skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good story, thanks. Though I'd say pursing a dream as a child/teenager is different from doing so as an adult with a family to support. As Ang Lee wrote in his letter/essay (someone linked it below) it felt 'undignified for a man' to have his wife bring in 100% of the income while he stayed at home.

Just pointing something out that I think is a key difference. Not to take anything away from Taylor Swift as everything you said is 100% true - but I think the stress in Ang Lee's case was probably (significantly?) higher.
I really respect Asian men who try and make it in Hollywood because its an upill battle.
That....doesn't answer the question at all.
I'm just an observer of this conversation, but I'm afraid I have to agree with OoTheNigerian with this one. I'm well aware of Mark Pincus's idiotic mishaps, but it's readily apparent your arguments were made up a long time ago to snarkily criticize everything, in terms of framing everything to fit your negative picture of Mark.

Exaxmple: You frame "grooming" as "irresponsibly" giving a "fancy title", when it could just have well been framed by someone with a positive view of Mark as "establishing the best meritocracy," "Mark has a razor eye for the best talent" and other similarly inane and unsubstantiated labels.
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Success, like failure, is an event. Not the destination itself. My work discipline is the same when I succeed as when I fail. I don't suddenly become smarter or dumber. Success after all is what happens when you have a well-oiled system working for you.
It looks like IRC Chapter 1, Subchapter I - Natural Resources is in for a re-write as the USA no longer needs to encourage domestic production.
Use code PALZNAUER1 for $10 off btw :).
"I’m seeing so many men with questionable facial hair..."

Since when the fuck is facial hair questionable? Sheesh! Women!
My god, the quote from that "white hat" SEO guy just defies belief:

> There will certainly be webmasters out there who will strip you down to the bone asking for money in exchange of link removals. These are the most soulless snake oil salesmen on earth

To say that about webmasters, already victims of years of abusive SEO spamming, when they then refuse to help an abusive site clean up its own mess for free .. I have no words. Could anyone possibly be more of a self-interested, myopic, egocentric prick?

My rock-bottom opinion of pretty much anyone who has anything to do with active SEO is re-confirmed for the thousandth time.
This is exactly my experience as a hiring manager with cold-call recruiters too.
I remember reading that they've selected a gesture that isn't likely to happen naturally to enable or disable the device.
I was looking for the punchline... I guess in a way this is very Steve Jobsian, buying next.com for however much and making it the apple website

the store.apple.com link doesn't work... any link taking you away from the next domain wont work... odd.

well if you go to next.com/buy and use the find a store or find a re-seller menus you can get away from next.com, curiouser and curiouser
E-ink smartphone
Same here, not sure what mjs is talking about.
Seriously? You're only 23. Just do it. You literally have decades ahead of you to enjoy coding. When I saw the headline I thought I'd be responding to a senior citizen...in which case my response would have been the same.
I wonder if it would work for amputees. I.e. do you need an actual hand in order for the signals to be processed correctly, or would imagining your hand's movements be enough?
I'd be tempted to ask for money as well, but I feel like at the very least, you should ask for an apology. They may not have known that their SEO agency was using shady tactics, but since times changed, and it's obvious that they put bad links out there, it seems like an apology would be more than a token gesture.
> Wire's "Pink Flag"

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_seven_commandments_of...
Wow, looks like a great product. If it works as seamlessly as the concept video suggests this could be a huge hit. I find this product more interesting to me than Google glass. I'd consider preordering but there are too many unknowns at this point and the website is kind of vague.

I wonder if the rumored apple "watch" is similar tech.
They only average out if they're uncorrelated. I'd say it's pretty likely that high-budget, expensive games are more likely to be released with DRM than low-budget indie ones. You could try randomizing on budget, dev size, etc..., but there's really so many random variables to account for in game development (expected sales? platforms released on?) that you'd need a ton of data before you really got something that's statistically significant.

Although I'm no statistician either, so whatever.
Point noted and we'll be fixing this. Thanks for the input.
Programming is about solving problems. Is it too late to start solving problems? No. It just takes dedication and perseverance. The learning curve is exponential so the first few months will be slow and confusing, but once you understand the basic concepts you'll start to become more productive.
Consider that it's not a just a currency; it's also a commodity, and a tool, and possibly a few other things. IMHO it is a mistake to apply traditional notions of currency to bitcoin as it has several other non-traditional characteristics.
Only if you are in the US, though.
Coinbase was a giant waste of time for me. I signed up a week ago and its been a mostly crap experience. Would not recommend. Im using mtgox now and its a much more streamlined experience.

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Here was my coinbase timeline- Keep in mind I verified my account, did 2 step auth, everything. About as normal a user as possible. They make buying bitcoins near impossible.

1: Create a account and link it with a US bank. I am located in the US myself.

2: Wait 3 days to verify

3: Put in a order for a max of 10 bitcoins.

