skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the Fed to collapse the value of bitcoins they would have to sell lots of bitcoins. They can't do that because they don't have bitcoins to sell. The can print USD but not bitcoins.
Perhaps. But a wlan card taken from a discarded/stolen/recyled/used corporate machine, then transported half-around the globe and sold for cash, isn't necessarily easy to trace back to a perpetrator.
I have 84 MB. When I uploaded the file in Chrome I got the Frozen Tab screen for a while, but then it went away and the page started showing me processing status.
It really would have to depend on your field, wouldn't it? There are no George Lucases or Steve Jobses of theoretical physics.
Even if they are from the sixteenth century, it would still be something of a mystery. The voyage of the Russian ship St. Gabriel in 1732 (~200 years later) is generally believed to be the first time Europeans reached Alaska. The first Spanish expeditions to Alaska didn't occur until the late 1700s. Also, the suggested geography depicts the Aleutian Islands, and I'm pretty sure the Spanish never made it that far. The Russians were moving into the area in force by that time period -- the approximate boundary between nominal Spanish territory and nominal Russian territory was around Sonoma County, California. And then the British came in...

It's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that Chinese traders (or perhaps Chinese trading partners) had ranged that far. Certainly a lot of the furs that the Russians and British took out of the region wound up being trafficked into China.
That's a converse, not a corollary. Converse isn't always true, corollary is.
Blimey, I'd forgotten all about Rodney Zaks. I had a copy of his "Programming the 6502" book back in the early and mid 80's when I used to hack out BBC Micro sideways ROM odds and sods. What a blast from the past.
The question I have is if this is an attempt to take away PayPal's market or add to it...that is unclear to me. If you've done a boosted post or an advertisement on facebook, you know you can pay via PayPal. I, for one, won't enter a credit or debit card but would do this if I could link it to Pp.

...but then again, it is not often I owe my friends money.
Of lmgtfy yields the answer, it's right, not rude.
Firstly, the majority of the dating sites are owned by IAC. I don't think Facebook is colluding with IAC. More likely you are being affected by increased scrutiny around ads promoting anything remotely resembling sex/prostitution/shady personal ads. The difference between this and dating is probably difficulty for an algorithm to figure out automatically. The small players promoting shady stuff are getting stopped automatically, but the bigger players doing similar things are not because they have the means to escalate issues to real people or are white listed. Until you are a bigger player, you are probably being caught up in some sort of automatic screening, I wouldn't take it personally.
Video talks about one of the biggest drawbacks in these websites, as it goes through all the experience some of us have and had with reddit, digg, and so many other user-submitted content websites.

I've come to the conclusion reddit loves self-promotion, but only when it like the content. Not easy for users who actually create content.
Why not? Picking everything to pieces is exactly what those people (theoretical and practical scientists) who seem to have the most success in approximating truth do. These are the methods that best produce accurate predictions about the future and best produce designs for new technologies that actually work.
> It’s very easy to take down a drone.

For sure. Laserpointer to blind it, jam gps to confuse it...

> And in order to tase or spray someone it has to get really low.

For tasing, sure. And for spraying an individual in the face. But if we're talking swarm-based crowd control, there might be other options. Anything bad that drops down (say 1000 minature cs-cannisters -- effective even if a few are "thrown back", other gas that is heavier than air, perhaps created by blending two components "on board" the drone, perhaps forms of acid or irritants liquids that are arezol'ed with pressure... audio-attacks...

In fact, swarm based drones might even be hard to take out, if they could rely on low-bandwidth, near-field comms, such as IR, lasers, (directional) ultrasound or whatnot. Not even sure if there's much current research in combining directional ultrasound with the type of advanced coding that is used for high-bandwidth radio short-wave/microwave comms.
> I prefer readable functions, not DSLs where my code suddenly descends into this magic bizarro-world of operator soup for a moment.

Bizarro world of operator soup? I don't really follow you. That dom selector code just compiles down into functions itself. I don't see how anything could be any clearer than a css selector for selecting an html element.
i cant wait to make lawnmower man a realtiy
"Personally I like the intimacy of being close to killing the animals we eat, it's authentic"

This is such an bizarre statement. Something like "I like the intimacy of being close to [a horrendous thing]".

