skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure this is completely incorrect. It's sterling just with a slightly different note design including the issuing bank name. It's accepted anywhere sterling is accepted - the only issue I've ever had is that English businesses may not have seen it before and are worried it's fake. Never had any refuse to accept it though.
> Trying to force someone who doesn't fit the team dynamic to stay is going to hurt your org.

Doesn't this rather presume that your "team dynamic" is actually good to start with?

Let's say you had a team of not very good engineers. Then you hired quite a good engineer who looked at all the terrible practices (e.g. no version control, shitty or nonexistent testing, poor build processes) and said to themselves "look, I need to fix this shit or I'm leaving, and I've got ten better offers in my inbox".

They might not be a very good team fit, but that's because the team is filled with idiots who haven't figured out how to use version control or whatever.

So, you know, the best thing to do is to get rid of them for not being a culture fit or for not being good for the team dynamic...?
It also didn't help in a famous piracy case in Sweden where people shared paid web streamed sports that didn't have any access restrictions. Since the cable company intended for the web pages to be access only by paying customers, sharing them was seen as infringing copyright.
Am I only one afraid that magic of protocol extensions can end up with really hard to figure out behavior between types? As much as these concepts seems powerful to me, they also look like soon-to-be hell on earth for bigger teams working on same project.
It wouldn't be so bad if you could use your Oyster/contactless card to get in
Agreed on the nostalgia. Not so much on how hopeless ads are, though.

When you weed out bot traffic, unviewable ads, and arbitrage, your engagement metrics and ROI basically go off the charts. And there are a couple of firms that help digital advertisers do precisely that. e.g. http://enbrite.ly (Disclaimer: I work with them.)
I'd say this is very different. The Bristol Pound is pegged to the Sterling. It's really not about mistrust of the government, but rather an attempt to keep profits local and encourage people to use smaller businesses.
The hidden economic rules behind Tinder, marriage, kidneys and college admission
As an aside, this keyboard with an optional vim layout was mention on HN yesterday.

http://support.wasdkeyboards.com/customer/portal/articles/19...
Shouldn't programmers be polyglot by default. It's like saying there is a conference for golfers who play with more than one club!
I love to watch conventional sports.

But I feel like I've witnessed so many more exciting esports moments.

No sporting event I've watched has had the excitement of TI3 grand finals in DotA2 or Starcraft matches like MMA vs DongRaeGu Blizzard Cup.

The strategy and metagaming makes it so interesting. The amount of skill is amazing. Esport pros make it look simple, but there is a lot going on. It makes for a very intense viewing experience IF you have an intermediate understanding of the game mechanics.
4) claim features not supported "should not be used" because they are "bad" / "make you a bad developer"
They apparently have to do some paperwork at the end of their shift and deposit the money differently. It probably does vary a lot from person to person and what routes they drive a lot though.
As I sadly recently discovered when I went back and revived a node.ja project from 2 years ago.

This is an advantage of PHP's Composer over node.js's npm, as it can write your require lines for you, so you resist the temptation to put "*".
Sumatra was about GPU offload, not so much metacircular JVM. If you look at sumatra dev mailing list archive, you'll see the last email there states it's not in active development. The project appeared to have been driven by AMD, but they may have re-prioritized things.

I also don't think it's currently possible to write the bulk of the JVM in java, if you want comparable performance and memory footprint to Hotspot.
I'm so not joking. 100 developers might equal = 10 experienced developers these days. You can't just "put more force into the project and make it for 10 days", because actually the people that you want to hire might be not that easy to find.
Strong language for a piece of financial news.

> ... crash ... horribly wrong ... clear warnings ... catching fire ... vengeance ... violent ... epicentre ... horribly wrong ... drama ... capitulation ... a lot of pain ... crash ... accident ... hammer ... crushing force ... shock ... vigilantes ...

Looks well set up to trigger sentiment analysing trader bots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_in...
The title looks misleading, I did not fully read the article, but from what I read, what prevents me of using any other cardboard box or pieces to make this?
It's a very small fraction of the local economy. There are a fair number of businesses accepting them, especially in the "alternative" areas, but you will not see Bristol Pounds very often. It all depends on your expectations how you will define success and failure.
I did an interview at QCon this year (http://www.infoq.com/interviews/John-Graham-Cumming-Polyglot) where I was specifically asked about 'polyglot programming'. The question totally surprised me because I'd never thought of myself like that because it doesn't seem to me that it's anything special at all.
It's the way the spell is used in the game.

In short, there are two way you can use a spell in the game: you can click on the spell, then click on another character. Or you can click on a spell, then click on the direction you want the spell to be used, the spell then fly in that direction, hitting first character that it hit (this type of ability is called "skillshot").

