skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue would be more that bitcoin is philosophically incompatible with services like that.

Bitcoin is anonymous, so I could transfer my money to my account at another bank, report fraud, and the bank could never know unless the other bank told them. If the other bank tells them, or you set up a centralized register of transfers or accounts, you're just mirroring the current systems.

Bitcoin doesn't have The Man, so there's no motivation not to do so fraudulently - what's the worst that happens if a bank realizes you're trying to defraud them? You've already moved your money elsewhere.
I've actually been wanting to write a series of Python classes to encapsulate tax forms and schedules. You know -- for fun. Haven't quite thought the whole thing out yet.
You proved my point: needing to counter homeopathy every single time it (or something vaguely similar, such as anti-vax--and yes, that is bait) is mentioned off-hand is automatic thought. I didn't bring up homeopathy with arguments for or against, I brought it up as an example of what happens to discussions, I discouraged people from discussing the merits of it, yet you still do.

A good translation of "idées reçues" would be "a mild case of groupthink" (while recognizing that homoeopathy itself is a product of more serious groupthink). It's not a judgement about the content but an observation about the behavior I see on HN. I think it's totally possible to have automatic thoughts that are scientifically sound, but they can still be automatic (or "idées reçues") if they come more from unanalyzed peer statements and wanting to fit in than from self-driven analysis.
So you're suggesting that the company change how it does employment to have more old fashioned, long term employment. But how do you convince someone of that? Everyone is saying "We're different, we'll look after you!".

You could do it with contracts & law. Offer 10 year salaries-index-linked-at-a-minimum employment contracts. Employment contracts that specifically state the employer won't do things like outsource, (or if you're in USA won't do 'at will'). Employment contract that'll give 5 times the legal minimum of redundancy leave. Require that upper level management/directors don't get bonuses if there's been any pay freezes or pay cuts. Lots and lots of little things like that might be a way.

This will (obviously) restrict the business, and limit its resaleability. ("Come buy us out, you just have to pay 50 people for the next 8 years").
There are lots of very playable games on the SNES and Playstation - my friends and I still break out Contra 3 and Super Bomberman sometimes, and Chrono Trigger is still a lot of fun to play through for the first time. NES, not so much. Also, 1000 games for a platform is a good number. PS3 clocks in at around 700. Your money arguments are pretty accurate, though. He might be talking about FuncoLand and other used game shops?
I'm not making 1/5 of that.

We, who live in other countries, are cheap.
Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine
'This data is used to improve campus life as it gives an idea how to distribute resources optimally'. My university really needs this; just today I wasn't able to get a seat in the lab for an originally 2-hour session. We were split in two groups and each group got 1 hour in the lab instead of 2. This is a real problem and I would agree to carry a beacon-card if you could guarantee that my data sent is anonymous. And given the fact that attendance certification is law in the UK, I think that the safety and security use cases for this technology are completely invaluable. The firefighter example shows that you could actually end up saving lives.

As CEO, you should note that your comment completely repositioned my attitude towards your product. This is because your website is clearly aimed at decision makers at universities, whereas all I (a student) saw was a system conducive to draconian monitoring system. You should probably make your site more clearly demarcated. At http://beestar.eu/insight/learning-analytics it seems as if about half the points are targeted at students while the other half at educators. It seems slightly mismatched. And you also don't mention how this system could improve safety (I see the benefits of the firefighter case now that it's been explained)
Indeed. But inside a deflationary economy, it is impossible for banks to make money off of deposits by lending them to someone else. So I dare say that banks cannot remain solvent with BTCs, the economics don't make sense.

That said, plenty of people are "banking" with online BTC wallets. Instawallet, Coinbase, etc. etc. The economics for these services work against them, and they are hopelessly doomed to failure.
Haha, yes I also enjoyed ZAMM, which again has the tendency to explain "everything" using one concept. It is just a tempting thing, I guess. But the exercise does lead to interesting thoughts, even if the grand thesis isn't true.
I can't help but think that forking WebKit is a business based decision since Apple controls WebKit.

This blog post doesn't make an engineering based argument* so I'm left with the business ones. Which sucks.

* - Just vague "we need to innovate faster" boilerplate. Which is what business people say when there's not a solid engineering based reason.

EDIT:

At the bottom of the project page are some engineering reasons:

http://www.chromium.org/blink

Each person can judge whether it's worth forking or not.
>and mark as "dirty" every other address where the funds will be transferred from this address

One problem is that bitcoin launderers could intentionally send a portion of stolen coins to legitimate wallets. That would make a blacklist difficult to maintain, to say the least.
Based on the date, I thought this might be related to the pain of writing a gigantic check to the US government for your estimated taxes. Just wrote my first one and the amount you're paying hits you a lot harder when you watch it come out of your bank account. ;)

I've been freelancing for 4 months now and I definitely miss the human contact of having a "real job". Working from my apartment, I mostly only get water cooler talk from my pets. I'm looking into coworking spaces in SF to try to get more connected with the community.
Just a few weeks after Opera decided to switch to Webkit. Interesting.
Intensity is certainly important and you can lose that if you push too much for too long.

