skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimming the list and the cites, the page seems to be combining topics from a mishmash of different domains (mixing unconscious decision biases, rhetorical fallacies, misunderstandings of statistics, heuristics, and perception/memory effects), and heavily leaning on primary rather than secondary sources.

It's certainly a list of Wikipedia pages, and the pages might be good ones, but treating the list itself as even a tentative fact about the world is probably a mistake.
On the one hand, your snarky dismissal. On the other, the second-longest-serving former chairman of the Federal Reserve, appointed and reappointed by 4 different Presidents.

Best part: your dismissal dings him for not calling earlier bubbles, in a story where he calls a bubble.

Also, for what it's worth, "Irrational exuberance" wasn't a Greenspan policy; it was itself an allusion to stock market activity being bubble-like.
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What about it? I very much doubt that Experts Exchange saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity. I was always annoyed at landing there from searches before Stack Overflow existed. And it is/was much harder to use than Stack Overflow is today.
Moreover, Bitcoin is not only replicable, but also inadequate as an actual means of transfer. If various banks got together to launch a new crypto-currency, which could actually be exchanged for real money, Bitcoin would effectively become deprecated overnight.
I didn't see him dismiss Bitcoin's utility as a currency (though for what it's worth, I don't see that either). I saw him refer to its current valuation as a bubble.
Indeed; for the lucky ones around here with a bare metal Linux box, just substitute kvm instead and ROCK ON!
> Pronouns don't matter.

You keep turning your opinions into supposed statements of fact. Given how little you know about this topic, you're just embarrassing yourself.

Pronouns matter. The politics of it may not matter to you, but they matter to a lot of other people. They also matter in terms of reader perception. E.g.: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27784423?uid=3739560&u...

We are coming out of centuries of systemic gender discrimination. The tech industry still has substantial problems in this regard, and is under intense scrutiny, internal and external. Arguing to ignore improvements in favor of the status quo is arguing to support gender discrimination. Arguments like that are especially suspicious from somebody on the good side of gender privilege. Especially double-talk arguments about how vitally important it is to resist this one specific trivial patch.

Also, you can't blame the shitstorm on the person submitting the pull request. After all, you keep asserting that it's trivial, the very smallest of things. The shitstorm started with the rude, dismissive rejection of the pull request. If you'd like to blame something, blame that.
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USB 3.1 is already finished. The Type-C connector will be used for several future versions, it's not tied to a single protocol or speed.
it has changed, but not nearly as much as "content providers" want it to. namely, it used to provide a wonderful archive for just about any kind of copyrighted material you can think of. usenet providers have been increasing their retention (e.g. 1900+ days of binary retention). so now with the take downs, a lot of copyrighted material is gone within a day or two.

i'm a little bit unsure if this is true, but it definitely seems to be. a usenet provider has "complied" with the DMCA request when they have removed enough of the yEncoded posts to break the file on their servers, including parity repair. different providers remove different posts.

thus the emergence of "block accounts," which are usenet providers that resell amounts of data with no time limit, as opposed to your main usenet provider who chargers monthly. then nzb downloaders (e.g. SABnzbd+, NzbVortex) look to your block server for articles that are missing. well really servers, it's not uncommon to have multiple. the key is to have your block accounts all from different top-level resellers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providers
I have limited respect for Stephen Hawking; Greenspan is no Stephen Hawking.
> If the world suddenly stopped seeing gold as 'money' or a 'store of value' or whatever it would lose 90% or more of its value. Bitcoin would lose 100%.

For the world to suddenly stop seeing Bitcoin as 'money' or a 'store of value,' the world would have to not see any value in a non-reversible, virtually fraud-immune, decentralized, near-instant, near-free, completely electronic means of exchange. Those are the attributes of Bitcoin that give it "intrinsic" value.
Or he did it on purpose and is now lying about being mistaken.
> because you assume that intrinsic value means an intrinsic price in dollars

But that's the exact argument I'm usually facing. They use this "intrinsic value" to justify the price of gold.
I dint get how this is rude, it would be trivial for THE COMPANY to add a few lines to their server configuration to redirect all incoming traffic from anywhere (or even just HN or Reddit) to redirect seamlessly to the non-print page that has both the ads and a print button....but this site hasn't done that (yet).

I don't think it's really that big of a deal. If it was a subscription service we were all bypassing without paying that's one thing, but this is just another page on their public website like anything else.

