skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, sorry.

the others were Show HNs, which cant contain both a link and some text. which should make a stronger point for not being penalized and having 10 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512834

but there are others that are not github submissions which reached more points and comments than i have seen for many front page posts.

if this is, in fact, a velocity algo doing its thing, i would say it needs tuning. i also dont think the fact that low voted submissions get massively upvoted after hitting the front page is meaningful validation of the current algo's effectiveness. personally, i've seen a lot of genuinely interesting articles fall through the cracks of the "New" sieve despite people's obvious interest.
I think litecoin will do better in the long run because of faster transaction times. I can't buy a soda with bitcoin because I would have to stand around for too long.

If people opt to pay with a digital currency, it will be LTC.
> Extremely high degree of privacy (you can put 50.000.000 USD worth of USD in a USB stick and pass through 7 airports, or print them in an A4 page encrypted with GPG, and no one will know).

Even better, you can keep those millions in your head, using a deterministic wallet (google "brainwallet").

In short, you keep a password in your head, and when you are ready to spend, all you need is access to an Internet-connected device - using that password you can reconstruct your private keys and import them into a bitcoin client.
I am not remotely qualified to judge this, alas. Can someone please indicate how valid this is?
Gravity Movie experience in WebGL
Not in certain container types such as a full VM.
What have you tried? Couldn't a browser extension just drop any requests for domains owned by Google? I think the problem you're trying to describe is that of their services being too good to give up.
To be clear, that ` character is called "syntax-quote" (in Clojure; "quasi-quote" elsewhere) and it's the "templating" part. It's both possible and common to use macros without syntax-quote and vice versa.

In fact, common practice in Clojure is to define a your macros in terms of a backing function:

(defn foo-fn [body]
(fancy stuff here that probably uses syntax-quote somewhere))

(defmacro foo [& body]
(foo-fn body))

Clojure's style of macro system is known as a "procedural" macro system because the macros can be any arbitrary procedures which returns code as data. There are other types of macro systems, like Scheme's syntax-rules, which are more directly embrace the fact that most macros are tree rewrites.
Quit acting like GNUStep doesn't exist.
Remarkably petty FUD.
Seriously....reach out to everyone, including me. Not sure in which part of the US you're located, but I seem to know people in lots of places. Let us help, you may end up helping us right back one day.
i don't think many people expect to use plastic money forever -- they are already comfortable buying things by scanning an iPhone. And I don't think the lack of government endorsement is so much the issue with Bitcoin either, though it certainly will be if things don't go smoothly.

i think it really comes down to the crazy hyper-distorted-redistribution-of-wealth-dispersement/adoption scheme (early adopters have wild fortunes for pennies compared to those spending thousands today), liquidity issues, extreme market volatility, not a ton of evidence of use in transactions aside from being siphoned immediately back to traders via 3rd party processors

describing its problems in a way that can be summarized as "its so revolutionary its blowin minds too quickly and needs time to settle in" is really sugarcoating it to an extreme degree
"The representative of the United States said her country had long championed the right to privacy and to freedom of expression as pillars of democracy and reaffirmed the relevant human rights instruments, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Privacy and freedom of expression should be promoted online and offline, she said, adding that seeking, receiving and imparting information were linked to the right to privacy. Human rights activists used online tools to promote human rights and should therefore be able to use them freely."

Note also the: "Human rights activists used online tools to promote human rights and should therefore be able to use them freely"

