skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised how many lessons are quite useless, regardless of their painfulness. Many of the things that happen don't have a systematical meaning that we can adapt our behavior to, but they happen because of chaos. A car accident that teaches you to always look left first (because you looked to the right, and bumped into a car coming from the left) at intersections can be very hurtful, e.g. if people are killed. And you will never-ever again forget to look left first, and never have an accident again due to this very reason, right? But, is that lesson any good? You might never again get into a similar situation, because the reason you looked to the right at that very moment was some dork honking at you. Or even worse, this lesson could lead to another accident because you are neglecting cars coming from the right.

Pain keeps you from touching that oven or from jumping down your balcony, but it's not a suitable tool to drive home a lesson. It holds us back. If you add painful lesson after lesson on top of your "fixed constraints" stack, then you won't be able to freely move after a while.
Great work by those researchers. They linked Satoshi Nakamoto to Silk Road. Except it wasn't Satoshi, it was someone else. And it wasn't Silk Road, it was MtGox. I think their methods could use some improvement.
He probably doesn't know what happened. The designer dealt with the agency, not Spike. That's why it's addressed to him.
Being lazy isn't the only reason someone would quit working at Walmart. It might just suck to flip burgers for 8 hours a day. Needing to eat is a very good incentive to do things that you wouldn't normally do.
Like him or not, seems he had absolutely nothing to do with any of this.
> Bitcoin befuddles experts

Why is this guy an expert? He was an equity analyst for a long-time, but obviously not good enough to get rich. And there are thousands of Wall St. analysts walking around in NYC. I wouldn't even trust their opinion on equities, much less something new. Never read opinion pieces written by journalists.
The real question is, who is this agency? Typical run of the mill untalented agencies that steal other peoples work (even when they pay for it).
> Please explain how a bitcoin blockchain record can testify in court that a copy of a document is authentic. Hint, you're infront of a jury, you have a blockchain hash, and opposing council has a notary public with 40 years of experience, both copies of the document differ, the original cannot be found. Hers has an official looking seal, you have some random numbers.

Here's an imaginary possibility. A hundred and fifty years from now, courtrooms come with computer systems built from scratch and operated by court clerks. Their sole purpose is verifying blockchain records. The jury knows to trust the machine. In fact, the jury instructions tell them to.

None of the jury members have ever seen official documents on physical paper. They only know about paper documents from watching historical fiction movies. In such movies, the possibility that the documents are forged is always a major plot factor.
Or that a contract was not created before a certain date.

I think you have that one backwards. You can demonstrate a contract did exist at a certain date. There is no proof of non-existence before that date.
I think the key question is: At what point is building a user interface more expensive than hiring a full time developer?
This is definitely a cool idea, but there could be potential issues if it is to be relied upon for long periods of time. If at any point in the future the hash algorithm used (SHA256 right now it seems) is found to be vulnerable then it could invalidate all past certifications. You don't really even need a full collision attack, a chosen prefix collision attack is enough to completely destroy the system's validity. MD5 is already vulnerable to chosen prefix attacks, maybe in 5 or 10 years SHA256 will be too...

Perhaps using a combination of different hash algorithms that we know are secure today to certify a file together would be a potential solution to the problem. It's not perfect, but at least this way all the algorithms used need to be compromised for the certification to break.
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>>It makes rational sense for merchants to accept BitCoin and to keep some holdings in BitCoin because the price is increasing at such a rapid pace. Why wouldn't you want to sell something for x BTC today when that amount could be worth twice as much tomorrow?

By this logic you should put all your available cash into bitcoins right now. Are you? If not, why not?
If you're making PPC pages, host them statically somewhere.

I'd counter recommend this. In my limited experience with it, dynamic PPC landing pages are so effective as to be almost cheating.

BCC's AdWords campaigns are not doing well in 2013 for what I believe are unrelated (and mysterious) reasons, but the ~20 lines of Rails code which make URL #1 and URL #2 roughly the same today but will automatically switch URL #1 to a different creative in a few days have been worth, guesstimating a number here, somewhere north of $20,000. (Bingo cards are a very seasonal market. For the last couple of weeks, most teachers have been in the market for Thanksgiving bingo cards. This will not be true in a few days. The #1 URL, which I use for many of my campaigns, uses some really dead simple heuristics to guess which creative to show people. The heuristic was worth > 10% lift in conversions versus alternatives like "Pick our most popular activity ever", "Pick an activity at random", and "Pick Patrick's guess at what would convert best."

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/lp/try_online

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/lpc/thanksgiving <-- There are actually about ~900 landing pages like this, which is a trick that few people manage if they do them in static HTML.
Seems weird he mentioned Spike Lee (who did nothing wrong, as far as I can tell) so many times, but didn't name the agency. Seems to hurt the wrong party's reputation.

