skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
revolt in a mass uprising

What actually happens: the old timers complain for three days then just put up with it.

People still conflate online complaining with meaning and desires of the entire user base. Sadly, online comments aren't independent statistical samples from your entire user base.

What's the rate again? 2% of users actively participate in sites while 98% happily browse and put up with ads?
AFAIK, Artisan http://useartisan.com/ does that!?
It's not a universal claim. It's an observation of tendencies. Given the choice between two fresh college graduates where one had been hacking since middle school and the other only started in college, who are you likely to choose all else being equal?

This isn't rocket science. People who start hacking at a young age and continue very likely have a passion toward the discipline. People who have a passion for programming likely care more about it. People who care more about it are probably better.

Does this mean that the guy who didn't start until later can't be better? Not at all.
How to Create Alt Coin Scrypt Clones for Fun and Profit
Hmm I wonder how much speed it would require to emulate an Amiga then
The folks who "'think' this is great" are the same folks who self-submit their blog entries to news.ycombinator.com: self-promoting quacks. Bournegol has been around for awhile:

http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html
That's actually a legitimate concern, which is why people are working on CoinJoin [0]. ZeroCoin and other cryptographic solutions are very interesting but will not be practical for a while due to blockchain bloat and extremely high verification time.

[0] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
I don't think there's just a single book that changed my life, however there's this one book that changed my perspective on procrastination and personal productivity. And being more productive can be pretty life changing IMHO. The book's name is The Now Habit, BTW.
Can't agree more. One great thing about CCs is the low per unit cost means you can take courses to learn specific skills and get out or easily take something way outside your comfort zone. Half the people in the first couple 100 series programming courses at my community college were just curious about it.

I also know a lot of people who went to Community College and dropped out simply because they decided they didn't want or need the degree to do what they wanted to do. Most of them got into the trades. I don't think that should be considered a failure of the CC system. Better to figure yourself put at this level for $2,000 than at a State school for $20,000.
People did custom scripting or used third party tools for easy failover before 9.2/9.3. What PostgreSQL has improved the last years is simplicity of setting up replication and speed of failover.

> with all due respect, is this the reason why startups still default to mysql over postgres ?

I do not these particular issues. But if we go back before streaming replication (when people had to transfer WAL files with rsync) then I am pretty sure this was part of the reason for why small companies chose MySQL over PostgreSQL:
I am an on again off again fan of Krugman in some respects. In this case he has managed to clarify the discussion, which is good!

The truth is that bitcoins derive most of their value from being a great medium of exchange and enabling things (smart contracts are ahead) that otherwise wouldn't be possible. Things like making no recourse payments online for the first time ever.

Bank of America did an analysis on the value of bitcoin and concluded that one of the components is the payment network. If PayPal's market cap is billions, why not bitcoin?

So I see this as giving a "floor" to the value of bitcoin via demand the same way as the US government's demand for dollars from its citizens (or the controversial petrodllar warfare theory and other shenanigans) boosts demand for the dollar. There is definitely a lot of demand boost in that.

And for now there is alsothe speculative bubbl. I don't know what the value of bitcoins should be, but it's certainly not zero - there will be demand for it by chinese millionaires trying to get their $ out of the country and bypass currency controls, and other things like that. And if the market cap is high enough, moving a few million dollars in bitcoins at a time won't move the market. Demand drives the price up.
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could risk a Digg-like exodus

That only happens if there is somewhere else to jump to. What else is there?

We don't use the best of all possible systems, we use the best available system, which is always highly imperfect.
While I can see why 'colored' may be considered offensive, why Negro? It's just spanish/portuguese word for black.

My own hunch is that the word just has too much baggage (ie rights of blacks at the time they were referred to by this word were curtailed - hence the need to move on to a new word without the connotations).
In 9.3 or later you should not have to do this.
Impossible to install freetz on the single available router - 6360.

