skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that CCs and PayPal is much easier to use and it is much safer than Bitcoins.

So I for one see no reason to use bitcoin to purchase anything other than products that can only be purchased via bitcoins
Bookmark organization. I use Firefox. But I've also used other browsers. ALL of their Bookmark managers and way of doing Bookmarks suck. I can never find anything in hundreds of Bookmarks.
> I use BitBucket to host all my solo side projects,

Exactly. We are forced to split our code base because of the lack of free private repos on GitHub. Free private repos for 1 or 2 users would allow us to post ALL of our code on GitHub and give us the ability to sort it out and clean it up It will then be extremely easy to open-source it from there. Until they offer something free, all of our projects will remain locally stored or split between GitHub and Bitbucket and that code will NEVER get promoted to open source.

Free 'limited collaboration' private repos are the key to GitHub dominating the DVCS world.
This same feature has been known as a 'LinkMap' in the Encyclopaedia Britannica app. I wonder if they took the idea from Britannica.
Cora Systems to showcase Project Management Software
Ouya is new player in the console video game wars
What kills Clojure for small scripts and not-long-running applications is the startup time and that can mostly be attributed to JVM

Did you not read the article? Quote: "What we can see is that Java itself accounts for 0.35s of the startup time, but unfortunately Clojure adds another second(!) on top of that."

So no, it can not be mostly attributed to JVM.

Also, JVM in a low death spiral? What gives you that impression, the growing number of languages that target it?
The fact that new versions continue to receive improvements, such as better support for dynamic languages in v. 7?
IMO, Asus laptops are better designed than Apple's laptop's so I don't disagree with that line of thinking. However, when you take an iPad apart they are much better designed internally than most of their competitors. Probably because most of those laptops where rushed imitations. The Nexus 7 could be the tipping point, but it's also 200$ which makes direct comparisons harder.

Anyway, prior to the iPhone Samsung was my faverate cellphone manufacture and they made some great monitors, so IMO just give them time and they will start making great tablets.
The tone of the blog post seemed to suggest that the author already had launched a few startups and nailed how its done. The bravado maybe even implied he has successfully pitched his company to PG. But it was weird to find out that he has done none of this.
100K is a lot of code for a Hello World, so don't use ClojureScript to write Hello World apps. The cool part is that building a largish app will not necessarily grow the output JS.
Show HN: The Most Insignificant Revolution in Photography (for group photo)
There is in fact a mountain of evidence for the holocaust, much more than for most historical events. As much or more than evidence for the number of soldiers from various armies that died. Accuracy is not as good because estimates are consolidated from lots of sources. But the ballpark figure and the overall picture is very certain, mostly because of the huge number of different sources of information. For example:

A lot of the evidence is comparing population numbers before & after the war. here we have:
national census data,
synagogue or community records.

For example, in my grandmother's village they know (and documented) pretty much who lived there before. Who survived. Who died. And to a large extent, how. There is lots of speculation to make up the total of course: if someone died in the getto from nutrion related disease, does that count? Suicide? If 30% of the people just are unaccounted for how many do you assume survived and weren't found, died some other way or were gassed? In that case though, that number is around 30% and that is not atypical for local communities.

There are various other evidence sources as well: Nazi records (remarkably good), trial evidence from tens of thousands of witnesses in dozens of jurisdictions, guards, inmates, train drivers, local populations.

From that sort of evidence you can piece together how many people were gassed. For example you know from guards, inmates, locals etc roughly how many people came in a day during different periods. You corroborate that with evidence about how many bodies were disposed of. Stuff like that. This kind of counting is going to undercount significantly relative to the former kind of counting (before & after numbers) because it doesn't account for lots of other causes of death or disappearance, but thats expected.

None of it amounts to perfect accounting. If in Holland 150,000 people identified in a 1941 and 35,000 can be accounted for in immigration to Israel, the US & in the 1950 Dutch census, you have a good idea about how many died. We also know from Nazi records how many were deemed half & quarter Jews (as well as corroborate Dutch census numbers to Nazi records). Put it together and we can estimate a range of "missing persons". You have problems like the US not recording religion or Israel not recording place of residence in 1941 (maybe they were born in Belgium and eventually emigrated from France). Double counting, not counting. Part Jews that didn't identify in census data in 1941 also didn't identify later on so are hard to track. People changed their declared identities. Some assumed new identities altogether. Some immigrated to places that aren't recorded. Assumptions are made about these things. Maybe 150000 were murdered, maybe 75,000.

