skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, getting a yard in the NFL isn't typically a big problem and 3rd and 1 vs 4th and 1 are feasibly no different. But turning the ball over inside 30 yards is at least 3 points for the other team with only rare exceptions.
Australia Post is currently doing this with Parcel Lockers, but they're degrading the service to a point where it's less useful (no courier deliveries, limited international deliveries, no paid option, no API to access pending packages)
I've been thinking about the arbitration problem, what do you think of the following possible implementation of a "3rd party free" arbitration?

Alice desires to buy asset of V value from Bob with bitcoins. Alice sets up a k1xV value address and requires Bob to set up a k2xV one, and they give up control on those addresses for at most time T. Also, Alice and Bob set up a conditional transfer of this value V to a charity (or destroy it) if both don't agree on retrieving the wallets before time T. That way, if the merchant believes he will be punished (e.g. k2 = 2) he shouldn't engage in fraud. Also the merchant should hold the same faith in customers (by setting e.g. k1 = 1 for new customers, k1 = .5 for old ones).

Thoughts?

Note: As a bonus, the merchant could make his transaction history transparent to try to prove he punishes every fraud, and customers can likewise demonstrate some "proof of transaction" showing either they conducted transactions without issue or punished fraudsters.
I love this kind of ingenuity to modify things. I have to admit in my old age I'm getting a little out of touch and I don't relate very well with crafting your bedroom into living quarters. Though I remember the days of having roommates, no money, and your bedroom is your only personal space. It's cool to take a look at what you have and use it to your advantage.
It's not the gc that causes this problem. The problem is: you allocated a block of, say, 100KB. Then you needed two 10KB subsets of that block. While you're using those, you may stop needing the rest of the block. How do you create those subsets? Do you just point to the original memory? Then you can't free() the 80KB you don't need anymore. Do you copy those 20KB? Then you're potentially using more memory than necessary.

The problem holds even if you're not using a gc or refcounting at all.
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> no one thinks upgrading from 6.4 to 6.5 is even an option

OMG, who tells you this? They should not be allowed anywhere near a computer. Do yourself a favour and stop listening to them. Seriously.

Actually one of RHEL's strong points is that you can easily do updates between minor versions and it will still work, even after 10 years.

Yes, nothing is perfect and every now and then shit happens, but quality wise RHEL (CentOS too!) is still in a class of its own.
You have a problem? Search the interwebz, get on the forums, on the mailing lists, you're not alone.
These type of articles never take into consideration the reason why coaches don't go for it as often as a computer might. The coaches face a reverse moral hazard when taking risks because the negative outcomes are multiplied for them. Even if the statistics support their decisions, a coach will be fired for taking too many risks and failing. Is gaining an extra 2% (or whatever) in expected returns worth the risk of losing everything if the low(er) percentage outcome does actually happen? It is the same idea behind the whole "no one gets fired for buying IBM/Microsoft".

Until you get a coach's motivations more in line with the motivations of the team, you won't get a coach that is as aggressive as these computer simulations suggest they should be.
Took almost a minute to load. At first I thought HN effect, but then I realized it preloaded a lot more than just the front page.

Edit: I played with it for a bit, and wow. This is so cool. All the cool technology they use meshes seamlessly with content. Added this to my special bookmarks folder along with Statistics Done Wrong and Experimental Design (Norvig).
I don't know about that: "from now on" seems to imply that in the future that will be the case.
I kept on meaning to do this, but work got in the way. Mind expanding it out to healthcare tech in general to cover regulatory and IT policy in addition to mobile? There's a lot of potential with a nice link aggregator for the community.

I hate having to follow comment threads on 15 different blogs.
> Yeah... but is scaling down the 'single big rotor' mechanisms used by real helicopters that difficult?

TL;DR: Yes.

TS;WM (Too Short, Want More): The top-and-tail rotor design relies on varying pitch on the individual blades of the top rotor at different points in their rotation (rather than varying speed on separate rotors) for translation, varying pitch (the baseline/average pitch of all blades throughout rotation) of the main rotor for lift, and pitch of the tail rotor for rotation.

Quad/octorotor designs get all of that by just vary rotor speed without the additional machinery needed to vary blade pitch, which makes the vastly easier to build at small scale.
There's a pattern to your complaints, which is that they are most impacting to long-term external contribution.

That's the area where architecture is driven by philosophy. It's whether or not you _choose_ to study the problem, search for best practices, and work out contingencies during the design phase, or go forward with a simplistic, unknown solution and study it by driving trucks over it[0]. With most exploratory programming - of which games are a prime example - you want to drive trucks because your design is likely to be reworked many times regardless.

