skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also a talk on this from Mike Action (Engine Director at Insomniac) at GDC this year. He echoed the same sentiment that cache misses are the main source of performance problems in software. I only partially agree, as network calls are several orders of magnitude slower, and in many services that's actually your bottle neck, not the cache misses.
> How does this work as the network scales? If I understand it correctly, every node needs to execute every contract.

Such a network can grow to some extent, but how can it truly scale? There is limited scaling, of course, but node requirements increase as traffic increases, and there is no scalability through distribution of computational resources. So the more work the system does, the stronger each node needs to be.

If the answer to this is, "No problem - we'll just make it more expensive," then the required computational resources could be purchased with the very cryptocurrency that is generated from the system. At that point, it seems to me that the snake eats its own tail.

Regardless, before we declare that there can be any democratization enabled by this tech, I think we need to ask the question, "How does this not transfer even more power to those with the most computational power?"

Put another way, it seems this is tailor-made for Google and Amazon, not an organization of Joe Publics, each with a couple extra GPU's installed. It's still going to be about the "haves" and the "have-nots."

I'm happy to be proven wrong on any of these thoughts. I just think that if we were talking about any other tech, this computational model would not be considered scalable in any meaningful way.
Sounds like doing this will let out the magic smoke in a hurry.

Do you think they've fused it so it doesn't short out and trash any board you put it into by mistake?
Considering there are notable clusters in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, you're probably right. Those people probably located Russia, knew Ukraine is "under" Russia, so picked a couple of countries under Russia.

Incidentally, I suspect those large clusters in the central asian republics account for a large amount of the error in the median response. The lone clicks in New Zealand or whatever don't count as much as big clusters do, and those clusters are pretty near the median error of 1800 miles off.
The article recommends mit-scheme. Anyone know how to get that working as a Sublime Text build? From what I can tell, to invoke mit-scheme on a file, you redirect stdin, a la:

mit-scheme < foo.scm

This doesn't play so nicely with the ST2 build system, which seems to assume the input will be simply be a filename arg. E.g., it's assuming you can do:

mit-scheme foo.scm
No one believes (including me before I got my phone) that my Note 2 is less obtrusive in my pocket than my Moto Droid 3 was.
We don't need much more than safe shelter and a shirt on our backs. We could get by with once a day call auctions or even trading stocks face-to-face without an exchange at all. We don't even need stocks or companies. That doesn't mean intermediation in real-time markets isn't valuable.

Say you have a car and want to sell it to buy your future wife an engagement ring. You could take it to CarMax and sell it instantly, or spend your time researching a fair price, posting up ads, cleaning it up for sale, meeting with potential buyers, etc. CarMax has all sorts of "unfair" advantages: they've developed superior pricing models, they have access to historical auction data you may not be able to get, they can sell their inventory in the inter-dealer auction market, they've invested heavily in their own sales force to resell the car, through economies of scale they can hire their own detailers and mechanics to fix the cars up at a lower price, etc. CarMax is clearly superior to you at the "reselling used cars" game, though all the advantages they have are things any competitor could choose to purchase. They make money doing this, but people still choose to deal with them because it's a net benefit to be able to sell your car instantly.

Some people prefer to sell their car to CarMax, others try their hand at doing it themselves, and through their patience they may save a bit of money. Likewise you can do the same in the financial markets. You can work your own limit orders to enter or exit positions or trade in the opening/closing call auctions on each exchange, but many traders prefer to trade instantly with quotes placed by a market maker. Being able to liquidate your stock holdings to spend the money on something else instantly is valuable to some people, and they pay for it through the bid-ask spread.

You're basically saying people want the wrong things.
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> you need to develop the sense to know that just because
> something could be made configurable doesnt mean it
> should be.

That doesn't explain why one shouldn't use a programming language when things are configurable.
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If you'd taken any econ you'd know that differentiating factors exist which essentially create a 'new' market. Whole Foods doesn't compete in the same market as Wal-Mart. Louis Vuitton doesn't compete with (insert nameless brand... Not sure, my wife likes high-end things).

Anyhow, the comment was meant tongue in cheek anyhow, don't know why you're so upset. Your retort was bad anyway.
There are definitely smaller ones out there.
Htc one mini. Galaxy s4 mini. ect.ect.
4.3 inch screens for both of those ones.
If you want to fix the Comic Sans "problem" (in quotes as folks have varying views), you'd need to replace it as a default font on both Windows and OS X. Releasing a font, even a free one, makes almost no difference, as I'd bet 99.9% of the people who use Comic Sans "incorrectly" have no knowledge of how to do so. (Or impetus.)

