skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We do have amazing tools now, and tools that automatically do other tools, but we have not witnessed an accelerated auto-recursive thingamagig.

I've never seen liverwurst icecream. I don't have to taste it to know with 99% certainty that it's a bad idea.

On a more serious note, I've never strapped 500 roman candles on my back and lit them all at once in an attempt at making a "jetpack". Again, I don't need to perform the experiment to know I would likely receive burns and possibly die.

The remarkable thing about our brains is that we have the ability to predict what will happen in our heads, empathize with the actor in that scenario, and then come to a conclusion about if we want that scenario to play out. So, to apply this to your counterpoint, I don't have to see an accelerated auto-recursive thingamajig to know it is likely going to be impossible to control and a bad idea.
> A growing economy increases standards of living. The fact that a t-shirt costs $10 now that used to cost $20 10 years ago

So what you're saying is that inflation leads to deflation -- did I get that right?
Tbh... I would still reverse it.
I refuse to do business anymore with companies that do not respond.
I've seen dense pleasant and unpleasant and rural pleasant and unpleasant and most possibilities in between. I don't mean to equate the one axis with the other. It is very challenging to build mid-density pleasant surroundings without making car traffic impossibly nasty, though. The DPZ architecture firm in Miami has proven that heroic effort can answer even that challenge.

San Francisco is more expensive than San Jose because more people want to live in a city built like SF than one like SJ. Building more SF and less SJ style will make people happier and produce more housing per acre.

Tokyo and New York City ... aren't exactly bastions of affordability

Correlation isn't causation.

The laws of supply and demand show that more supply will lower prices and less supply forces prices up. Building more quality higher density neighborhoods will make housing more affordable.

Historically very desirable areas became expensive which led to denser construction so more people could afford them. Now the denser areas that were so desirable are often still desirable and still expensive. It wasn't the density that led to the expense, though; the density is mitigating the expense.

There is a limit to what you can do with density to mitigate expense before things get unpleasant and Manhattan is near the limit. Tokyo is not. San Jose is nowhere near the limit.
Here's something from 2006 that quotes Theo saying the bill was around 100 USD/week.

http://openbsd.das.ufsc.br/press.html

and something else that says $600/mo:

https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=38488&p=218116
From their terms of service:

> Coinbase does not guarantee the value of bitcoin. You acknowledge that the price or value of bitcoin can change rapidly, decrease, and potentially even fall to zero. You acknowledge that holding bitcoin is high risk. You agree to deliver the agreed upon payment for bitcoin upon confirmation of an order, regardless of changes in bitcoin value.

> Coinbase will make reasonable efforts to ensure that requests for electronic debits and credits involving bank accounts, credit cards, and check issuances are processed in a timely manner but Coinbase makes no representations or warranties regarding the amount of time needed to complete processing because Coinbase services are dependent upon many factors outside of our control, such as delays in the banking system or the U.S. or international mail service.

It's possible that Coinbase is experiencing delays, and their terms of service give them a clear escape path. It sucks that they are holding onto your money, but consider this a learning experience: always start small, make sure everything smells right, and then scale up. If they were holding onto 35.10 rather than 35.10K, I suspect you would react differently
Good selection of interviews with free & open source leaders, although a bit dated(2006-2007) still quite interesting.
But laptop speakers are notoriously shitty. I don't think laptop speaker output has tons of content above 10kHz.
An Homage To Douglas Engelbart And A Critique Of The State Of Tech
Why WTFPL is bad for you
If you ever find yourself needing to choose a license for your software project, and you think of WTFPL, don't. Use the MIT License instead.

The motive behind using WTFPL is obvious: It's novel, it's a bit whimsical, and it dispenses with the stuffiness of normal licenses — but besides the fact that it's becoming an old joke, WTFPL really isn't much better than no license at all, and here's why.

Google Code provides a good explanation[1] of why releasing your code into the public domain is bad for your project. First, people in certain countries (e.g. France) won't be able to fork your project. But more importantly: "it's somewhat risky to release code without explicitly disclaiming liability or warranty; you're potentially opening yourself to lawsuits from accidental damage that may result from somebody using your software."

This is the key, and it's why most software license include an all-caps disclaimer of warranty and liability. The WTFPL doesn't have this, which is why you should choose an equally permissive (but more protective, for you) license, e.g. MIT.

Here's a good comparison of different licenses: http://web.archive.org/web/20090317083515/http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html

[1] https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_host_code_that_I_have_placed_in_the_public_domain?
25 days of Angular |  Staggering animations with ngAnimate
When the hype gets loud enough that local papers and your tech-unsavvy parents are talking about, it's high. Sell then. For me that would have been mid November - I would have missed the $1000 peak but still would have made out like a bandit.
I'd go straight to anyone and anyone who will listen. Companies don't escalate until they need to. HackerNews is big for us technies but you need to blow up their twitter,facebook, retweets daily as every day your going to lose value as bitcoin continues to drop with the news about china.
Update: I just logged in and saw the coins returned to me as a new, separate transaction. Very strange. Still no word from customer service.
You should probably go back and re-read the essay more carefully.
If three academic types can come up with this, just imagine what the NSA or other foreign intelligence groups can find with a budget like they have.

