skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase not transferring bitcoins
More than 24 hours ago I tried to transfer bitcoins from my coinbase wallet to another. The transaction is still pending when it should have taken no more than 60 min.

This seems to be a known issue that is being worked on [https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/314167537501868032, https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/314173853028986881, http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1anvaz/warning_avoid_coinbase/], but is troubling how there is no indication when this problem will be solved. A disconcerting reminder that unless your bitcoins are in your wallet, they aren't yours!
If you go to the sign saying 'Put stuff in this box so you don't lose it' and then go down the map in a straight line, until you get to desert. There's a little skinny bit of desert the goes between two blobs of ocean? Just above and to the left of that there appears to be a surface spawner,

There also seems to be quite a few chunk-error style generation artifacts.

Minecraft servers with world maps that allow users to select different view styles need to be gently careful. One longform troll is to mine an enormous swastika at a specific depth. It takes so long to do this that map-resets are unpopular.
Hey jashkenas / Michael, how funny, we are just in the review process of our book (also at O'Reilly) covering functional programming techniques in JavaScript! It is in German, and with lots of tasty Curry recipes we explore currying in programming and cooking at the same time. :)
Our book is called "Das Curry-Buch" (the curry book) and you can find it here: http://is.gd/currybuch
Check it out, I think there cannot be enough books on functional programming! :)
GoPro Uses DMCA to Take Down Article Comparing Its Camera with Rival
One of the few exceptions to this annoyance I feel as well is Lessig's ongoing talk-athon regarding govt corruption.

No amount of attention-whoring is overkill for this subject, especially when considering that Lessig could easily make 10x the amount of money he is making now by going to some white shoe law firm.
Rails is an opinionated framework. Many very smart people already came up the best practices for building a web application through several dozens of releases over almost 10 years. Just follow the best practice. If you are not happy with Rails being what it is, just change it to some other framework.

Having 50-100k loc files sound horrible by the way. I would not want that to happen in Rails.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-107

"The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA's Voyager 1 has left the solar system," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
> Read the comments and you'll find out that Mezzanine isn't yet compatible with Django 1.5, causing headaches for those trying to install it for the first time.

Django 1.5 came out less than a month ago. Given the size of Mezzanine, it's not surprising that it hasn't been upgraded immediately.

I'm not sure why this would effect the install process, either: any host that can handle Django apps is likely to have both 1.4 and 1.5 available at the very least.
>For context, I'm a cunt

FTFY
It seems from the comments from the individuals involved in the incident that the "perpetrators" of said offensive have been genuinely apologetic and remorseful. While Ms. Richards although apologizing for the fact that one of the jokers lost their job has not really apologized for making this a big stink over social media. I agree, if you have a concern use the Code of Conduct to your advantage or talk to them directly but why take their picture and post it on twitter with some vague description what you think they said if not to shame or humiliate them publicly. Well, why would she apologize? Being a media personality, (that what she is, a tech PR person that gets in front of people and talks for a living, ignore the Tech. Evanglist BS), using social media effectively is probably integral to her business model. If she admits that the original posting to twitter was uncalled for then its akin to saying she can't do part of her job in an ethical manner. So what is she to do, double down of course. Instead of being an adult and admitting she made a mistake as well, she needs to play the "Joan of Arc" card in order to garner more sympathy and divide the audience. Sure she makes herself look like an asshole to some but doing it but at least she saves face with a lot of people she hopes to potentially sell her services to. Instead she should admit that she got ticked off and decided to use her considerable PR skill to make an example out of two people. Well guess what, pay back is a bitch. I just checked your blog and it's down. It seems cloudfire isn't helping you, and by the Out of memory error message that's returned, (which by the way, if you are a "tech evangelist" you should know is incredibly insecure to display error messages like that on a production website) it seems like that DDOS is working. The internet is a double edged sword and it seems like it's swinging back her way. From my point of view, this is the ultimate in fairness. Her actions caused a person to lose their job, (I don't believe for a second that if she had not posted to twitter, if she had gone to the con staff or directly confronted the jokers, that anybody would have lost a job.) so she should lose an equivalent dollar amount in lost job opportunities and page views.
github: jackinloadup
http://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelorette
Thanks! These are some of the questions we've been mulling over. We are working on importing existing CSS, but as far as importing the framework - that's another hurdle. We will be giving our designers either choices of frameworks to work from (bootstrap, foundation, etc) when creating a new website or our own framework - it all depends on the goal of the designer (to export the code or continue to use Webflow to build the website). Really, our personal goal is to give designers the best tools so they don't have to worry about frameworks. All they have to do is design and everything just works.
If the engineers that worked on Voyager 1 haven't won an award yet for the longevity and success of this program it's a damn shame.

