skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A new block gets mined every 10 minutes, each with a 25BTC bounty. That's 600 * 25 * 6 * 24 = $2,160,000 per day. No rational person would spend more in electricity than the reward, hence the 1-to-1 conversion. (In fact, miners do spend more than they earn, collectively.)
It's not, I need the human readable source part, so I can track my work and cooperate in git :) I use LibreOffice for some stuff though.
Settings -> Apps -> Phone -> Deselect the optino "Quick Call"

If you have the latest update you should have that option as it was one of the fixes/features included.

And yes I also had that problem initially but after changing this all was fine for me in this case.

Being a early adopters and having an OS with a beta tag we should dissect the changelog when it is available and know all the fixed stuff.

If people are going to say that is not for them or that they want a phone to simply work then they are clearly missing the point of being an early adopter of this kind of phone (a beta OS).

Of course after declaring that it is stable and pushing if for the mass consumer then this kind of stuff should be all fixed.

Relevant changelog of the last update: https://together.jolla.com/question/21786/release-notes-soft...

But I could be totally be missing the point you are trying to make. I answering to the specific problem of randomly calling other people when the phone was for example in the pocket :)
It would be funny if netflix just looked for one of their hubs/datacenters and moved in next door on purpose.

ISPs are common carriers and must be regulated as such, because as soon as Comcast makes its own netflix-like service, you can forget getting netflix to stream smoothly.
It's refreshing to read a level headed article on this situation that brings historical context into the analysis. I think the decentralization of technology point is key and underappreciated. Technology makes dystopia harder to maintain, not easier. In feudal times, someone who wanted to overthrow an oppressive tyrant had the very uphill battle of gathering together a large enough army of soldiers to create an effective resistance. Yet the dystopia of the future could be overthrown by a single hacker getting into critical computer or military systems.
Yes, and you will end up reimplementing a lot of what is already in Erlang and most likely not as well either. Virding's 1st rule.
Apple Buys Company Behind TestFlight, The Popular iOS App Beta Platform
Wow, if these comments have taught me anything, it's that there are more OTA installer services than people who will miss TestFlight. Maybe I should even open source mine.
No, I didn't know about these. Thanks for the links :)
I was scared in the last email I sent to over 30 people. Like /u/taternuts said, you have to be a little scared. But yes, you will get over it, but if it's a big push to prod - you will still be scared.
I would never consider being a teacher because of the assumption of men being pedophiles. Well, that and pay.
D-Wave's Quantum Computing Claim Disputed Again
Interesting. I find it a little comic that plist XML files have become the common language for exchanging syntax definitions between editors, due to TextMate.

I wrote a utility to convert these files to/from YAML so it would be friendlier to edit Sublime Text themes; editing naked XML plists was painful for me.

https://gist.github.com/swdunlop/8872387
T.E.C.H. Foundation Spring Beer Tasting featuring Family House - San Francisco
We recently launched the T.E.C.H. Foundation ("Tech Entrepreneurs Caring and Helping"), the aim of which is to encourage those in the tech community to become more philanthropic through fun events involving fun people.

This month's event is a beer tasting at the Beer Hall featuring local beers. Tickets cost $50, which will cover your $30 beer tasting plus a donation to this month's featured charity, Family House (http://www.familyhouseinc.org/).

Family House is a local charity which serves as a home away from home for families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses by providing physical comfort and emotional support, free from financial concerns.

Tickets are limited and must be purchased prior to the event by visiting http://techfoundation-familyhouse.eventbrite.com. For more information, you can also visit our website at http://techfoundation.weebly.com/.

Get involved! We hope to see you there!
From Joshua Schacter, "Autoincrement considered harmful": https://web.archive.org/web/20131029120620/http://joshua.sch...

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1818166
I used to work at a major bank on the sales team and I can't tell you how instrumental it is to have a transparent tool like this across the organization to help motivate you so you can see where you stand and feel part of something bigger as you're individually speaking to customers. Top performers are highly motivated by this.

