skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we can (and do) give lower pricing than what we could commit to in a matrix like this to many users.

Can you elaborate on this? What factors influence what rates you can (and do) give? Chargeback rate? Mix of card types? Type of product or service being sold?

Perhaps we should release a matrix of what we do on average

I think that would be great -- even better if it's combined with a list of situations which would result in the rates being higher or lower than the norm.
>Still, in Norway, oil wealth may have made the state reluctant to make reforms or cut subsidies unthinkable elsewhere. Farm subsidies allow farmers, for instance, to keep dairy cows in heated barns in the Arctic.

and the alternative? Milking polar bears?

To compare, Canada has 1M dairy cows for 35M population, Norway - 300K for 5M population (Norway is self-sufficient milk producer and exporter of dairy products). Giving the health benefits of dairy (incl. in cold climate areas, for children and elderly) i'd say it is good investment, not "unthinkable subsidy".

More on the Canada's (usually one would think of it as a pretty reasonable country) "subsidy-less" approach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_farming_in_Canada#Supply_... :

"Dairy farming has been subject to the system of supply management since the 1970s. It restricts the supply of milk by limiting and controlling the amount produced domestically and starkly limiting imports with high tariffs. With a restricted supply, the prices increase, increasing profits for the farmers.[4] Though this system allows the federal and provincial governments to avoid subsidizing the farmers directly, consumers instead subsidize dairy farmers in through artificially high prices paid for groceries.

...

To keep supply low and prices high, it has been made deliberately difficult to become a new dairy farmer in Canada. Because the dairy industry is so lucrative, the right to own a single dairy cow is worth $28,000 (this does not include the actual price or value of the cow itself)

"
It is both very technical and very political.

Encryption itself is a highly political technology - the right for two parties to communicate securely and covertly is controversial in many parts of the world, even today.

The economics of centralization are a dependent on the technical choices of the protocol -- PPCoin and scrypt-based crypto-currencies are specifically designed to avoid the scenario that is happening right now, by not relying solely on sha256^2 hashing power. Of course they are not perfect and have their own issues.
Microsoft Outlook (hotmail) doesn't hash passwords?
Show HN: AngularClear - Todo app like Clear for iOS built using AngularJS
My own plan, from a similar starting position, is to buy one of these[1], and start tinkering with it until I have a good set of "hard problems" I've run into. Then, read the textbooks, with a motivated eye to solving those problems. I won't necessarily solve any of the Hard Problems, but I'll hopefully get a journeyman-level ability to converse with others in the field about those problems--and from there, it's just a hop, skip and a jump to making friends in the field and being tossed pithy journal articles to read.

[1] http://www.irobot.com/us/learn/Educators/Create.aspx
Sam Harris said it better here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JzcCviNDk
How Silicon Valley became "The Man"
I don't see how being a political enemy implies that an individual would boycott a corporation. If my "enemy" is offering me a deal that is beneficial to me, then I make that deal.
I like it, but there is probably still work that needs to go in to this. If you can open it just by putting pressure on the top, it will probably open in transit. Also, how well does it handle edge crushes?
I must admit, as a software dev I'm quite distressed that this is what I was prompted with when I tried to login to my email today.
So does anyone sell FX forwards (etc.) on Bitcoin yet? It seems everything now prices their items in, say, USD, and then calculates the Bitcoin price at purchase time. This makes the economy very unstable as the prices are never consistent. If Bitcoin prices were stable, then people would start accepting salary in Bitcoins, leading to even more stability, and so on. Or is Bitcoin too young for that?
I believe that all of the cases are now known. See table 22 in http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3750
If I find I'm running the same command several times I map it to a shortcut key (very easy to do in LightTable). It doesn't take long before I hardly ever hit Ctrl+space.
Early movers are often ideologically inspired - Stallman is a radical hippie, Jimmy Wales an objectivist. The crazies make the big bets.
What you write is not quite wrong, but it must be taken with a spoon of salt due to the way this kind of science is usually done.

If you fix a binary hypothesis, and then run your experiment for that specific hypothesis and only that hypothesis, then you're right.

In practice, though, people look at data such as from such experiments, and then invent a hypothesis that fits. The space of potential plausible-sounding hypotheses is huge (especially since, in many cases in psychology and related fields, both A and not-A may sound plausible). So the chance that such a small sample appears to show evidence for some plausible-sounding but incorrect hypothesis is actually very high.
See http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3750 (tables 19 and 22 in particular).
If Watson is going to be a $10B biz, IBM had better figure out the cloud
> they discovered oil in their back yard,

Yah, that's just blind luck. Would've at least shown some strategic and tactical skills if they stole it from someone else.
Those are two different things. A cultural difference is language. A cultural strength is when some part of a culture is "strong" in the sense of being vibrant or alive or thriving.

