skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) What makes you better than the many existing Bitcoin exchanges? The website doesn't offer any explanation about why a potential customer should choose you over the alternatives.

2) What guarantees or protection do you offer customers for the Bitcoin that you hold? I don't mean in terms of security systems, encryption or any technical details, just what happens if you are hacked and lose coins. Will you reimburse customer losses at all?
A good practice for me is to begin with pseudo-code that outlines the logic of what I want to do. If the pseudo-code makes sense, its usually trivial to implement.
Does Outer Space Have a History?
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Been there and done it, and failed looking like a complete moron. Like everyone else already said I figured out my personal stupidity and worked through it.

This is also the exact reason why we stopped doing this with people, it just isn't reflective of if they are good or not. Instead we ask you to psuedo code something and just walk us through it as you do it. In fact we prefer to do it as a team, so we suggest something and hopefully you take it from there, or correct us or give us your ideas etc. It also helps us see if you fit in the team too, and honestly it helps people relax.

And hey, I would laughed if I heard a candidate say oh shit. that's good stuff, and shows you are human like the rest of us. Frankly, I wouldn't be worried about blowing that interview, you'll find someplace where you'll fit and do well.
I agree that this can be generated at publish time. The question is, how much value does it provide over something generated at read time by a browser plugin? The answer is - at publish time presumably someone at the publisher outfit will take a cursory look at it. That's it. May as well have readers mark up the articles!
Producthunt sucks, check out this subreddit which does a much better job
The Babies in the Freezer
DA is a political stepping stone, so you convict everything in sight and hope your cases get press so you can shamelessly self promote your tough on crime image.
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> America has not declared war since the 1940s...
started and provoked quite a few though ;-)
I really don't understand the need for this type of hyperbole. I always hear people accuse reddit of "getting out the pitchforks" and now it's that Hacker News is "having them perish in the flames of hundreds of angry tweets." And of course, by this, you mean that some people called a guy a dick for being a dick. No one is dying, no one is even facing minor injury. They are simply being called a dick for behaving like one. What are you hoping to accomplish with this completely over the top disconnection from reality?
Thank you for clarifying the relational aspect. This is what I meant to say but I couldn't find a concise way to do so.
What I'm trying to figure out is who tipped off the Boston Globe? I'm assuming that Edelman must have tipped them off thinking that they would chastise the business owner. If that's the case, then he really had no idea how obnoxious and entitled he sounded.
That's at (or near) STP, though.
Much of the discussion here seems to have become "anonymity vs. non-anonymity" --- i.e. either anonymity is good for research or it's bad for research. Why not just accept that in some venues there will be anonymity, and in some not, and let them each develop according to the merits of the respective approaches? No need to have all research anonymous or all research clearly attributed to a public identity.
You forget that he is a very prestigious person and every slight encountered in day to day life is therefore a very serious matter which requires his utmost attention.
Top 100 Stocks (AAPL, FB, TSLA, Etc) by Market Cap and Relative Popularity
Nice analogy!

Yes, it's spot-on with K. Anders Ericsson's research on expert performance and deliberate practice:

- http://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html

- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/ericsson.lo...
(i.e. % of investors who own it)

Source: Openfolio.com community data set for popularity data, publicly available information for stock market data
I'm with you. I'm a "mechanically sympathetic" anomaly amongst my age group and even many of my senior colleagues who came up in the 90s when Moore's Law == clock speed. My whining about cache thrashing and branch mispredictions might fall on deaf ears now, but I'll be ready to fix all the slow-ass code when people realize that silicon atoms aren't getting any smaller and heat isn't getting any less hot.
Given temperature and pressure it formed at I am not sure oxidation would be a problem at all.
Is this really a big issue? Im in the US and the offer is from a silicon valley company thats doing ok.
Laziness is relatively defined to other people's minds. Your mind works the best when it does, and it works best with the minds it works best with, which is actually really complicated to think about. Also, persistently evaluating your mind for whether it is lazy or not has side effects on how your mind works.

Just because it doesn't fit someone else's mold doesn't make your mind lazy, and just because a bunch of minds fit together perfectly to propel one person skyward doesn't make them a genius. A bunch of geniuses arguing about progress doesn't create progress. We aren't very good at mapping our minds while using our minds to do it, but maybe we are.

I hope science one day recognizes that we can spend centuries churning our wheels without actually getting anywhere - we create the same problem we begin with by convincing ourselves we found the solution.
"Usmanov hailed Watson one of the greatest biologists in the history of mankind."

Does anyone have a link to a longer statement from Usmanov?
I've always maintained that if you aren't kind to the people serving your food at restaurants, then you probably aren't a kind person.

