skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet Marriages on the Rise
Seemed. Good idea

No submit button on the form. At least that iPhone found
> One day, Mr. Shark sells 100,000 BTC all at once on the Mt. Gox market. He cashes in at BTC's high price, then BTC crashes.

If the the daily volume is about 100,000 BTC, how do you expect to sell 100,000 at once at "the high price"?
It's .046mm tungsten wire that's heated hot enough to glow white. You try and make it durable.

You can buy "rough service" light bulbs: http://www.bulborama.com/Turbo-Life-20-000-Hour-Light-Bulbs-...

They are, of course, much more expensive per-unit.
svndiff (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1881) works with SVN, Git and others.

Both sign-diff (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2712) and changesPlugin (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3052) are VCS-agnostic: they show differences between the saved state and the current state.
iOS latest version fixed a problem with Exchange, so I would not be surprised.

Nokia Drive is not like the apps you listed. It's free, high quality, world wide navigation. On my iPhone I use Apple Maps right now. It has potential but besides the already discussed issues my number one annoyance is that it's absolutely not offline! I got bit by this twice, the app is completely useless without a sufficiently fast connection.
I'm tempted to buy this for the soundtracks alone. Of the last bundle, I stopped playing the games after a few hours, but the soundtracks are still on heavy rotation in my work headphones.
> Just report and it surely will get fixed.

You are either 100% unfamiliar with Apple or being profoundly ironic.
Chicken grill -> chicken wire.
:)

It annoys me that several times I forgot that some particular item is forbidden and it got confiscated. Even jam!
Looks great. I've seen similar projects and I think these disposable group chats are very powerful.

My biggest problem is that I never remember them for when I need them and resort to group chats. Often that's "good enough" but for when everyone isn't on the same network something like this would be nice. Again, the hardest part is thinking about the service when I need it.

A feature request would be file attachments. It's 2013 and attaching a file in a chat is still extremely painful and rarely works.
JUnit's evolving structure
Bitcoin volume is only ~100k / day. So, with just ~200k BTC, it would be possible to force a crash in the BTC market, right?

So, here's the question. Is anyone willing to lend me 200k BTC for a few days?? :p This seems like the better investment right now... borrow someone else's bit coins, sell them on the market, and then buy them back after the crash.

Its called "short selling". And if enough people short sell at the same time, the short sellers can spook the market into a selling frenzy, and the short sellers will siphon out all the money from the system...
I'd at least listen to the radio if it was worth it.
Trello for Android Stores Your Password in Cleartext
Elemental mercury is very toxic, inhaling its vapor is dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)#Toxicity_and...
As a non-American, the sentences are basically unreadable when they don't give the Celsius conversions (actually, in this case, the original values). The only thing I know is that 100F is roughly 37C. I have to get out a conversion tool. Doesn't Forbes have an international audience?
You are absolutely right and... Bitcoin FAQ covers this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Does_Bitcoin_guarantee_an_inf...

See "As an investment, is Bitcoin a sure thing?".
Huh? Your answer is a non sequitur. I was not talking about reversing trades.

You seemed to use an argument to explain that it is a major pain slowing down the adoption of Bitcoin. I am just pointing out it is not the case for stock trading platforms, so it should not be the case for Bitcoin exchanges.
Does anyone who actually uses Azure want to chime in? I admit that I may live in a bubble, but if Azure is going to win, and I have heard almost nothing about it that gives it the edge over the Heroku/AWS/GAE triumvirate, I would certainly like to know.
Dammit, how wrong?
Link shows images of it that I captured with a throwaway account, but it was discovered by https://twitter.com/JBird_Vegas/status/309213249763692546. Trello has replied that they are going to fix it.

One has to be rooted to see it (since /data/ is not world readable by default). However, an exploit isn't going to have that same issue or anyone running a rooted device.