The blue character has a jumpy ability that let him jump a short distance in a direction, during the jump, it can't be hit nor targeted by any ability. The player use the jump ability to dodge the first set of spell by the enemy team, then use an item to turn yellow (which allow him to avoid the second set of abilities, while waiting for the jumping ability to be ready again). Then he jump again to avoid the enemy team's spells, while killing them with other abilities. You can see the character switching direction momentarily while running to avoid skill by the other team.

The skill in that specific gif was: timing/ reaction to avoid spells with both spell usage and movement, correct sequence of spells were used (you can see the cooldown and usage of the 4 spells with their icon at the middle bottom of the screen, it wasn't bashing spells randomly).

MOBA like League of Legends is the middleground First-person-shooters and full-on strategy games like Starcraft. In first person shooters, reaction time is more important, in strategy games, you don't have to deal with sub-second reaction time, but your "action throughput" needs to be much higher since there are more things to be taken care of (multitasking and metagame knowledge). League of legends requires faster reaction time than strategy game, but more multitasking than first person shooters.
"For most of January, the price of a Bitcoin on Mt. Gox had been almost $100 higher than on any other exchange..."

That doesn't sound right to me. I seem to recall that the price on MtGOX was lower than elsewhere.
I've had Scottish bank notes refused by a taxi driver in London, and he had a letter from the Bank of England claiming he didn't have to take it (a fact that Wikipedia backs up). Though what he gains from antagonising customers I'm not sure.
It's the same with Scottish money, except English people tend to openly despise it and will often refuse it even when they're perfectly aware that it's legal tender.

They're historical accidents tbh.
How is this not tax-avoidance? (inadvertent and well-meant, I'm sure)

They're not paying VAT on any of these transactions. I would have thought HMRC would come knocking if this gets any real traction.
Ask HN: Why does libvirt/kvm get so little traction?
It seems like vagrant, docker/machines, etc. Have little and/or minimal support for libvirt/kvm.

Is there a reason for this? I would mostly like to use that (instead of VirtualBox, just by preference) but it seems like that generally isn't possible. Is libvirt hard to deal with (technically), Linux-only problems, something else?

I'm not in anyway trying to be negative/disrespective of the projects, just trying to gather an understanding.
Plane crash link to data-wipe error
Which is fine and dandy until you go through 10 speed limits in 5 minutes.
Generate JSON from a generic Swift struct
Don't think there's anything in 9 for JIT caching unless I missed it - do you have a reference? JIT caching is non trivial problem for Hotspot due to the nature of speculative optimization, so it may take quite some time for that to appear. Having said that, Azul has some form of it in its ReadyNow feature, but I don't know the details.

I think likely some form of AOT will be needed.
No, it was higher because it wasn't easy to get fiat out. People wanted bitcoin because it was easier to get out. Only after they shut the withdrawals down did the MT Gox BTC price crash.
If the site looks cool and slick to you, then you should give a star to https://github.com/tripit/slate which I used to create the site.

I found Slate is very easy to use and customize!!
"The Disney Dollar is giving USD a run for its money"
A 57 story building in under 6 months is incredible.
Communications industry must serve customers better, says Ofcom
Virtual HID Framework
No, there really was shenanigans, I've personally seen it a few times: http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/35uyil/transp... http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/35ym8t/promote_ideas_p...

It's never very logical, someone shadowbans the first person to make a comment about Pao's husband but leaves the rest alone. My pet theory is another admin is making it look like Pao is doing it to build a case against her for her dismissal because it only creates a bigger shitstorm.
The currency does not change the law. E.g. if you pay with EUR or USD you still have to pay the appropriate taxes in the format the govn't expects (in sterling). The alternative currencies are no exception.
I know a really smart guy who refuses to do anything other than Java. Baffling. I get that he really loves Java, but there's so much other cool stuff out there!
It's just an issue of national pride.
Insect eyes inspire robot vision
I appreciate your sharing your experiences. But don't give up just because you struggle with Clojure. That's certainly not a sign that you're not good enough for this profession, especially if you have 15 years of C++ experience!

Is the problem that you struggle with how to solve problems in a functional style? I can imagine that Clojure might be a tough place to start for learning FP, even though you don't have to worry about a type system such as in an FP language like Haskell. What really helped me understand functional programming (in the lispy sense, not the Haskell sense) was the free book "How to Design Programs" http://www.htdp.org/ This book taught me, for instance, how to break down problems into small blocks that use recursion, and how to compose those blocks together.

There's also a second edition that seems to be significantly more streamlined (which is probably more appropriate, given your existing experience with programming), but I haven't used it: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

In the end, if you can make things that solve problems, that's what really matters. :) Consider a language like Clojure as another tool. There's no requirement that you use it.
> They're not paying VAT on any of these transactions.

