skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried it.

See https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/.

Users who don't like ads can just run an ad-blocker, so this hypothetical service would be competing with free, and would only convert the fraction who feel guilty enough about running ad-block to pay what the publisher charges.

The bigger sites will already have set up such a system, so you're left chasing smaller sites. The smaller ones are probably already on AdSense, so Google's experiment with Contributor will address them.
I'm curious how she does use it though. Is there a local exchange willing to trade bitcoin for the local currency? Because she can't exactly do it through Coinbase, or she's right back where she started...
The national parks are a success that is indescribable in its value and enormity.

We should be doing the same with some of the coastal waters. Those areas need to ban all fishing and motorized boats. At the least, they will serve as reservoirs of wildlife that can repopulate the rest of the overfished areas.
10k LoC is more than enough for an HTTP/2 implementation.
Are there tests?
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If you start a comment out with "not strictly [related to linked article]" and hijack the discussion by plugging a website it seems like the decent thing to do is mention that you are the developer behind said website. I think this is even more important when you include so much <pre> text that the other comments are pushed so far down the page.

Full-Disclosure: Some people still believe in it
Edward Snowden is being hunted by the US. Are you for him or against him? If you're for him, then you'd have to stand against the US government.

One could argue that due to the spying and the prosecution of Edward Snowden, that the US gov't is also lost legitimacy.
I don't follow. Isn't that the point?
Right thinking people? Of course it only works to the degree we have critical mass. But it seems worth encouraging, that we might more quickly get there in more cases.
Seems it does not handle repos or folders with "."
Every government is entilted to regulate it, it's an asset like any other, being new doesn't make it outside of existing law.
Maybe that's a feature :-) you have to pay, unless you love jets as much as we do sort of thing.
Hmm... I get a redirect loop when I try to click the link.
I read that the opposite way -- GP doesn't seem to be talking about staying late, but rather leaving early.
> Sure, we want it to replace money

We do...? -.-;
Coinbase is available is 28 countries: https://www.coinbase.com/global

(I work for Coinbase)
We use stripe for egghead.io and process lots of payments. Chargebacks happen, but it isn't terribly significant for us. Our subscription fee is higher, so perhaps that helps.
Just because someone says that Bitcoin is a currency doesn't make it one. Keep in mind that the Japanese Yen is a currency in Japan, but under US regulations, it is not. Likewise, the US Dollar is probably not a currency in Japan, but an asset/commodity.
My goodness, but that's pretty for a small-studio game.

Its worth noting that, assuming this actually comes through, Blow will have overcome one of the most pernicious traps that wait for successful game designers- that next, wondrous game you make once you have all the resources you could possibly dream of and no excuse not to follow every possible design ambition. Compare Duke Nukem 3D, or 0x10c.
"not giving reasons to anybody to come and bomb you"

Power needs to be attacked, otherwise it's protection racket wouldn't work.
Your critique fails because taxi companies and Uber have wildly different cost and operational structures. Clearly Uber is turning a healthy profit.

I agree that stable prices are important for public transportation and that people like them, but stable prices require regulation or an extremely healthy market. In this case we're seeing a change of regulatory powers.
Every single dev group I've worked with has been too cheap (as individuals) to pony up for things $50-100 for jet brains software (pycharm and rubymine) and instead waste hours thinking up ways to change a license file or register with a different email.

I would never sell a product to devs. They don't know how to value their time. Which is odd considering we're in the business of automating other processes.
Maybe the article represents a bit of wishful thinking; but the fact that this is the most up-voted comment is also quite revealing.
Only if someone in the destination currency is willing to trade that currency for Bitcoin.
You have a home to stash the pennies in to save them up. Someone who lives on the street can't carry around pounds of pennies around until they have thousands of them to exchange for larger currency. Pennies might have value long-term, but they are worthless if you can't stash them in bulk.

Disclaimer: Canadian, we abolished pennies because they are worthless and a pain in the ass. ;)
If memory serves right, the vast number of transactions on the blockchain are people playing Satoshi Dice, ie gambling.
Not sure this is cause for regulation.
I am not sure I entirely accept the concept of "opportunity cost". It certainly has problems, it depends on how free you really are, as has been nicely shown in one of my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4

In any case, I think this was mostly resolved in modern society, with concept of overtime pay. (I assume, when talking about 6-hour work day, we are implicitly talking about employment.) No one is prevented working more, given that someone is willing to pay more (to the same person). And reason for this arrangement is precisely to give people the choice to cash on the free time or the extra value.
Was there no killswitch after the 30 days? Is that not common in these "company trials"?
Did not realize that.
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> all debts in your given country must be paid with your given country's currency

That's not true. If I owe you $100 and you're willing to accept Bitcoin that's a perfectly legal way to settle the debt.

