skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am AirBNB host with multiple listings. I like the potential of this, but I'm extremely worried about the service based on the number of spelling and grammar errors on the site.

"We love innovations like bitcoin, But unfortunately our payment supplier don’t process bitcoin yet."

Still, I am going to talk with them shortly. I like the idea, and 1% is low enough that it would be well worth the headache since I currently am at about 75% occupancy on my listings, and just getting the cleanings and linens scheduled is a PITA.
Good luck hiring someone to service that thing.
This reminds me of a passage in "The State of the Art" by Iain M. Banks, when a group of aliens visit earth and dine on various clone - grown dishes from earth's current dictators and the like.

"Most of you over there will be eating either Stewed Idi Amin or General Pinochet Chilli Con Carne; here in the centre we have a combination of General Stroessner Meat Balls and Richard Nixon Burgers. The rest of you have Ferdinand Marcos Sauté and Shah of Iran Kebabs. There are, in addition, scat­tered bowls of Fricaséed Kim II Sung, Boiled General Videla, and Ian Smith in Black Bean Sauce..."
No, sir. That was all at once. I was expected to stand there with a calculator, add $4 to the wholesale price, then add another $3.
I see drug dealing using Bitcoin different than theft of Bitcoin. Silk Road involves using Bitcoin to subvert meat space laws. Stealing Bitcoin doesn't, any more than killing someone and taking their gold in an online game. In a narrow sense, the point of Bitcoin is that you don't need a centralized power issuing currency. But in a larger sense, the community embraces the idea that you don't need centralized power to make markets viable, in general. To validate those ideas, we should let Bitcoin evolve in a way where the government doesn't use its monopoly on violence to protect interests denominated in Bitcoin.
Wow! Pocket/Instapaper support. I'm really looking forward to that. About 1/4 of the articles I save are too wordy, and this will help me get through them rather than leaving them for a day which never comes.
Yes — but as I said, running the game in a Parallels Windows VM results in 2x better performance than running the same game natively. The same OSX graphics driver is used in both cases, except the VM has to do extra work! How does that make any sense?
Hard to believe I wrote anything useful back in the day, having just an A, X, and Y.
Fine. But keep the Legos coming or there will be hell to pay.
I agree there were better options than TARP and its related programs to deal with the financial crisis.

I just don't think it's accurate to characterize the bailouts as theft (or "rape", as has another commenter), and I don't think inaction (and the subsequent collapse of the financial system) was an acceptable option considering the massive pain and privation it would have caused.
How to make favicons into a sprite?
That is a cute response. The only problem is that you are substituting "mom" for OP.

Did the mother of your thirteen year old preface her question with "I already tried to use curl but then I realized that would not work. Then I thought I could verify the SHA1 but I realized I was obtaining the sha1 value over an insecure channel."?
Two entire operating systems.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/portal2/commit/e1490adc43bd...
Would it have been easier to code it in C, compile with -O3 and then further tweak the assembly?
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>You can only withdraw funds if you have a verified account.

This wasn't always the case for small amounts.

On top of this, forged documents can be purchased on the black market.
Super-importantly, incentive pay increases extra-linearly, at least in the MSFT reward game. So, e.g. in your 7th year you might be getting drastically more in bonus pay than in your 2nd year. Much more than you might expect just from raises. I assume that other large companies have somewhat comparable games, but I don't know first hand.
> The only case where a completely random strategy works is if there are black swan events occurring at equally random intervals.

It depends on how you define "works". A random strategy doesn't work at all on average, it can only be said to "work" for the 1/2 of the investors that by chance fall above the average.

And a random sequence is by definition a series of black swans. Unless you're saying that a black swan can only be an extraordinarily unlikely occurrence, in which case all we need do is wait a little longer for the improbable but eventually certain outcome that will meet anyone's definition of black swan.

