skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This great article debunks a lot, but also acknowledges some important underlying points:

"Pinker has no serious evidence for ..., even though his sources’ evidence for the decline in homicide rates in European countries over many centuries is solid."

And some points in the article are also highly questionable:

"Perhaps most important, the absolute numbers of people who die because of armed conflicts are a first-order measure of the true human cost of violence, and we should never permit the moral gravity of this loss and suffering to be relativized by the juggling of numbers until they all match the same global population in any given year."

This would mean that we can never compare the past with the present...
... and exponentially worse as time goes on (by design).

Only for people who don't understand the design.

Google "bitcoin difficulty".
I always wonder why you can't just add a library to another language to get most of the features of somebody else's favorite language. If not a library, couldn't any other language add matlab style matrices and end up being as good as it, fortran, etc? Do we really need a whole different language with a whole different set of arbitrary rules just so a few features are easier or faster?
As for "murder for hire": he was never charged with it. Why?! Why on earth prosecutors have chosen not to throw a book on a guy? Because it never happened. Whole "murder for hire" story is just a part of smear campaign.
Physical infrastructure costs have been declining for decades, with banks actively trying to push them down by prioritizing digital over physical services.

Physical security also scales well. The volume of secure space you have increases to the 3rd power with only an approximately 2nd order increase in the costs of creating it (your basic area/space tradeoff working for you in this case).

The argument that payroll doesn't scale is also absurd: who are all these Bitcoin entrepreneurs trying to run exchanges, if not payrolled staff?

Finally and most importantly: the difficulty factor of Bitcoin does not reduce the computational power required to mine it. It is the exact mechanism of the provably increasing cost: the difficulty goes up, so more and more power is required to preserve the status quo.

Any changes in energy cost are thus ignorable, since in a Bitcoin-only world they're constantly eaten up by changes in difficulty factor, whereas in the non-Bitcoin world they become real-wealth for everyone.
How do you make use of the stream if it doesn't show any gameplay?

Is the stream only managed from time to time?
So your solution to the problem of bitcoin being unusable without power(and internet access) in a region is that in the future bitcoin will enable people to develop new technologies that don't currently exist? And they will be able to invent these new technologies because the only thing holding them back is in the inability to collect micropayments(which they can currently actually do using cash)?
The man who can send you to Mars
I love this hack. My mom had a small herd of pygmie goats for her Montessori preschool. Some guy she knew convinced her to rent them out for this kind of job.

It wasn't the money that convinced her (don't think those little guys were the best earners) but the idea that "we could send in dudes with poison sprayers and loud gas power mowers, or we could just send Billy and his friends in to quietly munch on it for a few hours/days".

So many more eco points for doing it with the goats. Plus goats are intelligent and an interesting population to have suddenly show up and take over a spot. If there were any kids at the cleanup spot, interacting with the goats was good for the kids. While being chauffeured to various feasts kept the goats in high spirits.

Even the obvious down side isn't that bad -- goat shit comes out in these clean little dry pellets; much better than dog shit or cow shit or bird shit or a San Francisco sidewalk.
>95 percent of high-frequency trader orders are cancelled

So what. 99.9999999% of the pixels blatted onto your screen aren't looked at. Why do you care?

Let's say I'm making a market in a derivative product (A), one where the price is 'derived' from the price of another product (B). By a simple equation. Let's say A = 2 * B. No one likes product A. No one trades it. Lots of people trade B. All day long B moves around. B ticks up, I have to cancel my bid and offer on A and move them up 2 ticks (I do it quickly, cos I'm an evil HFT). B ticks down, I have to cancel my bid and offer on B and move it down 2 ticks. All day long I move my quotes. No one fucking trades. 100% of my orders are cancelled and replaced on a different price.

Why do you care?

A limit order is a limit order. It isn't doing anyone any harm by being there.

>Some high-frequency traders have claimed to be profitable on over 99 percent of their trading days.

McDonalds are profitable on 100% of their trading days. Casinos are likely profitable on 99% of their trading days. If they weren't profitable they wouldn't be doing it. Market-makers like Virtu are more service providers than they are 'traders'. They are the middle men who allow others to trade and take risk, and extract a small fee for doing so. Here's a good analysis to read: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/11/13/virtus-losing-day-...
Another advantage which isn't mentioned: the goats (or similar grazing species) are also walking manure factories (really, compared to a compost heap they are machines), so pretty effective at spreading fertilizer all over the place. Automatically and for free :P

They perfectly fit in the self-sufficiency style - especially compared to the alternative worst-case senario: you don't need to get your polluting vehicle and drive to a store to pay money for some chemicals, then drive back and use some other polluting machine to get the checmical crap where it has to do whatever it does. Oh yeah, and repeat every year and be left with unhealthy soil. Which can probably be countered with more chemicals, yay!
Ask your money back and they transfer it back to you in a new transaction.