I mean I agree that it's better done outwith closed doors, but really it seems the reason that everyone is OK with it is because lobsters aren't as cute (or at least as conducive to being empathized with) as calves, chicks and lambs. Which doesn't seem like a logical way to choose what we kill.
The first column is rounded. My data source (Forbes [1]) had 231 for Caltech class size, which I rounded to 200. It's also a few years old.

I simply botched the second column. The second column should be relabeled "A Number Smaller Than The Number Of Applicants, Probably By A Factor of 1.2 to 4". :-)

It was calculated from the class size and the acceptance rate. I forgot that I needed to also take a look at the percentage of the admitted who enrolled, since many people are admitted to multiple schools so not all admitted to a given school enroll.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/94/opinions_college08_Ameri...
The upside-down hp was the logo of a subsidiary, DYNAC (1956–1958) renamed DYMEC (1958–1959) and finally resorbed as the Dymec Division (1959–1967) of HP.
I'd like to see someone make an app which only works in the nearby mode and requires no registration.
Most likely FB will have an exception agreement with Apple. With their amounts of cash they can easily buy anything...
That hits close to home. I recently built a single page app with Backbone and SEO traffic is non-existent.

So now I'm dynamically generating pages on the backend, and serving them along with the javascript app so there's some some indexable static content. There are a few ways to directly reuse your client-side code on the server, but they all seem pretty hacky and convoluted.

I bought into the notion that the backend should just be a client-agnostic API, but that's an extreme position that should be considered when your site/app doesn't have any indexable content to begin with. If I could only go back in time...
... or read it via Google: https://www.google.ca/search?q=online.wsj.com/articles/hewle...
This is a good question. I sometimes comment about and help others on the topic of travel on Reddit, often writing a lot of content. The incentive for me is that it's fun and intrinsically rewarding to help others do something that I find meaningful (which would fit into sibling commenter Gatsky's reason #2). So in a way it's kinda self-serving, but in a good way.

As for why authors don't just link to another webpage: I think it's because a) those pages often don't fit what is being asked, if it's more in-depth; b) the author might have a way to explain it that they want to use; or c) you might presume that writing your own content will get more upvotes.

Meta-funnily enough, in this thread we have both approaches: myself and others offering opinions, another guy linking to a Quora question.
Yeah, I remember a HN post a couple of weeks ago about FB where they do A/B testing with their users in the app.
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I used to work in a lab that did some single-neuron recording and some array-recording. We recorded from monkeys. The monkeys had to have a chamber surgery in order for electrodes to be inserted into the brain.

This article mentions that they'll be recording from many areas simultaneously. I would think this would mean multiple chamber surgeries in different areas.

I know that these surgeries do damage to the monkeys. Could a monkey sustain so many chamber surgeries? What about other animals?
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IMO, there's no issue with self-promotion as long as a) it is disclosed transparently and b) it is done sparingly and only when relevant.

The person in the video did not do a), and I see many people in Hacker News link to a startup without mentioning that it's their startup or a startup by a friend. (A quick Twitter search usually identifies that)

Yes, it's a double standard. I also wish that Reddit would remove the 10:1 rule because no one follows it.

A good policy that many subreddits respect is an [OC] tag on submissions, which helps alleviate the disclosure problem, and one I've used frequently.(http://www.reddit.com/user/minimaxir/submitted/) It also helps that I don't benefit financially or socially for any OC content submissions.
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Facebook Messenger to Add Friend-To-Friend Payments Similar to Square Cash
Right, which is related to but different from the article, which says that introducing a cheaper option drives people to spend less and choose lower quality for less money rather than paying a little more for better quality. But I am not disagreeing with the original point. I agree that Sony might have a motivation to get people to rent for shorter periods, such as encouraging willingness to try more games because of less money devoted to a single game. But I think the dominating factor is just being able to advertise below $5.

But there could be other factors, like making it such a bad deal that people feel better about themselves when they avoid it. In a traditional retail store, you often can choose between multiple brands of the same thing. Different video games have some pretty big qualitative differences, so you can't consider choosing between games to be the same as choosing between bleach. You can usually shop around different stores to find better deals and feel good about yourself about finding a better price. But with digital distribution, when you are the only store someone can shop at, there's no choice and no way to feel good about finding a good deal except for sales. With streaming, there might be occasional sales, but they probably want to keep prices pretty even, so they need to invent a bad deal to allow you to feel good about avoiding it.

I don't know if it will last though, and I bet the length will get extended, because seeing that your store is willing to offer you a really bad deal is probably worse than the benefits of feeling smart enough to avoid it.

