skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have. But only if you're on node.js and you need to run bitcoind yourself. Which means maintaining it, backups, restart scripts, etc. Building the transaction using BitCore isn't really simpler either (see the sample https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/blob/master/examples/Creat...).

So using BlockCypher's API to do that is much more portable (you have ECDSA signature libs in most PLs) and avoids all the hassles of additional infrastructure.
For productivity, ease of use, and general sanity, I'd recommend Meteor. It has an incredible amount of in-the-box functionality, which is perfect for prototypes as you say.

https://www.meteor.com/
That's because we don't live in a capitalistic society. We live in a plutocracy where the rich change the rules depending on whatever is most advantageous to them. We privatize our gains and socialize our losses. There was a time during the financial crisis where I thought real change was going to occur, but things like the Tea Party went upside down and started attracting kooks and racists instead of real fiscal conservatives.
I am from the UK and the C word is not allowed in a professional setting. Scottish people sometimes use it as a term of endearment, but still, never when at work. Women in the UK rightly hate it as a figure of speech. I hope coherentpony gets the message clear, it's not an appropriate thing to say here.
I did choose. I don't have cable.
GuiA, needing to have much wider software engineering education is absolutely needed. It's definitely one that we've tried hard to address. We're offering lower cost getting started courses so a wider group can get started and get the tools they need. Also we have had summer camps to help get at risk kids started: http://www.geekwire.com/2013/code-fellows-offer-code-camp-at...
Our goal is to give people the tools and passion they need to develop. If you'd like to volunteer we'd love to help do more programs to help more of these groups.
"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution".
Odd, this is probably my biggest karma loss, but apart from a certain facetiousness I agree with my words. I sadly have lost a certain "Goodness" over the years.

I wonder if others have too?
it looks like GitHub has a strong defamation case to bring against her

Litigation is very slow. They want this to go away, not drag it out for months or years. Also, her lawyers would subpoena Github for years of chat logs, emails, and texts. Even if there is no smoking gun, they could probably dredge up something embarassing and make it public.
> What happens is the competent people bail, leaving behind the less talented and/or less motivated which creates a positive feedback cycle.

Well described here:

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
Herbalife just killed their dividend. This story is still being written. Ackman is a douche but he might end up getting the last laugh.
I've noticed a strong correlation between vitriolic negativity and use of the spelling "GroupOn".
A very interesting submission. If you like long-form videos of scholarly conferences, there is an amazing video of a public presentation by two identical twin sisters who are discordant for schizophrenia.[1] As you can imagine, the sister who didn't have schizophrenia thrived much better in life, and indeed is a psychiatrist.

I am privileged to know Irving Gottesman,[2] one of the world authorities on schizophrenia research (he was the consultant credited by the author of the John Nash biography A Beautiful Mind). He used to be one of the few researchers on the topic who thought that there were genetic influences on schizophrenia, which is now established medical knowledge. In the bad old days of Freudianism, schizophrenia was thought to develop solely from "schizophrenogenic mothers," whose bad parenting caused their children's suffering. It was adoption studies in several countries that conclusively showed that genes matter more than parenting in early childhood in triggering schizophrenia.

And yet environmental factors of various kinds plainly matter too, as the cases of monozygotic ("identical") twins not having identical disease course in schizophrenia make undeniably clear. Gottesman and most other researchers on schizophrenia believe that there are a variety of genetic vulnerabilities that people may or may not have that increase risk for schizophrenia, and then stressors in the environment (and it is not excluded that some of those stressors may be purely psychological, influenced by interactions with other people) trigger the expression of full schizophrenia symptoms. This is called the diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia, and the same model is believed to a helpful research hypothesis for study of depression and suicide.[3] So if you know someone who suffers from schizophrenia, the compassionate thing to do is to help the person find current medical treatment (which has improved enormously over the course of my adult life) and to cope with day-by-day life stresses.

EDIT ADDED AFTER AN HOUR:

Several other comments here involve participants who have close family members with related diseases, or who have related diseases themselves. That's rough. I hope Hacker News is always a compassionate community where you can share your experiences and then encounter empathy and helpful advice. We should support one another here.

[1] Video hosted on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzDPlktZrGI

Transcript of presentation:

http://www.virginia.edu/uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/spiro.html

[2] http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/facultyprofile.php?UID=gotte...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK107203/
I'm used to MCMC's for statistics problems, and it seems to me the authors are being too optimistic about its feasibility as a search strategy.

