skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are your brain so I kind of have problems seeing the distinction in the first place.

When a law says “Don’t publish a copy of the copyrighted music you own.” and you do publish a copy is there something wrong with your brain?

There certainly is if you believe that a healthy brain should not publish copyrighted music given the existing incentives in society.

Just think for a moment what would happen if we really were able and willing to change brains however we wanted to. Laws then become blueprints for changing brains which is kind of scary. Laws don’t have to orient themselves on what might be considered healthy brain behavior (but who gets to define that?), they can say whatever they want. It’s a pretty significant intrusion, but then again, so is locking someone up for a few decades.

I’m actually quite a fan of not ever punishing. I think the goal of criminal law should be to reduce crime while still allowing as much freedom as possible. Imprisonment (or, even worse, the death penalty) seems like a very blunt instrument for that purpose. Changing the brain, however, comes with its own issues. Does society get to decide who we are? I’m not sure about that.
Exactly. The only person you can change is yourself. If you wait for others to change before you, and if everybody else does the same, then no change will happen. :-)
The three big 'design' problems I have with Hacker News (including visual design and UX) are the already mentioned horizontal text problems (some threads force a horizontal scroll even on my 1920-wide monitor, which is ridiculous), the size of up/down vote arrows (particularly on mobile/small screen devices) and the "expired or unknown link" issue. Other than those three things I think the design is fine for the site's intended purpose.
I think that comment of theirs was meant as irony. The Dreamcast is known for its radical fanboy community, so they made a comical reference to that by mentioning the Dreamcast and "aligning" themselves to Sega.
1. The IRS won't seize your startup. It doesn't have any value -- could they sell it to get cash? Doubtful.

2. The IRS can make your life personally miserable. Or not. In my experience the best way to keep them off your back is to communicate, not hide, and start sending money. Even if you are only sending in $50 per month that shows your intent.

3. Creditors will not seize your startup. They can't sell it to raise cash.

4. Creditors will make your life hell.

5. All of this assumes you formed a company of some kind for your startup. If it is just you -- as a sole proprietor -- you may be f'd.

6. This debt problem will consume an incredible number of brain CPU cycles. You will be distracted until you install a payment plan and have it in progress. It will -- in my personal first-hand :-) experience talk to you constantly. This is so important to get handled.

And yes. Tell your funding people. If you hide it and they find out you are screwed -- not because you are in debt but because you don't tell the truth.
So for someone who doesn't understand economics that much, what does this mean? Have bitcoins finally failed?
If you look at the close up of picture #2, they are nowhere near a 10 micron finish, which you would be able see your reflection in - all those tool marks (not to mention the logo) are an order of magnitude above 10 microns. http://www.gomboc-shop.com/app/urwfilter/catalog/do/action/S...
Misses several important ones:

- It's good to be the king

- Money doesn't buy happiness, but carefully spent, it can buy several happiness factories.

- Little people don't understand me.
a good name like octopus.com is not even hosted
ditto
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Probably mostly/only because of curiosity (due to this HN post) and not because they're there from hearing about your project/story/product/service (take your pick - since as the site currently stands... it's very unclear)...

In my opinion, you don't just want numbers, for numbers sake. You want people who are genuinely interested in what your business has to offer.

You want other foodies, who are passionate about being involved. Know what I mean, Vern? :)
That's about 7% of the total number of bitcoins in circulation. Anyone have details on how this happened?

http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc
I've just come across a QuickTime video of Jerry's famous debate with Timothy Leary about LSD. I found it quite fascinating to hear both Leary's argument and Jerry's rebuttal. As I understand, Jerry accepted the debate invitation on very short notice and so had little time to prepare his remarks, and that shows; he rambles a little. But he makes his point.

Here's the link: http://neuron.duke.edu/Lettvin/Lettvin_Leary_Deb.mov

If you find Leary's mysticism tedious and you just want to see Jerry's rebuttal, skip to about the 60% point. (Don't miss Leary's brief reply at the end, though.)

Oh, and in an interesting bit of synchronicity, Jerry mentions the Charles Whitman case, which figures prominently in another article on HN at the moment ("The Brain On Trial").
what helped me was a supportive work environment a smart boss who managed to make me work. this is hard to find though. being on your own is poison. find people who can work with you and motivate you. humans are not meant to be alone.
mtgox.com is offline. Did they shut trading down?
What you call eye candy, I call trendiness. To take the closest example: Attack Of Design looks lovely, but that background noisy pixel look is very 2010/2011.
further making my point..thanks :-)

afraid? silence the opposition
according to the guy running the exchange: user with 500k bitcoins was hacked (probably password bruteforce or csrf).

they'll probably reverse all transactions since then
A little bit explanation:

Mt.Gox is the biggest bitcoin market place by far.
During the last 1h the whole volume of about 500k BTC was traded making the price drop from somewhere around $17 to virtually nothing.

