skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of an advantage they have in the IPO process because Seamless is so popular on Wall Street (maybe #2 after Bloomberg?)
I'm amazed that the easiest way to make brute force attacks useless isn't hardly ever mention. Simply disable password auth in your ssh server entirely and use ssh keys _only_.
So serve it 2 ways, browsing over normal network, streaming from another domain over the sattelites.
I meant that you're only person who uses that phrase, and it means I've read the same argument before.
Pump. And. Dump.
Let's say the interest rate on your credit card is around 20% per year. Suppose you max out your credit line and then make the minimum monthly payment for several years (i.e., you're paying mostly interest and hardly any principal). After around five years of 20% interest, the credit card company will have gotten back 100% of what it lent you, as interest payments. After that, they're making pure profit. So unless you die very soon after racking up your debt, they'll have no real losses (although there may be losses deducted for tax purposes; I'm not sure how that works).

People have been dying for even longer than credit cards have been around, so we should expect that this ubiquitous phenomenon has been accounted for in the credit industry's business model.
My proposal would not be run under the current policy regime, and you're absolutely right: trying to forecast inflation from (part of) my proposal using M0 from the current policy regime isn't relevant. I'm not even clear why we're discussing it at all.
Because they profit from it.
So are we supposed to conclude from this that we won't be getting our Bitcoin out of Mt Gox?
Arrogant? Maybe. But it's the exact thing every country in the world has been doing ever since there was a such thing as nations and diplomacy. I think it's naive to think that anybody really cares about some objective notion of fairness.

As for their help, whether or not they want to help has never mattered. They will continue to either help or not help (or impede) for the same reasons they always have - whether it's in their own national interest to do so.
gabemart, you're right, a_bonobo, ronaldx, you guys are wrong. p-values are commonly misunderstood to mean that the result has "5% change of being wrong". That's not what a p-value is. Please go ahead and read the 'misunderstandings' section on p-values in wikipedia.
Look harder. Over the last 4-5 years volatility has gone down. And episodes of volatility spiking up are rarer.

A linear regression on the volatility line is clearly going down:

http://btcmag.9wizards.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
Did you also interpret her as saying Peru, Brazil, and Angola are continents? Because those aren't either.

Maybe she should have said "Yugoslavia HAD sufferer", but that's a minor grammatical nitpick that would have made the phrasing much more clumsy.
It's quite amazing that he manages to do this sort of thing in his spare time, for fun. I guess he has decades of experience that most people don't though :)
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Sail a carrier battle group down to Central Africa and grab some slaves while you're at it, why not?
I'm from 88mph's first batch. in Nairobi. They gave me 25k USD to test out my idea to build Kenya's first blog network( http://ghafla.co.ke http://tambaa.co.ke and http://duwaa.co.ke ). Needless to say, my investors were pleasantly surprised when I built the whole company using that money. Now we make 25k USD a month
Actually yes, anecdotally. I have a dedicated server in a DC and Comcast at home, and my SCP speeds went down over the last few months to the extent that I had to move DCs to another with no Cogent.

Tata is also spectacularly bad with Comcast.
No..the trick is to find some sort of network of friends before you go.

I went to London with about 500 pounds of cash and no concrete job, on a one-way ticket.

For a start - renting is out - you have to find someone who is willing to lend a couch. Living the highlife is out - no pubs for you. Your only status is to (1) clean the flat for the people who let you stay there and (2) look for jobs. This should be a full-time occupation until you find a job - any job. Your ability to continue to sponge off someone else is tied to how they feel when they get home tired and find you sitting on their couch, coupled with how quickly you can find employment and vacate said couch.

Locking in a well-paying job before you get there is like saying you should find a good looking girlfriend before you start university. It's not going to happen unless you are very established somewhere already and get a transfer, or are internet famous for something. Or you are going to get sold a pup and end up locked into a crappy job in a crappy part of town.

I found my first job within 10 days of landing, worked that for a couple of months, asked to be paid after 1 week and then spent the entire cash amount on a deposit for a short-term one-room flat, which took all my money so I ate pot-noodles for a week. Stayed there for 4 weeks until I amassed enough cash for a proper flat. By that time I found two other people who wanted to share and the three of us rented a decent place for a decent price. After that it was better jobs, more fun and a great time. I passed it on by helping other people out with time on the couch, coupled with strict rules on what goes on.

In case you think that was a fluke, I repeated the same thing about 4 years later, only this time it took 8 weeks to find a job because the economy was more strained. I had (marginally) more savings this time but it was more tense.

The hack for housing in London is finding a borough with low council taxes with the lowest transport zone you can afford, and if you have an established job, one which offers a short commute. And don't blow all your weeks surplus on a big friday night out including an expensive cab ride home.

