skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof of work can't be decentralized because it has almost infinite economies of scale - starting from the production of asics, and ending at mining farm cooling.
It doesn't matter what you change, at the end, you're going to be left with one mining farm.
One thing that was special about Earbits was the quality control. My band submitted our music to Earbits and was rejected, but I have aspired since then to record something objectively good enough they would have to accept it :) I'm sad that that chance will never come now. What other music sites do quality control with humans screening the music? Does Pandora count? Magnatune also comes to mind, but they're a label, however unconventional.
Great work! There are a couple of other projects like this. Are you familiar with Wisp or Outlet? This is good work; I've been trying to hack my own Lisp -> JS transpiler, and not having much work.

Your 'Nodes' file shows a strong familiarity with what's going on inside Coffeescript, too. :)
> the idea of losing an arm (or even a finger!) is scares the crap out of me.

I damaged my right little finger in a bicycle accident several years ago, and for a long time I couldn't bend it properly. One might think that a little finger is insignificant, but it really isn't! I couldn't even hold a handful of coins without them falling out.

I did eventually win back normal movement in my finger, and I'm very glad.

(Edit to add for the benefit of US readers: little finger = pinky)
Why will money making projects will be so rare ? people have a certain amount of attention=money and money to give to entertainment. That probably won't drastically change.

And from that pile of money, the industry has quite an efficient ways to find superstar projects. On the other hand, on the surface your way doesn't seem efficient or profitable , and it even goes against improvements we made in that process like using big data.

And with regards to kickstarter, i haven't yet though about how it and the future.
If it becomes unprofitable (or less profitable than the alternatives) they'll just get out of the business altogether. I dunno if that's a bad thing or not, but you can't say that everyone would go along with it, just everyone who was left.
>I don't want to spite Netflix at all, I just don't want my network flooded.

You have different incentives than people trying to protect their transactional VOD content businesses.
Once we get smarter than human AI, it can improve itself or make even better AIs, which make better AIs, and so on. It could very rapidly become far, far more intelligent than us. A being that powerful could do whatever it wants. Manipulate humans, hack the entire internet, design nanotechnology, etc. It's very unlikely that it would have human morality, and so wouldn't care about eliminating us to turn the Earth into a giant supercomputer, or just prevent us from ever creating competing AIs.
In San Diego. Like Utah poster, let me know if you'd like to grab food. I haven't been a founder until recently, but I've worked as an employee at three previous startups. I'm familiar with some of the feelings and would love to share my experiences if it helps others. Let me know - my twitter handle is on my HN profile.
Huh. I think you were probably a victim of the 90's tech boom. I probably would have majored in computer science anyway, but I turned 20 in 2000, and things certainly looked more promising up until the crash.

I can see that you have talented friends. Being, say, an artist can be a hard life. There are plenty of scientists that regret taking that path. So, who can say if you made the right choice, but those other paths were far from a sure thing.
This is really cool.

I'm looking forward to when they make the UI properly support it. They haven't changed much in the UI other than letting you type code in other languages. My issues:

1. When you change the language for the current level, it doesn't change the default code. You have to delete the Javascript by hand, including the comments.

2. New levels don't have the default code be other languages.

3. editor "Smart Behaviors" (in Editor Configuration) doesn't work in Clojure. When I type an opening parenthesis, there is no closing parenthesis automatically inserted.

4. The "available spells" are in JS. If I didn't already know that "this.moveRight();" in Javascript translated to "(.moveRight this)" in Clojure, I would've had no idea how to do anything.

5. Errors aren't especially useful. In Clojure, typing "(.attackNearbyEnemy)" results in "parse error: expecting IDENTIFIER, COLON, ANON_ARG..." Obviously, this is a hard problem, but I'd rather see something like "you called a one-argument function with zero args".

6. In Emacs keybindings, if point is at the a line with text in it, C-k doesn't delete the newline character, moving the next line to the end of the current one -- it does nothing.

These are all things I expect to be fixed soon. There's a lot of work to be done to add multi-language support, and it's awesome it's getting done.
Did it in response to asking this on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277797

I wanted to try an experiment in presenting Erlang/OTP in a different way from lang Vs lang. Wanted a "Hello World" that was building a cluster, cos you can't do that with Node, lol...
Ask HN: Best server backup / backup as a service
I apologise if this has been asked before but I am stuck in a dilemma and would like people's opinions on the best backup software / backup as a service solution.

I am setting up a small web cluster and my current DC is making redundant their current backup services to make way for their new services which will be coming early 2015.

They aren't taking on any new backup plans on servers and are asking customers to find alternative solutions in the interim.

I've been looking around at solutions today but it is a minefield of services and I don't know who to trust.