What's the problem?
>Blockchain.info ... a platform that most people in the community have lost faith in

That's a remarkably bold claim. Citation definitely needed.

You will need to define the "community", and then provide a source for "most". I don't see how you can possibly do that, since both data points are lost in the murky fog that is the world of Bitcoin
I pass no judgement on whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but:

> That's a) impossible

Well, that's prima facie not true. It can indeed be possible for theft and violation of private property to be a net good for the economy as a whole.

Again, I stress, I have no idea about this case per se. It's an interesting thought experiment though, as to when the government taking something away from private citizens like that can be good on the whole for an economy.
Economic Theory and the Five Day Weekend (2007)
Well, the other possibility is that there isn't enough proof. But IMO if there isn't enough proof, he's not guilty, and they shouldn't even mention it, to avoid damaging his public perception.
To me it just follows on the ridiculousness of the Node community in general. A tool at version 0.10 and everyone screams about how stable it is and can't wait to bet their business on it.

A bunch of people are unhappy and fork the project, and make the initial version 1.0, but make a point of saying (despite not using a related version number/identifier) that it's beta.

Realistically it sounds like both projects should be at v0.9.x.
While it's an undeniable technological achievement, I don't think it's a good strategical one.

Nowadays you don't create a single monolithic system, really expensive too, which is capable of processing all of your transactions, as it says, like 100 cybermondays every day.

Instead, you have a distributed system, with many cheap, geographically distributed servers, each one capable of a much lower number of transactions, but still quite high today...
and also you can spin up new servers as needed, or destroy servers as they are no longer needed, so you control your costs when you don't need as much instead of having a very expensive mainframe 90% underutilized 90% of the time.
Amazing work. Incorporating in my css-bag-of-tricks, posthaste.
For the curious, someone rescued the archive and put it up here http://nightjackarchive.blogspot.co.uk/
Your calculation is WAY off, which the bizarrely high end result should have made obvious. Multiplying by 3600 is where you go wrong.

65,217kW is the energy usage.
Providing that for an hour takes 65,217kWh - not multiplied by anything.

So that's $6,521 per hour, $156,521 per day.
For a comparison, node.js contributors are (http://nodejs.org/about/core-team/)

TJ Fontaine
Alexis Campailla
Fedor Indutny
Trevor Norris
Nathan Rajlich

Rather strange to see Fedor as a core team member in both projects, or at least one of them (likely node.js page) is out of date.
In my city there's a "mini-City" week during the hollidays where kids (about 20 or so) get to be adults for the week and pick their occupation. They even have their own currency. I've volunteered for it once the kids enjoy it a lot.
With the principle difference being that oil will go back up in price, provided you can store it, which is one of the reasons speculation on oil stopped about a year and half ago admidst price hikes: speculators literally started running out of space to store it.

The ability to hold onto Bitcoin offers no such guarantees.
> but I've yet to see an affordable relational database with out-of-the-box auto-sharding support that comes anywhere close to what mongo offers.

FoundationDB is a bit weird, but it handles automatic scaling-out, and has an ANSI SQL interface (backed onto a K-V store): https://foundationdb.com/key-value-store/white-papers/scalab...

Caveat: I've not used it for more than hobby stuff yet, but it's a fascinating bit of technology!
Is there a ubuntu ppa for this already?
Because there are scenarios where the actions he did are both legal and reasonable. As I said, the case is all about intent.
Cases where they don't agree they should refund you.

Cases where they just don't want to refund you.

Cases where they are scammers/criminals.

Cases where your coins are stolen and spent at a store(the equivalent of having your card stolen to buy a tv at walmart).
These people have just found a way to abuse the stupidity of HFT. IMHO, they have played along the rules and the SEC should ban HFT.
110 GIPS is not too much for 141 CPU. My Core i7 4700HQ CPU dos 3 GIPS/core at 2.9 GHz.
"community" /r/bitcoin|/r/bitcoinmarkets|bct

"source" the few weeks a month or so back where every second post was about how evil or bad or stupid blockchain.info was and no one should use them anymore. It was around the time the problem was discovered with their keygen and when someone was regularly sweeping coins from wallets on the service.
I replaced google reader with https://bazqux.com/. Extremely happy with it
> For thousands of years we carried bees by raft and barge, by wagon and train, across oceans and continents, so they could make us honey and wax. Now we’ll try to carry them through the Anthropocene so they can pollinate our crops.
Finally and most importantly [...] the difficulty goes up, so more and more power is required to preserve the status quo.

Except... The difficulty also goes down.

But don't let facts get in the way of your flaming argument...
I'd like to see the OpenBSD kernel have Grsec's UDEREF and SMEP/SMAP support.
Toxic Ammonia Leak in US Section of ISS – Spacemen Safe in Russian Sector
great thanks, 100 times cheaper than the forbes article.

ps it wasn't obvious at all, that's why i wrote "even more wacky" as mark of how solid i thought the figures were.

