skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really isn't true. Math and computer science research need very little in terms of materials cost. The physical sciences are indeed more of a problem, but I have difficulty believing that everything needs big money to research. Surely a large communal lab would facilitate a lot of smaller scale work?
> in a post-industrial world.

It appears our disagreement lies in "post-industrial". My first thought was "I don't see how the use of precious metals in Ancient Egypt is any different from the role of currency in a post-industrial world." Now, asserting our myopia leaves us nowhere. But as long as this thread is already, I'd like to dig deeper.

Given the Mt. Gox debacle, I'm assuming your line of reasoning is related to trust. E.g. "the purely electronic form of bitcoin allows it to be stolen on a scale not feasible with more tangible forms of money." But then, do banks prevent the laundering of USD electronically? Or perhaps "who will insure against theft if not the government?" But then, who insured against theft prior to Hamilton's creation of the U.S. National Bank?

But at this point, I'm fully immersed in strawman land.
You've clearly never been on the receiving end of 4Chan.
> Have an annoying friend or neighbor that always shows up unannounced. Add him to the do not disturb list and Chui will not even bother you with a notification (or a doorbell chime if wired).

If I do not hear a doorbell chime from within the house when I press a doorbell button, I fall back to pounding on the door. Their "do not disturb" feature should have an option to sound a low volume chime near the door, just loud enough to convince the person at the door that the doorbell is working.

> Don’t want Chui to simply be triggered via button press. No problem, Chui can be triggered via Motion Detection and Face Detection. Whereby the presence of a face or motion will prompt it to take a photo and make deliver a notification.

It would be fun to go beyond simple motion detection and recognize gestures, so I could allow my friends automatic entry, provided they do a Klingon salute.
The timing certainly is striking.
I was worried about that too, but it turns out to be a really interesting interview with a famous and old scientist whose watched the industry change.
unless it's CVS, or god forbid, Visual SourceSafe.
On rare occasion a daily log file.
Are you suggesting he's a premie?
Is your project open source? I'd love to see what you're doing. From my understanding of React/Om, Om shouldn't cause a full re-render if React wouldn't.

The immutability of Om/cljs means that the code for determining re-renders (shouldUpdate lifecycle method) is (always?) faster than React.
Did you expect a refund after seeing Iron Man 3?
Thank you for clarifying. I wrote "maybe Intel" because I've never looked at their reputation for open source.
That's a really good point. Many meaningful projects will eventually cost a lot of money.

But I like how Brenner provides an environment for scientists to basically do what they want. Some of them eventually get projects funded, but it's important to have that first stage in which people have the freedom to explore.

A basic income can provide that freedom for everyone.
Those fields aren't the issue, and not what he is discussing in the article. The two fields he mentions, bio-chem (the DNA sequencing) and quantum physics (higgs), both require large amounts of funding to progress. Think the large hadrom collider was cheap? Think a DNA sequencing machine is cheap?

Math is only limited by computer power, and our own personal mental computing power. Computer science, similarly. Those two fields are different from the rest of science as we know it today.
To be clear, it's a desirable property that parties engaging in a conversation are able to verify authenticity of messages and that they indeed originated from their authors. It is undesirable that the parties of the conversation are able to definitively prove to a third party, not involved in the conversation, that a message was indeed originated from a specific person.
Some take the distinction further: only if it forms an actual word, like PATRIOT Act, is it an acronym. If it's pronounced but not a word, like NATO, it's an abbreviation.
Ooops yeah I chose the wrong words and painted way too broad. I meant version control as far as the firmware libraries and public facing code. I can't imagine going from FPGA to silicon synthesis is even possible without extremely tight version control of some sort or another (I think they used to use basic transperencies for comparing masks)

I stand corrected as far as the average age of employees but every time I have interfaced with any level of a silicon company the average age distribution has been skewed pretty high.
The Ring Input Device
pip installs in /usr/local, actually. It's not quite as bad as it looks.
A significant element of scientific research is being the first to find something. It's the ego thing, all the way to standing up there in fancy dress some day to receive one's gong. Publishing is a time stamping service for the ego trip. Why rail against it?
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I'm not sure why you think version number is any indicator of quality. In any case, npm is 1.4.4 on my machine.
I don't think it's even 135 concurrent connections, it's 135 users who have his page open. Probably far less were actually loading it simultaneously.
Hi, I develop Poison and was told to post in this thread.
statistically, working for a startup is about the worst thing an otherwise intelligent person could do for his health and financial well-being. Unless of course by working for a startup, you mean owning the startup and conning 25 year olds into taking 30% under-market pay for 80 hours a week for 0.25% equity while you prep for a sale that will make yourself and the VCs rich while not even making up for what your employees would have made had they worked those hours at market rate...
Tesla founder Elon Musk may be headed for a "stunning fall"
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As per semantic versioning, 0.x.y is for development. That's not to say that code quality will be necessarily lower, but the API and functionality is expected/allowed to fluctuate prior to 1.0.0.