Taxes are the only debts that must be paid in the national currency, at least as far as the US goes.
> It even says 'scripts used to control installation", not "scripts involved in installation" or anything like that.

To be fair, one of the definitions of "control" is to "determine the behavior or supervise the running of."

So I think a fair case could be made that the software signing keys determine the behavior of the installation when their signatures decide whether or not a binary will be accepted by the hardware. You can say that they don't do much actual work, sure, but neither do real-world managers who merely sign off on projects and nobody disputes whether or not they "control" things.

And I know I'm being really pedantic about the word meanings here, but I'm also pretty sure that arguments of the same form are regularly entertained by courts.
A couple percent at most. I think companies who've implemented Bitcoin payment have seen a 1% or less. A good number of those would have been customers anyway.

I love Bitcoin and use it a lot, but the truth is, this likely wouldn't do much for jsbin.
Note: jeremondo is posting comments of the form "The fact that X, is why we need ethics in Y" in several different threads concerning a wide variety of topics.

So far he's got:

X="Bitcoin is officially a commodity", Y="Bitcoin regulation"

X="D-Link published code-signing private keys by mistake", Y="code-signing"

X="we're welcoming Anne, Ben, and Joe", Y="welcoming Anne, Ben, Joe"

X="China's booming middle class is creating world's most dynamics consumer market", Y="creating dynamic consumer market"

X="reporter C.J. Chivers had to suddenly stop", Y="war journalism"

I can't tell if this is some sort of trenchant meta commentary, performance art, or he's just an idiot.
> For example minors offering their services (e.g: web design, software development) for bitcoins where in the real world they can't handle their own credit card or bank accounts without permission.

Good old regulatory arbitrage. (Hey, it works for Uber.)
It's both.

Bitcoin's supply is strictly limited. Most cash these days can be printed at will. So the comparison to digital gold coins is apt.
Also, he doesn't like Rust's stance on safety -- he thinks it's going to lead to too much hand-holding and boilerplate annotations.
I know very little about regulations on commodities trading.

Is there a chance that the CFTC will decide to regulate not only trading in bitcoin derivatives but also trading in bitcoin itself ?
Maybe I'm wrong, but httpie appears to be targetting http transactions only, while curl supports multiple protocols (ftp, etc.).

curl's syntax is also baked into various Web Browser network debuggers. Both Chrome and Firefox's network transactions display have a "output to curl" option to allow you to recreate the network transaction exactly.

Edit: on Firefox, the option is "Copy as curl"
That code sample is really helpful, thanks.

But doesn't that seem kind of redundant? Box and std containers are great as is, except for the one line that aborts on OOM. Would it be possible to use traits to choose OOM behavior at compile time?

To be clear, this isn't just important for embedded. A production database or web server should be able to handle an allocation failure without blowing up the whole process.

And I'm glad there's some talk about a standard allocator trait. I'll look for the relevant issue.
This is a strange argument and I don't know how to take it. Uber's shown they're experts at lobbying and even steamrolling local governments to get what they want. If the current regulatory structure is corrupt the solution is to fix it, not let it be corrupted in a different direction that looks nice in the short-term.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-06-23/this-is-ho...
Would the IRS rat you out when you pay taxes on your illegal income?
Can escape sequences survive being piped through "col -bx"?
For the purpose of a government ruling, the definition of money and legal tender are the same.
One thing I found neat about this was that (at least by default) it seems language-neutral: scrolling around the world, labels over the U.S. are in English, labels in Japan are in Japanese, Korea, in Korean, China, in simplified Chinese, etc. Not even any romanized (or otherwise translated/transliterated) labels in parentheses. Just the native presentation.

Granted that for practicality, you probably also want a mode that makes the labels more useful for a reader that may not understand every writing system, but as a default (when the user doesn't express a language preference), there's something very satisfying about this method of presentation...

In my mind it reflects Wikipedia's aspirations of being a useful tool for the whole world....
Try buying something using your Canadian PayPal account on an American IP address with a shipping address in Vietnam.

I did, my account got insta-blocked and I could not complete my transaction. I would have been perfectly happy to risk losing my money instead of having a 100% chance of not receiving the thing I want because of PayPal's paranoia.
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Erlang really helps you understand these, because it's dynamically typed, but the dialyzer will produce errors as a form of static optional typing.

I wrote some code a few days ago that looked like it worked. A few days later I ran the dialyzer, and it pointed out a certain code path could never be reached, because there was a comparison of an atom to an integer.

I would never have recognised that bug otherwise, because even my unit test just called that function with an integer, instead of the atom it was being called with.

Dynamic typing runs deep in what PHP/Ruby/Python offer - build it and get it running fast. Not thinking about complex types is a good thing in small projects.

