skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree with both of these guys, it was so slow in Visual Studio 2013 that I actually disabled it. Then I was forced to re-enable it when I couldn't live without the functionality.
These posts are entirely the result of authors who didn't buy bitcoins when they were cheap. They want it to fail, and try to find any flaws in it that they can, because if it succeeds then they'll really feel like shit because they missed out.

There is extreme bias in the news community (on both sides) because of their investment (or lack thereof)... And possibly a certain amount of attempted market manipulation as well.

In other words, almost everyone writing about bitcoins is full of shit. Take everything you read, on all sides of the issue with a grain of salt.
A static website editor and server written in Clojure
There are three reasons I really like Chrome apps: They can run in a windowed/chrome-less mode (no navigation bar), you can write offline HTML5 apps that actually work, and discoverability via the Chrome web store.

And as somebody else mentioned, it gives you access to the USB JavaScript APIs, which is pretty cool.
Wouldn't the same logic also lead to the inevitable conclusion that the (fair) value of gold is zero?

Given that people pay real money for BTC, perhaps it is time to question the theory.

Btw, I found this really amusing: apparently the Tulip Mania never actually happened, or at least nobody knows for sure and lots of things seem to indicate that it didn't happen (overpriced tulips happened, but not a mania that made the common people join the frenzy and drove everybody to bankruptcy). It's on Wikipedia (the German version seems to be more clear about it, though).
Does anyone have instructions on how to get this working on linux google chrome?
Android eyewear beats Google Glass to market
i am also interested in what they use?
That sounds nice but holds no water. I mean, what sort of monster could not value human life? Please, pay strict attention to what I am saying about what really having "intrinsic value" means.
A "good" Hasse diagram
> "Uncrackable encryption is allowing terrorists — Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and others — to communicate about their criminal intentions without fear of outside intrusion,

You succeeded to put 3 different ethnic groups - I should say 2, the last one being an US product - in the same bag and doing then, a misleading association, fucking idiot!
I can confirm a friend incorporated and did the e-verification themselves and indeed did not have the 90 day unemployment problem.
SpaceX successfully launches its first attempt at geosynchronous orbit
Really cool. A suggestion. For long explains, it'd be great to be able to click on the part to jump to that part of the explanation, and then offer some way to "jump back to top".

Alternatively, I was thinking there might be a nice "swipe" or "carousel" interface applicable here. e.g. you hit left/right arrows and it explains every individual atom of the command-line.

That said, very nice as it is now. You deserve major kudos simply for bringing most manpages online in a searchable, good-looking interface! Instantly added as a "dev" bookmark for me.
Just signed up - they sent me a confirmation email with my password in plaintext.
In Which Elan Gale Teaches Two Social Media Lessons
Hands-on with the Qualcomm Toq smartwatch
Couldn't the substring copying be deferred until the parent string is ready to be GC'd? In the common case of a short-lived substring, no string copies are necessary. Only if the substring outlives the parent string would a copy be necessary.
Yes good code can be commended, but initially it was his small project he worked up to be his golden ticket, never expecting it to be such a huge success. I'd say he did enough good to get it shipped, in the end that is the metric. But in terms of maintenance and clean code, I am a big proponent of it and good architecture. I can't say that this makes a project successful or not but it does make it easier to deal with after it is successful and sometimes largely determines how far it can go. There is always a battle between shipping and quality and here Notch was just shipping, in terms of the end product he is a good coder and a product shipper.
How does the Indiegogo pricing compare to waiting for it to launch and subscribing at that time?
I touched that point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843655
Hey! I saw you talk about this on #bitcoin. Congratulations on the launch! I'm excited to see where you take this.
This reminds me of an article I recently read in the Harvard Business review.

"The Three Rules for Making a Company Great."

The three rules are basically:

1. Increase Revenue

2. Increase Quality.

3. Only rules 1 and 2 matter.

I've following these rules since I read about them, and I do think they are very, very, helpful. Even though we grow mostly through direct response marketing, our brand value has been increasing, as has readership loyalty and revenue per unique subscriber. We are starting to get to the point where we're producing the type of quality that nobody else produces, anywhere. This easily solves one of the biggest marketing questions: What is your unique position? Eventually, the answer will be simple: We're simply better than all of our competitors. By a lot.

http://hbr.org/2013/04/three-rules-for-making-a-company-trul...
A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement
I find that reporters tend to be very good for changes after an article is published -- much easier to fix mistakes at that point than before publication, in fact, since they no longer have an editor breathing down their neck.
Build web applications, with formulas. Formulas that build real software, the kind a programmer is able to create. This way: www.cellmaster.com.au/Build.html?hn (2 min video)
I'd be curious to see the portion sizes and how it compares to SpoonRocket over in the East Bay.
It works fine on chrome for android
> to the point of being able to design his own toy CPU architecture

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.