4: Wait 5 days for order to complete. You cannot order more than 10 bitcoins during this process.

5: Be told they are over capacity and have your order cancelled.

6: Go to 3

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Coinbase is only a option if you want to buy under 10 bitcoins and dont mind waiting. I wanted to buy much more than that. I wish they put up on the homepage that they only allow you to buy 10 bitcoins a day.

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Also, they say "once you are verified you can do 100 bitcoins a day" but the truth is, they do not have the supply and cannot fulfill those orders (gathered this from searching on twitter and my own experience). Also, you will need to wait a month to get this level of verification.
Did you ever read the blog by Stephen Wolfram about his historic personal data collection and analysis?

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...

It offers great insight into how he lives and works, and that is just from the analysis of his historic email, (rigorous!) calendar appointments and phone call metadata, not their actual content!
Bounded supply + rising demand = rising price, no?
I know it is a fresh project but a README would be really cool to have.
Taxes are paid in dollars. You can see dollars as some sort of collective hallucination if you want, but that fact ultimately keeps them grounded.
#2 sounds like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224499
In other news, the wanton, unregulated, for-profit destruction of our water table and environment is projected to last for decades.
OK, I need a portable dev machine. I thought about installing Ubuntu on my old 2008 Macbook Air (1,1), but the Ubuntu page itself says that it's a painful install.

How good would a chromebook be for, say, developing a small rails app?
Re: bootstraphero.com

Ugh. Really. Hate the fonts (Mainly the bold condensed ones). Hate the color scheme(Yellow text on a grey-green background? Seriously? It actually looks reasonable with the colors inverted[cmd-option-control-8 on OSX]). Slow to load, at least the first time. And socialist realism posters have very bad connotations, no matter how hiply ironic you find them.
We got 1500 players at US Public Server #1.
100kbit/s per user, i'm gonna optimize it.
hmm... this is very interesting, and I am definitely interested in checking it out. My one concern, however, is whether or not the stories could be de-anonymized very easily, due to the unique nature of each situation.

That is, if I start recounting how "cofounder A said $BAR and cofounder B said $BAZ and I got really mad and yelled at them both and now neither one is speaking to me and one has threatened to $FOO"... well, if somebody even vaguely familiar with the situation reads that, I guess they're going to recognize the participants.

Probably not a terribly likely or important issue, but it could hinder the ability of people to be completely open even in an apparently anonymous setting.
How many people have worked on their own startup in the valley for 5+ years and had nothing come of it? Before I made the leap to working on a startup full time, I searched for a while for an example where 5 or more years resulted in complete failure but I couldn't find one. Not a single data point among hundreds that I read about/heard about anecdotally. I'm very curious, anyone care to share an example where they worked on their startup for 5+ years and it resulted in failure?
Once you complete all the verification steps you can buy 100 BTC per day, or almost $100,000 USD per month worth. It's a high-risk business they're entering, and they're seemingly targeting the commerce use case -- they want to be BitCoin's PayPal, not its forex brokerage account. Having new account limits seems reasonable to me.
I agree with your statements, but I would like to add that you need to define 'success' before you can know you have achieved it.
Unless these camera geeks are also software developers that actively follow open-source projects, I doubt they actually care. The intersection between those two groups, multiplied by the very slight amount of trust that is gained (teyc was right in that users don't care about your code, they care about other users), while non-zero, is not substantial enough to warrant open-sourcing and all the hurdles that come with it.
ANONYMOUS "SWATTING" THEIR ENEMIES
Exactly. Money may be make believe, but the bars you'll be behind if you evade taxes are real.
> U.S. natural-gas production will accelerate over the next three decades, new research indicates

The graph seems to indicate a slowing rate of increase? Of course, it only shows gas as a percentage of US production, and I guess oil and coal production is projected to go down -- so the only way for the graph to be negative was if gas was depleted sooner than oil and gas?
I know, I'll be honest I just uploaded it to Github and thought it would be a good idea to share! I will add a README.
Ok, well, for example one can look at the estimated USD transaction volume maintained by blockchain.info: http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u... which went, over 1 year, from $0.5M to $10M transacted per day (it uses an algorithm to attempt to ignore the change of a transaction, hence "estimated"). A fraction of this volume is from people just moving BTC between their different wallets. It is impossible to estimate how large this fraction is. But the reasonable assumption that people are not artificially trying to game this chart by moving coins around leads to the reasonable conclusion that the volume of real transactions is increasing as well.

You can look at the USD volume traded on the top Bitcoin exchanges which went, over 1 year, from $200-300k to $1.0-2.5M per day: http://blockchain.info/charts/trade-volume

You can look at Silk Road, who went, over 2 years, from zero to $2 million/month of Bitcoin revenues: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/study-estimates-2...

