skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not exactly cruel, but it's also not exactly the most pleasant way to die. We recently pulled a patient's feeding tube (in accordance with her own wishes - she had terminal cancer, and had been able to see the end coming for a while), and it took her a full freaking eighteen days to die on no sustenance but a single cup of water someone gave her on day six. We obviously had the poor woman on a morphine pump the whole time, so she was too out of it most of the time to suffer much, but it's not a perfect system - she kept having moments where she'd become more awake and agitated, and I did feel like she was experiencing some suffering in those moments during our best efforts.

Coincidentally at the same time, I had to have my cat put to sleep. The vet came to my house, he received a single injection, and then he peacefully fell asleep in my arms without so much as a twitch. The entire process took not five minutes altogether. I know which way of dying I'd prefer, if it was my terminally ill body at stake.
Xenon and the human body
Before lunch is everything else: gym, writing, work towards long term goals, administrivia, new business development. I always stop between 4:30-5p.
> It is a fundamental prerequisite that the currency have a backer for said currency to be used widely.

Yes, that's a prerequisite for a currency to function as it should, but I think you're suggesting that Bitcoin differs from paper money in that regard.

It happens that people trust paper money, but this isn't because paper money has some kind of innate authority beyond public faith and trust. If a particular government chose to manipulate the currency they could destroy it, either quickly or slowly.

> The essence of bitcoin is ephemeral with no control, no central authority and no recourse.

I think you're exaggerating the role of "central authority".

http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/uwr/images/transcript-img1...

To me, the only difference between Bitcoin and paper money is public familiarity.
Oh, like scylla in "Prison Break?
Sure, but if you have access to $300 million and want to tumble $1 million, wouldn't it be hard to track you?
There is some emacs support for TypeScript. Not sure how good it is.
I'm not an expert in algebraic statistics, but I think sometimes the answer is yes: http://acritch.com/media/math/critch-causality-talk-slides.p...

You have to assume the data you have is all that there is, and sometimes the math will only give a class of causal graphs instead of a single causal graph.
Why every tech company needs an English major
Pretty superficial... the article I mean.
> the primary applications for it have been to buy drugs, hire hit men, and launder money

Has anyone actually determined whether such claims are credible? It should be possible to analyze if that's likely, even if it would be hard to prove.
Yes and no. I've certainly reduced what Lessig states to what I found the most fitting way to summarize the problem he describes, but the corruption in the system really comes down to that as he so clearly explains towards the end of the video by marching in New Hampshire for campaign finance reform.

Many people don't participate because they don't feel represented until the issue affects them directly (NIMBY politics), yet there are countless issues in which we are affected as citizens because we let lobbyists and those that fund campaigns dictate legislation.

Many people here are always raging about patent law, copyright law, etc. Those were all Lessig's causes until Aaron Swartz made him realize that all the powerful interests have the legislators by the balls, so until that gets fixed, progress on any other front will be difficult.
Postgres may not be perfect, but it's certainly not as consistently dopey as MySQL.
Yahoo didn't encrypt webcam traffic. Why is the outrage only at GCHQ?
Give me one example where seigniorage preceded raw metal.
>"Physical cash" stored at a third-party like a bank or credit union does have mugger protections - they have safes and vaults and security guards and insurance. If a bitcoin "wallet" service opened that offered those things, consumers would be more likely to take it seriously.

Indeed. But you wouldn't fault the paper dollar itself for failing to have the protections of the vault, just as you shouldn't fault the Bitcoin itself for failing to have he protections of escrow, nor compare a paper apple to a vaulted orange.

Yes, 3rd party services will help with the trust issue in the Bitcoin ecosystem. They are still not a failing of Bitcoin per se, just as lack of built in mugger protections is not a failure of the paper dollar per se.
I would have lost it all. Now, where can I buy some lotto tickets.
The numbers are very insightful and bolster the case for staying together, but the simplest explanation is that other very smart companies, that is, Google and Amazon, are looking to bundle commerce and payment together as well. At some point, PayPal can grow faster on its own, but that point is probably not now. Hitching itself to the second largest ecommerce player seems to accelerate growth.
Your site sounds really interesting! Look forward to learning more about it.
To be fair, PD is the only italian party whose direction has been elected democratically (I'm Italian and I voted to the last PD primarie).

What's wrong with this democratic process? Internal debate started only after approving law. Don't you think this is... wrong?
The IRS never specifically targeted right wing non-profits. The list of keywords they used included both right wing indicators like "tea party" and left wing indicators like "progressive".

The tax categorization these organizations were applying for is meant to exclude political activism, so flagging organizations with explicitly political names was a reasonable approach.
That is the most optimistic possible interpretation of this research.

