skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know what you mean. I never did buy into Bitcoin because when I became aware of it in 2012, I looked at the historical price chart and thought the bubble had come and gone in 2011 and I'd already missed my chance to get rich.

Ended up pointing out to myself, hey if I had the power to go back in time, I wouldn't spend it going back to 2011 to get rich, I'd spend it going back to 1920 to kill Hitler. If I don't feel bad about not being able to do that, there's no point feeling bad about not getting rich on Bitcoin either.

As you say, it's a crazy and interesting time to live in.
Wow, the tone is very harsh here. What's wrong with my suggestion? i honestly don't get all the downvotes here. smh. Even they are two distinct projects by now, there is no need to be harsh and ask if I were a project manager. The Internet is open to people to question.
I love these random Wikipedia articles which end up being very interesting.

I do agree that the longer the sentence, the harder it is to read. I think a good improvement to this algorithm would be to have varying degrees of "complexity" based on the word popularity instead of having a binary classification of complex/non-complex. Instead of using a percentage of complex words like that formula does, you could use a weighted percentage based on the popularity of each word in a word frequency list. Or even better, you can measure the word-based information entropy contained in the writing sample.

Frequency lists are everywhere: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
This has the added advantage of being able to use the dictionary tuned for your target audience is. As an example if you are targeting a system administrator, the index could be made more accurate by using a frequency list generated from UNIX man pages. (tongue-in-cheek)
As green as it gets, since the CO2 that is released from burning the fuel has been taken out of the atmosphere by the algae a short time before that. The only issue is to take care of the byproducts and algae production process, which can create local pollution issues - cheaper not to do it, but nothing that hasn't been done before in sufficient scale.
How is this even remotely relevant to this site?
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I remember that there is a YC startup delivering fast&cheap Delaware formalization but I cannot find it. I would be grateful for the name of that startup. Thanks!
curious about the pc - was it custom built? just interested in the other components you chose.
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Many people work hard and never make it.

Many people build great products and never make it.

Many people build a great business but it doesn't last.

Luck doesn't determine whether you are able to make it but it does often have a lot to do with whether you get the chance.
> For example if your SQL query is too slow from a pragmatic point of view and then you go ahead and fix it by using optimizer hints then the abstraction of the procedural querying process provided by SQL has just failed you as it hasn't worked.

Well sure. But I've never had that happen; is the A = B and B = C and C = A problem the article talks about one that causes problems in real-life code?
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> But the inference rule is itself an axiom

Is it? I've seen Boolean True explicitly derived from Modus Ponens. Apparently, p -> q = ~p v q which looks derivable from Aristotle's Third Law.

http://matt.might.net/articles/logical-literacy/
As an avid Vim user I really like the regular updates on Sublime Text 3 and I can see how I would enjoy some of its features like multi-cursor support. The shortcuts remind me more of Emacs, though.
Here's hoping that Sublime will continue to be strong and won't go the way of the dodo soon (like Textmate did...).
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I usually use a similar pattern for my passwords. That way I could probably generate a few hundred combinations and run the list against the wallet. Would of cause be easier if there were a tool for doing that.
How did that work out for the Kernel debates? :)

I don't think anyone disagrees that a "well designed and written" program of loosely coupled pieces has advantages over a monolithic one.[1] The debate is really over which is easier to do. And, the argument you are responding to is essentially, that it is easier to abstract out parts after you have done it in whole a few times. I know, personally, that that is a very compelling argument.

[1] Well, there probably is some debate on the feasibility of making things as loosely coupled as you would like. Back to the kernel debate, how many microkernels have survived with the device support of linux?
Ex-Padrino maintainer here. I would agree - to an extent.

Padrinos goal is to not be in the way of integrating minimalist libraries and it is composed of a set of Sinatra plugins that are minimalist as well.

So, it breathes the mindset, but yeah, it is a stack.
What i really like about this is that instead of keeping it under wraps and calling it a "trade secret", they openly discussing their technique and releasing it for the advancement of the field. Not only did they write a paper about it, but made it open access! (as opposed to traditional journal publication)[1] So kudos to their effort!

[1] Though this IS disney we're talking about and they certainly don't need journals for getting an audience for their papers
But is it better than turning that geothermal energy into electricity and transmitting it to a battery in an electric car?

Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying there isn't a need for oil. Just wondering what the efficiencies are for each route, and whether this process means that we don't even need electric cars any more (doubtful, but I thought I'd ask)
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I think the comparison to moon bases is a little dramatic. The infrastructure exists already for Bitcoin, and there is a thriving Bitcoin ecosystem. Whether or not it continues to grow is the question.
See the book and surrounding discussion of "three felonies a day". The Congressional Research Service cannot even produce an accurate count of how many federal crimes they are. Most estimates are over 100,000 different offenses. Add in state, county, municipal, further governmental subdivision crimes, etc. and it's totally impossible to know all the laws of the land.

They say ignorance of the law is no defense, but when the government can't even supply an accurate count of the number of the laws, maybe we should re-think that. We all commit a lot of crimes.
Idea matters more than code
I had accidentally copied and pasted the wrong one.
Who can say whether this is a good price for Bitcoin, even after the recent drop? The author says this is the time to buy but goes on to say:

"I have no crystal ball, and can’t say that Bitcoin is at the lowest price it will be at over the next several days/weeks/months. It may very well be that Bitcoin goes lower"

If you want to speculate, try the stock market. It's been around since forever, and you might actually have a bit of an understanding of the fundamentals driving some of the stocks there.
edit: this explanation was for the pre-edited point:

When the last file is closed, a new transient file is created automatically

before when you closed all tabs you were left in this weird state where there was no buffer to type in until you created/opened a file.

Now it behaves as if you'd just opened a fresh window, where you have a buffer that becomes an "untitled" tab the moment you type something.
Somebody needs to come up with a better way of converting solar energy into a transportable liquid. I'm guessing this is as good as it gets for now.
was posted a gazillion times before but there's always a new opportunity to do it again. paste this in your browser:
data:text/html,<body contenteditable style="font-size:2em;font-family: monospace;line-height:1.4;max-width:60em;margin:0 auto;padding:4em;">
If you buy it right this minute - yes, it should grow a little more, and you can make a nice profit on it. But is $600+ the price it will stay at from now on? I'm not so sure. I think it will drop to $350 soon, because there's still a lot of uncertainty in the market right now, and there could be some more European countries coming out with bad news for Bitcoin in the next few weeks.
Funding your start-up with NGOs money
Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world.
2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.

Funding your start-up with NGOs money
This title is certainly more catchy. It's odd it didn't upvote the prior link.
I believe it means hat when you close the last open file, it opens up and empty, unnamed file instead of just closing the window. The same behavior as opening the editor with no files to restore.
You're probably not a good candidate for day trading.

I'm in a similar boat as you though so... dem feels.
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var·i·ant
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noun
1.
a form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard

See also: netBSD, or even 386BSD
When can I actually use Bitcoin as a currency rather than a speculative investment asset?

That's when I want to buy Bitcoin.
For me the best change is this

Added image preview when opening images

It's weird, I would never have even realised this bothered me until I saw it in the patch notes, then I instantly remembered all the times I was looking for an asset and had to switch to the file browser to find it
Academics (like other knowledge workers) are fairly well paid, so making them waste time by using crappy equipment does nobody any favours.

In academia — or at least in STEM and the social sciences — quite a lot of people need a somewhat high-spec machine (e.g. to run quantitative models on large data sets, compile code, process large LaTeX documents, etc).

And the basic model Macs generally come with woefully little RAM and rather small SSDs. So I'm not sure it's reasonable to be hacked off.
Yes - if you don't have an electric car. Or if you're somewhere in Siberia at -40 degrees C where a) batteries stop working and b) you're 500km away from a power line.
> If China hadn't moved against Bitcoin, would you think that would make Bitcoin a less attractive speculation?

Yes. Didn't I just say that?
We just need to get more businesses to accept it. If Amazon accepted Bitcoin, HELLO BUBBLE 2!
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Every time an American buys a widget made in China - a rather frequent event - that causes someone somewhere in the supply chain to have dollars and want RMB.
If you love writing code, do not become a “consultant”. Become a developer.
It's basically time-shifting. Either you can turn this geothermal energy into electricity and have the consumer charge their car at home over a long period of time (hours) or you can turn it into a full tank of gasoline over a long period of time (hours), ship it to the consumer to fill their tank in a short period of time (minutes).

Either way, it takes a long time. The difference is the impact to the consumer of converting it to something useful for them (gas), or having them convert it to something useful (a charged battery). The consumer doesn't notice the gasoline taking a long time, to them it takes minutes.
it's always good to ask questions.

If you're not familiar with the BSD World, what you asked was tantamount to Why can't we merge Gentoo and Ubuntu?'

The BSD clans have very different goals and philosophies.
I grew up in the seventies and my greatest fear was nuclear attack. That might be because I'm British and we're only 4 minutes from the USSR.

