skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't even circle over the Swiss Geneva airport without passing over France though.
Inflation favors the debtors, meaning the poor and middle class.
the "$" sign is often used as a general currency sign.

Since 600+400+300+200+500 == 2000, the article is obviously talking about renminbi. And it doesn't matter a lot.

The writer probably didn't have a 元 or a ¥ on his keyboard and didn't know about ¤.
http://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-MPU-memory-protection-unit....
Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves
Staying up to date with the latest protocols: SPDY/3.1
Yep. Depends on where the laser is fired from, and it depends on the target. Lasers can absolutely fire 300 to 600 km.
Yep, and wdired does a few more things as well. From its commentary:

- To move files to another directory (by typing their path, absolute or relative, as a part of the new filename).

- To change the target of symbolic links.

- To change the permission bits of the filenames (in systems with a working unix-alike `dired-chmod-program'). [...]

- To mark files for deletion, by deleting their whole filename.
Yeah absolutely, we just have to figure out when to slot it in. We built in Unity so it shouldn't take too long.
This. This is such a common problem, I added it to our formal code test. We supply an interface, a unit test and a rather broken CSV file and they have to make the test pass by adding the implementation.

22 people failed the test entirely, complaining about quotes and line ending inconsistency.

2 people wrote a proper state machine driven parser that didn't work.

1 person wrote a proper state machine driven parser that worked.

1 person imported commons-csv and wrapped stuff.

The last person got the job.
While you may be right about this being "stupid Swiss bashing", the swiss do have a considerable army for such a small country which they should not have to maintain either.
No, the actual money subreddit is taking the piss out of Bitcoin.
One time I was talking to a designer about doing it this way. The designer said "Yeah, that's a great way to find a (look of total disdain) _local_maximum_." As usual, some truth to both points of view.
where do i talk about central banking?

on "You just have to place an inordinate amount of trust in your BTC bank (perversely misnamed "exchanges")"

my understanding of Bitcoin is that no same Bitcoin can be in two accounts at the same time. How is this a "trust" issue vs a design one?
Also it helps when you're able to build a huge monopoly in hong kong http://www.economist.com/node/413357
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Right and wrong.

Movement and such can be done server-side, mainly.

But visibility pretty much has to be done client-side. Which means that people can hack the client to see through walls. You can do culling server-side to an extent, but not entirely - because otherwise someone with a high latency coming around a corner will have no chance against someone with low latency on the other side.

Also, servers pretty much have to (well, not really. But otherwise games become unplayable to those with higher latencies, as where you see other players is not where you need to fire to hit them) allow you to hit someone that was, according to your client game tick, in target when you fired. Which means that the client has to tell the server what game "tick" the client fired on. Which allows for cheating if the client deliberately tells the server that it fired/started to move on an earlier tick than it actually did.
As it can in English ("one beef, two beeves").
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There are projects that do something along the line of both of your suggestions. For iOS, there's a project called RoboVM. (it's still claimed to be alpha, but the game engine LibGDX uses it to deploy to iOS). For web, there's GWT, which allows you to develop web apps in Java and it compiles to HTML/CSS/JS (or something along that line, though I hear it's verbose. LibGDX/PlayN use it to deploy to the browser though)
Building CLI tools in node with liftoff
You have always been able to host Valve game servers with VAC disabled. If you want to play a game of "who has the variables on their hack set higher" without getting banned then knock yourself out.
But can I save those files?
Thanks! I've updated the command lines to use curl instead of wget.
I don't remember exactly how I searched for it, but the top hit on Google for "haskell argv[0]" today is https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3199, which is marked "wontfix" and includes a workaround (which I used).

The second link is to Environment.hs, which would have solved my problem, if I'd known what I was looking for. I think I'd have just clicked Back when I saw it was library source code, though.

The third link is http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-argv0-0.1 - which says "Use this instead of System.Environment.getProgName if you want the full path, and not just the last component."

(note: technically, my code was still the correct solution, since 0install targets Ubuntu 12.04, but yes ideally I would have found that newer versions did support it more simply)
Parodying only the convenient criticisms is an important editorial choice by the author.
The post you're replying to is nonsense. There isn't a "basic income", there's a set of patchily overlapping benefits which provide housing and money to live off.

The London riots were not to do with "boredom", but poor race relations between the Metropolitan Police and the black community. The trigger event was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mark_Duggan ; rather similar to the 1992 LA riots, although not on the same scale. Once the race riot had got going and the police lost percieved control of the streets, opportunistic looting started.
I've given up on being disillusioned with these kind of things anymore. It takes too much time and energy. You know what's an awesome substitute for it? Climbing a tree.
> Anything on that scale is inconsistent: python, ruby, .Net, C++.

