skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the people who ultimately pay those founders (investors via company board) think it's ok, then it is ok. I'm sure investors aren't willing to freely give out money for no reason.
Flip a three-sided coin to decide who gets the whole sandwich. It will be envy-free before the coin flip (but not after). In general, eg for utility functions with diminishing returns, this solution will not yield the highest utility.
Here visualized in bar graphs as a %. Interesting. http://i.imgur.com/yEW0ivT.png
Soak it in water for twenty minutes. The fake identifier stickers will fall off.
Not sure I get the analogy. Are you saying you don't understand C? Wouldn't that be your problem, not someone else's?
Ever used plasma on an touch screen? It's terrible. Getting better, sure, but not good in my opinion. Unity is far more consistent and modern in touch usage, IMO.
I know this wasn't your point, but there are more businesses in the world than just "Valley outfits" and "non-Valley outfits like banks or those outsourcing firms"...
I can garantee you i don't miss blueray as i did not miss laser disc.

Also it's much more convenient that my camera and phones use sd cards instead of memory sick..

You're point?
>How many Norwegian terrorists have there been?

At least two since 2011.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467047/Terror-suspe...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
Indian regime is spending $1 billion/year on space research when 50% of its children are malnourished.

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Every-second-Indian-child-is...
My favorite part:

"The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers."

Oh, so they only need physical access to the machine, and then they can do stuff to it? It's like magic!
Ok, help me out here: Dogecoin's first block was mined on 2013-12-06 and now the richest account has $846,935 USD. Is it really that easy?

Could I start an aarondfcoin? Is it all about getting the network effect to make a non-backed (fiat) currency actually worth something?

I was just so shocked to see that Dogecoin was actually worth anything.
Rust implements a kind of region typing or linear logic, too, right? That's significantly beyond anything you'll see in garden variety Haskell/ML (though you can embed linear logic in the Haskell type-class machinery with a final encoding [0]).

[0] http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/#linear
Latency matters depending on the video player. At 1080p I find FLV streaming services with encryption tend to fall over unless your Internet connection is silly fast, including latency. Any delay, due to poor protocols or poor playback software, will cause the video to stop and rebuffer. Then again, perhaps the video is coming from sufficiently far away that in a live stream, I'd be right on the borderline of watchable if my ping on the wider internet spikes too much. Eh, what can I say. Every time I can boost the speed tier on my cable line, it seems to slightly improve ping and dramatically improve the reliability of my connection. Perhaps the longer things are transferring on the internet the more likely I'll see variability during the transfer?
Existential Programming
RetroBSD is a port of BSD 2.1 for pic micro controllers, so a lot of the work is done for me! I'll be writing drivers for the lcd and key pad. I'm going to be making the keypad from scratch at this point, but performance wise it's actually pretty damned fast!

This is the board I ordered: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fubarino-sd-p-1265.html

PIC32MX440F256H - 256K Flash, 32K RAM @ 80MHz 32-bit MIPS core

While the RAM is lacking, it should be enough :) the case will likely be vacuum moulded, I've experience doing that when I use to make portable consoles from hacked SoC's, but the prototype will be 3D printed for sure.
More outrage farming without supplying all facts and context. I will give the benefit of the doubt to the jury and save my rage for a cause I am certain is just.
Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution
Good luck getting aarondfcoin to gain any sort of traction or following. If you can convince a committed and numerous group to believe in anything, it will be worth something.
Internet of Things, circa 2004
NSA's 'Quantum' program lets the agency access 100,000 offline computers
Greg Hurrell's dotfiles
Steve Jobs’ Doctor Wants to Teach You the Formula for Long Life
Its like silver vs gold. The volume for silver is much higher as its price range is a lot more manageable for people. I also wouldnt be suprised if just one person created the majority of these to push hype. Theyre all a bunch of ponzi schemes. Sadly i also think theyre here to stay for at least a long while.
Nice site. Although, what's the value proposition besides being free video hosting? YouTube provides that along with millions of users.
That doesn't mean anyone would actually buy $846,935 of Dogecoin at once.
I love one of his quotes from that case:

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In one episode, Oracle's star lawyer... was arguing that Google copied the nine lines of rangeCheck code to accelerate development to gain faster entry into the mobile phone market.

