skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the problem is that there's a bit of a cultural difference between Americans circa-Industrial Revolution, and the Chinese now. So saying that the Chinese will stand up and protest isn't necessarily true. I don't want to speak for all Chinese, but from what I've read -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- is that there is more of a culture of deference to authority in China. Compare this to Americans, who have a history and pride in rebelling against authority. Now, you might point to China's communist revolution, but realize that with this government came the need for them to propagandize and popularize a love and respect for the government in control, much more so than in the U.S. So back to my original point, protest culture isn't as much of a thing there as it is here, because there's more of a sense of working for the collective good (economic growth of China).

So I'm hoping that there will by outcry, but I think it is unfortunately less likely than it would be in the U.S. due to Chinese culture. I'd also like to here some local insight as well, and I hope I'm proved wrong because it would be awesome if there was a public outcry.
Forget the needle, take the haystack
What tends to actually happen in the altcoin pump and dumps (None of the Twitter pumpers do BTC or even LTC since it would take too much money):

The pumpers build a position in a selected altcoin. They do this slowly, over a period of time, hoping that no one will notice. Only once they are satisfied with their position do they announce their "pump". They broadcast the idea of "pumping" that coin by a massive coordinated buy. The masses intend to buy in, bidding up the price and then selling off at the higher price.

The problem is that the people coordinating the pump already have their coins. And so as the people they recruited are buying, they're buying coins from the coordinators. When that activity starts to taper off, the coordinators will dump whatever they have left, completely trashing the price, often below the starting point. So the coordinators are the only ones who benefit at all.

There's various tricks they also use to make it more convincing, with bid walls and talk of "noob traps", but at this point it's happened so often that willing dupes are getting hard to find.

Most pumps these days barely move the price at all. Fontas is so infamous that his pump announcements often result in the price immediately going down.

Almost all this activity is on one exchange, BTC-E, which is the only exchange with a variety of alt-coins and the volume for a pump n dump. There have been attempts to get them going on Cryptsy, with its much wider variety of alts, but that site is so awfully coded that it runs too slowly to allow for any sort of coordinated activity.

There have been rumors that there are less public groups running pump and dumps on BTC, which would require substantially more money at this point. There's also clear signs of "dump and pumps" on BTC, where someone will sell a large amount of BTC in hopes of causing a price avalanche, and then they will buy in at the resulting cheaper price.

Given the amount of money to be made, those are almost certainly true rumors.

Having said all that, I think some of the smaller pumpers on Twitter are just looking to drive the price up on certain coins, I don't think they're necessarily looking to take advantage of their followers.
+1

This is an excellent series of articles that summarize and explain several aspects of the inner working of the System.
Oh please. All I did was say something that is true, but politically incorrect. Just because it offended your sensibilities doesn't mean it's false.
The commercial was about the most stupid thing I've watched in a long time.
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I honestly do way, way too much cash flow juggling and should just bite the bullet and build up a larger cushion than I have, but you're right, both in the "that isn't the typical cash-on-hand" and "if it were, that would be crazily risky."
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I lived in Utah which can get very smoggy due to winter inversions. PM2.5 levels sometimes hit 80 mcg in the winter, often the highest in the country and utterly depressing to live in.
It's not that they don't do anything about it.

In 2012 they emission of carbon dioxide raised by 3%, but that increase was at least lower than in previous years, where it oscillated around 10% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24742770)

29 of 71 nuclear reactors that under currently under construction are being built in China (http://world-nuclear.org/info/Facts-and-Figures/World-Nuclea...), they also have similar numbers for hydropower (see the previous link).
If I may be so bold, there may be two things you're doing wrong.

1) Are you emphasising your experience in your covering letter / CV? Recruiters have hundreds of applications to look at and - if they can't see the magic word they're looking for - won't investigate further.
That said, don't make your CV longer than 2 sides of paper, and you covering letter no more than a few paragraphs.

2) Are you applying at the right places? Lots of recruiters don't actually have jobs on offer - they're farming candidates so they can sell them on. Try applying directly to companies who are hiring.

Best of luck!
I'm not sure the research here is done. "perspicacious", a dictionary word, gets three x's; bj3UJ@P8uy9XD, a password of the same length I just generated with LastPass (and do not and will not use, of course), gets two (on the j and the 9). (In both cases, this was the first thing I tried of that length; I did not go hunting for a good dictionary word or hunting for a "bad" random password. If I got particularly (un)lucky, it's legitimately so.)

