skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to buy BTC-ETF would be nice within your 401k/Roth IRA/etc.

(It would also be awesome to get a 401k to offer BTC, even if it has to be within a "self directed" fund. I think I know someone on hn who has family members in the 401k administrator business...)
>So what happens when someone introduces a new whiz bang css feature that Chrome handles badly? Something you might, as a developer, want to disable in Chrome, but leave in for everything else? Or any other browser since they're all prone to introducing flakey implementations of CSS sometimes.

>All this means is we'll have to go back to the old ways of sniffing out browsers, and I fail to see how that's better.

The situation is no different just now, because -webkit- applies to Safari, Opera and many mobile browsers, not just Chrome. :/

>Nor do I look forward to a deluge of websites prompting me to fiddle with a config to "get the full experience".
Most web developers have very little sway when marketing or clients demand certain things, and this is likely to be something they demand.

"Use a modern browser [actually, Chrome] to get the full experience" is not an uncommon sight these days.
Anyone remember Acclaim and THQ made their money making licensed (and thoroughly crappy) games for Disney? Before they went and bought original properties/studios? Now both Acclaim and THQ are dead.
The industry is fucked because they charge $40 for a game that lasts on average less than 30 hours. This is a rip-off. Even RPG games don't last long these days. With an economy on the ropes you have to wonder in what kind of parallel universe are those guys living?

Give me a game at $10-$15 and I'd definitely buy it. Otherwise, well there are other ways to get them.

Not to mention that they went on and destroyed entire genres, like the much loved adventure games. Now we have a bunch of blockbuster FPS games that have started to look the same.

As an ex hardcore gamer I miss the thrill of the 90s when games were original and funny. Now it's all point and shoot some villain. After a while it becomes boring.
Are you able to have a decent place for $1100/month in rent + utilities? That just sounds awfully low to me even with a roommate. I could see swinging that if you didn't spend much time in your apartment, but it sounds like you do a lot of work there. I'm impressed, nonetheless.

I do think your comparison would have been a little better, though, if you had assumed the second programmer was single as well. Also, a salaried engineer at, say, Google, is going to get a lot more than $90k/year.
Same reason NYSEARCA:GLD and others exist, so you don't have to worry about securing the underlying (your broker/trading platform takes care of it), you can short it easier, etc.
I was being polite. I'm talking about IE specifically.

>"Use a modern browser [actually, Chrome] to get the full experience" is not an uncommon sight these days.

Yup, and it's sucky. It's no different to "this site is optimised for Internet Explorer".
Have you gone through the Django tutorial?

There's a lot of existing code that may inspire you, like:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/126965/learni...
http://www.jjude.com/a-simple-twitter-clone-in-django/
Opera will use Blink
I don't understand why a Magic the Gathering site is the big exchange still...

I think you answer your own question:

...an exchange (which is inherently... a natural monopoly)

MtGox would have to stumble very, very hard to create an opening for another exchange, which would have high start-up costs (because of those interesting security and technical challenges). If you were sufficiently deep-pocketed and bullish on Bitcoin, sure, but most are chasing lower-hanging fruit without an incumbent leader in a natural monopoly role.

I'd agree that wallet provision is a weak opportunity, except perhaps as part one of some deeper strategy.

I think some are attempting to take on MtGox obliquely: Ripple/OpenCoin via its network's distributed books and TradeHill via its recently-restarted professional investor services.
How about you just imagine the ship is rotating on an axis for artificial gravity generation. Then, if you were looking out the window, you would see the starfield whizzing by. :-)

Edited for smiley.
Heck, even the lowliest failed dotcom had, at the least, some aeron chairs to liquidate when the share price hit zero.

