skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my (somewhat limited - 6 teams, 4 different institutions, two flat teams) experience, these sorts of "no manager" approaches are a flaming disaster. You might argue that they didn't do it right - I argue that the burden of proof is on the disruptor to prove their betterness.

The ground reality is that someone can hire you, fire you, give you a pay raise, and is the person of record in the court cases when they arise (as they do). That person is the ruler in the fiefdom - it's purely cultic and deceptive to say otherwise.
Coworking spaces in train stations that let you pay in “social capital”
Does anyone know any details happened? The answer doesn't seem to provide much information.
- Facebook is infact full of old people. People are stuck using it because most people have it.

- Tumblr is twitter with better photo/video/audio focus, and no 128 char limit.

- Snapchat is a messaging program with a 'in the moment' or 'hey check out what's going on over here' type focus. Sorta sharing a portal into your current situation with friends.

- Reddit works better if you unsubscribe from the +100,000 subscriber reddits. Signal:Noise degrades with the larger groups. Smaller niche or alternative subreddits work much better.
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Excellent UI / UX design skills
Solid understanding of user flow and interaction
Solid design skills and experience with Illustrator and Photoshop
Solid grasp of HTML, CSS and Javascript
Experience influencing product direction in creative ways
Understanding of site responsiveness and speed
https://www.tripping.com/careers/designer
your android link points to the itunes store. ;)
DigitalOcean API v2 Officially Leaves Beta
Exciting times!

One thing that Musk has and BYD doesn't is the eager attention of the world's best engineers. Musk has an interview where he described SpaceX having designed things in house instead of buying them, and coming up with much better solutions. I imagine that battery and rockets are similar to software in that regard - a top engineer is 10x more productive than an average engineer. Combination of scale and engineering talent might be Tesla's bet to stay ahead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2ys2cb/is_it_ever_j...

Here's the conversation with the NZ officer that responded:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2ys2cb/is_it_ever_j...
> when all the payment processors decided they didn't want to handle donations to Wikileaks after the US government asked them to make that change.

On the face of it, this seems like the one legal use of Bitcoin, to circumvent situations where the government uses influence to block certain economic activity through words (a request to payment processors) instead of the threat of force (new laws).

However, the only reason that Bitcoin has any value to Wikileaks is because it can be exchanged for dollars to fund Wikileaks activity, and the only reason Bitcoin can be exchanged for dollars is because it is a medium of exchange for drugs. Without the drug market, Bitcoin would have little value, making it pointless to donate to Wikileaks.
To me the trick about Bitcoin is to think about it as a protocol before you think about it as a currency or a ledger. Then think about how the TCP/IP protocol have managed to move way beyond it's original purpose.

Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency might very well be a way to get around the issue we currently have where technology is moving faster than legislation. And so by using cryptotechnology we will be able to circumvent the political process but still maintain accountability.

We are still some way from that but to be critical about it's future at this point is not just unwarranted IMHO it's also counterproductive.

Just from the top of my heads here are a couple of ideas I had with regards to bitcoin/crypto:

Digital Pokemón Cards.
Basically the ability to create digital collectors items.

E-books and other digital assets that could gain value.
You could sell ebooks at a premium and allow people to re-sell them. Because the history of their ownership is recorded you could even see them gaining value if they had been owned by a celebrity.

Private but public healthcare records.
For research and usage. Store the health-records publicly as personas but allow individuals people to link it with their identity. This would help with research in completely new ways.

Voting made public but anonymous
Make it impossible to fake voting results by making the results available for everyone.

Artificial Intelligence
Using the protocol to create automated consensus models for how prioritize.

Companies without owners
Build a company with a political purpose without any owner.

It doesn't need to be 100% fool proof it just needs to be good enough for a majority of people just like everything else and I don't see anything that stands in the way of it being good enough.
The reading material is fantastic. If anyone wants a more recent version of it, here's the link:

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring15/mcs.pdf
Google APIs Repository on GitHub
When I was in college, I was once not allowed to join a Complex Analysis course because there were 15 students in the class. College guidelines advise against more than 12 students in a writing-intensive course, and because this was an upper-level Mathematics course, the professor took that to heart (he thought 15 was too much, but some needed the course to graduate).

This is to say that proper abstract Mathematics courses should require the students to write many proofs. I'm sure that students in the aforementioned Complex Analysis course were writing 4 - 7 pages of mathematical prose for their weekly problem sets. This is a non-trivial amount of writing practice which is especially tuned toward accurately expressing the interplay of precisely-defined abstractions (which all documentation should strive for).

