skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story puts my own near-death experience to shame. I shuddered in horror reading the description of her accident. As a fellow survivor of a traffic accident that could have easily ended my life, her story is all the more inspiring and motivating. I need this story shoved in my face if I'm ever caught complaining about something trivial, or if I'm just wasting my time away.
The Rust standard library no longer has any scheduling baked into it
This is an important point, because interest rates would exactly make up for the undesirability of the inflationary currency; i.e. the inflation risk would just be "baked into" a lower interest rate for the dollar-denominated loan. Unless you had a substantially different inflation risk tolerance than society as a whole, you'd be neutral about what currency to make the loan in.

Same goes for the borrower and deflation risk.

Edit: I guess if the deflation risk tolerance for the borrower and the inflation risk tolerance for the bank are asymmetrical, then you would just end up with being able to loan one or the other. I suspect, per Slurry's point, that it's BTC that loses here.
Whoever who convinces 50+% of the miners to adopt their version of the software wins.

The core developers can commit code and make releases that do whatever they want, but if they e.g. tried to pay all transaction fees to themselves, miners wouldn't install the new version and someone would fork the project.

How much control does any open source developer have over the projects they work on? Linus seems to have pretty tight control over Linux, but if he started messing up, he'd lose his position pretty fast. Likewise, the developers have a lot of control, as long as they are effective and behave well.
While this may end up proving true, Rackspace has been counted out over and over again during its long, successful history.

Previously it was claimed that ever cheaper dedicated servers would wipe out their expensive offering. I think they're likely to retain a healthy business in 'cloud' for the same reason a nearly infinite supply of cheap dedicated server competitors didn't kill them previously - assuming they keep doing what got them this far, namely managed offerings and customer service. That's a value proposition Google, for one, will never even attempt to match.
Why didn't you come out with it?
Just curious - would anyone here currently hiring consider the winning candidates any more than they would from a (reputable) recruiter?

I'm not trying to be a cynic - I really hope this works and solves a real problem. This is honest feedback from someone has and will continue to evaluate talent for technical teams - proof of algorithmic ability is only one tick mark of the dozens needed.
You're correct: Radar is pretty well suited for a gif. But, it can still lead to 400kb images that are 150kb when h.264 video. For a mobile connection, that's worth caring about.
I used to support Chromebooks. Not anymore. Having every last bit of your data "in the cloud" has turned out to be a very dangerous concept, especially since Google (and many other cloud providers) don't provide any kind of easy client-side encryption options before uploading the data to the "cloud".
You mean "It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts in 1980"?

Arhive.org's snapshot of Wikipedia's source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131021094116/http://www.lottie...

Relevant fragment:

>The main aspect of the GUI was to use graphic metaphors for objects like computer programs and documents. Another man working with the computer scientists was a Graphic Designer called Norman Cox. He was responsible for designing a series of icons to make basic operations of the computer visible as actual objects. Merzouga Wilberts also came up with the concept of WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointers). These interface objects create a feeling of familiarity and consistency for the user enabling a particular message to be conveyed. However, the technology was not yet available to develop the ‘Xerox Star’ and the management at Xerox was not willing to invest any funds into the project as they did not see it as a marketable product. This was a big mistake!

So looks like Charlotte Booth in that relatively modern article meant concept of the WIMP, not terminology.
You say it will take on average n! attempts to find a sorted list randomly. This is false. It will take on average n!/2 attempts.
> the ideas that copyright is a granted right

So is ownership of land, when you come down to it. We like to pretend, in most countries, that land tenure is absolute and that it's the foundation of society, but it isn't. Only a sovereign has absolute land tenure, and the only sovereigns in the modern Western world are corporate entities called governments. (A constitutional monarchy is pleased to pretend that certain individuals are sovereign, but in point of practical fact a crowned head can be deposed by a functional constitutional government.) Everyone else holds tenure contingent on their sovereign not exercising eminent domain to take the land from them and use it to its own ends. Sure, you'll likely get paid, but you don't have the option of turning down the offer and keeping the land.

"Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society." -- Thomas Jefferson

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....
For the last 30 years inflation (drop in buying power/value of the US dollar) has been between 0.1 and 4.6%; before that, during a period of record inflation, its value fell bye an eye-popping 10-13% a year. By comparison with Bitcoin's volatility, that is an astounding store of value.
I don't want to talk for the parent comment's author, but for me, the impact was spiritually. The Bible talks about God, his grace and his justice. It is really fascinating once you start digging into it. I highly recommend it. The new testament is a good starting point, IMO.
Why New Year Resolutionaries Should Believe in Free Will
neat. what happens when my plant dies?
I'd love a Chromebook equivalent of an iPad. All I do on my tablet at this point is surf the web (okay, and a little Candy Crush/King of Dragon Pass), and if Google could bring that level of build quality and polish to the tablet space it'd be incredibly interesting.
Well the point of circumvention is not to engender sympathy. It's to find a legal loophole wherein even if the regulators hate you, they can't pursue you.
So basically Chrome OS is like Microsoft windows only with less features, less control, less software, hardware dependent and developed by an advertising company? Doesn't Chrome OS resemble an IPad challenger rather than a Windows/MacBook substitute?
It is amazing how one word "COIN" added to this word has shaped everyone's thinking. Would we treat it the same if the guys behind it named it "Bitcard" or "Bitpoint?"

