skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea--some Harvard MBA making a name for themselves? I wish I wasn't so cynical.

It's not cynical. Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency. There's no benefit for consumers, because consumers have to buy bitcoin in order to spend bitcoin, and buying bitcoin means consumers have to manage their own wallet or store their money in a third party service that can fail or steal their money at any time.

The singular benefit is the publicity your business gets by accepting bitcoin. In other words, bitcoin is trendy.

This isn't a dismissal of bitcoin. History has shown that trends are a powerful force. If it achieves a kind of critical mass, then that will open up other avenues for bitcoin to become useful. But in the meantime, be assured that your gut instinct of "there doesn't seem to be any reason to accept bitcoin except publicity" is spot on.

As an aside, I think these announcements won't affect the fundamental price of bitcoin. They'll cause fluctuations, but not any long-term rise or fall. The price of bitcoin is driven by speculation. It always has been, and always will be. The fundamental price at any given time is due to speculators with large amounts of bitcoin who place large buy orders in hopes of getting other speculators to place large buy orders, then they sell. From a game theory point of view, if a bunch of gamblers all place large buy orders, the first gambler to sell stands to profit, and the other gamblers will lose out. You can see the evidence of this at any time: http://i.imgur.com/SYHhSCv.png ... A gambler buys a bunch of bitcoin, which causes other gamblers to buy a bunch of bitcoin, which lets the first gambler sell off their position and make out handsomely.

There's no long-term speculation going on. Or, if there is, then the long-term speculation is being done by a few dozen people with massive bitcoin holdings. No one else's speculation is a significant price mover.

It's true that the market responds to announcements, but it's not true that the market price is driven by announcements. They just serve as a trigger for gamblers to initiate gambles. Hence, I don't think the fundamental price will shift very much; what shifts the price is when large players enter or exit the market, which happens much more rarely than announcements do.
Timeline of human evolution
>As for your misunderstanding of history with respect to OpenSolaris licensing: the decision to use a modified MPL (i.e., the CDDL) and not the GPLv2 had nothing to do with Linux

The actual creator of the CDDL licence, Daneese Cooper claims that it was indeed crafted to be GPLv2 incompatible, and of course from a business standpoint that also makes perfect sense as Linux was eating Solaris in the market and handing over their technical advantages (ZFS, Dtrace) for inclusion in to Linux would have made no sense to Sun's management.

So both the word of the person responsible for the licence, aswell as pure business logic says that it was indeed created to be incompatible with GPLv2.

It's also hilarious when you say something like this:

>For example, GPLv2 has prevented the integration of open source technologies like DTrace and ZFS in Linux • Was it the intent of those who licensed their work under GPLv2 to erect walls within open source software?

Linux was already GPLv2 licence when Sun decided to licence Dtrace and ZFS under CDDL a new licence they created, when they (Sun) instead could have chosen a number of GPLv2 compatible licences under which they could have licenced their code had they so wished, or even made sure that the one they ended up creating would be GPLv2 compatible.

Of course that was never the intent, for VERY logical reasons, this is just as JoshTriplett said, 'an absurd amount of spin' on your part.
I think the Android icons are fine. The old one is a bit easier to understand due to the explicit arrow direction, but the new one is implicitly directed correctly for people who are trained to read left to right. It's abstract and consequently vague, but I don't think that's a big problem: I expect there to be a share functionality, and in that context the icon is easy enough to understand.

The new Apple icon is less abstract, but it does seem to scream upload/send to server, which is also a function I might expect in similar situations as a share function; I think the old one is better because it points to the side signifying communication towards a peer.

The Windows 8 one is fine, easily understandable in context for the same reasons as the new Android one, but it lacks any semblance of directionality. It's a bit hilarious that it's almost identical to the Ubuntu icon.

The other two are terrible and I probably wouldn't expect them to signify sharing even in a context where I'd expect the functionality.

Edit: Of course I am an Android user so this may just be (confirmation?) bias at work. :)
More like the same thing that would happen if we all decided to never talk about war.
This was a wake-up call for me. On my desktop browser, I can use SSL, NoScript, etc. to control what's exposed.