If there's anyone running Trello for iOS and has a jailbroken device, I would be interested to know if it's also cleartext on there.
most of the time when i'm programming from my home office, i'm not listening to any music.

but since i'm working in an office, with 10 other people most of the time we listen to music over some speakers.

when its rock or metal i'm not very productive - but when listen to some good chillstep tracks with the right volume i notice for my self i get more shit done.

so i totally agree, right sounds/music in the correct volume and everything is fine.

p.s.: people talking around me distrect me totally, because my scumbag brain want to listen all the time...so i do not prefer coffee shops
awesome compilation of advice from the blog
I've been thinking how to explain to my 8 and 6 year olds that the square root of a prime number is irrational.

I've been over primes lots of times. I've talked about decimal fractions, repeating decimals, and the possibility of there being numbers which are non-repeating. I know the proof for the square root of 2 being irrational. It's just tying it all together.
If I click an unsubscribe link and it doesn't instantly unsubscribe me, I don't bother with the process, I just mark all future mails from that domain as spam.
Samsung’s New Smartphone Will Track Eyes to Scroll Pages
That already happened in 2011, to a limited degree (exchange rate dropped from over 25 to below 5).

But recently there have been quite a number of reports of perfectly legitimate businesses starting to accept Bitcoins, lending some credibility to the scenario that people will start using Bitcoins like just another currency.
I can only buy these from Home Depot in America?
"...We used a wooden board and pegs though..."

They still do.
Is Yahoo still actively "failing," or is it starting from a point of failure? If a few years from now Yahoo is successful and the move paid off, we will just as easily be able to say: "The message is now clear - ending telecommuting is a great way to help turn around your company." Time will tell. If this is just meant as a knock against yahoo/best buy, if they turn around it could make you eat your words.
The light bulb was invented in the 19th century. A patent was granted for an incandescent lamp in England in 1841 but the first commercially viable design was by Edison in 1879.

I think the story itself, however, is a demonstration of an extremely annoying web site design.
On the contrary. Mr. Shark doesn't want to sell BTC at the high price. He just wants BTC to crash.

Mr. Shark makes his money from options trading and short-selling. The $5 million / 100k BTC is seen as an investment, its the cost that Mr. Shark pays to have unilateral control over the market for a day.

Short Selling is when Mr. Shark comes up to you and says "Hey, I'll give you $100 right now if I can borrow 10k bitcoins for a week. I promise I'll give the bitcoins back". Mr. Shark can now build up 100k BTC to sell without actually risking $5 million USD.

Call options is when Mr. Shark comes up to you and says "Hey, I'll give you a BTC on Wednesday next week if you give me $20 today". Since Bitcoins cost $40 today, its a good deal, so you buy these contracts.

On Saturday, Mr. Shark crashes the market. He not only sells his 100k BTC, he short-sells more BTC. The BTC market panics, and BTCs drop down to pennies again.

Come next Wednesday, Mr. Shark fulfills his contract. He buys a bitcoin for $1, and gives it to all of the people he sold Call options to, or participated in his Short-selling deal.

Again, the $5 million is just the amount of money Mr. Shark is willing to lose to gain control of the market. Mr. Shark is making money through other means.
I'm sure you're right about upcoming challenges, scandals, and crashes-in-value for Bitcoin.

The open issue is whether these will be fatal or simply learning and buying opportunities.

And even if fatal, will the lessons learned help spawn a followup that fixes the issues (whether they be technical, social, economic, or legal)?
And now we've got the reason why the USD is better.

Because the FTC is the government agency designed to stop bull$$$$ like Mr. Shark, and throw people like him into jail. Who is to protect me when Mr. Shark come after bitcoins?
The original post by Miguel is here: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html
Netbeans has the same functionality, so I guess it's something that has become "standard" in most IDEs
> The teller doesn’t feel that the truth about how they are and how they act is not good

...did the transcriber double negate this by mistake or is my head spinning the wrong way?
Even if Amazon was paying me 2x the pay, I would choose Google. Amazon is a good company but a "mean" one. I a very "hostile" environment there so unless you find the magical team that is just awesome, I will never again recommend Amazon to anyone. - Personal experience and others.
Flooz is no counterexample. Durability and limited supply was guaranteed by single company which is not a guarantee since companies are born to die most of the time.

