skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your question. Currently it will just stay as unclaimed balance. But probably it is a good idea to return it back to the project eventually.

PS: Thanks for your hint regarding valid email addresses. If your email address is a@ai or something similar - you won't receive tips, sorry.
People living further away combined with the current car ownership means more cars on the streets. That's not explicitly stated at the article, but came-on, the author clearly sheers for the improved accessibility, but prefers the shared cars option.
So, just to make sure, the thing I can't do is line up a secondary market investor, because there probably aren't any? And being that secondary market investor is what you're saying Alex MacCaw and his friends are?
I'm not an economist, I don't see why this is a deal breaking issue. Could you please elaborate?

If they spend or trade the coins, then they are distributed, if they do not, then its just cash under a mattress.

Additionally, it seems to me that a trillion USD "worth" of bitcoin is only a theoretical trillion seeing as there aren't any institutions capable of (or willing to) cash such a sum.
For the price delta between my Yaris and a gigantic 4x4 crew cab pickup truck, including capital cost, interest, insurance, gas, maint, tires, if I buy a small car I'll never, ever have to buy anything used again off craigslist.

This is stereotypical penny wise pound foolish behavior. WRT to OP's relative hauling some plywood occasionally, for the price difference between a commuter car and a monster truck he could find a young man, pay his living expenses while he completes a complete carpentry apprenticeship, and pay the young man for some materials, and the young-ish journeyman could come out and do all the work for him as a thank you.

Another way to put it is the price differential is about 3x what I paid for a new roof on my house... all to haul some plywood...

When I put in a patio I had a flatbed truck deliver two pallets of bricks, two pallets of gravel and a pallet of sand bags. The delivery fee was roughly the delta between one months payment for a car vs a truck. You'd be surprised how much labor you can get out of a truck driver for $200 or $300 or so, and he was probably happy with me because the job only took him maybe 2-3 hours total.
I don't have much experience of FreeBSD, but I'm curious about it: for what purposes is FreeBSD used? Is it common in some work environments?
I really like your advice! Others have actually told me the same and I understand "the concept". But I would like to ask you for some more advice: how can I spend my days only focusing on getting users to use us? We are already emailing every new signup offering them help etc, and some respond with questions, which we help them with. But that usually doesn't take the whole day. I would like to know some activities on how to get more of those. Cold calling?

Otherwise, thank you for your feedback. Appreciate it :)
Your sarcasm conflates execution with problem identification.
phwish. That was the sound of gainfully employed QA engineers everywhere crying out shortly before being silenced forever. When do we get mechanical turk for development?

Jokes aside, looks like a great product.
1) The gist is this: Hologram is a 2D picture that encodes a 3D object using light interference.

Holographic principle states that information encodes reality into matter/energy and gravity. Basically gravity, matter and energy are sideffects of information. They are its projections.

How does this relate to hologram? Well dots that might appear like two separated dots on the 3D model, could be encoded on the 2D surface as very close. What this explains is "spooky action at a distance". We perceive two entangled electrons as being far away on a reality hologram, when in reality they are close on the fundamental 2D picture of the world.

Summary: What we perceive and measure as reality is not what reality fundamentally is.

NOTE: This is extremely layman termish and don't be too surprised if it's wrong. I last read UiaN years ago. There are also some other interesting properties, like that the any part of hologram contains whole picture of hologram but of lousier quality, etc.

2) I think Universe in a Nutshell covers most of this theory pretty well.
Most people are in a situation where they're forced to use a car every day. This situation could be resolved through smarter planning, better urban design, and alternative methods of transportation.

Two hundred years ago nobody needed a car because it didn't exist. Now people need it because parts of society are so entangled with it that it's nearly impossible to pull them apart.

If somehow planes had wrangled their way into our lifestyle the same way, then yes, people would need a plane every day. How else would they get home to their chalet in an inaccessible part the woods six hundred miles from the office at the end of a work-day?
Bitocoin protocol is just a tool for guaranteeing scarcity and transferability. Better tool than ever existed. Better tool than government assurances that are basis of the value of fiat currencies.
Man oh man are you going to be upset when you find about the distribution of USD in America.
That is coming, very very soon. Get in touch if you want to try the pre-release version.
>Bekenstein argued that black holes are maximum entropy objects

So would it follow that the equilibrium state of the universe is one gigantic black hole?
>Someone with access to these tools might decide the shake down Jack with a bit of blackmail. They might decide to sell union organizing 'alerts' to business. These are not legal but there are many people who work in an organization with these tools available who could justify abusing them.

The situation described in the article would require coordinating a lot of data together. I have a hard time seeing how individuals could do that properly without the institution noticing (especially considering how "Big Data" it is). It's not just cell data that you need, but also license plate scans, court records, etc. These are all fairly independent things, unlikely to be stored in the same place.

