skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And abhor even more the money spent on college football (e.g., the budget for our university library was being slashed so much that frequently used journals were having their subscriptions cut, while at the same time the football team got a new stadium and dorm)."

The irony is that at almost every university, the football team is a profit center, not a cost center. It' entirely likely that your library would have had deeper budget cuts without that football team.
Ah yes, I should have read more carefully.
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I'm considering putting together a university course on data science, and would like your input as to the skills and techniques you'd expect a data scientist to have fresh out of school.

You all are the experts on what you need, and I'm all ears. Fire away!
> my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps

Next time, buy a computer with more ram and spend your limited time on Earth thinking about things that actually matter.
As a followup, I've written a 'defence of the "sloppy" engineer' http://boldport.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/in-defense-of-sloppy-...
Another theory equally consistent with this analysis: Satoshi (or the 'Satoshi' team) contacted Szabo for help writing the paper.

Thus it incorporated some of Szabo's preferred language choices, but Szabo is still "not Satoshi" and has his own deep and distinct criticisms/appreciations of the Satoshi work.
To up the conspiracy theories a bit, do you think it's at all possible that someone skilled in programming and cryptography, well-versed in English and with a priority for keeping his identity secret, just might attempt to obfuscate his language by altering his writing style? If you don't think that's entirely unlikely then you'd better adjust your p-value.
If one of those things, for whatever reason, blacks-out and kills someone they will be permanently banned.

A way around this would be to permit them to fly above specific areas, via predetermined, controlled routes, that pedestrians should avoid to minimize the risk of accidents.

But the technology for the police (or any authority) to ID those vehicles and control what they are transporting (or state of transporting) it's already here, someone needs to put the pieces together and it's ready to go.
> "The great thing about textual stylistic analysis is that everyone has a specific way of communicating that can be identified "

How scientifically well supported is this assertion?
Have you ever taken a long-distance rail trip in the USA? Outside of a few corridors in the northeast, it's a slow, breakdown-ridden nightmare.
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Bitcoin 0.1 probably did not require cooperation to work out well. Just one dedicated person could do it and have help of early participants to solve silly problems (e.g. famous OP_RETURN bug and integer overflow). Nick was pretty good in economics to not ask suggestions on core parameters from anyone else. And both Dai and Finney already had their input in their public writings, so no necessity to ask them for more.
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I don't buy it. You only need to workout about 30min a day, 3-4 times a week to stay in decent shape. Maybe an hour if you include prep and showering. That's only a few hours of your leisure time a week you might be missing out on...
> Isn't my github profile enough proof to show that I can collaborate with people?

It doesn't show if you can collaborate with these people. Which is one of the things that I look for when I interview folks or interview at companies.

> For me, ... while working.

So I have this opinion that most jobs don't require even a C.S. degree or even knowing more about programming than cobbling together a few libraries and getting something out. Now, most companies don't agree. You said you learn fast right? This is a lesson you should start learning then. Most companies look for some mythical beast called a "10x" developer. They have no idea how they can solve it. Sure, they can test you on the problems they are working on right now. However, they have no idea what problems they may face in the future. So they test you on a bunch of random "hard shit". You jump enough hoops, you get hired.

/cynic
Absolutely agree! That’s why this is a time boxed experiment outside the normal workflow. This isn’t how we work everyday, it is how we are working for one month.

A lot of startups go into a crazy mode like this after they run out of money. We’re just trying to do a little more of the crazy up front.
I've always fancied the idea of drone-waiters.
There won't be any need of truck/cab drivers soon too.

A lot of jobs will be lost in the future, because of automation. I don't know if that's good or not, however.
How about testing your fabric scripts? You can have a vagrant box configured exactly like your production server and do deploys to it locally using the exact same fabric scripts (just change the requisite fabric env settings). No surprises when you deploy to production.
I don't think we'll willingly give up on owning cars. Rather, it'll become way too expensive for the average person to own one.

Once self-driving cars show a marked decrease in road accidents, insurance prices will rise.

Car-as-a-Service companies will be created, making the cost of riding in a private car much cheaper than outright owning one. I'm already intending to start a car service as soon as the first cars are available.
I just wish more people dealt with ARM instead of x86. It's a far better architecture for people to learn system design.
I find this pretty convincing. First JK Rowling is foxed by textual analysis, and now this.

I do think it was a group, and Nick was part of it. So his denials are technically accurate.

Of course, we can go further than just the paper. Why not check out Satoshi's posts and compare them with Nick's blogging style?
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1 is just a matter of allowing the user to issue real-time commands ("Car, stop here", "Car, go park"). 3 is less of an issue when you can get off and let the car park itself wherever it wants.

2, 4 and 5 are a matter of smarter algorithms, but I doubt they won't be able to do all that way before they become commonplace. Particularly 4, since you can't reasonably expect people to have to take control to avoid an accident. Even professional pilots can struggle with that, let alone regular drivers.
I'm reading Graeber's book. The origin theory he settles on is that money was created by the state. Kings produced coins, gave them to soldiers, and mandated that the citizens accept the coins as payment for goods. This created a market, and solved the problem of how a kingdom could supply the needs of an army (weapons, clothes, and food).

He does thoroughly deconstruct the barter origin story, by showing that barter economies were actually driven by credit (and thus credit pre-dates money).

The story about religious ceremonies and temples is that in pre-market societies, there was a social currency (wampum, copper rings, special cloths, etc) used for ceremonial purposes. It was when market economies (and market currencies) became entangled with the social currencies that you see the development of slavery.
When talking with nerds and you ask "Do we really need to do X?" the answer will always be yes regardless of the implication of the action.
How to propose new characters for Unicode:

http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

I would be willing help work on this. We could keep the proposal documents on GitHub as a starting point for others who might need it in future.

