skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think it's an absolutely sure thing that Twitter will lose money, there exist a variety of options to be compensated for providing your expert opinion to the market.

I did pretty well selling call spreads on Twitter. Sadly, I also had the same thesis for Yelp and Zynga.
The Hardest Fight
>> Surely by 7th grade you can see that there are problems there. Perhaps by 12 grade in the private school, he could have turned things around.

My parents didn't have the money to pay for private school. Both myself and my middle brother earned fully paid scholarships. They tried to send my oldest brother to the same private school, but due to his entrance exams, that would've required $20K a year that they didn't have.

You're right, we don't know what the cause is. Whether it's the school or the parents, my point was that you can't just look at an individual and tell them to "step it up." It's not that simple.
Dell was able to pull it off. The only Dell PC I've ever purchased was an Inspiron 1420n which came bundled with Ubuntu 7.04.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/dell-inspiron-1420n-u...
Thanks for the feedback Sandrae, it's helpful to hear your perspective.

We have a lot of female users on Codewars and want to make sure everyone feels welcome. The term "Kata" are what we call our challenges, it just means "form" in Japanese - it's used in calligraphy and martial arts to describe a way to practice a pattern to excellence. As for our name, it does hint at competition, though is meant as a metaphorical war on mediocrity and the status quo.

Performance-wise our site isn't going to be as fast since we run the code on our own servers (opposed to in your browser), which has lot's of advantages for better challenges/more versatility, but makes speed a little more of an issue.

I hope you do give the site a shot, and if you have any more feedback please email me: nathan@codewars.com
I really don't get people who think consciousness emerges from an algorithm basically, that can be transferred to software.

If someone built a gigantic abacus and used to slowly simulate a brain, would that cause a consciousness to emerge?
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Thanks for the response. I'm very happy to hear that you consider the hard-dependency on external scripts a problem, and that you are willing to accommodate users who prefer to control who their browser talks to.
For them special cases, you've got CTR+ALT+DELETE. :-D
The mov operator in x86 assembly is technically Turning Complete onto itself [1]. I believe you'd be hard pressed to get smaller then that.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
dban is free and crazy good.

http://www.dban.org/

(The same Darik from zfs on linux.)
> What makes the Macbook Pros exclusively fast at building Firefox?

I think the Retina MBPs are the only laptops so far that use PCIe SSDs, so they're not limited by SATA's 6Gbps.
> Bill is One of Us!

Yes! I used to rewrite programs entirely one time too :)
I was stoked to see some events I love up there on the Community page.

Whooo CodeDay! http://codeday.org/
Exactly. Life is hard. Business is hard. Coding doesn't eliminate work, it just enables new kinds of work. And, it's like coding an app that makes money isn't completely effortless but it is obviously possible.

Coding != literacy. In fact, not everyone needs to go to college either and can still make a living. Mike Rowe's trades-awareness work is fantastic: http://profoundlydisconnected.com/ There are many trades where the average age is 50 because no one wants to be seen as blue collar. Some of these are high income opportunities that are being missed because they're not mainstream fashionable.
IMO, that quote's garbage and really "back in my day". Our resources are just more powerful today. We still run into performance issues with things like bulk updates and computation times (MapReduce / distributed computing) quite frequently.
This interview is part of a really great book. The site probably has all the interviews.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2092682.Programmers_at_W...
I don't think anyone cared about the loss, so much as the revenue and user growth/engagement figures.
I left this comment at the blog:

Perhaps coding will look like minecraft, where you dig physical paths for the water, for the chickens, and hunt down bugs with bows and arrows. Modern tablets with no keyboards do minecraft just fine (my 8 year old and all his friends are completely addicted to minecraft). Also, they can join lan games, and work in the same virtual world. This may allow multiuser programming, no? Weird thoughts. They won't call it programming either, they'll call it something like flowcraft or some such.
Heads up - the first link to Sendwithus is broken.
Curmudgeonly naysaying.

It's one thing if Google was being dishonest about the opportunity on offer. That it sounds like a premise you particularly dread hardly makes it actually operate under said premise.

In the face of a profession that worships craft-as-opposed-to-art, Google sounds an encouraging note: that code can be/can produce art and that it wants to promote that idea, and show off those who avail themselves of that idea.

Are you under the impression that artists in this sphere are in it for the money?--and that Google is therefore somehow swindling aspiring participants? We could do worse than have an online art hack month. The modest constraint of using a single Google product in exchange for participating a well-supported competition seems reasonable for most. And that will hardly, "for God's sake", "limit [them] to showing [their] work in this one gallery." Like game jams, this is about kickstarting creativity.

