skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of speculation that China intends to build several carriers. Their current carrier was purchased as a half-complete carrier from Russia, and towed to China, where it was finished in 10 years. It's almost as though it was a learning exercise. With their first carrier commissioned in only 2012, a second carrier has reportedly been spotted under construction. http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/08/those-chinese-a...
>income is not a good predictor of party affiliation, (and vice-versa,) and the same is true for race.[1]

Huh. Your referenced link[1] seems to disagree with you; it seems to support the assessment that the Republicans are both richer and whiter than the Democrats, by a fairly large margin.

See the section under:

"GOP Continues to Lag in Racial & Ethnic Diversity"

and on income, it says:

"Party identification is strongly linked to family income levels – people in the highest income households are roughly twice-as-likely as those in the lowest income households to say they are Republicans."

[1]http://www.people-press.org/2009/05/21/section-1-party-affil...
Uh, nope. I "mined" Ripple through that little project for a couple of days (using the g2 instances) and got a couple of dollars worth of Ripple back for over $100 ec2 bill (460 hours of WCG runtime).

I'll boinc on my desktop for science and goodwill but will not waste any more time on Ripple's program or indeed on Ripple itself, as brilliant as the idea is. Ripple's founders are hanging on to their 60%+ outstanding Ripples so tightly that I suspect the project will never truly get off the ground.

As much as people criticize it, I think some variation of Bitcoin's seignorage mining is the only realistic way to bootstrap a successful virtual currency, at least at this point.
Yeah I guess you don't need OOP either then. Let's just program in Assembly.
I wouldn't, for the same reason I wouldn't lump Jon Stewart in with news reporters.

One's just trying to make you laugh, the other has a point.
well the fiducial (fiduceo I believe in latin) which people believe to have value (hash of hash of ...) requires a lot of computation thus electricity thus resources.

Whatever brainwashed geeks thinks computer industry is already using a lot of it, I am pretty confident people would be the surprised at the Total (Real) Cost of Ownership of a bitcoin, and I am absolutely not convinced it beats real money on the long run.

And, subsidiary question: will this money scale (in cost of energy)?
Better use aptitude instead of apt-get.

If you want to know which packages are installed: aptitude search '~i'

That command will list all your installed packages and the automagically installed ones will be marked with A.
Isn't the best course of action for anyone outside to pretty much start a civil war?

Or just wait around a while, by the looks of things.
I feel like Tech is the scapegoat for San Francisco's pre-existing problems.

It's pretty obvious by now San Francisco is one of the worst places for a fast growing tech industry. They don't want change, it's a tiny peninsula (I've walked from one end to the other), there's not enough land, taxes are high, traffic is awful, transportation is apparently awful, they're overly bureaucratic, their politics are broken (all things I've heard directly from SF natives and expats), prices and living expenses are the highest in the USA, the community is volatile towards the businesses there (compare SF to St. Louis & other cities who are passing incentive packages worth $1+ Billion just to get Boeing to bring 8,000 jobs to their city). The city looks unique, hip and trendy, and just like Vogue has more issues than anyone can count.

They're complaining about gentrification as if it's the worst thing in the world. Meanwhile in St. Louis, we're all praying for gentrification. When neighborhoods become run down and violent no one says anything, everyone just moves away. When those same people move back to fix everything up suddenly they're the villain. In St. Louis, the poor just move to a cheaper place in a nicer house using the money they got from their fixer-upper home. That's something SF natives can't really do because of SF's land size problem. I've spoken to African Americans and minorities who took part in gentrification just above Martin Luther King street and bought homes to fix them up. The world operates in much more rational, logical ways outside of the hipster-bubble. If silicon valley moves, who will SF blame their problems on then?

