skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mining with a CPU is long since irrelevant, even GPUs are completely useless as far as mining is concerned. The network uses ASIC hardware now, basically chips designed only to mine Bitcoin quickly and efficiently. Attempting to mine on a CPU is completely futile and does absolutely nothing for the network.
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It would be hard to appreciate this without thinking like an investor. Let's say you pitched an investor. He has seen your passion and drive 100s of other times before. He decides to give you $200K as seed money so you can keep getting same income as your corporate cushy job. He knows your chance of failure is 90%. Next year very likely investor is going to loose all of that money.

On the other hand, you have no downside. For you, it's pretty much the change of job because you get to keep same income as before. In fact, it's much better than a change of job because now you get to work on stuff you want in your pajamas in your backyard of your 4 bedroom home. Come next year, there is 90% probability that your startup would have failed. But you would have zero loss in any material respect. Instead most likely you are just going to move on with your life and find another corporate cushy job with minor or even major promotion given that now you can brag about having tried your own startup and claim that experience.

So you see, we have a transaction where one party has 90% chance of loosing everything and other party gains 110% always. Anyone fantasizing about such transaction would have to find a great fool or own a casino. This is why you can't expect any competent investor funding your startup so you get to keep your "cushy job" income.

PS: Betting your "name" and "reputation" is meaningless to investors unless you are Evan Williams or Kevin Rose.

PS2: If you think investors are still getting fair deal because they have chance of hitting a jackpot, know this: Average VC fund has less returns than S&P 500. Rate of failures of startup takes away pretty much everything but small slice of big pot.
Before i need some investment,but finding investment quite hard,most wanted stable company and resources.So i'm no choice working normal freelance job rather focussing to be next software in the market.Don't focus getting much customer but focus getting 1 to 10 customer then go big for investment.. 20k if somebody said bellow is so not much and can finish a few month operation..
I see my post disturbed you enough to register here and comment, but I have no fainest idea what you actually object to.

That defacing websites is a misguided patriotism? Well yes, it does not contribute to your case in any measurable way. It's not like bringing down a blog means a jack in real world.

As to your token US-bashing, I'm not a U.S. citizen so your outrage is misplaced.
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I agree. But please note that government regulation would have nothing to do with it. This would be safety provided by the free market. Question is, what would the demand for such a safety be. If the prices were to remain the same, then the company providing this safety would drive all those freelance drivers out of the market. If not, then there would still probably be some demand for Uber, but also some demand for less safe options.
"your legal tactics on one case, no matter how distasteful, will have no bearing on the decision of another case"

The Prenda Law debacle seems to contradict this, but then again, their WHOLE law firm was based on distasteful tactics, lies, etc.
if all those predictions come true, including 3/4k worth and some technology implementation to bring it to the masses.

You can bet your bottom bitcoin he will.
This is one of the reasons I think F# is such a powerful tool. It is so simple, consistent, and safe I found it very easy to learn quickly.

I think I actually spent more time learning Entity Framework than I did learning F#, and EF still catches me with weird edge cases. Meanwhile F#'s crazy smart compiler is catching all mine ;)
Thanks! We've tried hard to make it understandable for new users (and provide good documentation for users of any vintage). There's quite a lot of _different_ stuff in Conductance compared to vanilla JS, but our belief is that once you get up to speed, it should make programming concurrent apps much more straightforward. Thanks for taking it for a test drive, don't hesitate to jump on the mailing list if you need help down the road - https://conductance.io/community

And yep - today is our first public release of Conductance, although StratifiedJS (the language it's built on) has been evolving for a couple of years now.
Was there a good reason to have allowed the licenses be traded in the open market? This is what has driven their values to these outrageous levels.
This is Peter from Quill. I just sent out an email. Check my comment history to learn a bit more about Quill.
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So a satisfying green screen appears and the user congratulates herself -- she has finished reading all the tweets, all the news. But that's not possible, is it? Some tasks don't have a satisfying end. So introducing an arbitrarily created one just calls the whole task's meaning into question.

This idea was initially used well in Mailbox as some people do finish triaging their email. But even there completion congratulation had its problems. It was always quicker to leave mail in the inbox if it was needed later. That meant processing it just for the sake of 'completion' wasted time, and ruined the associated sense of satisfaction.

