skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks pretty exciting, but extremely disappointing they are gating the registrations. Makes me wonder if they are worried about scaling this early?
It also shows what happens in an environment without insurance.

I'm not sure why you raise this issue considering it's effective meaninglessness.

There are a raft of private insurance entities for things like pension funds and stock brokers (there used to be ones for state level "Thrift" banks. There used a mortgage bond insurance company too - it became insolvent in 2008. The pension and stock broker ones stay solvent by not necessarily fully guaranteeing any entity, etc).

None of the finance institution insurers are going to be large enough to actually insure against systemic failure. Essentially, these entity also, in supreme irony, operate with the fractional reserves principle. They only insure against a small failure every once and a while. Only the state, with it ability to print money, can provide real insurance for things that operate like a bank. So private financial failure insurance is a fancy fig leaf, it gave no comfort during 2008 crisis, etc.

And fricken really insure bitcoin exchanges? They would have to have enough dollars just sitting around doing nothing to do that and no one would provide these dollars. At best, all you're doing is asking for someone to sue if things go bad (OK, that's something but not much).
How, without some clever javascript (in which case you might as well use something like iconic)?
do you have any examples? i'm curious
Your point illustrates why government-backed currency is also a bad idea, at least when competition from private currencies is prohibited.
They're already super-dominant. Diminishing returns on leverage, I'd imagine.
CGI lets any server-side script "print" to the browser. (Apache "httpd" is a modular "do everything" web server, which you can customize and fine-tune for performance -- but some say it has a steep learning curve.)
Two Words: Grilled Veggies.

Get a George Foreman grill. Eat mor seafood. Shrimp and veggies go great together.

Also, veggies are just an excuse to eat garlic. Put garlic in your meat. Put garlic in your ice cream. Take garlic pills. And eat blueberries and broccoli if you're worried about cancer. Garlic is nature's formaldehyde.
It's fake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341539
These things remind me vaguely of the 'Ludovico treatment' in A Clockwork Orange. I don't think it's good for your eyes to remain staring at a fixed spot for extended periods; treating the fact that 90% of time reading is spent on saccades (eyeball movement) as a problem is like saying that time spent walking around your home or office is also wasted, and that we'd be better off using Segways.

Literacy deficits are a big problem, which won't be helped by displaying the words faster. So is shallow, uncritical reading. Like the chording keyboard, sequential word displays strike me as a solution in search of a problem.
Not multicolor within a single icon, though. I think the tagline goes too far, but they do have a legitimate edge there.
It matters because you don't eat "protein" you eat food that contains, among other things, protein.

A beef steak and a salmon steak are not the same.
>For most of my life I basically got no real protein in my diet -- cereal for breakfast, pasta for dinner, etc

You know both of your examples contain protein right? Pasta contains plenty of protein. Potatoes contain plenty of protein. This bizarre notion that the only way to get protein is from meat is complete nonsense.
I like how they expose details of an icon as CSS classes, well structured. I personally think its to expansive.

15-20$ would be okay.
>$49 Personal

>Unlimited use for personal, non-commercial projects. Go nuts!

Right, as if I'm going to pay $49 just to use your fancy icons which I can substitute with something similar for FREE, like fontawesome.

Seriously, who thought this crap out?
This was posted four hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7342753
The consequences of printing excess money during major financial meltdowns is something famous Nobel laureates still debate. The consequences of letting large segments of the population lose their life savings is a bit starker.
This study has absolutely ZERO merit (observational... ppssh!). And it is beyond irresponsible and bombastic to say protein is worse or as bad as smoking!

This study from Europe in contrast is the real deal:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/eat-burger-wo...

"In fact, the study shows that not eating red meat is a risk factor for an early demise."

Grass fed red meat is very healthy for humans. This is just pure scientific fact.

There's also this:
http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/06/25/jennifer-sygo-we-all...
US State Dept: “Surveillance should not be arbitrary,” except when it is
Shrimp is high in protein and cholesterol.
Nice ageist stereotype. But that's alright for you to do right?
Life after Kickstarter: How Petcube is preparing its gadget for the mass market
Yeah I'm just talking counterfactually. At the time there were no solid cascading DSLs whatsoever, cascalog wasn't even around for another 2 years or so iirc. Cascading itself was the new hotness vs writing raw map reduce, so c.j was kind of on the edge of what was out there. The decision to keep UDFs outside of Ruby was made at the outset (out of concern for performance, and being icing on the cake, etc.) and not really revisited.
Looks interesting. I've never heard of the Spritz reading method, maybe you could link to some info from the page here.
Im sorry but what is there to "play out"? The show is over. There is a bankrupcy filed protection that will decide what to give to whom but thats about it. We will never find out the truth. Even after extensive investigation, if any, you dealing with anonymous wallets over period of years that been sicking coins out of gox. Definite answer who did it, who knew it, even how they did it, will never come.
US Army briefing on OPSEC and social networking [PDF]
Fontawesome icons can be set to any color you want with CSS.

