skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really nice workaround until Uber accepts Bitcoin itself.

My only concern:

Does your rides and personal information (eg. name and phone number) become available to Bitcoin Builder through the Uber Business backend?
> As far as I know, it's not even legal to import the electric cars, much less drive them on public roads. They certainly don't meet NHTSA standards.

Why would it not be legal to import electric cars? The cumulatively most sold electric vehicle in the US, the Nissan Leaf, started off manufacturing in Japan only, and the initial batch in the US was all imported. The just launched BWM i3 and i8 are both imported, as well as the VW e-golf and a number of others.

And not be legal to drive? By the end of 2015 we will be at nearly 400k electric vehicles sold in just the US [1]. A faster adoption rate than hybrid vehicles [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...
IPython seems really uniquely Python, does a similar “live documentation” tool exist for other languages? I get that Python's usage/culture produces amazing tools like this, but is there anything unique about the language that stops it being ported to JS/Ruby/PHP/C# et al?
Telling the truth?

Until Aug,2015 about 276 lawyers who help Chinese people protecting their human right have been arrested. But China still claim it is a country under the rule of law.

Another example is that recently an official media of China claim that China is the most democratic country in the world.

CCP is evil, never trust it!!!!!
Set aside what Bitcoin enthusiasts want it to be for a moment, and think about the transactions that are actually happening.

Is the majority of the usage pattern currency-like, where people are getting paid in BTC and buying things with BTC?

Or is the majority of the usage pattern that of a commodity, where people are mostly buying and selling it for fiat currency, and trying to do so at a profit?

I would strongly suspect the latter: the vast majority of BTC transactions (other than transfers between personal wallets) are the buying and selling of BTC for fiat currency.

Even most "Pay with Bitcoin" businesses are this way: in reality, all you're doing is selling your Bitcoin to an exchange who will convert it to USD and pay the USD-denominated price of the item you're buying. Gold certainly can't do this so conveniently, but the principle is the same: I want to buy something, so I sell some gold and use the USD to buy things.
It has some web "framework" components as well, though mostly in the same way Go has them. Otherwise, I agree.
Given that there's so much out there to know, and that each field has its own commonly-used acronyms, I do think that if you can find the -correct- definition of an acronym in the first ten Google search results, then (IMO) that acronym is common.

As an example: Would you consider RAM to be a common acronym? If you work with computers you're very likely to answer "Yes." or "Hell yes." to that question. But, there are many people out there who have no idea how to expand RAM into its parts, and may not have ever heard the term. Yet, the expansion of RAM is in the top ten Google search results for the term. (It's in my top two.)

Additionally, I know what an HSM is, and I don't even work in a field that requires their use.
writeup suggests its their global private key, same one used for signing windows apps
Because that's how money is defined. At least, the first few hits on Google for "money definition" are:

1) <Google> "a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectively."

2) <Merriam-Webster> "something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: as
a : officially coined or stamped metal currency
b : money of account
c : paper money"

3) <Investopedia> "An officially-issued legal tender generally consisting of currency and coin. [...]"
Eh they don't even bother with a real-looking domain name or a non-phishy form. Seems like they are too out of touch or simply not paying attention.
Poor decisions are mistakes, not accidents.
If you want to believe that the release was deliberate, then it's all part of the act - signing could've been just a point in a requirements document.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236827
"Besides the fact that there really is no “debate” when it comes to the science of how they work or how they may harm"

This is dangerous thinking. New theories come up in science all the time. You also can't tell me that vaccines will absolutely not harm anyone in 100% of all cases. Scientifically, it doesn't even make sense.

It's dangerous because we are now starting an era that I call scientific authoritarianism. You can't go against scientists, because they know better. If you do, your career is destroyed, you are silenced, and marginalized.

I don't even agree with the group that thinks that autism is linked to vaccines, I just feel like we need to stop all the witch hunts.

This article just seems like a smear campaign against Trump, the Republicans, and the people that vote for them.
Isn't there a startup that's already applied for CFTC approval?
My mother is German. My father was career military. "On time" means "I will arrive at least 15 minutes early."

Duh.
We've made one for JavaScript: https://tonicdev.com
I am pumped about this, especially the Wikimedia Commons use cases described at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Future_Plans#Commons.

There are actually already ways to browse Commons images on a map, but they need significant work. For example, the tile at [1] depicts an area with easily 20 geotagged Commons images, but, inexplicably, none of them are shown until you zoom in another level. Or, zoom out to see the entire state, only to see Massachusetts shown as completely lacking any geotagged Commons images [2].

