skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, my reaction was more along the lines of "Stephen Hawking says sky is blue".
I would be curious to know if an IRC log from the 90s exist at all (major networks), even if it's only behind a "Google-wall"
ZowPow (YC W14) Launches Plush Toy Controllers That Interact With Mobile Games
Falling by 90% versus 100% is quite big.

One is now 0. There other is still above 0.
Who is Greenspan? Oh right, the fella who advocated for 1999 banking deregulation [1] and 2001/2003 tax cuts that encouraged a historic boom (and subsequent bust) -- cleverly calling the direct consequences of his own policies "Irrational Exuberance".

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/1999/199911...
A Lost Boy Grows Up
I disagree, bitcoin will always be useful as the best mode of transferring money, regardless of its value. And that alone gives it value. There's a reason people pay something like 5-8% to Western Union. It's a valuable service. Well, was.

Reminder to myself: short Western Union and MoneyGram stocks.
Gold is rare. Gold is used for things. You can argue about the _scale_ of the value, and whether or not current market conditions truly reflect the value of an ounce of gold, but that does not remove the fact that it is an actual resource, limited in availability and has practical uses in and of itself.
Your argument about intrinsic value is flawed because you assume that intrinsic value means an intrinsic price in dollars. You could rephrase your question to apply to basically anything and you'll get the same blank stare because it isn't a meaningful question. What is the intrinsic value of a loaf of bread, or a gallon of water, or a gallon of gas, in dollars? Do these things have no intrinsic value just because they don't have an intrinsic price?
Depends on how you look at it since he actually says two things

a.) Bitcoin has no intrinsic value

b.) there's a Bitcoin bubble.

I'm not saying that there isn't a Bitcoin bubble (since I don't know), but I don't think that Greenspan knows either.
I believe various states in the US have found it difficult to find staff and drugs for lethal injection.

Perhaps the difference is if the doctors/nurses/vendors think that they can get away with it, not attracting the public's attention.
CoffeeScript gains multi-line method call chaining
I've been freelancing for 3 years now, on the back-end of a 10-year agency stint. (Note - I'm a marketing/growth hacking guy.) Here's what I've learned:

- You gotta love the hustle. Not "be able to" hustle. LOVE the hustle. Otherwise you're set up for misery, and we don't freelance to be unhappy - you can do that in a cubicle farm. What do I mean by hustle? Self promotion, client follow-up, content creation, book keeping, socializing, skill development, and so on.
- Your core skills don't matter. There are a million out there like you. I've seen many many great developers, engineers, and designers fail at the freelance game simply b/c they didn't appreciate how much sales is involved.
- On that note, find a way to stand out. We don't freelance to fit in with the industry standards. This is your chance to be you and find clients who appreciate that. My first website had "Kick Ass" as the first thing you see. I've since progressed to using the "F" word a bit more. I can get away with it. And furthermore, I don't want to work for someone who sees a curse word or nontraditional self-branding and gets uppity about it. Not for me.
- Money. Learn to manage it. Learn to let go of the anxiety. Learn the difference between taking a less-than-desirable job to put food on the table and selling your happiness out of fear.

This turned into a bit of "Freelance Starter Kit". Sorry. But, if you can mentally own the areas I described above, you can do it. Learn as you go, pivot, move and shake.

Good luck,
Dave
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I don't think I'd classify the FCC as mafia-like, but they're definitely captured by business interest they're supposed to be watching over.
That's right, the above formula is just the power of the wind, the amount of energy you are able to harvest from it does depend on the characteristics on the blade. The swept area is still a key factor. (see Betz limit for another interesting fact)

You are right about the second part, those 'tunnels' do catch all the wind of their area.
However, remember that qemu-system does _not_ virtualize, so it will likely be slower than a virtualized environment (vbox...).

qemu-kvm does virtualize, but only on Linux.
The industrial value of gold is a whole lot clearer than the value of bitcoin as a transaction mechanism (for one thing, there are lots of purposes where gold is the best thing you could use. It isn't at all clear if bitcoin is superior to a cheaper alternative, or an alternative that somehow better facilitates exchange with tiresome existing systems).
That's not as easy as it sounds. In a desktop GUI, customers expect seamless integration between such sandboxes. Making the clipboard and drag and drop work two-way between such VMs can be a lot of work. Even for simple text, that may involve encoding conversions. That, in turn, means that the host must be able to infer what encoding the guest expects. Styled text and graphics are way harder.

