skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying that you can fund centralized payment systems with Bitcoin isn't an argument for Bitcoin, it's a solution in search of a problem. Even if you think fiat is completely unacceptable you can fund those centralized payment schemes in Africa with gold, or silver, or cowrie shells, or human urea (not making it up; https://twitter.com/UroFoundation), or any of a million other things that don't require billion-dollar foundries to make the mining hardware you need.

You're right that you can't start a new Visa in your garage, but as it turns out even they have competition, and more than "very little". In any case "garage bootstrap ability" is not a value metric that I hear as a serious talking point that often. Normally we bootstrap things in garages and quickly try to scale them up out of garages (Visa itself was probably started in nothing larger than a Bank of America conference room, after all). And good luck fitting the datacenters behind Chinese-based Bitcoin mining operations in a single garage.

As far as competition alone driving fees down, that only works up to a point (which is why no efficient market has managed zero fees, even in high-competition markets where the profit margins are squeezed very low). For Bitcoin as long as miners can turn a profit for the price of electricity they use, they'll continue to come online to buy tickets in the lottery with KW-hr, so the transaction fees will be based on the delta between the price of electricity and the price of Bitcoin itself, and mining itself will migrate to increasingly more efficient (and centralized) operations with plentiful cheap electricity and cooling as less efficient miners are driven out of business. But at 7 tranx/sec even the most efficient miners won't easily be able to pay for that on pennies/transaction.

And since individual miners collaborating in mining pools will probably never go away (since it's not that expensive to "play the lottery" with only a couple of ASICs on your personal power bill), the efficient mining firms will have to eke out a profit on something less than 100% of the blocks out there, causing them to charge even more per transaction.

At the end of the day the "fundamentals" is that Bitcoin in steady-state will convert electrical power into a distributed ledger without trusted third parties (except, of course, for the centralized miners themselves...), and that electrical power has to be paid for by the users of the Bitcoin network itself.

Doing the same thing that Bitcoin does today with distributed networks that are orders of magnitude more power-efficient (even if they did utilize trusted third parties) would result in a much, much cheaper financial network, which would be even that much better for the poor of Africa (and that much easier to drive to near-zero fees by competition).

After all, those transaction fees for Bitcoin don't pay for anything than keeping the ledger up to date, and don't include insurance fees for things such as fraud, scams by the counterparty, and a host of other things that are accounted for in the fees that Visa and its many competitors charges.
I totally forgot about that. Though I thought EXIF just had technical info like resolution, camera mode, date, and location. Is it really as flexible as ID3?

I know next to nothing about photography, so maybe there tons of tools out there to manage your photo library EXIF tags that I have never noticed.
Weird. I actually remember being a kid and distinctly remember not wanting to be around my parents very often.
I don't. Which is why I said "They give us space .."
For the curious...

||: 12/8 -♪♪-♪-♪♪-♪-♪ | 10/8 -♪♪-♪♪-♪-♪ :||

(- being a 1/8th pause, for the lack of a proper unicode character in whatever font I currently use to type this)

from: http://www.stuartgreenbaum.com/downloads/files/%20First%20Ci...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_works_in_unusu...
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I disagree. I would rather say: Do whatever you want to do. If you wanna code all day, just do it! This is freedom!

So if you wanna work all day, find a way around your gf's complaints. If you think your gf is pushing too much then probably she isn't for you.

Sometimes I have the same problem and I try to be very straight: I always worked so much!
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Personally I find it really strange that we (the U.S.) aren't working every day towards having an open border with Canada (it doesn't seem to be just Canada that doesn't want it).

I guess you'd need limitations on health care and an awareness campaign about it (so that confused people didn't travel in an attempt to save money), but other than that, I think the only stopper is the slightly higher level of paranoia the U.S. shows towards foreign visitors.
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Reposting from down below: http://blog.readability.com/2012/06/announcement/
Not really. A busy network has a million little buffers and things where your packet might get dropped but succeed 1ms later.
I've been with my now wife for 17 years. Most important rule:

Make dedicated time for her every day for a minutes, every week for a few hours, every month for a few days, every year for a few weeks.

That basically means dedicated listening for one short conversation a day, one dedicated dinner each week, one dedicated weekend together each month, and one dedicated vacation together each year.

Any by dedicated, I mean no phones or computers or texts. Give her your time. It need not be huge amounts. But show she is important.

Of course you will fall short. But the goal is to try. She will see that.
When I saw your username I was really hoping your comment was going to be about how back in your day you'd "subscribe to podcasts" by adding an rsync to your crontab (and hopefully something something FTP).

Almost.
I've had the same experience and the opposite opinion.
In the pre-amble

"Recognizing that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding,"

And Article 3, section 1:

"1. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration."
> I have never seen the point in tying my uptime to the uptime of a third party, and allowing a third party to revoke my users account if they so wish.