It's basically 3 boxes at the minute, 2 Linux and 1 Windows.

Ideally I would like it to be agent based so there is a central server which requests the servers backups and scheduling is managed at the central service.

I would like it bare metal and file recovery.

The type of solution I ideally want is a backup cloud service that runs Idera (this offers all of the above).

Like I say, I'm not adverse to this all being offsite in a cloud solution. So long as it is reliable (as can be) and it is close to my servers in case I need to be a bare metal restore.

I used to using a NAS and some local backup software but I've used Idera before and it works better to be honest and I trust it more than simple backups.

Can anyone recommend anything? I'm stuck looking at sites that make all sorts of promises but you never really know until you need them the most and then it could be too late.

Thanks
Father died in final year of college. Only child moved home to mourning mother(of course!) Went on huge sarge to find a women. Did side work, but focused on 2nd startup(1st one in back of my mind to reboot.) Failed. Arrogant and never found a full time job. Was in love and my girl needed to marry to stay in country. She was fine I thought while i went after my dreams. Finally found my 3rd idea and was working on skills. Eventually wife lost faith and cheated(multiple times and not just sex on one, successful man.) Found out, blew my retirement(roth) I made working when I was younger on booze. Lost faith in myself, saw no point in my great idea, mother attacks, no real man to fend off. Sleep in a truck, brain so fried from settling divorce and lack of self confidence or a dime. Idea still viable, even after all this time, timing might be right. "If you are going through hell, keep going."
Humans are, unsurprisingly, human. To understand why a proposal like this makes sense, you first need to accept that statement.
A Dark Room is a fantastic game, and I'm super happy for Michael and Amir's success on the App Store.

That being said, I think the atmosphere is far superior on the browser: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ (But throw them the $0.99 too!)
Nope, that domain was in the bag for years (not by me though...)
I'm sorry if I offended you that's just a short sample list, really short.

And I did say in my original comment about physical/emotional change people have over time. Some people don't age well emotionally.
Relevant http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/27yldl/snoop_find_infor...
Money making entertainment projects are rare now. Imagine how many bands there are, only a tiny fraction will make it big.

Except that work will be the only work left. So money will have to flow to it.
Are you equating seeing a counsellor with being kindergartened?
Yes they've switched to MariaDB 5.5.35 http://buildlogs.centos.org/c7.00.03/mariadb/20140610212439/...
I wish they would spend more time on marketing (author of erlangotp.com here!)
It's pretty cool but I don't think that it's open-source.
“Might consider” vs “should”.
There's insane cash and bullshit perks flying around the industry, why not something that genuinely helps the people behind the business, and likely the business itself.
Maybe the well-adjusted kind.

But to be honest, this is a false dichotomy. One shouldn't have to choose between being an hardened veteran or going through therapy. There should be (there is?) a path to entrepreneurship that does not involve unnecessary suffering. Maybe it's a question of outlook.
Correct (erlangotp site author here...)
Kinda in this case. What people ask next? Guaranteed employment if their super new idea fail?
This is pretty nice. Are you planning to spread the integration out to other popular cryptos as well?
My comment from an earlier post:

I was disappointed to get that email, I have an API key and am using it for an ongoing (small) side project of mine.

It seems counter to everything else Netflix engineering promotes with its tech blog and open source contributions. To be so public and open on one hand, and then shut down the public API on the other seems strange.

Trying to cut down on third-party access to user account functions like managing queues could be understandable, but I hope there is some kind of access to basic Netflix library data. Otherwise people will just turn to custom scraping solutions to get the data anyway.
Inside Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket factory
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I wrote the site, fire thoughts at me @gordonguthrie or gordon@vixo.com
He's in Bulgaria. I wonder how that fact and the rule of law go together...
My first thought on reading this: "Great, but who shouldn't I talk to?"

I've known founders whose VCs took their "down" moments as weakness. They "helped" them dilute to pave the way for future takeover. They exploited founders' weakness and talked about them behind their backs. Who can you really trust when you and your company are at their weakest?
Oh, yeah, in response to asking this question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277797
You have obviously never dealt with depression. Harsher words are unnecessary, so I'll leave them out.

Anyone who's reading this: If you're feeling depressed, do not feel any shame whatsoever in seeking a counsellor. Having someone external to your life to talk to is vital.
Not everybody make a fortune doing entrepreneurship and that's why it is hard. If you are psychologically weak and can't man it up - make adjustments and put some cash aside for therapy or living without job for few months.
There are many dimensions to it, but it boils down to the fact that for many people worship of Technology has replaced worship of more traditional Gods.