All that's not to say infinite scrolling is always perfect UX. If done without some signposts, or other way for the user to get oriented, infinite scroll can be terrible -- like infinite pagination.
An infinite football match might get a tad tedious. An infinite movie? Hmmm, I feel like I have actually seen a few of those. A couple of books I've read also felt like that. Besides,if the football match was infinite, I'd never get to read the book. And if I did, I'd only get to read one book. What if its rubbish? Im stuck with it. Sex? Infinite sex? Im getting on now, Im not sure I'd survive that. How much space would there be if we had infinite life? Not just humans, but all the animals... and plants.

No, I think I like lots of things to be finite.
Even without satnav, you can be a passable taxi driver in London without knowing every single street.
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Well, didn't work as it should then.

"Enterprise anti-virus" what a joke. Put the lawyers to work

Also, they apparently forgot to firewall it to only their internal network.
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a man writing to a bunch of men to get more women to materialise out of thin air to do something.

Good luck. If you want women involved, post this to pinterest or other points of female convergence.
Not commenting directly on your assessment of the state of PoS systems, but how does a software vendor (not OS or sys admin) protect against targeted malware that is able to get access rights to your RAM space from scanning for well known track signatures?

I agree more can and should be done, but protecting against targeted malware by a sophisticated attacker is a very difficult problem. The amount of money at stake is large, so the resources expended by the attackers is also large.

Personally I believe that the current credit card system is broken and needs a significant change, but this is a very difficult process.
There is a false dichotomy. Not asking for a free lunch. I think these are real concerns for entrepreneurs with dependents. Is it possible to be away for 3 months? Sure, it's possible, but almost everyone in this group, entrepreneurs with dependents, will tell you it's not worth it for the kind of terms that are being offered, and that it shouldn't be necessary to leave the family behind in order to start a business. It creates a great deal of strain to leave your family for that long, and the rewards need to be obviously worthwhile to justify it. In my estimation, and afaict, the estimation of almost all others in my peer group, the current startup programs do not make this tradeoff obviously worthwhile. And, for the third time, I think the bigger loss is on the side of the startup ecosystem when they create programs that are hostile to mature founders.

I guess it's hard to explain to someone who hasn't been in the predicament.
One thing I can't understand is why are people not researching this kind of stuff beforehand? By the time you're doing a PhD you're in your mid to late 20's right? You should've been thinking about your marketable skills since you turned 20. You can't just do whatever you like and expect the world to throw jobs at you.
I feel like my personal challenges coming to understand Self are often exaggerated by Morphic. Most of the linguistic notions I gather from reading papers aren't too tough, but I always bounce off when trying to translate that to effects in the Self environment.
> That hollow sense of dissatisfaction needs to be replaced by the sense of achievement which can only be found by finishing something. By reaching the end.

Oh man, this is giving me a great idea! Content consumption needs to be gamified! Score points for actually reading an entire article. I could use something like that.
where is the bottle neck in such code? why is this faster than say Norvig spell checker? http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
>Only if you're a twat... you need to get over yourself.

You're adorable. You must be the life of parties.
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"I am not willing to extend the liberties of a labor union to stifle the growth of another company that is winning in the free market."

That's the key point. Unions are constrained on what they can do. I can threaten to stop working unless my employer stops purchasing from a company with a horrible safety record, where the employees of the other company are on strike as protest. We're both agreed on that, right?

But do it collectively - say, 90% of my fellow 4,000 employees threaten to stop working in support of the workers of the other company - and suddenly it's labeled a union and our actions considered an illegal sympathy strike.

I can't help but conclude that the legal constraints on what a union can do mean that it can't fully participate in a free market. Instead, the 'free market' you're talking about is actually 'the market where collective action freedoms have been deliberately handicapped.'

(Personally I think there must be constraints on a free market, but that's a different conversation.)

"if the factory owner can fire all of the union workers during a strike"

Why can the factory owner do that? Surely the union contract would prohibit mass firing during a strike. Otherwise, as you say, what's the point of having a union?

In the context of US law, there are certain things that an employer is prohibited from doing. Mass firing of legally striking employees is one of them. Even non-union ones. (See http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/10/15/walmart-striking-wor... for a nice summary.
This is exactly the approach described in:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36973-5...

This is not new or not previously known. Sensational title.
But it's not only about the physical attack itself, which I agree that it's doubtful, it's also about the broad view. There's an economical-based conflict that stretches far out of pure economical front, using questionable methods, for questionable reasons (fight someone because some one else ripped you off?). Not that is something unique, but interesting to watch nevertheless.
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This type of "hacking" is extremely lame. For some reason when I see any kind of defacing like this one I'm filled with rage.
Here's one that I'm sure I'm going to regret saying publicly later. But, here goes:

Dogecoin will outperform Bitcoin in terms of percentage market cap growth in 2014. Even if both are negative.
The 'dilution' isn't the first course, but once you open the door to mandatory courses that people think could come in handy suddenly you have a bunch of them.

