that you have some amount of experience that allows you to just do many of these things intuitively (possibly in your head without writing them down). For a beginner, I think it can be helpful to have a detailed procedure to follow that takes them from start to finish. That way they can focus mental energy on the problem at hand while not having to worry that they may be working through the problem using a method that is inefficient or that may never get results.
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The publicity definitely helped the game grow, but at the same time, people who play tournaments rarely deviate from decks based on the ones that the pros are using.
I'd encourage you to apply anyways, we're offering scholarships!
A watt is a watt no matter what frequency it is radiated at.

the whole discussion above is concerned with the relative amounts radiated in visible and infra-red....
As pointed out on Reddit, this wallet has made several large transactions since September: https://blockchain.info/address/1HBa5ABXb5Yx1YcQsppqwKtaAGFP...
Spotted this article on the subreddit for Bitcoin. A lot of people are speculating that the Chinese government might be signaling a move into crypto-currencies, which would be yet another strong bullish signal for Bitcoin. Which btw, is trading consistently at a premium on the Chinese bitcoin exchange at prices that reflect the yuan actually being worth about $5, not $6 (the official rate.)

Interesting times we live in.
It would be able to tell if the move was a mistake if playing against a computer. A move that would be bad against a computer opponent might throw a human opponent off balance through surprise, or take the game into a type of board state which was unfamiliar and disorienting to the opponent.
Should this be regarded as capital gains from currency speculation, when it comes to taxation, or how does something like this look to a tax attorney or accountant?
Unless you're the federal reserve/hedge fund.
Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible vs Salt, a review
Youtube comment section is one of the few places that aptly helps define the meaning of the phrase "darkest corner of internet". Some of the commenters there seem to have been gifted with the brains of an amoeba.
I like this, but it seems too cryptic for a true novice to actually learn from, especially if they've never been exposed to Lisp syntax. Who is the intended audience?

I see that it's something of a port of the Clojure Koans, has there been much feedback on that as to whether people are able to truly learn the language this way? I'm intrigued by new methods of instruction, but this seems like it would be a very frustrating trial-and-error game to a beginner, as there is virtually zero actual teaching. We're supposed to be making programming more accessible, not less. It seems like this kind of thing ends up as a fun toy/experiment for people who already know most of it.

It is very nice though.
Cockpit computers are sapping pilots' ability to fly
I wonder if it is an early miner, or a certain black pirate...
So what would be the end-game for the doubled amount? Double it again? Spend it?
>The people believe they are entitled to be at a certain level of power

That's a very good point to make: old school media (broadcast media/print) set the cultural standards for a society. That's changing: the Internet is allowing everyone to learn together what they think, or want to think. We know that anyone losing power will do anything to try and keep it, as they fall deeper into the well of redundancy. You just helped me realise that broadcast is going away, but we'll maintain our celebrity/expert hierarchies based on new media explorations (e.g. XKCD, notch, Colonel Hadfield)
I really don't think it's the physical process, but the kind of detailed analysis of your problem and the requisite thinking to form a solution that the described process requires.

Good OO programmers do some internal version of this process every time they design a class. For those that have been at it awhile, this process is probably so internalized they hardly even notice it. The OOP equivalent of muscle memory.

For example, the value in "underline and review the nouns" isn't underlining and reviewing the nouns, it's a physical manifestation of an important step in the OO development process. Namely, helping to identify requirements.

Have I ever gone through such a tedious process when designing a class? Of course not, but the steps outlined in the answerer's post take place in some form internally every time I need to design a new class.
I'm sure that there are entities who have $150m in cash lying around. Drug cartels come to mind.
My fellow bovine friend, you're now misinterpreting the analogy (and Greek mythology, but I assume you mistyped and meant "the Trojans" and not "the Greeks"). In the analogy, Troy is not a single person's computer. Troy is the software ecosystem.

Consider Microsoft's old "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy, which devastated the PC software ecosystem in the 90s. Was that problem solved by individual users uninstalling Microsoft's products? Of course not. Recovering from that destruction was a far more difficult and grueling process which isn't quite finished even today.
The browser that is included with Android 4.4's source code is Chromium. This is still available. I'm not really sure what the author is trying to say, but it seems like an inaccurate article to me.
If you're the federal reserve, it "pops up out of nowhere" in a sense, but on a public balance sheet. If this was the Fed going long bitcoin, we'll know...
nicely done overview. I like the "nitpick" items, good way to point out spots for improvement without seeming high and mighty. overall a great way to glom great ideas.
There was that one video about a guy who built a solar-powered house off-grid which uses DC to power anything. I believe he used several wires which he could combine for different voltages. Let me look if I can find it.

edit: Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rM7QDi_5E&t=11m39s
Surprisingly not marked as 'too abroad' or something like that on SO...