If you don't want people to see it, don't publish it online.
I'm thinking, time to buy mBTC.
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Am I the only one who hates the idea of having to deal with an entirely new plug paradigm for USB? It's one of the few things that has been able to remain a constant on PCs of mine for the past 10 years, along with Ethernet cords.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about. Gold is extremely rare, making up under 1 part per billion of the earth's crust. Only 6 elements (ruthenium, palladium, rhenium, iridium, and rhodium) are rarer.

Over 1 billion tons of iron are mined each year, to put your figure in comparison.

To say that gold is not rare is not just misleading but a bald-faced lie.
Spent a few hours trying to look into this. The results so far suggest it has to do with the register renaming mechanism, but not completely conclusive. You can check out my notes here: http://blog.skanev.org/2013/12/call-performance-weirdness.ht...
Instead of appealing directly to the authority of Greenspan, you deferred to an appeal to the authority of 4 Presidents. Why should US Presidents be considered authorities on economic matters like this?
Don't hurt yourself trying to pat you on the back. The vast majority of those questions have already been answered by Google. Some people just like paying.

In other words, if you pay for something that you could get for free with just a bit more effort, how is that saving money?
Humidity is not so much of an issue in Dallas. It does get hot in summer, but it's a dry heat. You might be thinking of Houston.
> nearly free nearly instant transfers

Average confirmation times in the last 30 days have been between 8 - 19 minutes. Hardly instant. Also, what do you think will happen when all 21 MM BTC have been mined, fees will probably start to appear too.
When we see the Director of NSA give inconsistent testimony before Congress about the efficacy of the domestic surveillance program[s] yet no one calls it perjury, then I have zero faith in our government.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/5352917/5352917
Bitcoin is worth $0.00. How is it useable for tranferring money? (Hint: It's not)
Just FYI, if you are making $10 per hour programming in the US please Google "salary entry level <your job> <your nearest metro area>" and tell your boss what you find out.
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@maxerickson I'm not arguing that gold isn't useful, it absolutely is. Every element in the periodic table has been used for something practical, as far as I'm aware.

I'm arguing against the "intrinsic value" bullsh*t.
"belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring."

That's from dictionary.com. Gold is literally the EXAMPLE they give for intrinsic value.
> They also 'standardised' threads which were hardly common usage.

Didn't the POSIX standard do that, as opposed to the ANSI C standard?
There was a great post on lesswrong.com about this:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_peo...
I agree. Reversible is better, but not better enough to be worth being different.
He's an American Exceptionalist, given his historical support of torture and "if you're not with us you're against us" attitude.
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Decentralized digital trust is pretty valuable, that is one of the ways to see bitcoin and its use as such is starting to become apparent even if we haven't really scratched the surface yet.
Actually, if your question is about an obscure enough topic, you'll get your own question within seconds on Google. It's a kind of loop - search on Google desperately without finding anything; turn to SO and ask a question. Since probably nobody will answer soon, in the meantime search more on Google... and you find your own question on top (and feel just a bit more desperate).
I guess the best thing about stack overflow is how helpful the community is. They will help you with anything and even virtually shout on you if required. I guess it has made me the programmer that I am today. But I still have a journey ahead of me and that isn't gonna be without stack overflow.

I remember when I was using stack overflow for the first time, I asked a really silly question, and got my answer within 1 minute. I thanked that person for helping me with such a simple question, but his reply changed my thinking about the communities and why they help each other.

He just said : "no probs, someone did that for me too".
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Thanks for pointing out "ambiguous". I believe it is very important to look at the situation and social pressures in addition to personal character.
I also believe you are to significant extent wrong about the people at NSA believing they're doing good, however.
Bill Binney, Jesselyn Radack and Thomas Drake all have personal experience with the matter, and here's what they had to say about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBp-1Br_OEs&t=1h37m59s

I would add that I think much of the material Ed Snowden released, to the extent that it shows personal expressions, to me points more to these people viewing the Intelligence organization as the new "we", and /everybody/ outside, US citizen or not, as a bit less than fully human.
That cheeky smiley on the sketches detailing how they broke Google's SSL?
"TOR Stinks" and similar flippant expressions in the documents about attacking the integrity of TOR?
And so on.
To me that isn't the look of someone who thinks they're making difficult, serious choices to protect the greater good. It's the look of someone who thinks they're better than everyone else out there and they can do whatever they want, including having "a little fun" toying with those other inferior creatures, because they think no one can touch them.
That, I think, is the general mindset we're dealing with. Allow for a fair deal of individual variation of course.
The value in Bitcoin is the network and the people joining in. Try to start another bitcoin-like network, you will know it is not easy to set up an alternative.