I don't want to speak ill about Edelman, but is it really worth exploding at somebody who obviously wasn't aware of their mistake? Especially over $4?

It's life. Stuff happens. Call for a refund and get over it. Perhaps even be nice and let them know that they could get in trouble if they don't fix their website.

I hope Edelman was just having a bad day and this isn't habitual.
Significance of a problem shouldn't be considered from the same point of view as pricing an asset, by face value.

Open problems concerning prime numbers can be considered as large floodgates, waiting to be opened. Their applicability is likely to be infinite. Pick up any subject, try to quantify some behavior, sooner or later, primes will make an appearance. In fact, you should really do this; read the first few chapters of an elementary number theory book, then try to represent your area of expertise in a way that involves primes.

Perhaps in a few decades, or centuries, by tracing a certain technological improvement back in time, we'll be able to place a $-value this work. You can already do this now, for other (probably all, if you can be bothered) areas of (previously abstruse) mathematics, for example Group Theory -> Spectroscopy -> Biomedical Spectroscopy, or Algebraic Topology -> Improvements in semiconductors.
Should you join a startup or found your own?
Long-Term Working Memory
So, sell it again for more charity?
...or the gun touched something that had his DNA on it, no?
Need an awesome app developer
I’ve been working on a design for a more functional twitter over the last one year. I think I've nailed the design and feel like it has huge potential. I currently work as an SAP CRM functional consultant, so writing up the business requirements and project planning is a cake walk for me. What I lack is three things:

1. A good developer (I have started to talk to a Chinese developer who is asking for $5000 for IOS app)
2. A great UI/UX designer ( I have a friend ready to do the work for $1000 but I’m kind of a perfectionist and don’t really see him do a good job)
3. And most importantly, TRUST in working with a person I don’t know in China with the probability of my intellectual property being stolen. I am a very trusting person in life. Not in business.

I could potentially safe guard the core functionality from the developer in China, and have another developer complete it. However, I do foresee some issues with integration of both modules. I’d rather have one developer to work on it from the start. Maybe even partner.

Even if this idea of mine is stupid, I’d still want to give it a shot. I was looking for places that I could meet like-minded people around LA, but haven’t found any lately.

What would you guys suggest?
Is that likely to change since Zillow doesn't have that policy? They did just buy you guys, right?
Can't wait to see the results of this, good job!
I actually registered findmeaning.in to be the domain for a website I plan to build. Happy to accept partners! If you can find my email at http://qbix.com/about then hit me up.

The website was originally supposed to be an annotation site like rapgenius - and I have already spoken to people at LyricFind who would give me a license to use their entire database of songs!

But then I thought it could go much further. First of all, you could release a bookmarklet and browser plugins that would let people mark up websites for others to see. Each such mark would have its own associated discussions etc.

But we could go even further. We could source facts and debunkings of claims. We could in fact build a graph of dependencies between claims and give people a way to assess their truth value. In this way we could for example have a discussion of varios religious claims once and for all, and any visitor would see what other claims they depend on. I thought, for instance, that Coca Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus as wearing red. I was wrong.

Snopes, Politifact, etc. could all be sources. Something like facebook posts could definitely use this bookmarklet.

So do you want to findmeaning.in/The-US-Constitution? Or findmeaning.in/Pokerface or findmeaning.in/Book-Of-Jubilees?

If you want to help me build it, drop me a line.

PS: Also I find it really valuable to have a followup after a news story has faded, eg to see if that kid facing life in jail for hash brownies got off (he did).
I don't necessarily disagree that stuff is getting too bloated, but the iPhone 1 had 128 MB of RAM. So iPhone memory is doubling every 2-3 years so far. That trend will likely continue as Apple's software is also getting more bloated.
Momogoose for life. There are a bunch of food trucks behind the T stop.

Also, check out Aceituna.
"Then again, the old thinking (reinvented using fratty Young Republican types who get funded) is invading the Valley."

Oh yeah. I'm not even in The Valley, and I can smell it from here. It's also obvious in the way technology is evolving -- toward a complete inversion of the ideals behind the "personal computer."

Edit:

On Ph.D bigotry-- I also don't have an advanced degree. I was in Boston once discussing something with a Harvard Ph.D. We were discussing probability stuff related to machine learning. I said something was "probabilistic," and he replied (quite ardently) that no, in fact, it was "stochastic."

That's what I meant. Those mean roughly the same thing.

I didn't say anything of course, but I interpreted this as "I have a Ph.D from Harvard and you don't so STFU."