I guess on 2010 people were more light on that
Thanks for the link, that looks interesting (as a currency). From their FAQ they look like a Bitcoin inspired currency which tries to define all the parts necessary for independent digital payments:

Payment Network (with protocol)

Exchange

Currency

All in one place. The advantage to that if you trust them of course is that you can expect the exchange/payment processor isn't a buggy webapp sitting on an insecure VPS with multiple ways to be hacked (I hope!). If you don't trust them it's even more scary than bitcoin though.

I wish alternatives to Bitcoin got half the attention Bitcoin has been getting on HN over the last few months - a currency is not a success because it constantly shoots up in value, quite the reverse.
If the map is correct, the first node that saw the transaction is located roughly in Frankfurt, Germany which is a major financial centre. The transaction was made at 5:38 local time which is right around the time the Frankfurt exchange closes. Might be this transaction was done by a larger financial institution closing up shop for the week.
Incandescents die from thermal shock, not from being hot.
Would you mind linking said article?
That's an oversimplification I think. Groupon was a method of advertising that merchants paid for with their goods. This article argues that it turned out to be a bad method of advertising because of disappointing conversion rates. That said, if it was so terrible I don't know why the founders didn't know that in the first few months.
$50/year is wishful thinking.

I pay $10/month for Spotify. Thats $120/year. I doubt YouTube would be cheaper
Apparently people think its the Winklevoss' since they claimed to have bought ~1% of all BTC and the amount moved nicely coincides with about 1%
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Or just an exchanges cold storage...
Um, you know there do exist lower-risk investment vehicles than stocks, right? Back when there was inflation, you'd be a fool not to put the $10,000 you're saving for a house into a 1- 2- or 5-year CD. And investing in I-bonds for their kids' education is still something parents do.
Ask HN: Is there anyway to identify Google Glass images / videos on the web?
Is there anything in, for example, the metadata (if there is metadata) of a GG photo. If a service is scraping photos from the web it would be useful to me to be able to identify GG assets.
I don't see pricing as significant goal with Bitcoin.

If that's the case, it's not a currency. I do think this is something Bitcoin needs to address if it is to be taken seriously as a medium of exchange.
OMFG, Bitcoin is so anonymous!
Python debuggers, as far as I know, require the program to be in a halted state - i.e., you're stepping through it.

In Tcl, the program can be running its event loop at normal speed, and you can inject commands into that event loop while it runs.
Transaction priority are based solely on fee amount..no?
Yes I meant to come back to this comment and explain why people should watch it. What you said!
I dislike the distinction between using a computer and programming one. Both are just ways to tell a machine what to do. He tells his computer what to do using C, she tells her computer what to do using bash, and they tell their computer what to do using Word and Firefox. Certainly C, bash, Word and Firefox are all programs. So is an assembler and linker.

I don't know if we should treat all applications like domain specific languages, or if we should just hide complexity until needed, then provide a way for more advanced users to access lower abstraction layers, or what. Either way, I don't think this fairly strict but artificial distinction between using and programming is helpful or beneficial.
> But Apple said something what can be translated into "screw you developer, you are guilty and you will be punished".

Really? I'm not reading that at all. Of course the letter sounds a bit cold and harsh, but that's how these types of (semi-automated) mechanisms will work. How likely is it for the mechanism that triggered this e-mail to be aware that you are just a middle-man for the real app publishers? Moreover, why should they care? As the listed publisher, the responsibility to police your clients is rightly on you.

Please address this issue promptly.

Sounds to me like they are giving you an opportunity to respond.
Use it for handling high volume voting.
Animated Map of Coup Attempts Worldwide, 1946-2013
Some guy with an MFA is not qualified to talk about HFT and liquidity. I was referring more to an academic source, flash crashes are more the exception and not the rule; they stabilize quickly and have little to no lasting negative effect on industry.
As others have replied to you, I think you misunderstand what side effects & IO are.

Imagine a "normal" shell type chain:

ps -ef | grep 'elephant' | sort -nk2 >> logfile.txt

neither `grep`, nor `sort` should have any side effects, and if they do, then you have potential for weird bugs later on. (imagine your / is mounted read only, and sort has a side effect of writing everything to a temp file. now suddenly this otherwise sane looking chain stops working).