Pretend that Silicon Valley never existed in the bay area. Would A-N-Y of San Francisco's major problems be solved? They'd still have busted transportation, still have high rent, the politics would still be the same, they'd still ignore Oakland residents, still have a lack of housing, still have the homeless problem, and everything else. This is just another re-occurring pattern in human nature: "Blame your problems on those who have nice things."
Let's See What's Inside A Steam Machine (And How You Swap Stuff Out)
That part is quite obviously satire.
I would be more distracted if I was watching an actual video of the author as they were typing. I could see still images being cool (for each piece of content) but I would hate if I had to sway with the author just to view his words.

Summary: Fair at best concept bc it's not a far stretch from what is out there. Not cool bc I don't want to see the author "in real time". Maybe something where it would allow me to read the authors' post as he is writing it, but not their video.
So we could say, the newest version of the bitcoin software correctly solves the Byzantine General problem, though older versions faltered.

And this could be the case ad infinitum if the protocol needs to be changed due to newly discovered flaws.

In summary, unless there are no bugs in your p2p software, it's very hard to solve the Byzantine General problem without outside consensus.
Usually half an hour to an hour. Enough to feel refreshed, but not so much it goes into the next sleep cycle. Typical siesta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siesta
I took anaracetam for about 6 months earlier in the year. Same as piracetam but non-prescription and only 3-4hrs vs 8+ duration.

The effects were definitely there. More code, easier comprehension of code but also enhanced use of my vocabulary, clarity of speech.

I stopped taking it because I was worried it was affecting my short term memory. I felt like I was becoming more forgetful especially on weekends when I would take a break.

I'm not sure if this was just a readjustment of my baseline making me feel dumb when I wasn't taking any or if there has actually been damage done.

I'm now of the mind that it's probably better not to risk it until a drug is well established as safe.
I am sure about that, as someone who's taking prescribed doses.
Moon rover, lander photograph each other
Studies like this have been repeated over and over again. This bias is well ingrained in culture. Another good one was a study where people where given a story about a successful person then asked to give adjectives to describe these people. When the person has a male name the adjectives were positive. Female names got negative adjectives.

The other interesting thing is since the 1970s orchestras have used blind auditions where the person auditioning is out of view. Since then females in orchestras have increased dramatically.

http://m.nber.org//papers/w5903
You've already said that, but that's not what I asked, I asked what those contributions were beyond "the magic market will fix it".
I guess I just don't get it. It's mostly just going to be a bunch of people sitting with a vacant look on their face, right? I want to see a blurred version this because??
They're among the safest prescribed substances on the planet.

That seems like a very doubtful claim. To my knowledge, for example, antibiotics are pretty much 100% safe (unless you have an allergy). Are you indeed comparing amphetamines to all other prescription drugs? Or perhaps only to prescription drugs with abuse potential?
On the stipulation that:

1) They have been 'proven' empirically to have the advertised efficacy in the general population. Different tasks require different kinds of attention and thinking.

2) There are absolutely no mental or physical potentials for addiction

3) There are absolutely no deleterious mental, physical or general health effects.

Caffeine gets 0/3, so I don't drink it.

> - modafinil >- piracetam >- amphetamines >- beta blockers > - ritalin

None of these pass any of the three requirements. Two of them have the fun potential for inducing psychosis in the general population, I have a friend who had a psychotic break after being prescribed amphetamines for ADD.

If you mix beta-blockers with stimulants, you can cause paradoxical hypertension and die. Beta-blockers also build up a tolerance and you will have rebound hypertension. Also people say they cause hair loss, but I attribute that men are typically prescribed them at an age where hair loss is natural.

Modafinil is thought to work by inhibiting GABA release through a similar mechanism as opioids, but in different parts of the brain and not to such an extreme extent. From what I've read, a pattern of abuse and withdrawal can develop with this substance.

Piracetam has a withdrawal, and needs supplementing with other nutrients to be effective.