There are 23 people in a room talking. Pretty quickly two of them realize they have the same birthday. Is that a black swan? After all, there are 365 1/4 days in a year -- how unlikely is it for two of 23 random people to have the same birthday? Is it 23 / 365.25 (6.2%) or is it more or less likely?

My point? Not all apparent black swans are really black swans.
My life was changed the day a friend showed me how to view source.
> Not having a court system to adjudicate this or recover the assets is part of the point of Bitcoin! It's

We have a court system to adjudicate this. Its the same court system that adjudicates everything else. Bitcoin has no magic anarchist fairy dust that makes it immune to the laws which govern other goods and services.
The error is not that of the programmer's. The fault is not in code, it's in processes that were chosen by management.

Indeed, to err is human. This is why you're a negligent jackass if you don't plan for errors and build multiple systems to prevent and detect them, at least until computers start programming themselves for us.
"We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly."

No doubt written from an undisclosed beach.
You speak only of the letter and not of the spirit of the thing. This has nothing in common with the mentality that created the internet in the first place, which was cosmic and adventurous and poetic.

It reminds me rather of cutting the perforations off of postage stamps. I doubt that J.C.R. Licklider would approve.
All RTP seemed to exhibit the issue, so we just setup a test with two RTP endpoints. We wrote a very simple UDP mangler/demangler (XOR with a fixed key) and ran it on both ends of the RTP connection.
Disney battles DVD decline with digital movie download service
Sort of. It's not that simple. You can't just compare the rewards. You also need to compare the time element, because it limits how many rewards you can get.

For an illustration of how dramatic this can be, consider that a major factor of Apples success, for example, is that their inventory turnover has skyrocketed - to more than 60 times a year as of 2012, compared to ~36 times a year for Dell (inventory turnover was one of the things Dell used to be famous for) or about 15 times a year for RIM.

In other words in 2012, for every $1m of capital locked up in in inventory at any one time, if Apple had 10% margin before considering capital costs for the inventory, they'd make $100k per turnover, for $6m, while RIM would have made $1.5m.

That capital is not free - you're either facing borrowing costs or inability to invest it elsewhere.

(of course the shipping is clearly not the only thing affecting inventory turnover)

> Perhaps investors could buy the goods (or make a loan) after they leave the shore, sell them when they get back, and pocket the difference.

Banks have had revolving credit facilities to handle this kind of thing pretty much as long as banks have existed. This changes the numbers but not the overall principle.

To be clear: It is likely that there can be savings to make this way - I'm not disputing that.

E.g. there's already at least one cargo ship that uses a kite to save fuel costs by relying on wind ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySails ). Clearly that's one thing that might make it profitable to making smart decisions about routes that maximize fuel savings even if that may slow down the delivery.

My point is just that it isn't sufficient to look at the savings for a single shipment - you also need to consider that the shipment will tie up substantial capital, and that has a cost per day too, whether in credit costs or in reduced ability to turn over inventory, and that will create very real limitations on how much you can slow down ships and still see benefits.
Bitcoin is extremely likely to be replaced by design: it's a deflationary currency with a wicked value curve which makes pets.com look stable. In practice, this means that anyone who buys into Bitcoin now is giving huge amounts of money to the early adopters.

Speculators were buying in for the kind of returns you normally see on penny stocks and pre-IPO options rackets. That's not what anyone sane wants in a currency and it's a particularly tough sell when it's so easy to setup a competitor.
You're basically saying investing is random chance. Ok.

What is the p-value that Warren Buffett's random investment plan outperforms the market 39/47 years?

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/25/buffett-berkshire-...

