skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not strictly illegal. The government isn't asking you for your Bitcoins, its asking for your keys. It's like asking you for your account number but not the cash in the account. If the Government
wanted to prevent the movement of your bitcoin assets, they would request an order barring outbound transfers. Alternatively, they'd simply move to seize the assets under some sort of forfeiture doctrine. (Forfeiture generally only applies to drug money or money acquired through the commission of a crime, but thanks to the Silk Road and other underground marketplaces, that will be the default presumption in most courts.)

In practice you'd be hard pressed to find prosecutors or judges who understand the conceptual difference between bitcoins and keys. The DoJ has a digital currency task force that is working on a legal blueprint for dealing with these sorts of issues, but it will be months before they get anywhere.
I was ready to go when I signed up to be a beta tester. I was ready to transform my entire, dull life just to seem more active for the beta phase (We want active testers!) but then Google called my bluff and asked me to fork over $1,500. Ouch! I was expecting maybe a third of that.

Did you feel disappointed with losing out on the money, or did that aspect not factor into your afterthoughts much?
Now, instead of spitting on TWC vans, I'll get to spit on Comcast vans.
I'm not going to look around for balance sheets of these cable companies but they are doing FINE, even after building the expensive infra. Why? Because they charge BUCKS for it.
How is LinkedIn as a place for software engineering?
I am interviewing with LinkedIn and the only sources I could find about the company were glassdoor and their engineering blog. However, when I search for further information about the company on Hacker News and Reddit, it's mostly about people using the service itself rather than about the work environment there.

So does anyone have any experience with LinkedIn? They told me they had a lot of people from Amazon and Google, and they work extensively in open source (I find this aspect very appealing).
As I understand it, using Bayesian statistics, you can report the posterior probability given various reasonable priors. It seems useful to know how sensitive the conclusion is to the choice of prior. (With a strong result, it should make relatively little difference.)
No.

I believe in the concept of a natural monopoly for most utilities though - Building outside plant is horrendously expensive - it to me makes as much sense to have multiple cable providers as it does multiple sets of power/telephone/water/sewer infrastructure.

I'd even like to see a fewer wireless carriers (consider that each for carrier are spending billions of dollars to roll out what amount to essentially identical network infrastructure often even from the same vendors - how on earth does that even begin to make sense? We - the rate payer ends up paying for it in the end thru higher rates - economy of scale is a thing, and it works.

Having been in the industry for about 2 years now, looking at the spectrum, I believe that we have enough for two, possibly three really competitive national wireless carriers - as in a complete nation wide footprint. That means 20x20 LTE even in rural areas, plus whatever 2g (CDMA 1x or GSM) tech you need for circuit switch voice, and whatever legacy 3g you need too (EDGE and HSDPA or EV-DO), with the eventual goal of multiple 20x20 or 40x40 carriers once we can replace all the legacy stuff - but consider the current for a moment, that Sprint in Seattle on 1900 mhz only has 20 mhz duplex, and nothing on 800 at all - this is excluding the acres on 2.5, because of the obvious limitations of use with atmospheric issues.

That said - the only way natural monopolies do not become abusive natural monopolies is thru intense and careful regulation - mostly by setting a fixed rate of return for the infrastructure, and then building rates from that.
Should you use Docker or not?
This could be the future of stylistic education in literature. If a tool existed to generate rules for this editor to follow, aspiring students could practice the writing styles of famous authors.

Of course, serious writers shouldn't model themselves after others. More specific areas would be the focus. Narrower subjects like technical writing might be promising, since they aren't particularly dependent on individuality in style.
It's not just free will, it's the whole individual that goes along with it. Everything is everything, it's all just one system, and since nothing can be taken away or added to it, and furthermore it could very well be that everything dissipates into nothingness either way -- so much so that would be impossible to even tell a difference between outcomes if there was anyone left to make the effort -- and if even the people are just figments of their own imaginations with no real choice about what to want, then how am I to argue for happiness or against cruelty, rationally? How am I to justify any action or thought or uttering, ever? If you want to prove irrationality is not required, show me the rational argument. I never could come up with one that doesn't lead to a circular "just because".

