skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard enough to get people to try something completely different. Applying the idea of "value transfer" to social media isn't just a completely foreign concept to most - it drives at the heart of a person's philosophy.

When planning valME.io, which is based on your idea of value transfer [1], using bitcoin instead of karma (which is then converted to bitcoin) was considered. The problem was pricing transactions given bitcoin's volatility might create a negative marketing image. If we were going to start suggesting a different philosophical view on social media content, we wanted to tread lightly.

For example, we only wanted to charge US $0.02 for a post and US $0.01 for a comment so that the barrier to entry was low and, pretty much, all profit went to the content contributor. We also wanted consistency across what an upvote and downvote meant (earning or losing US $0.01).

However, because so many people would likely be unfamiliar with bitcoin, it was thought the volatility would send a marketing message of unstable costs and earnings. As a blogging and forum platform targeting non-technical users who traditionally make their money via advertising, we didn't want to dissuade them.

"Imagine giving away a couple of cents for a funny meme, 10 cents for a video you enjoy or a dollar for an article that changed your views.If you made a video with 200.000 views and 20.000 people gave you, on average,10 cents; you would get 2000 dollars for the video."

We realized that, just as you said, people would want to give more than just pennies here or there. So we created karma tipping that allowed you to award someone any amount. But we used karma throughout to foster a comfortable and familiar feeling of consistency. Cashing out karma for bitcoin occurs less frequently and, thus, eases a non-technical person into it.

Although I agree that bitcoin makes microtransactions much more practical, the volatility and (still somewhat) limited usage makes it difficult to target non-technical users. If you use concepts they're already familiar with (e.g., upvotes, likes, karma), and then convert to bitcoin, my belief is that it will help lower barriers. Time will tell.

[1] https://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/kqqqs/how-valme-works/
> Source code in all cases would be a good start.

Not all corporations provide all source code to everything. If you don't trust any of them, that's one thing. If you specifically select Google for your ire, I say that's irrational.

> Earning a good reputation over time would be the real way.

I think they're the most valuable corporation I've ever interacted with. I also trust their employees' competence and desire to protect my privacy more than any other company.

> The fact that it is harder for Google to regain reputation is their problem, not mine.

We're not talking about their reputation. We're talking about your opinion of them, and whether it has a rational basis.

> Gmail. google-analytics. Chromebook, Android...

I understand the data Google collects, how it protects my data, and how it does business... I approve. You want to talk about disapproval? Target. Anthem BCBS. Sony.

> Projection and/or lies. See above.

The only example you've given is to release all of their source code. That's not a reasonable expectation.

> Using someone's record as a heuristic about their future behavior isn't based on reason? Do you also get angry with people who stop going to a particular store after being ripped off or sold a lemon?

If you're citing GMail, Google Analytics, Chromebook, and Android as examples of BAD behavior on Google's part, then yes, I think you're reading their past behavior entirely wrong.

I said it before, and I'll say it again - you don't like the value proposition of their products. That's fine. You seem to think others are crazy for making the informed and conscious choice to use them.

Would I be crazy to hire a personal secretary who can read all of my mail and emails, and make suggestions to me about which products I might enjoy?
Some people need to learn to lose. Negative emotional reaction from their side means just that.
When they decline employment to the next applicant - they're not even blinking over thought of hurting person's feelings.

Move on and let them deal with their issues.
They fight on the Hubble Telescope which was not lunched until April 24, 1990.
This is the missing part of Google Glass. For interacting with the Glass you don't have to touch the Glass itself. You can just perform gestures on your jeans.
For those in the UK, BBC iPlayer has an old Horizon doc on this made shortly after the theorem was fixed currently. It's pretty good, and even has the old "lingering shot until the subject starts crying," except the subject is Wiles, getting emotional about his proof, and it's quite moving
Such a thing, more or less, exists today. It is called Secure Element[1]. It comes in microSD + NFC or embedded as part of SmartCard/SIM card. Incidentally this "secure element" is why GooglePay was/is dependant on carriers. The carriers already have a secure element (in their SIM) to authenticate you on their network.