In other words, it isn't that hard, especially when you're surrounded by examples. I would expect a second-year undergrad to be able to accomplish that.
"Terrorists use web forums and couriers."

From same source as previous comment: https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/407662098093580288
After using Windows 8.1 on my >5 year old laptop for the last month, the only thing I really dislike about it is the schizophrenic impedance-mismatch between the "Desktop" metaphor and the new "Metro" interface. Like on reviewer said, "at boot, you get this tablet interface, but then you click the Start button, and it's Windows 7 underneath." Me, I'm a techie, so figured things out pretty quick, and I love the fast boot, improved file copy dialog, and much improved Task Manager

I think that Windows 7 is the new XP: It's a great OS, with perhaps no obvious warts, so nobody really needs to upgrade, as wee needed to upgrade from Windows Me (Ugh!). It looks modern enough, is very stable (c'mon now, let's admit it) and simply does its job. For most people, why bother upgrade?

In time, of course, we'll see Windows 8 numbers improve, as people replace old computers. But most laptops now, are like Windows 7, and XP before it: They're good enough for most people, so why bother upgrade?
This is my second one. Haven't had any problems. The one I'm using now is Crossover 27QD-P. I bought it because it pivots, ironically it doesn't work when pivoted on my older model macbook pro. However, it worked perfectly on a similar (slightly newer) macbook pro so the problem seems to be with my laptop. Make sure you have the correct connectors, I had a buy a displayport-dual-linkdvi adapter from monoprice.
I found this odd as well. The US Dollar was essentially a unit of weight for much of its early history. Much of the money circulating was in fact silver Spanish dollars, issued by the Spanish empire as a result of the gigantic silver mines in central and southern America. Anyone could bring a unit of gold or silver to the treasury and be issued a silver or gold dollar. It was not a liability of the government in any way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_real_coin#United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792
You can drag drop that jar file into http://jd.benow.ca/ and in two clicks you have 100% of the source code, variable names and all. It's not the same as decompiling an C executable by any means.
The point about small displays being the same in many ways as big displays was great, until the rather confusing conclusion. If both have in common that they are more suited for consuming information rather than accomodating interaction, how is a smartwatch, a small display, an excellent tool for interacting with a TV?
Pierzynski agrees to one-year deal with Red Sox
If you think of the Bitcoin system itself as the issuer, the system itself promises to accept transaction fees -- ostensibly a bounty on verifying the transaction. So BTC are a liability of the Bitcoin system. QED.

Thus, instead of a debt-based economy, it will be a verification based economy.. which is a little funky, and I don't know if there are models for it yet.

/mostly-tongue-in-cheek
Agreed. The sample is very likely tainted by factors that made success much more likely than average if we believe that NFL coaches are both conservative (they forgo punts only when the odds are much in their favor) and rational (they are win maximizing).

Still, there is probably a case to be made that coaches should be a bit more aggressive, but that edge could be small enough that other factors (like perceived incompetence) dominate it.
There's only been one rational post on Bitcoin in the last fortnight:

http://blog.samaltman.com/thoughts-on-bitcoin
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Also hindsight is a wonderful thing
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoins_are_worthless_beca...
>The structure of the payment system, not bitcoins, is actually what makes the bitcoin project so successful.

Isn't this statement just as valid when applied to USD?
I've worked with good code and bad code. Where there was good code, programmer turnover was low and the original programmers were still around.

Where there was bad code, turnover was high and the original coders were long gone, the impression I often got was they'd coded themselves into a corner and it was too much for them.

I honestly think places with bad code just have to keep burning out more and more programmers until someone good enough to dig them out of the hole comes along.

The most successful company had the worst code written by incredibly incompetent programmers who didn't even know basic things. One of their products the programmer was so clueless he'd created a new project and DLL for every single class. Every single class. Still made millions.

There are very few coders who can write and design a large product from scratch. Hence far more bad code than good. I think that's the more likely explanation.
>> knowing and understanding concepts is more difficult than learning the lingo.

I don't believe knowing and understand goes hand in hand.

Computer Science have tons of vocab. If you get rid of all of them then you mind as well spend the whole day doing nothing but describing all the absract concepts.

The reason why we invent vocabulary is so we can ignore the lower nitty gritty details and talk on a higher level and focus on the problems we're trying to solve. I don't need to spend more than sentence or so to describe a singleton. I can just say hey I'm thinking that we should implementing a singleton because it's resource intensive.

Instead hey, let's ensure that there is only one instance of this class because we don't need more than one instance. Even in that sentence, Instance is also a vocab of CS.

>> to believe that a degree is the silver bullet of ignorance that you're suggesting.

