skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As head of SW Engineering for that video company offering the rev split, I just wanted to point out that the Eepybird video linked earlier in the article (Diet Coke and Mentos fountain), actually launched exclusively on Revver and financial reward was one of the big motivations for their decision to release it on Revver instead of Youtube. In fact, they filed numerous DMCA takedowns for all the unauthorized uploads to Youtube. There are numerous other examples of the same occurring with other creators.

While I do agree that financial motivations are usually less compelling than social and ego-driven motivators, there are times in an industry's evolution where they do matter, especially in trying to establish a new professional class. Would Lyft, Sidecar, and UberX drivers exist for fame and glory alone?

Revver was about a lot more than the just the rev-split - we were building an open network that rewarded video creators for their efforts and sought to let them to make a living performing the craft they loved.
Not to be a hater, I think it's a cool idea, but spinning up Telescope on a server isn't really 'making' something. At least change the css or something (eg. http://www.hackb.io/)
I'm working on that! See my other comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843655

Edit: Also, for now, I'm hoping that it'll take place off the website, possibly over Reddit (which have a pretty active Bitcoin community). I opened an r/bitrated subreddit for possible future use, but it seems like r/bitcoin aren't very excited about this project [1] for now...

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1s0myx/bitrated_bit...
Why we use D3 and Ember for Data Visualization
One serious concern I have with polyphasic sleep is the suppression of pineal gland secretions like melatonin from exposure to blue/green light. 470mn is the most potent frequency (looks like "sky blue" to me) though humans have shown some sensitivity to frequencies as high as 505nm. What's more, humans have shown sensitivity to intensities as low as 0.5 lumens. (Especially for prolonged exposures. That sliver of light coming underneath your door? Bad.)

What this means: If you are doing computer work at night, you are probably messing up your circadian rhythm and endocrine system. This is true, even if you have installed software like f.lux.

Note: We have done research into melatonin levels, but there are other pineal secretions that are probably affected the same way. The receptors involved are not the ones used for sight. Also note that we uncovered that the deepest phases of sleep are involved in actually removing certain materials from your brain!

Do not mess with sleep! (Disclosure: I am currently developing an iPhone app that will help evaluate the presence of melatonin suppressing light in your environment.)
> All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Yeah, I recommend all my friends to get Exxon gas and buy GE lightbulbs...

There are some things essential to us(inelastic), and those are the things where we'll see really big changes-- Invent things that everyone uses all of the time, not something that some people use some of the time.
It'll have to go over 7km/s to reach low Earth orbit, and even faster still to complete it's mission to the geostationary satellite belt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit
I'll have to disagree haha. What's the point in putting in more effort?

Telescope took me a solid 15 mins at most to get running and I can test this "MVP"
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Ah, good to know. Thanks
I rather like the idea of "functional first" as a paradigm. It underscores the crucial fact that all the common functional languages (even Haskell) are multiparadigm; they just default to functional programming instead of defaulting to imperative programming the way other "multiparadigm"languages do.
Humble Jumbo Bundle
Flight Update
Falcon 9 and SES-8 satellite currently in parking orbit, awaiting second burn. All systems nominal.
>I think what you are actually saying is that "intrinsic value" is actually meaningless.

No, I mean exactly what I said. Nothing has intrinsic value, ever.

>Therefore I propose a definition of "intrinsic value": something that all entities to whom "value" has meaning universally believe has that quality. For example, oxygen.

If I already have many lifetimes' worth of oxygen for my breathing apparatus, I might have no interest in and place no value upon your stock of oxygen.

Maybe the beings in question are some sort of alien life form that live in volcanos and breathe nitrous oxide. The type of error you are making is similar to calling air "superabundant" and then conflating that with "unlimited".
I haven't read the entire paper, but just based on the abstract it sounds like nested containment lists are for querying what's within in a range.

