skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming
That's fine. But "colored coin" is a term that has a broader use than that.
I'm both horrified and comforted.

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." -Eugene McCarthy
Exactly and every time they lost some of their developer's support. The point is that Facebook could kill HVVM and Hack tomorrow and wouldn't get developer anger, because it's not their product.
For bash keywords, don't look in the man page, try "help <word>".

The Bash man page does not contain a complete description of Bash, only a brief summary. "man <builtin>" provides a generic builtins page usually, since the builtins can vary between shells so one man page can't cover all of the different shell behaviors. However, bash has a "help" command which will give you the bash-specific description of a given builtin.

Other than that, I usually find the HTML Bash documentation easier to read and navigate than the info, so I just use that instead.

And yes, the sudoers man page is pure evil.
> "What is modern?"

Oh, well, let's not be too hasty in becoming efficient and up-to-date here. Obviously, having a sneaker-net is fast enough for you simply because the name has the term "net" in it. One of my old employers has a few vintage DEC VAXes if you want to start out on saving on your pencil budget.

I can confirm, though that the "chase the physical signature" game is still alive and well. /shiver

I would, however, like to be the pizza guy with a security clearance. Employment while it lasts :D
> Also, I think recording strangers in public would help curb antisocial behavior.

We have that ability already. In Australia last year there were several cases of racially motivated verbal abuse on public transport being caught on mobile phones. These made the evening news. I wonder if this, and other similar instances around the world, have made anyone think twice before being anti-social.
I think that the state attacking a citizen should have a higher bar, not necessarily that all civil suits should (though I do think that as the penalties get steeper as a percentage of someone's net worth, the bar for proving wrongdoing should rise, or the judge should scale the damage award by the level of certainty provided by the evidence).

Agreed that many bad ideas have some plausible justifications.
not much more encouraging. it looks to me like patch work. ive had this in the past. would give a PoC to a client along with a recommended design change to the questionable methods of the code. they would send back a new version with a patch much like all of those linked here. in the end those patches address the PoC but not the problem. then i just rework the PoC to go around the patch. This cat-mouse game goes on until they go back, do the f'ing work, and implement the original design change suggested. I say all that just to point out that this looks like patch work and is a scary behaviour. Then again, maybe this is the nature of nodejs (omg).

Also, as a general rule:

ANY SECURITY PATCH THAT IS A REGEX IS NOT A SECURITY PATCH
Aren't "mixers" basically acting as money launderers in that scenario? In the real world that is illegal and frowned upon so it should be in the bitcoin world too. Suppose I'm running Honest Business Inc. Since all transactions are public info, I can easily refuse transactions from mixer addresses. I can even decide to refuse transactions from address which are < N nodes separated from mixers and so on. If everyone in bitcoin land decided to freeze out blackmarket addresses it would make it very hard for crooks to use their stolen coins.
Pay your way through college? Of course you can. You just have be able to to think outside the box.

And if Belle Knox can do it, you can do it:

- http://www.sbindependent.org/belle-knoxs-lust-education/

- http://www.the360experiment.com/2014/03/entertainment/colleg...
I've been thinking about this for various weeks and thinking about implementing something like (no, not like, it is exactly what you described) this, but everybody I ask to comment on the idea tells me about Grubhub and similar services, and they just don't understand why there would be other kind of service.

The great thing about automatically building webapps for delivery restaurants is that this can work even if you have just 1 client, while Grubhub only works because they have lots of registered restaurants (and, as you said, it doesn't work, because the restaurant doesn't tell anybone it is on Grubhub, probably because of the fees or the inexistence of a unique readable URL to the restaurant's page on Grubhub, or because if the restaurant's client go to Grubhub he will see a lot of other restaurants besides the first).

FDRAaaS (Food Delivery Restaurant Apps as a Service), is the blog service, while Grubhub is Facebook.
I'd say this is not as big a deal as textbooks, because you need textbooks long after you're done with the introductory courses that use these systems. For example, I have a few dozen textbooks on my shelf costing well over a thousand dollars in total, but after four years of undergrad I can count maybe three times I needed to pay to enroll in an online homework system, for a total of what, maybe $300?
That's extremely interesting, but how does it jive with the emails about the Safari team? The Safari team probably has some management, but I assume it does not have a sales department.
Yes fiat has become a word of derision amongst the cryptocoin community, completely ignoring the fact that cryptocoins are essentially a form of fiat currency. Many crypto fans sidestep the fact that cryptos also don't have intrinsic value, and the networks aren't as a decentralized as one would think(handfuls of devs, early adopters, and pool and exchange operators hold a large sway over the networks and future of the coins).
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At the end of the day, morality isn't nearly as elastic as people suppose. You either have it or you don't.

