skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company site has zero reference to his past and is registered under his birth name(different from his stage name), so I don't think that's a card he plans on playing.

Do you think he could really have an opportunity to receive 2x pricing? I think there might be a certain opportunity in illustrating the novelty of his past somewhere on the site, but I honestly don't believe most consumers(even for something large like a resurfacing) would take to time to realize the extent to which he excelled at juggling, nor do I think they would translate that to an increased value in his current abilities(at least not a 100% increase). In reality I think that consumer is more often willing to settle for cheap inadequacy than expensive competence, but I might be completely off with that assumption in this industry(or in general).

What do you think? If he could really stand the chance for a significant increase in revenue for something as simple as publicly touting past accomplishments, perhaps he should; he was that good after all.
The Disturbing Case of 'Mississippi State Vs Jeffery Wansley'
I might be wrong but I'm afraid it's a concept only looks nice when you watch it. How do they even prevent the false positive?
Abraham valentino ceo imetros.com on Las Vegas 
Abraham Valentino
A lot of corporate firewalls block access to 4chan etc.
This reminds me a bit of the Satoshi Nakamoto Newsweek article - A journalist who wants to dig up a juicy story but gets nothing because the guy just wants some privacy. And then he writes an article about being empty handed, accompanied by any research that might have been done along the way.

The guy was a juggler, who probably didn't make tons of money and who was injured & discouraged, or even just going through some regular life struggles (we all have them). He's doing something different for now and harassing him won't change a thing. I feel like he just wanted to be left alone.
I found this before Stanford found it ... during my math studies I was all the time walking up and down between the shelves of the library :)

In addition to walking around I highly recommend talking to yourself and gesticulating! Looks weird but it works.
You have an IT Corporate there
Not sure how cricket compares to baseball, but in the 20s and 30s the overall talent level was nowhere near what it's become in modern times.

Saying that, Bradman's batting average is absurdly high, does 99.94 mean that nearly everytime he went to bat he was able to put the ball in play without the opposing team being able to get him out?

If so, the equivalent in baseball would be almost always getting a hit (closest in modern era was, I believe, .424 by Ted Williams), something that would require the hand/eye coordination of superman, basically.
For anonymity?
False. A large buy order in a market without many trades will look large, no matter how large the bank accounts are. If you have a market with each participant holding onto $10M, but doing only a few $1 trades per day, a $10,000 trade will be large.
You can "docker push" any binary image to index.docker.io.

However if you don't use a Dockerfile, you won't be able to use the Trusted Build feature, and other users won't be ae to verify which source the image was built from. So your image will remain a second-class cotizen.
The main benefit of using CSS anything is less code. Less javascript to maintain, less code to test, less bugs. A compile error in javascript means your entire site doesn't work. An error in CSS means a single definition gets skipped.
Because of standardized naming convention, or lack of.

In the Britney example, there's no naming convention, only a vague approximation of the image contents.

This may work for you personal blog, but in large production environments, you don't want editors just "making up" image names without consistent naming convention.

Remember that the original digital camera image has no mention of Britney! At best, when the RAW image is converted, the general image name might be appended with "mtv_awards", but nothing further.

Same for video file naming. You can't fit all the subject matter of the video into its file name, you would instead maybe put the reverse date in the name and an abbreviated title. But to expect that to be used for SEO is not a good strategy.
I'm reminded of the first time I read novels like A Clockwork Orange, or Greg Bear's Queen of Angels, where the fictional world's slang is used, but not explained.
It's one of those problems where execution is extremely important.

Look at the game development world. There have been countless "game makers" that saw limited, niche success if that, usually because they were not powerful or expressive enough.

Then along came Unity.

Of course, you still have to write game scripts in Unity... but you do a whole lot of your work in the Unity IDE, dragging and dropping, clicking to attach things or to change properties, tweaking animations, colours and materials.

It is a revolutionary way of making games, and is rightfully enjoying huge success.

We need (at least!) a Unity for application development, and we need it yesterday.

But instead we have... Sublime Text, LightTable and Visual Studio. All ways of writing enhanced text.
Great article but it makes no mention of Michael Moschen, who many (including me) consider the best & most creative juggler in the world.

Here are some mind-blowing physics that I think the HN community, in particular, would enjoy.

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

He's also well-known for "contact juggling," where the balls don't leave the hands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OTb8tga-yg
Can you get more cliche?
I had to look him up to, but once I found this, I understood why he went with Donald Bradman over Pele or Jordan or Ali.

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-most-remarkable-graph-in-...
I've always been a fan of eventful programming. If something interesting happens, broadcast an event. If you care about a particular thing happening, listen for the corresponding event. It completely decouples all your components so long as the event API is consistent.

