skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget about engineers and medical research. Moving data off-site for processing isn't always an option. Even when it is, there is money to be saved by running sub-sampled data locally and prototyping models before scaling up.

I'm getting a 12 core asap, but eager for more compute-focused options.
Avegant Glyph: Transforming Virtual Retinal Display will sell on Kickstarter
Ask HN: IP Law firm - Dunlap Codding
Anyone have any information on these people? Good, Bad, anything?
webkitOfflineAudioContext + Frank Sinatra
Real Estate is strangely one of the last bastions of obviously disruptable inefficiency. Why do brokers deserve 6% for a purchase, or 2 months rent for a rental? It's absolutely crazy.

The best I can tell, they serve two functions:
1) They pre-screen "undesirables" for the landlords, allowing the landlords to avoid legal issues. (I'm not making a moral judgment, just observing behavior)

2) They negotiate higher prices for the seller. (This is just theory, per "Freakonomics" they seem more likely to hold out for a better deal on their own homes.)

So why in practice is it so hard to get rid of MLS? Because of their head start in the information monopoly, it is hard to replicate, and they have no incentive to let others into the game.

What's a good analogy? Look at how hard it is to unseat market data providers in Wall Street. Someone could beat Bloomberg, but only if they convinced all of Wall Street to stop using their feeds. Data providers usually only change when Wall Street says, "Let's create our own rather than give money to someone else."

Net - you would have to convince a meaningful (20%? 50%?) amount of brokers that they're going to get a larger market share of a smaller pie, that will inevitably send their old pie out of business. Or a TON of marketing money to convince a lot of home owners and buyers they're better off on their own.

I hope that someone pulls it off, because a lot of these brokers make investment bankers look like altar boys.
For most tasks that you really want to throw 12 cores at (e.g. video rendering), the latency of sending everything over the Internet will be extremely noticeable. If you don't care about that sort of thing, you probably don't care about having access to 12 cores.
Altcoin idea: FairCoin
Yes. Do your due diligence & be up front & honest.
Also prepare to have a 'backup' plan (other peson/people) in case he still wants to move forward
Considering the loss of position over the last week, it's certainly feasible.
Apparently, referring to a thread which is highly critical of Coinbase, while participating in another critical thread, is proof enough for you that Coinbase criticism is silenced. I hope when I frame it like this, you understand how stupid it is, what you wrote.
I'd really like you to say more on why, to you in particular, and not just in theory, this is important.

For example I've been using money and doing traditional banking for a long time. In the US at least the only reason my money would be seized is if I get hit with a lawsuit or don't pay my taxes (or perhaps in a divorce). (Have I missed anything?).

As such that is something that I am willing to accept.

So what are your specific concerns with respect to not having to trust a central controlling authority?
The Culture That Gave Birth to the PC - Walter Isaacson
If you've got enough information to cancel the main signal, then you've also got enough information to cancel the reflections. It will take a more computational power though, which is okay if you're doing the analysis on a recording.

The brute force way is to do an exhaustive search, repeatedly correlating the signal you are looking to cancel and the received signal, whilst "sliding" the known signal across the received signal, which means adding a delay to the known signal between each correlation. Correlation peaks can be picked out and used to cancel the reflections. Similar techniques are regularly used in radio communications, to combat multipath fading, which is a fancy way of saying that the received radio signal contains reflections.

Edit: remove cruft at end of comment.
Why wouldn't it be theoretically possible to move the data off-site? Too big? Again I'm assuming there is some seamless way for the operating system to treat off-machine cores and in-machine cores.
to be honest you guys both failed.
it absolutely is a technological breakthrough, moreso than uber or airbnb can ever be. it solves a fundamental technological problem - the global view synchronization problem, the Byzantine General's Problem - in a unique, novel, and original way. AirBnB and Uber do no such thing.

i really don't like being assigned a bunch of political views just because i recognize how elegant bitcoin is, and have bought an amount in bitcoin that wouldn't concern me if i lost it. this doesn't mean i'm a paranoiac or a libertarian or don't appreciate the need for central banks. i know it is risky but i also think the bitcoin network iteself has long term value and until the point that it is priced at that value i stand to make money from holding it.

this person clearly has a political axe to grind.
> Bitcoin has an approximate "intrinsic value", which in economic terms is a bit above the cost of mining.