I do think Bitcoin has a deflation problem that coin holders has no incentive to spend. And if the transaction volume goes up in future, the rewards for those new nodes may not be able to justify the cost unless you have a way to "rob" those early holders, or to force them spend before they die.
Presumably, the damage to the possibility of any new standard taking hold, given how many USB2 devices are now out there in the world.
> That's not a contradiction to the claim that wealth has been created.

There was no claim wealth was created.
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@TylerE Yeah, and they would say they same about an aluminium ring when aluminium was rare.

That definition is awfully circular and wrong, don't you think?

People assign values to things based on their properties. Not because they have some magical natural number assigned to them by an invisible man in the sky.
That API's can be copyrighted doesn't mean that they can't be licensed, even freely.

Tim Berners-Lee specifically granted permission and encouraged people to adopt the WWW and create their own implementations. The W3C allows people to use its standards freely too (I'm not sure if there is a formal license grant or not).

I don't know the status of CORBA but it is plausible that Sun/Oracle did sign agreements to adopt those specifications or that they were properly granted to all comers.

Sum encouraged adoption of Java but was always specific and controlling of the distribution of runtimes and development kits. There were always licenses to agree to and real contracts available to people who wanted to develop their own Java platforms. They were quite strict on compatibility and what versions should be supported on what sorts of devices. They did release the JDK under the GPL. If Google had declared that they were using the GPL licensed code and were obeying the terms then they would have been entitled to proceed but they did not do that. They chose to develop the incompatible Dalvik to deliberately avoid Sun's contractual obligations but still benefit from the API design, documentation and existing developer experience expensively created by Sun.
The author of the post is actually a "she," not a "he." I hate to be pedantic, but I think it's important to not assume authors of technical posts are men.
Agree, have you watched Japanese Soup “Legal High 2” ? To win the lawsuit, the lawyer doesn't case too much...
>Advertising should not be encouraged, ever.

I've never come across this view – can you tell me why you hold that opinion?
I apologize if I came off as snarky with the middle bit, I didn't mean it as such. (For instance, I don't find the VC stuff on here, such as the Kima15 thing, interesting at all. But I recognize that a huge portion of readers here do.)
Thanks for your answer, yes I know Python is a great language, but Perl is faster and better than Python for a lot of people. I think Perl is too old... And I don't know if there is companies that use Perl for new proyects.
I ignored all the stuff about intrinsic value.

I just pointed out that there are strong reasons to believe that gold will retain some value in the future. There is exactly no drop in replacement for gold. Drop in replacements for bitcoin are easy (not necessarily drop in replacements with so many miners, but I don't think it is clear whether that matters).
In abstract sense SHA256 keys are bitcoin DRM system. We assume that it's not going to be possible to break SHA256.
Right, but nobody has heard of the physicists who command only as much respect as Greenspan.
That I don't have a right to Ben's time and attention is true, but irrelevant. I'm not demanding anything of him.

I do have the right to criticize him for his public actions, which is what I'm doing. I think he behaved poorly in relation to two topics I care about: leading open source projects, and ending sexism. He doesn't owe me an explanation, but I would read it with interest.

I also think people on the project have a right to criticize him. They have. He does owe them an explanation; any action taken in the project's name is subject to review by the project community.

I think the rest of your argument is more smokescreen for your true agenda, which is tiresome. I'm glad to discuss the actual issue, but I'm not interested in knocking down straw men until you get tired of making them. It seems like you've run out of new things to say, and I don't think either of us is learning anything here. If you want to discuss this further, feel free to email me.
[Blush] Thanks for your kind question. Let me first of all say that there is a lot that is discussed here on HN that I know nothing about, and in threads on those topics, I am in lurk mode, learning from the rest of you. So thanks.

On some topics, I have a different perspective just because I am older than most people here, so I remember history that other participants have to read about. Genetics research to be a responsible popular author about that research is part of my work, so this topic was work-related. I got lucky over the weekend, because I had just looked up the human population research articles to get ready for some contentious editing on Wikipedia, and thus all of the sources were at hand. Some of the other topics I comment about are also work-related, or related to my former work or my higher education degrees (neither of which were in computer science).
I cannot fail to disagree with you less :p
I agree with you, but several people I have encountered don't feel this way. For instance I had someone try to explain how using HAML made their developers more valuable because of all the keystrokes they were saving. When you're counting keystrokes as a developer productivity metric I can only wonder how toxic the work environment becomes when you need to stop to look at documentation yet alone use Google or SO.
Ah, then I stand by my original advice. Keep in mind, base64 encoded ascii/UTF-8/whatever encoding you like is still plaintext. If you want to be secure, use a password locker program or store them in a text file inside of a small encrypted volume which you unmount as soon as you're done with it (TrueCrypt is nice for this).

