skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any exchange where I can short sell bitcoins? Besides the fact that this will almost definitely be a profitable strategy in the near future, it would seem that allowing both short and long positions would create market stability. Most securities exchanges allow both short and long positions.
Why'd you choose to build it in jQuery Mobile instead of native code?
From what most game devs seem to say, most of the industry revolves around finding naive young developers who learned to program because they loved video games, hiring them on salary without explaining that they will work 80-100 hours per week (or promising overtime that you never intend to pay), and then spending the duration of the project reminding them how worthless they are and that there are a dozen CS grads who would love to take their places. Finally, having lost the will to live, they quit the business and settle down into nice, stress-free .NET jobs, where they will spend the next several years trying to regain faith in humanity.
but I really confused that if you have this idea before, why you didn't published it on the Github partially?

You oldest commit is for 1 day ago.
I originally put about $500 dollars into Bitcoin to play with.
Have withdrawn about $2000 cash and still have about 35 BTC worth left.
Would have loved to get in on this back in the early days...
Here's a list of the top 100 large wallets from Dec, 2011. The biggest wallet then had 447785 BTC. Anyone have an updated list?

http://bitcoinreport.appspot.com/
When you are dealing with AAA budgets, anything less than 3M copies is likely a loss, and you usually have to venture into 5M copies to start actually making money, generating value and creating confidence in the brand / IP.

The AAA arms race has destroyed many studios, IPs and careers. 10 years ago, it used to be that one single hit could pay off your other 9 underperforming titles. With budgets going up 10x and top sales going up at best 2x, that balance can't hold and you have to be ruthless killing underperformers. I'm not a fan of Bobby Kotick (I was part of one of his layoffs!), but look at how he has led Activision as a company.
Good point. Even if each piece is simple, the mere fact that there are so many is complecting.
Have you tried just the fizzy flavored water you can buy at the grocery store? The taste takes some getting used to (not really sweet when compared to cokes) but I've found that what I liked most about soda is the fizz.

After dropping soda I can't even drink half a can because of the sweetness but YMMV.
Clean. Very clean and easy.

Quick Bug: (Chrome on OS X, haven't checked elsewhere)for your modal (specifically modal.fade.in in bootstrap.css line 5004) you have "top:50%", which causes the very top of the modal to be cut off. Simply bumping it to 60% fixed it. Don't know if anybody else is having this same problem.

Best of luck to you!
Memex was recently discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378841
I don't believe that you actually have any understanding of the supply/demand economics of booms/busts necessary to be skeptical of parent.

Increasing demand of a finite resource drives the price up. This drives the demand up even more.

The real value of a Bitcoin is still in USD, of course, so at some point it's going to cross over a line where the people holding Bitcoins want to get rid of it.

Decreasing demand of a finite resource drives the price down. This drives the demand down even more.

The fact that the price is accelerating so quickly indicates a runaway effect.

What, do you _really_ think the real-world USD value of all the Bitcoins in the world has doubled in two weeks?
No, upvotes get an article on the frontpage, and also give you karma. But that karma doesn't help you in the future.
As a telephony enthusiast I enjoyed your exchange immensely. Thanks guys. It's a great example of what makes HN special.
Twisted's inlineCallbacks singlehandedly turn Twisted in my mind from an abomination into something that is a joy to work with. In lei of a more hands off Erlang/Go approach, I am convinced that style is the only way to go.
This guy is becoming a prominent fragilista.
Japanese Robot Actroid Gets More Social, Has No Fear of Crowds
Minnesota file-sharing case finally ends after six years—$222,000 ruling stands
And what problems are they "trying" to solve?

This is what traction looks like, sometimes it's messy. That doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

What does legitimising a currency mean anyway? It's already used as a medium of exchange and a store of value, that's legitimate.

But if you are going to try and compare it to the "legitimacy" of fiat money, you're not going to find what you're looking for.

Bitcoin is an anarchist concept, it does not seek to be legitimised. It is achieving exactly what is set out to do.

you could just see the fluctuations as the currency being honest about its value as opposed to fiat money which is just as vulnerable yet artificially stabilised (legitimised?).
It's really bothering me that all of the newspaper stories about this are defining this as a "hack". That has a very negative connotation and is coloring peoples' opinion about this case.

As far as I understand it, the data was publicly accessible and merely visiting the URL output the data he found. I don't view that as hacking.
you mean like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5396535
Well, he knows more about it than I do, I'm sure, but I'm not persuaded by the argument he's presented here.

Put yourself in the shoes of the injured party, and ask yourself how you'd feel if people investigating your case told you not to worry about it, even though you had spend a lot of money on hardening your servers and even though losing control of your servers to the extent that people could post fake stories on your website kind of damages your standing as a major newspaper.

