skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "fair" distribution of bitcoins.

I understand what you are asking, but the expected distribution patterns of bitcoins is unlikely to meet any definition of fair according to the majority of people currently using any other currency, and its never going to get there.

My basic problem with cryptocurrency is that they seem to think money is created through work, whereas it seems its created through debt. But then I have not read around the subject enough
Looks like you forgot to add the poll options.
You need(ed) to drain any lingering charge in the CRT. It was easier and safer to do this with a dedicated tool than e.g. with a screwdriver, but the latter worked for one-off jobs.

Ground the probe or screwdriver, then slide it under the rubber cup shielding the... good-grief, I've forgotten which. Anode connection of the tube.

The tube/circuit could/can carry considerable charge for a significant period of time. Simply unplugging the mains power lead was not sufficient protection for a person working inside the case.

But, the case was "easily" open-able -- aside from complaints about the non-standard screw heads and difficulty separating the halves if you didn't have a tool to insert into the seam and pry them apart.

And once you were inside, things were pretty accessible. There was even an entire cottage industry documenting and recommending/selling replacements particularly for analog components on the power board, some of which were perhaps a bit under-spec-ed in the original designs and prone to noticeable deterioration as well as outright, total failure.
I counted 3 times. Men are bad at math. :) Or recognizing faces.
I started to read it, but my god, what an atrocious interface.
Yes, build your own clang and extract the SDKs (headers + libraries) from the Xcode DMG. You can use (or at least you used to be able to) maloader [0] to run codesign.

[0]: https://github.com/shinh/maloader
I suspect these attempts to design a computation that cannot efficiently be performed by 'hardware' (ASICs, or even graphics cards or whatever) are doomed to fail. Furthermore, they're essentially pointless.

Even if you end up with a scheme that can only run efficiently on a general purpose computer, it will probably be through making the computation utilise all the features of the computer. Which means that the computer won't be very good at doing anything else while it is mining. End result: people will have to dedicate machines to mining.

What end benefit does this give to the users or to the currency? People either spend money on dedicated computers or dedicated ASIC miners.

(I guess, at least if/when the currency crashes and burns, those machines could then be reused for other things... but it's still 'wasted' on the owner, who wouldn't have otherwise bought the computer)
But you do know and understand why they're not interested in supporting IE, right? And you'd feel the same way in their shoes, yes?
Not such a simple calculation, as paying higher salaries drives up the cost of living.
Skill-based? Candy Crush is based on the whims of a random number generator. It's Puzzle Quest but the RNG costs you money.
Most midwestern cities have no pedestrian traffic downtown. That is perfectly normal across much of America.

In a typical midwestern city, anyone who can afford it commutes to the central business district by car. They live, shop, and eat in the suburbs. They use their cars for all of these activities.

The C.B.D. ends up deserted at night when the office workers leave. Any successful night-time businesses have parking, in order to attract suburban customers. There is little reason for anyone to be on foot.

The reddit thread mentions very specific districts where you find pedestrians. I imagine those areas have excellent central parking, and deliberately-created "walkable" areas for browsing. A great development pattern to bring life back to deserted downtowns.
St. Louis is cheap, but it's cheap for a reason. If you think 6th and Market is bad, take a stroll through East St. Louis. It has the 3rd highest murder rate in the country. Violent crime is on the rise. [1] Basically, it's one of the most dangerous cities in the country.

If that sort of thing doesn't bother you, then you'd probably be better off just moving your startup to Oakland and maintaining a connection to the Bay Area startup network. Or, if it does, move to a more modern, safer city in the South that still has a low cost of living without many of the economic problems of the rust belt cities (and better weather to boot!).

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/business/most-dangerous-cities-americ...
> That is to say that even if living was essentially free and everyone was equally talented, places that have significant problems with political turmoil, crime, war, or corruption would still be comparatively worse-off.

You seem to think that political turmoil, crime, war, and corruption aren't things to which to inequality (both local and global) contributes, just things which produce inequality. That is something of an unusual position.
An American Mathematician in Moscow, or How I Destroyed the Soviet Union
It's an article from "Notices of the AMS" Volume 61, Number 2. Fairly fresh.
UK porn filter blocks League of Legends update
Disclaimer -- Ansible author here.

This isn't exactly an even comparison -- Ansible has been working on it's SSH implementation for about two years, so it's pretty evolved, and you won't find that elsewhere. By comparison, Salt's implementation is currently a rough sketch, and one they discourage using.

Ansible has a pretty robust implementation that allows sudo and su operations, and is pretty finely tuned for using things like ControlPersist, reports nicely on when passwords being incorrect, and also has a paramiko implementation for older EL platforms where ControlPersist is not available. Doing things like detecting when the SSH-key is not added yet, etc, are also well handled to lock and be able to ask prompts only when needed, etc.