If a drug beat a placebo in 39/47 experiments, would it be approved by the FDA? :-)

There are investors who get lucky, and there are investors with sound strategies. The notion that every winning strategy gets immediately and flawlessly applied by every actor in the market is a fantasy world populated by homo economicus.
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I'm not saying that courts couldn't adjudicate interests in Bitcoin, but that they shouldn't. Let's see if the anarchists are right: can viable markets exist without centralized power?
People often think that the N-queens problem is just an abstract exercise, good sample work that stretches the mind. But when we were building Route 53, we actually use the N-queens problem, it's part of how we assign Shuffle Shards;

https://github.com/awslabs/route53-infima#shuffleshard

The solution we included in Infima is a recursive search with backtracking because of some other needs;

http://git.io/332VLA

but it's the N-queens problem, in a real practical setting.
Smug lisp weenie complains commercially successful system not implemented in lisp, news at 11.

The story isn't about Mathematica, its about SMP, which predated Mathematica by about 8 years. Wolfram was 20 at the time.

Back at Caltech, Rob Pike convinced Wolfram that C was the future and that was a good thing.
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The quote is "surveillance by secret agents".

Given that "secret agent employed by the gov't" is by far the most common usage of "secret agent", anyone fluent in English would parse the original warning as "government surveillance performed by secret agents". That isn't to say that I agree with the complaint, but your comment makes no sense.
> This isn't just an attack on the internet, as Greenwald portrays it, it's an attack on people and free will. It's intended to get people to do or say something that they might have done differently otherwise, in response to the "crime" of being a pain in the ass, or even a threat, to the powerful.*

Isn't that a good definition for terrorism?
Seems like an enourmously awesome solution, but, again, I ask: who are the users of these kind of services (BitBaloon, Formspree etc.)?

(or, better asked: what is the problem these solutions solve?)
This post makes me happy :).

&nbsp; and 0.gif (fewer characters!) bring back memories. What I miss most was the hacky tricks you'd have to put together to get load times down on dialup. Carefully controlling the order in which things rendered. Early DHTML. Slicing layouts so that as much as humanly possible the images repeated. Tables tables tables. IFrames that talked to each other. The javascript that converted <div>s to <layers> for netscape.

In those days I was certain there would be a complete replacement for HTML/JavaScript/CSS that would take over. Flash came and went. Silverlight was a lovely attempt. We just kept layering lipstick on our pig :).
Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC
I prefer the Munroe-Hatguy entropy collection method for pseudorandom number generation [1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/221/
Facetime Audio on Mac! Heck yes, finally.
Just keep those websites off my lawn
Bubble to Bust to Recovery: Housing and the U.S. Economy
Yah I read that silly article too. They call them conscious because they redefined the term. It's nonsense.
I don't know that it works in every use case, but I usually use a container with equal left and right margins.
What I learned while doing my "one game per week" challenge
Absolutely amazing. She took something academics were discussing mostly theoretically (microfluidics on a chip) and turned it into some real.
Keeping load times down on dialup.

last month I hit my usage cap and was capped to 256k downstream. 256k. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING SIX! FIVE TIMES FASTER THAN DIALUP! I thought that's fine I can cope.

The internet is highly broken at 256k. Pages basically don't ever completely load. You end up having to cancel. You end up turning off images, turning off javascript.

I can't imagine what the web is like at 56k now. Completely fucking un-functional I would imagine.
> I'm not saying that courts couldn't adjudicate interests in Bitcoin, but that they shouldn't.

The idea that courts should simply refuse to do what they are created (and paid) to do is, well, novel.

> Let's see if the anarchists are right: can viable markets exist without centralized power?

While some participants in Bitcoin markets may be "anarchists" who acted on the assumption that Bitcoin was outside of the law, its without doubt that at least some of them are not, and are people who participated with the expectation that they might avail themselves of the recourses in the law should the need arise. On what moral basis would you deny them their rights under the law, without consent or notice prior to the transactions from which the causes of action arise, to test this hypothesis?
I liked the part that said "urandom".
> I mean, the US legal system seems to be handling the "bitcoin drugdealer" problem fairly well.

The SEC is also prosecuting the "bitcoin ponzi scheme" problem, as well.
If all you know is buzzwords, buzzwords are all you hear.