Next time I'll call them "little fuzzy puff balls in combinatorial space."
HERE Beta on Google Play Store
Game Dev Tycoon is a neat example of this. It started as a Windows 8 game developed with VS Express (using JavaScript), then it became it's own thing on Steam, not sure if they use node-webkit or what, I can't remember, but it runs smoothly on Linux and other platforms as a result.
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I am a bit reluctant to trust another Bitcoin marketplace. So many of these marketplaces have failed the past year, what reason should people have to trust Buttercoin or think that they are more secure than the likes of Mt. Gox? Being a funded marketplace just means that you are more than likely to be the target of hackers trying to prove a point. I've already lost a little bit this year because of various marketplace collapses.

What protections are in place for losses? What are you procedures for storing coins (hot wallets, cold wallets, etc)? Do you have a guarantee you are willing to publicly stick by? Has your marketplace been audited and verified by a third party security firm? How often will you undertake auditing of your marketplace to ensure that it remains secure and funds are safe? If customer coins are ever compromised, will you cover 100% of the losses?

I have a few BTC, I would be more than willing to try this out, if you were more forthcoming in regards to security and your guarantees. Being a funded marketplace, I would like to think you built a decent and secure environment for Buttercoin as well as got the site audited independently by a third party security firm who perhaps specialise in financial/marketplace scripts.

I am not trying to be cynical here, Buttercoin looks great, but you can understand given the losses I have endured the past year, that I am very very hesitant to trusting another marketplace and I assume there are many out there like me who have been burnt the last year. My trust in all coin marketplaces has been broken, I just need the public reassurance you will do things differently and your policies/procedures before I move any of my BTC.
I wonder if Professor Chaos had a hand in this...
So their loss is increasing quarterly and then they sign this massive lease (below)? Did they lease out both towers?

In September 2014, we entered into a lease for approximately 340,000 square feet in Redwood City, California, which lease expires in 2028. We plan to use this space as our new corporate headquarters and to sublease a portion of this space.
1) Compared to exchanges like Bitstamp, we have US banking relationships and can fund accounts via bank transfer in 1-3 days. Generally, wiring funds internationally is much slower and more expensive.

Compared to brokers like Coinbase or Circle, we have an order book, so traders can quickly adjust their positions.

2) We're working on insurance for held coins and the ability for customers to maintain full custody of their coins (possibly at the cost of slower trade completion times).
Actually, this is intentional. Pre-andromeda, we hit ARP caching issues when testing scale for GCE. The model to let the SDN figure out the other end (and stub out things like ARP) was carried forward with Andromeda.

(I'm the original TL for GCE)
This has worked on Firefox since the beginning of time. One could use the DOM inspector and venkman JS debugger, then Firebug chrome inspector and more recently the Firefox developer tools to inspect Firefox's XUL.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Tools_Toolbox...
I see where Andre's coming from - with so many startups sprouting up all over the place, I can't help but wonder if everyone's energy would be better spent and more startups would turn out successfully if we took a little more time to look inwards and assess whether our strengths are best lent to starting a company or contributing to its success in another way.
Just imagine... if fewer people agreed with you, my 2.2 GHz quad core pocket supercomputer might be able to animate a list of tabs without stuttering.
Well, they did lay off half the Windows test team.
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Both Prague and Portland were raised by a level. So too have other cities around the world.
>I'm surprised he so candidly rates his own abilities and the abilities of his peers //

In chess though you have a ranking, you have past games to compare. It would be silly for him to say "oh, I'm not that good" as there's a measured value which [possibly incorrectly] says he's the world number one. Similarly he spends a lot of his time assessing his opponents, their games, their characters.

I found it interesting that he said Kasparov can judge which opening a player will play taking in to account their mood. It would be nice to test that claim some how.
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It's not a huge issue, but it's worth minimizing your exposure/risk, so to speak. In other words, I would just keep your options open and continue to entertain other offers. 6 months is a very long time in Silicon Valley. All kinds of things can happen (the person who offered you the job gets fired, there is a restructuring, the company undergoes a merger/acquisition, it downsizes, it pivots in a different direction and no longer needs you, or it scales up and ends up needing to fill the role faster with somebody else, etc etc).

By their nature, tech companies know what they need today, predicting what they need in 6 months doesn't always go well.
I like the idea of the process being much more transparent, ProductHunt feels a lot like an old boys club.
Do you know what is the guy using within VS here? Is this an Emacs extension or something added on top. He seems to be going full screen and switching files very quickly. I've seen this before on someone's machine but didn't ask about it. I don't know anything about emacs myself.
Thanks for your comments. I see you get 400 cores for 3USD/h . Where you optimizing for processing power per dollar? Do you know if the m1.xlarge instances are the best for this use case?
My guess is a rich Russian won't shy away from issues regarding politically correctness the same way a rich american would.
The part about trains sound really interesting. Do you mean that the energy gained through regenerative braking while a loaded train moves downhill is enough to move an empty train back up the mountain?

