skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5k bitcoin sell crashed the market?! To the tune of 100MM in market value loss on those transactions.

That just shows most people are hording it / not really selling or trading, and a few people are buying it, probably the majority of which are doing so because they need to spend it on SilkRoad or a gambling site.

The moment that goes away, or a few big holders decides to cash out, watch out.
The following line in your vimrc will make vim not expand tabs for every file named "Makefile".

au BufRead,BufNewFile Makefile set noexpandtab
^ this

Plus besides using the Proliant as a NAS, it doubles as a great mediacenter & is super quite.
Quite a few commentators on this entry seem to debate whether LS was a "good" or "bad" thing.

The ones debating "good", say it allowed consumers to get great deals, merchants to get coverage, and employees to be employed.

The ones debating "bad", say it caused businesses to do dumb decisions and VC's to do dumb decisions.

All in all, I'd say Groupon/LS was good for the world, because it is exactly to show what happens with these kind of VC-businesses. They need to scale large, and not all of them can become sustainable. Clearly, someone needs to get screwed in the mean time.

We need more profilic failures like Groupon/LS, because obviously the VC model has been the holy grail for quite some time (less so now then lets say two years ago). I don't mean to hate on the VC model (like dhh for example), I like it a lot for many business models. In fact, I liked it for Groupon as well. We just should keep in mind what we are dealing with. Like so many times, information is the key, and the ones that got screwed over are usually the ones that trust blindly.
well, the stigma is that it outright tells me you don't have friends.

i never had to go out alone to find a significant other. Sure a few days i had to stay home because none of my friends wanted to go out. but that's life.

... you will probably not meet, and be happy with, someone you meet in a dive bar, or online dating. it's just common sense, or you may call it stigma.
"Application deadline: March 29"

Today's the last day to apply. How did no one notice or think about asking this earlier?
To be fair to parent, they may not know about the terrible experience of a local business who works with Groupon, LS, or another daily deals site.
google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YgVVztl...

tl;dr

Use zsh, oh-my-zsh, and tmux.
You're making too many assumptions. And so does the police.
JPA: Entity Collections
Consider an annual license. 6 months for $10, or a year for $15.
> effort is reciprocated with more money

:)
Samsung, Haier, Apple — And Writers — Know How To Do It. Do You?
If I remember correctly, Sun responded with even more of their own patents at them and eventually they just settled.
I don't think the comparison to the life of fiat currency is reasonable - no fiat currency outlives the nation-state backing it.

It is a fair point that there could be other competing, but not dominant currencies, which could lead to a non-zero, but low price for bitcoins. So perhaps, 0, a lot, or anywhere in between for the value of a bitcoin.

As long as the number of things you can buy with bitcoins rises over time, the value of bitcoin will rise. I don't think it is unreasonable that the momentum, including technology and community (not just brand around BitCoin) will make it a favored son in digital currencies. So it's not just buying it based on the prestige of being first, it's buying based on the value of being first. I actually bought my coins when YC invested in CoinBase, because I thought that was a strong signal.

It will be an interesting future where people buy currencies based on their mathematically-dictated value profiles, as opposed to whichever currency is sold by the local government, and _seems_ to be the most stable.
Hey There! I live in New Brunswick, NJ. Sounds like you were around a few years ago. I live in a show house and also put together a little show calendar app at http://nbshows.org which has been up for over a year now. It gets about 100 unique hits a day.

There are never any address posted on it. Whenever someone emails staff@nbshows.org and asks for address's I am always careful about giving out info, I always google the email to make sure its not a throw-away.

I am really excited that this topic is on HN today, because I am working on a personal project that will be at http://diyshws.org. Basically it will be a site where people can create show calendars for the small city that they live in if there is no central way to find out about shows. (other than Facebook)
I think I agree with the broad strokes of your argument.

Consider this, because somebody gave you a car, or somebody gave me a $1000 check, it kept us on the upwardly moving socioeconomic ladder, ensuring that our taxes would become many times what they would have been had we stayed working hourly low waged jobs. Consider if those things had been paid for out of the tax base, thus putting a net positive back into the system.

For sake of comparison, a few friends of mine from where I grew up could't stick with the living hell of it all and didn't finish college (those that tried) for a wide variety of reasons (very few of those reasons were laziness), I paid around the same in taxes each year over the last five years than any of them made in salary during the same period. They're effectively making the same wage working today as they made in their early 20s, thus greatly lowering the tax base that they could have provided back into the system.

I can't say that a single pivotal act of state-sponsored charity would have turned their lives around and made them into vastly more productive citizens, but a few dollars here and a discount there could have been all it took. Who knows?

I think my point is that putting it in terms of who "owes" what, is probably not the right model. If the system isn't dysfunctional, you can trivially calculate what the average family of n requires, and make sure that the working adults in that family, working a full-time job, can earn enough to make that if working full-time is what they choose to do. A medical surprise or an auto repair or what have you shouldn't be something that derails their entire lives.