Our system at the bank was pretty janky, but the top sellers obviously made it their job to learn inside out. From what I can tell, this is the tool that I wish we'd had, where you not only get the motivation through transparency, but it seems like the performance on the service very closely correlates with the $s that would be going into my pocket.

It would be cool if you guys had some kind of rewards for different tiers of performers.
mnesia is indeed a frequent choice by newbies for queryable storage in Erlang, but I've found few production systems use it for similar reasons to the ones you describe. Nowadays you're more likely to see external datastores (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc) used except for transient/in-memory stuff which can be stuffed in ETS.
Love it! It's a pretty good feeling when you stumble upon an employer who sees the value in having such a varied skill-set and gives you the free rein to bounce around.
How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine?
That's based on the idea that if bitcoin mining is profitable, more people will get in on it until it eventually becomes break even with the cost of doing it.

This is of course a big simplification, and neglects things like the upfront cost of building the mining equipment.
This sounds like an excerpt from the Cryptonomicon, which I happen to be reading right now.
Jon Ronson is ready for blast-off. Is Richard Branson?
I have tried it and (try to) use it when appropriate. I am fairly comfortable with it and my only disappointment is that I do not get to use it often.

The ability to solve a problem in a particular programming language is often dependent on the ability to express the problem in the constructs provided by the language. A very good example is the problem of concurrency. Doing something concurrently in a primarily procedural/OOP language often seems hacky and it is something that does not feel natural. The actor model that erlang implements is a very powerful model for certain class of problems and concurrency is one of them. Erlang the language, minus the OTP, is extremely small and once you get over the culture shock experienced when it comes to syntax, things will seem pretty easy. OTP isn't magic. Its years and years of erlang experience packaged into one neat library, solving commons problems, so that you can concentrate on your work instead of reinventing the wheel.

Reading Joe Armstrong thesis 'Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors'[1] is highly recommended if you want to understand why things are the way they are.

[1] : http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Tips for Saving Money on Your Breckenridge Vacation 
Breckenridge lodging rentals are absolutely worth staying in, not only for the accommodations, but also for the area. However, that doesn't mean you want to go broke in the process of your vacation. So how do you save some money? First, start by trying to negotiate the price on your lodging in Breckenridge. Some owners may be more than happy to go along with it. Also, take advantage of the free bus service that can take you all around town. Lastly, stay in Breckenridge vacation rentals that offer something for free, such as free ski passes. Some cuts in cost can add up big in the long run.
I've done this before for large scraping projects. I find the datacenter the target website is hosted in, then get a dedicated server right next to it. I've never gotten better performance.
And Tommy Bahama shirts.
^[ just generates ASCII character 0x1B, aka Escape.

Vim understands "escape" to be 0x1B, pressed by itself (not as part of a longer escape sequence).
Funny, but I'm pretty sure pg is not eligible to be President.
Congratulations Sam and PG, this is exciting news. Lots of <3 and support from the ZenPayroll team!
(Ambition dev here) Thanks for the encouragement. This is exactly what we are trying to tap.
The author of NeoVim (Thiago de Arruda) tried to add support for multi-threaded plugins to Vim and has been stymied[1].

I'm not sure how to get a patch merged into Vim. Bram Moolenar is the only person with commit access, and he's not a fan of most changes beyond bug fixes. My co-founder and I tried to add setTimeout & setInterval to vimscript[2]. Even six weeks of full-time effort and bending over backwards wasn't enough. Eventually we were just ignored.

I've contributed to a lot of open source projects, and the Vim community has been the most difficult to work with. I've been writing C for almost two decades, and the Vim codebase is the worst C I've ever seen[3]. The project is definitely showing its age, and I'd love for something new to replace it.

1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/65jjGqS1_VQ/fFiFrrIB...

2. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM/LkYNCpZj...