It seems the real value in what they've done is expand the software support for it by, hopefully, making it a key part of Android API.

[1] https://www.datacard.com/downloads/ViewDownLoad.dyn?elementI...
Yes, the fundamental question is do we want a trustee or delegate form of democracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_model_of_representatio...
I find the study's interpretation, as reported, to be somewhat dubious.

Seated for what you know to be a study, with few options, even "pleasant music" is pretty boring. (And other sounds that can be accurately described as "white noise" are sometimes so pleasant that people buy devices to generate it!)

Turning a boring situation into a game helps make it less boring, and the researchers provided only one prominent option for doing so: how many chocolates can I 'score'? Plus, it's a psychological study... which participants know may have twists or deceptions. So possible motivations include:

• "I have all the music I can hear at home; maybe something interesting happens after choosing the 'noise' 10 times!"

• "Maybe they'll change the story after phase 1 and I will be able to take the chocolates away, or trade them for something else!"

• "My friend also signed up for this study, afterwards we can compare how many we each earned."

I'm also reminded of the study from about a year ago that got widely forwarded under headlines like "men prefer painful electric shocks to sitting alone with their thoughts". It was also over-spun to claim more than it showed, but the tendency there would be another way to explain this study's results: people prefer to try doing something novel, even if it's superficially/temporarily unpleasant, over idleness. That's not chiefly 'mindless accumulation', just curiosity and testing the edges of your environment.
> Your lack of reading comprehension [is] the simple truth

Ha. Geez. It had nothing to do with reading comprehension, and the fact that you both jump to assumptions that I must be something like stupid despite my evident articulation proves my point further regarding your propensity to mischaracterize opposing views. /r/politics' liberal bias is near-universally known amongst conservatives on Reddit. Because of this, I unsubscribed, and so never bothered to read that it was US-only. So it was a faulty assumption on my part that had no relation to reading comprehensive or my stated point in any way.
> Google Code announced its shutdown a few months ago, and their rationale was explicitly along the lines of “everyone’s using GitHub anyway, so we don’t need to exist anymore”.

I mean, sorta. It was also because running a service is expensive, and containing abuse is a constant thankless treadmill.

> We’re quickly heading towards a single central service for all of the world’s source code.

Far from it? Not that a fully-decentralized system seems bad, but there are many things that aren't github. I don't even have anything of interest on github.
I'm not sure I consider that to be true. Why is pixel perfection out-dated?
I think the baby carriage is an homage to the Odessa Steps scene of Battleship Potemkin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin
I also forgot to point out that their robot is capable of running in a staggered manner [1] and the results are much cleaner than non-staggered action [2]. You can practically feel the second robot nearly tear itself apart even at lower speeds.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXOHAVuS5Q&t=65

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA
Wouldn't a decentralized web interface be webmail (i.e. Gmail)? Then along the Gmail theme, a plug in could make things look much like a static website. Where "conversation view" becomes a "repository view".
So much of this is straight out of the jokes my friends and I would have as kids in the 80s. I mean, middle-finger lasers? "That's my bicep." We so did that. A lot of that.

Even the meaningless swearing to try to look "cool" was spot on.

So yes. Maybe not "genius" but it so precisely hits the spot that it's undeniably good.
> I suppose I could be wrong here, so I apologize for doubting you, but next time that occurs double check that you bought from the same seller as the Prime seller that's listed when you go back to check.

When I had this happen to me, the orders were NOT from a 3rd party seller. They were directly from Amazon proper. This is not a UI issue.
So you basically say you keep predicting ideas that large corps put to market? Enjoy your savviness; it could also help you get a nicer job.
Nope, I'm not calling anyone lazy! It is certainly whining. Maybe it is justified whining for some, but in my experience it is not. Either way, I think there needs to be some perspective here.

