skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whilst it is believable that a system like Bitcoin could have a market cap that supports a BTC price of $100k, how do we know that a different system won't take its place before it does? Bitcoin is in a strong position as it is first to the market but I think something similar could easily take its place if it was considerably better technically. Whether this will be a totally different system or a Bitcoin 1.1 that can be migrated to, I don't know.

You could have said that the total market for IRC is 7bn people using it every day but now there are more people using other systems like Facebook Messenger.
That's true in many ways and partly explains why Indeed.com (aggregation) is the largest source of online hires. The question of do 'niche job boards' have a future is interesting and I would argue yes (in the same way specialty stores still have a future).
Ok, here goes, and I confess I don't know anything much about bitcoins, so you may help me here:

Bitcoins are fractionable to 8 decimal places

Maximum existance of 21Mi bitcoin. (If we disregard the decimal places)

So, let's see, if, as he says, the value of BtC should be 100k dollars, that would represent 2.1e12 dollars (or 2 Trillion dollars)

Unless there's a massive devaluation of the dollar, I don't see this happening. BtCs have no intrinsic value.

It's not a reliable store of value (ok, you lost your wallet.dat now what). Right now even pieces of paper issue by a central bank somewhere under the mattress seem more reliable.

Reliable: liquid and is not subject to big variations.
Your math is fine except it's 1.5 watts, so savings of $4.88.

Use wolfram Alpha with units and you can be sure: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.5+watts+*+%240.13%2Fk...

But the thing is I don't trust the hour ratings, not on CFLs not on these. So I'd rather pay the smaller amount upfront and not gamble.
Blah, blah, Microsoft sucks, blah ... "AZURE IS GOING TO WIN"..

Wait, what? Either this is off the mark or I'm missing a major initiative that could change the internet and save Microsoft. Is there a great article lingering about explaining why Azure is going to win?
OP here. I use a 3rd party transcribing service (so they're definitely not programmers).
Your fat has a brain. Seriously. And it's trying to kill you.
These are probably available everywhere, but since moving to Japan I found some motion-detecting LED light bulbs. Now when coming home or walking down the hall at night the light turns on automagically. Saves both time and energy.
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While it feels ridiculous to have an extended discussion about a mostly irrelevant adjective, I too interpret "amazing" as referring to the logistical effort.

Granted this is probably one of those disagreements that falls under "the issues of least importance cause the greatest divides".
Each statement will have the ability to have sources. This is not currently supported by the UI (hence everyone is being a bit tentative and only putting in really obvious, uncontentious things) but when it does, it'll basically contain expressions of the form "X has property Y with a value of Z (type T), according to sources A, B and C".
Wow, that "auto-aligning" of the (supposed) current slide to my screen is incredibly annoying.
I really hope so because often times the new simply model themselves after the old - then nothing changes.
I'm listening to Souxsie and The Banshees right now while I'm trying to work, I can tell you it is not helping my concentration. Though it is very cool.
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>>People are not going to trade services/items to each other in a giant circle if the value of the currency is not hinged on a dollar amount.

Sorry, but this is categorically false. There have been many mediums of exchange in history that were not hinged on the fiat currency of their time. Bitcoin has the advantage in the sense that it can potentially become ubiquitous thanks to today's technology.
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The biggest problem is that getting bitcoins is a major, major pain in the ass. You need to setup bank transfers, [...]. You are looking at about a week to buy your first bitcoin from when you decide to do that. (3 days to confirm bank, 3 days to do a deposit)

This is no different than, say, linking your bank account to TD Ameritrade to do stock trading. And nobody uses this excuse to claim that it is a "major pain in the ass" to start trading stocks as an individual investor.
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Would music sales increase if better music was being made (and released)?
Payroll, HR, finance, the website, tech support for in-store systems, planning for growth, product selection, manufacture liaison, operations planning for distribution, legal are all jobs that could be done from home.

Fixed that comment for you.
Flooz may pose a counterexample: it was in limited supply, transferable, and not forgotten - and now completely valueless. One may counter that Flooz was not distributed, instead requiring the support of the parent company. But MtGox may play a similar role for bitcoin.

I also think that Bitcoin will suffer from the same problems that plagued Flooz: the chief advantage of underground currencies is that they better support a black market, and this limits their potential to break out into the mainstream economy. As I see it, there's three reasons why I would want to use bitcoin:

1. Price speculation

2. Purchasing illegal goods (which currently dominate the bitcoin economy, per my understanding)

3. Money laundering

The first does nothing to support the bitcoin economy, while the second and third expose it to risk from government action (and also make it icky: if bitcoin is mainly used to buy drugs, guns, and child pornography, then I don't really want to use it to buy dinner).