So touching.. it almost make me cry
Are there any phones that do not require proprietary drivers? I am not aware of any.
You definitely can - it's contracts for performing a service, and it doesn't matter if the end result is some copyrightable artifact like a poem, an uncopyrightable artifact like a finding of fact (x % of surveyed people liked your product) or no artifacts at all, as for many services.
If I lost 700,000$ of anything, I'm fairly certain I would quit work and devote myself to finding them. I mean, even if I spent a year doing it, that's a larger rate of potential return than anything I'll see in my lifetime.
Your name sounded very familiar, finally realized from where after reading the recent opendata email! Great job on this and the OpenDataUW API stuff. I am also admiring the PHP Scraper Class as I was planning on writing something similar.
An interesting con to this LED lighting movement is that I have heard from a few CDOT engineers that the new LED lights do not put out enough heat to melt through snow that accumulates during storms and this has caused issues for traffic lighting. This is all second hand, of course.
I made a killing on Bitcoin and I'm going to fuck your wife, then buy her some Louboutins.
Does this mean it's a bug in Darwin?
OpenRefine -  free, open source, powerful tool for working with messy data
I'm looking at it on an iPad and the text is quite difficult to read.

Symmetry is visually pleasing. The three blocks in the project section are all different heights and each has a different sized image which is awkward to look at.

When building ux and ui ask yourself does the /animation|feature|interface/ actually make the experience better than not having it. Does the animation pulling in the projects or loading the blog posts or changing the background color actually improve the users experience?

I think you are on the right path and will have lots of opportunities to build cool things.
Wow. I haven't seen one news item or mention of anyone using litecoin, except comments like this that mention the existence of litecoin when folks discuss bitcoin.

As always, though, market cap isn't really the current share price times number number of shares. It is the accumulated sum of all the buy offers over the top N share bids (N = number of shares in existence), not all of which are max price.
Thanks Rohit!
The way I see it, the technical aspect of Bitcoin is fascinating; the economic aspect, less so.
That's great and cool stuff.
Classic Rails.
> I recommend heavy use of a notebook to keep track of what you're doing, and so that you can refer to it the next day.

I've been using basket [1] for almost a decade to overcome cannabis-related memory-loss and organization issues. Even in it's semi-broken Qt4 version, it's still one of the three killer apps for the KDE desktop (clementine and krita being the others). I'd love to find a replacement, but nothing really comes close.

[1] http://basket.kde.org
Just to clarify, the transactions are actually instant in Bitcoin. What takes ~10min are the confirmations, which like you said, take time for a reason: security.

Litecoin adds nothing to the table.
The common advice for this and many similar issues with hn is to email pg and ask him to delete your account, unban you, or give you a pony. Whether you consider this an acceptable solution is another question.
So you're saying Apple's decision to put an older generation screen on the iPad Mini is justifiable because they still manage to sell many more than competitors who have gone out of their way to put in better hardware into their own products?

And you're saying this as an Apple customer?
Here's What a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like
Perhaps because it's just not a widely asked for feature. You used to have to email pg if you forgot your password and needed it reset. Are there a large number of people all the sudden clamoring to delete their accounts?
It doesn't have faster transaction times, only confirmations. Do you even know why confirmations take time? Security.

Anyone who understands this new technology knows that Litecoin doesn't have any significant improvements over Bitcoin.

Besides, you wouldn't wait 10 minutes, but you would wait 2.5 in average? I know I wouldn't, nobody would. That's what 0 confirmation trades are for, and you can do that with Bitcoin just fine.

If you want to gamble you should as well put money on Tenebrix, Infinitecoin, and Vaginacoin. I've heard they are great.
Heat coils are very simple, as are thermostats. They could be added very easily to run when it's cold enough out that it would be helpful.
If you are in a bigger city, I recommend in-person localbitcoins.com exchanges using cash. It's quicker, and much more anonymous.
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Is the market price of houses $100 million though? No? That's what I thought.
Texas Hacker Debunks Link Between Bitcoin Founder and Online Drug Market
Bitcoin may have already failed as a currency. However
I think it has spectacularly succeeded as a store of value - an alternative to gold, if you will. It has all the benefits of gold, none of its problems (bulk), and some brilliant advantages: ease of handling/transportation/transferring (maybe transferring it is too easy - make an unlucky typo and your savings are most probably lost for good - but that's a side effect of its efficiency).