I'm not suggesting that this is the silver bullet. But this is an indication that a person have some competent to at least get a degree.
>Notch is a very bad programmer

If his goal is to create code that other programs will love to read, then maybe he is terrible.

If his goal is to create software that millions of people will enjoy, then he is amazing.

My guess is that he would describe his goal as the latter. Maybe his goal is different from yours.
To follow the logic of this article, it could just as easily be titled "the fair price of gold is zero."

Gold billion has no value as a monetary instrument. But obviously it, like Bitcoin, has value as a unit of account because it is scarce.
Anybody know if screencasting works with a Galaxy Nexus? I am not seeing the icon in Dev Tools and I can't find a list of supported devices.
I'd love them to do a Mono / .NET IDE so that I wouldn't have to use Xamarin Studio on Linux / Mac anymore. Actually, I'm going to see if I can go put this on a wish list somewhere...
The choice to go for a 4th down conversion is more likely than not primarily decided by the current score and time left in the game. However, the success of a 4th down conversion probably isn't heavily influenced by those factors (other than perhaps player fatigue), which would suggest that coaches are indeed too conservative.
From all of their marketing material it appears that they're based out of Poland. I wonder if setting your kickstarter location to SF is the cool thing to do.
This does not take into account an important factor that is somewhat intangible, but real to the psychology of the game: point swings. If you go for it on 4th and 1 at your own 1 and lose you are definitely down 3 points and probably 7. This puts pressure on your offense--which just failed on a 4th and 1--to somehow make it all the way down the field next time. That can be demoralizing for that offense, paralyzing in fact. That is much harder to model, but an important part of a correct model, I believe.
Are we talking cash to bitcoin or bitcoin to cash? I haven't done cash to Bitcoin but the bitcoin to bank deposit was done instantly.
Poverty or no poverty, blue sky research is also necessary for an ancient civilization with over 1 billion people. They can't expect to depend on the rest of the world for all their technological needs.

Again the material resources for poverty reduction exists and I don't think those resources required for space exploration don't diminish them.

Financial or monetary allocation isn't quite the same as material resource allocation. In most of the world material resources are deployed by financial resources and the allocation of these is wholly arbitrary. Such as in America where trillions have allocated for the payment of odious and criminal bank debts and war in Afghanistan and Iraq, when health and housing provision is woefully inadequate.

Do homeless people in America have good access to clean water, electricity and antibiotics?

How is that different from India?
This is a framework for steganographic schemes, not a specific steganographic scheme. The specific ones thrown in are just for demonstration purposes. The versatility of this approach is a major step forward in defeating statistical detection schemes. You of course don't know this, because you haven't read through the page and figured out what the code does.
Here, look at the left frame at about 3:30. It looks like RCS maneuvers, some guy on reddit claims he saw a relight from his backyard but its not visible in the official video.

http://youtu.be/cXEJLhAh-Kg?t=3m15s
SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite
While we are at it, if a site needs tweaking of noScript settings for displaying text...
Driver who wore Google Glass pleads not guilty to 2 violations
Possibly just insuring it lands in designated area, so it does not land on anything important and they do not have to search for it.
> That's a market signal that this $40,000-per-year process that the US calls "education" has lost meaning and value.

It's not that it's lost meaning, the meaning has just changed drastically. Imagine that you're deciding between two candidates for a job opening. As you're preparing for the interview, the reception mentions that the first candidate isn't moving and doesn't seem to have a pulse. Are you going to interview both candidates or are you just going to hire the guy who can fog a mirror?

That's what the modern college degree represents. It's no longer a guarantee of lifetime employment. Instead, it's now the bare minimum qualifier for even being considered for employment. A degree tells future employers that you won't soil yourself at work more than once a month. It's not a glowing recommendation, but it's better than the guy with the high school diploma who will soil himself weekly.

Of course, you can point to great counter example from the titans of industry who don't have college degrees. On the other hand, we've had a vice president who didn't have a pulse. However, they're both statistical anomalies and you're far better off hiring someone with a pulse.

For the record, I'm not saying that this is a good system. Rather, that's just the way I've observed it from watching my wife. She's been searching for work for two years. She's had fast food restaurants request her college transcript as part of the hiring process. Even below minimum wage baby-sitting gigs have fallen through because she doesn't have a bachelor's degree. The simple fact is that there's enough desperate people with degrees that there's not to require one.
I wouldn't ever use this without an enterprise (self hosted) option, it involves giving a third party my security credentials.
So what can you make out of your bitcoins when you melt them down? The argument of the post is that gold-as-money is worth more than gold-as-commodity, and, if gold doesn't have an issuer, its value falls to that of the physical commodity. Because bitcoin, unlike gold, has no use except as a medium of exchange, if a bitcoin's value fell in the same way in the absence of an issuer, unlike gold, bitcoin's value would fall to zero.
Seems all currency is a ponzi scheme. Even gold is valuable only due to scarcity and peoples desire to have it. It's been currency for thousands of years and only recently has it been used in industry. That said, I keep expecting this bitcoin bubble to burst and it keeps going up. Could it stabilize as a true global currency, I doubt it, but maybe.
6.4->6.5 is a minor update. yum update, reboot that is all. Just works. Done it, thanks to ansible, to 24 machines today in about 30 minutes after I QA'ed the packages on my staging machine, DO droplet and laptop.

