skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they gave an awesome talk about 2.5 years ago at the AngelPad incubator about their story of hustle getting started; they slept under their desks in the office etc. it sounded like they had a real thing going, identifying out of down dealers that specialized in set models. Shame to see it shut down.
gandi.net is great
> I think the calculation is replacing one drive takes about 15 minutes of work.

Is that really the true cost of replacement? I would think there is also the cost of dealing with the warranty and the testing and monitoring. Here is the quote from the blog post about unsuitable drives:

> When one drive goes bad, it takes a lot of work to get the RAID back on-line if the whole RAID is made up of unreliable drives. It’s just not worth the trouble.

I don't have the time to think about this fully, but it seems similar to calculating the present value of a future cash flow, because there are other costs beyond the first replacement effort:

> Their average age shows 0.8 years, but since these are warranty replacements, we believe that they are refurbished drives that were returned by other customers and erased, so they already had some usage when we got them.

It sounds like the total cost of a failed drive is actually 1.5x, because 50% of the replacement drives also fail.
If you are looking for an alternative, Consumer Reports pricing tools work fantastic.
Is there one person that gets to work in there, or do they rotate it?
Of the 5 homes, I have mortgages on the 2 most expensive ones (we live in one of them). The other 3 I bought more or less cash.

The first condo I bought by selling most of my stock investments. After buying the condo I started investing again. The following year I took out a HELOC out the next condo, sold all my stocks again and bought the next one cash. I did the same for the one after that. I've since paid off the HELOCs.
Done and ready to go :) let me know how it goes!
Some men!
The idea is that bitcoin gives you the option of value-added services, like conversion and what not, but you definitely don't have to use them. With fiat you don't have that option.

I accepted bitcoin for some freelancing work and I didn't convert it.
Uh, every invasion of a country or coup/assassination in the last decades?
It seems they could have the causation arrow exactly backwards.

Alternate hypothesis: Countries with fewer children have more resources to put towards those children.

The Gates Foundation is super smart, so I'm hopeful they've seen enough data to consider and refute this.
There is some academic interest in ability to use bitcoins scripting language to build "smart contracts."

In practice, escrow isn't necessarily needed. In a typical consumer transaction the merchant is more trustworthy than the consumer (think me ordering from amazon). Amazon could just steal my money but that'd quickly destroy their brand. OTOH amazon accounts are free and so amazon is much more worried about me defrauding them. If amazon accepted bitcoin I'd pay them without worrying about escrow.
I ported the minimalist text adventure we all know and love, A Dark Room, to iOS
ha Great story.
It bugs the crap out of me is when bash stuff wont work in more "modern" shells.
Here I collected prices for domains (only what I'm interested in). If you did that too, I'd be glad to see your spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amel5Zz4w7aLdFl...
Most employers know what a sudden and abrupt change in the graph really means. If someone's so short sighted enough to disqualify you on your contributions graph without so much as asking "why?", they don't respect your profession.
Because there's a definitive answer and it's reasonably free from opinion.
And yes, this is the official iOS release of the game. More info here: http://amirrajan.net/a-dark-room/
You should stop saying "with fiat", unless you mean it to include Bitcoin, which is very much a fiat currency. It has value only to the extent that you say it has value.

Fiat currencies are to be contrasted with currencies that have intrinsic commodity value -- like gold, or livestock. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.

The only difference between a governmental fiat currency and a distributed fiat currency (like gold) is that there is no government backing the latter. This has no bearing on the existence of fees for transfer and storage. If you're willing to carry physical currency around and store it in your mattress, payment via US dollars is fee-free as well.
That's only people that read the 101 level of how the economy works and don't consider that bitcoin is infinitely divisible practically, unlike gold.
to the moon shibes
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Nope, never pronounced it different but clearly context is important :)
I hope so too - but I think it's unlikely because Bitcoin is decentralised by design.

When money supply is controlled by central authority, it can be used as a tool to control prices and volatility. It's still early days but the inflation-targeting independent monetary policy experiment happening in some developed economies over the last 2 decades seems promising.

I'd be interested if anyone were willing to start a "centralised" Bitcoin governed by benevolent dictators for life. I'd rather put my savings with people who understand monetary theory and how to use big data to inform supply decisions than a system prone to cycles.
I have a fond memory of going with my roommate when he was buying a new car. He had a decent amount to give as a down payment. Armed with the knowledge of how much the dealer pays, he basically walked in, said he'd buy a certain car for a certain amount and not more and handed them his down payment check. The salesman took the offer to his manager. He returned with a counter offer. My roommate didn't budge. After three trips to talk to the manager (each time their offer came down), my roommate remained stuck in his price. On the last trip, their offer was just $500 higher than the desired price. Roommate still held his ground. We watched as the two men were discussing the check in hand. The salesman kept pointing at the check. We couldn't hear what they were saying but we knew it had to be along the lines of "He's going to buy a car. Give him the price he wants." The manager would not come down any lower. We walked out... just $500 away from closing the deal. And the best part... he got a call later that evening asking if he'd still be interested in the car at his desired price.

