skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing that happened with BTC between when it cost $14 and now. Comparing it to the shares of Apple that created a whole new consumer industry and substantially changed the information interactions of the whole humankind betrays deep misunderstanding of the question at hand. Bitcoins did not suddenly turned into new way of living, did not produce hundreds of amazingly useful things and did not change how many people do things. They just cost more, because people expect them to cost even more in the future.
GM has been doing that for years with the OnStar subscription service. Certain features stop working if you don't renew your subscription.
Explain to them about the risks and business plans of companies like Facebook and Google. Give them your email address, telephone number and website/blog and ask for theirs.

If they are only prepared to keep in touch with you through something like Facebook and Google+, then they're not really interested in keeping in touch. Rather go find people with which you are actually both mutually interested and stop chasing after 'obligations'. Life is too short.
That is dependent on location. Seed investments of $200k+ are not uncommon in Waterloo, Toronto, Vancouver. Montreal & Calgary are also active. Its all about who you know.
Well, the CMS is the classical way to do it. Using Jekyll and Github is a more recent and innovative way to do stuff, much simpler to use for developers and cheaper because it's free hosting that can scale pretty well.

Of course if you want marketing people to edit stuff asking them is use Git is going to be painful.
Java NIO has amazing performance. I'm surprised not more JVM languages taking advantage of it.
That's not entirely correct, actually. Before artificial lightning got introduced, people slept in two phases, and woke up in the middle of the night to do things. There were even books that suggested things to do in the time before the two sleeps (besides having sex and praying, that is).

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep and I apologize for not finding a better source.
Another prank by Google: Google announced Google Neighbors
> 64 bits is 64 bits he said, right... well yes

That's the problem right there. 64 bits is not always 64 bits. While a 64 bit int gives you a 64 bit number (Actually a 63 bit number and a 1 bit sign flag). An IEEE double precision float only gives you a 52 bit number, and a separate 11 bit number as an exponent. So the problem is that declaring that 64 bits is 64 bits is actually precisely the issue here.
I would advise those thinking about using Dwolla to be very careful, aside from requiring more information then both my bank and employer to open an account, there is no way to remove an account once established.
Some people think the point of Bitcoin is decentralized detection of double spending and consider the deflationary goldbug mentality a flaw. One could imagine a decentralized inflationary cryptocurrency that uses a closed-loop algorithm to adjust the monetary supply (perhaps in response to difficulty, since the system already measures that). Of course, a stable exchange rate doesn't make speculators rich.
this looks like it'll be fun to play with!
I see no real incentive for a retailer to trade in a currency that is fluctuating wildly. If they wanted to be currency traders, they would be currency traders.
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Bitcoin rules:

1.
Keep your own self-generated, backupable and recoverable wallet without dependency on any third party babysitting services that are being consistently broken into (and your money is lost).
Electrum wallet is recommended as it also allows you to export "master public key" using which you may launch your own online store business and accept bitcoins as a payment without risk of losing money if someone hacks your online store.

2.
Use third party service only for buying and selling bitcoins. As soon as transaction is complete - transfer bitcoins back to your own wallet.

3.
Have a will so your loved one could get a hold of coins. Just in case.
The Whatsapp 2 million connection result was on a 24 core box with a ton of RAM. The Clojure benchmark was pulled off on a 4-core desktop. Also, Whatsapp connections are mostly idle, only a small fraction of users would be sending a message in any given second.

Edit: It looks like the test was run only on localhost, which also means that it artificially removes much of the processing and actual network I/O factors from the equation.
>In order to apply for the program an entrepreneur or startup must first have secured a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment comes froma designated Canadian venture capital fund or $75,000 if the investment comes from a designated Canadian angel investor group. Applicants will also need to meet general program requirements, such as language proficiency and academic experience.

This is just silly. Especially the "academic experience". A good chunk of the people that do startups of this nature, probably won't have "academic experience" - so that's a self-selecting, self-defeating bias right there.
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The costs breakdown neglects his own time put into the project.