Individuals will try to exploit systems, and we should work hard to avoid things like LOVEINT happening (which shouldn't be hard in itself, but given that Snowden walked off with all those documents, the NSA doesn't seem very skilled in secure storage of documents).

If institutions work hard enough to make sure they're following the rules on document access, then it'll be harder for people to abuse, since each individual block of data is useless in itself. It would be the information equivalent of N keys to launch the nukes. Abuse would be much,much harder if somebody sat down and chmod'd some folders properly (nobody should have access to everything in any system). A plus side (for gov'ts at least), would be that Snowden-class events would be a lot harder to pull off.

Institutions can be built to be a lot harder to corrupt.
you can still use it on Nightly.

http://nightly.mozilla.org/
"Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, back in the day when Linux on the desktop was, if not exactly a contender, at least a more widely discussed alternative to Windows PCs than it is today."

I feel like Linux is a better contender now then it was in 2004. Or am I just in a "developers tech savvy world" and viewing linux as a viable contender now compared to the typical layman?
The original Doom did run over IPX, but it used broadcast not multicast. It also didn't just use it to find other clients but for all packets. It was a network killer. Later versions switched to using broadcast to discover other clients and unicast for game play.
Right, because the US is so averse to clichés, victimization and summary characterizations of entire cultures... /s
I'm not sure if this is meant for absolutely complete beginners, or if it's tongue-in-cheek.

#5, #4, #2 are general ignorance of Unix-like systems. (being unaware of password prompts of obscuring input, or in more technical terms setting /dev/tty to raw... really?)

#3: "But the one thing you can't write in the text editor? Unix commands!" To be pedantic, that's shell scripting.

#1 is basically a build-up for an ad.

In all cases, little of this is directly related to Rails.
Agree with this so much. We need to take the UNIX idea to its logical end - everything is a file (or a socket, or something exposable) - then for example screensharing is just a case of me "netcat"-ing my mouse to your window manager, and your video output to my screen. I've never played around with it but I believe Plan9 goes some way towards this idea.
Immigrants have gone through incredible emotional struggle to adapt to a new culture. They are not a reliable source to assess how things are in their country of origin, especially not how things are currently. And to lump together Russia and Ukraine and say that things are not getting better, is gross oversimplification. Ukraine has had weak leaders and strong oligarchs since the fall of the Soviet Union. However Russia has had strong leaders (Yeltsin and then Putin) who have consistently pushed back on their oligarchs. In particular Putin has spent most of his leadership period fighting corruption, reigning in oligarchs, and undertaking the perestroika (redevelopment) that Gorbachev was never able to achieve. Things in Russia are getting better while things in Ukraine are getting worse. They are heading in opposite directions and many Ukrainians are aware of this which is why public dissent has been growing there.

Being offended at someone's assessment of a situation is a political statement. We should not be surprised to hear people making political statements about a political situation. None of this makes one person more right or another one more wrong.

Politics is very hard to figure out, and we should all be careful of making oversimplified statements. It's not as simple as Ukraine signs an agreement with the EU and then everything is rosy. Neither is it as simple Putin twisting Yanukovitch's arm. This is a bloody complex geopolitical problem and Ukraine is getting no support in solving it from anyone outside Ukraine. They have to work through it, accept the hard knocks, and ultimately reap whatever benefits that their decision brings. Cheerleaders on the sidelines have no skin in the game.
This can only stop when the epithet "Weak on Crime" no longer has power in politics.
I would say this is a symptom that could be explained by Turchin's structural-demographic theory -- that is, increasing competition for resources (including political power) produces measures that even in earlier, more violent periods might have been considered too drastic.
Where I'm from, insurance cost goes up if you use it for commuting. Pleasure use means you use it less than 10 days a month and less than 6 for getting to work and back. So that's not fixed. Time is not intangible - you can count the difference in minutes. You don't need to convert minutes to dollar value because they have intrinsic value on their own.
I used YouView for a while, but I switched to Mactubes because YouView doesn't have Retina support. But I much prefer YouView's interface, and I would switch back in a moment if they released a Retina-enabled version.
25 warning signs you might be an entrepreneur
Your comment seems to be saying, essentially, "You are talking about X, but I would prefer it if you talked about Y, because I think that is more interesting."

Another example would be, "You are talking about how to seamlessly add someone to a photo in Photoshop, but I would rather hear about how to optimize image algorithms for efficient cache usage, because I think that is more interesting."

This article is talking about Bitcoin as a commodity and a currency, which are actual use cases for it. I agree that the Bitcoin protocol is interesting, but to demand that people only talk about the protocol and not Bitcoins themselves seems a bit restrictive to me.
So the Celestial Spheres[1] model used by Plato, Ptolemy, etc. wasn't entirely wrong? ;)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_spheres
Academia.edu face the same problems that all players in this space do, namely that almost all content in journals is owned by parties other than the authors themselves. It is almost like starting YouTube in a pre-handheld camera era, where the only videos are those produced by studios, and then targeting actors to have them upload the films.

