skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the central assumptions in the argument is that the miners need an economic incentive, a (spendable) reward for mining.

How then to explain why people contribute to Wikipedia? Or volunteer at the local seniors centre? Or donate compute time to SETI@home (and other BOINC projects)? Or add map data to OpenStreetMap? Or test open source software? Yes, some of those people get paid, but many do not.

The incentive need not be economic.
Tycho Brahe

Tycho suddenly contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague, and died eleven days later, on 24 October 1601. According to Kepler's first hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to relieve himself because it would have been a breach of etiquette.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
The first reference on California and the title "engineer" I saw was,

http://engineerboards.com/index.php?showtopic=4328
HBO here in Colorado was scheduled to show Citizenfour at 7pm local time. At approx 6pm I turned it on to get it ready. Black and silent. Continued black and silent up thru 9pm local when it was supposed to have ended. All other cable TV channels and local/public channels have worked normally during this period that I can tell. HBO worked fine yesterday and every day before for as long as I can remember. Unprecedented black out.

suspicious is saying it mildly. I wanted to post this here and on Reddit for public record in case this is evidence of a censorship attempt by NSA/gov or
aligned entity.

I feel like a tin foil hat wearer to even post this but its frightening enough and serious enough that it should be recorded somewhere, as insurance.

Colorado, a dominant provider of local cable TV service, hesitant to say which city. again, all other channels are working normally. and HBO had no similar blackout effect observed by me ever before. so the cause is both unknown and suspicious.
TCL is the defacto language in EDA ASIC Design Tools (synthesis, place-and-route, static timing analysis). In my opinion, its a terrible language, especially since the tool vendors all add their own flavors. The flow control is painful to use, it lacks OOP data structures. If given the opportunity, I'd avoid it at all costs.
Almost all of my exposure to TCL was IRC clients (xircon) and bots (eggdrop) in the 90s. Also my first job used it in some capacity that I forget, but it was through the tcl at that job that I had my first exposure to an event driven framework with chaining (twisted python style). It's a pretty odd language, but has some interesting and powerful ideas in it.
When you tried incorporating changes into your diet, can I ask how long you stuck with it?

In my experience, it takes more like 6 months to see positive health results from diet changes as opposed to only a few weeks.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or a dietitian
Also the british woman on a yacht ... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/mh370-search-br...

Incidentally, the kiwi oil rig worker who claimed he saw MH370 come down in a fireball was sacked for saying that, and hasn't worked since.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obje...
Finally it's here, the official Ponzi app.

But seriously - What exactly am I buying? Where are the details of the indexed fund? No charges, how does that work? Don't these people need to pay brokerage fees? I'm highly suspicious.
Here's something totally crazy. You have five seconds to formulate a response to it and two other crazy things.

A black hole that would suck in a plane would suck in the entire planet. Close enough to what she said. Yeah 'universe' was a simple error not worth taking the time to correct.
So effectively, the percentage of good solutions increases as the complexity increases?
The comparison between Syria and Iran is a bit strange. These are two completely different countries. Syria is primarily Sunni, Iran primarily Shi'a. Syrians speak Arabic, Iranians speak Persian. The two countries have different systems of government, different histories, different cultures.

When young people are angry in Iran, they're angry at a theocratic, clerical government. When young people were angry in Syria, they were angry at a secular, socialist strongman. If you're disaffected in a theocracy, you don't become a supporter of theocracy. If you're disaffected in a Baathist regime, then it's natural to become an Islamist.

To my knowledge there has never been much evidence that the US funded Bin Laden in the '80s. The CIA funded Afghans to fight the Soviets, and some Arab Islamists were also fighting the Soviets. My understanding is that the CIA did not fund the Arabs. (My source for this is Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll, which is excellent).

The Guardian article you're citing is actually talking about something completely different than US training of ISIL. There are many factions in the Syrian civil war. ISIL is one faction that emerged out of al-Qaeda's Iraq branch with some members from the dredges of Saddam's regime. These people have been fighting the US for over a decade. There are also groups that oppose both ISIL and the Assad regime. These groups are being supported by the West.

All of that being said, I agree with the fact that the invasion of Iraq produced extremism. However, the place to start when studying the Middle East is not "What did we do to these people that caused them to hate us." What happened is much, much more complex than that.
There are a number of organized efforts in Ohio currently.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/02/current_stat...
Just because something is bought for money doesn't mean it actually has value.

Ask anyone that has been in a ponzi scheme or stocks that went to 0.
IIRC, Xilinx's EDA toolchain (ISE; I haven't used Vivado) used Tcl for scripting. So does OpenOCD [1] (a ISP and hardware debugging tool).

[1] http://openocd.sourceforge.net/
> It seems to be used in GUIs for biological and medical
> sciences only, which is distant from my field.