This got me thinking about what is bitcoins value from a book/intrinsic standpoint. Something like:

(electricity to generate coin) + (perceived value of allowing anonymous, non-government transactions) - (liquidity hassle)
I don't like to spam with links, but http://www.bitalo.com aims to be the service you described, and will be launched soon. "Most secure" really means that no one, even the site admins/hosting platform can never touch your coins. This will be enforced by the technology used, not just some internal policies.
And also, the site will be backed by a german AG company, which is basically a type of "Public limited company" backed by minimum of 50,000 EUR.
Is anyone else a little bothered by the fact that the reported speed was 1/5 the speed of light, yet the flyby necessarily increased to well over the speed of light in order to actually get you to Mars before you got bored and closed the tab? Traveling at the speed of light would have taken 5-20 minutes. Traveling slower than that would have taken even longer...
I think I asked this last time I saw a Statwing analysis, but are you guys accounting for multiple comparisons anywhere? The actual p-values are quite robust here, but I can generate some pretty spurious analysis by just running every comparison at once.
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Related to mindcrime's comment, with data points updated monthly, there is a lot of volatility in that graph and it's hard to draw conclusions. While having that drastic a drop isn't inspiring news, it could be due to a number of factors. To her credit, Danielle does not add her own causation theories and merely quotes the NVCA's.

My point is that if next month jumps back to a number closer to recent trends, the last month could easily be an outlier.

Now, if there is a continued depressed trend in startup investments over the next six months, one could put forth a convincing case that new tax laws and problems in the Euro-zone (as NVCA suggests) are hurting startup investments.
No, I suppose not. Thanks for your feedback! I'm really glad for all the discussion in response to my question!
The two engines will diverge, yes. I think it'll be better for both in the long run, as we simply have fundamentally different architectural approaches to some pretty core problems the engines are meant to solve. There will be short term adjustments on both sides as we get used to the new options that are now available.

I'm honestly quite hopeful, both about Blink, and about WebKit.
Tobias Schneider's barcode scanner [1] is a great example for a simple bar code scanner (<100 lines)
However, it turned out to be not very accurate in a lot of cases.
That's why I ported ExactImage's [2] bardecode [3] to javascript using emscripten [4].

I hope you like it.

[1] https://gist.github.com/tobeytailor/421369
[2] http://www.exactcode.com/site/open_source/exactimage/bardeco...
[3] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/bardecode.1.h...
[4] http://emscripten.org/
Congrats on the hire. Best of luck in your growth and success!
>I was being polite. I'm talking about IE specifically.

Well, this won't help you here anyway. By the sounds of things, features won't be enabled by default until they're ready. Things currently aren't unprefixed until they're ready. The only way to avoid IE if the feature is unprefixed is UA sniffing.

No change.

>Yup, and it's sucky. It's no different to "this site is optimised for Internet Explorer".

It's quite different, actually. Chrome is just quick at implementing web standards, they aren't dictating things and people aren't relying on proprietary APIs.
So, I'm pretty sure this is a correct history:

1. Google builds a new process architecture into Chrome as a product differentiator. (It was a major part of Chrome's initial marketing)

2. WebKit 2 is built (mostly by Apple?) to bake the same type of architecture straight into the core framework -- anyone using WebKit can use it and get the same security/stability benefits.[1]

3. Google says that the pain in maintaining their separate, non standard, process architecture is too much of a burden to continue to contribute into WebKit proper, so they must fork.

Why can't Chrome implement WebKit 2? Are there major advantages to Chrome's process model that are not present in WebKit 2? Is there a reason why WebKit 2 cannot be patched to provide those advantages?

This seems like a failure of open source.

[1]: see the first paragraph on http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
The decimal is used as a comma in a few places.
"Then they can lower their prices grow again."

That would be deflationary and, as we all know, deflation is the worst possible thing that could happen, ever.

(Great story on true entrepreneurship in action and, in particular, the focus on lowering, lowering, lowering costs and bringing more to more people.)
From my armchair I'll simply say : "It's gonna be volatile!"

I've stayed out of bitcoin because the market drivers are non-transparent. There are a lot of speculative investors in the market that are waiting for more gains before they close out their positions. Whenever these investors close out you have the potential of increasing the amount of liquid bitcoins in the market. Presuming demand is growing at a continuous clip this would drive the price down to a lower level.

