skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a great write-up. I've avoided BTC from the start because I always figured someone would commit the algos to silicon and crush everyone else. That said I'm doubtful there is such thing as a ASIC resistance system in anything that has a direct economic value to highly-repeated calculation ratio. Many years ago people would say of graphics systems "You'll never get X poly's/second" etc. But then gaming came along and all those hungry 3d gamers kept buying more and more powerful GPU's. Then data sciences came along and said "wow we can use these GPU's" and onward marches the power of the GPU. I have lived to see so many things over the years go from "impossible" to "common place" in technology.

Another thought that came to mind several times over the years is that China or USA could spool up enough hardware to swamp the BTC networks and crash them. If you think about advancements in these ASIC's and how cheap power can be to large governmental organizations all that is missing is the incentive to attack BTC. I take the recent slow but steady recognition of BTC by various governments with a certain cynical grain of salt. I think others see these things as proof that BTC is getting more generally accepted, but I see them as very large and powerful entities thinking, "If you can't beat them join 'em". It's entirely possible that these steps are more about staying closer to the enemy then being friends with BTC.

When I read this article making claims about heat and electricity being major blockers to centralization I started to think about how google and facebook have been solving these problems with amazing success in the last couple of years. Imagine an "BTC Factory" in a nice cold climate where power is cheap and labor to maintain the facility is cheap. If BTC continues to grow and become predictably tradable for other currencies then these farms could be built with great ease. All we're lacking here is a VC who sees 15% as a reasonable return and a handful of nerds who don't mind building the worlds most powerful mining environment in a 505,000 sq ft facility in North Carolina. Of course this would be a massive investment and could signal an amazing time for BTC or it could signify the centralization of a decentralized process that destroys the original dreams of BTC and yet again puts the people with the most power (literally) in control.

The only thing that stands between today and that potential future are forward thinking people trying to keep the BTC concept alive and continuing to improve what is today's state of art to stay ahead of tomorrow's state of art. I'm still on the sidelines watching but am enjoying the show!
Things I have found worth digging into the history:

- Montreal: http://sztanko.github.io/solsticestreets/cities/montreal.htm...

- Riyadh:
http://sztanko.github.io/solsticestreets/cities/riyadh.html

- New York http://sztanko.github.io/solsticestreets/cities/new-york.htm... (although most of the streets in Manhattan are aligned in a different way, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge )

- Old cemetery in Vienna:
http://sztanko.github.io/solsticestreets/cities/vienna.html

If anyone knows if the alignment is intentional or that is just because a statistical artifact, please let me know.
much like eating crap or spending too much time lying in a couch.

Has it been demonstrated that these factors have had any effect on sperm quality? Seems dubious.
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Georgia tech alum here.
Whoever did this, I may have a job offer for you! Awesome!
> It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard.

There is no major European city where you could not get by with just English.

> It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend.

But there are better cities for that purpose: Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris.

> 3) It's by far the biggest startup/tech hub in Europe (excluding Israel) and YC is very pro-hub (one of the reasons YC moved from Boston to SF).

That is actually an excellent reason to do it somewhere else.

Really, missed opportunity.
Quick! Give those students one million dollars in VC funding!

Just think about it. We have more and more flash-in-the-pan shoddily written apps in mobile.

And because they're flash-in-the-pan, for a time, they're popular. And because they're shoddily written, they're easily exploited at the peak of their popularity, so you can amass a ton of personal information from the app users and abuse it any way you want.

Hacking crappy mobile apps may soon become the new "my WordPress blog got hacked". Think of the potential, it can be a whole new industry. Not to mention all the fake diplomas, mortgages, Russian brides and Cialis pills that'll get sold in there.
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Nope, they are white hat. Hacking a product/app/website and not talking about it, not warning the founder is the problem.

In fact, what those guys are doing increases the collective conscious and improves the system to be able to develop better/safer products.
https://www.truevault.com/ , You may wanto check them out for hippa compliance.

Look asking for permission for pursuing your passion isn't ideal. the best that can happen is you're going to make it and realize your vision . The next best is you can learn way more than you would have by just thinking about whether to do it or not. Either way it's going to be a fruitful experience.
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in case someone is looking for it, here is the new Nokia website: http://company.nokia.com/en

yes, they share the nokia.com top domain, however they are now separate, since the sale to Microsoft completed in 25 April this year.
Yes something like this can change the world at least for some people, I wasn't trying to mock or belittle the ambition just get you to think about where your priority lay between business and world changing.