The real estimate is a range: 3-7 million.

As for the taboo. Thats a problem and its bad for finding truth. Mostly its a problem that Orwell put his finger on. "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." Basically, "denial" is a mostly Fascist phenomenon, at least in Europe.
Why waste time doing a study with an unpredictable result? If you don't know the answer ahead of time, you may not be able to find a soundbite worthy correlation even after fishing with every statistical trick you know, and that = time and effort put in without adding any points to your score (or impact level or whatever.)

Oh, wait. Science is why. That's an old school attitude, don't you think? My study about how a college education may lighten your skin is hotly anticipated. I wonder how it'll turn out?
CloudLock?
This is the equivalent of "Original title [fixed]" we see on Reddit. The attempt to generate publicity by submitting a new item instead of contributing to the original discussion. I think this highlights a problem with sites like these: They are terrible for discussion. Discussions are practically dead after a couple of hours. The deeper a discussion tree goes, the fewer people (the contributors) have a useful way to noticing new posts. I have no idea how to do it better, just thought I would share this thought.
No it did. The shorting stabilized prices, and if you don't have any economical background, you can check out Khan Academy videos on economics.

The price of Bitcoin started to raise since Bitcoinca ended operations. Certainly, it won't skyrocket in 24 hours. It'll take many days (and maybe weeks) to visualize the trend.
The Caves of Clojure part 3.2: World Smoothing
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I love how all the people trying to sell the latest and greatest HTML5 game engine solutions don't seem to understand what matters to actual developers:

First, the pipeline for actually building the game - what's the workflow like, what's your build system like, how easy is it to integrate with existing tools... If you're going to compare yourself to the goddamn Unreal engine, you had better at least have an answer to the utterly AMAZING tools they provide for artists, programmers, and other developers. Real game developers don't give two flying f--ks about whether you have Tumblr integration if they have to write a bunch of JSON to build levels and integrate into your build pipeline (and it's probably being generous to assume that their tech is sophisticated enough to use JSON files).

Second, the experience for players - sure, you've got a deferred renderer and a network stack. How much latency does your network stack introduce on top of the actual round-trip latency between the player and the server? How efficiently is your network stack able to use bandwidth (and is your prediction good enough to let me send less traffic for state updates?) How much memory and video memory do your demos use compared to a somewhat equivalent native app - will my players need a machine that's twice as beefy just to run a game in the browser using your tech? What are the average framerates like on an average machine - the canned videos suggest the framerates are bad, but actual runtime performance isn't even mentioned. How do you handle deploying assets for a game with a large amount of assets - is the player going to have to download 250MB of game textures and sounds into his cache every time he plays because you haven't done anything to cache them locally?

Toy demos like the one in the demo footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLaNjkYnrI) are basically only useful for demonstrating that it is possible to run toy demos. In the real world, you need to actually prove that you can run real games on your technology by running real games. It's all the more insulting that this toy demo seems to have repurposed assets from one of id's games in order to promote a product that these guys are trying to sell to you - I hope they got id's permisssion...

How about instead of trying to compare yourself to Unreal, you start with a lower target: Unity. Can you provide performance comparable to Unity across various target platforms, along with something approaching their ease of development and distribution? If you can't even compete with something as cheap/affordable as Unity on those points, then what is your unique value add that makes you a look? If the answer is nothing, well then, good luck - hopefully you have enough VC funding to burn that maybe you can be competitive before you run out of money.

EDIT: Oh, that's sneaky. If you dig into some of their documentation, it turns out that they require a custom binary plugin to support some unknown subset of their feature list because 'browsers don't support them yet'. So this isn't even technically an HTML5 engine; it's more like a native engine with partial HTML5 fallback.
Very nicely done! One minor nit: clicking on '5' on the top scrolls to '4' ;).

(Edit: obviously, it is slide 5, but still ;).)
both games aren't loading , i checked the console and it says assets not loading
Here's a traditional market chart showing USD vs BTC since the beginning of Bitcoin. Salient features: enormous bubble a year ago, and many months of stability at $5 before the recent runup.
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv
MG Siegler can't be trusted
Kato: A Java API for Post-Mortem JVM Diagnostics
We had not seen that before, but it is pretty similar. Thanks for sharing!
"Enigmail works great here" that's good to know I never said it did not. We can agree to disagree about it being in mainline and receiving the same attention and support as the rest of thunderbird. I don't think your "+3 years" have really exposed you to all the growing pains enigmail has had.
>"Taking money from speculators and giving money to geeks... "

Classic fallacy. "Those rules don't apply to me!"