Well, I wonder if this is necessarily inevitable. The Oxford English Dictionary is probably as large and complex as any of the above, but is remarkably consistent in style and tone. I'm a firm believer that good design extends to code (and coders are sadly not very good designers in general).
Quite. Bitcoin has built-in authentication, which is a key feature of a traditional currency, and scarcity as well. But as long as it's not any kind of legal tender, there's no guarantee that any transaction or payment of debt offered in Bitcoin will be accepted, and that introduces considerable friction into its use as a currency. Also, the scarcity is arguably deflationary; nobody goes into solo mining any more because it's obviously not worth it, and the more coins that are mined the lower the incentive to go into mining. This means holding bitcoin results in appreciation proportional to population growth, even though no useful economic activity is taking place when someone sits on top of a pile of cash. The whole point of inflation is to reflect the natural rate of economic growth and to discourage economically inefficient hoarding. Runaway inflation is of course a bad thing, but no inflation at all, or deflation, is just as bad in economic terms.
wonder if microsoft can do that in Internet explorer?
I don't see why a lot of people disagree with his advice. Perhaps it is the words he uses. These are his basic divisions of cash.

1. Live cheaply. Don't waste money where you don't need to.

2. Expand your network by being nice and friendly to people.

3. Learn and invest in your future.

4. Take time off, travel the world and expand your horizons.

5. Save money. This is ideally used to start your dream. In reality, this can be used in times of trouble.

What's so bad about that? I think this is good advice for anyone trying to ``make it''.
But your risk exposure is much much higher. When a mugger steals $70 from me, my maximum exposure is $70. There is no way that mugger can use those bills to extract any more money from me or as a launchpad for fraud. When a mugger steals my card (and then commits a little fraud) my maximum exposure is my bank account + overdraft + other accounts I have with the same bank + whatever loans they could get.
Screen shots of the admin panel
http://imgur.com/a/B3rbO

Features:

* Models have several extra/modified methods:

.sync(force=False) # push changes to AWS

.should_sync() # if last .last_aws_sync() > self.last_update_time

.destroy() # for deleting in AWS

.delete(destroy=False) # override of .delete to call .destroy() on delete

* Uses django-encrypted-fields for storing passwords, SSH keys

* Uses django-netfields for validating subnets

* Uses jsonfield for validation and storage of IAM policies in postgres.

Each model has an additional interface for making calls to AWS. This keeps .models from being too huge.

There is still much to model and build out, but we're actively using it in production.
US has reasonably good system IMHO just a little bit expensive.
"Then you have companies with secrecy, like Apple. I think this advice would be terrible for them (I have never worked there, and am open to correction). They can't dog food it widely due to the internal silos, and they certainly cannot test it with the public"

I fear that this myth is capitalized on by Apple under the hypercapitalist Auteur theory.[1]

The value of magic tricks is that they create awe and surprise, when in reality they can often be a by-product of misdirection and street-level sleights.[2]

This is not to suggest that Apple is going out onto street corners and asking random individuals for their opinions, but rather that part of the corporate myth making is likely obscuring process.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY

[2] I believe there is a court testimony document discussing Apple's market research team via Phil Schiller. Contrast this with Mr. Schiller's other comments about avoiding market research.
If not bullshit, how else would you describe driving long commutes each day and night, only to park your ass in a cubicle for 10 hours and shuffle PowerPoint reports for some dick that doesn't even know what he needs them for in the first place? A lot of white collar jobs are adult busy work. A lot of blue collar jobs are wasting away people's potential and creativity all the same, burning them out and making them bitter. The sooner people are free and confident to pursue their genuine interests the better off we'll all be.
ConditionVirtualization=container seems like a "with great power comes great ability to screw up in subtle and horrible ways" sort of feature, wherein when you need it, you really need it, but most of the time, a different approach will be vastly preferable.
The only way to think about Java and not go insane is to forget about pretty much the entire built-in standard library and instead go use the extremely solid 3rd party libraries. If I don't have JodaTime, Apache Commons and Google Guava on my classpath, I feel like my hands are tied.
The main character of Pokemon, the game, is named "Red".

"Ash" is the name of the main character from the anime. I know they're supposed to be the same guy, but serious hardcore players distinguish the two.
Yeah, the software methodology at car companies makes a lot of the seat-of-the-pants just-ship-it stuff that HNers are used to look like kindergarten.

The car companies know how to do this. Maybe they messed up in this case (I'm skeptical of the article), but it's not because they don't know software.
Silicon Alley is the general Union Square area. There are quite a few tech offices in Dumbo, and starting to be more in Williamsburg/Greenpoint and Downtown Brooklyn, but very few in Red Hook, which is one of the least transit-accessible neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
Only one simple question.