It's not really the fact that perspicacious is a dictionary word that I'm complaining about; I get that this is basing its decisions on a predictive algorithm and we can obviously augment this with some of the more traditional heuristics as well. What confuses me is that perspicacious, while perhaps being a $10 word, is also phonetically fairly normal, which ought to be bad. I would, for example, expect the s at the end to be fairly expected, or the a after the c.

I salute the idea, though. I've tried to make the point that a markov-esque password guesser could guess a great deal more passwords than we've seen so far. (Recall that while HN may frequently see Markov techniques used to randomly walk the nodes, you can also use it deterministically to enumerate possibilities in probability order quite easily.) It would be great to have something to simply point at.
because of all of Bitcoin's black market/early-adopter emotional baggage (the BOA report addresses this as Seigniorage). I'm not saying Litecoin is any better but my best guess is that eventually a solution will emerge with a model that negates the need to mine in order to maintain the integrity of the blockchain. (Maybe something that incorporates such costs into the exchanges, which then form a network that does this processing? Not actually saying that would work, just an example).

Basically a system that is "more professional" will come out, think of it as Bitcoin 2.0. All the vendors will adopt since they can co-opt a lot of the same POS systems they're already using (how hard would it be, really, to accept 2 forms of cryptocurrency instead of 1?)
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It's the opposite. Chrome doesn't support the feature (especially if youre using canvas), you CAN see the difference in FF.

Chrome isnt smooth, it's jaggy. Think of sub-pixel rendering as anti-aliasing for fonts.
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http://www.younited.com/why.html

but I'm looking for

http://www.younited.com/what.html
If cost is a primary concern, the kids can go to local school (just like Chinese kids who come to the US). The expat continuum goes from 'bubble' to 'going native'. Bubble is most expensive. Might as well stay home, no?
I just started going through the book Elements of Computing Systems, also available at NAND2Tetris.org. It looks exciting. Having just only just started it, I can't provide any more info than to look into it :)
Good luck pip installing psycopg2 on Windows :)
Ironically, the font family "Karla" on that blog makes the text quite difficult to read. (http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Karla)

They might benefit from inspecting their own quotations more closely: "when it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful." (Frutiger)
The bottom line with Kickstarter is that it's a great idea, but 1. It's vulnerable to gaming, and 2. There are financial rewards for gaming Kickstarter.

I conjecture that 3. It will become overrun with flim-flam projects if it does not change to correct 1 and/or 2. The stories are few and far between today, but inexorably there will be more and more scams. Why not? It's relatively cheap to put a scam project together, and the upside is tremendous.

We can argue about whether Kickstarter is or isn't a store until we've consumed all the oxygen in the room, but the real question is this: Are things going to get better? Stay about the same? Or get worse?

I say thing will get much, much worse unless they make changes of some kind.
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“The Rock – The World’s Most Complete Smartest Lifestyle Smartwatch” .. please tell me it's a joke, that people actually gave him 37K!!
Totally agree. This figure is ridiculous. I actually laughed out loud when I read it. Like anything the price is based on supply and demand. The supply is fairly predictable. The demand is a complete guess at the moment. A maximum market capitalization of $15Bn? Why? The 100 fold increase risks getting ahead of its fundamentals. What fundamentals? The nature of Bitcoin since its inception has been expotential growth. I'm not saying that will continue forever - it can't - but there's nothing to suggest that this rate of growth will stop when that value of a bitcoin reaches $1300.

Anyone can predict a change of a few percent in the short term and be correct to within 10%. But where does that get you? Which one of these financial analysis publications told their readers something useful, like in 2007 there's a financial crash coming or 2009 invest heavily in bitcoin? None.

Sorry, that was a bit ranty.
You need to use covers, and thick enough containers, to deprive the algae of light to inhibit growth. The perlite, which is a non-renewable resource, does not matter.
Astroturfing generally requires a company backing the movement. Why would a company care enough about pip and virtualenvs and then want to hide that? I didn't see an alternative offered besides using existing open source tools.
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I grew up in Hong Kong. It didn't have the cleanest air in the world but I lived in relative good health. After I left for university I heard things were getting worse and worse although I remained sceptical.

When I returned for work, the air was nowhere near as bad as it is on the mainland now but I simply couldn't survive it. Every day my lungs constricted within minutes (I have asthma.) I realised I could never return to live in my home city as I had intended to.

I was not angered by the existence of the pollution. Things change and China grows on the mainland. What I was angered by was the fact that after the handover, the government was so cowed by their new CCP masters that they wouldn't even tell the truth about the air pollution. You will never hear an HK official admit that the pollution comes from China, yet every single adult citizen who grew up in the city remembers what life was like 15-20 years ago.