Also, from a technical point of view, it seems like they started out with an optimization problem on a hard domain, and then made their problem even harder by using a sampling algorithm with stochastic moves (i.e., MCMC). The particular usefulness of MCMC is sampling, not optimization, and for this problem, you don't really want to sample.
With the massive prevalence of twitter, facebook, tumblr and other social platforms where people not just speak about work but are actually hired in this day because of their crowd appeal, I think these agreements are a lot less about covering up crimes.

Far more torrid things have happened at the biggest companies in the world. Stuff like outright sexual favors for advancement. Just bad stuff, the big difference seems to be active HR, active corporate attorneys and the general ban on talking about what goes on at work in your social media. It doesn't take many 6 figure settlements to "fix the culture" at a place, and if fixing it means removing a highup officer, that happens too (http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2012/11/13/lockhe...)

Honestly, I'd think more start-ups would start to develop more serious twitter and social media policies. I don't know of one that didn't have some disgruntled former employees, just due to the demands and the personal nature of start-ups.
Some terminology about circular traffic features:

Big things that you can travel quickly into, which are most commonly found on the U.S. East Coast (e.g. Washington, D.C.) are called rotaries, and are generally considered to not be particularly good or safe.

Mid-sized things with splitter islands preceding the entry, and that have an angle of entry that prohibits entering at speed are called roundabouts, and generally are considered a good thing from a speed / efficiency perspective.

Small things with no splitter islands preceding, that are usually put on quiet residential streets (common in Seattle among other places), are called traffic circles. Confusingly, rotaries are sometimes called traffic circles too (see Dupont Circle).

I disagree with your assessment about traffic circles being placed by city meddlers, as well as the assertion that they don't have a positive effect on safety. First, in Seattle and elsewhere, they are typically requested by residents of the street (not us meddling urban planners), and are built where a speeding problem is confirmed, as resources become available, and according to some geographic equity criteria. Second, though I haven't done an exhaustive review of traffic circle literature, this summary review article is bullish on traffic calming features generally, and specifically on traffic calming circles as well: http://jpl.sagepub.com/content/23/4/347.short
I think this serves as a good example of (one of) the issues with animal testing. The scientist in this article doesn't think that we need to "redo decades of animal research", but it certainly casts doubt on previous results.

In general, testing on animals isn't effective. Considering the amount of suffering it inflicts on animals, I'm not sure that it's morally defensible. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has a [good resource][1] on the issues.

[1]: http://buav.org/humane-science/key-criticisms/
> I have to resize my window to actually read the text [...] we live in a world in which many people now have bigger widescreen monitors

I'm sorry, I just don't understand this whole "people have widescreen monitors, so designers need to decide how wide something should be" idea. "Because people have wider monitors than they used to" seems like a meaningless excuse to me, since windows have been resizable since Douglas Engelbart's Mother of All Demos in 1968 (more than 40 years ago).

In my opinion, when you choose a size for your web browser, you are signaling to the webpage which region of your screen you would like to have filled with content. If your screen is too wide to read full-width text comfortably, you should just keep the web browser resized to 83% of your screen width (or whatever) instead of having it maximized all the time. Most web browsers will even remember your preference from one time to the next. Plus, if you do want something to fill your screen (and you don't use Mac OS) it's one click to maximize the window temporarily.

Nothing's ever stopped designers from over-designing webpages (many people would point to scroll-to-animate webpages), but I really don't think that maximum width (or, worse, minimum width!) is some necessary thing for designers to dictate, since it's so easy for users to choose a width that's comfortable for them.
I agree, as a general statement, and as a principle of investing. I just find the "accessibility doesn't matter" argument...irksome.
What service do they use, exactly? I think most of us would be interested to hear about a high-bandwidth, low-latency option that isn't cable or DSL. The only things I can think of are satellite and cellular, both of which have huge hosts of problems for regular home use.
"people whose opinions the majority of voting members disagree with"

Still true, but I think it is probably easier to allow controversial or less popular opinions in a ranked system than it is to deal with harassment in an unranked system, given the propensity of the voters towards "good." The harassment seen on reddit is very different from the harassment on Yik Yak, Juicy Campus, etc. That guy they thought was responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, for example.

Of course, Yik Yak and Juicy Campus were designed for this LCD speech.
Yes! This post is appropriate for Hacker News. It's a solid article on an intellectually interesting subject—exactly what the guidelines call for. Although the human-interest angle ('what killed my sister') often signals fluff, here it is appropriate and tasteful.

As I hope everyone knows, HN has never been only about tech and startups. Intellectual diversity is something we cultivate, and we've been running a little short on it lately. So consider this a general call for (a) more thoughtful pieces on (b) substantive topics from (c) out-of-the-way sources.