Guess what? You are a speculator, no better or worse than any other speculator out there, be it in gold, houses or mortgages. Sorry.
New Android malware infects 100,000 Chinese smartphones
I can't help but wonder that perhaps the point of giving feedback on their own blog is not just about responding to Rocketr, but giving that same advice to all their readers too.

Leaving the equivalent of that post as a comment on the original Rocketr article would have meant that their own readers wouldn't have seen it.
Why are you doing a startup?
Upstart vs Startup: What’s The Difference?
Honestly, climate change was a bad way to go on the "we're all going to die" front.

Ocean acidification is a much juicier target. As carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, more of it is dissolved in the oceans. As more carbon dioxide is dissolved in the oceans, the pH of the oceans drops and the acidity increases.

And then everything in the ocean dies and then we all die.

Well, the last couple of parts are extrapolation and up for argument, but the great thing about ocean acidification (so to speak) is that it's indisputable up to a point. We know we're increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and from there it is high school chemistry that the pH of the ocean will decrease by a certain amount. Granted, most of us didn't pay enough attention to high school chemistry to do the maths ourselves, but it's like two equations.

From there the only question is how bad the rapid acidification of the oceans actually is. We know that corals are probably screwed, because the calcium carbonate reacts poorly to the acidification, but on the other hand the single-celled organisms are probably fine, just because they have tens of thousands of generations to react to the change. Everything in the middle is fair game.

Oh, and ocean acidification is a much more rapid process than climate change, because it takes much less time for the ocean to reach a new equilibrium with the carbon in the atmosphere than the atmosphere to reach a new temperature equilibrium. (Recall that CO2 isn't supposed to increase temperatures directly, it increases the amount of heat retained in the atmosphere from year to year.)

In my opinion, ocean acidification is a much better reason to worry about atmospheric CO2 than climate change
EPIC has a history of being pretty over the top with their statements and demands. I wouldn't take anything they claim too seriously unless it's corroborated by a more reliable source.
Wow good job on this one Andy.
The Evolution of the Web:Visualization
Javaism, Exceptions, and Logging: Part 2
Concurrency Utilities for Java EE - Early draft [pdf]
Unfortunately for Oracle, Java represents a genie that's out of the metaphorical bottle. They have the privilege to be its benevolent steward, however if they keep pushing for control in the face of its community, they'll lose whatever control they have left.

The recent lawsuit kind of highlights that. Google is riding on years of development and refinement of Java IDEs and on mountains of available open-source libraries. They jump-started an Android community from zero by building an alternative VM for targeting Java source code, while giving the finger to Sun/Oracle and their licensing.

And I don't think they are so stupid as to not realize this.
Does the job come with that sweet bling cross ?
Gartner Sees Global IT Spending Up 3% In 2012
In contrast to the general economic picture, here is what last predictions say
Thanks for the feedback. It depends on your browser size. On very large screens it gets a little funky. We talked about it, but ended up deciding to not sweat the edge cases.
Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (CentOS 6.2)
I lived in DC for the past year and a half and never heard of Uber. Considering my tech-minded friends i'm surprised at the lack of advertisement.

Look at this Washington Post article from 2006, before the fare system was changed from zones to meters: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06...

On the old zone system:
""Last night, I had to go to a dinner, and the cab that brought me back charged me twice as much as the cab that took me there," he said as he waited for another taxi outside his downtown hotel. Well, maybe not quite twice as much, he amended, but $12 vs. $19.50."

And on meters:
"But opponents of the meter say it would bring unwanted changes to D.C. taxi service: Residents traveling from poorer outlying neighborhoods in Southeast or Northeast probably could not afford a meter ride, they say, because it could add up to much more than a zone fare. Another reason fares could rise is that the meter would not stop clicking when the cab is idling in one of the city's infamous traffic jams." and "If they get the meters, the only cab you'll see in this town will be at hotels, like the other major cities," Wright said. "You won't find them anyplace else. You won't find them in the neighborhoods."

The regulation on fares forces taxicabs to pass up many people who want to go outside areas with heavy foot traffic or deep pockets because they aren't going to be able to find a return fare. As such, there are "taxi deserts" all over the city where you might see one taxi every 45 minutes, and they've already got a fare, or their meter is off. Slugging through a 1.5-hour bus ride is often the most reliable form of transportation for these areas.

