skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a simplification to say that I hate it. The work is impressive. If there were a Bitcoin course on Coursera on how the thing works, I'd sign up and take it.

I don't like the forced deflation. Deflation encourages hoarding and protects elites.

With Magic: the Gathering (Mt. Gox has me connecting the two) the hoarding behavior is actually good because it keeps unbalanced cards out of play. With BitCoin, it's going to lock a lot of the stuff up with hoarders. That could destroy it, insofar as if no one's using it, the market becomes illiquid, compromising value and possibly causing panic sales. The thing certainly isn't ready for prime time as a currency.

Also, there's a pretty easy (and legal) way one could destroy BitCoin. Right now, there are no reserve requirements, because it's not a real currency. Start a bank. Make sure it's a limited liability corporation, because this is a bit risky (bank runs). Let people deposit BTC and then lend them out. Now you've put a money multiplier on BTC, and without the reserve requirement, that's unbounded. Goodbye, scarcity. Goodbye, $147 BTC.

At that point, it's unclear that BitCoin has any value, until regulations come in regarding reserve requirements.
A complete disregard for user experience leads to drastic action
Being wrong once doesn't make you wrong forever.
There were two parts I didn't understand: One, how was the equation for revenue derived? Is it common knowledge that Revenue, as a function of price, is equivalent to your demand times your price? This wasn't obvious to me. Second, how is R^2 derived?
How do you pronounce "jellifi"? Jellify? Jellifee? Jellifih?

Was the original idea for it to be http://jellifi.sh, but they changed their minds and went with jellifi.com?

This is something they should figure out - if I tell someone "just go to jellifi.com" there's a decent chance they won't know how to spell it. So perhaps look into making the name more obviously spellable (jellify.com), extend to jellyfish.com, grab all the alternate domains, or work hard on your SEO so even misspelling it still nets you the right site. :)
If there was a burning smell in that, yikes, hit the Big Red Button and turn in your resignation.
Suspicious sign in prevented - Is Google mistaken?
Received two of these from Google:

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt

<My own ip address>

Along with a sms.

I'm not the only one getting this. A friend of mine got it a few minutes before I did. The ip was from Azerbaijan.

Have you been getting this too?
The reason Chaum's ecash failed was Chaum.
I work for pathable and live in Belize. It's pretty rad.
Sometimes the program logic consists of hundreds of cases and putting it all into one function is a good solution, since you see the complexity.

I know that object-oriented best practice would suggest a lot of different classes and using dynamic dispatch for switching. That might even be faster. However, I dislike the fact that this scatters the logic across hundreds of files.

The best solution would be to simplify the logic, but this is also the most costly/time consuming variant.
Good layout...I like the big call to action with the rest of the page being devoted to a semi-walkthrough of what you'll find.

However, the "call to action" button text should be fixed. Currently, it reads: "Plan Event Free". It looks like a typo was made, though I understand you wanted to keep the text short...but right now, it looks like an amateurish grammar mistake. Perhaps, these might work:

"Free: Plan an Event"
"Plan an Event for Free"

Or separate the text into a button label and header:

Try it for free:
Plan an Event

edit: Another suggestion: Use geolocation to narrow, by default, the services listed here: https://jellifi.com/service

Right now, it simply shows everything that's on the site, which immediately, in my mind, triggers a "there's a bunch of unfiltered spam listings here that I won't be interested in"...even though it looks very nice. But a little personalization will help a long ways.

