skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes never.

Look at Thailand. You sleep in the rain or turn the remains of your house into a shelter whilst raising the cash. Not only that, people donate some of their cash to the less fortunate.

Only conspicuous consumption (greed) and hoarding of financial assets (by class) restricts our ability to resolve these problems. Simple kindness and social empathy goes a long way.

And yes I am a rampant socialist.
agreed. that is why i ended with "Not taking credit for it having X at all... that is awesome. but what this post describe couldn't be more banal."

also, remember this device probably cost more than 7x a average PC. and it was already the 90's...
It's interesting to see how flexible the building is (in terms of conforming to the ground). Obviously you need some bend due to wind/earthquake/etc, but it's rare to see it so obviously.
I'm not sure if BorisMelnik is disagreeing.
It was over $1200. 17% drop in an hour or 2? That's a plunge.
Game developer, or engine developer?
More than that, bitcoin has intrinsic value in that it solves a very hard problem in computer science, to trust a network of perhaps untrusted peers (up to 49% of them). The protocol itself I would say is of same value as the idea to use paper for value instead of carrying around heavy metals.

How come some paper has more value than other paper. Intrinstically they are the same.
I had absolutely no FP background and I found it fantastic.

Hard, yes, but fantastic.

You have to be prepared to put in the hours that the course says you should put in, and you have to be prepared to spend a lot of time reading about other people's confusion on the discussion forums.
Right now, but there were cases of people burning their money before.
So, if not tests, then how? (just curious). Personally i'd prefer a system where u need to pass a difficult academic test to get into the govt, rather than have connections etc. (Yes, IMO if no testing criteria is involved, its all up to connections).
It's great. I use it mostly for small projects and weird prototyping ideas (http://wookietranslator.com). It does take a while to configure and get going (unlike Heroku) but Google has good documentation for Python.
Is it protecting from the possibility of web sites being compromised with your data by trusting the website and the extension? How is it better?
>> Physical money has intrinsic value equal to the metal or paper it's made of. Of course that is not what makes physical money valuable and I am equally confused by that quote.

USD/EUR/JPY currency (either physical as bank notes and coins, or electronic) has intrinsic value because it is almost universally accepted, taxable, and backed by debt that (at least in theory) will have to be repaid at some point in time. Bitcoin proponents like to point out that bitcoins are decentralized as if that's only an advantage of the currency, but it's the fact that commonly accepted currencies are centralized, controlled and regulated that makes them trustworthy enough that people keep accepting them in exchange for goods or labor. It's called 'fiat money' for a reason. Bitcoin has none of this, and the 'value' it derives from the 'trust' people buying them is based on nothing but speculation and hype. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.

Disclaimer: I'm not 'anti-bitcoin', 'anti-cryptocurrency', 'pro-government' or a big fan of fiat money and how central banks are handling it. I'm just stating my observation how the bitcoin hype and echo-chamber has made people almost blind to see the risk it will some day go to zero (maybe soon)
The funny thing is... people refer to google image search as a solution to track down infringers... yet... the fact that those pictures can be found on google image search seems to be overlooked... isn't google infringing by showing us any pictures at all? or are they allowed to make money off of it by showing it in their image search results... Just stating the obvious here... it's not infringement if you are... big brother?
~50 minutes after your comment the price is $900 on MtGox and $850 on Bitstamp and BTC-E
> there are many to choose from

This is the reason I don't use one... I still haven't decided which, even if _any_ is better than nothing.
you should do some research then. for a blind person, IOS7 is unusable. while recent samsungs are almost fine... though i hate pretty much everything samsung did with android, the accessibility stuff was ok.
To the author: The section on 'Caml and Objective Caml' should be renamed to 'OCaml' as that's the official name of language in recent years.

Also, the ordering of books is best done in reverse chronological order. Improvements are made in different compiler versions so it would cause frustration for a new reader if they come across a disconnect. I suspect the same is true for other languages listed. The most recent books are 'OCaml from the very beginning' [1] (released earlier this year) and 'Real World OCaml' [2] (released a few weeks ago). You can find these and other OCaml books listed at: http://ocaml.org/learn/books.html

[1] http://ocaml-book.com/

[2] https://realworldocaml.org/
Who would want to use a fiat currency that's printed with wild abandon, if they had the option of completely disregarding it and using say, a gold-backed currency instead?

>> Of course that is not what makes physical money valuable and I am equally confused by that quote.

Not going to jail is pretty valuable, and that's what governments "give us" in exchange for paying taxes in their fiat currency of choice. It's quite simple.
There's a lot of money sitting on the sidelines waiting for an entry point. The question is how low will the price go before it all starts piling in.
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That could work for investors...
I ran IE and Chrome on the same computer. In the end I went with a function that has the loop inside it and it's fast enough. I'm just surprised it's so slow.
It is both!