Now that Elsevier have acquired Mendeley, they have chosen a winner from the battle between Mendeley, Academia.Edu, and ResearchGate. It is going to be fairly binary from here on in for the other two parties. Either Elsevier and other commercial publishers will try and sue them out of existence, or send them enough takedown notices to render them useless, or they will acquire them. Either way I can't see an endgame here between these three businesses that doesn't result in the academic publishing landscape remaining almost as balkanised as it was 5 years ago.

I think the ultimate winner in this space won't look anything like Academia.edu, RG, or Mendeley.
Seeking technical cofounder for FashionTech startup, Europe
Hi!

I'm looking for a technical cofounder for a FashionTech startup with an Ecommerce component currently based in Europe.
The startup is operating in a specific niche between FashionTech, Fashion and Data.

The startup has gotten some good early traction and market response and certain technical prototypes have already been developed. There is already a database available that with further development becomes sellable data.

I'm looking for someone to take this further with me, preferably someone that has experience in building startups, design skills are a plus as well as some machine learning knowledge. You're comfortable in building producs for a mostly female market.

Looking forward to hear from you!

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OK I admit I didn't answer anything. They'd probably bum rides off their friends with cars, just like I did as a kid. Which doesn't scale and is very inconvenient and economically devastating.

There are some interesting real estate issues such that you'd essentially be implementing feudalism where a peasant comes with the land and cannot leave it for other employment. Or the parasitic FIRE sector would have to back off a bit so housing is more of a commodity. Either way isn't happening without much unhappiness.
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They should be able to hit the sub-$200 price point with one of their hardware partners, but that is hardly a differentiator these days now that the Moto G and the Lumia 520 are already there for Android and Windows Phone.

I'm personally mildly excited for the idea of a "real" Linux phone, if it carries out the concept of being a phone that can be used in desktop/laptop docks (which various people have attempted without success on Android phones) to serve as your one very portable computer. Also it needs to have a competent nav/driving app. Basically the sole thing that keeps me on Android these days is Google Maps, and Google has even been testing me with that since the dreadful redesign they did with 7.x.x.
Does anyone have a recommendation for an equally good and concise guide for Discrete Mathematics by any chance?
> You don't need to convert minutes to dollar value

You do if you want to pay your rent with them, which is what we're talking about here.
They may have reasons for not wanting to give exact numbers, because backing out changes in this number over time can give information on the compensation of your peers. However, any honest company should be willing to give you numbers in writing to within an error of, say, +/- 1-2%. Which should be enough precision to make your decision. Variations in potential future valuations far exceed this error, so the exact number shouldn't be terribly crucial.

On the other hand, any company that gives you no information on the number of outstanding shares makes their options worthless as compensation. You should let them know this on your way out the door.
I don't think we should kill cars. At least not until there is something better to replace them.

You may want a car to get to other cities. But to walk around within the city with no car emissions? No cars zooming by everywhere? With an excellent mass transportation, even one with privacy for its users? I would give up a lot to live in a place like that.

cars are not democratic. They restrict freedom. Just to be able to walk around everywhere within a small city without any cars driving by would a dream for me.
To be perfectly honest, this article doesn't say much. I would have preferred more personal anecdotes about what happened when he stopped lying.
That's an excellent lecture, and explains a lot of these things in understandable terms. Thanks.
Bitfinex allows shorting, and icbit.se lets you sell futures for a similar effect. It's actually very cheap to borrow bitcoins on bitfinex last I checked due to so many people holding them. I consider both exchanges to be risky, though, compared to mtgox or bitstamp (and naked short sell of bitcoins is extremely risky, think about the margin you'd need if it goes up to $5000 before popping).
We hear about old NSA programs that got shut down because of the FISA court's rulings.

Such as?
Thanks, I'll check that. While I got interested in urban design recently, TBH I fail to grasp all of the anti-automotive concepts that seem to get in fashion recently. Especially when I live in a place where I witness how it may go wrong. On a related note, tomorrow I'm going to "Brasilia, a day in February" as part of a doc festival we have going on around here, if you've studied urban planning you've probably heard a lot about this city, so just dropping in this title here in case you're interested (not that well known as, say, Urbanized and such).
Do people actually want to live in cities, how many of them? - (and whatever for?)

One narrative here goes, there are lots of cars, so it creates an unfriendly environment, so people have to live outside the city and have cars.

But that narrative doesn't make sense for how the cars got there in the first place.

Another narrative goes: cars enabled people to move about quickly, they enjoyed this. One manifestation of this ability was to escape from cities and still get to work. Thus carparks and reasonably fast roads.