Ansible also features a higher speed 'accelerated mode' that uses SSH for secure key exchange, without relying on in-house crypto. Though the new pipelining features in 1.5 make SSH about as fast as accelerate mode, so that's saying something!

Anyway, we take security very very seriously, which is why we invest so much in having a great SSH implementation.

See also:

http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2013/12/08/the-origins-of-ansib...

http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2013/11/29/ansibles-architectur...
Probably the only time Apple will ever acknowledge the Macintosh TV. Hah.
You would be torn apart by tidal forces before reaching the event horizon of a stellar mass black hole, but you wouldn't be torn apart by tidal forces before reaching the event horizon of a supermassive black hole.
I do appreciate that this article points out that malicious attacks may come from compromised jQuery files, but this is poorly written.
My three steps to a happier life with less stuff
The Joy of Erlang; Or, How To Ride A Toruk (2011)
Republican Party Calls For End To NSA Domestic Phone Records Program
Marc Randazza's gone further than that, he's actually argued in the past that sites should allowed to actively encourage people to post particular kinds of actionable and non-protected speech, specificially defamatory posts.[1]

[1] http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filena...
Google releases mini-games for Google Glass
3 cakes with a million slices each. $1000 buys you 0.1 of a bitcoin slice, 1.97 litecoin slices and 15.83 doge slices.

(that's according to a cake composed of the current # of coins in existence for each cake, not the target amount)

So each piece of your cake costs $1000, but each piece takes out a different proportion from the whole cake (ie a certain number of slices per piece.)

The thing to think about is that buying coins, building an app and launching into a reddit, would likely be better than buying a mining rig to mine. Even a single app will inspire other developers to do the same and both will increase the value of one's coins (ie the size of your piece grows, as does the cake.) It's like IPO'ing your app on release, it's your coin value that goes up. And that's hot.

The cake value is determined by the richness of apps that are its ingredients - and the number of people that are circling it wanting a slice. At the moment, doge has few apps but many people circling it wanting the cake to grow. If you build an app that's any good, you've got immediate traction, and if you hold doge, that value will grow too.

(just my theory anyway)
could you please point me to any theories or papers that discuss this? (genuinely curious)
This a pretty good resource. I use some of the same ones on Bento for big-o and data structures. Interesting that those topics and the general topic of "technical interviews" overlap so cleanly.
Here's my take on how to live happier with less stuff - only three things to keep in mind.

Hope you'll take action today. Any feedback/critique welcome.
No, they can't actually record everything that happens in neurons. They observe small set of changes, and based on those changes and currently understood theory of brain they reconstructed full picture* (Kinda like archeologists reconstruct structure of dinosaur bones based on other knowledge such as bird bones).

* I have no idea how accurate that technique or my description of it is, but in general that is what happens. We got a model of something, we record set of measurements, and then we compute what internal state the model needs to be in for us to observe that set of measurements.
Ranty and dogmatic, but not entirely wrong.

And, in the places where it's not entirely wrong, when stating that a practice is stupid, it's not necessarily bad to firmly and dogmatically state that it is in fact stupid.
Right, but you said it backwards, that C structs are really Objective-C types that look like C. This quote implies that C structs are simply C structs.

This isn't just a pedantic point. You can't store an Objective-C pointer in a C struct, unless you cast it to a void* and bridge it. But then you're mixing ARC and non-ARC code in the same file, which is trickier to manage correctly.
That is one of the standard candles - type 2 supernova IIRC - when neutron star in binary system is eating the other star and turns nova very predictably.
> "... their actions were what made me aware ..."

Point of pedantry: You're aware because someone wrote an article and someone else posted it here. I wonder how many other locations have tried similar tactics but not been widely exposed.
What a dirty act. It's unfortunate that these type of tactics likely do succeed and furthermore go unpunished. But that's the cutthroat nature of business in today's world.

So I guess I say this with a disgusted sense of admiration - kudos to them for figuring out a new way to beat the competition.
It does amuse me when people refuse to lump iPads in with PC's (which points up the fact that Apple is by far the leading PC vendor).
$elem[0].hidden=true should work in modern browsers as well.
No, they switched to a unibody aluminum http://www.trucktrend.com/features/consumer/163_news_130401_...

(although I did say 2014 for year when I should have said 2015 model released in 2014 - friggin car years)
Imagine a situation where you took the card details, but they had to login again after the free trial to keep on using it - re-approve the payment as it were.

You would know then that those customers really wanted your service.

After that it really is just a question of degrees about how far you are prepared to go to make money off people's procrastination.

The fact you ask suggests this troubles you - so be as upfront and honest and clean and clear as you can. And maybe cut back on the food bills...
I'm not saying it was impossible to safely open these machines. After all, there were plenty of people safely working in TV repair shops. If you knew what you were doing and weren't sloppy, you would be perfectly safe.