I'd like to believe that, but most of what I've learned about sociology and economics says otherwise.
Am I the only one who thinks this might not be about the bread?

YC has funded delivery-as-a-service before. If you were going for that, a stunt like this could be brilliant.
A developer is pretty well paid when compared to other professions regardless of the price fixing scheme. I'm not sure fixed pricing and developer shortage are linked.
Threatening people who are swearing loudly with much of anything is pretty much guaranteed to lead to a confrontation.
Seems like a hard to scale lifestyle brand because delivery and manufacturing are going to hurt (time and $). It's more of a fit for Shark Tank after they've tested that it can generate profit.

And if they ask for too much %, just quote 'pg "All we really wanted was your money." :)
Because it's wrong? That line is in the "Restricted Hiring" part of that document. The "Do Not Cold Call" section didn't include that caveat.
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This is probably my favorite post ever on HN.
Very enlightening. And, like lots of good things.... it's simple.

As others have mentioned, it would be nice to scroll down the diagram.

But, I guess if this were really wanted, git clone would be the first step:)
Those tests smell fishy. If they use classic disks then typical average seek time is 8ms. Yet they measured 0,2ms which is ridiculous. My guess is that they used small virtual disks and measured page cache of the underlying host. 128MB limit for random read tests is also horribly wrong to make any conclusion.
There's no engineering shortage. They're all just trying to flood the market with more engineers from all around the world.

You could argue that this is the actual natural order of things. Let the free market decide the value of an engineer, not arbitrary government regulation. It is the Silicon Valley way, after all.
This is prima facie collusion and corruption. These executives should be fired and prosecuted for fraud and collusion. If it doesn't happen, it means our society endorses corruption and encourages this, and we'll see more bad behavior.
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55 million views, 260000 subscribers, YouTube has deleted my channel
In years past, states contributed a much larger proportion of public school budgets than they do today. Much of that money now goes towards Medicaid. Much of that Medicaid money does not go towards the poor but rather middle class who go to nursing homes. They spend down their assets and transfer them to their children.

Hence, at least partially because of the middle class not buying nursing home insurance, the public universities are being deprived of their funding.

Nowadays, City University of New York tuition reportedly is $3000 per semester. At least in some fields (eg Engineering) you can get a very good education there I am told.
I believe it is illegal to have companies collude to not actively recruit ("cold call") from each other. It diminishes the market demand for those employees and indirectly suppresses their wage.
Yes, pmail is strictly more secure than email (noting that nothing is 100%, blah blah). A letter contains less metadata than email - only the recipient address needs to be valid, where "validity" means "corresponds to a deliverable address" with no requirement that it correspond to a particular identity. Merely observing the contents, without triggering your tamper-evidences, requires at least semi-skilled labor. This labor needs access to the physical letter, which means the USPS at some point is directly involved in cooperating & keeping their mouths shut. Notably, applying all this takes the adversary more time per interception than it takes you to write another letter. The contents can still be encrypted regardless.

Do not make the perfect the enemy of the better. This is the kind of thinking that gives us big scary warnings for self-signed SSL certificates, and lets plain HTTP connections proceed unmolested.
If he figured it out, so can anyone else. Disclosing the find levels the playing field for any eventuality.
I'm very much in favor of these cameras, but there's one extrapolation that few have proposed: Why not encourage private citizens to record their public lives? Most of the arguments for recording police apply to everyone: Allegations are quickly discovered to be true or false.

Here's a hardware startup idea: A voice recorder that reliably records only your own voice. This could be combined with a soundless video record to legally and automatically record your public life in almost any jurisdiction in the US.

There are other perks to life-logging. Conversations could be transcribed and searched, eliminating many disputes as to who said what.

Basically the same perks and drawbacks to small town or village life.

Think Russian dash cams on steroids.

People lie. A lot! And even people trying to be accurate and truthful are subject to all sorts of malfunctions.

...If you catalog all of the pernicious things humans do to themselves then Homo sapiens comes out worse than any "forehead-alien/warlike species" from any sci-fi TV or movie property. The Klingons or the Kzinti have nothing on humans in terms of cold, sadistic, or violent tendencies. The Ferengi have nothing on us in terms of greed-driven amorality. Even Sith Lords are amateurs at cold-blooded Realpolitik compared to actual historic figures.

Humans are wonderful and horrible all at the same time. Maybe that's the solution to the Fermi Paradox. We're like the extremely interesting person you find so hot on okcupid, but you know way better than to even consider dating them, precisely because they're a little too interesting.