In other words, they're just like interval trees in that they tell you where things are. Like I mentioned in the post, we want to solve the opposite problem: where things aren't.
A dick would have stuck it up on Pastebin or wherever it is the kids stick things these days.
I don't see why the two are mutually exclusive. Yes, it is a crime that this happened to him, but there are enough media outlets carrying the "Poverty fucking sucks" message. Unfortunately that message is TBU (True But Useless - http://www.fastcompany.com/1514493/switch-dont-solve-problem...).

The thing that always strikes me about homelessness is not its remoteness, but rather how it seems that any one of us are only a few unfortunate events and wrong moves away being in the gutter, and how most people feel that it could never happen to them. I find David's account brutally honest, enjoyable and yes, uplifting because it shows that there is a real (albeit long and painful) route out of the damning poverty of homelessness, not because of any particularly joyful spin that he puts on his story.

Is he making it uplifting because he's desperate and he wants people to help him? I don't think that's the overriding reason, but maybe, who knows? At any rate, if he's managed to pull himself so far out of the lows that he's able to adopt that strategy rather than just accept a life of homelessness that just happens to him then fair play - he deserves every success he can find.
If it's a crime, who's the criminal?
I'd consider "nested containment list" a pretty good name, actually. Of course then they abbreviate it to NCList...
+1. Seriously. Is this from circular redirects? faulty browser plugin?
Probably not, but could put comments in the header?
I'm so tired of every Tom, Dick, and Harry throwing his hat in the ring to declare Bitcoin worthless. Can't we just agree that this is a new thing nobody quite understands and stop making prognostications about it's value or lack thereof?

Let those of us who are interested in furthering the Bitcoin economy do so unencumbered by pundits.
Though there are some good points here, my experience has been that this "just get it done" above all else principle has sunk just as many projects as it has launched.

Getting it done is a bare necessity of a good programmer, but what separates the mediocre programmer from a good programmer is whether they get it done in a more maintainable fashion.

It is completely ridiculous to say as long as one can get a product launched, they are a good programmer, because you're likely praising a group, half of whom are good programmers, and half of whom are sinking the product more and more over time. This is a common happening I see with praise of engineers from a management perspective, and why so often companies sink without knowing where exactly they went wrong.

You can judge if a programmer is good, not by tearing apart and poking at the mistakes they made in a new project, but if they proceeded to code using strong abstractions and decoupled code. The easiest programmers to fire are the ones who don't ship, and the programmers that tend to be the costliest to a business are the ones who ship crap code.
I really like it.

I could only sketch with grey. I didn't log in, and I didn't look around for instructions. Eventually I gave up and looked for instructions, but there was a big wall of text. So, I know that cursor keys do size of brush and colour (but colour is asymetric).

You might want to consider a paint style toolbar. For people like me. Just something really very simple - brush size and brush colour.

This is my first impression after about 45 seconds of play. You may not want users like me, (people who don't bother to read instructions) and if that's the case then that's fine!! It's a good thing to cater to your market.
Thanks for the tip; I cleaned them up.
Norway's slow TV format Coming to US
I've wondered the same. Less traffic on the roads after the peak rush home so couriers/vans would be able to zip around more quickly. Deliver groceries at 6am, packages at 7pm and onwards, etc.
Which phone?

(It is perfect with no sidebar on Dolphin/Note 2. Arstechnica on the other hand has been broken for a few days already.)
I'd like to know if there's been an implementation of that. I remember reading about such a thing in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
To be fair, the difficulty of modding isn't necessary directly correlated with the fact that it was written in Java.
What's with all the FUD? I just ran 'yum update' on my VPS (6.4 -> 6.5) yesterday without any hassle at all. It doesn't just start downloading things out of the blue you know, it'll check first what packages are available and then ask what you want to do. If you have broken packages, you can skip those with --skip-broken flag, of which it will remind you if you have them!

Worked like a charm.