Did you read Rothbard's "What has government done to our money?"

If not, do so, and come back to tell us how your mind changed, for good or bad.
Well, uh, nice, ok, but.... come on!

How about some REAL INNOVATION, PEOPLE?

Not this warmed-over, iterative solipsism. Our technology is circling the drain of self-perpetuating narcisism. Investors are a spineless bunch who shy away from anything actually "new and daring". What happened to the "V" in "Venture Capital"? You know the part where you are actually taking a RISK on something?

/rant

No offense intended to the Memeoirs guys personally.

"I saw the best minds of my generation, writing spam filters"
-Neal Stephenson
FWIW there is no Go 'dependency' unless you want to build from source.

Admittedly if there's no binary available for your platform then you need to build from source.
Bricks of Silver: Hacking Smartphone Theft
All true, but who needs to launder bitcoin to keep a transaction hidden from their significant other, unless their SO is well-versed in the technology behind bitcoin AND really likes to snoop. In that case, an easier and more likely point of failure is a session logger/keylogger on one's porn-browsing device
>> robots doing chores for them and having time to work on personal projects or take leisure time

This has already happened. Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, and mass produced food have turned what used to be a full time difficult job into a chore for your spare time. It created more time for people to do paid work. The ironic thing is that nowadays people love some of those chores (like cooking, growing vegetables, or making bread). We should aspire to a society where people have the choice to take pride in what they do.
> asking the server "is it legal for me to move to x,y,z?"

These questions are not always straightforward. Why can't you do this in a shooter? Because any mouse position on the screen is valid. How do you know if the user physically moved the mouse or it was some other software that moved the mouse cursor?

How do you know the user genuinely decided to aim at a random enemy, instead of relying on an on-screen display of player information that is not normally available?

You can't do everything on the server side. If you could, it wouldn't be an interactive game.
The evolution is not always slow: the Banking Act of 1863 transformed American currency very rapidly, for example[1]; as did the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694 for the pound.

Of course, your underlying point is correct - both these examples are coterminous with vast transformations in the two societies (the civil war and the Glorious Revolution), which equally were not dreamed up by a nerd in a basement.

[1] James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom has some interesting material on this.
If you don't debate the merits of your work you aren't working on something big enough.

When I worked on h.264 and VC1, I knew what I was doing would do two things. By Making it cheaper and easier to create and distribute video the world would get more content creators.

The two things that all adds up to:

1. Greater Democracy of Content and More freedom of Speech Expression.

2. Dumbing down of content, more exploitation of people through extreme porn, gore, and bully videos.

I only work on things that can change the world, and anything that can change the world can have a negative impact as well, but I won't work on something that only has a negative impact.
I'm in my late 20s, and feel I have wasted a lot of time; Is it too late?
The status quo by definition has a lot of support in scientific literature. Sure, you could right a botched paper supporting it, but people would basically ignore it because it would be a bad paper (though a peer reviewer would likely tear it to shreds anyway).
That only assures their scarcity and verifiability, not their value or liquidity.
> Crashing is better that corrupt data.

In embedded control software of medical systems that are directly affecting the lives of the patients involved crashing is definitely not an option and it is not necessarily better than corrupt data.

What is an option is to very carefully model the permitted states of the machine and then to exhaustively test those states and their transitions to make sure there are no undefined states the machine can be in.

One way to do this is to have a watchdog process (or even an entirely different system) that monitors the state of the machine and that initiates a safe shutdown if any departure of the defined operation is detected.
Random Seeds in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Cloud Instances
I had considered the possibility of purchasing an island and having actual people living and working with me.

a bunch of my friends on IRC were very keen on the idea, although I don't suspect they know what burden it would entail.

yes, we'd be able to set up our own privacy policies and, yes we can have super fast internet, lay our own fiber and infrastructure of that nature could be created.

however, agriculture, the bureaucratic hoops we'd have to jump through to successfully secede and the general hard work and labour that would have to go in, I believe, is unaccounted for.

this is a cool concept, and micronations are a nice idea, I just wish I could find a plot of land that's not owned, I'd definitely put a lot of hard work into getting out of my country.
I looked this up recently and corpuses is also OK, though corpora is by far the most common usage.
Obviously, just because you study something intently doesn't mean you understand it
Agreed. It definitely shouldn't be inevitable.

I left Go off that list precisely for that reason.
The problem mostly stems from the vast risk you take on from making a large investment in an unstable/unproven platform vendor.

Servers are relatively fungible, given ops automation; it's painful but not the end of the world if you have to migrate away.

But the technology is still relatively immature in that building your own ML service in house - and having it scale, etc - is still a big pain.

