skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story lacks critical thinking. The price couldn't be anything other than volatile right now for the simple reason that it is bigger than a breadbox, but smaller than a house: It has two basic attractors, one is $0—extinction. If you take the story at face-value, I think you're supposed to think this is the only one.

The other one is more dynamic, fitting the demand of supplying commerce with enough monetary units to do business, which if successful should roughly match the population of the earth eventually.

20-some-odd million units for all of us. How much does it have to be worth? Much more than a hundred dollars.

So the rise in value might be a bad thing, it could be a simple expression of unbounded volatility. Or it could be a perfectly natural thing, seeking the greater attractor—the one of persistence over extinction. Proximity to that attractor diminishes volatility.

It's important to appreciate that the whole mess could come down, and it's important to know how that might come about and what the signs of trouble are. But asserting it is going to eventually fall under the weight of these weaknesses (without being able to show how or even what in particular it will succumb to) for anything other than hypothetical purposes is a mistake. I've seen a lot of articles framing it like that way lately, and no support for it.

Equating sharp upward trends with dangerous volatility is just confusing the signs of natural, healthy progression with the signs of trouble. What's needed is a more sophisticated way of thinking about it. Solid arguments for why a given amount in the right direction in a given period of time is a sign of trouble rather than progress toward the greater attractor. Without these you're just making up stories. But in all things money the trend is: it's better to lie than admit you don't know.
We just opened a checking account for our 17 y/o daughter.

To be specific, the account must be opened in the minors name with a legal parent or guardian as a co-signatory.

Either way, you're right. Minors can not, in the United States, enter into a legally binding contract. They can't even legally purchase a car as there is an implied or express purchase contract.
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Ok, I'll bite.

- I did not run performance benchmarks on my system because Asm.js does not yet support OS X (which is my primary OS). I fully intend to run some tests, and hopefully make some of my own, when that time comes. In the meantime it's not really beneficial for me to just re-run the same benchmarks that others have run on those platforms.

- I thought this was obvious: Chrome and normal Firefox are so much slower because they do not explicitly optimize the Asm.js code path.

- That's complete nonsense. I can't believe I have to say this but yes, I wrote those sentences.
The Infancy Gospel sounds like horrible Jesus fanfiction.
Moot uses IFRAME for the authentication since that's the on that needs security.
to be honest, don't you think this is more of an issue with how linkedin is using sendgrid instead of sendgrid itself?
I don't know the answer to that, but the problem may be that Rust is decent enough name to overcome any proposed name changes. I've always thought you should use implausible codenames for just this reason. It forces you to change it instead of just letting the codename establish itself by momentum. I've always assumed that's why Microsoft uses terrible codenames like "Longhorn".
"The USD has the US government behind it"

What does that even mean?

Also, the US government doesn't really have anything to do with the USD; the USD is managed solely by the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve is not a branch of the US government (it's a privately held bank; look it up).

"it's not nothing"

It's worse than nothing. The Federal Reserve can and does change the value of the dollar at will (it's called inflation). That's why you can buy a loaf of bread with your 5 bucks now, but in 10 years your 5 bucks probably won't even buy a candy bar.

Contrast that with gold. In 1913 (the year the Federal Reserve was created), you could buy a house with 100 ounces of gold. 100 1913 dollars is worth roughly 2 2013 dollars, but 100 1913 ounces of gold is worth exactly 100 2013 ounces of gold, and you can still buy a house with it (100 ounces of gold is $156,740 USD; no, this won't buy you a house in New York, but it will in most other parts of the country). That's what it means for a currency to be backed by something of value. Value doesn't change.
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I think the two reasons are

1. Because that's not anarchist enough for some of the rabid anti-society supporters.

2. Perhaps a bigger deal, it's actually easier said than done. What metric will be used to determine value? If the network is tracking global GDP or US CPI or something, how will it avoid being tricked by some malicious party?

It would be a great idea. Inflation doesn't even have to be positive, it could just be fixed at a stable value. I think #2 is actually quite tricky though but I'd be really interested to hear people's thoughts on it.
Many thanks for your kind words! I'm not a designer so this is almost vanilla Twitter Bootstrap and all the kudos should go to them.
This appears amazing and promising.
I'd really like to witness the rising of a proper competitor for Disqus.
It's not as if walking makes me suddenly introduce myself to people, or that doing so will induce me to somehow pick up... litter or the like, or somehow notice things I wouldn't otherwise.

Sorry to hear that.
Hey!

