skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, do unredeemed tips stay in or eventually get returned to the balance?

BTW, a@ai is a valid and IIRC actually used email address. :)
If it's the laws that are bad, why are so many congressmen surprised at the scope of the NSA's actions?
Open source 'wasn't available' two years ago, says Universal Credit chief
They've published a change summary on the wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10
Everybody knows this is true, of course. I live three miles from work. To get here this morning I could have walked 3 blocks to the light rail station near my apartment, then another 4 or so blocks from the destination station to my office. This is pretty convenient, especially in St. Louis, where the vast, vast majority of residents don't have options nearly that good.

But I didn't do it. It was 16F degrees when I left the house this morning. I drove my car.
It's pretty easy to track coins through transactions and link them to an IP, unless the user knows about this and takes care to prevent it.
>This is a false equivalence that keeps being brought up on HN. Yes, authoritarian government have mass surveillance, but the converse isn't necessarily true.

Perhaps (which is still arguable). But that's not the case here, because we have both.

From the Patriot Act to the SWAT-ization of everyday police operations, and from the TSA to the massively increased legal overload (compared to 1960's laws and practices) and down to the rise of the huge (private) prison business and the constant wars, what more proof exactly do you need?

>People aren't afraid of surveillance because it has no impact on our lives. The government isn't actually misusing the data on a large scale.

They don't have to. It's enough for them to misuse those in a tiny scale to affect everybody's life. When the next Martin Luther King/Mother Jones/Rosa Parks/Harvey Milk/Aaron Swartz (and thousands of other, less known figures that fought for change) etc appears, they can crush him at will, and everybody will be poorer for it.
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It's not even the monetary cost of renting, it's the time cost. If I have a pickup truck the time cost for me to buy something off of CL is driving there, inspecting it and then buying it. Done.

If I have to rent a pickup to transport it back then I've got two choices. I can either rent the vehicle prior to looking at the item or after I decide to buy it for sure. If I always-rent then I'll kill at least 2hrs per CL purchase due to having to go to somewhere to rent said vehicle. If I rent-after-inspection I'll save those 2hrs when I don't buy at the expense of making two trips every time I do buy. Neither one is an attractive option.

Two hours according to what they pay me is no joke in terms of cash so in either case if this happens say twice a month I've paid for the total difference between owning a subcompact and a pickup truck: note, gas, insurance, etc.

I don't actually own a pickup truck and most of the time the things I pick up fit in my Forester just fine. But it's not unreasonable to make such a decision when you think through how much of a disaster it is to try and rent a vehicle on a semi-regular basis.
Exactly. Most of that $15 goes directly to ICANN and Verisign. http://www.hostly.com/hosting-info/much-domain-names-cost-15...
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True; although one major problem is that for n taxis, you have to pay for n cars and n human salaries, and human salaries end up being the biggest proportion in the final price.

How much will the cost be reduced when we don't have to pay for human drivers anymore? Will we see 50$ a month (2013 dollars) plans for 50 hours of "chauffeuring"? (a quick google search shows that the average american spends ~40h driving a year)
*Donald Shoup
If domain names cost $0.01 a year, wouldn't domain squatting become worse?
Can you try running in Firefox's safe mode and let us know if you have the same issue... sound to me like one of your extensions is leaking.
erk, I don't think condensing much information in the smallest place possible is the best way to learn something (or even review it).

I'm all for a no bullshit and quick way to get something. That's why I sometimes check learnXinYminutes.com or some random cheatsheets on Google. But this doesn't make it for me.

Btw, if you really want to get a good grasp on Linear Algebra you should check Gilbert Strang's video courses on MIT OpenCourseWare. They are amazing and soooo easy to understand you don't even need to like mathematics to watch them. I haven't come across a better support to start with Linear Algebra.
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IEEE is ridiculous. Sometimes I feel ashamed for admitting that I maintain an IEEE membership (which is really just for the journals anyway). And then I get even more annoyed when I look at how I pay IEEE something around $800.00 / year for all my society memberships and journal subs, and still routinely find that I don't have access to something I find while Googling, without paying another $30.00 or more.

This is all really leading me to want to get more involved in the whole IEEE governance process and maybe try to help spark some kind of initiative to cut down on the access fees for IEEE content. Or maybe an initiative like that already lives... I'm not sure. If there is, I feel like I should find it and get involved.
I was playing with this a bit earlier today.

It's a $3 in-app purchase to enable casting. It was a little wonky (seems like it took a while for the app and the chromecast talk nicely (I'd select the chromecast in aVia and nothing would happen), it took a reboot of both devices to sort it out).