A Bitcoin casino went, over 6 months, from zero to $0.5 million profits (in bitcoins): http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/bitcoin-based-casino...

Bottom line, all the indicators point to increased Bitcoin spending.
That seems like a really bad scenario, but there are computer science classes and AP/AB CS classes that need to follow a certain curriculum for the Computer Science AP Test by the College Board. I graduated from high school only a year and a half ago in Washington, so I would agree that my perception of schools is skewed towards wealthier districts.

You don't agree that any student should be allowed to program on computers in the library? It seems like a security issue, whereas in a classroom students would be supervised by a computer science instructor. I'm not saying students need to be hand held, but schools really just don't know enough about programming to open it up. Web development, Flash, and Photoshop could be installed on library computers - they were on a few where I went. Otherwise I totally understand why school district IT would not allow it or fight against it.
Is this how you talk to people? You could have stated the same opinions without intentionally being offensive.
If the designed-in deflation works (and is widely understood), then yes, there's an incentive to hoard.

Whether that means a 'downfall' is far less clear. If Bitcoin just keeps becoming more valuable, serving a role but not circulating as much as other currencies (be they traditional or digital-of-a-post-Bitcoin-design), is that a 'downfall', or just a peculiar kind of success?

Bitcoin is like a new form of monetary/economic matter... some lessons from traditional domains may apply, but others not at all. Casual, confident pronouncements either way are silly.
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You should try out ZipCar. I'm not pitching it against InstaCart, which will prove to be cheaper for groceries, but more like a trip to Fry's or Ikea maybe.
What sucks is not knowing where your wallet is.

I have .9 of a bitcoin somewhere transferred between a Linux PC and three different phones over two or three years.

I have about $28 US somewhere.
Completely agree. Proof of the pudding is in eating it. If a bootstrap website gets customers then the job is done.
At the age of 24, I decided to learn to code so that I could create stuff I thought of. Since then I have learned 7 different languages, created several awesome sites, projects, games, and frameworks. I learned it all entirely through Google Search.
Ask HN: What do you think about my search engine?
Tomorrowbook is a web search engine that displays results as an infinite list of favicons by default. However, the admin and domain owner have the ability to upload custom images/logos for domains and/or sub-pages "results".

Examples of search results for "Obama" and "News":

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7aWVNMDUwX3pGeGM/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7cTk2N0NHWmtpUzQ/edit?usp=sharing

The goal was to offer a more visual display of results for children, elderly and mobile devices. Originally it used the Google API, but the number of queries on the first day catapulted it into the pay category - so it was rewritten using the Bing API which at that time was free with unlimited queries (at least I never saw query limit at that time - I do not know about now).

I have written about tomorrowbook in HN comments with somewhat favorable responses, so I am posting about it, because even though it folded after a year, with HN's insight I can still learn and grow from the experience. Maybe even get some motivation. I learned a lot already, for example my logo was just a bad idea period; after seeing The Social Network I thought when I got 220,000 queries on the 4th day after launching I would get someones attention - I did not; and I will not even mention the disaster of a press release.
I found this short fracking discussion enlightening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_xJqPjE_I#!
Amazon charges customers' credit cards when the item ships, not when the order is placed. There is plenty of time to get a few confirmations in before shipping as Amazon doesn't ship instantly after an order is placed.
If you have a hard time finding a structured way to learn and staying motivated, you could try out Udacity's courses at www.udacity.com. They're set up so that they're interactive, and they have courses for people of all skill levels. You can start with CS101 if you feel that that's right for you and then move on to whatever else you're interested in!
Unbelievable. Even at my 3 person startup, back in 2010, with thousands in revenue, not millions, we had development environments with test databases and automated daily database snapshotting. Sure I've accidentally truncated a few tables in my time, but luckily I wasn't dumb enough to be developing on a production server.
Perhaps part of the point is that having children (or choosing the noble path of actually supporting them) is also a choice.

If you really, really want something bad enough, sacrifices can be made.
There are free guides on http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/
I use modsecurity on my Drupal forum.

At the moment it stops pretty much everything that gets thrown at it, and the rest is stopped with Bad Behaviour and Mollom.

Legit posts still turn up no worries. All the crap just falls away.

I also have fail2ban rules in, so those that trigger modsecurity too many times get added and iptabled. Helps cut down on the repeat attempts.

I don't think it's hard to block spam. I do agree it's time consuming though, keeping everything up to date.
Good point, although it's hard to say without reading the full-text. Personally, I wasn't interested enough to pay for access to read it. shrug Still, it is suggestive that the OP isn't totally blowing smoke on this.
"Obama": https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7aWVNMDUwX3pGeGM/...

"News": https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6jnvIhOPJO7cTk2N0NHWmtpUzQ/...
This really only works if you have a very small site. No offense, but Alexa's rank for fofou.org is over a million. No spammer is going to spend time writing custom logic to break your captcha. I bet you don't even need a captcha -- just having custom forum software is enough to stop all automated spam.