The easiest way to determine if something is racist is to ask if you're generalizing about a race of people. If you say "all Chinese people <blank>", it is a racist statement. Most people don't like to hear that, though, because most people make racist statements without realizing it.

Is it racist to hire someone because you prefer people from their ethnic background? Yes, because again, you're making the decision based on race in general instead of the individual person. You may find out the Russian is part of the Russian mob while the Chinese person has high business ethics. You wouldn't hire just white people because you feel uncomfortable dealing with black people, so don't make the same biased decisions about Russian vs Chinese.
SageMath Cloud has open signup:

http://cloud.sagemath.com
New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone On Google+ To Email You
What about test code? Unit, integration, performance, etc. What's your coverage look like?
After trying several times to write this reply without sounding snarky, because I am actually being sincere: can you link me to reading on historical problems directly caused by the gold standard? Or maybe some search terms?

I've heard this assertion a lot in regards to bitcoin/deflation. However, everything I can find winds up in the same place. The gold standard was fine, but countries abandoned it so they could print endless money to fund World War I.
Meta: I've mentioned it before here - why is standard spell-checking so lame. The phrase "It seams that" is only going to be correct about 1 in a few-million times ["if you bend it seams that have high pressure applied will burst", maybe].

If I was clever enough I could probably fix it; I've heard that phrase based analysis is used for translation. Most homophonic spelling errors seem fixable using automated lexical context analysis.

Seems there is movement in mobile spell-check and word suggestion but not in desktop?
It's just as simple to use a variety of other services to pay.

With any BTC payment service (including Coinbase), you also get the option to pay by QR code (if using a mobile wallet is easiest) or copy/pasting an address (if you're using a desktop/web client) which is at least as easy as redirecting to Coinbase, signing in (if you aren't already), and then redirecting back to the merchant's site.
Parts of Europe are sinking in debt. Norway, after all, is a European nation state.
The title is misleading. While an amazing milestone, Norwegians can't head down to their local central bank branch and draw down their share of the fund. It's a bit like saying every man, woman, and child in the United States owes $200K because of the national debt.
You never had journalistic training. Journalists frame stories to satisfy criteria of "newsworthiness," a combined measure of the story's importance, urgency, and entertainment value. Just like a good novel has a dramatic conflict, journalists are taught to report on stories with conflict (which are often more interesting to read than dull, peaceful hum-drum). And if the story doesn't have conflict built-in, they make conflict by framing the story to include a conflict narrative. Journalists refer to the way they frame a story as their "angle." Anything can be news with the right angle.

Real life example: in the 90s, journalists reported on the "Great Hacker War," a "virtual gang war" between two competing hacker groups, LOD & MOD. In reality, the event was a scuffle between some hackers in a chat room, which resulted in some minor hacking, name calling, and prank phone calls. But that didn't make for a great headline.
From that warning message there, I don't know how you determined that they aren't hashing. You might have to spoon-feed it to me. I feel like they are just looking out for whatever legacy systems that will stroke if you pass more than 16 char to them?
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I am sorry I can't answer, but I was a customer of Mt.Gox when they still had the Dwolla option, and I haven't gone back ever since that ended.

Their support for me was delayed, I sent a question on Dec 21 and didn't hear back until Jan 3, but here is the somewhat contradictory response they sent me regarding my (similar inquiry that didn't involve any actual money):

Thank you for the email and sorry for the delay in response. MtGox does not have any issues in trading bitcoins.

Currently we are facing few backlogs and we do not have an ETA for international withdrawals. We are in the process of forming relationship with new partners, banks and taking other steps to clear the backlog. We have almost improved the banking system in other countries and we are working hard to bring out a better banking system in the US for withdrawals.

At the moment we do not require any letter writers but still we appreciate your willingness.

You would be able to trade with multiple currencies. Currently, you would be able to trade bitcoins in EUR, CAD, GBP, CHF, RUB, AUD, SEK,
DKK, HKD, PLN, CNY, SGD, TBH, NZD and JPY.

Yes, we do have banking relationships with Europe.

(The part about the letter writers -- I mentioned that as a former customer, and satisfied, I thought it was wrong what my government did to them, and I would be willing to write a letter on behalf. No surprise they did not want me to write any letter.)
British fighter jet takes to the skies carrying 3D-printed part
Perhaps I wasn't too clear in my original post. I was making a normative statement, not a positive one. In other words, I accept that the actual law may consider this a violation; I'm questioning whether the law itself is acceptable in those terms.

Then again, I don't live in the USA, and the concept of a restraining order is a bit alien to me since it's not something heard of as much over here. There surely is some cultural bias at play.