(Since ngcat has read the guidelines and already turned his or her comment from a bad one into a good one, I think would it would be fair for the rest of us to apply the corrective upvotes policy and get this comment back to par. I'll go first.)
Here's the Fith Gear video that you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emtLLvXrrFs
Yahoo announces its first two original TV shows, coming in 2015
Fictionalized SSL/TLS exploit to hijack financial markets
> But remember that especially in the scandinavian welfare states, your consumption isn't just your salary, it's a wide range of often rather expensive public services.

It seems that outsiders (I am guessing you are, by the way you frame it) are eager to remind us that we have large public sectors, or whatever you want to call it. It feels a bit rude to me; as if you know better than us how our societies/governments are structured.

We do know that money doesn't grow on trees. We do know that "free" doesn't mean "from out of nowhere", handed to us by our benevolent, watchful, government.

Does it really need to be pointed out that if you work less (absolutely, not just measured by hours), you will be less productive? Please. Give us some credit.
> Note: the graphs included in this article were sourced from Pershing Square Capital Management’s initial presentation on Herbalife, available here.

Bit of a submarine there, eh? Anyway, this doesn't make a case against Herbalife. In fact, it suggests that their data is saying the opposite. Look at the part where they talk about popping:

> Along with Japan and Israel, this same pattern shows up in Spain, France, Germany and several other countries that Herbalife has entered.

Now look at their chart of # of countries against revenue. Herbalife is apparently up to almost 80 countries. Even back in the '90s, they were in 20-50 countries. Let's be generous and say that 'several other' is 5 (I don't have the patience to go through Ackman's propaganda), and note that this will be an exhaustive list since it's being assembled by people with literally hundreds of millions of dollars of incentive to make the picture look as ugly as possible; that's 10 countries that 'popped'. Out of 80. If the other 70 have not popped, that does not seem like Herbalife will have problems in the future.

(There's also the problem that if each country can only be soaked for a short period before 'popping', revenue should not be regularly going up! It should be flattish as Herbalife desperately opens up ever more countries to replace disappearing revenue from the popping countries.)
If you do get it, it will probably be quite obvious

I think I once read that it's common for schizophrenia to damage the part of the brain that enables you to know anything is wrong, so whoever gets schizophrenia is unlikely to be able to figure out they have a problem. That's why most people with schizophrenia are convinced of their delusions rather than having the first instinct of going to a doctor. But that's hearsay, and my memory is a bit hazy on the topic.
Assuming you were the lead car in the left-turn lane, I think the officer erred in citing you. The law can't require you to predict when other people are going to act illegally so you can plan accordingly.

It also doesn't make sense that not even one car per cycle is allowed to turn left across such a traffic flow. You could have sat there for hours following that advice.
Ooma is also rather cheap for telephony. Once you bought the device, you only pay taxes basically (which is something like $3.80 a month).
The end of Dennard scaling is the root-cause. This is causing power density to stop scaling with smaller transistors and will ultimately be the end of Moore's law.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fs2013/doug-burge...
The investigation considered all possible commits surrounding the accusation of passive-aggressive code removal. One instance was found where the engineer updated and broke some CSS in an internal application, which was fixed in a later commit. The investigator determined this change did not appear malicious.

The nature of the commit/revert.
The Go runtime sets all memory to zero at the start of the program's execution, meaning there is no overhead for 'setting the zero values'. The amount of extra memory allocated is minimal (probably zero). Records/structs tend to be figured out at compile time so no 'extra' information needs to be stored in it. And since we are storing a pointer (a slice) the struct is already aligned so no extra storage is needed there. What it might cost is one extra level of indirection per array access, but due to the simplicity of the program, I would not be surprised if this was removed at compile time or cached (in hardware). Looking at the disassembly itself, they seem to optimize out that extra layer of indirection as well (for the most part in Swap, Len, and Less).

The real cost of this is definitely the verbosity for something that could be much simpler.
No way, HN is shockingly bad. It's the only site where I feel like an extra stylesheet is necessary. Text is too small and hard to read.
Democracy killed Jesus and Socrates
Ask HN: A list of the nerdiest engineering jokes of all time
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
This was an unintentional bait and switch.

Monopolies on tv? Who cares? I don't even watch it.

...and then overnight they steal internet from the phone companies and dedicated isp.
He provided a driver's license, obviously, and you obviously are pretending to "answer" without addressing that. I believe based on this case and many other cases coming up in Google and similar threads that there is a large amount of evidence that Freelancer.com is systematically and deliberately defrauding freelancers and/or outright stealing their money. Or in some cases withholding it long enough to accumulate interest on the money if it can't be stolen outright.

