skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see, where would I begin?

First, I would identify what we're trying to do (you know this) and from that figure out 1 to 3 core metrics for the site.

Metrics are hard, but try your best to identify something. A meaningful number. Active users (defined as users creating content) would be good.

Now track the weekly growth percentage of that number (how fast it grows week over week), and focus on keeping that growth percentage around 5%.

Just keep it at 5%.

Now you have a clear focus. Good luck!
http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
That figure is only for publicly available sequences. The cost is now under $5k, and I'm sure thousands, if not tens of thousands, have had it done. (Including me!)
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In the "hardware junkies" mailing list at work (Microsoft) the OCZ drives were a periodic source of derision.

"My OCZ drive failed..." / "I'm on my fourth RMA, what should I do?"

"Real junkies buy Intel." (Or Samsung). And they don't buy TLC flash, either.
or buying a product
The points of the article summarized:

1) money must come from the state (because I say so)

2) bitcoin is bad because it appeals to "right wing" people and I'm (presumably) left wing (my enemy's friend is my enemy?)

3) free markets caused the financial crisis (not massive gov money printing and trillions in implicit backing of credit markets) so free market money must also be bad

4) the value of bitcoin disappears if people loose trust but this could never happen to a gov currency (even though it happens several times a year with fiat currencies around the world)

5) fiat is fine so we don't need a replacement (as long as we ignore the trillions in debt transfer from the bankrupt banks to the bankrupt governments)
I was lucky I got RMA and got a replacement. I sold the replacement on ebay once I got it and ever since I couldn't trust another SSD myself. Though I am still very happy with the SSD that comes with my Macbook Pro 15"
Inflation adjusted dollars.
> This make no sense. Running Linux (or an OSS stack in general) is not what makes devices out of date. Not updating them does.

I can see how you'd read it that way, but I think the intent of the sentence is to state that they're running woefully out of date versions of Linux, not that Linux itself is woefully out of date.
Yes, but did they cash out into real currency? There are lots of "US dollars" on MtGox sitting in the accounts of people who sold bitcoins. It's clear someone has the US dollars; it's not clear it's in the hands of the sellers (or ever will be).
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Nice observation. Yes bitcoins are exactly like tulips but moreso. In fact, in the future, bitcoin prices will drop below zero and these idiots will have to pay others to get rid of them. I'm looking forward to the expressions on their dumb faces when they realize they are in a pyramid scheme balanced on top of a bubble resting on top of a bridge over some swampland in Florida.
The first paragraph on a sales page should never include the word "pulseaudio." It probably shouldn't even include "Linux" unless you're selling server hardware.
It's a little extreme indeed---I mean, it was a rhetorical flourish, something hopefully signaled with the weighted "infested"---but I've heard it from non-anarchists and not extremely radical friends in times past. And look at how many on this site deny the legitimacy of intellectual property.

But perhaps my wording wasn't clear: I meant to limit it to "liberals" who are of the "property is theft" persuasion, or at least fairly strong in that direction.
This is upsetting as we are moving towards a tech world filled with only a few big brands. Will we only be able to buy SSDs from Intel or Samsung in the future? Time will tell, but I am upset that the small guy can't compete in this space anymore.
"Many businesses" is a very relative term. A more accurate term would be "almost no businesses."
I think the link for this article should go to:
https://github.com/SamyPesse/reportr

Or to:
http://www.reportr.io/
You cannot buy it now, thus... If - I'm speculating - we 'normal' people can buy the device in spring it will have more features.

(I'm interested as it's linux based, and a good alternative to the closed apple world and the dominant 'Android-one-Google-data-collecting' universe.)
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Here's my concern about the "utility" of bitcoin. It's just as valuable at transferring money over the internet if it's worth $1000/btc or $0.0001/btc. The utility is unaffected by the price.. and there's not so much scarcity that people can't "use it" to transfer money no matter what the price is.

So even if you're right that this is a super useful invention for transferring wealth, I don't see why that would drive the price up.
Oh my ... you have some catchin' up to do.
Here's one you can start with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r42oejmpkgw
Upvote for not taking this seriously.

But no, I don't have office, don't usually drink (can't, destroyed a bunch of parts of digestive system).

occasional great non-literal-ass-licking salespeople
No. To be perfectly honest, no. Not once. They're pretty disgusting to me.

genuinely great marketing agencies
Sure. Rarely, but yes. They don't do FB Ads and AdWords tho.

I'm quite proud to have been told I came in second with pitches against a few agencies I'm particularly impressed by in my small space here… But I will beat them one day, Oh yes…)
I'm happy for you being happy and enthusiastic. I was once too. But, I'll take the liberty to advise you - leave the space. Immediately. It's a sulphuric pit. You don't age well there.

Well, all that doesn't hold water unless you're on of them. Are you?
I went through the first four hits on that. All of them included uploading. Please pick a case that you are confident supports your claims and then we can examine it.