Interesting for sure.
Look at net profits of Apple vs everyone else. There is a right and a wrong.

While it's hard to tease out just phone profits, Samsung has a profit margin of ~12% whereas Apple's is closer to 30%. Huawei is under 8%.
Know Your Company was a big experiment from the start. A totally new kind of product for us, an entirely new kind of business model for us, etc. And now we're taking that to the next level with an entirely new strategy for us: Spinning it off into it's own autonomous company and letting it find its own direction.

As I mentioned in the original post, we wanted to hire Claire to run Know Your Company inside 37signals, but there was a fundamental conflict of interest: She had interviewed everyone at 37signals as part of a consulting project, and knew a lot of details about how everyone felt about the company. Everyone spoke to her in confidence as an outside consultant, not as a colleague. Bringing her into 37signals as an employee later would be a violation of that trust, so we weren't able to hire her.

You'd have to ask Claire how she plans on staffing the company, but initially it's just her with a little bit of our help during the transition. As far as I understand, soon she will be bringing someone on part time to help with product development until she's ready to make a full-time hire. Slow, steady, and prudent.

Hope that was helpful.
Yes, from what I understand - BBC Radio 4's PM news program covered this yesterday. They were focusing on Vietnamese trafficking gangs.
Is this the panel led by former CIA, and being pre-approved by Clapper?
Welcome to counterparty risk, Bitcoin style.
> ad-hominen

The very words "sexist" and "racist" are really just smear words. They convey no meaningful information and really only serve to attack a person or institution. As soon as I hear either word I assume the user is merely axe grinding and has no interest in conversation.

If I say "Bill is sexist", What precisely does that mean? That Bill hates all women? That Bill generally assumes female engineers are less skilled? That Bill will try to sleep with women he works with? As a statement it conveys nothing. It is nothing more than an attack on Bill.
Could you talk about why you don't want to reverse it?
I think the graph is way too busy with the interactive elements and animations. Get rid of the legend box hopping over the data I want to see. In fact, the whole interactivity is pretty useless: the user does not really interact with anything, you're just hovering stuff over the graph. Just utterly pointless.
Updating WP is just a matter of bumping the version in the composer.json file and running `composer update`. We believe it's better to manually do this and be explicit about it rather than letting WP update itself. This way you can quickly just look in the composer.json to see the versions of everything being used (WP, plugins, etc).
>Your idea was too big

Way, way more complicated than I anticipated. Also serially getting disgusted and starting everything over every few months hasn't helped. And getting distracted for weeks on end by ancillary projects. And deciding I needed to write my own framework.
> It's just a fact that men think a lot about sex

Please stop. This attitude is offensive to both men and women.
That's how some of us (me, for instance) do it anyway -- it makes supporting clients a lot easier when things like new plugins get managed in version control -- so it's nice (for me, at least) to see that approach moving from an ad-hoc thing to something more formal that takes advantage of good tools...
I.I.O.D. 4 Steps To Innovation
It's all very clearly explained when we talk to the customer. Remember, no one can buy Know Your Company without spending at least a half hour talking with us first. We go through every single thing about the product, the model, and how it all works in those 30 minutes.
Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters.

Beside being unnecessarily snide, you missed my point, like, entirely.

I don't give a rat's ass that it sounds like penis. But I couldn't say it in public without eliciting childish sniggers from whomever I'm trying to talk to.
Yes, I think that most people who watched both TED and TEDx talks understand the difference. My reasons are as follows.

1. People who watch TED and TEDx are quite intelligent.

2. There are no TEDx videos on ted.com, only on subdomain http://tedxtalks.ted.com.

3. Every TEDx video has this disclaimer:
This video was filmed at an independently organized TEDx event and uploaded by the organizer. To flag a video (good or bad!), use this form.

So yeah, this was a gross exaggeration.
I got some Tulips you can buy to make up your loss on.
Your post seems to recognize that the definition of the word "nature" has changed over the years, as words often do.

Why do you think it is "tilting at windmills" for me to want the definition to change to something that pleases me?
If they were holding onto 35.10 rather than 35.10K, I suspect you would react differently

The courts tend to as well.
What a super domain! The site is also a great curated selection of products.

How much time do you spend on it? And are you generating revenue? (I assume it is all affiliate links?)
You probably mean you have 1 wallet, containing 20 Bitcoin addresses.