You decry mercenary motives and then evaluate this opportunity purely in terms of profit. You can't have your urinal cake and eat it too.
The author of the article wrote it using words. He didn't make a video or draw a picture, because words were the best way for him to communicate with other humans. For some reason, he wants a different way to communicate with machines, one that is inherently not the way humans communicate with each other.

I also agree with what others have said, that this is nothing but a bitch fest with nothing actionable other than we ought to be creating visual programming tools no one wants or needs instead of doing actual work. Sure, buddy. I'll get right on that.
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if you are saddened and bothered by it you have an obligation to do something about it. The next feelings are resentment and hate if anyone who is gay hears it. We dont want to spread hate forever.
I love it! I'm a self-taught programmer, mostly working alone on my own projects. This is a great way to expand my knowledge and have fun at the same time. I particularly like seeing the other solutions after I've come up with my own.

Thank you!
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Read the rest of the article - it goes on to discuss those making less than $9.50. (Not $10.10, because the stats available apparently aren't broken down in a way that makes it easy to isolate that group - the article mentions that too.)
I don't know where I fit in the scheme of things, but I suspect people get a lot more on Amazon than you're thinking they do once they have Prime. I've got 120 orders in the last 6 months. If you take the $80/year and split it among all orders, it's close to free: and that's before all the Amazon Prime Video I've watched. Amazon of course is making money on Prime, but how does that mean consumers are losing out, any more than on anything else they purchase? I'm paying for a bunch of videos, and a very small amount per order to get physical items in two days, with (often) a cheap option for next-day. Lastly, I do not think anticompetitive means, what you think it means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices
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This may be inaccurate info but I recall the actual invoice having the data hard coded in it rather than linked to the product in a direct manor.
I'm impressed. What I'm thinking more of is what types of functions and specific functions do you need? So also add, subtract...
> The minimum wage is a price floor that can only drive wages up

Not quite true. It can also drive people out of work. If you include all the people who lose their jobs (counting their new wage as $0/hour), the average wage paid to all the people involved might easily decline when the minimum wage rate is increased.
Wow didn't know Newegg was the second largest e-retailer.
Two choices:

1. Whine more about an issue that has been known and discussed ad nauseum for the past 5 years.

2. Stop buying locked down closed-wall products.

You let me know which is more effective.
A writer interviewed the boatie. It was likely published in print first where space is at a premium and/or only supported by the advertising at hand (they don't just add extra pages). Then online editors or lackies put up the story. News at that level and with that heritage is not at the level where they think like many of the rest of us on the net - e.g., add a gallery, etc.

Even the Great Pacific garbage patch page on Wikipedia has no photos - the cross-section of people out there able to take photos and people likely to be editing Wikipedia don't seem to cross.

You can see some on Google Images though I suspect that many are general garbage-in-water photos: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=great+pacific+garbage+pat...
Coinpunk's Response to Apple for Removal of Blockchain App
A fair amount of research has gone into this question. A number of very simple Turing-complete languages are known.

valarautical mentioned x86 mov. Another is an assembly-ish language with two instructions: (1) decrement and (2) branch if <= 0. Another is the Lambda Calculus. The only thing it has is lambda (and variables and function application, if you want to consider those to be things). Lisp with only QUOTE, ATOM, EQ, CAR, CDR, CONS, and COND is another example (and perhaps even that list is not minimal; I'm a little vague on this).
A good portion are likely selling ads and supporting advertisers.
I'm not of those people who thinks all tech valuations are insane, but I think it is hard to justify twitter being worth 150x their quarterly revenue (~$36b valuation/~$240m revenue). I understand twitter's valuation reflects the fact that it's a growing company, but even a company like facebook is only valued at 60x their quarterly revenue ($158b/$2.5b quarterly revenue).

But at least the consensus on wall street and the financial press seem to agree that TWTR is clearly overvalued.
I'm sure they would be ok with it if you paid Apple 1/3 of any Bitcoin transaction you made through it. Without doing so you create a huge hole in their app revenue tax.
It's an interesting question. By comparison, at the end of 2010 Facebook had about 2,000 +/- employees and $2b in sales for that fiscal year. Twitter is roughly three times overstaffed compared to Facebook.
That's a great point tantalor, thanks for sharing.
that would be the erasure coding that they are working on. it is not yet available.
> It's also a potentially harmful way to see things. It's basically just an excuse to feel independent and non-connected and owning solidarity to anyone. Home country in danger? "Fuck it, I'll just flee. After all, it's only me, me, me that matters".

What's wrong with that mindset? The way I see it, a rational actor would be inclined to think like that. I am an expat living halfway around the world and I have virtually zero sense of national identity. I am loyal to whatever place is aligned with my personal interests the most. When the place where I live stops serving my interests as an individual, I will go elsewhere. I give back to the community by working here, paying taxes and being a productive member of the society. Is there something wrong or dishonorable with that approach? Why shouldn't we be allowed to dynamically choose and reevaluate where we want to live throughout our lifetime?

