skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money laundering, buying illegal stuff, you know pretty much the only reasons for real people (other than hacker enthusists) for using BCs. The high volatility mixed with low trade volumes make the currency's value as a hedge against the dollar painfully useless. If people wanted a 'safe' currency, BC is the wrong answer, CHF is a far better choice. But, my hypothesis is that Bit Coiners want untraceable transactions for nefarious reasons. I'm not against bitcoin, but let's not be delusional and pretend that it's main benefit is stability. It seems that many bitcoin users are under the delusion that their $100 purchases at Amazon are of interest to the authorities. The people that most need financial anonymity are the ones that should least likely get it.

The last thing I want is for North Korea to start settling transactions with Syria using bitcoin, but that's exactly what bitcoin will be used for if it isn't already.

Bitcoiners are the hacker equivalent of the Glen Beck types that hoard gold for the coming apocalypse.
An EEG is a very different beast to an ECG. most CAN read an ECG up to a high level, higher than a computer anyway, because otherwise they would not pass med school.
An EEG is a very different kettle of fish, and it should be noted, one with a very limited set of applications (ie diagnosis of epilepsy or advanced scientific reading of brainwaves for interpretation by computer to perform some function, eg)
Keeping WordPress up was a black hole of my time and talent, despite having shipped applications with substantially higher performance requirements than "Serve 20,000 visitors mostly static content over an eight hour period." This is totally orthogonal to programming skill or creating things that solve problems for customers.

Good point but if you go from being an employee to an entrepreneur you'll need to pick up a lot orthoganal skillsets beyond programming: sys admin'ing, basic accounting, copywriting, etc...

I recall you tweeted a few weeks back, the gist of it being "if all you want to do is program you're better off being an employee".

That being said, congrats to the OP on taking the plunge, when I checked the site was back up and and it looks like you've got a solid concept. Best of luck to you.
Yes, Apple is the reason most people don't care about an unbelievably inconvenient desktop sandbox.
I think you're the one who is mistaken. Amazon has multiple database products. S3 is one of them. In fact, some of the folks who developed S3 also developed BigTable for Google.

Dynamo is a new database product they have that is also a key value store.
Actually folks on HN are interested in secure operating systems but they recognize that creating such is a Hard Problem (tm) which someone who is an unknown [1] in the field is unlikely to have achieved.

Now you can read up on Mark Miller's published papers [2] on Joule (actually pretty secure) and some of the issues associated with making things secure and get a much better feeling of solidity (for example).

So when the press release comes out that its passed the Defense department's B1/B2 review, then I suspect it will get a lot of interest here and else where.

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10279027 LinkedIn profile, one job CEO of this thing? A blog full of black hat sort of exploits but I didn't see any peer reviewed work.

[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluat...
A well thought out reply, and i agree with the problems you have stated. Good point about the first corp that moves to peer review their competitor's patent application in order to prevent them from getting it. I hadn't thought about how they might collude.

So may be there isn't a proper solution, because the premise is that the idea of patents is flawed?
> It is, after-all, how farming developed over thousands of years

You may be right about it being safe, but I'd be careful about using this logic. Over "thousands of years", we had a life expectancy at birth of 30 years, indicating that among other things the food supply may not have been very safe.
Ask HN: Where do you get your science?
Where do ya'll consume your science? I know it's no longer the case of tv, radio, or newspaper headlines for this crowd, but I am curious to know what websites, blogs, or social networks you all use to keep up to date. Or do you even consciously keep up to date at all, or is the headline method of learning about science just changing?

Reddit (/r/science, /r/askscience), Scienceblogs, viral Twitter news, and maybe here are some of the venues for myself personally. These tend to be pop-sci and general in topic.
Neither of those things prevents something from being a database.

S3 is an excellent key/value store for large values. It's also publicly available, which is nice.

For example, all the thumbnail images on reddit are stored in S3. Essentially the client is given the key and then they can go look up the value themselves, and since it is publicly available http, it works right there in the browser.
Maintaining a fork isn't a big issue if you have enough resources, considering that if Linux was BSD licensed they would still have had their proprietary fork mirror it "close enough" to pull in at least some of the big changes from the main Linux tree.
Android seems to work in this manor to a certain extent (although they open source patches back when they have to because of GPL).

You would most likely have ended up with a bleeding edge open source version and several more conservative closed ports.

Bear in mind that a lot of the reason Linux development is strong is because many of it's developers are paid to work on it and then contribute back (again because of GPL). If a company could gain a competitive advantage by paying the same people to work on a closed fork..
I installed this with one specific goal: I was really hoping it would give me quick access to the format letters for the date() function, however, it doesn't seem to display that part of the docs.