EDIT: My mistake, the website was down but I see now how it has multiple colors in the same icon. I would still stick with FA though.
Told ya. :) Cool study.

In all seriousness though LSD can have long-lasting effects on your personality. Also, while it seems possible you could develop a serious mental disorder from LSD, it seems unlikely; but I base that on my first-hand experience with it.
So? How does that in any way invalidate or even call into question their findings? More protein = more likely to die. Nothing in that requires salmon and beef to be identical.
The idea of using calc and VW units to linearly increase the font size is pretty cool. On real sites, though, it's important to keep control over exactly when the increases in scale are triggered. I'll set up some breakpoints just for the root font-size shifts, and have other breakpoints coordinated with additional layout changes I make within a design. The scaling and breakpoint settings tend to be unique between designs and non-linear.

I'm going to follow up to this post soon with a SASS mixin that gets around the @media query code bloat and lets you coordinate with globally named breakpoints.
Please stop reposting your "stop reposting" comments.
Encrypted All The Things gets support from Google & Twitter
Now I see what you were saying. I think the studio process strips the humanity out of music. I have been working on a feature request / outline of functionality for beets and etree that I need to finally submit to sampsyo. How awesome would this be:

$ beet etree --get dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac
etree: requesting ogg format
etree: fingerprints verified
etree: Success: Downloaded Album: 2007-12-13 - The Cactus Cafe
$

Archive.org has a somewhat documented API that describes all of the "resources." A lot of the shows even come with cover art for those that are into that.

JSON for recording: https://archive.org/metadata/dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac
Canada? Try New Zealand, we have the optimum climate for year-round grazing. No grain feeding necessary.
Worth noting that the initial discovery - identifying the common sequence motif - is a purely computational problem.
At this point it's difficult for me to take seriously any study or article attempting to equate animal products with adverse health effects. There's a religious element to food selection now and it's hard to tell what's legitimate vs. lobbying or proselytization.
Cities are willing to give Google a blank check but not other ISPs, basically because Google is Google.
This may be a fast way to pump words into my brain but it really feels like just that -- pumping words into my brain. Reading has a flow and part of the joy of reading is the way in which you do it. This feels really mechanical, maybe it'd be useful for reading technical manuals or news articles, but for more substantial information, I feel like the good old fashioned method is best.
The Sagan walk (he used to teach at Cornell) in Ithaca, NY, is pretty well-known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk
The risk that something like this is what happened is why Bitcoin companies (and other companies that deal with money) should have mandatory vacation policies for employees. With a mandatory vacation policy, it's much harder to a single person to commit fraud, since keeping up a fraudulent scheme requires daily attention to create fake books and records.

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/mandatory-vacation
Well "fraud" implies deception. I think the argument that "libertarian types" make is that very few people understand how money works at a high level (namely that the money supply can increase up to the money multiplier), and perhaps that the people who administer high level finance deliberately set things up to benefit themselves at the cost of the "common man." I don't think many people argue that fractional reserve banking literally constitutes fraud in the traditional civil or criminal justice system.
The thing is, salary is so arbitrary. People make up the number. How many tech companies out there actually says "all junior level developers make $80K, level 2 makes $85K"? Some people are paid more. If you are a frontend developer, you are likely getting less than a backend developer or a full stack. Sometimes fullstack engineers get the same salary as a frontend/backend but does two people's job. And I was told by people that asking other people's salary in American culture is rude. How can I find out what my co-workers are making. And even if I knew, how would I know my salary, as a male engineer, is too high? How do we judge? When we do an average on salary, we need several categories: companies (you can't compare Google to a local small business IT firm), location (NYC vs Portland), education, job performance (this is also quite arbitrary).
Insurers buy insurance from reinsurers, and this works quite well most of the time. Sure, government is the insurer of last resort in situations like the 2008 financial crisis, but that sort of systemic failure tends to only occur at generational intervals. In the meantime, governments also impose things like capital adequacy ratios and so forth to avoid bailout situations, even though banks don't like those very much.

I think you're taking the example of a systemic failure to mean that all such insurance is a waste of time. But most failures aren't systemic or massive.
> why do you think this matters. their study studies the relation between protein and longevity.

The article states:

Teasing out the health effects of individual nutrients is notoriously difficult. The apparently harmful effects of a high-protein diet might be down to one or more other substances in meat, or driven by lifestyle factors that are more common in regular red meat eaters versus vegetarians. Other factors can skew results too: a person on the study who got ill might have gone off their food, and seen a proportional rise in the amount of calories they get from protein. In that case, it would be the illness driving the diet, not the other way round.