For more info on semantic versioning: http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html

Your point regarding npm itself being beyond 1.0.0 is fully valid, I just wanted to clarify the reason for certain expectations existing based on version number.
It's true that certain aspects of science are very expensive. We're generating a lot of data these days through DNA sequencing, particle collision, and various other expensive scientific measurement techniques.

But there's a lot of work to be done in making sense of that data. It doesn't cost anything to play with data that's already been collected.

The biggest breakthroughs come from people thinking differently.
Just to add to some of the other great responses here:

The British empire was built on the back of the Pound -- the first truly international, modern fiat currency. It reigned until it was muscled out by the fiat Dollar.

An immense amount of wealth has been generated for humankind on the backs of fiat currency.

And one more thing...

Bitcoin is also a fiat currency in the sense that it does not contain intrinsic value. It is only as valuable as its network effect. If the network falls in love with a different coin, bitcoin dies.
Pocket is amazing. I organize all my content with tags, so you are essentially building yourself a sweet library with (un)read articles on variety of topics, so when confronted with a problem, you might know exactly where to look.
Are you sure the inverse square law does not apply? I think you're just getting a bigger coefficient. You might be constructively interfering signals, but the signals are still diminishing over distance. It's not magic, or they wouldn't need to place the antennas all over the place.
Does anything like the quick history select or the google-instant style auto-complete/suggestion exist for zsh?
node does not use semantic versioning.
The thermodynamics you are remembering mostly refers to Carnot engines which convert temperature differences to work.
some of the worst code I've seen has been a result of following "best practices" instead of thinking for oneself.

Very very true. This phrase suggests there is no better way to do something, and that it should always be used because it is "best", and the dogmatic application of rules replaces actual thought and understanding. I am not against a "recommendation" or "suggestion", but to call it "best practice" is cargo-cult-like.
Hello there!

Could you talk a little about your Client? What drives you to develop Tox? What are your expectations? A general overview and a message to aspiring developers.
Lets apply a bit of sense here: this was a failure of judgement, not arrogance. It's perhaps easier to picture the npm developers as maniacal villains, cackling as they wield destruction among us. But that's not the case with them, just as it is pretty much never the case with project developers.
Bummer. Used them for several years with the web client. Used Android client off and on at various times. As others commented, chat history across all services was great and one of their strengths.

Switching to Adium as I don't know anyone using imo.im's network.
5 years later, all the chat services will realize "We need to find a way to talk across services". Either XMPP or some other standard will become commonplace. Seems cyclical.
So how is that "not what 'open source' means"?
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I just picture them as cowboy coders not really aware of what it takes to build and maintain software for large enterprises, which is, unfortunately, their stated mission.
Agreed, a very good point there.
I'm worried about this - they state:

We are rolling back to the older cert now, but since the registry is distributed
by a global CDN this process is slower than we’d like, and we don’t want
to break things (further) by rushing the process.

If they roll back to the older cert, every install of npm that was "fixed" via the steps in the last post, or updated to latest (node v10.0.26/npm v1.4.4) will break. Perhaps I am missing something but it sounds as though they intend to follow up breaking most npm installs by breaking most npm installs yet again.
WTH "We are rolling back to the older cert now, but since the registry is distributed by a global CDN this process is slower than we’d like, and we don’t want to break things (further) by rushing the process."

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78165272245/more-help-with-self-s...
About that "myth". I had 60/40 ratio of girls to boys in my high school class. They all had access to Comp Science classes and computers and everything else that I had, but none of the girls wanted to become engineers, me and four other guys did. So please, do not say that girls are interested in engineering but not pursuing that interest just because they do not have access. Thanks to mass culture that sees guys interested in technology as dorks and "not cool" I have a lot of doubts in the claim that lack of access is the culprit of the perceived discrepancy. At least in the US and Europe boys and girls have similar access to technology, and no one is taking computers away from girls.
Even just sticking a caching CloudFlare instance in front of the thing would do better than it currently is.
"We peaked at 12."

Peaked. And that probably includes the sysadmin who was required to watch it.

Where are the articles on the new ridiculous TLD's?

A while back the IP address for the FTP copy of the root.zone changed.

And sure enough, the file is now full of crap like .buzz, .house and .kitchen

I cannot even read through the whole zone anymore. It's too long.