It does, hover, let me open the php.net page directly from the extension, so it might speed up access to that info. This is by far the page I view most on php.net.

Is there a way to assign a shortcut to open the extension?
Agreed - algorithms won't just plainly discard rare diagnosis the way many physicians do. (especially at 3 am :-)

Of course, it should never be top of the list - unless it becomes a possibility given the accumulation of negative results of other tests for more common diseases, or the positive results of DNA sequencing.

Unfortunately, that's not the way it will happen with an human : rare almost means "ruled out" simply because "poorly taught" or even unknown, and for the best of us "get a second opinion with xxx who specializes in this very disease".

DNA sequencing is at most used for a couple of diseases per specialty, and data mining/fishing expeditions are frowned upon (maybe rightly so given the human bias of trying to find meaning and correlation in what may be unrelated).

I strongly believe the beginning of true e-medicine will make us look at the current medicine the way we look back at blood letting, holy waters, the four humors imbalances etc.
While it looks like Emile submitted this, so she may have been expecting it, stuff like this can catch you by surprise.

Earlier this month, when my Russell Kirsch story was #1 for most of the day, I didn't even know it did until someone emailed me. By then it had caught on beyond just HN and I had 60k-100k visitors come in overnight. I got my tech guy to transfer servers and speed things up, but you can't always plan for this type of thing.
Mostly because it doesn't seem to have a very vocal community behind it.

It is a really solid product, and some folks have built their entire business on it.

It's also used a lot in enterprise setups, but again, those folks don't typically go around talking about it.

Since it isn't a hot new trend, it stays off the radar of a lot of "startup" folks.
Good writing is an art, which benefits from but does not require perfect grammar.

Attacking grammar--which is the topic of this sub-thread--is missing the point.[1,2]

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[1] And by perfect I mean pedantic. [2] Off-point critique + sweeping conclusions = logic fail
Liked your Pierre Cardin anecdote. There is an art of knowing when to pivot and when to stay on course. Seth Godin has written a short book on "The Dip" which provides encouragement to persist and yet have the perception to cut the losses if that is the appropriate decision.
Great work and don't mind the uptime critique.

Anyone who have launched know that shit happens sometimes and that it has nothing to do with whether you have the ability or not.

Most people who know how to configure a server only do that (nothing wrong with that btw), you do much more so of course sometimes things fucks up.

Congratulations on the great start, will be sure to let my electronic geek friends know.
Liverpool.
Coal is not a "manageable, local risk"; coal causes problems with probability ~1.

Also, the average coal power plant produces more radioactive waste than a nuclear power plant.

The real problem: people fail statistics. People can easily observe a nuclear plant when it shows up on the news, and assign a disproportionately high risk to it. The ongoing damage of coal plants doesn't make the news, because it falls under "day-to-day operation" rather than "disaster".
Dude, the video in your second link is awesome! To be honest, I was sorta impressed with the floating robot alone, never mind the fact that he was controlling it with his brain.
Microsoft Users Must Agree to New Service Agreement, from 19th October
FireEye mistakes Kaspersky Lab sinkhole as live Gauss activity
Which is also nonsense.

Animals raised without antibiotics and vaccinations carry a horde of diseases.
Amazon's Dyanmo Whitepaper is from 2007, they have used it internally for a long time- it was inspired by BigTable.. not S3.

Source: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
Where's the "give this comment half my karma" button.

Here's a norm for HN that I suggest as a sensible default: If you're building stuff, we're on your side. We know building stuff is hard. We know early stuff is rough. Where others see flaws, we opportunities for having better stuff tomorrow.
Who claimed organic food has more nutrients. It has to be free of pesticides, hormones and other harmful chemicals and must taste natural.
Hi Emile! So I just poked around on your site and see that you started a 99designs campaign to get a "dog mascot" logo...

This is the one you should go with -- the ones designed by WorkHorse; I would totally put one of those on my Macbook! The others? Not so much.

http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin...

http://99designs.com/illustrations/contests/illustration-tin...

You can thank me later :)
You certainly know that North Korea leaders keep money in Swiss banks?

see, for example, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/74...

Bitcoin is not good for dictator states, because it allows people to fund initiatives like wikileaks w/o a risk to be punished.
Dynamo is not a new database product. Sure, their SaaS offering is new, but Dynamo has been used internally at Amazon since atleast 2007, when they published a whitepaper on it. Dynamo was inspired by BigTable.