I would immensely prefer it if we first brought ML libraries up to a higher level of maturity - as simple as apt-get install and adding `includes ActiveLearning::Bayes` to your models.

But if a client came to me tomorrow and said "there's this great Amazon API that we're thinking of using" I wouldn't consider that insane on first principles.
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I think you've missed the point which is to ridicule the criticism of crypto-currencies, not cash. Also the article talks about the properties of cash in general, not central banking.
Sure, just need an email address - can't see one in your profile
No invite needed. You can just walk right in! Although they'll probably be checking invites and ids next time.
Damn right it's a feature. Otherwise there'd be no incentive to invest, people would just hoard assets instead of putting them to productive use. There's a reason countries abandoned the gold standard: deflation and bank runs are harder problems to manage than inflation.
You will likely get a lot of freedom to develop using the language of your choice, but thee is unlikely to be any formal process (no one will encourage you to do unit tests, comment your code, or even bother about it as long as it "works").
Cash sucks for serious money laundering. It's fairly anonymous in small quantities but start talking about millions/ billions and it's bulky enough to be hard to transport across borders and each bill is tracked by serial number which means spending it involves a lot of leg work. Gold is way better than cash when it comes to money laundering.

PS: Drug kingpins have been known to dump small denomination bills as not worth the hassle.
I've never understood this.

You want money, you want what it offers, but you don't care about money. That strikes me as an inherent contradiction in terms. Money represents your time, labor, etc.; it's merely a vessel holding value you've generated. I assume you do care about those things. If you work for 80 hours to generate $8,000 - those dollars you get represent your time and labor. Would you then say you don't care about your life / time / labor?

I'm also guessing that the response to supposedly not care about money, is because the love of money as an end in itself is viewed as being evil. Money is properly merely a tool for exchange however. Who doesn't regard their own time to possess a high value?
Spot on. For me it's simple: I should care less, not more about these things.

Thanks for the extensive comment, apologies for not responding earlier (on assignment).
Quick background on Collabo (www.letscollabo.com) for some context - we're a bootstrapped startup aimed at creating a safe environment for freelancers, solopreneurs, and work-from-homers to video chat about anything they want. No selling, just camaraderie. We're very much in the P/M fit stage and wanted to test our theories that we can build and sustain and engaged community of peers willing to share/learn/give/seek with each other. So, here's what we did to get our first 100:

1. When users sign up for our email drip campaign (which consists of drive-to's for our blog), they also receive an invite to a private Facebook Group. We manually approve every person in the Group, and use the Group to learn about our customers, connect them with each other, survey new ideas, and build a sense of community. The Group has been wildly key to our building process. We're seeing about 55-60% of our email sign-ups join the Group, with about 20% being active participants.

2. My co-founder and I put out an offer to all our customers/readers to meet us for a cup of coffee, on us. We're in Portland and NYC, so only for those folks.

3. Sent personal emails to our networks promoting Collabo and asking them for feedback.

4. I manually scraped the follower lists of our competitors and industry big dogs on Twitter and followed them, which yielded some really good results, mostly in terms of gaining targeted followers.

5. Lots of time spent offering advice and sharing stories/knowledge on communities like r/startups and r/freelance.

6. In the process of guest blogging on sites that serve our niche market.
I honestly don't get what Sourcegraph is useful for. They primarily seem to be cluttering up my Google results, with pretty much useless entries.
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Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We doooo! We doooo!
To the muggers it's all about return of investment. If everyone carries cash, muggers will find more people with cash and find it worth the risk. If no-one carried cash, they'd probably give up and try to steal bank card details from large retailers instead.

The same goes for smartphones and tablets. If they are easy to sell on after stealing, crime will go up. Making the items useless if stolen removes the incentive.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/02/nyt-article-accuse...
How is this different from qmv? http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/renameutils
You might want to re-read my post. I specifically pointed out that shooters are the standard example of where you can't do everything server side, where as traditional MMOGs you can.
When a mugger steals my card (and then commits a little fraud) my maximum exposure is my bank account + overdraft + other accounts I have with the same bank + whatever loans they could get

Your practical maximum exposure is zero, if you follow the correct process. Call your bank and report the stolen card. Any transactions will be undone and the bank will take the hit, in the name of keeping the public's faith in the banking system. This is an ordinary business day for the bank.
You aren't on the hook for any of that.
I can rest easy. We’re finally home.
We should get rid of the idea that people need to have jobs. People need to have food, shelter, and the opportunity to develop themselves. The more stuff gets automated, the less we need people to work.

Of course that requires a totally different economic system. Our capitalist system basically requires people to work (if they want to live), but doesn't require people for work (to be done). It's contradictory.
>WoW has a demanding enough latency requirement

And yet ultima online proved that excuse was bogus before WoW ever existed.