There are some gems in there though. And some fool paid $185,000+ for each one.

I have been running my own root for years and this is why.

Snip, snip. No more .buzz

Very easy to set up up your own custom root and to filter out the crap TLD's. But, like with the ceremony in this article, some folks think that ICANN has some sort of "authority" on how people use domain names.

Whole .com zone (=public information) fits on a USB stick.

And the HOSTS file remains as a failsafe, if you have to use someone else's resolver.

And most of the entries in the com.zone are garbage anyway: parked names with ads.

Imagine how many different domains the average user will visit in their lifetime. It is but a small fraction of all the names registered.

But let's pretend ICANN is relevant.

God help us if ICANN should cease to exist.
Let any developer who has never pushed an update with unintended side effects raise their hand.

This mistake was, in hindsight, a clear error in judgement. It highlights missing steps in their change deployment process. And I expect them to learn from it, as the larger Node community has shown they can learn from mistakes.

Part of joining the ranks of "enterprise"-grade projects is first being an aspiring project, and part of that is learning a lot. Anyone who expects that to happen without a few bumps is naive.
The oddest thing about it is that people who ought to know better are not straight up calling it the tinfoilhattery that it is. Schneier saying things like 'if I were doing this deliberately, that's how I'd do it'. That's how you'd do it and then you'd release the source? Why not patch the binary? Hell, why not patch the compiler, Ken Thompson-style, if you're such a devious insider? It's grade-A Chewbacca defense.
I think HN is a bit obsessed with the language but it was more of just a joke.
I used remind and wyrd a fair amount before joining Google + switching to google calendar. Remind is really powerful, and wyrd is nice.

Here [0] is a post detailing how I got calendar notifications working with remind/wyrd + screen + URGENT hint.

[0] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/remind-fans/2006/0...
Firstly, I didn't call him mentally unstable. I suggested that, from another perspective (i.e. not the perspective of a stridently anti-government activist), he might be perceived as potentially being mentally unstable.

Secondly, all of these characteristics are red flags in a screening operation. No, they don't necessarily mean that he is a threat. But they do warrant closer inspection. Inspection that, from his account, seemed to provoke him to further erratic behaviour. And it's the job of security apparatuses to pay attention to people who act strangely.

This anti-TSA shit is ridiculous. So much of it revolves around ridiculing ordinary people without that much education working a fairly poorly-paid job. Like mocking people for not understanding how Bitcoin works.

America asked for better protection after 9/11, and they got it. Now they're bitching because they don't like it? Why is this so hard to understand? Do you want a security apparatus that tries its best to make sure dangerous people don't board planes, or do you want a security apparatus that waves any old person onboard?
Look at the number of projects that ask for donations (that are actually useful) that get little to no money from its users. It's pretty well known that the majority of people will not donate if they don't need to (I've been a part of a few).

I'm fine with you using Adblock. I just don't want to hear complaining when companies go out of business and jobs are lost (which is happening right now due to this) or we end up with a few corporations supplying all of the content.

This does nothing but make it so small and independent websites can't make a living anymore and large corporations rule with content. It's the same with piracy. They can take the hit, the small companies can't.

All because you can't be bothered by seeing an advertisement .
But you have to know the keyword. Which means that you had to find out about it from somewhere other than the app store.

For example, once Flappy Bird hit GooTube, yeah, everybody in the universe was searching for "flappy".

Prior to that, how do you find Flappy Bird? You don't. That's why a lot of people were speculating that the Flappy Bird author used several different methods to spam the review system.
With the increase in frequency of these kinds of events continuing is anyone out there able to hazard a guess about whether it would be wise to build infrastructure specifically to capture all this fresh water. The news report I saw was stated around 90% of this surge in rain (inch/hour) would simply be washed out to sea.

Would it not be prudent to store it for the drought seasons we are also seeing?
Android developer here reporting in to raise awareness. Currently the app is still in heavy development and not ready to be tested by general users, but I'm happy for anyone to submit pull requests for even the tiniest of fixes/changes. Once ready it'll be submitted to F-Droid and eventually Google Play.

If you're a student and wanting to participate in GSoC this year, the android app has been approved as a project. If you'd like to work on this, feel free to contact me (check my github for contact details - I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post them here).
Having looked, I can't find any link citing that one way or the other, but that doesn't change the fact that enough things these days do adhere to semantic versioning that many people expect certain things based on the version number.
The measurements scripts provided on the benchmarks game website are written in Python 2.5+ and worked fine on MS Vista using:

- Python 2.5+

- Python Win32 Extensions (for win32 process monitoring)

- GNU Make for Windows

- GNU DiffUtils for Windows

Download bencher.zip from:

https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100815&release_id=18...
Sounds like a lot of misplaced "outrage" about nothing. You've done nothing wrong, don't let yourself feel like you did.