So in the meantime I accept that my desire to do or not do a lot of things is irrational which also implies I pretend there even is such a "thing" as "me", separate from everything else, for which there is no rational basis either. When you say "accept irrational beliefs", I think that presumes a baseline of pure rationality which I doubt any human ever achieved. So while I loved that quote and thank you for it, I also have to say that it might go both ways :)
Let's face it, if you practice TDD (i.e. write tests first) and you have access to a browser and Internet connection, why would you need to memorize libraries? Sure you might make a few more mistakes than someone steeped in the platform, but I just don't see it making a difference when you consider the amount of time you need to get up to speed on a new company's quirks and needs.
Here are some images of a mock-up of the rover, being shown off at a science conference in Beijing. It's an impressive technical achievement.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/9448077/China-sending-jade-ra...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-26/chinas-jade-...

http://imarstore.blogspot.com/2013/11/technology-china-going...

The question is, why is Europe being nuked in the background? Note how the images are from at least 3 different angles, so it's not like some reporter got a Photoshopped picture ...

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1t37gn/wtf_is_a_mushroo...

http://rt.com/news/europe-nuclear-explosion-china-440/
Why the brain sees maths as beauty
wow

such scale

move fsat, break tnhigs
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> The "you don't like to do" part is not required (hell I burned out doing a side project, in a new language, with an amazing framework - at least, I was amazed, all th time untill burnout)

Weren't you just tired? Same way that after few even amazing but long hikes you don't feel like walking again for some time (weeks, months).
the facebook version has a button to one click share a screenshot of your highscore when you score higher than 5

Originally I had it just as a button that said "Share" but the facebook's unity sdk dev's warned me that my app would get reported and removed.

I implemented score's api too, but it doesn't seem to be surfacing my scores anywhere I can see
And I have to be honest: even as someone who likes systemd, the maintenance and security implications of this concern me.

I was looking at the code and was surprised to find only Javascript and C, but your quick summary on the implementation makes me want to watch from the sidelines, cautiously.

That said, very interesting project AFAICT.
Fuck Apple. I mean really.
What do you mean a "clone of their product" ? Desktop PCs had big icons on screen for years, there was nothing new or even remotely original in having big icons on a screen for an mobile OS. That should be declared an obvious invention and not worth of protection at all. The main new thing that they did was to use a touch screen that can be operated with fingers and gestures, but hey, even that idea was not new either. Frankly, no matter how highly you think of Apple's products, nothing of what they do is really, truly original.
You are over-emphasizing the importance of Steve Jobs' quote to pmarca's (aka Marc Andreeson) point.

Jobs said a lot of things, and much of what he said is publicly available. Obviously, he did not simply mean build any product people might love .. or why does Apple only build computing devices?

Here's a better (and longer quote) by Jobs..

I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” ~ Steve Jobs

Does that not sound like a man on a mission?
>the AnitTrust people would have to be really asleep at the wheel for that

Call me a pessimist but I think this will go through. Why? The lobbyists already sounded out (lobbied/paid-off/promised-job-in-future) enough people in govt to feel that this will go through, or at least there is enough chance of it happening.

I bet this will go through, especially using the point that they don't compete against each other (which would be stupid reason to accept by AntiTrust people). They were NOT designed to compete against each other in the first place. They were given geographic divisions by regulators for that very reason.
One of my favourite apps has a prominent duck[1]. The BubbleFishyMon plugin for gkrellm has a 'fishtank', where the various happenings have meaning - the fish represent network traffic, the bubbles are cpu load, the water level is RAM usage, and the duck... is a duck!

You know you're close to swapping when the duck is upside-down...

[1] http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/-lOiPGHXH3k/hqdefault.jpg (a little overlarge)
That FUD is not relevant to my question, and I don't have the time and energy to dissect his contrived, unrealistic fearmongering scenario now.

But for example, why would other people let Mike pollute the water despite everyone else having signed the "Filter Pact"? Mike's selfish actions would directly affect other people making a living, and therefore, some kind of intervention would be warranted - and would happen too! After that, everything is fine again.

Even if you're silly enough to argue against your own freedom, you can't just leave things at presenting a problem, expecting it would not get solved, and thinking you've proven that freedom "doesn't work".
Well if you don't know what you're talking about, not being "familiar with the particular controversy", maybe you should refrain from defending the participants. Sometimes people's views really don't deserve any respect. None. Use your imagination. Granted, they're often perfectly capable of saying such things under their own name.
> In theory, applications can be built on top of the existing BitCoin blockchain, which is now well-guarded by many vested interests

"Presumed to be well-guarded by many vested interests". Of course, if you don't know who controls how much of the network, you don't know that its guarded by anything, or what the vested interests with influence over the security of the blockchain are actually interested in.
I'm in NYC1 and NYC2 and it seems like there is maintenance at least once a month, if not more. Luckily, my application is very fault-tolerant, but it is surprising how often they are emailing me about maintenance outages (however brief they may be).
I don't blame colleges for this.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6259...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/12/7/edwards-john-sui...