Sure, it's possible this line of research could lead to recovery, but the idea that the brain is "on pause" while in a persistent vegetative state and would be capable of returning to normal function is probably not reality.
LinkedIn's auto-invite strikes again.
An arithmetic mistake changed the outcome of a US presidential election
The original point was that 3rd party services can offer consumer protection.

My point was that they can do this to bitcoin too.

What did I misunderstand?
Their demo is really a pain to use in my 1024x700 browser windows. And even when I switch to fullscreen actually (but I'd rather not).
Except that it turns out the IRS wasn't actually targetting right wing groups.

Whereas COINTELPRO on the other hand...
Yeah, its clearly not hypocrisy.

OTOH, it should be also clear that there is a problem with the pro-bitcoin argument here, as bitcoin hasn't yet solved the need for instititutions like exchanges. Which shouldn't be surprising, as the thing that bitcoin directly decentralizes (transaction validation and currency issuance) aren't the functions that exchanges serve.
100% agree. The moment an idea is taken into someone's brain it is translated and distorted by their unique perspective.

That said, I feel like there's a certain point at which the interpretation goes from being unconsciously-manipulated to consciously-manipulated. For example, Roger Ailes presenting a narrative on a daily basis for Fox News personalities to play to is obviously a conscious manipulation.

Someday, there'll be a way some kind of biometric way to authenticate a put-forth idea as your brain's best attempt at neutral translation of an event (sort of like verifying a message is from you with PGP), but until then we'll have to rely on people being dumb and obvious in their manipulations a la Fox News.
This does look very interesting. Do you have any stats available, or is everything too new?

I'm just wondering if a developer could make a decent monthly living by working 40hrs/week on different projects.

Also, what happens if one of these projects wants to break out and go for VC money? Is each contributor's stake a legally binding "share" of the app?

Lastly, who owns the idea, in a legal sense? Would Assembly receive all revenue and distribute it, in which case it's logical that it would receive all ownership of ideas?
I would be interested in seeing how the sweepstakes compared with what the candle company was originally planning for a Valentine's Day promotion. Presumably the opportunity cost of running this kind of promotion is greater than zero.
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I think it's just syntax highlighting, like the current ST support [1]. There's notable vim support [2], but... I prefer GUI editors for IDE-style development.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/10/01/...

[2] https://github.com/leafgarland/typescript-vim
Actually, Haskell people do influence C++ rather heavily. The ideas behind many of the functional aspects of C++ can be traced back to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where Simon Peyton-Jones works and whose collaborators/students went on to design F#, which very strongly influenced C#, with major contributions from Erik Meijer, a Haskeller extraordinaire and the inventor of LINQ and Reactive. Microsoft PPL library, which is the driving force behind most recent concurrency extensions to C++ has been created by functional programmers. The truth is that C++ cannot survive in the multicore world without an injection of functional programming.
The guy doesn't describe how, on the phone, he did his 30 second pitch to get the meeting... But then, in person his longer pitch was, I license this for $$$ and you guys build and market the commercial version. It's an early, and even better version of, "I have an idea for the next Facegrouponwhatsappfloppybird, you should do it for equity!!"

If the guy had said, "I'm going to get it bank-rolled and shrink-wrapped and want to work an exclusive bundling deal with you to market to doctors..." then Jobs would have said, "Let's take our sandals off and touch toes."
> The gold and silver standards were established by central authorities.

No, this is false. Gold and silver had innate value long before anyone "in authority" declared this to be so. In fact, central authorities eventually recognized the value of gold and silver, they didn't declare it or bring it into being.

The really remarkable event, that cements the role of modern government in economic matters, was the relatively recent unlinking of paper money from the backing of gold and/or silver. This step was taken for a number of excellent reasons, but it was predicated on the idea that the public will have faith in the stability of the economy, not on the innate representational value of paper money.
Asset forfeiture is, and always has been, a clear violation of the rule of law. (A suspect is innocent until proven guilty). Precedent or no.
As well as for security, I believe it's to help with things like purchase history, recommendations etc. technically even though it's free, it's still a purchase. If you change your phone it's easy to back up or remember the apps you had installed by referencing purchase history and stuff.

I'm not sure also but if something goes from being free to paid, you are covered to still get it free but that is purely speculative.
What was the largest online Bitcoin marketplace and what was sold there?
Packet Sender is a free utility that allows sending/receiving TCP/UDP packets.
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The builtins are broken, that is why there are new builtins liked `sorted()`, list.sort() returning None is not an improvement. The standard libraries are a _mess_, there is absolutely know cohesion in their api design, or even naming conventions (go peruse the standard lib). Much of what is Pythonic is someones opinion on how a nanny-language should behave.

