skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An argument, since it's Monday and I'm grumpy:

1. As in any language,

2. As in any interpreted language. Yes PHP has the gag operator (@) but it's use is discouraged (and not used in this example),

3. Not in my opinion. The Symfony framework alone has a ton of well used packages[0]. It does look like someone's decided to build their own framework from this example though,

4. Opinion.

[0]: https://packagist.org/search/?q=bundle
Based on their own, incredibly optimistic, financial forecasts that were leaked earlier it'd take at least a decade for them to repay just the current USD value of what they've lost. I'm not sure it'd even be feasible for them to repay bitcoin for bitcoin, since their financial predictions quite likely rely on Bitcoin shooting up in value.
(0.3+0.3+0.3) <> 0.9. In fact, 0.9-0.3-0.3-0.3==~1.11e-16 in any IEEE 754 implementation.

Now, with proper rounding in the right places, it will all work out. However, what rounding and where is much harder than using fixed point.

As long as it's just addition and subtraction, you'll mostly accumulate small errors -- however, once you multiply or compare numbers, all bets are off.
This comment is a bit dismissive. Can you really claim that for iPod, iPhone and iPad?

Sure, every invention is based on work of others, but Apple has still made huge improvements on multiple areas.
That is far from "the American stand point." Most Americans ridiculed the moderately libertarian policies of Republican candidate Ron Paul. Even the broad ideas of fiscal conservatism and low corporate taxes is mocked by one major party and usually only given lip service by the other. The Libertarian Party, despite being the third largest party in the US, is at best a joke to the vast majority of Americans. And on top of that, the view that all government intervention is bad would be considered extreme even among these candidates.
Clean Code – Conditionals
> All of this is well under way and I'd say conservatively we'll see robust networks in less than a decade.

I'd say you are being quite optimistic here. Such major changes will be heavily monitored and regulated, and regulations will make it very hard to market any of these vehicles before a long time. 10 years go by pretty fast, I don't think changes are going to that fast and radical. More likely in the scale of 15 to 30 years. But we'll see.
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That will be added in the second iteration, as a new innovative feature.
Sugar-powered Bio-batteries Able To Run Your smartphones for 10 days
AddThis Hydra
That's the hack. It probably transfers more bitcoins somewhere.
Antirez releases LLOOGG as GPLv3
Hey iamwithnail! Let me know if you're looking for a gig: Rentify is always hiring bright people who dislike the industry.
What is your best web-articles and advice when starting a new job?
I am starting a job soon.

What is your top 5 best advice when starting a new job ?

What is the best web articles you have read about that ?

I would like to be effective from day one, but have always spent months to actually ship any code in previous jobs. It's a job as a web developer in a small web agency.
Kickstarter passes $1 billion in pledges more than half pledged in the last year
> My inference from that was that the 'simple' problems have been solved, but to have technology that can safely drive an intoxicated person home would require solving another set of much harder problems.

But they already have cars that drive themselves, without human interference. Google (and other companies') engineers have been driving them all over the country on test runs. Obviously if the car will drive itself to a specified destination autonomously, the physical state of the occupant is no longer an issue.

> Ie. the ninety-ninety rule.

Yes, fair enough -- I'm sure there are still edge cases, but the OP said, with respect to this technology, "... we won't see that kind of thing even within the next few decades, if ever."

The turning point will be when the technology's edge cases are less dangerous than a human driver's edge cases. That won't take very long.
Indeed, a broad definition of the word would include this. I meant to imply that I was talking about segregation of groups which are often considered in genuine social conflict with one another, like gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, rich/poor, etc. Sure, there are "holy wars" between groups like Pythonistas and Rubyists, but I think most people agree that this doesn't reflect genuine social struggle.
Increasing? Like you need to pay more to get the same?
In reality the trend is either you get more by paying the same, o you get more, by paying less.
It's the soft things in relations that really make a difference, so embracing those and building that into the DNA of the team is most probably of utmost importance. Great piece.
Basic slow models are availble now , so that's a good sign:

http://ideas.4brad.com/navias-induct-officially-sale-250-000
Apple CarPlay in-car initiative debuts with Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo
> This is ridiculous, religious fundamentalists kill people in the name of their religion. What atheist has ever done that?

Good point, I was narrow in my thinking and didn't mean with regard to real violence, I was speaking more to the endless debates seen on the internet and generally in western society.