Details are not available yet. It could have been a bug or an intrudor.

Rumors have it that someone with a huge wallet got hacked.

<+MagicalTux> someone with lots of coins did get hacked

MagicalTux is working on Mt.Gox

Also some other markets like btcex or tradehill are seeing problems and/or price drops.

Update: Mt.Gox have published an announcement:

https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20208066-huge-bitcoin-sell...
Someone just went to sell a ton of bitcoins at once. Because the market's so small they were able to fill all the buy orders placed all the way down to 1 cent per bitcoin. Some people with long-shot bets made quite a bit of money. About half of the 500k filled the buy orders on the way down and half of them were sold at the 1 cent price.
i must admit i'm somewhat impressed how fast the hackers and cheaters managed to take over bitcoin trading.

i think it's kind of cute. people hoped for an economy no government could control, and got exactly that: anarchy and a burning world.
Which kind of implies someone was doing this with stolen coins, right? You don't sell so cheap if you have USD 8,500,000 on paper and want to get as much possible out of the sale.
Visual design is a bit like fashion. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that (just as there is nothing wrong with fashion).
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In the words of Marc Fleury, Open Source is not a business model, it's a distribution model. Rather than spending time and resources convincing companies to download and try your product, you instead have to spend time and resources convincing companies to actually pay for your product.

If you don't add a lot of value and it's not something business rely on, then it's a tough business model (vlc, etc.). However, when you're software is used by companies who value their time more than money (I'm channeling Jonathan Schwartz here), you are in good shape.

I've worked with numerous companies that were all happy to pay the Redhat, MySql, and Jboss licensing fees once the product was up and running and profitable. Suddenly a few thousand dollars a server seems kind of inconsequential if it means at any moment you can have developers on the phone getting your app back up.

The argument of the Open Source paradox could just as easily be applied to SAAS in general. As software and hardware becomes easier to set up, run, and administer all while being more reliable, than surely people will move away from SAAS? Of course not. Just because a company can, doesn't mean they want to stray from their core competency to save a few bucks. Same goes for buying support contracts from Open Source companies.
I didn't hear the author call anyone racist. In fact I think you are only supporting his point. These kids were minorities in at least two ways, race and age (for the girl there is a third). I would say that age was clearly the biggest deterrent for people joining their efforts and the tone of the article to me was more about age than race. Even look at the title, it says '11 year olds learn hard lesson', no mention of race. Two white 11 year old kids would have had the same tough lesson.

These kids are minorities at this event mostly because they are minors. That'll fix itself in time and I commend the author for trying to help keep their spirits up so that this was a positive experience for them instead of a let-down.

There is also something interesting to say here about the psychology of voting without commitment. If the voting at this event was your true ranking of which team you wanted to join (i.e. you rank all ideas and join the top one that makes the cut), then no one would have picked these kids. When there was nothing on the line, no one wanted the kids to feel bad so they got some 'mercy votes' or maybe 'cute kids, nice try' votes, but when it got down to voting with your feet, no one thought their ideas or abilities were attractive enough over the alternatives.
It just mean that the market is really small.
For what it's worth, a friend of a friend (Japanese, very fluent in both English and Japanese) was walking around during a return trip to Japan. She happened to be walking behind a couple of high schoolers.

"So... Apparently we had a war with America."

"Really, who won?"

"I... I guess they did."

Another friend (Japanese) visited the Holocaust memorial in Portland with me. She didn't know what the holocaust was, or that Jews had any involvement in the story of WWII whatsoever.

So, it could be worse.
Imagine if someone stole 7% of all printed currency in the US and then traded it for gold at effective prices as low as pennies on the dollar. That's effectively what just happened with bitcoins.
From http://www.gomboc-shop.com/app/urwfilter/faq/do/index.html
Is there only one Gömböc shape?

No, in fact, there are infinitely many Gömböc shapes. However, the overwhelming majority of these shapes could never be manufactured because these shapes are much too close to the sphere. Currently we manufacture two different shapes ( 8005 and 8205 ). Both are quite similar and have a substantial deviation from the sphere.

They could potentially get a design patent on each of the specific shapes they make and certainly on their name, but good luck on anything beyond that.
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this time filled with red hair and some notable peculiarities Tate. Tate himself trying to move the Hollywood soon, not necessarily a bad comic performance at some point.
maybe they did it for the lulz again?

http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/79678588407906304
Three answers.