If you'd mentioned Flooz as counterexample to the claim that WoW gold has bright future as currency and store of value then I'd wholeheartedly agree.

MtGox is just biggest place where people trade bitcoins but there are many alternative markets. Talented developer can set up new market within few months. Of course fall of MtGox would anger and put off many people but end of MtGox is not the end of bitcoin.

Price speculation and money laundering increase value of bitcoin which attracts more investors to it and draws public interest to bitcoin. Purchasing illegal goods with bitcoin is also good because it provides immediate utility as more and more things nowadays are illegal.

> if bitcoin is mainly used to buy drugs, guns, and child pornography, then I don't really want to use it to buy dinner

Does financing manufacturing of military grade weapons that are constantly used to kill lots of people not bother you? Does financing dictatorships by purchasing of their oil with dollars not bother you? Does participating in global casino where whole banks play (calling it "investment") that artificially raises cost of such basic things as food for millions of impoverished people not bother you over your dinner bought with dollars? I think this last thing is what dollars are "mainly" used for nowadays.
Whoever made this site is an idiot.
why the profanity filter? http://cl.ly/NN4N da fuck?
Thank you so much for pointing out xpra. I've been wanting this exact feature for years. I frequently use Matlab on remote servers (they're closer to the data and faster than my laptop). I've been mostly able to get by through a combination of tmux, matlab -nodisplay, and rendering plots to files, but it's a less than ideal solution. Xpra does exactly what I need and it's glorious. Many thanks again.
Gee, thanks! We were thinking that we'd allow other websites to take a url and embed it within their site or collaborative area. Do you think that will help?

Yeah, I hear you about file attachments :)
MERCURY IS TOXIC. DO NOT TELL PEOPLE THAT IT IS NOT TOXIC.

Both elemental mercury and "organic" mercury are toxic (I assume you mean "organic mercury compounds", since mercury is never "organic"). The relative toxicity of mercury does depend on the compound. Dimethylmercury is exceptionally poisonous: it will go right through latex gloves, skin, and the blood-brain barrier; minute concentrations will kill you. Metallic mercury is much less toxic, but when you inhale mercury vapors it gets absorbed rather well into your circulatory system.

The amount of mercury in a CFL is very low. If I broke a CFL, I would make sure to ventilate the room for a few hours, but I would not be worried. However, it is downright irresponsible to tell people that elemental mercury is not toxic.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning#Elemental_mer...
The US has shown they are serious about anti-gambling and if this starts taking off

The US has NO jurisdiction on many of the Bitcoin exchanges (btcchina.com, btc-e.com, bitcoin.de, virwox.com, cavirtex.com, bitcoin-central.net, etc). In fact, if the US were to seize the biggest US-based exchanges (mtgox.com, etc) I would expect the exchange rate to naturally go up on all the other worldwide exchanges, because of the reduced supply of Bitcoins due to the seizure. (The US only represents a fraction of the total Bitcoin economy, so I doubt non-US Bitcoin users would sell in panick.)

That is a nice consequence of the fully decentralized nature of Bitcoin. No single government can take it down.
Pictures from a developer’s life
That's an installed toolchain, not a properly working one.
Other than being written in Perl, does anyone know what differentiates slaughther from the other projects out there?

Haven't used any of them, but my guess would be:

- It's less advanced, but also less complex and easier to understand
- It's younger so it's less "set in it's ways" and could take another direction
- A fresh take on some things (?)
- Fewer users probably means less pre-made "recipes" etc.

Does this sound about right?
I don't think that MS failed to ship SDK's because of some strategy. I believe that they simply weren't ready for release.
IPad top bar appeared at bottom when I opened one app
> If you're not a manager, it's not your job to criticize others.