3. If you value your sanity, do not read eval.c. It is over 25,000 lines and has over 400 ifdefs. The first ifdef checks for Amiga; the second checks for VMS: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/blob/master/src/eval.c
I think there are some dead guys who would argue with that ephemerality point.
I hope not to receive a similar one. I overheard them talking about using an external stratum proxy, maybe they'll also use ssl/ssh.
Problem is, if MtGox really is insolvent, there will be no bidders.

Why assume the liability for MtGox's debts?

Suppose MtGox has 50% of the assets needed to pay off all customers in full. Then, every customer is going to take a 50% haircut, one way or another. There's no way a non-insolvent exchange would take on that liability.

If there were no rumors of insolvency, they could get away with it for awhile. But all deposits will be withdrawn as soon as possible. That's the inherent problem with fractional reserve banking.
Permalinking is serious business
Aren't modern word processor formats just zipped-up XML files? I suspect it should be a straight-forward matter to get at least LibreOffice and version control cooperating.
Yeah, it's unfair of me to point the blame at mr Eich with the 'the author'. Javascript definitely was no small feat and has withstood the test of time very well. My point lies more in the '20 years' part of the argument, that in all that time we couldn't get these wrinkles ironed out.
plz helbn me u faggts
I'm totally with you there, I count that agreement as the day Sun died. The rest was, as they say, history. One of the things it taught me was how financial analysis can lead you astray technically.
You're seeing this because that's where Comcast primarily buys transit and peers with other networks; those edges are where the congested ports are. They generally have plenty of capacity between SV1 and their CMTSes (even if they have to take you from Oakland to Sac-town to get from SF to San Jose).
The assertion is that there's roughly enough miners that miners make only a little profit. If your electricity costs $80 and you're likely to make $100, you're going to do it, and the OP is making an assumption that enough people have made that calculation that the amount of money made per miner is close to the cost of electricity per miner.

Therefore, the cost of electricity used should be close to the value of the bitcoins produced.
I did notice last night that my stream of House of Cards looked way better than it has in the past month (when it started to go bad). It was HD level the whole hour, while previously it would only go HD for about 10 minutes total randomly through the episode.

I'm a Comcast user in San Mateo, CA.
The other great thing about Frank Underwood is he's always playing the long game.

And really, I find the long game is what separates the real hustlers from the dog-paddlers and wishful thinkers. If you don't think big and ambitious, you'll never do more than break even. But if you never think about the short-term steps needed to get to your long-term goals, you'll never move. (Insert the hordes of "How do I get VC to fund my idea without stealing it from me?" questioners here)
Do you still have invites? Thanks either way.
This is a really good point. There's an attempt to tackle this with Elixir: http://expm.co/
If you want to learn about the concept and armsrace, here is a paper with plenty of resources (this is in a game context, though not website, although there is the most advanced detection here): http://iseclab.org/papers/botdetection-article.pdf

Here is an open source system demo'd at BlackHat Europe 2011 (that checks it is a proper browser (with DOM/Javascript/etc), also good against DDoS.
https://github.com/yuri-gushin/Roboo

Project Honeypot (scans inbound ips) good against spambots:
https://www.projecthoneypot.org/

Here are some commercial solutions:
CloudFlare's ScrapeShield -https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/scrapeshield

Distil Networks - http://www.distilnetworks.com/

Scrape Sentry - http://www.scrapesentry.com/

Fireblade - http://www.fireblade.com/
It does reduce the buck-passing. See the current Verizon-Netflix squabble using Cogent as a proxy.
After spending a day at LinkedIn and being declined, when they did their resume churn a year later and pinged me I asked if there was a specific job they had in mind and they said they'd find out and get back to me. Crickets.