Alsup told Boies, "I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America --how could you even make that kind of argument?"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57445082-94/judge-william-a...
Sure you can start aarondfcoin: http://www.coingen.io/.
don't be afraid to ask for help. even if you know the solution to a problem, sometimes the more experienced devs will have better ways to do it, and if they're good devs they'll appreciate you taking the time to learn.

the best thing you can get out of a job is to learn more. you'll almost always have other devs around you who have been around the block a few times and have a few tricks up their sleeves, they're often worth listening to.
Random? Why not all the people?
Watching the video. First I liked it..... Then I hated it. It's too much. I don't want that kind of life. I don't want Mother to watch at me everyday every moment.
Which is why you look for the flights DEPART->ARIVE->DON'T CARE and you just need make the second leg.

Don't do this often if you care about your frequent flier miles though.
You can go out and make aarondfcoin just like you can go out and make a viral video.
that looks awesome!
Did you quote that hourly rate to the client ($200/ph and I expect it will take x hours), or did you quote a total for the deliverable?

What was the source of the client? If they went looking for a 'programmer', I'm curious why they weren't (like many others) lured by others who are cheaper per hour but worse in every other respect.
Dogecoins is worth something in the same way that oversized obviously fake bills from party supply stores are worth money; you have to pay to get them but after that they are less valuable then monopoly money. the only reason people want them is to be in on the joke some they can give each other thousands of of fake dollars for nothing.
Not sure if this is useful but code just check out one of the examples on codepen and click the little gear in the JS panel. They link to the famous lib there https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/demo.famo.us/befamous/fam...
15 African technology startups to watch in 2014
Record wind power levels trigger energy price fall across Europe
Much progress, WoW!
If all startups face the same problem then the strongest startup wins. Simply naming a risk that all startups face and then saying the strongest startups in their respective domains are more at risk isn't really cutting it for me. If there's anyone that would figure out how to store my files in the cloud reliably it's probably dropbox and if there's anyone that's going to solve the math, science and cs problem of moving cars around...it's probably uber and not lyft or any of the other competitors. For now, their $ Billion valuations are safe and sound.
nice work. great if can read and send contact info like fb/email..
To everyone that dismisses this as a joke currency - how is it different from bitcoin?
But the supply is 28,310,185,834 DOGE.
Love Anandtech, clutter free straight to the point review with the stuff that matters.

Boils down to: Kaveri itself is a nice evolution from the previous APUs and offers healthy performance gains and the lower end model matches performance of previous top APUs at lower power consumption. CPU performance is largely unchanged and they wont be able to challenge Intel with the Bulldozer architecture which will be around until 2015.
Its a very nice APU for Desktops that need some gaming/gpu chops, but nothing revolutionary as the Intel CPUs with integrated Iris Pro are in the same league when it comes to GPU performance and even outperform the Kaveri in many benchmarks.

HSA (Heterogenous System Architecture) has a lot of potential and could be a model for the future, if that works out with the market adopting remains to be seen though.
YouTube Introduces Comments Page After Users Complain
Google has in a vague and useless way attempted something like it in Google+ on mobile - there's a "Nearby" option that at this point appears to be people within the same metro area.
IIUC PyPy is all 3 Futamura projections.

I'm a little rusty on the details, but IIUC the core of PyPy is an "abstract interpreter" for a restricted subset of Python known as RPython. Abstract interpretation is essentially a fold (in the functional programming sense) of the IR for a language, where you can parameterize the particular operation applied to each node. When the operation specified is "evaluate", you get partial evaluation, as described in the Wikipedia article.