In my case, we were both living spartan, but comfortable, lives after college for around $40k per year combined (my first job after graduating). This is with a $900/mo apartment, one car payment, and no children. We ate out once or twice a week, and cooked in the rest. We had enough to clothe ourselves professionally and keep the lights on when we wanted them (not when we needed them), not eat absolute garbage three meals a day, and a few hours at the end of the day in "free-time". It works out to about $20/hr.

And turns out that the literature shows that in my area, a living wage for 2 adults is shown to be $19.25 [1]

Now there's an argument that there should be jobs that aren't living wage. Unskilled, extremely low end jobs, like fast food restaurants, they should pay enough to get people into the work force, but motivate them to move up and above that. It's an interesting bit of social engineering. But it has a problem that's not always overcome. That's because the minimum wage is like a speed limit. It's the default setting unless some other factor causes you to deviate from it like a lack of a hiring pool.

[1] - http://livingwage.mit.edu/
I actually feel some pity for people who, because answers were once hard to find, never got in the habit of looking for them. A mystery can be exciting and magical, or it can be intimidating. You remember the magic and excitement because that's the kind of person you were. Others came to the conclusion that curiosity about certain things was pointless, because their odds of finding an answer were so low. These are the people who get stumped by easily-googlable questions because it simply never occurs to them to google, or the people who don't try to plug in a DVD player because the cables look so complicated, even though they aren't really. I get the sense that there used to be more of these people back before information became so easy to find.

(A broader point here is that you're a sample containing one person, and probably an outlier in many ways. Be careful when generalizing from yourself.)
Ask HN: Help With Network Filesystem Implementation
Hey Everyone,

I've been working on a syncing, network filesystem and I wanted to get your advice on an implementation detail. Our hope is that users will have all of their files (and eventually programs and settings) synced in the cloud.

Which would you prefer?

Option 1:

> You install our software, Skyline, on Device A
> We create a folder in your home directory, /skyline
> You select individual folders and tell Skyline to sync them
> Each folder you selected is accessible from both its original location, and from the /skyline folder
> You install Skyline on Device B
> A /skyline folder is added to home, and any folders you added from Device A are accessible
> You select individual folders and tell Skyline to sync them
> The folders you add are now accessible in their original location, in Device B's /skyline folder, and in Device A's /skyline folder.

Option 2:

> You install our software "Skyline" on Device A
> Your entire home folder is now being synced
> You install our software, "Skyline" on Device B
> You are asked whether files from Device A should be merged with the files on Device B, or if the files from Device B should be deleted and replaced with the files from Device A

Thanks!

PS: If you're interested, sign up for updates on http://www.projectmeadow.com
"simplicity of YAML"

Spoken like someone who's never actually looked into how complex YAML can be.
Here's some previous times this has come up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512022 (answer from pg)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5262796
People have, it was discussed a tiny bit in a thread before when the app for this round opened.
What get's me the most is the overall assumption seems to be that the ladies there were too good looking to be developers. I can't picture a more sexist thought process than "Oh hey there cute girl, who paid you to come to this?" It's probably the single most damaging assumption made, that a good looking female must have never tried being smart because ya know, sexiness and stuff.
Not all questions are programming questions. For non-programming questions (ie, baby health questions), it does ok.
I read the application for this round when it was announced,
and the "no idea" option had been removed.

EDIT: took me a while to find it but:

https://news.ycombinator.com/apply-noidea

> Sorry, we're no longer considering applications for winter 2013.

> Check back later to apply for summer.

The S13 application date closes today, so either the
above needed editing, or the "no idea" option really was
removed.
Because they're your friend and you want them to meet someone that's right for them...? I have a friend whose roommate made an OkCupid profile for her because she wanted her to meet more people.
Ask HN: How to get more downloads for Windows 8 app/game for free?
Sorry for the re-post but my friend told me I did it wrong on the previous one.

I just created a Windows 8 game called Space Bugs(http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/space-bugs/df756f37-8bb6-4fc3-b240-219d829f0d29) to test out the market. It's been released for 3 days now and there are only 2 downloads - me and my friend. Yes, I didn't spend any money advertising. I thought that it would at least get several hundred downloads. I've released a few iPhone/iPad apps and that's always been the case. Has anyone been able to get traction without spending money on advertising? Any tips on where to get free or very cheap advertising?
It exists in multiple namespaces. In the managementspeak namespace it is used a clumsy metaphor for resources, the sense in which the OP was using it. To indicate equivalent usage, I indicated equivalent namespacing.
Isn't the answer to that question always going to be that you were offered what you were offered because that was the least amount they thought you might accept?