If any of the above work for you, kudos. I don't want to live in a world where I am pressured into taking drugs on the off chance I might provide more value to my employer at the expense of my health, just because other people are willing to risk it for a job.
Would you let your child get on a bus driven by someone who wasn't taking their prozac?
Model S

Model E

Model X
Jon Stewart isn't a news reporter, but I'd still lump him in with "news". Satire has limited meaning when taken outside the scope of its source material.
I really like this idea and especially like the idea of making it more of a "live event"

At a recent hackathon I was documenting how I was feeling and rough progress reports on the hack but that's just text with a time stamp. If Tiny could use my webcam to record what i'm doing and then create a cinemagraph-like loop of myself it would create much more of an acceptable reading for family and friends than just a markdown file.

Where I really see Tiny shining is the mobile aspect though. Tiny seems like it will be a vine competitor in the future where you can access posts and see a quick video in the background of a concert or travelling through some landscape. While reading you'd see the blurred movie in the background and you could click out of focus of the post the movie would come in focus.
There's a reason so much of our oil comes from Canada, Mexico and increasingly our own domestic resources. Energy policy has been intertwined with security policy since World War I, both for America and, well, every country in the world. Look up Churchill's decision to switch the Royal Navy from safe Welsh coal to foreign oil.

This has, at times, lead to some hilarious legal loopholes like the Mexican Merry-Go-Round.
I think it'd be easy if you could spend around 15 years (or less if you have plenty of rockets lying around): Just tow a few dozen asteroids into orbit and threaten to drop them on San Francisco or DC if the US does not bow down.

The best that could happen is that they're nuked during descent causing the whole country to be covered in fallout asteroid dust.
Static methods are not a hack, they are methods that don't depend on a state.

I like how Rubyists/Pythonists jump to criticize Java, but they don't know the first thing about OOP.

I don't even use Java but these critiques are retarded, seriously.
After reading this thread, I dug my old set out of the garage, and I intend to sell them.
These days I see a lot of "Made with <3 in {{location}} " instead, so maybe its declining due to a lack of real use?
And IBM just lost a $600M CIA deal to Amazon (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57610011-92/ibm-bows-out-of...).
Great to see this project being completed after almost ten years. Several similar projects in Germany have failed (e.g. the parliament's attempt to converting to Linux) or Wienux in Vienna (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienux). IMO, a major reason for the success of LiMux was the gradual change with extensive training and that the included developing custom templates and generators for Open Office etc.

For a timeline on the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Making sound using C# BEEP BEEP
If you do, please share. It's not the kind of discussion that comes about as a normal part of my conversation with most people. Hoping to hear some interesting viewpoints on HN, especially if they happen to be from people who were able to amplify or have an additive effect by doing both.

I've experienced negative ones so far with Beta Blockers and stimulants + exercise. Haven't been bold enough to try other combos, I'm good with excercise for now
I wish more people would share ideas like this. Rose said he isn't building this as a product any time soon, rather that he had a new idea about what a blog is/could be and just shared that idea with the world. In doing so, he's starting a valuable conversation and challenging the status quo.

I'm not a fan of the actual prototype, but the idea or new philosophy about blogging that Rose is introducing here is absolutely thrilling.
They'll need to fix this, the content industry.

The deals about the contracts are one thing but the reason they are removed creates demand by exclusives. What kind of demand are you creating for someone that already owns it? Other than a demand for their money back?

Amazon needs to work out a deal with the content industry on this, so owning a movie doesn't apply to streaming false demand creation. Purchasers get to keep streaming when streaming rights aren't owned for a time.
That is commonly claimed, but lost coins isn't a reason to raise the cap. That is because there is no reason why 21 million coins has to indicate that there are 21 million units of the currency. In fact, the present cap is 2,100,000,000,000,000 units of currency, easily enough to serve the Bitcoin community. By comparison, there are 231,100,000,000,000 cents in M1 (the narrow money supply of the US)--there's about 10 times as many units of Bitcoin as there are cents, and cents are already so small they're a burden on the economy.