The VMs also must react to changes in the parent OS such as a change in the keyboard layout, two apps running in different VMs may both want to have some control over hardware, etc.

The approach works well in Windows because Microsoft spends lots of time on it and because the compatibility changes aren't that great.

Of course, it also works well in systems where there is no need for the VMs to interact (other than via the network). VM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)) is a nice example there.
"he could have easily said that rather than closing the
pull request with a discouraging comment"

There are 129 open issues[0] and 25 open pull requests[1] for libuv right now on Github. That one didn't deserve his extremely valuable time that is better spent on considering contributions that matter, like the the 25 open pull requests.

You don't have a right to Ben's time and attention. He gives to the project out of his own volition out of a sense of duty to the community. The community here are people who have help build node.js and libuv to what it is today. Someone showing up in Nov/Dec 2013 issuing their first pull request and making it a trivial one isn't deserving of Ben's time. Ben doesn't owe anyone an explanation here. Had the PR request submitter made several prior code commits that had been accepted, maybe it would be fair to expect an explanation, but not for a trivial first PR.

[0] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues
[1] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pulls
I'm still waiting for someone to coin a term for when you google around for a problem and end up at your OWN answer on SO from a year or so earlier. This happens more often than I'd like to admit.

I'm incredibly thankful for the many, many hours that SO has saved me personally.
Even better: make the non-executed line of code break things in subtle ways if compiled without -trigraphs.
I don't think it's possible to avoid being annoyed or upset, but it's possible to remind yourself that hanging onto that mood is counterproductive and to move on to thinking about something else.

"Don't let yourself be annoyed by minor things for very long" might be a more realistic take.
Gold has intrinsic value for applications like jewelry and electronics (it being easily malleable and a very good conductor). There are many more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Applications. These uses don't explain the price of gold fully, but they (along with its rarity) are the reason that gold has historically been considered valuable.

Bitcoin as an idea may have some sort of "value" (although it's a stretch to compare it to a physical thing like gold), but that doesn't mean this particular blockchain has value. There are only so many bits of metal in the Earth's crust, but there are infinitely many possible cryptocurrencies.
Well stated. A phrase that comes to mind is that "Over time, a quantitate change becomes a qualitative change."

Take Moore's law for example. The doubling of transistors/halving of their expense first allowed more efficient computation in the original manner, but now that qualitative change has started to alter the very nature of computation- omnipresent computation in all man made devices doesn't mean our spreadsheets run faster, but rather humanity exchanges information and communicates in an entirely different manner than it did a generation ago.

Likewise, I believe we'll see the gradual automation of 'useless' jobs change from an event we can work around by retraining or switching careers to an obsolescence of the vast majority of human labor. There are some nagging statistics about unemployed engineers that I believe back my assumption, especially considering that engineering positions should be the new careers people retrain to.
If we define it that way, I agree, but this is not a useful guide, imo. You cannot control your reputation, though of course treating others well should be extremely important.
Often. And that's why I've achieved 3/4 success rate. But finding the magic winetricks incantations, even with the help of winehq.org, can be an enormous time-sink with low guarantee of success once you've exhausted the standard DirectX/VCRedist stuff.
Lead-based paint is another example.
Forget Amazon drones, Amazon Rockets gets delivery done in 5 minutes
Foodstamps and cat videos are the new bread and circuses
Would those command prompts be customizable? :)
Interactive Visualization of Crime in San Francisco
> To our knowledge, no one was working on an open source jailbreak...