When all is said and done, voluntary free-market self-surveillance is still preferable to the closed-minded doublethink of traditional religious/social institutions and their methods of controlling us unruly humans.
Apple played an important role in this, but that's irrelevant. The fact that this is still going on holds equal wait on all the Silicon Valley giants. I mean who cares if Apple played a role in this. Oh right... We hate Apple...

The fact of the matter is these are companies that are self interested, it just so happens that a lot of their technologies agree with what many people believe. Decentralization of power, power to the people, internet, technology, rebellion against old ways, etc. etc. But we can never forget that these companies are exactly what was in the past, just in a new era with new toys.

If we're to make progress it's important to try, and do things differently.
My hats off to folks that execute on something.

What's the end game? It seems like premeditated failure into murderously brutal markets where distribution is painful. If they're going to do it themselves they're going to learn quite quickly that it can only work in about a dozen metros. That's a 20 million a year business with margins that will be tiny....

Doesn't butter my bread.
you could start with Google and with terms:

- K-fold

- Confusion matrix
"As far as I can tell from the evidence, this was a 'no cold call' agreement, not an agreement not to hire people who apply or to set their wages"

There has been plenty of evidence over the past 12 months that there was exactly such an agreement "not to hire people who apply".
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Mixers maintain fungibility. If fungibility is lost, I don't see much future for Bitcoin.
Employees have to think of themselves as an asset with their employer aiming to minimize costs. Salaries are a negotiation with risk involved. It is a free market, with many competing companies aiming to reduce costs. Does a free market mean all companies can't communicate? The companies are still free to hire whoever they want. People are still free to work for whoever they want.

Thanks for the book suggestion, please feel free to quote more books without debating my comments.
Talking to someone in the baked goods manufacturing business might save a whole lot of pain.

Some markets aren't occupied for a reason and others just haven't been explored.

But if it's at all successful, they're gonna get slaughtered by incumbents unless they defend a niche or offer a more compelling "why we make bread" story. (Also the bread kind, not just the green.)
> tech companies agreeing not to cold call, and no other form of not hiring or price fixing, and that as long as this is limited to stopping cold calls it isn't illegal.

Yes, it's still illegal.
paraphrasing a quote I can't remember or find by searching "you can avoid worrying about consequences but you can't avoid the affect of consequences." To your point, people can think whatever they want about how much they think they're worth - but it's the free market, with aggregated supply and demand that actually values the worth.
cartel =/= free market.
It's not about being suppressed in an active way. For the problem I'm talking about, it's completely sufficient for the disagreed-with posts to simply not rise to the top of the discussion.

Remember, HN doesn't even show the vote counts on posts, so you can't extract hardly any agreement-disagreement info from a post (other than it's not so bad as to be downvoted to oblivion). The true and important function of the votes is to control visibility.
Seems like people are clutching at straws here. We shouldn't go making fact-less accusations that the coins are being sold when we technically don't have any proof, the link is very weak at best. Given Mt Gox's collapse and surprising lack of security or due-care, it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, but there is a massive if there.
The US Government has a conflict of interest problem with private contractors in that they tend to be the next stop of government workers. If you actually want competition[1] at the Federal level than this really needs to stop.

I still say it should be illegal for government employees or elected officials to take jobs with a company holding or bidding on Federal contracts for a period of 5 years after leaving government service. The only exception I can see is military personnel that have not served on a procurement job.

1) competition for contracts at this time is a joke
It's downright amazing to me how these exchange thefts/hacks have made barely a dent in the price of bitcoin. Or maybe the converse is true, if there were none of these massive swindles, would the price of bitcoin be much higher than it is right now? 2000 USD? 4000?
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Is there anything similar in Paris already?
> with many competing companies

obviously these companies were not competiting hiring engineers...

> People are still free to work for whoever they want.

whatever.
Employers "conspire" to hold down wages -- "bad".

Employees "conspire" to raise wages (unions) -- "bad".

Keep in mind the multiple dimensions upon which "privilege" acts -- including those of perception.

In other words, you think people should be "free" as "individuals" to earn whatever they are worth. Well, at its simplest, that is what you are going to get. You are ALSO going to get employers to work against this. Welcome to "libertarianism".

In other other words, I'm suggesting that we are all members of society, and that our personal interests do not lie solely in our own, personal remuneration.
The whole "immigration reform" is a continued effort by these companies to import cheaper labor...