The internet is a weird place like this, where mobs can assemble in hours and stick you on their pitchforks for an imagined slight before you know what's going on. That's just the way it works, unfortunately, and the tech crowds are no exception.

http://swombat.com/2011/6/1/random-acts-of-violence

To those who actually appreciate what these guys are doing: now would be a good time to pipe up and show that you support them and are not represented by the vocal minority who's currently getting all the spotlight!
How is this different from something like, say, TorChat?
Companies shouldn't always do things for profit, because doing things only for profit, well, isn't profitable. Good will has a monetary value, and it is often worth far more than just making money is.

I never said I was eloquent.
Project Ara prototype [youtube]
The first things which come to mind is Tox supports file transfers and A/V.
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Some Qi chargers work up to 2 inches away, so no, that isn't entirely true. I'd rather embed the charger in the desk though, and the Nexus charger is very small and very low profile as it is.
I seriously question the figures you've stated, but either way, it's not comparable to this situation.

Reddit doesn't create content. Reddit is a content aggregation service just like HN. You could probably make the argument that some subreddits generate content, which I would not disagree with, but Reddit doesn't pay for that content creation.

Also, plenty of blogs aren't ad supported, or aren't primarily ad supported. I can't remember the last time I visited a "popular" blog and they didn't have an ebook or some other form of merchandise for sale.

It seems to me that those that are most reliant on advertisements are those that house communities or just regurgitate content from other sources. If those sites all died tomorrow, I probably wouldn't care. (That includes HN and Reddit).
Just in case it might be helpful for someone else (I know it's been helpful for us at the college the past few years).

Here's a great Wufoo-like self-hosted Forms Application (version 4.0 sounds like it's right around the corner too):
http://www.appnitro.com/

The software is called MachForms (I don't remember how I found it, but I'm definitely glad I did). I was able to add in LDAP authentication on my own with some customization of the core code (I wish it would be built-in as a feature, but aside from that it works really nicely out of the box).
Would this have any affect on whether issuing banks accept or reject payments?

This part of the process seams especially opaque and I've had far more customers than I would have expected have cards declined for no discernible reason.

I wonder if shared merchant accounts are a plus or minus here.
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How Secure is Bitcoin?
It seems to me that Apple is directly investing into its brand name by doing things like planning on "having 100 percent of its power come from green sources".

The ROI is, among other things, customer loyalty.
> "If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock."

While I agree with his sentiment, I wish he took a moment to explain that pursuing environmental sustainability may actually help the top line (rather than insinuating that those goals are net negative to shareholders)
TorChat doesn't support Audio, Video or File Transferring. Also, Tox is much more modular and make the process of creating clients for it much easier.
this is going to need a lot more context for people that aren't too familiar with bitcoin, i think.
I do not understand the Wikipedia definition of "scraper site".

By this definition webcache.googleusercontent.com qualifies.

It is a full copy of every site GoogleBot scrapes.

Google gives attrition to the original source, but if this isn't "scraping", what is?

They have been sued for this, and they've won. The benefits of a decent search engine outweigh the burden of infringing the copyrights of others. At least where Google and other search engines that cache websites are concerned.
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> Does anyone have recommendations for a good multi chat app replacement besides trillian?

Pidgin (Win/Linux), Empathy (Linux), Adium (OS X), or Finch (Console-based, on Linux/OS X).
> Until we have a car that kills 500 people because of faulty software, it's just not that important to people, which means there's no pressure in industry to get it right.

I agree with that. But what is your alternate proposal, and where does the pressure to get it right come from in your proposal?
On the other hand, they are a YC company: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/buttercoin
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What rock do these people crawl out from at night?
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How is sponge different from > filename?
Eh only certain ignorant ones.
Came for the comic sans, stayed for the delicious irony of a think tank run on outside donations complaining to the most profitable company in the world that they aren't focused enough on ROI.
Thanks for the advice and those links.

The example's use of Blueprints for the users module is really clear. Previously I was confused by the documentation on Blueprints, and I simultaneously didn't 'get' what they were for, whilst wondering why there wasn't an obvious way to break down a project into smaller pieces of functionality.

I think I'll follow your advice and use Django for now, just because it will be easier for me to find and use existing packages (e.g. django-allauth was a little easier to get working than flask-social).

you won't be using flask packages with their own models/migrations, you'll be using pypi packages and design your models around your needs

Are you talking about the distinction between, e.g. flask-social (a flask package) and python-social-auth (a python package, which requires me to define my own models)?