skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Digital ownership" of gold is a lie. You own promise, not the thing. You can own bitcoin and can do that in a way that no one can access it except you. It's easy to prove: you can create a random key, move some money there and erase that key from everywhere. Now that money is not accessible by anyone forever. Ability to destroy stuff is what ownership means. If you lock up gold in a vault, it still can be cracked and opened. If you trust some bank to store gold for you, they own it and promise to deliver it when you want. But you own promise, not gold. And that promise was constantly broken by banks and governments throughout history.

http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67362431718/you-can-own-bitcoi...

On altcoins:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/54121516413/the-universe-wants...
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GnuWin32 makes the default command-line shell a bit more bearable...it sadly is still no replacement for a competent bash. Msys Git does a good job there.

I still would recommend it as a "Good Thing" to have, much like sysinternals ( technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/‎
) if you're on Windows.
"his content"

It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it.
Just for the record, it was neither flagging nor manual moderation that caused it to drop off.
Ofcourse if the other party is not employing the developer company..
You know, you just gave me an idea: not to have top quality code on personal web site, but have a comment instead "I can explain what's wrong with this code or any other you will show me and how to fix it". I think that gives opportunity for much more interesting discussion :)
I understand they're in federal courts, but can every district court in the U.S. claim jurisdiction over any alleged claim/crime, regardless of where that claim/crime took place within the U.S.?
Snap, I often have to put up with responses like; "So you want us to be like France then, you traitor? The queen makes us British. You are just jealous of her money. Etc, etc, etc."

Unfortunately many British people have the idea of royalty tied up very tightly with their national identity, so any suggestion of getting rid of the monarchy is seen as being treasonous.
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Look on the bright side. Soon sci-fi will be considered prior art! If I'm not mistaken, this has already happened with regards to "design" patents.
Yes, gold is selling for quite a lot right now, and it's probably not because people spontaneously developed a taste for jewelry. Having established gold's price due to valuation from those who do like jewelry, gold is a convenient way to store and transfer buying power. As such, people snatch it up, availability goes down, exchange rates go up. Given those considerations, it still must rely on people bidding those higher prices for jewelry, but now it's only available for the higher bidders among them. However, especially in the economic climate, there is another source of valuation, which is speculation that in the future, prices will go up. Based on this phenomenon, the price of gold could conceivably rise up, yes, past the point where any consumer would want to buy it for jewelry. But this is only because speculators believe that in the forseeable future, USD will be devalued so much that some will be willing to buy for jewelry at that higher rate.

Finally, there is another form of speculation, which I will call "Hot Potato Speculation". This is the one you're talking about. This is speculation based purely on other people's speculation, which in turn is based on other people's speculation, ad infinitum. This is the "greater fool" scenario. It adds a lot of volatility to the market. Hot Potato speculation does surely exist in the gold market, just as it does in any market. But the valuation based on jewelry consumption serves as a negative feedback loop to keep it in check. Further, valuation based on gold's storability and transferability as a currency piggybacks on it and bolsters it further. Long-term, informed speculators, who will not be spooked by a small price fluctuation, bolster it further. So, the first three sources of value serve as protection against fluctuations from Hot Potato Speculation.

However for Bitcoin, Hot Potato Speculation is all that exists.
Not true--there have been a series of alpha and now RC releases of 0.13. Chris and Nathan and the others are working on both Sass and Compass in parallel.
Part of it is that PHP has evolved to address some very web-specific needs; in this process, developers of all skill levels have tacked on functionality which tends to give it more of a "thrown together" look which may be horrifying to developers who prefer languages that have been more carefully cultivated.

Part of it is a tribal, "Coke vs. Pepsi" kind of thing: the thing I am familiar with is good, what I am not familiar with is threatening and/or bad.

Part of it is because there are some downright terrible examples of PHP code out there. One of PHP's implementation strengths is a PR weakness: it is very easy for complete beginners to use it. It's like a zero-entry pool: anybody who wants to get into the pool can get into the pool. Some of those people shouldn't go into the deep end, but do so anyway.... and the byproduct of this can be horrifying and perhaps counterproductive for others.

As a PHP developer for 5+ years (with plenty of experience prior with ASP.NET and ColdFusion), I can attest that the language is a bit homely and doesn't posess a lot of cool features supported by other languages. But it works, it works well at what it was designed for, and continues to evolve (albeit slowly sometimes).

It's an adjustable wrench set that sometimes gets criticized because it doesn't include screwdrivers or hammers.
"his content"
It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it. The newline was there in the code. His code.
I don't know the Chinese market, but I do know that there are Chinese forks of Android that swap Google search out for local competitors. A quick Google search shows Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba all have Android forks.