The moment you ask me to die for you simply because we are from the same town/city/country, you are crossing into irrational territory and losing me right there and then. The only thing worth dying for is a good cause (so you'd better have one ready), and most of the time, wars started by nation-states are rooted in anything but good causes.

Convince me I'm wrong.
Thanks tel for the helpful example, I scanned through [1] briefly and will be attempting to grok the details later. But very interesting paper on using Haskell combinators as opposed to the ugly Java single-inheritance model to make up more and more complicated securities piecewise. Tbh, I'm quite envious of using functional languages and will use the examples to try to learn it (since I'm familiar with the domain area of financial contracts only in imperative lang though).

I also like to learn concurrency in Haskell and don't know a thing about it (currently, I'm trying to go over Clojure concurrency features). So what you have mentioned regarding the LVish framework and Erlang's actor-local GC, green threading will give me a good starting point to poke around. Thanks again for your note!
Progress delayed is progress denied.

If that's how you really feel, why bother paying lip service to the w3c?
I agree, someone who is willing to go on a hate speech will most likely make biased / discriminatory decisions later on that can effect the well being of others.
Scientists warn on H1N8, another bird flu virus, which can infect humans.
Performance comparison of different ways to iterate over HashMap
All you need is mov (and, technically, a single unconditional branch in each program). You can implement add, subtract, etc. using that.

Perhaps the question you want an answer to is not actually the one you asked? In any case, a programming language does not have to look like ALGOL. Most of the very simple ones do not.
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Yes, in the same sense that Google is just "one of many" available search engines.
Finding Messages Explicitly Marked as Spam in Gmail
That's only when you are initially saving the document. Once the database receives the attachment, it creates a stub and removes the inline data.
In defense of the PHP devs here, I think calling PHP "server herpes" was sort of asking for it.
No they wouldn't. Profiting from Bitcoin transfers is a regulatory nightmare. This is because there are no controls to minimise the risk that Bitcoin is being used for money laundering.
> The only thing that has changed is that bitcoin has become competitive to Apple’s own payment system.

Well, that, and a bunch of media, law enforcement, and legislative attention.

> Bitcoin’s use for international payments from family members sending money home to support entire communities in the developing world and for charity fundraising and fund distribution will be severely affected by this decision.

Can't they just use their web browser?
Side note: The illustrated portrait of Gates that accompanies this article was done by, drumroll...my dad!

In fact, my pops did the illustrations for the entire series. Microsoft Press was one of his favorite clients back in the day. Growing up, he'd tell me stories of disorganized secretaries at Microsoft sending him awful reference photos, so he'd look up the execs in the phonebook and call them at home. Sometimes he'd get their wives/husbands on the phone, and he'd nicely explain that he was an artist, and would they mind if he borrowed the family photo album? Many fine stories from those cases, too.

Somewhat ironically, my dad never learned how to do art on a computer. Now he's a commercial construction inspector in Seattle.
I wouldn't say the quote is garbage, there's truth to the idea that over time we have to worry a little bit less about cleverly dealing with resources, assuming the amount of resources we care about remains static... But of course they don't.

The really interesting thing about the quote is that it is from 1986 but could have been stated the same way in 1996, 2006 and likely in 2016 with the same "10 year back" qualifier and nobody would bat an eyelash. Systems are way more powerful but we're also pushing a LOT more data (in terms of depth of the data, breadth of the data, and types of data).

To be fair though, these days a lot of people see "spin up 25 more AWS instances" as a perfectly valid way of solving a bottleneck when compared to months of developer time whereas back in 1986 the decision would be a no-brainer in the other direction given that the equivalent of spinning up 25 AWS instances today would be economically infeasible back then for almost any commercial entity (even if you scaled back the amount of processing needed to fit in the context of that era).
Those first to paragraphs are very harsh. Which I find funny because some their harsher lawsuits were started by Jobs, who's famously quoted in their first paragraph (well he wrote it not said it).
iirc their own developers were concerned about oracles attitude that they went out to get third parties to add core components so that it could not be oracled :\
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Apple will fight all day and all night to maintain control of money on their app store. The way they push their weight around against anything that tries to do anything outside their walled garden is nothing short of disgusting.
This type of language is called a Turing Tarpit: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
Well, before this you just didn't know you needed to worry about it.

But a prominent digital rights group has stepped in and it is likely a reasonable resolution will come of it.
What journals use this style of footnote formatting?
> Well, that, and a bunch of media, law enforcement, and legislative attention.

Normal currencies and online currencies suffer from these same 3 issues though.
This is just the IBR plan, right? The one which has already existed for years?
What's the best way to make noise about this?