First, sure, CPython's only about two orders of magnitude slower than C, so on big enough data sets, the asymptotic performance rules. N log N is 100 times better than N^2 as soon as N is over about 1000. (The obvious-to-me way to implement an ordered map in Python would be to maintain a dict and a sorted list of keys; inserting N items into a sorted list is N^2.)

Second, this kind of data structure might be fast in PyPy. Like, C-like fast, or worse in the constant factors by only a factor of 2 or 5. Certainly you could imagine JIT optimizing dynamic language implementations where that was the case. But I haven't tested.

Third, usually not.
If this was legitimate "dump" (by someone who obviously didn't care about the money), it was certainly the fastest crash of any known market ever.
If the 500K Bitcoins sold are the total of the Bitcoins in all MtGox wallets, than Bitcoin is over.

Sample of one: I have for about 100 USD in Bitcoins at MtGox, if they got stolen today, I will leave the project.
There is another spreadsheet, I just discovered via reddit, that also includes PostRank engagement rankings:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=tWri7T3f4...

*It takes a while to load.
Am I the only one who thought about food?
do you mean that if the market would be bigger such things won't be done? they could do more of the same unfortunately..
the site has been on and off for the past week or so. not intentional perse just busy servers as far as i can tell.
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Who is 'they'?

As far as I understood bitcoin, there is no authority. Nobody can do anything about a user having 500k of his coins hacked, and nobody can do anything about the market crash either.
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Ma-Bell and Standard Oil were essential services, Facebook is entertainment.
Big mistake here... a huge one actually... HN and Stack Overflow have the _right_ kind of design because in one way or another it appeals to readers. Author is clearly not a tech guy, he doesn't understand that appeal and lightheartedly makes a very misleading statement.

If you are working on your startup think what "sort" of design you should have first. Imagine if Graham would make HN in fashion website style and vice versa.
Haskell might be the strangest community of programmers (in a good way?). There's different styles depending on what grad. school you went to?

Can anyone elaborate on "why" this is, and why it isn't true (or is substantially less true) for other languages?
Yea, I had been keeping my bitcoins in MtGox too, but I figured at the very least I wanted to have two points of failure, so I moved half of them onto my computer.

Figured worst case scenario I'd lose half in a single day. But hopefully that's not what happened!
How do you "reverse" transactions that live in a peer-to-peer network? Or are you saying that MtGox has some kind of buffer of transactions that haven't been "executed" onto the network yet?
Hyperbole yes, but I think he was just trying to describe the sensation as a spectator.

I can imagine it was truly cringe worthy to watch their little faces slowly realize what is happening. Of course you hope for all children to learn important (and therefore probably hard) life lessons, but your human instinct as a spectator, and more-so as a parent or teacher) is that you somehow wish that it would have gone down differently, that they wouldn't have dropped the ball, or forgotten their lines, or gotten picked last.

I don't see any reason to chastise someone for expressing that wish. Also, give him credit for doing precisely what you say he should have. He gave encouragement, tried to help pick them back up and get them engaged on their real work instead of moping.
Does anybody have a link to instructions for reading that kind of chart (or the name of the chart type)? I used to know, but it has been many years.

I suppose green bars means the price went up and red down, and the bar extends between the high and low price. But what does the chunk in the middle mean? And where can I see that 500k were traded?
As long as the money hasn't been withdrawn from the market, the market should be able to reverse all the transactions. The problem would be if the BTC or USD were withdrawn from the market before they shut down trading.
If the market was bigger, 500k would not crash it, as there would be enough buy orders to take someone dumping 500k.

It would still be crashable, but more would be needed if it was bigger.
Lower limit of $0 a bitcoin showing there, did someone really dump bitcoins at $0.01?
unless you are US government trying to destroy alternative currency. right?
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the exchange is a central authority, and acts like one.

you can do whatever you want with your bitcoins, but currency exchange is liable to laws and regulations.
Heh, I still got a couple months before it's out of date then!

I think you're right, trendiness does play a big role in style. And it's also true that complex designs generally get outdated faster than minimalist designs (see: 100% of Flash sites made between 2000 and 2005).

On the other hand, it's harder to brand minimalism. So like every design choice, it's a trade-off.
iAds has its issues. But this blog post isn't the reason not to use or rely on them. Just because this guy who has a very unpopular app hasn't made much on iAds doesn't extrapolate out to iAds or ads in general not being useful for mobile.

15,382 downloads for a free app is a low download number. An unpopular app is simply not going to make you money no matter what monetization you try.

Imagine a blog post saying "Making money with Adsense? Not so easy" and then someone proceeds to detail how his site which gets 5 hits a day isn't making much, so he concludes that there's no money in websites using ads. And I suspect if this app had started as a paid app, he would have also made a piddling amount and would have written a comparable blog post about how you can't make money selling apps.