You can't do a thing, basically.
I found this a lot less problematic in scala with IDE support. You can write 2.days, with appropriate imports, but the IDE will highlight the implicit conversion on the 2 (a green underline seems to be the standard visual representation), and you can click through to the definition.
My dad is a doctor (who felt it necessary to go over every trial he has helped run). They do discriminate explicitly on race (as well as other factors). Saying that this racial discrimination is biological is equivalent to saying that their are significant biological differences between the races. Although this is true in some cases (mostly genetic diseases), more often race is relevant as a proxy for social and cultural positioning. In practice, I suspect that if racism was stamped out of society at general, then there would be no medical benefit to racism in medical desisions.
The author of this article fails to recognize that there are situations where it was necessary to cart around fifty pounds of books. He claims this when this has occurred it is more due to inefficient study habits. Perhaps these situations are outside his experience, but that does not mean they do not exist. I would list them here but there is not enough space in this margin. The point is that tablets have made carrying many books trivial. Going "out of print" today is meaningless and is a relic from a time when there was but one distribution system for books. Print on demand means you no longer need warehouses full of back list titles. The interesting point seen in the demise of the print version of the Britannica is to what extent it has been unable to compete with Wikipedia. Encyclopedias have always been expensive but families felt that they had to have them. They were sold in shopping malls like Rosetta Stone is sold today. But when you need a quick initial reference, Wikipedia is just as good for most searches. The author somehow fails to mention the Wikipedia elephant standing in the corner of the Britannica out of print room.
That's always been a problem for the CC- especially in a metropolitan area. For most of the successful students graduation is not the final outcome. There are two major categories of student for which this is true:

(1) The student has a degree in, say, accounting, but wants to go into, for example, physical therapy or medicine. She needs to take some science classes, but has most of her college requirements fulfilled. She can do this at the cc part time.
(2 The student intends to pursue a four year degree. He doesn't need to graduate from the cc to do so; he just needs to fulfill (what some call) a transfer block. As a case-in-point, the cc at which I used to teach had a physical education requirement for graduation. A long-ago president instituted this rule, and nobody changed it. Most transferring students don't want to spend the time and money for this requirement just so that they can say they graduated. They fill their transfer block requirements and go.
Lightwave is commercial and as someone who has used it in the past, you will be falling into the same learning curve pit.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big -- Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame)

Super Rich -- Russell Simmons (hip-hop magnate)

Choose Yourself -- James Altucher

Edit: forgot about Walt Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs
I'm not saying it disproves his argument, just that BitCoin could theoretically be useful even if it's not money. Which is sort of tangential to his point - I'm suggesting that the money angle is perhaps overrated or a red herring.
Fetching information from a data store of some kind, and presenting it as a web page would be a good one.
The United States is a superpower that many people enjoy calling home (you may even be among them), and it will probably be around for a good long while. If you chose to live there, you have a civic obligation to pay taxes, which are accepted in USD. If that's not inherent value, I'm really not sure what is.

Nobody believes the Bitcoin protocol itself is beautiful in the same sense as gold, although I do know a few computer scientists who might find it intriguing. I suppose you could make the case that the ability to make anonymous transfers has some inherent value - but even that depends on how well BTC is adopted as a medium of exchange.
Yes, but you are traveling and working as a web developer. Try starting a family in a 160sq RV, and work from there at the same time. You will go insane and get a divorce after 8 months. (I totally made the number up).

I am not saying that people cannot do it, when I was little we lived in an apartment with very tiny two bedrooms and a kitchen (4 people). I was sleeping on bunk beds ...
Unless you are poor, are traveling in your RV, are an eco freak, or you're living in a densely populated area (China, Korea etc), there's just no reason for you to live in a tiny place.

This tiny house, however, would be great as a cabin where you can relax over the weekend, get away from city life.

I agree what JoeAltmaier is saying.
Krugman on Bitcoin
They certainly did not "break into Google and Yahoo private property to plant equipment to intercept private fiber communications" you'd expect people on HN to at least be literate.

GCHQ with the assistance of telcos and probably level 3 intercepted the data transferred between global datacenters and the legal justification was that those datacenters are located outside the US.
I got my Crucial M4 4 month ago and it stopped working too. BIOS dont show it. Got replaced with new one. After 3-4weeks failed again. Bios shows SSD but testing shows many errors. I will send it again or will try update firware.
So we're all back to hoarding money under our mattresses?

There will always be central banking infrastructure controlled by billionaires who are more socially important than you. We can't just "go decentralized." An average person is too busy to even remember their password to gmail is "password456" and not "password123."
I'm familiar with this course, the amount of time dedicated to modeling is not very large, but the overview of the controls is pretty decent.

The reason i'm not good at using blender is that when i hit a wall... it's a pretty insurmountable wall. It's much easier to just switch programs. If i need precision, openSCAD, if not, sketchup, both of which are obviously inferior.