Couldn't agree more. Which is why I recommended Persona! Persona is decentralized. Third party authentication done right. I highly encourage you to look into it, especially if you already know about the issues oauth2 and co have.

Third party authentication is still the right thing to do in 99 percent of cases. Users should not have to rely on the unknown first party they are sending their credentials to to do things the right way. Moreover, developers should not have to reimplement all these protections every time - 2FA, bcrypt, proper separation of authentication and data, etc etc they are not all cheap to set up and some of them are obscure.

Regarding making decks while logged in - my expectation is that the tool would let me share a URL that is not tied to an account. Something akin to the WoW talent calculators that used to be popular back in the days: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator
I have to say I agree too. The phrase "the trust my parents have placed in me" also seems stilted.
You can send them a bunch of quarters via https://archive.org/donate/
Nice looking site. I dunno what else to say, since I can't spend $29.99 to see how good Desk is.
> Configuration management is an enormous pain for systems like Drupal

As someone who worked on Drupal for a couple of year in the days of 5/6 this was my biggest problem.

I don't think things have improved much.
Change the location to Sydney and see what comes up:

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I get:
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Micro services

Startup Founders 101

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Internet of Things

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Health tech

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Meteor

BI

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All Things API

Node.ninjas

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PHP

Puppet

Drupal

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Web Analytics

Continuous Delivery

Linux

PHP

MongoDB
I think another big factor in podcasts getting more popular these days is that the content and quality of podcasts are getting better. Today you don't need equipment and staff only radio stations can afford to produce high quality good sounding content. A computer with an USB mic and Audacity together with a tool like Auphonic [1] are enough to get good sound. The internet makes it easier to research stuff and prepare content collaboratively without being in the same room.

Because we strongly believe that there is a bright future for podcasting a friend and I started Podigee [2]. Our aim is to make publishing a podcast easier and faster so beginners can get an easy start and more experienced podcasters can focus on producing high quality content without worrying about publishing software and infrastructure.

Additionally we support a movement that was started here in Germany called Podlove [3]. They provide open source software like a Wordpress plugin for publishing podcasts and a web player which is currently completely revised (and will be pretty awesome after that). Besides that they also try to establish new standards and promote old ones that are not widely used (like paged feeds). Currently we (I do most of the coding) are working on a new kind of subscribe button [4] which will make subscribing a podcast a lot easier for listeners. We have a lot of podcast client developers on board to support subscribing through the button and we have high hopes that this will push podcasting even further. The button will see an official release in the coming weeks.

[1] https://www.auphonic.com

[2] https://www.podigee.com

[3] http://www.podlove.org

[4] http://www.podlove.org/podlove-subscribe-button/
Everykey – The Wristband That Replaces Keys and Passwords
Where does OP say they enjoy the work?
Potato prices jump around based on demand and supply just like any other commodity: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/blig...

If you were starving on a desert island I'm willing to bet you'd pay significantly more than $5 for 5lbs of potatoes if need be, because of their subjective value.

Likewise, people spend $$$ to mine gold because it's (subjectively) worth $90,000 for 5 lbs. If gold was as effectively rare as it is today, but easier to 'harvest' when you did find it, it would likely be worth about as much as long as all the other subjective factors still held.

Even today Saudi Arabia can pump oil for obscenely low prices (single digit USD per barrel), but it still sells near the market rate.
You should have in mind that the time you spend on your startup is not linearly correlated to its success.
It was my window manager back in 1998-2004, then it went stale. Fond memories.
He has "put up".

He's been doing and funding neuroscience research for over a decade and has built some impressive predictive systems. Leading researchers, such as Andrew Ng (the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab), have stated that Jeff's publications have directly influenced their thinking.

That said, I agree machine intelligence will initially be the equivalent of building machines that fly without flapping, but Jeff's approaches don't forbid this (he often deviates from nature in his models, but tries to stay close).
Erm... RTD does none of those things. There's a default site theme that is specific to RTD - they don't try to impersonate anyone. They don't "lift" anything unless the project owner has opened an account and requested that their documentation be hosted on RTD.

I'm at a complete loss how you've even come to the impression that RTD does the things you claim it does - because it does nothing of the sort.
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Photoshop Elements has really great tagging functionality for people, places, events, time, etc.
I'll look into Persona. It probably won't be today as I'm trying to be extra attentive to the site while I'm drumming up traffic, but it's on my list now.