They're supposed to. Well, more accurately, if a VAT-registered company is receiving payment in Bristol Pounds, they should be charging VAT (and passing it on to HMRC as the Sterling equivalent).

Don't forget that VAT is only charged by companies that are VAT-registered, and you don't have to register for VAT unless your turnover is above £82,000.
FYI front page of tarsnap.com:

> At the present time, Tarsnap does not have a graphical user interface.

Might want to update (and add some screenshots). And maybe make the price calculator live.
libvirt/kvm is crazy popular...
We don't know much about your environment...

Yet if you feel the need to triage exceptions, you probably have too many of them! you should strive have 0.

If you treat every exception as a disaster, your team will have a better sense of urgency. Have your system send an email to everyone on board.

That's how we do it. Exceptions are only acceptable if they are exceptions (machine/network crash) and can't be recovered from... In which case we let the process crash and restart it.

Non harmful exceptions is a concept I don't get though...
I don't think you want a production/industrial JVM written in java :).
I don't mind them so much tbh. It's pretty surprising how similar they can be though, I saw that picture and thought "that looks like my girlfriend's parent's place in Prievidza"
What disadvantages do actual shares come with?
Do you pay into court in Scottish notes a lot?

> Legal tender has a very narrow and technical meaning in the settlement of debts. It means that a debtor cannot successfully be sued for non-payment if he pays into court in legal tender. It does not mean that any ordinary transaction has to take place in legal tender or only within the amount denominated by the legislation.

http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/leg...
Source for accompanying interactives - https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode
Can someone help me understand how is the polyglot approach to software development different from normal software development?
religious much? at least give an excuse for your comment IF you want people to take you seriously
You can't have an alternative browser (engine) on iOS.
For this "we are being attacked" reason, they want to get the parlamentarians to let secret services manipulate their laptops / phones. It's a classic.

As if the local agencies are somehow less dangerous for the individual politician than the foreign agencies.

The actual costs, "millions", are rather irrelevant.
There is also a local currency in the Chiemsee area (Bavaria, Germany) called the Chiemgauer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer

Turnover 2013: 7000000 Chiemgauer (1 Chiemgauer = 1 EUR)
> because it's so much harder to multiply the efforts with more human power

I missed this part of your comment; you're right in this regard, of course.
Scottish bank notes aren't legal tender, and smcgivern is correct that legal tender doesn't mean someone has to accept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterlin...
Between ad tech and creativity, an all-out war
One of the reasons why i come to these forums are posts like this one.
Thank you!
Imagine a world where everyone has their own social version of a Github page instead of a Facebook wall.
Good move for Apple and end users.

BTW, AdBlock is the most popular extension for Safari OSX.

https://extensions.apple.com
"Computers will learn to think, imo you would be a fool to believe otherwise."

Sure, but software developers will be the last jobs to become obsolete, just before the Singularity. At which point it won't really matter any more for us that there won't be jobs - either we'll be in control of the computers and be free to do whatever we want, or we'll all be destroyed by them.
Of course multiplying two numbers is easy: primary school children learn how to do it. Doing it in your head under pressure in an interview is entirely different.
Agreed, but I feel the renaissance of the 'Learn xyz in 24hrs' books in the form of 'Check how Joe Bloggs made xyz in 3 weeks' articles.
Sir Christopher Lee dies at 93
That was true a few years ago, but apparently ad blockers hit the mainstream recently, especially amongst younger people. According to surveys a quarter of all web users and 40% of 18-29 year olds are using ad blockers.
It is much easier to a 19 year old to be good at this game than to articulate why he is so good.
I agree. But if money is going through normal channels and normal currencies, then it's recorded & HMRC can audit it.

If it's going through back-channels, alternative currencies & bitcoins, it's still taxable, but HMRC can't see it so there's a huge temptation to not pay tax.

There's a reason your plumber offers you a discount for cash-in-hand :-) if it doesn't go through his books he's not going to pay tax on it. That happens with GBP already - surely more likely to with Bristol Pounds!
Let us be honest.

If we could why would we need too?

Really, if we had the technology and ability would not our tech out strip the problems having a ringworld supposedly corrects?
Eye-Tracking Comes to Virtual Reality Social Network AltspaceVR
That's very true, but it is a private currency and part of that is individuals and private businesses can agree upon their own set of uses. Such as profits within one city in this case. You're right that it's not currency competition in terms of value, but I guess it is in terms of use
Oh no that's not possible. Think of all the politicans who couldn't do work.. That's unacceptable!
I once asked Colin Percival about doing an OS X front end as a commercial product, to be sold independently, because tarnsap is awesome and the user experience isn't.

Nothing came of it because he is sticking to his licensing, which would mean telling users to first install XCode before installing the GUI. It didn't seem like that would be a winner, so I moved on to other things.

