skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The underappreciated brilliance of this quote is that it's not clear what regulated industry he doesn't understand from his quote. Is it the Internet? Transportation? Waste removal? Plumbing?
Yes, it is a testable and falsifiable hypothesis. So is "George Washington will be elected President in 2016." Nonetheless, we can fairly argue that both hypotheses lack a firm grounding in the evidence.

> Observing common network effects and using it to make predictions seems like valid scienfitic research to me.

It's valid I suppose, but purely speculative at this point. It would be much more meaningful if a study demonstrated that social networks almost always behave like viruses in both their growth and decline, than to simply observe a similarity and growth and extrapolate the decline.
I never heard of them as well, also did not know http://gyft.com until they started accepting it
> The currency doesn't have intrinsic value;

That is the #1 criticism of Bitcoin. Which means it's a meaningless criticism.
Agree! Indeed, the comparaison with portals springs to the mind. While the amount of items (links, people, services, cultural niches) available increases, the need for more specialised and fragmented avenues of consumption increases.
It's not difficult to imagine a scenario when one can pick and mix completely their online experience and still find their their social connections across different platforms, with the use of some meta tool, like an OpenId that also exposes the patterns of activities of one's friends.

As a purely empirical, nonrepresentative sample, I can see that most of my friends on Facebook are fairly quiet nowadays and my own account is virtually dead. It's still quite useful to have a FB a/c in order to authenticate on other apps; maybe FB will transforms itself into the aforementioned meta-tool...? Until it's superseded by a more specialised one...
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Even if you have Coinbase turning BTC -> USD automatically, there are still issues. Here's just one:

I purchase something on Overstock for 0.5 BTC. The item has an issue, and I want a refund. In the meantime, the price of BTC/USD has fluctuated 20%. What happens?

This question is not insurmountable, obviously. But there are tons of edge cases that need to be thought of and dealt with.
Ours will be up for awhile. Stripe's is time-limited. If you're interested in what Stripe's doing here, I'd do theirs first.
Hey, if it hurts the predatory check cashing/payday loan industry, that's OK with me.
No problem :) glad you're already seeing some results! By all means send me your analytics. Would be nice to see the impact BWB was able to give you

Don't worry about the beer :) be sure to submit any other sites you publish that use Bootstrap in the future. Happy to promote them :)
What do you think has the bigger impact on quality of life, services or goods?

X% over in a wealthy city is going to give you the most extra money, good for buying BMW's, travel, and things on the internet.

$Y over in a poor city will make you locally wealthy, so you can eat at the nicest restaurants, afford the nicest houses, and maybe have hired help.
Amazing write up, very helpful. I especially liked how heanages to not even conclude wether bitcoin should exist or not. Rare sight on the internet these days, reason that is.
Coinbase's killer merchant feature is automatic BTC -> USD conversion. You'd need that for Dogecoin (which doesn't yet exist) for it to see uptake for merchants.
Not sure yet! We'd love to package it up nicely for people to run, but I can't make any promises about when we'll have a chance to do so. Note that it should be pretty easy for us to just distribute the source code for each level, which would give you most of the functionality of these levels.
Because politics is a team sport for far too many people. The people who cling to an "R" or a "D" often fundamentally agree on many issues with the other side. But because its their team they will spout the vitriol they hear from their "leaders" (think, Rush Limbaugh) because they want to win.

This is exacerbated by both sides doing a masterful job over the past 50(+/-) years of making Americans absolutely hate one another. They use that wedge to gain power which is all they really want. It all has little to do with actually making the country better.
The political spectrum wraps around and converges at the extremes. I'm reminded of the controversy in Portland around water fluoridation. Many of the ostensibly left-wing opponents of fluoridation, when presented with the argument that poor people without access to dental services would suffer without water fluoridation, rebutted this by essentially saying that poor people don't deserve to have healthy teeth anyway.
Awesome! How often do astronomers catch supernovae like this?
It's intrinsic vs perceived values in ranking. You could have some rough measure of intrinsic value of a comment by analyzing its content: length, grammars, wording sophistication, etc. It's definitely not trivial and maybe open to spams.
Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_...

That is how Amazon can maintain such good link backwards compatibility although for books this is even easier as it just has to parse the ISBN and job done. ASIN allows them to tag everything ever on Amazon and keep it linkable. Good future planning from back in the 90s though I guess.
Also, looks like you can get very different scores depending on which VM you get... Pushed a second time and jumped to 148 from 119.
Bitcoin prostitution ring in southern china.
Can I add http://wowsuch.io to the mix? It's rather simple right now but I'm actively working on new features right now.
Fair enough. When I saw the title I first thought any random website could start silently listening, NSA-style—the real story isn't nearly that crazy.
I don't know what country you are in, but if it's in the west you won't die penniless and homeless if you run out of money at age 90. Instead you'll be caught by the old age social safety net, which is generally far superior to the non-old age social safety. In the US, which is one of least generous, you'd be entitled to Medicare, Medicaid, Section 8, SNAP, social security and likely some state programs. So the downside risk to spending it all early, isn't quite as dire as you make it out to be.