But if you don't care about them actually being secure, party on...

Aside from backticks, you can also use the dollar quote (I'm sure this has a better name):

$(some_command some arguments | some_other_command)

Finally, back to the original "how do I combine this with md5" question, you don't, as that won't do what you want. That is, you want to be able to recover the plaintext, but cryptographic hashes are designed specifically to make that practically impossible.
Does the unpleasant physical shape of the USB connector improve the electrical properties somehow?

I've always been curious why the 3.5mm jack isn't used for more things, it's small, easy to use, makes a sturdy connection, and handles way more plug-unplug cycles than micro-usb.
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They were encrypted, but with no variation between the hashes for per email. https://lastpass.com/adobe/ will show you the password hints associated with the (in my case) 200 people with the same (hashed) password. The clues would be sufficient to guess the password.

I've gone to generating a unique password with a simple random number generator if the end site supports password recovery (in case Chrome's password memorizing system forgets it).

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if [ $1 ] ; then
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dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1000 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr -d -c "[:alnum:]" | tr -d '`' | tr -d "'" | tr -d '"' | tr -d '\\' | head -c $a
echo
Forget sleep. Sleep less.

Have a nice morning ritual (go have a healthy breakfast outside, read the newspaper).

Start working on the most difficult task after.
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2.0) Is inflated by algorithm, not at the whim of the central bank.
2.1) Cannot be used to pursue mercantilist trade policy.
2.2) Cannot be created from nothing as credit.

On the down side, it is not clear that the market for coins is liquid, and it is currently not widely accepted as tender, and may never be in the US/Japan (whose Central Banks/Governments have the most to lose with loss of control of money supply). But in spite of this, or maybe because of it, I think the future for Bitcoin is bright.
When we see hedge funds becoming market makers in Bitcoins I think it's time has arrived.
You are quite right. All of the information is in the manual, and if only everyone would spend their time reading the manual there wouldn't be so many questions on SO. However, the volume of information in most manuals is also the problem. If everyone read the whole manual, a lot of time would be collectively wasted because most of the information is not useful or relevant to what each individual developer is trying to do. In my opinion manuals should be written in several tiers of detail. Admittedly, a lot of software developers already publish documentation this way and these basic questions still get submitted to SO.
Lastpass doesn't have a password itself?
I think the iPod / iPhone chargers that caused fires was a concern.
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> what's the intrinsic value of gold

Gold is 1 out of 3 metals in the ENTIRE periodic table that posses the qualities which made it plausible for using in trade, holding value, and being a universal standard (does not normally de-compose or react, is not radioactive, solid, pliable, rare, minable by standard technique, etc). The other 2 were silver and platinum.

Gold has held its purchasing power for thousands of years.

That's its intrinsic value.
JSON-RPC can run over HTTP and is very old-school in its usage pattern.
afaik Ev is the only person who accesses his account, so it was almost certainly him.
Turn off every alert and notification that you can and disable the clock in your menu/task bar. Get in the zone by not letting external things interrupt you all day. Programmers especially need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Seeing a clock all day brings you out of the present moment - your mind wanders into useless thinking about how many hours until lunch, or until I go home, or even more negatively, "I've been stuck on this problem for x minutes."
As open as USB is. There have been a few articles on HN showing what the limits of that is.
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It's a linux library that checks passwords against a database of known words and patterns. You give it a password and it gives you basically one of two answers: "this is based on a known word" or "nope, never seen anything like it before". The database format looks highly obscure and doesn't lend itself to grepping without much effort.
He's probably also disciplined enough not to sound off on topics that he doesn't know anything about.

I was consulting (software) at a client site and one of the employees at the client remarked that I seemed to know everything about everything. I just replied that it was a trick - I only talk about the things I'm informed on, and when a question came up on a topic I didn't know anything about, I just redirected the conversation back to my expertise. I had a hammer and worked hard to make everything a nail. :)
It's especially damning since it seems their main defense is that the plaintiff can't even prove that DHS is the reason she's unable to fly. They keep saying "well for all we know she just didn't show up for the flight - and we won't confirm or deny if she's on the list". Since they did confirm that the witness wasn't on the list, and she may be able to provide evidence that she is, that really should blow up in their face.
Sure there are exceptions, but the people displaced by that found more newly created unskilled jobs in factories. Mass production and manufacturing had previously only been done by skilled craftsman and now was employing most of the population. And today that is finally going away completely.
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Why do people assume that RTFM does not have a cost?

In fact, it's probably higher than searching SO through Google. This is why I'm hugely in favor of even basic questions getting answers on SO.