There are other players in the market but that doesn't matter if you know what yours is better at. Have a short answer for someone that says "Why should I use your product rather than xxx". That can be that all the others suck or that yours is easy to use or more private or many other things but you should have an answer.

If I was trying to build a business around such an idea I think I would try to sell the to the medical professionals/practices. I'm sure it would be easier for them to track all their patients on one system than many different ones so they could hand out codes to their patients that would allow easy sign up and associate them with the correct doctor.

Good luck!
Actually, no, not without probable cause. It appears that in some of these cases that the probable cause was "because we bugged his phone".
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For me, the most interesting part is that his solution - updating only the changed parts between each frame and the previous one, and approximating the changes so that they're not (too) visually perceptible in order to satisfy a bitrate constraint - is one of the ways that modern video codecs achieve their compression.

I agree it's also amazing that apparently, the true limitations of hardware from over 30 years ago are still rather elusive... this is the complete opposite of the "throw more hardware at it" attitude towards most software problems today, but instead it's "throw more brainpower at it".
Open Source TRIZ site has a collecion of freely available resourses on the methodology of inventive problem solving. http://www.opensourcetriz.com/main/page_ebooks.html
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I have little sympathy for Yo - it's indicative of the cavalier (arrogant?) attitude many seem to have towards security these days. There's this prevalent minimum viable product attitude lately that seems to make app developers think security is something you can think about later.

It isn't. You have an obligation to your users and the personal data they entrust you with. Build it in. Today. And know that you can't write secure code as part of an agile process. Security means sitting down and working out a threat model before you jump into code, user needs and backlogs. In other words, choose design up front, or have a contingency ready because you're going to get hacked.
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They can't care. They don't set policy, Congress does. They just act out Congress' laws.
Wiz / Imphobia here.. Damn, that is dedication. I didn't know there was a 160x200 X 4 bits resolution on the CGA card. How was that activated ?
Obesity and sperm quality: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/William_Roudebush/public.... (Although whether that affects fertility is a different question)

The link to exercise was publicised in many newspapers. Science reporting is awful. Here's a trustworthy source that explains the recen research. http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/02February/Pages/exercise-activi...
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Hi, I'm one of the Web Audio API developers at Mozilla. This demo uses a very old version of the Web Audio API, that we don't support, because it is not standard (and we started to implement after the breaking changes in the spec anyways).

Standard compliant Web Audio API is available from Firefox 25,
Some really interesting speakers, will any of the talks be put online afterwards?
forget about it, the answer to my question was written below my post :-) kudo for the video on the XT !
You logic is fascinating there.

If the reader knows this is old news, then they wouldn't have expectations to be tempered, because it's old news to them.

But if the reader didn't know about it, and finds the news exciting, then it's news to them, why temper their expectations?

There's no logical scenario under which someone would find this event notable, but be bummed out because it happened 9 months ago.
Developing DOS games in 2014? Well, why not...
byethost.com (note the spelling of byet) is one service I know of that offers free hosting. And they don't push any ads in the free plan.
Where are you?

Would it be possible to create a MVP and show that to commissioners / researchers / etc in your country?

You might want to get good quality research to support your idea. Good quality in this context means a cochrane review, or information from NICE (the UK organisation) or something equally rigorous.

I would be keen to hear your idea. Please feel free to email me.

Have you seen the Australian website "Moodgym"? And there are similar other sites.
Yeah, DJGPP is great and I think it was one of the first compilers to work in Protected Mode and take (most of) the DOS/Real mode pain away
Interstingly they talk about the "change palette in the middle of the screen" tricks that we used in Imphobia. The precision timing was certainly tricky, especially when playing a MOD-file while drawing ! Ahhh memories...
There is libsass and sassc https://github.com/sass/sassc

It works for a fairly large project i'm involved in.

Besides being AFAIU significantly faster then the ruby one, it allowed me to continue to refuse to add another scripting environment to our already mile long dependency list.
> "throw more brainpower at it"

Back then there was simply no other way. I remember doing a 3D real-time fly-by of a big architectural development in Amsterdam ("Meervaart") in the 80's. I custom built the machine, pulled a trick where I clocked the fp coprocessor faster than the main processor, had a tseng graphics card (just about as fast as it would go at the time). And all the rest was software, hidden line removal, 800x600 on some primitve beamer at 25 fps. It was the best I could do at the time and it took many weeks to prepare for that demo. Just digitizing the whole neighbourhood was a monks job, I still have the aerial photograph as a souvenir from the job.