Sure, I can switch to Android but A) I don't really want to do that and B) losing a handful of Bitcoin enthusiasts to another platform is really not going to dent Apple in any way.
"By $51 I’m happy - I’m going to profit now."

Not true. You profit at $14.

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14 = 105
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@patio11: "Makes sense - I have one million, as a rider to E&O policy. The insurance companies practically give it away."

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/431219958047965185
> Are you suggesting that's a bad thing?

Yes. Your example doesn't apply. In both instances a[2] is a reference to a position in an array.

I was referring specifically to context-aware functions in Perl, for example, keys called in a list context returns the keys, in a scalar context, the number of keys, in a void context, it resets an internal iterator.

This is terrible, it's like Perl decided that the principle of least surprise was too boring.
In my opinion anyone that uses apple's products must know that at any moment, apple can decide unilaterally that the user should not use some app / functionality.

If you don't like that you probably aren't using apple products already.
Only the second-highest bidder has to pay, not all bidders.
Also note that they've chopped off all revenue from Asia and Australia since the book is unobtainable there. Whether or not that is a large sum of money (I'm one of their former customers) is probably something they've already taken into account using the 1.5 book sales. Still sad to see them not offer an e-book version.
As a neutral third party observer, I've enjoyed the exchange and only lament that if this was me at work, how much time I'd have spent on crafting the perfect comeback message to someone on the Internet and how much pride I've taken in my work and only to know in the deepest of my heart that it is only a "labor of love" like the sound of one hand clapping that no one'll ever hear or appreciate. Kudos to you both, gentlemen.
There are also no controls to minimise the risk that in-app purchases are being used for money laundering.
I agree that for games the market hasn't really been there, and they're probably served well enough by the positional-audio stuff plus a slew of semi-standard effects. And I realize games are the big commercial driver of this stuff, so if they don't care, we won't get the "nVidia of audio".

I'm not primarily interested in games myself, though, but in computer-music software, interactive audio installations, livecoding, real-time algorithm and data sonification, etc. And for those use cases I think the fastest way forward really just is: 1) a raw audio API; and 2) fast JS engines. Some kind of audio shader language would be even better perhaps, but not strictly necessary, and I'd rather not wait forever for it. I mean to be honest I'd be happy if I could do on the web platform today what I could do in 2000 in C, which is not that demanding a level of performance. V8 plus TypedArrays brings us pretty close, from just a code-execution perspective, certainly close enough to do some interesting stuff.

Two interesting things I've run across in that vein that are starting to move procedural-audio stuff onto the web platform:

* http://charlie-roberts.com/gibber/info/?page_id=6

* http://www.bfxr.net/

There are already quite a few interactive-synth type apps on mobile, so mobile devices can do it, hardware-wise. They're just currently mostly apps rather than web apps. But if you can do DSP in Dalvik, which isn't really a speed demon, I don't see why you can't do it in V8.

Edit: oops, the 2nd one is in Flash rather than JS. Take it instead then as example of the stuff that would be nice to not have to do in Flash...
Which version of boot2docker are you using? Also, which version of VirtualBox?

See also https://github.com/steeve/boot2docker/issues/48 which has some more information about this specific issue.
Switch to Android. It will make a dent.

Bitcoin people are not a random demographic, they are early adopters, many are entrepreneurs, most are young.
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RCE in Ruby's libyaml
Hey, thanks for the report! We're tracking that issue on https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/3952 and are working with the boot2docker folks to get a fix out asap.
Return your device. Say you bought for this and now it is useless. And maybe sue for punitive damages.

And then move to palm, windows, webos.. because moving to android will just make you do the same thing to google in a couple months.
Totally agree. Most Clojure code I read is far from easy to jump into for an amateur like myself. It is awesome to see some well-explained and simple code that you can learn from like this.
I attempted to short TWTR today before the earnings, as a big gap down was absolutely predictable. I couldn't: my broker didn't have any shares. It's a security that is very difficult to borrow, due to extremely high short interest --in fact it has been the case pretty much since the IPO.

There might exist mechanisms, whether you can actually use them is another question.
Their conclusion, while ingenuine, is not surprising. Since the Bancroft family sold the publication, the Wall Street Journal editorial board has become a propaganda mouthpiece for Rupert Murdoch.
I suspect this article may have been written for an audience with a collectively higher level of reading comprehension than what you describe.
Well no e-book (my preferred format for technical books) and no shipping to where I live (in Asia) so, despite liking the 1.5 version, I won't be getting the 1.6 version. Not that I have much of a choice in the matter.
The dumb money laundering argument.

If you seriously think regulators care about money laundering, ask yourself why HSBC laundered hundreds of billions of drug cartel dollars, got a slap on the wrist and nobody went to jail.

Money laundering is the new "think of the children" or "terrorists!" bullshit.
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Thanks shravan, fixed that now!