React is composable. Cool. Why is it considered a best-practice to have ancestors pass callbacks to their descendants to modify state? I'd much rather see a component broadcast an event and have an ancestor listen for that event if it cares. That I have to pass callbacks through completely irrelevant intermediary components is just gross - the DOM gives me bubbling for free.
Node.js: An Enterprise Situation Report
Wayne Gretzky?
Fossil's user base has yet to reach a critical mass, mercurial and git are at least widely used and plugins, and services exist. I wonder if darcs will become a viable option again.

For git there is ticgit, which is a tracker that lives as a git branch.

Its definitely great to have several tools available and see a really productive evolution for good version control systems.
Drones Muster Out and Head for Wine Country
724 PM PDT TUE APR 29 2014

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THURSDAY...

WINDS...NORTHEAST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL
INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH LATE TONIGHT
THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ISOLATED DAMAGING GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE IN THE FOOTHILLS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY
WEAKER WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY.*
==============

Accurate range prediction in this neck of the woods also needs to account for the weather.

Sustained 30-40mph gust 60 is not uncommon in so-cal/desert.

Point your EV into that for an hour on i-5 and ...

You will lose some range for sure.
While we have achieved greatness with the Von Neumann evolutionary line, now that the Mhz free lunch is ending, it’s time for us to recognize that its sequential nature is holding us back. There are still many branches of Computer Science that researchers and industry have barely explored. We need to reevaluate these other branches like Functional and Dataflow programming.

Ivan Sutherland explains it best when he says that concurrency is not fundamentally hard. The problem is that we constraining ourselves to the fundamentally sequential Von Neumann architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR9pAaQlVRc#t=267
Sybil attack
The History of the New Stack: Scale-Out Architecture
Yes, it is definitely a good feature. It's part of their security architecture. They figured out a way to allow developers complete freedom in distributing their software directly / outside of the App Store while still offering users protection against malware.

The point of the killswitch is to disable malicious software that someone tricked you into downloading off the internet and installing. That is the only thing it would be used for (and I'm not aware if it ever has.. maybe because it's a good deterrent).

It is not the same as the broader App Store approval guidelines. This is specifically for disabling malware, e.g. a bad actor tricking 10% of Hacker News into installing a malicious fork of brew.

I also want to make it clear I have no reason to believe this developer is anything but trustworthy. I just am curious why they decided not to sign it.
If you are far away from the peg and the hole, you use a robotic arm with high strength and poor sensors, and you have blurry vision (this would be the equivalent of the mindset of a high level programmer that lives far away from actual hardware, and I "ashamefully" include myself here), all pegs are pegs, all holes are holes, and the trusty robotic arm dutifully forces any peg into any hole, regardless of their shape :)

When you eyes and mind swim in weird Javascript architectures all day, with 70% of stuff happening in the browser and the other half in a high level server-side language VM, monads in Haskell don't feel any less natural than anything else. That's why you see a lot of things like 'lisp to javascript' or 'haskell to javascript' compilers, because at this level, so far away from the actual hardware, the shapes of the pegs and holes don't matter that much (because trusty VMs fit anything into anything) and they are too blurred to distinguish anyway...
Better Insurance Against Inequality
I forget whether the workaround was done for Firefox or Chrome...I remember hitting it in one or the other, and putting in the workaround for both.

On a related note, transferable objects are handled a bit differently between IE, FF, and Chrome. Some are a bit stricter than others.
Moot mentions refunds for targeted users. I was unaware 4chan offered something purchasable. Anybody know what he's referring to?
When you have a large dynamic system you always have different kinds of sensors. You have modeled sensors that tie in directly to the feedback loop controlling the device, and you have "wtf happened ?" sensors.

There are 2 big considerations:

1) simplicity of the sensors. Meaning how easy is it to use the output of the sensors to get to a useful model of the situation. Accelerometers, what you'd call "sensors" are somehwat easy (though nowhere near as easy as you'd suspect, read up on kalman filtering for a few of the considerations)

2) comprehensiveness of the sensor information. Meaning if you've got just the output of this sensor, how much do you know (after careful analysis). Accelerometers only give you one aspect, so they fail pretty badly.

Cameras are definitely comprehensive sensors. They are really good to understand afterwards exactly what happened. Not so easy to write control loops against.

The fun thing is that nature has diametrically chosen for comprehensive sensors, coupled to a nervous system that can learn extremely complex feedback loops. Feedback loops so complex that you'd have zero hope of ever modeling correctly in a lifetime. Humans move based on information from one eye (not even 2 eyes, but sometimes the left hemisphere controls the body based on information of the right eye, sometimes the right hemisphere controls based on information of the left eye).