Then again, MIUI is popular there, and I think that retains Google Search compatibility, so there Google ban seems to be more nuanced. Perhaps it's simply that Google-owned companies don't do business in China proper because they don't want to data-share with the Chinese government, so Motorola can't formerly enter that market (and Chinese Android phones use Hong Kong datacenters).
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I would think having a great piano teacher would be key (pardon the pun). S/he is a coach, a motivator, someone who knows how to spot and correct your form (which is critical), knows which pieces are useful as studies at which points in your development, can help guide you through theory, etc. What's not to love?

A kindly woman in her late 50s with glasses that are attached with decorative chains that loop around her neck is preferable.
This is not true at all. The actual realization the past years is that strictly enforced relationality (is that a word?) and transactions are constructs that are not always or even rarely actually needed. Eventual consistency, schemaless data modelling and so on picked up steam and for good reasons. Every technology that survives the "Oh, new toy!" stage has a place or it wouldn't still exist. It is up to developers to choose the appropriate technology for them and their projects. That isn't to say that a lot of persistence problems cannot be solved by an RDBMS, a k/v store and a document store. In that case just base your decision on other drivers (comfort level, cost, and so on)
Thus the back-and-forth continues.
My first (terrible TSA) experience in USA as a 16 y/o (travelling with a 19 y/o)
"Libertarians" are not a homogenous group.

What he's referring to in mainstream libertarian literature is called "anarcho-capitalism". This is well known in the libertarian sub-culture. A distinction the above commenter likely just doesn't know yet.

Very similar to how everyone seems to perceive socialism to be authoritarian-communism. Fallacies are everywhere, hardly unique to libertarians.
Downloading right now.

Kudos for the idea and the presentation, nicely done. Really nice.
This thread is full of 9-5 crybabies. I've interviewed at so many places where all these requirements are implied, but never spelled out. At least PA isn't coy about who they want to hire.
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It's his content. He can make as easy or difficult to copy as he wants. It isn't spam, it's attribution. Your self entitled comment really worries me.
I think the idea is that the valley has taken out the middle, leaving only the extraordinarily rich and the poor.
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It's constant overhead with some spikiness to it. See my reply in this thread for details.
Well, at that point, if the current graph charts cost per gigabyte and approaches zero, then you would change the scale of the graph to show costs in terms of terabytes and eventually petabytes.

Ultimately, after traversing enough benchmarks, the scale would go logarithmic, and measurements would have to take orders of magnitude into account.
> I couldn't reply to your deeper comment so I'm going to do it here. You can use the Dockerfile to copy files from you local system onto the image and then run various commands on the image.

I wonder if this would be good for (large) embedded systems. Thanks for the tip.
I would prefer a Windows-flavored Linux tbh ;)
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Should've clarified that at the time.
Why you need to call every signup user within 5 minutes
Considering the fact that we know 99.9% of people blindly click through agreements, this is the way it should be. Companies should not be able to use the lack of careful reading of TOS/T&C to their benefit.
obviously its because guys don't care about women's issues
The problem is there are opaque, global filters which appear abritrary, not that they can be ignored to a degree.
A while ago I decided that personality metrics were just another way for some people to pretend to know someone else without actually making the effort to become familiar with them. For most people, being able to describe themselves as introverted or extroverted is at best useless and at worst detrimental.

I'm not introverted. It might just seem that way to you because I don't share any of your interests and I don't care for small talk. If you see that I am alone most of the time, that may just be an indicator that the sort of people with which I enjoy socializing are relatively rare in the general population.

I am generally offended by people who suggest that I learn to accomodate the social customs of the so-called "extroverts" rather than the other way around. They would have me stuck at a boring party with 10-40 people, unsuccessfully trying to avoid malicious gossip, instead of pretending to kill orc slavers on an imaginary war galley along with 3 to 5 other people for whom the real treasure to be found is friends that value you for the things that make you different.

Some people will always try to categorize you. It isn't necessary to help them do it.
I always feel guilty about how much I end up downloading from the npm registry. I keep my nodejs projects is separate dirs, so I end up downloading the same dependencies over and over again each time I start a new project.

I wish the --global install switch was cleverer and allowed you to have multiple versions of the same package installed at the same time. Then I could just symlink everything together which would save them bandwidth (and save me diskspace).
The Post-Antibiotic World Would Have Fewer Miracles
> I do wish to go up for Django or RoR but I usually get put off by the amount of time I need to spend getting around both

Is this a joke?

