skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be pretty easy for man to beat such a simple algo.
> Is a Daily Telegraph writer, don't expect scientific literacy.

This is high-school math.
You're forgetting Drupal.
It also conflicts with the other statement: While we track Santa around the world, NORAD only provides escorts while he is in North American aerospace. Santa wouldn't have to worry about those zones over the USA and Canada.
I think we should also be vaccinating males for HPV, they spread it, and it also causes cancer in men (though it is less likely) such as penile and anal cancer.

Right now we are only vaccinating women.
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How? Assume it's binary buy up to x bit-coin's at 835 and sell all of them at 875 does not leave a lot of room for manipulation.
Why use the dock at all?

Just use the equivalent to Alfred on Linux and you never need the dock ever again. I wish I could disable it entirely on OS X.
I think that subjects like math are better modeled as graphs of prerequisites rather than "levels". There are so many discrete areas that you can go into without learning about others, it makes very little sense to categorize math the way we do before college. Even topics like "geometry" or "calculus" are too broad.
That's the thing, though. They have many Chernobyls worth of effect over the long term, and will continue to do so. Meanwhile, Chernobyl helped nuclear facilities become far safer.
Todays (6/12) somewhat sluggish decline[1] is perhaps largely US driven, beginning at around 8AM EST (1PM UTC). Yesterdays crash was sharp, surrounding the Chinese announcement, and was at around 4 PM China time[2] but the price soon bounced back.

Overall not very interesting.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/btcnCNY#rg1zczsg2013-12-06ze...

[2] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/btcnCNY#rg1zczsg2013-12-05ze...
Mandela was a terrorist. You're just having cognitive dissonance because you agree with him (as all right-thinking people should have.)

To the extent that "terrorist" has any meaning, it is when a less powerful actor attempts to advance an agenda through creating an unmanageable situation for a more powerful institution by causing an increased sense of risk within individuals who are part of the support structure of that institution, thereby making it too expensive for the institution to continue preventing that agenda from being advanced.

Where conventional war wins by killing enough people on the other side that they can't stop you from doing what you want, instead terrorism makes people so expensive (in lost government support from a targeted public, increased salaries and heightened security, and/or lost inflows of money from targeted clients and customers) that allowing the terrorist agenda to advance turns out to be cheaper for the institution being attacked than continuing to fight.

That's what the ANC did.
C'mon that's just silly. The "massive" part of an MMO is kind of an important attribute and ~20 players is about as non-massive as you can get. Quake in 1996 supported 16 players and there were leaderboards and ladders. It's not an MMO and neither is COD.
> Only sick people are disease vectors.

That is not true for the casual meaning of "sick"; Typhoid Mary is the classic example of an asymptomatic carrier.

Of course she is also an example of how responsibility can be traced even when asymptomatic carriers are involved, and an example of how negligence and refusal to take measures to prevent the spread of disease is antisocial behavior that can (or even must) be dealt with harshly.
The non incompatible transactions will be present in both forks, and they will get validated and fixed whatever fork wins. This includes most of the transactions that are not related to the double spending.

In the case of a double spending, each transaction can live in only one of the forks, and the decedents [1] transactions can be validated only in the same fork. When a fork wins, all the transactions that are incompatible can’t be added and they disappear.

[1] Sopuse that X sends the same bitcoins to A and B. Then A send these bitcoins to A1, that sends these bitcoins to A2. During the same time B send these bitcoins to B1, that sends these bitcoins to B2. Then you have two forks, one with the A, A1 and A2 transactions and another with the B, B1 and B2 transactions. Only these transactions have problems and one half of them will disappear, all the other transactions will apear in both forks.
I think this is a fallacy. Easy deployment has nothing to do with why PHP is still this popular; I think it has a lot more to do with PHP being beginner-friendly, in that when things break, they always semi-work as opposed to leaving the wannabe developer completely lost.

For the sake of comparing, here's how I make a throwaway app super quickly in Ruby, almost equivalently to a PHP deploy:

$ ssh server
$ kenji init project # [1]
$ cd project
$ tmux # launch a background session, edit some code
$ bundle exec rackup # in a pane next to my code

Boom, brand new web-app is running on my server in less than a minute's work.

[1]: This is a Ruby web-app microframework. https://github.com/kballenegger/kenji
Manslaughter and murder have separate meanings. Especially in a legal sense.
I think that a pension is a promise to the employee that should be held.

I also think it was silly to offer pensions in the first place since it is not possible to predict the future. People working for cities and other organizations offering pensions should be very concerned by recent events.
There's even a web service for easy multisig: https://www.bitrated.com/
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Can you say what effect you want comparison with? For example, acid rain has created huge problems in watersheds far away from the original power plants.
Creativity isn't the creation of a product. It does not imply selflessness. It isn't de facto laudable, and "creative" need not even be a compliment. That's not the argument.

Instead - just look at what you need to justify in order to "support" me (what does this MEAN?)! Why, beyond mere curiosity, do you feel more need to "question" somebody for doing what they want when it is outside of the status quo? Why does this become an issue of approval?

EDIT: To clear up any miscommunication - I am talking about friends/acquaintances getting uncomfortable/upset about my spending my time, money, and life the way I want to simply because it does not conform to the status quo. I am not talking about soliciting anybody (that would be weird).

EDIT 2: Although the fact that multiple commenters assumed that someone else would have to be bankrolling me to do this shows how deep the "always have a job and spend what you earn" conditioning/lifestyle goes.
Ah, well that's good then.
Btw, Ripple is basically a two-phase commit protocol. The problem is trust - ripple has basically decided to trust a centralized list of nodes, whereas bitcoin does not require this trust.
Chernobyl is estimated to have a combined death toll of somewhat less than a thousand people over their lifetimes.

Coal power plants kill ten times as many people every year when functioning as designed.
Why you should attend conferences
"I think it's unacceptable to compromise herd immunity because of selfish non-scientific beliefs that verge on ideology at this point."

I don't understand this point of view. We literally live in a country where our government uses vaccinations as part of secret assassination campaigns. Reluctance to get vaccinated doesn't necessarily mean ignorance about science.
I think kreek may be referring to the practice of administering several vaccines at once.

If one fears additives, preservatives, or contamination then combined vaccines may be safer by potentially reducing the number of injections, and possibly the volume of preservatives.
Premature optimization or prudent planning?
I suspect it's the opposite. The current trend was to play another game (Hearthstone in particular) and in some cases the streamer would actually keep playing Hearthstone during champ select/the beginning of the game - a really bad message to be sending your customers (especially with free-to-play games where someone spending money with a competitor means disposable income they can't spend on you).

People who read the news stories might think it sounds controlling (but the number of people who read the story and get notably upset is very small compared to the people watching these streams).

Seems like a calculated and rational choice by Riot.
Really Google? Why can't I move to a new country and use my play account?
This is strange! I can not move to a new country and use my gmail address for all my Google services?

After a number of attempts getting help to change my address to a new country by talking to a number Google support staff I was told that it is IMPOSSIBLE for someone to change the address of a Google play account when moving to a new country. I moved from Canada to USA and want to use my existing gmail and google play account in my new country. Seems like a simple solutions. I updated my iTunes country by a simple selection and I can use my device/software without problem.

Google play (wallet) does not allow this. Not at all! According to Google it is impossible. The only solution is to create a new account, hence loosing all history, having to use multiple accounts for different purposes, i.e. creating a mess in the long run. What about if I decide to move to yet another country...

Anyone else having this issue?
Holy crap you even italicized the word "do" in that obnoxious phrase...
Well, food contamination is an issue with even the nominal food supply, so one must be very careful. The culture is more fluid with the truth then some other places. Lots of vegetable markets, though, so you could buy and prepare your own food.
> Early in the section I mentioned that there is a natural way of reducing the variance in time required to validate a block of transactions. If that variance is reduced too much, then it creates an interesting attack possibility...

You've described a 51% attack. The security model of bitcoin assumes these are economically infeasible to mount.

> Suppose Bitcoin mining software always explored nonces starting with x = 0, then x = 1, x = 2,\ldots. If this is done by all (or even just a substantial fraction) of Bitcoin miners then it creates a vulnerability. Namely, it’s possible for someone to improve their odds of solving the proof-of-work merely by starting with some other (much larger) nonce...

No, this does not improve their odds. No miners are scanning the same ranges, because the block header is different for each miner (due to different coinbase transactions and timestamps, if for no other reason).
Thiomersal (note spelling) is no longer used in vaccines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal and generally hasn't been in infant vaccines for over a decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy
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I knew about the A vs. Α vs. А issue, where visually similar/identical characters map to different domain names. But I didn't know IDNs also could map visually different characters to the same domain names. I would've guessed that full-width characters would be punycoded as well, rather than treated as their ASCII equivalents. Is this done with any other characters?
As far as I understand, public unrest is one of the greatest fears of Chinese leadership, hence tight control and censorship. That may speak volumes about the willingness of their public to take control along with protesting (as opposed to the West where protest is seen as a safety valve and therefore encouraged in proscribed forms).
What do you even mean by this? What did the word originally mean?
competition here!(crudzilla.com)
Allow me to inquire with you, then.