(responded to elsewhere, maybe with more emphasis on openjailbreak.org)

> ...and given that the site I'm building is designed to incentivize things like free and open source software, this was a huge component. I've also been told there are a good number of people that have jailbreaks, and it's possible that they might be motivated to release it as FOSS if enough funds are raised.

I believe my response to this notion (when it was brought up by the other person who contacted me about your bounty a few weeks ago) was that you would be better off then attempting to do this for a later version of iOS, as the kinds of numbers that had been thrown around as "the magic number" to make that happen was hundreds of thousands of dollars... it will take a lot of time and a lot of really hungry users that don't see jailbreaks (open or closed) on the horizon, to generate that kind of money. Releasing this now kind of calls that goal into question: that goal incentivizes waiting.
An Interview with MakerBot’s Bre Pettis on Stratsys Patents and Lawsuit
Fluid Dynamics of Spitting: How Archerfish Use Physics to Hunt With Their Spit
2016 definitely seems late. I also would've expected the speed to be more like 20 Gbps by then, but it's just double the USB 3.0 speed. That doesn't seem like a huge improvement.
You could also get 10Base-FL AUI transceivers.
Having bought some BTC at lower prices, talking about BTC prices is something really exciting for me since it means money, but I think that mBTC rates is better, because I keep hearing more and more people saying or thinking that they can't afford BTC anymore now it's over $1000.

Talking about buying a few mBTC for ~$1 each sounds way more attractive than buying 0.001 BTC, which feels like buying something worthless.

So I think it's a good thing for BTC to continue to become more mainstream!
Perhaps offering a host connector specification, more speed, higher power capability, industry standardization, non-proprietary implementation, and lower cost are some advantages.
Really? Only 10% of gold is used for industrial purposes. It's really not as useful as copper or aluminium.

The rest 90% is purely used for hoarding, as traditionally it was thought of as rare and valuable. Now gold is mined at an industrial scale, more than 2000 tons per year. While it's sort-of rare, its quantities in the universe are enormous (and even Earth). People are finally realizing that, and that's why we see both gold and silver prices falling.
The concept is great, although I wasn't able to find a single genre playlist with tracks known to me (and I like to think that I know my music), which was kind of a turndown, since the point of a radio is to trust that once you pick a station, it will play things that you like, and in this case I found myself constantly alt-tabbing to type "next".

But that's an issue with the music and not with the page itself, which I enjoy.
I do the same, and my "core" is less obscure than yours. I'm worried. What is this cracklib thing? Do I just provide it my password and it tells me stuff?
Stackoverflow is awesone and for me, it has saved me countless hours of thinking, even on non mainstream platforms like FPGA design. That said, I hope for one improvement. I would like to upload my code into a machine with a command line...and those who are on stackoveflow can with login, try their hands at it without having to ask me. This way, they will save time trying to reproduce my sandbox.
gold has historically been valuable because due to relativistic contraction you can easily assess its purity using a low-tech solution: a touchstone, and therefore there is a trust model is built in. It's also portable, so could be carried long distances over caravan.

Sound familiar?
I'd say that the US Dollar also has "no intrinsic value." Should the military might which props up the USD suddenly be mitigated, and the world then decided to abandon trading in USD, then the true "intrinsic value" of that US Dollar will be realized.
NPR's Planet Money podcast did a really cool episode a few years back called, "Why Gold?".

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tues...
Gold is not rare, it's a huge lie. I just checked, it's mined at 2,500 tons per year. That's just the discovered gold, and only on our planet. There are enormous quantities of gold in the universe. Same goes for many other things that are marketed "rare" - silver, diamonds, other gems.
Ah, err, ehm; I would have thought that I no longer do, if ever I did would be quite clear from the context.