There's a more subtle problem with the narrative of outliving your money being a major issue to worry about viz. increasingly high probabilities of cognitive and bodily decline. As your mind and body declines the hedonic benefits of money also decline. At the same time costs rise steeply making it more and more expensive to avoid the public care floor.

Just how much consumption are you willing to forgo in your healthy retirement years in order to spend your last year or two -- perhaps deep in dementia -- in a private room in a fancy nursing home rather than a shared room in a public one?
This is a pretty simplistic tool, but it shows how easy things could become. I don't think it undermines the truly talented designers nor will it take any business away from them.

The ones that should worry are the ones submitting to 99designs contests.
Looks great. Wouldn't work well for us though because our main enemy is over-aggressive spiders that don't trigger Analytics trackers.
>Well, strictly speaking, neither one of us can be sure what would happen

We could certainly look at the hundreds of projects setting precedent to determine that you are almost certainly wrong.

>Is it “FUD” if I still really believe it?

Yes. If you are posting something to create fear, uncertainty and doubt, then it is FUD. Even if you are sincerely crazy, it doesn't make your FUD not be FUD.

>but I have the feeling of Google, Apple, and the rest of the permissive license promulgators

Google are not "permissive license promulgators". And you wouldn't be having this conversation if not for actually free software, like freebsd, apache, bind, etc. The people who made the internet are the "permissive license promulgators". Show some fucking respect.

>And one fine day they will turn off the freedom and turn it all proprietary

And see a therapist. You are paranoid and delusional.
The north bank of the Charles, along the bike path, has all kinds of secret, discoverable places. I actually can't remember the exact location anymore, but I know it's where the path is about 30 feet above the bank.
It seems you're not the only one who compared it to a dream:

https://twitter.com/TheDavidHensley/status/42359189117142630...
Let's read the spec: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.htm...

"To minimize the chance of users unwittingly allowing web pages to record speech without their knowledge, implementations must abort an active speech input session if the web page lost input focus to another window or to another tab within the same user agent."

Given this the actual Chrome implementation is wrong.
Yeah, I had actually completely forgotten that App.net existed.
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Stored overseas... accessed via undersea cables taped y the USS Jimmy Carter??

"Nothing is out of our reach"
That kind of egalitarian viewpoint is alien to these protesters. They are entitled to attack this individual because he is powerful and wrong, and they are powerless and right. You're thinking "no punching" and they're thinking "punch up, not down."
Why would imperative not be a "main" paradigm? Such as from C?
"Additionally this requires us changing our accounting systems and wading into new tax complexities."

That's only because you're setting prices in BTC instead of USD, right? I always thought accepting BTC through Coinbase for USD-denominated goods and services had no tax implications.
I had completely forgotten about app.net's existence, so mission accomplished on the free marketing front.
I've just begun chapter 2 of SICP. Can anyone familiar with Van Roy's book (or the edX course?) suggest whether it would be worth putting SICP on hold in order to work through the edX course?
This can be filed under "duh". Younger people, generally speaking, have less obligations.
And we have no actual reason to believe Anthony is working on military robots.
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Wow I'm gullible.
That is a rather naïve statement. Subscription services are not like one-time purchases, and even with one-time purchases other commenters have pointed out potential issues with accepting BTC even though a company like Coinbase (such as refunds).

Dalton listed some of the issues subscription services have with BTC in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7105340
Not only the story is wonderful to watch, but I really like their attachment to the community here, in Ireland. Being present on most (all?) of the major events, lending their offices (& time) to host Dublin Code Kata meetings - I was taking part in few of those last year and they had been a blast, promoting TTD and hacking while solving interesting problems. Only time and amount of things to finish in my projects had stopped me from going on those meetings - but I will continue with the nearest opportunity.

I didn't had a chance to use their products, but hearing the opinions about it - and knowing their attitude - I'd vote with my both hands if having the opportunity to do so.

Great job, Guys!
These charts are completely unreadable. Can anyone here actually read this chart without whipping out a color picker?

