skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't looked more closely at the numbers here, but there are only 50 * 6 = 300 BTC created per hour. If each of these is averaging 24 BTC per hour, then that's practically 8% of the total computing power in the bitcoin network. That would mean that 13 of these would have more power than the entire network.

Even if this were the case, the gains from such a scheme would be short-lived, though, as the difficulty adjusted to compensate. Then you're competing with everyone else who has bought these, and fighting over the marginal cost of electricity vs. the upcoming reduction in the reward.
Who are the customers? Give us a concrete example of someone outside silicon valley using this. Stop trying to think of some clever way to spin it, just tell the world who finds this worth paying for and why.

Their blog, is about startup life, is that meant to be their target market startups? If so they really should be able to say hey you guys you have all startups, comes use Rocketr for X.

It's better than trello because of X.

The problem you have at the moment is X, it's painful because of X.

Seems like they are trying to communicate what their product does, without actually knowing who will pay for it/find it useful.

Which is cool, just if that is the case focus less on how you pitch YC and blogging about startups and more on selling this thing to people. Or maybe they just totally over thinking the whole thing, use plain language.
Impressive!

Two comments:

- Using f1 on chrome brings up the Chrome help page. You might want to make that another button.

- It took me a while to realize that you're supposed to drag objects from the left, and not use the mouse to define where they should go. That lead me to accidentally select or move existing objects while attempting to place new objects with my mouse. I'm not sure how common my experience was and I'm not sure how to address it (or even that you should). But I figured you should still keep it in mind.
Yes, but they run iPhone apps. Jobs' point was that you wouldn't want to run iPad apps on a 7" screen - if you tried to fit in the extra information you can show on an iPad into a smaller space that would make the touch targets too small.

So now the proposition is that actually you can make an iPad layout fit in a ~8" screen because the iPad touch targets are a bit bigger than an iPhone anyway, and so you can shrink them a bit (to exactly iPhone size, it turns out) and they will work okay. We'll see.
That's exactly how I'm using my retina iPad right now — it works great.
You probably know this, but for people that don't—

"They are" is the wrong pairing. The subsidy halves every 210,000 blocks (~4 years) as part of the innate core rules of the system enforced by every participant.

So it would be more accurate to say "They cut" (past tense as this was established years ago), or "The system will" (no human actor).

Also it looks like the halving will be early December to late November. (The block number is fixed, not the time, and because the difficult updates lag rapid increases/decreases in computing power can shift the date around a bit)
They showed this demo running live in Chrome, and to say it was awesome would be an understatement.
Going private? PR man's reply to a job offer from a private health company
Of the three startups I've worked with, two of the three were ridiculously over-engineered monstrosities that were way over time budget. It was clear that the CIO/CTO wanted to do cool fun stuff and not build a marketable product.

The other was cobbled together with completely shit code, was constantly breaking on releases, and was glued together with perl scripts. They're now publicly traded.
What happens when people are too old to be VCs?
There are several that exist from our first version of the app (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuCXE2aOQSY).

We've re-built the product recently and as such, don't have demos of the new application yet.
Looks very similar to https://gomockingbird.com/ which has been around for a while.
I didn't say Bitcoin itself is a scam, only that the market is so tiny that a single player could easily manipulate it. And if someone can, someone will. And while I see Bitcoin's legitimate use cases, few (very few) people are using it for actual trade. The market seems purely speculative, with no underlying Bitcoin economy to stabilize it (save possibly the money-laundering business).
Life is Not Always An Engineering Problem.
It's not bug, it's a feature. Replying is only possible a few minutes after the comment was posted, to prevent discussion going out of hand.

Besides I don't understand what wikipedia did wrong.
So I've scanned the article...

As a DC resident,and one who has a partner that's a social worker.

The "corruption" that is blocking your business maybe partially fueled by the taxi drivers who don't want to become unemployed. Almost all drivers fall below the poverty line and rely on social services to support them and their families.

I'm not really sure how the cab companies do with revenue and profit, but you'd probably be best off appealing to hiring the drivers to circumnavigate this issue.
Can you name names? Specifically the publically traded one ?
Not only legal, but required. It's another example of how something that was intended to ensure the voice of minorities, has turned into a tool for entrenching the powerful.
By 2030, None will be the second-largest religious affiliation in the US.
The bitcoin system adapts itself to keep the rate of coin creation constant. So it's impossible to say what their return will be in the future. Perhaps a few monts later someone puts out a run of 28nm ASICS at 1/4 the price with 4x the performance and they're bought in massive waves.
Add me to the countless number of people who found their place on padmapper (just moved in last week!) and are thankful for its existence. It's a great service.
I would recommend reading the actual executive order: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/execut...