The current cost of mining is a rough replacement cost of bitcoin (and thus, in a sane market, ought to be a ceiling on its market value, since if the exchange cost is higher than that, you are better of mining then buying), but since mining isn't inherently reversible its not an intrinsic value.
Yup, I agree.

The "nucleus" of our group were smart people I'd met through my podcast (Product People). We only let 5-10 people in at a time, and the monthly cost itself keeps most trolls away. ;)

The group has a great diversity: everyone from people building their first thing, to folks that have already built big (million+ in sales) businesses.

Clearly, choosing a group to belong to is a pretty personal choice. Our group isn't going to appeal to everyone. ;)

(And correction: it's actually $20/month! There are other active + healthy communities that are $34-$100/month out there as well)
So, it seems like most people had a bad experience with Elance. I have to admit that I had pros and cons too.. but now that I've learned how to use it smartly it's so damn useful. I think you can find very smart people and if you build a respectful relationship with them, it becomes very handy if you're dealing with multiple projects like I do. I know how I can trust them to do a great work and they trust me back to have quality projects / quality specifications and well paid.
The value of paper money is something like "If you want to exchange your work for goods and services, you will need to provide paper money to the local gang, or else." If the gang in power changes, or at the whim of the gang in power, the money can quickly become worthless. For instance, I have not succeeded in trading réis or markka for bread or gasoline recently.
home built PC market is probably larger than the entire Mac market. I don't have any figures to back this up but based on Windows' market share and my experience, 20% of PC's I've seen over the years are home built.

As (presumably) a home PC builder, 20% of the PC's you seen over the being home built doesn't imply much about the rest of the world...

The reason why there isn't much overlap is that workstations are often used in a professional setting by designers, where spending $3000 on a computer isn't considered a great deal. Home built PCs are rarer in this context.
(Because it's not on the front page)"START-UP NY is a groundbreaking new initiative from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo that will provide major incentives for businesses to relocate, start up or significantly expand in New York State through affiliations with public and private universities, colleges and community colleges. Businesses will have the opportunity to operate state and local tax-free on or near academic campuses, and their employees will pay no state or local personal income taxes. In addition, businesses may qualify for additional incentives."

Wow. As a former resident of NYS, this is incredible. Income tax in the state is really high and this seems like a good way to spark development.
Actually I didn't know the details but had thought that would be the safest method to deal with the PIN. But I assumed you were talking about the equivalent of the "Track 2 data", i.e. issuer ID, account number, etc. Is that also kept away from the ATM?

As for the PIN - if the encryption happens in the chip card, how does it get from the PIN pad to the card in a way that cannot be intercepted?

And finally, what prevents compromised ATM software from displaying "please enter PIN now" while keeping the PIN pad int the direct mode used to enter the amount?
On the contrary. I don't want to fan the flames of conspiracy theories... but there is a very real possibility that if the market went _up_, Coinbase would have refunded the money as USD instead of BTC.

Only if Coinbase can prove to the public that they are consistent on matters like this would your assertion be correct. But if Coinbase were inconsistently applying their policies... they can make a very pretty penny on scamming their customers.

Transaction Delays are a serious problem.

Now, according to the edit, Coinbase did the right thing here and are eating the loss. So Coinbase is doing a good job at damage control...
"The value of “Bitcoin as a protocol” is $0" might be true for you but other people evidently differ :)
Thanks for answering the question I was going to ask.

However, if you move the process out into the desert and use concentrated solar power to provide the heat then you have a solar power process running at 50% efficiency to produce a stable portable store of energy, which makes a lot more sense.
So Coinbase put me in a similar situation but they haven't bothered to respond to any of my emails thus far. Is this where I contact Coinbase customer support?
When turning on the macbook, hold the mute button. While this will last through reboots, I can't guarantee it since the setting seems to reset when I boot into windows or a liveCD.
Given that other posting, I was thinking of a completely different meaning for "crosses 650,000 users" ...
Wow. This is a very thorough argument. Many of the people I know (I'm studying at Wharton right now) that see bitcoin as nonsense don't think it deserves the time it would take to produce an essay like this (which is fair). I'm glad someone wrote it.
I like how the author implicitly assumes that Bitcoin is a replacement for the current financial system. I wish it was so, but not just for Bitcoin, but the best set of the crypto-currencies, as determined by competition/user adoption.
You should use optical filters if possible to filter unwanted wavelengths and receiver should have relatively narrow field of view. The main goal would be to detect difference from the background.