Your upgrade process is often a reflection of your installation process: if you were uncareful and skipped over details, such things have a tendency to bite you in the rear. E.g.: Don't mix repositories offering the same software but with different configurations, like clamav, or you will have a bad time. This was one of my stumbling blocks, but I learned from it.

When upgrading major versions eg from 5.x to 6.x, I agree that a reinstall is probably more apt.
The JVM garbage collector is not capable of tracking intervals nested inside other objects like arrays. At least, not that I'm aware of.
I wasn't feelin' the vocals. Just making fun though - keep rockin' if you enjoy it.
Looks like he took your advice. Regardless, I still got the same impression you did.
Good! I had never ignored that unsafe notices from visual studio console.
Seems like that would give you a very high cover:hidden text ratio.

It would, but that doesn't change the principles used to detect the steganographically encoded cyphertext. The bits would still be twiddled in the same way, and could be found in the same way.
Even Microsoft (presented as a possible counterexample) had a great relationship with developers in the early years that sustained its incredible growth.
Thank you. It's really nice to hear that they listened and did something.

And I'm grateful to you for actually doing something!
and I hate how Google (and others) force websites to serve small files from *.googleapis.com (and other domains)... some websites end up loading files from 10-15 different domain names... I wish this would stop, but I am sarcastic at the same time because I know that they could easily host them locally.
It would be super-great if that's how it worked, but it's not. There is no send-to-this-person-at-this-address API to see if it's OK to do so. There is no national database of who-lives-where that's in any way unified -- except maybe at the NSA -- and if there is, it's certainly not shared publicly.

Everyone's software doesn't check names in any way whatsoever. I could send a package to:
President Abe Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20500

FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, everyone's software would eat that right up and spit out a label. That's because the name portion of the address usually doesn't mean anything. The White House is where it is irrespective of the person receiving the mail there.

Furthermore nearly all of the time this isn't an issue. The vast majority of all mail and packages go to the right address. People tend not to have items shipped to anyone but themselves or perhaps relatives. That's the reason there's a law that writes an exception to normal mail delivery only in the case where someone's doing it as a business (a CMRA).

And the only reason there's an exception there is that some (not all) CMRA owners 10-15 years ago didn't seem to care about preventing fraud and enough people got scammed to where it was a problem. It's expensive to scrutinize the incoming mail enough and that meant that the people who didn't scrutinize had higher profits so there was no corrective feedback through profits and losses. The only way to fix that was to make it a legal issue instead of an economic one.
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openWRT... another asus model. but yeah, after my research, asus is the best bang for the buck.
Yeah it's not like any major corporations make their living offering enterprise support on a practically identical distribution. Who's saying this stuff? I've upgraded many servers through minor revisions of CentOS and never had any big problems that weren't my own fault.
I'm glad someone finally made this.

What do you think about potentially offering more complicated schemes in the future? For example, supporting say three arbitrators, requiring two to agree?

You could do this as follows:

Seller: Keys S1 and S2

Buyer: Keys B1 and B2

Arbitrators: Keys A1, A2, A3 (one per arbitrator)

You then do a 4-of-7 multisig transaction.

This generalizes to buyer, seller and N-of-M arbitrators:

Seller gets N keys

Buyer gets N keys

Arbitrators each get one key

Actual transaction is 2N of M + 2N.
Saw the 1st stage doing some RCS maneuvers right after separation, but they cut the camera away from that shot pretty quick so I couldn't see exactly what. They're not supposed to be trying to "land" this one, but I bet they're getting aero data in support of the F9-R.

All in all, looks like a good launch. Can't wait to hear about the second burn, which was last flight's sticking point.
What trace cache?

That's a P4 thing, not a Core thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache#Trace_cache

Edit: ok, Core has a uop cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-operation_cache#Micro-ope...

You don't need a trace cache to do what you suggest, it just predicts the branch and goes from there
I agree with you on all of this. I might have come off as somewhat cynical, because the just-worlding of HN gets under my skin.

