skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not at all advocating tax evasion, rather pointing to the fact that bitcoin is currently terra incognita which the government does not know how to handle.

As far a the country I pay taxes in is concerned, if I told them I'd like to declare an income of 100BTC, they'd have no fucking clue what weird funny money I'm talking about.

Governmental recognition and adoption of BTC alongside existing currency is the best case scenario for everyone, governments and BTC community alike.
I'm sorry, but you have an extremely warped sense of history if you think contractual arrangements between mobile phone network operators and their customers are comparable to the restrictions on freedom in Nazi Germany. This is a really bleak example of Godwin's Law in action.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/godwins-law

AFTER EDIT: Seeing the kind reply from the person with whom I am disagreeing here, I note from the dates of Martin Niemöller's life (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

that his quotation was surely about the Nazis, and it couldn't possibly have preceded the presence of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party in Germany "by half a century," so you were referring to the Nazis whether your knowledge of history included that realization or not. I have known that quotation since 1969, when I learned it from my elementary school teacher that year, when Niemöller was still alive.
These days, wouldn't this be more the domain of the "copyright czar" (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/intellectualproperty), Victoria Espinel?
Just to add to that, there's been a huge uptick and interest in developers in the newsroom. The focus on data driven journalism has just kept increasing over the past couple years (full disclosure, I work for a non-profit that does tech training for investigative journalists).

I agree that the industry hasn't shaken totally free of the fucked up financial straights they got themselves into, but as it stands, there are way more developer jobs working on actual journalism projects (not building or maintaining CMSes) than there are developers to fill them (just see http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/ for some examples).

But ultimately you're absolutely right, there are tradeoffs, and working for an insolvent company is one of the ones you have to watch out for, although that's true out in startup land as well. Depends what you're looking for i suppose!

I'd be curious to hear more about what you worked on over at AJC (some of my coworkers were investigative reporters there a few years ago).
To use as wall decoration?
If you make a criticism of someone's ability to do something, you are making a criticism of their intelligence. If a product gets bad marks across the board, are there no consequences to the team that developed it?
Unlike Surface RT, Surface Pro is a real PC
Rideshare, flatshare if you want to. You can always choose to go to conferences in your town only as well.
What good is an estimate of the average IQ by college major? Without even a standard deviation for each, what does it tell you that could ever be useful?
"have a comment thread full of white knights"

You're seriously suggesting that anyone here who decries the rude behaviour described in the blog post, is doing so just to impress the protagonist of this drama with their chivalry? What an absurd notion.
Techcrunch literally covers every single YC start-up.
I'm not sure how to answer that. Clearly we both recognize that attorneys cost money so then your question must be about whether I think an attorney should be involved? If that's the case, then yes an attorney should be involved. You shouldn't be selling shares of stock in your company without involving an attorney to some degree IMO.
Hey jqueryin. Sorry for the design fail. We've had a few other users run into the same thing. We have a batch import mode for both GA and Facebook on the roadmap. Hasn't been spec'd yet so there isn't a timeframe, but I'll add your experience to the ticket. Thanks.
Which is why I disagree with claims that Python doesn't support them either. It does, of course; we could argue if Python supports "complete" closures, but we won't, because we know better than to use meaningless terms in discussion, right?
this is great, but the arrow points from "p" to "u". that stinks.
Bad year for privacy ... FISA and now Congress drops the ball on EPCA reforms
Great article Sean. Excellent insight into a constant challenge.
More object-based views: View combinators (Django)
Oh, agreed entirely that it's apples and oranges. Reality Bites was a Universal movie, the soundtrack was on RCA, and they put five tracks on MTV. It was very much top-down.

Now these guys, on the other hand...
> That's how rotary phones used to work, right?

Haven't LOL'd at an online comment in a long time. In all seriousness, he grew up in the era where AT&T owned the phone line all the way into your house AND the phone itself! I guess he misses the old days...
Either you don't consider linux to be 'anything of value' or you haven't read Linus Torvalds' take on c++
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Why is innovation brought on by rapid iteration and public feedback a competitive advantage of Google's? Not only can anyone do it, but if anything I'd guess Google does less because there's more pressure to succeed at launch.
Is your job really posting in the blog and reading BBC news? I feel for you. Hacking is so much more fun ;-)
people who define themselves only by what they aren't are wack
You completely skipped over reading his post, and thus your response makes no sense. Read the docs once, and write your weird syntax version as a shell script. Then you don't need to look it up ever again, because you are using the weird syntax you invented for yourself. It is just much simpler and easier to do it the reasonable way than to write it in javascript.
I think this approach manages to combine all the disadvantages and almost none of the benefits of SQL and NoSQL (and threads?). It's cute but seriously, where would this ever be practical? Consider the alternatives:

If you need concurrent client transactions over sets wouldn't you be better off just using a SQL database?

