skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It costs about 1% to acquire Bitcoin using USD. If the merchant wants to receive USD instantly without exchange risk, that's another 1%. Not 3%, which is the typical cost of doing business with credit and debit cards. The last taxi driver I talked to said he pays 5% because he couldn't get approved for Square.

Chargebacks are important for credit and debit cards because you hand over your payment credentials many times each day. You never hand over your Bitcoin payment credentials. No one complains that cash doesn't have chargebacks because it just isn't a problem.

It'll be fun to speculate on both sides of this issue throughout 2014, but there are tens of millions of dollars floating around to convince merchants that accepting Bitcoin is a good idea. If it's cheaper and usable, it's going to work out. Let's see what the world looks like in July.
I wasn't even aware of the formaldehyde issue. Here I thought propylene glycol is much safer than vegetable glycerin because of the acrolein.
It is true that as runtime increases, the number of movies decreases. However, if you look at the mainstream runtimes(>80 and <100), generally they get quite a variety of ratings for a given runtime if not uniform. On the other hand, the movies that have higher runtimes generally get higher number of votes.

You could also observe the same behavior from rating vs #votes graph; as # votes increases, the number of movies decreases. However, rating and # votes correlate quite strongly.
I thought they had really stepped up the interactivity.

EDIT: --snip--
Property rights only exist if you can enforce them with the point of a gun (or you can rely on agents of your government to do it for you). So until someone actually installs some guns to defend their lunar mining operation all claims are theoretical and worthless.
Just to let everyone know, a very very rare but very serious side effect of modafinil is Stevens–Johnson syndrome and other potential life threating skin conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%E2%80%93Johnson_syndrom...

I am not trying to discourage use.
Yeah, I am not seeing this effect at all. Perhaps relevant: one of my eyes has poor eyesight, but 3d movies still work for me without wearing corrective lenses...

I suspect this only "works" if you really want it to.
Not to be "that guy", but a lot of this is terribly incorrect:

* General relativity did not come from "grasping the mathematics" of special relativity. SR can be completely understood by an undergraduate and is an internally consistent description of mechanics and electromagnetic phenomena. Like Newtonian mechanics before it, it doesn't need anything more to be consistent.

* Local hidden variables are not "likely wrong", they are provably impossible. It is impossible to have hidden variables without breaking the principle of causality.

* Entanglement does not break the principle of causality. "Spooky action at a distance" is not an "effect" in a well-defined physical sense. It cannot be used to send information or cause things to happen.

* All of this could be--and was--understood without the EPR paper. Relativity was the most important thing since Newton. EPR was minor in comparison.

* I have no idea what connection you're trying to draw between sentient life and QM.
That's undoubtably their end goal. Even if it's not made public, they would then use it to target ads. Basically, if they can accurately predict human behaviours before the humans can, they can target the ads at the most effective point in time.
You mention scraping, but did you actually scrape these? I just discovered that IMDB publishes textual data dumps. They appear to be pretty complete. Terms of use are non-commercial, but I'd love to see more analyses like this!

http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
Good to know, that before people enter a relationship, they interact, and afterwards, they express happiness.

I await further research predicting breakups, divorces, and stalker homicides.
Wikipedia says 9.6, 9.8, and 10.0 million km^2 respectively. Do these numbers include something (e.g. water) that the numbers you quoted don't? (They also peg Russia at 17.0 million km^2)
I will do the regression analysis in the second part of the post, thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks for the bug feedback around facebook widget as well, I will fix it.
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It surprises me that more people don't just block third-party cookies. No need to maintain blacklists that way. Sure, you still see ads, but it keeps tracking at bay.
This isn't true anymore.

http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/charging-customers-a-credit-c...
I am also very interested in the correlation of rating vs director. However, I do not have the budget information for the movies. It would be great if I could find budget information and combine them with the data I have. I have not though that, really good suggestion. Thanks!
Friends and family count for your first dozen at least, hopefully. After that, consider looking for online communities that need your product. For example, vbulletin forums that focus on them.

Ingratiate yourself to these communities by participating in discussions unrelated to what you're working on.

By then, you should be able to post a full thread describing what you've done, offer a few screenshots and ask if people will try it. By replying to people's questions and being friendly, you will keep the thread reasonably topped and pick up users that way.

This also works in general interest internet forums, so long as you are a reasonable participant and posting in the correct areas.
I recently attempted to redirect a POST request being made by Apple's NSURLConnection. I say "attempted" because I could not find any status code that didn't make it revert to a GET for the subsequent request. 301, 302, 303, and even 307 didn't work. I finally ended up telling Apache to proxy the request to the real URL rather than trying to redirect the client.