That one word is what set apparently most people to speak of it, and treat it as money.

BC is nothing like Money. BC is a card trading game where the players make the cards, the difficulty to make cards increases , and the value of the cards is decided by the market. It's a fun geek game. Awesome.

BC is everything money as we know it today is not. Money followed value creation (something made, something done).

Bitcoin was created, valued at X, AND THEN looking for value to replace.
I've been using a Chromebook Pixel full time for the past month or so. It's been really great. I'm not even using crouton, just the stock ChromeOS.
So, a Nexus tablet?
Federal judge rules NSA metadata collection is lawful, dismissing ACLU case
Foodini: a 3D printing kitchen appliance
People won't accept Bitcoin for actual goods and services if they don't believe it will hold its value. Or more precisely, they will require you to pay x% more in Bitcoin (at current exchange rates) where x is a premium to account for the expected loss in value over the period they expect to hold the Bitcoins, plus a margin for risk. If that premium happens to be higher than the cost of transacting in an alternative currency, Bitcoin is useless as a means of exchange.

Personally I'd see "governments have a huge incentive to outlaw it" as a pretty major inherent inferiority in something purporting to be currency too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

(Admittedly over a decade old now)

I think the point is that our current voting systems require a measure of trust, where a blockchain based system could be trustless.
I was under the impression that documents stored under /Downloads/ or elsewhere in the file-system (when using dev-mode) are not uploaded to the "cloud".
I'd be interested in seeing if anyone has had success in getting OSX to run on a Chromebook. So far googling for "Chromebook hackintosh" doesn't look promising.

The same way Apple has come out with its 'C' line of iPhones which I assume are cheaper, I see an enormous opportunity to do the same with their Macs.

Imagine a $250 Macbook.
here is her TED Talk from 2011: http://www.ted.com/talks/ramona_pierson_an_unexpected_place_...
I don't think you're understanding Krugman's point.

If the gold price collapses, you can sell it to jewelry and electronics manufacturers at some (low) price point. Gold has a weakness as a store of value because this price point is a lot lower than its market price during good times - and this is why Krugman is also not in favor of it as a store of value.

If the price of the dollar collapses, you can sell it to the Fed (usually indirectly - the Fed sells debt and then sits on the proceeds). This floor is pretty solid, cf. Volcker's recession in the early 1980s.

If the price of Bitcoin collapses, you can't sell the electricity used to produce it onto the grid - that electricity is a sunk cost. So what provides a floor to the Bitcoin price if for whatever reason its value suddenly falls? Probably only its utility as a medium of exchange, which in an era of electronic exchanges lasting fractions of a second probably doesn't provide a huge demand for the stuff.
This is an interesting idea; however, it seems that it wouldn't necessarily help.

I'm uncertain whether the orders you speak of are reservations, or phonies with the purpose of circumventing the new bill. If the former is the case, drivers would still be unable to serve the greatest need - spontaneous rides. The latter could potentially work, but surely it would be caught eventually.
That's cool. Do any of the new wave of systems programming languages offer this kind of capability? D, Rust, Nimrod, etc.?
one, you're crazy thinking that wealthy people hoard their wealth in dollars.

two, if you think people won't consume if the money is deflationary, you're crazy. The US had net deflation for most of its history (except during wars) from 1600-1910, and certainly there was plenty of growth. Also, analogous to the "why do you ever bother buying computers knowing that they depreciate rapidly".

three. If you think laborers get paid wages that match inflation, you are crazy. In fact, as krugman himself states: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hig... " that there’s another case for a higher inflation rate ... It goes like this: even in the long run, it’s really, really hard to cut nominal wages. Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

You cannot simultaneously make the claim that inflation will fix the sticky wages problem and also claim that wages will catch up with inflation.

four. "when "bury it under the ground" isn't an acceptable investment strategy earning average returns, more real goods and services will be produced." in other words, artificially encourage people to spend so as to enrich the already-wealthy. This should give a hint as to where the wealthy actually do store their wealth, and why inflation benefits them while stealing from the poor. Related: Encourage people to artificially spend more money on stuff they don't need without regard to the downstream environmental effects of increased consumption.
Perhaps most interesting is the fact that every Hipmunk advertisement I've seen on Reddit has some of the harshest comments.
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge, 2007