Additionally, he has no apparent way to contact him.

EDIT: I really don't want to point fingers with 0 proof, but Spike Lee happens to be CEO of an ad agency named Spike DDB. https://twitter.com/SpikeDDB
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Well, now he's going to get paid.
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Not that I know for sure, but I'd guess he had no idea where the agency got the artwork, whether they did it in-house, contracted it, stole it, or some combination.
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I (not pwang) think it's an abortion of a language because the syntax, scoping and the language as are a whole is a pain to use. Sure, it runs on pretty much everything but that doesn't mean it's suddenly enjoyable to use. The only outstanding feature of JS is that it runs on lots of stuff but it need not be the only one.

As you say getting other languages to run is a good thing because those who don't like JS don't have to use it (or indirectly use it with stuff like Coffeescript).
I might have overgeneralized a bit. I feel like things like messy code are a different matter, though, and both kind of suck for those problems. Some kind of computer-assisted visualization† would often be more helpful than either scrolling around or manually drawing lines through 80 sheets of paper, especially as that number grows. Inevitably, retrieval gets to be really prohibitive in the real world.

† Heck, even just stepping through the code in a debugger often helps me make sense of spaghetti faster than anything else, though obviously not by itself.
"If I saw that "ffl" ligature, how would I know it's a ligature and not some single unrelated character in another language?"

Because the name of that character is "Latin Small Ligature ffl". Knowing to capitalize ﬄ as FFL doesn't require a word list any more than knowing to capitalize "ffl" does.
could have used http://www.proofofexistence.com/
This isn't a prediction. Unless you think Bitcoin will reverse entropy then of course it's going to fail. When is it going to fail?
The use of gold in industry is discouraged by its high price - if it were the same price as copper, you'd see more uses for it.
Erm. "..I wanted to teach but I needed money before that to put aside; and to make money I took a salary cut after Amazon job to work for PA. And then I work sometimes till midnight for weeks because they can hire more people but they won't. And you can't go hike and should be on call, always, forever and ever..." LOL what?

For the company that is supposed to be cool and racks up money from PAX... I don't have words to express my thoughts. It's a huge whirlwind, thoughts quickly appear in my head and move in circles and I can't grab any of them to display here. Just wow!
Where are the internet hippies saying everything should be free?
So, I can feel bummed for the guy, but my understanding of what happened here is that he accidentally threw out something incredibly valuable. Don't blame the victim for his stupidity, but don't feel required to reimburse him, either.
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This is what I was thinking as well. Did he also send this letter privately, but posted publicly to get support as well? That seems the only logical way to do it, if he hopes to get a response.
> Marginal impact is greater. Using the numbers I listed above your marginal tax rate at a income of $10k/year is NEGATIVE 100%

You seem to be trying to count the MBI both as tax-basis income and as negative tax when computing marginal rates. This is obviously improper, because you wouldn't consider positive taxes as part of the tax-basis income.

If you consider your MBI as negative tax and not income, then at $0 income (excluding, for the moment, negative pre-MBI income, which may or may not be possible, depending on how you define "income"), the total tax rate is negative infinity, but marginal tax rate is +10%, and at $100K the marginal rate is +10%, and at 500K the marginal rate it is +10%, and at $1 Trillion the marginal rate is +10%. Its perfectly flat.

If you consider it as tax-basis income but not negative tax, then there is no income below 10K, and from 10K on the marginal rate is still a flat 10%.

You can't count the inverse of the amount paid in tax as part of the taxed income to compute marginal rates.
Well,

Keep in mind that never, ever having really bad things happen is first priority for an algorithm of that sort and only then can it think about being efficient in a really clever way.

I'd imagine that from the statistical analysis perspective, all memory managers seem like "ad-hoc hacks" but I believe what happens is they are really smart hacks tested with multiple use cases.

Creating a statistical analysis/machine-learning/etc program that can deal quickly with heterogeneous data robustly in real-time would be an incredible achievement.

If anyone knows of a situation where serious machine learning has been applied at such a low level, I would love to hear about it (the only thing vaguely similar I recall is that use of neural networks for branch prediction, something that's been studied but not implemented).
I use Selenium tests that run on a cron job to check for elements on third-party websites. This works great and I am able to keep the extension mostly up to date. One of the issues I have come up against is when a third-party A/B tests. I usually have to hack around and find an account with the B portion to make sure everything works.
Most movies don't make what they used to--that is before the Internet. I would sue in small claims court. I'm surprised
The Cricket didn't sub the job out to Indian graphic designer--and get away with paying a few rupees.
Sure, but my thought experiment was more about 10-20 years from now when that option is off the table.
Hi there,

Regarding your bullet list, the book covers all of your concerns. Grunt just depends on node/npm, and I describe how to get CI working properly with Grunt.

