skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, but tearing down the "intrinsic value" of gold does not justify any price or value for Bitcoin. Your argument is effectively that nothing has intrinsic value, which does nothing to make the price of Bitcoin appear legitimate.
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People don't care much if pundits are right or wrong.
Instead people care that pundits are clear (confident statements help with clarity).

Qualifiers are substituted by getting multiple opinions from different pundits.
Mine is 'never start lying to yourself'

Convincing yourself of BS is the first step along any path leading to bad outcomes. Whether it is 'another donut doesn't matter' or 'customers won't care about this bug' or any other number of self-delusions, constantly failing to reject your own BS will erode your character.
Sleep, exercise, get up at the same time each day, eat more protein in place of carbs, and drink less alcohol.
> I feel like Gruber's take

You have expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...
Thats a great start but there are other ideas too. Why isn't SE as useful for people in other professions, like product managers or data scientists or marketers who are also looking for answers to their work problems? The key is that just replicating the site is not the answer, you need to really focus on community dev and getting the thought leaders from those professionals involved. Lastly, along with the 'feed' implementation, you can also start curating other content from the web that could be useful to the users of your site. example: If I am particularly interested in Javascript, I get a feed of curated resources from around the web that will help me learn about the latest and greatest in Javacript. Thats whats missing today and thats why SO is a transactional site
I also believe in this explanation, but it would be better if we had hard evidence of certain types of human population thriving and other ones disappearing based on the presence or lack of agriculture.
So you should short-sell managers with strong 3 and 5 year track records, then?
> I feel like I would be better served by stapling my existing business card to a $10 bill...

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...
Which group of people do you want to become like?
That is a really complex matter.
However much time was saved it's value for mankind, the value added depends on what the programmer does on the spare time he gained from the increase in productivity and what value does mankind puts in these activities.

(note that value for the world as stated in the question is a lot harder to grasp)

At the end of the day it's a matter of knowing whether the programmer was the bottleneck of the productive system he is a part of or if he had slack capability.

EDIT: I was going to post a more complete answer, with references bells and whistles, on Stack Overflow, but having never created an account there I didn't have the 10 reps minimum. Kind of dumb for a question with zero answers IMHO.
Funny that you came up with an SMS-based "buzzer" -- a technique similar to this was used to gain an edge in casino blackjack decades ago. A custom microcomputer was hidden in the player's shoe, and IIRC they used vibrating motors to communicate the correct plays in one version of the device.

The webcam I think isn't there for an "illusion of honesty" but rather for a more personal / "human" game experience.
Very interesting. I have always wondered if teaching people about cognitive biases can help them avoid them. On the very least, I am convinced that this may not be as easy as I was thinking.

Some relevant excerpts from the cited article:

>> If you're irrational to start with, having more knowledge can hurt you.

>> I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases.

>> You can think of people who fit this description, right?

This makes sense now. If the brain behind is close to a random baseline in interpreting statements, how can you feed more statements (about interpreting) to expect a positive outcome.

A question still remains: Would it help to teach people of these biases when they are kids.
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sologrrl, your account has been hellbanned. I don't know why, though; your link is what you claim it to be except that the audio track has been muted by YouTube because it's a copyrighted Daft Punk song.
Sleep at minimum 7 hours (ideally 8), exercise every morning, drink lots of water.

It's simple. Execution is the hard part.
StackOverflow is just the manual in an easily searchable form. Lots of times I'm not even sure of what to even look up and that's when I post to StackOverflow. The next time someone else tries to do something similar, Google will have found it in StackOverflow and it will be easily found.
Are you releasing the source to your NNTP web forum?
SO has helped me tremendously in learning new languages. Java is the first language I learned really well, and it's great to be able to ask SO questions like: "What's the equivalent of an abstract class in Objective-C?" Answers to questions like this aren't exactly easy to extract from the "manual."
>"Upon arrival, guards gave him a warning and extended his sentence by a day, reported DN.

Why do I feel like the US prison system would have given the guy a much more severe punishment... :(
> I feel like a lot of this trendy stuff comes out because it demos very well.

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion. Please use "think" instead of "feel".

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...
Occam's Razor: Apple patented it in order to own the invention.
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Engineers need to spend more time on understanding how their political support affects their pay check.
The obvious difference between a libertarian government and divine monarchy is in the level of authority given to the government. In a monarchy, the monarch's will is law. Under libertarian government, the government is extremely limited to only protecting a very small set of rights. You could in theory have a libertarian monarchy where a king was only given a limited authority to enforce laws related to natural rights violations, but the two concepts are very different.

A libertarian democracy of course is more desirable. Which means the people's votes, or the authority given to their representatives, would be limited to only those issues related to natural rights violations. Under a libertarian government, the people are still quite free to exercise their will, only they could not use the government to impose their will on other individuals. Social problems can still be solved through community organizations outside of the government.

I think the biggest weakness of the pure libertarian philosophy is the uncompromising defense of property rights. If a small group manages to acquire all of the property, they can use their monopoly to exploit everyone else while the government protects their "rights".
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Not really. If you conduct yourself in a way that makes a lie of half-truth seem implausible, then those lies will never catch on.

There are a great many 'trtuhs' about people out there that are actually complete untruths. But they gain traction because they confirm an exiting belief about a person. Presidents are particularly susceptible to that, especially where the lie adheres to an impression of character.

A person who is forthright and honest in their dealings, and consistently hard working and punctual will find that other people gossiping about them will have little effect. This you can control what others think by being of good character.
Wiretaps have existed for thousands of years in one way or another. They've existed in America since the Civil War when they tapped the Confederates telegraph lines. You either control the stage or you're a slave.
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Genius! Just one request. Crop a little off the left of the animation. I can't stop staring at the hair on that thumb. It's like watching tall grass sway in the wind.
I know of no down side or turn off to being a consultant. I have more work than i need. I work with who I want and deal with zero politics. Plus people are happy to see me and when I'm done people are happy to pay. Working as an employee is the exact opposite in every way.
This seems way too difficult to manage.

I wish there was a Gmail like application that anyone could set up easily on its server and that would allow for : quick email generation.

You need to sign up to something ? Generate a quick mail that redirects automatically to your main inbox and that you can give away when signing up.

If you see that spam is arriving on this email, remove it.
I'm certain that Stack Exchange in general--and Stack Overflow in particular--has saved a huge amount in programmer productivity. However, what the OP hasn't taken into account is that Stack Exchange sites can also suck up potentially productive time, as well. Although this loss is difficult to quantify, I'm sure it's not anywhere near the magnitude of time saved.
I am sure the X client running on the oscilloscope has plenty of security bugs too.
> I feel like wanting to remark that Bryan Cantrill only fanned the fire here in all of this.

You've expressed a thought, not an emotion. Please use "think" instead of "feel".

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...
Wow, that page is full of garbage.

Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message instead.
"Swedish prison denies inmates medical care" is more to the point.
ok will start doing that, thank you :)
Good point. More specifically, a dynamically typed, prototype based object oriented language with C style curly brace syntax.
> Get help if you need it.

Certainly. But you might want to read the article. The study cited looked at 250 people in the Netherlands with recurrent episodes of Major Depression. It found that after two years about 80% of them had gone 3 months without an episode. And this was -- approximately -- true regardless of whether they had been treated or not.

(Yes, the world is full of people who tell those suffering from depression, "Just get over it," so it's easy to overreact to a title like the one on this article. OTOH, the article is not saying, "Just get over it.")
Previous discussion on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650987

A fun and educational game that demonstrates why you shouldn't do this: http://russianroulette.sh/
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Greenspan's policies consisted of easy money, dismantling regulation, and trusting big banks to regulate themselves.

Those policies failed miserably. Greenspan cleverly called the consequences of his policies 'irrational exuberance', and then failed to take action to rein in these consequences.

The crisis that resulted from Greenspan's incorrect analysis and bad judgement rivaled the Great Depression in its severity and longevity.

Greenspan's credibility is nil, so why should we listen to what he says about Bitcoin?
> Wiretaps have existed for thousands of years in one way or another.

Communication intercepts may have, but wiretaps haven't existed longer than communication by wire.
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Unless you got your message vetted through PR, you're in danger of termination now. (Completely not joking. It's happened before.)
I don't know if economists would agree, but I'd say that the intrinsic value of a thing is the value that exists in the absence of other people's desire for that thing. A loaf of bread has intrinsic value for its nourishment and ability to sustain life. These properties would be present even if no other human desired the loaf of bread. Similarly, gasoline has chemical energy which can effect work, and this would still be true if every other human disappeared. Gold has useful properties that make it well-suited for a number of industrial applications, wholly apart from it's attractiveness or usefulness as a store of wealth.

On the other hand, Bitcoin has no "intrinsic" value by this definition. Its value is wholly derived from other people's interest and belief. If other people stopped using Bitcoin, any and all Bitcoins you hold would be instantly valueless. There is no meaningful trust, no useful verifiability, in the absence of others' continued desire for Bitcoins.

Under this definition, I can see no "intrinsic" value for the US dollar or any other fiat currency, either. They all derive their value from others' continued use. If everyone else stopped using USD tomorrow, your bank account contents would be worthless.

The real question is whether Bitcoin is like the dollar, in that it has no intrinsic value but may nonetheless sustain practical value long-term, or if it's like the Tulip, in that it has impressive prices but no long-term practical value.
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If you read the article, you will see that the President of the United States feels like he's in a bubble and is disconnected from the average American.

I don't think that what voters elect their President to do.

This might also explain a lot of things about how things are run in Washington.

Too much security apparently means the President is disconnected with the pulse of America, and is drifting aside.

He's essentially saying the security apparatus is making him ineffective.

If I was in his shoes, and I was willing to send 18 years old men and women to combat in Afghanistan to face the Taliban, I would also take on a certain amount of personal risk to insure I was leading the country in the right direction.

Here I reproduce the relevant part of the article verbatim, for those who have not read the article:

[quote]The president often privately talks of how frustrated he is about the White House "bubble" which makes it very difficult to communicate with normal people or to get information from the outside world that is not filtered for him by aides or the press. Aides say his Blackberry is a way to escape that confinement.[/quote]
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It also lowers the price of goods so even those displaced get a better quality of life through higher purchasing power.
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Clicked in here to say exactly this. The only thing I would add might be obvious, that consistency is extremely important. Just getting enough actually isn't enough, consistent timing is essential.

My second most significant is probably reading in place of momentary distractions.

I'm applying nearly all my "free time" (what's left after the family, work, exercise and sleep that I consider essential) with an attack on my backlog of books.

I wiped my devices and rebuilt them with only the essentials - no more newsreaders or social apps and I've greatly limited my web browsing.

Not only am I working towards a goal and learning new things, I'm spending it on a book or two rather than 100s of throwaway articles and blog posts - all but eliminating "context-switching" as I feel like I can keep 2 or 3 concerns in mental cache and get the full value of the time I spend on each of them.
...this would be a huge deal if verified. Anyone with the background to understand this able to reduce the paper presented into more manageable terms?
But different people will hold you to different and often contradictory standards. It's hard to go through life without pissing anybody off. Work too hard and you make others look bad for example.

Also worth noting that people will subconsciously judge you based on all kinds of superficial factors you have no control over. Have the wrong facial features and people will think you untrustworthy, and of course there's skin colour etc.
"Also, you can't blame the shitstorm on the person
submitting the pull request."

Why not? You can't unilaterally decide that that person cannot be to blame here.

They could have made a contribution of utility (bugfix or feature for example) and included that minor comment change within that pull request, instead of using a pull request as their own personal soapbox. Github issues and pull requests are not forums for debating the politics of gender issues. As someone who had never once submitted a prior pull request with utility to libuv, Alex Gaynor should have made his change silently as part of a bugfix or feature and moved along. His behavior was antisocial.
Habit Streatk, (or I think Habits for iOS).
Do something once a day, everyday. E.g. small chore, commit code, read book for a few mins... etc.
This, coupled with "Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days | Video on TED.com" had a huge impact on my life over the past 7-8 months and built my self-disciple (though still room for more disciple :) ).
I might even agree with you that Greenspan's credibility as a shepherd of the entire US economy is nil. But the inadequacy of that conclusion to the actual argument at hand is obvious.