A lot of people in the US who eat an animal protein rich diet get their protein from red meat instead of say white meat or seafood. There are huge differences between red meat and white meat, and even bigger differences between red/white meat and seafood.

And a lot Americans who consume red meat prepare it in a way that are known to form heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are known to cause cancer in animals.

Maybe the type of animal protein doesn't matter but if you don't look specifically at these issues you're apt to reach conclusions that are way too broad (ie animal proteins are bad). I don't think it's sensible to sound the alarm about animal protein before you have a study that factors for which animal proteins are being consumed.

One interesting thing to ponder in light of this study is the Okinawa region of Japan. It has a very high age expectancy (one of the highest in the world) and I believe a much higher than average protein intake, a lot of which comes from seafood. So I think it's folly to just look at protein intake without looking at the source of the protein and the overall composition of the diet. Things are usually more complex than we'd like them to be.
He's certainly a great writer. The thing that was lacking were the sources.
Knockout is my go to library when I need data binding. It's lightweight and doesn't interfere with your markup.
The only Abrahamic religion that views sex as only for breeding would be Catholicism (and maybe a few other smaller sects). Judaism, Protestants and Muslims all believe sex is a normal healthy thing.
I have found it to be pretty slow and painful.
I had seen this YouTube video of his (TEDx), where he starts with a question "what do you need a meaningful life?" ... and was almost brought to tears when finally he repeats the question and answers it: "So what do you need to lead a meaningful life?"
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'All you need is a Problem.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iWhljEbTE
If salaries are so hard to judge, why is it that people think it's obvious when there is a studying saying there is supposed wage gap between sexes?

It seems like the skepticism goes only one way, which is when the study says that wage gap between sexes is negligible.

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Your understanding is certainly limited. Housing prices all over the Bay Area have increased similarly. SF is not an outlier in terms of percentage appreciation compared to nearby cities.
Well,

Dollars are held in bank accounts that can be verified.

Bitcoins are not held in bank accounts. They are long strings of numbers in essence and "storing" bitcoins involve putting these numbers on a hard disk that isn't connected to anything.

I don't know enough about the bitcoin protocol to say this is possible but if an exchange could exhibit the public keys of their bitcoins without exposing the private keys, they could at least prove that either they or no one owns bitcoins of a given value.
There is plenty of research showing women and men do actually behave differently on average. One of the more interesting is when it comes to there jobs women are more rational as in they chose jobs that better fit their goals. Another is you find more men at the extremes both high and low height, weight, IQ etc. As in there standard deviation is generally higher which is just as often a good thing as a bad thing.

Note: Averages and standard deviations say nothing about individuals but they do explain trends.
Lopsided income growth in the US (interactive)
"Shit, for some reason people don't want to drop a wad of cash on a upgrade that provides no benefit to them and may not run effectively on their hardware. I don't understand it! Haven't these jerks heard of progress?"
I don't think it's reasonable to refer to the entire banking system (incl. wire transfers, etc.) as "legacy".

It's like referring to BTC as legacy crypto currency, because now we have dogecoin.
"the only one who knows how to do X" implies a Bus Factor of 1 - which is a big weakness for the organization.

Even if some people may like being irreplaceable in this way, it's a failure of managers if they allow it to continue.
I advised House of Cards on its season two plot
Auroracoin will only be "huge" should it be used like a currency. Right now, it's an interesting experiment that's going to lose all it's value within 1 month post launch.

I see no mention on merchant resources, an ATM, payment gateways, or anything else mentioned that will help the wider Icelandic community conduct business.

One thing that Dogecoin has done well is enabling it's use as an actual currency. The phrase "1 DOGE = 1 DOGE" is a testament to the fact that they're attempting to not rely on big brother Bitcoin to establish a value. Now, there's arguments for and against this approach, but the point still stands that it's value is only as strong as it's utility as a method of exchanging a value for goods and services.

Dogecoin found the right market and the marketplace adapted. Auroracoin is manufacturing a market, but with the expectation that its value will plummet post 'Air Drop', will the marketplace adapt to accept these fiat replacements?

The juice might not be worth the squeeze.
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So I wonder where are all commenters blasting Apple for careless coding. Crypto is brittle.
Girls and boys perform identically on programming challenge (Khan Academy)
I have tried microdosing. Took a sixth of a tab and disappeared for eight hours. When I emerged from this fugue state there was all this code there that wasn't there before~

In retrospect, that probably wasn't microdosing so much as it was just coding on acid.
This article seems to have fallen into a common misinterpretation of the results of the study. They assume that failing to reject the null hypothesis automatically accepts the null hypothesis.