I love this kind of service. That said, here's what I want:

I want a description of what happens when you give up or get acquired. Thirty days notice for this kind of thing is not good enough. What about an option to be crawled by the Archive Team?

I'm glad your committing to be around for forever, but a worst-case plan is absolutely necessary to trust you with my family's patrimony, etc.
Bitcoin's deflationary nature makes me very nervous about it long term. I'd be a lot more okay with it if there were some sort of built-in inflation or arbitrage mechanism. However, outside of that argument, I think there's a more fundamental problem.

As it stands, the total cap of 21 million bitcoins comes to 2.1e15 'satoshis.'

Meanwhile, total global economic output is around $7.9e14 USD.

Essentially, if bitcoins were to be 'the' global currency at today's level of global GDP, the smallest unit of bitcoin allowed would be worth around $0.37 or $0.38, a value much too large for minimum granularity of currency. (Likewise, 1 bitcoin would be worth ~ $37.5 million USD.)

Now most assume bitcoin will never be the global currency of choice. But even so, it seems to me that the 21 million cap is far too small.

In any case, the so-called 'bubble' has every chance of inflating even larger because even if bitcoin traffic were 1% of GDP, you're still talking maybe 700 times the current bitcoin monetary base.

That means a reasonable 'target' for a bitcoin valuation in USD might even be well above the current price.

I'm not sure where things will go from here, but I'm sure it'll be interesting.
The database doesn't accept external connections, out of curiosity, what is the proper way to pass connection credentials?
Shall we run your writing through the same process, and deduce that you are employed by Google to slander Mozilla?

Actually, if they turned evil they'd employ someone better at it. I'm kind of convinced you're just trolling.
I thought a lot of that money was accounted for coming out of branches of Cypriot banks that remained open in the UK and Russia.

Not saying that bitcoin isn't where some or a lot of it ended up, but the black market was basically the first adopter of bitcoin, and black markets (and pornographers) are traditionally early adopters of any new technology.

Sort of the price we pay.

Doesn't mean it's a pump and dump. If it is where international criminal syndicates (who probably have more economic power than some nations) decide to bank long term in bitcoins it might actually be a stabilizing force.
what do ya mean rigged
I'm kind of surprised there's no date element connected to the stories, if the samples are any indication:

https://www.storyworth.com/sample-story/nancy

By "date", I mean, the day or era that the stories take place in. If my parents enter a bunch of these stories in it'd be nice to have a way to view them besides as a list of headlines.
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The largest known bot net had ~30,000,000 computers at that scale CPU's work just fine. Not that it's the only thing to do with a bot-net of that size, but it's clearly a lower-bound where if your not doing a denial of service attack or sending spam you might as well mine bit-coins.

Assuming the average CPU runs around 2 Mhash/s that's 60,000,000 Mhash/s which is the equivalent of about 75,000 ModMiner Quad @800Mhash/s which would cost 75 million, so you would probably still top the mining charts.
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"It's a bad idea to turn a currency into a commodity"

But a currency is already a commodity. Many commodities have been used as currency through history - wheat, rice, cows etc. Precious metals like gold became popular as currencies because they make good currencies for a number of reasons - gold is not organic and deteriorates very slowly, gold is easy to divide and combine, it is easy to transport, one ounce of gold is no different than another ounce of gold, gold has value when used in industrial machinery etc.

US coins used precious metals for a long time, although that is being phased out. US currency was backed by gold until the 1970s. Historically, currencies delinked from having the real underlying value of a useful commodity have not lasted long. Two years before I was born the dollar was still backed by gold.

A paper currency and electronic currency with no underlying utility can always become worthless, gold has retained worth for thousands of years. There is a long list of useless and worthless electronic and paper currencies - Flooz, Beenz, Confederate dollars etc. German marks had a period of hyperinflation even before World War II ended, so they lost their value twice.
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feels good to see that everyone in world learns like a child and incrementally develop into a genius whom world admire. Thanks to xbuzz for this post.
And of course Moot also offers forums, which Disqus does not.
That's false. Minors can enter into binding contracts, however contracts cannot be enforced against minors (but the minor can enforce the contract). Indeed, if this was not the case, there would be no child actors, singers, athletes, endorsers, etc.

If you want to enforce a contract involving a minor against the minor, you need to get the parents to sign, because the enforcement action would proceed against the parent, not the child.

It's unfortunate that your parents misunderstood basic contract law. Maybe if they had spoken to a lawyer, you could have avoided delaying your entrepreneurial ambitions.
> Last week I fell into a Linkedin’s trap.