That being said, there is nothing inherently impossible to prevent robots from being deployed in large quantities. Not the kind of robots you see in SF artwork - capable of displaying human-like levels of agency, creativity, wit, etc - but dumb little machines that can repeat the same dumb little task once, and twice, and a million times without a single error. That has been done many times in the past with varying degrees of success. The problem is that is the increase in speed/accuracy of little task does not produce an economic return large enough to justify the automation, the automation will never get implemented.

As a matter of fact, if the total economic return of the little task is not large enough, the task will not get done either manually or automatically. Paul Graham has already written about how changes in perceived social value of a given line of work has rendered it obsolete with no need for technological disruption whatsoever.

So there are several thresholds in the set of all economic activities at any given time. Below the outermost threshold the task will be procrastinated away until the whole environment changes and makes it irrelevant. A little above that there is another threshold that makes a task impossible to make a living out off, but not unimportant enough to be ignored for ever... so you have a lot of unpaid labor done on the sides to take care of that (think domestic chores). Then there is the formal economy with several layers of skilled and unskilled labor.

At each layer, robots can eat a chunk of that... depending on the technical and economic feasibility. By example, we have Roomba robots to clean the floors because the task is relatively easy and can be solved for a price people is willing to pay. On the other hand, we do not have (yet) robotic spiders that pick up, wipe and put back every random trinket in your living room without breaking anything because the task is too complex (but might turn out to be solvable in the future). And we do not have refrigerator-stove hybrids with robotic arms that pull ingredients out of cold storage and cook homemade meals because even though the problem is relatively well defined the price would be so great that few customers would be able to afford those, and it will probably continue to be so regardless of advances in technology.
There was a research that has shown that in places in cs, software innovation contributed to far greater improvements than moore's law. There's no reason why software improvements should stop.
Football referees are unfair when awarding penalty kicks
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Yeah, all of this is being tackled as we speak. I've already submitted default Clojure code for many of the levels, so selecting Clojure from the drop-down should soon switch the sample code as well. The Greed tournament was meant to stress-test the parsers; now it's time to polish the UI and make everything work smoothly.
Lots of that is a scoosh in Erlang, deploy, monitor, manage clusters. You have monitoring, cross-machine process linking, remote code loading all based on network transparency....
Because a good performer will make more with performance incentives than under a flat compensation model. That is why hedge funds are structured with performance bonuses - managers believe in themselves.
Isn't being deaf and watching soccer more like being there in person? Whenever I go see live matches there is no announcer. The ref has no mic and makes no hand gestures and there are no jumbo-tron close ups on anything important. Very difficult but apparently genuine. Part of the barrier to entry for football fans I suppose.
That's very kind of you. I used to live in Utah, and still have many connections there. If you don't mind, I'll drop your name if any friends there could benefit from a quick chat with a real person. I'm in San Diego and the reverse offer stands.
It's amazing that's what you took away from a very insightful comment.
I'm a developer with bipolar disorder. I gave a about it last year at Business of Software called Developers, Entrepreneurs and Depression that some founders have found useful:

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/11/developers-entrepreneu...
In the particular case of founders it may be that simply having others (outside their fellow founders) to talk to about their problems might stem off the depression in the first place. Isolation is great for causing depression, especially in the presence of all kinds of stresses and pressures.

Once it passes into depression it simply doesn't matter whether it is "founder depression" or any other kind of depression. For true, major depression, therapy is an absolute must. Pharmaceuticals may also help in the short term. Anything else, including all the awesome people offering an ear in this thread, need to be in support of the professional help.
I'm blushing that it came across like that. I just meant to say how a young woman eventually becomes a very similar mirror of her mother as time passes.

I didn't mean to say I or anyone should measure a woman with how she keeps home or raises kids or physical beauty only. It was as sample list.

What I meant to say is you obviously don't want to marry a woman who's a great person today but turns out to be a terrible person tomorrow or 10 years from now (because everyone ages and changes over time). Of course there are unexpected/terrible things like diseases but basically you would want to marry someone you like your whole life. What I've seen is that when a mother in law is cranky and unhappy at older age for whatever reason, the daughter turns out similar.

If you don't care for any of this after my explanation, just note that you are not marrying just a person. You are marrying her family/friends and whatever baggage she may have.
Is this legal to use for commercial purposes? If I create an app and put it on the app store for sale, is it allowed?
After reading the post, I would rather phrase the key insight as: in the proposed protocol you don't have to reveal the nonce that hashes to the low value; rather, you prove you have it, thus destroying the connection between the nonce and the pool, so a solution can go out without any pool member being able to say "hey -- that was ours!"

This destroys the ability of pool members to trust that their nonces, where valid, will actually be used to claim a reward for the pool.

I'm not familiar with the work, but I assume there are validated zero knowledge proof protocols that prove you know a partial hash inversion of a particular quality, like the Pinocchio one referred to.