If not I think it heavily reinforces my view of PHP developers and clueless & lazy.
Great demo, well written code. Though reading through it also highlights that JS is not a great language for linear algebra. But I don't think anyone is really suggesting otherwise.
Third example: A researcher has millions of datasets to analyze, with each dataset containing enough data points such that frequentist asymptotics are satisfied. You are tasked with finding summary statistics for all datasets. The maximum likelihood and maximum a posterior (MAP) estimators are equal within some tolerance for a subset of these datapoints. However, the marginal likelihood function is computationally intractable, so the Bayesian must use expensive methods to produce MAP estimates, e.g. using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). For complex posterior distributions, MCMC requires careful programming and verification procedures, which can be prohibitive in practice.

There are very many real-world problems that have fast and accurate frequentist solutions, but slow and difficult Bayesian solutions. Despite my personal bias -- my research primarily relies on Bayesian inference -- I can't fathom how one can reasonably argue that frequentist approaches are always inferior, even in applied statistics.
Mark and sweep is also used in .NET and JVM, although I keep on forgetting what was the main advantage over ref. counting.
I disagree with this quote, "There is no question that our nation’s intelligence professionals are dedicated, patriotic men and women who make real sacrifices to help keep our country safe and free."

I argue that the weight of evidence says the opposite. First the "there is no question" bit is wrong, because clearly there is a huge question. Further, people that want power tend to be attracted to positions that give it to them. We see this in things like police, lawyers, and politicians.

Note that I do no mention the military, because in the US the military is largely about subservience and not about control.

There is also little evidence suggesting that the men and women working for the NSA are patriotic. I argue that they are not. Patriotism involves holding up the rights of citizens as defined by the Constitution, especially against those who would change or remove these rights. Further, patriotism involves defining new law, as needed, explicitly in the spirit of the Constitution. Under this definition, it is very unclear that the people working at the NSA have been remotely patriotic. Quite the opposite, in my view.

Last, I believe we are fundamentally less free and less safe now than we were 13 years ago. The erosion of freedom and safety is often a very gradual process. When I say we, I do not refer to We as in The United States. I refer to all the people living under it, both citizens and non-citizens alike.

I have to be more cautious of what I say at 33 than I did at 21. I seriously consider alternatives to flying during the holidays because "safety" has become a physical impediment to travel. I have to think twice about what I should pack in my luggage, for the certainty that someone will search my belongings.

When I see police, I do not feel safe. I get more nervous and afraid. These are people walking around with weapons who can hurt, imprison, and murder people almost at will and we as citizens have almost no recourse to defend ourselves without being further harassed and harangued.

That is not how someone should view their police departments. Yet I do, because in my short life I hear more about police brutality than stories of police helping people. My own experiences were particularly forged by being arrested at a peaceful protest (FTAA) and trying to watch the inauguration parade in DC in 2005. I stopped respecting police officers a long time ago, though I view them as a necessary evil.

So to wrap. We are less free and less safe now than before, the people working for the NSA are working towards their own ends or the ends of people wanting power, and there is nothing patriotic going on. We are in pot being slowly boiled.
The rest of country has rich and poor areas, but most of it is 'middle class'. The idea is that in the Bay Area you're either paying ~$1M for a shack in a decent school area or you're in a slum.
I was just at the Google office in NYC last week. They have a great space!
The battery life on mine is excellent, better than any smartphone I've ever owned by a solid margin.
Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
Thanks! From that list, I've read Outlier, The Lean Startup, and Power of Habit. Currently reading A Short History Of Nearly Everything, and I plan on following that with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. After that, I will probably jump on Defining Decade.
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sheesh, all these great blogs... Mine looks like it was made by a middle schooler.
No kidding. I have tried to put it to people in terms of the cold war. The US faced the existential threat of hundreds of ICBMs aimed and ready to fire. Heck, the combined arsenals may have been an existential threat to all intelligent life on the planet. Those are stakes that could start to justify being afraid all the time and surveilling everyone (if it would help with the threat).

But terrorism? Not even close. The fear of it has already caused damage on us far in excess to what the pissant terrorists have accomplished. All we really should have feared was fear itself. Perhaps one can still make the claim that we are not descended from fearful men, but it will be quite a bit less true should our children try to claim it.
Misleading title a little - the repos were disabled due to file system issues.
Guy releases a unfun game with less then half the budget of his competitors and no name recognition along with poor marketing. Also program was technically ambitious. Then claims its random chance.