To get the real total cost (which must be estimated), we should know how many hours he spent on it, and what his expected hourly rate might be if he were an independent contractor.

You can't really decide whether or not the endeavor was a net gain unless you also take your own time into account.
The entire crown estate is held as a lease holding, and they have a lot of property in England. I know that in Northern Ireland there are many semi-detached houses on leasehold.
Which is essentially saying BTC will never become more than a semi-serious play thing for the tech community. How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies. Hell, a lot of my tech friends can't keep their computer secure/clean, not to mention backed-up, so how are Joe and Jane Average?

Or, alternatively BTC embraces the same banking industry setup it is trying to get away from.

That said, I don't disagree with what you are saying (and upvoted) - just pointing out some implications.
If you find this mythical mobile case study please post it here.
This is true. Until BTC can be insured, and thus, easy for most people to feel secure having, bitcoin is going to have a serious drag on widespread adoption.
This is not a website, but my kids LOVED The Art of Computer Programming (1st edition, when they still had the Maurice Sendak illustrations). The pictures in the volume on Sorting and Searching, though, are not recommended for kids under the age of 9.
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Interesting. I see you have a lot of courses on offer and are 'powered by DevelopMentor'. Are you affiliated with them or serving as a portal/add on to their existing content?
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This is how the current debate and notions about gun control will become obsolete.

Funny how things like this are rarely mentioned in the debate… :P
From the article,

> "The problem with hand loading is that you just have inconsistent results. Some people do it very good, and some don't. What I really want to avoid is the situation where someone says, 'Look, your gun doesn't work. I'm missing, and it's your fault.' And the real issue is, well, you're missing because you screwed up the ammunition—you have it loaded too hot and it's firing too high. But you're never going to believe me!" He laughed. "I'm really not trying to make a ton of money on ammo, but I want to control the outcome and I want people to have a good experience."

I don't think it is proprietary, rather than just very repeatable. Using the company made ammunition, they can (hopefully) ensure that every bullet has the same characteristics, so it can leave the barrel at the same velocity. From the quote above, I doubt the software can compensate for different grain bullets or different amounts of powder.

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Yes. This is hilarious:

"If you don’t mind living further away from one of the central locations, you’ll be able to pay half as much for rent for a nicer place than you could afford otherwise (see heat map).

Saving money is great and all..."

For lots of people, saving money isn't "great and all." It's required. Especially if you happen to be an intern living in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Glossing over the little trip AAPL took to $700. You can have a bubble and a real price increase, on top of each other.
Those who want to trust BTC banks can do so. But now people have the choice not to trust them and instead manage their wallet themselves. You don't have that choice in the current banking system.
What exactly is the motivating factor for an acquired website (especially one acquired by a large successful media company) to care about how you feel with their service?

>large amount of work into scraping those sites

I think this states clearly the founders attitude about data rights. It's the Wild West out there still.
Any site wanting to position itself as a backbone of the open & safe net ought to itself be open source and have support for data import/export into a self-hosted installation.
Because people who get stuff done typically use whatever they know and make it work "good enough" while people who don't get things done (like me too often) spend their time thinking about the proper language, statistics, probability, and the like.
Not only that is a cool idea, but that is what some Bitcoin shopping carts (eg. see bitcoinstore.com) and payment processors (eg. Bitpay) already do!
Yeah, "a lot of work went into scraping those sites, so how dare you scrape mine!"

Wat?
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This seems like it's just ripping off content from theoatmeal?
Netty has become the standard library for NIO on the JVM and is used widely by programmers in various JVM languages. It's also refreshing to see high performance NIO systems written without using Netty for a change.
Personally, I think that the ability to show-case things that you've done (even if they're slightly exaggerated in advertisement type terms) is pretty important. So, building a portfolio page now with the projects you've done would help. Take that and compare it to the type of work your company does. Are there any holes that you haven't demonstrated your ability in? Fill one. Add it to your portfolio, repeat.