Technically that's Tk, isn't it? I've written quite a lot of Perl that uses Tk before, and there was even an ORA book about it.
Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9093156
Nitrous.io
Really, what are these people trying to gain from legalizing Marijuana?
LOL, I've always wondered why TCL didn't become more popular since it has a lot of advantages, on paper. The one thing that really turned me off of it was the way it looked, really butt ugly.
> What if we had an API that could just provide us with the contents of a div as a bitmap

Can't do that for security reasons: it would open the CSS :visited info leak. Pages could determine which other pages you've visited by inspecting the colors of visited links.
Just for the records, Grothendieck maybe "disappeared", but he also died a couple of months ago, it was all over the press...
Yes - http://www.atsb.gov.au/mh370.aspx

Its being shared between Malaysia, Australia & China, but what % each I don't know. I think Australia has spent the most so far.
Mine was the ArsDigita stack and Vignette StoryServer. There was a lot of the latter in the wild for a long time.
Anyone else between 1950s and 2010s?
Everyone is making fun, but this comment thread has the longest amount of comments. Eyeballs = $$$, that is why they do this sort of 'reporting'
The search costs are in the tens of millions of dollars, which is peanuts to most countries.
Having read the book recently, it is quite clear that Bostrom has never coded or built any ML or AI implementation and therefore lacks credibility on the subject.
> you've opted into playing on super-hard mode, where you have to work twice as hard and be twice as good to get as far as someone who opted for the best school to which they were accepted.

Does this matter very much if the PhD student is not looking for a job in academia?
lolz in these guys' defence I don't think the API key has anything to do with security as the the database/api "free" I don't even know why they require authorization!
I agree with you that the incentive to tax marijuana is high due to the revenue potential for power groups within the state.

Others suggest that marijuana should be legalized so that the state can reap tax revenues, as if the state is a creature whose feeding is a virtue in and of itself. I find this puzzling, as taxation an entirely independent concept to legalization. Attaching the two issues together seems unnecessary.

The taxes on plants in the various states seem pretty high, and various sources tell me that the retail prices are still not much lower than the previous black market prices. These taxes, especially given how high they are, seem like they are destined to produce the same problems of prohibition.
Maybe they are tired of going to jail for no good reason?
Ask HN: Saved stories and saved comments not working?
Both pages are saying "No such user." for me. Anyone else having this issue?
I had an unexpected need to write some Tcl recently when I had to wrap a command line tool in a helper script in order to add some features and automation. Turns out the Unix tool `expect' was designed exactly for this purpose and was already available on my Mac, and thus seemed like a practical solution. Expect programs are written in Tcl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
None of your examples are in regards to for-profit endeavors. Thus while you are correct that some foundations that are good causes can get people to contribute out of their own good will, this doesn't suggest that novel blockchains by for-profit companies will attract good will contributors.
Selling support is difficult to scale. Especially with only one or two people on your team. The only real way for it to work at this level is if it's support through email only (or you will have angry customers and lose them fast).

It would be better to sell a proprietary app, build up some capital and then hire a team to scale the support of your OSS side of things.
To be fair, the article cited is in the opinion section, so don't deconstruct it too much. I think she makes some good points, but awkwardly uses skating culture and its change to drive her points across.

Mainly, marketing, and marketing targeting has had a huge negative effect on society. There has been good, and there has been bad, but more bad than good. With targeted marketing, you get this kind of thing where advertisers go for the jugular on their core market, abusively ignoring the side-effects. So you have them marketing violence and counterculture to boys and pink-love-mother-earth to girls. On the other hand, they get to market narrow markets like fish sauce to SE Asians, and Vegemite to Commonwealthers, for example. So, while it's nice that this makes an Aussie feel at home, or a Thai feel like they are part of the social fabric, on the whole, targeted marketing can have a stratifying effect, it amplifies the differences and you can end up with unrecognizable monsters like the ones where sexism is used to sell products, or shape the youth (to drink sugary drinks). The alternative would be bland marketing which necessarily would have to appeal to the mainstream, which also has its drawbacks. but on the whole?

But back to sexism in the workplace. It would be nice, in thought, for there to be a more or less even distribution, of people in the different industries, and we can try, but, in the end, I don't think it's going to happen any time soon. There are too many social aspects which go into this, from social behavior, to individual behavior. Maybe a start would be for people not to feel that some jobs have more cachet than others. That there be no such thing as cliqueishness and clubbism, tribalism. That people didn't recruit from their pool of friends --and this happens anywhere from Facebook, to Carwashes, to Airport personnel, to professorships, to ethnic restaurants. And while we're at it, why not try and make things equal at the lower and top ends of the scale, not just the middle.
Its generally called "self-hosting" when a compiler can compile itself[1]. It was a pretty big deal when Clang became self-hosting[2] in 2010.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting

[2] http://blog.llvm.org/2010/02/clang-successfully-self-hosts.h...
The practical thing then is to come up with a solution for pharma, and then abolish the patent system.