Sure, when you break it down S3 is just a big key-value store, but Dynamo is a much closer comparison to BigTable.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...
Allowing the public to use API calls marked as private, with the understanding it may change at short notice, actually seems like a good compromise.
If you are referring to the fairly durable schism between the folks who define "open" and "free" one way and the people who define "open" and "free" a different way, then I don't think a whole lot would have happened [1]. I tried to get Sun back into the workstation/desktop game from afar (I had already left by that time) but it wasn't to be. Their original business model is just as durable today was it was when they were founded, spec the hardware, do enough software work that the user experience is capable, and let others build on that. I keep hoping someone will do that with FreeBSD but so far, no such luck.

[1] We can use the existence proof that FreeBSD exists with a bsd license and it hasn't materially changed the Linux outcome.
I agree, I often get criticised for running a Linux desktop by Windows and Mac people because "nobody uses that apart from geeks lol". Well I'm a geek and I use it because it's the best system for what I do (writing Linux hosted server side stuff) so why do I care what the rest of the market is doing?

I guess there is some merit to this argument in the sense that if Linux was the defacto standard on the desktop I wouldn't have to maintain a dual boot. On the other hand I quite like using a niche OS because it means that I'm not a target for malware/shovelware/adware vendors.
Do you know how to read an EKG/ECG? If so, can you explain what is involved that computers are so bad at? Current systems may be worse than humans, but I don't see why that would still be the case in a decade or two.
Using it now, thanks for sharing!
Oh boy SxS. So now you have seperate DLLs for every application.

How about just linking it in statically and make the applications standalone?
Yep. Thanks for the clarification--I sometimes rely on contextual implication more than I should.
Right. Not to mention the ever-present fear of famine.

Going back to low-tech, low-energy, localized production is a recipe for the return of large-scale famine.
New CUBRID Database Tools are now available
Nobody wants to spend time researching other people's code and writing a patch only to see that effort go to waste. In this case, the fact that the bug is closed and marked as WONTFIX is a strong indication that patches would not be accepted. Before people can get to code, the maintainers would at least have to say "we've only marked this as WONTFIX because we don't have the resources to deal with this, but we'd actually like to see this fixed if someone else provided a patch". But they haven't said that.
I live and work in Japan and apparently every large company has a full time employee dedicated to dealing with the local yakuza to pay for the protection money - so that the rest of the business is not exposed to it in an obvious manner.

The yakuza also acts as a form of local police. They know their quarters well and when there non-yakuza crime going on they try to suppress it as well. That's also the reason why Japan is a relatively safe place. As for yakuza-related murders, it does happen of course, but it's usually between gangs (or sometimes between political powers and gangs). There was a famous case a few years ago where a yakuza murdered an official (mayor or something) and that was on the news.

By the way, the news media never call the Yakuza "Yakuza", they call them 暴力団　(literally "violent organizations") but everyone understands what it means. There has been some recent efforts by the police to try to suppress the power of yakuza across Japan with more severe laws and prosecutions. This being said, Yakuza gangs are officially declared in Japan and registered with the authorities. They are NOT acting underground, as in they have an official status and membership registration. The Yakuza were the first organization to open street markets right after the war to sell what everyone was missing - they have powerful networks and relationships across the political and economic spectrum.

I have heard many times that for someone to become a prime Minister in Japan, they have to get Yakuza support. This is probably true (for economic reasons as well as network influence).
It doesn't even mention taste… give me free range ibérico ham over its caged cousins anyday.
> Money laundering, buying illegal stuff, you know pretty much the only reasons for real people (other than hacker enthusists) for using BCs.

My reason for using them and wanting them to see wider adoption is because PayPal sucks. YCombinator is somewhat invested in Bitcoin because they know a good possibility when they see one.

The rest of your arguments can also be made about cash, with the added exception that my bitcoins, bought at about $4, have outperformed gold, the dollar, the Dow and NYSE even with the price crash last year. I held my btc and have gathered more since. Even with price averaging, I'm doing better than my friends in the stock market.
And this is how a topical thread about startups gets derailed into unproductive political bickering.
I've read Gang Leader for a Day as well, and while gangbangers might have some redeemable qualities, that doesn't make what they do any less despicable.
PGP is only useful for criminals, spies and other unsavory elements of society.