THAT particular coup would make any font designer get a faraway look in their eyes.
This would correlate with 'I have no idea what I'm doing'

"In general, younger Americans tended to provide more accurate responses than their older counterparts: 27 percent of 18-24 year olds correctly identified Ukraine, compared with 14 percent of 65+ year-olds."

65+ year olds spent a big chunk of their lives in the cold war. Presumably they would know more about the geographical breakup of the Soviet Union than 18-24 year olds who didn't even exist when the Berlin Wall fell.

From a data analysis standpoint, I would say discard the outliers that look like mis-clicks. Based on the groupings you still have people that identified Alaska, Greenland, Canada, India South America, and so on. Irregardless of the colorings or map size, those should not have been chosen.

On another note, a given countries foreign policy always makes a hell of a lot more sense when placed in context on a map. I'm glad I read a lot of National Geographic as a child.
I agree 100%. Apple's biggest problem is they've ceased innovating. Was a flimsy fingerprint reader really supposed to be the killer app of the iPhone 5s? Jesus.

Here's a list of things that would blow everyone else away:

1) NFC realized from the ground up. It absolutely will be a must have in the very near future, and I won't be stuck with a phone that doesn't have it.

2) An enormous innovation in battery tech. I want you to figure out a way to make my battery last 2-4 days on a charge.

3) Some sort of major design innovation. Edge-to-edge screen? That would look incredible; so novel, it'd be impossible to ignore.

4) A software-level overhaul of what it means to have a device on you that is capable of being constantly connected to the internet. It can be an ecosystem (we already know apple is good at building those), or something similar, but the future is one where you don't have to check your phone for anything. It already knows.

That's all I can think of for the moment, but it's clear they need to prove something, and I think they're simply coming up short in that regard.
30-second smartphone charge demonstrated using biological semiconductors
'Premium' products don't compete with commodity products. They're different markets.
UK government pays Microsoft £5.5m to extend Windows XP support
What else have you got, really? Hackerspaces and Github don't count. IRC is dead for the most part. Some ezines seem to struggle along with a few mailing lists, but that's it. Most active members in these "underground" cultures(e.g. demoscene and vx scene) are old ones from the dawn of time, some newbies come and go but hardly any stick. These communities have been shrinking for the past 15 years or so.

Or am I really missing something? I really think there was so much more low-hanging fruit to grab back in late 80's and early 90's and the computing culture back then thrived around doing just that. Now the whole "computing culture" seems to be about node.js and MongoDB or what have you. That's a fucking disgrace.
Fair point about the 15 countries bordering Russia. I must have not been clear. What I was trying to say is, the least you can do is point towards Russia, if you don't know where Ukraine is.
Better or worse than just killing off the product?
question to the OP: Aside from believing the information is misleading, do you believe that Zidisha is still improving microlending?
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I've been happily using it for years, and Josh is very responsive if you have problems or questions.
Do they have strong opinions about European intervention in Washington state?
This makes sense, no? With less knowledge about the Ukraine and hence less information about the ties and affinity parts of its population have to Russia, the more aggressive Russia seems. Without that knowledge, you just have to take the prior assumption that Ukraine is just like any other country, no specific link to Russia - and given that, the breach of sovereignty seems more egregious than it is in this specific situation.
Until an order goes to the exchanges, only the customer and broker know about it. The order is material non-public information.

The problem with your argument is that it doesn't address that certain companies have paid money to co-locate their servers in the same datacenter as the exchanges. This is unethical because:

T + 0.000 seconds order is sent to an exchange

T + 0.001 seconds order is received by colocated companies

T + 0.090 seconds order is received by non-colocated companies

For the first 90 milliseconds, the exchange has engaged in "selective disclosure" which means the order is still material non-public information after it has arrived at an Exchange. For colocated firms to then act on that material non-public information is unethical at best.

Citation on "selective disclosure":

http://www.investopedia.com/exam-guide/cfa-level-1/ethics-st...

Selective disclosure? When information is disclosed selectively, i.e. just to a handful of investment analysts, or perhaps on a conference call, or in an email, the information may still be regarded as nonpublic. Companies are bound by specific procedures designed to make the information truly public and to ensure a system of fairness in which all market participants are given a chance to act on the information.
This is pretty cool.