I do think that our government took a serious wrong turn after 9/11, and that our collective self-image ("beacon of democracy" and all that jazz) is increasingly at odds with our behavior. More and more the US government seems to be driven by non-human motives. Non-human in that even the people at the very top seem cognitively overwhelmed and more as if they were being acted upon by unseen forces whose existence can be inferred by the traces they leave behind; but whose intent and motivation are obscure.
Doesn't the design of Bitcoin ensure limited availability as well?
It's a similar idea to the argument from fallacy, wherein a conclusion is believed to be false because its argument contains a fallacy.
what's the definition of 'intrinsic'? I think bitcoins have an 'intrinsic' value, it's the trust model that's built into their design, the verifiability of the blockchain.
Please read my second paragraph. The bitcoin v. gold comparison is not really valid.
1) He is legally required to maintain official records, as per the Presidential Records Act. This was passed after the Nixon-Watergate scandal.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Reality-Check-The-Presidentia...

2) If President Obama "demanded" a iPhone because of his personal choice, it would be expensive and take a long time to secure the iOS for him. The considerable expense would be politically challenging to explain.

3) Secret Service agents are trained protect the President, and maintain his safety even if that means disobeying a direct order that would compromise his safety.
The guy who was wrong about EVERYTHING makes another prediction. what else is new?
Only 10% of gold is used industrially.

Aluminium used to be extremely expensive and was used in jewelry, until we discovered how to mine it more efficiently. That's not an intrinsic value, that's perceived value.
so I can't seem to find a roadmap for docker - a blog post from august said they were trying to be "production ready" by the end of october. Does anyone know when it is supposed to hit 1.0 / production ready?
Yeah, I goto SO (well, SO through google) because with most questions, I get a practical answer to my exact situation in seconds, as well as suggestions as to why or why not different approaches might be warranted. They're not all perfect, but it's usually food for thought.
The extent of computer ethics to me was "here is therac-25, you have an ethical responsibility to do your job well. here are various laws, don't break them." There was never talk of "consider the ramifications of your project, assuming it works".
I'm confused. I would have sworn that the comment was jokingly demonstrating a cognitive bias.
I use a combination of Rescue Time, Asana and Harvest to track things. Probably overkill to use both Rescue Time and Harvest but I find that Rescue Time tracks some of things I don't when using Harvest(which I use for client reporting).
I agree that it's insecure but so is ./configure && make && make install

Or what about places that give you a Yum repo to install

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:devel...

yum install owncloud-client

It's all the same to me. A user is just saying "I trust you enough to run this thing or this system isn't that important to me so the risk is acceptable".

I'd argue the Yum way is even more dangerous because if bad stuff isn't sent down now, an update could cause bad stuff to be installed in a month during a yum update. That's much harder to catch.
I'm saying your first paragraph is not valid. If you're going to claim that the ancients valued gold because it has intrinsic value as a heat reflector in astronaut helmets or as a good conductor in electrical components, you're crazy.

Specifically,

These uses ... are the reason that gold has historically been considered valuable.
What is "intrinsic value"?

Do our current, non-digital currency have such "intrinsic value?"

Seems to me, all value for all currencies are extrinsic.
Well, funnily enough, if you know your password and it was in the leak, you can test it against your own password.
When I first started doing Android development in late 2009 the API documentation quickly brought back memories of MSDN in the late 90's.
I'd like to point out they all were created to serve some useful purpose. The fact they are doing a lot more of the wrong things and too little of the right ones points to lack of proper oversight and management, not to an inherent design flaw.
But - but it's so pretty!
Completely broken on Opera Mini.

It's a shame, I loved the old design but I guess someone thought, that the size of the images was not big enough...
I was delighted to start programming in java way back when just for this reason. Writing truly portable C code really requires #defines for all the basic types, which is really ugly.
Nope. At best that's a partial explanation of the view.