Even discrete mathematics courses (Combinatorics, Graph Theory) should eschew simple calculations of permutations/combinations and graph traversal algorithm steps in favor of writing proofs of more of the abstract concepts. In this way, students will be trained to write effectively about abstract concepts, which will prepare them for a career in programming as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
Exactly my point. The technology is there (e.g. [1]) but not in watch form factor. It doesn't need to be, and nobody wants a med lab on his wrist.
That's why the Watch is not a health device and saying it's the first step/attempt is just blah blah marketing.

[1] http://acceldx.com/
> nor can he raise the price of gas.

I think this is one of two fundamental flaws in your reasoning. First, yes, R&D is incredibly, incredibly expensive. I don't think anyone doubts that, and I find it just hysterical that x or y "social startup" can burn through far more money than that and never have to answer questions about the value of their R&D.

We know what Tesla is doing, and we know that it's difficult. It should be no surprise that it's expensive as hell. This isn't to say I'm betting on their success, it's to say that "R&D is expensive" isn't an argument against Tesla or its potential for success.

Quite the opposite, it seems their model has done a decent job of offloading a lot of R&D costs by, as I said, selling automobiles on the side.

Now, the second flaw ("nor can he raise the price of gas") isn't that the statement is false. He can't. But the laws of thermodynamics paired with the laws of economics can, and will, forever. Further, when it does happen, the success of his cars (or "toys of the idle rich") is irrelevant: he owns the infrastructure and he owns the IP necessary for everyone else to leverage the inevitable growth in fuel prices.

Also, to address the battery capacity loss argument:

http://www.pluginamerica.org/surveys/batteries/tesla-roadste...

Independent study on the Roadsters.

126 vehicles (of 2500 produced) reported a total 3,198,749 miles traveled. Tesla's projections said the battery would have 100,000 miles driving range, so at 50,000 miles the projection was to have 70% capacity. In reality, an average Roadster has 80-85% original capacity after 100,000 miles. That said, there was considerable variation between batteries' health, so take that as you will.
200 Chrome Ad Injectors Are Removed by Google
Opuss – 'The Beautiful Words'
"Former teen here" is my new self-introduction in all settings.
Haha awesome! It actually took me a long time to come up with the name, but ultimately it stuck. Very funny that you came up with the same thing!
It's particularly silly when coupled with the "that's why Russia patrols our waters now!" bit. Out of the altruistic goodness of Putin's heart, I suppose?
> when people realize the only value Bitcoin has is in the belief that Bitcoin has value

For the record, people said the same thing about paper currency.
And again when paper currency stopped being backed by gold.

And this periodically actually happens to real government-backed currencies in the world, especially during times of hyperinflation (e.g. Germany in the 1920s, Zimbabwe in 2008, etc)
OK, and now explain me why none of these work correctly with all the mentioned languages.
I think the difference is general mobilization vs a low intensity conflict.
They could even force the CPU makers to include backdoors directly in the silicon ;)
I have used online.net labs bare metal arm cloud servers and scaleway seems to offer the exact same. Can anyone explain the difference or is this just a re-releasing?

fwiw, i am from the east coast us, and have used both online.net labs and ovh dedicated cloud from ks and sys, and I have found that online.net has a lower latency and higher throughput to me.

also fwiw, i have not had issues with finding arm packages for developing in node, golang, or mono
> Bitcoin allows people who are unbanked, especially in developing countries, to hold and transmit money across the world at practically zero cost. Since bitcoin is decentralized, there are no middlemen like banks to take a cut or freeze your account.

There aren't any now, but that's not because it's inherently impossible to have such a thing with BTC. It's just that the economy hasn't grown enough for them to exist yet. When (if) it does, they will come. I'm not going to say I know exactly how they will come, but I can think of quite a few plausible scenarios:

- Honest-to-goodness BTC accounts with banks, to solve the same problem with lost/stolen wallet keys that they solved with lost/stolen money-under-the-mattress for traditional currency.

- Wireless providers leveraging their position as most people's only constant/regular access to the Internet to exert control over how BTC is transferred over their networks.