I don't think it's too much to ask for courts to decide on a case-by-case basis. Establishment of intent is one of the main things courts exist for.
I don't know why you were downvoted. I (think) I agree with you.

I'm assuming you mean they are on CRUD as in most projects are what I call 'simple I/O'. Data goes into a database, data comes out of a database, and the job of the developer is just to make that happen.

For the most part, that is true, but I don't think you can blame that on the 'industry', that's the 'market'. The majority of the market didn't/doesn't need anything more than that.

However, if you have the skills, there are lots of jobs out there in data-analytics, robotics, etc. etc. (depending on where you are) that probably wouldn't have been available if we were ALL neck deep building every CRUD app from scratch. The frameworks make average people right faster and better code.

Hell, they help me write better and faster code. I'm no coding genius, but I've built apps in rails, and it is faster than when I was building everything by hand in PHP.

I haven't been doing much CRUD lately, seems like Front-End has taken the majority of my time in the last few years, but that's part of the 'craft' of being a developer. I actually find front-end more challenging and rewarding than CRUD (these days) simply because frameworks have made CRUD so easy.
Chris Christie: Me-me-mea culpa
Mesos 0.15 and Authentication Support
I was under the impression the Meyer-Briggs was essentially pseudo-science?
My personality type is the "I don't believe in personality types" type.
Why You Should Upload Yourself to a Supercomputer
Overstock might as well say "We now accept Coinbase!"
*addresses

which are free and disposable
Nice summary. Anyway, it seems he haven't tried Go seriously yet.
My GFs brother is a (german, studied in Germany and Spitzbergen) geophysicist and he just landet his first real job after graduating in Norway at an oil company. There seems to be a demand in this field.
To be fair, the three sites the author holds up as good examples (Medium, 37signals' blog, and Zen Habits) are not being run for a profit. Having to monetize a site does make it much harder to keep the layout clean -- ads are supposed to catch your eye, after all.
For this customer specifically, yes. However, anyone that doesn't use a Coinbase account will be sending actual Bitcoin.
There's a difference between using legal tax structures to reduce (or eliminate) your bill, and simply not paying your taxes.
Can you give some examples by what you mean by pragmatism as a theme please
Programming is a bad term here I think.
Computer Science is (on some level) the extension of math to dynamic processes.

Overly simplified, math might give you a well defined value, but no way to actually calculate that value, that's where computer science come into play.
It's been different every time I've taken the test.
If you want a more structured introduction to hardware hacking, UTAustin is offering a MOOC called "Embedded Systems - Shape The World" that starts on January 23, 2014 and puts a heavy emphasis on hands-on labs. The platform used in the course is based on the Cortex M4 ARM chip and the board is made by Texas Instruments.

Course website: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/edX/index.html

edX website: https://www.edx.org/course/utaustinx/utaustinx-ut-6-01x-embe...
So you are basically saying that something is great without having worked with it on a production-grade project... Not saying React is a bad library, quite frankly it's the opposite, but your reasoning is surprising. In the future, avoid advising things you have not played extensively with.
From Harvard, a Cheaper Storage Battery
If you think the platform is finished enough maybe post it on Kaggle: http://www.kaggle.com/ there are many potential users for this app IMHO.
The test is rubbish. On the other hand, much like a horoscope, it provides a basis for conversation and reflection.
> never said the GPL was a roadblock for people contributing code. I said it was a roadblock for people using it.

Ah, yes you did, however the claim you initially referenced talked about contributing code, not using.

>Thanks :-) Come hang out on IRC/FreeNode at `#wingo`. (Although it's kind of dead.)

Maybe I will dust off irssi and drop by :)
Put a profile mentioning a handful of popular technologies on Dice.com with the actively looking status. You should get tons of recruitment spam. The problem is that the vast majority of it will not be good leads. Most of the jobs you will not have a realistic chance of getting because the recruiters will ignore key details such as level of experience and where you are actually willing to work.
Yes, no, and maybe. The typical MBTI only reveals to you exactly what you had told it moments before, so it is very accurate. Test results will change, however, because you change over time.
Me too. What is pseudo-science doing on HN?
I consider myself dynamically-typed.

Comedy answer: single and unloved.

EDIT:

Last time I took this, ENTJ. Now, ENFP. I'm apparently going soft.
len(set(open("test.txt").read().split()))
If there was ever proof of Karl Denninger's statement[0] that "one man's waste, fraud, abuse, scam, and theft is another man's paycheck," this is it. The law will never be changed, thanks to the influence of the newspapers that benefit...who, because they benefit, have the cash to influence the legislators.