This looks to me just what it says on the tin: The Federal Government is to develop a plan for ensuring comms during national crises. The only part that hinted at "control" of systems is Sec 5.2(e) where the DHS is to be able to satisfy priority communications requirements through use of (not control of) commercial, Government, and privately-owned resources.

So yes, the gov't could come in and use Aunt Tillie's landline phone if no other resources were available in a disaster, but that hardly equates to "control of all communications systems" and is hardly different in degree to the powers the Federal government already has in disaster response.
Probably not. The reason Paypal appears to hate its customers is because a not-insignificant number of them are trying to steal Paypal's money. A poor developer API, on the other hand, is probably due to bad programmers. I've worked with a lot of bad programmers at other jobs, and one thing I've noticed is that they're not very good at coming up with APIs. (Why does Paypal have bad programmers? I don't know: why don't you work for Paypal?)

Also, much of the complaining about Paypal seems to be in the form "I violated Paypal's ToS, and then they closed my account." Well, maybe you should read all those legal documents before entering into a business agreement?
Found out how to do something that just blew my mind:

you can make your screenshots linkable very easily by adding a button over the part of the page, linking it to another page and then sending it to the back behind the photo.

even if the button is behind your screengrab photo, it will still link.

just wanted to share that little tip
>A cost in trillions, I'm quite sure.

First order of business would be to cut the $50 billion per year in oil industry subsidies in the U.S., so the first $50 billion/year spent in any sort of anti-climate change effort is "free". Denmark, China, Germany are all countries making large investments in renewables which are likely to provide large returns. Much of what can be done for climate change are investments with real returns, not just money sinks.

The tragedy of the commons you describe is real, of course. A pound of coal burned in China does damage just like a pound of coal burned in Ohio. And yet, the U.S. does quite well at pushing countries toward what it wants, in other areas. Worldwide, the U.S. has pushed nearly every country toward supporting pro-U.S. copyright laws. These laws hurt every other country, but the U.S. has been mostly successful at pushing them. Is there some reason the U.S. would be unable to push climate laws, if it wanted to? And at the various climate conferences, it's clear that many nations are ready and willing to combat climate change, but the U.S., Canada and perhaps a few other nations are strongly opposing any action.

Why should I not throw trash in the park? Someone else could come along and throw trash in the park (perfectly true), so I should too? It's a group effort: each piece of trash not thrown in the park makes a park that is slightly cleaner.
Shopify's 1m competition
$10M/year in wage? That would imply $100k per employee per annum. I understand that it was just a budgetary figure, and I understand the premium that employer-side payroll taxes and benefits add - it is very non-trivial. Still, do you suppose the median wage at GitHub is that high? For everyone? Salespeople, receptionists, accounts payable clerks? Are you sure? I should hope they are spending a good bit less on payroll, even gross and with overhead.
This is the same benchmark that is used in the OP. So if you object to the characterization of Ruby/Python/PHP vs Clojure, you can make the same objection regarding the characterization of Clojure vs C.
Tax is the wrong word... It's not the case that the Clojure (the language, the developers, etc) benefits from slow startup. Fine is probably more accurate.
> It's a style choice

No.
max line lengths is a style choice.
indenting with spaces vs tabs is a style choice
brace position is a style choice

Using prototypes and instances in JS is about using the right tool for the job.
For dynamic languages such as Clojure or JRuby, a "JIT cache" would do no good.
I accept tangibles without evidence. Neither of the original points were tangible or independently verifiable.

I do not accept memes and ideas without supporting evidence.

Please provide me with some examples and I will guide you through my thought processes if you do not understand my point.

I suggest that your point is that critical thinking is wrong?
I have no idea what compels you to "hate" so easily. There must be a great deal of things in your hate list.
Agreed; the title of this post is horribly inaccurate and the article is fluff that has been repeated over and over every year in every magazine and newspaper. I don't understand why this is receiving any attention at all; it seems most of the comments here are purely anecdotal data.
I can, but I wont.
It's a market depth chart - the orange line on the left represents the cumulative standing buy orders, the blue line represents the standing sell orders, the green line is the historical price per trade with the latest trade (thus value) being at the bottom. The Y axis is a representation of the bitcoin value, and the X axis is the representation of the USD buy/sell prices.
Here's the original Executive Order: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/execut...

I'm curious, how much does this really differ from the original Emergency Broadcast System, or the current Emergency Alert System?
De-mystifying Good Research and Good Papers
7 aspects to evaluate the performance of agile managers
I think that having a hierarchy is still important in agile organizations. But it’s meaning is different and so is the role of managers, team leads etc. In agile organizations leaders have to understand that their role is neither to be the best developer, architect or whetever in place, nor to be the conventional Command And Control style manager. What else? In my eyes there at least 7 different aspects managers and leaders in agile settings should be evaluated by.
Luckily the cubicles here are tall and easily modifiable. I went ahead (w/ the help of a co-worker) and adjusted the cubicle desk to a stand up height without asking for permission. My boss did not like the idea of a stand up desk one bit but I explained my perspective and he let me be.
The same guy posted another link to his blog about an hour or so earlier bashing someone for failing to secure YC funding and then blogging about their experience.