(It is possible to override this behavior in the client with a bit of code, but I was trying to make this work with software that had already shipped.)
Gross conflation of 'we warned you foreign political spending would happen' and 'the SCOTUS citizens united ruling is wrong.' Seriously, did anyone miss the 'Congress shall make no law' bit of the 1st amendment? If you don't want foreign spending then you can't just trample all over the Constitution for political expedience, you have to actually pass a law that addresses it directly instead of taking the easy way out. There are ways to have real campaign finance reform without restricting speech. PS Arguments that corporations should not be allowed to have freedom of speech or that spending money is not a form of speech really do not belong here.
I'd rather have ads that might be relevant than ones that are not.

This is preposterous. You would rather be manipulated better? Seriously... This is not a teneble position. Most people would prefer white noise. What you are espousing are simply the talking points of the advertsing indusrty. This is like a congressman thanking the lobbyist for "educating" him on the issues.
Maybe. Is there any evidence of that?
I would guess you are correct: that the signal is pretty weak per individual couple (to the point of not being usable) but shows up with this nice tight graph when you aggregate data.
Google must display rivals’ search results
The author would do well to study fundamental principles of statistics...

If only the author understood this. Then he might have written this in the fifth paragraph: "They tend to “outpace” the scientific literature, using some substances that haven’t yet been shown to work...people combine a bewildering variety of chemicals without being sure which ones work better than others or even whether any of them work at all.

This survey does not intend to rectify this state of affairs"

He might also have written in the conclusion: "Overall I was not too impressed with the results of this survey. No unexpected substances jumped out as promising, there was a very wide distribution from “useless” to “life-changing” in nearly everything except the -afinils, and it was very hard to find much of a dose-response relationship anywhere."

"Other goals for the future are to drag people kicking and screaming into reading directions so I know everyone’s rating off the same scale..."

Not every blog post needs to rise to the level of double blind clinical trial.
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I didn't get it when he mentioned it but thanks to your comment I'm pretty sure I do. Might want to remove the clue for others' benefit
By CPI deflator, $100 in 1969 is worth $634.76 today.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Not sure if that calls into question your statement, or suggests that the CPI is drastically understating inflation.
It's a cool juxtaposition - I think it communicates the right expectations (good food in a casual space).
you need to keep your ph levels in check for amps to absorb properly. if I have orange juice, I feel nothing working.

can you share some links to the dopamine leakage you mentioned, that sounds terrible.
Damn I wish the media would run more scare stories about pandemics of extremely virulent diseases that are actually completely preventable! "Don't want to risk having your child die? Don't want potential life long health problems? Get vaccinated today!" >_<
That explains why I noticed a couple of things off on my aggregator. I was using hnsearch.com/rss which recently seemed to have been alter and is now missing most of the data I was actually using.
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RequestPolicy is pretty awesome. I've switched to Adblock Edge, which hopefully protects me better than Adblock Plus. Unfortunately, the more I delve into web privacy, the more I think that non-technical users are screwed. How on earth are mere mortals supposed to protect themselves when someone skilled in the art has a difficult time getting web sites to work in a privacy-maximal fashion?
I'm guessing you did software for FIFA.
I'd like to see more breakdown by release year, e.g. # of movies in each category by release year.

I think it would be interesting to look at those stats next to economic stats, etc.

I'd also like to see a more granular breakdown of attributes of each movie (movies relating to technology, movies with a workers' union being a strong component of the film, race relations, international relations, etc.) and the # of each of those per year, but that would be much more work.
Thank you for the very illustrative explanation. It's fascinating to think about how smart the ad optimization will be after another decade, after the size of the training data set gets exponentially larger and the algorithms become more and more refined.
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Network stack specialization for performance
Speaking as someone who was bad at monopoly as a kid, those cash injections helped make the game feel more "fair". The vanilla rules make it really hard for a newbie to win against someone who actually knows how to play strategically.

Now, that doesn't justify turning the game into a 4 hour slog, but it may help to explain why so many people use these "wimp rules".
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With conference PDF here:

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2013/papers/hotnets-f...
I don't know why people keep on saying this (about UI). My father had never operated a Computer, smartphone up to sometime back and he doesn't know English more than what a kid in 4th grade (in US/UK) would know. He still operates in Firefox without a problem for his business, changes settings when I ask him to (though mostly he doesn't need to). In fact, as a self-proclaimed geek, I have difficulty finding options in Chrome where everything is crammed in one menu followed by a giant 'web page' of settings in which finding anything is hard. And for doing anything useful you have to anyway click the 'Advanced' section ...
Exactly. Crunch time means oop's management stuffed up, now fix it for us.
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Why not look at companies that had something like that ? Take the railway companies in Europe versus everyone else.