China ostensibly has anti-pollution laws. The CCP's colossal corruption keeps them from ever being enforced and entire cities, my hometown amongst them, are now literally poisonous to live in.
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TLDR.

(That is the most rambling, incoherent, jumbled mess I've come across in a long, long time. I read about half of it and it was a waste of time.)
at least she won't be gender confused like your kid
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> but use a third party spell checking package. Both the venv and the jar will contain that third party package

Jar files do not support including third party libraries. You simply cannot put a jar in a jar. Eclipse/maven etc can explode the dependancies class files inside of the jar, but people rarely do that for anything other then distributing binaries of client apps (licensing becomes a massive pain btw).

war/ear files on the other hand does support including dependant jar files.
I think you just rained on your own parade, that's all.
They have a lot of shots of hardware design and testing that at most charitable strongly imply they built the hardware from the bottom up. Having done so and then being intentionally vague about any of the hardware is offsetting.

That's not to mention the fact that the ONLY stretch goals are about making more apps for the watch. If you're serious about building a smartwatch you better offer people a damn good reason to buy it, not sit on your ass waiting for people to pay you to make the thing useful.
It seems that rather than having some threshold of predictability, they are just taking the three most likely characters. So even though "ca" is a very common digraph, it isn't in the top 3 in the position you had it.

The difficulty, since this is intended a user aid, seems to be in balancing soundness (using a threshold) with user experience (sometimes predicting 3 letters, sometimes predicting 10, which would be overwhelming).
> "You have pictures in Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, Picasa. ... All kinds of stuff in different places. We didn’t want to build yet another cloud product where you store away your stuff ..."

So what did you build then? A community for balloon dancing?
docker.io comes to mind.
Ask HN: Site with tools people use?
So I vaguely remember this website which used to publish articles describing the tools (software, hardware, etc.) used by famous designers, developers, musicians and so on. I think I remember reading an entry on Linus on that website. Does anyone remember what it was?

Haven't been able to find it on Google so far.
If you have a server farm that allocates VMs dynamically on demand, you have something much different than a dedicated server, and it is quite reasonable to call this a private cloud.
Some things just aren't relationally shaped. You can model them relationally, but it can be a pain.

For instance, graphs are totally doable with a traditional rdbms, however it is painful. You end up joining a table against itself (or via an edges table) multiple times, or alternately bouncing many queries off the table as you iterate the graph. One common type of NoSQL db is the graph database that is designed with graphs in mind and you don't even have to think about this access. It is nice.

Another case that you can do with traditional RDBMS but is annoying is loose user defined fields, such as "tags" where you have to create a tags table and a join table to make it work, with a lot of potential inefficiency there (even with indexes). Or even worse, when you have user defined attributes - lots of custom table creation per user, or big joins against a star topology to do it properly. (Or if not, you end up with something that looks like an sql database to a bunch of frontend code).

Of course other times you'll find yourself doing something in a NoSQL database that is effectively doing a bunch lookups against a table then combining a result (at which point switching to RDBMS is the solution)...

I guess what I'm saying is that lately the data store is being looked at as a component more like a library than a subsystem. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but it certainly has helped a few cases I've dealt with nicely - ripping out a horribly complex data layer and replacing it with a NoSQL solution where the data model is shaped like my data.

Basically it's a matter of the right tool for the job.
First, you sometimes do want to call exit deep within a program. That is the situation I am addressing, not normal operation. Of course you want to always free unused memory and prevent memory leaks. I am quite familiar with the importance of memory hygiene, and have even written documents admonishing students to use valgrind before coming to me for help: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3214/fall2010/projects/esh3-debu...

Second, please re-read my last sentence. I specifically addressed things that the kernel does not reclaim. This would also include System V shared memory segments and the like. You must manage these yourself, and it is always messy. Typically, rather than calling exit directly, you're going to invoke a routine that knows about all such resources, frees them, then calls exit. But you still don't need to unwind your stack back to main.

Third, the kernel always gets back all of its memory that was granted through conventional means. That's what operating systems do. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what malloc is, and where it lives. Malloc is a user-level routine that lives inside of your process. When you call malloc, it is granting you memory that you already own. Malloc is just a convenience routine that sits between you and the operating system. When you say malloc(4), it does not go off and request 4 bytes from the operating system. It looks into large chunks of memory the operating system granted to it, and gives you some, updating its data structures along the way. If all of its chunks of memory are currently allocated, then it will go ask the operating system for memory - on a Unix machine, typically through a call to brk to mmap. But when it calls brk or mmap, it will request a large amount of memory, say a few megabytes. Then, from that large chunk, it will carve out 4 bytes for you to use.