The article says "The study authors did find that, on average, women in fields like programming earn 6.6 percent less than men (a Bureau of Labor Statistics study showed that women actually earn 11 percent more, however). But that difference is not statistically significant."

But that the difference is not statistically significant does not mean there is no difference. To show there is no difference, you'd need to show that the power used to run the study was sufficiently high to be confident.

The correct interpretation would be "the study failed to find a significant difference in salaries between men and women, but that does not mean there isn't one." Not as exciting of a headline I guess.

Update: I skimmed the study pdf and the study does not make the mistake as the article. In fact, I applaud the study for using two-tailed tests that gave them less power but more neutrality (so they were checking for gender differences in pay rather than if men were paid more than women). The study shows significant differences in pay in several professions but not engineering or math/CS.
Try a protein free diet and see how long that lasts.
That's an interesting idea.

A mandatory vacation sure would have put a stop to "Brian Molony"'s systemic theft from CIBC much earlier. iyww Biran Molony was the real life person behing the movie "Owning Mahowny".
>ESR himself does not bother to look at code, thus providing counter evidence to his own claim that open source software is seen by many eyes.

Do you not see how this basic statement is completely illogical?

"One guy doesn't audit code much, therefore nobody audits code." Seriously?
Managing a sprite for even 10 different icons is a huge pain in the ass.

Let's say you need a light and dark version of each icon, that makes it 20 different icons. Then you want a small version, and a big version of each, that brings it to 40. Then you need a version of each for retina, those 10 icons are now 80.

A font icon library is a god send when dealing with all these different variations since you can make these changes in the CSS without updating any of the icon sources files.
> that actually you know what... the more freedom women get the /less likely/ they are to work in a stem field?

It seems likely enough to me that this is true for men, too.
What's stopping google from submitting a proposal? This article is about LA putting out an RFP.
Where "the same" is 6.6% less.
Agreed. I've been a CondoInternet customer for a while, and have had an incredibly positive experience. They even just announced a promotion on their gigabit plan for $80 a month with no contract.

However, it is a pity that it's restricted to condos and large apartment complexes right now. It would be great if services like this were ubiquitous. Gigabit availability was a large factor in my decision of where to live.
What you're suggesting is that designers limit themselves to the what? < 100? professionally designed type families that are freely available? Like it or not, most of the open source fonts in the world are amateurish at best, hideous at worst.
Here. I will articulate it.

Each one of us is an unbroken chain of physical interactions since the beginning. There is no universe without conscious subjective experience; there is no conscious subjective experience without the universe. Life--conscious, experiential, intelligent life--is fundamentally intertwined with existence and you cannot have one without the other. The universe as a fundamental process is one that yields life; it is impossible to conceive of a universe where life does not exist, for without the experience, there is no universe.

We are, fundamentally, the universe experiencing itself subjectively from billions and billions of different facets and points of view.

More succinctly, we are all one.
Eeeesh... I don't like the aesthetic at all. Most of the icons I saw were very ugly. I'm also skeptical of the benefit of "baking in" detail rather than tailoring for your size and layout. Sorry.
I'm unsure if this is Colbert's character speaking, but during the Q&A he figured the logical end for Snowden would be his return home & pardon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ZGlKw6-hk#t=45
really? maybe my sense of humour lacks...
Doc Brown and Tony Hawk show off a real-life hoverboard (or not)
I'm one of those people unfortunately.

XP was all I needed for a decade. My firewall which has thousands of rules does not work with anything newer and other firewalls suck today, very badly.

I have many many programs which are licensed and I do not want to have to try to find the key for each one again, heck find the program again, only to find out it doesn't work beyond XP.

XP was just a launching UI for me, really could not care about how it looked. I have it very locked down and very tweaked.

And I really do not want to lose the months of getting something configured again. But come mid-April I won't have a choice.
The last real estate bubble was fueled by the ready availability of credit (subprime loans, Alt-A, etc).

These buyers today are often paying cash-- i.e. they are on the opposite end of the risk spectrum. They have no incentive to walk away if their house value falls 10%, 20%, 30%, etc.
This is grossly irresponsible. I am pleased to see most of the comments here realize that.

-Muscle tone requires more protein.

-Protein consumption is one of the very best ways to sate hunger, thereby reducing consumption of fat and carbohydrates.

-It takes more work for the body to convert amino acids to glucose and ATP, so the by the time it finishes your 'net calorie' is less than actually consumed.

-Unused protein is often excreted rather than stored in adipose cells (fat).

In short, protein is good for you. Both animal and plant protein. And while your minimum functions don't require all that much, you should probably be eating more. Poor conducted correlation studies don't change that.
Hey, look, there's a link to an article up there! Let's read it together: "Currently, the more than a decade old OS still has a market share of 29.53%." Wow!