The best way to avoid future traps: http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63
What is "the 300"? The only thing I can think of is the movie/comic book but I don't see how that ties in to cancer research.
We are a long way from that - but ultimately this could result in a competition between BTC and $ where loaners would prefer BTC and debtors would rather take out loans in $.

In the end this would result in a much higher interest rate for $-denominated loans and near-zero interest rate for BTC-loans.
But they still agreed to a terms of service which prohibits sharing account credentials with the intent to break that agreement. (There could be a service that doesn't, but "no account sharing" seems to be boilerplate in ToS documents).
>- I thought this was obvious: Chrome and normal Firefox are so much slower because they do not explicitly optimize the Asm.js code path.

I think the parent was asking for an explanation for why Chrome does so much worse than the non-asm.js Firefox. Which I guess is kind of a weird question given that Chrome beats non-asm.js FF in one of the three benchmarks, and is roughly tied with it in another.
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"the power of the US government backs the dollar"

How exactly is it doing that?
It's only hard to define what a bubble is if you're an armchair economist. Traditionally a bubble can be defined as:

"A single asset class that rises in price sharply and continually for years due to some underlying cause. This cause is usually central bank inflation. But a particular asset market, for reasons unknown, becomes the focus of this flow of funds. Other markets do not. This is what makes it a bubble."
I watched someone do it in one click yesterday.
Minors can enter into a legally binding contract in the U.S. However, the seller in a purchase contract cannot enforce a contract against the minor if the minor does not pay (though the minor can enforce the contract against the seller if the minor pays but does not receive the purchased item, i.e., the car). The purpose of making the parent a co-signatory to the contract is to enforce the contract against the parent if necessary.
Yep. A Wisconsin auto title has a "parent signature" line - your parents must give you permission to hold the title for a car you purchase with your own money.
An example attack iframes would make more difficult is XSS in the comment fields, e.g. an attacker bypasses sanitization and injects js into a page. With a sandbox iframe, the comments section could be restricted from compromising the top level page, e.g. stealing cookies, redirecting, etc.
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It can't be a bubble if it's not inflated. There's no real inflation in bitcoin there is though deflation which is a great thing. It's how all monetary systems should be
No VC money will come in if you want to keep full control.

Keep full control (and don't take VC money) == 0.00001% success rate (Google, Facebook). Same as lottery.

Give up control (but take VC money) == 0.5% success rate. Still better chance of making something.
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And KHTML itself can be (and was, by many) regarded as a pointless rewrite of Gecko, which seems crazy now we're aware of its impact.
I was interested as well, and found this:

http://www.engineerscanada.ca/e/files/guideline_admission_wi...

From my cursory reading it looks like if you went to a school that isn't accredited you can take the examinations instead, but it doesn't look like you can just take the exams and be licensed, they still want you to have some academic qualifications.
I agree. It's a shame legislators don't see this sort of thing in the same light as the court described in the article. Laws like this have far reaching and sinister consequences.

This sort of problem is summed up nicely in the original post -
"As the Ninth Circuit explained, “Ubiquitous, seldom-prosecuted crimes invite arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”"
`Static methods no longer require the `static` keyword and instead are distinguished by the lack of a `self` parameter`

Man, am I the only one who really doesn't like implicit things like this?
Considering just how big the outcry was over ISPs delivering advertisements instead of an NXDOMAIN response, and how many ISPs are continuing to mess with DNS over ten years after the execrable practice started, I haven't got much faith in the power of the market. Has there been just one ISP that stopped hijacking DNS over customer complaints?
Are you talking about cultofmac.com?
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Hanson's estimate is no better than the Drake equation. Everyone assigns different numbers to the various probabilities, multiplies them together, and gets a different result.
Yes.

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Goodluck.
>however contracts cannot be enforced against minors

Which is why businesses don't like them, and put provisions in the contract to prohibit minors.

My parents would have let me enter a contract had one been available, but because businesses knew they could never use the contract to their advantage (and against me), they wouldn't make one in the first place.
Yes, but you'd need to implement a compatible API for it to call. And both ActiveX and NPAPI expect access to privileged APIs not normally available to sandboxed Javascript code. So you'd either need browser support for equivalent privileged APIs for Javascript or some kind of emulation layer that fakes the access those APIs expect.
Deflation is a good thing
Afraid I'm not following you.

What's the issue with using "child pornography" to denote "images of child sexual abuse"? It's not like child pornography has undergone some fluffy rebranding that makes people go "oh yeah that's cool!"