If you need fast KV, why not just use NoSQL over SQL ala memcache or something newer like memcache/innodb[1] ?

If you want complex updates over redis why not just use redis 's Lua interface[2]?

I think sqlite4's approach[3] (SQL above NoSQL) makes a lot more sense than this since it will presumably let me write a SQL application and deploy it with any KV store.

1- https://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/nosql_to_mysql_with_mem...

2-
http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-and-scripting.html

3- http://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki
Criticism is great and necessary, but piggybacking on someone's code with your friends without resolve is no different than picking on someone in grade school. Rather, this is more akin to talking crap about someone behind their back to the whole school because she had no idea it was even happening until a colleague brought it forth.
I'm not an expert either, but combinations are apparently used. For example, you mention amoxicillin, which is often combined with something called clavulanic acid [1]. Another combination drug is Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole [2].

Some diseases, like resistant tuberculosis, are sometimes treated with antibiotic "cocktails".

The problem is that combinations of antibiotics may have cytotoxic effects even at doses lower than normally harmful. Those two combinations above are used because they are known to work in synergy, with few side effects.

Some antibiotics are not used except as a last resort precisely because they are so toxic to the human body that they might kill the host in the process of eradicating the target bacteria. In fact, antibiotics are found in nature all the time, but they tend to be too toxic to use.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoxicillin/clavulanic_acid

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
Honestly, I agree with you. When I submitted the story to HN the title was "First unsigned artist in modern history to hit #1 on U.S. Charts" but HN changed it to the title on the blog. I wanted to highlight why I was posting it in the first place. Race can play an important part of a story but this time it kind of takes the focus off of the important part.
"@pagerduty knows" <-- https://twitter.com/FST777/status/294485421642100736

...but, how does @FST777 know that @pagerduty knows?
Amazon should hire this guy
Depends on what domain you work in. If I used nodejs or web services, then I would be enamored of Javascript. But I do an data analysis and ETL, a domain that Python and friends excel at, I not concerned as what's "hot" and "in" at the coffeshop.
Hacktivist anger over US government's 'ludicrous' cyber crackdown
This also lets you easily publish internal artifacts for others to consume. It is definitely necessary for any medium size or above team.
thought it might be interesting to some people. The more overview you have over your preferred ecosystem, the better.
Other than "pretty colors", your statement contradicts itself. Doing the things you mentioned is being find+grep. That's the entire point of ack, to be find+grep.
Upvoted for explaining what is really going on here.
Blank votes, then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_vote
If so, shouldn't you be reporting it to the FDA?
It's a basic principle of administrative law that administrative regulations can only be adopted with legislative authority, which in this case was granted by a statute Congress passed. It should be possible to look up the second step taken on this issue as an administrative regulation, which was a public notice and comment period. I have read the official notices and public comments for other administrative regulations on other topics, and generally regulators get plenty of commentary from the public (with "public" of course including interest groups, but also private citizens) whenever a new regulation is in the notice and commment period. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The Common Law (1881), p. 1.
It consumes a lot of time, couching a negative opinion in soft, cuddly terms to 'avoid offense'

No, it emphatically does not, and the assumption that it does (and that it is thus not "worth" trying to not be an asshole) is one of the more pervasive diseases among "computer people". If you sufficiently internalize that there is another human being at the other end of the line, basic humanity should lead toward communication with that in mind.
All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us
what is this, r/technology?
Carriers have an escape clause fee in their contracts.

If you cancel your contract, you get hit with the fee.

I don't think phones should be locked to any carrier. Instead change the contract rules. If you cancel after the cooling off period and in the first 30 days you pay (blah), and every month there after it's (blah) - (something)*number of Months. Only if the phone was subsidized by the contract, of course.

I say this as someone who needs to be able to change out sims when I travel.
So if this happens. Why not just buy unlocked phones directly then, instead of buying them from the provider?
If you do the math, unlocked phones turn out to be cheaper over 2 years.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/prepaid-phone-plans...

I hope people start avoiding the contracts because of this stupid law.
In any case, rapping about social issues rather than how much money and women he can collect. Sure, he's got for fun songs like Thrift Shop, but his music is creating awareness of active social issues.

Otherside, about drug abuse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDQy53eldY

Same Love, about gay rights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0
>i wish there was a minimalist phone out there that was still cool.