And if the listings are too sparse to personalize it for most users, then limit the selection to just the cities you've focused on. No shame in saying "We've just launched in Austin, TX and San Francisco, SF. Follow us on Twitter to see updates when we open in other cities!"
Or, more specifically: "Thankfully, the Ninth and Fourth Circuits have rejected the government’s aggressive interpretation of the CFAA (with amicus help from EFF), but the Justice Department has shown no signs that it has given up on aggressive interpretations."

source: TFA.
tldr: some things that people have said about Bitcoin are innacurate, therefore "financial journalists are way over their heads here, their “sources” are useless, and you will learn less than nothing by reading them"
I once had a spammer hit one of my contact forms a few hundred times on a page set up to capture traffic from South Dakota. there was a corresponding goal set up in Google Analytics that triggered and a week or so later the S Dakota page popped up as a site link on SERPS. Certainly doesn't prove anything but the page got essentially zero traffic and had no external inbound links and wasn't weighted very heavily in term of site architecture. Makes me wonder if there isn't some careful parsing of words in their claims. /removestinfoilhat
Then there's outfits like Tiger Global, which doesn't do series A's... and I have no idea what Charles Schwab is doing on this list.
I think Bitcoin itself isn't making the media say stupid things. I think the media says stupid things all the time, it just happens that a lot of us, who knew Bitcoin from the beginnings and already have a fair share of knowledge on this subject, can see more clearly how inherently flawed a lot of the information is.

This sudden uprise of awareness and the news coverage that came with it, surely made me even more skeptical about mainstream media, as no one is to be trusted. Financial Times, Bloomberg and all the big ones that have such a tremendous amount of weight behind them, are in the end inseparable from blogspam, as they have the same sensationalistic tendencies and didn't do their homework, at all. It's not easy to digest the phenomena Bitcoin, but at least have the decency towards your followers of not commenting on it until you have established at least a semi-understanding of the matter.
This has been happening for a while now and often the result of poor configuration within the automated tools[1]. The real issue at the moment is that there is no incentive to improve how these tools operate. Right now the onus is on Google to confirm that the links provided in the takedown notices are accurate (not doing so risks censorship of valid links, whilst you can argue a counter claim notice can be filled by the "infringing" site, they have to first be made aware that a link has been removed before any action can be taken).

The amount of takedown requests Google receives is immense and they've recently taken steps to limit the daily intake of takedown requests[2]. It's a shame services can't turn around and charge for each link submitted. Until a legal judgement is made against these types of abuses, expect these automated systems to continue.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/10/08/automated-dmca-ta...

[2] http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-groups-want-google-to-li...
Hayek later changed his mind on monetary policy, denounced some of his old views, and endorsed inflation targeting, so that's not a very good example.
This makes me think of what Fred Wilsion was talking about here with Monopolies(traditional fiat e.g. USD,EUR,CNY,AUD,JPY) vs. Startups(cryptographic,e.g. Bitcoin): http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/04/monopolies-and-startups.html

"Monopolies aren't great for society. So we have trust busters in government whose job it is to keep the monopolies in check. But they don't do that so well. And our government is pretty good at handing monopolies out. Just look at the cable industry.

A few entrepreneurs in a garage. Or a few hackers on the Internet. They are the best trust busters of them all. Look what open source Linux did to Microsoft (funny that Microsoft contributed m̶o̶s̶t̶ a significant amount of lines of code to the Linux kernel starting in 2009; EDIT: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/linux-kernel-in-2011...). They put a dent in a machine that the government could not. And look at what Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber did to the medallion owners in San Franscisco. They got cabs on the streets when the government could not.

Never doubt that a small startup can take on a huge monopoly. Indeed, it is the only thing that can."
Heroku's new pricing?
There must be some confusion here. For "the threefold composition of its first argument applied to its second" the type should be "(x -> x) -> x -> x".
All of this data is from Crunchbase, and the column D "Date of Most Recent Series A Investment" indicates they participated in the round though they might not have lead.
jell-eh-phi :)
Just ignore Gemini. In fact, you can click the "hide" link on the charts to remove it.

