skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't the value of gold and diamonds in that case be instrumental value, not inherent value? They are valuable by virtue of the aesthetic pleasure they cause in onlookers, or in their use as drils, and so on, where something with inherent value would be worth sustaining and creating even if it served no further end, like the life of a person for example.
Sweet! Thank you! If you're ever in Melbourne, FL, you can swing by & partake in he extra pizza you just helped us buy!
I'm sorry guys, we can't WHOIS every domain, so there will be a few false positives.
Imagine you had 11 candidates like he described, and you interviewed them in random orders. For ease, we will describe them by number, which will also equate to their "goodness" by arbitrary criteria (known to the interviewer only).

One of the worst possible cases would be that you interview them like:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

In this case, you would see them decreasing in "goodness" without ever increasing. You would get to 11 and be stuck with the crappiest whatever possible.

In the average version though, you might get something like:

7 3 4 6 5 8 11 1 10 9 2

Using their strategy, you would check the first 4 candidates (7 3 4 6) and then you would stop when you hit better than max(7 3 4 6) = (3), which in this case would equate to finding (1) at the 8th position.

You are correct that if the best is in the first block it screws everything up. In the specific version you mention, a possible arrangement that triggers could be:

3 9 8 1 5 10 2 6 4 7 11

You would interview the first set with a best of (1). All the rest would then not compare, and you would get (11).
I don't think Google cares about it as a web standard. They just want to deploy it widely through chrome, ChromeOS, and chrome on Android (eventually), and use it as a Trojan horse for their own binary applications and OS components.
You can also pay the $300 over a year ($25 / month for the first year), and then get it for free after that. $25 / month is cheaper than the what I pay for my relatively slow internet.
good stuff !
If some code runs orders of magnitude slower it's the same as being incompatible. Yes you might execute an ASM.JS game on older browsers but at 1FPS it's not enjoyable.
Social Media, Because Neoliberalism?
Which is why the scientific method was invented and is taught in grade school.
Nice work. I did something similar for .NET -- see http://www.restbus.org

The project isn't complete but is functional enough to be used in production.
> When 15-year-old Erik Finman turned a $1,000 Easter gift from his grandma into $100,000 after cashing in on his Bitcoin investment, he wasn’t all like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece.

It would be kind of difficult to buy a Maybach with $100,000 given that even a used one costs more than that.

Putting the article's heavy dose of fluff aside, it would be interesting to know if Finman paid capital gains on the $100,000. Additionally, if he truly has "employees" that he's paying in Bitcoin, it would be interesting to know if he's properly doing withholding, since you have to pay that in USD.
Speed of light
How about he approaches some Bulgarian accelerators, seed funds etc and offers to first help them, even if pro bono to begin with. Mentor startup teams on technology and other issues. Build a network. You build great contacts and definitely something will show up if he is good. Not starting from "I need a job" or "I need an investment" but just getting involved in the scene? A network engineer is usually a good all-around tech guy and as such can be very valuable to young people. Also participate at events there and help out.

Quite often in that situation being part of a community and being useful can do wonders to your mentality and self-assurance. But networking is just as important.

Why not go visit http://11.me/ and http://launchub.com/ and http://www.betahaus.bg/ and others?
Has this ever happened? I know governments have taken over/privatized businesses, but when was the last time one was just shut down because it presented a threat? I'd think you'd be well into "too big to fail/jail" territory.
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Asteroids aren't that cold, even. If you had a ship with a deep parabolic shield, the outside of which absorbs EM radiation and the inside of which is highly reflective, the ship could be rendered invisible outside of a narrow cone where it's directing its waste heat. It would still occlude starlight, but unless some of the enemy's sensors are stealth platforms, false signals could be generated to prevent the occlusion.

Such stealth ships couldn't maneuver much, but they could only be countered by other stealth platforms in a cat and mouse game reminiscent of Cold War submarine contests.
A few years ago I was supervising a guy who was hired to clean up a contractor's mess in a penthouse loft in the building I lived in. Making small talk, he asked me what I though the difference was between rich people and poor people. His view was that it was bad judgement. He told me that most of his (poor) friends had nicer TVs than the rich people whose houses he cleaned.

Given that, I suspect that some of those 'poor neighborhoods' might have a significant number of people willing to commit to spending that kind of money (whether they have it or not) to feed movies to their big new 4k TVs.
In order to maintain stable prices, the size of the money supply should grow or shrink at the same rate that the economy itself grows or shrinks. Historically, capital and technology improvements have caused a 2-3% increase in productivity, ever since the industrial revolution.

Moneys based upon industrial processes, most notably mining of metals and coin minting, would then naturally increase the money supply at about the right rate, assuming improvements in the relevant disciplines occurred at about the same rate as everything else.