Well, you could always get a BlackBerry, you know. Or if you REALLY want minimalism, then buy a refurbished Razr V3 off of eBay. And this quote is a bit puzzling:

>i was about to get a 4s until they introduced that elongated screen

You can still buy the 4S -- Apple is still selling it.
I'm sure one of the causes for longevity is letting weak children die. Those that survive will naturally live longer than average in a similar population where weak children are saved and then make statistics look bad...
Gay rights (Same Love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0)

What shoes you wear are not important (Wing$ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3uMlNyHA) I know this doesn't seem important, but just listen. It is heart retching.
Well I suppose persecution by one's cellphone carrier is better than by race or religion. I enjoyed your outstanding level of hyperbole though.
With all due respect, even if the rhetoric is a bit hyperbolic, redwood's point is still valid. Winning major legislative and court victories against telecom, for example, makes no difference if consumers are willing (or forced) to negotiate their way into even worse positions than before as technological and market forces render cable/broadband and wireless providers the true behemoths of the modern market.
Agree completely, this is not where I want Redis should go, I was just tinkeing with the idea.

Antirez: are you considering a Sorted Map of some kind with a way to iterate over it? (ZSET is almost it, but semantics are a little different and Redis does not have iterators, at least not exposed to the protocol). With SQLite4 a Redis Cluster with such a type could serve as the underlying storage engine, basically creating an infinitely scalable database.

BTW - kudos on Redis, I LOVE the clean C code. I must note that in the process of hacking on Thredis I couldn't help noticing there are many "cultural" similarities between SQLite and Redis, e.g. fondness of Tcl, integers as strings, etc.
I wonder if the cause is the same in both cases.

It's a lot easier to be an asshole to people in certain structured formats -- prosecution, online chat (IRC being the ideal, but even email, twitter, and blogs lead to aggression). It's harder in person, or in other formats (essays?).
I'm wondering if anyone could help me explain why this is a bad idea to others who might be sympathetic but don't really think about unlocking iphones. Like most people, I don't care about unlocked cell phones per se, it's just a consequence of a principle I very roughly characterize as "I want to do what I want with the things I own so long as there's no detrimental social effect."

I've thought of the gas station metaphor: "Imagine owning a car and legally not being able to fill your tank with gasoline from any vendor you chose." But I'm not sure what works best.

Please: I'm not characterizing the people I mean as dumb. On the contrary, they're smart people, who would otherwise see this as an obscure decision (indeed, how many people in the US actually unlock a phone?). I'm not asking how to dumb things down, I'm asking how to convey why decisions like this matter.
...and, it's back up
Yes, it is illegal in very much the same way that ripping your own DVDs is illegal (no need for scare quotes -- it really is illegal, even if you think it shouldn't be)
DOJ/USGov't could bring the system to a halt, but I see that it hasn't found a solid use case to do so.

Ideally, BTC could defend themselves and saying that it is a virtual product that the exchange is just coincidence, but holds no merit in the 'real world'

tl;dr le'sigh
He can record a song for close to $0

That's a lot of speculating for us to agree with you on. A laptop capable of that costs $2000, the software is $200 (Logic) - $600 (Pro Tools). The monitors, room, headphones, plugins, etc to create the sound is another $2,000+ minimum.

The sound on that record is not what someone does is a bedroom w/ a laptop and headphones - trust me. I'm sitting here listening on $3000 monitors in a well treated recording studio and the sound is killer. You do not get crisp, clear sound like that if you are mixing on headphones or crappy "speakers" in an untreated room.
I don't think it's possible to answer without getting into a debate about community, morality and ethics. There's no way to distill this down to a "unit test".

Will it bother me? Maybe, depends on who it is. XxHackerPants420xX's tweet of 'Columbo is teh code suxxor' wouldn't bother me as much as pg choosing to write a personal blog post titled 'ode to Columbo's shitty github account'.

Is it okay? Meh. It isn't a community I'd want to be part of. I truly believe in the power of constructive criticism and I don't believe anyone can survive this environment by wearing their hearts on their sleeve. However, there's never justification for rudeness.
While I appreciate you're point, I'm thinking about this in the context of the Schwartz case and others. There is value to pointing to the slippery slope and fighting against it. I don't accept the premise of the Godwin's Law argument but respect that you do. I'd also point out that the quote pre-dates the Nazis by half a century so I didn't really go there

EDIT: You're right I literally misred his bio and had thought he died the year he was born :) Makes more sense, I admit :)
Cattle don't need flora to digest grains. They never ate grain in their evolutionary past, only grass. Their flora doesn't process it- which is why E. coli takes over.

The majority of cattle which end up in a grocer, convenience store, or restaurant spent most of their life completely infested with E. coli. Right up to the point of being thrown into the grinder.
Interestingly, Wolfram credits Steve Jobs with giving him the name for Mathematica.

He described their friendship in a blog post after Jobs passed away. I wouldn't be surprised if they had had a conversation about tablets during the iPad's development.