In theory you could build it in one sitting then share it. And I suppose there's use there. I don't particularly like the idea of people not being (necessarily) able to edit after the fact. That might not be as big of a downside as I think it is though. I'll mull that over as well. It works for imgur, after all, and even though I have an account I fairly often use it without signing in...
Is it normal that the sound continues after I close a Tab (Windows 8.1 with Chrome 38.02)?
Big packets, perhaps?
Showing evidence (or hard facts) is the best way to counter the "always" and "never" accusations. One may never "win" these types of emotional battles, but throwing in a Black Swan by means of evidence to an emotional argument is the quickest way to begin talking sensibly.

It works both ways too. If you broke a promised family engagement, it's there in black and white. Also, if you're seen as not devoting sufficient time for the family, the communication can move towards exactly how much (extent).
MailGun looks like THE answer. Thanks!
Print out a recovery code and keep it somewhere safe.
>The networks are not inefficient, they classify an image in 2ms and state of the art nets run real-time on your iPhone. Companies don't use "enormous numbers of servers" (I assume in training time?) to accomplish these tasks, they use a few dozen GPUs.

He's talking about the training time. Google Brain used 16,000 CPUs and had a training set of 10 million images back in 2012[1]. It is no doubt substantially bigger now.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-networ...
Tiny Linux-based AM335x COMs can freeze or fry
That seems like a very misplaced worry - it's not like children suddenly start running themselves into the ground without any downtime when they get their drivers' licenses.
A polyfill for ES6-style Promises in 402 bytes (gzip)
Maybe with UberPool(sharing rides with other people on the same route) they'll have more access ? and if you combine that with Uber's SUV service, which enables sharing rides between up to 6 people, you'll get to something more accessible to poor people.
I have chosen deep learning as the topic of my graduation thesis and lately and I had the opportunity to study the evolution of artificial neural networks. I think deep learning is having it's descending period on the hype curve in an interesting way, it is interesting because the prominent figures of the field are delivering it. If my memory serves me well, this is the third article brought to HN within last month on the topic of "deep learning does not represent how real brain works and is actually unsuitable for artificial general intelligence".

On one of his seminars Andrew Ng talks about "the algorithm": he pointed out that human brain may re-wire itself to handle different tasks, for example one part of the brain which is responsible for sight might take up the task for hearing. The idea of ANN undisputedly inspired from research investigating how brain actually works, and now it has set the state-of-the-art on many areas it has been applied, but to do this we had to resort to "ugly hacks" in the perspective of "the algorithm", to name some of them would be Autoencoders and Restricted Boltzmann Machines. It works, yes it works very well, but we had to pay a price of taking a detour from finding "the algorithm".

In my opinion, such banterings as in OP should not be taken as an aggressive stance against deep learning. Just because it is not "the" method doesn't mean it has no value whatsoever, but it has a point; after the limitations of deep learning is explored well, we will need a new idea to push the field further.
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The failure, nay the pigheaded refusal, to learn from history.

BitCoin is faux money and will likely be recorded as the "Dutch Tulip Bubble" [0] of our times.

Intentions and wishful thinking alone are not enough to create revolutions. Crises are invariably required to change such fundamental concepts as value of currency in the public's mind, and it has to happen on a massive scale in a tiny span of time. BitCoin will be no more than the butt of jokes in another decade unless it finds it's destiny in a crisis made for it to shine.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Article 3. Here's the child friendly language version which is more direct: http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/uncrcchilldfriendlylan...

Here's the UNICEF summary: http://www.unicef.org.uk/Documents/Publication-pdfs/UNCRC_su...

Op says, more than once, that time with children must be scheduled and that you should avoid seeing them unless it is scheduled. I agree they're not going to avoid ER. What about if the child spontaneously asks for time? Op has said that time should be withheld - as part of "healthy" adjustment and "respectful boundaries".

(I'm not American. I don't understand that comment.)
Overstock uses Coinbase for checkout and converts the majority of it to dollars immediately. They have recently begun to hold about 10% of sales made in Bitcoin as Bitcoin and have disclosed this as a risk in their latest 10-Q to investors. Bitcoin accounts for 0.25% of sales, so they're keeping 0.025% of revenue as Bitcoin.

While many may argue the prudence of such a decision (and subsequent disclosure), it's important they disclose this as their Bitcoin holdings lost about 1/2 their value in the last quarter. Any major company keeping any significant percentage of their sales revenue or cash holdings as Bitcoin would be exceedingly irresponsible.
Beyond the Hawkins-driven hype, I do think, however that it is worth attempting to model the brain more closely in ML. It may be that, practically, the whole HTM thing doesn't really work out -- but it will be interesting to see how it fails or succeeds as a research project.

Just like NNs in the 90's, there is this tendency to write it all off when some other technology does better, but I have a vague hope that at least some of the ideas will be more widely useful and that it's isn't a totally wasted effort.
There's also the small matter of their fee [0][1],
which I do not see mentioned anywhere on their landing page.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2kzlsh/tip4commit_s...

[1] https://tip4commit.com/projects/914/deposits