The problem is, not everyone would know what they were doing. At least with current tech, the worst that can happen is you ruin your computer and not your life.
I keep hoping that some accessibility upgrade comes to the linker akin to how LLVM made compiler infrastructure more accessible, might make FFI bridging more automated. For example, if GDB can access and take apart C structs an automated way, why is FFI coding always seem to have programmers do a lot of mechanical interfacing work.

Not that all the other JVM, CIL, etc aren't approaches that yield some improvements, but something that upgrades capability or accessibility at the level of the ABI linkage level is going to be a wider impact.
Ansible is open source.

We do have a GUI/REST-API company product that sits on top of Ansible that adds things like role based access control, centralized logging, and so on. This is not an enterprise version of Ansible, but an additional offering.

By making this commercial we can produce a really high quality product by hiring some top notch developers, and can move forward at a faster pace.

There are no proprietary modules for Ansible that we hold back, but enterprise companies do have more stringent requirements for tools and that's where we draw the line.

For many users, Ansible will continue to be all they need, and that's fine with us too!.

For reference, here's information about our commercial product:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/ansibleworks-awx/
I was 10 at the time and my father was a typewriter repairman. He purchased a Mac the first day it came out. To that point, the IBM PC had not affected the typewriter repair business because of the archaic document preparation programs then in use (similar to latex). When I hooked up the Mac and started typing a document, my father said "oh shit" and knew that his business was done. I then went to print the document, and the printer didn't work because the first batch of printer cables were defective. Nonetheless, 30 years ago today the office was transformed -- dedicated typists were no longer needed because people could prepare final copies of their own documents.
How we used Lean to start ProdThink
Do you live in NYC
IIRC: from the point of view of the human, it takes infinite time to reach the event horizon, since their speed will approach the speed of light. So the actual experience of passing through the event horizon never occurs!
Then every successful startup out there is an MLM scheme.
i think it's better to approach this from the other side - there are already many distributed computing projects like folding@home, etc that are trying to solve "problems that are cpu and memory hard" - and will realistically have no ending (unless one day there is no disease, or we attain world peace, find aliens, etc). How about we assign value and proof of work to something tangible? Like if your computer folds a correct protein that solves a problem re cancer or aids, you get 1 "humanity coin" ?
Artur this is pretty super dope wedep. Good job homey.
Tweet readability & college degrees correlation by zip code
Don’t use PayPal. Usually a conference involves more money than usual. Another problem is that conferences are a big risk, people don’t like speakers, too crowded, the sound or wifi is awful, the venue cancels at last minute and the alternative sucks, ... So there are too much chargebacks and PayPal usually frizzes the money until the chargeback period clears. (You can agree with them, you can disagree with them, but you can’t ignore that they have this informal “rule”.)

Some examples: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=paypal...
You mean Chrome?

That's just because they weren't left with a lot of elements that they could change (most of Chrome is really minimal). However, the welcome page/new tab page has gone through some really bad iterations (app store, Google+, search box, ...) that removed most of the minimalism and simplicity.
Both links are the same story.
Here's one place to start for Pakistan: http://tribune.com.pk/story/84402/wikileaks-gilani-open-to-d...

As you point out, this is for drones capable of attack, not reconnaissance drones.
Awesome! I'm really awful at drawing on my computer. Many failed attempts at trying to learn Illustrator, Gimp, etc. What's really cool about a web app of a drawing app is that you could use all the open source product tour JS libraries to create interactive tutorials... So impressive, thank you!
Right now it is noon in St. Louis and 19 degrees.

Right now it is 10:00 in SF and 53 degrees.

I think weather plays a large part in why people like to live in the Bay Area. Many refer to the high cost of living here as the "sun tax." As I sit in my office wearing shorts and a t-shirt, I can't even fathom living in St. Louis.
US Academics Protest Mass Surveillance
It's not my term, it's defined by the statutes of many states, including NY:
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/GBS/26/396-r

The idea is that jacking up prices to take advantage of adverse conditions or emergencies is not the same as normal supply-and-demand based pricing in response to seasonal variations, etc. I don't know if Uber's practice fits the definition in the statute or if they're being investigated for it.
On twitter, my ID is JSON and I always preferred "Jason". However, whenever I go to conference that show my twitter handle everybody assumes that is my name and calls me Jason.
Serious question - how realistic is that? How many people make significant changes to the planner/executor besides Tom Lane?
Finally, Yale University Surrenders to Technology
This is not a troll. You have to be legitimately stupid to be in such a position of power as Microsoft, and then to waste it all and to voluntarily hand it over to Apple.
That is ideal but not especially easy.