Obviously, Moore's Law pushes certain specific disciplines a lot faster than the rest of the economy. Computing hardware tech advances about 40% every year, over the last 50 years. Kryder's Law and Butters's Law, for hard disks and network bandwidth, goes even faster. Those, in turn, make automation and computerization of other industries cheaper, and they continue to improve in productivity.

When the increase in money supply is tied to increases in productivity, naturally, the people providing the innovations and advances reap the benefits by getting the new money first.

This does not imply that the controller of a fiat currency should set a target inflation rate. That new money is going to the wrong people. It goes to the bankers who happen to be robbing the economy at exactly the same rate that inventors and innovators are adding to it. They are now treading water to stay right where they were before, and everyone else loses ground.

If you have no mechanism to ensure that the growth in the money supply goes directly to the people growing the economy, you are better off establishing a completely fixed money supply. That allows innovators to gain as they should, but with steadily falling prices rather than stable prices. That complicates the business math somewhat, but if everyone just assumes the same 2.5% annual growth in the economy over the same fixed money supply, it isn't that hard to work out.

If people can use Quickbooks to run their business, they can handle a fixed-quantity money supply. What no one likes is a steadily inflating money supply where only the people running like mad on the treadmill can stay in the same place, while fat cats in motorized carts throw pennies at them.

Bitcoin has a bit of a compromise, in that the people reaping the inflation windfall are the ones covering the actual operating costs of the system. But it is unfortunately not tied to the value of goods and services in the Bitcoin economy. Fixing the money supply increase in advance requires that you predict how quickly suppliers and consumers will adopt the medium of exchange. I think the guesser guessed wrong. But even so, the proof of concept is pretty darned good, for the first iteration. The only real danger is that it is good enough that people will never migrate to anything better.
Thanks for the links, but:

- Japan's GDP grew by 12% between 1990 and 2010, from 430 to 482 billion Yen (the NYT author incorrectly assimilates it to "an economy remaining the same size"?!)

- GDP per capita is 16% higher in Japan in 2010 than it was in 1990 [1]

- The NYT article gives absolutely zero other economic numbers, no objective evidence, nothing (it merely gives annecdotal evidence as in "so and so lost their house")

Why is this NYT article so bad and vague, when economic indicators I quoted above ARE actually (slightly) improving? I am not the only one to criticize it, see this response by the Center for Economic and Policy Research: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/deflating...

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2010/01/weodata/weor...
LastPass is better-implemented than I thought, then. You should be able to trust it.

That addresses some of the inconvenience of account proliferation, but not all.
The constant and intentional dumbing down of the permissions model (taking away App Ops before this) is a very unfortunate and mass market oriented move from Google. I got rid of a lot of apps when App Ops was gone and I couldn't tweak whether a stupid game could see my contacts and texts. I've basically just stopped downloading apps as a result as well. I suspect the majority of users are none the wiser to permission creep, and frankly probably don't mind that much.

I believe that this really has nothing to do with UX and everything to do with getting as much information as possible about individuals from their phone. So much for 'Don't be Evil'.

Looks like it's time for me to switch to CM roms or back to Apple. I hate that I bought the Nexus 4 specifically so I wouldn't have to deal with built in carrier garbage in the OS. Now it's Google forcing us to give up privacy. Shit like this is why I want to believe Firefox OS has a chance and am hopeful for it's future. I want an open source phone OS that's actually community driven. Not overseen by some director of UX or VP of marketing partnerships who forces unnecessary change down our throats. At least give people who want it the opportunity to tweak permissions by app! Put a big disclaimer! I'll be okay if not giving candy crush access to my phone call history breaks it! I promise I'm not an idiot!
I can't even tell you how much I have learned outside of school and work by working on an outside project.

I had a co-worker ask me "How do you code so well in C#? I want to be a master in that language."

My reply...
"Create a simple blog project and then work from there. Eventually you'll want to add more and more features that will move you throughout that chosen language."

I've learned so much by creating and uploading semi-unfinished side projects on the web.

e.g. artJutsu.com/lightbox
Hmm, the color scheme is hard to change, but maybe I can implement a parallel symbolic scheme to help those users out. Do you have some suggestions I could use?
> It would appear as though you think it possible that a flea market should be responsible for the conduct of its buyers and sellers, or that a public bulletin board be responsible for all material posted there.

You don't find pounds and pounds of cocaine in flea markets. The site was illegal, to the extent that any site can be, because its owners were aware of the illegal activity and, rather than reporting it, acted to facilitate it. Flea market owners in the same position would be just as liable.

> What, then, has Silk Road been convicted of? Maintaining a public nuisance?