Personally I found the idea and explanation of knowledge-based computing where my attention went. Does your favorite language have knowledge about the world built into it?
So rather than using a function in the core library of the language that calls /dev/urandom, we should instead write our own wrapper around /dev/urandom? And this is supposed to be less prone to error?
Are you sure? I haven't heard of any coins being stolen. MtGox said the coins were safe and they just had trouble transferring them because of their client and malleable transactions!
Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner
I would definitely not read a tech book like that, I want it to read history books and fiction, the kind of reading I do to relax. I was thinking of writing something that would let me speed up and slow down or back up with simple finger movements, and I could use that to read tech books, but for that I need to access the kindle content. If Amazon won't let me, maybe it's time I reconsider where I buy my books from.
>The same OSX graphics driver is used in both cases

Are you sure? I'd think it isn't passing function calls, but rather direct hardware access. I might be wrong.
Cell phone unlocking bill narrowly passes the House
While this looks useful, the example is precisely the sort of problem for which threads aren't useful.

Parallel IO doesn't (necessarily) need to use threads and an explicitly async API is more flexible and usually easier to understand, especially with CSP like core.async.
> You're talking as if it's possible for "we" to make a decision to start over; it isn't, the very nature of distributed means any talk of what should be is pointless. There is only what happens, no one is in charge.

Even in the absence of authority, discussion of what should be can influence what people do, which then changes what happens. So while "there is only what happens, no one is in charge" is, in a sense, true, "talk of what shoul dbe is pointless" is not.
Furthermore: if these thefts are not discouraged by the presence crews today, and are likely to even escape attention of the crew, it does not seem obvious whether or not removing the crew will make much difference.
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A simpler example would be a basic list operator, given a method you can guess what it does.

[a] -> a

That takes a list (brackets denote a linked list) and returns a single item. There is a small list of things that this could be. It can't filter or order in any way, since there are no restrictions or functions provided, it can't aggregate for the same reason, that leaves either the first item or the last item.

[Yep head and last](http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%5Ba%5D+-%3E+a)

Looking at that list we can see some other alternatives that I mentioned

foldl1 :: (a -> a -> a) -> [a] -> a --Aggregation
maximumBy :: (a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> a --Ordering
maximum :: Ord a => [a] -> a
(!!) :: [a] -> Int -> a --Indexing
sum :: Num a => [a] -> a --Aggregating
product :: Num a => [a] -> a

And if followed along, you will notice all of his implementation points were straightforward.

Note that all of this assumes you have very well written APIs that follow this chain of logic, otherwise you can write things like this.

second :: [a] -> a
second _:i:_ = i

It compiles (or would with the default case added) but is rather odd and would throw off this line of reasoning. Similarly by abusing unsafe methods you can do crazy things.
> there's no court system to adjudicate this or try and recover assets for those who lost money.

Umm, why isn't there? Just because Bitcoin "isn't regulated" does not make it a free for all. Theft is theft.
This reminded me of my pokemon fan site (Poketown) from 2000.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000510132913/http://poketown.o...

Looks like I was a pattern of grid design (ala tables) back then.
I do not think I have ever seen so many stylistic/rare/historic ligatures used on a web page. Does anyone know if something changed in Iceweasel Aurora? Is this something that can be turned on in css?

UPDATE: If I allow javascript the web page is rendered using some google fonts which probably do not provide any ligatures. However if I do not allow JS and Iceweasel uses my default serif font (Minion Pro) the page is littered with all sorts of contextual/historic/stylistic ligatures.
Same here, my eyes immediately flicked up to look at my webcam's indicator light.
Off topic, but I had a fun exchange with my friend the other day. I'm a web developer - he had recently taken a free (paid for by EI) course in web development.

"Can I just borrow your computer for a sec? I noticed a bug on one of my sites, just need to fix it real quick."

"You won't be able to, I don't have Dreamweaver or Filezilla installed."

"Oh...ok."