Don't be fooled by altruistic PR coming from Zuck and others...
Agreed. ucarp is almost trivial to deploy:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/678/Virtual_IP_...
> Handy buttons as a part of the standard equipment of receiving sets should put many a counterfeit statesmen and professional hot air artist in his place; and, of course, they should be equally valuable as registers of sober, thoughtful public opinion.

And this is precisely why some powerful interests are so afraid of the internet, and of letting it run its course instead of using it to fiddle with people. Here's hoping that these boots actually are made for walking, and that walking is just what they'll do.
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> That said immigration policies do need to change, and immigration is indeed a good thing for this country.

I want them to change too... but in a different way. I'd rather that we take the unwanted and wounded, the homosexuals threatened to receive capital punishment in Uganda, the atheists who worry for their lives in Saudia Arabia, the homeless in Mexico yearning for just a small improvement in the access of opportunity (no matter how small of a step it may be). Let the Indians keep their talented engineers -- let them improve India, god knows it's got enough problem of its own, don't send them to us here so they can make another silly app. Let China keep its engineers, so they may one day create technologies that truly challenge the great firewall.

Seriously, is it just me who sees this aggressive attempt of siphoning the world's talent as being opportunistic and predatorial? This is not the spirit of America that Emma envisioned, this isn't something to be proud of.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I could also get used to delivered deserts.

Esp delivered by quadcopter.
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UH, CEO collusion is the same as "arbitrary [executive] regulation"....

The free market is what the actual value of the engineers is - not how the CEOs choose to work together to suppress prices.
1. Police have extraordinary power over others.

2. Juries believe them by default.

There are many contexts where juries will believe one party prejudicially over another, and/or one party has some form of extraordinary power in defiance of facts or objective reality. (What these are, and their directions vary over time.) Up until now, it seems that our only and very crude solution has been to introduce a "correcting bias" in the direction deemed most likely to increase the amount of justice enacted in society.

It seems to me that gathering more information in a more timely fashion and making objective and contextually relevant determinations is the rational and technically savvy direction to go. However, I'm not so sure that human beings are mature enough as a species to actually apply such informational power in a truly fair and rational manner. I rather think that we'd be prone to using such power to bolster the whims and prejudices of the status quo, at least in the short term.
I'm the author of this. I'm an undergrad who just built something I wanted to use, especially to mimic some of the functionality in a tool I really like: Hammer for Mac [0]. I'm totally self-taught with Ruby so don't expect any ground-breaking code here, but thought it was something that might interest HN-ers and I'd love to see community contributions to the codebase.

Right now the functionality is pretty basic. It works very well for compiling includes in a flat file structure, but doesn't copy your stylesheets or JS into the build folder (and flattens your structure if you have nested files). These are things I plan to implement soon (or you can now!). I also plan to implement support for the Listen gem so that it'll automatically compile on detecting file changes, rather than requiring manually running it.

[0]: http://hammerformac.com/
This is pretty mind-bending. When you know a little about the algorithm being played, it does feel like taking a dive inside the processor. But maybe a different synthesis method, with a richer timbre would make the videos that much more interesting. Use a simple Karpluss-Strong string simulator fed into a standard chorus+reverb, pan each note according to its position in the visualisation, and we'd be taken to a freakishly higher level of immersiveness.

Maybe I'll look at the source and see if I can apply this.
At the time bitcoin wasn't worth so much so trading out might have been more reasonable. The large increase in price has made the debt much more significant.

It's unfortunate that those that have deposited since then have subsidised those that withdrew after the hacks.
I was replying to this:

"...This one is pretty straightforward. BI disincentivizes work because it stays with you if you stop working. On the common assumption that people are working for the money, not for the joy of showing up, this reduces the penalty for not working, which will cause a rise in... not working..."

More specifically this sentence:

"...On the common assumption that people are working for the money..."
It won't happen. Our society does endorse corruption as long as its profitable enough.
argh- wish i never started playing... :)
came close to the 8192 block, messed up near the end.
points? not sure if it matters - 71,000+...

like lining up the blocks descending sequentially starting in the top left hand corner, and then creating s serpentine pattern. try to keep the big numbers in top left corner for as long as possible!
Somehow I didn't pick up on this fact from the video.....
As an employer I like the horrible attrition rates that MOOCs report. Anyone who completes a course in a MOOC has demonstrated a character trait that I value -- self-direction.

This is, as you say, not enough to displace Ivy League degrees (though I see them as indifferent predictors of success, coupled with high correlation to an entitlement mentality). (Disclaimer: my daughter is looking at Ivy League schools this week and in particular had a fine time touring Dartmouth's engineering department on Friday).

But for the right situations the MOOC schools will triumph. Fine by me if 80% of MOOC students drop out. That last 20% is golden.