The WSJ alleges extralegal abuses. "Mr. Bromwich has rewritten his job description to investigate Apple all over again, not simply monitor if Apple is abiding by the terms of the court judgment while it appeals the case."

Are the allegations a lie? Alternatively, is the extralegal abuse justified somehow and, if so, how?
Found some estimates that appear to be better.

Great smog of 1952 had a measured peak daily average of 1620 ug/m^3 of total suspended matter (TSM) [1].

Reported levels in Shanghai of up to 602.5 ug/m^3 PM2.5 (suspended particles < 2.5 microns).

We can convert from TSM to PM2.5 using ballpark conversion given by:
PM10 = 0.6TSM [1; notes to table 3]
PM2.5 = 0.75PM10 [2].

So according to these rough calculations the great smog of 1952 probably had a PM2.5 of about 700 ug/m^3, quite similar to the current Shanghai smog, and lower than levels regularly reported in other Chinese cities.

Open access sources:
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240556/pdf/ehp1... (Table 3 reports total particulate during the great fog of 1620ug/m^3, and estimates PM10 as 60% of that number = 972)

[2] http://www.epd.gov.hk/epd/english/environmentinhk/air/guide_...
Thimerosal was removed from vaccines a long time ago. Also Andrew Wakefield has been throughly discredited, his paper retracted, and he has also had his medical license revoked.

The Panic Virus is a great book about the autism/vaccine mess.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11625150-the-panic-virus
How can it be the greatest hoodie when it's 100% cotton? Mission Workshop IMHO makes the best hoodies ever. 100% merino wool and they fit really really well.

zipper:
http://missionworkshop.com/products/apparel/merino-wool-zip-...

pullover:
http://missionworkshop.com/products/apparel/merino-wool-pull...
I eventually saw the ad while I was logged in. It appears that ads are only shown for a percentage of page impressions, so even if I purchase all of the available impressions, my ad won't be shown for all pageviews. I suppose this makes sense, I just wish they made it more clear.
How many transactions end up in a block? How big are blocks?
It's the removal of the pilot that is by far the bigger competitive advantage.
> we couldn't really find a nice one on the internet

Really? When I needed one Elfster was pretty easy to find.

Landing page looks nice though.
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Hey, I've been browsing HN for a few years now. When I first found this site I remember feeling super excited. Reading all of the success stories on here made me feel optimistic that maybe I could do the same.

But now I don't feel like that any more. I've ran out of plan B ideas and it's becoming increasing clear where my failures lie. Experience.

To explain, earlier I was thinking to myself, "I could whip up a online store for those [products] and sell them for way more". But then I thought, but where do I keep the stock? I could rent a warehouse but how do I get the money? Won't I need forklifts for a warehouse, etc? Then what about delivering the products? I can't just go to the post office, the products are too big.

This happens a lot with my bigger/more expensive ideas, I have no 'business' friends or family to talk to about how to startup certain ideas and I don't have the money to pay someone to do it for me. So I've been trapped with building less imaginative ideas because they're easier and I know how to do that.

So I'm looking for somewhere or someone I can get advise from. I have my brain and a little money to offer. Thanks.
Make commitments, launder out the money through dividends, renege. (not applicable to cities, etc.)
As many as will fit, and maximum 1MB.
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Few questions...

Does this give YC an ability to set a lower cap because it has reduced the investor upside in a forced conversion?

If I were an entrepreneur, would I continue to raise multiple safe rounds and keep pushing the cap on the safe up? That would make the most financial sense to me as an entrepreneur. I'm not sure investors would want that, but it creates a large incentive for the entrepreneur.

Why is a forced conversion bad? I always thought a timeline was a good incentive to create value for investors, and to optimize around timing your fundraise with your cap amount.

How do you compensate investors for time value money if the deal takes a long time to get to the next round when there is no forced conversion or accrued component?
Thanks! I'm taking an information retrieval course right now and I'm interested in applying what I've learned to a cool pet project. I don't think we ever touched on n-gram models for some reason
I was interested in the "with no code" addendum but couldn't find more details on your page. Mind elaborating on that (and on why you felt it was an important bit to share)?
I had a similar thought. Important events are already ignored or downplayed because they don't "fit the narrative".