From our first benchmarks post: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/framework-benchma...
"Why include this Gemini framework I've never heard of?" We have included our in-house Java web framework, Gemini, in our tests. We've done so because it's of interest to us. You can consider it a stand-in for any relatively lightweight minimal-locking Java framework. While we're proud of how it performs among the well-established field, this exercise is not about Gemini. We routinely use other frameworks on client projects and we want this data to inform our recommendations for new projects.
Templating with Handlebars
Actually, you're continuing to operate according to the idiotic American Rightist definition of "the Left": "THEY WANNA TAKE OUR MONIES, OH NO!"

Yeah, no. Cryptocurrency presumes a proprietarian-capitalist legal system in the first place.

Capitalism is about private ownership of the means of production. Its financial superstructure can and will vary.
Node Wrapper and CLI for EasyPost
lesson people should learn, stop building your business around FREE/PUBLIC APIs. If you are not paying for it, don't use it for your product.
"The good news is that Palo Alto's water comes from the relatively pristine Hetch Hetchy reservoir."

It would be worthwhile to meditate on this while people work to remove the Hetch Hetchy reservoir from existence in the name of "restoring nature."
Thomson Reuters gets a patent on a method for ranking lawyers
Good catch, almost silly it went missed. Reported! Thanks.
I prefer to use this scale: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-trajector...

It's from 0.0 to 3.0, and the vast majority of professional programmers are in the 1.0 to 1.9 range. I consider myself a 1.8 with a 95% confidence interval at [1.55, 1.95] (more room on the left, because inaccuracy in self-measurement would correspond with lower ability; cf. Dunning-Kruger).

The 1.0 level is basic professional competence-- you could get hired to write bank software. What most people call "10X" is 1.7-2.0, but there are so many contextual factors that it's hard to say how it really plays out. In some jobs, the 2.0 is worth 100 times more than the 1.0; in others, she's only worth 50% more; in still others, she's worth less than a 1.0 because she'll fight the existing way of doing things.
F.A. Hayek versus J.M. Keynes is an Einstein versus Quantum Mechanics moment for economics. There is a tremendous amount of richness that is lost from just reading them without any context. Neither "won" - both theories saw their halcyon days and both have been incorporated into the modern dialectic.

Note that a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts plough through Keynes to the value of debt. This, on the other hand, was answered by the Battle of Waterloo, where the City of London financed British army beat the initially superior French.
Of course not, but it does affect your credibility, and rightly so.

I don't know what his track record is on technology in general, but dismissing something as important and revolutionary as the Internet makes me seriously wonder about his ability to understand the impact of new technologies.
> Imagine if app developers could send more data (images, videos) through push notifications, or even receive simple responses (“Yes” / “No”) from users without requiring users to launch the application itself.

You can do this today on Android.
A lot of local-level marketing in Austin and parts of Texas. They just started to expand into other cities and part of that is due to the pending national/international exposure.
Sounds like much ado about nothing...
My Diablo account was hacked, for the win
How can I without going to the trouble of writing an assembler myself?

Anyway, the job is already done.
I know this is completely off topic, but is there any reason a website should have a rapidly changing gif animation as their tab icon?

I tend to open a ton of tabs and leave them open (particularly if they're interesting and I want to re-read it or refer to it in a blog post), but the constant oscillation of that tab icon is so distracting that I feel compelled to close that tab as soon as possible since it's going to get in my peripheral vision as I do other work (it's even distracting me as I type this very post!)

I thought the blog post was really interesting but now the only thing I remember about the site is the obnoxious icon, and it compels me not to look at the archives for other potentially intriguing posts :(.

Dear OP, please change that icon. I think it will increase readership and good will of your otherwise interesting blog.
Awesome, great feedback so far.
What do live tiles have that android widgets are missing? Honest question.
What the heck is it supposed to do?

That's a serious question. I scrolled all the way to the bottom, clicked on About Jellfi, read a bit about the founders, and then finally noticed that:

"Jellifi matches both professional and casual event planners to the best and most unique local talent for flawless and fun events without the stress."

That (preferably with fewer adjectives) needs to be the first thing I (and anyone else) see, IMO. Without it the service seems all style no substance.