3600*7 = 25200 transactions for $6521.

they'd really want to see about increasing the block size.
MongoDB is not at all good for Social networks or anything resembling a graph. You are better off with Titan (horizontal scaling) or Neo4j (vertical scaling). Neo4j offers this great ability to query by a path, which no other database offers.
No, Bitcoin will help make it profitable to roll out new technologies. Roll out != invent. It will also stimulate the development of said technologies. Because it lowers the cost of taking payment.

As far as cash, try collecting cash payments for your grid of micro-generators recharging cellphones in the Amazon, see how well that works out for you. Let me guess, you're gunna fly some drones in to pick up the payments...
> I' ma free Gapps user - grandfathered in ... So much for being an early adopter :|

You, like me, was an early adopter which provided the platform with traction when it was new.

Now the platform is proven, established and popular.

From an economic point of view we're now merely free-loading leeches, and I honestly don't find it reasonable to expect that we should be given the best treatment at the expense of others.

Google now has a shitload of paying customers, and they are getting prioritized. And I'm completely fine with that. Our reward is that unlike others, we're allowed to go free-loading!

I've noticed too that I'm not getting features and upgrades paying customers get. That's Google trying to give me an incentive to convert to a paid account, because obviously Google wants to convert us free-loaders to paying customers too. And I'm fine with that as well.

Just don't act entitled because you were the first one to sign up for a free product. You don't deserve anything in return for that.
David Cameron's Plan to Ban Encryption in the UK
“Is This Proof the iPad Pro Is Coming?”
> I don't see basic income as feasible politically nor in practise. Therefore, what you must do now is to ensure that you are one of those who have money.

What a grotesquely self-fulfilling fatalism.
The Risk of Unfounded Ebola Fears
Basically Tinder for Coffee Geeks?
> Because a framework is basically a set of libraries that work together to help you get to a certain goal.

In theory, sure, and as another poster said that's exactly what the PHP-FIG (PHP Framework Interoperation Group) have achieved over the past year or two. However, in practice, the big frameworks that most developers and employers use give you much more than just a set of easily plugged together libraries, typically enough more that you end up building software on-top of that framework, and extracting your product out onto another or swapping a library out becomes nigh-on impossible.
I generally agree in regards to shoehorning data into MongoDB. I don't agree that a facebook clone fits appropriately. When thinking through a project, my mental model generally self-configures into third-normal form, which is to say I literally think in the manner of a relational database.

That said, I have found one specific use-case where it has incredibly worked well, which is as a JSON-based file system in which I can query into the document structure to find the records and data I need en-masse with very simple queries. A project I've been working on for a few years has its own custom schema that fits far better into a JSON hierarchy than a relational one. In this specific system there are very few records (compared to our primary RDBMS which has millions), and when not being explicitly maintained, the files are generally static. The single-collection database in question with a few hundred JSON objects would likely have to be split into at least 10 tables with thousands of records each.

When it comes to using said "files" in production, I index the objects into memory for quick retrieval. In order to populate said cache, MongoDB allows me to query into the JSON file structure and retrieve the necessary "files" very simply into however many indices I need. And that's where it has shined in my experience; Not as a live read-write datastore for production use, but as read-heavy storage for a relatively small amount of JSON data with a deep hierarchy that would require an annoying amount of joins and subqueries for otherwise simple queries.

I've also tried it out with our multi-system logging system using capped collections (JSON formatted messages transported and collected with rsyslog). But we grew beyond its limits almost immediately and ended up in far more manageable territory with kibana / elasticsearch.
Frameworks are also good in a long run. When a new member on the team starts to work on a project, it is much easier to pick up on some popular framework like Rails than your own one. First, because you can easily find a guy who worked with Rails framework and knows it inside out, unlike yours custom-written one. Second, the whole infrastructure, like regular updates, documentation and community is also a major factor.
This is o true. We get a lot more sales from organic Google search results than paid advertising. It's no joke when you start spending thousands of dollars a day on adwords and still get nowhere near the organic results.
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I caught it playing with over 130 live watchers for a few minutes half an hour ago, until it stopped streaming and crashed.
This is really the kind of work I want to do in the future. I love 3D printing. What can I learn to better position myself for a role at this company?
And the IBM reference would be IBM 801 by John Cocke:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_801
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cocke

Dunno how much it actually influenced the Archimedes though.
Aboardly is IFTTT for automated customer emailing (Pre launch)
This is a very important distinction. A robot to wash dishes would be ridiculously expensive for such small payoff.
Merging of tweet shards is also possible via the same mechanism. Just tweeterate through the retrieved shards and merge them one by one. To merge two lists, compare elements pairwise. To compare elements pairwise, construct a two element list and sort this list via the short-form tweetsort api.
Let me know if you want beta access :)
You call a library, but a framework calls you.