Hashing as they are doing it requires several factors: what you need to compute is not handed out by a central authority, it is hard to compute, and is easily provable once computed.

folding@home and others do not usually fit 1 and 3. However, there have been some attempts, see Curecoin and Primecoin to a lesser extent.
And used as the title of a 2011 documentary by Adam Curtis "about how computers have not liberated us but distorted and simplified our view of the world around us".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...
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Gag that's crazy. Yet it was still usable according to the needs of the day.
Oh, yeah, that drives me crazy too. Usually, I cd to the root of whatever project I'm working on, and I want all paths to be relative to the root of that project (though since I started to use ctrlp[1], it's less relevant).

1: https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim
> The thing is, he's not actually wrong. Not IF you share the same values as Stallman, where "software freedom" is the most primal and important value / goal of all.

That's unquestionably true, if you share Stallman's particular view that the important part of "software freedom" is its negative aspect -- that is, the absence of non-Free software, not its positive aspects, the availability for use of Free software.

If you value the same freedoms the FSF embraces but prioiritize positive software freedom more than negative software freedom, its a lot less clear that a LLVM's Free-but-easier-to-use-with-or-in-non-Free-systems nature actually harms software freedom rather than enhancing it.
REST is OVER
BotBot.me Open Sourced
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Have you lived in St. Louis? East St. Louis is not St. Louis. I lived in St. Louis for the better part of 27 years (Tower Grove South, St. Louis County, Central West End, and Boulevard Heights) and never had any problems. St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, just like many other places. Some areas have higher crime than others, but to categorically call the whole town dangerous isn't fair.
Chamath Palihapitiya offers two $40k prizes to UWaterloo capstone projects
We don't have (good/proven) theories that predict an asymmetry between matter and antimatter, but we already did experiments that did confirm that there is an asymmetry. Of course these experiments do not involve black holes. See the CERN Alpha project: http://alpha.web.cern.ch/ (No it has nothing to do with the LHC.)
Most businesses and entrepreneurs have a double standard. We complain when someone doesn't answer our help desk call on weekends, yet are determined not to work on weekends ourselves. We complain when an UI of an app we're using in unintuitive, yet when someone complains about your app, you tell them you got lots of bug to address and know about it.
> No, this is unacceptable. This sort of fraudulent behavior deserves consequences larger than "hey, stop that".

If you're suggesting that they should be prosecuted, then we can argue that, but Uber is not able to prosecute members of its team. What do you expect Uber to do, other than to stop the behavior?
R design is somewhat like perl in the sense that usually there are a lot of ways of doing anything. This includes time series of course. That being said, last time I did time series, I've used xts and was quite happy with it.
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Most of them are abandoned and have restrictive licenses so you're SOL then.
I'll raise it to 100%. When I used to deliver pizzas as a teenager the company made me take out insurance, which they never paid for.
Well, perhaps in a meta sense, the older designs "repaired" (us) by thinning the herd. ;-)

One the one hand, I take your point. On the other, people wrote books documenting the whole thing and you could replace that defective capacitor yourself. (Significantly less expensive than having a technician swap the power/video board, particularly if you did not have AppleCare. And you could replace it with a more robust part, so that you were not in the same circumstances again 6 months or a year later.)

I guess with the relative decline in price of whole subsystems -- in some cases -- these days, the greater availability of those, and -- again, in some cases -- the personal safety if not always ease of swapping them out, something might be said for "increased repairability". On the other hand, I don't think the Classic Mac design rates a 0/10. Lots of things back then could kill you. These days, you can't even purchase a real chemistry set for your kids, or in some cases hardly glassware for yourself.
You know, if you really think about what kind of people this most civilized of discussion forums finds desirable among its ranks, you'll realize that self-important snobs don't make the cut.

Oh, and I bet you're on Reddit too, just like most people here.
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With a browser extension you could intercept actual HN upvotes. The tricky part is the feedback, since that's one of the most valued and also despised parts of a tipping system. Some people really like to see how much others tip, and others hate the "noise".

It could be that only those who have installed the extension would see how much others are tipping (via discrete text appended somewhere near username).
I've never signed in to FB, so I never knew the bonus level option disappeared.
Exactly, crypt-currencies as a whole are inflationary. There's even a site now to create your own -- coingen.io.

And it's not too hard to picture intermediaries, like bitpay and coinbase, to support many of the alternative currencies... helping adoption immediately.
joosters wrote: "I suspect these attempts to design a computation that cannot efficiently be performed by 'hardware' (ASICs, or even graphics cards or whatever) are doomed to fail."

For sure. Each time someone figures out something that can not be done on current ASICs/GPUs, a bunch of smart people throw themselves at figuring out a way to modify the GPUs/ASICs in order to enable it. It is an arms race scenario, where these inefficiencies for 'hardware' are just temporarily.
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