skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe a Bitcoin will one day be worth at least thousands of dollars, too. However, I also think the road to that will be very bumpy, and I could see Bitcoin going to $100 now, then back to $20 all of the sudden. Then maybe go to $200 next year, and again back to $50, and so on. I don't think this will bother the people owning Bitcoin too much, and it shouldn't affect its future much, but it will probably make a lot of "normal" non-Bitcoin owners fear it and criticize it a lot. The truth is Bitcoin will not be a "stable" currency until its transactional value outweighs most of the speculations done on it, and that may not happen for a long time.
I dunno if anyone recommended this or not, but these days i'm into "Two Steps From Hell", especially their album "Invincible"
One place I worked at had a stock price that fluctuated. Some times it was 8c, other times it was 16c - we could actually double our stock price and still have to lay people off...
i use one of these to walk my dog. it's ridiculously bright and it's laughable when you see someone using a 'normal' flash light which basically just looks like someone using a zippo lighter to light their way.

bought 2 for the office and 1 for the car too. mine use regular AA batteries not the expensive high voltage rechargeable ones.

edit: this comment is about the same cree LEDs except in flashlight form.
Well I can undoubtedly say the UI of this watch is more sleek and seems a bit more classy than the pebble smart watch; but I have some concerns. First off, it's only developed for iPhone which leaves out a large part of the market. And secondly, (compared to pebble) there is no SDK for users to self-develop apps or features. With that being said I geuss it would have an appeal to less tech savy users.

We'll see how it does.
Another reason why you should self-host everything. Its not easy and can sometimes be a pain in the neck. But its worth knowing that you are in charge of your own information.

http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/02/17/self-host-everything/
Except your technology editor. He uses Firefox more than Chrome after you showed him tree style tabs.
Seldom do we get to hear from folks who almost made it big in such an instructive and open manner. Thank you.

Besides being a way to "see the world through the eyes of your friends", Instagram is a one-stop shop for taking pictures, photoshopping, and sharing to Facebook all in the same app.

I think the "genius", if you will, of Instagram is that it simplied things for users by combining two apps in one, without unnecessary features.
Historic prices in USD for those interested:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25
I think Terminal.app used to be pretty darn bad (leopard/snow-leopard era).

I find the current version (in mountain lion) to be quite reasonable though.
Can't wait for the impending "Fox News Kids" video channel.
Industry maybe. Local farmer, heck no. If they do, don't buy from them.

It might be added, that in Europe, farmers get subsidies from the European union, and thus can keep the flock in rather low size and still earn a living on it. It is still a rather small income however, so many local farmers now days only supplement their earning with cows/chicken/eggs/sheep, and their main income comes from something else.
The privileged class is not human. The logic was handed to you, you just ignored it.

"smart enough to to look at our behaviour and decide whether or not we're fair based on whether or not we also eat animals"

Yes of course an IQ number is a ridiculous way to draw a line; moving on.

'Animal' is a logical measure but 1. who cares about sea sponges and 2. it's not universal, what if aliens show up.

Drawing the line at creatures that are intelligent enough to draw this same line is a very clean and clever solution to the problem. Anything with minimal critical thinking skills is saved. Any dumb brute is fair game.
Ask HN: IRA funds and 401(k)s as your startup funding source?
Hello hackers,
I've just read the article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/martinzwilling/2013/03/06/10-more-creative-ways-to-finance-your-startup/

#10 says:
IRA financing. Investment Retirement Account funds and 401(k)s are arguably the single most accessible alternative funding source available today for startups. You can’t use your own self-directed funds for your startup, but many others are willing and able to loan you money from theirs, for the right terms, if they believe in you and your cause.

Anybody from HN used IRA and 401(k) for startup funding and can explain the procedure?
It certainly doesn't annoy me enough to skip a game that would otherwise be at the top of my list.
Well... yeah.

If the title was "Why I went all-in on Bitcion" would that be less of an anomaly for you?
try historio.us, so far I have found it too good. Once you save a bookmark, you can login and have a search similar to google that allows you to find right page from your bookmarked sites.
Where can we get these in Europe?
Paging Lawrence of Nunavut: Camel fossils found in Canadian Arctic
Not being able to handle legal file names is pretty embarrassing as bugs go these days. Path name handling is very testable, and a known source of problem since forever.
The site is so annoying I didn't even read the content. Terrible.
I wish I lance'd this job.

Here is a link with more specifics if you are interested:
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/71822-multi-million-f...
Can you provide a name from, or a link to, a company that makes these long lasting bulbs?
Your message is offtopic. Delete it before you get tons of downvotes, and your account gets banned.

Next time actually read the linked article before posting.
Linux for various OS needs?

Torrents for various digital content delivery needs?
bingo! You've hit the nail on the head on all fronts. But light blubs and the act of turning on and off lights are very tangible to the average person, compared to thermostat programming. Awareness itself is a big step, sadly.