As always, pick projects that you love over projects you think you should do. A project that you did and put the bare minimum into because you felt you HAD to is almost a NEGATIVE thing on your portfolio.
> I don't. I simply play the first result that youtube returns.

I had thought of a similar idea to what this website does (using song metadata from a cleaned source like Spotify and then play the song through YouTube).

The way I'd imagined doing the song to YouTube mapping was through crowdsourcing - you could rank the YouTube results for each song based on number of listens and votes on your website. By default you would play the top ranked video for a song, but allow users to see alternate video links (probably hidden behind menus) and play those instead if they want (or if they have accounts, you could allow users to individually mark a video as being their preference for a particular song, etc.), probably also incorporating these plays into your ranking. You could also use crowdsourcing for further metadata about the video - e.g., some music videos have long intros/outros that you wouldn't necessarily want to hear when you're just listening to music, so you could allow people to submit and vote on start/end times for the 'song' part of the music video.

Anyway, I really like the interface! It's much cleaner than any other attempt at this I've seen.

Edit: I missed your mention of crowdsourcing at the end of your post, whoops - sounds like you've probably already thought of most/all the ideas in this post :)
I am sure most of the readers have heard about Peter Thiel's class on Entrepreneurship at Stanford. I think most people have also read Paul Graham's article on startup ideas.

This class from Peter Thiel provides some more thoughts on how to pick a startup idea.
West Oakland's crime rates a pretty comparable to SFs. I've been robbed more in SF than in Oakland.
Is mobile really 'first'?
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If you hold a lot of coins you simply print out the keys and keep them in a safety deposit box in a bank. Problem solved

Or use the Armory offline wallet to store them on an encrypted non-networked storage, print the keys, do the above.
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Your first example works just fine with increased output precision. https://ideone.com/GtMDit A slightly larger number shows the discrepancy: https://ideone.com/WPtpX4
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Thank you! I couldn't make it through the whole thing. Too little nourishment per paragraph to complete the daunting trek!
This is why I started working on a Hardware Wallet last year. Easy to use, impossible to steal.
...Dramatically.
Startups that are based on user-contributed content are based on fraud in the sense that they imply to their users that the contributed data will always be available. But it's a lie, the user's data is only being used to explore a potential market. If the market idea proves successful the company will be sold and shutdown. If the idea is unsuccessful it will also be shutdown.

Startups should be required to tell users upfront with a big warning that the business is not profitable, how many months of runway the startup has, and that all data could be lost at any point.
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we dont know why they are investing, or maybe you do. i wpyldnt be aurprised if they did invest in gold real estate and stocks simply for diversification
Redwood City FTW? We've had two of our interns find good housing there, near the Caltrain.
When I moved to the US, I spent a week+ living on cash until I had my bank account set up. Being able to buy pre-paid VISA cards for cash at retailers solves the part of the online issue as well. You can be a 'mattress' banker with cash if you wish, securing your house just like you would secure your computer.

Not sure there is as big as a difference between BTC and the current as people would lead you to believe. Emphasis on as since there obviously are differences - at least until new laws get thought up and passed.
You're presenting it as a choice between two equally viable options, but the point is that you really have to manage it yourself.
This property of Piedmont is not even unique within the Bay Area! Fremont (the fourth-largest city in the Bay Area) has an enclave of its own, Newark, which is its own city yet completely surrounded by Fremont.
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I find it absolutely amazing that a guy who coined the term "mindless clicktivism" spent more than 14,000 words on an attack on Tim O'Reilly. Aren't there more important things to worry about?

Disclosure: I'm an O'Reilly author.
Yes Electrum is good but remember you're relying on somebody else's blockchain instead of your own. Though I generally trust the Electrum blockchain servers you never know.

Your online store key, you should be using some sort of script to generate receive payment addresses offline and stick those in a db. The payments should go to a cold wallet you can either with a serial cable send a txn or manually enter the signed transactions, but that's just my paranoid security