Nonsense. If you work in a particular role with others at a company, you are able to measure yourself against them and others - not just output, but in lots of different ways. If someone is doing a particularly sloppy job or "fucking up constantly" it's your responsibility as a professional and as a decent human being to raise them up. You can do this by taking them aside and critiquing their work.
the article is about cree LEDs

i use a cree LED in a flashlight to walk my dog

if i get 'hellbanned' for this comment, i'm not really sure what to say. i probably won't try registering again because that's just really mean.
Puppet definitely has its own pains, but I feel like I'd quickly reach a block trying to use this tool, and end up either writing more outside of Slaughter than in it or just forking it outright. I think these are the killer Puppet features for me:

* Ability to define resources and their dependencies declaratively
* Facter and its API, the ability to add custom facts that get deployed with my modules
* TLS encryption and certificate management for client communications
* Reporting/metrics for each run
* Exported resources

EDIT: Forgot to mention the various REST APIs
BDD with shell script
Microsoft has a very dedicated set of devs that like .Net, and for them Azure is lovely. I doubt if any of them are on Hacker News though. These will be the people this chap is talking to, so he won't see the existential threat of Cloud to microsoft.
I appreciate you sharing your insight. Would you say the hostile environment you experience is part of the overall culture or does it differ from group to group?
>This is needless (and incorrect) semantics.

Incorrect in what parallel universe?

>An OS is just a collection of applications (perhaps the distinction you were trying to make was the kernel or "base OS").

Yes. OS X is just a collection of applications of which iPhoto is NOT one. IIRC, they don't even bundle iLife anymore (you're supposed to get it from the App Store) but that's beside the point.

>As far as the end user is concerned (...) To an end user (and even by many of the existing technical definitions of OS), iPhoto is part of the OS.

Are you some naive end user OR an HN commenter that CAN tell the different between OS X and iPhoto, and doesn't complain about the latter on a thread about the first?
Huh, thought it was going to be a security vulnerability based on that title.
> It worked out well for him. He's a widely loved billionaire who got to invent a long list of things that changed the world.

This was largely right-place, right-time. I suspect he would have been widely-loved and an inventor regardless of whether he became a billionaire, though ;)
how about the standard spotlight sized ones?
Reasonably good summary.

I'd say the transport-flexibility is a fresh-take, the supplied primitives are directly inspired by CFEngine 2.x, so in terms of complexity available to get things done it is good enough.

The lack of pre-made recipes is probably a killer right now.
It's not adblock. I have in on and it jumps around.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Bitcoin has a current lead in attention and investment. Even if a better cryptocoin is devised, by the time it's proven its advantages, Bitcoin could adapt them.

Also, in order to appeal to the proven Bitcoin audience, new cryptocoins might in fact attempt to be complementary to their 'older brother' Bitcoin -- fix some of the issues in certain domains, but interoperate. (They might even find it useful to make some of their initial distribution to exactly the set of Bitcoin holders, as a starting gift.)
I reckon Joe the average user is perfectly fine with that. Way better than my girlfriends "New folder X", where X is like 1-15 because she can't be bothered with sorting them while manually importing. It's way too time consuming.

Same with my parents, every time I'm visiting they give me their camera to import the pictures. It would be godsent if iPhoto popped up in their face and asked for import and sorted photos for them.

We're all/most power users here, it's a factor of a gazillion times easier for us to opt-out of stuff like iPhoto, than it is for my mother to opt-in for it.
ironic ≠ sarcastic

You and Alanis need irony lessons.
It's the same in the Netherlands (marked [0-3]NL), so I guess it's a EU norm. 0 = organic, 1 = free range, 2 = barn (max. 9 hens/m2), 3 = battery
> The US has NO jurisdiction on many of the Bitcoin exchanges (btcchina.com, btc-e.com, bitcoin.de, virwox.com, cavirtex.com, bitcoin-central.net, etc).

The US claim jurisdiction on anything with a .com - and they've seized control of .com domains hosted abroad previously.

> No single government can take it down.

The US would find it trivially easy to take down Bitcoin if they wanted to.
> I think a event like a major exchange being raided would cause a mass selling panic.

I agree. I just don't think it would kill bitcoin. Because killing one exchange would just make others more popular. That's what happened when most popular bitcoin exchange in my country lost their wallet. :-)

World consists of many countries with many laws. I just don't see all of them cooperating in killing bitcoin.