To your point: there are noise-cancelling headphones that don't require music. Constant disruption is a cultural issue. I work in an open layout where I am rarely disrupted because people know better than to bug that guy with the intense look on his face and his headphones clamped on. The open layout means that they can see clearly when it is ok to engage me and when it is not.
They could also plant their own people asking the questions they want to answer.
A good reference is Full Stack Python: http://www.fullstackpython.com/

Discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985692
Adventurous Engineer
We are looking for an adventurous engineer to partner with us on the ground floor of building a new app that can revolutionize the Entertainment world. We have a million dollar idea and need someone who can create the simple and easy to use app that launches it. We offer part ownership in our company in exchange. This is that rare, once in a lifetime opportunity, up for grabbing. We would love the hear from you.
Love that ingenuity on their camera dolly
THANK YOU! Went to Japan on my honeymoon and totally forgot the name of one of my favorite ramen meals--Ichiran!

Truly amazing ramen.

I'd also add the sesame ramen I had at Fujiyama Go Go in Kanazawa was amazing (yes, I know they are a chain).
Passwords are unsafe

Passwords are unsafe for the same reason that roads are unsafe: human beings. Things work well enough for most people, most of the time. However, during certain situations, most people aren't trained correctly and often do the wrong thing. What's more, there's even an accepted culture of doing the wrong thing.
I ask the same question. What can snapchat do that mms cant?

Edit: So they took a service that was as simple and flexible as could be, put arbitrary restrictions on it, and wrapped it in pretty UI. Kids are dumb man. (I'm 26)
A Guy Walks into a NoSQL Bar [Director's Cut]
I'm not sure there's any sort of technology that does not somehow benefit Google's model.

Perhaps Encryption? Then why does ATAP have Project Vault?
Google so far hasn't shown much knowledge of endpoint security, uses many stacks with huge attack surface, and plays penetrate/patch. That's from their web services all the way to mobile. Third parties, both companies and FOSS types, are doing better at protecting Android than Google. Although there's exceptions, Google seems mostly unqualified or uncaring in terms of strong INFOSEC.

So, I have little trust in the security of ARTOS or Vault for now. I tried to review the ARTOS kernel's design but they pulled it off their site. So, we have nothing to go on but their word. I can't wait to get some more objective information about its design and implementation for a real review.
Sure--but at what point do the mental health benefits of its deliciousness outweigh the health downsides?
Top Announcements at Google I/O for Growth Marketers
Manual memory management (i.e. not GC) is a little disingenuous because it implies that it's entirely manual. In fact, there are many patterns (e.g. RAII) which make "brain dead" manual memory management possible.

I'm not necessarily arguing this is a great way to go for a new team, but there are manual memory management strategies that can definitely scale. Among other things, it's not the only type of resource that needs managing, and GC only handles memory.
Exactly...this is what PG refers to in his essay "The Submarine".[1] That said, apparently this is what startups should be doing, paid for ads posing as articles behind some bigger theme.

In this case a giant ad for Pipeline, highlighting two companies that pay Pipeline for shared work space, all hidden behind a fluff piece about Miami's booming startup scene.

I personally know of one other startup in Miami in the shared office space...space. They are well funded and had good media coverage like this when they started. However, to be honest there are hundreds of landlords who rent shared office space in Miami, they just do not identify themselves as startups in the tech scene. It is sad really because there is a much greater marketing effort to really sell people on hopes and dreams, compared to your typical landlord renting shared office space.