Either way, I would much rather buy used games for $5 rather than rent them for any length of time.
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Oh, man...

Short answer: By not storing wallets in computers at all.

Long, technical-focused answer: Paper wallets. Hardware wallets. USB drives that boot into a read-only operating system with your keys and a BTC client. Old cell phones that can be repurposed to run btc client software... you don't need to have a computer of your own to keep a wallet. And I haven't even mentioned hosted services! There is nothing (besides government regulation) stopping shop owners who work with M-Pesa to also offer "BTC vault services": using multi-sig, any BTC deposited in an account needs to be authorized by the vault.

Longer, human-focused answer: stop thinking that the problem in underdeveloped countries is lack of access to material things. The problem with underdeveloped countries is the lack of consolidated, stable, sound institutions. The technicalities of how to use BTC (or any cryptocurrency) is not the problem, they can adapt by themselves to a new gadget. What they can't do - by themselves - is to create these institutions that the people in the developed world take for granted.

A farmer will have access to Internet (just not so fast/ubiquitous/cheap), the thing they don't have is a bank to give them decent insurance in case their crops go bad, or any one to give them credit so that s/he can finance the purchase of supplies. They will have access to smartphones (not your "premium" iPhone, but that is only 2-3 years away by Moore's Law) and they will have cell phone access. What they don't have is a government that is stable enough to guarantee the money sent directly to him is as good as the money sent through some corrupt bureaucrat, or taxed away, or inflated away.

The cool thing about BTC is how it completely disrupts the finance/banking industry. It turns a socio-economic-political problem into a technological one. It allows people who live in poor institutions to completely bypass them.

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So, to summarize: if you are an American whose only concern is to keep your money and the convenience that it is only possible due to the stable institutions that your country provides, by all means stay out of any crypto-currency. But if you'd like to live in a world where the barriers are down, with free flow of people and services and goods, then by all means take a look at BTC - not as way to get rich quickly, but as a way to make the world freer.
Sorry, I guess people are too busy with other things during the weekend. This doesn't give much incentive to post on weekends or outside of business hours (looks like most people read HN at work based on my personal observation). :)
I don't know if the term "register renaming" was even around at the time since the other instructions (e.g. MOVs) don't "rename" registers, but they certainly had the right idea - "why move the data around when you can just change the register selection bits?" It's also how I expected the exchange instructions to work when I first saw the instruction set and the timings, so it's probably a rather natural and obvious way of doing it.

I did it the same way when I designed a Z80-compatible CPU in a (graphical) logic simulator, although I used a dual-ported register file.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/...

This may help. Using `apm -C` or `apm -A`
Like so much of economics, the hard part is coming up with a price tag that everyone agrees on in all contexts. How much would you pay to save your grandmother's life from an illness? How much would you accept to allow me to hunt her for sport?

So, in that sense, coming up with a precise measure of marginal cost / marginal benefit would be hard in practice.
Warning: don't watch if you're squeamish or a pet owner.
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I see many comments here be like "security is important for google, so paying guards more is a wise move". That isn't really true. If you want to keep something safe the real question isn't if your employee wants to abuse you, but if he can. Security is about being sure that damage that can be made by every single person you entrusted with access to something is reasonably low. Because if somebody can blow you up, him being your own employee and not a contractor, or paying him nice wage doesn't guarantee enough. Consider Snowden.

Now about wages. I'm not sure why I'm saying such obvious things on HN, but there's some visible ignorance in comments on that topic. Developers aren't paid more than cleaners because being developer is somehow better by itself. Wages are dictated by market, so the question is if you can find somebody who can do the same work while being paid less. Of course I don't know what specific purpose will serve these security guys hired by google, but if we're talking about something like sitting all day long watching nobody enters using other tools than his NFC card then answer is definitely yes, finding a guy who can do that is easier than finding a guy who can write efficient js or something like that.

I do think that hiring your own security staff is convenient (and I'm a bit surprised it wasn't the case before — I suppose it isn't like they are founding their own Blackwater), but it doesn't seem to be as important as some journalists are implying and sure it isn't about social equality.
Unfortunately, not personally. I wish there was a testing service as I use Lapka (https://mylapka.com/), but it doesn't give much. I've always wanted to test different vendors at the farmers' market and compare to Whole Foods and others.
On a related note: I wish that more CPUs had an explicit cache. So data has to be explicitly loaded into cache, etc.