But at a codebase of a certain size, static typing really helps minimise subtle bugs.
I am feeling naive but I have to ask: why GitLab? Is there something it does that GitHub does not do? I assume that I'm missing something but it seems like the big feature here is "not GitHub" which is hard to sell to the higher-ups.
Had similar thoughts regarding Anne. I'm working in a boomed field the potentials for startups in biotech will be expanding rapidly. Otherwise I've been unsure about the goals/strategies of YC regarding non-app based startups.
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No, because they have a clear incentive to categorize everything as X so they can collect their taxes and fees and feel important and powerful.
"subcontracted to the India"?

With language that poor, people like you deserve to replaced by subcontracting out to "the India".
It might be telling the truth but that seems unlikely given that it's repeating the "conversion to consumer society" script that unraveled at the same time that China's stock market unraveled in the very recent past.

Basically, the "rising consumer society" mantra has been going on for a number of years, then various revelations show how false that. Then this just repeats the mantra rather than in any way refuting the revelations.
There's also sum and product types, again by analogy.
Thanks for the tip. I've updated the comment to add the disclosure. Definitely not my intention to hide it though, it's clearly listed in my profile.
Yes, paypal seems to have very good fraud detection. I've been using them for the last 9 years for mostly $10 transactions (about $30k a year or so) and I don't think I've had a single fraudulent transaction in that time. Before paypal I used worldpay, and although their support is infinitely superior (paypal's support sucks balls), I did have a few fraudulent transactions a year.

Also, paypal's refund fee is just $0.30. (Not sure if it costs any more for a chargeback).
1995: I'm feeling naive, but I have to ask, why Unix? Is there something Microsoft doesn't have?
2005: OMGZ M$ monopolyzzz

Seriously, competition is good. Putting all your eggs in one basket is not. Always keep a copy of Github repo as a Gitlab repo. Learn about git remote-add. Github was DDOSd a few months back, don't let that stop your work.
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Shifts (being groups of workers that start and finish at a particular time en masse) themselves are probably contrary to good practice wrt patient care. If the whole shift changes then it seems there would be a substantial discontinuity in care; you'd want people to have staggered work patterns so in any hour there is always a substantial proportion of staff who were there the previous hour.

Unless you have many-to-one carers-to-patients then it wouldn't matter so much.
The artificial scarcity argument is interesting, but I don't think it applies here.

I'm not proposing paying a third party to send me email. You'd be paying me for my scarse resource - my time and inbox space
>@airbnb Co-founder & Chief Product Officer. I design things.

https://twitter.com/jgebbia
Another number to watch out for is capital outflow out of China.

"Over the last seven weeks alone, $190 billion has left the country."

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-record-capital-outflow...

"by 2018 all of China's excess reserves — cash that it has on hand to use immediately — could be gone."
This reads like a press release from Uber
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No one ever tries to help ugly people, but we all know they face discrimination.
5.71s vs 1.67 in Brisbane, AU. Nice!
How would this model work for a startup where people often put in 60+ hours a week?

It's fine to let public workers like the geriatric nurses in the article do 6-hour shifts as long as you have the budget to hire extra staffers to cover the lost hours.

And, of course, that extra budget comes out of the pockets of private sector workers and businesses in taxes.
Seems obvious that humans should at their option have the ability to defend life with effective tools.

Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble has something to say about it: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-westgate-interpol-ch...
It's possible that Node's culture of modules vs Rails' monolith design leads people to make these comparisons. News of Ruby outside of Rails being so infrequent certainly doesn't help either.
Can you elaborate, I'm not sure what you're implying.
Twitter has 10k+ node Mesos clusters in production right now. At MesosCon, Apple's comments were that they run the biggest Mesos cluster in the world, not "one of the biggest". That would infer it is at least bigger than Twitter's 10k node cluster.

Now a bit of fact checking on the very dubious claims this post pretends are facts which are not.

Indeed, Mesos does scale, but one thing that is often important to remember is that many frameworks do not actually scale to this many nodes. Twitter has battle tested Aurora at scale and Apple's Jarvis (not open source sadly) scheduler also run at scale.

This article is clearly not written by an author that cares about writing facts. It states that Mesos uses etcd, which is simply not true. Mesos uses Zookeeper for coordination and locking / leader election although there is a ticket for making this aspect of Mesos pluggable:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1806

Mesos can't run LXC as there are native Docker and Mesos containerizers. There is work on the AppC and Rkt containerizers, to be merged into the main Mesos Containerizer, but that is ongoing.

Also note that while Mesos has only been simulated on 50k nodes, at MesosCon 2015, Verizon did a demo of starting 50k containers running actual web services on 1k physical machines in about 70ish seconds. It was pretty impressive. That wasn't theoretical, they actually demonstrated it on stage and the demo gods showed mercy on them.

Mesos and Kubernetes are both great projects. I see both projects working together to build the platforms of tomorrow.
You're only as good as your BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement).

If you don't have a better choice, then go through Codility. I think you probably have better options. Looking through your post history, why you have 7 years in Rails, then jumped to do PHP work? That's weird. Also remote work as a contractor or consultant is pretty available too. If you're not easily finding jobs right now, you're probably doing it wrong.

You should ask yourself, your coworkers and other peers how to improve your skills, not some internet stranger.

We all get rejections from time to time. Just remember times when you got useful things done, and move onto the next interview.
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I can't probably count how many times I use this in a week. Thank you very much for this service :)
maybe you can watch some algorithms classes on youtube? Somthing like this is a good start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtSuA80QTyo&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
Welcome to "at will" employment. Besides some very specific exceptions, including race, gender, etc., employers are free to fire you for any reason or for no reason. Similarly, you are free to quit for any reason or no reason.
... and frankly, at least in a country with a stable legal system, it's a slight bit of comfort to know that if all else fails (hopefully it never reaches that point of course), the police can go and arrest somebody that caused us harm, and/or seize their assets.
No, mathematics makes it outside of existing law. There is nothing a government can do to stop or alter Bitcoin.
Why the strong anti-China sentiment on HN? I don't get it.
Free products need to have a way to lock users in. It's not evil or unethical - In fact, it's the opposite;
if you don't lock your users into your free product, your competitor will lock them into an expensive alternative which will give them less
flexibility.
So what happens when Bitcoin crashes? Does she just not make as much money that year?
Buying with BTC is a breathe of fresh air, huh? How about when taxes are due?

If you're a US taxpayer, you are required to report the profit/loss of every single purchase made with bitcoin.

Which means that you need to dutifully look up and record the current price of bitcoin every time you make a purchase, so you can properly report the fair market value, and then copy that information over to Schedule D in the proper format.

And according to the tax rules, if you've made several purchases of bitcoins over time, then you have to separate the purchases into lots. So if you bought 0.3 bitcoin on Mar 1st and 0.2 bitcoin on Mar 31st, and you bought a video card for 0.4 bitcoin on May 2nd, then you have to decide from which of the previous lot(s) you want to take bitcoins on to report the profit/loss at the time when you bought the video card. For each separate lot, a separate line needs to be created (or you may put VARIOUS, and figure the correct gain/loss and just add that to the form, its up to you)

Of course, if its been more than a year between the time you made some of those purchases, you need to separate out the gain/loss into long-term vs short term gains.

And then, if you decide to refill your bitcoin account within 30 days before or after a purchase, and the bitcoin price went down from the time you bought it until the time you made your purchase, then wash sale rules come into play. In those cases, you need to report the sale, and then further mark it as a wash sale, reverting the loss on the form. Then those bitcoins that you sold and rebought have to be put back into your lots of bitcoins to use for further purchases, adding together to the final sale in the future the total loss and gain made by all the wash sales those bitcoins may be a part of (all while respecting the long term/short term gain split).

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Yea, what a dream! :/
I use uBlock Origin and noticed this about an hour ago (Chrome 45.0.2454.93 on OS X 10.10.5). Turned uBlock off, refreshed, messages loaded fine. It does appear to be fixed now so probably just a bug.
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I actually agree with much of what is said in this article but I don't see how it amounts to an argument against cryonics.

While there's no proof that freezing preserves sufficient information to reconstruct a mind/brain there's also no proof that it doesn't. In fact I don't think there's any proof that cremation doesn't preserve enough information to reconstruct a mind/brain (as far as I know the 2nd law of thermodynamics basically says that the universe as a whole never loses information). Nonetheless it seems obvious that reconstruction from a cryonically preserved brain would be easier/more probable than from a cremated one.

As for the question of whether a reconstructed brain would be "you", I'm not sure of that either but here's the way I look at it. I know that "I" occurred once, therefore my existence is mathematically possible. Since I have no reason to think that reality is bounded in space or time (sure this universe might be finite but how do we know another one won't arise in the future ?) it seems reasonable to think that "I" might occur again, since an event of any non-zero probability should occur given infinite time. I don't know how or when this might happen because I don't know what the set of sufficient causal factors for my existence is. Nonetheless it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to think that reconstructing a functional version of my brain that preserves all or most of the information it contained at the moment of my death would have a higher probability of providing those sufficient causal factors as any other event I can easily imagine.

Hence I don't see anything inherently irrational about the practice of cryonics for those who would like to increase the probability that their existence will be preserved or recovered after death.
Savings rate in the US is already close to zero. Unlike other countries/fiscal unions where savings rates are higher, I'm not sure negative rates would do any good in the US (other than causing businesses with large cash positions to move them to other currencies). With that in mind, I can't think of a safe currency to move to outside of dollars.

Strange times.