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/24/suicide

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/a_suicid...

Similarly, if the legal system started allowing people with bad eyesight to sue car manufacturers over traffic accidents, I wouldn't blame car manufacturers for refusing to sell to people with glasses.
Uh, no. That's not what I said at all, and it's not true.

A dear friend of mine is still alive right now because her psychiatrist hammered into her that she needed a list of people to call when she felt suicidal. When the crisis came, she was just barely able to remember to call me before she reached for the knife, and my phone was charged and in my pocket because she'd told me about the psychiatrist's advice and I'd promised her I'd be available 24/7. I'm a pretty forgetful guy, but I forced myself into rigorous phone-care habits because of that psychiatrist, and that's the only reason that she didn't slit her wrists and bleed out on the carpet that night.

With severe depression, your best chance of a positive outcome comes with a solid support network and a well-trained, reliable psych professional. You need both.
What a great article! I especially enjoyed the pictures :)

For those of you who are interested in more in-depth oplog tailing info, there is a recorded talk from one of the Meteor Devshops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dzX_LEbZyI
You might want to become familiar with Overchoice. [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu
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Simple idea:

Given a post text or image, give the three boards it was most likely posted to on 4chan.

Data is easily available on the 4chan API, and you can do things from very simple (matching word frequencies) to complex (NLP and image recognition).

EDIT:

Bonus round--train it to generate posts for a given board.
There are bad managers everywhere. This seems like a case of borderline harassment or just bad manager/employee matchup.

He should have reached out to HR instead of quitting. He should have gone directly to his boss's boss. He should have documented every instance of improper conduct as much as possible and gotten a lawyer...

Clearly there were other options, but it seems like he decided to give up.

Just because it's a great company doesn't make every person there great. That's why we have HR and skip-level managers and lawyers, you just got to use them instead of curling up in a ball and taking it.
Which Coding Language Is Right For You?
That was also about monopoly power. If NBC were an independent entity, they would license their back catalogue to the highest bidder. Given that NBC is owned by a cable company, the strategy changes. The current dynamic for NBC is, if we license to Netflix, then some people will cut the cord, lowering Comcast/TWC cable revenue. The bigger Comcast is, the less likely NBC is willing to license content to Netflix. If NBC were independent, they would maximize their own revenue, but because they are owned by Comcast, NBC's decisions are to optimize profits for the combined company which is likely not in the interest of consumers.
> FDR temporarily unlinked in 1933 and we had the great depression

I always like pre hoc ergo propter hoc arguments.
For me it's stuck on "Starting the RSVP process. This could take a while..."
The __attribute__ compiler directive in C
Love my MBP. Fairly excellent battery life. UNIX underpinnings and command line terminal paired and a well polished, usable GUI. And a trackpad that actually works.

Ditched iOS a good while ago.
The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
Okay. Fair point. I am probably still thinking of the old Motorola Inc which has been divided into two organizations.
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sweetmarias.com has a huge variety of beans and many pages of how-to with photos.
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Understanding the software of your domain will allow you to be more informed on how to improve it. A mastery of Midi to make better and new musical instruments...

The foundation for these abilities comes from habits this OP encourages you to avoid
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have control over their own feelings and that Prozac is no better than a lobotomy

dreamdu5t said neither of those things, and there's no need to be rude.
nice. now: task dependencies. get on it. please.. :-)
The javascript miner was not deployed anywhere. At no point was anyone in New Jersey knowingly or unknowningly served Tidbit's bitcoin mining code.
Unfortunately, this was posted so long ago (in internet time) that this comment will probably never be seen, but some things need to be said, so I'll say them here.

Someday, someday soon, writing Objective-C as we know
it today will seem as antiquated as writing assembly. That's
going to hurt Apple.

I'm guessing the last time you wrote assembly was probably for some undergrad CS course and have no practical experience in what writing assembly is actually like. Otherwise, you'd not be making stupid assertions like this.

Christ, look at how we're still arguing about dot-notation.

Who is arguing about dot notation?

Incremental changes aren't the way to get to
the language of the future.