As a point of order, the surest way to admit you are wrong is to tell the other person to "google it." It isn't anyone else's job to prove you are right.
"Bitcoin is debt-free... since bitcoins are mined"

That's not true. Debt is perfectly possible with a fixed currency base, and mining or grabbing transaction fees is not a substitute for debt in any way. In fact, you can have a whole expansionary currency system on top of a fixed asset like BTC, in the same way that the USD was once convertible in and out of gold.
This is Switzerland subtly dumping money into their economy in an effort to devalue the CHF; they're pretty damn desperate, not hypers progressive. And it would never work in the US because we have a strong belief in paternalism as state policy in regard to welfare...the government simply knows better how to spend money than a poor person ever could...
WebSQL was a completely separate debate, if I recall correctly, the issues there had to do with WebSQL being heavily dependent on SQLite, a single implementation. So it was hard to spec in a vendor-independent way like web standards require.

IndexedDB is much less capable than SQLite, no doubt about it, but still very useful, and far far simpler and feasible to spec and standardize (which it has been).
Not quite... that it the raw sequencing cost and doesn't cover the prep work required, or likely the computational resources required for processing. It is actually almost to the point where the computational costs are more than the costs of raw sequencing.

And, for the places where you can get a $3K genome sequenced, it isn't likely that they will service outside (non-research) customers.
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It is rare to "brick" your PC by installing linux/windows. Phones are different because their input/output interfaces are limited to a single usb port, and in many cases that usb port doesn't even support host mode. Technically the phone isn't really bricked, but there's no way for a normal user to fix it without cracking open the phone to attach a jtag.

If PCs in the 1980's could be destroyed simply by improperly installing an OS, you bet manufacturers would void warranty for software misuse.
DNA lasts a long time. Just watch any one hour crime drama. :)

Actually, it could last an arbitrarily long time if it wasn't exposed to UV or cleaned up. The hard part would be distinguishing your random DNA from that of everyone else.
Sorry don't mean to negative, each implementation has it's own merits and times when it would be appropriate to use. Good job on building and sharing OP.
Bullshit. Pulling CM from the Play Store is something Google is entitled to do as per their ToS. They didn't pull it because they wanted to drive away competition; they pulled it because CM was harming people's devices.

I am by no means still a fan of Google anymore, but credit has to be given where credit is due. They are still pulling the Microsoft schtick with Google+, but pulling CM isn't it in the slightest.
Yeah, that's the one. It was an interesting issue.
I suppose there's nothing I'd ever want to buy from one of the merchants advertising here: http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/
No, but I imagine coinbase has. As will many other people who accept bitcoin payments.
Downsides would probably be that the site as a whole might appear slower, and people might tend towards isolating themselves in sub-communities. Also if this is making money for pg as it is there's always the problem of killing the goose that lays the golden egg I suppose.

Tags for posts might serve the same purpose but allow the community to remain more cohesive.
put it on fdroid
the deflation argument:

1) if value of A increases relative to B, people with A that want B will wait to trade for B

Make A money and B some good and you have the deflationary spiral argument. But notice that the structure of the argument is unchanged if we make B a good and A money. The sellers and buyers are symmetric - when you buy a good with money, you are selling the money for the good. If the deflationary spiral is correct, it is correct both ways, and if it is correct both ways, it isn't correct at all. Any temporary asymmetry in price movements run into time preference barriers that return it to a relative equilibrium.
I wonder why Toshiba wants OCZ given Toshiba is already making SSD themselves and been doing fine. As someone has already mentioned down below, OCZ to me was a RAM company before they sold first SSD. Is Toshiba trying to compete in the SSD market too? I thought Samsung and Intel were pretty much the winners in this market. If OCZ exist because of quality, what can Toshiba can get out of the acquisition? The factory? The machines? The top engineers?
Wubi still does not support UEFI/GPT systems, but it would be very interesting thing to check.
The deflation argument:

1) If value of X increases relative to Y, people with X that want Y will wait to trade for X.

If we make X money and Y some good and you have the deflationary spiral argument.

But notice that the structure of the argument is unchanged if we make X a good and Y money.

What does this suggest about the argument?
I do trust the profit motive of a small company, bound by various contracts and laws, public perception, and their own need for future customers to voluntarily opt-in, moreso than the state's shifting policies, pandering to the different fears of various eras.

Even where the profit motive can lead to abuses, those abuses pale in comparison to the history of even very good governments. California is one of the most accountable governments in the world, but in the memory of its living residents has imposed both forced internment of its citizens by their ethnicity (WW2) and forced sterilization (until 1963).

What future crime or health scares could lead to the repurposing of this broadly-collected state data? (It's quite hard to opt-out of this collection, whereas it's costly to opt-in to 23andMe's program.) And if state-repurposing happens, those who implement the change, perhaps including for-profit companies in partnership with the state, can be insulated from accountability, because when the state decides to do it, it is 'legal'.