On the other hand, a reputable company may take a chance by simultaneously investing in bitcoin, and then attempting to drive adoption, e.g. by subsidizing purchases made through bitcoin. That might help it shed its black market pedigree and break out into the mainstream.
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I'm getting ready to graduate (high school), and have planned to take my first semester/year off from UCLA to pursue my passion for iOS Design, Marketing, etc.<p>I have a pretty decent resume currently, with previous start-up experience.<p>Are you or the start-up you work at hiring?
CRI is 80: http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pdfImages/36/36f3e188-bdb8-... which is slightly worse than most CFLs.

Note that 80 is the minimum legal to qualify for Energy Star.
Try a "lightweight" client. The official bitcoin-qt client is designed to be always on, 24/7/365.

Example of a lightweight client: electrum.org
How is Terminal.app embarrassing? In most of the ways that a traditional terminal is important, it acts exactly as expected, and still has convenient "new" terminal things like tabs and profiles.
So in short both methods = lower disease.

But the British method leads to even lower level of salmonella by an order of magnitude.
You've waited too long between running the app so naturally there will be a long wait. If you do this at least daily, it won't be such a problem.

Bitcoin economy exists solely by the confirmation of transactions by other people, so you're just doing normal housekeeping. The network is the bank. The very nature of the currency makes you to take some odd ways about generating and maintaining it.
> It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot.

That sounds just like the MacBook Pro I was issued at my old job. The problem was to some degree mitigated by the fact that it was too heavy for me to want to move it off my desk.

I finally got so angry with the crashing and the irritation of installing anything relative to a Linux package manager that I just installed Ubuntu on it. It worked much better, and didn't crash when I (dis)connected a monitor. I was much happier!

When I left that job, I went to reinstall OS X only to discover that the DVD drive didn't work (a common problem, apparently).
personally i think you are being an asshole... he just forgot to mention he was talking about something else in their product range. It is in that context, still on topic.
Question about planning algorithms
When you are creating a new algorithms are you using software for easing the planning process?
bitcoin has a global appeal, which usgovcoin wouldn't have.
Your first paragraph reminded me of an Ignobel-awarded article, "Chickens prefer beautifl humans": http://cogprints.org/5272/1/ghirlanda_jansson_enquist2002.pd...

BTW, I think all birds descend from dinosaurs. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird: "Paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs to have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65.5 Ma (million years) ago."
>> There have been many mediums of exchange in history that were not hinged on the fiat currency of their time.

I address that in my post (read it). Those mediums you mention have always been government/nation backed or had tangible value (spices/jewelery/precious metals/etc.). Also, you pretty much said it yourself in your post. There have been mediums. Not anymore, they didn't last.
I think that while the concept of "working remotely" isn't necessarily ingrained, the concept of communicating efficiently with people via methods that aren't physically face-to-face is extremely embedded in pretty much everyone under the age of 30 at this point.

While it's not a 1:1 correlation, there are going to be a lot more people asking the question "Why am I spending an hour commuting if there's nothing I can do at the office that I can't do from home". Despite a couple companies trying to close the doors after the horses are gone, this particular paradigm isn't going anywhere any time soon.
You don't need to install any apps on your computer, nor to synchronize with the network.
And dollar is backed by nothing but trust and actually dollar is nothing but numbers in computers: some of dollars has paper form but it is minority as far as I know. I am not saying that you are not right. I personally see why bitcoin might succeed. By some aspects it already succeeded having in mind that their total value is 200 milion dollars (am I right?). Question is if people will trust more centralized currencies or decentralized.
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He lost me at the blogspot subdomain.
How nice.

Note that I did not downmod him, but at least 3 other people did. I was warning him before his account got hellbanned.

But I guess you see prefer to see bad intent.
Anyone in San Francisco willing to sell me some bitcoins? I'm looking to buy up to 10. We'll meet up in a café and I'll give you cash for them. I don't feel like jumping through hoops getting verified with Mt Gox. Happy to pay a 10% price premium...and happy to show you some ID.
That seems a bit of a bold claim, but I tried it and yup it does seem to work :) It isn't particularly useful for the scenario I described above as I already know how to get there, I just want to know the cheapest price, but I'll definitely remember it if I'm going somewhere new!

It does however suggest I walk across water to start with (there is a bus stop further distance wise that doesn't involve this that I usually take): http://i.imgur.com/FxhVhxj.png
Agreed, I spend a significantly large amount of time with 5-8 terminal tabs open and I've never been bugged by it. It's just very feature bare compared to iTerm.
Which part of which law here isn't consistent with which parts of physics and formal logic?
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Lost me at "Let me make this clear, AZURE IS GOING TO WIN the cloud computing infrastructure and platform battle." without providing any further justification for this bold claim.
it's absurdly easy to beat the "wallstreet sharks" at their own game. Buy shares of an index and hold.
Nice suggestions. I'll have to give Pusher a try one of these days. I've actually worked with the homegrown approach before, having my client connect to websocket endpoints that subscribe them to a redis channel where real-time updates are published as events occur within the system.