The stack exchange post seems very useful, i'll look into that, thanks.
Nor can one have a rational discussion with people declining to have one in favor of dismissing a side out of hand.
It's not simply throwing energy away into solving useless math problems; it's spending energy to create infrastructure.

I don't see how it is not the case that mining Bitcoins is throwing away energy.

If someone had made a crypto currency based on, say, protein folding [1], I could get behind that.

We could just create a crypto currency where we just hand out 100 units to every person. That certainly wouldn't require ASIC farms and such.

[1] Yes, I realize that the whole 'hard to do, easy to verify' bit is not completely obvious in the case of protein folding or SETI signals.
That would suggest that this community (or at least a vocal minority of this community) has a problem with this charity. I much prefer a community that voices concerns over charities rather than blindly donating to whoever asks for money.
There are many events that are not catered to specific genders or racial backgrounds. This one just happens to be not one of those.

I guess I can see how an event like this might seem odd to a non-black male.. But America is an odd country where cultural trends are completely deformed (its not just america but let's focus on her for now). This event would just be the first step to show an alternative norm to a girl who has all her life been exposed to completely negative examples of what she can become. This is her Quake.

When the day comes and somebody creates an event called Black Girls Code, and other people: men, women, white and black, completely honestly ask that person "why", that's the day when we can truly call ourselves an equal opportunity and just society. Unfortunately I think this is still quite a ways away.
Krugman is somewhat like Bishop Berkeley, no fool, arguing against infinitesimals before they acquired--in the 20th Century--a rigorous basis. The auditability of Bitcoins distinguishes them from the inaccessibility of the highly mathematized and virtually untraceable instruments of the financial crisis.
It's virtuous because it acknowledges reality, and the reality is that society does not treat all groups equally, and that there are still systemic barriers in place. It also acknowledges that targeted campaigns working on relatively homogeneous groups are probably the most effective.

The point of the whole civil rights movement wasn't just to extend all political and economic rights on paper to the black population and then just leave it at that. The point was to extend justice and fairness to all Americans. Anyone who takes a look at the last 40 years of American History can understand that that has not happened.

Unfortunately, since the systemic barriers are both externally enforced AND to a degree internally self inflicted, any attempt to address some of the self-inflicted barriers will be "discriminatory".
is there a pandora/spotify/rdio station anyone recommends for this?

any studies on what types of noise actually induce deeper sleep?
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In clojure you could write this.

(-> 2 days from-now)

The great thing is that you don't have the weird semantic problems that the rust or ruby examples have. There are just two functions here, days and from-now.
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Not necessarily.

The funds from your undeclared income could be going to other people' undeclared incomes.
Sounds like a book I will enjoy, that goes now on my reading list for 2014!
The solution there is just to get a receipt showing the breakdown. W-2's are kinda that already at a very coarse-grained scale.

We don't have any system in place to show military spending breakdowns or get people upset about it or give people who are upset about it a way to influence changes shrinking it in the future.
Guns, Germs & Steel was a real revelation about the rise of Western civilization. Ain't because we're so smart or genetically superior, sorry. Just a matter of being in the right place at the right time a few thousand years ago.
But why does transferring large amounts of dollars take days? There is nothing physical preventing banks from supporting fast transfers. They can do fast transfers with BTC or USD.

Transfers are slow because there is little need to transfer large amounts of money quickly, and slower transactions help address issues with fraud. If you are buying a car, or paying for a house there is little need for a fast transactions. So with BTC or USD, transferring large amounts of money will take days.
Maybe it's not an issue because it's a web company, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to ramp up on any given module or system in the codebase.

Typical flow handled by one person is about 3 weeks from start of coding to live code, and then a couple more weeks on followup, stats, bugs, etc. After that it's just part of the codebase and others can end up working on it; but they'd probably talk to the original author to get up to speed.
Your right, the problem is in how you define rasism. I personally have a problem with including in the definition of most words "and is bad", as that inherently complicates the issue. I much prefer to answer the question "is this racist" without involving the question "is this bad". I cannot think of any reasonable definition of racism that satisfies this, and does not include "Black Girls Code" as an example. Now, can we talk about the "is this bad" question?
If your assumption were true, I wouldn't have bought a computer because I could have delayed my purchase and bought a cheaper+better one later. Even if I forecast computers falling from the sky in a year I would still buy one now if I didn't have one already. Wouldn't you?
I wish someone would tell me what all these loopholes are so I could stop paying taxes too...
> I am not about to take out a loan in a hard currency when perfectly good inflationary currencies are easily at hand.