Rotating reticle would be really good idea if you can make it work mechanically. You would need only one light sensor to detect direction if you use reticle. See: http://wiki.scramble.nl/index.php/Sidewinder_article#Reticle Simple C type reticle would be enough to separate target from the background and find out the direction of the target.
Note that I didn't assign any political views to my comment, I merely discuss the technicalities of the protocol.

The protocol is the same algorithm that has existed for years. Bitcoin adds an economic incentive on top of it, hence my designation as an "economic innovation".
Some guy who creates users to respond to criticism? Oh and looks like an idiot.
I agree. It might be sensible, but we do not know per the article information.

Doing some very, very rough estimates, I figured we would might be able to take 20 barrels of algae slurry, "cook" them (@ 350°C & 3000 PSI) for a thousand hours and get one barrel of petrol. Little or no mention of other inputs/processes involved.

My point is, we will be able to do this if we have to, but it will not be cheap, and even if we have the money we may not have other resources to do it at large scale. Like... to make it available for all motorists in the world to drive happily ever after. It is more likely that this will be an strategic resource that governments will use to fulfill needs that cannot be fulfilled any other way (like (military) aviation... you cannot just stick a Mr.Fusion in the tale of a plane and go to the infinity and beyond).
I don't see withholding MLS listings from online listing sites helping brokers in the future.

These listings won't get sold because people won't be able to find them online. As a result people will stop listing their homes with brokers.

I recently bought my first home, and the negotiating started with "since you aren't using a broker we can take $10k of the listed price". That was the selling broker's opening negotiation, before I even made my initial offer.
> home built PC market is probably larger than the entire Mac market. I don't have any figures to back this up but based on Windows' market share and my experience, 20% of PC's I've seen over the years are home built.

How does this make the release of a chassis relevant to the release of a Mac Pro? The chassis doesn't even have the interesting characteristics of the Mac Pro chassis. I was hoping it might be something like that, but alas. The fact that a market is sizable doesn't make it universally relevant.

> There is going to be some overlap.

There is bound to be some overlap between Mac users and people who eat at McDonalds (both groups are large enough that it's inevitable), but that overlap isn't enough to make comments about McDonalds relevant to stories about the Mac Pro.
things like this need to stop though:

<?php /* pointless comment */ ?>
<?php echo $something; ?><div><?php if($blah){ echo stuff(); ?></div><?php } ?>...

...keeping track of that context switching in a complex theme can be maddening. Especially if it includes inline css and javascript or (heavens forfend) mixes php in with the inline css and javascript...
From my understanding, Google is currently working with the city to provide an alternative solution. Not that I think that would dampen the current biligerence of some of their critics.
Amazing that a lot of this has stood up to the test of time.

A good rule of thumb: Be conservative in what you send and
liberal in what you receive. You should not send heated messages
(we call these "flames") even if you are provoked. On the other
hand, you shouldn't be surprised if you get flamed and it's
prudent not to respond to flames.
"The gradual dismantling of much of the US and international financial regulatory safety net is now regarded as a major catalyst for the Great Recession."

That's the traditional narrative, coming from the regulators themselves. "we messed up, so you need us even more". It also totally ignores the state's role through policy in pumping up several running bubbles - tech bubble, housing bubble, higher education bubble. Why are people encouraged into top-0.1%-enriching investment vehicles, like 401ks or mutual funds or pension funds? Why, because they need to protect themselves from inflation. And who do you suppose creates the inflation? It's not a law of nature; it's the state and its "Regulators". The reason why those peddling the traditional narrative are terrified that we will see by example that inflation is not natural. It is in their interest to pooh-pooh it.

At least bitcoin bubbles are short and only sweep under people who are accepting the risk. Without prejudice to either position on the regulation good/bad issue, the VERY LAST thing we need is more of THESE regulators.
Here's a suitable webcam cover kit from the EFF:
https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set
Wow! Does this in include NYC?
Damn, but I wish I'd written this myself.

The obnoxious thing--to me--about this play money trend isn't that people are giving it serious attention and thought, it's the shiny ideals in the eyes of the greedy.

It provokes a reaction in me: how dare any Bitcoin advocate take moral ground against a system that, whatever its flaws, protects its community from the disasters Bitcoin repeatedly faces?

Greed. Greed greed greed.