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/01/...
Meteor UI does it as well.
I'm not sure it's such a bad thing. Intel already does something similar to their server line; Ivy Bridge-EP came out after Haswell was released, Sandy Bridge-EP came out after Ivy Bridge was released. Thinking this could very well be a way for AMD to use the consumer line to get the arch out the door, and then give it over to the server team for fine tuning. In fact, it could give a good way for AMD to get back into the performance desktop market as well -- given the leaks on how the arch is going to have three sets of pcie 3 lanes for single/dual proc machines, I can very much see AMD leapfrogging in terms of getting 3+-way crossfire rigs for people who want ridiculous gaming machines. But, as you mentioned, the difficult part is seeing if AMD has the engineers to properly exploit all the groundwork they've made for ridiculously parallel system. I'm hoping so, because I like the direction AMD's going, I'm just hoping it's not a case of too little too late.
I wonder if this will have an effect on the airplane travel industry and tourism in general. Why go through the trouble of paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars visiting a place on the other side of the planet, when you can experience 90 percent of it in VR?

Why even dream about going to Mars? For one, it's probably not going to happen to us in our lifetime anyway, and second, we could do it much faster and cheaper, by using some remote-controlled robot and experiencing it through VR, Avatar-style.
Are you comparing it with the new or old version of the Oculus dev kit? The new one has addressed both resolution and latency. The difference between the versions is huge and I definitely think the consumer version later this year will step it up even further.
That's just as bad as the protesters who show on the doorstep of a Google engineer. Attack the action and not the person. In this case you don't even know if that person is the one involved in this action.
Paradigm obviously is a highly overloaded word. I assume paradigm is used in Kuhn's sense who coined its 'modern', 'strong' meaning. When paradigm shall mean just opinion then I have many paradigms, too.
They are passionate ideologues. Reason, facts, and fairness have nothing to do with it.

Plus, isn't it obvious that envy DOES have a lot to do with this?
No. Django is "The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines". Sometimes you just need to get things done, and not to optimize prematurely.

And seriously, if you replace every Django component with something else you probably picked the wrong tool for the job.
Reminds me of the backdoor in D-Links routers: http://www.devttys0.com/2013/10/from-china-with-love/
The public is fickle. There is no long term solution.
I think there is a conflict of goals here, but it's one that often goes unstated; ESR is about fostering free software, even if that incidentally also foster's non-free software.

Many on the FSF are about preventing code from being used in non-Free software, even if that incidentally is less than optimal for fostering Free software.

The thing is, many of those who act based on the latter priority present themselves as if there concern was for promoting Free software.
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If Microsoft is collaborating with the NSA, no cable tapping is needed.

Do I trust Microsoft not to be collaborating? No, not really.
Using Lyft share link you can pull all names of users
It seems through Lyft's new share link you can pull the names of all the users. Ex: https://www.lyft.com/invited/MATT2398. Decrementing the last four digits exposes other users. You can try this with other names. Not sure if this is a vulnerability since it's just names. Surprised they didn't hash them.
I was just working on it! It's been a lot of fun.
Congrats on your round.

PS: Any plans to support other architectures?
Define "software community".

Not every software developer is working for a large corporation or venture-backed start-up.
Ask HN: How do you get hired while avoiding recruiters?
I've been looking around for software developer jobs and it seems like 75%+ or the job listings on all the job sites are posted by recruiters.

My experience has been that working with recruiters is more often than not a waste of time. Even worse is just having your resume shoved into some automated DB from which you will forever be spammed into oblivion with worthless job opportunities sent to you based off of resume keywords.

Apart from one's social network, and HN's job listings, how does one go about finding companies that are hiring directly?
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Ask HN: Is anyone else here frustrated by HN's flamewar detector?
EDIT: Looks like the original thread has since been restored.

- - -

Case in point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104904

This story was on the front page and inspired some interesting discussion on the applicability of biological models to technological adoption. When I checked a bit later, it had plummeted to #63 and was essentially removed from the sphere of HN discourse. I can only assume this happened because the number of comments outpaced the number of upvotes, which I believe will trigger HN's flamewar detection mechanism.

Mainly I'm just frustrated because I don't think "disappearing" a story is a good action to take just because some commenters aren't on their best behavior. Are flamewars really that dangerous? This seems to be the equivalent of slaughtering animals to prevent the spread of disease. I guess I just think that heated conversation shouldn't lead to the entire discussion being eliminated. In fact, a lot of heated conversation stems from passionate opinions, and those are often really interesting to engage with. Does anyone else feel this way?
My gsm android cost $200 unlocked.

And my bank won't let me take a picture and cash a check, so this would be interesting to me even if my phone cost $600.
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Utahn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._state...
Well let's calculate it. According to http://www.universetoday.com/30280/intergalactic-space/ there is about 1 hydrogen atom per cubic meter. According to https://www.google.com/search?q=light+year+in+meters&ie=utf-... there are about 10^16 meters in a light year. So 12 million light years is about 10^23 meters. Avagadro's number is about 6 * 10^23. So a tube a square meter across is a bit under 0.2 moles of hydrogen. According to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080619205711AA... at standard air pressure a mole of hydrogen would be about 22 liters, so we're talking about 4 liters of gas at standard pressure. Which would be about 1 square meter across, and 4 millimeters tall.