I got paid with a rusty old car that I wanted the engine from :)
In the demoscene, doing the impossible was just regular behaviour :-) Just look at what they get out of a mere C64...
Mr. Schwarzenegger is a clever and laser focused guy, that´s for sure, but this story is a complete rationalization of past memories.

"Seven sins of memory" by Daniel L. Schacter is a great book to read if you are interested in this area of knowledge.
> rather than coming to the site or emailing support to
> cancel, would simply submit a chargeback on their credit
> card. Obviously that did not stop recurring billing

Why not? If I receive information that a payment has been stopped, I deactivate their account and send them an email that their subscription has been canceled. Unless the customer sends a new payment, the account stays deactivated and I make a +1 under "Lost Customers".
Such a farm has already been built: http://imgur.com/a/CcIhX
and https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/02/bit...

10 megawatt. In Sweden. Datacenter should be at full capacity by now, so ~10 petahash/sec (= 10% of the global Bitcoin network) assuming ~1 watt per Ghash/sec. My numbers are all +/-30% depending on how much hw is 28nm (KnC's Jupiter systems) vs 20nm (Neptune).
Llama+Impala isn't quite ready for prime time in my experience. The biggest issue is the reliance on Impala's query size estimates to determine how many resources to request from Yarn. We find that these estimates are frequently an order of magnitude or so away from reality.
Think of the power of confirmation bias next time you loudly proclaim there's scientific proof about something.

Usually it takes hundreds and thousands of experiments to really prove something conclusively, because science is affected by culture and fashions like any other field of endeavor.

Most scientists are singularly focused on trying to prove the theory of the day. And if you look hard enough for evidence, you'll find your evidence.
Time to register faradayunderwear.com and profit!

Bummer a quick search shows this stuff apparently is already a "thing". [1]

My high school science teacher always said that he felt all the radio stuff we are doing will be the end of humans. This was in the '80's and he was considered a bit of an eccentric but he may have been onto something.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/wireless-armour-underwear/31861/
How about relatively small BTC mining room heaters - plug them into an electrical supply they provide heat and offset the heating costs with returns from mining?

Edit: I was being ~70% serious about this...
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Wikipedia has a bit under "special effects on composite monitors" http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
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Philip K. Dick's Ajax model Mountibank Lead Codpiece doesn't sound so ridiculous any more.
Co-generation applied to bitcoin mining. You're in good company here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/u_lYM...
After applying it told me to record my password. I had been given no password so I do not really understand whether it worked or not.
Hey - thank you for this comment, it makes a murky situation a bit clearer for me.

My next question is, of course, what's the solution? I can't tell from your comment (being unversed in this landscape) who the 'specialist courts' you reference are -- the Federal Circuit themselves? Some subset of FC?

Or is there some mechanism that assigns these kinds of IP/patent cases to FC, or to that subset of FC, which might be tweaked?
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In a small team there should be single development database restored from backup.

That development database should be hosted on development server, not on developers' laptops.

Developers are welcome to VPN into corporate network from their laptops in order to work with database.

Any other issues?
Looks interesting. Where do I get one?
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Here the TED talk where physicist Allan Adams explains what the discovery was about, with illustrations by XKCD's Randall Munroe: http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_adams_the_discovery_that_coul...

It was nice as it lasted...
I'm rather more of a fan of LOAD81 for things like this, although I don't know if it runs on DOS .. it certainly provides the same degree of sophistication, and includes a great built-in editor:

http://github.com/antirez/load81

(BTW, yes: its written by that antirez .. ;)
You mean a logistic function. It starts off looking exponential. Exponentials don't go flat.
I really like the website interface.
By the way you can find many soundtracks here (about 5500 individual songs) in the archives located here: http://www.hotdogstorm.com/bucky/GameMusicArchives/
They are in NSFE format which can be played or converted to anything else using foobar2000 and the Game Emu Player plugin.
well... the "we sell your stuff on eBay" type shops have been around for ages. I don't think that movie invented them.
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I don't think so. This is the sentence he replied to:

"The only plus I see in all this is that in the end we are now free of the API lock-in that OS vendors traditionally required"

The discussion here is about APIs that are specific to Apple, Microsoft, Google etc.
That looks as though it might have been inspiration for "Carrier Command".
I would be replying to the first email you mention, with something along the lines of:
"Sure, I'd love to help you! My rates are $x per hour, and I currently have $y hours free in the next week you can buy if you're still interested."