FWIW, unless governments start to intervene by outright banning it, I suspect Bitcoin will first become the ultimate storage of value, then its price will become less volatile and with time stable enough to start using it as a currency.
I believe that's called "dollar cost averaging". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
The Nexus lines are not the only Android devices out there. Google has a huge interest in the rest of the Android lines and wouldn't want to piss off OEMs by including an app that would void their warranties.

I definitely agree with what that one Reddit comment says - if you can't sideload it then you shouldn't flash your ROM.
I guess what I was suggesting is "given enough eyeballs, all spam and poor quality content is shallow"

There is definitely a benefit in using the community to identify valuable subsets and then individually putting your energy towards building discovery/search products around that subset.
Cicada 3301 is fascinating. Taken at face value (and that's a huge assumption to make) it appears to be a self-styled
"cypherpunk freemasonry" of sorts. Care to cite or summarize the evidence and case for a satoshi/cicada link (other than "hey wouldn't that be so awesome if...")?
It seems the media is just starting to notice the non-bitcoin crypto currencies:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/litecoin-heres-everything-know...

Although, to be fair, Wired noticed it back in June:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/16/litecoin

Litecoin is still minor news, but with more exchanges starting to support it [1], it might actually amount to something.

As for my own bias: I own a very trivial number of litecoins and bitcoins (most from a small amount of mining), so I wouldn't mind these increasing even more. That said, I am still skeptical, but I am enjoying watching this all play out.

[1] https://www.okpay.com/en/company/news/okpay-now-supports-lit...

Edit: And yes, agreed on your mark cap point. Still a useful benchmark, but not without some caveats.
The bitcoin price won't stabilize until it's operation literally dictates demand.

Once for all practical purposes everyday life is handled in satoshis, how does an economy expand?
Compass 1.0.0 and Versioning Changes
A few years ago, I went through at least two different sets of faulty OCZ RAM before exchanging for the vastly superior Corsair memory.

Good riddance.
Plus miners get them transaction fees.
We use this for the sync function interpreter in Sync Gateway. Robert has been very helpful and responsive with pull requests etc. thanks!

Edit to add link to example code using Otto https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway/blob/master/src/gi...
Check out http://ledsmagazine.com/features/2/5/8
It says that:

The energy consumed by a 100-watt GLS incandescent bulb produces around 12% heat, 83% IR and only 5% visible light. In contrast, a typical LED might produce 15% visible light and 85% heat.

You can't always put a LED light in a enclosed fixture, as it might even overheat. It needs some air flow to cool it's heat sinks.
I call BS on this:

"But in most cities around the country, the local electric distribution company provides overhead street lighting as a basic service at a flat monthly rate per light, which includes the light itself, maintenance, and electricity. Therein lies the rub—regulated utilities often have little incentive to invest in more efficient streetlights, which offer a reliable, consistent, and often lucrative revenue stream that comes at a time of day (or night) when demand is low."

If their getting a fixed rate, LED's would be quite profitable for them due to lower servicing costs, and lower power consumption - meaning for that fixed rate, they take in more income.

Beyond that, in many cities - running and maintaining the streetlights is included in the franchise rights to sell power in a given city - meaning to sell power, the power company had to install and pays for the lights.
Comments like this make it seem like you have a personal agenda behind all that math.
Uh wait, FB lets you actually delete your stuff? Since when? From what i understand, the best they do is make it invisible to u and to ppl u know.
How very patronizing of you.

In the entire category of white-collar jobs the idea of requiring labor laws is ludicrous.
I haven't gotten around to optimizing for tablets yet... Desktop and Mobile were my highest priorities. But thanks for the advice!
Besides the Milgram experiment, Soloman Asch's conformity experiments, Zombardo's Stanford Prison study, the innocent bystander and the fundamental attribution error should all be required for politicians writing laws, police enforcing them, prosecutors bringing charges against people using them and judges meting out the final judgement. Possibly even jurors should be required to learn about those basic psychological principles before sitting in on a trial. You could cover all of them for the jurors in 2 days I reckon.
The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu
Hi,

Yes - but why don't you think what you said through a bit...