(Granted this may not be as much of a problem with promoters and artists than it is with a 38 year old programmer that lives in insurance.)
Google and Austin are hosting a shindig. Could Austin be getting Google Fiber?
> Widgets just aren't comparable.

I'm curios, I haven't used Windows Phone, what's not comparable?
A smarter, more complete-y search bar on Github
PR by numbers:-

1. Get in front of the problem;
2. Offer a full and sincere apology; and
3. Provide a forum for users to rant and moan.
This is so blown out of proportion... yes, letting Google crawl email addresses is not kosher, but come on, public data already includes their company name, website, and phone number, it's not like those merchants are anonymous.

Given the attention span of the folks who circulated the news in the first place, I would mention that no transaction data was leaked somewhere in the first paragraph.
You're right. I should have known better... :)
No, real world currencies are based on the fact that the issuing government accepts it as payment of debts to that government. The fundamental base of the US dollar is that the taxes you owe the US must be paid in US dollars. The rest of its value extends out transitively from there. But it is not baseless, it is built on the fact that if you do not give the US government the dollars it thinks it deserves, it will come and put you in jail.

If this ceases to be a credible threat, it's actually quite amazing to me how quickly a government's currency can become nothing but so much paper, which argues strongly against the idea that the value is arbitrary.
Maybe I shouldn't have used the word 'applet' but it was something you were supposed to NOT load from their servers every use.
4D printing and programmable matter
Actually, every data page has "look-thru" to the source of the data. bottom of the page, under "Dataset Information", "Raw Data"
This will never happen. The combinatorics blow up exponentially.

Besides, your comment basically says that you don't have data to support your position, but you have a hunch, so we should just trust you on this.
While it is true that our source code is closed at the moment, you are still free to check out the benchmark code from github and run it yourself to verify our results.

It wouldn't really be a fair test if we put all these frameworks up for testing, suggested Gemini was better than sliced bread with auto-applying jam, and didn't back it up in a testable way ;-)
Yes, having a Nobel Prize in economics doesn't make him right every time. But at least he doesn't have a direct financial incentive to be wrong.
They have value for sure. But how are they going to make money?

In an inflationary fiat currency, (ie: USD), banks who hold on to your savings loan it out and make money. However, given the economics of bitcoins, it seems unlikely to be able to make a profit by loaning out BTC right now (possibly ever, due to the deflationary nature of BTC)

Bitcoin financial services are going to look very different from your typical fiat-based banks. Not only because of Bitcoin's unique benefits and challenges... but because its economics are vastly different from other currencies.

Bitcoin Wallet Services will gain a reputation, but will then fail to earn a profit. They make no business sense.
That would definitely be an issue as well. Although, this is easily configurable within the application.conf file if I remember correctly.
A Browser Is a Search Engine
Panic Attacks (Is this common amongst HN readers?)
Or they aren't interested in the deals/valuations that they're seeing?

As a former investor, an entrepreneur that thinks he/she understands my business better than I do is a big red flag.
This is a good, level-headed response. I think a few things are worth pointing out here:

1) The initial frenzy was (I think) overblown. Lots of people jumping to conclusions about a 'breach' when it's clear there really wasn't one.

2) Coinbase responded immediately to both posts here and on reddit explaining that.

3) Despite the fact that it was overblown, they still gave a thorough, smart response, took responsibility, and posted this within a few hours.

My sense is that there is some anxiety in the Bitcoin world right now. Prices are high, naysayers are calling for a crash, yaysayers are hoping for $400 Bitcoins, and everyone is on edge for chinks in the armor.

Deep breath everyone...
Isn't this like the third blog post from daniellemorril.com within the last 2 weeks making it to HN front page ?