It is also unfortunate because Miami does have legitimate startups who should really be the ambassadors of the Miami startup scene. Just one example, CareCloud which is disrupting health-care IT and Software, has raised nearly a $100M...and even has some founders/management whose last names end in vowels.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Anything not explicitly allowed is forbidden. That's how copyright law works. "All rights reserved" is the default. You don't even have to claim it. All rights are reserved unless you relinquish them.
Which makes the statement you made that, "this currency stuff is frankly kind of uninteresting to me," kind of funny (I assume that was on purpose) because the currency stuff is exactly the thing that makes bitcoin work so well.
Our neighbor had 5 roommates...in a one bedroom. The standard of living here is hilariously low.
What most consumers and sysadmins think of "Firewalls" and what the presentation are talking about are two different things. Simple packet filters like "don't allow communication on port 123 unless it's from IP a.b.c.d)" will always be part of a defense in depth strategy, but things like stateful packed inspection tools from big-name firewall vendors do not scale when the number of cycles they have to inspect a packet keeps getting lower, especially when they have fewer cycles to actually do basic I/O to get the packet through to the destination.

High performance networking means networking hardware has to get the packets moved faster, so there's less time to do processing on them.
Is this a jvm specific problem? Scala seems to have huge build times too.
Don't forget the laser raptors. The presence of laser raptors provides context for anything.
"Commercial use" encompasses selling. You are allowed to sell all free software and all open source. This guarantee forms part of the definition. Software that does not have permission to sell it is not free software and is not open source.
Nintendo only really targets two markets, and neither of them "fit" with iOS.

- 3DS owners always have their 3DS, and don't usually own any Apple product, except rarely an iPod Touch. Why? Because they're Japanese schoolchildren, sitting around at recess battling one-another in Pokemon or somesuch. iOS doesn't fit anywhere into that picture.

- Likewise, the Wii U is still one of a long line of "famicom" (lit. "Family Computer") products. All the software written for it is written to encourage local multiplayer, with game balance choices made to cater to family members being those multiple players—thus why the "randomness" of items in Smash Bros, the rubber-banding in Mario Kart, etc. They're games that let younger and older siblings, or children and their parents, have a fun experience together even at disparate skill levels! Again, this isn't something that translates away from the "everyone sitting in the same room", so doesn't do well on mobile where everyone in the family would be expected to own their own iPod Touch or whatever else.
Firewalls fall into a dark category for IT -- cover-your-ass implementations done without questioning the problem-solution dynamic. For years, the cloud applications I work with have been slowed or made glitchy due to company firewall interference. I will not miss them when my users' experience improves by leaps.
With all the self-hosted options, how do mobile push notifications work?
A stupid question: what's TLAB?
History, or Just Horror? On Historical Medical Images
Show HN: Pebble Controller
Kitasenju Design – 北千住デザイン
Get Your Secrets INTO Source Control
Nexus phones also didn't even have a secure element before, unlike the high end choices from Samsung, etc. (which had non-standard support). Pretty annoying.
This is how I bootstrapped my way into a full-time engineering job (note, I also have my BS in Computer Science), I'm sure you could do something similar:

Find some businesses that need some simple, short-term coding work - python work or php work, whatever you know that people need - and, maybe by taking an initial pay hit, get the job and deliver. Do a few of these, charging a bit more each time, and you have a portfolio of professional work. Now you're a professional programmer, you can either continue doing freelance work or apply to full-time gigs with your portfolio of real-world work.

It's not glamorous, it's not quick, but it worked for me.

Some places to look for intitial jobs:

* http://jobs.wordpress.net/

* http://www.djangodevelopers.net/

* http://djangojobbers.com/
Thanks for sharing. Very interesting presentation. As soon as he said the browser is the new OS he lost me, but I understand he's coming from the Internet Industry. I completely agree that we need to design secure application architecture though, and that's why I am excited about languages like Go which facilitate a new client server model that doesn't involve the browser.
Definitely not Seattle.
> Anything not explicitly allowed is forbidden. That's how copyright law works.

