skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope Gwern and other writers interested in the Satoshi phenomenon keep tabs on stuff like this... I mean, the fact that you might be able to deduce his hardware and other small clues slowly being revealed, might eventually lead to a pretty stable image of the persona behind Bitcoin.
While I am given to argument for the sake of argument, especially with friends whilst consuming beverages hot or cold, I don't write this either to take issue or to initiate an argument (though I do have a 48IBU bevvie close at hand and am optimistic enough to believe your worldview and mine overlap sufficiently)....

I don't think I've ever thought of hacking as sexy. It has for me always been about a blend of intellectual curiosity and pragmatic delivery: I need to do <aThing>, how can I reasonably balance timely delivery, goal-appropriate level of effort, sense of accomplishment, and intellectual curiosity and fascination?

Or how I can so exaggerate one of those (usually the last) so as to justify the result as a truly great hack?

A duct taped bumper isn't a hack, it's a fugly kludge, no elegance or creativity at all. A bumper held in place by super powerful magnets? yeah, that's a hack. (Not a good one, that sucker's fallin' at a bump, but, dude, magnets!)

Your examples are all sexy hacks, this is true. But to me sexiness never entered into the input parameters of the hack, but was only ever an indicator of the hack's true elegance.

(Perhaps had I incorporated design thinking into my approach long before I would be violently in agreement with you on all points.... Hmm, cogitative nutrition.)
This is amazing! How log it took for you build this? What library you are using for image manipulation?
It's a pretty busy day usually going into late evening. While you might get to talk to some people over lunch, and there are afterparties hosted afterwards, it's not the event I'd call the most beneficial to networking. Combined with introversion and shyness of half the attendees, it makes it a pretty tough proposition for networking.
>our best minds still go abroad to become fully developed
and this is what made me angry, our best researchers needs to leave the country to work because here they don't have a proper support, and when they finally succeed in something the people remember that he is brazilian like it was a determinant factor.
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I still think you should not focus on localization for the release of your first game. Try to get stuff out of the door and improve on it later. For subsequent games, maybe your organization might able to do a bit more before a release, but remember that trying to do more and more at once is just a recipe for disaster.
I sometimes do this in emails because for some reason Gmail hates CUT AND PASTE from an Excel table into an email and none of the work I did to format padding, widths, etc. in cells are preserved.
Looks awesome! I've been wanting something similar to this for a while now.

I wish there weren't 69,772 people ahead of me... (first world problems) :( or at least some way to gauge what that means.
We surely need this at my large government bureaucracy of an organization. Thanks for sharing.
P2P is definitely complex to develop. And on phones P2P sucks battery life due to keepalives between peers; this is one of the reasons Skype is removing P2P. P2P push notifications could help, but they'll probably never exist.
for those interested to see the kind of language that is used to develop her ideas ... here's a taste

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.2362.pdf, Counting closed geodesics in Moduli space (PDF)
I suppose what I was getting at is this: How do you explain what color is to a natively-blind person in a non-mathematical, non-physics based approach? In other words, the way most of the world learns about color (qualitatively). You can't use words like "shade" or "hue", because the very definition of those words are themselves tied to color.

For example, attempt to describe a baseball. Descriptions invoking roundness and texture can be easily understood because the individual retains his/her sense of feel. But saying "it's white in color... white is actually the presence of all colors..." obviously doesn't work.

I'd be curious to hear an example of how you would explain color to someone who has been blind for life.
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My guess is it's a combination of development complexity and (probably more importantly) firewall/router issues.

It's very hard — impossible, really — to deploy P2P technologies on a mass scale without thousands of users encountering problems with their routers & firewalls.

For mass market products, you can't get away with asking people to whitelist your app, make sure port 28777 is open for UDP, etc.

Many P2P systems have freeloader issues, which can usually be resolved/avoided/ignored on desktop systems, but when you add mobile into the equation — with its paltry bandwidth limits and sky-high overage charges — the potential for it to become a problem is much greater.
I'd try approaching app developers who have complementary titles and selling ad space to them.
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Emergency care is free for all. You may pay if you're admitted though.
They would have nuked us, if they had been able to. It was total-war. In a war for survival - which is what most of WW2 was - there are very few things off-limits.

How does that situation have anything to do with today?
https://twitter.com/DoerrfeldBill/status/497821022985674752
Sorry that was your experience. Can I trouble you to ask ask what OS, browser and version you were using?
It's extremely odd- one's visual field (at least in our cases) steadily contracts, until there's just nothing left. It's not an annulus of darkness closing in, it's juts nothing- the field you can see is smaller, and there's still nothing outside of it, just like there always isn't.

