skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Both exercise and sleep promote health. It's like he's arguing against exercise because gyms aren't conducive to sleeping.

I think the biggest problem is that the typical office environment and workflow is designed to promote discussion without much thought towards the impact it can have on flow. I'll often see the calendar littered with 30 - 60 minute meetings that could be much more efficiently clustered together.
Bitcoin can't stabilize, the economy is not fixed in size and neither can a currency that represents it be and remain stable in value. Every time demand for liquidity spikes due to a growing economy bitcoin will deflate.
It's pretty minor ire. But on the other hand, it's a pretty minor act to relay a conversation held in public.
"A Modern Space Cadet" http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/ is my favorite KeyRemap4Macbook/PCKeyboardHack/etc. setup
An interesting notion, but not one I'm particularly prone to.
I actually knew a guy who used to do exactly that, back before he got his nose broken. I was curious about that; he was awfully vague about the circumstances, but allowed as how it'd happened in a Safeway checkstand line. As may be, the experience did wonders for his circumspection and consideration of others. Didn't help him much, of course, this being the same fellow who used to say that enforcing other people's marriage vows was no concern of his, which worked great for him right up until he got shot. Quite a funeral, that was -- I never in my life saw so many flower arrangements around a casket, or so few with cards attached.
The Czech don't seem to have a problem with the word robot: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robota
My ear is exactly as sacred as their public conversation is. I agree that my ear is not sacred, but that just means that neither are their words. If you don't want to be overheard, don't speak in a way that people can easily overhear you.
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I agree with this. People are concerned with wealth distribution in the physical world, while in the bitcoin world one man owns nearly 10% of all money. The fact that this man is its creator is even more dubious.

This is the equivalent of one American, someone like the head of the federal reserve owning 1.05 trillion US dollars. Even if one day we'll have 21 million Bitcoins out there, that's still around 5% of all wealth being owned by one man, the currencies creator. Sounds crazy to me.
The economies of scale in electricity production are immense, so yes it is indeed an improvement to move to electric cars even if all electric cars are fed by dirty pollutants. Which they aren't.

Also, a move to a less polluting industry is more than the sum of the direct effects; you must also consider research and momentum - as more electric cars are built, solar power and battery efficiency will also improve. If you take the opinion that an electric car is the same as a gas car because at some point they both pollute, you'll never make any progress anywhere.
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> ...many people on this forum have a significant financial incentive to ensure that people don't think this way about BTC.

How can you make an assertion like that with no facts? Do you know that for sure? Do you have data to back that up?
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That happend yesterday at 5a.m. police have bitten peacful protestors to clear main capital's square in order to set up christmas tree there. That lead to huge amount of people gather on streets of Kiev today. And small group of provoker tried to get into Presidet's Office as seen on different ustreams like this ones.
I imagine it to be quite effective education, personally.
Gender != sex.
Right now I believe we can sponsor renewals but not initial applications. I don't know of any immediate plans to change that, sorry.
Another problem with UEFI Secure Boot is that boot images can apparently only be signed by one key, which is why we see crazy things like Canonical going to Microsoft to get their Ubuntu images signed. (It's a nice, subtle, anti-competitive trick, IMHO.)
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What this doesn't include is the efficiency of motors. Gasoline engines has an efficiency of 25-30%. Electrical cars are much more efficient (Tesla seems to quote 88% for Tesla Roadster). So while your calculation shows that you about break even, taking this into account should mean electricity is in the area of 3x cheaper in Norway (when used for powering cars).
Seems like fun! Do you have a public git repo?

Also I get a "We're sorry, but something went wrong." error when trying your demo link on the page.

EDIT: It's working! Maybe you should lower a little the shadow on the text.
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It's not working...
>what is preventing all of the other cryptocurrencies from taking off?

Nothing at all. There have been dozens of "competing" digital currencies for several years now. Litecoin came along in early 2011. And it's extraordinarily easy to change Bitcoin to other digital currencies (much easier than USD <> digital currencies).

So obviously being first counts for a lot here. The network effect is strong.
"Check yo fax" is not consistent with the standards of the HN community (nor with the overall high quality of the rest of your comment).
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What is the intrinsic value of Bitcoin, aside from its scarcity?
I just posted a link to a facebook status of Ladar Levison [1], who says that the Dark mail Initiative has been funded, and that he will soon be looking at resumes. I assume it can be of interest to people here on HN :-).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827595
Possible value: People can see in advance what the ads look like and decide if it would be too annoying.

I bought a Kindle reader a year ago; went for the cheaper ad-supported version. At first it was annoying, but now I don't care. I don't look at the screen if I'm not using it so I don't see the "screen saver" ads but briefly. There are some smallish banner ad type things on the pages that list what material is on the device, but they too have become essentially invisible to me. What surprises me is that none of the ads seem relevant to either whats on the device or my purchase history with Amazon.