Could pharma companies pay an R&D tax into a shared pool issued as research grants by the NIH, with a quasi-market for allocating research funds? That way non-researching manufacturers of generics still contribute to new drug research -- no freeloading.
Well, yes. Technically. Although I personally haven't seen Tcl in use without Tk.
to limit requests per second, maybe. but anyway, it's much more simple to get api key than hijack somebody's else.
I already emailed a bug report about it.

For notes, the HN Guidelines ask us to email hn@ycombinator.com rather than posting stuff like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Besides high frequency trading, are there any killer apps for getting latency as low as possible?
Well, if it is Marijuana now, then what's next in line? I'm afraid to see the day when some people will start demanding the legalization of other harmful drugs, pulling "the science says" card out and rationalizing the possible usefulness of certain drugs that really should be out of everyone's hands...
woah, crazy edge case. I guess you could render the page without the :visited style.

Thinking about it more though since I posted. I don't think anybody would use it the way I described, I think people would simply end up rendering everything to bitmaps, and manage their own layout and animation in the canvas.

I might try that for my next game.
Simplicity and the ideas Go left behind
Expect[1] (a Tcl-based tool) is still quite useful despite its age, and Don Libes' book[2] is a devops classic (if there is such a thing). The examples directory[3] from expect's source code repository should help you get the flavor of good Tcl programming.

`brew install expect`

`apt-get install expect`

Readily available on many other platforms as well, including Windows.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/expect.cfm

[2] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565920903.do

[3] http://expect.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expect/expect/examp...
Lack of debris and communication aside, the sheer frequency of Asian airliner disasters and disappearances this past year has been especially provocative and unusual. The Ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia has resisted implications that the plane had crashed, insisting that MH370 was a CIA operation. The loss of the plane over the Ukraine, too, stirred up rumors of a hacked plane being used as a missile and also rumors that it was taken down by US Air Force to as a reputation tarnishing campaign and pretense for military action (plus countless others).

There's just not enough real information to gain certainty, and the number of plausible sounding theories create a cacaphony.

But one thing seems certain. The series of unusual, '(in)convenient' (a plane full of AIDs reseachers!) and mysterious circumstances have triggered enough minds to where is not controversial to conclude that something unusual and extraordinary is going on. I wonder if we'll ever know.
This illustrates that feel: http://imgur.com/r/IASIP/YQi3ZFz
Stopping killer robots and other future threats
Honestly, I think the best way to get rid of this nonsense, keeping everyone happy, is to allow patents but to enforce a "profit cap".

Basically, if an entity has invested $X into RND for patent Y, then patent Y should be valid until some $(Z*X) has been earned by the entity. Where Z is some constant; or stepped like tax brackets.

Example: A company develops some new software: it cost $500,000 of Engineering effort. They are awarded a patent. The patent should be valid until that company has earned $5 million (Z=10; ie 1000% ROI).

Example: A company develops some new drug: it cost $5,000,000,000 for RND. They are awarded a patent. The patent should be valid until that company has earned $50 Billion (Z=10; ie 1000% ROI).

I agree it may be hard to prove "amount spent on patent" or "profit earned from patent". However, at least to me, it seems as hard as the IRS auditing a company's taxes, or as hard as auditing a public companies quarterly financial disclosures.
How many products does it have?
Compress the debug info? Gdb handles it no idea about perf though, there is also dwo to remove redundant debug info.
My guess: they are eating the management fees on an indexed fund that they are just managing themselves. With enough volume they can offer other fee-ful funds like the other guys and cover the costs. It's just a loss leader.

I'm assuming it's not a Ponzi scheme, but obviously could be wrong.

If everything is up-and-up this is actually kind of cool. I've been disappointed at the lack of decent investment options for low-income savers.
Just because "the target demographic of commercial skateboard culture shrank drastically" doesn't mean it was a conscious or subconscious decision of anybody involved in the industry. I'm sure there were plenty of skateboarding companies that tried to stick with the old style and simply went out of business. Things change, you can't always blame somebody when they do.

On Enjoi: you have to take things in context and even a casual glance at their ads makes it clear they trend towards the offensive and absurd for the sake of being offensive and absurd. They also joke about pooping their pants but I don't think they're trying to advocate for it.

On Hubba: a wheel company I've never heard of that doesn't have a wheel on Amazon's 100 best selling skateboarding wheels list and only has one set of bearings on Amazon's 100 best selling bearings. I'm not sure how they're the representatives of skateboarding culture.