Besides how well megaupload raid worked for Hollywood people?
Would love a smart tv that has the capability to send sound to my phone.
I agree entirely, as the author one of the goals was to be "serverless". That means there is no handling for TLS/certs - it is delegated to the transports.

(So you can get security by using SSL-protected git repository which allows the SSL to prevent MITM attacks, and git itself to avoid corruption.)

The metrics and exported things are almost certainly never going to get done, but having custom facts on a per-host basis is something that is minimally available right now, and will probably be expanded in the future.

The declarative notion is interesting but down that path lies madness - as an implementor - I don't want to go down the DSL route which makes procedural style definitions the simplest option.
It just fits the current section of the page to the screen
You summed up my reaction quite nicely.
Nice how my response to this got deleted, HN. Good job once again with your shitty site.

There's no evidence that this is a "PR stunt" or that anybody thinks they're so smart. It's a pissed-off developer whose product looks shoddy because of a shoddy Apple product. It's that simple.
I haven't used it myself, but I think in the enterprise market it actually is being used quite a bit. I have heard good things from people who used it, but am at a loss at giving you a concrete example. Maybe it's worth giving it a go, just to form an opinion...
If I could use this for our support chat with my customers on a native client, that would be awesome too..
You said "at night", so it's not only motion-detecting but also comes with a light sensor to avoid to turn on in bright day light, isn't it ? Do you have an URL or a name to provide ?
Not AdBlock nor Ghostery. Have both and page is moving alone.
> It's not a reliable store of value (ok, you lost your wallet.dat now what).

Now you learn to keep you wallet.dat as safe as you keep your wallet with same amount of money. :-)

> Right now even pieces of paper issue by a central bank somewhere under the mattress seem more reliable.

Nothing forbids you from keeping your wallet.dat on a pendrive or DVD under your mattress.

Good read about reliability of paper money here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
> It's also dimmer compatible which is a big plus for me with X10 control

If you have already X10 system in place, wouldn't X10 compatibility be more ideal than dimmer compatibility?
The problem with online freelance journalism (Felix Salmon)
Thanks for that, I don't normally have any problems with a certain amount of aggression in a comment, but that one came across pretty badly, however, I think it would have been an order of magnitude less offensive had it not been for the leading statement.
His point is that if the worldwide money supply is estimated to 60 trillion USD, and if Bitcoin manages to capture, say, 10% of that then the 21 million bitcoins should be worth 6 trillion USD.

There is no need for the USD to be massively devalued for this scenario to be possible. Technically and economically speaking, all the currencies in the world need to be devalued by merely 10% for this scenario to be possible.

PS: you can back up your wallet.dat, which you cannot do with physical money.
Not just you, it's annoying to have scrolling behaviour taken over by the website. Also, scrolling down != changing page, but their js is treating it as changing pages, so the back button is broken.
This. IMHO the main difference between bitcoin and dollar is that dollar is centralized and bitcoin is not. Question is who you trust more.
Also, why is Roku missing volume control?
I know some people who write the date on their light bulbs (incandescent, no less) and switch brands if the bulbs burn out too quickly. For $10/bulb, those people would likely get their refunds, but I agree - for bulbs lasting five years, not a lot of People are going to be redeeming this warranty. The good news, is that Cree probably has a very good idea what the failure rate will be, and it's likely that the vast majority of these Lightbulbs are going to last more than 10 years.
Pain in the arse because there is no easy eay of determining which was the master. Instead of a hierarchy, you have a hierarchy with a temporal aspect as well poorly mapped to a non temporal hierarchy.

The metadata is still not opaque (its not stored with the files making backup/restore hard) and it lags meaning its potentially somewhere between ok and useless at any point in time.

Watermark, thumbnail, rename, move to a directory outside iPhoto, run a gallery script. Hell.

I ended up with ViewNX which has no abstraction and a python script using PIL instead of automator. Neither of which leverage any advantage that OSX portrays. In fact I could do the same thing on any platform.
chrome console: window.onscroll is null, so it's probably buried somewhere in a setInterval. Couldn't work out how to stop it, so I just closed the darn tab.

to whoever wrote this: let me decide the vertical position of your paragraph of text on my screen! :p