The interesting part of PyPy happens when the RPython program to be evaluated is itself a Python interpreter, which it is. In this case, 'prog' is the Python interpreter written in RPython, and Istatic is your Python program. The first Futamura projection will give you a JIT; you specialize the RPython interpreter with your particular program, and it evaluates everything statically known at compile time (namely, your program) and produces an executable.

The second Futamura projection will give you a JIT compiler. Remember, since RPython is a subset of Python, an interpreter for Python written in RPython could be interpreted by itself. Moreover, it could be compiled by itself by the process described in the paragraph above. When you compile your JIT through the same process, you get a program that means the same thing (i.e. it will translate a Python program into an executable) but runs faster. The PyPy JIT that everybody's excited about for running Python scripts faster is this executable.

The third Futamura projection involves running PyPy on the toolchain that generated PyPy. Remember, this whole specializer machinery is all written in RPython, which can be interpreted by itself. So when your run the specializer machinery through itself, you get - an optimized toolset for building JIT compilers. That's what made programming language theorists excited about PyPy long before the Python community was. It's not just "faster Python", but it's a toolset for building a JIT out of anything you can build an interpreter for. Write an interpreter in RPython - for anything, Ruby, PHP, Arc, whatever - and run it through the PyPy toolchain, and it will give you a JIT compiler.
I disagree on the"flush data on POST" tip. If you interpret a POST as a transaction and have a transaction ID, you can make POSTs idempotent.

In this case, reloading just retries the transaction. Or the system can filter it out altogether.
It's not. It's identical with a slightly modified POW and some of the values tweaked. The incompetent developer has already accidentally broken the currency once, so it doesn't really bode well for it in the future.
Thank you for sharing that. It's now my favorite legal quote.

Never argue with Hacker Judge.

http://www.hvjmphotography.com/p954955302
Ask HN: What is the best way to find, Vet and Hire a Freelance Developer?
I have been building an app on the side of a full time job. I have a customer ready to use the app but I just am not skilled enough to actually develop the app. I had a friend who is an amazing developer say he would help build it, we settled on a price and then he kind of disappeared.

What are your go to ways to find, vet, hire and work with a freelance developer?
Quit stalling and turn in your damn blue cow sheets already.
This is an in-depth technical review from one of the best hardware sites while that venturebeat article is just a blown up AMD press release.
ShopSocially's growth in 2013 - Reach 65 million users
This is transactional volume, and although of course the transactions are pretty small keep in mind that the total transactions over the last 24h was $13 million which is still pretty impressive. (Bitcoin was $500m) - http://bitinfocharts.com/
No. If people were being actively excluded purely on the basis of age, that would be ageism. The fact that some people plan better than others is just life.
I'm pretty happy to be alive in 2014 to see things like

But the supply is 28,310,185,834 DOGE.
Yes to both. Lifetimes are basically regions, and unique types are basically affine types. (We usually stick to the C++ terminology, though, for familiarity's sake.)
TBH there are only 2 versions of Python I feel is worth worrying about/using 2.7 and 3.3
According to coinmarketcap.com there was about $875K USD of trading done yesterday.

If you premined the coin you could theoretically cash out about half of that value, and the minute after the coin would be dead.
I understand. My point is, it's an implementation of an absurd requirement which simply should be ignored, rather than obliged as in providing an implementation.
Twitter enforces SSL encryption for apps connecting to its API
> If 8 out of 10 candidates for X job are shockingly incompetent, can we complain that the the wealth of the world is owned by so few?