The first part of the book is entirely dedicated to automation and the build process, and it definitely covers things such as asset revving, linting, bundling, and minification.

When it comes to modularity (commonjs, amd, etc), dependency resolution (circular or otherwise), and package management, that's detailed in Chapter 5, at the beginning of Part II.

Unit Testing is covered in Chapter 8. I won't talk about TDD other than briefly mentioning it, but what I _will_ be talking about is automating unit tests, abstracting browser interaction, using PhantomJS to avoid firing up a browser, and using karma to run tests using Chrome automatically.

The testing chapter will go over real-life case scenarios, as well. To be honest, I'll cram as much high quality content as I can in the book/samples, but if you're looking for testing-heavy (or TDD) content, I'd suggest you look elsewhere

Most of the content covered in the book is further expanded in the code samples, which are open source:
https://github.com/bevacqua/buildfirst
You can subscribe to ruby-dev and find out. ;) It's actually much more low-traffic than ruby-core, and someone has volunteered to translate any email if you ask.
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I am speaking from a requirement standpoint. By requiring OSS commits, I am heavily favoring people who worked for OSS companies. This may be a good thing or a bad thing.

I do not disagree on the value of looking at OSS, I just feel that requiring it is going to cause you to pre-emptively filter your candidate list.

Now if that is what you want there is nothing wrong with that, it just may not be obvious that is what you are doing.

Note that I am assuming you are looking for complex work, github is great for seeing if they can at least program, but I would trust a quick whiteboard problem more for that level of technical aptitude.
The entire vengeance trio is amazing, but I actually like Sympathy for Lady Vengeance the most. Park Chan-Wook's I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK is good too. You should check out Battle Royale if you liked Oldboy.
Does anyone know if 23andMe would be restricted from disclosing your info under HIPAA?
Who was the agency?
Yes, but there's one interesting bit of fine print in the Nokia-Microsoft deal that gives the runt company (that was the old Nokia) the right to start using the Nokia name again... as of January 1, 2016:

http://followingjolla.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-small-print-t...

Of course Jolla is a different company as well... but we're barely 2 years away from more wild naming-strategery options, for Nokia-offshoot Finnish companies.
People value goods and services. They use currency to denote the value of these goods and services.

If enough goods and service providers pegged their BTC/USD exchange rate to one, the initial BTC speculators would take a bath.

But subsequent Bitcoin users would receive the benefit of Bitcoin transaction technology and the benefit of the US government's fiat currency for monetary policy.
Is that allocating a new buffer, leaving the "hello" string to be collected by the GC?
1 million deaths is more than just a "statistic"
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This seems to be going over people's heads, so I'll leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing
I don't think you understand even if the vendor accepts bitcoins, and even if I bring my laptop I still can't buy anything in under 5 minutes.

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time
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Well said. You should paste this comment into the NYTimes comment section, it clearly articulates the issues (even for the technologically inept), of which none were discussed in the article.
yeah as ars mentions, it's already happened... plus there is litecoin, buttcoin, etc etc

When people compare to internet & DNS & things like that I get kinda pissed off. Those are standard protocol that we agree to because it helps ensure successful communication. Bitcoin is not anything like this stuff, it falls more into the category of "some code that runs on the internet".

Think of it more like a website (Facebook) instead of providing the false analogy that its like the internet itself. If Facebook were an open-source trading platform and it started looking askew, what do you think people would do? (hint: open-source)
You are wrong. It didn't fail. It evolved into a more efficient currency model.
Can I get my tax return in BTC at 1:1 please? please?
Headsets always have a physical answer button, if you put one in, you don't even have to handle the phone.
It seems that you have already decided to leave that job. You are not enjoying it and you should not waste your precious time in boring stuff.

Too many exciting challenges out there. It is nice that you are learning other programming languages and it will open you many possibilities in future.

Do you have any side project that you are working on?
I'm here for 45, probably work 25.
Here is the original twitter dev blog post if anyone wants to see it [1]. I hope this does not come off an condescending and negative, but my honest reaction is "What took so long"?? It blows my mind that it took 7 years to realize/implement this feature.

One of the main reasons I don't regularly use Twitter is because there is too much white noise. It's hard for me to find information of value because the comments are all over the place. Even when I follow a strict set of People specific to an Industry or a Topic, create specific lists, etc; it's still too much white noise (example; interesting post right next to what someone else had for breakfast).