I think this persistent inquiry from the large companies is an attempt to gauge the market and basically waste peoples' time. They interview in the hopes that the person will fit enough to slot into an available headcount, but it's pretty generic and highly unspecific. It's something like, hey, if you're looking to change jobs, come spend a day and take a chance that we'll be able to find something for you. I think it biases toward cookie-cutter employees and is by no means an indication of real interest.
More of a "heads up" than anything else. Signed up for the extended free trial through the Beats site a while back. Only opened the app once since then and received this text today: http://i.imgur.com/R8OPMMc.png
Apple releases iOS 7.0.6 and 6.1.6 to patch an SSL problem
There are only a handful of buildings where you need to be in order to just be a cross-connect or switch fabric away from nearly every network in the world.
I really don't get it. Customer wants to use Netflix, buys a service from Verizon to get/access "what he/she wants". And Verizon wants to charge Netflix for that? Always a WTF moment for me.
The Learning Shelter
I thought HTML5 was renamed to just "HTML" you know, to be more clear and open like FireFox dropping version numbers.
ur a bitch

bitch
I meant literal CPUs, in the sense of a microprocessor chip. The ECL VAXen were not killed off by RISC or 486es. They were killed off by CMOS chip-based VAX implementations.

The last generations of VAX microprocessors were about 90% as fast as the giant ECL suckers at a tiny fraction of the cost/heat/size. DEC continued to manufacture and develop them for several years after the end of ECL.

The VAX chips that killed the 9k sat in desktop/deskside chassis just like a contemporary RISC system. Literally: you could buy an identical box with either Alpha or VAX processors.

(Besides, the giant ECL VAXen were always a niche product. Nearly all the VAX systems sold were based on VLSI and microprocessors.)
Will you still review all the preview/demo day pitches?

For those who haven't witnessed this: pg stands there for an entire day (maybe longer now), watching every pitch, slicing and dicing like a samurai. It's super rapid-fire, and with one or two pieces of advice each presentation doubles in effectiveness.
Thanks! I don't think there is any shame in it. I always thought I was a bit lost or lacked direction/passion but it kind of clicked that it stems from a innately curious nature of always wanting to learn new things.
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BufferBox Ending Standalone Service, Closing Down Pick-Up Locations
I live in western PA. I follow this issue closely. I care about my and my families health.

Your article simple says there are reports of pollution. Pollution != polluting the water table. All fossil fuel extraction creates pollution.

Hundreds of studies of been done, both public and private about fracking's risk of getting close to the water table. It's never proven to be true. The only study that suggests its possible is the Duke study, but it doesn't prove that it has happened.

This is a hot button issue around here. The water is monitored closely, there are no fracking chemicals showing up in the water tables.
while they are at it, why don't they use a fake user generator?
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...

But I actually meant in general. Having real strings and good floating point support helps performance quite a bit.
well, we can use the information to play the market and more solidify the power we already have until the world is our slave.
Identify a couple niches you've tackled over the years and try contracting within those niches.

It may be tougher to find jobs for tech specific shops but you can at least get out of finance and have a change of pace.

I say this as someone making a similar salary with ~7 years of professional experience.
Was BufferBox free? I thought they charged $.
The pitivi team announces a crowdfunding campaign
Using the Equinix IX
https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/faq
This sounds like an AMAZING idea for a Security book.
A Journey to the Center of the World
I was referring to NSA & Google monitoring everything anyone in the world does online. It's pointless to "refute" what I said with a "but what about criminal investigations?!" .. Well yeah, what abou them?

You don't need to monitor everyone everywhere to solve crimes. You know that, so you shouldn't be confused about what I was referring to.
This would definitely alleviate hours of headache for my dad's retail business across each of his locations if it works. For someone who's not technical, but wastes tons of time in spreadsheets himself, how easy would it actually be to dive in and get started and how would that work exactly? He right now takes CSV exports from his POS and then starts trying to set up pivot tables, but it's not pretty.
Because you already:

1. Know what the Fibonnaci numbers are.

2. How to compute them.

3. Said computation is straight-forward, but it requires some form of looping (either recursion or iteration) and some form of arithmetic.