(This is why off-by-one errors are so pernicious in C: the chances are very good that you actually do own that memory, so the kernel will happily allow you to access the value.)

Now, even if you are a good citizen and return all memory to malloc, the operating system still has to reclaim tons of memory from you. Which memory? Well, your stacks and such, but also all of that memory that malloc still controls. When you free memory back to malloc, malloc is very unlikely to then give it back to the operating system. So all programs, at exit, will have memory that they own that the kernel will need to reclaim.
Hey, thanks for the advice. I honestly only expect to get flamed anytime I post something.

1) I certainly could use some work here. I generally spend a good bit of time learning about the job requirements/company and writing a cover letter that highlights why I fit these requirements. In the past I would write a new resume for every position to make sure the skills they wanted were highly visible but I have not tried that lately.

2) Probably not. I also have a theory that some recruiters take job ads and then try to sell leads to companies that are not working with recruiters. I can't prove it though. It's pretty obvious to me that this particular site is not very useful to me.
The New York Times ran a series of stories last year by Errol Morris that suggested that the use of certain fonts resulted in the reader being more likely to believe what was written. The articles reference other similar research; I found the whole thing fascinating.

Part One: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-...

Part Two:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/hear-all-ye-...

[EDIT: And of course, now that I dig into the article, I see that it references these Errol Morris articles, too.]
Very difficult to parse that headline.
This Case Study of Higgs simply proves why selecting an appropriate font is important. This is followed by data of experiments done by Errol Morris.
Apple needs exclusive games

Why?

ETA: iOS is arguably the biggest/most-popular gaming platform ever. The increase in sales from "I would have bought an Android/whatever but didn't because game X is only on iOS so I bought an iPhone instead" would be, relatively speaking, vanishingly small.
But isn't what really matters whether Amazon turns around and uses those bitcoins as bitcoins or converts them to USD? What benefit would the average consumer get from turning their USD into bitcoin to spend on amazon?
Summary of events if you don't want to read the entire comment thread just to discover what the heck the title of this post is talking about:

1. Kickstarter campaign for a new high-tech smart-watch launches. The creator, "Vak", responds to a few questions on the watch about specs and hardware in a noncommital, generic way that doesn't reveal a lot of details.

2. Skepticism increases when one customer claims that the watch is apparently identical to a Z3, a watch with similar specs, which they already own. They provide pictures and proof that indicate that the Vak may literally be using the Z3 itself in all the photos and just switching out the wristbands. [0]

3. A minor firestorm erupts in the comments; people accuse Vak of scamming them. [1]

4. Vak asks for time to construct a Kickstarter update, saying that the deluge of comments makes it impossible to respond individually.

5. A few days later, Vak responds to the points raised in the original accusation. [2]

6. ... and keeps responding with the same message, dozens of times. He (or someone using his account) repeatedly posts the same message, over and over and over, to the Kickstarter thread, in response to any skeptical questions.

7. Vak says "it wasn't me!" [3] Pretty much no one believes him.

8. Article gets posted to HN.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/253126792/rocktm-first-q...

[1] http://i.imgur.com/8IyxKTC.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/Fa2101J.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/Sy7BfL9.png
Don't worry, I have (hence my disbelief at the first comment). Funny we've come full circle (via e.g. Java) back to the point where that is valid code.
> you get some _(generally speaking)_ 1-time tangible thing back.

I think this is the part where it is not a store. A store brings you something for you money. Kickstarter can cover the non "generally speaking" part where you can pledge money for nothing (you just want to push the project. i.e. $1 pledges are usually without any tangible return). I remember the Penny Arcade kickstater, where a lot of people pledge below the first tangible return, just because they liked the idea.

That's also what happens if you back an open source project, the tangible return might be highly subjective.
EDIT: apparently my post below was predicated on a false assumption, please disregard.

That's Beijing, not Shanghai, and I think we can assume that Beijing is at least slightly cleaner than Shanghai, if not by much.

According this article[0], Shanghai's level reached 602.5, which, when compared to the data on the graph you linked, is about 75 points higher than Beijing.

[0]: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/smog-extremely...
Ug. I had completely mistaken 'single gear' for 'fixed wheel'. Sorry, all my bikes have derailleurs.
Someone has not read many mathematical books on a Kindle (or even PDFs on an iPad), let alone seen the intricate typesetting of TAoCP. For an epub the configurable font size alone wreaks havoc with mathematical typesetting, and converting them to pixelated versions fails as screen resolutions go to higher and higher DPI.

It's a monster of a problem, which still isn't solved. As good as TeX/LaTeX is at handling paper sizes, the screen sizes / DPIs / pagination / font sizes of eReaders is a far more difficult platform to target.