Apparently, the incompetent ones mentioned by the OP are regularly earning $100 per hour.
Even if I understand (but probably don't agree with) the existence of the list and the need to keep the contents confidential I don't understand why the criteria/process used to put a name on the list needs to be confidential other than they want judges to rule from fear, uncertainty and doubt.
the benchmarks include comparisions with a Radeon HD6750 which is an older entry level card that performs significantly better. I don't think it would make sense to put the APUs up against even more powerful discrete GPUs as the gap would be huge.
Supercomputer takes 40 minutes to map 1 second of brain activity
Swine flu deaths rise to 17 in Bay Area
I thought they were related to Ripple Labs (https://ripple.com/) and the Ripple cryptocurrency due to the recent Bitcoin and cryptocurrency craze; however it seems they are unrelated and just happened to hit upon the same name for their chat app.
Ask HN: Why does my University block Dogecoin.com?
I go to a pretty well known University in Texas that uses Websense web filtering. Dogecoin.com is blocked under the category of "malware". Does anybody know why this is?

I saw a story here on the homepage and was trying to learn a little more on dogecoin, and was surprised at the site being marked as "malware".

Thank y'all!!
I don't understand. Who is buying and selling Dogecoins? For what? Mining for fun is one thing, but why buy it with USD?
I can't explain why dogecoin is worth so much, probably just crazy speculators (after all, the only market is people using it as a joke/meme, no one is ever going to spend significant amounts of money on it - I hope.)

But yes you can create your own cryptocurrency and make a lot of money off of it. This is a good and a bad thing. Good because it should create competition to make better cryptocurrencies. It also helps build the currency as all the miners invest resources in it and get exposed to the currency and have an incentive to try to get others to use it. Bad because, well that money is coming from somewhere, and the users of the cryptocurrency are essentially paying a tax to the miners for not really contributing anything of value.
As a way to quickly build something, yes. If you are interested in learning CSS, no.
This kind of post and response, meaningless in the grand scheme of things, is why I come to HN. You never know who will be next to say X sucks and then have someone personally involved in creating X speak up unexpectedly. Makes you want to apologize for saying X sucks in the first place, except you're not because without it you wouldn't get the resulting conversation. ;-) It does make me wonder, what things have I said about somebody's creation and then have them come along and see it. Sometimes it's just hard to remember there are real humans on the other side of this screen. ... And with that, I know I'm up too late. Good night all, and thanks for the post, Brenden. I did want to point out though... You forgot IE 10 and especially 11, plus the fun Opera Mini must have had remotely executing JS for a brief time. But these wouldn't significantly revise the numbers up too much. I'd add Adobe to the mix, but ActionScript and AIR are maybe too far from a browser to count for much evolution in JS terms.
I suspect many are buying with bitcoin as 0.01 bitcoin gets you over 20,000 dogecoins which in turn buys a lot of fun on reddit.
Seriously, if there is anybody on that list that is on that list legitimately, why the hell haven't they been arrested for whatever they did to get themselves on that list?

The answer of course is that nobody on that list has actually done anything illegal. The entire thing is a perversion of justice.
Thanks for the advice. I will bring these question this friday and will ask my boss to get together and just explain that I am worried that the same thing can happen to anyone including me.
The no-fly list is not about capturing or deterring a terrorist. Or at least not to deter in the way you may be thinking: blowing up a plane? It's about keeping an individual from traveling to a location with the intention to cause violence. For example, a radicalized American traveling to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab.
This is a good start: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end...

All the links you'll ever need: https://github.com/christopherscott/frontend-toolbox and https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks
> why the hell haven't they been arrested for whatever they did to get themselves on that list?

Read my reply to the parent. It's a preventive measure.
My Fix for the Linksys/Netgear Router Backdoor
1st Arab startup accepted to YC
Visual Augmented Reality sounds great to me - you can have objects seamlessly blend into the real world. No more need for paper, phones, desktop displays, and a lot of other physical things...
When those people mined it it wasn't worth anything. It was a surprise to pretty much everyone that a joke became a real coin.

Now that people are trying to copy dogecoin it's going to be a lot harder to have that slow ramp.
Step one, purchase a controlling stake in your own chip fabrication plant...
It's a shame too - the name is very catchy but I quit it after looking at it for 5 seconds and not "getting it". Not what a landing page should do.
WeChat (by Tencent) has similar feature, but you must first add people to friend list then chat.