I don't see what makes this Loren kid qualified to preach like this. Just ignore him.
Wired Test-Drives Boeing’s New 787 Dreamliner
16 steps for landing page optimization (infographic)
I think it IS already the largest "religious affiliation" in Europe ...
Zoom Dealz, the groupon killer
Enjoy your new found freedom !
GPS Location based mobile deals and coupons

Zoom Dealz aims to be the largest concentration of coupons and deals on any mobile platform on Earth. The app helps users to shop socially by discovering the best deals and coupons within their location. With access to over a million deals valid online and at over 500,000 merchant locations, the user can configure his/her proximity to deals, by setting a predefined number of miles in his/her settings. By using artificial intelligence and contextual technology, the app learns user shopping behavior over time and suggests deals to the user to suite his/her shopping patterns. By using GPS technology, the user will only see deals within a user's location. Over time, the technology learns user behavior and presents the user with deals that are most relevant to each user.

Platform: Android [will be releasing an ios version at a later date]
Targeted consumers: All
Pricing: Free

Email: zoom.dealz@gmail.com
URL: http://zoomdealz.blog.com/enjoy-your-new-found-freedom/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bz.zd&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iei56ZCJd
I've been asked in the past if I could accept Bitcoin. I believe there are even services that convert Bitcoin on the fly to US dollars for you when you accept a purchase. It doesn't really seem like a smart business decision though. What are the legal ramifications of accepting money that came from Bitcoin? Is the IRS going to come knocking at your door? My gut tells me to avoid BTC like the plague, but it does intrigue me.
The lack of "Intents" on iOS is deliberate IMHO. Apple's products are in the default roles for all the common intents and implementing support for switching intents across the OS would result in less people using Apple's first-party apps. Being the browser is a very valuable position, and not one I expect Apple would invest dev resources to give up.
"Performance" is never the end-goal, but rather a coin you can trade for other things, like convenience, lower latency, fewer hardware resources, getting results faster, scalability, etc... basically anything that makes you or your clients happier. When people say they want performance, they actually mean they'd like the flexibility to gain something else by paying with performance.

That's why I used "tax" which I think is very suitable.
Required? This I did not know, I'm about to learn something. Can you go into a little detail?
Why would the IRS come knocking at your door? Take the same laws that apply to any other currency transaction and apply.
Sarcasm, bro. My remark was intended to point out that most people simply never will make a "first million", and doing so is quite difficult.
This is fantastic. Blows Balsamiq out of the water.
Most likely blocked out of front page by mods, given recent HN mod shenanigans.
A strange game... The only winning move is not to play.
Art Director
Wow, I've seen much worse snark on HN get all the upvotes.
Probably the best resource to answer these kinds of questions: http://www.bitcoinminer.com/

>Before investing significant amounts in mining equipment those operators who rent and plan to take advantage of utilities being included might wish to review the lease documents to become aware of any “commercial use” exclusions. Also they should be aware of the potential that a month-to-month lease could suddenly change where utility submetering or other cost transfer might be imposed.
That is cool. I love the touch of the little dust explosions off the paddles. For anyone else that wants to start playing with canvas, let me relate a gotcha that drove me absolutely nuts. And if I'm mistaken on this, someone please set me straight.

The issue: You can not paint pixels directly onto a canvas. Instead you create a buffer of specified dimensions, indicate what colors to make its pixels, then overlay that buffer onto the canvas at a specified location. So it is possible to wrap that functionality up into an api that lets you simulate direct pixel painting, but it is not possible with raw javascript. Lines and other shapes, on the other hand, can be rasterized directly onto the canvas.
> Honestly, I don't think RIM will still exist this time next year.

RIM is going to hell in a handbasket, but they'll be around for another 5-10 years. Why? Their market cap is still $4B, their cash on hand is $1.5B (no debt). They may be hemorrhaging users and losing developer mindshare, but they have a lot of money and a lot of time left to make dumb mistakes in hopes of one of them working out. C.f. Yahoo.
Wow I can't fathom the amount of work that has gone into this project. Was the multi-line editor a challenge? I know SVG Edit has been struggling with this feature for some time.
If it started with "Bush gives himself..." I think I'd be doing the same thing I'm doing now. That is, sit here wondering how exactly anyone is interpreting this executive order the way the headline frames it. The truthiness ranks right up there with "death panels."
I haven't used iOS, but as an Android user I can definitely see why they haven't implemented it yet. It's a powerful feature, but at least on Android, it's also a usability disaster.

Basically, the way it works on Android is that whenever an intent is passed for which there is no default, the user gets a dialog. The dialog will contain the applications that the user has installed for handling that intent. When there are 4+ items (eg, PDF) this can be confusing.