There is a ton of potential for awesome applications involving geotagged images and geographic maps. I'm glad to see the Wikimedia Foundation stepping up its investment here.

1. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.ph...

2. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wiwosm/osm-on-ol/commons-on-osm.ph...
> If you want to future-proof your web application, you have to make a bet on what engineers will want to use in three years.

If everyone thinks like that we'll only see more faddish frameworks come and go. Why not make a bet on what framework will continue to provide the most productivity in three years? Or stability, maintainability, etc.? If it's a mere popularity contest then it's winner takes all and we'll all be writing javascript in the near future.
Any lawyers able to comment on what happens when untested federal government agency policies conflict with each other? How can you blame any company operating in this space? The agencies haven't figured their shit how. How could a company?
That's an excellent question. We want to serve everyone but how we serve them will be different. For example, people with very poor credit -- like the ones that go to Payday lending are not going to benefit from having a revolving line that pays off their credit cards; most don't even have credit cards. However, all of them can benefit from a platform that does the right thing for them -- for example, recommend the right payment amount based on people's cash flow unlike a credit card company which tries to push for minimum payment. Or suggesting changes in spending behavior that can dramatically reduce their overall cost.

Especially, the poor disproportionately suffers from compounding of interest. Imagine going to a payday lender (or heck a subprime credit card) and missing a payment. First of, those APRs are insane and on top of it, they compound and just makes it impossible for them to get out of it. We really believe compounding of interest should be abolished on the lending side. In the software world, when users struggle to use a product, the product fails, you don't ding the users. But in finance it is the other way around -- the consumer pays the price for mistakes the lender does. If more main stream consumers demand simple interest and no fees across the entire industry, we will slowly get rid of these evil practices and eventually benefit everyone. We are also talking to regulators on how we can make many of these principles (dead simple terms) as the model for future lending products.

The Economist recently had a very interesting article about how the poor end up paying more fees even though they are the ones who cannot afford it -- for depositing money they pay fees, for withdrawing money they pay fees..they really cannot win either way. While, it is harder for us to help the poor on basic banking (deposit type products) at this time but we certainly have plans to do so.

Lending can be profitable, we just don't think it has to be predatory for it to be sustainable.
"Legal Tender == Government Issued Money in Jurisdiction"

No. Legal Tender == "Anything that the government requires to be accepted in payment of debts"

There's a lot of overlap between that and money issued by that specific government, but they are not the same thing. For instance, Spanish milled dollars ("pieces of eight") were legal tender in the United States until 1857.

Your definition of "money" appears to be "anything of value" but that makes the term "money" meaningless.

Money is stuff that accepted by everyone (or almost everyone) as payment for goods, services, and debts. Bitcoin is far from that.
Searchability is easily fixed with a -lang postfix, as the Go community has demonstrated. :)
May I suggest adding `--proxy URL` which is useful if using Charles/Fiddler to toggle between environments.
The IPython team are doing just that, and have renamed the IPython project "Jupyter", refactoring all the Python-specific code away into another repository and allowing it to be ported to many other languages: currently over 40 of them. For obvious reasons, interpreted languages are much easier than mandatorily pre-compiled ones... http://jupyter.org
I can tell you about EU seller and US buyer - there's no VAT
http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml

For less than the price of your $5 droplet, you get 4x the RAM and probably an equal amount of CPU.

Just don't expect much support from OVH because they're busy all the damn time.
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I agree ruby is slow and it lost the race with javascript. And the lack of a corporate sponsor has a lot to do with this. At GitLab the company we think that having a company behind an open source project is a plus (although the OP was talking about a user such as Twitter instead of Ruby Inc.). We hope to do our part in helping ruby become faster, our new hire Yorick will spend 20% of his time on Rubinius http://yorickpeterse.com/articles/hello-gitlab/

Although Rails is stagnating as far as I know the library ecosystem is superior to that of others. Sure, there are more npm packages than gems. But I bet that the total complexity that Rails gems tackle is higher than what is available for Meteor. GitLab has close to 1000 non-unique dependencies https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/Gemfile.... I don't think that anything in the javascript world compares. But please show me I'm wrong, I love to learn.

I think that in a few years the situation might be different. Personally I hope that Elixir and Phoenix will replace Ruby and Rails. But maybe it will be Meteor or another js framework (Sails?). But I would optimize for the next few years and build my next startup on Rails. As indicated by the OP, a rewrite can happen even when you bet on javascript.
Brief version: Its sounds like the benefits of "simple interest" are being inflated and being used as a marketing tool. The monetary difference between simple and compound interest are minuscule if the interest is paid off every month - which this service insists on. If you pay off 100% of your compound interest every month, you can only save a few cents per month by signing up with this simple interest. If you can't pay off 100% of your interest every month (the only scenario where simple is substantially better than compound), this service is not available to you.