In search results it is an information-dense bible of programming knowledge.

If you click on the feed of newly asked questions, it is filled to the brim with idiots with barely any understanding of programming whatsoever.

The magic of their voting system and google's search algorithms converts the latter into the former.
The issue here is that I'm making a significant investment (both time and potentially money) in what sounds like quite a long shot. You're casually open to a new opportunity but that sounds like I've only got a relatively limited chance of landing you (and that's on top of us deciding you're a good candidate for us).

You say that the ROI doesn't work for you, but the chances are those odds mean it doesn't work for the company either (we could invest the time and money in the interview and still not land you - that's always a possibility but here it sounds pretty likely).

In all honesty it sounds like the right thing in these situations isn't to pay money, it's to either find a more efficient way to work out whether it's a good match (so that a long interview was either unnecessary or something the candidate was willing to do) or for both parties to walk away and look for a better way to spend their time.

Just to be clear, it's not that I don't value the developers time, I absolutely do, it's just that I think handing over money in this situation (a) may work for the developer but doesn't for the company and (b) rather muddies the water.
Currencies that are legal tender have intrinsic value as a means of discharging debts. In particular, they can be used to pay tax.
Sorry I read your "give it a go in the US sometime" quote in the wrong spirit. Interesting to read about apparent cultural differences. I should say though that establishing live coding as 'a thing' in Europe has not been easy, it's taken ten years and a lot of energy from many people.

I don't think people get into live coding because they're inadequate in some way, but I suppose that's a personal quality judgement. If you're talking about the first wave of supercollider live coders you're talking about people like Julian Rohrhuber, Nick Collins, and Alberto de Campo. These are wonderful people, core supercollider contributors, and highly respected in their field both as practitioners and researchers.

The focus on liveness rather than planfulness is certainly not just a minor technicality. Here's a short article about the relevance across disciplines.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/12/169929-the-lure-of-liv...
> A few minutes of meditation is also very helpful for a good sleep.

I'm having trouble falling asleep after going to bed (~2hrs), or waking up during the night or early next day.

Would you please detail more about the meditation part?
About time! I'm not entirely sure what GCE is, but if it means Google puts more effort into appengine I'm all for it. Besides, AWS needs a valid competitor that it has no chance of buying.
It might as well signal of an over-complexed project design.
I graduated with a degree in Computer Science in 1997, and we also had to take an ethics class. However, it was more along the lines of knowingly creating software or hardware that would cause harm. To be honest, the majority of the tests we had were common sense..I didn't even have to even look over the material.
The bitcoin protocol may have intrinsic value, but that does not transfer to individual bitcoins.
From the Google translation of the original source:

"However, Bitcoin transaction as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate in the premise own risk."

The new bitcoin policy here isn't that much more conservative than the USA's bitcoin policy, and Beijing just legalized bitcoin for ordinary citizen gamblers, speculators, savers, and options traders! This is a good sign for bitcoin, and the market is reacting negatively anyways, probably encouraged by whales selling off trying to hit stop loss orders.

As the Chinese social-mediasphere dissects this announcement over the next day, the price should recover. Great buying opportunity right now for the short term, even if you're not long on bitcoin.
Networks come and go. Hard money, however, can still be found on hundred-years-old wreckage somewhere under the ocean.
ironic that this is upvoted while the US is asleep
I'm amazed at the comments here on this thread... Personally OpenGL is strictly superior to DirectX, solely due to being cross platform. With the release of the Steam Box and a push from Valve to look at Linux as a first class target for games, hopefully we'll see development proceed to create better tooling to rival that and exceed DX.

This is good for all of us consumers, as the lock in inherent to the technology choices made my game devs will be diminished. I can only see that as a good thing.

And besides, middleware is getting so good, how many of us really need to hack on an engine anyway. My games logic is done in Lua, not C/OpenGL :)
I was just pointing out Greenspan's statement was correct. Obviously dollars have a higher extrinsic then intrinsic value.

I think Greenspan's point was that just like with stocks you have to be careful investing in things that have low intrinsic values, ie a company that is valued very high but doesn't make much money. This is why people view gold as a safer investment then dollars, it has a higher intrinsic value.
Just do not feed (idiotic) trolls.

Who knows what hit him last day/morning/night, that killed his mood and changed him into antisocial-hulk. ;-)
The balls that these business folk have, and the soul-less programmers who fulfill their dirty visions..Eh, I'll try not to dwell on it too much.
Different languages work different ways, it would be really difficult.imho,I would not use a package manager that is not written in the language I use.So what language should it be ? Even if someone comes up with a generic protocol, there is no way it would answer all needs.
This is an absolutely awful idea, as it was every other time someone's had it.