The collective dust of 12 million light years of intergalactic space does not seem likely to grind down a bullet very much.

That said, the whole calculation is flawed because first you have to get out of our galaxy, which is much higher density. Though that also wouldn't stop a bullet. But then you have our atmosphere, and that most definitely would destroy a bullet that tried to pass through it!

But the moral remains. Space is empty. Really empty. Unimaginably so.
no. what's there to discuss? the only part of Django that is reasonable to replace is the template system, which can be replaced without difficulty or loss of functionality.

Its fine if you decide that you don't want to use Django and build a more modular stack with components of your choice. If you decide to use Django you're deciding that you want to use Django's ORM, URL routing, util libraries, etc. These are all really high quality components that do their job well. There's no good reason to replace them once you've started using them.
In some cases this is a case of branding over consistency. In other cases people would rather spend the effort of cloning the iOS UI rather than learning Holo.
The people taken in by this movement are worse then insane, and they are worse than morons. They are articulate enough to be dangerous.

However, comments like the one you make here just strengthens their movement. "Trash" ? No one is trash! If you refer to criminality, know that good hearted and decent poor people are also adversely affected.

Please, do not call anyone 'trash'.
I always thought this would be a much more interesting backstory for the Matrix than "the robots went to war with us."

I even kind of hoped that in the sequels, Neo would uncover that as the truth, and that Morpheus would be the one struggling to accept that his prior existence was a lie.
In the last year I've woken up to the fact that almost everything I do as a developer is a political act.

It's not just a job, I'm not just a component in a machine -- I have a responsibility to wrestle with the social and political implications of what I create.

While I believe that autonomous cars and Street View imagery are net good for the world, I can understand the counter-argument.

Some of us are well compensated architects of the cages which imprison us. It's past time to engage with the larger consequences of what we do.
Run one in one window, one in another!!

But seriously, spacing would be awesome.
I'd love to see a martial arts training/game with full body feedback, but it's going to take a while longer for the latter part to develop. I've been wanting that since I saw an old VR movie as a kid, about people fighting in VR with characters and experiencing the feedback in real life.
Of course. If it's in Java, I'd definitely do that. We are using Hashmap everywhere. Since the original code looks like this, I thought Ruby does not support hash.

We usually implement code on the application level, so we don't really care about the underlying algorithms. But if we have to implement on the system level, we do care about the how to manipulate the memory and number of executions, like Big O.
In Albany, NY a couple of my friends are making 40,000 as web developers up here.
No, "google" most definitely is NOT causing these problems. Apple is!
It's not even a matter of trust. If MS receives an NSL they have to comply with it.
Tried some text. Didn't feel it did any summarization. Seems like it just grabbed one paragraph among full content. But I have no idea why that paragraph is most important.
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It is correct according to the rules of stackoverflow but the wording "closed as not constructive" is still w r o n g.

"Closed because there is a fair chance it will not be constructive" maybe? "Closed because this and this and that person felt there where a fair chance it would not be constructive?"

Oh, by the way: discourse is still a sandbox it seems: from http://try.discourse.org/ - "THIS SITE IS A SANDBOX – it is reset every day"
You're asking for something that nobody is prepared to deliver, and nobody has plans for delivering it, and nobody knows what kind of technology would even be used to create such an experience.

1. Natural contrast ratios are so far beyond the limits of current display technology that it would take a complete revolution in material science just to figure out what to make the actual screen out of.

2. Natural colors are have a gamut that cannot be reproduced using the fixed primary model. You would have to do something like put a dynamically tunable laser inside each pixel.

It's like asking for a USB port on your computer in 1949.

However, if you're prepared to make some small compromises:

1. Okay, contrast ratios are limited by glare from ambient light.

2. Okay, we'll use three primaries: red, green, and blue.

THEN, Rec. 2020 is what you want.

> "dynamic range" (DNR) is not about white and black, it means the ratio of the largest/smallest values of a changeable quantity.

In the context of displays, the changeable quantity is the amount of light. White is the name of the largest value, black is the name of the smallest value.
Microsoft can't trust Microsoft. All it takes is a NSL to compel MS to hand over any data it has control over. Maybe one day they'll win the lawsuit to get permission to contest the letter, but the data's long since surveilled.
Most of the pain will just move elsewhere with some adition pain related to said move.
It's still not at all clear to me what it is, and why I would want to sign up. Even after reading the site.
Haha I love the "I would like to die on Mars. Just not on Impact" I didn't know that one!
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