This looks like marketing a very marginally better product (if at all), with excessive pomp. This is no revolution... its much more like well disguised misleading stuff from financial institutions that we are so much used to.

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Karthik,

Since you insist on the complete interest being paid at the end of each month, the grand idea of "simple interest" has very little meaning. Hear me out here...

The whole idea of compound interest is to charge interest on the unpaid interest. You are "solving" the compound interest problem by not compounding interest for a month and forcing people to not have unpaid interest at the end of the month. However, the benefits amount to very little. If people are capable of paying off their interest at the end of each month, there is little difference between simple and compound interest.

I find your explanation on simple interest (https://www.simplycreditinc.com/simpleinterest) a bit misleading and self serving.

The difference between simple and compound interest (as stated in your essay) arises only in the long run, and your service does not allow long runs of unpaid interest... which means there can only be very little difference. Its misleading to compare long runs (> 30 days) if you don't allow them. The large savings from simple interest only apply to people who cannot pay the interest for 4 years. But you will kick them out after 2 months of non-payment.

Also, if a person is capable of paying the interest every month, they don't gain anything by signing up with your service... maybe a few cents on 5000$ every month, but that's it. Nothing more.

The positives I really see...

1. Convenience of not worrying about paying different credit cards.
2. Possibly lower interest rate... but I have seen no solid numbers on that on the website.
3. By forcing people to pay off the interest every month, you might make them more financially responsible.
4. I would like to see banking evolve, and this might be a ray of some hope... but I need to see more.

Also, it will be useful to give us some ballpark figures on the APR... I would like to see a table of some figures before I take the pains of giving out further details.
Jboss/Spring is making me want to slash my wrists right now I can see how it could come about.
As a bitcoin 'owner' you have the right to mark the transfer of unspent transaction outputs from one or more addresses to one or more other addresses in the blockchain.
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Bitcoin fits neatly into definitions 2 and 3, as well as most other definitions of money. With respect to definition 1, bitcoin is a current medium of exchange, and bitcoins can be printed out. Is the money in your online chequing/savings account any less of money because you do not possess a physical embodiment?
I am super excited - the only alternative was libre.fm, which is half-dormant for a while (as it seems to me).

And this one has "a team of former Last.fm and current MusicBrainz hackers"!
This. Also don't forget that currency and commodity are not always mutually exclusive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money
I don't think you understand how economics work.
If I take your scenario it's then well sure it works if the people take some apples and keep the others to sell in order to pay to keep that tree, and save money for the next one. Which is exactly the deal that was before, that farmer had to take care of that tree, that land, and those apples so he can sell them to the people, the cost of the apples represented that cost.

But in this case what happens is that then the population doubles and they decide that now each person can take 15 apples, not only now they have had a 300% increase in apple consumption which puts a stress on the tree, and the left over apples that were used to be sold in order to pay the gardener to take care of the tree are also now gone so your free tree dies and rots away and everyone is sad because there are no more apples.

No matter what economical model you choose there is no such thing as "free" you have a society which can produce X amount of capital that's the pie you have to play with. Over unity doesn't exists in economics anymore that it can exist in nature.

P.S.
Even money isn't free to maintain, so even if i drop a bag of money into your lap it will cost you.
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Yep, regulators generally want to broaden their reach to cover anything and everything that could be interpreted as being under their regulation.

Narrow readings are not for the regulator. You have to go to court (or have the legitimate ability to threaten going to court) to hope for a narrower reading.
Commodities are increasingly behaving like this, though not to the extent that BTC does. The economy is very, very financialized. Bitcoin is an asset that appeared well into the financialization trend, so I don't think it is that surprising that such activity dwarfs actual uses of BTC as a medium of exchange. Who is interested in bitcoin? Consumers for whom the use of bitcoin is better than currency (so, like, contraband over the Internet), technophiles, libertarians and investors, really.
Are US businesses obligated to pay VATMOSS? Does the EU have any recourse if you don't?
Academic. The Mozilla supervisors (i.e. me) were very enthusiastic about the Rustonomicon being the thesis. But I think that what Gankro's working on now is even more exciting!