Decades from now, when the average age of the contemporary HN crowd is 50, if people here are facing the age discrimination of the world that the current VC-istan demigods created, I bet the current crop of HN libertarians will be the first to be up in arms about it.
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The arbitrator is not in control of the funds. He cannot defraud either merchant or customer directly. That is the nature of multisignature transactions. The law's got a lot of catching up to do.
Now put it in an algorithm that detects any mention of "only, always, never" or any other absolute. Then insert a boilerplate at the top of such discussions, saying there are always exceptions, but the gist of the argument is still valid ;)
The author of the change in Java discusses it in more detail here (from the article):
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qw73v/til_orac...
because it is wired only, without gigabit ports.
They are, unless you use old deprecated versions of OpenGL.
Freaky or what?
I'm hp co-founder and CTO of prezi. We learn from our mistakes, we have changed the program: To improve the program from now on we will reward bug hunters who find bugs outside of the scope provided that they do not violate our users’ information and that their report triggers us to improve our code base. We will also retroactively check to see if other reports found issues that fall into this category. More info at engineering.prezi.com/blog/2013/12/03/a-bug-in-the-bugbounty/
The Fair Price of an Ounce of Gold is Zero! Since there's no issuer of an ounce of gold it can't be worth anything. Q.E.D.

EDIT: Some context:
"First, all financial instruments are accounting creatures. They are the asset of the bearer and the liability of the issuer. Gold coins were the liability of, e.g., the King, Federal Reserve notes are liability of the Federal Reserve, and coins are the liability of the Treasury."

An ounce of gold is worth a lot even prior to being minted into a coin. As such you could melt it, cut it in half, etc and it would retain it's value. That means it might technically be the liability of the government or the king, but practically speaking they're not. I could buy krugerrands, francs, golden eagles or whatever, melt them down and make jewelry out of them and it doesn't screw up the books of any of their issuers.
So you have people exclaiming that bitcoins are worthless.
Well... there are plenty of people right now spending bitcoins and receiving goods and services in exchange for those bitcoins.

Plenty of things in the world can be considered worthless if you aren't interested in them.

I'm quite happy for people to continue living in a world where sending money goes through several 3rd parties, all taking a cut and adding delays, but I don't want to be one of those people any more.
also, the internet is worthless. just photos of cats, you know.
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Did you consider using Angular?
Hm, so the data points for likelihood of getting another first down is based on data from the fourth downs that coaches actually attempted? It may be that the fourth downs they didn't attempt were not as propitious for some reason - wind (which the authors mention), injuries on key players, lateral positioning which doesn't favor one formation or another, etc.
Things are worth what people are willing to pay (or trade) for them. What's a dollar worth? How about a Linden dollar, or WoW gold? What about rare stamps, or collectible coins, or baseball cards? All of those things are objectively worthless, yet they have value because humans imbue them with value.

Economics is like quantum physics: if you claim to understand it, you don't understand it. Let the experiment play out, and caveat emptor.
The fair price of an ounce of gold is one Bitcoin. More or less. Currently.
Using well-known arbitrators solve this problem also. I signed up and have quite an online identity that can be verified easily, as did the creator of the hexayurt.
Your third sentence could just as easily apply to the Bitcoin network. Miners ( third parties ) take their cut ( transaction fees ) and the processing time is dependent upon the generosity of the fee-payer ( low-fee transactions are left out of blocks until finally swept after hours or days ).

You don't have a way to pay someone else BTC without participating in the system at least once.

I'm excited by Bitcoin but it isn't financial liberation.
> Let those of us who are interested in furthering the Bitcoin economy do so unencumbered by pundits.

Bitcoin would be much more encumbered if it wasn't relevant enough for the pundits to pontificate on it.
The price of a Bitcoin is the amount of other resource (possibly a more traditional currency, like electrum or cocoa beans ;) ) that two parties can agree to trade at.