Proceeds to download putty on the spot and fix my site with vim
On a ſide note, we ſhould bring back the long S.
Just when I feel like I am finally getting the hang of this computer geek thing (it took 20 years) then some whipper snappers go do something fancy and make me feel inferior. Hail to the smart people!
Undoubtedly there are lots of high-minded poetic idealists behind the development of the internet. But the universe doesn't owe it to them to make the physical nature of the world adapt to their ideals. Maybe many people imagined that the internet would be this borderless space in the ether where packets flowed unimpeded from any source to any destination. Yet, borders are one of the most fundamental facets of earthly existence, and whoever controls them, whether they be nations or network providers, have tremendous power. And that is the true nature of reality.
Facebook’s offer to WhatsApp based on a Game Theory probability
Not 100% sure, but I was under the impression that unlike Windows (?), OSX simply does not allow you to have direct hardware access. (Plus, if Parallels was accessing the hardware directly, how would you be able to run the VM in a window while still doing OSX stuff underneath?)

Either way, there's clearly a way to make the game run significantly faster on OSX, but Valve isn't doing it for some reason.
It's not hard to follow - it's just that your dressing up your own negative opinion under the guise of 'the PR perception'. There is no objective thing that can be called 'the PR perception'.

Also I see you have chosen to repeat the falsehood iBeacon holds little value beyond advertising. That's just a statement about your lack of understanding of potential of the technology, but you say it as if it reflects poorly on Apple instead of you.
So there are github whiteknights.

The ridiculous thing here is that they're thinking that they're "protecting" github when github doesn't need at all. Valve is doing free publicity for github by doing that and as I said there, an issue tracker is taking negligible resource from the servers.
Likely technical; the last three major source games to be ported were Dota2, this and Counterstrike: Global Offensive (as yet not running on Linux), which were their three newest games, and presumably used their shiniest, glossiest versions of the Source Engine.

I'd imagine that CS:GO would have been prioritized much higher if it was purely a business decision, given it's still high up in their top-played games; Dota2, likewise, is their top played, flagship title, so if it was a pure business decision, that would surely be #1 instead of third-last.
Perhaps. But code coming out of a C compiler (especially code compiled with -O3) can be really difficult to grok.
How is this different than what would happen to a manned truck?
> As for OS X release, I'm sure they released it as fast as they could. It has nothing to do with releasing along with FaceTime integration, and everything to do with 10.9.2. was already going through the GM process, and it was faster/easier to add this fix into that and continue trying to validate the GM than it was to spin up an entirely new train for a 10.9.1.1 with just this fix and try to validate that.

If this is true, then their process could use some adjustment. Contrast with Google Chrome which has the regular motion of changes going through channels, but the ability to update virtually all clients within a matter of hours if a critical issue is found.

(I realize there is a lot more QA necessary for an OS update, but I'm not convinced that a fix for this specific bug would have taken a long time to QA. Certainly not anywhere near as long as we've waited for this update, or as long as a lot of people will delay installing it because it is huge.)
Document? Going by Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pliers. Venezuela.info has quite a bit of info going back a decade or so.

The point of the comment is not to definitively state anything, merely conjecture. If you'd like to debunk said conjecture, feel free; but asking for documentation seems beside the point.
You must try "Celestia" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/). Its a real-time visualization and simulation of space! OF SPACE! You can see the entire known universe with this!
Any one of the ports of Perl's Data::Faker work great (there are great libraries for Ruby, Python, C#, PHP, …).
text-rendering: optimizelegibility
I don't get what's the issue. People use github to host things other than code and no one doesn't seem to complain. Why not let them use it to track issues and whatever else? Github != open source. It is an important hub of the open source community, but is not the basis for it. Could you explain (facts, please) more about your take on this? I might be missing something.
King Withdraws Trademark Application for "Candy" in US
What does that mean? Where is this idea defined? How do we know this? What are the alternatives?
I don't see any cursor blinking in Firefox. :(