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memo...
On the other hand, the BBC did air an excellent Horizon episode last year, "Defeating the Superbugs" [1], which did cover the livestock angle in detail.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ms5c6/clips
Canadian Start-Up Visa launches April, 1st
The EU has been good for mobile phone pricing.

£12.50 a month for unlimited data (and enough minutes and texts), oh yeah.
If you want clever lyrics about topics other than drugs, wealth, and cards, might I suggest MC Frontalot or Abdominal? Heck, even MC Lars is better.

http://frontalot.com/
http://mcabdominal.com/
http://mclars.com/site/
Anniversaries (and holidays) are scheduled emotions
Wordpress buys Simplenote
I couldn't do my job on a Galaxy Note. I purchased one after they were released in the US, and was jeered about its size (and asked many times if it was a new Apple device). But having used it for a year, I've found a great device and form factor. The high resolution screen changes how you think about reading on a device. It is unfortunate the resolution is lower in the latest version.
>Oh, the guy who just decided unlocking smartphones should be illegal was born in 1929? Cool. That's how rotary phones used to work, right? //

Rotary [dial] phones weren't locked to a particular provider were they? You could buy anyone's phone and connect it to your line and indeed buy any line and connect it to your phone - post network standardisation at least.
The US has "world tax" which means they can tax their citizens all over the world (no matter what currency). It's not even limited to citizens, it actually extends to anyone who's living in the US for the majority of the year.
You have to pay income taxes on barter transactions in which no money changed hands at all: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html

Please note the domain name of the link.

If you want to model your BitCoin transaction as a barter transaction, the IRS probably won't mind too much. (I'm not promising the degree to which they mind will be zero, but it'll certainly be substantially less than if you give them no money.) Either way, they're going to want and get taxes based on a fair market value. And if you don't pay them, either way, you're going to be in trouble if they find you.

They're a lot more difficult to confuse on the basic matter of "does the IRS get some money out of this transaction" than some people seem to think.
I don't know what AT&T's reasoning is for not unlocking under-contract phones. They must make money off it somehow. Maybe they want to limit resale so people buy new phones, or limit hand-me-downs for use on other carriers. Who knows? See: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/theres-lots-of-mone...

The point is, that reasoning is built into the terms. You don't get to decide, after the fact, when you feel like AT&T has gotten the benefit of their bargain.
It's only insane if you think that every new law makes something illegal. A law can do just about anything: clarify or update the language of existing laws, create or amend a budget, add or revoke a subsidy for a product or economic activity, be a statement of purpose, or allocate funds for infrastructure projects. In other words, just claiming that "40,000" laws is insane doesn't really mean much. Governments work by way of laws, so this metric simply tells me that these governments are active. To determine whether or not their activity is insane, one must investigate the types of laws being passed.
See for yourself:

"To me, and I hope to other UR readers, the logical leap from step 1 (BTC exchangers are indicted) to step 2 (BTC price goes to 0) is obvious. But here at UR, we are operating under our own special theory of money, which I have modestly dubbed MoMT (Moldbug Monetary Theory). If you know and believe MoMT, the leap is obvious. In the conventional wisdom, it's not obvious at all."

"Imagine that the BTC/USD market is perfectly liquid with no exchange overhead. Imagine also that there are two types of BTC users: Jews, who speculate (holding BTC long-term with the expectation that it will appreciate against USD); and Aryans, who only trade (and sweep all BTC balances into USD at the end of every day). These are simplifications, of course - but edifying ones."

"If I have one lesson to impart (...) it is this: [The US Government] is what it is. It is not what you want it to be. It is not what you hope it will become. It is certainly not what it claims to be. No - it is what it is. Respect that reality, and you will neither run afoul of Leviathan, nor live "free" as his spiritual servant. In short: think for yourself and obey the strong."
Hi, ollysb. Mixpanel can give you a real deep dive and help you segment your visitors and users at a granular level. SumAll is a connected data platform and helps users gain insight at a broader level by allowing you to aggregate all of your relevant data in one place to see patterns and find insight through data juxtaposition.
Until you realize that the LoC is basically deciding these things by executive fiat. Seriously, what has changed in the last few years that suddenly makes phone unlocking a threat to digital security when before it was just fine?

Nothing has changed except who's getting the money.
Without "knowing" rap, and only listening to _The Heist_, he seems to border more on a satirical Weird Al type of line, rather than being someone that true rap fans would necessarily enjoy.

Regardless, it had a good message, delivered in a funny way, and I enjoyed it. Happy to see this guy succeeding without help from the man.
Meanwhile, a Bitcoin currency exchange has been officially approved by the French government.
https://wealthcycles.com/blog/2013/01/11/digital-currency-bi...