The point still stands, though, what happens when those 2.1 quadrillion units of currency get destroyed trillions at a time? Wont' we run out? Well, yes. However, when that happens we just slap another zero on the end. At present you can break a single Bitcoin into 100,000,000 pieces (known as Satoshis), but perhaps in the future we'll decide to add another 6 zeros on the end. Thus you could have 0.000 000 000 002 Bitcoins (we would almost certainly not speak of full Bitcoins by that point--there are already major movements wanting to use mBTC and uBTC as the standard units since 1 BTC is impractically large for most commerce). This maintains the scarcity model that Bitcoin enthusiasts are so enthused about while dealing with the money supply issue.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1rls76/of...
With these languages it always seems like first came the language, and then its users tried really hard to make sense of it. So now apparently enforcing contracts is not important anymore. "Let's just code!" - sigh
While I support the San Francisco backlash-- it's the immune system of the city's soul-- I would normally think the Google buses are a good thing. First, it's better for the environment to have a bus than to have a bunch of people driving. Second, car commuting is awful and being able to replace the commute with useful work hours is a major plus for the workers. If I had a 1.5-hour commute each way, I'd be very appreciative of a program that allowed me to get something done with that time.

The problem isn't Google buses. It's that these tech companies don't pay any fucking taxes. The right way to solve this problem is to make them pay their damn taxes like normal people, and to use that money to build housing until it becomes affordable again (and then everyone can leave the buses alone). And if a corporation is bussing people in from San Francisco, it should pay SF taxes as well instead of being a fucking tax-evading suburbanite.
I see, well whatever works man. I enjoy sugar but I find that I need enough protein to balance it out, otherwise I start feeling like crap. Sugar is a dangerous nutrient, most people don't realize that. It's good that you got your diet in order, a lot of people go through their whole life without finding out what makes them tick. Kudos man.
Seems like a pretty accurate description of Republicans to me. I say this someone with no affiliations to US politics at all.
Do you say this as someone familiar with assembly and GCC? My usual guess would be that you can often hope for a 50% speedup in a tight loop by dropping from C to assembly, and that a 2x speedup over GCC is not uncommon.

The original author's code isn't available for this example, but I put together something I think is comparable. I may still have silly bugs, but here are my initial result on Sandy Bridge are something like:

icc 13.0.1 -03 -march=native -fno-inline wrong-loop: 1.35 s
icc 13.0.1 -03 -march=native -fno-inline right-loop: 0.78 s
icc 13.0.1 -03 -march=native -finline-functions wrong-loop: 0.22 s
icc 13.0.1 -03 -march=native -finline-functions right-loop: 0.22 s

gcc 4.8.0 -03 -march=native -fno-inline wrong-loop -fno-inline: 1.38 s
gcc 4.8.0 -03 -march=native -fno-inline right-loop -fno-inline: 1.14 s
gcc 4.8.0 -03 -march=native -finline-functions wrong-loop: 1.35 s
gcc 4.8.0 -03 -march=native -finline-functions right-loop: 1.14 s

There are all sorts of things I might be doing differently (or wrong), but I'm printing out a total-of-totals so I know it's at least going through the loops. It's possible that is a fast-math optimization, but I wouldn't be betting on GCC -O3 to be close to optimal.
That's what I was thinking - he is a fake and is using NSA to get you to his Mayonnaise. Honestly, those declassified numbers at the bottom of his post do sound made up.
In fact that's what I've been using for my recent projects (e.g. things made at hackathons) — not sure which message (if any) I'd stick in the footer of a proper new website.
We are based in Atlanta, which would make things interesting. I'll talk to my co-founders.
Wouldn't any motion distract the user from focusing on the content? I mean this would be interesting for a twitter blog, but if you're adding any material with any substance I would find it distracting. The static image aspect is better in my opinion.
I have nothing constructive to say about the article, but for the record: gender is chosen, sex is not. I wish the world would get this right, especially Scientific American, which got it wrong in the second sentence.