Assuming the interest rates are the same, I'd agree. Would they be?
The most soothing, easy-to-sleep-to sound for me is the sound of the forced-hot-air furnace in the house I grew up in. Other furnaces in other houses are OK, but nothing tops the original.

I assume this is something deep in my psyche, implanted when I was very young.
If I were to choose one that benefitted me the most, directly, I would pick "33 Strategies of War" by Robert Greene.
I'm trying to bring some humanity to the discussion, but you're making it difficult.
> Since you seem to be very connected to the a generic literal meaning of things

Quite the opposite. I'm arguing in principle, and if you would like to redefine these words, I have no problem with that.

> try taking one more step and imagine how this "racism" would manifest itself

I fear that people continue to only associate with those in their small bubble of what makes them comfortable instead of reaching out and forging relationships that span sex/color/religion. Maybe they feel that they need a "black" version of education, and feel less confident in their ability to thrive in a multi-cultural society. Instead of opening up to new cultures we cement ourselves in one that we can identify with based on superficial factors like skin color and clothes.

I'm actually arguing from a position deeper than "white men should be able to join too!". Please, don't take it that way. I think humans tend to be afraid of people who are different than themselves, and that's the core issue. When we turn our skin color into an identity, we segregate ourselves from so many people. I think something like sports/teambuilding would be more effective at breaking down the barriers we're witnessing in our society.
The one that made the biggest impression (and, hopefully, impact) on me was definitely The Power of Habit. tl;dr: on a fundamental level, habits of all sorts shape much of our days and lives. It's like setting up automation scripts — it takes some time, but makes your life better and easier once you do. And they're like a sharp knife — a powerful tool, but be careful not to cut yourself. Good habits make you do things right without any effort, bad habits will ruin you. The book shows you how.
How do these differ from the [dual numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number)?
Finally Krugman talks about it...
It's a blog. Krugman has always been snarky, and I've seen him reference the blog titles within the text on occassion, so he probably titles them.

Editorials/opinion pieces, the editors typically put there stamp there.
> However, since their servers are no longer hosted in the US or the EU, they're no longer protected by US or EU laws! So congratulations, Clipperz! You've accomplished the double whammy of not improving your legal situation at home while simultaneously increasing the threat to your servers! Now the NSA, British Intelligence, and various other US and EU government agencies can legally hack your servers, and the data they recover can legally be used in any US or EU court even without a warrant and despite the illegal means by which the data was obtained. Congratulations!

AFAIK the NSA can and will legally capture and analyze data in US-based servers and networks if the data relates to non US citizens. Admittedly, keeping American users' data in the US could keep the NSA from analyzing it, but they're still allowed (or so they claim) to capture all data in US soil.
I read about a book a week this year, and the one that I loved most was "Give and Take" by Adam Grant. The book discusses two opposite approaches to work and life: being a taker (where you always try to use people and situations to your advantage) and being a giver (where you try to help others out before yourself). The book included a nice combination of anecdotes and research that all pointed to giving being a more effective road to success than taking. The first half of the book is spent building a compelling case for the main thesis (i.e. that giving is better); the second half talks about a few pitfalls that should be avoided and offers tips on how to be a more effective giver. Some of the lessons that I learned included tips for learning when I'm being taken advantage of and tips on how to keep from burning out on generosity.

I loved the combination of research + practical applicability and I think the book encapsulates many parts of the startup/tech community where people will help others -- even strangers -- very generously. I've given (no pun intended) about half a dozen copies of this book as gifts to friends.
Care to offer a counter example that you've personally witnessed?
The Krugman's problem is, that he is used to certain definition of "money", and then when something else comes, he compares it to that definition. For example, the original paper from Satoshi didn't mention the term "store of value". Given the ambiguity of the word "reliable", we can say nowadays that bitcoin is not "reliable store of value". But who said it is? It must not necessarily have the same attributes as fiat money does.

Anyway, I think the root of the problem with those mainstream journalists is that they do not distinguish between Bitcoin as an unit of account (like, I have 0.5 BTC, or this item cost 0.1 BTC), and a Bitcoin as a technology (peer-to-peer trustless network with all the wonderful attributes it has). Their mind mangles those two things into one, and they then see Bitcoins as only some virtual numbers, which are moving from one wallet to another. Starting from this perspective, they can't conclude anything useful, and can't see the intrinsic value of Bitcoin the technology.
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