That is, nobody pays you what you're worth to them. If they did, their profit from hiring you would be zero. Therefore, they pay you the least amount they can get you to accept.
Ask HN: alternatives to the dashing dashboard framework?
http://shopify.github.com/dashing/
Ha, that's really amusing. Thanks for sharing.

(For those of you who don't know, the NYPD are... yeah.)
Each FundersClub fund is its own independent LLC entity, which is basically the point of the article describing why the SEC is green lighting the process.

If FundersClub does go down, each fund's LLC survives, with it's investors owning their fractional claim on the funds' assets.

Similarly to buying stock in a company using ScotTrade or equivalent. If ScotTrade goes down, you still own the equity you purchased and which they were holding as your custodian.
I'm not talking about the value of a single unit of currency, but about the aggregate value of the currency itself. A single Zimbabwean Dollar might have fallen very low indeed, but as long as it was legal tender - and the Zimbabwean government accepted payment in it - the value of all Zimbabwean dollars still had to be sufficient for paying taxes and debts in that country.
Dell Makes Case to Go Private in
Enhancing the learning environment of deaf students
Brief, clear, practical, albeit derived from class with only 1 deaf student in it (still lots of changes).
Path to Start Charging a Subscription
Dell: Why we need to go private
>The error is always "error opening database connection". You should not open any database connection to send back a static block of HTML.

What? The message indicates an error connecting to MySQL. WordPress (a CMS) uses MySQL to store its content. If it cannot fetch that content from the DB, you see an error. What were you expecting?
We'll see what we can do. We have some ZFS firefighting that dominates our to-do list currently[1][2] but if we can work through that in short order we will dedicate some funds and resources to the FreeBSD side of ZFS and getting "defrag" in place.

I meant to attend zfs day and will try to come in 2013 if it is held.

[1] Space accounting. How much uncompressed space, minus ZFS metadata, does that ZFS filesystem actually take up ? Nobody knows.

[2] extattrs + busy ZFS == crash
"you will probably not meet, and be happy with, someone you meet in a dive bar, or online dating. it's just common sense"

Huh? Since OkCupid, and many others, work and are very popular, how can it be common sense that you won't meet someone you'll be happy with? Can you explain that?
You should really check out Alex Gaynor's slide deck. Nothing I said disagrees with what you've said here, provided you take the entire thing in context.
I thought the same until I read "Yeah, I spoke to someone who was 'paid to party', as she put it [...]"
The problem with online dating boils down to: guys have no idea what they are doing. I've helped my friends and the secret is to write a three sentence message: an intro about why the message, a funny sentence, and finally a light question. It's pretty simple.

I used it on OkCupid and got about a 30-50% response rate. Now I'm 6'8" and in shape which skewed the results but my friends copied what I did and their response rates skyrocketed. Then you only send 2-3 more messages before asking her out for drinks. Worked nearly 100% of the time.

I think that it comes down to, people spend way too much time trying to write the perfect message or profile. Be yourself. Think of it as a filter to get rid of the girls that you aren't compatible with.

Then when you're on the date, relax and just have fun. I've heard so many horror stories from my female friends of guys that are super awkward. The group setting is a great idea as it relaxes people and gives them support. That's why wingmen exist.
> then how can we explain the fact that Bitcoin has become so successful?

It hasn't yet. Bitcoin is still in the barely anyone knows about it experimental stage; it hasn't come close to being successful yet.
His answer was "It's still too early to tell". It might be reasonable to ask again 200 days later.
That's a very "Hollywood" way to think. If you're looking for a compatible someone, why not increase your chances by searching among a group of people who are also looking for a compatible someone, instead of hoping you randomly happen upon people while out with your friends.
I have absolutely no idea what I just read.
Because it's Hacker News. Nothing gets reported here without half of this community being obnoxiously negative about it, as if we've all could have built something like LivingSocial if we wanted to.
Huh? The two characters met with Tom Hank's son called into a radio program. How is that online dating?
Living Code. Show off your code in a fancy way.
Need to build a reduced demonstration of your latest creation?

Living Code is great for that, it's a clean and fancy way to show off your code in an old fashioned ASCII terminal emulator.
Living Code it's part of JS1k demo, that means it has less than 1024 bytes.

http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1387#.UVLAsFETayc.twitter

Submission [1387] JS1k.
I would imagine they're hoping the people using the coupons have a good time and then tell their friends about it, and the tour gains more money through word-of-mouth.
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> Send BTC to a coin mixer

You mean money launderer?
It seems to me there would be no benefit to them in allowing it. If you want to get into YC and are smart, determined and all the other qualities they want-- you will come up with something. It may not be right, but PG et al can still decide they want the applicant without liking the idea.