After reading the indictment, with Keys' encouragement to his co-conspirator to 'go fuck some shit up' I don't see how a prosecutor could do other than indict him. That does not mean the prosecution is trying to put him in jail for 25 years, and Wu knows that full well. 'Sharpie,' the anonymous member he corresponded with over IRC, did limit him(?) self to just joking around, posting the fake news story about 'Chippy 1337,' and I suspect that if caught he would receive only a misdemeanor charge. But for all Keys knew, he might have engaged in far more destructive acts.
Everyone holding Bitcoins is a speculator. If they believe the price is only going down, they will sell and crash the market, just like before.

Notice i did not say everyone using bitcoins are speculators.. but if you are say a merchant with goods available in bitcoins, (and you don't wish to speculate) you will peg your price to your local currency, and after selling your goods will sell your bitcoin immediately for local currency. Which means you are no longer holding bitcoin or having any impact on bitcoin demand.
Sure, NAT and a few more blocks will help. For a while...

With the recent IPv4 address burn rate — the allocation rate the last remaining addresses block were issued — reclaiming a half-dozen /8 blocks would be a rearguard action at most, and an effort and a hassle that would detract from IPv6.

For data, select the column with the IANA date sort here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...

and then consider how long a few more added /8 blocks would really last. By my count, fourteen /8 blocks since 2009. And the rate that network-connected devices are arriving isn't slowing.
The Economic Case for Rail Subsidies
They're not negligent? Would you like them to handle your private data in this fashion? How about your children's data?
about:config seems like another way of saying the advanced preferences tab. Which I believe is what the above poster is arguing for.

You're arguing for the same thing.
As someone with no Rust experience but tons of C and C++ experience, this article's a nice synopsis of Rust's memory mangagement. The patterns will be familiar to C++ developers but it's a refreshing take to see these baked into the language.

I recommend reading through to punchline at the end of the "References" section. That's a nice example of how elevating these memory management patterns to a first-class language constructs results in a design win over C and C++.
He lists all the ingredients on his blog, and talks about why he chose each one. He also discusses effects he felt when experimenting with the proportion/amount of certain nutrients. There's no "magic" in this at all.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424

Thats the link for the ingredients. Blog posts around there discuss some modifications that were made here and there.

As for production, I think many things like this can be replicated. However, I'd love to just buy this, or at least a "base version" rather than sourcing all the various nutrients and powders, then measuring/mixing them, etc.
Or perhaps anybody that eats somewhat healthy and runs 7 miles (a day?) is likely to be in pretty good health.
Most prefs live on in about:config, and can be set in peers.js. This is probably easier to automate anyway.
Not for reddit:

So far we're spending more money on accountants handling the non-trivial
reconciliation of our BTC transactions than revenue we're making in Bitcoin,
haha. Hopefully it will get better.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/19t3uq/hey_rbitcoin...
US Treasury Guidance on Virtual Currencies (aka Bitcoins)
While colours don't always play a role, they often do. Shapes definitely play a major role in graphic design. I think it's all about the shapes and proportions.

Eating with a spoon that's bigger than your mouth would be poor design for many humans. Design plays a really big role in usability.
The turn around rate is 1-2 weeks before they received venture capital and lowered the price. Although, I believe that $49 deal came with yearly subscription? And you have to pay a bit extra to see all the cool new stuff.
How marvel converted ironman 3 trailer into a website ( keep scrolling )
One thing I love about gevent is that you can share code between async and non-async. Most of my project benefits from async IO, but there's one part that needs to use a lot of CPU within a single process. So that part uses multithreaded Jython, the rest uses gevent, the common code is shared, and it all just works.
The merge tool (p4merge) is a dream, I shoehorn it into any VCS I use including TFS.
Isn't all of this information available on the Stripe Dashboard?
...and bass (for bassists), and talesfromtechsupport (a place for IT to vent and relax) are fantastic and supportive. Reddit is a big place.
No, not really. Even I don't support his arrest and imprisonment, but what he did was really a hack - He did something that normal people wouldn't do and extracted those emails. Of course, AT&T was assholish enough to have him convicted, but still, this guy was at wrong..He deserved a nice whack maybe, but 3 years of his life is too much to pay for. Heck, even rapists and murderers spend less than that, sometimes.
It's more akin to having a valet service and leaving people's cars unlocked, I think.
Drew,
Good job with launching this. I'm curious to know how you are printing this - Do you have access to an existing printer (that's shown in the image), or did you actually build up those facilities yourself?
It would be great for the system by creating more liquidity.
Short selling Bitcoins would be an incredibly risky move on your part. There are no financial regulations in place to prevent market manipulation. You used to be able to short sell on Bitcoinica and there were some really questionable margin calls that took place.
23andme also has upgraded their website but still in beta mode. You guys can opt in for it here https://www.23andme.com/you/beta_optin/
That's circular reasoning. We started with, "he accessed a computer". Then we asked, "what was his criminal intent in accessing that computer?" You can't answer, "to access that computer."