If you have the time and initiative (and can be willing to walk away without a car) you can get a good deal.
Oh no question, MasterCard et al are going to change their tune greatly in the coming years due to this new competition, and we're all going to benefit from this.
Other founder here -- sorry about that! We can definitely make it clearer, you're right.
More like "men as a political class." I'm male, and I knew I was inviting this comment. To me saying "some men" is like giving the "good men" a cookie, when really all men should be concerned about these kinds of things, by virtue of being human.
I don't want to believe, that the world is rapidly being corrupted, but it is.

Freedom and opportunity?

Opportunity might be true in some areas (particularly IT), but not in other areas. Just because you think you are king, you are not!

Freedom, no, not at all. Democracy has brought much freedom to the people and after the 2nd WW freedom lived up to it's maximum, it seems to me. But in the last decades it declined rapidly.

Do you mean, freedom in Iraq? Or in Afghanistan or other Arabian countries? Think twice! There might be some countries, yes, but they are far away from being real free.

Freedom in western countries? Europe?? The US???

Think again! Just think!
Whoops, in retrospect that should have been obvious.
On the other hand, sometimes when you find yourself, alone, on the wrong the side of the debate, it may make sense to at least rethink your assumptions and consider that you may be wrong. Maybe the debate isn't actually there. Maybe all those well-meaning public health-policy writers at the WHO and at the national levels have a point. At the very least, maybe consider that pragmatic realities trump religious ideologies.

Besides, I've read your arguments in other threads. They are backwards, destructive (if actually implemented as public health policy) and have no basis in actual reality (your only argument is a hand-waving 'every-POTENTIAL(!!)-human-life-is-precious'). There is a reason why you, Jenny McCarthy and Ken Ham find yourself outsiders by the 'establishment' with your respective positions.
cheeky fuckers
Curious to know what you think of BGC (and others like it)?

http://blackgirlscode.org/
Hi - congrats on the openness about DrawQuest.
Did you consider building cloud based offering for DrawQuest that would allow consumers to save their drawings onlike and or share kids drawings with family members?
Or selling physical products like Paper did?
Investment related fess are tax deductible. To my knowledge, Visa fees are not.
> I thought that was plain enough.

All that barrel does is stop counterfeiters and tax evaders. Neither of those things are "intrinsic value". And Bitcoin is FAR more difficult to duplicate (you can't even forge or counterfeit it, you have to "double spend" it in a tricky operation requiring owning at least 50% of the network, good luck with that) than any other currency.

Read this: http://bitcoinsurvey.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/what-is-the-re...

Basically, a currency cannot drop to zero value unless ALL trade in it stops. If you think about it, this makes sense. So that is its "intrinsic value". The trade volume props up this minimum. There is of course "speculative value" laid on top of that, but where one stops and the other begins is anybody's guess.
"Your data suggest little or no association between Female and Male with Science and Liberal Arts."

I tried the Gender-Career one and got the same result.

I guess i'm abnormal?
I think this is fairly well known, but the guys at OkCupid keep a blog[1] with their own research regarding how to improve your odds. There is, for instance, an analysis about the relation between attractiveness and camera: [2]

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/

[2] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
I'm currently working with ActiveMQ. I try to think of it as multiple IRC networks. Channels as topics for users by users, servers as gateways to isolated materials/users, server global messages as topics for users by servers, server local messages as queues for users by servers and private messages as queues for users by users.

It is absolutely fascinating offloading a message to the queue and letting the back-end handle workflow and shuffling it to another queue for micro-tasking (such as in the article). In fact, the topic/queue paradigm has really shifted my whole view on services.

Forgot to mention the queue added a layer of security. Our front-end is now the same as spawning a shell in the server (as far as data access). If you can spawn a shell on the webserver, the server is isolated from everything except the MQ ip/port combo. This means that what was possible on the front end is the only thing possible on the back end (as far as penetrating data). I'm sure a clever person could get figure out a way, but for your average person, that will be a show stopper.
What I still read here is a ridiculous claim that Unix permissions prevent viruses (https://www.google.com/search?q=os+x+privilege+escalation -- to say nothing about the damage that can be done just compromising the local user) and a clear demonstration that you don't know how Windows security works. When confronted with counterpoints you just say something along the lines of "I never knew about that so I must have been right all along."
Dotfiles/bin/todo
Map School
I bought a car a couple months ago, and as soon as the sales manager saw a TrueCar page open on my phone, the negotiation ended and I paid the price on the phone. Pretty amazing how easy it was.
Too bad. I used them to buy a car in 2012 and the service seemed to work well, except for a couple dealers that wanted to waste my time with offers that didn't match what I had specifically requested.
I simply shared two wikipedia articles on the topic to refer to a somewhat impartial source and added an article which illustrated the existence of a transphobic fringe within the feminist community.