Most important, when reading I see no ads. I wonder if it's the same thing on the Fire? Can you turn off the screen when not in use? I expect it goes blank fairly quickly to save power.

For someone who is considering buying a device it's helpful to know what to expect.

That said, stuff like this just sounds silly ..

Instead what I paid for is an obscene device that would be more appropriately called a "Personal Advertisement Consumption Assistant" (PACA), because that is exactly what it is. It is crippled with Amazon's custom Android, which again is simply the Amazon home page inundating you with ads.

... when you know in advance there will be ads shown.

Plus, the Amazon product page says this:

Special Offers and Sponsored Screensavers display on Kindle Fire tablet lock screens and do not appear while you are using the device.

If it's so painful just turn the damn thing over on its face.
As the CEO of Snapchat, what would you have done if you were offered $3B?
Such candor is remarkable in this dissipated age. Don't get me wrong -- judging by what I've seen of you on HN, I'm quite glad I don't know you socially. But your forthrightness here is impressive nonetheless.
My main contact with the ACM has been attending (pricey) ACM conferences during my PhD, occasionally publishing work in ACM proceedings.
I had no contact with them when working as a software engineer, apart from bumping into their paper paywall.

"6.02. Promote public knowledge of software engineering."

ACM papers on software engineering are typically paywalled.

"6.05. Not promote their own interest at the expense of the profession, client or employer."

I often hear that researchers don't want to limit access to the paper, but feel they have to, to publish and progress.

'Pre-prints' mitigate this issue somewhat, and I acknowledge that the ACM has taken steps to open things up recently (e.g. author pays); and that while its easy to say 'make it free', it costs money to run an organisation that manages publications.

I'd still be concerned that conflicts of interest remain until open access is the standard.
I was under the impression that Viktor Orban and his government - while being critisized from abroad - is actually quite popular?

We have a similar problem with corruption and people being fed up here in the Czech Republic. Traditional parties suffered a big defeat in the last parlimentary elections and 3 new parties got into the parliament, so I'm carefully optimistic.
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I think it would be better if you didn't return the "Memes As A Service" header with every request but otherwise I think it's a cool idea.
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I read those as rhetorical questions and think you two may actually be in agreement.
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I just finished reading the book, and his description of it is a shame.

For anybody interested it is a great book that talks about how to achieve enjoyment and a meaningful life in the current context of western civilizations. It is a great book, full of insights and really good information. Very recommended
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> but anyone else based in the US

Why US only? Are there significant challenges into opening this platform to internationals? I always thought it was simpler (less taxes to deal with, etc).
I don't understand the point.

Replace "software engineer" with any profession and the meaning doesn't materially change.

Why do we need this?
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> 1. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.

In some places, "public interest" can go counter to "human rights". So I would rather have (order of precedence apply):

1a. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently to respect human rights.

1b. PUBLIC - Software engineers shall act consistently with the public interest.
Except it all seems @bcantrill used @joyent's blog to win battle against an opponent.

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Exclusionary language is the excuse for publicly shaming an individual seen as a pain in the ass
Haha, perhaps, yes! But also why do we feel the need to relay it? Tit for tat?! Can't we just be better than that?! If you're really, really annoyed, why not just say to the conversationalists - "perhaps you could keep it down?"
I thought the biggest Ponzi scheme was the current monetary system, whereby a few organizations can create money out of nothing?
They think that best way to democracy is topple legitimately elected government.
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Counddown here: http://live.china.org.cn/2013/11/29/coming-soon-china-launch...
In European context, slavery is either about distant past (Spartacus anyone?) or failed states.

Both neither very relevant to IT nor drama-prone.
Supposedly it's pretty good in the snow. The Model X will have an all-wheel drive configuration too.

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This is great, and I'd be happy to sign it (well, other than being a college dropout) but the reality I've seen in industry is that 30 seconds after adopting this pledge, I would be asked to do something that contradicts it. Then get weird stares when I inform them that their request "goes against the Software Engineering Code of Ethics" while they fill out my pink slip.
I don't understand this point of view. Is there some expectation that once bitcoin goes down it will never go up again? Why is there going to be a "last buyer"? We have already seen a couple of significant drops in the value of bitcoin and it has not deterred people from using it.
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All good points.

I guess what bothered me is that the post manages to be nearly contentless, intellectually dishonest, and moralistic all at once. These kinds of inane blog posts really just shouldn't be submitted to HN.
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From another comment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16647069/should-i-use-vag...

Mentions the overhead of running VirtualBox.
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The transition from an oligopoly/monopoly to a market where price is dictated by competition is different than the transition from few competitors to more competitors.
We'll have software ethics when we have business ethics and political ethics.
Nope. Sorry, we're too early for that.
To solve a problem by democratic means, you need a functioning democracy. I'd like to know by what definition a functioning democracy can possibly include a corrupt ruling class.
So only pure breakthroughs are valued in science, everything else is "garbage?" Interesting perspective you have there.