Well, no, copyright law works by "anything explicitly made exclusive to the copyright holder by law, and not explicitly allowed by either other provisions of law or the copyright holder is forbidden, unless its in the rather ill-defined -- far from explicitly delimited -- domain of 'fair-use', or implicitly permitted by the copyright holder under implicit license, or..."
I think for west coast customers Amazon uses them. The reason could be - http://www.ontrac.com/ontracground.asp
I suspect that they are downvoting the poster rather than the comment, due to previous posts. I upvoted pron's comment since it was a professional response to the question asked.
This algorithm won't work on music without kick drums while it still has beat.
How APIs and Mashups Could Replace Patient Portals
I believe you are advocating for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

Would that be correct?
From a political standpoint I don't know how many people would trust a Google product with security. Just the brand does not jive with the idea of security. Perhaps the product is good, I don't know. But FUD is in order considering the brand and its general past actions.
Do it's best to guarantee that a post will be removed.

In a world where everything you do is recorded and stored long term the promise of something fleeting is a beautiful promise.
Maybe you are not old enough?

This film is pure concentrated 80's cheekiness and really takes you back. If you were do destroy bad 80's popular culture and keep only 30 minutes of it for reference, this would be it. Of course it does not work alone for many, because everything in it is reference back to the 80's.

It's very well done. I got 80's flashback from just those tracking errors in the beginning of the tape alone (funny how associative memory works).

deeper analysis:

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/37mw8y/kung_fury_ha...
Here is another approach that you can try: you can get your foot into a medium sized company as a QA automation developer, you need to learn Selenium Webdriver with Python and you can practice a little bit of Python and get paid. As a Python enthusiast you probably know enough about QA anyways. Once you are in, it is possible for a dev opportunity to open and you'll be in a very good position to apply.
Eastbay is not cheap either. Either one has to live in Stockton/Modesto/Patterson or further east.
"Vault is designed to be an equivalent, but designed to project a user’s important content."

Gotta love a typo that, hilariously, says the opposite of what is meant.
This looks _very_ interesting (from a DIYer point of view), however building under GNU/Linux amd64 isn't seamless. (Missing --std statements in the Makefile, notably)

I find openscad quite painful to use, I whish I learned about Antimony before.
I think this has lot of potential, as a lightweigth, intuitive, free software, notably in the maker/diyer scene.
I'm almost positive that x86 doesn't really have special stack instructions, aside from call (push pc +sizeof(call)) onto $esp and jump.

I know MIPS (and possibly other RISC architectures) don't have an implicit 'stack' register, just one that used by convention. They do have jump and link instructions which write $pc+4 into another register.

Afaik, LLVM and quite possibly GCC just add/subtract $esp for the initial allocation / final deallocation of the stack.

More recent intel x86 process I believe have a small separate d-cache for the stack.
It would be a huge leap but Jay-Z has specifically said this was his exact plan. To create a platform that eases a musicians journey from recording to streaming and ultimately to money making.
Is it me or does it seem to have an easier time with the highest obstacle. I though it was a fluke but then it had the same behaviour in free range mode.

Is it a random result because of the phase of the obstacle in the run cycle?
Most people are sceptical for the simple reason that the social networks that shed most of their user base long before ever threatening to make a reasonable profit actually had far more lock-in. If Snapchat's user base - a demographic not exactly noted for their long attention spans - gets bored or sick of ads once Snapchat actually manage to sell them in significant numbers, they're not leaving anything behind when they download the next flavour of the month.

The terms attached to this probably make their chance of selling out to Facebook for ~$20bn slim too.
Something on the order of 30,000 to 40,000 Americans die in car crashes every year. Depending how you count (lung issues etc... ) 3000 to 10000 people died in 9/11.

I think Escherize's point was how silly it is we don't worry about car crashes which are a real and countable, and yet we worry about third world script kiddies which likely have none of the effectiveness of the 9/11 hijackers.

Terrorism in a typical year in the United States kills fewer people than bathing, smoking while sleeping or basketball. We should do what it takes to maintain a comparable level of safety to this and not get caught up in useless scaremongering.
Some counterpoint:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/37hzrn/i_am_missy_sui...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/37hzrn/i_am_missy_sui...