Also, different media outlets are fishing for different narratives. I would argue that the balkanization of news exists because we're already looking to apply narratives. It's just that different news outlets have different narratives and people listen to the narratives they think they like.
The fun thing about Bitcoin is the immense latency in moving money (USD) between exchanges, which has at minimum 4 days of transit. This makes just about anything involving multiple exchanges or high frequency (especially arbitrage trading) absolutely impossible to do without a service such as bitinstant, which is currently MIA
Tools to run Cocoa/Objective-C and C code from the command line
Surprising that nobody here acknowledges the black swan nature of nuclear power. The comparative average is precisely not the point.

FWIW I once had dinner with an architect of one of the early nuclear plants. They had been lied to about the prospects of a solution to waste disposal and no longer considered it a sensible approach.
The risks of fast food are a known quantity, and folks eating it as a large component of their diet tend to be folks doing so for financial reasons. Soylent is comparatively expensive.
I wouldn't have considered many actions over the course of years by a well positioned bad actor "one step", but if you would then I grant you that wording - I may have been thinking you meant smaller "steps" than you did. I would be tremendously surprised if we were a single action away (though "single precipitating action", less surprised).

I really don't see how you can assert that the things I listed aren't more likely in an environment where those holding power in secret are extending and exercising that power, than in an environment where they are not, which is what it means to be evidence.
The homoglyph attack is a very old and often abused technique. A related, though not identical one, is bit flipping where a single character is swapped in a domain name and you prey on those who make misspellings. It turns out, however, that it isn't even necessary for someone to make a blatant error like that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbyDSvGasw [DEFCON 21: DNS May Be Hazardous To Your Health]
Manslaughter != murder. They are two separate crimes. Manslaughter is a lesser crime. The difference is that murder requires the intent to kill, while manslaughter requires only that the person acted negligently.
The people receiving food stop working to secure food on their own. They grow entitled, and expect food aid.

It's an observed phenomenon in Africa.
This sounds awesome. As a first time founder who was just about to close a small round on convertible notes, I realized what a pain some of the nuances with convertible debt were. Interest and maturity never really made sense to me from an investor perspective. I love that YC keeps raising the bar and works so hard to simplify life for both founder and angel.
Perhaps this is not so surprising. Prior to IDNs, the DNS also did case folding so "a" and "A" would go to the same place.

One of the particular challenges with IDNs is that there are two versions of the specification, a deprecated 2003 version and the current 2008 version. For a few characters they provide subtly different transforms. The 2008 version also ratchets down on a lot of non-sensical characters — they are no longer eligible in domain names. The remaining permissible set is quite conservative to limit some of the issues seen in the original version.
Didn't Saintvicious say it was an old contract? And they are now allowed to do it? Confirmed on saint's stream.
That's not exactly correct. The FDA creates its own regulations. It doesn't just follow laws passed by Congress.
I encourage you to test this hypothesis. I think you'll find it's incorrect. You can actually fail daily, in the ways you're most deathly afraid of (typically, looking foolish in front of others, facing a setback, or otherwise being knocked down a peg), and you won't die or worse (whatever "worse" is). People have tried this, for example instituting regimens of daily experiences of rejection, and it has only positive benefits.

Even a failed business or poor performance at a job won't kill you. These sound like worthier fears since they're more closely related to putting bread on the table, but typically the worst fears of corporate decision-makers are not that the company will execute poorly -- that usually happens anyway -- but that they will be blamed for it.

If we're going to talk about "failing" in general, I say fail as often as possible, even if this means the failures must be small.
some things happens with Adobe, or iTunes, apparently
Some of these attacks, such as the exe.doc one, are the fault of the use of in-band signaling by Windows to indicate that a file is executable. You can't do that on OSX or Linux, where attributes determine execute capability.

The equivalent domain name issues are a lot tougher, and are going to require a character lookalike table or some other system of rules to warn the user.
WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS!
No. You failed to recognize two key points:

1) Savings erodes investment. Savings is the non-productive hoarding of cash. Investment is when one takes cash and deploys it in a way that creates value. In a slightly inflationary economy, a wealthy person can only remain wealthy if they deploy their capital in a way that creates more value for the entire economy. In a deflationary economy, they can get wealthier by doing literally nothing.

The net effect of this is a reduced pace of innovation for the whole economy.

2) My consumption is your income. Thus, if I spend less money, you make less money.

The net effect of this is a huge pile of pernicious effects (reduced economic mobility, reduced productivity gains, reduced innovation, reduced opportunity, reduced incomes for all, etc...).
> You've described a 51% attack.

No, this isn't related to 51% attacks.

Your other point I agree with; this is also discussed in the post comments.