Or something along those lines. Don't work for for-profit companies for free (and for not-for-profits, look at how much the top people are getting paid).
> "With all due apologies to Soderbergh his title seems perfect for our discussion. There may be no sex, but there is plenty of sizzle surrounding quantum computation."

Right, the title "sex, lies and videotape" is perfect for the discussion. There's no sex, and there are no videotapes, but there are quantum computers, and the author's desperate attempt to cram some whimsy into his post.

I'll sum up the problem as I see it. The problem is that we're comparing real (and thus limited by the reality of manufacturing etc.) classical computers, with theoretically perfect quantum computers.

Well the idea of something is always better, faster and sexier (see, I worked back sex into this) than reality, because as we get closer and closer to building computers with a larger qubit number we'll start hitting all sorts of engineering issues that would distance us from that perfect theoretical ideal of a 100% efficient quantum computer.

And it may turn out that idealism is all the advantage quantum computers had in the first place. It was all for naught. Not that we'll stop trying of course.
As it happens I was actually offered a Xerox Lisp Machine to take home when a university department I was associated with was throwing some old kit out. I was living in a tiny flat at the time so it wasn't really an option.

However, now we have plenty space and a property that is very difficult to heat and we need heating ~6 months a year, changing the property is not really an option (planning restrictions are really tight where we live - for good reasons, and any improvements would be incredibly expensive) - BTC room heaters might actually make sense....
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I am not trained either, but I like to listen. Buddhist does affirm an eternal soul, but its nature is not clear since they emphasize nothingness. And they are also coopted by modern science since the concepts of ultimate nothingness fit in well with no thinker. Very complex debates happened for centuries between scholars of Vedas (Hindu) and the Buddhists. In India the followers of Vedas were largely successful and Buddhism actually moved on away from India.

The closest description to what modern science is doing is changing the colors of a lightbulb and then claiming they can produce electricity.
The app uses parse.com API for all communication (and probably for all data storage) and I haven't seen it communicating with anything other than parse, getsentry and flurry services.

Does hacking the app means hacking parse.com?
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From the looks of it this is something they expect to be run by a small business with a few people.

Not many individuals have space in their home to store and turn over 100,000+ items in a month. Or have "Physical presence in all major metropolitan hubs in the US".
I'm in the job market right now, but being in a country other than the one I'm looking for a job in, it means that I can't do what you suggest.

But, this is something I really want to do. I wouldn't go in asking for a job, but just a "I want to know what you do and how you do it (and what sort of jobs exist at your place)". I suspect it's great for networking as well, if they do have a job come up, they might think of me...
Either DJGPP or Watcom with PharLap.

But regardless of who was first (they'll be pretty close, '89 or so) it was a huge step forward for programming on x86. The fact that it was free made it even more amazing.
Yet another misinterpreation of the Libet experiment. As Wikipedia and Libet say:

>Libet finds that conscious volition is exercised in the form of 'the power of veto' (sometimes called "free won't"[9][10]); the idea that conscious acquiescence is required to allow the unconscious buildup of the readiness potential to be actualized as a movement.

So he never denied conscious volition, he described it differently. Yet people claim the experiments denied conscious volition.
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My response to this is that environment is a little like what the author describes as mood. Different environments help frame problems in different ways.

A high pressure environment might drive aggressive simplification, skipping steps and question assumptions in order to side-step entire issues. It might also accelerate the time taken to exhaust solutions and put the issue to one side for background incubation.

A more relaxed environment might foster more creativity, more connection making and a more playful approach bending and transforming concepts and risking absurdity.

IMHO if you are really stuck on a problem then changing environments is one of the tools to try to help unstick it.
As if sharing with one organization means you want to share with all of them.
> needs more memory or CPU (to enable seeking, used when you switch tabs)

Gif is pretty bad, yes, but somehow I can browse pages with thousands of gifs. I can't browse pages with thousand of embedded videos.
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What do I need to know before I start consulting?
I'm currently strongly considering moving to consulting. I've got some work lined up (20 hrs/wk) but not enough to be stable
1) What do you do about health insurance?
2) How do you figure out your rate as a consultant?
3) How much work do you aim for? And then how do you get it?
4) How do you get the social interaction that you would get at a fulltime job?
5) What else should I be thinking about?