Then when they pick one (hopefully the one they really wanted) they check the box to make it default. So far this is confusing for some people, but they generally muddle through somewhat happily.

But there are issues... which protocols does the browser accept? Oh, http, https, and possible one or two more. So later they tap an https url and have to go through the same process again.

The next day, one of their four web browsers auto-updates from the Play store. This clears the defaults, and they have to go through the whole process again.

Seriously, the underlying concept seems solid, but the implementation is severely lacking. I hope that they (or someone) does this right in the future. I'm not entirely sure what a solid solution would look like, but I certainly don't expect Apple to copy the Android approach. It's completely incompatible with a number of their UX goals for the platform, IMO.
To be fait, Comic Sans is mainly hated because it's used inappropriately so much. In this particular case, it seems like a pretty appropriate use (although I still find it ugly).
RIM pleads case to shareholders at general meeting
Ah notice how I'm carefully saying I didn't think it helped my learning, not that it was useless. Some people probably wouldn't find pushups as useful in their exercise routines as others ;)
Better formatting for your text attributes in Rails
JQuery says Goodbye to IE
No Rails for Python? [2005]
Twitter's roof? Boring. Teleportd? Interesting - Storify for pics.
Apple Announces New iPad in China on July 20
What exactly is the point of this post? If it is truly to help the people at Rocketr better position their product, then I would think the 100+ comments in the original thread provided more than enough feedback. In fact, this article adds nothing, and I suspect you did this to help boost your 'web presence'.

I'm done with HN and this 'scene' for a while. Everyone seems to be more concerned with flailing their e-dicks around to establish their personal brand, without actually giving a genuine fuck about helping out others. Plus, this whole "I'm passionate about startups and I'm just blunt with my advice" attitude is getting really tiring.

More and more frequently I think about people actually doing meaningful stuff out there, and very rarely are they blogging, publicly critiquing others, trying to get their name out there online. I think I'm going to follow in their footsteps.

Rocketr: I think you guys received all the feedback and more that you asked for yesterday. I'm sure you guys were taken aback by the response to your article, but you seemed rather accepting of the advice. Ignore this fluff piece and don't take it personally. This guy really doesn't care about helping.

So long, HN.
The right way to learn math is breadth-first, not depth-first.
Would they/why would they, these are the questions I'm asking because I'm uncertain how these things even work. With currencies backed by nations I can see the IRS not caring, but Bitcoin isn't just "any other currency." It's a currency not made up or backed by any nation. In a way it's money out of thin air. That's what worries me.
Found this while searching for "Six degrees of Wikipedia"

http://www.thewikigame.com
A sitting person's guide to standing up
Show HN: Real-time Twitter heat map with MongoDB
Although interesting facts, the title is very misleading. It should be more like "the infrastructure of a billion dollar startup"
I lost a lot of money in bitcoin. I learned a valuable lesson that's better than anything I learned in collage.

1) Easy to make, easy to lose.

2) Whatever you are thinking of doing, so is everyone else. If you're planning on outsmarting thousands of other people, just remember, they are planning to outsmart you.

3) Any market with a high volume of flippers (buys to resell and make money) vs users (actually use a product or service) might be a bubble. High rise bubble, mortgage bubble, housing bubble, Miami condo bubble

4) The worst time to make decisions is when you feel like you're going to lose out on something spectacular. When you have visions of grandeur. When the emotional side of you is most active, the logical side of you is being repressed. Watch out for that.

5) "This time is different!" is bullshit (when relating to bubbles and re-occuring events). Each new generation brings the same humanistic flaws of the last generation. Doomed to repeat itself forever and ever. Humans will be humans the same way sharks will be sharks. We are cursed with a primitive instinct that might have worked thousands of years ago in a tribal society but now is working against us.

6) Whenever you take a gamble, ALWAYS assume you are going to lose. If you're ok with the outcome of losing and find the gamble to be worth it go ahead and take a risk.

I didn't lose too much money in bitcoin but lets just say it was money that I was saving up for braces. That was the deal I made with myself. I'm still angry that I lost, there's no point in lying, emotions will be emotions. But the way I see it, I didn't lose the money in bitcoin, I invested it in some really good "real world economics" classes at a good collage somewhere...
RIM Customers Working On Contingency Plans
Er... what? Wouldn't the time before a project be the absolute best time for you to quit from the perspective of your employer?

>However, a potential large and troublesome project (it requires me to rewrite an system embedded in an access database file to Java) is coming up and I seem to be the person who could get it done.

Read: I'm the only poor sap they could convince to offer up valuable skills for low pay.
I don't want to be pessimistic, but given the hardware configuration, what kind of games this will be able to run ? I don't really feel like playing Angry Bird HD on my TV forever.