This is the first time I've heard of anyone else experiencing this phenomenon besides myself. Have there ever been any long-term effects on you?

Mine is slightly different. I don't have migranes, for one. Also, in addition to experiencing exactly what you described (minus the migrane), sometimes I experience the inverse: I can no longer see whatever I look at, but I retain peripheral vision. For example, if I were to look at the "o" in the word "for," I wouldn't be able to see the entire word. I could still read, with difficulty, until the effect became so strong that reading was impossible. (I still had peripheral vision, sort of, but eventually paragraphs became unseeable rather than individual words.)

Whenever any of these things occurred, I was completely normal again within two hours. It was bizarre, and it's mystified myself and two eye doctors. It's only happened less than a dozen times, but it's been happening since I was very young, and my most recent was less than a year ago.

The "blindness" was exactly as you describe: not a blackness, but a nothingness.

Do you happen to have any more info about the condition? It's very elusive.
That a couple weeks of maternity leave isn't a career killer?

I'm guessing here because you haven't left me much to go on, other than you seem to think your Dad didn't do his fair share I guess?

Or my assertion that having kids while you're still young, having time to see them grow up and be an active part of their lives, seeing them go on to make their own families, that all that stuff is something men in general think about as well?
*so people wouldn't accidentally click it
Here's an alternative[0] from Sendwithus worth checking out.

[0] https://github.com/sendwithus/templates
Hmm... so...

(1) Developer ease of use... must be almost as easy as simply opening a 'dang socket.

(2) Must be able to fall back on non-p2p easily and transparently if p2p is not possible for a given customer.

(3) Must be able to set a bandwidth quota on mobile devices, or possibly fall back to non-p2p easily and transparently when on a capped cellular connection.

(4) (via another reply) Must not do constant keep alives all the time at least on smaller mobile devices like phones, which will eat battery life-- must support some kind of sleep mode with instant wake.

This being HN, I have ulterior market research motives with this ask post. I have thoughts about building something, and want to know if it's worth doing. :-)

But I think it's an interesting question in the abstract too.
And there's also the fact that everything is now monetized through the server, so eliminating the server probably puts you out of business.
At the time Microsoft's Languages Division was run by a Welsh guy (David Jones) and he liked to hire fellow Brits.
Things are monetized through the service, not necessarily the server. Having everything have to go through a server all the time just adds cost. That makes me doubt that need to monetize is a fundamental reason for p2p being rare... but I could be wrong.

(I deleted the parent cause it was redundant to my other reply. Oops. :)
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9 months ago I created a similar app like RememberWin for Android
Hey guys,
I'm so happy that whoever the guy who created RememberWin just validated a very similar app that i created 9 months ago for Android. It's a self improvement app and has similar features like RememberWin, but It also have quotes, chat rooms for support, and other extended features.

I'm not saying my app is better, I just noticed a lot of folks in that thread were asking for it on Android and so I thought I'd spread the word.

The app is called ManAPP(Still a working name)
The main features are:
1.) Enter and track goals
2.) Journal entries
3.) Reminders
4.) Motivational Quotes
5.) A Chat Room Support

How it works:
The user enters a goal, multiple reminders plus motivational quotes keep him motivated. By entering journals the user can track their habits and their triggers of failure. The chat feature is an extra measure of support which helps the user because telling others about your goals increases the chances for success(76% by one study).

This is a screenshot from my actual challenge I am doing right now : http://imgur.com/5PydAIA

I use this app to set goals, and even as a to do list because it has alerts.

Thanks again to entangld who submitted his app, it really validated my idea.

This is the link to his Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173934

This is the link to my android app: Homepage: http://manapp.101sys.co/ Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manapp

Lastly, I wanted to add that I believe in the system the app provides because its the same system I've used in real life for the past 10 years. Its helped me accomplish many goals. I wanted to put it in an app because I wanted others to give it a try. The BIGGEST advice I can give is that you have to be consistent with the journal entries. do 3 days please.. You will notice a certain feeling after 3 days that you are more motivated to keep going.

Thank you all
Similarly, I've spent a lot of time in the US lately and people can no longer really place my accent. It sounds neither native to here, nor what people from back home have.

Quite odd.
maybe as a side project.

But i have some friends who makes rap and there is some diamonds that i've found with your bot :

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I want to see this world change.

Let's see what I can do right now

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And :

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you have destroyed me

do you deserve my hate?

=

i keep it in mind but it will not be before six months.

I will make a pull or notify with github, i code also in python.

In french we have some software to find rimes.

Putting the finding in a database could be a nice addition, i could help to compose text.