In the command, you have a single input, and a single output (which has a specific mode, append). Those are the only IO functions which you've specified, but you have no guarantee that anything else will not make a mess of things.

The dream for "pure functional" shell scripting would be where the side effects are more obvious, and controllable, not to eliminate them.
The whole lightbulb debacle is a great reason why the government regulatory regime needs to stop meddling with the marketplace.

Until 2000, buying a lightbulb was an unconscious act. You go to any store, and buy a fucking lightbulb. 80% of sales were 60w. Some applications call for different bulbs.

Now, solutions for getting light out of edison sockets take up A FULL AISLE in Home Depot, with a dizzying array of choices that are difficult to evaluate.

You can buy normal lightbulbs, except that now most of them are mislabeled -- a 60W bulb may actually be 50W. 100W bulbs are impossible to find and cost $5/ea.

You can buy CFLs. Some are great, others make your living room look like a gas station bathroom in 1960. Most suck, and as a layman, I now have to know what color temperature is. And, oh yeah, many bulbs, which cost 5x-10x the original bulbs, burn out quickly in fixtures, or burn out quickly when in any orientation other than a standard lamp. (ie. put them in sideways, or mount them upside down)

Now you have LEDs, which sometimes have better light quality, but they cost $20. And while they may last longer, you need to be an engineer to evaluate the appropriate bulb for the appropriate application.

Just let me buy a bulb and pay more for electricity.
Love this. 1 BTC == ??? plump juicy heirloom tomatoes.
Ask HN: do you make money on Chrome Store?
Hi,

simple question: do you make money on Chrome Store creating extensions (I am not talking here about webapps which are making money and you made chrome extension specifically for them)? If yes then on what exactly?
Thanks Adam for your advices on betainabox.com It's refreshing to have someone take an objective look of your business and provide honest, actionable feedback -- the advises showed that you have given it lots of thought and were invaluable to the growth of my business.
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I'm surprised no one has identified what I think is the most likely situation: bitcoin theft.
The discussion around Carlsen has led me to instinctively make comparisons to Starcraft professional play.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/How_to_Improve

If you listen to commentators discussing matches, they can explain why certain decisions are gutsy, what the history of each player is (so-and-so is amazing at Medivac drops, so you expect that going into a game with him; so-and-so prefers the late game, so you'll never see him build proxy pylons), and the long-term ramifications of certain events (it doesn't seem like a big deal to lose 5 workers, just like a pawn sacrifice doesn't seem huge, but at the pro level of play, you'd better get something of equal or greater worth out of that; it doesn't seem like a big deal to know when Zerg builds their first extractor, but scouting that timing can tell you a lot about build order).

> LoL does require some mechanical skill but once you get it down, it's 90% knowledge.

At a certain point, LoL is about having teammates who you've worked with enough to anticipate and account for. There's a world of difference between baiting the carry and hoping your jungler will respond to your ping, and baiting the carry because you know there's three seconds until your jungler's dash is off cooldown.

Personally, I get the shakes when I PvP in LoL so what decent mechanical skill I have kinda fractures. :( I miss watching LoL streams, actually; they stopped working for me.
Remember this is the first node that the Blockchain.info website saw. This relay information is extremely misleading. So that German node could have relayed the transaction from another node before Blockchain.info became aware of it. (Blockchain.info is connected to about 1% of all the active Bitcoin nodes)
You should buy saas business or profitable website from auction sites like www.flippa.com....
Absolutely HORRIBLE usability dude! What the hell were you thinking including a search box with no guide on what to search for?

Here's a simple tip: Get rid of the search, just ask for the zip code. Then afterwards, allow some sort of filters.
Spotify is working in the realm of artist royalties. Much less content on YouTube would be subject to this and if some form of royalty did go into effect, youtube would have a huge say in how it was setup.
Java's demise was ensured when Oracle bought it.
actually, you do raise a very good point. The playback has been super buggy for me the last six months or so. Often times beyond usable. It seems the only way to get it actually play is using watching the embedded video. I do it so much out of habit anymore that I often don't notice.