Not sure why Coinbase uses the terminology "consumer Bitcoin wallet", but it is pretty clear they mean "user accounts", where each account is associated to 1 wallet, each containing possibly multiple addresses.
best case scenario: the future of bitcoin is a technological oddity (curious detail) wherein 99% of people only hold it for the briefest of moments when they transfer their fiat currency from point A to point B. And the people that do hold it will almost certainly be doing so to better exploit fluctuations between currencies.
Thanks for the heads up! I just registered with them and I was adding my bank details to enable instant-buy and snap some BTC tonight when they drop below 5 USD! :)
RaptorDB - The Key Value Store V2
They Chinese government won't have jurisdiction over anything unless the servers your company are using are physically located in China. As for the data flowing through the pipes, they can see that already (well as much as BGP routing allows) as can the NSA and countless other entities.
>because the "taking away" approach at abstraction also abstracts out some important performance considerations.

a software engineering abstraction which doesn't have clear performance facet is just a bad software engineering abstraction (while, for example, it may be a really good math abstraction).
shouldn't it be more like Market Risk ?
Correct. It's definitely targeted towards developers and WP sites that are controlled by them rather than front-end users.

It's usually not a great idea to let normal users install plugins and update WordPress. For an analogy, you definitely wouldn't have users installing Gems in a Rails app.
This looks like a much more formalized structure than what we do. Do you use it in production currently or is this a prototype?

This is my primary new WP project approach (which isn't perfect):

mkdir Example-Project
cd Example-Project

# Grab the latest wordpress, www is our DocumentRoot
curl wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz | tar -xvz --
mv wordpress www
cd www

# Drop the default wp-content and symlink so we dont need to
# keep all of wp in Git
mv wp-content ..
ln -s ../wp-content
echo 'www/' >> .gitignore

# Make the repo
git init
git add . && git commit -m 'First!'

The main problem I run into is with the symlink'd wp-content directory. WP seems to not interpret it well and I have to set up Alias directives in the virtualhost configuration to compensate. Are you doing anything similar with the app/ directory?
Do an ACH chargeback as quickly as possible, don't be an idiot and wait for a response, otherwise you may miss your opportunity to walk away without losing $10k.
Hang on. So one could buy and receive BTC, dispose of them, and then reverse the ACH transfer? Brings a whole new meaning to the term "double spending"!
That might be a probable scenario, but it's certainly not the best case.
The problem isn't speculation, but rather that he paid money and was informed he would receive the coins on a certain date, but did not receive them then.

The "price lock in" is perfectly valid so long as they inform the buyer the length of the processing period. If they give false information about that, though, it's the vendor's fault, not the buyer's.
I hate to be that guy, but Coinbase is pretty clear that you'll get your coins _eventually_.

If I were doing thousands in transfers, I'd absolutely be using an exchange. They're also a small start up, funding or not.

Their support team has always come through and usually eats the cost difference if it was a bump on their end. I'd just wait it out.
It's an important question, but everything I know is, you can't. Unfortunately.

Writing code, except for the most boring kind of boilerplate, is inherently a creative process, and neither "final functionality" or "final quality" have good metrics, let alone metrics that translate into man-hours, lines of code, or similar.

All you can really do is get a "feel" for someone who seems to be underperforming, performing at par, or is really a star player. It's just intuition. Which is really a terrible thing to have to base evaluation on, but it's really all we've got.

This is probably why group evaluations, like "planning poker" for estimates of task difficulty, and having the whole group evaluate each of its members (for promotions, raises, etc.), can be popular -- it's still all intuition, but a kind of "consensus" intuition performed by people who ought to know best, can be better than a single person's.
Maybe it doesn't work for lenses but it seems it would work for mirrors: http://www.academia.edu/5185260/SUNBEAMS_FROM_SPACE_MIRRORS_...
Andddd... whoops.
Mexico is an OECD country, a member of the 'first world club.' It has a high level of literacy and education and economic output and public infrastructure. Comparing Mexico to the USA is an A-league to A-league comparison.

Sure, it's a St. Louis Rams to Seattle Seahawks comparison, but it's not so unfair as you suggest.
totally agree on that, was trying to criticize correlation with sexism
Would you mind elaborating on your experiences with elance? I had a family member who does freelance marketing/writing called me a few years ago and mentioned he was planning to sign up there and asking what I knew about it.

I could only tell him about a comment I'd browsed on HN that referred to it as a "ghetto" of poor paying assignments. He went ahead with it and now seems to be doing quite well as one of the top 5 providers of marketing and writing services.
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It's projects like this that spark me to always go out and try to learn new things. I forget how much of our surrounded world is hackable sometimes, and it really is sad to think I get so caught up I don't think of these projects near as often as I used to. Hopefully this guy gets somewhere :) these writeups are inspiring, interesting, and educational all wrapped into one nice little package.
You mean git stash --keep-index in 4) right?
The media needs a "terms of service" beat
Copywriter Tweets about working 30 hours straight, then dies
Although the story isn't strictly in the tech arena, the work culture is often shared and exalted among start-ups. This is a warning we would do well to heed.
In this case, the counterparty to the transaction appears unable to meet its obligations, at least according to the OP. That's counterparty risk.
If that attack is available for us to know, I wonder what can possibly be happening inside NSA?