You have my admiration for the idea and the execution ...
The terminology is perhaps a little messy, but I think "self hosted" and "in the cloud" are not necessarily mutually exclusive. On one hand, "in the cloud" can mean a SaaS platform where your data is locked in and you have no control over the application. However, I could also own the code and data and host an application myself "in the cloud."

This is the ideal compromise to me. I can own my data and the application, but I don't necessarily have to deal with all the annoying details of managing my own servers.
It reminded me of the travel tubes in futurama, but for fish.
Nothing, really. But that is the situation today.
I've heard it described that blind people see what we see out of our left eye when we only have our right eye open. It's not blackness, it's just no perception.
That one I'm the least sure of. I think he's definitely under 50 though.

I think he could actually be under 30, honestly. Though no younger than 24.

edit:

On second thought I'm not that sure about him living in the US either, in part due to some of his use of British spellings.

I'll change that to "lives in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, or New Zealand".
We're discussing espionage. They screwed up and bricked the routers accidentally. If they had been successful, the routers would have appeared to function normally.
I've thought about this before, and concluded that the best analogy to draw would likely be that of sound pitch or timbre.

When a sound is close to you, it seems louder. When it's far away, it seems quieter. But sounds have other qualities which are perceived the same regardless of distance - pitch being the most recognizable. And a sound's pitch changes how you perceive it unconsciously - that is, there is a "qualia" to hearing a low sound vs. a high sound that cannot really be explained.

Similarly, visible objects which are close appear larger and those far away appear smaller. But visible objects have other qualities which are perceived the same regardless of distance - namely color. And an object's color also has a certain "qualia" that unconsciously affects how you feel about it.

This has the added advantage of making it easy to explain Doppler shift vs. redshift :)
Any particular reason why? There's no real evidence that he's a Japanophile, other than being a non-Japanese person taking a Japanese name.

edit: I'm not sure if I was downvoted because I failed to notice the person I was replying to was joking, or for some other reason.
Of course I know - at a point in time though. With Chrome autoupdate mechanism, unless permissions change, I don't have to approve. I'm sorry, but if I multiply by my hourly rate the time I need to invest to secure the benefit of using extensions, which work only on the desktop anyway, this will be a huge investment I'm not willing to do. I was thinking at some point to create a bunch of Chrome profiles and silo different web activities, but this is too much work, and to be able to sync across machines, I need separate Google accounts, i.e. too much effort still.
I was born (40 some odd years back) with an underdeveloped optic nerve in my left eye. An early surgery for Amblyopia corrected my gaze, but those first years of wearing a patch over "my good eye" resulted in nothing more than a lot of stress for my folks. And while I attempted to explain what I could see (are they shadows?), I never really had an answer as to why I could count "how many fingers" someone was holding up. Curiously, it was only within the past few years that I realized my left eye renders what one perceives peripherally. Hold your hand to the side of your head -- it's there, but do you really _see_ it? I can't imagine putting blindness into words.
I don't want to give a medical diagnosis, but this sounds familiar to me as a migraine sufferer.

You might be experiencing a migraine without headache:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acephalgic_migraine
No one says that spies are always loyal to a country. It's not surprising that made-up positions are silly.
Science article headline of the year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom)

It's a grab bag of weird perceptual effects that can precede migrane attacks (and apparently epileptic seizures), and they can be very disconcerting if you don't know about them.

In my case (only had them once or twice), I experienced the same visual field disassociation as you did (in addition to the scintillating scotoma thing) - I could see individual things in my field of view just fine, but I could not properly combine the whole scene into a whole. Like looking at a cubist artwork - each part is reasonable but the whole doesn't fit together, or had parts missing (not holes, just discontinuities). Of course, very shortly after that started, the migrane headache arrived.

Might want to consider talking to a doctor about it; while AFAIK auras are harmless if a bit scary, if you don't have them associated with a known issue like migrane headaches, might be good to try to find out where they're coming from. Not that anyone really seems to understand the mechanisms involved.
>Second-system effect
Thanks, never seen that one before.

I wish there was better rule for deciding what feature to put in. Maybe for every added feature i should have "a use case" . ... Um, an "add feature rule", to create a good rule, maybe I need some use cases.
First of all, be aware that the group that's actually totally blind is relatively small. Most people who are legally blind have some form of light perception, or can see something. I've been totally blind since birth.

Blind people can have a good or bad sense of direction, just like their sighted peers. I think the device described in the article might be more useful on short distances and less relevant for knowing where your home is while you're far away from it. This because blind people don't have the visual queues to determine if they're walking in a straight line for example. Getting immediate feedback could help with such skills and learn them how to verify the signals from the device with other senses.