THIS IS precisely why its not random!!!
unfortunately, that was the cut of the video that i made prior to seeing the entry form. the actual video that was submitted to the office guideline is here:

https://vimeo.com/79931458

the only views were me. i included the other video after i spoke with a salesforce person about the issue. and they had directed me how to enter the links. that full one is the one that's getting hits because i like it more. it was obviously labeled as not the official video with directions to the official video in case it was accidentally seen.

here's the big problem though. this contest was supposed to validate real applications. healthcare.love is nice, but it's a hollywood set. it doesn't wire into that much. it makes the erroneous mistake of targeting the new healthcare marketplace with an application for expensive iphones? in a demo state that is already covered by covered california? not the government exchange that it's adorable name harkens? i actually wrote simulated systems to pull member plans off the db and fake authorize them and submit them back into the system so that notifications could travel back to the app. oh, and instead of text i included twilio for VOIP and data coordination between the client, not assuming the target individuals would be text savvy youngsters. oh, that, and having to pull of the 85,000 healthcare plans that actually come from the healthcare.gov open marketplace. not just a single json list. so in the end, yah, i guess maybe i should have just focused on the icons? didn't think that was the point.

i held back until now, but looks like the makers of that app are also employees of a salesforce invested company. so they are DQ'd. this is all the kind of thing an open judging with actual use or connection with the entrants could have simply identified. but it all happens in the dark.
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I think I'm going to stick "9-5 Crybabies" in the "who we're looking for" section of my next job ad. Thanks!
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Oh, okay. I guess that makes it all right, then.

I would like to suggest watching the following talk by Mike Monteiro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
That is really cool.

Is that some sort of fluctuating perlin noise?
Really not hard at all, actually -- depending on how realistic you'd like it, of course.
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> Your browser does not appear to support the required technologies.

It would've been nice to have an 'I don't care, proceed anyway' button. The check excludes Safari 7, which runs the demo just as well as Chrome.

http://jsfiddle.net/bYHfh

^ removes the hasWebGLSupport() invocation.

Very nice demo, though!
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Interesting article. I wonder how much of the income disparity would be relieved if there was more room to build affordable housing, as in the "limitless" cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas where you can buy a nice 3 bedroom 2 bath for $150K.

In Phoenix, there are also rich people and poor people, but not the stark contrast of Silicon Valley. Fewer billionaires, I think and also the neighborhoods are so vast and more or less homogeneous in tract size that you don't really notice wealth disparity. The average family pretty much lives in a house with a yard and 2-car garage, regardless of income. You can get in your car and drive to tony gated communities in Scottsdale and peek over the walls, but who would? You have your job, your two cars, your Harley, and your flatscreen, and life is good.

Maybe California can find a way to build out onto the ocean as was done in Singapore, and relieve the housing pressure a little. God, I'd love to be making the kinds of software engineer salaries that they offer out there, but the housing -- yikes!
so just like comedy, timing is everything?
Massive information asymmetry means it is highly likely that people will be taken advantage of. The FDA balances the information asymmetry of the public and a product by defining a process that allows companies to make certain claims.
You make a strong case for certain points here and I don't dismiss them. But I also think several points are blurred. That is perhaps inevitable and that is the point I am making. for example

(1) That doesn't change the essential characteristic of whether it's your data, or data about you. The datacard in my FLIR camera is (a) my data; and (b) about you. Neither of these qualifications are insurmountable. The courts have not tripped over this technicality, because the <purpose> of using the FLIR instrument is not considered a reasonable use of technology, when it has the impact of making surveilance <unavoidable> per-se.

(2) The post office example. This raises two issues: (a) technology; and (b) scale. Mail by post is distinct from verbal speech and generates metadata because of the need to address an envelope. Its low technology, but this is an artifact of the technology. With respect to scale, what is 'reasonably' to collect is a function of resource expenditure. As the cost of collection decreases, the amount of data 'reasonably' collected <increases>. But that is beside the point of where my <reasonable expectation of privacy> has changed or stayed the same.

(3) Scale, generally speaking. eg: Technology makes it easier to collect metadata, but it does not turn "data" into "metadata." The express purpose of the meta-data programs is to turn <meta> data into <data>. This is sort of the fundamental question at the heart of the matter, from a constitutional perspective. The purpose of these systems is to surveil beyond the scope of what would normally be perceived as reasonable. In that regard, it is aking to using FLIR to make surveilance <unavoidable per-se>. Or at least that is an argument which should be ajudicated. Perhaps by legislation, as well, once a more coherent framework has been set forth by the courts. In otherwords, now that these 'edge cases' are being swept up into the norm.