Between 6.x and 7.0 is another story and I wouldn't do this with any distro. Risk is too high. Just build new kit, test it then migrate services and data over piecemeal.

Debian screwing up dovecot configuration terribly between 6 and 7 is a fine example of why you shouldn't do this.

I've managed about 60 CentOS/RHEL machines, 30+ Debian machines, 20 FreeBSD machines and 200 Solaris machines and I've never done a major release in place upgrade.
The picture says "intra.prezzi.com is out of scope". Because yeah, real attackers would definitely not go looking for a back door instead.
They should try using live mice with little acetaminophen candy necklaces.
Passion is abstract and it's harder to show.

The degree is the best effort so far in our society that shows that someone is competance in their field.
Yes, because buying merch and donations are one-time deals. No one is buying the same shirt from their favorite band every month but they are sure listening to their music every month. And if the the lionshare of my own subscription is going to Lady Gaga just because she released a new album...well that makes no sense in any business.
I did this a long time ago, so I don't remember exactly. Typically I would get my nap in on time, but sometimes wouldn't be able to fall asleep for some reason or another.

I think going to sleep 20 minutes late wouldn't be that big of a deal... 1 hour late would probably mess things up considerably.
Oops - that testnet link shouldn't be using SSL. Instead of serving he testnet version, it goes to the default ssl server which is the regular version...

I can't edit the comment now, but here's the fixed link: http://testnet.bitrated.com/
what about windows 8.1? what about windows vista as a point of comparison? what about how its nearly just windows 7 with extra stuff?

new machines are being churned out with windows 8 preloaded. it seems like its just a matter of time before it, or its progeny become accepted as 'the standard'... until mac or *nix seriously up their game (still we are saying this?) i don't see any alternatives - unless MS ship Windows 9 that does for 8 what 7 did for Vista.
Ideally both, but if I had to sacrifice code quality for a successful product I would sort in exponential time if it meant getting a working product out the door faster. It doesn't need to be good, just good enough. (IMO obviously)
This should be up-voted some more so people can see the resolution. I'm glad you guys decided to reward the bug hunter for his time as well as provide a response.
Why would you ever go for it on 4th and 1 inside your own 10 yard line? You would put yourself at a severe disadvantage if you failed.

Since the data from this is from previous plays in the last 10 or so seasons it is flawed. There probably isn't very little data of a team going for 4th and 1 and that deep in their own territory. The only time this has probably happened is in extraordinary circumstances - specifically in a game-winning drive scenario with time expiring, where the defense is in 'prevent'. In these cases it is highly successful in that situation but you don't have the time to get the score.
Atlassian.net experiencing issues
It appears that atlassian.net is experiencing some sort of outage, we cant hit our subdomain, or the primary domain. Also, isitdownrightnow.com shows it down.
I have to wonder if the plan with Win8 all along was to give the OEMs a savage beating before MS steps into the market to compete with them directly.
"These posts are entirely the result of authors who didn't buy bitcoins when they were cheap."

That's nonsense. The post is a result of applying a particular economic theory of how money works to something that is apparently trying to be a form of money. This theory of money might be wrong in general, or it might for some reason not apply to bitcoin specifically. But to dismiss it simply as "bias" is willed stupidity - it is a way of avoiding addressing the actual arguments put forward in the post.

(The specific theory being drawn on in that post is called Modern Monetary Theory; it isn't generally accepted by mainstream economists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory )
This was discussed some in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728821

I've thought about it some since then and I'm also not convinced that expected points is a good metric. That will maximize the expected point differential per season but I am not convinced (although I could be wrong... I haven't put pencil to paper to make my thoughts rigorous) that there are enough possessions in the game on average to make this metric useful even in the first half.
I can say the savings would probably be greater than the 50 bytes he saved on the domain name. Compressing is not magical, if you compress class names you're still storing at least one instance of each name plus overhead.
There was a CIA contractor who outright defrauded them claiming that he had tools which were detecting steganographic messages used by terrorists on the internet. He didn't get prosecuted because they were too embarrassed to admit that they'd been completely bamboozled.