But on my phone I'm powerless. How do I know what each app is capturing and transmitting in the clear? If even Google searches don't use SSL, what hope is there for other apps?
Unfortunately people don't seem to work that way. Instead you get stuff like men concluding that it's not a big deal because it never happened to them or any of the other guys they know, and failing to take action.
The problem is, women in tech isn't a topic I speak on, so by your logic, they should never have reached out to me in the first place.
Of course I'm going to have a bad taste in my mouth for XFS. Because it happened to me. At the time is was particularly frustrating because XFS was claimed to be very stable and should be used over ext3(? I don't remember if ext4 was out yet). Our group ended up moving all of those machines over to ext3/4 and we were quite happy with the results.

I remember when Joyent had their problem, and it made me hedge on ZFS for quite a while as well. Some time working with both Solaris and FreeBSD implementations in production was enough to change my mind.

I'm sure that XFS now-a-days is much more stable - Redhat wouldn't make it the default filesystem if it wasn't. Just because I had a bad experience with it many years ago doesn't mean that I won't use it, but I will evaluate if I need to.

But, I honestly wonder how much longer it will be the default with Btrfs coming along quickly.
And? Do you think smoking became all of the sudden healthy again over the last 50 years since they discovered it is a main cause for cancer? Unless there is a reasonable expectation that things have changed, studies are valid and do not get invalidated by age.

Considering that a decent study might take easily a year to run and another year to get through the peer review process, 10 years are actually rather recent. I've seen papers (although in a different field) that in 2013 describe discoveries from the late 199x as "recent".
Version control is a good feature. I read that sharelatex.com is working on adding git based versioning but currently there's not much information about it.

It seems that there isn't an online editor that currently supports versioning through git/hg, which is too bad
Love these guys!
They're doing a Beacon crowdfunding project as we speak - help em' out!
http://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-spy-in-your-pocket
I always thought a megaphone pointed at a rendition of the world would be a great sharing icon. But its too complex to render easily.
I roll with the punches. Thanks for the info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_icon

The Android share icon has been around since (at least?) 2006 and was used a lot on websites, particularly Wordpress-based sites.

It was initially open source but then sold Share This and trademarked. Most services use the icon shape without ST's green button background.
While this is awesome, the bigger problem in India is that data plans are often prohibitively expensive, and the people who can afford data plans prefer swankier phones (since the phone is a status symbol).
But this is a good start, so best of luck :)
> Yes. You cannot do proper science if you're motivated by profit to rush it to market

All the GMO development is done by evil multinational companies?

> Did they have many scientific arguments against thalidomide?

Thalidomide was retired after just 4 years of its release, GMO has been investigated for 30 years

Are you really comparing those two things?

Do you really have any argument or do you will repeat the same "companies are evil" without anything more? And without taking into account the research done by universities and not the fucking companies?
Yes, either linear memory devices like C/L, or creating digital memory cells out of positive feed back hysteresis. Running out of battery is just one of the limits of the abstraction. I mean it as a mental exercise in demonstrating that one can easily build a circuit that fulfills the equation of a memristor - does its mere emulated existence make it interesting? Why aren't these "emulated memristors" (obviously with a third terminal for a power supply, a different abstraction limit) a standard building block of modern circuits, even in just hobbyist discrete form?

I'm sure there are specific devices being worked on that have exciting applications to memory, and I'm certainly not putting down the researchers involved with them or their work. But it seems like the "memristor" narrative is a bit of a hype train that has taken on a life of it's own. Let's say one team of researchers were to develop a miniature device with a similar but decidedly non-linear effect. Would this make it any less important?

(And if my judgment is wrong and we end up with an entirely new family of passives based on the same fundamental physics with usual differentiation based on power handling/size/etc, I'll be happy to eat my words).
We're an early stage startup with the mission of collecting, analyzing and presenting the information you need to find a home you'll be happy in. At this point we are just doing this for San Diego County.

We're hiring too!
Is it just me, or is this for many people more a test of

a) your capacity to stare at a screen without tearing up, blurring, etc.

and

b) the quality and color profile both native and gamut-corrected etc. of your monitor?

I swear this is much more a test of my current monitor settings vs. ambient light conditions, than anything serious about my own color perception.

A physical version with color chips and the option to work under a variety of lights (LED, halogen, CF, incandescent, sunlight...) at whim would be way more revealing.