It might be time to throw together a site chronicling old stuff in space that still works.
It never really occurred to me that natural science is an effort to reverse-engineer the universe.
Amusingly the general classes of "users who leave default passwords" and "users who click through a warning" are going to have a big intersection.
Definitely, I totally agree with that assessment. I know everyone's pain is different, and chronic pain is never a walk in the park. This isn't going to work for everyone as a magick cure all, but it definitely helps to stay positive.
Actually, there's a strong case for 'tort of false light'.
She makes completely untenable points, mostly. Read here for a great write-up: http://madartlab.com/2013/03/13/amanda-palmer-and-the-privil...

In a nutshell - it's much easier to rely on donations once somebody else (in Amanda's case, her label) has done the hard work of making you famous. If you're an artist with at best local fame, as most artists are, charge for your music.
But the takedown notice doesn't actually claim any content infringes on GoPro's copyrights, does it? There are zero allegations of copyright violation listed here, so it seems like zero pages should have been taken down. Is that not right? (Not a lawyer, just a question.)
http://www.quora.com/TEDx/Is-Randy-Powell-saying-anything-in...

It's not gated if you add share=1.
I absolutely get fewer of these. I would blame it on getting less press about our company, but they used to alert me when we posted new blog posts on our own company blog, and I never receive those anymore. I can confirm that Google Alerts we used to receive have stopped coming.
If they were cheap, people would still buy them because they are incredibly pretty stones. The social aspect of diamond engagement rings would fall apart but they wouldn't go away.

Come on - even if you're against the industry and everything they stand for, a large, well cut, diamond under the extreme lighting of a jewelry store counter is a beautiful thing.
Looks like this is also the topic of Robert Scoble's new book. "The age of context". http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelisrael/2012/07/17/announcing...
MongoDB's MapReduce implementation is not being deprecated. The primary beneficiary of the V8 implementation is MapReduce, so it should be seen as further investment in this area.

You can also run Hadoop MapReduce over data in MongoDB directly (24 - 29): http://www.slideshare.net/spf13/mongodb-and-hadoop
Probably not worth it to risk, but the notice from GoPro did not identify any copyrighted works that were being used. They only identified trademarks.
Awesome execution guys and great design!
Ask HN: Naming our startup: does it matter?
I met my co-founder a month ago.

He had the vision of creating a better P2P marketplace and has gotten some starting traction (around 500-1000 signups).

I've jumped on-board because I believe in the vision, but the name has always left a sour taste in my mouth.

I've asked for people's opinions on the name, and also asked on /r/startups (http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1afhlm/ask_rstartups_whats_your_opinion_on_the_name/). I've always received either neutral or negative feedback.

Am I being too obsessive about the name of this start-up? Or is it something that is worth changing while we're early in the game?
See here for example: http://cryptome.org/cia-decrypt.htm

There was a released-but-redacted CIA memo saying, "An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an XXXXXXXX service at the same time..." From analysis of the size and shape of the blob, the missing text could only be "Egyptian".

In fact, a monospace font turns out to be harder for this; with a proportional font, as here, there is more variability in total word length due to the different letter widths, and so a greater ability to reduce the number of possible matches.
IRC has no such long-established functionality. You can MSG a #channel or a user and that's it. User's can't follow each other and there are no lists. These followers and lists are how twitter routes messages, not a channel.

Such a simple difference makes all the difference. In this case, enough to file a patent.

If they didn't file a patent someone else would have.
"Introduction to DNSSEC" Animated Videos Now Available on YouTube
> Installing Wordpress on the other hand requires zero PHP knowledge.

I don't disagree with your intent - it's critical to have a quickstart option for people who aren't primary developers - but there's a downside to this: a comically high percentage of exploited sites are Wordpress because it's not trivial to secure or stay updated.

That's a much harder problem to solve since you really need an automatic updater but the odds of something requiring human attention during an upgrade are high.
Uh, those alerts appear to be set to find "Only the best results" rather than "All Results". So, yeah, you're getting fewer of them.

Or am I missing something?
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan
Making TED videos available online accomplished the mainstream/popular idea.

TEDx has done nothing but cheapen it. There are non-public ways for TED to identify promising new speakers for TED; no need to have something like TEDx.

I don't mind a conference like TEDx existing; it should just have zero connection to TED. TED is a premium, curated brand; TEDx is anything but.
Sounds promising.
Github: dvbportal
The worst offenders are sites that lead you into logging in with a social account and then ask you to add your email and create a password anyway.
Considering Node can talk to MySQL - yes. Well, yes BUT.

The "but" comes in when you talk about existing themes and plugins - some are much larger applications, and all are built in PHP. So to migrate, you'd need to reimplement both WordPress itself and various themes and plugins in Node.

Not to mention that you'd need to build traction with developers to keep supporting it. Not every PHP master is also a JS master, so finding buy-in from the existing community will be hard.