At this point I think calling something idiomatic or Pythonic is a thought terminating statement. I need to see refutation.
On some level this short article provides the answer: as more women attend the conferences, there will be fewer cases of "booth babes" being hired, and the ones that will be will have to be proper sales people. Then again, there is a big difference between the RSA conference and, say, a video game convention.
Actually if they could make it that small wouldn't it also be useful for surgery? Imagine non invasive surgery.
True, stupidity is a powerful force :)

I'm loathe to resort to "gold is/was a currency" but it does fit reasonably well. Its value is so far beyond its actual usable-as-a-thing value that it really doesn't matter if it's zero or not. If the gold market collapses, because that's completely possible, it takes every stockpile down with it and everything they propped up. Unless your argument includes that gold is stupid and not a currency, in which case we can at least agree we're being consistent :) It's hard to argue in favor of Bitcoin if you're not in favor of gold, and I'm not equipped to argue gold.

On the trust aspect: honestly, I trust algorithms more than governments. 1+1=2 has outlived every government in existence. Plenty of governments have exploded violently and without general awareness until it happened and I see no reason why X won't. "Safe" investments pop sometimes. Bitcoin is undeniably much more volatile, but that doesn't make it untrustable in the long run.

(for the record, my interest in Bitcoin is almost purely as a protocol. I just fail to see why it can't be considered a currency.)
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I'll concede that there's probably a middleground that's kinga gray, but are you really going to defend bona fide scraper sites? Like ones that simply grab all the text off some other site and repost it, adding no value? Google is obviously adding value by providing snippets from Wikipedia.
Showed this to a senior dev at work and he pointed out another (subtle) error

for each in enumerate(items):
if each.match(self):
# This fails because enumerate yields an (index, value) tuple.
# Match isn't a function defined on tuples.
Teachers unions influence local politics and Democratic Party primaries very heavily.

Yes, the combined voice of a group of teachers can make a significant difference. Why? Well, they're affiliated with other unions, to start. Further, as most are state employees, their ability to strike impacts public opinion regarding state government.

They've also got a lot of power because they are with your kids 6-7 hours a day.

They understand how political they need to be to keep the status quo, and are (at least in my and everyone else I know's experience) more focused on supporting the existing system for long term members than creating a better system for learning.
I still would have expected worse, just from the sheer bad publicity press. It's also hard for me to believe that the market had fully priced in the possibility that MtGox would collapse, and that price was only about 1/2 - 2/3s the value of BitCoin. I would easily have expected 2-3 factors of magnitude with a good odds of a full-on death spiral.

So far, I've been wrong, and rationality compels me to adjust my beliefs in reaction to that. (Bearing in mind the market may still remain irrational longer than I can retain solvency in my opinions. Still... this is not what I would have predicted two weeks ago.)
The less tantalizing title is "Steve Jobs was uninterested in building the pet application of a non-technical, non-businessman while he was leading the fastest growing company in the world." At the time, Apple's revenue was doubling every FOUR MONTHS.
Ah, a whole thread filled with pseudo-intellectual discussion about what scraping is (or isn't) due to some silly snarky-joke which Matt is probably laughing at, too. Hacker News to the rescue!
I don't get it. There's nothing wrong with using your physical assets to draw in conversation and make a sale. If someone labels you as a 'booth babe', then great! You've done well to have one of your assets recognized to get the job done. If you don't want to have that certain asset acknowledged, don't feature it.

To make myself clear, I don't think there is anything wrong with physical attraction. We're all adults and we all understand physical attraction gets peoples attention. Why do we have to pretend, then, that it's some sort of derogatory title when you're acknowledged for taking care of your body and wearing sexy clothing?
To send tcpdump output to your local Wireshark:

ssh -c arcfour root@myserver tcpdump -nn -U -s0 -w - 'not port 22' | wireshark -k -i -
Well, as of now, it's not entirely their choice. The courts have a large say in things now.

But I don't think there's a lot of money here to go around, in any case.
Well, then. That suggests, at the very least, partisanship - which has no place in news moderation unless you're an overtly partisan outlet. To be clear, I don't mean partisan in the traditional GOP/dem fashion, rather pro-apparatus and anti-apparatus. It also means easy contact with intel types - he may not even realise that he's being influenced, if he is.
Regrets for the sizing issue. Hopefully it still get's the job done.
I don't see your email, but I added to mine. (gmail, jimhart3000). :)
So the 19th century political controversies about switching from a silver standard to a gold standard never happened?
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You're right, me too. But this is valid only for iPhone 5S. I'm talking more globally across Apple devices.
What Mt. Gox shows is that the integrity of bitcoin as a currency is somewhat dependent on the level of technical sophistication of 'legitimate' bitcoin players versus the technical sophistication of 'illegitimate' bitcoin players. If the bitcoin establishment isn't the smartest people in the room, then can a person on the street trust them?

Anyone can put cash in their mattress and reasonably assess the risks. Likewise the risks associated with a bank are somewhat knowable.