I would use Android's TTS (picotts). Audio quality is better.
I don't think any in depth analysis is really needed for the US. Lack of density is certainly a problem, but not the main one. In nearly every major market, broadband is dominated wholly by a single company through municipally granted monopolies. Cities do this because they get kickbacks from the ISPs and other concessions like internet for unprofitable (poor) neighborhoods. In our system, ISPs offer an palatable municipal tax (by any other name) whereby the ISP becomes the hated party. Fortunately for them, ISPs aren't elected.

If you want faster internet in the US, start with your local government.
Perhaps it is a (nice) reflection on the fact that getting information is not the challenge anymore. The real challenge is interpreting it.

Perhaps the people that normally would be intellectually challenged by understanding routers, are now analyzing data on an extremely big scale.

Or perhaps not.
Would be great to see code open sourced in situations such as this. Alas.
It looks like this is on HBO's youtube channel so not only are they allowing it, but they are the ones streaming it for free. It makes sense to stream premier episodes for new series if it means they can hook people into the show and possibly bring in more HBO subscribers.
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Beside high-end SMP, is there a system where you can buy computing modules to extend the, well, compute power of your 'machine' ? cpu as daughter boards, like the rpi compute module.
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I don't know what Survey Sampling charges but a Mapbox hack + a $1,000-$2,000 ad campaign, run internationally, could accomplish this.
Indeed. The way to end loansharking is with a massive influx of lower-interest-rate lenders. This might mean lending at a loss. Anyone unwilling to take that step has no right to criticize the predatory lenders.
Sorry, wish I could help, I've always run MIT-Scheme on Linux. If you figure it out, please leave commentary here, on the article, and/or send me link to your blog post w/ instructions, thanks.
http://www.quora.com/Natural-Language-Processing/Is-there-an... discusses some good work in parsing Sanskrit text.
Meandering toward nowhere special
Yeah you're right, looking back on my estimate I'm really underestimating humanity if 100,000 can't learn and build this stuff in the long term. 100,000 hungry and driven people could do a lot if survival was on the line.
In case anyone is wondering how to make this the default behavior:

"encrypt-to YOUR_KEY_ID"

in your gpg.conf
Microsoft wasn't always so prudent with its money. I was meaning to compare to when Microsoft's favorite thing to do with cash was to burn it. Remember Skype?

I wouldn't be surprised if this (welcome) new strategy isn't at least partially inspired by observing how Apple does things.
I understand. I was simply clarifying for everyone's benefit.
I didn't think about the "pressure" of the survey, I must admit. Fair point.

However, does the fact that if you don't know where the country in question is located, and out of war|no war, you choose war, not strike you as somewhat weird?

I'd like to think most people would always choose no war over war ESPECIALLY if they're uneducated about the situation.
"Healthy markets are markets where everyone has access to the same information."

If it's not a matter of degrees, then the speed of light means there's no such thing as a healthy market.
Most interesting tidbit for me: "self-identified independents (29 percent correct) outperformed both Democrats (14 percent correct) and Republicans (15 percent correct)"

Edit: Removed inflammatory language about Democrats and Republicans and will let the numbers speak for themselves.
I was thinking around decision software that managed decisions based on different models. using permissions and each groups model. some would be unanimous decisions, some would be majority, super majority, rank options, single approver. there would be a discussion section where pros, cons etc are discussed for each decision.
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India losing 70% voice and call centre business to Philippines
Does anyone know if Node.js has any "easter egg" like PHP < 5.5 has?

You can simply add ?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 to the URI of most PHP-sites and the server will respond with the PHP-credits [0].

[0]: http://thepiratebay.se/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C1...
SK Hynix develops world’s first 128GB DDR4 memory module
Mazda Software Update Literally Fixing Bugs
>To make a system sufficiently configurable, you end up having to re-invent a turing complete language inside it's configuration files, so it starts looking more like lisp.

You need dependency injection too, unless you're going to let people just smash the definitions of existing code.

A good demonstration of safe, powerful, and type-checked configurability is Xmonad.

http://xmonad.org/
good point, though I believe publishing contracts need limited terms to be enforceable and that you don't grant reproduction/distribution rights in perpetuity
Can other computer-on-modules in a SODIMM package be used
in the Compute Module IO Board they are developing?

I've searched online, and I think the boards that the SODIMM modules are plugged-in to are called "base-boards" or "carrier-boards". In general, are these kinds of boards generic in nature, so that you can mix-and-match modules with different carrier-boards, as long as they all use the SODIMM package?
I'm getting older and find I often need to take off my glasses (I'm short-sighted) to read my iPhone 5's screen. I would cheerfully pay $100 extra for an iPhone with a bigger screen.