Nothing yet, but you can ask again next year.
Maybe the conflict between delta-v and acceleration leads to missiles. Interplanetary spacecraft are high delta-v, which makes them poor at evasive maneuvering. Missiles are high acceleration. For an intercept you use the spaceship for most of the delta-v, and let the missiles overcome last-minute evasive maneuvers.
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Guy: "I just squirted a song to you"
Girl: ...
Guy: <forever alone>

Good job Microsoft.
It's a bold claim, but I haven't seen anything to back it up. I haven't tried all the apps made with the framework, but I haven't seen too many heavy apps that would require the power. Every game is a puzzler of some sort it seems. Nothing to really test if it is fast enough for gaming, or time critical operations.
Different burdens of proof?

Criminal trial requires "beyond reasonable doubt" while civil forfiture requires "balance of probabilities"?
I like a little sugar in my tea.
Running the same command on models... just crashes. Our God object (not User) weighs in at 1647.3. Yep, just one single model.
Fair advise. I am willing to take a paycut to work there, but ideally if/when the product hits the market I'd like to be compensated for taking that cut. The business side of this industry is still kinda of fuzzy to me, and I didn't want to go around asking for the wrong things. Being a private company with the one founder and three investors what is fair to ask for?
We actually _do_ pattern match UIColor colorWith and turn it into an initializer. If there are two initializers after we pattern match (e.g., UIColor colorWith and initWith), we eliminate the duplicate.
10 differentiators of Software 3.0
Material goods are neither innocent nor guilty. Like rayiner explained, the phrase doesn't apply here. The bitcoins are not on trial and can't be convicted and sent to jail.
Ask HN: What rights do minority shareholders have in a startup?
Let's say you exercise some of your options, thereby becoming a shareholder of your employer. What rights do you then have regarding the company?

I assume they're probably fairly minor, but legally you must be entitled to certain information, right? What does that consist of?
The color flooding visualization is very nice!
Ordinarily I wouldn't make such a specific web-dev comment here, but it drives me crazy when sites have an almost 1MB background image. If I can watch your image load, that is not a good usability experience.

I had to beat on my own company for weeks to get them to stop doing that junk, so I feel justified in throwing stones.
Have you actually tried your example? Even at -O0, it results in the exact same code: http://goo.gl/kDEFnU
The thing that's interesting about optional binding is Swift is that it is a special construct for unwrapping optionals, not a normal assignment. If you try to bind to something that is not an optional using that syntax, it won't work. For example:

if let currentUserIsAuthorized = true { // COMPILE ERROR
...
}

This makes it useful for the one case where you'd actually want it without introducing any pitfalls, because using it incorrectly will be a syntax or type error.
I haven't followed Zidisha too closely, but just from this post, you mention "cost of lending" at the beginning but then the returns are before operating expenses. Without revealing anything too proprietary, how much cost savings do you have versus other microlending operations, and what does make up your costs (administrative or other site/engineering costs)?
Interesting reads, but I feel don't quite hit my question on the head.
Unless you can define "the shiny" as anything more than a self-constructed pejorative, your argument lacks substance. What is the shininess? Why is it worthless? Why are users still attracted to it even though its worthless?

Believe it or not, people are actually kind of rational, and pick product A over B for some real reason. Usually B, if feature equivalent or even feature advanced of A, has a hideous UX (command line, really?) and/or visual design (e.g. ugly fake chrome). It might also not be up to date on what is in fashion, but we don't buy unfashionable cars either unless we are going for something retro (part of our culture); consider that "the shiny" at your own peril.
Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers
A Ranking of the Most Entrepreneurial Corporations
80% bookmarking / 20% love (same with my Twitter favs)
If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This.
It's worth pointing out that it's hard to have any kind of non-shallow discussion when you're limited to 140 characters. They will inevitable turn to disagreement, lack of context, and flame wars.
Go read Lensman series by EE Doc Smith, he has planets being used as weapons; moving at relativistic speeds.

very imaginative and good series to read.
Put the ship inside a deep parabolic cone, the outside of which absorbs EM radiation. Aim the cone away from enemy sensors. You have a stealth ship, only detectable by occlusion. However, if all of the enemy's sensor positions are known, such signals could be generated.

Conclusion: you can have stealth ships, and will only be able to counter them by blanketing the volume you patrol with sensors or by deploying your own stealth platforms.
An interesting scene I ran across in the novel Leviathan Wakes was two planets' miltaries trying to get control of asteroids suitable for dropping on each other's heads. That felt credible to me.
Show HN : How much do you know about JavaScript – Take this quiz -ios apps
You realize that DPR/Ulbricht is specifically disavowing ownership of that wallet, right?

And the government has said, "Hey, if you own this wallet, which we have tied multiple controlled buys to, you're more than welcome to claim it, or we'll sell it. We might want to have a little chat to you about it, though."