Of course, following your definition, the absence of belief makes it hard to attribute anything specifically to atheism. My point is not to condemn atheism in general, but rather the militant variety that is not to content to judge people on their actions and deeds, but must attack their beliefs. Attacking someone who has beliefs you do not share is certainly not unique to atheists (it's fundamental human nature I suppose), but there is a certain hypocrisy about it that I find very distasteful.
Subject has been found to have accessed the following listed publications:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship's_cat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_Savagery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide

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A number of pigeons have won the Dickin Medal, according to the enthusiastic literature we picked up at Bletchley Park the weekend before last.
Yeah, I read the Wikipedia article. It sounds horrifyingly bad. And in very poor taste.
First dual-booting Windows Phone and Android handsets due this year
> when the technology's edge cases are less dangerous than a human driver's edge
> cases. That won't take very long.

Just a couple of decades.
Looks like it's available here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cda_1347507079
There is a reason that speaking Japanese correctly is a highly valuable skill. For me personally, though, the amount of "communication rites" in Japanese business interactions is enough to be scared away.

On the other hand, I'd say that the bank person has enough reasons besides the honorifics to be really angry at the guy. The info posted indicates that they want to get rid of him and given that they cite technical difficulties, it might well be possible that their tech team already suspected the "non-banking-grade" software quality we are now hearing about.
Apple map is still scarily inaccurate [1,2,3]. Why should I or anyone risk this in the car?

[1] http://bgr.com/2013/09/25/apple-maps-disaster-runway/

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

[3] http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/11/new-clas...
Meanwhile, in Ubuntu land...

> This is to get into the next LTS version of Ubuntu,
Android Grabs Top Spot From iPad With 62% Share of the Tablet Market
> just seems... meaningless.

Not really. I'm currently focusing on shopping experiences and just showing this trend will help me 'open the eyes' of retailers. A lot of local businesses have old websites and still try to 'fight' mobile use in their stores instead of catering to it.
Meet Yolkfish – the goldfish that rocked youtube
Yolkfish is a revolutionary egg separator watch it in action, over 300,000 views on youtube
the funny bit is "does not participate in anyone’s efforts to decrease security in technology" ...the phrase is truly A GEM. Just to start with, how do you define "not decreasing security"? maybe as "preventing unauthorized access"? But oops, what does "unauthorized" mean and who is "authorized"? And "participate in anyone’s efforts"?! Won't even try to split the possible meanings of that!

...hopefully they do a better job at keeping their hardware backdoors (if they exist) off the "market" than they do at press releases. Nobody needs this for their dirty deeds anyway considering the current state of software security, and even a state agency would be stupid to use such capability even if they had it, for obvious reasons.
HN multi feed idea (blue ribbon / fun)
I love HN. It is addictive. But this is also a problem.

For the next week I decided to unplug from everywhere and focus on some math/python texts I want to rip thru. But I will miss all the good posts. (who has time to always keep up with the constant torrent of posts anyway?)

I had the idea.. why not (keep the existing main "fun feed" as is, unchanged!) and make a new "blue ribbon feed" which has just the filtered top/important stories (eg Whats app buy out, new version of python coming out, big math discovery etc...) and (no: look at my flappy bird clone, zuckerburg had a haircut, etc...)

What do you guys think?
It is impressive that PHP ran the largest Bitcoin exchange for a while and the main flaw happened to be a software hack than its ability to scale. If you think language X would be more secure and saved Mt Gox, the Russians would like to have a word with you
Brand Reputation: How British Airways Made It To Top UK Brands List
Karpeles confirmed Japanese brogrammer
MOEITS Tightens Security with Cryptzone
Also, we now see that the Wild West metaphor for Bitcoin banking carries quite far. If you fuck up in the wilderness, you'll not only be sorry, but you'll also be ripped apart by the wolves!

Maybe this can serve as a warning that the tedious processes used by banks and other institutions handling "serious" money can't just be disrupted away.
> The culture in IBM seems to be if you are a sales person or a project manager you are the well-treated elite, and anyone else (i.e. the researchers, the developers, designers, consultants - basically anyone who actually makes anything that IBM sells) can go fuck themselves and are treated as dispensable/replaceable assets.

That's a somewhat-sensible philosophy for a services company/consultancy (whose brand-name is its biggest asset) to take, though, isn't it? The only people IBM has to keep, to keep the lights on, are the salespeople (who introduce new customers) and project managers (who liase with current customers.) Everyone else is a black box that customers won't notice the replacement of. They could outsource everything but those people to subcontracting firms, and "IBM the services company" would persist.
I should add that I suffered through the video you mentioned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtBCrMLBCPw) long enough to establish that the word usage in the video's description matches my usage. She is arguing that people who believe in Hell (in the context of Christianity) do not truly/sincerely/actually/genuinely believe. Her argument is that belief based on fear rather than on evidence and sensory experience is not true/sincere/actual/genuine belief. She references fideism and belief for the sake of belief:

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

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Belief_in_belief
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Voice control works fine in Windows Automotive since at least 2008 [1].