If he had sold the data to the Russians, that would have been the criminal intent we're seeking.
I made it as part of SandPHP's JS suite and SandPHP is still a private repo.
OTOH, I've just checked your first intro.js commit is Mar 10, 2013 and I asked around IRC on the 9th and you're asking for a DMCA takedown sigh...
Pleasure's mine Josh - always love rapping cloud communications and you always bring a great eye to the subject.

More to come I'm sure!
On Pantastic, I can click on 'Pay Now' without filling out any of my contact information, or uploading an image. You (Pantastic) may want to validate all that before sending the user to the payment page to avoid headaches later on.
NetFlix Invites Open Source Cloud App Develpment
Netflix‘s lack of official support for Linux may not do much to help its popularity within the open source world. Yet in a sign that the company does remain eager to wield stronger influence in this space–especially where it intersects with the cloud–it has announced a contest for open source developers “to build something cool using or modifying our open source software.” And it has committed a fair amount of cash to seeing the initiative through.
Yes, go ahead:

http://mpex.co/
https://icbit.se/

I want to load some more, so the more you short them the merrier.
Really interesting stuff. I was expecting a crash or at least "return to normal" in that period where the price jumped to around $25 (before a mini-crash to like $16, and then the subsequent takeoff to the 40s).

Personally, I dont think they're worth $50, but heck, thats a horrible reason for you not to buy them. A more objective reason not to buy now is that there are people holding thousands of bitcoins. If a few of them (or maybe even one big player) sells tons of them, it could cause a crash like last time, when the price fell from $33ish to almost 0.

Interesting times for bitcoin either way.
Welcome to America, where a football team, it's coach, a local government, and a lawyer can be involved in covering up the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl with a minimum of consequences, but you can't download a double-album, or publicly funded research without having your life ruined.
Simple Qt QML vs Enlightenment EFL comparison
It has been established that the only "calculation" the server does inform other cities of your available resources in your unopened, frozen city. Additionally, it handles game saves. All city simulation is handled client side.

So to run an offline region you'd need to engineer a local save, and then figure out a way to determine the available resources in these locally saved cities. Something pretty advanced, like a 1kb CSV might be able to handle it.
Yes, they're generics implemented with C-style pointers under the hood. The use of raw C-style pointers is restricted to designated "unsafe" blocks.
The definitive Samsung Galaxy S IV hands-on roundup
The actual page has several conspicuous issues. First, the typeface is consistently too thin. You really ought to be using more robust type weights. Second, there are too many textures that are too profligate. They distract from the actual content and the variations in texture from block to block create a somewhat grating reading experience. Moreover, the texture feels sort of perfunctory: it seems as though you just pulled five gaudy textures from Subtle Patterns.

The actual idea is novel, but I'm not sure how large the demand will be: panorama software (especially on mobile phones) tends to be inconsistant and produces rendering errors, and most everything my iPhone produces isn't fit for large-format display. Moreover, the price is somewhat high. I acknowledge that printing large images is expensive, but this is a non-essential service and is somewhat of a gimmick. It will be hard to convince prospective customers to drop $25 on something like this.

However, the idea is novel and the name is great.
Convention Over Incantation?
As if google reader didn't have ads? If monetization was the issue, why didn't they allow a paid option to keep it going?

It seems like you are ignoring some simple business issues.
If 500 million people were to embrace Bitcoin to the point where they own on average $100 worth, then it would represent $50 Billion in value (500 Million x $100). With only 20 Million Bitcoins in circulation, each Bitcoin would be worth $2500.

That's discounting other deflationary factors.

I think it would be nuts to put all your savings in Bitcoin, but as a hedge against fiat currencies and interesting place to put play money: time to buy!
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As simple as it was, the "squares" will always see this behavior as "hacking". Which is one of the many reasons why we should have much more specific laws than we have. The phrase "access to a computer" is so vague and vapid that it's useless for writing a just law.
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The objective of a company is to obtain profits in the present and in the future. If they don't care about customers, they sacrifice future profits.
The "What is Pantastic?" section doesn't really answer the question. Those three points could be applied to almost any decorative item sold online; they don't tell me that you print panoramas that I upload.

I'd also really like some pictures of the finished product.
A pre-requisite for this would be liquid Bitcoin lending, to establish the Bitcoin rates market.
I'd like to know why Sony was allowed to turn off our ability to install other OS'es on the PS3's we had _already_ bought. That's like if the dealership showed up with a mechanic and said they changed their minds and want the turbocharger back.
Probably the best essay written in the past 30 years.