- Online wallets becoming necessary to help deal with scalability problems (not entirely dissimilar to how electronic transaction processing networks have superseded paper checks) and then leveraging that privileged position.
You'll be fine, just don't piss off anyone that has influential lobbyists... like the communications, media, banking or oil & gas companies, the NRA, any corporations or financial transactions that politicians have stakes in, anyone in authority or anyone that could make your life... uncomfortable. You'll probably be fine. Maybe :P
Announcing Honor
Extensible Docker logging with new Logspout
https://github.com/kevinohashi/php-riot-api

Like League of Legends? Enjoy PHP enough to contribute? Right now it's a very simple wrapper, there's few outstanding issues. It could use better documentation, examples, a global rate limiting queue and more functionality could be added. It's mainly just me maintaining it, I get a few contributions here and there. I'd love more developers who are interested in building LoL sites to use and help extend/maintain it.
From what I understand, Atom has a pretty big user base and it's getting larger. Now that they've squashed a lot of the bugs that plagued the early versions, it seems to be taking off.

Note: I've been using it for over a year, so I may have a biased view as a member of the community.
Again, those don't work for filesystem purposes. One of the nice things about TC is that it not only is cross-platform, but that it functions as an mountable directory across all of them.
The fact that it's currently in a state of near anarchy and has been for a while.
How the Tech Elite Plans to Reinvent Senior Care
>Old systems are surprisingly understandable after a few hours' research and fooling around.

This is why I say old computers never die - their owners do! Old systems have lots of technology to engage the hacker mind.

By the way, my favourite emulator is Oriculator, which emulates the Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat/Pravetz 8-bit machines that never had much of a chance in the 80's .. just look at this beautiful code, for example, of how to emulate a 6502:

https://code.google.com/p/oriculator/source/browse/trunk/650...

With the revival of emulation of these systems, we're even getting new software written for them - in the modern era, titles are being released for these old machines that we would never have though possible in the 80's. Just look at this beautiful collection for the Oric-1 - all made in the 21st Century - for example:

http://space1999.defence-force.org/

http://stormlord.defence-force.org/

http://1337.defence-force.org/

http://im.defence-force.org/

http://skooldaze.defence-force.org/

http://oricium.defence-force.org/

Featuring Gameplay and Graphics that we would never have thought possible in the 80's!

http://www.oric.org/software/pulsoids-1515.html

Check out this collection from Twilighte, who before his untimely departure was a real master of this platform in the 21st century:

http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=softwarese...

So much fun to be had on these old machines!
No, it's not necessarily true for a currency backed by a state, since the state can force you to pay taxes in that currency, thus creating demand for the currency and underpinning its value.
That's why a land-value tax discourages inefficiency in land use to a lesser extent than a land-surface-area tax.

You generally want people to increase their density, because that makes it possible to provide more efficient services with a distance, area, or volume component less expensively.

Electrically-powered commuter trains are more efficient movers of people than automobiles, but the capital requirements are such that you need a minimum population density to run the train profitably. The commuter train increases the desirability of property near the stations. Taxing that value discourages use of the train.

A hectare in the country is the same area as a hectare in the city. Land value usually has an inverse relationship with population density. You could either tax based on area alone, or try to cancel the value effect of increased density by dividing the land value by the density of the census tract.
Microsoft debuts Office Lens
This is the shittiest article I've read on HN to date.

Remittance not useful because of currency exchange spreads? Well then no currencies are useful for remittance.

As for the illegal part, are US dollars not useful for Drugs, Gambling, Tax Evasion and Escaping capital controls anymore? So then, when was the last time some one used US Dollars for any of the illegal activities above? The news didn't reach me.
No one wants to ACTUALLY remember the experience / recreate it. That's purely a justification of the vanity.

And cynical? I don't think so and I'll explain why.

It goes way beyond events like this concert. It's the notion of publishing every aspect of your life just so others will notice it.

I once saw on facebook where a girl had posted an image of her family all huddled together, grievously hugging: "Just found out that my grandma has cancer." Who decides that's the time to step back and snap a photo for social media? And why, to get "likes"? Maybe add a filter somewhere in between.

My brother saw the same thing as that concert image, but at a funeral.

It's ALL to get noticement and it weirds me out.
I presume you know very little about Somalia's recent history. It had a strong government from 1969 to 1991. It was a military dictatorship with a centrally planned economy ("scientific socialism"). After the regime's collapse in 1991, Somalia was essentially stateless, and there was dispersed fighting between various groups for control of various areas of Somalia. Yet, perhaps surprisingly to many people, it's not clear that things were worse under "anarchy" than under Barre's regime. For instance, life expectancy improved dramatically, as did access to health care and technology.
I think this bit was really interesting analysis:

"Amiga’s financial difficulties provided the opportunity of a lifetime to a bunch of folks that may have struggled to get in the door in even the most junior of positions at someplace like Apple, IBM, or Microsoft."

It reminds me a bit of the recent realization Google has had (after trolling through vast amount of employment data) they see virtually no difference in performance from people with high pedigrees that people without.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2013/06/24/google-is-no...