Sensory substitution, aka how to replace input from one sense with input from another is a quite interesting topic.
Yes!

We have people in China, Poland, Russia, Pakistan, France, and India!
Susceptibility to honeytraps is indeed a problem.
Assuming they can still hear, I would probably try to explain the colour of light to be analogous to the pitch of sound.
We do!

Barcelona is awesome. Our COO is actually from there originally
It's more confusing than that in my experience. I have to use incognito windows to stay signed into my calendar, Google Apps for Business email, Analytics, AdSense, etc without confusing it. Otherwise it will sign me out of my email regularly.

When I tried to find out the details of that video, it said I couldn't do it with the Google account I was using and to switch to a different account (and it knew what that account was).
I mostly agree. The real measure of an investment, however, is the opportunity cost: What else could I have done with those resources? Might it have yielded higher returns?

But as the author alludes, the company is much better positioned for "the next one," so the investment actually has yet to pay off and there's plenty of upside left. From that perspective it was a huge win, since it appears that he came close to covering his costs, and now the company has a competitive advantage.
I also have had many migraines with visual aura, and have exactly one similar experience of perceptual blindness.
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I also thought about protesting in front of their store, Femen-Style. Only alone.
I'm being using Dart for months now and I think people will soon realize that it deserves to be the next javascript.

Here is what Dart really is: Node.js without the JavaScript baggage — I like Node.js because of the principles on which it was built: run things asynchronously whenever possible, use data streams whenever you can get away with it, and tie it all together with futures and callbacks. The problem with Node.js is that it’s JavaScript. There’s no distinction between types of numbers, working with arrays is always janky, NaN-infused wat moments abound, and so on.

But Dart gives you everything that’s great about Node.js without the baggage of JavaScript clinging to the project like a nagging, alcoholic in-law. Dart has an incredibly robust stream API and top-notch futures support baked into the core dart:async library, plus a bunch of other stuff that you get for free, like WebSockets, SSL support, a decent math library (complete with ints, nums, and doubles out of the box), as well as the foundations for an Erlang-flavored actor system in the dart:isolate library.

Basically, server-side Dart is trying to solve the same problems that Node.js was built to solve, i.e. problems around asynchronous, non-blocking I/O, but is doing so on a better VM and with a more robust and less flaky language. Another bit of good news is that Dart in practice is highly reminiscent of JavaScript, from the basic syntax to callback functions as first-class citizens, which means that the bridge from Node.js to Dart isn’t a terribly precarious one.
The original post and your comment both make it sounds like the various premailer libraries all share a common core, but I don't think that is true. Does the python premailer have anything to do with premailer.dialect.ca? I don't think it does.

Several months ago, when I was using Zurb Ink to design some emails, the python premailer would choke on some of the responsive CSS. I had to switch to the ruby premailer gem to get things to work. It looks like the python premailer has since been updated, so perhaps it works now.
Giving "reasons" why a language will be around a while is roughly somewhat comparable to giving "reasons" why a particular business or industry will last. These kinds of comparisons are a waste of mental energy.

Things like languages or businesses last (or do not) largely because of their interaction with their environment -- not because of (a) innate properties or (b) characteristics that we observe at this moment in time. A great language, like Python, deserves praise because of how useful it has been, but let's not get carried away and sanctify it.

Time will tell how long it lasts.

In the meanwhile, I like to use languages that help my productivity (for a particular problem) and don't help me shoot myself in the foot.
No serious politician would support universal health care, basic income, or full human rights for LGBT people, but that doesn't make those causes any less right.

What positive value comes from Snowden releasing the atrocities of the American government? Well, some people have a moral compass more developed than "espionage is a reality and the American government should be able to do as much of it as it wants, in any country, at any time, with any consequences."

Try to be on the right side of history. This is your chance to do that. Maybe you were alive in the 60s or even the 20s, but if you weren't, you're here now, and you can be a part of the struggles we fight today and tomorrow.
It backwards to suggest that any one language is the last you'll have to learn. Learning new languages is part of staying relevant. Even English is subtly changing over time.

(I don't mean to be a stickler just because I don't like the title -- and I don't -- but the language we choose matters.)
> Kit modules are compiled libraries, while CCAN distributes source code only.

Could you expand on this? I assume pulling the source, compiling locally, and then adding the headers and libs to a project local include or link path. Is it individual directories for each dependency or do they get mixed together?

How are you handling macros? Do you have some preset defines you're passing in for different platforms?

I think it's an interesting idea and definitely has more polish than ccan. I don't know if I'd ever give up fine grained control in production but for small personal projects this would be ideal.
Are you using something else in front of your APIs?