If we are going to do this, let's include all the IEC power symbols and keep them together in a group:

IEC 5007, power on (line) symbol

IEC 5008, power off (circle) symbol

IEC 5009, standby (line through a broken circle) symbol

IEC 5010, power on/off (line inside a circle)

None of these currently in the Unicode pipeline http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html of symbols already proposed.
Fyi, at least at first, this looks like it will be very similar to a few wonderful tutorials and projects I have been going through lately:

* http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html

* http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/view/brans-kernel-developme...

* https://github.com/klange/toaruos

...and just in case anyone is curious, my own project (about half way through James M's tutorial - working on virtual memory management):

https://github.com/slunk/Hobbyos

Oh, and btw, this looks AWESOME. I am looking through the finished chapters right now!
The ACM is the type of organization that feels obligated to write a code of ethics, and dutifully pay lip-service to it. This isn't about having an actual effect on the world; it's pure social signaling.
Oh please, just leave man alone. If he/she wanted publicity, he would come out himself, or herself.
A fiat currency can't become an alternative to fiat currencies; it can only become a better managed fiat currency by way of being an algorithm rather than a human. Bitcoin is an obscure fiat currency suddenly being used.
From report issued Sunday morning:
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"...the root causes for these site flaws to be hundreds of software bugs, insufficient hardware and infrastructure."

The infrastructure flaws cannot be chalked up to "not learning it well enough"....There is no database - not Oracle, not PostgreSQL, not MongoDB....and not MarkLogic - that would have handled the traffic on this hardware and infrastructure.
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I don't think he would need to cash out. That is a simplistic view of money. He could leverage his asset to borrow money from the incumbent banking system at super low rates as he uses his BTC stash as collateral. Then he could start diversifying his assets and buying cash-flow properties or other investments to generate even MORE money (whatever currency or form that may be).
the slides from the talk are here:
http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367
(see slide 20)

I realized today I got it from somewhere else..
(Facts and fallacies of Software engineering)
Looking up the whole reference in that book gave me the title,
and googling that gave me the the paper

http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/703/2/CS-TR-3424.pdf
This of course assumes that you'd use an exchange to sell the coins.

There are other methods of selling coins. Larger transactions tend to happen off-exchange.
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Every political party represents a specific ideology. If your actions go against the ideology you represent you should at least have the decency to resign. If that's the case, then it means that all you're after is power at whatever cost. Which means that a voter with 2 braincells shouldn't vote for that party again, because it has lost the only currency that matters: trust.
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Most of the CSS methodologies today, OOCSS, SMACSS, and now MCSS address the organization and maintainability of CSS. And all the examples they quote, pertain to large codebases. What I'd like to see and learn, is a methodology that details refactoring CSS iteratively as the codebase grows.
That would (in a way) show the world that they created the currency for it to be a legitimate thing,and not just a scheme to make bitcoin popular and then cash in millions few years later. Or at least that's how some people would see it, if "satoshi" tried spending/turning into cash thousands of bitcoins he/she/they has/have.
Also, it's not implementation ("compiler") defined, it's undefined behavior.
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One person could do it - but along with coming up with the exact solution to the global view problem, did they?

Moreover is Szabo such a good programmer that Dan Kaminskey's auditing of the code for security holes would have caused him to say that he's never seen a programmer so good? That every likely bug was already found and plugged fairly early on?

Whoever programmed BitCoin didn't write the prettiest code in the world, but it was very good, and certainly good enough code to be written by someone who spends a ton of time programming. Nick Szabo seems to spend a lot of his time on other things not related to programming.

What makes me think it wasn't Finney was that Finney was one of the two first people to respond to Satoshi when the paper was dropped on the cryptography mailing list. There is extensive back and forth between Donald, Finney and Satoshi, mostly Finney and Donald critiquing the whitepaper and Satoshi defending it.

Of course that would be the perfect thing to do if you were trying to draw attention away from yourself.
I known that it is possible to lower prices denominated in Bitcoins. However this is the deflation problem I am taking about.
> Any currency that isn't backed by (value derived from) a hard asset is a fiat currency.

(I'm not a gold bug, I could care less about gold, if gold offends, substitute some other tangible commodity)

That's my point that Bitcoin is more of a commodity currency and is not (at present) a fiat currency. The fact that the electricity is gone doesn't make any difference. Mining gold requires fuel and labor which is gone, used up, and what remains is gold. This expense is what limits the production of and correlates the commodity to the underlying economy.

What is really interesting is your assertion that the value derives from confidence and not assets. I would argue that value derives from the fact that its supply is limited by the use of resources and labor.
Yeah, the need to shove as much code as possible into one line seems to go away with experience. Once you have to debug and maintain that crap you realize very quickly that one liners are not necessarily something to strive for.
This is unfortunate that the described method tends to prove nothing.
I guess keeping a guy on the airport for no apparent reason for 7 hours, just to make his life miserable in any way, is something that should be expected by a modern democracy who is applying filter to protect it's population from child pornography.

So, let's not be hyperbolic here. Well, if we were hyperbolic in the first place, maybe the GQHC (or whatever it is called) and the NSA wouldn't have bugged the entire planet. Who knows?

SERIOUSLY?
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That's a nonissue for anyone that only codes on one device, and it comes with dependence on a decent internet connection. When you have a decent sized team I imagine a vagrant box and git pull are probably a better option anyways. Plus vagrant is free.
Yeah. It's long seemed to me that the empirical argument against socialism/communism was the flawed implementation of central planning for price-setting in the last century. This seems like a strange rhetorical bent to hear from professionals who work in algorithms and frequently see the short-sighted local minima produced by capitalism.
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