In Ben's own words:

"... Us maintainers tend to reject tiny doc changes
because they're often more trouble than they're worth. You
have to collect and check the CLA, it makes git blame less
effective, etc."

Put yourself in Ben's shoes. You come across a commit that clearly doesn't fix a bug, add a feature or clarify some confusing comments (it's may not have been PC, but it certainly wasn't confusing). Next you check who is submitting the PR. It's from some user you don't recognize because they've never submitted a pull request before. Well before you can accept the commit, you need to check if they have signed a CLA. Well that's a pain in the ass to do. So you ask yourself, "Is it really worth my time to go look all this stuff up or should I just close it and move on to a pull request that actually contributes something valuable to the project?".

I would expect the overwhelming majority of people who have been committers of a large active open-source project to have done what Ben did. It's called triaging and it is in the overall best interest of the community.
Sleep. The better the previous night sleep, the better. Its not number of hours, its the type. Sometimes a short nap does wonders other times its a long hard sleep after being 'worn out'. Both can refresh you for next day.

Hardest habbit to change is time wasting. Reading HN, Reddit, News and forums where before you know it, that two minutes has morphed into an 45 minutes of mind numbing distraction. Yes I can block those pages but its more the need for a distraction than the site. Its a hard habbit to break. But its a part of my Depression, the lack of concentration.
Bitcoin hype worse than 'tulip mania', says Dutch central banker
It all comes down to "how intrinsic" you want Bitcoin to be. I would say that the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is the decentralized network that maintains a transaction log that is virtually immune from fraud due to its foundation on proof-of-work. It's true that arbitrary forks of Bitcoin can be made, so the specific value of Bitcoin is based on the size of its network. So is the size of the Bitcoin network not "intrinsic enough" for consideration?
The reactions always jerk too far to either side.

Currency clearly derives it value from a variety of sources, all stemming from beliefs held by people. Bitcoin as it stands right now derives the majority of its value from people holding that belief that its value will continue to rise - that is it is driven heavily by speculation.

Most countries will jealously guard their currencies in foreign exchange markets specifically to reduce the effect of speculation on the value of their currency because they want their currency not to act as a method for people to get rich, but to facilitate economic activity within their own country. You can obviously see why speculation driven volatility (or this freakish deflation that Bitcoin has right now) can be bad for actually using the currency as a medium of exchange. This is especially true since most services that accept Bitcoin right now still interface heavily with other currency to deal with their suppliers and such.

It's obviously knee-jerk to say that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Currencies do not require intrinsic value beyond people being fairly certain that other people will accept the currency as payment. This is why American dollars, gold, copper, bullets, alcohol, and seashells can all be used as effective currency given the right situation.

The flip side is that it should also be obvious that the current value of Bitcoin is pretty much divorced from its value as a medium of exchange as its clearly fueled by speculation right now. When people stop believing that they can buy 1 BTC now and sell a few days later for 20% increase of US dollars, and start believing that they can buy 1 BTC now and that they can hang on to it for a few days or a few years and that it'll be roughly equally useful over that time-frame, that will be when the "value" of Bitcoin is set.
I'll ask the obvious question: why?

Closures are the natural result of allowing the dynamic creation of lambdas, which is pretty central to JS as a language. A language "like Javascript but without closures" would no longer be "like Javascript".
That's silly. What you really mean is that at $1200 an ounce 10% of gold is still used industrially. I guess that might stay level if the price dropped, but no it wouldn't.
I used this one some time ago

https://github.com/ggustafsson/Tim
Actually it's extremely hard to assess gold's purity.

Tungsten is extremely close in the density to gold, and even major banks got fooled into buying tungsten bricks wrapped in gold.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-23/gold-counterfeiting...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-24/get-your-fake-tungs...
I guess it will sound more stable this way, too. 1000 to 2000 or even 10,000 sounds like a much more sizeable jump than 1 to 2 or 10. Also helps overcome unit bias.