But yeah, harder to code in JS.
Google maps does check for changes, but in a sort of braindead way. Every 30 days it'll check for map updates, and if it can't (e.g. no internet connection) it'll just delete your locally saved maps.
Surprised I got a 0 as well! At some point I was not sure if my monitor color collaboration was off or I am seeing patterns.
I think the modern icons are striving for a more abstract and minimalistic look. This seems to be the case for all 3 mobile OS covered. This is mostly about fashion, I guess, but an abstract icon does look less out of place in more situation. I can well imagine being slightly miffed about having to put a megaphone in my app to fit platform conventions, although I would gladly take it over that god-awful present icon WPOS7 apparently had.
Thanks for this! I spent a good amount of time learning from this just now. This is especially helpful to those self taught hackers who haven't really thought about/formally been introduced to these sorting techniques. I especially like all the interactive learning material. I hope for more!
Thanks. That looks like it's only specific to Craigslist if I'm looking at this right. Was hoping for a more customizable solution base on sites.
Show HN: 2048.ko: 2048 as a linux kernel module
Augmented Breality
As a reluctant social media user, I think a can of SPAM would be perfect.
The problem that comes before this one is whether share is a well-understood action.

If I "share" via e-mail, then I transmit a document to others. After this, each recipient has a separate copy which, thereafter, is completely out of my control.

If I "share" via social network, then I upload a document. This makes a single copy, accessible to previously chosen people. It is (depending on the social network) somewhat under my control. Others can comment on it.

If I "share" via something like Dropbox, then I make the document accessible to others. No copy is made. If I share via URL, then I give read access. If I make a shared folder, then I give both read and write access.

Now, we techies know these are different things. Our mental model of non-technical users' thinking might suggest that, to them, these are all the same kind of action.

But are they?

Does an average non-technical user think of folder sharing, Facebook posts, and e-mail messages as the same category of action? I'm not sure he does.
The voiceover is William Schallert, who played Patty Duke's father on The Patty Duke Show[1].

[1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769974/
Danese Cooper was not the "actual creator" of the CDDL; she was one person among several who advised the efforts internally, and Simon Phipps played a much larger role in the drafting and selection of the CDDL -- and (again) he is very explicit as to why a modified MPL was selected.[1] Of course, I appreciate that the facts don't fit with your chosen narrative here and that you are much more likely to discard the facts than change your narrative...

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9624
It's easy to do if it will increase miner wealth, which a more useful currency will do.

Disagree with that all you want. My point is that it's possible. Speculating about the likelihood of it succeeding doesn't seem worthwhile to me.
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgXQFk9noI

The slides don't exactly stand fully alone. I love watching the "bcantrill show". This video's audio is horrendous, but he explains what he means on that slide pretty well, starting at about 38m20s.
Anyway of contacting you?
This idea is really seductive. Wouldn't it be kind of hard/traceable to fake bookings though? It seems like strip clubs or some sort of service company would be better.
Right, you are paying an extra $945 for them to install a wifi card/antenna and preload a bunch of open source software on it. I'm sure that for some people it is totally worth it, and others would rather do it themselves.

I mostly pointed it out because I've used the Mirabox for a bunch of projects and recognized it in the picture. Its a great little ARM box with 2 gigabit ethernet ports (hard to find a on dev board)and 2 USB 3.0 ports.
Facebook announces Apollo: 'consistency at scale'
> The point I made is simple: we cannot assume safety simply because we have yet to find evidence otherwise

The point you make is moot when you won't believe the evidence even if it kicks you in the butt.

GMO has been investigated not by your evil companies but by universities and scientists by decades.

You don't like GMO, fine. But don't hide your dislike with that bullshit. Even if they ares studied for centuries, people like you will say that we don't have sufficient evidence.

When you can find a single scientific argument against them, call me, until then, it is just ignorance.
Nasa reveals latest warp-drive ship design
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I think software engineer and the fundamentals of coding have always had a bias towards those who can conceptualize ideas in the abstract, then build with the assumptions that those concepts are happening regardless of their ability to see them.

This is fine, except that it limits those who need to tinker in order to find out how those concepts work. When the elements are visually recognizable and physically manipulatable, you can tinker without having to hold the entire chain on concepts in your mind. It reduces the load and increases the likelyhood of 'playing around'.

I hope some day more of Victor's ideas can be realized through the understanding that visualizing processes allows us to use more of our brain to design and develop or products -- not to mention stumble upon and explore unexpected outcomes.
Your point about the calculations being based on only a couple of Uber-supplied data points is spot on. There is an awful lot of assuming going on in that analysis.