It's a lesson that seems to keep getting relearned over and over again. Hire the individual, not the GPA, not the degree, not the school.

These guys produced an amazing machine virtually on a shoe-string.

It also comes up a lot in some circles that the Amiga was spiritually the follow-on to the Atari 8-bit computers, not the ST. A podcast I've been listening to recently has some wonderful interviews with some of the industry people from that time period and there's some great insight into this transition.

http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
github is no where near "popular" in china...
Does GPG actually support mounting directories without installation?
Tesla has the established network, and also the fastest technology— by far.

I'm not sure existing gas stations really have the best real estate. Pulling off the highway for five minutes to gas up is pretty different from plugging in for an hour, and I'm not sure I'd want to do those two things in the same kind of location.
Not to mention that the post manages to work in a plug for a software package, too. "It’s theoretically possible to run Holacracy without it, but it would be hard."
Somalia went through a civil war in recent history. That's about the best possible example of violence caused by the lack of a strong government. Of course, violence can occur for other reasons too, so merely having a strong government is no guarantee of its absence.
> you'll just go back to purporting the status quo being fed to you by authority figures

Just because it seems obvious that Bitcoin is a narco-currency masquerading as a ponzi scheme, doesn't mean I am in favor of the status quo, nor to I have much respect for authority figures.

Given that VCs are piling investments into Bitcoin in the hopes of later selling to the greater fool; this makes Bitcoin a snake oil sold by authority figures trying to make a buck at the expense of the gullible.
In the US, it is quite common for just anyone to call themselves a "Software Engineer". This gives one an air of respectability over "Computer Programmer". There is no particular qualification required to call oneself a "Software Engineer" though it would help to read a book like "Learn Java in 21 Days".

My understanding is that in Canada, it is a civil offense to denote yourself as an engineer of any sort unless you have a license. For that reason when I was employed by an industrial control systems firms, none of the computer programmers were called engineers, they were called computer programmers. Our engineers were all the Canadian equivalent of america's Professional Engineers.

I call myself a Software Engineer because I regard my work as being of the required caliber. My degree is in physics and my software expertise is largely self-taught.
Buy low, sell high. For now, at least.

Play out the end of an asset bubble in your head. Lots of people sell their assets, and now have dollars. The job of our policy makers is to make sure dollars don't increase in value at all, and don't decrease in value too quickly. But if lots of people are exchanging assets for dollars, the demand for dollars makes the value go up. Our policy makers will take a variety of actions to make their value go down by up to 2% a year. If we're lucky, they'll be able to stave off deflation.

So if you've sold your assets and want to store your value, you really want some sort of ledger with a predictable supply so your value can go up, not stay the same or decrease by 2%. Gold is traditional the ledger that people seek when these sorts of things happen. But enough people will choose Bitcoin to raise the price significantly, which will make others choose it as well.

Gold might be the right bet, but Bitcoin is a more functional ledger (easy to store, easy to transfer, etc.), and the upside is higher. But again, maybe I'm crazy.
A good metaphor that I like to use is to relate computer science as it is now to physics, engineering and maths. All three have a degree of overlap, but each of them thinks about the same problem entirely differently, with different purposes. The mathematicians try to build abstract formalisms, which physicists then apply to explain real-world phenomena, which are then exploited by engineers to build artefacts.

Of course, that's a huge simplification, and in reality there is huge overlap - mathematicians often perform the "modelling the real world" aspect, physicists often work with highly advanced abstract mathematics (general relativity anyone?), and engineers often do very fundamental research into physical phenomena.

A similar hierarchy can, and should (I believe) be applied to what I'll call the "computing sciences": Maths remains where it is, while computer science replaces physics, and software engineering replaces general engineering.

Under this model, it would seem ludicrous for someone to study computer science and complain that they were not being taught to build programming artefacts. A student studying physics would be laughed at if they complained that they weren't designing enough cars, or building enough bridges.
Actually we just passed two thirds of all coins mined.
I wonder how they're going to handle this with only 1GB Ethernet interfaces being the standard. Will they just have multiple ports on the bridge/router device? Built-in 802.11ac?
Studying polar data with the help of Apache Tika
There aren't many safe neighborhoods. I live in a gated apartment complex in a nicer part of the Bay Area, and I came home one day to a completely destroyed front door (they didn't get in thanks to the thick fire doors, but it could easily have been looted). On top of that, our car was broken into and they looted everything that wasn't bolted in.
I feel you suspect wrong, and your suspection with get wronger fast :)

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.CEL.SETS.P2?order=wba...