Random review -
http://boingboing.net/2007/11/28/vinges-brilliant-rai.html

Fiction, near future. Not a biggie but an easy read and changed my opinion on possible futures.
O(n!/2) == O(n!), the whole paragraph is obviously referring to big o notation.

edit:( I have edited the post to respond to your comment, trying to clarify what OP meant; I in no way tried to make your comment "look silly" )
Obviously. Krugman wields his power at NYT to troll market anarchists / public choice theorists and not much else.
The point is that these things are much more likely to occur than you'd like to think, not that you don't expect it.
Your daily nil.
Yes, but that's not what he says. He says "The loop will repeat on average n! times". That's not true. He's not referring to O notation there, he brings that in later. Here he's talking about the imperative number of times a loop will run on average.

Edit: you've edited your paragraph to make my reply look silly. The whole paragraph is not in O notation. In fact - the exact opposite. In the last sentence of that paragraph he shows what the expression with constant factors looks like before converting it into O notation, and it's wrong! "The product (n-1)n! is O(n × n!)." Bzzzzzzt! Wrong! He should say "The product (n-1)(n!/2) is O(n × n!)."
>I would much rather be locked into a single platform for which there is an awesome language.

So you would rather be locked into a single crappy platform with a crappy language that only works on that single crappy platform?
You're right that captcha farms (human labor, usually close to slave labor) allow spammers a fairly cheap method of bypassing them, but they're fairly slow (unlike OCR), not necessarily that accurate themselves, and increases the barrier required to spam. If a spammer expects to personally make $4 per 1000 advertisements posted, and if 1000 captchas costs $1, that's a massive profit loss for them.

At least from my experience, setting up reCAPTCHA on personal sites reduces spam to 0. They'll usually only spend money on captcha farms for sites that garner huge amounts of traffic, leaving smaller sites in the clear.
It's an incredibly lightweight OS that covers 90% of usage scenarios and runs well on portable ~$200 hardware. That's the promise of a Chromebook.

The thing I think you're missing is that many people are replacing usage of their main computer with tablets and similar devices. So yes ChromeOS/books can be seen as a competitor to an iPad, but the ENTIRE space (e.g. tablets, smartphones, Chromebooks) is competing against the PC as we know it.
Beta phase for an existing app (new version) or completely new app? I'm not sure it matters much if you slap a 'beta' label on a new app. When you first kick an app off, you're going to be closely monitoring crash reports, bug reports, reviews, feedback, etc regardless of if you call it 'beat' or not.

A 'beta' label is not going to stop or cause your app to go viral. If your app does take off but crashes and is full of bugs, 'beta' is not going to stop negative reviews.

If you are concerned about bugs or need more testing, try out Fiverr or any of the mobile testing startups.
It would be very nice to have a console.log/dir style function that would let you inspect objects/arrays. (Makes debugging significantly easier).

Also, any chances of expanding beyond California?
Just like Microsoft copied Java with C# they are now trying to copy Go. Always late to the party as usual.
I was thinking along the lines of something that ships with/is optimized for Chrome OS.
You know that running is as bad for health than staying on a chair all day long, right? For example the marathon is extremely stressful for the body and my friends w who do it all admit they are sick for one month afterwards.
https://freenetproject.org
>then a menu of sounds

I really wouldn't change the layout to anything menu like. Its got the clean & simple thing going for it. Maybe rather add a button that opens "advanced" options i.e. more sliders coming into view - white noise etc. Seems a bit artificial but it gives you a way to split off less popular and weird stuff like artificial white noise. Plus delayed loading of those sounds. Adding a drop down or similar would kill the clean layout in my view.

Since you reacted positively to the initial feedback:

- The share mix button at the top looks wildly out of place. Its outside of the main rectangle and looks weird as a result.

-I'm allergic to the word "share" tbh...consider replacing it with "publish"/"broadcast" or similar. Sounds a bit presumptuous...but "share" has become a seriously craptastic word online - even erotic sites have a "share on facebook" button. If you must have it rather move it as far down as possible - so that users can first toy with the sliders a bit & get a feel for things before being asked to vouch for it to friends.

- The colour scheme (stark black white) is not conducive to the tranquil vibe you're trying to convey. Best bet is adding some colour hint to it I think. Keep the basic idea, but add some faint highlight colour(s). Think earthy warm colours.

- The humans track is way too loud. If you set all the sliders to mid then all you hear is humans. Either lower it as a whole or dampen the 600hz-700hz frequency range gently (assuming my ears aren't failing me on that freq guestimate).

