skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sugar-powered bio-battery has 10 times the energy storage of lithium
Hasbro doesn't die just because the current crop of 5-12 year olds outgrow their products. Instead, they simply target the next wave.

On the other hand, social networks seem to adhere very strongly to a particular generation or crowd. I don't find it too difficult to believe that different crowds use different social networks (due to network effects bootstrapping at differing rates in differing groups) and that consequently "the Facebook" of the next generation will be Snapchat or something else.

Facebook's challenge, then, is to figure out how to become Hasbro or else it will become Myspace.
Am I the only one who thought this article was gonna be about chinos?
Or the title music for the next game...
At first I thought people trying to escape reality would be a negative, then a few moments after, I had a similar reaction to you... why not?

I mean, if someone isn't enjoying their real-life, and they can spend all their free time living their dreams, going on VR adventures exploring vast landscapes and caves, sky diving, looking like adonis, being a superstar singing infront of millions of VR fans, racing through the streets of italy, etc, then why shouldn't they?

http://t.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/3d_landscape/1440x900/fa...

Wouldn't it be interesting to just jump into VR and spend your evenings exploring alien worlds like the above, with a handful of friends online? You might even bond closer than your friends in real-life, because you're experiencing a lot of new things together.

Also, as you grow older, this could be a great way to improve your quality of life. If you're 70, you can jump in the VR world, and you look 20 again, and your VR double can run and jump like an Olympian. Meanwhile, you might be in a wheelchair, but you get a sense of youth and adventure.

Only downside, how do you motivate people to return to the real world? They need to make money, they need to pay the bills, they need to form real relationships with their spouse and children. I think a lot of people would see it like a drug, they just want to get their next fix of VR. Don't interrupt Grandma, she's at the VR home now, and doesn't want to come back to reality. I think it has the potential to make life much more entertaining, but I think it also has the ability to destroy people. Like the poster above me, if people just want to be born, have an IV and live in VR, what do they contribute to the world? Or is that the future, 1% of people work and balance life, 99% live and breathe VR?

Anyway, big business, exciting as hell, and coming soon. I'm all for pushing technology, let's see where this goes, good or bad.
Agreed - I was trying to figure out whether or not this was actually the problem. That's the problem I'm setting out to solve with ACH, so I was trying to see if myself and Balanced are at least seeing the same customer problem.
Thanks for your response, it was what I was looking for. I wasn't looking for the program for that specific video, just simply how these 2D videos were made.
Gotcha. Thanks, I thought you meant sending BTC to cards somehow.

Cryptocurrency exchange is currently against our terms, "Prohibited Transactions" -> "(18) currency exchanges or dealers" and "(49) virtual currency or credits that can be monetized, re-sold or converted to physical or digital goods or services or otherwise exit the virtual world," in https://www.balancedpayments.com/terms/selleragreement . This is due to our upstream providers.

We're interested in working with them to work around such things, but haven't been able to yet: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204

I've been heavily involved in Dogecoin, and I'd love to see BTC/LTC/DOGE payments, but there's a lot of unresolved questions.
You're getting that even with a statically-compiled binary? What's the output of "file ./level0"?
> You're a assuming people will strive for the lowest common denominator of living standards just so they can get free housing.

Not exactly. I'm assuming SOME people will take advantage of the system. Some people ALWAYS take advantage of a system with bad incentives.

Lots of people don't want to work, which is fine. However we don't want to reward people more for doing less.
Right, I personally use Chase's "QuickPay" feature a lot. I would imagine that most people don't think of that as a 'wire transfer' though.
This has already happened and has been available for some time - both QT and GTK both have HTML5 backends, which will render to HTML5.
Wayback Machine has my first Web page - the then ISP gave out free Web space starting in 1997 or so. 5Mb of space or so...

http://web.archive.org/web/19970131080252/http://www.xylem.d...

My current page isn't so different mind you (HTML -> Greymatter -> Moveable Type -> Wordpress -> back to static but Markdown markup).
>The only way to give it more time is to have more devs that are willing to commit their free time to it.

Or, you know, to pay devs to work on it on their work time.

That's how a great deal of progress for Linux/OSS came in mid-nineties to mid-00s, when companies from IBM and SUN to Red Hat and Novell, paid lots of programmers to work on critical parts (from the kernel and Apache, to Open Office and Gnome). When that dried off, pace slowed down for a lot of projects.
Code "size" is readily measurable, and it's really easy for people to try to turn their "I like X because reasons!" argument into an empirical-looking "X is better because numbers!" one by citing it.

See also people who pore over "hello world" benchmarks, etc.
The "TL;DR" at the top of the post is completely different than the actual content of the post.
This last past year, at DjangoCon US • Chicago, I had the pleasure of sitting at the same table as Jacob Kaplan-Moss for the Speakers dinner prior to the conference. Very cool experience. My first.