Remember both Microsoft and Apple are using the same voice technology and sound libraries from Nuance Communication [2]. You can change the radio, mp3-playlist, do phone calls, listen the SMS, etc., though the internet enabled services are missing in older editions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Embedded_Automotive

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuance_Communications#Partnersh....
So to sum up the conversation so far -

A: This is not a well founded number and doesn't really tell us much
B: But I can still use it to sell my stuff!

Sorry to be snarky, but your response doesn't really contradict the OP's statement that the data point is meaningless, just tells us that it's useful to persuade people who probably don't have a great grasp of the area anyway. Any number of meaningless data points could be useful for that!
So, we need a better mouse.

How are computer simulation at modelling drug efficiency? Better than mouse, worse, unknown?
> It doesn't make sense as an explanation, especially given that we now know that some Russian clowns also had database access

Big Red Shoes, Inc.? ClownCarDB?
Mac OS X calculator fail
I was hoping for some kind of airplay for the car.
The main use case would be a third-party navigation or music app seamlessly integrating with this, with some kind of two-way communication with the phone to send back use input.

This feels strange and needlessly wall-garden, exactly like the apple TV before airplay.
Who cares if it’s true?
Particularly, that they picked a very risky investment for money they couldn't afford to lose. There's nothing wrong with investing money you need, but you should invest it in a safe, low-risk way, like a savings account or bonds or something (though those have turned out not to be entirely risk-free either).

High risk investment, like, oh, some totally unproven payment technology, is only for money you can afford to lose.
> I would insist, however, that the notion of human consciousness being a phenomenon worth preserving as long as possible isn't some 'New Age fantasy', come on now.

But it is a New Age fantasy. A million years from now, no matter what course natural selection takes, any surviving species will almost certainly be so unlike us that we would not recognize them as even remotely kindred spirits.

I chose a million years to avoid a discussion about how long it might take for natural selection to naturally eliminate us entirely. In that future time, there might be super-intelligent species who would be repelled by what we regard as high intellect, or there might be simple-minded cockroaches. Or (who knows) there might be cockroaches who would be repelled by what we regard as high intellect. :)

There's a natural tendency to think of us as a permanent or special fixture of the earthly landscape. But that has no basis in reality -- we're a transient form with no special significance. To me, our relative insignificance makes who we are, and what we can do, worthy of reflection and a certain amount of gratitude toward the random workings of nature for creating us in the first place.
Thought I'll quickly scan the source code... On the first screen:

$bean->Coins = (int)round($info['balance'] * 100000000);

Really? Currency as a float and rounding? Just so that he can later:

$client->sendToAddress($addr, $bean->Coins / 100000000);

I'm ready to believe in any error "due to a bug" they claim now.
Wrt. early social experiments: there clearly was a well-developed code-sharing community by the mid 1960s dealing with scientific computing in Fortran, with textbooks offering incremental refinements of programs to solve problems of shared interest, and there was some portability to such code, within constraints. But I think esr is talking about the emergence of a much more fluent kind of sharing, that needed much deeper portability and automated configuration, and much more direct peer-to-peer sharing of code, of the sort that the emerging connected networks that were to become the internet offered. What you are talking about resembles the early Fortran sharing more than it resembles the Unix-centric sharing.

The motivation for the tying you talk of is that it is this kind of code sharing that has really liberated hackers from the grip of proprietary computing. The Fortran and Basic -style of sharing still left hackers with considerable lock-in to the computing environment they were currently using.
Say that IBM had a plan that involved hiring 5000 pastry chefs. They did their jobs excellently, but it turned out that nobody wanted servers that baked doughnuts. Fire the management who came up with that stinker, or not, either way--but what good will come in keeping the 5000 pastry chefs?
>With this kind of computer power, our parents designed Hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, supersonic fighters and spaceships.

You can still write bare-metal code and run it on modern hardware with a thin OS that has functionality on par with the ones from that era.

Question is, why would you want to? What specific tangible development cost/time (or other) benefits do you get out of it?

>Now we make great Powerpoint decks...

Powerpoint is also a vector art editor, a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, a multimedia player, a language translator, a restricted web browser, a script engine, etc, etc.
it could also refer to the number 74, so maybe mr or ms anonymous is ~40yo right now ?
Legally it may be right but morally it just pisses me off.

What world do we live in when some religions nuts are allowed to exert undue influence by threatening the actors.

What you feel insulted by a movie? Keep it to yourself and move on.

I don't care if you're Muslim, Christian, Jewish or whatever the new religion your neighbor came up with once you start forcing your beliefs on other people by threats or whatever you find appropriate you have crossed the line.
I use a variety of things to GSD.

http://www.workflowy.com for high level stuff / to-dos.
http://www.basecamp.com for actual projects - always.
http://www.evernote.com for note taking - often I'll paste links to the Notes into workflowy.
I tend to use separate mailboxes and calendars for different things (so http://www.gmbl.io, http://www.granttree.co.uk and my PhD all have separate things), but it's amalgamated together in Google Calendar so I can turn them on and off depending on what I'm doing.