Consider the following:

a) The maximum amount of energy you can get from some wind is a function of the velocity and density of the air and the projected area of your generator. You can't go above 59.3% of the original kinetic energy content. Conventional three axis turbines get pretty damn close to this limit (80% or so).

b) That being the case, getting cheaper or better power is a matter of getting a large projected area for a low cost while still keeping pretty good efficiency.

c) If you cover a large projected area with a small amount of material, and can point your projection to face the wind... you will do quite well. This is what conventional turbines do.

d) If you cover a large projected area with an even smaller amount of material you may do VERY well. This is what Makani power acheived before they were absorbed into GoogleX.

e) If you cover a small projected area using an astronomical amount of material, which doesn't turn but is rather built for every direction, you can expect to do really really badly... no matter how many bullshit mystery air acceleration tubes you include.

It's bullshit.

*edit: I know nothing about the people who are proposing it. They may be doing so in good faith and not realize it's a terrible idea. But it's still a terrible idea.
I think what Cthulu_ says is to serve clean and nice pictures to people coming through your server, and instead serve heavy watermarked versions for hotlinked links.

I'm not sure how this can be arranged with a CDN, but it's probably relatively easy/there's a painless way
>mere mortals that think of themselves as possibly being creative one day buy Apple in part because that is what the creative professionals use. The fact they get no further than 'Crazy Birds' on their iPad Air is neither here or there.

I keep hearing this sentiment bandied around but I have seen no evidence of it in real life. Most of the "mere mortals" I know that use macs don't make any pretensions beyond "its much nicer and I can afford it." Nobody is saying to me "I bought it because I fantasise that one day I'll run a recording studio from it." And who on earth buys iPhones and iPads to be "creative?" What a load of nonsense.
I've swapped from Android to an iPhone. And I think articles like this are dumb, and missing the damned point. I don't need to justify my choice, as it's that: a choice. You're not joining a religion. So why preach?

Anyway, the difference lies here; those EOL'd phones? Yeah, well you have a much better chance of getting a community written ROM bringing you up to date, then you do have the same thing happen to your iPhone 3GS. I want to run TOR on my iPhone, but I don't trust what's in the App Store, and I've no way of putting FOSS on my phone. I give up that choice for a nice well supported handset.

But that doesn't mean anyone who makes a different choice is wrong. Sigh.
Would a Australian Pty Ltd be an instance were you would suggest reincorporation?
Also a lot of people who think its too high and were waiting for a sign it was time to take their profits and get out.
I don't know if it will solve your particular problem, but I would suggest trying PlayOnLinux. It saved me from having a lot of hassle having different Wine configurations and versions side by side.
> keyboard harder to use

... it is 2013... get with the program and use Swype. It is impossible to go back.
"Do not marry till you are able to support a wife."

It's not so much sexist as just outdated.

Sometimes the wife will be supporting the husband. Sometimes the "wife" will actually be a husband. Sometimes there will be something close to parity between partners. At some points in a person's life they'll be economically on the up-and-up while the other isn't, and the situation might reverse, in which case the direction of support ought to change.
1. insert usb cable into debian box

2. insert other end into ipad

3. get a dialog "trust this computer"

4. click "trust"

5. goto 3.

#*@! you apple.
It does when the consensus protocol is solely concerned with the movement of bitcoins.
Impressive to see how big (near) the Andromeda galaxy is compared to all the rest.
Even when an iOS device can run the latest version, it doesn't mean it runs it smoothly…

My iPad 2 (just over two years old) is a real pain with iOS7, virtually every time I switch apps the app has to restart from scratch
1) Maybe it's just the UK but paying travel costs isn't standard here. That might change if someone was coming a long way but that would be very rare.

2) That's been discussed elsewhere in the thread. My personal view would be that unless the candidate had existing domain knowledge as well as technical skills, the lead developer would likely have been able to do the job faster themselves.

If they are being used as a freelancer for a day then I'd agree that that's exploitation but it's such a dumb thing to do (is any company really getting an unknown interviewee in to write production code to a deadline in a way their lead dev can't without the help) I very much doubt it's the case. If the developer had reason to believe that that was the case then they shouldn't ask for money, they should run away fast as the company is being run by idiots.

3) I agree but from the company's perspective to invest a day of a developers time (even without the money) I'd want to address as much of that doubt as possible up front.