The only trick is being hungry for success in a city that doesn't seem to want to give it to you unless you fight for it.
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I'm from 88mph's first ever batch. AMA
It's "GrubHub", not GitHub.

That reminds me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
But if they could, they would.
The best accounting I've seen indicates Netflix is at roughly 1/3 of North American traffic:

http://allthingsd.com/20130514/netflix-still-eats-a-third-of...

Similar to where they were at the year prior:

http://allthingsd.com/20121107/netflix-has-plenty-of-competi...
The theoretical and empirical relationship between changes in the money base (M0) and inflation are well established, and based on very simple intuition: changing the amount of hard money by a factor of 3, results in a change in the value of money by a factor of 1/3. I can't educate you on macroeconomics in this thread, please refer to any macro textbook.
Bram's last post was 10/21/13, and a month later Bjorn confirmed in his fork that he could reliably freeze VIM and had segfaults that he had yet to fix. The final word seemed to be:

"There are enough vim users out there (myself among them) to warrant supporting a fork for as long as we're around. We'll try to keep it up to date with the latest changes."

I don't think anyone should expect Bram to chase them down for updates to the patch. Reading through the discussion, it seems clear to me that while good-natured, the feature was not ready to be merged into VIM.
Bayesian approaches are probably out of grasp for most small companies. They have a long way to go before being as approachable and easy as frequentist approaches. Schools and the statistics field as a whole need drastic reformation in introductory course offerings that are taken by everyone.

Until then, it's A/B, p value <.05, ignore bias and sample size for companies who aren't large enough to have a statistician or data scientist.
What method of tracking volatility are you looking at because all the ones I've tried on http://bitcoincharts.com/ at the all data length show an increase in volatility.

(Tried Chaikin Volatility, Donchian Channel, ATR, and Bollinger Band)
> There are probably not many markets in which Time Warner Cable and Comcast both exist.

There are exactly zero such markets.

Not approximately. Exactly.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/comcast-set-to-acquir...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/opinion/the-comcast-time-w...
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg03554....
> I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s.

Welp, now I officially feel old. Thanks!

In seriousness, though, this is not a very informative article. It essentially boils down to "I learned a little Perl after college, but didn't like the syntax. Then I went to grad school and found that everyone there was using Python, so I switched to that instead. Also, where's Perl 6 amirite lol."

Which is fine, as far as it goes, but it tells you more about the author's career path than it does about either language. And by doing so, it leaves out important elements of the story. Writing an article about "the fall of Perl" that only incidentally mentions PHP, for instance, is a big omission. Insofar as Perl has fallen, what it fell from is the position of leading language for building Web applications. PHP is what pushed it out of that position, not Python or Ruby. If you want to write an article about the fall of Perl you have to explain how that happened and why, but this article attempts neither.

I think the root of the problem is that the author is incorrectly generalizing from his own experiences. He mentions working in scientific computing these days; if you work in that field, and entered the workforce within the last decade, I can totally understand how it might look like The Story Of Programming Languages goes "once there was Perl, now there is Python, The End." But step outside that niche or that time window, and things look very different.
Still coding perl. I got something against a programming language telling me what to think the way Python does. Python is latin, perl is english.
You're a private citizen. You're not worth spying on and it would be wrong to do so. If you were the Chancellor of Germany, it would be ridiculous of you to expect not to be spied on by anyone with the capability.
In my opinion, they buried the key point... the dead end of Perl 6.

Up until last year, I did a lot of web development in Perl. Its strengths were CPAN & community, ubiquity and top-notch text processing. Its acquired taste was very elegant expressiveness once you grokked the grammar.

Then all the Perl leadership focussed on the black hole of Perl 6 which was solving a problem no one had but CS linguists. So Perl users like me felt there was no future in Perl. Perl 6 would have to be relearned for no tangible benefit so why not learn something new with a growing rather than stagnant/declining ecosystem? No one was forced to leave, but like a trap door, as soon as a Perl programmer learned something new, they were only going to continue to decrease their use of Perl.

The rise of Python and Ruby (and Ruby on Rails especially) and even PHP, were grave wounds to the health of Perl, but Perl 6 was the self-cutting that bled the community beyond the point of self-repair.
It said GitHub originally right?
You're clinically qualified to declare another person a sociopath? And even if you were, I'm pretty confident HN is no place for doing so.
As a Perl programmer whose colleagues occasionally encourage me to switch to Python, can you tell me a little more about what you see to be the uses of each, and why Python feels clumsy for scripting?
And then a year later the recession started and the crash a year after that......
It is anyone's guess. The MtGox developers have been far from transparent about their current roadblocks. The MtGox BTC price will continue to fall the longer this charade continues. The other exchanges will likely rebound once MtGox is out of the press. MtGox has deviated too much to be relevant in the fast pace of Bitcoin trading. No rational consumer is going to trust them going forward.
I'm by no means a perl expert having only written maybe 10k lines of Perl but ...