The railway (ie. "socialist") optical lines :

1) use ancient infrastructure on SDH (on direct current, meaning they have to buy ridiculously expensive equipment. Not that they've looked for better in the last 20 years)

1b) therefore the speeds attainable over government fiber are pathetic, compared to private lines.

2) are VERY hard to deal with.

3) are very expensive compared to private lines (except in cases where, read on)

4) delays are legendary (months to open up a frequency on an existing tract that usually works fine if I turn it up before contract agreement)

5) Termination fees are ridiculous, and of course, you can't just do it yourself. Suppose you have fiber delivered to the edge of your own property and want it linked up to the inside of your building. You'd think, well I'll just do that, costs me $150 in equipment, a drill, a shovel and an afternoon. No dice. You have to pay $18000 to the railway company to make this happen.

6) Their engineers are utterly clueless when it comes to fiber. "I want a 6 km fiber from X to Y, are you going to regen ? Using what equipment ?". You get empty stares. They regen if they pass a regen station, using their equipment (that they can't even NAME) and if not, they don't. You're screwed if they regen. There's no good reason to regen a 6km fiber since 1985 or so. AARGH. Then you get to explain to your boss how you just paid $35k for a fiber, and you need to redo it, lovely. Or you have to get a 20km cable where a 3 km one would normally suffice but you need to avoid regen stations. Great.

They also have advantages, of course

1) reach. You need a fiber delivered to any city that has a railway line ? They have one. You need a fiber in a LEX ? They've got fibers to every LEX.

2) they are utterly unbeatable if you need a new fiber. They can lay down fiber while moving on average 30km/h. Digging fiber has speeds that are expressed in meters/week.

Now I don't know why this happens, but I'm not very impressed with a government based fiber holding company. And yes, they do connect end-users. Hell, it's usually a better idea to use the existing telco to connect to their fibers (they get to use their own amplification equipment). Don't know why this makes a difference at all.

There are also government fiber providers that I am impressed with. The one of the government of the city of Amsterdam for example gets it right. They don't regen, but if you need it you can rent racks in buildings along the fiber path and place your own equipment, and they pass through the fiber or not depending on your requirements. Unfortunately it's the city of Amsterdam. The reach is somewhat limited.
I'd argue that that fails to account for market externalities (by default).

I'm also increasingly convinced that market prices fail to take into account highly salient characteristics.

Your requirement for "free negotiation" is also a condition that's very rarely met: unilateral contracts, exercise of monopoly power (Microsoft would cut off vendors who allowed bundling of competing software, as an example), and other power / pressure / control points ensure that the ideals of a free market transaction are very often not met. It's an ideal, not a particularly frequently achieved reality.

The usual Libertarian counter at this point is to define any interaction between non-government entities as "free negotiation", a premise I soundly reject.
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> For each timeline interaction, we counted the proportion of words expressing positive emotions (like "love", "nice", "happy", etc.) minus the proportion of words expressing negative ones (like "hate", "hurt", "bad", etc.).

I've always been suspicious of this type of measurement. It seems like statuses such as "I LOVE shoveling snow SO MUCH but I will be happy when winter is over!", where positive language is used to convey negative emotions through irony and contrast, would completely destroy such ratings. Maybe there are AIs that understand irony?
See http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/02/16/1953/perhaps-the-singl...
To clear some things up:
1) The theory itself is a WIP. We only published in the hopes of getting reviews, comments and ideas from the community

2) The last thing we want to do is reinvent the wheel

3) We do not bring any novelty to either mesh routing or p2p payment systems. We only combined the two to create a mesh protocol with a built-in monetary incentive

4) The actual purpose of the monetary incentive is to get corporations capable of installing fiber links interested; we do understand it is impossible to create a global wireless mesh network.

5) Tunnel nodes are needed until a stable (fiber) infrastructure is built to replace them

6) It is always possible for other mesh network projects to implement the payment system into their protocols; we did not discover fire, we only proposed a solution to what we believe to be the main obstacle to widespread adoption of mesh networks; i.e. lack of incentive.

7) There are no political motivations for the project. Demanding a secure and spying-free communication channel is not anarchism. It is only the natural evolution of the internet. AFAIK eavesdropping is not just confined to the government/nsa. Even small ISPs possess the ability to spy on their clients. Also note that there are countries outside the US that have completely different concerns in regards to internet laws and regulations.