Now if you look at the control tasks that nature can carry out, versus what we can do using technologically, we are pretty pathetic. Bats, for example, fly at 50-60km/h right through the leaves of bushes and trees in pursuit of insects in total darkness (using sonar) without impacting any of the branches, they locate insects on the other sides of branches or leaves without even looking, and they do this with thousands of interfering signals sent out by independant mobile platforms [1]. They can fly through a bush as if it's not even there.

The limit of human technology when it comes to sonar are ultrasonic distance sensors [2] ... there's no comparison.

So yes, technology uses sensors, but we really shouldn't. It's not getting us anywhere, at least not in mobile robotics, like rockets. Trouble is, it's such a very very hard problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sisyq6N7mMw#1:51
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtJL3AXf5o
My bet is that the vast majority of those funds has been in the form of BTC for a long time, and a large part has always been in the form of BTC.

Think about it: You're sitting on a large BTC mining fortune, and you've been watching the price of BTC slowly but surely decline over the last few months. What do you do?

Pooling your BTC with others to fund something like this in the hope that it will cause the price to go back up again in the longer term sounds like a really good investment if you're in this situation.
well, "putting the ball in play" is not as hard in cricket as in baseball; the 99 refers to runs, not a percentage. but getting more than 100 runs in a game (known as a century) is a reasonably significant feat in cricket; that bradman's average was almost 100 runs is spectacular.
Here's the talk[0] for anyone wondering; I'm watching it now.

Thanks for referencing it, glad I watched it.

Edit: So far this is a talk comparing computer systems to the human genome in a somewhat abstract manner. Sussman is the creator of Scheme and wrote SICP.

[0]-http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...
Gatto seems to prefer the well-honed live performance to the recorded performance that may have worked on the 100th take. This is a matter of taste. It's also difficult to judge the skill of a performer in a recording (are they that good or did they edit their video to just have their successes).

This makes me think of classical music. Live performances have certainly been on the downward trend for many years. Glenn Gould devoted himself to just recording instead of live performances seeing this as the future of music (see http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/06/050606crat_atlar...). I think there's room for both live and recorded. Seeing only perfect performances can create unrealistic expectations in people's minds.
Gotta say, not sure why some are shitting on MS on this one. Whether you like the keyboard or not, it shows that MS isn't all business and fuckups. Sometimes it's a smart idea, or one leading to an innovation.
Kind of sad how this post seemd to have resonated mostly for its reference to git, I intended (and failed) to point out my questions on mercurial. As a git user, I see one of the main features for mercurial: As it is in python, it can be used as a library. This should make tooling and cool developments so much easier for the average developer who is not a shell script person.
Smell it before you eat it
How to Raise Moral Children
4chan passes, they allow you to post without entering in captcha, and to avoid IP block bans. Otherwise the experience is identical.
This is probably going to be unpopular:
My main problem with most functional languages is that they encourage cryptic code.
From the tutorials I've read Lisp seemed somewhat readable, but the tutorials encouraged me to use list comprehension all over the place because it's so convenient. I need to decrypt all the map zip range calls in order to grasp what's happening. Disclaimer: I don't know if Lisp is used like this in a productive environment.

Haskell is often described as "elegant" (Here for instance: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Why_Haskell_matters#Elega...). To me, the examples are far from elegant. They just prove how much functionality one can cramp into an operator. But if I have to decrypt code in order to understand it then the language does it wrong. Math works like that and I never understood why they called variables "x" instead of "potatoes" or "time". It's simply non-descriptive.
I don't know if you can write code that is as descriptive as code from an imperative language, but the FP community doesn't encourage it either.
I've had this for months now? It's useful, but I don't think it's going to put anyone out of business... Also, I still can't register my https-only website for ad analytics, what's up with that?
https://www.4chan.org/pass
Legal deal over remaining MTGox Bitcoin hoard
If competence is, as the article suggests, normally distributed, then there's no natural level at which to draw the cutoff line. But anyway, iirc, studies show no correlation between outcomes and class rank (nor selectiveness of medical school), at least for surgeons.
Not quite, but close.

In cricket you (and a second batter who is with you) stay at bat until you are dismissed. There are a number of ways to be dismissed, such as being caught on the full or run out, but you don't need to put every ball into play. In order to score runs you generally must play the ball, but trying to score runs increases your risk of being dismissed.

The best batsman are able to both score runs and minimise their risk of being dismissed, and so are able to stay in bat for longer and score higher totals.

Bradman was, on average, able to score almost 100 runs every time he went out to bat, and that is just ridiculous.
This is a good summary of what is nonobvious to me, even as a full time JavaScripter. I generally try to stick to the ethos "Bubble events up, invoke down" wrt the object tree.

I've never heard the 'pass callbacks to descendants to modify state' considered as a best practice, but I don't think that's bad either. It's a tool in the tool box. But it's not more of a best practice than other tools.