Some media (served by Serviio running on a FreeNAS box) worked flawlessly. Some didn't have audio. Haven't spent any time troubleshooting the audio issue.
They're not worth it. You should spend the time that it would take you to read this book doing some high yield activity instead, like trading stocks or growth hacking your startup. Anything less than that just isn't worth the trouble.
I have installed iJulia -- which involved compiling Julia from source.

What little bit I've tried with Julia so far is impressive.

What is the story anyway? Did a bunch of MIT people decide they needed something faster than R & numpy ?

Julia inventor Alan Edelman is an fellow alumnus of Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM). Scores points in my book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Edelman

He wrote a terrific paper back in '95
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9501224
"How many zeros of a random polynomial are real?"
I think it's safe to say he's just being unpleasant for the sake of it. The old adage of "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all." springs to mind.

I thought that shares as currency was an interesting analogy to draw too. Although I guess when you get down to it, anything that's reasonably fungible can be considered currency if you feel like it.
My criticism was on the idea that so many bitcoin proponents put forward that not having any central controlling or regulatory body is a strength of bitcoin. Even if we ignore all of the macroeconomic issues this might cause, you still lose a lot without any regulations. This particular example is the complete lack of consumer protection in any dispute you encounter when dealing with someone in bitcoin.

Instead of trying to improve on the monetary policies and regulations that exists around the world, bitcoin simply tries to replace them and leave nothing in their place. It is like going from the current US government to anarchy. There are a lot of things that can and should be improved in the old system, but that doesn't mean we should throw it completely out and have nothing to replace it.
there are much simpler theories that unite gravity and quantum physics, without going into 'matrix-mode': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205142218.ht...
Sure have it cost $0.01 and then for your $0.01 you can get your very own thisismyuniquedomainname4311.com because everyone else got there before you.
Efecto de las microondas en el sistema nervioso central, año 1965.
I don't want to discourage that, by any means. I just am not sure "knowing it is a bubble" necessarily means knowing much about how it is going to burst.
Yeah, I don't really understand why people figure that self-driving cars/taxis/Uber/ZipCar would ever be cheaper per mile. They pay to operate their vehicles same as you do, except they also need to have some profit on top.
I read most of it, and I can say with mild confidence that it's probably not worth your time. A few years after reading it, I remember the thesis of the book but not much more.
RNA molecules, not strands.
Looks like that only works for 5GB files or less, which is a shame.
I don't think every person who moved to or built a suburb over the last 50-odd years was acting with explicitly racist motivations, but he's basically just describing "White flight": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
I didn't. Somewhere along the line, however, she became that person.
People can live where they want, but I'm critical of having to subsidize the excessive amount of infrastructure necessary for the lifestyle choice of unnecessarily travelling very large distances. For me it's even worse because I live in a region where the terrain requires a lot of bridges.
Do you think it is reasonable to ignore the other costs involved with owning a vehicle?

I figure gas is ~1/3 or less of my overall costs (and I've had good luck with maintenance on an older car that I don't carry collision insurance on)
Will this provide similar functionality to silk road? I've been looking for silk road type software/frontend for a legal user community to sell items.
How often are you updating the json values? 10/s? 100/s? 1M/s?

How many string keys? Millions? Billions? What happens if you lose an update?

Redis great for lots of rapid reads and moderate write speed for data that fits on a single server or can be manually sharded well (if it's straight k=>v, as you describe, that basically means your json fits in RAM; if you're using larger objects like sets/zsets/etc, it becomes a slightly different discussion), as long as your application can lose a few seconds without killing you (BGSAVE isn't instantaneous, of course).
You forgot to factor insurance, wear and tear on the car, and the cost of your own time that you spend in traffic - you are never getting those minutes back.
Fascinating document: Grace Hopper's job recommendation for my friend Ann's dad.
BitMit acted as an escrow themselves. I never caught wind of any disputes, so I don't know how they were handled. And they also had reputation and reviews as well.
With every new revelation, I'm less and less confident in the rule of law. I'm starting to believe that the NSA thinks that the law doesn't apply to them. So when you speak about faith in the rule of law - until this year, I might have been on your side. But lately, I'm not sure I have any faith in the rule of law anymore when it comes to government agencies.
Taxis are a lot more expensive than self-driving cars. The driver takes something like 60% of the fare you pay for a taxi; I'm sure insurance eats up another sizeable chunk, and if self-driving cars are ever allowed on the streets, they will have to be safer than human drivers, and thus will have lower insurance costs. Furthermore, eliminating the driver means that you could use even smaller, cheaper cars, or fit more people or belongings per car, making self-driving cars more efficient.