As well, independent creation not driven by clients and markets has to be done entirely selfishly. When taking this to heart, one naturally moves towards an exploratory style, because selfish, truck-driving code will satisfy your urges more quickly.

[0] http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26
I'll just say up front that I'm not going to debate your worldview, but your ideas are fucked and it saddens me that people like you visit this website.
DO lets you run your own kernel nowadays?
retroactively.
Having tested http://jd.benow.ca/ I must admit it seems to do a near perfect job. Impressive and scary at the same time.
Personally, I think so. The mhealth/healthIT twitter communities are pretty strong, but spread out over multiple blogs/domains.
One definition of money is "the most marketable commodity" and bitcoin does tend to pass that test. It's rapidly becoming a marketable commodity as so many people will accept it for goods or services.

My point wasn't so much that money has to be a commodity with an underlying value. It was to point out that the notion that "money is an asset to the holder and a liability to the issuer" might be the author's definition of money, but it's not THE ONLY RIGHT definition of money.

If gold can effectively be money, sans minting into coins that means that the earth is the issuer. Do we "owe" the earth an ounce of gold by virtue of having mined it? If so, do we then "owe" the earth a ton of steel for every ton we extract? And what happens if/when that gold or steel leaves the earth on one of the Voyager probes?

I'm making absurd arguments to point out that the author's definition of money is absurd. I'm not trying to troll but to illustrate a point. I think his definition of money works fine when you're issuing bills or notes, but it breaks down when people are using commodity money with none of the "debt" part that gets brought to play with notes.

When people start issuing paper notes redeemable for bitcoins then I'll accept the author's definition of money. But right now people are trading the actual commodity itself so his definition of money falls flat in this circumstance.
People who complain about crap code usually aren't complaining about this.

Obviously no-one can see the future. The problem isn't when code can't be easily extended, the problem is when code is easily broken.
Or, y'know, direct contributions.
I think that oversimplifies the problem. I think a scope helps keep overeager researchers from doing things that result in legal problems for the company. For example, are laws that require notification of data breaches and personal identification triggered in certain cases? This isn't an academic setting, these are real businesses.

I think the best of both worlds would be very wide scopes with targeted limitations. Don't log into user accounts or company accounts at other services, but here's a few sample user accounts that are fair game and if it's an external service, here's a rep to vet whether credentials you gathered are correct or not.
Same here. I kept wanting to make it and finally got a flight delayed by a couple of hours so I finally made it :)

The goal is generally to cover healthcare tech. Probably a bad title for HN but if you look at the articles on it thus far, it covers a wide spectrum.
Just curious, what is the purpose of the 4 towers around the launchpad?
People always say this, but it is actually true? Has any coach ever been fired for missing too many fourth downs?
I guess not since Canada, New Zealand and Ireland are all higher as well.
I can't help but feel that if fuzzy logic was taught more widely in computer science courses, people would be more sanguine about "only, always, never" as linguistic qualifiers.

... not that I am without guilt on this ...
If gold suddenly fell out of favour as a money it would lose more than 90% of its value. Bitcoin would lose 100%. Yes there's a difference but not much.
This tool allows for the specifics of how the encoding is done to be changed without the decoding algorithm needing to be changed ever, so yes in fact it is ready to be used, although better encoders are both easy to write and welcome.
Well, they tried raising $200,000 back in July and only got to the ~$68,000 mark: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/longmier/cat-a-thruster-...

In an update after they failed to reach their funding goal they stated:[1]

"[...] we attracted a lot of attention from a few government and commercial partners. Some of these groups intend to fund this research and we are looking into these options. We are also considering re-listing the kickstarter campaign with a few tweaks, a lower funding goal, and some revised rewards."

[1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/longmier/cat-a-thruster-...
WHEELSTRONG SPORTS INC launches its Adaptive Sports and Fitness
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> One definition of money is "the most marketable commodity" and bitcoin does tend to pass that test. It's rapidly becoming a marketable commodity as so many people will accept it for goods or services.

"Rapidly becoming a marketable commodity" is vastly different than being "the most marketable commodity".
Facebook Algorithm Update Cracks Down on Memes in the Name of "Quality" Content
True, but their original goal was 4x this amount.
As a hardware manufacturer ourselves we feel your pain.

We made the mistake of using anodized aluminium for the front panel of our units. Then it turned out that the current batch of Aluminium our suppliers were using was trash and couldn't be anodized. That took weeks and weeks to design a workaround for and get quotes and stock in. In the end we had to pay for junk aluminium that we threw in the bin.

Then we had an aerial manufacturer who kept shipping us different aerials every time we ordered the same part, which never matched the sample.

Next we discover that the manufacturer who provides our plastic cases had taken a plastic with a certain safety rating but didn't take into account that the dye that they also added changed that rating and prevented us from using the cases. We were in a shed filled with noxious smoke trying to burn cases (which shouldn't burn) over several batches to get that sorted.