I didn't feel weary of the doom mongering and I'm not at all cynical about the current risks. I believe they are very small but non zero for certain areas of Asia.
GMail fucked up email for me.

For a long, I seemed to be the last person in my area to stick to proper quoting, but I'm afraid I've slipped over the past few years. I think I top-quote more often than not, these days. GMail is partially to blame for that.
It looks mostly right for wet snow. Powdery snow wouldn't work like this though. Maybe they just didn't think that example was very interesting?
I can and do for many things. Just loaded my namecheap account last night with some more funds, for instance.
Awesome man, thanks! I actually got Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne instead. The reviews on Cormen said it's the seminal resource on algorithms, but a little too advanced for the self-directed (non-genius) learner.
These days there is a proper secure wipe built into most drives themselves. Its part of the ATA spec. https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

Yet if you ask how to wipe a disk on a forum, you'll get user-space ideas like `dd` and `shred` :(
When it's 30+ percent of the world's transactions? Its market cap needs to be worth trillions before a highly stable price is established. When Bitcoin is truly mainstream and your grandma and grandpa will be having Bitcoin, and don't "panic sell" at every Bitcoin news, it's when Bitcoin's price will be stable.

Right now the market is full of people who buy and sell Bitcoin based on the latest news. Those people need to represent a tiny percentage of Bitcoin's market cap before volatility decreases drastically. Of course, when that happens, you shouldn't have major news like "China bans Bitcoin" anymore, since if so many people are using it, then you can assume the legal stuff has already been settled long ago, and most countries are using it, and won't ban it overnight anymore.
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Essentially what is claimed is that BT supplies combined modem/routers to subscribers, they are closed to configuration by the subscribers, and trojaned. Further (according to the claims), the firmware will look into your home LAN if you let it.

[Edit 0, corrected this par.] The smart thing to do, of course is interpose your own trustworthy router with firewall and your own settings on the LAN side of any ISP equipment. This would at least keep the ISP out of your LAN if you otherwise practice good security. (Also maybe demand a pure modem, or bridge mode on a combined unit, tho these changes even if obtained would not really prevent the ISP filtering or spying.)

None of this will stop any messing about on the ISP side, but there are other means of trying to foil wiretapping, MITM or impersonation attacks.

Edit 1: OK, this is probably a waste of time but I'll update to acknowledge (a) BT says this report is "a conspiracy theory" and others say the 30.x subnet is widely used for innocuous purposes (b) the allegations, while they point to real possibilities, are undermined by the "researchers"' super-cheezy style and overblown hype in their PDF.
i don't get it... what exactly is the criticism here?
You're not supposed to 'invest' in bitcoin. I just use it to buy/sell goods and services online and cash them out immediately. Btw your coins are worth 2-3x the USD price in Argentina so go there on vacation.
Funding your start-up with NGOs money
Currently working on the hypothesis of my future venture and come to a the current hard to answer dilemma.

Our value proposition is two fold:

1. Bring education to the hundred millions of people that do no have access to school and by nature are often poor. Targeted to the developing world.
2. Making education an addictive experience and a part of everyday life of people in the developed world through the use of Gamification.

Now the dilemma arise because that we believe that the only way to address the first target would be to take NGOs money in order to put the equipments and the setup in the hands of the users.

Do you think that we can take NGOs money while remaining a business?

PS: We think this project would explode it kickstarter funding, if we could use it. But unfortunately we can't.

What other means do we have to fund such a venture.

Thank you.
Doesn't work for me. Get the sign up prompt. It may work the first time or two but after that....
I guess that bitcoin´s price will continue to rise steadily and reach 1000$ again in some time. Maybe years, maybe months, I don´t know.
Coming from a snow-filled country I would say that this simulated snow behaves very close to the real deal. Very impressive
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Sublime has very solid support for VI keybindings using a plugin that ships with the editor but is disabled by default.
I built a system years ago for automatically expiring email addresses: https://grepular.com/Automatically_Expiring_Email_Addresses

You can email any address of the format "YY-MM-DD"@tmp.grepular.com and it will work, but only if the YY-MM-DD date is in the future. Ie, 2013-12-25@tmp.grepular.com will work from now until Christmas and will bounce after that date.

It's really useful for signing up to services that I don't intend to use after that day, or for entering competitions etc. Competition draw is in a month? I'll pick an email address which expires in about 2 months and enter with that one.
Any plans for UK / Europe shipping?
Bitcoin will be stable as soon as everyone considers it too boring to write about.
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This should be tagged "Java". I have no desire to touch Java even with a ten foot pole.