Wash, rinse, repeat.
Particularly striking is how little (pure Python) code was required to do this (courtesy ctypes)!

A wonderful hack! :)

Edit: see https://github.com/clarete/forbiddenfruit/blob/master/forbid...
Pretty sure it has more to do with their architecture changes RE: multithreading and embedding/porting.
Current popular browsers are:

* Firefox
* Chrome / Chromium
* Internet Explorer
* Safari
* Opera

All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting their parent corporations in some way -- for example, Mozilla Corp rents the default search engine setting to Google for hundreds of millions per year.

I currently use Firefox and Chromium as my primary browsers, because they are the only popular browsers that are open-source and therefore the only browsers I fully trust. Despite coming from "business entities", neither browser shows me ads, requires me to enter a government-approved name, or requires me to install third-party applications.
Beat writer's block with artistic flow and Jackson Pollock
Consider Phlebas was sort of a literary lark. Start with Player of Games. Also, it all only works if you like the idea of The Culture. Really, it's the main character of all of the books. If you aren't cheering for The Culture, the books aren't going to work for you.
It isn't the income part, its the deductions. They don't know, until I tell them what I give at various places. If I don't want to report the money I give to a charity / church, I don't have to.
Do you have any proof that the statement is false?
Thanks! I have (tried the Django tutorial), but it was very difficult to follow at first, so I am trying "Learn to code the hard way" and the Google Tutorial for Python by Nick Parlante. I mean, I am not yet at the level of using Github or things like that, it's just too far away for me :(.

I think the problem is that it is still too abstract for me.
> So what happens when someone introduces a new whiz bang css feature that Chrome handles badly?

You file a bug report on the Chrome (and/or Blink) issue tracker, and it gets fixed.

> Something you might, as a developer, want to disable in Chrome, but leave in for everything else?

Then you use user-agent sniffing to disable it, if you must. The same as you'd do for any flaky implementation of a generally-used feature in a browser. That's not really the notional purpose of vendor-prefixing, anyway (which is about not using the unprefixed name space for things which might later end up with a different standard semantics, not about making it easier for developers to avoid buggy implementation of cross-browser common features).

> All this means is we'll have to go back to the old ways of sniffing out browsers

Or only use features that are well supported across common browsers if you want to avoid browser sniffing.
Wasn't Firefox 20 supposed to have H264 support?
To those who prefer manual filing, or think online filing is not practical, for at least second year California now promotes filing online. It's 2013 and only about 15 years late. Yes, they already have the information or will get it, so the privacy complaints are moot.

You log in to the website, and go through a 20 (or so) step wizard where you confirm or add a missing item, etc. Next, next, finish. Done, and entered into their system. No studying instructions, licking envelopes, buying stamps, or writing checks, waiting months for a refund, or any of that bs.

Meanwhile it's the Dark Ages over in IRS-land. Unless you want to type all your financial information into an unknown third-party site (I don't), you better get out your pencil and calculator, and/or enter it into a PDF for printing.

Not to mention wading thru 70 pages of useless instructions for the blind, disabled, parents, pensions, veterans, itemizing, AMT, self-employed, health savings accounts, paying alimony, etc, etc. You may be one of those, but likely not more than one or two. The rest are wasted time, energy, and cognitive load. Worksheets, schedules, forms++ that could be automated.

If it's not obvious I find the IRS process disgusting. To those that say it is the tax-code that is the problem, while partially true, doesn't take into account the wizard process. The wizard simply doesn't ask you for information that doesn't apply, e.g. if you have no kids it doesn't ask about child care credits. It makes the process much easier.
Even worse, I find very few modern games that I even want to play. As a result I spend more time playing emulators, old retroconsoles and old computer games than anything new. For the price of a new game you can probably grab an entire SNES and a few hundred hours of really good games.

Notice how many of these relatively cheap indy games are setup to recreate this gaming experience.