I brought up Flask and asked him what he thought of it. I had recently used it for a project for the first time and likely only did so because I was SUPPOSE TO BE FOCUSING on Django and preparing a talk about it. So naturally, I procrasinated and did everything but. It's been on my radar for awhile. I was attracted to it by it's documentation. Turns out, I really enjoyed it. It felt familiar because I've used Django for so long. I brought this up at the dinner table.

Jacob said something that took me by surprise. I can't quote him exactly--the wine and drinks were too good that evening, but it was something to the effect of "Flask is what Django should have been". Another fellow from our table chimed in and added "If only Django had existed before we created Django!" What he ment was, without Django, Flask wouldn't of had such a clear and smooth start. Django taught us a lot.

What I took from this was, both have their place and we have a lot to be thankful for, especially coming from the Django community. In regards to longevity, I think community is a major factor but these two technolgoies are both under Python, and I think the Python community at-large is what matters here. Hearing what Jacob had to say on Flask was sobering. There is no end-all-be-all, and both of these technolgoies have more in common than not.
Here's a hint: people don't Google for Google.
The biggest change in my mind from 1999 to today is the connectivity of startups.

I was doing my first startup in '99, and we were doing the typical "work out of the owners basement" lifestyle.

We did not have an internet connection.

We had local servers on which we built and tested everything, and then we would email the code to our customers with deployment instructions for their servers. This quickly got old, so we gained access to a dial-up VPN so we could at least deploy the code online.

After about 6 months, we had saved up enough money to get an office. The building had no connectivity. We called and got an ISP to connect a T1 to the building, which we then shared with the rest of the tenants.

Far, far different than today when an internet connection is pretty much a given at any job.
So You Want to Build an Internet of Things Business
> Your "fix" doesn't make sense. I'm looking at this from the perspective of a dev that's looking at OP's code for the first time. You're telling me that I have to sift through the codebase (which I might not even have complete access to) to figure out the argument order of a poorly named entity, just so that I can go and add keyword arguments to each place I work with ORM code?

Spoken like someone who never had to deal with recordsets of 40 different values, accessed by position, passed around various functions... ORMs can be a problem, in the sense that complex queries may be harder or impossible to express, and there can be a cost in terms of performance. Snark over keyword arguments, which are completely orthogonal to ORMs, is both rude and misplaced.
I wish the pyramid project, http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/ , would get some more love in the larger community. It is a really great python web framework which gets a lot of things right and is easy to extend and customize. It doesn't enforce specific project layouts but is still easy setup and get going. I have used it now on 3 projects and they have all been very successful.

edit: some background on pyramid's design: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/des...
The article was written by Captain Obvious.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/set/rdoc/Set.htm...
To quote coolsubmission on reddit:

This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair." Tu Mu adds pleasantly: "After that, you may crush him."
Interesting. Having worked with Django for 5 years, I find the ORM is the weakest component. There's no way to express trivial things like a GROUP BY clause, and falling back to raw SQL goes downhill fast, because the result object doesn't have an interface compatible with Queryset.
This is a little absurd. It's like hearing that people living near the beach just started using shells as money all of a sudden. Except without even the inconvenience of physical shells.
Anybody else timing out when trying to push the solution?
Wait.... bitcoin cap is 21 million, which puts the 100 billion cap at 4761 times that of bitcoin.
It's 100% attitude. Doge is fun and playful while bitcoin seems to be the domain of crazy libertarians and people who just want to be the new bank.
People are still logging in everyday. Maybe not you, but I know plenty of people who belong to groups that log in everyday to see what the group is up to. As long as they can monetize that, it will always be around.

People with children will log on for many many more years to upload pictures of their children to share with their parents. Those parents aren't going to move to another social network. In their eyes Facebook works great why sign up for a Twitter account, and Instagram account, and a Vine account etc.
That's funny, some weeks ago I found my first real website from y2k in archive.org, but what I really would love to see is my GeoCities page from 1999 :>

I'm really thinking about making an 90's like Octopress theme for my blog, with a few friendly gif animations and without any kind of grid system... I'm so bored with the current aesthetic trend
We recently awarded our biggest bug bounty payout
Not even a little bit.

Saying, "Oh, I could do that with X" is a bullshit statement. You could build an Django-like admin in Fortran.

Yes, you can hack together an admin tool in any templating system, using any ORM, or even raw SQL if you like. It's all just CRUD operations, and provided sufficient/consistent abstraction you can make it work, for your own project, without any troubles. You could, with sufficient work, even create an admin as simple as the register command.