I didn't intend to make any statement concerning exclusion or condemnation of transwomen from conferences; although it seems like you did jump to that conclusion. Neither did I explicitly mention 'radical feminism.'

As for feedback; the part that's hurtful here is that while the article I posted seems to take great care to attempt to perform a level-headed in-depth deconstruction of transphobia in the feminist community and painstakingly ensuring to criticise specific behaviour by specific people rather than the feminist community as a whole.

Many of the articles you linked invoke a variety of ad-hominems, strawmen and generally mostly seem aimed at eliciting a certain emotional response towards the trans community.
Feds Interrogate Man Wearing Google Glass in Movie Theater
> What about copyright and regional distribution restrictions?

Sounds like the kind of problems centralized services always run into.
I feel like it's implied, but indeed I see that I mis-read the question. Given that newborns likely can't get married, I'm not sure how likely it is. It does occur to me, given a time machine, a lot of laws would have loopholes. ;-)
What Gates mentions in that article was brought up by many in the past; e.g. "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa"[1].

Personally I prefer to donate to small micro-funding campaigns or lean, local NGOs. In case of disaster relief I still might donate to Red Cross though.

One of the services which I recently started using and really enjoy the way it works is One Today[2] by Google.

All in all, it's always helpful to look at the numbers[3] to make sure that your donations are not used to rent fancy offices in downtown London or NYC.

[1]: http://www.dambisamoyo.com/books-and-publications/book/dead-...

[2]: http://www.google.com/onetoday/

[3]: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...

Edit: Formatting, grammar.
WHAT.

This is really disappointing - first time in a while I've seen an "we're shutting down" announcement and been really, truly, genuinely disappointed by it.

Physical mail is but one of many small parts of daily life that's increasingly feeling like an anachronism.

The fact that we have to regularly physically go to our mailboxes, open them, receive physical paper communication, and then shred/dispose/keep it all is annoying. I was really looking forward to Outbox growing and spreading to other cities.

(BTW: It's worth noting that my rejection of paper mail doesn't mean I reject the notion of the nice parts - hand-written letters, greeting cards, wedding invitations. Those are great. But I'd be totally happy seeing a high quality digitized version of those appear in the email inbox.)

I do hope someone figures out a good solution here, because I'm certain there's demand for this service in some form or another.

(edit: As a friend pointed out - $5/month is probably far too cheap. Earth Class Mail starts at $20. I'd gladly pay that for Outbox - probably more.)
One could, but IIRC Schneier has mentioned using a USB drive (though it could all be a clever ruse to throw off the NSA ;-).
I remember when this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting

got so bad in the mid-2000's that it was best just to buy the domain if you even thought you wanted it.
Thanks! This looks great! Would you mind if we possibly mentioned this in our documentation?

As for the pricing, we are indeed much cheaper than Google's geocoding offerings (given the nature of our product). If you are looking to do a high amount of geocoding requests, just contact us[1] and we'll work out a pricing model for you.

[1] hello@geocod.io
Even if they don't succeed, it seems like an attempted theft.
Yes. I was in the military so I used the VA loan. Additionally, the house was only $140,000. I've since refinanced to a 15yr loan on that property and the rental income still covers it.
Hackintosh Mod Used an Actual Trash Can to Look Like Apple's New Mac Pro
Sigh. Too many greats (and hyphens). Thanks for the correction.
I had not heard that idea before.
I think it might not work because the HFT people are selling just as much as they are buying.
If you're a USAA member, I know they have a car buying service to make things easy.
Which smartwatch is this?
Yes and No.

The rule is very simple: Never through a proxy.

examples, good will, bill&melinda, are proxy. your money will just disappear and make fat bankers fatter.

wikipedia, software projects (go openBSD!), working in a soup kitchen.... no proxy. Give!
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/21/70000-healthcare-gov-record...

Except not. This was misreported and spread like wildfire.
That's a cool idea. If you combined it with a Coin style card that allowed you to switch cards on the fly you could not worry about blowing your budget.
I wonder if a skilled plastic surgeon could re-arrange his skin to add space between those characters and remove it on either side of the tattoo.
Could be worse. I know someone who picked a tattoo out of the artist's book because it looked cool, and later discovered it was the logo of a Mexican prison gang.
OF COURSE you owe taxes every time you realize a gain. I pay taxes on every bitcoin I earn, including any I use to pay for expenses. Nothing I wrote implies that you don't have to pay taxes on all money earned with bitcoins.