Like problem solving in job interviews, doing the exercise tells you a lot more than just if the applicant can get the right answer or not. It can demonstrate your effort, creativity, intelligence, even if it has flaws.
I don't think the GP made the claim that the issue was unique in that way; just that it is another way that such a phenomena can happen.
I can't answer your question, but I immediately thought of Perlis's preface to SICP: "Algol 60, never to be an active language again, lives on in the genes of Scheme and Pascal."

Did racket revive Algol 60, even if with a weak pulse?
I always love this article about what it's like to be a woman on an online dating site: http://www.esquire.com/features/hotwoman0507
The idiom "A few bad apples..." is commonly brought up in discussions such as theses.

There is something funny about that phrase though... it is not complete. The complete phrase is actually "A few bad apples will spoil the barrel". This is to say that if you do not take an aggressive stance towards weeding out all of the bad apples, the rot will spread like an infection (rotting apples will release ethylene gas which acts as a ripening agent, accelerating the rot of nearby apples) and corrupt all of the apples.

So if we trust our apples:cops metaphor then what we are really saying is that if we overlook the a few bad cops for any significant amount of time, before we know it, all cops will be bad. Obviously crooked cops don't release ethylene gas in significant quantities... instead the Blue Wall is the most commonly cited mechanism of transmission.

I like this idiom.
Was published on The Tech Block a while ago: http://thetechblock.com/beautiful-tools/
It's pretty easy to just re-do your poster with an entirely different content and not have to worry much about layout. For somebody who may be uncomfortable with (expensive) GUIs for poster layout, which would force you to think about every little aspect of design and layout, a LaTeX template does a good job of just getting things done.
Maybe you are structuring you application the wrong way, this is why you are having such problems.

My team manages a large app, this is how we do (and other companies we worked with too):

Every nib has only one responsible programmer (or pair) the storyboards uses many external nibs[1]. Storyboards are not meant to act as regular nibs, xcode will get insanely slow if you have a lot of screens. They will help you build prototypes faster, documentation and navigation flow but keep in mind that mildly complex projects will force you to have a bunch of bloated prepareForSegues around, which makes them useless.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9251202/how-do-i-create-a...
Two Letters from Steve Jobs
I don't understand how this is different? Option 1 sounds like MSFT SkyDrive and option 2 sounds like Dropbox. Just looking for what's different.

Oh! This is for a laptop, not an app like the two I mentioned?
It comes naturally to a lot of people.
So... the server would maintain a set of grammar-of-graphics-like objects, which would be replicated as backbone models? In theory we could use whichever graphics libraries we want on top the backbone layer, right?

Bokeh is starting to sound like everything I've ever wanted.
I'm sorry, I meant You've got mail. Both films star Hanks and Ryan.
Two years and counting. I hope it lasts :)
Is that last question rhetorical?

I suppose if you are into conspiracy stuff maybe they just make themselves look stupid so that you won't catch onto the real plans...
Also, there may be a need for a large sample size before patterns can be recognized.
"This is analogous to being present at the creation of the World Wide Web, but instead of getting excited about its obvious potential, one decides to stay on the sidelines because it's still unproven technology, almost no content has been made available online, commercial opportunities are virtually non-existent, etc."

There's nothing wrong with that. For every WWW, there are a thousand technologies that looked similar when they were young, and were a flop.
To install/update on a mac, install Homebrew[1] and run `brew install tmux`.

1. http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
It's folklore, based on a misunderstanding of the concept of entrapment. Learning exactly what entrapment means may be worthwhile, but cops lying about being cops does not constitute entrapment.
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. You're arguing that the only valid way to meet people is as part of a group.
First Impression: A Publisher's Take On Google Consumer Surveys
This might not be the case in the silicon valley, but here in Europe I find companies consistently try to offer as little as they can get away with, no matter the position. If you want a salary you think you deserve, you have to ask and be very determined about it. The same can be said of raises, I was massively disappointed to find out effort and hard work has nothing to do with getting a raise, but the truth is many employers are very happy to pay you as little as they can for as long as they can, specially if you are good.
http://www.forumbiodiversity.com/
I♥JS - some funny behaviors
A cop that doesn't hit people with sticks is a just social worker.
Yes, the Fed printed the money to buy those securities,
but it's not like they just printed the money and gave
the banks free money.

That is exactly what they did, because otherwise those securities would not have had the same price on an open market. The Fed paid for worthless holdings and propped up banks by printing trillions, thereby devaluing everyone else's dollars. And they are still doing it, now printing $85B per month ($1T/year) to buy mortgage-backed securities and reinflate the housing bubble. Printing $100 to buy $1 of MBS toxic waste from the banks is direct depositing $99 into their pockets (and causing commensurate dilution of all other dollar holders).

Overnight loans are almost irrelevant to your point
because they're overnight.

Without printing $9 trillion to "inject liquidity" the banks would have gone bust when the capital call came. It was this overnight loan that allowed the banks to socialize the losses while privatizing the gains.