I greatly admire that he stuck to his position.
The old Jungloid technique for Java factory automation/type conversions (I have an A, I want a B) seems like a possible use for this kind of thing. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1065018
All servers are already on linux since about 10 years. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Source-Software_in_%C3%B6... [german]
And anyways the transaction malleability "excuse" was debunked, it can not explain millions worth of bitcoins AND millions worth of USD "disappearing" from their bank as well.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/09/mt_goxs_transaction_...

Karpeles is either a deliberate fraud (he does have a prior history) or possibly a bad programmer whose bugs in code dealing with money caught him with his pants down...

Eitherway he has greatly damaged Bitcoin name with his shenanigans, blaming transaction malleability was one of the straws he tried to clutch at as his house of bad code collapsed, he also tried to blame his staff and few other tricks.
Startups Woo Investors with Unconventional Metrics, Inflating Valuations
I believe the person who submitted the patch believes [1] Intel released the code as BSD-licensed, then later relicensed it to Apache. Unfortunately the link they provided to back up that claim just goes to a login page.

Understandably, the Go team were reluctant to treat the code as BSD-licensed.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-codereviews/m5QTnSUZU...
I doubt they would have to be, even a low powered non metal gun would provide an attacker with a significant advantage and if used on an airplane it would not take much to breech the hull. As for encounters on the ground I am pretty sure drones are past the point of threat that plastic guns have.

I would think resins, ceramics, and some composites, would be sufficient for creating a projectile. Still like the article states, only those who wish to obey the law would be affected
It's more of a philosophy question, or metaphysics, asking where time does objectively exist firstly and secondly, what it is. In physics we define it to be something convenient which works for our models. Within these models time can move forward and backward.

We may not even have a strict definition of time, and have to rely on our intuition. For example there's no way to define what reality is.

My grandpa contends that time is just that which we ascribe to motion in space, and if there were no motion, there would be no time.
If the taxi driver doesn't want to accept Scottish bank notes, he doesn't have to. He is not obliged to accept any form of currency, in truth.

Since (presumably) the journey is over, he can insist that I pay my debt in legal tender - but not on the spot: legal tender is for when it reaches court. So, I would tell him that he can take my Scottish money or invoice me.
> In Linux, perhaps.

If you generalise from Docker. There are other container models on Linux -- LXC, lmctfy, Rocket, Garden etc have different security tradeoffs.
UK intelligence agencies should keep mass surveillance powers, report says
Because homeless people should look and smell homeless, right?
CoreOS running on xhyve hypervisor
Here's an explanation[0] of the issue. As a summary:

Apparently they were using the hash to track transactions, and would re-send bitcoins if the transaction didn't appear to go through. This is obviously a problem if the transaction did go through, but with a different hash.

Basically, two transactions which effectively do the same thing can end up having a different hash. Because of this, one should not rely on looking for the hash in the blockchain to see whether a transaction has "gone through".

This has been a {known issue, flaw} since 2011, but some BTC exchanges (like Mt. Gox) continued to rely on the transaction hash to check whether transactions had been committed to the blockchain. If a transaction hadn't appeared to have gone through, they re-sent bitcoins (under a new transaction). This is a problem if the transaction did indeed go through, but under a different hash, as it would cause the same action (transfer money from A to B) to show up in the blockchain twice.

0. http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-transaction-malleabili...
It is automatically created in the action bar when the action area is too small for buttons:

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
There has been a lot of work on code mining. It still isn't that useful, and no one has used RNNs (well, there is one paper I remember reading).
I think to everybody in IT it's pretty clear that video game industry is full of exploitation and it's rather rule than exception. That's why very few stay in industry for long, the disappointment from daily reality is a bit too much. Especially when other variants of same work can be (almost) as much fun, and they treat you like human being actually, with perks and more time to actually live your life.
I think community oriented websites have stress moments, typically policy or technical in nature, that signal the period in which uniques begin a steady drop-off. Digg has its with the move to approved submitters in v4. I fear while banning FPH was the right thing to do, this is going to stunt the uniques that Reddit draws.

And i'll leave it at that because it looks like, if the comments are telling, Hacker News is going full-on Eternal September right now.
See also Deindividuation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation
I've always wondered how elements produced in past stars end up in our solar system. I wouldn't think the whole universe is getting remixed all the time. It seems like areas stay pretty isolated.
This sounds pretty decent actually. I remember Stephen Wolfram's "A new kind of music" project which tried to generate music using cellular automata, with limited success.

This sounds much better in comparison!
Well that what you get when you invent your own license. People are afraid of re-licensing. Which is fair in my opinion.
As a counterpoint, I live in London and knew about the Bristol Pound. But I also know people who use the Brixton Pound.