Also, remember that PHP comes standard on most shared hosting environments - which is where WordPress is most often installed. Node, however, does not. So once you have developers on board, you have to get hosts on board to help set up the application.
Barack, A Few Travel Tips
The article link points to the print page, which only displays 1 out of the 5 total pages. (I think qb was trying to spare of us popup & advertising hell which I appreciate, but it looks like it didn't work quite perfectly this time)

Here's the default page: http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residen...

(btw this pagination system -- while nice that it doesn't reload pages -- is driving me and my eyes insane!)
So, is there a good comparable service? I know there is a bunch of social-media trackers, but Google Alerts (used to) search everything.
Given how long it takes pdflatex to compile relatively simple files, I’m rather happy with HTML – and throwing out all the logic that makes pdflatex take ages would throw away all the beauty of ‘LaTeX’.

Admittedly, though, there are a few things I miss in HTML, \footnote (placed at the end of the paragraph or so maybe?) being the most prominent one.
report this man!
You seem to associate eating fat with BECOME fat. The two are very different, and the saturated fat that can be consumed to reach the 500 calories (~70g of butter vs ~150g of bread) should not be feared.

This too is very much a corner stone of Paleo and the proof is in a lot of ancient cultures, especially cultures that had to survive through all four seasons.
I disagree with the author's point that you don't necessarily learn more from working at a startup. You learn a lot about starting a company, especially if it's a crappy startup. When a company flows along nicely, it's hard to identify what it's doing right. If a company implodes, it's much easier to point out everything it's done wrong.

That said, I recently left a job at a crappy startup. I learned a lot. I also learned that there are plenty of crappy startups out there, so it's okay to be a little selective about your employer. Better yet, start your own crappy startup.
It's a scary thought that if all the computers in the world were destroyed in an instant, how long would it take for us to build a Core i7 processor. Decades?
A crappy chair can screw up someone's back, so logically, buying a good chair is justified and it gives mental happiness. Same for monitor (crappy monitor can screw one's eyes, give headaches etc).
So it is all logical.

what real use does a piece of rock (which is what a diamond is) have? How can it possibly give mental happiness?
I'm not sure I understand
I'm not sure how far back you want us to go. Born in the freezing winter lands of the former USSR, Vlad and Sergie Magdalin embarked on a... oh, not that far? :)

I've been doing freelance web design on the side for a long time (actually bought the webflow.com domain in college for that purpose, going into a lot of debt in the process), then worked at Intuit for several years on an a social enterprise product. Studied CS at CalPoly, and spent a few years wandering through art school in SF before that.

My brother (Sergie) studied at UCSD and worked as a creative director for MuirSkate.com prior to starting work on Webflow. You can see his (now outdated) portfolio here: http://sergie.info/
I'm a Mormon and I definitely wasn't offended. I may have even chuckled.
I see, thank you for the explanation.

I have mixed feelings about it; on one hand, if an author titles a piece of work, then in the interest of honoring their creative expression (e.g. their work) then it'd be best to use their titles. Except, of course, when it's a poor title. On the other hand, authors aren't always the best about naming articles, and/or there's context that's present on their site that might produce a title that's out of context when lifted wholesale for use on another site.

For this article, I think "fun.js" is particularly poor, as it implies that it's about some coding project. Of course, the ecosystem has been tacking ".js" onto anything even remotely related to JS, and so it's not all the author's fault, but as a HN title it'd be misleading. IMO the 'best' title here would be akin to a reference, such as:

"Functional Javascript: Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js" by Michael Fogus (O'Reilly)
Too bad the respective URL's don't appear to share common substrings/identifiers.
Is a joke about a 'big dongle' a sexual joke, or an anatomical joke?

I feel like you're being willfully obtuse here. The penis is commonly used for exactly two things. Sex is the only reason why anyone would consider it advantageous to have a large penis.

And not men?

Sure, men too. Let me repeat that: you are "allowed" to be offended about this if you are a man. People tend to say "creates a hostile environment for women" not because of assumption or stereotype but because of many personal accounts of specific women who say that this sort of joking makes them feel like they're in a hostile environment.
The standard for every TED talk should be "if I've never heard of TED, and this is the first talk I've ever seen, I'd be amazed by both the talk and enough reflected glory on TED that I'd want to watch more, discuss it with others, etc."

Not many of the current TED talks live up to that, let alone TEDx. It's possible I've become more cynical, but if I watch pre-shitification TED talks I generally feel that way, and if I watch current TED talks, I rarely feel that way (although there are exceptions still).

(possible exceptions for the musical/entertainment sessions at TED, which mainly seem to be there for the in-person attendees, not video, and for talks which are sequels of earlier talks -- in which case it might be that you have to watch them in order for it to be reasonable, like the Bill Gates talks)
Screw "do what you love", and instead "do what you're good at, and become better at it". The enjoyment goes with that, and you get actually paid a decent wage.