In order to maximize their payout, plenty of DC taxis will take zig-zagging routes, go slower than the speed limit, and ride their brakes. A 5.6-mile ride from the Atlas District up to Petworth may cost the same as an 8.5-mile ride from Columbia Heights up to Bethesda, using the meter system. Take a cab from outside the district and you'll find your trip takes significantly less time.

There's probably still a market for an Uber service, even with this brazen attack on (what seems to me as fair) competition. But don't expect the taxi lobby to roll over in a town where it took 75 years just to introduce meters.
Subject to negotiation! But we're willing to discuss. :)
Ok, so you are selective in what you choose to accept as fact. That's fine, we won't get into bias effects and the subjectivity of any possible definition of tangibility.

It's also interesting that you would categorise the holocaust as a meme or an idea, but I think that pretty much sums up the way your own personal biases affect your thinking process.
You Need to Reward Your Early Adopters
You should also check out "3 Degrees of Wikipedia" http://www.threewiki.com/
Thank you!

- We'll definitely investigate the F1 key issue. We have a broader bug that causes the whole app to stop responding to keyboard shortcuts if the browser window is not focused first.

- Interesting, we'll look into also adding this behavior. It is indeed a common behavior, specially in diagramming software.
Don’t Feed the Trolls (video)
Even if you assume multiple 3G carriers are available at the conference site, 3G bandwidth is much more scarce.

So, although 3G does enjoy better dynamic resource allocation (centrally managed using sophisticated algorithms), the overall experience will be expensive and the bandwidth per user will be lower.

A possible solution is carefully placing a few pico-cells in the conference area. Still, a properly tuned commercial-grade Wifi network will almost certainly outperform any 3G setup.
I was uneasy about this blog post. It was just to conviently fast after rocketrs original one. What mostly uneased me was the tone of it, quite nasty and hard on the rocketr guys.

That said, you can't actually blame someone for not being accepted into YC. First, YCs acceptance ratio is pretty low. 2. 10 min is quite short to recover after a bad start that everyone can have and 3. even pg himself knows he isn't always right.

One thing rocketr achieved that I asume a lot of around here didn't is being INVITED in the first place, so there has to something about the idea and the team. At first I didn't get it neither, but after a more thorough explanaition further down in this discussion, I can see potential here. And that explanation did get better in the course of this day.

Again, nothing in the original post did merrit the tone no matter how much truth lies in Lorens post. And yes, it seems like link bait to me, too.
Re-Designing the classic email client
The choice for linking to a 2008 file was not the best. At least their current robots.txt is buggy too, so it isn't all that relevant for proving a track record.

I thought kogan.com was around in 2008 as the blog goes back to 2008.

The robots.txt is whitelisting bots with agents like "No" and "Due to a deficiency in Java it's not currently possible to set the User-agent." but then blocks all other known crawlers (like MSNbot and Yahoo Slurp).

I was not trying to be deceitful. IMO: Deceitful is a PR stunt arguing it is the fault or an evil plan of Microsoft, when you don't present anything to substantiate your claim, and it is a fact the webmaster is at fault in the vast majority of these cases.
GroupMe Launches Experiences, Makes Partying And Planning Easier
Sorry, but I think this is really bad advice, it goes about it from the wrong direction. Saying "monolithic" or "services" like one is good and one is bad, or one is complicated and one is simple, is kind of silly.

For example... which is simpler, writing your own search indexing tool in ruby on rails, or installing solr as a service? MySQL is also service, for some reason people tend to forget that. Conversely, if your processes aren't yet resource hogs, why not just let them remain general purpose workers? If you are constantly fiddling with multiple services to make any changes to your app, then yes, you have probably made a bad choice somewhere. But a HAproxy/nginx/rails/memcache/mysql/solr stack is already six services, and not really so complicated to work with. When you write your own services, you should aspire to that level of simplicity.

At the end of the day, the shortest path will be wherever it will be. It's your job as a developer to weigh the pro's and cons on a case by case basis. The hard part is to test drive everything so that you can change it later, and constantly evaluate what choices each decision you make is removing from the table (painting yourself into a corner if you are not careful).

Another way of putting it: if you are picking your architecture before you begin, based on some kind of generalized principle, you are already over-engineering.