However, just because you earn money with bitcoin doesn't mean you can't pay for the taxes on those bitcoins with money you earned in fiat.
Definitely feel free to mention it in the docs! Thanks again for an awesome new alternative.

Version 1.0.0 is on RubyGems now, by the way!
IIRC Google's TOS prohibits saving geocoded points. "Caching" is allowed, but I think this has value/is different insofar as it would let you store points permanently without breach of contract.
Competitor of Network Solutions here.

Impossible for me to believe they are actually doing this. And auto charging the credit card.

Something doesn't add up with this.
Ah - when the term Paxos is used it is usually in reference to the original, non-BFT algorithm. Also, Google's implementations of Paxos (in Chubby, as well as Megastore) are non-BFT, and I am not aware of any use of Byzantine Paxos in production elsewhere.
> article.

remember, it was not an "article", but an advertisement.
Are you sure about that? Pre-sorted, pre-coded "junk mail" with a flexible delivery schedule is much cheaper to move through the system.
i liked the cat /dev/random | sort
Boringly it does not work as /dev/random never closes

Here is my own one:

grep life /dev/urandom | strings

The search for life continues.
It very much depends on the application. Econometrics uses lots of statistics. Finance uses stochastic calculus. Microeconomics uses linear algebra and calculus. To see how incomprehensible things can get, here's a paper by one of my old econometrics professors: http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~bbeare/pdfs/vinecopula.pdf
No worries. I probably need to cut down on my sarcasm, especially online, but I've found it to be the most effective "shutup" tool in my bag when dealing with this extreme mindset. As an example, two weeks ago I was at dinner with some folks including a Catholic seminarian and a young USAF officer. The seminarian was commenting on topics related to social justice, something he's devoted most of his adult life to, and the need for government involvement. Young officer says he believes taxation is "immoral", as it's taking money from other people by force. My response, "But you're paid with tax dollars...". I didn't have to continue that line of thought before he switched topics. I guess the really unfortunate thing is that I've had to use that same line on a number of civil servants and government contractors in this area. They don't seem to appreciate the hypocrisy of denouncing the government for taxing them, while being paid with tax dollars, until someone else calls them out on it. And two days later they'll be ranting again.
> The NSA bulk surveillance is bad (doubleplus bad?)

Doubleplus ungood, actually.
Actual transphobia (like the rampant homophobia, specifically against lesbians, before it) in "feminist" communities is tragic, just as it is anywhere. I don't mean to excuse bigots, only to provide context for the discussion of the political exclusion of (rather than emotional, bigoted marginalization and violence against) transwomen from women-only spaces, which is the overall topic at hand here and the concern of many radical feminists.
> put on hold as off-topic by FreshPrinceOfSO, Christian Payne, billinkc, ajma, Maxime Rouiller 23 mins ago

This is why StackExchange sites will die.

Or perhaps they're just being subtle:

"This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a simple typographical error...."
How is TrueCar's model different from what CarWoo was doing?
Could someone break down how that fork bomb works? In particular, why is the pipe and the background on one of the function calls needed to make it work?
The TrueCar homepage (http://www.truecar.com/) looks like one of those generic 404/squatter page.
Cars are commodities, and should not be sold by salesman on commission. I'm not buying another car until mine falls apart.
Thank you, I especially liked this little bit:

> A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
This is sad to see. As the co-founder of http://www.paperkarma.com who's had to deal with some of the same issues (USPS regulations) I was keeping an eye out & pulling for them to succeed. We need further legislation to enable citizens better control over unsolicited mail. You guys built a great service & should be very proud!
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High energy physics is one of the leading fields that drives scientific progress forward. Studying antimatter is particularly cool, because at the face value it is one of the most efficient ways to store energy (Basically 100% of matter gets converted to energy). Now if only we could figure out a way to cheaply produce it without relying on fossil fuels.
Unless you're saying that you can split 1 bitcoin into 2 bitcoins, I think your reasoning is flawed.

Or looking at it another way, inventing a new denomination like a millicent (= 0.001c) will automatically increase our money supply...
I think a lot of people here, myself included, are introverts.

Sitting in front of a salesperson who, if they aren't an extrovert are at the very least required to act like one, for a few hours while they see just how good of a deal they can make for themselves and their boss by talking sounds like a spot of hell.

It's only marginally better than being stuck to someone like that on a plane; at least when buying a car, you can walk out of the dealership.
Philosophy is just what we call the most fundamental systems of ideas that govern everything else. Naturally, it is the source for the gravest possible darkness. But it is also the source of the greatest possible light.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/01/07/20-years-for-loli-m...

"A federal appeals panel has upheld the 20 year sentence of a lolicon found to have received illustrations of underage sex by email, saying that “it is not a required that the minor depicted actually exists”, and so ruling art not to be universally protected free speech."
Exactly.

Nor any campaigns for unisex sports teams.