Also -- it seems obvious that while the author has tools to crawl web sites and pull data into a CSV, it seems dubious that the author spent anytime in running a manual sanity check before presenting her findings. For example, "O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures" and "OReilly Alpha Tech Ventures" are the same thing.
Keep in mind with more Unicorn workers per box you will need fewer dynos overall so it does not necessarily mean you will have to pay double in the long run. At 1x Dynos we could only have 2 workers going but at 2x we could squeeze five workers in so we use half of the dynos we did before.
Also this encoding is cool:

http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/course/Boehm-Berarducci.h...
The problem is weather or not this does reflect his actual opinion. Was his response that it was simply a joke? Sarcasm taken wrong? That can happen to plenty of folks, and simply clarifying probably would have helped avoid the shitstorm.

His initial #dealwithit comment reflects a lot of what people are seeing in the industry today, so it's easy to believe he was serious and holds that opinion. Brushing off serious concerns with what was apparently a joke doesn't reflect well, either. No, it's not as though it's some kind of official announcement or leak of information. However it reflects on an attitude the big-league players have had, and an attitude which has been becoming more obvious and harmful to the consumers. Whatever we do, you'll still buy it. We don't actually care about your feedback. We'll do as we want regardless of what effect it has on you, and your only option is to deal with it.

Do you happen to have a link on hand where he says otherwise? If he claimed sarcasm, well, we really DO need to get around to making some kind of symbol or font :)
Thank you very much. I have a cheap non-contact thermometer, but I never thought of using it in the kitchen. I will try it out.
There's a huge amount of value from the serendipitous interactions you get co-located. Sounds like a deliberate approach to ensuring these kinds of interactions "virtually" can work, though.
This is an absurd conclusion. Computer science concerns itself with closed systems with known and predictable behavior. Economics must deal with the the human brain with all of its wants and needs, and the interaction of all of the people and resources on the earth. We can't even begin to understand the brain in the same way we understand a CPU. We can absolutely control the inputs and outputs of computational processes. The real world is messy and orders of magnitude more complex.
Solid piece. Having the right mindset will go along way for achievement. It will subconsciously guide you to making better decisions and give you the motivation to keep going when things get tough.
I think it's safe to assume that Krugman is a lot more trustworthy when talking about something that's actually within his realm of expertise; namely, economics.
I thought it was clear enough. P2: Most tools are document-focused. P3: Some examples of these tools are XYZ. A & B are outliers. P4+: It is very hard to develop applications in "them" (the 'most tools' which are the topic of the comment) without a document focus, and here's some detail about that.

It's not winning any writing awards, but it's not at all unintelligible. The organization of a piece of writing doesn't stop at the paragraph level, so to assume that the paragraphs are unrelated is pretty odd.
World's New Happiest Country is Costa Rica
Aahh, good point. That's actually the recommendation box you're shown after you've stated what type of event you're hosting. It's part of the process to help save time and streamline planning.
My intention of the word introductory was not to feel like training wheels. Joeri in this thread says:

>>You have to trade off developer productivity for performance when it comes to choosing frameworks. The slower the framework the more it does for you.

And in that respect, the more the framework does for a developer, the better it is probably suited a starting point for new developers. It is a badge of success that Django and Rails can be able to serve a whole spectrum of needs.
I personally feel this is a really minor problem (if that!)

I found my personal phone number appearing on customer bank statements as a Stripe merchant. That's a bigger deal than exposing an e-mail address, but it's still a minor issue.

Do you know how Google Checkout solves this? It explicitly states what's public information to buyers so I can make the decision of what I'm exposing.
IIRC, didn't the FBI come up with some bizarre interpretation of the law where the "another crime" could be violation of state hacking laws?
Tiles are similar to Android widgets, except they're integrated into dashboard in a more "cohesive" manner. On my droid phone, I optionally have to add a special widget (if there's even one for the app, and I sometimes have to download it extra), set the size it takes up on the dashboard page, etc. On the Win phone, the icon you click to start the app is same one that's showing the live data. It's omnipresent. A subtle difference.