I flash my motherboard with a custom BIOS image I've hex-edited together.

Now, it won't boot correctly.

Yes, it's reversible - I can probably figure out a way to flash the original image back on.

However, the motherboard manufacturer is hardly going to tolerate me taking it back going, you need to fix this. That's hardly reasonable.

They're going to be...err...you did something stupid and unsupported. You fix it. They might give me advice, but the onus is certainly not on them.

Or say I flash my car's ECU to give me another 5 HP of output. Then my car stops starting up reliably. I can't exactly take it back to Honda and say, fix it. They'll be like, we sold you a working car - you did something out of spec, and overrode the ECU software - we aren't fixing it.

Yes, it's reversible - I can flash the right ECU image back on and it will start up correctly - but the onus isn't on them to hand hold me through that process.

Cheers,
Victor
I can get a good USB2 enclosure for $10-15. My 6.5 year old laptop hard drive is 120GB (and couldn't read/write data via SATA much faster than it can via USB2 anyway).

A 128GB flash drive costs around 5 times as much as that enclosure. Yes, it's better, but it's quite more expensive. A more comparably priced 32GB flash drive stores several times less data (which might matter to you) and may have write speed that can't even saturate USB2 (ditto; I installed Fedora on a 16GB flash drive that has max 3MB/s write speed and it takes amusingly long to install updates, though its read speed is decent and doesn't suffer seek time).

Flash drives will get cheaper, but the meaning of "5 years ago" will change just as quickly (given current trends).
You could always permanently delete your account on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/help/www/224562897555674
My understanding was that despite "permanently deleting" if you go back and sign up it'll all magically restore.
Thank you for being one of the few gophers that put newlines between standard, third party, and local imports. I wish gofmt forced that standard on people.
Why would these bitcoins be better? What would they be protecting you from?
How to become a regular expression wizard:

1. Write a bunch of regular expressions.

2. Fix them when they break.

Anybody can do this, however junior they may be. (And yes, it does grant you a superpower.)
Hate sites which start playing audio without prompting.
TBH, even though these details aren't used to prosecute, I wouldn't be surprised if they are used to intimidate during an interrogation in an effect to force cooperation via a plea bargain. I reckon its very valuable info when trying to get people to rat each other out (or fabricate information about each other).

The entire interrogation process AFAICT is infected by detectives and other LEOs committing the fundamental attribution error [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
They cover that in a later paragraph: changing that means they go back to the community and renegotiate that flat rate, eating up any cost savings that the utility would turn into profit.
No, that's only if you "delete" your account through the settings menu. If you fill out the form in the link it's permanent.
That's a terrible analogy.

Firstly, a PC != mobile phone.

This isn't a bloody OpenMoko phone - this is a working consumer device that's sold to you as a "dumb" device. It's like buying a television or DVD player, flashing some weird third-party firmware, then taking it back and saying, gee, it just stopped working...

Or flashing your car's ECU chip.

The manufacturer is certainly not expected to fix your mistake. They might for goodwill, but they have no obligation to.

Yes, there is certainly a danger in the proverbial grandma flashing her phone (why do we always pick on grandma's? I mean, geez, Hopper Grace was a grandma wasn't she? Lol).

I've seen countless phones soft-bricked by bad flashes. It's like upgrading your BIOS - if you get unlucky, or the power goes, you're SOL.

Google's just being responsible. The whole point of Android is that you can sideload ADB's easily.

Think of it as a entry test - if you can't load a non-PlayStore ADB onto your handset, you have absolutely no business installing a custom ROM.

Put it this way - you ask me how to flash your car's ECU.

I say, well, firstly, you need to pop open the bonnet and read me some numbers. And then you said to me, "Gee, how do I do that? I've never popped a bonnet open".