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Or maybe people just enjoyed moving about quickly even over relatively small distances and it snowballed

For example, I live about five miles away from where I used to work. I could spend 10 minutes walking to the nearest busstop, 15 minutes waiting for that bus, another 10-15 minutes getting to the busstop in town, another 10-15 minutes waiting for the next bus to work, another half hour or so while the bus drives there (takes longer because of stops).

Or I could just get in the car and be there in 16-20 minutes.

An hour and a half vs 16-20 minutes. And this isn't a bad place for public transport. Buses, on average, every 10-15 minutes is pretty good. It just adds up. Heck, given a couple of hours I could probably walk there.

It's far from clear that it makes sense, even under generalised utility, to agree with the author's desire to make cities better places to live at the potential cost to people who may prefer to live elsewhere and drive.
I'm genuinely curious: Here in germany we have car-sharing offers that allow you to pick up a car on the street, ride it to where you want to go and then leave it parked there in the larger cities. The fee is usually about half of the fee of a cab. Then there's the same for bicycles. The combination of public transport and car-sharing in berlin is awesome, at least in the city center: I go most ways by public transport and then grab a car or bike if I need to. If I really need to travel long distance by car, I get a rental and I'm coming out ahead financially, even if I throw in the occasional taxi ride because it's late and I'm lazy. From the posts here I get the impression that this doesn't exist in the US - and I can't imagine that.
JPMorgan files patent for Bitcoin-style payment system
The article is based around the assumption that people will in general choose to hire people less qualified than themselves when given the choice, but no evidence is given.
They are simply wrong on this.
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So, in the minimum case, two upvotes? Like any post? Seems there would have to be an appearance cutoff somewhere.
When it comes to ISOs, are there any tricks/loopholes to avoid the cash commitment required for early exercise but also somehow become qualified for long term capital gain tax treatment at the time of liquidation? I understand that is having one's cake and eating it too, but figured worth asking. Thank you.
Nice. I was looking for that yesterday for the Google Location history discussion.

Digging through this site's javascript I found this comment: "Für diesen Quellcode komme ich nicht in den Himmel."
I thought the BeOS translation kit was a brilliant idea. I didn't know the idea went back to AmigaOS.
I walked around Tokyo marveling at the infrastructure. Fully enclosed (or perhaps 3/4 enclosed) freeways that explode out of the ground, split off to surface streets, and arch up through the sky and around corners. Well-engineered, rubberized mounting systems and the enclosure mean you only heard the faintest hint of cars rocketing by at speed. Highways branching to high-capacity, multi-lane surface streets, which further branch into narrow neighborhood streets (similar to an alley in the US) meant that pedestrian traffic was quite safe, and generally well-respected.

By contrast, American cities have a couple of arterial freeways, a massive grid of wide-yet-low-capacity surface streets, and neighborhood streets that people speed through in an effort to shave seconds off their commute. And when they get to work, they park in huge parking lots, instead of stacked parking structures (ideally under the target building itself).

American transportation infrastructure is terrible.
Why would you want to own a car if you could avoid it?

(correction applied)

Because I can go wherever I want, whenever I want, with my whole family (pets included), with a trunkful of cargo, as I see fit.

I keep a bunch of gear in my car which makes me pretty much independent. No way I'd be hauling "go camping on a moment's notice" stuff and other equipment everywhere on the bus. Nor would I have the basic equipment to fix the bus should it break down.

7 years ago, awaiting dinner sitting at the bar at Longhorns and halfway thru a margarita around 9PM, my wife suggested we go see a new litter of puppies from our dog's breeder. Called to ensure we could, and minutes later we were making the 1,000 mile drive there. Next morning little Crossley was part of the family.

Personal long-range transport is very freeing. Mass transit & communication devices may be convenient, but rely more on others than some of us are comfortable with.
Also, why doesn't anyone seem to rally around them when an issue comes up?

As far as I can tell the EFF have been handling all the issues of the day well, but all the attention goes to upstart one-off groups that are formed and forgotten within weeks.
I'm also trying to get it looked at by some federal customers; if you run into any problems, let me know (I've gone through the DOD ATO process for a Linux-based appliance; civ agencies aren't usually as weird but...).
We are essentially sitting inside a giant black hole.

As our cosmos expands faster than speed of light, we can't ever escape this cosmos. Our light cone is similar to one that sits in a giant black hole.
Because it's not like a small percentage of the population owns a disproportionate amount of the capital already right?
And pizza places don't really take that mileage cost into account always either. It's often flat per delivery, etc

But it's a very good floor. Higher may still be valuable, but lower than that almost certainly is
Are you ok? You seem inordinately upset about someone pointing out a particular point in the article that resonated with them.