Disclosure: I work for an energy efficiency company and basically telling people to do turn off / lower the settings is our business: opower.com.
Another great trick is using diagonal lines to calculate multiplication [1]. It's a neat little trick that really helps drive home an understanding of what 'multiplication' actually is, since it's just like the OP's grid of boxes but turned on its side and contracted down to points. The trick is getting 45 degree lines so they line up more easily.

The advantage of lines is that you can spew out multiplication in the double-digit by double-digit range quite quickly. 51x23 for example is super easy to calculate - 10 100's + 17 10's + 3 1's. You're essentially just doing 50x20 + 503 + 201 + 1*3, but with lines to track everything.

Show it to a kid, and watch it blow their mind.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5975917/quickly-multiply-big-numbers-t...
Like this? http://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/responsivetypography/realtim...
This is eye-opening:

"Goodman credits the company's success to--get this--in person seminars through Chambers of Commerce across the country."

The problem is most startups targeting SMBs have neither of the following - the numbers just aren't there and they have no idea how to get there:

"If you're a SaaS startup targeting the SMB market, you'd better either have an awesome freemium offering, or you'd better have a average customer lifetime of around 45 months."
Would music sales increase if better music was made (and released)?
Haha! I had the same story about substracting "impossible" numbers (I distinctly remember that it was 6-9) when I was like 5 or 6. Fortunately I had a very good teacher and she dismissed it politely, saying something like that was a little advanced and would be explained another year. We still talk and laugh about the anecdote whenever I met her on the street.

Math IS fun, but it's damn hard to teach, and that's why math teachers end up being hated more often than the rest. Learning math is much more about finding your way to the "eureka" moments than letting someone do it for you, but it's very satisfying once you get the hang of it.
Yes, indeed, we have the same, but it becomes much more useful if the exceptions being thrown by your dependencies are of high quality.
I remember some commenter saying on Scott Sumner blog, with reference to the discussion whether bitcoin is in bubble or not.

*The price of bitcoin is volatile, because the future of bitcoin is volatile*

Yes in one of this futures where Bitcoin is The Money having a whole bitcoin will be a big deal, in which case it will make no sense to speak of the price of bitcoin in dollars.

I can think also of a transition period when bitcoin will widely acceptd and function in parallel with the dollar. For such a future the price range seems about right
Linus would be considered the "one entity".
I seriously wonder what programmer / manager looks at this and thinks 'Yeah that's awesome, let's keep this!'.
Yes. C & C++ strings are so bad that most large libraries ship with their own string functions.
You also need to disable Chrome from auto-suggesting websites based on the URL you're typing. And take care not to use Google search. Or visit any pages with Google ads / analytics / CDN hosted files. Or use their DNS services. Or use Google Fiber or any of their public wifi. Or be in sight of anyone using Google Glass.
Map of Internet Routers in the world
Some videos on it. Looks pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQLj4XM9RLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSNKoVrnFo
play[1] and cog[2] used to be good, but it doesn't look like either of them have been updated in quite a long time...though the bitbucket repo for cog is showing some action, so maybe it will become active again at some point.

Vox[3] was also pretty decent last time I fiddled with it (quite a while ago).

[1]: http://sbooth.org/Play/

[2]: http://www.cogx.org/

[3]: http://voxapp.didgeroo.com/
New project: CarFinder.io - find your closest carsharing car
What position you applied for?
It does have a more trendy design. Reviews for their app in the App Store hasn't been good though. But it's great to have a variety of choices in what seems to be a hot market. Rumors of Apple having their own offering is really free advertising dollars for this people.

Haven't received my Pebble yet. Maybe I'll get it in Sep, 1 year late.
I'm at SXSWedu this week and News Corp has spent a fortune advertising the Amplify platform here. They've demoed many of their educational apps and the content they're developing, and it actually looks well tailored to classroom needs. It's a shame that News Corp is just about the least trusted brand in the country, because any other organization—Amazon, Apple, Microsoft—would be much more well received and praised for innovating within an industry which needs it so badly. I don't trust News Corp with student data, but there are no other companies creating an end-to-end platform this ambitious.
"We'd rather have the market dominated by companies who accept all of our censorship and allows us to install all the spyware we want into the devices".
At least he puts his money where his mouth is.
I also had to just press the back button 8 times to get back here.
The problem (at least when I last looked) was that Chrome's extension framework just plain makes it impossible to create an extension that supports side tabs properly.

I find Firefox uses less RAM on my machine and the extensions work far better, I don't any advantage to using Chrome.
The biggest problem is that getting bitcoins is a major, major pain in the ass. You need to setup bank transfers, confirm your DNA and get a rectal exam to buy them from any exchange. 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 will never change for online purchases, because the way bitcoin works- there is no takey backeys (so credit card purchasing is out to buy bitcoins). So, either there will be massive fraud, or massive barrier to entry. The only way around it is retail, in person bitcoin exchanges/stores. Sort of like you see in international airports with currency exchanges.