Modern CPUs are NUMA. Don't treat memory as RAM any more, because that's not true.

Biggest problem with this is that not all CPUs have the same amount of cache. But you can get around this by treating the cache as the low area of RAM, with instructions to get the amount of cache available. Especially if cache is also paged.

Other issue with this is context switches, but this is conceptually no different than paging RAM to disk when required.
A link aggregator with a bonus for users who submit OC would be an interesting idea. Easily gamed, but interesting.
Love this - great idea!
There are different JVM implementations too y'know :)

http://www.azulsystems.com/
If the Federal Reserve can print USD, and USD can buy Bitcoins... am I missing something?
By root, I meant that an app with root access could probably take screenshots, not that a root app is needed for the user to access the system's screenshot capability.
See... that's the thing. It might work. If the driver plays nicely. Or it might not. In fact, you have no way of knowing without reading the source code.

The sqlite driver used to not work with the postgres one. I don't know why. I never looked into it... but, that this can happen is pretty bad, I'd argue.

Packages that invoke code when you import them and require this sort of import:

import _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"

Aren't idiomatic. They're hacks, because the database module didn't really consider how it was going to work properly.
Find a new one or get used to the idea of only working on legacy projects. There are still people out there making a living as COBOL programmers, but they don't get to work on greenfield code.
The 8086, which is based on the Z80, is not that much more complicated (even the opcode structure is similar, being an octal format), and same goes for the 80186. Things started becoming a bit more complex with the '286 and its protected mode, and then the '386+ with 32-bit and its various protected-mode enhancements really made it harder for a single person to master fully, but I think it was still mostly possible; the really hairy stuff started with 64-bit mode and all the extensions (e.g. virtualisation) that have been made to that since.

On the non-x86 side, modern ARM SoCs like the ones used in smartphones are not all that much simpler despite a less complex CPU core - they're still thousands of pages of documentation in total.
To do this (http://stackoverflow.com/a/1072522) is still painful in .NET compare to Java.
It amazes me that in almost every single article of this kind, there is this huge leap from binary adder to "computer as a bunch of labeled boxes", where these boxes mostly describe the data-path and all the control and sequencing is omitted. I think that most people after reading this kind of description will still think that it is some kind of impenetrable black magic (I certainly did for a long time). And it is not and somehow showing how one could build state-machine sequencer out of register and some logic is not that hard nor complex.
"Goggles".

Youtube H+ for something far-future (or watch continuum) they both seem to have reasonable (if dystopian) future tech storylines
If anything at scale you should own the whole chain.
It's called a vocational/trade school.
I remember reading (maybe here) about a guy who did hydroponics and comparing nutritional profiles and got better results for certain nutrients compared to conventionally grown ones. I've read long ago resveratrol especially discussing the content in different regions and grape types across in Europe and also why Muscadine grape (native to Florida) has the highest amounts - few times higher than Spanish reds. I think Oregon is also better suited for healthier wines as well. I don't have anything handy, unfortunately as I have the bad habit not to organize my findings outside of keeping the conclusions read or made in my head, but those reads made me switch to Spanish Rioja from French Pinot Noir. I never looked at the map before now, but it seems that Rioja's location is very well-situated for higher resveratrol and the wine is great. :)
This proposal assumes that the goal of top-tier colleges is to find the best and the brightest and give them an exceptional education, which will enable them to become even bester and brighterer. But that's wrong. The goal of top-tier colleges is inculcate people into a particular social class. Ivy league grads run the world, not because they're so much better and brighter than everyone else, but because the people who run the world were indoctrinated to believe that only ivy-league grads are capable of running the world, and so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. How do I know? Because people still care where you went to college even decades after you graduate. They stop caring about your GPA, but they never stop caring about your alma mater. If it were about achievement, then where you went to school should stop mattering after a decade or two or three, just like your GPA, but it doesn't. Once a Harvard man, always a Harvard man.
Well, saying that you "worked for google as a programmer" sounds a bit more impressive than you "worked for google as a cleaner", because google is a tech company. It is all about public image, so if you are a programmer then it is pretty natural your contract is stating that there is notable difference between you and, say, Sebastian Thrun in the sense of your importance for google. It doesn't seem to be necessary to say that some security guard's role in google wasn't like one of Sebastian Thrun, so why not?