This entirely anecdotal, but I probably wouldn't have graduated with if it weren't for the solutions i 'worked out' during naps. Maybe there's also something to be said for working while not working, not to be too round about.
Hm, couldn't a hybrid approach deal with this? Eg hash all the data except a few dimensions you think are vital, and add those to the resulting hashed array?
Yes but freezing the damn thing fucks the dendrites up completely. The nervous system is dead.
Bitcoin isn't ready for mass adoption
Hmmmm, I don't think "use HTTPS" is going to cut it in this case...
Interesting timing, given the Samsung+Mozilla+Servo news today.
I think most people would expect a refund in that situation. However, wouldn't a better analogy be like if they advertised an SSD and shipped an HDD (allegedly without knowing the performance difference), and also the diagnostic tools that they shipped just happened to not report the additional latency (allegedly without knowing that it would be a problem)? Then customers had to figure out on their own that it actually was an HDD despite their documentation and diagnostic tools saying otherwise, after wasting tons of time trying to figure out why performance sucked?
Who assume that we have reached the pinnacle of knowledge? I did not...
wow, that is an annoying slide deck. a lot of the issues seemed to be dns-specific that don't exist with http (slide 110: "Attacker forges many UDP request packets from victim’s IP address to many HTTPSEC servers.", also exist for https (slide 106: "Each HTTPSEC key/signature is another file to retrieve. Often your browser needs a chain of keys from several servers. Could be a serious slowdown."), or were self contradictory (slide 13 says httpsec "allow[s] for verification of the origin, authenticity, and integrity of data' obtained through http", but slide 123 says "The data signed by HTTPSEC doesn’t actually include the web pages that the browser shows to the user". I think the HTTPSEC you are referencing is partly a straw man, because that httpsec does the opposite of what I proposed, which was signing the webpage itself, not the redirect info. I do have some questions about issues brought up in the slides:

is the delay/cost of signing versus encrypting data really so huge that it's infeasible to sign dynamic pages?

also, why does each non-existent http page need it's own 404? Wouldn't a static 404 response be just fine?
US building first nuclear reactors in 30 years
Want me to write a browser extension that submits such quotes to the Internet Archive in their WARC format? :)
Bitcoin bubble grows and grows
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5489025
Not yet, but if Chrome takes the route of optimizing the asm.js subset of javascript, node.js could gain a lot of traction as a generic high performance asynchronous platform.

And that may just be worth getting excited for.
Are the employees being paid in fixed Bitcoin amounts, or amounts relative to a USD-based (or other local currency) salary?
Agreed. Right now the best way to handle that is to filter your analysis in a way that accounts for confounding variables. So in the example you gave, you'd run the Desktop OS vs. Compensation analysis then filter for Country == USA only.

That's a pretty rough way to deal with that issue. Ideally you'd run a regression that more subtly takes country into account, without losing data. Unfortunately that's not possible in Statwing (currently...).
I only appreciated GEB after I took an advanced logic course featuring Cantor/Godel/Turing in university. Before that I didn't really get it. Well, I still don't, but now I can live with the ideas.

"The Mind's I" remains my favourite, by far.
Servo's been around for a while: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/graphs/commit-activity
The BitCoin Paradox
IIRC they switched to Chromium, not WebKit.
Proving that you know nothing of the subject other than some casual mentions in the popular press.

Dark matter is a very coherent theory which has been confirmed repeatedly in many different and diverse areas of study. Everything from large scale numerical models of the evolution of the Universe to the exact nature of ripples in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background to gravitational lensing to galaxy rotation curves and more. It's an extremely well confirmed theory at this point.
It would be impossible to conduct such a study, as a causative study of this nature would be unethical under every established modern regime for scientific and medical ethics. Even a correlative study would be considered scientifically and medically unethical if a significant deviation is shown from the control group at any point during the study.
I am starting a personal project to convert my University schedules from pdf to an ICS calendar, I'm so glad I heard about Tabula, but like previously said a command line version would just be wonderful.
a) Why does that suck?

b) Although it is a little hand wavey, they do make an engineering argument: "However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects."
While it isn't surprising that Disney made a business decision, the suddenness is shocking, at least based on how the article portrays this going down.

Any folks at LucasArts that need help finding a job (and happen to be reading this) just shoot me an email - I'm happy to help and my email is in my profile.

Edit: non-technical too, just figured I can try to help anyone that is impacted by this!
This isn't a good context in which to wax lyrical about how completely I fail to get why people like Iain Banks's SF, so I'll skip the ranting, but I'd love to have someone convince me what there is to like.