Taxis drivers also really frustrating to deal with (the majority in my city, at least); I can't count the number of taxi drivers who haven't been able to find my house, so I've had to play phone tag with dispatch while waiting 45 minutes for a cab that should have been there in 10, then finally hike down the hill, get in, and had them start the meter while they drove up it to pick up my belongings.
I think the point is that you can live near transit and take advantage of cabs as needed and still come out ahead. When we lived in Chicago, my wife and I would take cabs all the time, especially on weekends or when the weather was bad. I think we spent maybe $100-200/month on cab fare. Now I have a car, and spend $150/month on insurance, $200+/month on parking, $300/month on gas. Averaged over the year, consumables (tires, brakes) and maintenance probably cost $100/month. And it's a paid off car, so I'm not even counting the car payment!
Same goes for money.

Bitcoin is not a solution to wealth sharing or any other real world problem.
Your insurance costs are higher when you have a longer commute.

Your oil needs to be changed more frequently.

Wear-and-tear on your car is almost certainly correlated with miles driven, meaning maintenance, repairs, and replacement occur more frequently.

Cars ownership is about more than just the cost of fuel (which is cheap in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world). Sure, maybe the IRS rate is a bit high, but it seems the intention is to compensate for the average cost of ownership per mile, not the marginal cost to drive a mile. Don't trivialize it by pretending to be ignorant.
congrats guys! looking forward to playing with this :)
Yeah I know, the problem is to find time to do one large "hack" each day. Do you have any tips for me?
By, not to.
Nice of the ACLU to spec how the NSA's software work and what it should look like.
Cars are convenient for an individual, but that is because you do out-source most of the negative aspects of them to the society around you. Just image how green, quiet and open streets (the space between buildings) could be without cars or with cars which deliver goods only, especially in bigger cities. The air would be a lot better too, roads need a lot of maintenance, cars need a lot of fuel, create a lot of pollution etc
It might reduce it, if it XORs away entropy that was previously XOR'd into it.
This is about the marginal cost of commuting farther versus differences in rent, so fixed costs like insurance and intangibles like time do not factor into the equation. I agree that long commutes suck, but that's not the question here.
>It's not completely free.

True but it's really no different than a truck or existing police vehicles cost-wise. And it's free. In fact it looks pretty similar to police vehicles already in use: http://i.imgur.com/DQFJESy.jpg

>And, as toomuchtodo hints at, heavily arming a police force leads to those guns being used.

Perhaps, but this is a vehicle, not a gun. It's just a big bullet proof truck.
So basically they are showing that a simple model exists that gives the same results as a more complex model? I mean the article seems clear that neither universes they modeled was actually the same as ours... so i dont get the significance.
Why? It'd prove Hard AI. That'd be nifty.
Mars One invites school pupils to design first mission
Ah yes, even better. But that couldn't even fly in NYC, arguably the place with the least car friendly political environment in the US.
"Trees for cars" App - The story of a homeless man and his Chromebook
This has been my #1 argument for bitcoin. I have a bank account in Australia, and a bank account in the US. For me to move money I can:

1. swift transfer - minimum $30, takes a couple weeks

2. paypal transfer - no fees, but exchange rates are awful, takes a couple days

3. go to an ATM, withdraw money from my overseas account, walk into the bank and deposit that same money. Around $15 per withdrawal, instant.

Now with bitcoin, I deposit, transfer, then withdraw. Admittedly, it's still not instant since I'm using coinbase, but I feel it will get there eventually.
It's an observation. Perhaps someone else who watched this video has some information about something that happened immediately prior. I could have been more explicit in my request, you're right.
Not quite.

ICANN Fees

ICANN charges a fee for each domain name registered. The fee is 20 cents per domain.

The domain registrars pay additional fees to ICANN, but it's hardly anywhere near the 90+% you quoted.
Small KY Town Police Chief to be paid in Bitcoin
Your sarcasm implies that he doesn't want to put effort into reading what appears to be a bad book because it doesn't have a return, which is a crappy assumption.

People have a limited amount of time, and there are far more good books than any one person could read, let alone bad books.
Not at all, now that I've learned about your learning, we can all discuss how happy that makes us feel. It's a win-win.

Wait, maybe if there was a higher context to share our approval of the article without distracting away from its content? Like some kind of high-level rating system that was enforced through a framework of some sort and presented as a low-friction indicator of the quality of the article? We could even improve it by presenting the highest quality articles above the fold.

Of course then content that appealed to the lowest common denominator would become the most approved, and people could congregate around shared understanding and beliefs, further cementing those ideas as the "right ideas".