What's fairness?
This is clearly low-quality flame-bait IMHO. Sophisticated math in the middle doesn't impress me.
Excellent content and presentation. Happy to see interactive formulas in the book, like proposed by Brett Victor [1].

[1] http://worrydream.com
Power Quotes on the art of expressing gratitude
I am currently in the process of reviving my Zeo Sleep Manager.

http://imgur.com/rHZmTY3

I can replace the lipo battery with another one with the same capacity. However, I will have to expand the case. My current plan is to seal the battery in a few layers of aluminum tape and to 3D print a "gasket" system.

The company going out of business doesn't "brick" anything, at least for my older system. There are programs that can read the data format.
Clear for people in the know, I guess.

But suppose I had a Kickstarter for a car on the same premises: "A revolutionary car powered by sunlight and water - fill up with water every now and then, and it will run forever". No further details. Would you buy?

I think it's a very small percentage of the world that would know off the bat why "sun and water" could work for a spacecraft, but not for a car.

I think some more detail on the physics behind it, aimed slightly below say Physics 101 level, would help to convince more people to contribute.
It makes it simpler to distinguish this from "crystals can change your life" or "lose X pounds of weight in Y days" style marketing, which promise the moon but don't explain how their miracle is supposed to work.

They do give an explanation in their link[0], but I think having a summarized version on the Kickstarter page itself would help donations. (To be clear, this is a comment on the marketing, not on the physics or feasability.)

[0] http://pepl.engin.umich.edu/thrusters/CAT.html
This could be a cool idea, but Bitcoin currently artificially limits the total number of public keys to 3, but that limitation will probably be lifted at some point.

Also, in the future, you won't really need hacks like that to make something like that work - Bitcoin has a scripting language that allows you to specify much more complex conditions than m-of-n. You could specify something like `2 of (buyer, seller, (2 of (arb1, arb2, arb3)))`. But currently, the scripting language is limited to a specific white-list of allowed script templates, and doesn't allow doing stuff like that.
Not sure if this was just an accidental comment in the wrong place, or trying to hijack my post for more exposure, but I just want to be clear that I have no idea who railsprojectapp is nor can I be reached through them. Not assuming anything more than a mistake, just trying to clear up potential confusion
i was actually thinking that the "of" was superfluous.
since reading [0] on hn (discussion: [1]) i am more and more seeing the use of "because" without preposition. so i was expecting

"Q. Why can't it be given more than two alternates for one position to encode more information?
A. Because math. See Explanation.txt for a bit more detail."

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/englis...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6765099
Notch tweeted this in, I'm assuming, response to this thread:

> "Just saw a nerd flamewar debating if I'm a bad programmer. I'm self-taught, prefer working along, and program for fun. Don't learn from me."

Take it for what you will.

https://twitter.com/notch/statuses/408011329237049344
If the tail-call-needing function isn't found rather quickly (say, in the first 100? frames), then isn't it unlikely that the tail call will help? That seems like a much rarer case. Is the cost of going 1000 functions deep that expensive? Most threads aren't gonna hit a high % of stack without having some sort of problem anyways.

Of course it'd be better for the JVM to support this in bytecode, just like generics, stack allocation, and pointers. But it seems to me that if there was a real solid need for TCO then a JVM could implement it with tunable heuristics (most Java code doesn't need TCO, so if your code really depends on it in complex scenarios, you can always pass a -XXTcoInspectionDepth argument.)
The page is not very clear. The energy comes from the solar cells. They are using the water to store mass, no energy. It’s (probably) easier to store a lot of mass of water as a liquid than a lot of mass of Xenon because you must compress it a lot.

The idea is that to accelerate in one direction, you must push something in the opposite direction. They will convert the water into plasma (imagine very hot ionized water vapor) and push it using the energy from the solar cells.

It’s different from a normal rocket, because in a normal rocket the energy and the mass come both from the fuel and oxidizer.