A loved one loves Banks, so I've tried really hard to get it, and I've failed. I recently read Excession and got zero value out of it. Also recently read Feersum Endjin; it was alright, but suffered from the same flaws as other Banks. I did enjoy The Algebraist, though I read it a while ago so it's a bit foggy. I also read, once upon a time, Consider Phlebas and Player of Games, and remember being utterly utterly disappointed in both, but I can't remember anything more than that.
Startup's Deep Roots: Stanford
Funny how a definition of work that applies to CEOs in comparable terms lets them "work" by playing golf and going to parties.
AeroFS comes across as far more focused and specialized app with a bit of supporting service on the back. Tonido however looks like a universal something that likely includes a lot of core features that I don't need. I considered trying it several times and ended up walking away, because it was just too grandiose in its feature set and rather amorphous in presentation.
Still worth more than yesterday.
I thought the WebKit monoculture was supposed to be a good thing? ;)
Opera is building on top of the Chromium Content API; we're following them to Blink.
I've used MtGox a bit over the past weeks and there isn't much that gives me reassurance that they have a good technical team.

Frankly I find it terrifying that they are dealing with so much money daily. My one hope is that the recent rise in price will attract some better players to the ecosystem. Would love it if blockchain.info did as they are the only site that seems clueful, though I can understand why the regulatory burden would give someone pause.
Does this mean that Chrome for iOS will be revoked out of the AppStore?
I believe (meaning, I've got a form with that data) that that has changed as of this year, at least, they are now reporting the cost basis for stocks that have been sold. I don't remember seeing this in previous years.
Yes, AML (anti money laundering) and KYC (know your customer).
We live in a pretty cynical time. One part of that is in our stories. We often take the quick path to "interesting" ideas by tearing apart good things. Utopia can't be, write about a dystopia instead. It is easier that way. This rut is comfortable.

It gets the author out of the hard task of building something that fits together well, and out of having to dream up something that works and that they would genuinely like to live in. Thinking up terrible things and things that fall apart can be much easier than thinking up what would make us lastingly happy. It also lets the listeners/readers/viewers of the story not think about their world in relation to some better world. That can be depressing; looking into a warm, comfy restaurant can just highlight how cold, poor, and hungry you are. Comparing our lives to those poor schmucks in some "utopia" with an terrible dark side isn't so bad; it doesn't impugn us for not having made something truly good to live in a reality.

But I'm so glad that Banks didn't go that route. Sci-fi needs to be able to get out of that rut. And it isn't that he doesn't know dark topics or how to write them; he can wrench a reader's guts along with the best of 'em. Yet he did the harder thing of looking for a consistent, shining-happy civilization to dream of living in. Gene Roddenberry got no small fame for a popular but rather more shoddy try at that many decades back. Banks did it with top notch sci-fi and writing skill. And I'd love to live in his utopia too.

But the books themselves, not the Culture, also include plenty of gut wrenching. Not as some easy dark side to the Culture itself. But at the edges of it, where the friction happens from its interaction with less nice places to live.
Spotify uses peer-to-peer (http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/O...) which makes it bad UX for me.

I've been using Mog for a while, but had I run into Rdio first, I might have picked them instead.
> Again - if you ever need to swap, then you must be coding on a netbook...

Please read up on virtual memory.

> You need Resharper for all of that. And VS can easily grab 500 MB of RAM too, especially after a week of work without restarting it (memory fragmentation, maybe some leaks).

VS2012 includes many of the features provided by ReSharper. What does restarting an IDE have to do with this? My point still stands: an IDE should be light-weight and responsive. A heavy memory footprint (which is a hall-mark of Java-based IDEs) is not helpful in achieving this regardless of what kind of machine you're running it on!
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School of Haskell: Beautiful Concurrency by Simon Peyton Jones
You can use GPUs, but you will have much better luck using an ASIC.
http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq has a bit more information, as does http://www.chromium.org/blink#architectural-changes. There really are good architectural reasons to go in this direction.
Apple doesn't actually control WebKit. A decent proportion of reviewers at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit%20Team are Google employees.

The engineering argument is that the differences between Chromium's multi-process model and WebKit2 are big enough that, in order for both projects to move forward, Google needs to fork WebKit. I'm not competent to judge whether this is actually true.
I know (been playing with it and rust for some time now), but it's not received half the attention it received today. I mean, the Verge covered it...
Tesla stock falls 7.3% today as analysis question financing offer
So when can we expect Chrome to use Blink?
> To replace income tax, sales tax would have to be 18%.

Finland has a VAT of 24%. We also get taxed for income, and there are lots of other hefty taxes too. Strangely enough, this doesn't seem to be enough for our little country to live within its means though. Go figure.

> Even if you give credits to the poor (which means we still track all income) how would you ever take a 'fair' amount of tax from the rich?

