skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there is a huge range of smell (or stench) depending on what bacteria tends to cluster in your underarms. I was one of those unlucky ones who had terrible BO until a friend introduced me to potassium alum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_alum , commonly sold as "crystal deodorant".

It's now been almost 3 years since I stopped using soap or shampoo, and I no longer have any skin problems or odor problems, although I'll smell up pretty quick if I forget the crystal deodorant. The only weird part was the two month transitionary phase where my body was still producing excess oils to compensate for daily washing with soap, giving a constant, icky "you've been wearing those jeans for a whole week" feel.

Another protip: If you find your feet stink after a full day at work, try switching to wool socks.
Hadn't seen that before. Kicks the crap out of GIMPshop! Impressive.
I feel I am unable to block out a lot of activity going around in the background, in real life I also have the same reaction if there is tons of activity going on around me when I am trying to read. I couldn't concentrate on the contents because of the movement in the background. It gave me this weird sense of anxiety over what was going to happen next and was unable to focus and absorb the contents. I ended up just kinda skimming. I was anxious to try to get it over with.
I'd presume economics here. There is no context where his birthplace is relevant.
I find that only pretty much any time I see that word on the internet it's never in this respect context. I grew up hearing it all the time and didn't realize it was a big deal until I realized the vast majority of the time it is still used in a negative context no matter what the spelling.
It's a technology development and demonstration, and science project. This is the first inter-planetary mission for ISRO, and the next step after their 2009 Moon mission, Chandrayaan-1 :)

http://www.isro.org/mars/objectives.aspx

http://www.isro.org/mars/payload.aspx
Assuming you have dollars that you spend on things, the easy solution it to keep hoarding your bitcoin stash, but also convert dollars to bitcoins just before spending them.

Given easy convertibility, bitcoin's deflationary effect is spread over the whole economy, not just bitcoin. So far, bitcoin's not big enough for that to be noticeable.
Are there any legal restrictions for Norwegian citizens to go and buy cars in Sweden (then drive home)?
So who's buying it in the case that the provider immediately converts it into USD?

The people who set the price will be those who are interested in holding bitcoin. People who hold bitcoin instantaneously do not affect the value almost by definition.
"[Britain] also has no enshrined constitutional right to free speech"

Well, we do, technically. We have no written constitution; our "constitution" is statute, legal rulings, and treaties. The Human Rights Act 1998 guarantees freedom of speech.
I guess that will change next year with SEPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

The German equivalent is called ELV/Lastschrift and allows you to retrieve money from a bank account, but the owner can revoke that within a few weeks.
While I understand the sympathy here, I'm not sure I agree.

In 5(?) years these jobs will be replaced by robots. They will be safer, more efficient, and cheaper for companies. These workers will not be forced to work under these "horrible" conditions any longer. They will simply be discarded.

Question: Would you rather have this job, fully knowing its negatives, or have no job?
4 times weaker? When you're talking about statistical attacks that depends on getting a very small number of random events ahead of your opponent, I would expect quadrupling the numbers to provide significant additional security in the medium term of 10 to 100 minutes.

Clearly a litecoin confirmation is weaker than a bitcoin confirmation, but 4 or 12 litecoin confirmations should be much stronger than 1 or 3 bitcoin confirmations.
I remember a time roughly 20 years ago when this was commonplace. Newspapers folded up into quarters (roughly today's tablet computer size, actually) and held on the lap waiting for a lull in conversation or when most of the table had gotten up to use the restroom.

I also remember that everyone had their own kind of 'roughly tablet-sized' time waster, including crossword books, Reader's Digest, novels, magazines, and yep, even TV Guide.

Over the years this had expanded to portable game systems like GameBoy, virtual pets like Tamagotchi, the original push e-mail devices like BlackBerry and so on. Hell, even when Timex came out with Indiglo watches I remember people used to pull out their watches and compare backlights the way people started to do the same with ringtones on feature phones.

However the modern smartphone is the amalgamation of all of these things into one. So in one sense the smartphone is really just an all-in-one version of the separate time-wasters.

The key difference that I see isn't just that "after you read the paper for the day, that's it, it's done" (and I do agree with you on this point), it's that the mobile phone (especially the smart phone) also enables a new application that wasn't previously possible: engaging in conversation with someone else than the person(s) you are physically next to.

No previous method of communication was portable like this with the potential to allow you to bypass a physical conversation so easily. And on top of that, since the phones have access to so many social connections, people seem to have unlimited opportunities to engage in long-distance conversations while ignoring those present physically.

But someone else rightly pointed out in another comment that the problem isn't so much that this is possible, but that our social norms haven't updated to make this a truly rude act. I just went to our friends' American Thanksgiving party and watched many conversations halt at any incoming mobile phone notification. Which I find doubly-rude: that the conversations on the phone seem prioritized over finishing an in-person exchange?

I think the best thing we can do is to just own the device we like, and practice the social etiquette that we hope others adhere to as well.
"Austrian" in this case refers to someone who is of the Austrian school of economics.
I saw that earlier in the day during College Gameday. I am surprised that the QR Code was readable though. Of course I was more interested in the Georgia Southern 1-0 In the SEC sign. http://30fps.mocksession.com/2013/11/30/georgia-southern-1-0...
As long as they aren't identified (by name, picture, etc.) who cares?

Also, this article is pretty lame. They complain about people live tweeting other people's private issues but then they share EVERY single one of these examples with links and backstories. This is doing the exact opposite that they preach.
I can't believe they actually went through with it. I thought they were just bluffing to scare them. David Cameron must believe he has absolute power to do anything he wants, including destroying any freedom the UK press may have, along with charging journalists for terrorism, and that nobody can do anything to stop him.

You'd think mature democracies in the 21st century would've learned something from the previous century, and wouldn't go back to the previous shameless abuses of power by the leadership, that would normally happen only in countries we'd call "dictatorships" or "communists" or "fascists".

It's like the Internet has made them power mad once again, wiping out any memories of previous abuses and why they happened. I think it was Bruce Schenier who said the Internet is "magnifying" everyone's power, not just the power of the individuals. It's just that it took a while for the governments to catch-up to understanding how they can (ab)use this power.

We need that "secure by default" Internet right about now, to put governments on equal footing with their citizens once again (so they can't abuse the power to know everything about everyone anymore). We need to have real privacy again on the Internet, and real anonymity, too, for those that think they need it. If privacy really is dead from now on, then this century is going to not be a very pleasant one for normal citizens.
I checked out the comments before reading the article since it had a 'sensational' headline which usually follows up with a crappy article, glad I didn't waste my time.

I'm wondering where all the up votes came from though.
> it's blazing fast. Ten minutes and someone deep in African desert can wire money to a researcher on one of those scientific outposts. Try to do that with a bank.

Square Cash is faster than that, and the money on your debit card is significantly easier to spend than Bitcoin.
Sony said that they sell at a loss of $60
About "uncle Joe": in France the most popular equivalent is "Madame Michu" (female). And a lot of people consider this is sexist.
I just don't see how is one's view on abortion validate or invalidate his views on Bitcoins. Care to explain?
Programming methodologies, their objectives and their nature (EWD 469)
Flow got to be a buzzword mostly to credit of Jenova Chen's (of Thatgamecompany) master's thesis and subsequent game influenced by it - Flow. It happened at around 2007. At least that's my perception of it.

It is mostly associated with games (this meaning of the word anyways), especially where exposition of new challenges and use of skills already acquired in-game as to become mechanical are so neatly balanced and tuned to the individual gamer that they tend to evoke a state of flow, commonly described as "parahypnotic" state.

If I had to stretch the analogy to development, especially programming, I'd had to stretch it very far, like the article seems to infer. Your programming flow is, in this analogy, wholly dependant on the actual challenge you are facing (over which you mostly don't have control of), and more or less has nothing to do with you trying to "get into the flow" really.

I agree that it's a fallacy albeit from a different point of view.
If you're not prepared to reveal the source or anymore information about the tunnel to Wales -- what was the point of this comment?
Oops. Took my unconscious mind for granted I guess.
Well, the code is not equivalent, so the comparison is unfair.
Of course they do, just as people walking around in public can have a sensible expectation of not being filmed or photographed randomly.
Pandora's Briefcase [2010]
*an idiot

I didn't say that the platform holder would ease piracy/jailbraking.
And i know they get most of their $$$ from developers and game sales. Since people in many countries don't give a fuck about developers/platform they would buy the jailbraked console and only download or buy pirated games. Since from reading comments they aren't sold for profit this wouldn't work.
You make an excellent point, another poetic example is Jabberwocky is not a typical example of all late 1800s English literature.
There's nothing immoral about two pieces of software being a master and a slave. Quit with this nonsense already.

Personally I'd rather get rid of the male/female designation for connectors. Ever get asked about it by a little kid? "Well, it's like this cable is fucking this interface! See?"
Next up: why Bing is better than Google, from the unbiased folks at http://www.bing.com/!
Using \e within the psql shell will drop you right into your $EDITOR, which is likely vim. You can edit commands in there directly and they will be evaluated when you :wq out. The next time you type \e it will load the previous command back into the editor

My only issue with this workflow is when I want to yank the command out to the clipboard. For some reason it doesn't seem to respect clipboard settings on OS X.
It's pretty hard to call < 5 years a "major long-term growth trend" ...
Japan also has a system to automatically withdraw money from someone elses account, eg for rent, but requires the account owner to authorize the other account first. does germany not have that step?
> Because the goal of commercial software development isn’t to create code you love—it’s to create products your customers will love.

The two are not mutually exclusive.
Hm, that's interesting. I'm in the UK, and I can access bbc.com without any issues. I'm using StudentCom, though.
Why would Companies use a chamber with a background noise of -9.4 dB to "to test the sound levels of products, such as washing machines, refrigerators and Harley Davidson motorcycles."

I would think any half decent noise chamber would do the job.
Interesting supporting factoid about the lenses not mentioned in the article: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of the microscope, born in the same year (1632) lived two streets away from Vermeer in Delft.

It was a tiny city back then, the men very likely knew each other, so Vermeer would have had access to the best lenses and the world's leading expert of that time.
An unschooling purist would argue that curiosity and a desire to learn are the natural state for kids, and that we squeeze that curiosity out of them in the school system. So take away school and leave the kids alone and they ultimately return to that state of self-motivated exploration. I've seen it work in enough families to take the idea very seriously.

We did a hybrid approach. We were more traditional homeschoolers up until high school. However, once the kids had a solid foundation in math, reading, writing, etc. we pretty much stayed out of their way for the high school years and let them follow their interests where ever they led. It worked well for us and both kids taught themselves advanced subjects that far surpassed anything we could have supplied as their parents.
Bitcoin is just another social network. It's Facebook for money or the Internet of money. It's not a ponzu scheme. Get over it. I'm sorry you didn't buy when they were cheap. Know the utility of bitcoins is real and they're everywhere.
Of course not, but in my professional experience, often times it is :(
His views on other topics do not necessarly validate or invalidate his views on Bitcoin, but these views can not be ignored and as I said in my comment, they should be taken into account while forming your own opinion about his article.
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a
quiet room alone."

- Blaise Pascal
http://web.archive.org/web/20130607104502/http://www.bbc.com...
> Because even if you take away the bitcoin to dollar conversion, you still have a huge number of people who would be willing to trade bitcoin for goods and services because they have a huge investment in the hardware and power it took to make their bitcoins.

Just because people made a huge investment in hardware or power to make Bitcoins doesn't mean anyone else has the remotest bit of interest in accepting Bitcoins for goods and services they provided. The average Zimbabwean worked a lot harder for their Zimbabwean dollars before being forced to switch to other currencies that other people would actually accept.

Right now, some people will accept Bitcoins for real goods and services because they believe the chances of currency appreciation in future are greater than the lack of liquidity and threat of price crashes. Since Bitcoin isn't reliably convertible into anything else, people's willingness to accept it depends on it remaining that way in future (here, it's "deflationary" tendencies are actually a big advantage). People need dollars to meet certain financial obligations, whereas they merely want Bitcoins because they seem like an investment. Take away that anticipated growth in value and suddenly the risk to accepting BTC seems like far more of a downside than the transaction costs of conventional currency.
Speaking hypothetically, you claim you can learn anything that is required for the job. What if the ability to solve problems under time pressure is part of what the job requires?

Flipping that over, why do you say you can't solve puzzle problems? How many have you tried?

And why are you asking? I'm sure that if the answer is "yes" then you'll puff out your cheeks, heave a sigh of relief, and not bother to work on that aspect of your abilities.

But if the answer is "no", how will it change your behavior? What will you do differently?

And why not do that anyway?
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Well, obviously there are supposed reasoned justifications for the rise in prices. That's true of probably all bubbles. Humans are less rational creatures, than rationalizing creatures. We like stories that convince ourselves we are behaving rationally.

Robert Schiller, the Yale economist and bubble-proponent, suggests diagnosing bubbles based on a checklist-based approach similiar to the way depression or other medical issues are diagnosed, with the following indicators:
- Sharp increases in the price of an asset like real estate or dot-com shares
- Great public excitement about said increases
- An accompanying media frenzy
- Stories of people earning a lot of money, causing envy among people who aren’t
- Growing interest in the asset class among the general public
- “New era” theories to justify unprecedented price increases
- A decline in lending standards

Bitcoin fits the above extremely well. I should note that Eugene Fama shared the Nobel prize with Schiller, but does not believe in the idea of bubbles or Schiller's claimed ability to predict them. After all, one might say that Google's stock fits the above criteria just as well, but that's clearly not a bubble. (I think I side with Schiller on this one though, although Fama raises good points.)

As I said in my first post, I agree that Bitcoin may eventually succeed as a currency and gain a high value. But it will be a slow process backed by fundamentals. The exponential growth taking place right now is pure bubble speculation. Very few really care about this future as an "important currency." Instead, you have people like me. I invested some money. It's now worth nearly 10x. I want it to keep going up, and I am currently letting it ride. I tell myself stories that it will replace gold; I read blog posts arguing that if it does it will be worth $10,000+ a coin. But at some point, the tide will begin to turn. Negative stories will increase. There will be price drops. And people like me, who pretend to themselves that they have a reasoned investment thesis, will say fuck it, and cash out in hordes. And from the ashes, we will then see what it can do as a currency. But the speculators are here, rapidly increasing, and will eventually, rapidly flee. (Although I hope I'm wrong, because I'm probably going to let my BTC's ride one way or the other...it's just too much fun being on this roller coaster.)

Put simply, I think the question is whether the fundamentals have a serious chance at overtaking the speculators before a big bust occurs. The speculators are increasing exponentially. And for all the talk of merchants beginning to use Bitcoin, or a random pizza or bar accepting bitcoins, the fundamentals don't really seem to be there or growing fast enough. I don't know anybody that seriously uses it in that manner, except for the few ardent Bitcoin evangelists. (Although if anyone has any interesting data, please link me!). Black markets and gambling sites seems to be the only real sectors seriously using it as a currency.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong, and change my opinion on BTC way too often to be trusted. :)
I guess it's comforting knowing that someone who has a job because of social media is willing to speak out about one of its particular excesses?

That said, what is said in public is not private. This is generally good legal principle (as it pertains to the First Amendment) and it's good personal habit. If you don't want something to be exposed to the greater world and for perpetuity, than be discreet with whom and where you share it.

It's not a direct consequence of our society being more untrustworthy, it's a direct consequence of today's technology and medium. You didn't think the ability to near-limitlessly duplicate content and effortlessly and carelessly distribute it wouldn't have a few downsides, did you?
The article itself is not badly written. Keep in mind many people on this forum have a significant financial incentive to ensure that people don't think this way about BTC.
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The historical social relevance was most of the German peasantry couldn't read or listen to Aramaic at that time. Most of them couldn't understand written German but the stats for literacy were good enough that they'd understand someone reading it aloud.

Its also relevant because of lack of control and a rather concrete expression of rebellion. "We forbid you to do this" "Been there done that". Rabble rousing always happens and never amounted to much; publishing an illegal book was a substantial escalation.
"Flow is very important. Working in a quiet room not only removes unproductive context switching and frustrating distractions, it also promotes the joy of being totally engrossed in your task—a state often needed to keep all the complex interconnections in your head."

Couldn't agree more.

"However, flow necessarily requires isolation. Isolation from design discussions. Isolation from customer engagements. Isolation from iteration and feedback. Instead of continuously converging on what the customer finds compelling, you go forward alone."

Nonsense. Flow necessarily requires isolation when you are focused on a task. It does not exclude team interactions, design discussions or weekly (or even daily) customer interactions. The most productive team I ever saw had quiet individual offices for each programmer, a daily design and status meeting of 15 minutes and a weekly customer meeting.

"I know it’s romantic to think that one person can create an incredible product in isolation. If that’s what you believe, stick to reading romance novels, and stay the heck out of software development."

Also nonsense. Recent history is replete with counter-examples.
And you've done the math on that? Waving the "externalities" wand isn't magic to justify any policy you'd like.
GIMP is easy to use once you adjust to its peculiarities. Blender is the same way, even before it got a facelift.
Printable/single page version:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britain-targets-g...
Then why do you arrest people for tweets?

http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/24/two-men-arrested-for-tweet...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-arrested-for-malicious-twee...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/twitter-facebook-ar...
> You've actually tried that?

I know computer science is a special case, but I haven't completed my PhD yet and I am regularly contacted by recruiters (through my web page or via LinkedIn). Most of the time it's for big data, finance, stealth start-ups, or for Google. I turn them down each time, but there are a lot of them…