Only if there were some social rules that would prevent this "circle jerking" behavior that causes forums to devolve into roaming bands of up-vote brigades. We could start by not "circle jerking" about the quality of the article, we could probably go a long way toward reducing congratulatory posts that celebrate elementary-level understanding of economic systems, and in turn, encourage feel good comments that are up-voted because people agree with them instead of them actually contributing anything.
Definitely valid points! Personally, I hope that we end up with a shared-ownership model, and that the cars do park 10+ miles away if they are idle, but that this is amortized across a large number of commutes. I also hope that we use the liberated space for sidewalks and green spaces, not for more buildings. Small changes though (whether we own or share our cars, planning policies on urban parking & freed up lanes) will have a huge effect...
That a good point. Of course, I'm reasoning backward to justify something that's already there, so it started its life as a bad argument :)
You have to take into account practicality, which basically comes down to the length of the bar. The Stihl 260 is often used with a 15" bar, so it is well suited for skirmishes with imps or zombies in confined quarters. The Stihl 650 and 880 are usually fitted with 36" bars (or even 48" with regards the 880), so less suited to confined spaces, but they would be better suited to larger prey. I bet it could handle a Baron or two.

You could be imaginative and use the 880 to slay five demons standing in a row simultaneously.
I will give this a try (along with other ad networks as well) when I've got the conversion rates to a better level.
If I decide to leave a company in which I have partially vested stock options, would it be okay to ask my employer (or anyone else in my company) if they would be interested in buying the options off of me at the current valuation (EG, last amount of money raised)? Is something like this common, or would I get laughed out of the room?

Similarly, how liquid are markets like Second Market in terms of liquidating option value at a startup that's raised multiple rounds of funding but has yet to exit or IPO? Are there angels (or networks of angels) that buy small amounts of pre-exit equity?
High fixed costs and economies of scale.

Cars are high fixed cost capital goods. A taxi will be driven far more over the course of its lifetime than a personal car, so the fixed cost per mile is much lower.

Also, economies of scale make purchases and maintenance and repair cheaper.

These are two reasons to believe taxis should be cheaper than personal ownership.

Finally, let me point to airplanes. It makes far more sense to rent an airplane than buy one because almost no one travels enough to justify the purchase. Cars are analogous.

Edit: When I say cars are analogous, I mean that there are analogues between the situations. Both are vehicles with high fixed cost that can be either bought or rented. The situation is comparable, though obviously not the same. All I'm saying is that it's conceivable that someday the conditions could change so that it's more sensible to rent than buy.
Setting aside all of the other existing information, the crux of many of the arguments in the article depend on the government knowing the use of particular addresses. That's data most city/county/state governments already have laws that they should know (for tax assessments, occupancy limits, health inspections, census, etc.) and yet they frequently have incorrect or incomplete information on this.

While pervasive tracking is indeed a problematic state, I still find it humorous at how competent we truly believe the government to be in retaining accuracy in all this data given how often our interactions with government and private businesses revolve around them FIXING their data about us.
How do you envision goods being delivered to people then?
That's one of our aims; make it much easier to test for everyone, developer or not. No setup, no install, low maintenance!
Course codes 18.06SC and 18.06 i think if anyone else was looking. Thanks for the pointer, really appreciated!
- Self-driving cars will still need to park at off-peak times. Unless they just keep driving in circles.

"they can be parked at much greater distances (10+ miles) from where we spend time, in much denser structures than today"

- Having your car park 10 miles away from you after every trip adds some forty miles of travel per commute. That's forty miles of fuel and forty miles of maintenance, every day.

Only if we map 1 car to 1 person. Of course that'd be completely unoptimized - people wouldn't own car, but rather have a "subscription" where they can get a car dispatched at any time (à la Uber). Cars would only park 10 miles away at truly off peak hours; the rest of the time they'd go to service some other customer.

- I'm also not thrilled about the prospect of already-dense cities shrinking streets to one lane. We call them concrete jungles now- can you imagine if all the roads were only 15 feet across? Goodbye, sky.

As the previous poster said, the extra space would go to sidewalks. Outside patios, trees, grass, parks... the things we could do would be amazing. Some older European cities from pre-car eras are built like that, and it's wonderful.
This has yet to be proven. An efficiency gain does not mean the elimination of traffic jams.
No. The golden handcuffs arise from the fact that the employee doesn't have the cash on hand to exercise the options and pay the taxes since there is no liquid market from the shares. If the employee quits, then they forfeit the upside of the options since the options expire 90 days after terminating employment. So, if the employee wants to participate in the options' upside, he or she is forced to stay with the company until a liquidity event -- textbook golden handcuffs.

It should be noted that Alex MacCaw and friends are offering a way out of this dilemma for 25-30% of the upside by supplying the cash required to exercise so that the employee can leave. This advertising is probably the whole reason Alex wrote the article.