I am actually quite frustrated with the entire thing. Being someone interested in Development and Solving Problems, I know this can be better. And on that front, it's great to see that this feature finally exists. But there is so much more that could be done to make it even better. It's frustrating because the issue relates to a core Twitter experience, which (under [2] API v1.1 Developer Rules of the Road section 1.5) cannot be replicated. So the end result, I'll probably just have to wait for the customer feedback loop process to complete (which likely takes a long time). Hopefully in the future I'll see some of the features that I had once hoped to build myself. Until then, I probably won't be a regular Twitter user. Frustrating.

If anyone at Twitter reads this, I would be more than happy to describe in detail some of the ways that I think the timeline can become more relevant and valuable. I've talked about it here on HN (project name is InfoStream), and it basically relates to a correlation of GeoLocation Data and Time with relation to Real World Events.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines

[2] https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms
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What! I think his post does no such thing. Spike Lee did nothing wrong and the post shows nothing but respect for him.
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Thanks for replying my concerns!

I here you and I understand the approach you take for this book and I agree with your approach because I don't think a single book can have everything on my bullet points.

I really really hope that there's a de-facto stack for front-end development and let that stack stabilize for a while so that people can build on top of it (as opposed to keep on solving individual problem with a single specific brand-new-hip-tool-which-will-get-outdated-soon).

I hope Yeoman (Grunt and Bower) can be a part of the solution for the long-run and hopefully your book can be a foundation where people based-off future books (i.e.: JavaScript test automation should be based-off something).
I have the name problem to an extreme. I have excellent face recall, but I can't remember names--and of course it worsens in social situations. I've pretty much given up on trying to introduce people to one another after repeatedly introducing my best friend as "my best friend"...awkwardly leaving it at that because I'd temporarily forgotten his name. Furthermore, I have a hard time discussing books with friends because I can't recall characters' names--despite having seen them hundreds of times throughout the course of a story. In such conversations, I have to denote characters by their identifying traits or actions. Since I don't seem to suffer from other non-visual recall issues (for example, my working vocabulary seems normal and I can remember past conversations in detail), I find the problem particularly strange.

I avoid slighting people by letting them know up front that I'm terrible with names. But I think it helps that mildly-poor name recall is common enough that people can empathize and excuse it. Also, I can quickly recognize and greet people I know--even if I can't acknowledge them by name. I'd imagine that most would find the effects of prosopagnosia more jarring and harder to dismiss without much more explanation than my bad name memory requires.
Aren't most home routers, by default, configured to not accept HTTP connections from outside the local network?
One thing I never quite understood, but haven't really heard mentioned, is what makes this instance of a digital currency special. If I were to start another pool of bitcoins, with it's own mining etc. (like say, litecoin, but not necessarily technologically different from bitcoins) is the only disadvantage, from the perspective of adoption, that it wasn't the original, and is a little less prominent?

If so, I can empathize with the "losing faith" perspective. It only takes the tiniest bit of squinting to see bitcoins not at fundamentally limited, and therefore currency-worthy, but as completely unlimited.
My question as well. I'd love to hear from the advocates of "It's digital, there is no cost to the content producer for others to make copies."
Haha, I actually made this, indirectly!

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/11786/a-key-deriva...

Shoutout to Max Krohn for actually asking though :)
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Bookmarked and will definitely start watching today. As you can see, I'm in serious P.A.I.N on front-end (especially when I'm comparing with my process on the back-end).
Wait, so Ruby has the same problem with symbols that Erlang does with atoms? Why don't I constantly see warnings against using String#intern the way I do about list_to_atom/1?
That's really cool! Thanks for the tip. :)
What's your point? Sounds to me like you're trying to win the debate by inventing your own set of "facts"
It's limited so that the blockchain grows at a linear rate instead of an exponential rate.
I don't necessarily think the content here is HN material; I just believe its illustrative to sometimes burst our media bubble and give us a rare glimpse into cold hard reality.

This is the fifth recall for a very modern SUV concerning fire that is spontaneously ignited.
They didn't seem to use his comps… I'm assuming he had access to the same pool of photography that the finals used, but that doesn't mean they ripped him off. The work on top of the photos seems very different to me.
Refactoring is a fact of life. Encapsulation makes it trivial to identify all places that need to be addressed. That is a certain gain.

Talking about 'certain this' and 'possible that' is subjective. I'd have labeled those the opposite way, for instance.

If you value transparency (your 'data structure' is actually an object itself e.g. a hash map) then inheirit. Its not rocket science. One solution doesn't have to fit everything.
Funny, I preferred Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, much more grounded and less stylized.

I don't really see any parallels between Battle Royale and Oldboy. You might check out The Chaser and Yellow Sea, though.
Sounds like nonsense to me: if you buy 1 BTC from me, then at the same time I've sold 1 BTC? That makes it by definition as equally hard (or easy) to buy as to sell?