And finally we have a RF system that some customers try to use in a faraday cage and of course it's pretty hard to get working. For example installations in industrial coldstores.

Which product? http://gridspy.com/devices.html

Of course effort and time solves these issues but wouldn't it be nice to just have to ship bytes.
The main point is the thing that OP found is really important for Prezi. I don't really understand why they have to figure out whether the vulnerability is in "the scope", or not.
It's sample bias. We think of examples of consumer companies because we are all consumers.

I wrote about it a while ago: http://chester.id.au/2013/01/05/on-selling-to-consumers/
As an aside this very thing is an excellent example of how extrinsic motivators can "poison the well" as it supersedes intrinsic motivation. Dan Pink gave a great talk on this -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJr9QajdCNc (sorry, I prefer the illustrated version).
As I grow tired of journalists publishing their shortsighted opinions of Bitcoin, it is refreshing to see a critic employ a model to make his point. I don't know anything about Modern Monetary Theory, and I'm not sure that it's even a valid model for Bitcoin, but at the very least it resembles the type of thinking we need more of (i.e. thinking with models).

Cryptocurrency is a brilliant thing, but we need a better way to model its place in our world. I'd like to see someone develop a first-principles model to help us better understand the consequences of decentralized cryptocurrency. The right model could highlight the areas where more development or reform are needed.
Lightning rods
Prezi acknowledges "A Bug in the Bugbounty"
It's worth noting that they tried raising $200,000 back in July and only got to the ~$68,000 mark: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/longmier/cat-a-thruster-...
PSA: Please Stop Calling Nerds the T-Word
Since 2002 half of everyone who's reached the age of 12 has learned enough HTML, CSS, Javascript, and can recognize PHP well enough to throw a basic, buggy website together. Suddenly, a trip to "chrome://extensions/" means these semi-non-developers can write an app for their Chromebook(or even PC) without having to install or compile anything, let alone commit themselves to mastering a programming language.

It shouldn't mean much for large projects, but it does mean companies can hire less-skilled "programmers" to churn out minimally viable products whether that be for bootstrapped start-ups or to satisfy the demand from businesses that want to say "look I have a presence on mobile."
>Not sure what the CS curriculum is in other countries but back where I'm from they had basically taught us enough by the middle of the second year for one to be able to design something like DCPU16 using only that knowledge.

Same with us. That doesn't mean that 90% of the graduates out there, that even have taken such as class, will be able to do it.

Heck, a surprising majority of them (like 30% or more), even fails writing FizzBuzz ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... ).
Q. Why did you use Python3 as a reference language?

A. Because not having distinct binary and unicode string types is barbaric.

Well played.
I presume that the way the lucid dream induction works is by blinking an LED when the onset of REM sleep is detected. There are other products out there already that do this; the idea is that you'll train yourself to notice any blinking red lights or objects in your dreams and associate that with realizing that you're dreaming.

Whether it actually works or not I can't say.
There's an interesting hole in the data at 4 & 10 on the opponent's 36. In a sea of punting and kicking, this one data point has actual coaches going for it.

Also, looking at the overall pattern of the data, my gut tells me that the optimal rubric is somewhere in-between the 'bot and the meatcoach. There are some strange holes as well - at 4th&3, you should go for if you're on your own 8 or 9, but punt if you're on your own 7 or 10?
Nice move from Uber and congrats
Yup, it works on anything that Chrome's on.
Though: make sure you're on the Chrome Beta ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet... ) on your phone. I recommend Canary or Dev Channel for your desktop.
I took it to be more of a thought exercise than a serious change proposal.
The discussion is highly subjective. Qualifications are the only kind of evidence there is.
Chrome 32 Beta on android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet...) is necessary. I'll update the post to make that clear. Thanks.
How do you handle filling the disk? If my storage is 50% utilized, and 10% of that data changes every month (assume 10% of the bytes change if that makes it easier), what happens after 10 months?
I think one of the issues with short form writing where you don't take the time (or have the room) to qualify things is that you are going to open up what you write to multiple interpretations of (what you call) "misunderstanding".

Take this statement at the opening:

"All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people."

The statement "all companies" and "only one way" is pretty complete and absolute by my reading.

When obviously there are plenty of large companies that have not relied on word of mouth. For example Boeing. Or Asplundh a large privately help tree contractor. Or haliburton. Etc. Even "in the beginning". Or Fedex is another.