4) As per point 2, I don't believe there is likely to be significant value in the code, just in learning about the candidate and that's reciprocal - the candidate is getting valuable information about the company which will form a .

Turn it around, would you want to work for a company so desperate for talent that they have to pay you to come to an interview?

To me it just sounds like you don't want this job much and the best outcome for both parties is that you go your separate ways.
The problem is it doesn't always run fine. I've got a Samsung Galaxy S running Android 2.35 and it's a pain in the neck. It's slow and crashes regularly, requiring me to remove the battery to hard reset it. And the Samsung Kies software needed to update the firmware only worked on 1 out of the 4 Windows PCs I tried it on.

Got a Nexus 5 on the way, hoping that I'll have better luck with that.
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OSX's hidden keyboard shortcuts and the kludge to fix them
It's called the Milky Way!

In general, you can't see it if you're anywhere near an urban area.
It would be really cool if they provide a free trial account as Amazon though.
yes, I understand. But even if technically possible, it won't really solve our problem. It might solve hotlinking, but not copy&pasting our images / cropping them and uploading them elsewhere, which happens probably just as frequently if not more frequently than just using our own CDN link.

Furthermore, there's a small hidden benefit of people who do hotlink to our CDN - it makes it potentially easier to trace.

Copy&pasters would require a more sophisticated search which is either labour intensive to do manually for us, or costs money to do via API.

My main concern is not about technical aspects, but rather legal, ethical and practical. Primarily, how to deal with sites that rely on user-generated (or user-stolen) content where offenders might keep on doing this...
Well, either way, the next few hours should be interesting as the east coast wakes up and sees the headlines. Will they panic sell and push the price down further? Or will they notice that selloff at BTC-China exchange is over and see it as buying signal?
http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev ?
So many words to say that people in finance prefer short term investments that are more profitable than long term investments, no matter what the consequences of the short term investments are.
I think rvm guys are trying something similar in their next iteration of RVM
*euphemism
That's because you happen to value gold just like someone else did 100 years ago.

But there are plenty of other forms of money that have vanished, from stone wheels, to shells, to papers. And all of those would be considered hard money.
The language doesn't matter if it's portable. One giant benefit of a single tool is in projects using multiple languages. Using multiple similar tools side by side is a pain. Even for a simple web app with JS it's already necessary to use two different package managers (client JS + server side code).
It's a problem because some people need to justify their purchasing decisions and "belong".
This is funny. You know that window minimization is not in the X11 spec either, right? Its something that X window managers handle internally (just like on Wayland where this is an internal compositor thing).

Of course, desktop apps wanted to interact with minimization (read current state, etc), so the WM authors joined forces to create a spec that allowed this. See how it specs minimization here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#id...

This is part of the "wm spec", and the thing corresponding to it in Wayland is called "xdg_spec", Both are produced by "xdg" (X Desktop Group) and are optional things that are used by "traditional desktop environments".

It is a good thing that wayland does not enforce the existance of window minimization, because it is not always something that makes sense in all use cases of wayland. For instance in a phone like Jolla.
More than anything else, there is just too much speculation. Much much more than adoption of bitcoin as a currency.
The quote is bit out of context. He was asked if bitcoin could be the new gold.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/greenspan-on-bitcoin-i-guess-...
>For developers it is easy to build an android app that supports android version 2.2 upwards with the compatibility packages.

No, it isn't. Seriously, tell my how compatibility packages address the lack of TextureView in pre-ICS, the lack of meaningful Camera API, the lack of OpenSLES, the outdated SQLite libs, the lack of way to get the native sampling rate, ... (I could literally go on for an hour like this).

Any nontrivial app needs load of work to properly support old versions. And then you can begin the real work: fixing vendor specific bugs.
It looks so different like this!

The Andromeda Galaxy was easy to spot, but I couldn't find any of the constellations I'm familiar with (until I found the "Show Constellations and Objects" button).
Happy to see you have such a positive attitude about hard learning. It pained me to see noobs being depressed and self-deprecative on the irc channel. I understand their feelings, I felt the same before it was all blurry, the irony is that I couldn't explain them how I got to understanding, it was just maturation, which they didn't wanna hear about.
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I don't see how it's a "good sign for Bitcoin". Until now people thought Bitcoin is going to explode in China, but now China put some serious restrictions on it. Why would that be a good sign?

Also, what happens if exchanges won't be allowed to have a bank account with the banks either? That's always been one of the biggest fears regarding Bitcoin - that if the governments decided to go after Bitcoin, that may not kill Bitcoin, but it would seriously slow down its growth and liquidity if they made it illegal for exchange companies to exchange Bitcoin.
I'm not savvy enough to understand the complications - why would it be so difficult?
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