Don't tell that to the C++ committee. Incremental changes are in fact the way we get to the language of the future. New languages are incremental changes to old ones. Pascal -> ObjectPascal. C -> C++ -> Java -> C#. Ruby was incremental changes to a whole slew of languages.

Well, look at Microsoft. They transitioned from Win32
APIs to .Net and the CLR VM and it took over a decade.

Microsoft still uses C++ for systems, which is what you are doing in Cocoa/iOS. .NET is mostly a wrapper of API's that are still C/C++ based. What parts of Windows do you think are written in .NET exactly?

A new old thing is not really what we need. It seems
absurd that 30 years after the Mac we still build the
same applications the same ways.

30 years ago we were using C++ to write apps for the mac, Object Pascal before that. If you don't think Objective-C (and the NS* frameworks) isn't a huge improvement on that, then you probably have no idea what you are talking about.

It shouldn't use pointers, structs, header files, anything C-based

Why? What are you so afraid of?

It should be a memory-managed language
(No ARC, not retain/release, no Core Foundation)

Again, why? You know they did have a GC'd version of Objective-C, but it was such a pile of shit that they dumped it for ARC.

It should have native, unicode strings and native collections

I've no idea what you mean by this. Native? Built-in collection types? Why are you so intent on robbing yourself of tools?

It should be concise

Concise compared to what? I can't think of any other systems level language that is nearly as concise as Objective-C.

It should have named parameters

Yeah, because method signatures aren't concise enough. /sarcasm

My biggest question is why you aren't using RubyMotion, Ximian or HTML/Javascript to build apps for either platform? Objective-C is not the only way.

With Apple re-writing more and more of the OS in Objective-C (Finder in Mavericks, for example) my guess is your wish won't be coming true anytime soon. Will we be using it in 20 years? Will Apple exist in 20 years? Who knows.
Humans run through a well-understood lifetime cycle of growth, maturity, and decline. Contemporary orthodoxy neoclassical economics doesn't generally recognize this, though it's beginning to. See Tim Worstall at the Telegraph UK: "Infinite growth on a finite planet? Easy-peasy!" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/timworstall/100017248/i...

On the other side, Robert Gordon's "End of Growth" paper:
http://www.voxeu.org/article/us-economic-growth-over

Your assertion that a person earning 100k doesn't have twice the energy (or environmental) footprint of someone earning 50k really needs some sort of factual support.

And your hypothetical future with 100s of times today's economic productivity flies in the face of the law of diminishing returns which you've invoked yourself.
It's really hard to keep moving all the way up and down the stack. If you spend a few weeks hacking on a few key low-level routines, that might enable you to write the rest of the code in python and use some library you really want. In turn, that might enable you to release many more innovations faster than you would otherwise, and create something awesome.

But it's hard to remember all of that when you're in the middle of writing some C code so that it can be optimized with vectorized instructions when targeting newer chips.

Hacking is great, but engineering can inspire and enable hacking. How many of these cool startups would be around without gnu/linux/freebsd?

I think the trick is to go to a higher level once a day, or spend more time at a higher level once a week. What is value you will deliver to at least one other person? Are you making real progress getting there; or are you building an endless series of platforms on top of each other without ever having a clear application in mind?

Even if you are working on a generic performance improvement you can still do that. If 10,000 servers are running your software, and you improve performance by 2.5%, then you can measure the value you delivered in terms of power saved per year and it would be a real accomplishment. That will be motivational, and it will also help you choose a better follow-up project to deliver even more.
"Blandly practical" is the reason I still use python as my go to language for almost everything I do. The language is nice and stable, support for it is wide spread, there are nice and stable libraries for everything I need and so on. Python is the only language where I feel comfortable that can sit down and know I'll only have to think about my problem. I like that.

I'm currently keeping my eyes on both Julia and Rust and regularly try to do things in Haskell and Clojure, but basically every time I start a new non-trivial project in a new language I often end up at a point where I'm facing a language problem not a problem domain problem. How do I deploy language X on platform Y and make it talk to application Z, why is there no library to read/write .foo files, how to I make these two incomplete, buggy, almost-but-not-quite-overlapping libraries I found on github play together.

And don't get me wrong, that can be a fun challenge in its own way, but I don't always have time or desire to take 2 weeks out of what was really supposed to be a 2 week project to write a library to do something that would take me 2 minutes using a stable well tested python library.

I don't know, maybe it's just me getting old, but these days I'd much rather spend my time solving problems using programming than solve programming problems, doubly so when people are paying me to solve problems.
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