Short answer: because he knows much more about economics than we do.
I'll take credit, even if it wasn't me personally, as I recall dropping this into an HN thread a few years ago.
I'll tell you what doesn't help productivity. Being in a toxic relationship. Get out while you still can.
That is a disengenious quote...the line partially quoted is 'the overall consequences have not been particularly terrifying'. The OP specifically points out that individually, changes are bad, but as an aggregate, things generally get better.
Heaping derision on people who were victims themselves, drafted into a war they did not believe in, is one thing. I totally understand why people might recoil from that.

With an all-volunteer army though? No way, it is on them as much as it is on anybody. I don't care if they joined for the GI Bill (doing it for the [college] money is a pretty fucking flimsy ethical justification), I don't care if they joined the reserves before war broke out for the GI Bill (agreeing to the possibility of a war, before you know the circumstances of that war, for the [college] money, is still a flimsy argument).

The "support the troops [bring them home]" stuff seems like it is likely backlash against the derision that we gave Vietnam veterans, but it should be re-evaluated because the situations are not equivalent.
That's nothing. I remember a while back the NT 4.0 source code was leaked and being the devious shit of a teen I was, I downloaded it. I found the source code to the calculator and reversi, and decided to try to build/run them on Windows 7 with VS 2010.

It took about 30 minutes to get the calculator working, and about 3 hours to get reversi working. 14 year old source code (this was in 2010), complete with a GUI and mouse interaction, forward ported in one night. I was extremely impressed.
Starting the day with a new TODO list. Not only does it give a clear plan for the day, it also keeps me from idling too long with distractions like reddit or HN. Whenever I'm done with a task and find myself chatting or browsing the web, I just refer to the todo list to get me back on track.
It takes about 2 minutes and it's well worth it.
Some context would be helpful. Is the a credible computer scientist, or just another crackpot? What has been the response of the mathematical community to this? What, if any, are the criticisms of it?

It looks like there have been a number of versions of this paper since last year:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0954

So, has anything changed?
For the Adobe breach specifically, you might try the site set up by Last Pass, which checks your email against the breached data: https://lastpass.com/adobe/

The added feature is that, if your email is in the list, Last Pass will share with you how many others had your same password -- and the list of all password hints associated with that password. If more than a handful of others used the same password, that should jog your memory about which you used.

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Participation in unnecessary wars.

They may not have made the decision to start a war (that is on politicians), but they made the decision to participate.
Thought experiment. Is it possible that there are no other jobs or not enough jobs than people?

And if this is possible, can people be freed to do something more useful if there is nothing more useful?
Or as an alternative, he could have privately emailed an existing contributor, discussed the change, and got support. If it had come from Isaac or Bert to start with, it would have sailed through without objection.

I really feel like a pull request was the wrong vehicle for what the original submitter was trying to accomplish.
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>Do the people who sit on these standards boards ever actually plug anything in?

The people on the standards board know about the fact that having the USB logo on the top of the cable's plug is a requirement of the spec, and thus they never attempt to put it in the wrong way up. It doesn't occur to them that most consumers will never know this.
Thanks for your reply.

You're 100% right and we're pretty aware of the lack of content out there right now, ie the lack of documentation (job listing plug!) but we're also interested in first impressions.

I guess I'm getting back to work to give you something to see!
StackOverflow saved me enough time that I ended up thanking the folks at SO and CV who helped me in the Acknowledgements section of my dissertation.

Below my committee, but above the good people at Dr. Pepper.
Looking at your comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=GalacticDomin8r it seems like you are a new kind of spell checker.

I am not writing a formal proof here in HN. I have proofs of what I said but don't like to discuss them with you, your reply was rude.

I invented the QAOP acronym just to be funny and illustrate the concept. Your answer reminds me of this Babbage letter: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi879.htm
You can't single-handedly back out of a credit card transaction either. The credit card company has to agree with you and give you your money back.

Most people would, however, consider a credit card payment reversible.