But I'll let him talk about that...
Unlike with real C++ exceptions, the "finally" block is not entered if a "return" is used inside the "catch" block. And, of course, in this system, exceptions can be caught only in the function from which they are thrown, unlike real C++ exceptions, which can be caught anywhere in the call stack. But the solution provided here is good, and is probably the best possible one for C.
Good to hear that you're back to GitLab izolate! For other people our requirements can be found in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...
Considering the CFTC didn't regulate Bitcoin until today I wouldn't think so. Their application would have been received with a polite "save yourself some time and money, we don't regulate that" I imagine.

Unless someone was working with the CFTC to have them move it under their jurisdiction for a competitive advantage or something, but even then CME or ICE could jump in so that would be a risky move.

I can't think of any other reason, but who knows.
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I worked on a reasonably large Python codebase once, and it was definitely more frustrating than a statically typed language. I'd see that function takes an argument named "session". Great, what can I do with that? So I'd have to do `print dir(session)`, run it, and figure out how to hit that function, and then look up the documentation for that class. It's so much easier when the function actually tells you what it is expecting.

I'd also have plenty of times that I referenced a variable and forgot to create the assignment. In a static language I'd get a compile error, but in Python I'd get everything all set up to test and then get a run-time error indicating I did something stupid. Never ceased to frustrate me.
If you're going on population, San Jose is the biggest city in the Bay Area; in that sense, it makes sense to pick it as the "one that wins" in a very dense area. Calgary is around 1M people and Tijuana is 1.3M, while Seattle and Vancouver are each around 600k. Those choices seem pretty reasonable to me.
Yes. From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps#Production_maps_cluster:

The implementation [1] has various components including:

* Kartotherian [2]: a server capable of providing map tiles in vector (pbf) or raster (png) formats, as well as static map snapshots of any size for a given location.

* Tilerator [3]: a distributed backend tile generation service with a jobque

* A flexible sources [4] system to set up the needed storage and processing pipeline

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/Tile_server_implementati...

2. https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian/

3. https://github.com/kartotherian/tilerator/

4. https://github.com/kartotherian/kartotherian-core/
I disagree. You can't use gold nuggets to pay for your groceries. As a medium of exchange it is sorely lacking. Gold has been mostly a commodity for a very long time. Its main purpose with respect to money nowadays is that it is a store of value useful to backers of currency.
It can require more than 1 "key holder" to initiate a transaction, Bitcoin supports M of N it's just like splinting the private key between a number of people.

Once it's out its out, with normal transactions both parties can hold, revoke, and reverse a transaction this doesn't work with Bitcoin.

It doesn't matter into how many keys you split your private key it's still a single entity even if within the organization there will be more than 1 person needed to authorize it.
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The compiler is part of VS though, not part of the Windows. You don't get VS if you have Windows, and you don't get Windows if you have VS. They're completely separate products. So if it isn't actually included with the OS, and you need to acquire (either through a free or paid license) a completely different product to get it, then I don't see how it could be considered a major component of the OS, regardless of what the license text says. It's not a matter of it being on another disk, it's a matter of it being a completely different product in the Microsoft world.
Milwaukee loses the last letter too at certain zooms. Oddly nothing but the lake to its right though.
Has the problem been fixed? I would think the cat's out of the bag; the private keys are already out in the wild (I assume), so all D-Link hardware is now vulnerable to exploitation.
Eh, you can. You can even do actual 3D rendering in browser.
The only thing I'll say in this thread is that many of these responses are extremely similar to the arguments people gave me when I chose RoR as the framework for my startup instead of java back in 2005.

That said, of course rails is viable for a new company. But the reality is, rails isn't the quantum leap of productivity over other options like it was 10 years ago.
>"There's a lot of overlap between that and money issued by that specific government, but they are not the same thing. For instance, Spanish milled dollars ("pieces of eight") were legal tender in the United States until 1857."

You might notice that I am addressing current phenomena. gold and silver were once legal tender, as were clay tablets in various jurisdictions. For all practical purposes, governments currently only use money they control and issue as legal tender (though there are exceptions suchas Zimbabwe).

>"Your definition of "money" appears to be "anything of value" but that makes the term "money" meaningless."

This is not true. You can see the comments above and below where I specifically stated the criteria for a thing being money are that it is a "medium of exchange". I would not describe steel as a medium of exchange, but bitcoin definitely seems to be.

>"Money is stuff that accepted by everyone (or almost everyone) as payment for goods, services, and debts."

If this is your requirement, then why are currencies used in foreign countries by very small populations considered currency in the USA? There are probably more people using bitcoin in the USA (or the world for that matter) than there are people using Cuban, Chilean, Kazakhstan, or Israeli-issued currency.
Whats the difference between this and wikimapia?
Aside from wikimapia having complete maps and orthographic layers ofc...