Perl seemed to me just hack upon hack. You can see the progression. First there were no local variables. Then "local" was added which effectively pushes the current value on the some stack and retrieves that value on the way back, then later "my" was added to actually give local variables.

Similarly all the crazy special variables @_,$_, $a, $b, $&, $', $+, @+, @- %-, $^R, $., $/, $|, $\, $", $; etc etc etc. I'm sure someone out there really loves that stuff but to many it's one giant hack, disliked for similar reasons to PHP's disorganization.

On top of that it died at version 5 because version 6 never came out.

For web stuff, PHP at least provided a huge speed boost (over CGI, the typical way Perl was used) PHP also supported the whole shared host model much better than Perl/CGI. I'm not saying I like PHP. PHP's templating roots also made it more approachable by beginners. I'm only pointing out why for some use cases PHP killed Perl.

On the other side Python also killed Perl. Python seems like far less of a hack upon hack design. Python also has a comparable number of libraries, many builtin making it usually as easy to bang something out as Perl was.
I'm not sure there's any conclusion to be drawn, this doesn't really offer any additional information outside of people pressuring them to resign.

As far as anybody can tell they haven't fixed their software bugs, Gregory Maxwell wrote about that yesterday[0]. The gist is that they haven't fixed incredibly easy bugs, and are still spending unconfirmed transactions that they were warned about months ago (in this case not withdrawals, just automated housekeeping transactions).

I'm on the fence weather they will reopen their own withdrawls or not, they don't seem to be in too much of a hurry. From them moving to a virtual office[1][2] it sounds like they were threatened or some other physical incident arose that made it necessary for them to mask their location. We probably won't ever know about that, but it's not a long stretch to imagine somebody with a lot of money there could do something stupid.

[0]: https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ymwzj/mtgox_still...

[1]: https://support.mtgox.com/entries/27131120-MtGox-Co-Ltd-Loca...

[2]: http://www.executivecentre.com/virtual_offices/faq
My 2005 midlet phone runs arcade games that could not even run in a modern mobile browser. Mind you,since J2ME is pretty limited, java midlets are developped with these limitations in mind. modern HTML5 games are not developped with crappy Firefox os performances in mind. That's the reason why i dont believe in that javascript buzz driven product, it's just irrelevant.
New Zealand and Australia are already in cahoots with the NSA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Tom Friedman: Google hires on "general cognitive ability" but "not I.Q."
I'm a rather fashionable young woman thanks. It doesn't bother me in the slightest when I meet someone whose clothes don't fit the stereotype, perhaps you are in a more cloistered environment?
I find it difficult to imagine a world where Applications agnostic caching for encrypted sessions is possible.

I fully expect a world where application developers have services at their disposal for positioning assets closer to the end user with VM instance level isolation and security guarantees.

Transport level security is not likely to be enough for high value/sensitivity data in the long run but adding a bunch of new trusted parties to the system is going to be huge enabler for end user surveillance.
Michaelochurch, always enjoy your take on things.

Maybe I'm being too simplistic. I think the VCs want to mentor young founders because the younger they are, the more chances they get to found/fail before life starts calling to them in mid-thirties. A founder I had talked with said that young founders are judged on their potential while older founders get judged on business fundamentals of their idea.

In the absence of work on groundbreaking tech, maybe you do want young founders to build "iFart 2014"
You can assume Mt. Gox handled this poorly and it reflects similarly on the entire community. Whether it was by conscious choice or compelled choice matters not. I appreciate they were able to take the honorable route of excusing themselves from the table.

Past that, we can't assume much about the situation until they tell us what the status is. Hopefully it'll resolve this week and we can all move on from it. Lessons learned.
Or you can just get a soundcloud?
given the relatively small number of new programmers is an actual advantage for us: increased salaries. i don't know the actual reason why, but we have students who, after 3-4 weeks of perl training are thrown in production environment where they fix bugs and implement features on par with our senior devs. It might be because they are very smart, or because the language is actually simpler to learn than it looks at first sight. And the production environment that I'm talking about is a very complex web app from an architectural point of view: it has mysql, memcached, the authorization of documents is done through sphinx search engine, we're using dbix class as an orm and catalyst as a web framework, etc
Can still go either way.

I don't have funds in MtGox, but I really wish they could at least make everyone whole using profits(that hopefully were eventually moved into fiat) before shutting down. I'm mildly impacted in that my day-trading has been stalled since MtGox drama has prevented the monthly'ish high swings of coin prices. But I know that's nothing compared to funds mtgox account holders stand to lose in this. However, I'm not sure I have the same sympathy for these folks[1].