If anything, "child pornography" will probably set off a quicker, harsher reaction than "images of child sexual abuse." The latter is almost clinical in its approach: people will spend a couple seconds parsing it to try to figure out what it means, while child pornography evokes a very visceral, gut reaction. Using your preferred phrasing seems weird enough that, if not for your context, I might assume the user was trying to create a subcategory of child pornography that's real "child sexual abuse," implicitly also creating a complementary subcategory of some kind of legitimate child pornography that's somehow not abusive.

Obviously not what you're doing, so what's the motivation, here?
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It's all dependent on what you are familiar and comfortable with. You, apparently, are familiar with and feel comfortable using C style for loops over collections to sum an attribute. In Perl I would write your example as:

my @totals = map { $_->{total} } @orders;

Does that make Perl better or worse in any way because of that? No, it's simple the idiomatic way to achieve that result given the current environment.

What we are really doing, is mapping a concept to the language. The concept in this case can be expressed in a few ways, but I would express it as:

Collect the total for each order.

I don't expect programmers to try to match the structure of how that was expressed in English perfectly in their language/environment, but I DO expect them to map it into the idiomatic way to do it in that environment.

The key point is the environment. If I'm programming in perl, I expect others that will add or modify my code to be familiar with perl. If I'm also using Mojolicious, I expect others that are tasked to work on that code to be familiar with Mojolicious as well, or at least willing to look up resources to try to figure it out. In short, I expect familiarity with the chosen tools. If that's not a valid assumption, then those tools should not be in use.

Similarly, I don't feel the need to dumb down my vocabulary or concepts for HN, but I might for a different audience.
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Go with a .com - no exceptions.

It's not a matter of "convincing" people to try you out - it's a simple matter of memory. When you tell people your company name, they're going to do one of two things:
a) visit "YOURCOMPANYNAME.com"
b) Google your company name

Make it easier for people to hit your site 100% of the time by getting a .com.

Also, having to explain your domain over the phone/in person is never a good thing. "Yeah, we're Shlubby.io. Yeah, Shlub, like shrub but an L instead of an R. And dot i o. Not, not dot com, dot i o."
Never take user written feedback seriously
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Anyone know if SSL for S3 websites will happen soon?
An excellent idea. Most of my Twitter consumption now happens from the news.me daily email. This sounds very similar.

Has anyone used both? How do they compare?
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Well, it does kind of make sense. If you never access anything from self then for all intent and purposes there is no reason the function shouldn't be static. That's just my initial perspective reading your comment, not knowing much about the language, so I might be missing some possible scenario this would actually result in a runtime error.
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Thanks for replying.

"I did not run performance benchmarks on my system because Asm.js does not yet support OS X (which is my primary OS)."

Given the relative percentage of web developers who use OSX (which is certainly non-trivial), wouldn't you think it would have been wise to state that?

But I guess the more interesting question is: did you try it on a system that firefox nightly+asm.js runs on? If so, can you describe that process? Did you try writing some code by hand or try taking a dummy program and run it through emscripten?

Taking a step back, it just seems really strange (and certainly many others, if this involved some other company like microsoft or google) that you would talk about performance without trying it.
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By "You will have full access to your data at all times (*)" - do you mean for the user or for the site that embedds a forum or maybe both? Do you plan for data export for both user and site ?
Hey, StoryWorth founder here. Great point, and especially important for a service where the data has value for decades to come.

Crawling by the Archive team isn't really an option, since the information is mostly personal and private.

However, the way I've addressed this is by making data export part of the story from the start. At anytime, you can request a backup of your stories, and I will send you a beautifully formatted PDF, along with any audio files (and eventually pictures, videos, etc).

If the service ever had to shut down, I'm committed to giving everyone ample notice to download such backups. So worst case, your stories would no longer be accessible at StoryWorth.com, but you would always have them.

Does that seem reasonable? This is something I care a lot about, so I'd love to hear other suggestions.
Not clear what his agenda is, trying to post on every site some moronic opinion on bitcoin instead of investing some time in understanding it better. A lot of folks on this that post here seem quite misguided in their knowledge of something they clearly dont understand. Trust me, it would serve anyone who has only passing knowledge of bitcoin to inform themselves by going to bitcoin.org than getting opinions from the pompous morons on this site.
I work on an enterprise platform where I have client side access, but no server side access. My only options for injecting HTML are:

1) cross domain AJAX via CORS

2) Injecting HTML strings constructed in JS

For small amounts of HTML, I'd much rather go with option #2.