Just because I don't wish to share my electronic transactions with Visa, it does mean I am doing anything illegal.
It sure is important but who is to say C-style syntax is better than Lisp-style syntax and vice versa. Obviously the NBL should have a sensible and consistent syntax but it has to have a lot more than that to be the NBL. C-style syntax is definitely NOT a must have.
Suggestion: Capitalize your company name in all communications. Making it lower-case shows disrespect for your own enterprise, and causes your brand to disappear amongst all the other non-proper nouns in text.
I have no idea whether or not mental outlook has that effect but we're damning a US senate candidate who said that it did.

I don't think that was quite what he said, if you are referring to Tod Akin.
It's Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook's IPO Prospectus
It isn't just individual patient interests but rather everyone. For example providing sporting facilities at schools and exercise/active activity facilities for everyone would do a lot to improve overall group health. Making cities more walkable would do a lot too.

But right now my primary care doctor (who is most valuable to me) gets paid zero when I am healthy and more the more tests and procedures she does. Other specialists only get paid when I am referred to them. Drug manufacturers only get paid when their items are prescribed. Essentially compensation is based on consumption not on wellbeing which is why the system is so messed up.

The US market definitely needs to be split into two. A baseline coverage that is based on wellbeing, effectiveness and does take price into account, done by the government available to all residents. It is easiest to gather the money via taxes (which already happens to a large degree) and to provide the actual care via combinations of government employees/facilities and contractors. And a top up private system where the people who want to pay for or provide gold plated coverage and procedures can do so (in addition to the base).

Most countries have different systems which amounts to running experiments in effectiveness and efficient. Heck worst case just do what the French do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
Well they are dynamically linked but usually only to Apple provided libraries as far as I know. It's not like every app installs a dozen new dlls to your system and that's what makes the big difference. It's what makes Mac apps (at least traditionally) standalone and executable from anywhere.

I fear however, that Apple is currently destroying this design philosophy with the sandboxing. At least the application data folders have become way more complex now and I wouldn't like to troubleshoot them anymore, something that has been always been super easy.
You might want to look into Backbone.js (or Ember.js or Angular.js) rather than Bootstrap for talking to APIs.

Also, you haven't said if the existing code is WebForms or MVC (and the fact that you haven't makes it seem like you may struggle to finish the server side code using ASP.NET).

Which platform were you thinking you would develop the REST API on if not ASP.NET?
Brief description from their web site: "Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In the future it might also run Windows apps." (http://qubes-os.org/Home.html)
I understand what you are saying, but it is just a years worth of service. That's the only thing you are guaranteed. You are banking on good will and good karma to carry you.

> he can pull it off.

Pull what off? What is "something interesting?" You said it was a service where "the users are the customers instead of the advertisers." But nothing of the sort is promised.

> It's an experiment akin to what was done with Diaspora…

And we've learned nothing from that? You've given $50 for a years worth of service in return. You hope for more, and you hope for specific things, but none of that is promised.

What's so wrong with asking these expectations be clarified? Isn't that the entire point of App.net, to be different, to be about the users? If so, then why isn't that made clear?

Nothing I see promises anything different then you see with other social networks. Except in this one, you are paying them $50.
Organic and conventionally grown broccoli ( 2012 Aug 30 )

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22936597

"... In addition, organic broccoli maintained higher concentrations of bioactive compounds (ascorbic acid and phenolics) and antioxidant potential during storage than conventional broccoli, with higher potential health beneficial effects."
Yes, I've read the Dynamo paper too and I know all about it's history at Amazon. I give talks on this subject all the time.

My point was that you're being short sighted by taking away the credibility of the author for calling S3 a database, which many people do, and especially did in 2010.
Looks like negligence rather than willful violation (last mentioned in 2009)
It's ColdFusion.

At a former employer we hired him on as a contractor and in the ~3 months he was on contract not a single line of code was ever produced even though there were promises made every week. Would not use again.

That said, as a past CF developer there is TON of ColdFusion work out there. Sure it is not glamorous but there are a lot worse things you could be doing for $$ :)
"I'm hoping that Mozilla is going to extend their support for iOS based devices"

Mozilla would love to do this. It's Apple and their "no JIT compilers other than the one in Safari" rule that's the problem. (And do they have a "no HTML rendering engines other thank Webkit" rule as well? I can't remember.)

At one point in the past someone got Firefox running on iPhone, but it only worked on jailbroken phones due to the above rules.
There is another, better way of measuring bitcoin velocity in a more meaningful way - Bitcoin Days. It gives more weight to transactions for coins that's not been spent in a while.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/845/what-are-bitc...
This definitely got me interested in pull my Pi out of the box it's been sitting in for months. Thanks!