[0] See e.g. http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=3149840
For a transaction that either isn't shipped immediately (any retailer of physical goods) or that you can rescind (digital item with DRM), it's perfectly safe to accept a transaction that has been propagated to the network but that hasn't been 'confirmed' yet.

However, you wouldn't want to, for example, run a gambling site that accepts and pays out bets immediately after they show up as 'unconfirmed' because you wouldn't have recourse if they managed to double spend.
Well, sure. When I need something like URL routing, or object-relational mapping, or templating, why not reinvent it from scratch every time? Or, failing that, why not handle things like that with a collection of favorite libraries, each of which has its own calling conventions, its own requirements, and its own attitude toward the world? Reconciling all those differences certainly won't take a significant amount of time, and I'm always happy to spend my efforts on tooling instead of on whatever project inspired the need for tooling in the first place.

More seriously, I can understand where you might be coming from with the implication that frameworks are a crutch for developers who don't bother to learn, or aren't capable of learning, the language in which the framework is implemented; I've had to clean up the wreckage left behind by Ruby on Rails hacks, too.

But what's important to keep in mind is that the Rails dev community is extremely atypical in its extremely low average level of basic programming capability, and the Rails framework is likewise anomalous in the degree to which it forgives such incompetence. These traits, I stress, are not common to frameworks in general or to the developers who employ them, and consequently it is very much a mistake to use the Rails ghetto as a basis for extrapolation to more or less anything else. It's your mistake to make, of course, and if you insist upon it, then I won't go to any further effort on your behalf. But you can't say no one tried to warn you.
The end result is the other guy has to pay your fair share of the taxes.
In order to validate that my 16-char truncated password is correct, they would have to have my password stored somewhere.

Standard security practice is to store ONLY the hash of a password, and never the password text.
You might be surprised at what normal people actually think.

Get outside and talk to some folks. Very few are friends of "the machine."
What would happen if they started spending all the money?
If you hash a password, when a user logging in enters their password you convert what they type into a hash and compare that hash to the hash you have stored. A partial password (like the first 16 characters) isn't going to equal the same hash that you have stored in your database.
>and the alternative? Milking polar bears?

Understanding Ricardian/comparative advantage, recognising that dairy is not a matter of national security, and importing it.
are all hackers INTJ..?
I don't need a test to know I'm an asshole.
> When the company does turn on the feature it'll send emails to Gmail users letting them know of the change.

No matter what you think about this feature (or other features), you must admit Google never fails to tell you about it, and give you options.
PEP 404 -- Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule
Code reuse or the lack thereof also affects the users, because there is more potential for bugs. Reinventing the wheel may be warranted, the end result may actually be more stable depending on who works on that wheel reinvention, but lets not kid ourselves - every line of code written increases the potential for bugs and there's nothing that affects the user experience more than a broken app.

Besides, bytes count is important, but it's only a problem because people aren't using tree-shaking optimizers, like Google Closure. E.g. when importing a library like JQuery, you're paying for a lot of crap in it that you don't need. A smart tree-shaker is able to detect unused branches and eliminate everything you don't use.

And it's a solvable problem. Google Closure in "advanced" optimizations mode is amazing. Unfortunately the popular libraries are not written for Closure's advanced optimizations and thus are incompatible. This is where compilers can help us. ClojureScript for example compiles to Google Closure optimized Javascript. There's also a fork of an older version of TypeScript that does the same thing. Google's Dart does tree shaking too. Maybe we'll also see EcmaScript 6 compilers that will do it too.

We don't need to sacrifice code reuse because of bytes count. I mean, sure, if you don't find a library that matches your architectural needs, wheel reinvention is fine. But optimizing for bytes count is a stupid reason to do it and we only feel the need for it because our tool-chains are primitive.
That's awesome! I'll add it in the post somewhere, thanks!
You're in luck, most personality tests have a bin for that.
Don't forget the Target credit card leak. Possibly worst of all because it ahem targeted physical credit and debit cards.
Is it possible to move data around between languages / engines?

E.g. would it be possible to run a query against Red Shift (step 1), then cleanse it in Python (step 2), run R scripts over the Python output (step 3) then dump the results back to Red Shift (step 4)?

If I then decide I need to change the Red Shift query (step 1), can I then re-run the whole pipeline?

Munging data between different tools is what I seem to spend most of my time doing, so anything that helps that would be a big productivity boost.
This type of thing is more in the realm of US States. Alaska and North Dakota both have funds established.
Not related to Norway. But when I went for a tour in the salt mine in Hallstatt it was explained that this much has been mined, this much for now, and this large amount here is for our children.
In stark contrast to what I see in Australia where they'll rape the environment for short term gain and an elite few benefit.