I also use HipChat for group chat (two versions, one in the client for work, one in the browser for personal projects.)
He is accidentally technically correct. Saying that "the human brain evolved to do x" implies that evolution has purpose or intention, which is not the case.
WhoTF cares !?! Seriously ?!?
and thats just the leaks you know about
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That seems about right. For American drivers, maybe a bit too long. :)
Remember, when working with bitcoin, that transactions are _irreversible_. Even in the real billion-dollar finance world transactions have been reversed for serious software errors. Not in bitcoin.
G-7 Leaders Statement
Well driving with an automatic in London traffic jam is much more comfortable than not being able to shift beyond 2nd gear ;-)

I have a Golf with a 7 speed DSG gearbox and trust me, in sport mode, you can have amazing and smooth acceleration.
Regarding point 2, long freeway drives will still be just as unbalanced with either transmission, or if you have cruise control, more balanced.

Regarding point 3, is that really true to an extent that would actually matter for ordinary driving?
One class to rule them all.
so Gox were also leaking passport scans?
A traditional automatic with a torque converter will always be less efficient I but the newer dual clutch models can probably match (or even exceed through better gear selection) the efficiency of manuals.
My reading of the comments here are that most people are saying "Looks great, but why?"

We can't just venerate something because it's been "given to the people" - we need to give OS just as much critical treatment as closed source. Otherwise, the community becomes a sycophantic collection of yes men, and those outside of it can't treat the products in the movement seriously in comparison to commercial offerings.

Criticism in its constructive form is vital for improvement, regardless of the intentions of someone putting something out there.
Software patents should include source code
At first I didn't get what you were saying because I just had a black background

I took like 5 to 10 seconds to load on this connection:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3344597847

.... Well Hum no thanks :)

I prefer Hangout for friends and Hipchat for work
Hacking Dell laptop charger identification (1-Wire protocol)
Without being able to determine future road conditions then automatics can't guarantee being in the "right" gear for the up coming section of road. Be that due to traffic, grading, weather, banking, sharpness of corner etc.

My go to example is the insanity of junction 15 of the m8, that loop onto the west bound motorway is a 270 degree corkscrew rising 30 feet with a diameter of 55 yards onto a 5 lane motorway where I need to go from the left hand lane to the right hand lane (as there are entrance and exit lanes on both the inside and outside of the motorway at that point). A current automatic engine wouldn't know what was the right thing to do in that situation ( https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.8672951,-4.2358853,374m/da... )

To determine all of that you'd basically be at the level of self-driving car. Which would be awesome.
"...even fat people.."

"..the fat old people..."

Is that proper language for an NYT article? It reads more like something from The Onion.
> He is accidentally technically correct. Saying that "the human brain evolved to do x" implies that evolution has purpose or intention, which is not the case.

But to say that human behavior evolved to meet a specific environmental requirement isn't a purpose, it's an outcome that allowed the genotype to procreate. It's a gray area and one must be careful speaking of goals, but if one is addressing a specific adaptation to meet a specific environmental requirement, it's all right.
Her claims are allegations, not truths. If I were the one getting death threats about my appearance in a controversial film, I wouldn't hesitate to lie about how much I knew about the film going into it.

As far as what actually happened, I haven't seen any alleged contract, and it seems to me if you act in a film you should expect no control over the final product unless you have a contract saying you do. The nature of the film could be changed; your lines could be dubbed.
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PHP is a tool and as any tool with a low learning curve it can be used by people with or without expertise.

I think we certainly have had PHP built infrastructure that scales, but surely you can see why an order matching system should not be written in PHP.

First of all, by doing it that way, the order matching system was coupled to the website, so now it makes perfect sense why the BitCoin price crashed after the DDoS attacks on MtGox. Because taking the website down meant taking the order matching down with it. No more trading.

From what I am seeing, this is not a case of PHP being evil (although, would you really run mission critical systems with PHP? The execution model doesn't make sense in that world and if you think a set_time_limit(0) on a PHP script is the same as an actual daemon written in a robust language meant for that execution model, then I think we are in extreme disagreement).

For me this is a case of a guy who's confidence was ahead of the reality. I'm sure in his mind a pacemaker running on PHP code is perfectly fine, and perhaps it might actually work for a while but that's just it, it will fail eventually (its a square peg in a round hole after all) and when it does it will be bad. We don't craft critical systems thinking of the best case scenario, we do it thinking of the worst and for my money, whatever happened at MtGox, its the worst case scenario.

PHP in Facebook, yes, NYSE? FUCK NO.
And it's down.
> Error establishing a database connection