We develop web applications and are happy users of sentry: https://getsentry.com/
Their table is really painful to read. Here is a quick chart of the data.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AgScytvGrtowdG...
Thank you, I recovered some of my bitcoins with your tool 1 year ago.
What is the use-case for opening images in a text editor?

I'm not a user of Sublime text, but at least the landing page doesn't mention being able to edit images ... Except as raw binary I guess, but that doesn't sound like something you do very often.
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192GB? gosh, i feel so alone with my 3GB ram laptop, and i'm a developper...
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Don't get me wrong, I am only annoyed because of the wonderful job you guys do... it seems like such a glaring omission... because IMHO, it is where stuff often actually "falls apart" in real life... and is some of the most useful information you can possibly have.

The "trapped between APIs" scenario is one of the concurrency stressing ones, as is slow clients with large content, as is websockets. As you tests show, A LOT of frameworks do a damned fine job with serving lots of requests quickly -- I think concurrency is a far more interesting differentiator.

Glad to see that most of what I want is "on the list": 11, 12, 15, 19. Would be nice to see an additional "slow clients" test with large content -- where the limit is how fast the clients can receive server data... meaning, the limit on the server is how many clients they can stack up and handle concurrently.
"Vintage: A block caret is now used"

Christmas came early... I've been waiting for this for so long.
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I enjoyed "The Bee Keeper's Lament" - this book covers the domestic US honey bee industry. Super interesting, especially the description of how hives are trucked all around based on crop pollination needs.

You are correct that honeybees are a non-native species in North America. Sounds like the EconTalk you mention covered the topics in the book as well. I'll give it a listen. Thanks for posting about it.
Checking assets would probably be the main use-case.
> Over the past few years I have noticed this militaristic attitude creep into the Australian police force

Then you will not be surprised to know that this is happening in the US too. Apparently the police in South Carolina need a "mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle"[1]

[1] http://benswann.com/sc-police-department-gets-u-n-blue-tank-...
Can you estimate the density of that data in space/time? Doesn't this vary with the overflights of the satellites?

The land data is scarce in e.g. the Sahara, but the density over western Europe is pretty high. The land based data is continuous as well, and not affected by cloud cover.
bigger frameworks like django tend to get in your way for anything that the framework was not intended for. not every web app is a "fetch content from db and display to users"

try doing something workflow heavy on appengine with datastore. The django orm wont work for datastore, so what you are left with out of the framework is regex based routing(ewww) and a bunch of crippled components(meaning depending on an orm you can't use).

django has it's place dont get me wrong, i would use it to quickly squeeze out internal db backed apps all day. maybe even use it as a cms. But i'd rather not do those kinds of projects at all.
The Chinese are just against the trend of leaking Yuan's value to Bitcoin (hence the RMB->BTC restriction), not against the Bitcoin itself. People are still free to bring value in China through Bitcoin! ;)
Yup.

> You’re able to access this content without the need to
> log in, enter a password or download an app.

This is only because that app is already on your device. And I am pretty sure the majority of Chrome, Opera of Firefox users did download an app.
It's definitely human nature to be lazy at times. In my opinion, no level of technology would ever change that. Back before computers we still had lazy people but they did less than lazy people now. At least now we have more time to learn to socialize even from the toilet.
Thats because at least Vert.x, Ratpack and Spark are missing.
Yep, but I'd qualify that: The demo seems to show wet snow (snowball snow) only. There are a few other types that happen around here, like dry snow, and crystallized snow. Dry snow is light fluffy stuff that doesn't pack. And crystallized snow is made of what feels like little daggers, behaving almost like ball bearings. But still, their result is brilliant!
I've got 2 HDDs sitting in the bottom of my freezer (notorious, Seagate 7200.9s) waiting to be recovered. If you have that contact please send it to me. I'm only finding 1500-2000euro quotes.
Nice - thanks for sharing!
So instead of writing stuff out to disk, the idea is to keep everything in memory forever until something bad happens? Like, for instance, your machine runs out of memory because your debug logging consumed all of it.

How is that better?
there's middle ground between something heavy like django and CGI/WSGI, I think they are called micro frameworks.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/f4e/logical_pinpointing/

> It's not that 'axioms' are mathematicians asking for you to just assume some things about numbers that seem obvious but can't be proven. Rather, axioms pin down that we're talking about numbers as opposed to something else.

Eliezer says axioms are like scope resolution operators. I'm curious where he got this idea from, because I doubt he came up with it on his own in a vacuum.