Of course there is a subset of "all companies" for which this statement is true. So a footnote would have helped or a few words as qualifiers to the original thought.
What is with the followletter spam from your profile lately when the original content is hosted elsewhere?
I have the feeling many Americans actually think this way.
I coded C++ in "large projects" and now coding JavaScript in another large project. Language itself doesn't mean anything for defining "skilled programmers". Skilled programmers are not limited to language nor platform.

You are calling out people who started learning programming with HTML and CSS and telling them they are not programmers but you don't realize that your first program with BASIC was basically same shitty code copied from your book and you were thinking you were a "programmer". I don't know you are skilled or not but I know you are not "professional".
Harvard's most common grade is an A
You asked for the reasons. He gave you legitimate reasons.

Don't complain now that you don't like them.
It was a quote.
Libertarian thinktank computer says yes?
This is also the big killer for me. Its nice that they are open about their security http://www.jackdb.com/legal/security.html , but this wont help one bit if a production server gets compromised.
The problem isn't when code can't be easily extended, the problem is when code is easily broken.

I'm not sure if there is much of a distinction there. I can extend your code with very little effort if I'm permitted to break it in the process.
> And so on, and so forth. The author makes a big point of arguing that they aren't financial instruments so much as they are real assets. There's some truth to this; if I own a bitcoin nobody is obligated to give me anything in exchange; it doesn't exist as a liability on anyone's balance sheet. And? The same is true of a gold ingot. Or, largely, or a share of Apple stock; nobody is obligated to give you anything for that share. By the same logic, the "fair" value of gold (or Apple stock) is zero.

Gold has some intrinsic value. If nothing else, it has some industrial uses. Bitcoin has no comparable intrinsic value.

Owning a share of AAPL common stock has value. You get voting rights in the company. You also have a claim to Apple's assets, although with a lower priority than any bondholders or other creditors. So owning AAPL shares does come with obligations from Apple.

Euros (or dollars) also have some value as fiat currencies. You can pay debts and taxes in euros. The government has an obligation to accept euros as payment for taxes. So essentially these currencies are your ticket to stay out of jail.

Bitcoin doesn't share any of these qualities with gold, AAPL, or euros. That was the author's point and it still stands.
No, no, no, please don't promote the idea that having multiple numbers is a good thing. Coming from Brazil where such thing is the case, I can tell you the moment you have multiple numbers people have no clue what number to call on an emergency.
It's nice to be able to have productive discussion on the internet!

I don't mind being wrong if it means I learn from it :)
Seriously, even as a big Debian fan this was painful to read. Either a) show me the code, b) show me the bug report or c) show me your source.

Sigh.
I find it more respectable now that I see that Prezi actually posted a public blog post acknowledging their fault in their bounty program.

Still, I have to side with Shubham. They should at least reward him now.
WhatsApp gets updated for iOS 7
Google knows that future of mobile apps are web. Web technologies can get better and better to some point that it doesn't make sense to build native apps because it costs too much for most data driven apps.

With Google, Microsoft and Mozilla betting on web, who has a doubt that web will win?

...oh... do you remember Steve Jobs was suggesting all apps for iPhone should be web apps? He was way ahead of his time.
then there is starbucks...
I can't think of one off the top of my head. Mike Smith was under a lot of pressure a little while back for his aggressive decisions on 4th down (that were statistically correct IIRC) but wasn't actually fired.

However, the obvious counter to your question is how many coaches really go for it frequently on fourth downs? Most coaches just follow the conventional wisdom unless they are already in a desperate situation like Ron Riviera or they have built up a lot of good will like Bill Belichick.
Since we're talking about Carmack in this thread.... Fabien Sanglard does some excellent reviews of code from ID... see for example:

http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/

There's actually a movement that studies code in the way you'd examine a literary work (Critical Code Studies). Sure it's very abstract, but it can be fun, see for example this book:

http://10print.org/

You could also look at livecoding - they treat coding as a performance art. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGKEy8vHqg
Just signed up, will support. I may be able to help a bit bringing some of the loudmouth hcsm personalities over, if that's something you're interested in.
Not even missing too many. Just missing more visibly, compared to coaches with equivalent records.
As Randall Munroe says:

But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
If it wasn't written in Java it would be even harder to mod, with them not officially supporting it. The only reason it's working so well now is because Java can be decompiled rather easily.
That'd be awesome :) Haha, there are a lot of those guys...
Without confidence levels, the differences are meaningless. Maybe that's the flip from 49% to 51%
I would say Eclipse is still bad these days. Even after a decade.

Ducks
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Furthermore, theories in economics are descriptive. One should not expect with certainty an innovative currency to succeed or fail based on how well it matches a particular theory. When we are in new territory, we should expect a few surprises.
I would replace your "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." with, "Getting it done is a bare necessity of a good programmer, but what separates the great programmer from a transcendent programmer is whether they get it done in a more maintainable fashion."