One thing that's often bothered me about that approach is how I've handled both websocket and RESTful HTTP endpoints from a single server. The solution mentioned by OP could go some way to allowing me to move the websocket/push handlers off to a dedicated server.
This 'push server' might consume the REST API exposed by my HTTP server to set up webhooks. It could then forward information coming in on the hooks to the client, using some push mechanism, be that websockets, Pusher, whatever.

Thanks for your reply :)
Care to elaborate how how to be more sure of reliability and validity? Any stories of inadequate examples or meaningless correlations?

Just trying to learn how to better read data
If you weren't against building site based on WordPress, a nice addition to the job board software list would be JobEngine: http://www.enginethemes.com/themes/jobengine

I think its design is quite more modern than most of the other players in the field. Here is the demo site: http://demo.enginethemes.com/jobengine
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> The biggest problem is that getting bitcoins is a major, major pain in the ass.

Not if you know where to look. People are buying coins on Bitcoinary within minutes. https://www.bitcoinary.com/

> it can still be completely devalued by litigation.

I doubt that. You can't litigate globally.

> Basically, all it takes to completely devalue bitcoins is to have one event that makes most bitcoin owners think the amount of time they have to cash out is minimal.

True for nearly all currencies or stocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

> But anyways, If mtgox was raided or taken down (and please don't say its not possible- Its totally possible)

Unlikely, but I suspect another exchange would spring in its place.

> There is no intrinsic value in bitcoins unless it is possible to easily trade them with a outcome of receiving capital.

Same for all currencies. The value of currency is belief in the piece of paper you hold.

> However, I doubt BTC would ever get gov backing, so it will eternally be at risk.

Perhaps not, but Bitcoin doesn't have to be the currency of a country to be successful. It's just an alternative currency and with some intersting properties.
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I'm amazed when this kind of usability is rolled out.

If they'd just asked 5 people for feedback.
Maybe a walmartcoin then. Nothing like buying sporting goods with p2p currency. I think it would do pretty well!
All LED bulbs I've seen say dimmer compatible, but most really aren't. I have comparably-priced LED bulbs from Home Depot already, and any less than 90% power they buzz loudly.
This is very similar to http://raining.fm which I'm a big fan of. Rainfall seems to be a nice approximation to pure white noise while having enough randomness to not be noisy.

The pomodoro style timer is also very handy.
often do a "git add -p" and commit different aspects works for me.
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is this meant to validate the comment you're replying to? a touchscreen is a terrible (primary) interface for a TV remote.
The fraud risk is the difference. You can reverse a trade or seize the stocks from fraud however you can not reverse a bitcoin purchase.
Who says a "Real Names" policy any significant impact on a harasser? It certainly wouldn't impact an offline harasser (except by making it easier to find their targets offline, of course).

And how many of the serious online harassers would really be deterred by it? I suspect that many or even most of the people who would be deterred by a "Real Names" policy aren't the ones doing the harassment in the first place. Plenty of people are willing to attach their names to offline harassment (e.g. Westboro Baptist Church) and I don't see why online harassment would be any different.
I wonder what you are talking about because ... A ye, must be something that Ghostery or No script (js enabled) is preventing. Or ad block.

I guess I don't know what is preventing me for having a bad experience, but I guess one of those 3.

update Found the issue. JavaScript was disabled on the page. Sorry if my post mislead.
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Ask HN: Behavioral analytics to measure and better manage mental health
I wanted to get feedback from the HN community on something I am working on. My startup has developed technology that determines the emotional relevancy of online content to the user as they browse. We run this data through our advanced behavioral analytics to capture signals and better understand the user's mental health. The technology adapts and creates appropriate interventions based on patterns over short and longer periods of use. We have adapted the solution for children 8-17 yrs. With kids spending over 7 hours connected to some form of technology, we thought that tracking behavior online was the best way to detect their state of mental health. We basically want to create an alert system where parents can be alerted to signs of depression and/or negative behavior/moods in real-time. There is a stigma around depression.It’s much easier for someone to accept they have a chronic physical condition vs. a mental health issue. We want to change that. Would love to hear your thoughts or opinion on what we are trying to do! Thanks!
I've had to use Windows again for a work project, it reminded me exactly why I switched to OSX. People have really different needs from their OS, we should be thoroughly glad we have 3 real contenders these days that you can use.