Unsurprisingly, PG takes Bitcoin seriously.
fc2.com is almost as big as pinterest? Yeah, not sure about the accuracy here.
Using a proof of work to build a distributed ledger of transactions - whether it be of money or messages or anything else - was an original innovation of BitCoin, inspired by Nick Szabo's earlier work. Proof of work was used in hash cash, but not in a peer to peer network. My comments regarding political views were more a response to the article.
>HDD light blinking? That means it's working correctly. Am I right?

In a lot of ways that is correct. Generally, when something is thrashing the hard drive it is making actual progress on its task, and its task is relativly short lived. This means that if your computer is going slowly, and the HDD LED is active, you can likely wait for the HDD LED to quiet down. In contrast, when your computer is going slowly (or not responding at all) and your HDD LED is off, it is much more likely that something is wrong and won't resolve itself.
Mostly just policy around certain types of data. That people who complain about such policies are also willing to e-mail around zip files is beside the point.

Edit: it seems like I read about certain algorithms that could perform calculations without direct knowledge of the underlying data, but I can't find a link. It only worked for a specific class of problems in any case.
Something tells me if the price went the other way (in coinbase's favor), the situation would have not ended with refunded money.
Where I live, a software engineer makes about $500/month. That's $3/hour and some change, I know software developers who make even less. Freelancing for me is basically a no-brainer as I will not work for those wages if I can help it. I have the incredible fortune of being able to speak and write at a native level, that gives me and a few others an edge but most people suffer a lot.

If you land a job making $5/hour, full time 40 hour weeks, that's $800 a month. A LOOOOT of people here would kill for that kind of salary.
Yea because regulators totally bought and sold bad assets and promoted their sale. Don't confuse regulations with tax breaks.
Exactly my thoughts. Hope anyone with more clue can explain this.
I thought maybe paradigm got tired of Linux and picked up Wordpress when I saw this.
You are right, it is quite bad to ignore the details in the long run (it requires patience of course).

However that makes even less of a case for Python.
"It’s not clear how many cards thieves may have stolen in the breach. But the sources I spoke with from two major card issuers said they have so far been notified by one of the credit card associations regarding more than one million of cards total from both issuers that were thought to have been compromised in the breach."

Well crap.
I can't help but get the feeling, especially from the way things are cited in the article, that the NSA spying was not the cause of Boeing's bid souring, but rather that the decision was used as an opportunity to put some pressure on the NSA. Good on them either way. The economic impact is just one of the ways this program hurts Americans as well as foreign nationals.
A while back I came across this wiki article which is relevant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial_...
Thank you. I have been waiting for this article since I first heard about Bitcoin years ago. I think it's a great experiment, and it's been fun to watch, but when I hear non-tech friends talk about "investing in Bitcoin" it makes me cringe.

I think it's a very interesting question to ask how a community as smart as the SV hacker crowd can be so fundamentally blind about basic economics that we have known for centuries. I think our markets desperately need new technology and I'm glad we're thinking about it, but throwing away the economics playbook of the last 500 years seems like a step backward in financial technology rather than a step forward.
I never really believed that the DailyWTF was non-fiction - seriously?

The managers I've had have all had flaws of one type or another, but they've also had strengths that I couldn't gain without years of training/working under them.

I wouldn't last long under someone I didn't respect - that's a recipe for resignation.
Maybe unload/delete the kernel module? (This is how I used to silence the pcspkr beep on Linux.)
I'm fairly sure there was a post a couple years back by 37s along the lines of "this style of sales letter is often used by somewhat scammy companies ... but that's because they don't have a real product at all so they have to be really good at marketing copy".

Which is a fair point - and, well, the last time I read one of those I started off thinking "this is weirdly high pressure" ... and then ended up reading the whole thing and signing up for a basecamp trial anyway (which I promptly failed to try properly, so I have no opinion on the product ...).

I think my point is "call it high pressure instead of scammy". If I actually have one. goes in search of another coffee
Thats what I thought too.... but then, I don't know a way to fake the URL. It's legit as far as I can tell.
I was thinking the same thing reading this. I don't see many instances of pair programming. Granted, my data points are limited, but that seems to be the exception, not the rule.

I've seen more people extoll (and consultants sell) automated testing than folks actually use it, let alone TDD. As an idea, I get it, but the implementation still seems mixed.
Clever, both financially and psychologically. If you plan on leaving after 10 years consider this, after a decade you will have built your entire logistics, business partnerships, network, staff, and support system in NYC. Moving out will be very difficult. You won't want to.
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