This back catalog (including recent additions) has got to be taking a chunk out of the sales numbers.
I'm an existing customer using python with gunicorn. I'd be very keen to see any learnings about an optimal setup.

Fwiw, I've found the addon / db connection limits to be the primary blocker when load testing so far.
Ah right, it was published by Sierra. What a work of art for Gooseman.

Thinking about it brings back those nostalgic days of WON with the fullscreen console. I had a 3 digit wonid, I remember when that was such a big deal, lol. Going over to a friend's house, setting up PCs, getting loads of caffeine and raiding the liquor cabinet, then doing cal scrims all night long.
In that case, you need to out-last the 17 year old until his site dies from the security breach.
Same experience here! Got started with Qbasic games -> web dev -> iOS
Thanks for your support. Indeed, communication and transparency into how the product works as far as how it affects your app are two things we'd like to get better at.

Regarding your app: indeed, Unicorn is a huge improvement, but far from the end of the story. "Performance" is like "security" or "uptime" — it's not a one-time feature, something you check off a list and move on. It's something that requires constant work, and every time you fix one problem or bottleneck that just leads you to the next one.

Over time, though, your vigilance pays off with a service that its users deem to be fast or secure or have good uptime. Yet there's no such thing as a finish line on these.

Bringing it back to details. Kazuki from Treasure Data made this Unicorn worker killer that might help you: https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer If you're still not happy with your app's performance, give me a shout at adam at heroku dot com and we'll see if we can help.
"what are you using to measure the "volatility" you claim fiat money has so much of"

Inflation.

And 'unchanging' wasn't the best choice of words, but my point is that gold is not subject to the whims of monetary policy makers because you can't create more gold. Gold's value only changes when more gold is discovered.
Wow, movin' and shakin'. Congrats WPE!
You only lost money if you sold your bitcoins. If you bought bitcoins at the instant before the last crash, you'd still have more than doubled your money even now after the $30 drop. Bitcoin may crash to $1 tomorrow; who cares? The real question is where will Bitcoin be a year from now, and 10 years from now?
Plenty of room for improvement here, sure. Some technical discussion in this thread: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/3/routing_and_web_pe...
WebKit has prevented google from pulling an IE6, so this effectively frees them to eff it all up.
A crash today would effectively DDOS Mt. Gox. I don't think Mt. Gox would be able to stay up for the next crash. Hopefully... they're preparing for it.
You can draw a circle in the palm of your hand, then a smaller circle on the other. Spread your arms out to your side, and that's about the distance from the earth to the moon.

I would get that tattooed if I was into that kind of thing.
This is a fallacious argument in this context, this is a pretext, that's why I used the word 'hypocrisy'. And also I really think that a so called 'diversity' of implementations of open source projects may only really be sustainable for large companies with big resources to do things on their own and know they don't need to rely on anybody. But ask yourself, now, what if Apple decided that for being competitive with Google they must do the same thing and ditch everything that don't suit to their plans? And what if Samsung does the same and Blackberry and so on... would it be great for diversity? Would it be great for small vendors? I don't think so. Excuse me but in this case I don't praise this kind of diversity.

Edit: I didn't know I replied to a Google employee, just s/Google/your company/ in my post.
I absolutely agree, and hopefully there is a lag in investment reporting, but I find the fact that the NVCA issued this report to Reuters and it was picked up by the finance press by no one in tech strange as this is certainly of public interest to the startup community. I've attempted to present the information objectively.
Not every country uses the comma as the thousands separator.
Yes, that's what's troubling about it.
Transparent smartphone prototype
Aren't all those projects you mentioned open source and licensed to be useable by anyone?
Probably for the same reason why reopening Ruby classes is used so much. "hello, world".capitalize looks nicer than capitalize("hello, world"), and it's more convenient for method chaining.
Pfft. The Web is run by businesses, not some star trek style council where everyone speaks in turn and there is a common good.

WhatWG was formed because the W3C design by committee approach was too slow for some businesses to gain an advantage.

W3C is a paid up list of various exchange top 500 companies who can afford to pay up for standards.

It's a giant pissing match.
Why not a JS implementation of a SQL database?
in Armenia
Er.

I would fully expect that a company would have its own agenda. Google's is/was organizing the world's information. It's a bit, um, something, to expect that they don't have an agenda, ne?
I think that overstates it a bit, but yes, there are problems with Unicorn and slow clients. We're investigating: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/3/routing_and_web_pe...

If this is an immediate problem for you, it might be worth your while to make your app threadsafe, which gives you more concurrent webserver options.
Hmm, I see what you're saying, but that's not what the demo is trying to convey. At one point it says "You're now traveling at [1/5 the speed of light]" -- that would be nonsense if it was conceived as a panning motion.

e: Ah, but as someone else points out, the trip must actually exceed the speed of light, so the whole thing is nonsense. The author should recast things the way you describe them, and thus solve multiple problems at once.
IIRC, the founder of Mtgox, the Bitcoin exchange, is not the same person as the founder of the "Magic the Gathering Online Exchange." The domain was transferred.
Amazon MP3 Metadata Stripper
"while your comment hints at lying and omitting information, i have some concrete anecdote on doing exactly that."

I do not lie to the IRS (you are guilty and have to prove yourself innocent), and as a general rule in life, I try not to lie to people.

If the IRS has all the information it needs to fill out my taxes, then several parts of the Bill of Rights are being violated. I cannot fathom how the IRS would force churches to report each contributor for example.
Ask HN: Best new language/framework to learn with commercial prospects?
I've been in enterprisey Java-land too long. It's hard to compete with Python/Ruby programmers with N years commercial work experience (where usually N > 1). I had the idea that I could learn some new exciting programming language or framework that is still being invented, so I can get in on the ground floor, so to speak. For example, like asm.js.

Background: I have been made redundant, but I have a few weeks financial cushion, and I want to avoid just falling into yet another job like the ones I've had (knowing that people in the local market would probably gladly pay me well to carry on doing the same sort of work).
It's basically (at least given the current climate of EU periphery countries) an instrument to place bets on consumer/investor confidence in the Euro. Now similar speculative behavior exists in other markets including currency, fixed income, etc, but bitcoins have such low transaction volumes compared to other avenues that its Beta (basically the "gain" in engineering terms) is going to be sky high.
Firefox will be using Servo.
This is really cool, though I would like to see a version in higher resolution with some stars. Not oppressively bright stars, just a hint to remind you that there are billions of billions of violent, fiery balls of self-contained exploding gas out there...
Yes! Excellent point.

Note also that all those careers are fungible insofar as you can take those skills outside the gaming industry relatively easily.
Does that actually matter?

All these are as well:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104.aspx

Would you consider building on top of them? No because they are not 100% vendor neutral. They serve the vendor, not the consumers of the technology.
They way it was explained to me is that I had to prove I was capable of providing for myself - not necessarily that I was receiving no financial support from my parents.

The law in WA (http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=13.64&full=...) reads "the petitioner [must indicate] that he or she has the ability to manage his or her financial affairs".
Everything is still going to be open source.

http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-goin...
From the spec:

> Unlike the case of HTML, element names in XML have no intrinsic presentation semantics. Absent a stylesheet, a processor could not possibly know how to render the content of an XML document other than as an undifferentiated string of characters. XSL provides a comprehensive model and a vocabulary for writing such stylesheets using XML syntax.

So the big issue with XSL is that it's verbose as hell. I remember using XSL Transforms to do some really simple things, and getting it right was horrible. Debugging it was worse. Given a piece of code that uses HTML + CSS vs XSL, I'd pick HTML + CSS any day simply because it's more readable.

However, yes the core of it seems much better thought out than CSS.

> but now it's too late.

Is it? Is it possible to have some XSL FO to HTML5 + CSS compiler?
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