>I've had a hard time finding good audio that has the right feel

Yeah. Wind is a bit of a biatch in this regard since most microphones are engineered to specifically block wind noises. And those that aren't distort wind sounds like mad. Maybe something like this (bit short):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__O0RRiWcpk
Oh cool, I'll check those out tonight (and a bunch of Python parsers people have pointed me at). CodeCombat's challenge is to transform other languages into a Mozilla AST so that we can apply our crazy transpilation stuff to it. So anything that makes that easier brings us closer to supporting those languages in our levels.
Interesting the comment from the first link link (590 days ago, before PS4/Xbox One had been announced): (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988628)

> What worries me is if future generations will be able to enjoy the games of today. Will it ever be feasible to emulate a PS3 to the level demanded here? Will my grandchildren in 50 years be able to play GTA 6 on a PS4 emulator? Processing power does not appear to scale to allow this, and there will barely by any of today's consoles still alive by then (also, I doubt 2060s television sets will have HDMI input).

My response would be the trend towards more PC-like architectures (more traditional x86 systems vs something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)) and the fact it's already easy to build a similarly priced ($400-$500) PC with superior performance already (historically rare at release than the new set of consoles) may mean it's easier to accurately run these games in future than a Nintendo 64 or SNES. On the other hand, the original Xbox (circa 2000) was a traditional x86 system running an only slightly modified Windows with DirectX that as far as I know isn't emulated well.

I think the search for accuracy will probably be achieved in the coming decades by producing accurate and cheap clone hardware "dongles" to offload processing and interfacing them to a computer via some future fast bus.
It has to be structured such that there is first mover advantage otherwise there is no incentive for anybody to get on board and make it a thing in the first place.

The redistribution of wealth is something that we've learned to deal with once already (progressive taxation) so hopefully we can learn how to do it again with cryptocurrencies.
Pleasurrdome anyone?
I love that she designed and built the house herself, and I love that she did a great job on the interior design. I also like that there's a little bit of yard (perhaps a lot -- hard to tell from the photo).

I like the 200 sq. foot size a little less. My own dream homes (there are two):

1. A small home (> 200 sq. feet) or perhaps unit in a larger condominium complex or communal living space in a denser urban conglomeration. The town/city is not so large that you cannot easily walk or ride a bike through the length of it. Lots of trees and green space. Light rail transportation to nearby urban areas. Not as dense as SF or anywhere near as dense as Manhattan. But not so suburban that you need a car. Building height is kept at or below five stories, and averages two stories. The buildings do not block sunlight. There are places at the edge of the town/city for long-term car storage, but driving is not permitted within it.

2. A nice cabin or ranchouse (~1000-2000 sq. feet?) in the countryside with access to light rail within biking distance.
Granted my experience was 5 years ago, but aside from initial setup, I would have no problem handing off daily sysadmin duties to them under a managed offering. I even gave them runbooks back then, which they were great at following in case of the often-out-of-control java app we had built for us. I still had midnight calls from them, but their services eliminated a lot of basics from my routine. Like you, I severely doubt Google and Amazon would ever offer these features and will always live in the shared-hosting tier of quality and performance for me.
When Chrome OS was first announced, I wanted to try it out. Unfortunately every time I try, I can't get it to run in VirtualBox. The hexxeh builds are old (April 2013) and there's no ISO I can download. Has anyone else had success in running a recent, stable build in VirtualBox?
one reason why the "c" line of iPhones came out is because consumers now see iPhones and Android phones as virtual substitutes. even within the more tech savvy crowd I see many peers switching between one and the other, in both directions. I see this far less with Macs, and so I question the substitutionality of Macs with other computing options for most of its consumers.

(that being said I use all three major PC operating systems)
For context: Rackspace has been active since 1998. I had no idea they were such a (relatively) old company.
Separately I'm wondering if "jnoller" is still working at Rackspace. Noting that there was a flurry of activity on HN from his comments that appeared to have stopped about a month ago.
"The Long Emergency", James Kunstler (2005). Surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century.
> Lastly, Microsoft should feel threatened by the recent uptick in adoption, because this kind of exodus towards ChromeOS will only eat more into their once massive share of the OS market. If Google continues to make progress in this space, $MSFT will most definitely have start paying attention and counter their growth. The new CEO in Redmond has a lot cut out for him upon taking the reins from Ballmer.

You mean Microsoft's gonna start doing things like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRKJJLbNUy4 ?

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/06/microsoft-really-doesnt-wan...
I wasn't offended, I was merely pointing out that saying you don't think of it that way isn't really what matters in these matters; what others think is.

But sure, talk about the policy, though I didn't disagree with anything you said policy related.