I do actually have that installed (or at least something like it) I actually use it a fair bit for things I want to watch but don't want to listen too. Somewhere between comcast and youtube I find it nearly impossible to stream 1080p quality videos. I feel like youtube doesn't buffer like it used to.
Well, this is just another reason why bitcoin will not work - you can track money changing hands.. Certain three letter agencies would have not trouble tracking most of the transfers, all over the world.
No. [1] (pardon the snark)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
you can write an OS in HTML5 and be native.
Goats aren't tracked by the blockchain?
Forget the visualizer go to the article for the visualizer and enjoy pseudo-playing Mario Brother's in the Background!
Thanks, I also found this very beneficial.
Wow, that's messed up. My team and I could have tacked on Salesforce to our existing product (like several of the top teams), but we read over the rules several times and made the conscious decision to build everything from scratch so that our entry would count.
A toy project I did not too long ago was "keep an eye on my Twitter account and when I favorite a tweet that contains a YouTube URL, add that video to my Watch Later playlist in YouTube." Nearly every time I mention this to someone who uses both services, they want it (yes, I know Instapaper can de facto do this).
If your mobile app doesn’t respond within 2 seconds...
Since bridge was mentioned, how about majong? I could play either of them for hours on end.
Love it.
justbaker
| priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age)/size_in_bytes

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
There is an an end-game? :) Maybe. Who knows. Does it matter?
Usability testing meets speed dating for fast product iteration
A crazy productivity boost: Remap Return to Control
Excel VBA: Prime Number Generator
Are you sure "ohm" web site is trustworthy?

I just got this

SSL connection error
Unable to make a secure connection to the server. This may be a problem with the server, or it may be requiring a client authentication certificate that you don't have.
priority = sum(input_value_in_base_units * input_age) / size_in_bytes

A recently received single bitcoin can have a transaction fee, while one that has aged may not.
If you had to start the commitment contract again, would you change any of the three parts of "{1} {user-visible improvement} per {day}"?
This might help: http://www.bitcointax.info/
Can't do that in Israel either. "Time and attention" clause is standard in contracts for workers in the high-tech industry.
It is capital gains if it appreciates in value and is traded for anything else (dollars, euros, gold, real estate, livestock, etc.)
Title is deceptive. ONE test Android phone did this and much of the traffic was related to one app.
Well, I for some practical application lisp/racket could be a better choice. If we categorize lisps/schemes/haskells as "not for real world use" too easily we won't enjoy nearly as much innovation.

I also believe it's undeniable that parts of these languages would be a godsend in some more "real world" languages.

There are two sides to the argument, however I'd like to caution against dismissing languages as "not for real world use" too quickly since it's a trend I've seen.
> Lighting is a horribly underappreciated aspect of modern life.

Everything is a horribly underappreciated aspect of modern life. You'll hear the same sentence with one word changed uttered by audiophiles, vegans, electricians, foodies, urbanists, doctors, social justice advocates, janitors, seniors, juniors, teachers, genealogists, biologists, ecologists, chemists, astrophysicists, philosophers, grammarians, body-builders, trainspotters, mechanics, open-source software fans, designers, photographers, documentarians, readers, writers, gun-nuts, gun-haters, pastors, prudes, perverts and relationship councillors.

We, collectively, no longer give a fuck. We are out of fucks to give. We are way past peak-fucks and into a severe fucks crisis. We have zero fucks.

I just want to buy something and have it work. If the colour temperature is wrong and the aesthetics are therefore sub-optimal? Well that reflects the effort I put in. If it burns out in a week? It's defective, full-stop.
This is an eternal discussion between ease of use VS flexibility.

I think we have room for all of it. Oversimplifying things, as an example, I love how Linux is extremely flexible, Mac extremely easy and Windows... well, let's say it's in the middle.

I believe sometimes someone got it 'more right' than others achieving a right on the spot balance. But that doesn't invalidate the other approaches.

You got to dance accordingly to the music.
From the perspective of someone who can make hiring decisions, how do you differentiate the two?

Besides, I see it the other way around: they're identifying "can't contribute" instead of "don't contribute" and asking people who make hiring decisions not to assume "don't".
No mention of Woot and the other original "daily deal" sites?
Object oriented programming is awful, and this answer describes why. It shifts focus from algorithms to objects. As a result, you get these over-designed programs with lots of objects that have lots of methods, and the algorithm gets totally obscured.

See: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom....
What is this even supposed to be doing? Monitoring the user's watching habits is evil but unsurprising. But why do they even want your filenames?
How does Array.prototype.slice.call() work?
What is Instagram’s next big thing? Messaging, perhaps