The combination of those traits means that if I present code to compute the Fibonnaci number for an arbitrary number in some random programming language, you can infer a lot about that programming language. In other words, the only variable in that situation is the programming language itself, which allows you to use the other information you already know to learn about that language relatively quickly.
I don't mean to be a jerk, but how much do you actually use/have used LaTex? They aren't even similar. They have very few similar use cases. One is a typesetting system the other is a word processor. Sure, documents come out the other end with both but the process and targets are very different. One allows you to quickly and easily make a quality document. One allows you to make the document to look exactly how you want.

Java and C are both programming languages but it is still apples and oranges to compare them.
I think the GP acknowledges that Vimscript is awful: "The main problem of vim is Vimscript."

I agree. vim the editor has a good UI: it is fast to work with and makes me productive. Vimscript is bad. I cannot grok how to write complex things and simple things often break too.

The GP is pointing out that Vimscript is essentially the command mode. The two are one and the same. Try switching Vimscript for, say JavaScript, and now you have to either use JavaScript in the command mode (yuck!) or create some bridge between the command mode interpreter and JavaScript (yikers!). So unless we rip out the command mode out of vim, we cannot replace Vimscript.
It wasn't exclusively statistical:

The analysis of tank wheels yielded an estimate for the
number of wheel molds that were in use. A discussion with
British road wheel makers then estimated the number of
wheels that could be produced from this many molds...
Uzbl – Web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy
GitHub is located and hosted in the US, so US rules apply when it comes to takedowns, etc.
OT: USPOTUS threw me for a loop there. :)

I'm not sure how I even noticed as I was just skimming the thread but I hit that line and lost all train of thought. Must be one of those things...

POTUS is "President Of The United States" so USPOTUS is redundant, but no more so than "ATM Machine" which my brain parses no problem. Sometimes its interesting to think about why we notice what we do :).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6147

This sounds like a NSA backdoor to me.
Harold and the Purple Crayon is the first book I ever read in my life. Now I draw, paint, and program - and when I do these activities, it is all literally an attempt to harness the power Harold showed me as a child.
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While there’s an element of marketing-speak to this, I think it’s instructive to try to apply the idea of “Internet of [whatever]” retroactively. The internet originally was essentially the “Internet of Communication” (email) and “Internet of Information” (FTP, then HTTP). Advancements in technology enable new use-cases over time.

* Internet of Commerce: mainstream adoption of the internet

* Internet of Entertainment: broadband internet

* Internet of Things: ubiquitous network-enabled electronics, with size and cost reductions driven by the smartphone revolution

* Internet of Money: Bitcoin

A corollary to “Software is Eating the World” could be “The Internet is Eating the World”. Any technology that enables one of these new “Internets” should be watched closely.
Perhaps it's Netflix Open Connect? (http://oc.nflxvideo.net/docs/OpenConnect-Deployment-Guide.pd..., https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect)
"Always enjoy Sam's writing"

I'm surprised that so many people are saying this, since I find his writing mediocre.
There are plenty of applications that would benefit from massive low latency concurrency. Connections is too specific a problem.
Project Tango seems awesome
Lots of people enjoy learning for the sake of learning, but there is an infinite amount of things out there for people to learn. If you don't spend some effort to convince people "Hey, this thing there is really worth learning!" then they won't - even if they are not lazy. No one - even non-lazy people - has the time to learn about everything.
Ah, ok. So it's more because they're outside of the U.S. (your jurisdiction). That makes reasonable.

I thought the "locale" comment was about Slovenia, a country that not many people are informed about and unfairly associate with former Eastern Block crime syndicates.

And yes, the international wire fees do add up. Do any U.S. exchanges currency offer ACH?
And almost all of that money goes to dictator Obiang, his family and his cronies. Equatorial Guinea is the quintessential kleptocracy.
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