If so, how do they store the energy? Do the trains carry massive batteries, or do they draw power from (and contribute back to) the grid?
Handing back a prize to a Nobel winning scientist? $4.7 million. Keeping your wealth safe from Western governments? Priceless.
Good questions, exactly what I am thinking. If I had a bitcoin for every hacked bitcoin company story.
Ha, weird, I never felt the same direct access to the metalevel as in Chrome. Just the other day I spend an afternoon trying to access Firefox restore session url list through the developper tools without any luck, the XUL ~DOM element was an opaque type I couldn't inspect.
From one of the documents linked to from the page you just read: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/#rejected-alternati...
You have failed to mention that Buress shot himself while in a nightclub and that he did not have a concealed carry permit in NY.
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Separate them! Have one landing page that explains the cycle, with each segment getting their own section/page.
2 could be done as some sort of super-fast escrow service.
I am using it. My O'Reilly book is not announced yet, but you can join my (non-spammy) mailing list at http://www.solr-start.com/ to be the first to get details (and eventually discounts).

Atlas is not bad. Backed by Git, auto-saves, UI editor with a couple of options (Asciidoc, Markdown, etc) and nice on-demand build system. Can do HTML, PDF, and ePub.

Certainly a lot better than MSWord way of writing a book that I suffered through for my first (non O'Reilly) book.

I am looking forward to when the editing process start, that part was the most painful last time.

But I don't think this is open to a general public to be actually used (yet).
She also developed Universal Systems Language [1] [2], which I'm struggling to comprehend how it is different from UML, or why it would be a superior approach than a functional approach. Can someone who has actually worked with USL comment on the experience?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Systems_Language

[2] http://htius.com/About_Us/About_Us.htm
I know people who lived here when Silicon Valley still had orchards and whose parents were employed by some of the early companies. Silicon Valley's history, however, has little relevance to the discussion at hand.

You seem absolutely convinced that entrepreneurs can't build successful companies without a certain kind of "ecosystem" in their city. It's simply not true, but please don't take my word for it.

If and when you leave Houston and come to an area with a great ecosystem, like the Bay Area, you'll soon discover that despite the ecosystem, there are tons of entrepreneurs and wantrapreneurs who aren't any better off. The only difference might be that instead of the excuses you've provided ("there's no ecosystem", "the investors don't invest in tech") you'll hear a different set of excuses ("I can't find a co-founder", "YC rejected me for the fifth time", "the VCs won't invest in my company").
We have been audited by independent security professionals and will continue to undergo frequent security testing (both code reviews and adversarial testing). I'll try to make the results of that more public, since you obviously shouldn't just take my word for it.

To protect against losses we're working to get insurance for deposits setup, but it's not in place yet. We're also looking at the possibility of letting people maintain custody of their coins if they don't need realtime trading. Proof-of-reserve is also planned soon to guarantee that all accounts are fully funded.

Right now, the vast majority of coins we control are in cold-storage wallets that require 4+ people to access, with most of the rest in cold-storage wallets that require 2 people to access. Only a very small amount is in a hot wallet. We're working with a partner to add custodial multi-sig to our hot wallet (and maybe cold wallets) so that even if someone compromises our machine, there's an external signatory which will be able to prevent transactions from processing.

You're right to be cautious. Even though I keep most of my bitcoins on Buttercoin, in general I wouldn't recommend that anyone use a centralized service for long-term storage. We know that people will do that though, so our security has to be up to par. Hopefully the features we roll out over the next 3-6 months will create enough transparency that you can trust us.
If this really is an automatic "no B.S." translator of big datasets into english summaries (backed by math) then it is huge. It can't compute what the trends mean, but it eliminates the ability to lie about what they actually are (for a given dataset.)

We still have to be careful about the conclusions we draw and the actual usefulness of the data we collect and model of course.
Yeah, that's basically the idea, probably using some multi-sig protocol. It will never be as fast as our internal ledger though, since I think we'd need to wait for at least one confirmation before funding the trade.
There are a few comments here that imply the problem with Boston is the weather or culture. That is way off base. Of course there are people that hate the weather or don't like the culture, but there are just as many people that love it.

Also, while Boston doesn't have a huge consumer success story, the startup and tech scene is thriving. Just spend a couple months going to meetup groups or other events like the CIC Venture Cafe and you will understand.

The problem as the author alludes to is not with starting companies, but growing them. More specifically, there is no doubt funding for consumer-based companies is easier in the bay area. It really bummed me out to see Technical Machines and Platiq move to the San Fran.

That said, I do think things can and will eventually change. Paul English and others have started to heavily invest in consumer based businesses in Boston. I believe like he does that other than the issues getting funding, there is no reason why consumer based businesses can't thrive here.