This is the power the ecosystem at play though. When I snag a Django app to add to me project, it comes with an admin. I don't have to cobble one together.

I can replace the Django admin with an api-compatible alternative like Grappelli or Suit, and 98% of all the applications out there for Django will go right on working.

So the admin is not a killer app (per se) but is an example of how Django itself IS a killer app, because the admin is powered by it, and the community enabled by it.
Functional Inside Out Closure Objects
Well, "Best Buy" is not the real world though.

Beyond your DisplayPort incident, Best Buy in general is a provincial consumer electronics store, with ignorant sales personel and quite narrow selection. It might have been good enough for 1995, but not in 2014.

It's like visiting a Walmart for delicatessen items.
iirc, at least a few years ago `google` was actually one of the most popular Google searches.
I'm having a hard time deciding if that's a parody of a bitcoin-supporting post, or actually serious.
What does firebase offer (other than convenience) that say, a rabbitMQ or zeroMQ setup doesn't?

Seems like it's a simple JS API to a server component that manages subscriptions to fanout exchanges.
wait, I still optimize my pngs! :)
I agree with you, though the speech to text API is different than just microphone access. Something like video conferencing may not fall under the same rules.

One interesting thing is that web specs don't usually go into that much detail about UI, or at least that used to be the case. It was generally considered outside of the spec's purview, and it boxes in future browser interfaces that could be something very different than tabs and windows.

If you needed something, I would think something like there must be a visible notice to the user that their sound is being recorded, and if that notice becomes obscured, cease recording. But I'm not entirely sure it should be enforced on the spec level; instead it could have a non-normative security section and leave it up to the browsers to implement it well.
That's exactly what I did. My fixed code is smaller than the original code and fast enough to go to level 1. It is in perl (I am not fluent in ruby).
CERN creates antihydrogen in the lab for the first time
Krugman has been supporting the Argentinian government even with concrete signals of populism and corruption.
Web.com: Weblock program will be opt-in not opt-out
IEEE/TOG grant permission to distribute Posix.1-2013 man pages for Linux
And outside of US, cards which are magnetic only are refused in more and more places, because of either company policy due to a large number of fraud,or just straight up lack of terminals to process them.

Also, I think I've only had a single check in my entire life - I don't even know what I would need to do to issue one, and I run my own company. So it also must be an American thing.
You have your numbers a little bit wrong. The total number of coins is what you are referring to. There will only be 21 million bitcoins and 100 billion dogecoins.

The market cap is their value measured against the US dollar. Bitcoin is at 10 billion at the moment http://coinmarketcap.com/ If dogecoin rose to 100 billion ~10 the size of bitcoin each coin would be worth a dollar.
The Netfilter project presents: nftables 0.099
I think that he meant that Django has a bigger ecosystem with a lot of different apps, so you don't write everything from scratch. There are apps for migrations, building a REST api, having a tagging system, integration with search engines and many others. I won't comment on the state of the Flask ecosystem, because I don't know it, but I imagine it's smaller.
Human beings are generally a little absurd. You can try to ignore it, or you can try to take advantage of it.

Dogecoin is doing the second.
As a user, I find Quora to be weird and confusing. The sign up process was like a labyrinth, and trying to figure out how to use it is quite cumbersome.
I would like to see the "Founder salary and team size" graph per founder age.

Since team size seems to also be a strong indicator such a graph might show which of age and team size is the stronger correlator.
Tattletale on Piracy. Get paid.
Building a Reddit clone with Sproute
There seems to be a call here for a better-quality top comment. I may not succeed in providing one, but I will try. [Pauses to finish reading article.]

"John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from the US university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, have based their prediction on the number of times Facebook is typed into Google as a search term."

That's a convenient methodology, but of course it's a methodology that cannot be applied to anything before the availability of Google search data, so it doesn't even provide a model for explaining why Google supplanted AltaVista. (Hint: even at its healthiest, I don't think most users of AltaVista found AltaVista by doing a Google search first.)

"They tested various equations against the lifespan of Myspace, before applying them to Facebook."

Myspace, of course, is the classic example of a social networking site that once looked unstoppable, until it pretty much died. But data-fitting to just one data set is probably not enough model testing for making a prediction about a different social networking site.

"But Facebook's chief financial officer David Ebersman admitted on an earnings call with analysts that during the previous three months: 'We did see a decrease in daily users, specifically among younger teens.'"

Now we're talking about some meaningful data that actually pertains directly to Facebook. If Facebook corporate officers are concerned about a trend, maybe that trend is really meaningful to Facebook's business prospects.

"Investors do not appear to be heading for the exit just yet. Facebook's share price reached record highs this month, valuing founder Mark Zuckerberg's company at $142bn."