Supposedly, all work gradually stopped at Harper's the afternoon DFW submitted the manuscript. Every single person in the office was reading hastily-Xeroxed copies of it.
No, that's missing Rich's point - "complexity and cardinality are orthogonal".

AFAICT, Leiningen is the living proof that you can build an all-encompassing architecture without renouncing to simplicity.
Show HN: My First iOS Game - Lumio
Wow, this is a fascinating list. So we know there are at least 25 bitcoin millionaires (bitcoin wallets with value > $1,000,000 USD).
I had some benchmarks show odd results and others were the expected increase.

You might try building a new server on Digital Ocean with VirtIO enabled. It's an experimental option for new servers and you can contact support to have it enabled on existing ones, but should show further improvements according to some other folks in the support community.
Microsoft HdInsight service is now in preview and part of Windows Azure Portal
I would be happy to lend you bitcoin you can sell (secured with sufficient collateral of course).
Opt-in Internet porn filter across 4 major UK ISPs humming along nicely
If everyone took your second piece of advice and only used it for discrete transactions, then Bitcoin would be worth exponentially more than it is now, which would invalidate your first piece of advice. The number of bitcoin users is still exceptionally small.
When it breaks the back button I'm not going anywhere near this web page again.
Nah. If I give any website my email address, I have a reasonable expectation it won't be published on that website in a public manner ripe for harvesting. Unless of course the Ts&Cs I'm signing explicitly say it will (somewhere prominent, preferably in bold red with flashing letters).
I'm far from a bitcoin bull, but shorting a market that's gained 500% in a few months is suicidal.
If by calculus you meant Calculus 1, 2, or 3 as taught in the first year or two of college, they are a far cry from subjects like number theory and differential geometry. If you meant something like real analysis, then I seriously doubt that you had an easy time.

Anyway, I just read the paragraph with the sentence quoted by geoka9 (it's in the "How I Stopped Eating Food" post), and I call BS on it, too.
Could that be because of old vs new hardware?
Totally agree about 50% of the joy coming from learning to use git. Frustrating at times, but in the end, that's the kind of thing that keeps me learning to code!

If I understand correctly, the subtree workflow is a (relatively) newer thing, and there is an actual subtree command either newly added or soon-to-be added which simplifies things a little further.

I decided to learn the old, hard way before I started exploring the subtree command itself (prior to the addition of the command, my understanding is that "subtree" represented a merge strategy, from which evolved the subtree "workflow" and out of which a git contributor evolved a "command," which appears to have been added to git 1.7.11:

http://log.pardus.de/2012/08/modular-git-with-git-subtree.ht...

I will likely follow up at some point with a post on using the actual subtree command as well.
Congratulations. The photo of your physical printing space is a big plus, it shows that you're for real. You could look for ways to highlight that more, and have real people with the final printed product to show its scale and quality.
For such large amounts, you can't simply calculate the number of bitcoins * price per bitcoin, since the act of selling such large amounts would itself affect the price.
I Speculate on Bitcoin by holding a few, but be-careful! First if you read the forums a lot there are a lot of scaling issues happening at the moment (Max block size) that mean Bitcoin cannot handle a large amount of transactions and this will put a big dampener on the BTC being worth thousands of dollars.

Second, time to buy is never when the price is sky-rocketing. Bitcoin is not perfect and we need to see what the devs do over the next year to decide if Bitcoin will ever be allowed to scale because at the moment Bitcoin cannot scale up beyond 2-4 times its current usage and adoption.
I felt very lightheaded most of the time, but I did feel more energetic. It was very strange feeling. It's not something I'd do for the fun of it, but I'd certainly do it again as a diet because it seemed to work.
Although I do think the sentence was ridiculous this is a good life lesson. When a man or group of men hold the fate of your life in their hands, take the moment seriously. Those smart comments will seem like a waste of time once you're behind bars trust me. Anyone that's been to jail can tell you only one thing - do anything you can in your power to avoid going there. At the point of sentencing the gears are in motion. Don't apply oil by being an open-mouthed fool.
This recent spike may have a lot of do with this just-issued repot from the Treasury department.

http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G...
Shorting a market that's recently undergone a significant price spike is actually a quite common strategy, betting that it's a temporary anomaly and will revert to the long-run trend. I have no idea whether it's a good strategy here, but it's hardly unusual. In fact, it's probably the common case: you short-sell things that you think are over-valued, and things that have undergone rapid escalations in price where your analysis doesn't conclude that the fundamentals support it are prime candidates. Lots of people made money shorting $140/barrel oil in 2008, for example; or shorting real-estate in the mid-2000s, which had been on a decade-long upward trajectory just prior to the crash.