But assessing the risks with crypto currency is almost impossible for even a reasonably sophisticated user. Under a rational actor model, bitcoin becomes attractive when the risk of not being able to assess the risk of bitcoins is less than the risk of using another form of transaction - e.g. Silk Road.

That's not to say that bitcoin = Silk Road. But any bitcoin transaction has a higher probability of involving a party with fewer inhibitions against illegal activity. Will the person who uses bitcoins to avoid taxes on the income from AirBnB rentals rob you? Probably not. But as using bitcoin becomes a more compelling economic option, the activity is likely to be farther away from the bounds of law.

Amassing bitcoins makes sense when it is the best economic option and the scenarios in which that will always apply are speculation and legal burdens on other currencies. In neither of those cases is their a reason to trust the other party.
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If it's done at random and only given to those who participate in discussion and get responses and good karma, then manipulation becomes far more difficult. Unless the marketers, government agents, or other unwanted parties are involved in the same capacity as everyone else, then you shouldn't have to worry about spurious moderation.

The only caveat to this is that it encourages a further echo chamber effect, but then again you're already engaging in one by participating in a forum anyhow.
The unconditional "goto out" makes the code beneath that condition but before the "out:" label unreachable code.
What framework is Atom using? chromiumembedded or appjs?
Fair enough. I shouldn't have been snarky.
Commodities have intrinsic value. A fiat currency such as bitcoin lacks that intrinsic value and is valued based on consensus. In the case of a government-backed currency, there's at least some value based on that government's ability to mandate its use for taxes. Governments can manage that with varying degrees of success but any official currency has more intrinsic value that Bitcoin to the extent that the government has sovereign authority over a larger economy.

This doesn't mean that Bitcoin can't be valued but it means that the community has to have a strategy to provide equivalent reassurances.
Those are taxed, so that's perfectly OK.
Great idea, terrible name and logo. Sadly moving on to something else.
The paper printer will be dead in four years, says IEEE
Got mine this morning, 1048 days later. Nice, but hardly makes up for this whole ordeal, yet another reminder of just how free the "Land of the Free" we live in is.
boot2docker[1] is now the recommended environment for docker on osx, but sadly sharing files is not as easy as it is with docker-osx.

They just integrated nfs support though

[1] https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker
If security services judged people by their hair, they would be rather easy to infiltrate and subvert.
Just speculating here, but a func that just ends without returning, effectively returns None, so that idiom may be considered redundant. IMHO, it's often worth the additional clarity to be redundant in this way.
We're discussing how well each collation SORTS international strings, not whether or not you can store them. There are a lot of instances where you need to be able to store an international string without needing to be able to do a highly accurate ORDER BY on that column.

It's also worth mentioning that by design, UTF-8 doesn't use any more space for storage than ASCII. There are exceptions when databases need to pre-allocate storage, but in general, you should just be using UTF-8 everywhere.
I use this tutorial all the time when I'm trying to debug MTA issues.
do you need to design a schema for the backend or does it automatically create it based on the form data that is posted through?
haha :-) upvoting this.
When I was younger this quote didn't even make sense to me- I had no idea what Emerson was trying to express. As I've gotten older, not only did it start to make sense, but I honestly think this quote is one of the few examples of true wisdom that humanity has acquired.

I think of this whenever I see the (many, many, many) examples of people who latch onto an abstract philosophy, then proceed to drive it into the ground without a hint of skepticism or devil's advocacy as they try to apply it every aspect of the world around them. People can become so enamored of an idea that they'll go to great lengths to warp their view of the world to conform to that idea, rather than update the idea based on what they see around them. Religious fundamentalists are easy targets here, but I'm thinking more of the extreme devotees of the various political perspectives.

Frequently these ideas/philosophies/etc. are very good ones, but when the philosophy becomes so enshrined and calcified that it ceases to evolve, it can become something that might guide you near the truth but prevent you from ever actually attaining it.

This is actually what I think of every time someone defends RMS by citing his consistency over the years. Without getting into the rightness or wrongness of his beliefs, his consistency is not a virtue. The flip side of this is the monologue in Diamond Age about hypocrisy- the tendency people have to use an example of apparent hypocrisy or inconsistency to discredit everything a person says or does.

TL;DR consistency is not necessarily a sign of truth and hypocrisy is not necessarily a sign of falsehood. Neither the world nor the minds of the people in it are perfect, so neither perceived consistency nor perceived hypocrisy are 100% accurate indicators of truthiness. Nothing absolves us of our responsibility to think for ourselves and maintain a healthy skepticism about the world around us at all times.
much inconsistent.

One nifty feature of Postgresql is that if you have a group by a,b,c,d, you need to aggregate everything else in your select that isn't a/b/c/d, or the statement won't prepare, whereas if you don't select an aggregate in MySQL you'll just get one random column, which is probably not what you want.