Here's an interesting link: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender%2C+sex&...
Only a year late. :-D
Bandwidth is still a precious resource. It would take a lot of storage, processing, transmission, and energy to make a live video happen in the background of a blog entry.

The premise of an asynchronous portal is interesting, though.
Beta blockers are used by musicians to control performance anxiety. I used to take them for auditions. For a stage performance it can leave you a bit emotionally flat, but when you have ten minutes in which you have to be perfect, it can really help stave off the shakes.
Philosophically, yes its a very thrilling concept that you could look into the world of the blogger. But, as far as what the prototype demoed, it seems very distracting visually to be reading and seeing a person moving behind the text. As someone pointed, this could rather be some plugin for wordpress/tumblr and not an actual platform.

Kevin seems to be just testing out his hypothesis here and not really planning on building a product out of it (as mentioned).
You would think they'd have learned after that 1984 fiasco a couple of years ago - taking content away does not a happy customer make.
Thanks. I was puzzled that there seemed to be no 7.2 to 7.3 release notes or change lists linked from the original URL... just stuff about 7.0.
Agree, that it sounds like a feature. Not a platform. I like an idea: would be interesting to see few real blog posts with such background.
Can imagine relaxed person with a cup of tea, leaving workspace, coming back.

However such background videos can be quite long. Much longer than average reading time.
I'm gonna slide down that slippery slope :).

The way I see it, jobs that can be done better while doped will have pressure on their executors to continue to supplement or lose the position.

That's not to say it's hopeless, just that highly competitive jobs might be out of reach for those of us who decide that they don't want to be drugged.

I look at it like professional sports. So many athletes use performance enhancing drugs, that to compete with the pros, you need to take them as well.
> income is not a good predictor of party affiliation, (and vice-versa,) and the same is true for race.[1]

From the link you provide:

Blacks remain overwhelmingly Democratic in party identification

Did you read it?
For one, he seems to have developed the theory of price signals.
If you guys want an unorthodox approach to blogging, check out my friends' platform - http://newhive.com - they are like MySpace meets Tumblr meets MS Paint :) There's been some cool, albeit very "unique" content published on their site.
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Like how they start off right away saying Snowden cheated on the test to get hired and then discuss his "weird" habits. Seems the same as most high profile interviews - the interviewer is so thrilled to get an exclusive they just gobble up whatever they're told.
I've been doing both, although in hindsight it would be better to stick to one. Personally, since the copyright has very little legal implications (from what I know), you might as well just do the "Made with <3 in..." thing IMHO.
It irritates me when they use the term "taken" or "lost" when referring to the data that was leaked or copied. The verb taken works best for physical document. Lost would mean that the physical document was taken or stolen and is not replaceable.
In the modern fascist plutocracy, the only effect you will ever have on the behaviour of corporations is through where you spend your money. The beast can only be starved, not tamed.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=We%27re+sorry+...
Caffeine is addictive and has physical/mental side-effects.
Despite popular conception, "evangelist" as a word isn't actually rooted in religious etymology: it comes from the Greek "euangelistes" -- literally "bringing of good news", where the "good news" part is rooted in the Greek "angelos", meaning "messenger."

http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Evangel...
tl;dr “I haven't yet read _The Extended Phenotype_”.
I would add that if you think it's not so hard to imagine, maybe share your imaginations with others. Simply asserting it's easy to imagine hasn't worked out well for science in terms of communicating its findings to the public. There are still lots of people who find that imagining hard - it's a psychological barrier to accepting evolution for many people.
All AWS keys I've seen start with 'AKIA'. I am assuming that they have bots that search Github and other search engines for access keys. At that point it is easy for them to tie them back to an account and notify the user.
If this result is valid, it's probably also true for other mammals that bear young one at a time. If so, it's proabably a lot easier to verify in cows than humans. Less paperwork required for experiments, for one thing.
Antibiotics can be pretty taxing on your body and metabolism.