(To put it flippantly: I live in L.A. People who "do what they love" without being good at it are the ones who bring food to my table. I don't mean that in a derogatory way - I just wish they took their actual talents and ran with them.)
WordPress is already going through a measured factoring approach.

Themes were ported over from a mishmash of procedural calls into the WP_Theme object in version 3.4. Posts (and pages, custom post types, etc) were ported over from an associative array and various procedural calls into the WP_Post object in 3.5.

But WordPress does - and likely always will - work to retain backwards compatibility so that existing themes and plugins won't choke after a core update. So even when newer APIs and refactored objects exist, its up to individual developers to 1) learn about them and 2) start using them.
The Pomodoro Technique and Scheduling Algorithms
LiveJournal doesn't route messages. It performs database queries which renders to HTML. As a result twitter will broadcast what you say to all of your followers, immediately, to their cell phones. This isn't something LiveJournal's architecture supported.
github: robertfw
So what we have here is a presently-closed-source, linux-only implementation of closure copying, which is a tiny part of Nix, which is the platform-agnostic package manager behind the elegant NixOS (nixos.org). Or is there something I'm not getting? If it's more platform-dependent, less well-tested, and (ostensibly temporarily) less open, then why is this on the top of my page?
Outsourcing the Outsourced: New Ziptask platform looks to disrupt outsourcing
This is great, nice job! What did you use to build?
Google Looks To Expand Its Google+ Platform Team
Yeah. After all, as Sagan stated, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"
For the German speakers amongst you, a friend of mine also just submitted her book about functional Javascript for review at O'Reilly: http://www.amazon.de/Das-Curry-Buch-Funktional-programmieren...
I am not the GP so I can't know for sure what he meant, but nobody is denying that Apple stood on the shoulders of giants. The argument is that people have also stood on the work Apple has done.

Apple created great products thanks to the countless technologies that existed. Likewise, other companies have created great products thanks to the countless technologies that exist, including those created by Apple. To claim that Apple has had 0 influence on the industry is just silly.
The Art Of Asking
What's the easiest way to enable/create something like this for Nook Simple Touch?
I have some sympathy for the author of this comment. I have probably spent 25 hours trying to spin up on Ember.js in the last few weeks, concentrating both on Ember.js itself, and how to work with REST back ends written in Node.js and in Clojure (I have a few simple examples of this in public github repos). Yesterday I struggled getting simple auth working.

I am taking it a bit on faith that this work will pay off, even though my usual development "use cases" are fairly simple web apps where I just use a little AJAX (often pjax). I am assuming that if I master Ember.js then I will build more complex stuff.

I like Ember.js and Node.js - a light weight development kit. A few years ago I was doing GWT/SmartGWT for a customer: produces nice interactive web apps but development feels like running through mud.
Agreed. If you're building something like an embedded nas server, you have to have a deep understanding of literally every piece of technology he talked about.

I think arduino has done wonders for getting people started, but it would be great if there was a similar ecosystem for people who are further along than blinking LEDs and building something of significance.
I agree. I think the GP is tackling an artificial construct / separation.

In fact, these days I think of much communication, including "entertainment", as "cultural programming".

As such, it and its use (and citation, reuse, refactoring...) are central to our lives and to society's development (or lack thereof).
If I were starting college right now, I'd be aiming at the space industry.
One example of this is pud's launching of fandalism.com. When he announced the site on HN[1] some HNers complained about Facebook only login. But he was still able to get 400,000+ signups within 3 month[2].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559081

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850739
Amazing work with this!

I'm working on something similar, so I know the monumental amount of work that must of gone into this app, really impressed and looking forward to seeing your other components.

Here's a screenshot of mine:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.selfsamegames.com/tmp/screen1.jpg

Congrats!
I think the OP in that thread wrote a pretty amazing post, in all honesty.

Unlike your typical "it doesn't work" or "this sucks", the frustrated individual still takes care to detail, step by step, exactly what felt wrong or what was missing. In doing so, they demonstrate exactly why it's so frustrating.

There's feedback not only on the quality of the documentation, but the experience of getting an Ember app up and running. While improving the former would make life a bit simpler, the setup seemingly being so involved - requiring you to manually resolve missing dependencies - still diminishes the initial experience.

All of this makes it surprising that someone would totally dismiss it in such an unceremonious manner, and for reasons that are totally at conflict with what doubles up as a support forum. Is that discussion board there as a flagship Discourse site, or for support?
What is infuriating about the stackoverflow sites is that they treat each site separately so you end up with multiple logins across the "network" that you really don't care about. Then they do that annoying thing where they display the page, then detect you are "logged in", and then tell you to refresh.