It starts with writing and business. And of course you'll need a course on teaching as you'll be teaching. A course in research tools like statistics and designing surveys will help you avoid some potholes. You'll need to reference things properly and avoid plagiarism, better have some training for that. Everyone in this field uses (Matlab/Excel/Latex/MS Word/SPSS/R/NumPy/Fortran/EndNote/BibTeX) so we'd better train you to use that. Effective study strategies will be vital, as will effective note-taking skills. You'll need to know about time and project management, better have a course on that. Of course you'll need to know how to use the library, research databases, and how to make document supply requests. Writing papers and working out which journals and conferences to target is important of course. Presentation skills and public speaking are vital in all manner of jobs. Not to mention career planning, networking and professional development. And you can't be a public academic these days without managing your online presence. Oh, your project involves spending money? You'll need training in managing a budget and working the purchasing procedure...
Hello! I believe you are more valuable as a person than the contributions you make through a job. Many people find their self worth through employment, but when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, employment generally means making money for someone else. This concept of economic slavery causes people who don't fit into the job market to feel like they're not worth their weight.

Your value as a person doesn't have to be defined by your employment. If you open your mind you can find your value as a listener, a thinker, a gardener... whatever.

I could use a friend as well - hit me up @gmail.
This is the same as http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36973-5...
Doesn't DSG use their own custom made EPOS system? Eclipse? Do you have any experience with it and their security policies?

I've had quite a few experiences as a customer at PC World when they've had "till failures" - ironic for a computer store. They often blame head office for overnight updates gone wrong.
Speaking as a C# developer:

I do consider C# more verbose than the languages I love to look at. Think 'SelectMany', 'FirstOrDefault' and similar constructs - even if you write functional C# as much as possible, it still .. is verbose. If compared to F#, Clojure for example.

I don't think that's an issue, mostly, but that I do agree with the notion that C# is 'verbose'.
Intersting lecture! thanks for sharing
They are trading space for time.

Roughly speaking, they pre-compute some of the character substitutions done in traditional algorithm, and add it to the dictionary.
Exactly, your comment is a sad joke.

It is a personal choice to be monitored by Google,Facebook and other services that an individual uses. On the other hand, that individual has zero choice in whether his or her activities will be monitored by shady government agencies.
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In Java, generics is a possibility to parametrize any type (not just a container) with another type. Just like in any other language that support generics.

If you limit generics in Java to container types only (like at the original link), it would be absolutely more correct to call the result "homogenous containers".

Take Callable<T>, for example. This is a generic type that is not a container and is not in the scope of project at the OP's link.
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Does this work outside of the classes defined in ObjectiveCGenerics.h? E.g. outside of NSArray, NSSet, NSMutableArray and so on.
It depends on what you mean by "embedding". If one does a deep embedding then powerful calculi can be embedded in much weaker calculi. E.g. Isabelle uses a variant to LF as meta-language to embed all manner of more powerful logics. That doesn't mean LF has a lot of expressive power.

Coq's logic isn't quite the CoC anymore: impredictivity is switched off by default, Coq has universes etc.

With this in mind, I'm not sure what Voevodsky means when he says HoTT and CoC are the same thing.
I worked professionally on VS Express for quite a while. Yes it's less convenient, but it can be done. Still a better IDE than (say) NetBeans. I know it's apples and oranges, but I'm speaking about an overall impression.
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I agree, and on this site, over on the far right side, are some little rectangles you can click to jump between the sections (albeit still with the animations, but sped up).
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This how it looks for me. http://i.imgur.com/9wNxAZM.png

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Does anyone know if there are any details on the talks?
Absolutely recommend The Prize. Revisiting Burke with that under my belt helped hugely.
>I could say all sorts of things about different racial groups that nobody would find offensive except guilty white people who know nothing of real class struggle.

Swing and a miss. Assigning job preference to a race is just a lazy version of explaining what you really mean, and we try to be above that.

Your response, for instance, is all over the place:

>You don't mess with a black girl's hair(1). Asians are more family-oriented than most(2). White people tend to be higher-minded in ways that often look out of touch(3). Latin culture idolizes a certain ideal of the strong male patriarch(4). Africans are extremely practical(5).