What's a "fair tax" on "the rich"? Do you deserve to get raped harder just because you've made a few hundred thousand dollars for yourself?
No, it just means that instead of Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS having different versions of WebKit, Chrome for Android will use Blink and Chrome for iOS will use the system WebKit, as it does now.
Who Wrote the Flashback OS X Worm?
Standing ovation. This is most welcomed news since Opera's move to WebKit to keep the current browser innovation pace.

Coupled with Mozilla's announcement of its partnership with Samsung to move Servo forward this is great news for the future of the web. Hopefully multi-process/multi-threaded rendering engines will address some of our current performance gripes with the DOM and open the gate for even more complex UIs and interactions.
Chrome for iOS is just a wrapper around Safari.
Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture ... and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity ... we anticipate that we’ll be able to remove 7 build systems and delete more than 7,000 files—comprising more than 4.5 million lines

How is that not engineering based?
tunnelr.com... "Powered by OpenBSD"... I like it already.
This is really sad news. One of my favorite authors, and seems like a great guy. Fuck cancer -- we really need to fix this, fast :(

I feel selfish for being sad that his last book is an Iain Banks book vs. Iain M. Banks (culture). :(
Should have taken a screenshot and posted it to imgur.
Follow the Sun with the Fabulous Sun Seeker for iOS
Of course the blog post doesn't go into technical detail. But if you would explore just a single link deeper you would see a pretty good explanation of the changes they're making. It's pretty obvious why they're doing it. It improves and greatly eases the amount of effort required to port/utilize Chromium/Blink not to mention the other benefits from the architecture that they indicate will enable better multithreading.
Silly nitpick: doesn't Consider Phlebas take place in our past?
It's a little hard to get running sometimes, but there are plenty of guides online. On an older PC I was able to successfully get peripherals working.

Right now I think DOSBox is the best way to play the older games. I would fork over a good amount of money for an easy to use platform for playing older PC games and a marketplace that sold them.

Good Old Games www.gog.com has a nice selection, but it doesn't completely scratch the itch.
How does Apple control webkit? Doesn't Google have like 50% of the commits to webkit?
I thought this is the way it typically works... students are admitted to PHD programs after a BA/BS, and they get a terminal master's if they drop out but it's definitely not a prerequisite for the program.
Competition is good. Nobody wants to be left behind by Google, so time for Apple and MS to step it up again.
Ars has slightly more...

>Longer term, we can expect to see Blink evolve in a different direction from WebKit. Upson and Komoroske told us that there were all manner of ideas that may or may not pan out that Google would like to try. The company says that forking WebKit will give it the flexibility to do so.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google...
is this a fork of webkit2 with the split process model built in?
Law enforcement aren't necessarily terribly keen on pursuing difficult crimes, especially when the victims are as uncooperative with the investigation as Bitcoin users have historically been
Excellent insight and to get there before you are 20 is impressive in its own right. My eldest daughter wanted to be "grown up" from the time she was like 4, now that she is commented "being grown up isn't as fun as I'd hoped, they make you pay bills and stuff." :-) You can say what you want about Mark Zuckerberg but the man is passionate about what he wants Facebook to be, and has been for a long time. I attribute his success more to that passion, and executing on it, than any particular talent or skill.
Alex Russell has a good analysis about the move:
http://infrequently.org/2013/04/probably-wrong/
Interesting point. And not just Chrome but Opera.

That said they may just go with WebKit for iOS + Blink for everything else. Should make testing fun for everyone.
If you look at the commits, there's a fair argument that Google "controls" WebKit. You could almost say Apple got KHTML'ed ;)

I believe this is an honest move. This is what happens with software. Goals change, old code and design no longer makes sense, you refactor or rewrite. The architecture of WebKit was created to address goals that are a decade old now. The multi-process nature of Chrome alone, an amazing achievement and really quite elegant if you've looked at the way they bolted it on, was bolted on all the same.

V8 without a doubt re-invigorated JavaScript. When V8 was announced there was a lot of "do we really need another JS engine" arguments. You could argue that other engines were getting fast as well, but v8 got people really thinking about JavaScript outside the browser. I am excited to see what new insights this new rendering engine brings -- and what unexpected positive consequences it generates.
I feel that your comment actually validates my point.

Your "think of the children" wailing makes me, and I fear, a lot of other people / countries step away from you.
They will probably keep WebKit for the iOS version.
Instawallet used HTTPS.
Google seems on a "replace open with less open" streak, with google reader and caldav shuttering, and now this. The caldav situation especially i cannot conceive as anything but a business decision given that they're keeping it around for those people they like.
Nope, no changes for Chrome for iOS: current version already uses UIWebView and will continue to do so. The rest of the infrastructure (networking, etc), is Chrome code.
I'm not really sure what the internet archive would do with them. It'd make more sense from their perspective to just save the whole page.