If your site was in the top 1,000, you'd have a different experience since the spammers would be adapting to every one of your exotic captchas no matter how many times you change it.
Nope, the SSD is indeed soldered on board.
No decent spammer cares about whether or not the links are nofollow. Targeting just dofollow links and then having a backlink portfolio to your site that is 99%+ dofollow links looks completely unnatural.
Steve Kemp? Slightly unrelated, but i just want to say i'm (still) a big fan of your old 2004 program window.exe. Very handy for unhiding the odd broken program.

Have a wonderful day! (and i'll definitely look at installing molly-guard on my production debian servers)
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That's why you avoid IT like the plague and use Heroku, that why when someone Fubar's you can blame it on amazon web services :) j/k
In today's model, yes. I meant it more in the context of digital-only subscriptions, where you could theoretically sign up for a month of service and get all the programming you wanted. In that sitaution, HBO can't plan their income sinnce they will have intermittent spurts of subscribers with no expectation of sustained income.
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I started at 24, probably same boat as you.

I wrote a blog post about how I learned:
http://coryliu.com/post/42990233356/how-i-learned-to-program...
>Transaction times of 10 minutes?

Transaction times would be irrelevant for Amazon as they could tell customers their order is placed with zero confirmations (a few seconds), and then check for more confirmations before shipping. There is already a delay of hours or even days between when a customer orders and when they pay because credit cards are charged when the order ships.

>and what taxes should be paid on BTC transactions

I would guess the same taxes paid on other non-USD transactions. Amazon already deals with many non-USD currencies.

>Amazon issues lines of credit to their customers

I don't think this applies to most orders/customers. Amazon could choose not to offer lines of credit in BTC.
This is my first comment ever on HN and this is AWESOME!
Even with that information, I still can't figure it out...
I think the people actually running this event decided it was a threat they had to cave to, but the organization they're part of put a pretty face on it. Why would people organizing a hacker conference be ideologically okay with censorship of thoughtcrime?
The internet connection is already external. It uses wifi or tether with your android/iphone. So no, it is not going to be cheaper. You can't offload processing because then it totally depends on the phone.
This is an amazing game! Such good memories.
It looks like this doesn't work with folders... or have some kind of hash to detect alteration. While I appreciate you sharing the project, this is probably premature at this point.

Here are somethings that I would consider adding:

* a README (update: done! :) )
* consider making this work with virtualenv by default. This way you can install
Flask as a library without making me install it for the system. Adding a short
bash wrapper script really helps here.
* support for folders
* sha1 hashes to ensure your files are consistent
* de-duplication of chunks would be a good thing to add too
* The way you are sending data now looks like you are using GETs for everything.
If you are really going to make this work, you should use GETs for downloading and PUTs or POSTs for uploading.
Observational bias. The ones that failed you will be far more hard pressed to find 'data points'(dym information?) on.
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"Regardless of whether you are using our target DreamPlug hardware, a laptop, or a large rack server somewhere. As you read this packages should already be available in the Raspbian repositories"

I know what you're saying though. I think this project was conceived long before the pi became a reality.
> deflationary ... there's an incentive to hoard it rather than spend it.

By that logic, everyone would put their dollars into investments that beat inflation (this is a form of saving). Yet they do not. You can hold (hoard?) securities (VBLTX, HTS, JNJ) that beat inflation, yet people spend dollars on depreciating assets (cars, computers). There are other less-risky financial instruments [1] that beat nominal CPI, yet people spend dollars.

> Doesn't that mean that it's expected to rise in price?

Sure, relative to an inflationary currency. But bitcoin fluctuates quite a bit.

By they way, currency is just a good, like anything else. One trades currency for some other good that one values more than the currency [2].

[1] http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/beat-inflation-with-i-bon...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference
In college I was offered minimal financial aid even though my situation, when viewed from a rational lens, warranted it. After having every effort blocked by lower level staff in the office I wrote a snail mail letter to the president of the university, I was very polite, didn't ask for anything, but expressed my displeasure at the situation in a rational fashion. I received a response from his office asking permission to forward the letter to the head of financial aid...

That letter saved me >$75K :D

Edit : Come to think of it, most of my wins haven't been social engineering as much as persistence.
What I think is fascinating is not Ang Lee's determination to last those 6 years, thought that is impressive.

It is that his wife and family supported him for all those years (granted, it seems he was providing childcare). And believed in him, to the point of scolding him when he considered switching to a more immediately lucrative career.

We should all be so generous to our partners.
I've posted 2 or 3, maybe as many as 4, in the same day before. But it's pretty uncommon. While it may not be a written rule, the unstated sense of etiquette here seems to be to avoid posting just for the sake of posting, or for the sake of gaining karma gratuitously.