I even wonder how these big guys/heroes like Julian and Snowden feel when they find out about it. I mean, maybe they just don't care about the stuff they have being accessed without their consent, it is supposed to be released anyways, but what about their conversations that are supposed to be highly confidential?
I'm planning on building this as my next project.

Although I think aiming for building this into the general programmer's development environment is ideal, there is an easier first step. Simplify and reduce the scope of the project to where you build this into a pedagogical programming environment. Most programmers have solidified these mental models into their heads. We only need to see them when we've made an error. Students, on the other hand, are flying blind and need this visualization desperately. More than that, the types of programs students build are highly constrained assignments which are more amenable to visualization.
This isn't sexism, this is just a culture she doesn't like.

That's fair, maybe tech culture could be improved, but this idea that it's because of sexism seems like a huge stretch, and the fact that it has to change because she doesn't fit in seems extremely solipsistic on her part.

Lets think like an anthropologist for a moment: tech culture evolved over time with it's own distinct style. Before you look to change it, perhaps understand it? Why it is the way it is? What are its values? Why is she so special that tech culture needs to change to suit her specific needs? Not all people are the same. I probably wouldn't fit in in the culture of fashion, for instance, but that's not their fault, and I wouldn't want the fashion industry to change on my behalf.

For instance, the whole thing about how she felt upset that people didn't want to be "educated" by her. Almost every great leader I've worked under always had the same philosophy that they felt like they were constantly learning things from the people below them. We have leaders, yeah, but I think in tech the culture is a lot more collaborative -- you're in charge, but in a healthy relationship we're both going to learn things from each other. It seems like she was trying to be a mentor for people who didn't particularly want or need it. Again, why is that everyone else's fault? I have empathy for her disappointment, but that's on her.
<i> she points out that this was an irrational response provoked by her situation.</i>

It's about perception all right, but you're missing the point: she as much as admits that it is her own perception of the situation that might have been the problem. That is, even if the comment wasn't sexist - "just as likely to be said to a man" - she felt shamed because she believed that it was in fact sexist. Then we have commentators on tech sites who'll use her narrative to bolster the women-in-tech-are-victims-of-sexism narrative. Which you can imagine is all very self-reinforcing when scaled up.
Looking forward to that!

Unfortunately the question then becomes, how long until all the major browsers support it? And once that happens, how long until the crowd not using the updated browsers is small enough that we can safely ignore them?

I suppose the auto-updating browser trend should help a lot with the latter issue.
Actually he probably still should have (and perhaps would have) taken this public, as they have failed to deliver the instrument in a timely manner and the OP could have bought and sold bitcoin taking advantage of price movements.

This is a clear case of "bucketing"[0] whether done intentionally or not. Its illegal regardless if it seemingly "worked out".

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bucketing.asp
The original poster does seem to have started small(er) before scaling up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929954 .
To all of you who say that Bitcoin shouldn't be regulated - this is what it results in.

If it was any regulated financial deal - say, purchase of stock or Yen - then there are clear rules on how to handle that, namely, you'd be entitled to at least compensation for any decrease between the 'locked' price at the agreed settlement date and the real settlement, whenever it may happen, and the interest for the period. Repeated such situations would result in a rapid audit to verify if they really have enough assets to pay out all their debts, and if not, shut them down immediately.

Now you're quite screwed, while coinbase has taken a profit on this (and probably other) deals by delaying these settlements. And what are you going to do if you don't get all the losses covered? Your options are quite limited.
It's being used in production for roots.io right now but it's still a work in progress.

Seems like your issue has to do with your symlink setup. We don't need to do any special configuration with the web server. Here's the configuration that deals with app/: https://github.com/roots/bedrock/blob/master/config/applicat...
That's pretty much why Dwolla pulled out of funding Bitcoin exchanges.
Seems more like, oDesk cant get a price they want selling, and their CEO just wants out...
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Chinese Concept - The train that never stops at a station
Construction Noise Decreases Reproductive Efficiency in Mice:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715925/

Noise in a Laboratory Animal Facility from the Human and Mouse Perspectives:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949429/
I don't see it as a significant problem. Those hurdles only need to be crossed for folks using Bitcoin to do so safely. If they are not crossed, it's only Bitcoin users that are harmed. Since there is nothing to force anyone to use it, all possible harm arising from weaknesses in the underlying infrastructure is opt-in.