skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk does not equal value. I can play russian roulette for an ultimate bet and win 5$ if i dont die.

It is still daunting for me, that i have bought bitcoin and made a few bucks on it, that someone that bought 10k bitcoins last year is now a multi-millionaire.
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But the sort of houses they are calling sv crowd out for buying in the best location in SV are no where near the same as the equivalent location in the UK.
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First everyone made a big deal about Gospel Singer Evon Latrail for posing nude. From paper to paper, going to Google to search, Evon Latrail.....which is now one of the most searched names. Now bigger news! Evon Latrail is dating an A list actress and their sex tape just leaked out!
Simple answer, I would assume is that it is because you hold a smartphone in your hand (contour etc), and a monitor is on a stand/wall.
Another effect that's probably more relevant for Hacker News readers, it doesn't dis-incentivize having your income be higher some years and lower on others. Very important for people considering founding startups, but also for people thinking about pursuing more education.
You're absolutely right. I'm planning to add Apple laptops because it seems to be what people want and they have a big market segment. However I don't think I'll be adding other brands because they're too diluted and I'm still unsure about Apple desktops because it's not as easy to bring to a public place for an exchange.
£4m penalty for discarding one hard drive is "not-unreasonable"?

boggle

You weren't on the Apple-Samsung or Newegg juries, were you?
Where in the World is Satoshi Nakamoto?
I'm sure they're open to pull requests
I'm pretty sure they can say jolla is the phone, sailfish the os, and that it comes from meego tho. and everything else without mentioning even Nokia. heh.
Let's race! :) I'm going to add UK, CA later. Maybe FR and DE too. BUT only IF this is a success which I don't know it will be.
Getting onto HN just means traffic but not necessarily $$$ which would the motivator for adding more features.
Why does this concern you?

To me, that sounds like hearing someone saying "I'm genuinely concerned that people will start giving their kids strange-sounding names." Sure, it's a bit odd, but so what... it's not affecting you.

Maybe you are concerned that they will fail to contribute to the economy, thus dragging it down, but if so then I wonder what you think of our current economic system which leaves a noticeable percentage of people unemployed. Maybe you are motivated by the classic Protestant work ethic and think failing to work hard is a sin, but if so I'm not sure why THIS sin is one you need to worry about in others rather than in yourself.

And at this point I should stop knocking down straw men, and wait to hear why this actually concerns you.
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A listing take 5 seconds. Just 2 clicks (no description, no photo upload). English isn't my 1st language, is there a better way to express that?
Seems like an administrative nightmare. Incorrectly loading JS libraries is just one of many problems when your network connections is compromised.
Wow. I have some trouble with faces, but that sounds awful. I'm terrible with names and not very good with faces, so those two issues compound sometimes and make me feel like an ass. Once someone adds in some details of a conversation we previous had it usually comes flooding back, but by then they probably feel a bit slighted as I've let on I don't remember their name from their face, and even with their name I'm obviously still drawing a blank.
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Wow. Sounds an awful lot like the rationalizations of a cult member. The Kool-Aid is strong in this one.
The free market is sending you a price signal and telling you that you shouldn't go into this field. It's over-saturated. Unless you really think it will be emotionally rewarding, stay away.

It sucks, but that's "the reality of what the people of Earth have demonstrated they want" (when they have to make tradeoffs against the rest of reality, anyway) for you.
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Bluetooth!
I suspect that people in southern California would share your confusion about the pronunciation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jolla
The Latin American states where the elites lives on hill-side housing, protected by guards and fences, all have fairly strict gun laws. They aren't going to let the poor arm themselves! While European gun laws are usually stricter than those in the "red states" of US, there are many places that have more lax laws than New York, Connecticut, and California (Czech Republic and Italy two examples that popped to my head; New Zealand and some Canadian provinces -- while not in Europe -- are also more lax than NY/CT/CA/MD afaik).

The reason you have the firepower is because those left behind by the knowledge work revolution and living in the inland US still have sufficient political power to counter the Manhattanites and San Franciscans eager to take that firepower away ("oh no, we can't let the peons be seen carrying their icky icky AR-15s, ewww!").

The biggest pusher of gun control in the United States is Mike Bloomberg -- he also happens to be a fairly enthusiastic defender of Wall Street. In his mind it makes perfect sense: why would the elites arm themselves directly, if they can just isolate themselves in Manhattan and Pacific Heights, protected by an armed police state. His gun control support (which seems to be back firing so far) is a great way for him to score brownie points many liberals (who would otherwise be diametrically opposed to most of his positions) without actually proposing any laws that would inconvenience the top 1-0.1% of the population.