Also, Even though Bitcoin cant be destroyed in a physical sense, it can still be completely devalued by litigation. The US has shown they are serious about anti-gambling and if this starts taking off, they simply need to go after the exchanges. Making it hard to buy bitcoins = BTC value goes down. Making it hard to sell (remember when pokerstars was shutdown? Everyone withdrew everything from ALL sites) and the value goes down catastrophically fast.

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.

How do you think the market would react if mtgox had a 'megaupload' style moment? It doesn't even have to be realistic- The US gov could just say terrorists might be using it to funnel funds or something.

But anyways, If mtgox was raided or taken down (and please don't say its not possible- Its totally possible) the effects on the market would be massive and instantaneous. When megaupload was taken down, all its competitors shut down out of fear as well. Its likely that would happen in this situation in a similar fashion.

There is no intrinsic value in bitcoins unless it is possible to easily trade them with a outcome of receiving capital. Yes you can trade bitcoins for services, but the person giving you services is not going to do that unless HE can get cash from this. 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.

I think the pro-bitcoin line to counter what I am saying is that someday people wont care if it converts into USD, because bitcoins will be more valuable. Its not totally bullshit- The USD is no more 'real' than a bitcoin, with the exception of it being established and backed by our gov. However, I doubt BTC would ever get gov backing, so it will eternally be at risk.
or ...focus finder forward (click empty desktop or command-tab to finder or click dock finder) and hit command-k.

... or right click dock finder and choose connect to server
This site hijacked my back button as I scrolled. Please don't!
Definitely not off topic for a site full of engineers and designers. It is a huge pain to navigate, especially when you get to the 3 bulb types near the bottom and as you scroll you accidentally hover over one of the bulbs.
Show HN: ApplPi, a stochastic noise machine
Same way "Satoshi Nakamoto" can be considered "one entity".

I think the parent meant someone to execute grand strategy all the way, not the very powerful and important rock that started the avalanche.

I think such entity is not necessary. On the internet good things that get started tend to grow on their own to fulfill all the need if they are useful without wealthy entity to support the growth, sometimes even against coalition of wealthy entities.

Easily transferable wealth storage is useful.
Most startups fail. Betting your retirement funds on something
likely to fail is entirely unwise. Allowing others to bet their
retirement funds on something likely to fail is inconsiderate
and possibly disingenuous. There is a reason why a person being
qualified as an "Accredited Investor" is often a requirement
for them to be allowed to invest in startups. The risk is substantial,
and it's unwise to have people betting their retirement on risky
investments.
One (little cunning) advice I received to deal with 'battle of egos' was to introduce a third person, a third reviewer to break the tie. Ideally the person should be one to whom you both respect (due to authority or whatever) and are ready to take his/her word. Cunning part can be he/she should be the one you know will agree with your review comments/thoughts (which should be easy since you know your concerns are valid). This is assuming such battles are rare and people are open for genuine review comments.
It's because he doesn't show or tell the reader what he's working on. He only talks about "my next website" and "this project". I figured if he had shown it to the world he wouldn't mind linking to it in this post at the very least... But of course I could be completely wrong. I just can't tell by this blog post.
Is there any empirical evidence regarding the productivity of remote workers?
Agree that long term the value of Bitcoin will go up provided that there is no technical flaw that gets exploited in the long run (which I'm not sure will be the case).

However, these predictions are completely wrong. At best the drivers of Bitcoin growth in the foreseeable future will be illegal trade and people trying to capitalise on the growth in value by speculatively buying up Bitcoins. The growth of Bitcoins has a theoretical cap though, because the more common they become in illegal trade, the more likely they are to be outright banned by governments. If they can't ban people from buying drugs they will just stop them by proxy by banning Bitcoins.

The idea that ordinary people will go through the hassle of transacting in Bitcoins is nonsensical.
I'm not seeing what's so special about these bulbs.
> Yes you can trade bitcoins for services, but the person giving you services is not going to do that unless HE can get cash from this.

Nice try, buddy, but it's services all the way down. If I can pay for food and rent with it, no exchange is needed.

That said, right now you basically can't. Soon, though, soon.
The problem is, you're moving the goalposts too. "It just works" wouldn't apply if you need to hack together automater script...
no mercury hazard - you don't have to vent your house and worry about mercury exposure if a bulb breaks.
Am I the only one not impressed by these 60 watt bulb replacements? 60 watt bulbs leave my entire place looking dim and depressing, sure good colors are nice, but if I can't see anything, what does it matter?