I just don't like the article, I think the people and companies were chosen specifically to support the narrative of sexism. Elissa Steamer and Leticia Bufoni matter more to skateboarding than Hubba Wheels ever will, but their names aren't even mentioned, only the fact that they're told they "skate like guys" but you don't have their names so it's hard to go find the context of what that means in skateboarding. If you watch five minutes of girls and five minutes of guys skateboarding at the XGames you'll realize the girls skate differently, they have a different posture and a totally different style but not really in a good way. They often look uncertain. But as is so common these days the compliments of "skating like a guy" are divorced from context in order to make them look sexist.
An On-Page SEO Checklist (attempt)
The main correlate is the impact of faculty output. This also is not necessarily correlated with the quality of the education students receive. But then, department rankings shouldn't necessarily reflect the quality of the education either.
iRules within the F5 BigIP products are written in Tcl. I spent a lot of time over the last 15-20 years writing/managing iRules and I always quite enjoyed it. Don't have much recent exposure over the last few years, though.
> address a perceived lack of homegrown IT talent

Drive down homegrown market prices by increasing supply.
take this as an omen of the global shelf-life of SV.
Please point out problems/suggestions in the checklist, so that I can improve it. Thanks !
The dual mating strategies of women, who classify men into lovers or providers.

http://therationalmale.com/2014/06/18/controlling-interests/
That addressed specific things, like hayfever, asthma, eczema. Kids are exposed to lots of peanuts via ingestion, so that would not be it. Unless you're seeing a linkage between those allergies and peanut allergy. to me that would be unlikely.
I'm thinking that they'll hide the brokerage fees by buying low-cost S&P index funds themselves in "large" chunks then breaking them off for users. The index funds still have brokerage fees tied into the cost of the fund, but the app itself won't charge users for entering or leaving the fund of funds.

If they're only buying additional index stock on a weekly/monthly basis they could potentially make that back in advertising revenue. Alternatively, by just paying out of pocket, if they get enough users they can now claim they've run a x $ amount mutual fund -- good resume padding.
Fun fact, in TCL, everything is a string: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3018

Nuke -- the image compositing system used in visual effects -- has included TCL from its origin as far as I know. That would be 1993. Nuke now offers Python, but TCL's still in there.
Another week, another grid framework...
Actually if a wide market will pay for a good at a certain moment, it certainly has momentary value. The future of the good doesn't preclude that.
Well, if it is Marijuana now, then what's next in line?

This slippery slope argument is decades old and isn't borne out by experiences with decriminalization or legalization in other countries. I'm not and never have been a user, but I see a lot more harm in criminalization than in legalization.

pulling "the science says" card out

Science is a trump card because science trumps. Seriously, people wouldn't constantly perform science if it didn't work.
> Why do people keep trying to argue that dogecoin/litecoin/etc/etc don't have value, when people trade them for other currencies every day on open markets?

B/c the majority of them care more about their investment than they do about cryptocurrencies as a technology and fear that competition of coins will hinder a successful (aka profitable) exit strategy.
It's certainly something that could get them in trouble as it is against the law. It relies on reporting, so if no one reports the company, nothing specific will be done.

For example, Microsoft lost a lawsuit regarding the MCSE designation.

http://www.peo.on.ca/index.php/ci_id/21643/la_id/1.htm
In order for bitcoin to "win" it needs to get massively more valuable. Valuable enough to move the equivalent of trillions of dollars per year and users need to be able to make million dollar purchases without drastically changing it's price. Otherwise it will never be truly useful as a currency and as interest is lost and prices go down parties concerned with verifying the blockchain will become sparse and the whole system collapses, magical blockchain and all.

Bitcoin has far from "won" in the sense of a currency and if another crypto-currency surpasses it's current popularity the faith in any crypto-currency being stable enough to move trillions of dollars each year is irreparably harmed.

People raising a few thousand dollars here and there in other crypto currencies is fun but it's not only paltry and not generally useful but can easily be attributed to entertainment more than economics. Once the novelty wears off, where will crypto currency stand. That's the most important question we need to ask ourselves. All these alt-coins aren't evidence of a thriving eco-system, they're evidence of the very reason why a cryptography based currency is inherently valueless.

The blockchain cannot last without bitcoin becoming massively more valuable. Many people already see bitcoin as being too valuable and alternatives too easy to create. What needs to be done to scale crypto-currency to the level of an actual currency? Government backing?
ahh makes sense
Say what you like, there is an incentive in the opposite direction in the case of a blockchain used as a trust-store, which does not exist in the other cases you described. One could make a lot of money subverting a trusted blockchain, whereas Wikipedia vandals don't profit a cent.

This means that you will inevitably have massively funded efforts to subvert such a blockchain. One thing I know for sure is that simple financial self-interest is one of the most powerful things in the world. Every blockchain has that fact working against it. The reason they don't collapse is that on the other hand, they have that same force working for them as well. A volunteer blockchain like you propose wouldn't stand a whelk's chance in a supernova. Sorry.