1 - I don't know what this is. 2 - do you mean "as a entire ethnic group" or "people from the Asian continent?" 3 - I don't even know where to start with your statement of white people being "higher-minded" and I'm pretty sure I don't want to follow you down your impressions-of-races rabbit hole. 4 - you hedged this comment by refining it to the "culture." 5 - by referring to the entire continent of people, this is such a strange generalization.
I don't like the underscore notation (I think it's foreign to C#), but other than that it's very readable to me, so I guess it's a matter of practice and (acquired) taste
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TL;DR: He bought a Macbook Air when he needed a Macbook Pro.
Yes.

And I also appreciated Ascent of Money (the book). Even if Ferguson is more than a bit of an ass personally.
I think the "Thanks for coming. Ok." thing is an in joke. See @isz's Twitter profile.

https://twitter.com/izs
Worked throughout the weekend, avid Dropbox user, didn't know they had a problem up until now.
"Did i ever tell you the definition of insanity?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Invest big in bitcoin --> pay writers to pump up hype articles --> write hype related blog post --> shoot out huge valuation --> state that its future's currency --> repeat

Meanwhile in China:

Government warns people, bitcoin loses 400 dollars in value..
Yeah..right..something this volatile/fragile just cannot become a currency..Stop the insanity, wake up.
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Hello fam,as at late December I overviewed an interesting content that sprite my interest about "where graphics designers and webdevelopers get there images from"..Didn't save d URL,wouldn't mind should I get that content back please...Thanks a lot.
If run in the same machine, I think it will install the same version every time... won't docker cache the change and just play it back?
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It's almost akin to "I stabbed you in the leg, but see, I could've stabbed you in the heart!".

Would avoid this developer 100% from now on, Chrome or otherwise.
Spot on. Once an image has been built its safe to say that it can be moved around and ran even after a lot of time has passed. The build process is another story; even though you have the steps(the logic) for creating the image(the result), you still need to control the package sources(the input data) to get an image that works correctly. I think the build process maintains its "run anywhere" property, but it doesn't maintain its "run anytime" property.
Except that Douglas Crockford was talking about Javascript which (at the time that book was published, and perhaps even now) was viewed as a steaming pile of crap. So he wrote a book that highlighted "the good".

Docker is a pretty modern piece of tech, that has very little wrong with it, and seems to work exactly as designed. So you are kind of shoe horning the reference...
Yeah, I wrote the example out of my head, so no surprises there. Thanks, though.
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The text and images also cut off on the left and right if your browser window is "only" 1200px wide.
You have to be really bearish on Bitcoin to think that a practically-identical joke currency will do better than something attracting venture capital. Nobody would trust a lolcat with their money much less a shibe.

Of course, if I'm wrong then I will definitely say 'wow'; also, 'so fail' and 'much humble pie'.
>He[Hitler] contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle
The dump is incomplete. It is a switch case and the cases do not appear in the dump... The debugging function called only return 0. This is obviously some debug to trap memory corruption for objects shared with the device hardware.
Nice! Would anyone be interested in organising a HN meetup in Amsterdam?
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Even if you aren't concerned for your safety, you being safer can lead to a better life anyways (see car, health insurance).
Hover Zoom had a similar problem recently, but still exists on the Chrome store. Up until a certain version, their data collection did nothing much (perhaps save non-existing domain hits).

Then they partnered with someone and started sending certain form data (!!) to a third party -- claiming they wanted to collect anonymous demographic information. It didn't help that the script injection on all pages (which I discovered when debugging with the web tools) used some shady domains with no web presence.

They claim they did not send e.g. any password data -- but they perfectly could have. I tried reporting the extension on the store as did many others, but that had no effect. The developer seems to have reverted that bit of the code -- for now.
Still arranging the exact talk titles and supporting speakers. I expect to have them announced next week.
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The blog post contains lots of reasons, you might want to read it.

Here is only one example of why including via source code can be a bad thing:

> In the years past, for example, I saw issues related to a specific linker bug that resulted in improper relocation of Mach-O symbols during final linking of the executable, and crashes that thus only occurred in the specific user's application, and could only be reproduced with a specific set of linker input.

In addition: the writers frameworks/libraries are all (!!) open source! And you claim the only reason for using libraries is keeping the source secret. Yeah!
could you expand on the history? As a fellow brazilian I'm curious.
You should check out Intellij. http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

I think its free version is still better than most paid VS editions. The $500 edition is the best IDE I've seen. And it supports basically every language but the three .NET languages.
London is notorious for being a city with most number of streets in the world. http://www.the-london-taxi.com/london_taxi_knowledge
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