FWIW, I've also talked with a handful of uber drivers in SF and LA, and they have all said they are making more money now than they did driving cabs. The biggest difference was indeed utilization - the example given a couple of times was that as taxi drivers, they would drive someone to the airport and have to drive home empty, since they didn't have the necessary licenses to work inside the airport and it wasn't cost effective to hang around hoping for fares on city steets outside their own territory. On the other hand, with Uber they often would drop someone off at the airport and immediately pick up another fare back to their own area.
I'm just thinking out loud here, but after reading the Milkshake concept, I thought that maybe the problem is in the word "share" as the driving concept and not the icon per se.

In terms of the milkshake, that's the perfect icon. You actually share something when you stop having "a whole" and now you have "a part" but then someone else has "a part" as well. That's what I've seen parent teach their kids over and over again. Sharing the ball: we both use it, share your candy we both enjoy it, even if it means I'll have less.

With electronic articles and other media that gets shared, you actually share nothing in that sense, you just let someone know about it, whilst still keeping the whole yourself.

I know that semantically you can also "share information", and you lose nothing by doing it. But my point is that maybe most people associate sharing with "losing a bit to give to someone else" instead of just "letting know".

I am thinking hard and haven't come up with a better word, I admit it, but maybe there is actually a better word for describing that "electronic share" action?

The bullhorn looks promising, but like someone said, it looks like an axe is too small. And also someone else said it would have to be different enough from a volume icon.

Maybe two hands apart, one with a piece of "the whole" and the other hand with the other piece?

In that regard I liked the Android icon a lot, even though it's a bit too abstract. But it conveys the idea that you just multiplied the information, without losing anything yourself. Maybe a diagram of an "information bus" could work? like a straight horizontal line with a perpendicular line protuding from it, indicating that you keep going but still produced a new path/road/source?

Edit: added clarification
> Simplification? Yes. But, the line of reasoning is the same.

It is only the same reasoning in your imagination
Millions of people's lives at stake is not cool.

By 2070, 56 million people in Kolkata, Mumbai, Dhaka, Guangzhou and Ho Chi Minh City will be exposed to flooding. 10 million people will be exposed in Miami, New York, New Orleans and Virginia Beach. [0][1]

[0]: http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/39721444.pdf

[1]: http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aias0767...
Is there a meaningful difference between share and upload any more? "I have something on my device, I want to put it somewhere else" is how that icon is used in iOS and OSX, and for almost all of my use cases, that seems to be correct.
The name comes from the 1971 paper from Leon Chua..
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=108333...
I am not an expert on diversity. If I was an expert on women in tech, or diversity in general (although I care deeply about it and would have been willing to put together something great for that), it wouldn't have been weird for them to ask me to speak about it at their conference.

That's sort of the point of the article. I am an expert on many things - women in tech isn't one of them (other than the fact that I have been one for a long time). But there mere fact that I'm female seemed to dictate to them that I would want to and would be qualified to speak about it.
> It's obvious that the general public is not interested in Bitcoin and is, in fact, getting bored.

Do you have any proof to backup this statement?

Bitcoin related growth abound. The number of My Wallet Users has doubled in the past 6 months.

http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users
I'd buy land. The US has unknown dozens of trillions of dollars in debt that we have no intention of, or plan for, ever paying back, and the dollar is due for a major crash, if not right away, definitely sometime between now and when you'll be at retirement age. I wouldn't trust any investment I couldn't hold in my hands or stand on. Buy a few acres of good farmable land... live on it, or rent it out if you want, but you'll be glad you have it to fall back on.
Maybe we'll even find a way to get out from LEO and make our way to the concept art. Excuse me, the Enterprise.

:(
Not only that, it costs them money and lawyer fees each time.
I feel like if somebody did what Apple did for the cloud icon (i.e., came up with a canonical geometric representation[1]) to the 'Graph Diagram'[2] mentioned in the article, then you'd find that everyone would just wind up using that.

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...

[2] https://bold.pixelapse.com/minming/share-the-icon-no-one-agr...
> And if my judgment is wrong and we end up with an entirely new family of passives based on the same fundamental physics with usual differentiation based on power handling/size/etc, I'll be happy to eat my words

That will be the best case ever of being happy to be wrong. If true the implications are on par with some pretty advanced SF in terms of computing power and storage. Content addressable memory anybody?
The iOS Keyboard is Broken
There is also an emulator for the TI Explorer [1] that maybe gives more of the feel of using the development environment.

I still hope to be able to run the final version of the LMI software environment on the CADR emulator but haven't had much time to work on it recently.

1: http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Meroko