That said, iAds aren't doing well. Apple seems to be having trouble filling them. I think mobile ads are down across the board, so you do need to use multiple networks as people have mentioned.
Microsoft had their IPO in 1986. So, they could have registered a .com (since they had been in existence for many years before then).
When the market is really big, then only the really rich people can manipulate it. Comforting thought ;)
as far as i know you're right. there is no infrastructure for rollbacks of any kind.
As far as I know bitcoin transfers are issues without any delay, so it would indeed be impossible to reverse the transactions.
I think the bitcoins belonged to a guy who had his wallet of 500k stolen some time around last week.
Interesting that on bitmarket.eu there are a lot of buy offers for 0.01€ suddenly. I wonder if those are already bots trying to automatically react to the mtgox price.
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I am not sure what you mean with that.

I would say that it matters quite a lot whether your software works without a GUI or even no interface whatsoever.

In any case you cannot not, design software.

Design _is_ almost anything you want and I find it more important to realize that than to try and draw lines somewhere.

I know brilliant software designers who can't draw a straight line but are excellent developers and have an excellent understanding of what it takes.
they'll probably reverse all transactions since then

How can they? Surely if the blocks have started to get verified by other users then you'd have to fork bitcoin to do it? Wasn't "There are no chargebacks" one of the selling points of BitCoin?
EDIT: The below is wrong, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_chart

The chunk in the middle is the price for the majority of trades, and the lighter bar is all trades, if I remember right.
I'm surprised that people with large amounts of bitcoin don't have better security measures. For that amount of money, I'd consider securing the private key in a safety deposit box. Probably several safety deposit boxes, actually.
Yes, the mayhem at the beginning is expected but I'm curious if the trial/error process could actually bring some sound stable system at the end. I'm inclined to think that this won't happen because most of the people in the bitcoin "economy" have some serious dislike for central authorities. And it's hard to design a stable monetary system without some kind of regulation and more transparency.
This is just a (very intriguing) application of the intermediate value theorem - i think that's what it's called - which basically says that if you have a continuous function that starts and ends at the same place, then there are two points along that function that have the same value.

You could draw whatever shape you want - circle, square, squiggle, as long as it starts and ends in the same place, and the dependent variable is continuous as well (e.g. temperature, pressure, etc)

IVT says if I climb up a mountain from sea level to 10', then I was at exactly 5' elevation at least once on the journey. So if I climb up AND down a mountain from sea level to 10', I was at exactly 5' at least twice.
Clearly what appeals to users on HN and SO is the content, not the design. Just because both sites are successful with their current visual design doesn't mean that they wouldn't be even more successful with a better style.

And yes, I'm not a tech guy, I'm a designer. Which is why I'm writing about design, and not tech.
You say that like there isn't already a set of good practices to follow.
BitCoins haven't really started yet in my opinion. It seems far too early to say they have failed or not.
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From the mt.gox site:

Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account - rollback

The bitcoin will be back to around 17.5$/BTC after we rollback all trades that have happened after the huge Bitcoin sale that happened on June 20th near 3:00am (JST).

Service should be back by June 20th 10:00am (JST, 01:00am GMT) with all the trades reversed and accounts available.

One account with a lot of coins was compromised and whoever stole it (using a HK based IP to login) first sold all the coins in there, to buy those again just after, and then tried to withdraw the coins. The $1000/day withdraw limit was active for this account and the hacker could only get out with $1000 worth of coins.

Apart from this no account was compromised, and nothing was lost. Due to the large impact this had on the Bitcoin market, we will rollback every trade which happened since the big sale, and ensure this account is secure before opening access again.

I'm interested in the fact that they can do a rollback... is that just a rollback of their transaction log? Are they buffering transactions for a significant period before submitting them back to the network?
That's kind of scary that a single user had roughly 7% of all of the bitcoins.
That's trivial. For example:

- pick any function P(x,y) whose graph looks like a pixel (close to one near the origin, drops off to zero quickly)

- to get A function with N pixels set in its graph, sum N translated versions of P.

Keeping the length of the equation low, however, will be a challenge.
> the hackers and cheaters

To throw in a bit of conspiracy theory, it may have been the good guys...

P.S. If the latest news are to be trusted it was a cheater. Actually the $1000 he got, is a rather low price to pay for a lesson that... instructive.
This didn't destroy bitcoin... but it made a lot of cash for some bottom feeders.
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he had only 25k stolen.
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This has been a frustration of mine as well.

In the Convention over Configuration mindset, there doesn't seem to be a "best" convention for Django apps. You can install a django package easily through pip, but then does it need urls added, middleware, or signals added in your settings.py? The amount and quality of integration docs provided depends from package to package.