I'd imagine the Swiss voters (who are voting for this) are laughing extra hard; upon completion of their militia service, they're able buy their service rifle (SIG 552) for $35 (the cost of converting it to a semi-automatic) -- the US-export equivalent (SIG 556) costs in excess of $1800 and cannot be purchased by those in New York or CT (and without significant alterations, in California), the states where quasi-technocratic elites dominate politics: they "know" what's best for the lowest classes (hence support of paternalistic programs like SNAP as well as individual mandates like social security and ACA), they also "know" what's the best for you to defend yourself.
Yep the creators of both of these are involved in algorave
The idea is that you collect taxes such that you can pay this out from them. After you've decided on tax rates and expenditures the Fed can decide how much money gets created or destroyed to stabilize the economy.
I have no idea what the web design of the type Jolla has, but it's getting old really fast. Yes, it looks neat at first, but then it's confusing. Crashplan recently did their update with the same style.

I'll shut up now if I'm the only one bothered by this trend.
"Grateful" -- A Perfect Song for Thanksgiving :-)
But you're a good writer, obviously.

Hold on. Life has a way of bouncing back (especially when it comes to jobs and money). So you aren't CEO material; but who gives a fuck, really. Your family may be the only ones to see through the fog of our culture's toxic emphasis on performance and "winning" -- but they will stand by you, and they will pull you through this. And they are a million trillion times more valuable than the peer approvable of the crummy startup "culture" out there, and the promise of easy, outsized gains that it dangles in front of us.
Getting a concealed carry permit in Philadelphia is not that difficult. They also honor CCW permits from many other states. Crime is not "low" in the neighborhoods where it's perfectly OK to carry a concealed weapon. I don't know who told you this.
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Giles Bowkett gave a standing-ovation receiving talk at RubyFringe in 2008 on his Ruby-based algorithmic MIDI generation framework, Archaeopteryx.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/archaeopteryx-bowkett

I cannot recommend this talk enough. First off, he was way ahead of the curve on this, tech-wise. For this article to not mention him is frustrating.

Secondly, Giles was both hilarious and inspiring. His presentation kept people in rapture; 10 minutes into lunch, not one person in the room left.
Something about hindsight being 20/20.....
Collecting the donations changes everything. It seems like going to "the internet" with a sob story and a paypal account (or bitcoin wallet in this case) has been getting pretty popular recently, or at least has been getting more attention.

I absolutely cannot understand why anybody would ever throw money at some unverified sob story...
no your replacing one type of welfare state with another arguably "fairer" one - most welfare sates discriminate against childless single people.
Ask HN: Mine for BTC in pool or LTC solo?
I want to try out mining for cryptocurrency and can't decide between these two. Can friends who know a bit about both reply please?
Well... I mostly use my Amazon wish list to keep track of things that I will likely buy myself in the future. I don't really expect people to buy them for me. So I did not sign up for the site. However, it is a great idea and is something I am likely to make use of at some point. I just don't have a need at this moment.
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Ah nice, thanks, missed the part about requiring "objspace" to mix them in and assumed they would be on the already existing ObjectSpace module.
4. public figures using twitter who don't understand how it works.

"I #love twitter and my #followers!"
"We had #pickles at the #Senate cafeteria today lolz!"
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I definitely agree with you on your spatial memory explanation.

There are so many applications out there trying to come up with new digital ways to record / access information, but almost all of them discard the spatial organization tools we have in physical workflows.

When you are trying to use information in your head (the most important stop in a workflow), you often need to build a lot of organizational structures in order to make the information maximally accessible from memory. Spatial "shuffling" is one of the quickest ways set up informal organizational structure. It makes use of our brains' good memory for spatial locations, compared to our brains' memory for abstract concepts.

In order to use spatial shuffling to organize information, you need to be able to place things freely, and have them stay there. Digital applications so infrequently offer this ability - they do not allow informal organization or spatial organization.

In an application, pieces of information are usually laid out according to a well-defined sorting algorithm. Layout-by-algorithm breaks both your ability to place a piece of information freely, and your ability to find a piece of information by location (because a new piece of information could shift the whole layout according to the sorting algorithm).
I'm curious to see if this actually works in practice. Surveys are great, but...yea.
So who is the authority about correct unicode implementations, exactly? And how to different languages with different use cases and power conform to such a standard? Why doesn't this authority extend over language implementations? Because they know what they are doing, and understand the domain, unlike the author of this article.

Look, I'm all for open standards, but saying that standards are required to be adhered to at the programming language level is just ignorance of the real world. The point of a standard isn't to dictate how data is architectured internally, it's to facilitate interoperability of systems at their endpoints. If you want interoperability of programmers, than make your own conforming language and get programmers to adopt it the right way, by competing in the market of ideas.