1. http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/20/technology/innovation/bitcoi...

Anyways... Good luck folks, http://i.imgur.com/nTFj3zs.png
The mere presence of Junk DNA represents a potential layer of unnecessary complexity. This makes the job of deciphering the function of each gene just a little harder. While there is much debate about how much of our own DNA is junk, there is little doubt that a considerable amount of it is just junk.

There are also cases where molecular machinery in our cell is repuprosed to carry out novel tasks unrelated to its design. The first example that comes to mind are the voltage-gated potassium channels. These proteins are usually involved in the electrical signalling of the nervous system. Why the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.3 functions as part of the immune response in T-cells makes no sense to me. Yet this voltage-gate potassium channel is an indispensable part of the cascade of events underlying the immune response. Another example of a protein with numerous and possibly unrelated functions is p53.

And then there is of course the example of the laryngeal nerve. This nerve makes an unnecessary loop down the neck and then back up to the larynx. This odd quirk is especially exaggerated in the giraffe. Why this is so makes no sense.

The best explanation I have to such weird design quirks, which exaggerate the complexity of biological systems, is that Evolution as a process has no regard for complexity.
This is a really great tool. I'm wondering how hard it would be to use it with JSON structures too? Maybe the XML validation runtime could become much simpler?
> [...] because the VC and support and resources all go to the 26-year-old with powerful (inherited) connections.

Really? Do you really think this is so? Is y combinator, in that case, rigged? Because as you know pretty much all graduates of YC are practically promised some sweet funding money from investors all around -- and it seems (so far to me) that getting into YC is less about connections and more about having a thing that can actually make money.

I think the reason more 26 year olds are succeeding in this game is that they've grown up in a world filled with computers, and their intuition (in a broad spectrum of tech-related things) is simply better and greater than the 50 year olds'. They know better than 50 year olds' what model of mobile payments is more likely to be popular with their peer-aged 26 year olds, what kind of ad strategy is more likely to be effective for the key markets (which are generally younger, speaking in terms of the big money), and so on. They're just better positioned in the tech world to succeed because of these natural coincidences. That's really all there is to it. Where do you disgaree?
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The English prose used in comment threads like this is written natural language. Programming languages are formal languages. Different treatment should not be surprising.

For further reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription#Problem...
The trick it folks intentionally talk in vague terms to avoid anything being spread around. Most of the easy FD deals have been killed over the last few years because of this. The time/value tradeoff for those is now above my threshhold, but back in 2009 when they were much easier I flew SFO-SYD for ~$570.
Merkel's outrage is probably just more theatre for our benefit. You don't become the leader of a G8 country and hold onto any illusions about how the world works.
> From them moving to a virtual office it sounds like they were threatened or some other incident arose that made it necessary for them to mask their location.

There have to be some colourful people with very large deposits at Mt. Gox.
This post is talking about prototypes from a usability perspective, not a technical perspective. A prototype by your definition ( a "real" prototype) would use data and be built in about the same way as the final product would be. I'm talking about how to prototype the experience. I see how it's easy for you to misunderstand me - apologies for not being clear.
US superpower status isn't based on how friendly it is with everybody. The USSR wasn't a superpower because everybody liked it.

It's based on: $200 trillion in assets + $700 billion in military spending + $16 trillion GDP + 7,700 nuclear warheads (per FAS). Then throw in 313 million people with one of the highest GDP per capita and average income rates, plus the third largest country by geographical size (with prime positioning on both major oceans). There's also the USD as global reserve currency, which today has no serious competitor for that status.

China for example will likely soon be a formal superpower, and it won't be because everybody loves their government.

Isolation can sting, no question, but realistically unless we're talking North Korean or Cuban style isolation, it has minimal bearing on superpower status.
I'm a porn star. I'm a college freshman. You know nothing about me.
> once you grokked the grammar

Perl has a grammar? In seriousness, the old aphorism that "the only thing that can parse Perl is Perl" didn't help Perl. The tooling lags behind that available for other dynamic languages.
Perl was the first scripting language I really learned when I was an intern at Sun. I read the whole Camel Book my first couple weeks there. I had an awesome sysadmin mentor that was a Perl guru, and when I asked for help he would give me mysterious one-liners that did powerful things, simply saying "use this". I had little idea what I was doing at the time, but it was awesome.

I use Ruby now for most scripting, and it is also awesome, but a lot less mysterious.
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No kidding, I got:

> "Use AngularJS on django with PostgreSQL"

Yes, that does sound like a very sensible and stable choice that many respected firms are using.
Also, pedant nitpicking: it's straitjacket.
The sooner they fade back into obscurity, the sooner our investments aren't at risk from their opaque operations, unless you're reading this and you have coins in Mt. Gox in which case, you're familiar with the game of Sorry!