However this raise an interesting topic:

How to securely verify that a device is indeed nearby and not spoofing it?

You can spoof your GPS coordinates easily on Android at least.
People tip other people Dogecoins on sites like Reddit. That's its main use and that's why there are so many transactions. Since the coin has a total supply of 100 billion coins vs 21 million for Bitcoin, you can easily tip someone 100 Dogecoins without it really costing you much, but you can't do that with Bitcoin for obvious reasons.
Quantum Physics Could Make Secure, Single-Use Computer Memories Possible
Ripple - Chat with people nearby
This probably works as a preventative measure about as well as banning criminals from owning guns.
In some cases, as nl points out, it's because the strong growth and expected future profitability means the investors are happy paying the founders for value they've created.

Other times, it's simply a case of founders transferring investors' money straight into their own pockets.

It's a very, very useful skill as an investor (or employee, for that matter) to be able to distinguish the two.
Forget it. JS VMs in browsers are required, JVMs are dead weight. Reversing the trend against the Java plugin, which accelerated due to malware (Brian Krebs said Java was the #1 paid-for malware vector some years ago) but which began with declining plugin share re: Flash, is very unlikely. #1 reason: mobile -- plugins don't fly there, not just because Jobs was mean to Flash.
Don't use the metric system. A 12 inch sub can easily be divided into three four inch sections. A yard long sub can be sliced into three foot longs. A 100 cm sub, on the other hand, by definition cannot because the result is irrational.
I think the assumption is that a manager who codes occasionally has the dev environment running.
>There's shit I got into as a kid--horror movies, torture accounts--that gave me nightmares for weeks

So what?

"Kid does something, figures out it was a bad idea" isn't a tragedy. Definitely doesn't rise to the level of justifying censorship. It's being a kid. It's learning.

Seriously, human beings are going to choose (partially) negative experiences sometimes and you should let them. It's part of being a person. Use of (physical|emotional|technological) force to prevent this is both disturbing and ultimately futile.

Warnings are one thing, but you still have the right to ignore them and find out for yourself why they were given.
This is an absolutely unfounded assumption but one could think a large part of those transactions might be some sort of tips. I can confess I'm happy to have some supply of a very cheap currency that I can give to people for fun. I have no use for DOGE other than this, but my friends and I are enjoying it.

Pollution created through the mining of relatively worthless items can be an issue though.
To me the most shocking thing (of many) about this case is the steps DHS took to prevent the woman's daughter (a US citizen!) from returning to the US to testify:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131204/10434025453/dhs-p...
I'm beginning to feel that the purpose of this list is actually quite different - that it is a deterrant for regular people, an incentive not to speak out or talk to any non-mainstream-political group in fear of having their lives being made increasingly difficult by things like getting included on this list.

This list is not aimed at terrorists, it's aimed at us. Er, US.
Actually, it turns out smokers cost the public health insurance system less, on average, than non-smokers do.
Right, see EDIT for Chakra, and yes, I forgot Opera. Lars Thomas Hansen, then Chris Pine, on LinearB and Futhark; then Jens Lindstrom and (I heard) a small team in Sweden on Carakan.

Also (ahem), I forgot Mozilla in the post-2003 era.

Still, no matter the addenda and the crazy $1M/person-year, nowhere near even $1B.
The currency (and the meme it is "based on") is somewhat attractive, its silly image made me laugh, and mine for a few days, getting 120 000 or so Doge. If enough people think it funny enough to use, and of low enough value to actually use instead of just hold, it may have a future as a low value tipping currency. Your aarondfcoin lacks that funny easygoing silly meme power, I belive.
If a local group decided to start their on local currency, just like a couple of groups do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency), then using a bitcoin like system might make sense for them.