There is no idea here other than the writer's unjustified expectation that he should just know how every language handles Unicode because??? Because Unicode is a standard? No.. that doesn't make sense at all. Mixing contexts to make the point here means there is no ground for his argument to stand on.
IMHO that's right decision. BlackBerry offered Android and it is low value.
I'm still not sure if you are talking about PA or whatever blog pointed out what an exploitive job posting they put up.
Well, why not take a cheap case and have a nice, small, portable external.
Thank you so much, I couldn't figure out what they were offering exactly. ;-)
Shoot me an email. We are hiring iOS dev's and are willing to train the right folks. adam@mokriya.com
Wow. It's like we didn't read the same post at all.
This was easy to fix before Google broke their personal exclusion lists. You used to be able to block a set of sites from your Google searches. I guess Google figured out they were losing potential advertisers.
Beardyman isn't strictly electronic, more beatbox but he is amazing. Check him out live in Edinburgh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVXUHTN10
Who do you think the cartels recruit from? its not gap year kids doing it for kicks.
Yes, because you know what is best for all human beings. This line in the post was directed at you:

> That’s like saying everyone would be fulfilled by getting married and having 2.5 kids.

Not everyone has the same utility function.
iBooks/epub3 will do popup footnotes, if you mark up the document just right. For more info see: http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2012/05/creating-pop-up-fo...

The blog article doesn't mention it, but I've found that the footnotes have to be in the same XHTML file as the reference for this to work in iBooks. Also, iBooks for OSX doesn't display these popup footnotes yet.
nice concept !
apparently sha-1 is vulnerable to collisions (http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/469.pdf)
how are they handled ?
What the Stratasys lawsuit of Afinia means for the 3D Printing industry
For what it's worth, there are a lot of stories around of people losing flag rights after flagging too often.
With such a deflationary momentum, who is seriously going to use bitcoin for shopify when it's value goes up by 100 percent every few months? As far as I'm concerned, the great "success" of bitcoin is also its greatest obstacle. Without the ability to reasonably use it as an actual currency, then its only tangible value it has does not actually exist. It's just a giant masturbatory gambling vehiclw that without any sort of stability will ultimately become worthless.

With that all said, I am totally jealous about bitcoin and wish I had bought a bunch last year.
> True, but I'm starting to think "Open Standards" was a huge Trojan horse. - It lead to, or continued, a huge monopolization of platforms. Only a few large companies are able to maintain modern browsers (see the demise of Opera).

Free-slash-open-source programs are like banks in this way. In principle, a bank that fails can always be shut down rather than bailed out, and this is what justifies the existence of private-sector banks. In principle, an open-source program can always be forked if you can't persuade the maintainers to make the changes that you want, and it's always been agreed that this is a central, essential requirement for a program to be considered free-slash-open. But some programs are, in practise, TBTF - Too Big To Fork. A program can be "big" not only by having a large codebase but also through network effects, such as having vast amounts of client software tied to one of its interfaces. The big-boy Web browsers are TBTF in both these ways. So if, for example, you're insulted by Google's decision to knife MathML (as everyone should be), it's relatively easy to roll a Chromium with MathML inside, but you'd still effectively be just maintaining a branch, because you'd have no hope of maintaining "your" browser independently if Google took the whole Chromium codebase in a direction you didn't like - and more importantly, good luck getting users to use your browser or developers to create MathML webpages to support it.

A second example of the phenomenon is the Gnome/KDE mess - part of the reason that the Linux desktop sucks is that, even if you have a clear idea of how it could be better, it's still a whole lot of man-hours to spin up an alternative implementation, get apps customised for it, and so on. In general, an area is the domain of TBTF to the extent that you have to win a political persuasion battle or spend a truckload of your own money before you can produce a viable implementation of your alternative idea.

The solution, to the extent that there is a solution, to these problems is a technical one: find a way to shrink large programs and/or break them up into small, reasonably independent ones. (Of course all social/political problems are technical problems in disguise just as all technical problems are social/political problems in disguise. ;) ) In the case of the web, this is why the vertically-integrated Web browser must go away https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720793 .
gun ownership (illegal) in Brazil is crazy high, no ones gives a shit about legality.

Switzerland? yes, you have an assault rifle. which you DO NOT CARRY while walking around. and, you have no ammo for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

you really think switzerland has low crime rates because people have empty assault rifles at home?
You mentioned $$$ in another comment. May I ask how you will monetize this? (obviously you don't have to answer... just curious)
A brief explanation of the algorithm can be found at the top of the page: http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/11/24/stochastic-outlier-sele... ;)
In a sense, I wouldn't mind some fraud problems :)

If that's the case, it probably means that site is popular and gets used beyond being a MVP.
> GSM/3G/4G LTE* (Works on 6 continents).