Although after using Explorer again I think Finder is no where near as bad.
Talking just about the incandescent ("classic") light bulb's life...isn't its life limited by the policy of "planned obsolescence"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Are there any lightbulb engineers on HN that can confirm that lightbulbs are indeed, so to speak, "made to fail"? Or is it actually really difficult to make a long-lasting lightbulb?
This leads us to a target market cap of 600 billion to 6 trillion USD, to be fulfilled by about 6 million bitcoin, which makes for easy calculations. That means that each bitcoin would be worth $100,000 at the low market cap and $1,000,000 at the high market cap.

There is some terrible math/economics here. You can have the bitcoin value @ $1/bitcoin and fulfill 6 trillion USD/day transactions if you want. The author forgot that Btc velocity matters here, and a lot.

BTC can be worth $1m right now, we don't have to wait for the 6 trillion USD transactions for that to happen. It's about investors, speculators and hoarders. Will the velocity of BTC be different than other currencies velocities? Well, we can't know for sure now, but it'll be interesting to watch how this currency evolve.

If you are betting on BTC, you should bet on a BTC business and not on the value of BTC itself.
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Indeed the ecosystem and support around source maps isn't super easy in total, but I wouldn't call any particular point in isolation particularly difficult. It's just that there is quite a few of them.
I think it's that annoying because there is a mismatch between your intention (scrolling the page incrementally) and its reaction (moving to the next "slide"). It acts out of your control.
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He lost me at hating on something.
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To fanboys it's only 'embarrassing' when it's the other sides problem. WWGS? (What would Gruber say?)

Also when I used to be a Mac administrator, the Apple private databases/forums would drive me mad. God forbid if you could do a Google search for what you are experiencing and find some discussion! Bugs? What Bugs?
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. Woz was true to himself while good to others and I love that.

If that makes him a "nerd", then I wish HN had more nerds!
"This article is half stern lecture on the merits of abstinence and half Kama Sutra."
The title is "Why I GPL", so one would expect the stuff in the article to explain why he's using GPL. But I agree with GP, much of it does not. To be clear, Zed Shaw creates a lot of cools stuff, and if it was up to me I would hire him in a second :) But that doesn't make this piece any good..

> Even though everyone was using my software, the vast majority of firms using Mongrel were startups

GPL is not going to fix that, it might actually make it worse as many companies don't like the GPL

> The last thing a startup wants to admit is that they don’t own their intellectual property

Maybe, but GPL is not going to fix that

> They want everyone, especially the VCs and investors, to believe that they’re all geniuses who “innovated” everything they run

GPL is not going to fix that

> When I looked around, companies had no problem admitting they used Ruby on Rails, hell that probably got them their funding

GPL is not going to change that

> What I didn’t see was them saying they used anything else, which meant that when I would try to get work, it was impossible for me to explain the magnitude of Mongrel’s impact

GPL is not going to change that, as you can still use it without telling anyone..

> To them it was just some simple web server that their system administrator had to use

GPL is not going to fix that

> After Mongrel I almost need companies to have to admit they use my software

GPL is not going to fix that

> I would actually rather nobody use my software than be in a situation where everyone is using my gear and nobody is admitting it

GPL could make this worse, but probably not.

> Or worse, everyone is using it, and at the same time saying I can’t code

What? who's saying that? :'(

Honestly, it looks like Zed should hook up with someone that could help him monetize his awesome work.
> Not if you know where to look. People are buying coins on Bitcoinary within minutes. https://www.bitcoinary.com/

I suppose if you dont mind the risk of your paypal account being limited, or the chance of being fucked in the trade- sure.

> I doubt that. You can't litigate globally.

Tell that to the USA and Megaupload. They took down one site (in another country) and the rest of the filelockers immediately shut down out of fear. Nobody wants to go to jail / lose their profits. Exchanges are motivated by profit, not philanthropy or zealotry to the bitcoin cause.

> True for nearly all currencies or stocks.

Stocks are a tangible asset. They are tied to the ownership of a company. Sometimes they pay dividends. Bitcoins are tied to nothing. Currency is tied to the status/growth of the nation attached to it.

> Unlikely, but I suspect another exchange would spring in its place.

Didnt happen that way for megaupload. Or pokerstars.

> Same for all currencies. The value of currency is belief in the piece of paper you hold.

Agreed. Other currency's have the benefit of being nation backed though.
If you're not a manager, it's not your job to criticize others. You can privately let the manager know why you think there was a failure, but that's just your opinion, the manager may see it differently.

If you are a manager, while it is your job to occasionally criticize performance, it is never your job to criticize people. Further, if someone is "fucking up constantly," it's your fault. Do they understand the requirements? Do they have the training to handle those requirements? Is that the right role for them? Your job as manager is to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in their role and is able to further grow in that role or into other roles. If they're not doing that, it's your mistake.

In all cases, Wozniak is right. The only person you can criticize is yourself.
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