A framework IS the entry point to your application. If you use libraries you write your own entry point.
Any JIT-based system requires executable writable memory. This includes the JVM, LuaJIT, Pypy, HHVM and all modern browsers.
its not about bitcoin, its about the blockchain.
Freelancing is good. But it's not really for everyone. It requires a lot more patience than most people think, especially for beginners
relevant map: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/12/m...
On the other hand, several countries have 20%+ unemployment rates and it's not like Mad Max, society keeps functioning.
I think a better option might be to use some kind of flag in `package.json` -- kinda like the `engines` flag.
Sounds like a south Florida venture, named Wannado City, that didn't make it. http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/2010/11/where-w...
I do not get it - what kind of "win" is it? For example, I know that PHP functions are case-insensitive, but we got to the point where we run linters to check if we used the same case as in declaration. Why not simply bake it in the compiler, especially when you HAVE a compiler?
Get some basic understand about how stock options work (grant, vesting, exercise) as well as how tax on options and shares works in your country. You could start here: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-optio...

If you can estimate the value of the company today (e.g. if they had a recent round of fundraising, and you know the terms) then, providing you have access to the cap table (shares and options outstanding) and info on any different classes of shares, you can work out what the shares you would get are worth. Combined with the info on how the stock options work (strike price etc.) you can work out how much they are worth.

This isn't trivial, but it's just math. The first step is working out what you think the company is worth (given fundamental value, and when/how they might exit/IPO). If this yields a zero or low number, then you don't need to do any calculations.
I think it takes 2 to tango. I mean some people in customer support aren't really keen on providing support. Good for those who do, I salute them! But for those who are just to eager to bang the phone on you, I'd rather they change jobs coz they are not really doing a good job.
The answer in other countries has been to train the police force so that they can accurately assess risks to themselves and others and use the amount of caution and, if needed, force necessary to fulfill their task.

Police should value their own lives higher than that of people behaving aggressively towards them, but that's speaking in a degree. And they shouldn't behave like dangerous paranoics (because of lack of training, or because they are dangerous paranoics).
I just wanted to distinguish between the two. I wasn't scared in any way but read up on scare quotes now - so thanks for that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
The poisoned NUL byte, 2014 edition (2014)
The Camera translation looks really useful for travelling, I can't wait to try it next time!
Sometimes I have the feeling they are a bit over the top.
F.e.:

eval should never be used. Any code that makes use of it should be questioned in its workings, performance and security. If something requires eval in order to work, it should not be used in the first place. A better design should be used, that does not require the use of eval.

The conclusion doesn't offer any advise what should be done instead of eval.

Somehow they assume everybody uses eval because its convenient, and that there is a quick work around available. The functionality of eval however non-trivial.

F.e.
- if you want to evaluate a lambda function given from the command line.

- if you want to execute javascript provided by a user in a browser window.
What are these new technologies that are just waiting for roll out?

>As far as cash, try collecting cash payments for your grid of micro-generators recharging cellphones in the Amazon, see how well that works out for you. Let me guess, you're gunna fly some drones in to pick up the payments...

Try removing your micro generator from the community after you've installed it when they stop paying your rent. See how that works out for you.

I'd collect the payments when I delivered the fuel btw.
Cases where they don't agree they should refund you.

Um, and with VISA they will just happily ignore you taking back what they consider their money and wish you a good day?

Cases where they just don't want to refund you.

Same as above?

Cases where they are scammers/criminals.

Why would you send money to those? Since you know there is no Chargeback mechanism wouldn't it be wise to demand product/service first or use an escrow service?

Cases where your coins are stolen and spent at a store(the equivalent of having your card stolen to buy a tv at walmart).

Oh, I think there we are getting to the point. You are mistaking Bitcoin for a credit card. Well... It is not.

It works very differently and if you treat it like "just another CC" you're in for quite a bad time.
A really interesting paper on the "Nothing to hide" argument is "'I've got nothing to hide' and other Misunderstandings of Privacy", which you can read for free online.[1]

I would really recommend spending the 30 minutes and reading it in full, it is really nice.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565&
Interesting concept there. Personally, I am really a fan of matchy-matchy but I agree about choosing the right colors that goes well with everything on the theme.
How to Find Hidden Cash Flow in Your Startup
> That's actually not surprising: a large fraction of time is spent in the map lookup

This was not the case in my benchmarks: the Rust spent 60% of its time doing regex matches, 25% allocating strings and less than 6% manipulating the map.
Sorry, I was using weapon/firearm interchangeably by mistake. I meant firearm.
I don't actually use Mongo at all, I prefer Postgres. But for loosely structured data, it has a use case. Just like dynamic vs typed languages, there are pros and cons.