My guess is Apple plans to deliver larger-screened iPhones, but they want to do it the right way, i.e. without causing fragmentation. My guess is simply scaling up the UI display without increasing resolution violates their sensibilities (not "retina" any more) so it's a question of getting ducks in a row (true scalable UI elements). Note that the iOS7 switch away from skeumorphism and bitmapped UI components does a lot to pave the path.

The idea that a small phone is just better for everyone is -- I think -- silly. Apple just won't release a half-assed product.
Occupy activist facing seven years in jail was 'promoter of non-violence'
The Sony Z1f is a pretty great 4.3" phone. Which, sadly, is 'nano' these days.
Charging phones are great.

Are there any applications for this for helping with stuff like buffering power generated by solar and wind? Anyone?
No, from the article it appears the module by itself will be $30. With the I/O board the price will be higher:

"...the Compute Module will be available to buy separately, with a unit cost of around $30 in batches of 100"
Good points. Case study: Verizon FiOS DVR fails miserably at #3, meaning you have to type out more letters using a d-pad.
They can guess at what your trades are. They necessarily still have less information than you do.
Yet it's a problem to be solved.
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Interesting, this looks like it is intended to replace ISDN lines between studios for high quality calls.
"...and my gut reaction is surprise it lasted so long before inevitably burning up."

The fire started in the building below it, and didn't have anything to do with the structure itself. By 1953 the tower hadn't been used for its original purpose for many decades, with the wires having been removed in favour of underground cables.

The flags, however, were used for various informational purposes, such as indicating how many medals Sweden had received in international competitions for a particular day.

(My main source is this clip, in Swedish: http://www.svd.se/nyheter/stockholm/mitt-stockholm/7695700_7...)
I agree. This article seems slanted pretty heavily against some pretty common ideals on hacker news. Notice the FUD about sky net and then the souless algorithm part at the end. Not to mention the random comment that most of the dev team are male (but not all, which I guess might have worthy of reporting if it were true).

Basically it's an article on an interesting topic. I just wish a better source had been posted.
Very well said. In addition, due to our evolutionary origins, humans tend to be inherently far more prone to malevolent behavior. Human history demonstrates the severity of this tendency quite dramatically.

A an impartial system of rules may not be understanding of specific emotional contexts, but it is by definition fair. This is because it will always behave in the same manner given the same inputs.

Given the judicial reality of most present (and past) societies, I would trust my fate to a carefully designed legal algorithm over a human jury every time.
This seems to be a textbook example of the Dunning-Kruger effect: the people who know least are the most willing to take action, because their ignorance blinds them to the impracticality and potential consequences of that action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Has Washington state been on the news in Europe a lot recently?
Four Reasons to Avoid Apple Stock
A chart shows why cash is trash
You will also find a large price tag. And probably inability to actually buy one alas.
Pure functional programming? Yeah. But those aren't magic. Whenever you have conditional branching, the halting problem reintroduces itself.

(def (collatz-depth x)
(if (= x 1)
0
(if (= (mod x 2) 0)
(+ 1 (collatz-depth (/ x 2)))
(+ 1 (collatz-depth (+ 1 (* x 3)))))))

is intractable no matter what language you use to write it in.
Also, 6 years later, their apology is still posted and crosslinked on their website, years later, in an easily accessible/sharable URL.

MeFi's analysis, which FWIW, notes that most of the offending activity was done under the founders' real first-names:
http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Givewell

(Where is AirBnB's apology for violating Craigslist's TOS with the spamming from "Jessica"?)
Ah, gotcha. I guess in principle you could use a similar market approach for each type of resource. That might work out better long-term.
There are a ton of groups that use IRC though... It's mainly IRC, Jabber/XMPP, and Skype. There are plenty of groups to be found.
I think the parent was inferring that recouping $1.7M isn't viewed as a success for a VC.

In general I think acquihires are moderate successes for the founders. Not just financially but external validation of their collective skills as a team.
Cool idea, will be curious to see how it goes (don't own iStuff so can't directly participate).

Live remote video-learning, I've found, tends to require a good friend of comparable skill level to work. If you discover that strangers can make this work sustainably, that's definitely interesting and important.
x86 supports this, though none of the other architectures do: http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/runtime-variable-regist...
I find it weird that this is not a blog post on Algolia's website, since it is so closely related to what they do...
> What I wouldn't do to own a Charger.

What stops me is I don't have the garage space for it, or I'd get one. If you don't need one fully restored, or numbers matching, or all original, the prices aren't too bad.