My light fixtures were designed for a few 100 watts, replacing them with these 60 watt LEDs may save me power, but at the cost of my eyesight!

I am more interested in true 100, or even better, 150 watt, replacement bulbs. Get those in a good package size with some energy savings!
I don't like bitcoin because everytime I turn on the Bitcoin app it takes so long to "Synchronize with the network". Basically confirm transactions for other people. I'm not sure what is the algorithm's running time. Is it O(n) where n is number of transactions? That would be excessive, because the number of transactions is very much bigger than O(m) where m is the number of people.

Anyway, there is a chance I'll be wrong and bitcoin will be worth $1 million one day. To hedge against this possible situation I have procured myself 0.05 of a coin, some year or two ago when they were worth $0.8 each. At the time I basically took the number of bitcoins that will ever exist and divided by current population of the US. 21m/300m = 0.07, of which my 0.05 is pretty close to.
I don't want to sound smug or anything, but didn't you study it in school? In Spain we learn it in fifth or sixth grade, just after learning the concept of square root. I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the rest of the world.

The algorithm is a little complicated compared to other things that we study at that age, but it's not really difficult, although most (and I mean MOST) people, even engineers and such, forget it when they don't need it any more. It infuriates me a little that no teacher explained to us why did it work, but that gave me oportunity to "reverse engineer" the method a few years later, and expand it to a generic n-root algorithm.
The U.S. Must Protect Internet Freedom
You need to start a C corp and roll it into a corporate retirement account under your new corporation. Your average financial advisor should be able to do this pretty cleanly for you.

That being said I think its a really really bad idea but what do I know
This is so true. I wonder if Apple realizes how many of us feel this way?
I got my parents a Switch[1] bulb for Christmas. If the Cree bulb is anything like it, I'll be swapping out the CFLs I use the most right away--$13 at Home Depot is better than the ~$45 I paid for the Switch. It puts out great light and "feels" better than a CFL bulb. Not sure if it's the ballast frequency, color temp, or the spiky emission spectrum, but CFLs bother me.

1. http://switchlightingco.com/
My main gripe with Novel and now Xamarin is that they don't provide packages for Debian and Ubuntu, arguably the most popular Linux distributions.

For instance if you go to Mono's download page to checkout the options, the only Linux distribution supported by them is OpenSuse: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

Of course one could argue that Debian (and Ubuntu that relies on Debian's repository) has a culture of packaging stuff by themselves and indeed in the case of Mono there are people that do just that. But those packages are always behind the current version and you can't blame the maintainers for that. And lots of software companies, including Google and Mozilla, are providing packages for Debian/Ubuntu for the latest versions by themselves. It's actually the norm with Ubuntu to setup third-party PPAs that provide packages for something missing from the main repository.

So Miguel here complains about fragmentation on the Linux desktop. It's funny, because they ignore the largest distributions around. At least if instead of OpenSuse they supported Red Hat, I would understand.

Also, my experience with OS X has not be so pleasant. Miguel is a damn good developer, but he must be using a really simple toolchain.

When you are working day-in day-out with Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Mysql, Postgresql, GCC, Casandra, MongoDB, Memcached and dozens of other technologies, installing that stuff and having it work on OS X is amongst the most frustrating experiences I ever had, no matter if you're doing it by hand or with MacPorts or with Homebrew. All available options on OS X suck. I couldn't give a fuck about binaries of commercial software packages working, as long as I can't manage the toolchain I depend on daily.

Another thing with OS X is that it just works, until it doesn't. After that you're in Windows-land again, the preferred option being to just reset/reinstall everything. Linux can be painful sometimes, but for most problems you can find documented fixes.

Also, he's a little out of date. Ubuntu has been rock solid for me on my Thinkpad for the last couple of months since I got my current laptop. Of course, I preferred a model with Intel HD 4000 instead of a Geforce, so a little research into hardware may be needed to ensure good compatibility, but on the other hand you can't run OS X on anything else other than a couple of Macbook models. Try building a Hackintosh sometimes and your appreciation for Linux will change.
Computer apps are not to be judged by what they do or how well they do it. Rather, it is more important that they feel natural to normal humans and they are led to the right actions.

This statement makes me sad... but I cannot articulate exactly why.

Edit: I like the essay in general. It's very motivating. It would have been great advice when in highschool.
I'm impressed by how well the response was written. Every sentence seemed to be written in a very unambiguous way. The phrasing may have been awkward, but was very appropriate for a Korean audience.
I would hope that an LED wouldn't melt its way through my apartments fixings like the compact fluorescents have.
We're also an oracle java certified and redhat certified and VMware certified and more of our kit is on Linux, so it's not biased :)

My point is that we're citably competent all the way through.
A light bulb is the biggest thing since the light bulb? The light bulb was the greatest invention of the 20th century, but the story is about to an energy saving light bulb sold at Home Depot?