Ross said "Nope. Not mine." He relinquished all claim to it, so his innocence or conviction is irrelevant.
Fountains of the deep, Ancient science confirmed.
The article above confirms that the oceans came from within the planet:
"Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Gen 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. "
I'll never forget a peer of mine slapping me on the back and saying "nice guys don't win." This was as we were leaving class our senior year after the homecoming court was announced. He made it. I didn't. Fifteen years later, we are both doing well. But he definitely took a nose dive after high school; drugs, alcohol, legal trouble, dead-end jobs, etc. And I went to college, started a career and consider it the best time of my life. But, it was not a death sentence for him, and I'm not a millionaire or anything ;)

We both still live in the same town and are married with kids and have good jobs. And there are many more examples of both of us, but some "cool kids" continue their downward spiral or continue to ascend to great things as they shed their earlier un-coolness. It definitely didn't take a study to see this.

In my opinion, many "cool kids" find that doors get closed through their riskier behavior or poorer results in school and are no longer able to get by solely on good looks and athletic prowess. While hard work and education open up more opportunities for others, particularly as popularity is taken out of the equation.

EDIT: I should note that the king and queen of homecoming were very attractive, but not necessarily "cool kids." It was very refreshing, and perhaps an indication of things to come.
I'm guessing Apple will cockblock them from ever deploying this to iOS. In that regard, asm.js is far more likely to see adoption.
Show HN : Ios game for WC 2014
> Come on guys, is it so hard to understand that if you exchange an asset for a security, you don't own the asset anymore?

In this case this fact is directly contrary to a worldview held by many at HN, so I suspect everyone pointing out how property law actually works is in for a long slog.
They were 'operating as a bank' in that you had a wallet on the site. The majority of the money seized was not in escrow for drug purchases but sitting in the accounts of the users.
When I see mbostock's work it reminds me of what I love about computer science and why I keep trying to learn more. Lovely stuff.
This is pretty cool. It seems like the search doesn't work that well for me, though. I first typed in "San Diego, CA" and got "no results matched." Only then did I realize that if I type "San Diego" and wait a few seconds (it took about 5 seconds), the autocomplete would populate. But it seems like the matching should be a little bit looser. I tried to find results for Maui, Hawaii, but couldn't figure out how (I entered "Maui" and waited and nothing popped up in the autocomplete, and then searched simply on that term and got no results).
Sadly, correct answers are too complicated to be fluff blog posts.
I think a good answer is going to depend heavily on your goals (applied or theoretical). Maybe you could elaborate on that?
I wish there was a properly formatted pdf version of the language guide. There is one floating around but the font size is too small.
Since the results are stacked on the browser, for that particular search you typed, you could always search
(:colors:)(:words/verbs:) and (:colors:)(:words/adverbs:) separately and I believe you will get the full list you want.
But I really have to generate the regex and availability results before being able to apply the filters.
As for the colors: yes the sets need to be improved. (: You got some suggestions?
You're right that Apple won't allow that on iOS, but I don't think they care. This is about them establishing a new platform to displace Android and the open web.
I'm getting tired of this "nerds" vs "cool kids" narrative. It is a false dichotomy. Kids fall all over the map in terms of behavior and social groups as they grow up.

Case in point: I was a quiet "nerd" all the way through high school, but really found my element and became a social butterfly in college. Some other people have the opposite trajectory, or zig zag all over the place.

Kids are kids. All of them do stupid things at some point, and all of them have potential to grow and change their personalities to a large extent.

But, it seems to be popular in various circles these days to set up these labels of "cool" and "nerd" and it leads to pointless tribalism.
The elided punchline is that this entire essay is "just the `Either` monad".

If you can forgive the snark there, the point to take home is that this entire pattern of programming can be nicely summarized through some very high-order topics like Monads. That's one "why" for "why should I learn what 'monad' means".

A very similar essay could be written for non-deterministic programming ("it's 'just' the List or Logic monad"), for backtracking parser combinators ("they're 'just' the State + List monad"), or for state threads themselves ("they're 'just' the State monad"). Each of these programming patterns is neatly summarized by the "obvious" behaviors of a simple type.

One of the powers of Haskell is that it lets you abstract over patterns like this and talk about them inside your language. That's why Haskell has such a fetish with Monads—it's as though GoF had been formally encoded into the language. This notion comes up a lot under the name "Monad" but it might also be "Profunctor" or "Applicative" or "Category".

I really love this essay because it really goes through all the details. Oftentimes an advanced Haskell/ML/F# programmer might summarize a large topic as "it's just the X monad" anticipating that someone familiar with this kind of programming can reverse engineer almost all of the meaning from that plain statement. This is typically true, but certainly expects a lot of experience from the listener.

This essay unpacks all of that meaning and presents it in easily digestible bits. That's great technical writing.
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