Well, that's the nub of the issue for anyone who buys shares of Facebook stock. If it still looks like holding Facebook stock allows a profitable exit, maybe there is nothing to worry about here (at least for investors).

The article engages in further speculation about Facebook making a lot of money in the future. That could happen. My prediction about Facebook stands: "Facebook will go the way of AOL, still being a factor in the industry years from now, but also serving as an example of a company that could never monetize up to the level of the hype surrounding it. I used to see friends on AOL. I never felt an obligation to help AOL monetize just because of that. Networks are a dime a dozen. Right now, Facebook is a very convenient network, and I like it. I do not predict that Facebook will make a lot of money because of users like me."

I could be proven wrong, but that's what I think the future of Facebook holds. I admit my methodology is just about entirely drawing an analogy with AOL, which I used a lot back in the day.
Just tried this myself and it definitely makes a difference. Thanks for the tip.
... so, typical post-apocalyptic fare, really, as in Mad Max, The Road, etc. That would be exactly what this game aims to simulate I would think.
Yep, there system seems to be having some problems.
Thank you for your advice, I'm really new to this game and I even don't know how to use github. Don't laugh at me, because I have enough experience on coding by myself and reading/modifying other people's code. I don't have time to play coding on CTF, but I'm curious about how other people are thinking about it, especially about distributed system.

Coding is the last thing we need to concern since various languages are available to implement. System architecture design, data modeling, application performance, security and algorithms are more important.

Regarding the language itself, I understand that Ruby and Python are quick and easy, but that's not for real production systems. Lots of teenagers are using it now. Maybe you are not happy to hear like that. Here are two blog articles regarding it:

http://bingobo.info/blog/contents/do-not-rely-on-other-platf...

http://bingobo.info/blog/contents/having-a-solid-foundation-...
Summary:

"“Candidly, we did not do a good job in wording that [email],” Teichman said. “Every one of those customers is getting a call. It’s not our intention to enroll anyone in a program they don’t want.”
If screens move to deep color, does that mean their contrast ratio would also change to show such great variations? Ie an extreme would be the brightness of the sun down to pure darkness. Or would it basically be the same as now, just we could fit more variations of color into the same contrast? It's hard to visualize because 8bpp color already seems like it covers every RGB I would need to see...
As a techie who's been following bitcoin and disapproves of their libertarian ideology, I like the Dogecoin attitude. It's all a joke. It's like it's not serious. It's like people know that you're not going to replace all the money.
I know this isn't exclusive to quora, but I really hate the "follow X topics/people/tags/boards that you probably don't even care about but we're going to force you to before we'll let you really use the app so our numbers look good" pattern.
No need for VPN - same result can be achieved (at least on this flight) by toggling the country manually to Canada.
We're on it! Will be fixed shortly.
>Who could possibly think this "DSL" is 'better' than something like

People that hate leaky abstractions.

People that understand that having the full power of SQL is better than a mediating layer -- as your needs get more evolved than inserting a simple row.

People that are not afraid to learn SQL, and know that it's exactly a DSL built for relational data.

People that trust an industry standard DSL more than some ad-hoc DSL built on top of it.

People that know they can reuse the very same SQL across many different contexts, from their code in multiple languages to the rdbms command line client itself, whereas code for an ORM not so much.
I'm sure some people do search for 'google' but it's definitely not as popular as Facebook.

Put another way, if we're going to follow the thesis that Google and Facebook search traffic are equivalent, the graph linked above would mean that Facebook is a much larger business than Google.
Yes, because that's how significant digits work.
Netflix wants to introduce 3 pricing tiers for new members
There's a Personal blocklist chrome extension if that helps.
Why would this be the case? It is only in Google's best interests to provide the best streaming service possible. It's not like they have any shortage of servers, bandwidth, or funds with which to do so.
As someone who joined the Internet bandwagon relatively late (circa 2000), whenever I see such reports on /viral growth/ of social website I wonder if email and usenet had a similar /viral growth/ in the 90s. Although the number of Internet users back then were small compared to now, they were still large enough in absolute numbers for some of these statistical analogies to apply. Usenet did eventually die out (for all practical purposes), but email is still going strong (perhaps not as much as at its peak, but it is nowhere close to being dead either).
I got into Doge when it was about a week old, stupidly bought like 1000 DOGE for 0.001BTC (there wasn't yet an exchange), which was way overvalued at the time. Then I setup cpuminer on my computer and let it run for a week and watched as 10,000 DOGE was added to my wallet. And then my mining pool shutdown. Just setup a mining pool account again this week and now my projections are looking more like 1000 DOGE every couple of weeks. ughhh

I completely agree though, feels so much better to have 10,000 DOGE than 0.01 BTC. And makes for a much better tipping experience