Edit: with that said, I don't agree that eliminating mining pools is a good thing; that just rewards those who can enforce cooperation by some other means (say, having the capital to personally run the farm), which has a far more unequal distribution than mining pools.
I teach programming classes at my kid's K-8 school. I was looking for fun ways to teach Javascript and took a long hard look at Code Combat but ultimately had to reject it. It might be a good option for an elective course or after school program, but I was teaching a class that 100% of students were required to take. The focus on killing and violence simply would not fly for all students or in the context of a required curriculum. I am guessing maybe 75% of the students would love it, but the remainder would be marginalized and I am sure I would get some parent complaints.
Devil's advocate, why should the financial service industry be different than any other sales industry? Remember most financial service people are simply salespeople pushing a product.

No one would bat an eye if a used car salesman put his own personal interest above the interest of his customer? Why should we then be outraged when someone sells you an annuity that isn't the ideal product for you? If it is my responsibility to educate myself enough that I don't spend an extra grand when the dealer recommends they undercoat my new car, why shouldn't I have to educate myself on why I shoudn't purchase an annuity in my new IRA?
Why do we bother making {lying, stealing, killing} illegal, when we could just rely on people to have the agency to avoid getting hit?

Because we live in a civilization.
One can easily hide something that has less than 20 or so meters hight (because trees rarely get over that height), and smaller than a few trees in area. If the thing you want to hide is bigger than that, you'll have better luck in a cave, or disguising it as a rock and placing it in the middle of a desert.
If the blockchain is dominated by a single interest, and that player starts abusing their market position, BitCoin's exchange rate will plummet and the economic interest in question will lose millions. So yes, it is in the community's interest and individual miners' interest to keep the hashrate distributed enough to prevent that from happening.

What happens when people lose faith in the system? The 2008 financial crisis, the great depression, etc....

Nobody wins if the entire system breaks down.
> Great work!

Thanks!

> There are a couple of other projects like this. Are you familiar with Wisp or Outlet?

The thing is, Closer was created for use on CodeCombat, which expects the parse tree to be in the standard Mozilla AST format [1]. As far as I know, none of the projects you mention satisfy this requirement.

> Your 'Nodes' file shows a strong familiarity with what's going on inside Coffeescript, too. :)

Actually it was lifted verbatim from [2] -- I just converted it to CoffeeScript :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...
[2]: https://github.com/zaach/reflect.js
Actually, to see lots of elite programmers makes me sad. Because i try to be a good programmer long enough to be frustrated about myself.
I think maybe your response was more to the term "compensate". "Compensate" sort of implied to me that YC would be somehow liable for mental damages.

I think what he/she meant to say was "provide therapy/counseling services at no charge to entreprenuership."
sillysaurus3, two things:
- if you are so sensitive (especially to random comment on interwebs), you should see specialist BEFORE you even start thinking about entrepreneurship. And make sure your doctor says "yes, you are good to go".
- Yes, i never been through awful depressions. But I been in situation which probably could trigger it. I knew what I am doing, what I am capable of and that I can man it up.
It is ok to seek specialist attention, but then you are not ready for real world yet.
It is like 300lbs fat kid will seek counseling because he can't withstand failures on a track. C'mon. You guys too spoiled here in USA.
I believe that is what is being shown. The tool is (I think) being demonstrated in a zshell with that feature (and probabaly countless others) turned on, so it is difficult to tell what is shell and what is percol. Or maybe not. The point is I don't know.
I can definitely relate to this. There are definitely times when it's hard to talk to anybody... and I don't know about you guys, but with some topics I actually find it harder to talk to someone I know, than, say, a random stranger at a bar. Luckily I have at least one or two friends, who, for whatever reason, I can talk to about "founder depression" issues more easily than other people. Strangely enough, it's not even that they're my closer friends, they're just people where the nature of the relationship feels "different" in some subtle way.

I also find that being more frank, than is probably expected, on forums like this is somewhat cathartic. If you were to dig through my old posts (don't waste your time, it's not actually that interesting) you'll find my admitting to suicidal ideation, and talking openly about how I think I'd off myself in the "doomsday" scenario. I hope it never comes to that, and I doubt it will, but something about this almost pseudonymous forum leaves me feeling more comfortable about saying certain things. This is true even though my "real life" identity is clearly spelled out in my profile and is trivially easy to find. shrug

Anyway, I'm no mental health expert, but if anybody just needs a friendly ear to listen to them vent, feel free to give me a shout. If you're in the RTP, NC area, I'm happy to meet for coffee/food/drinks or whatever. Email and contact info in profile.
Are they planning an android app? It looks like there is a clone currently on the app store but it would be nice to support the original:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ariyalion....