DOM Event bubbling is pretty great, as it enables e.g. decorator patterns without having to replicate bubbling through your own EventEmitter system.

But once you're passing a multiple callbacks down to all children, it's just tedious. It may be better to just pass a complex object (not a function) to your children.

Tangibly, I think it's very reasonable for a ContentView (comment widget) to compose a Body Section and an Author Info section where both those latter two objects have a full reference to an EventEmitting Content Model. And they can call setters on that Content if they need to change the Content state and other Views would react. DOM Interactions bubble up to ideally as broadly scoped mediating controller as possible.

I have currently been planning on refacotring parts of the following codebase, and planning on splitting this Class into a few components that would work like what's described above.
https://github.com/Livefyre/streamhub-sdk/blob/master/src/co...

Anyway, I think a combination is what works best. I'm curious what others think.
Popcorn Time is back
I saw that but I am curious whether this is implemented for a compiler, say gcc?
And this entire line of reasoning is based on the naturalistic-fallacy.

Nature is out to kill you. The harmonious balance of an ecosystem is a brutal stalemate in an endless war, and this is why you definitely shouldn't eat the berries you find in the forest without knowing what they are (nor eat fish from the ocean if you don't know what they are etc. etc.)

Moreover, your entire spiel on GMO is powered by a completely unrelated area of food manufacture and preparation which has much more to do with the negative health outcomes people have from food. Do you demand labels indicating what type of processing has been done on every package? Or would that be surprisingly unhelpful without more detail?
I feel the Mill architecture is sufficiently familliar while still being quite different that it could help us transition to more interesting/efficient/parallel/concurrent etc. architectures.
4chan Pass, which enables you to bypass the annoying CAPTCHA (and is a kind of CAPTCHA in itself, since a computer can't own a credit card); much like Reddit Gold
You can have the both worlds of a reactive tree and MVC. Each node in the tree can but doesn't have to have a controller that react to external messages or event messages from it's children. Bubbling is a useful property of the event system of this tree.

This can be done quite nicely using normal JavaScript and the DOM. Bubble up, invoke down.
> Way back when Git was first created, the plan was for what is now called Git to be the underlying implementation of a higher-level UI.

Has anyone attempted to actually implement this? Building a 'VCS' on top of git but with a simple 'UI'?
I guess for you is best way is to start doing it with java and in some time further switch to scala - for example you be able start developing with Play framework which is support both java&scala in one project.

RoR/Django is good for prototyping and for fast start, but if you don't know it's it no sense I guess, you will make it more faster with Play/Scala.
While English is a Germanic language, 41% of English words (ranked by frequency) come from French, making French the largest source of words in English, not German (which comes in at about 35%).

Of course, removing all non-French words would be worse since English pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions are mostly German derived. According to Wikipedia, 97% of the top 100 words in English are German derived. The loss of German would leave little to "glue" a sentence together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Word_origins
People value different rooms differently. Auctions are usually good solutions to this. Idea:

1) Each roommate secretly prices how much they would pay for each room.
2) The highest payment proposed is allocated the selected room. The payments are gone down in decreasing value until everyone is assigned a room.
3) Rent is divided among the renters in amount proportional to the bids accepted.
Fastest Pure-Java Database MapDB 1.0.0 released
> The "underlying model of git" that David refers to (blobs, trees, commits, tags, branches, HEAD, etc.) aren't seen as internal data structures to be glossed over by a UI. They're the very essence of git.

Users don't need to know the 'very essence' of a tool inorder to use it. Do you think that people who drive cars know in detail about how car works? They just need to know about starting a car, making it go forward, backward, parking etc and that's what most car drivers care about.
There is opportunity for a powerful tool to handle the very common bad practice of including giant binary blobs which don't belong in version control.

It's only a bad practice because our tools don't support it properly.

There seems no reasonable argument that there is some predefined size limit that all assets in version control must, by natural law, fall under.

The criteria I have for version controlled assets is they must 1) be versionable, 2) have a comparison tool, and 3) be strongly connected to the other assets under control.
Noah Glass, the forgotten founder of Twitter
Chromium ppapi flash is known inferior to npapi flash (sites like Crunchyroll tell you not to use it; ppapi has higher CPU usage) and npapi flash works fine in Firefox.
Wikipedia edit from government computer added Muslim insult
I wrap the nixos-rebuild command into a script that sets a custom nixpkgs:

#!/bin/sh
exec nixos-rebuild -I nixpkgs=/etc/nixos/nixpkgs "$@"

This itself works, but then you're probably still using channels for nix-env (user profiles). These need to be configured separately. Or maybe with NIX_PATH, I don't know since I don't use the user profiles feature.

After that, you just work with it like any git repo (presumably you, like git pull --rebase, git rebase -i...).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_(software)
I second that. I have been using Splitwise for few years and absolutely love the product.