Perhaps you assign those scenarios much lower probability than the more common and mundane privacy abuses of profit-seeking sleazeballs. OK, fine. Still, the magnitude of damage the state can do, with its powers of compulsion and confiscation, is much larger. Fewer events, yes, but much worse when they happen.

So if you're 'terrified' by the chance 23andMe might misuse voluntarily-offered genetic materials, against their own policies, state law, and customer preferences, you ought to reserve at least some fear as well for the danger from the much larger cache of genetic data, collected without explicit consent, already in the hands of an institution that – when it occasionally misfires – does more damage than any single company can.
As the article rightly notes: "...every one of your relatives who spits in a 23andMe vial is giving the company a not-inconsiderable bit of your own genetic information to the company along with their own. If you have several close relatives who are already in 23andMe’s database, the company already essentially has all that it needs to know about you."
He parsed that (ambiguous, I agree) section like that because of the "or other types of open source code" section, and because the word "version" (or similar) was not included.

Had it instead said:

*"they typically run Linux versions that are woefully out of date."*

or

*"they typically run versions of Linux or other operating systems that are out of date."*

then there would not be a problem.

Since the real problem is out of date software, not the license that software happens to have, mentioning the license makes it sound like the author is blaming the license (a problem that is made worse by not including some "version" wording).

Considering the awkwardness of the phrase "other types of open source code" (what do we mean other "types"? Other licenses? Other languages? I don't think they intend either of those, what they mean is other projects, not types), I have to assume that the author did not intend any sort of slight and this is just a misunderstanding.

They probably included the "other types of open source code" section because that is frankly what is common with these sort of devices. It is an incidental detail that got confused with the point because the author is not as precise with the language surrounding this topic as we are.
You can find most of those stories on /r/Bitcoin. Off the top of my head: the Norwegian apartment, the asshole, the nurse, & the WalMart clerk. (And a few counter-stories like the Brooklyn embezzler who has taken a $1m inheritance and squandered it down to ~$300k by astonishingly bad Bitcoin trading over the past year.)
If I download instructions to hotrod my lawnmower, and then engine block cracks when the head gasket blows out, should I blame Toro for not locking down my lawnmower?
It does that anyway. The currency itself would be stable and there would be no guessing games about what was going on with monetary policy since there would be no policy to discuss.
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Thank you for pointing this out! I've actually been trying to find an example of a patent troll suing a foreign corporation that doesn't have offices in the US. This lawsuit does appear to be very rare and exceptional, and here's the complaint: http://notch.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mojang.pdf

I wonder whether they'd have actually been successful had they not withdrawn. It seems a bit strained that they claim they're doing business in Texas.
I don't know specifics about the USA, but certainly in the UK, private healthcare insurance works like most other forms of insurance, i.e. Pre-existing conditions or other relevant information is either not covered or must be declared and will be used to adjust premiums.

No car breakdown insurance lets you take out a policy to cover the vehicle after it has already broken down...
Yes it does seem like bitcoin is lacking in a few places. You could (try to) add things like

* disconnected operation (solve the double spend problem in a disconnected setting) (this would really make something gold-equivalent)

* a provably correct, but cryptographically secure ledger (meaning real anonymity)

* proof of work based on a single crypto standard seems risky. Use 5 of them.

* provably no way to compromise the network even with overwhelming computational power
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If people are waiting to trade A, then there will be a shortage of A, which means (in a marketplace) that people trying to trade B for A will need to trade more B. The pressures are not symmetric just because the action is when we restrict our viewpoint to two participants.
"Banking the 500,000 samples that they've done so far would require quite a bit of freezer space."

Maybe one or two -70 freezers full of eppendorf tubes. It's not a significant cost.
When I bought my SSD, I narrowed in on Intel very quickly. I don't trust "gamer" / benchmark-focused brands at all for this kind of product.
It's just that never give up. Good things is about to happen.
I found it interesting and I upvoted the article. So just because you don't like the company that the article is published by does not mean the article is a marketing puff piece.
Yeah ReSharper would be all over that if it was C#:

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? $this.parent().addClass(settings.class_populated).removeClass(settings.class_focused)
: $this.parent().removeClass(settings.class_populated + ' ' + settings.class_focused);
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I the the second paragraph, I link to a chart showing the percentage increase of the price of bitcoin in USD between July 25 and November 25, 2013. That increase would correspond to roughly a 90% decrease in bitcoin price levels. People holding bitcoin would perceive this as 90% deflation, while people not holding bitcoin would perceive this as a relative appreciation of bitcoin to the dollar.

It is a completely reasonable number because it actually happened, and I point all of this out in the blog post.
> Refactoring is a fact of life.

Refactoring is a symptom of screwing up the architecture of your application. Excessive refactoring is caused by excessively screwing up. I'd argue that if refactoring seems like a fact of life with OOP, that might indicate there's something very wrong with that paradigm.

> Encapsulation makes it trivial to identify all places that need to be addressed.

If encapsulation was all you needed, there wouldn't be so many refactoring tools for OOP languages that rename and move methods and classes around.

> Talking about 'certain this' and 'possible that' is subjective.

I'm not being subjective. In virtually every OOP application there will be an object that implements at least part of the functionality of a map. At the bare minimum, there will be at least one object that has a getter or a setter method.

>If you value transparency then inheirit.

Inheritance doesn't provide transparency in any meaningful way. The private members of the class are still private. The getters and setters are still opaque.

>your 'data structure' is actually an object itself e.g. a hash map

Data structures are only objects in object-orientated languages. In other systems, they're either primitives or constructed from primitives. At the lowest level, you can construct any data structure you like from an ordered array of bytes.
Thank you very much for your response.

Furthering your point on neither deflation nor inflation driving economic growth but rather productivity increases, does that mean what the FED is doing through monetary policy zero sum?

I subscribe to a camp that believes that what the FED is doing through quantitative easing and zero percent interest rates, is actually harming the economy by sacrificing quality of life of persons without wealth (investments, property, assets) for gains for those that do (real estate bubble, stock market gains since 2008). Can this be true? Or am I looking at the situation too simplistically?

Regarding the topic at hand, do you believe that bitcoin's low cost of transmission and features such as escrow and consignment lend the commodity-currency true value (like gold's value being that you can wear it, use it for electrical equipment)? Or do you look at the protocol as having no intrinsic value (pure fiat)? -And do you think that that matters as a currency?

Many skeptics claim that a crypto currency backed by a mineral would be ideal, and that bitcoin's only value is in it's perceived worth. They also believe that this means it could be a big tulip party waiting to crash.

I'm not sure what to believe regarding bitcoin's future, as gold has had 4000+ years to earn it's place in the world. Thank you for your time.
Hm, at what point is hardware separate from software? When you write some C code that gets loaded on the Attiny85 chip, is that still considered software? Many SoCs come with the firmware already loaded so it just looks like a normal cpu when in actuality it contains a mini OS, graphics, networking, etc, all on a single QFN-72 package.
The author's argument goes like this: Bitcoin is not backed by The State. The State makes currency. The State is all powerful. I am not capable of conceptualizing a currency that is not backed by an all powerful state, therefore Bitcoin is doomed to fail.

Terrible argument.
I had the exact same thought, runs smooth on my 920 too.
Well that would totally do it. High failure rate on a low margin product is nearly as bad as having too much inventory because the effect is very much the same. Example:

Say you make $10 profit on a $100 product. For every replacement product, you need to sell 9 more to make your money back on the 1 failure. So, a 10% failure rate means you are basically selling the other 90% just to break even and try to stay in business.

I don't know about OCZ's margins or their failure rate, but with prices squeezing downward, I'd imagine they found themselves in a situation where they maybe had a high enough margin initially that the failure rate wasn't high enough to sink them or the failures didn't occur early enough to burn through the overall margin right away. That's not a sustainable business and the only option is to get people to float you a loan that is maybe big enough to buy time to fix the quality problems if possible. In the event that it's unfixable, no amount of money can save an upside down business model.
Attention Angry Shoppers
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, we should all take a moment to be thankful for what we have instead of whining about nothing.

I'm am thankful that I have a full-time job which allows me to pay my bills on time.
I believe you could implement it in such a way that the coins involved are spendable, relying on "Pay to script hash": https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0016
Retailers aren't going to set prices for their goods that might fluctuate from $1 to $10 to $50 back to $1 within a week or so. It'd make it impossible to run a business.

What they ultimately want is to guarantee they're going to receive the equivalent of $X for every widget they sell, so they'll either have to declare that Y BTC = X USD regardless of market prices, or they'll have to accept whatever Y in BTC is equivalent to X USD on a given exchange on a given day -- which is essentially equivalent to doing business in USD directly, with BTC as just a weird payment mechanism.

Businesses are going to be hesitant to accept BTC for the same reason they don't tend to accept payment in kind -- you need dollars to pay taxes and wages.
> It makes sense the same way that installing Linux and/or wiping Windows doesn't void a PCs warranty.

You need to take another look at user grade warranties for PCs. Many of them are void if the users installs a different OS. Especially if they break the HPA partition where the OS reinstall stuff is kept.
Surely! I think the having it out there for anyone to contribute and modify will benefit all our us. Feel free to add on your suggestions or features that are missing :)
Have you actually seen the film? Doesn't really fit this pun.
It's silly to use a US company and expect privacy. Expect that PIA is backdoored out the wazoo and avoid them entirely.