8) We understand there may be serious flaws in the theory at it's current state which is why we're teaming up with industry experts to refine and improve it.
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Wow, that is absolutely great - also bookmarked. Very nice and many thanks!
NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook
Thanks. That snip doesn't make particularly clear when this happened, though from Bukowski's biography, I'd guess 1969 or thereabouts (as noted in my other comment on the value of $100/mo today).

This also somewhat calls into question what's required for genius to foster. Seems that some people are simply driven to create, and any environment in which they're free to focus on their creative efforts, and have financial concerns taken off the table (I've seen similar arguments made for tech hires: pay me enough money to not have to worry about it) is sufficient.

There's also Daniel Pink's work in Drive.
This reminded me of a debate I've had with some friends for a while.

My current resume (LaTeX 4 life) is 2 pages. It's fairly detailed, and I feel like it gives a good overview of who I am. It has lists of my work experiences (with key achievements and technologies used), education (with specializations and details about my undergrad/graduate thesises), talks, open source projects, volunteering activities - the whole deal.

Then one day a friend of mine joked that in the tech industry, where everything must use emojis and communicate in <140 chars, a 1 page resume is the way to go. I made a 1 page resume (without sacrificing legibility or using 0pt margins), and it's grown on me. It's concise, to the point, no BS- and I feel like it still gives a good window in who I am and what I do (and like to do).

But some friends have said that a one page concise resume came across as ballsy and too confident.

Any HNers have insights on this? Or is it one of those things into which one should put the least amount of thought possible?
I don't think it is a working strategy ever, to be honest. What you usually want to get decent returns is not necessarily hockey-stick growth (unless the game is to impress investors but this usually leads to questions of gaming the system). What you want is decent, modest, exponential growth (when you are small your growth can approach exponential levels, but when you are big you have problems keeping it up, due to the fact that most growth in a finite market will resemble a sigmoid in shape -- this is also why big companies can't successfully innovate).

Getting out and taking to people, as you say, is where it is at, regardless of your business goals. Start with the three F's of fundraising (friends, family, fools) and go from there. Posting on Reddit and HN is good to create discussion or buzz, but it won't by itself get you sales.

Another thing I would recommend is that you do two things:

1. Write a marketing plan. Talk about the market, who you are going for, and how you will reach them. Discuss both PR and advertising, as well as other forms of outreach. Review it, write it as a team. Get everyone on the same page.

2. Then once that is done, put it on the shelf and don't look at it for a year. Act as if the plan doesn't exist. Go out and promote your product. Come back in a year and compare what you did and what you accomplished to what you set out in the plan.
The externalities of not getting vaccinated (see: this article) makes a strong case for requiring them or at least making a subset of them required upon exit for reentry (similar to passports) without religious exemptions.
It is a Schedule 4 drug in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_IV_drugs_%28US...

Same schedule as Xanax,Valium, Ativan, Ambien...
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> PS Arguments that corporations should not be allowed to have freedom of speech or that spending money is not a form of speech really do not belong here.

Sounds like a really ridiculous argument when you phrase it so explicitly, but OK.
heh. methinks a programmer who thinks programming is objective and not subjective has the equivalent professional experience in the field as a designer who doesn't know the difference between design and art so designs subjectively.
Got an email about this from cal, might been exposed, grr.
Why don't people vaccinate.
> Can a comment itself be immature?

Yes.

> I'm pretty sure only a commenter has the agency to be immature

The commentator has agency, but by their human nature are complex enough that their individual actions - be they mature, immature, or whatever else - are rarely adequate to judge the commentator as a whole.

The most mature among us still has agency to make immature comments. The most immature among us still has agency to make mature comments. Labeling the act is not labeling the actor.
If anyone is interesting, I wrote a proof-of-concept Android implementation of this UI. Not as polished as this though. I didn't make any attempt to ensure the scrolling time was consistent for different image sizes, and left out the scrollbar. But this code would get you started.

https://github.com/jasonostrander/TiltToView
Exactly my thoughts and I don't see a reasonable person/group filter to construct averages without introducing some kind of bias. And with the graph's axis starting at a non-zero value, I'm not convinced that the goal was to provide an objective view on the effects of relationships.

More details would help to reduce the skepticism.
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Yeah, this is great.
Just a note, this article isn't about the length of a paper resume, it's about students using online portfolios to store information on projects, verified transcripts, etc. Basically, a more thorough replacement for a resume.

But regarding your question, I think two pages is perfectly fine in the tech world, if you have enough to say. By the time you're ten years into a career I'd be surprised if you don't want more than a page to talk about what you know and what you've done. I think the aesthetic gains from a one page resume aren't worth the risk of omitting something that's important to a potential employer. It's the four page resumes that annoy me.
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How did you get those 500 users?