What, no service in Antarctica?
He says what made it okay in his case:

"This job meant security, a huge opportunity to go out of my comfort zone and learn, and countless other 'soft' benefits I couldn't think of. And I got to work with people I truly enjoyed."
Your conclusion is quite bizarre. He wants to teach. He will get paid poorly when he does so. He needs to save up money first. So he is leaving PA to get a job that pays well so he can save up that money. He has not been able to amass that money, he is only able to "live comfortably". He is not taking a teaching job yet, he is taking a job to finance his future teaching career.
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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't basic income also increase the tax revenues from goods and services, and by creating more jobs because of the increased buying power of the poor? Especially since close to 100% of the basic income money will continue to circulate in the economy. Give Bill Gates a trillion dollars though and there's zero tax revenue on that.
> People like you - the genuinely transparent and fearless - are the only ones capable of sincere gestures.

Bullshit.

I assure you that I am very little like Zed -- apart from my fear and opaqueness, I also appreciate the mean as an excellent first-order summary statistic -- and yet I am very sincere in my belief that your response is pure vacuity.
Before I got my Kindle Paperwhite, I had the same attitude. It changed dramatically.
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Seems to me you might be discussing two different things: moral and law.
If I were a twenty-something with no family, I could very easily imagine really liking that work environment. There is a ton of responsibility and the sense of accomplishment you'll get when you're the person who is making everything work has to be really gratifying. Is it sustainable for a lifetime? Clearly not, but you'd learn a ton, make some great friends doing it, and eventually move on.

It's clearly not for everybody, but it's not at all difficult for me to imagine that it's very much for some people.
I've seen a lot of genuine charity motivated by religion, but we seem to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater on that one.
Presumably the idea is to define 'commercial' as a website with ads or accept payments, rather than removing sites with ads to increase viewing pleasure.

I think it's a good idea. It'd certainly help with the problem of blogspam etc.
You mean publicly show the hostname of each CDN to allow users to ping them themselves?
120kg of matter is exchanged between Mars and Earth per year, already.

They've just reduced the possibility of contamination by their spacecraft, compared to natural events.
On the other hand, lying that there's £4M buried under a pile of rubbish would be highly entertaining.
Yeah, you could do that. But not everyone needs an external (I've got one I haven't powered up in at least two years) and considering externals are rarely backed up (heck often they ARE the backup) I don't know that I'd be jumping to have a played-out system drive as my external.
That's hilarious. Not to knock the phone, which may or may not be quite good, but I was also more interested in the things on the desk than the phone. Who's the person who said, let's put the apple in there? I'd like to know more about that decision as well.
Currently, my main side-project is Pronto, quick automated code-review tool: https://github.com/mmozuras/pronto
Intend to make a SaaS from its current library form, at some point, also.

A couple of others on the back burner.
That's an interesting point, since I have a Samsung hard drive I took OUT of an enclosure and out of curiosity I checked the warranty on it - it's a 3 year warranty that is still active and the web page said I could initiate a return.

So, technically, I could RMA the drive myself if it fails... or would they notice it and not process the return?
Unemployment does work as insurance - the difference it, the beneficiary is not the one paying for it - their employer does - and I, the employee takes some of that thru lower wages.
Most people just throw away their laptops when it breaks for whatever reason.

Even if the HD was ok, they won't even bother opening it up.
When I was a child I felt odd when visiting a friend's house if there were no books on the shelves, as well as the books being missing I wondered if their education was missing. I felt much happier in places where the walls were lined with books. Particularly notable were the places where video cassettes adorned the walls, I never really knew what to make of that - did they just watch the TV screen all day?

Nowadays I don't have books on shelves at all, whatsoever, under any circumstances. The books I have to buy because they are not available in a digital format tend to be really good and I end up giving them away, for them to not need to be returned. I really do not see a long term future for printed books, there is no need for them, except in museum-libraries.

What would be cool is if you could buy books for people in a digital format on a 'sale or return basis'. They would get the book from you, then, if they actually read past the first few pages, your account get charged. In this way you could give out books to people for birthdays, Christmas and so on without them feeling obliged to read through whatever it is that you have sent them. Equally you could be more generous with gifting as there would be a fair likelihood that some of the books gifted would not be read.
String types are fine. How about your code?
Why not? Sega used to trash Nintendo in their ads. This isn't even insulting.
Poll: How do you feel about working hours?
How do you feel about work hours? I've taken keen interest in the reactions to the Penny Arcade post and curious how most peoples' opinions are divided on the subject of hours specifically.
I work my 40 hours, and I'm out the door. If you want more, hire somebody else.
I work 40-45 hours, and have no problem working a little extra when needed.
I work roughly 40 hours and take home a laptop just in case. No big deal. Sometimes I'll put in a lot more for special circumstances.
I work 45+ hours because the company makes me. It sucks, but what can a person do about it?