My next thought would probably be, "Err, are you really sure you want to flash your car's ECU?".

Cheers,
Victor
Vertical Percentages in CSS
That punchline would make no sense. The client would reply "to the market of two buyers".
Yes, that I can live with. If the tech were implemented within a more sane economic system I would be very intrigued indeed, but I think it would bore the open-source world.

I'm slowly beginning to believe that this is part of a movement where open-source is becoming like.... well like the software equivalent of Videodrome snuff films or something. Closed source & corporate is just too "traditional", even though it's likely a more solid A-to-B solution could be created with expert help. Especially since Bitcoin has tech allure (layman can't use it) without being prohibitively difficult (you don't actually have to know how to code), it's the perfect balance of intrigue versus commitment with a bit of an ego boost on the way.
No, i think what he is pointing at is that privacy is more than just "dont wire tap my calls", "dont read my private message". He says that privacy is much broader than that. I dont want websites tracking what i do. I dont want google saving my search history. Even though i (and many others) put some stuff public (or viewable to friends of friends etc), I dont want anyone using all my public information to stalk me and main a profile of me etc. The list can go on and on. His point is that the law shouldn't extend to things explicitly labelled as "private" or "password-protected". It extends to the use of my public info. And thus we need more work here to come to a consensus what is acceptable and what is not.
I manage to use the Nexus 7 (2013) with one hand. I had a Nexus 10 before and it was barely used. The Nexus 7 gets used for hours almost every day.
Hockney did some really interesting photo collages in the 80s or 90s. Lots of photos from different angles put together.
But the cost of installing Java is spread across several apps. So the cost is negligible over time.

It is like saying, if I build a web-app, the user needs to first install the browser. True, but once installed, other web-apps have a zero cost of installation.
They wouldn't need to start their own chain. The treasury can simply declare that they will always buy Bitcoins at $1.
No, you can just sideload the ADB from outside the Android Market.

That's a pretty basic task for any Android user. In fact, if you can't do that, then you probably have no business whatsoever installing a customer ROM.

Think of it as a basic intelligence test - you want to change your car's air filter - first step is to pop open the bonnet. If you can't do that, then you probably want to seriously consider, gee, should I just get a mechanic to do this?
The FDA and Personalized Genetic Testing
> The answer is pretty simple: It depends. What's your workload? There's no general answer.

Which is, ironically, an argument for microkernels. In some microkernel designs you could, in principle, allow for applications to provide their own disk and memory managers.
also:

http://www.rexv.org

http://www.debuggex.com

http://refiddle.com
But should they be?

Say there's a Toro site for add-ins (flashing lights or whatever, I have no idea how you'd mod a mower...lol).

And some of those add-ins will void your mower, and potentially break your machine. It's certainly within their prerogative to say "We won't host them. But you can just go to <some website> and get it from them instead". In fact, doesn't Google make a search engine? Surely, it's not hard to just Google for Cyanogenmod and find their hompage? In fact, if you can't do that, then probably shouldn't be flashing a ROM...
> Why can't we focus this effort on fixing C, or providing a better alternative?

asm.js is a way of fixing C so that it's safe.
It's not that the UN as a whole is a bad thing. Its the perfect place for countries to sit and talk. And they do tons for the world. But the view that it is some sort of superior body that governs all the countries is rather... naive. Even the security council for that matter, has had a terrible record track. And i need not remind the absurdity of the veto rule...
I agree that overselling the security of any product is bad - it should generally be considered defective to begin with. I can't even find enough information about Safeplug to begin analyzing their security as they don't provide any link to the source code, build process or any documentation. There's no way I could recommend this to anybody.

Also, on TLS, you will not be perfectly secure, and I think it's dangerous to consider yourself secure against a state-sponsored actor by using it. TLS has quite a large surface area for attack in its current form - The PKI. If you're going to take paranoid precautions, it's probably best to assume one or more CAs are rogue/compromised already (or that they could become so at any time).