Based on the outpouring of responses to this case, I am certain there will finally be a number of very serious lawsuits.

I am quite glad you decided to come out in the open and expose your fraud to the Hacker News community directly. It will make the litigation much easier.
And if you don't have hills or trees between you and the southern sky, and you don't have any interest in anything latency-dependent, like gaming or VPN/remote desktop.

Oh, and uploading anything ever. Does satellite still use dial-up lines for all upstream communication?
I worked in a laboratory with mice for about two years after college.

* None of our mice were morbidly or even slightly obese (I know because I had to cut them open).

* The mice lived in groups of up to 6 in a cage, which I don't know how it compares to their normal situation, but it's not "starved of social contact."

* I don't remember how we dealt with the mice's circadian rhythms, but I think that we had the lights on timers for this.

* Research is inherently subject to variation. There might be compelling reasons why results would vary based on how researchers treat their animals, but I think it would depend a lot on what kind of experiments were being performed. Stating that in a blanket fashion, I think, is misleading. Biological science is just plain hard, and many experiments fail, often with no clear explanation why. That someone could get frustrated enough to start singing to their animals is not an indication that mouse research is inherently flawed.

At the end of the day, a vast quantity of scientific knowledge is owed to mouse research. Denouncing it as "[mostly] complete crap" is just plain false.
This does seem like yet another "me too" move from Yahoo, but I am excited to see Paul Feig getting back to TV.
Telecom is exempt from anti-competition laws since...2004?
How Google Glass Is Used (Usefully) in the Professional Field
I appreciate the Louis CK argument, but when it comes to communication it doesn't fully apply. Have you ever had a terrible cell phone connection in which you can make out the words but conversation isn't really free and easy? Then you switch to Skype or another medium where you can hear each other with radically improved quality and less latency and then the conversation progresses more smoothly and rapidly?

The same can happen with video. A low quality video connection is a mere novelty, doing little to improve the conversation. A high quality video connection, though, can dramatically improve the conversation. For example, you can watch the expression in your partner's face to see when they are confused, or disagree, or you need to slow down or go faster, and if your points are resonating and connecting.

The Louis CK principle does apply, yes, its amazing. But just as video opens doors not available to audio calls, high quality video calls open many doors that low quality video calls do not.
>>>It is like a wtf limitation of freedom to speech

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech" doesn't mean that you can't pay me to be quiet, if you and I both agree to it.
The hypothesized mechanism is very interesting. Perhaps mice vary their behavioral response to pain depending on how safe it is to express distress from pain. VikingCoder has already given the definitive comment: further controlled experiments will tease out how important this effect is over what range of behaviors. There are many, many, many kinds of mouse experiments (I am currently doing reading on behavior genetics research on learning and intelligence and fear and aggression in mouse model organisms), and some will be more influenced by what the interesting preliminary report here suggests than others.

See the book How Genes Influence Behavior[1] for a fascinating description of how we can learn about human behavior by studying mouse behavior (and even by studying fruit fly behavior!).

[1] http://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-genes-influence-b...
Show HN: A Viewer for GitHub Gists
I really don't see the problem here. Why shouldn't people try their hand with a wikipedia redesign? It's a great (and admittedly very hard) challenge.
Which doesn't mean that people shouldn't keep trying.

But maybe people should indeed hit for easier targets first - maybe they could offer bbx a redesign for his own blog?

Looking at his copy text running all to the bottom of the page without any bottom space or even a footer https://imgur.com/bC3RuHv I feel physical pain looking at his site.
But what do I know? I'm just a designer...
You say that but your average user isn't going to make sure they keep their browser window to some arbitrary amount. People just tend to makes it fullscreen, myself included.
When I think of feminists, I think of such leading lights of the movement as Adria Richards and Shanely:

https://twitter.com/shanley/status/460472595968569345

Feminists are radical activists, feminism is not about equality, and although everybody deserves respect and consideration as an individual, men and women are not equal and no amount of belief will change that scientific fact.
Wait what ?

hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform;

Social Networking Platforms are know to treat and swap users as commodities. Why are people even complaining ?

"I am not a Number; I am a Man!"
Net Neutrality: Regulating the Internet | n+1
If only there were some sort of communications network that might make it possible for people on one side of the country to converse with those on the opposite...
My feeling is that it's mainly the CSP features and the relatively good speed that make Go stand out despite being "boring." Having such strong concurrency primitives baked into a generally performant language is really cool and makes it the obvious choice for doing large tasks quickly.
Making Dangerous A$$umptions Of A Callous Nature: