skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how any regulation regarding BitCoin would work in practice. I think it would be hard to prove you have a BitCoin wallet as it's a quite anonymous system. Besides, I could have my wallet.dat file on a remote server and manage transactions through that.

I get the feeling the IRS right now think BitCoin is a joke and if/when it becomes a big deal, they'll panic and try to pass shifty laws. None of which will make any real sense.

If anything, they'll try to pass laws regarding moving money to/from USD <-> BTC.
Google Makes Open Patent Non-assertion Pledge and Proposes New Licensing Models
This is pretty much isomorphic to the Halting Problem. ;)
It should speak volumes about the truth behind my comment considering it's a downvoted opinion here.
Google have been doing lots of fun topical things with Street View lately.

Here's Japanese Cherry Blossom viewing, Street View style: http://www.google.com/landing/japanview/
My theory on the Nokia's reasoning on this, I don't think it's really about the codec, otherwise, why are they only attacking WebRTC and not YouTube/Chrome/Android uses?

Sorry for the G+ public link (should be viewable when not signed in), but I use it as my blog nowadays.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/110412141990454266397/posts/QLuD...

Edit: ok, I'll just inline it here to save people the trouble

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What if any two devices, with just a few lines of JavaScript, could make a free voice call, or a free video call, anywhere, and not necessarily be subjected to control by phone carriers or other entrenched interests?

WebRTC, IMHO, is one of the most important technologies added to the web platform in the last couple of years. It is disruptive, perhaps too disruptive. It commoditizes things which used to be hard to do, even replicating something like Skype or Google Hangouts becomes much easier for small startups, and it scares big IHVs and ISVs who sell equipment and charge money for these services. It threatens to turn phone carriers into bit-pipes as well.

Putting on my tin-foil hat, it doesn't seem surprising to me that Microsoft (which owns Skype), Cisco (which owns WebEx), and Nokia (puppet of Microsoft), are pushing back and finding ways to delay it. The brouhaha over the VP8 codec is only one aspect, there are players who are worried their existing deployed VoIP/Video HW endpoints will be obsolete legacy equipment in the new WebRTC world, and so they do not want mandatory features which put them at a disadvantage.

But this technology is too important to be designed in a way that makes it hard to use, hitched to commercial legacy hardware, or encumbered by commercially controlled cartels like MPEG-LA.

</QUOTE>
Were you using timemachine, and if so did the photographs get removed from there as well? No matter what, that sounds like an incredibly poor user experience.
When I still had Mac blogs in my RSS reader, the store closing down for a few minutes would actually cause wide coverage with a follow-up post on what how their inventory has changed.
If your graphics are the bottleneck, then you're likely GPU bound and not CPU bound, so that may not buy you much. Making a game that can make players happy across a 10x range of hardware capabilities is hard.
My Lyft with Romeo
The Intel ethernet controller lockup seems like a really bad candidate for an intentional backdoor. It's way too easy to trigger by accident (a single byte with the right value in the right place!) and yet way too hard to trigger intentionally (a slightly different value immunizes the controller).

Surely an actual backdoor would require something a little harder to stumble over by accident, and wouldn't have a trivial disable code.
... proving that lower-level employees can be assets whose skills improve the bottom-line as well....

That was proven long, long ago. Somebody forgot.
VICE Japan also made a video [1] on a couple of people (incl. the person in your 2nd link) who decided to stay and take care of what they could.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llM9MIM_9U4 (With English CC)
I do not know what you mean by "document". I studied typography and designed digital type, for a while, about 20 years ago. So I know a bit about the design side of things. And the design side is what my post is limited to. I am sorry if this was a tad ambiguous.

I did not talk about the history. I talked about a typographical design trend that pertains to currency symbols. Also not that better typefaces sometimes have both versions on the $ sign. One and two strokes. The default is admittedly still the single bar one though.

Expert discussion re. the one bar/two bar $ sign, that could be an interesting read: http://www.typophile.com/node/17976
Perhaps it's a bit paranoid to say this, but note that we are dangerously close to April 1st.
(just to clarify, I was confused with the (GMT+1) part)
That's funny, I had no clue how it's supposed to work as a user either. Or at least not in the 10 minutes I was willing to give it. The Steve Jobs' Dropbox story is even more hilarious in retrospect. Hilarious at the time too, because Jobs had no intention of providing his product(iCloud) to the philistines who use Windows.
> 99% of computers have either Flash or Java installed

If you define "computer" as being something that's not a "phone" or a "tablet", sure.

But people writing web content today sure care about those non-"computer"s...
Yes, agreed. asm.js is a great fit here. My point was that that fact doesn't generalize well to other problem areas.

Earlier you said asm.js isn't just a compiler target, but if your program uses strings, or objects, or closures, or GC, then it's not going to be a good fit to use asm.js.
Personal disclosure - I'm not interested in a Facebook phone in the slightest (mostly for privacy concerns).

I think this is an interesting concept. Let's assume it is in fact a total fork of Android, in essence, a "Facebook Phone". I really think (as big as Facebook is) they will have a hard time with this. I'm not sure there is space for another type of device - even if it is a massive consumer brand.

I get the sense that a lot of people use Facebook for it's utility... but I think it has lost it's "cool factor" with the general public. I can't see a lot of people thinking "man - I really want deeper integration with Facebook!" Isn't the FB app good enough for most people?
Don't be an ass. Today you learned, at most, that at least one person thinks that finding a woman ugly is hardcore sexism.

More generally, calling things "PC" is a lazy shortcut, a straw man attack.

I mean, unless someone actually sincerely says to you "oh, reinhardt, you mustn't say XYZ, I want you to be politically correct". In that case, mock away.

I absolutely disagree with JulianMorrison (that "us[ing] the concept 'ugly women' is failing so hard at sexism ..."). My disagreement has nothing to do with suspecting him of being "PC", nor do I dismiss other related claims from other people because of the existence of this statement.
I just hope they stay true to the Android core, we dont really need another mobile OS that is based on Android but isnt compatible.
I don't know what it is in SF, but the rule in NY is 40x monthly salary; you'd need $90k here for a $2250 rental.

It's pretty tight if your rent is two months salary, but here where it generally covers heat and water, the saving from not owning a car makes up for it.
Ask HN: What do you use for your tech blog and are you happy with it?
I'm looking for something that supports commenting and syntax highlighting out of the box, preferably something that uses static pages so it's fast and easy to manage. Any recommendations?
Got any awesome alternatives?
You are mistaken about the reason for the voice in jet fighters.

"Bitching Betty" [1], the voice warning in aircraft such as the F-16 and F/A-18 was originally female because female pilots, especially in the military were relatively rare, although there were some female controllers. The female voice was more noticeable above the normal male pilots chatter on the radio. The wiki entry is somewhat inaccurate on the historical detail, so I included some info from F-16.net

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitching_Betty#Voice_gender
[2] http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-1950-postdays-0-p...
It is the border between two federal reserve districts.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm
Some of the Federal Reserve Districts are divided. For example the "12-San Francisco" district is divided in three parts: Norwest, California and Salt Lake City. Perhaps they are Subdistricts of the Federal Reserve?

And there are some exceptions. For example, the north of Wisconsin and the north of Michigan are joined with the south of Wisconsin and Illinois, but they are in different Federal Reserve Districts. Perhaps there a cultural or economical reason for this?
"most likely you can afford to live here"

Seems like a good enough qualifier. Especially since these are median prices, so cheaper rents are to be found.

not actually. SF is nuts.
I'd compare Goodreads to Foursquare. I mostly use it for my own purposes of tracking what I'm reading (similar to checking in at a restaurant) and occasionally see a recommendation from a friend I'm following (similar to restaurant tips/check ins).
well. I'm no expert, but I can sure take a shot of some things you might want to avoid!

*Not marking ads as ads
*Presenting advertisements with the same presentation inline with normal
content, potentially confusing the reader.
*Assuming that no one would block the ads
-or recognizing they would and not caring
*Not making use of the space in the... article!

I did not notice I could scroll down, either. Why didn't they put the ads there?!
In my limited experience with both successful and unsuccessful patent applications, the first response from the patent office is often a "nonfinal rejection" due to obviousness (section 103 rejection). In response, you should present evidence that the invention is not obvious. Here are examples of types of evidence that the USPTO finds compelling:
- commercial success (not due to better marketing).
- failed attempts by other people to solve a longstanding problem.
- awards or publications in the scientific literature.
- the invention involves a combination of components that produce an unexpected result.
"It is entirely sexist to see an attractive woman and assume that she isn't intelligent."

Case in point: Hedy Lamarr, who is probably more well known for her beauty than for her contributions to science (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT2292387)
> "wouldn't be great if every kid with a spray can could paint all over the city".

The thing is that, unlike in other places, people can upvote/downvote stuff on SO/SE sites, and just like crappy questions and answers are quickly buried by the community the same could happen to subpar discussions, so I don't really think that's a valid excuse.
I've been using Checkvist for everything task-wise for years; can't recommend it highly enough. The API is also super easy to use, if you want to integrate it into your dashboard and such.
Only to the point where the IRS audits you for spending significantly more money than you earn. Drug dealers and organized criminals get caught for this very problem concerning undeclared cash.
Years ago I worked at a gas station, one night they sent down 2 Miller Lite girls to do promo. If you bought a case of miller light you got to take your picture with the girls and got a free magnet etc. They were there for one hour before moving on, we emptied our entire stock of Miller in that hour.Guys were coming in for weeks asking about when they'd be back. "Horndogging" or not, sex sells and it isn't going anywhere.
Don't forget that Facebook owns Instagram as well. My non-tech friends (most of them) use exactly 2 apps regularly on their phones. Facebook and Instagram. I'm not sure any of them would jump at a Facebook branded phone, but I think a phone with Instagram in mind as the key feature (e.g. an awesome camera, integrated filters, not sure what else) might strike a chord with some of my friends.

EDIT: Almost forgot about Vine. That seemed to blow up in popularity in my demographic recently here in Hawaii. if Facebook owned Vine, they would have the holy trinity of apps.
The data not reflected here is the housing quality for the given price, and included features. For example most of these locations East of the park probably don't have parking, which could be an additional hundreds of dollars per month, if it's even available.
If you think it's a black and white "HURR TITS" vs "Quite interesting, madam. Please tell me where I might subscribe to your newsletter." rather than a spectrum therebetween, you're sorely mistaken.

Marketers have (I can only assume) found that triggering the former to lead to the latter is a working strategy (they do tend to at least try to base their actions on observed results). Even if that's not the case the concept that there's a dual throw switch for power between the gonads and the brain seems pretty silly and needlessly underestimates men (though it sort of overestimates them at the same time I guess...).
I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook. My group of friends and I continue to use it because there just isn't any better way for us to stay in touch at scale on a day-to-day basis, and nobody really cares enough to put up with the fragmentation that moving to a different network would cause. So it's in this weird middle ground of being too important to give up outright, but not important enough to bother actually fixing.
Denver Out to Follow Boulder’s Entrepreneurial Ascent
I think we've been here before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQkU7jLXRY#t=18s
"I honestly don't know anyone who actually likes Facebook."

That's the thing I've never understood. On the one hand, on the nightly news Facebook is discussed as if everyone has an account (and that privacy changes actually matter to most viewers). On the other hand, none of my close friends use facebook.
Why assume that anyone who isn't deeply expert in the technical details of a product isn't a full-time employee of the company? Many companies hire sales/marketing people of both genders that may have a relatively superficial understanding of the inner details but are more enthusiastic and outgoing than the engineering staff.
How did Apple developers ship working PPC/m68k binaries? Or PPC/x86 after that, later PPC/x86/x86-64, and armv6/armv7/armv7s on the iPhone?
Try LeanDomainSearch: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=type -- right now shows TypeBuddy, TypeRate, TypeLearning, TypeRocket, TypeNinja... a bunch of others, but those seem relevant to typing practice; all available .com's.
"Do you work here?"

I ask that at the grocery store when I have a question and I'm not sure if the person is an employee of the store or one of the store's suppliers.
New York Court Upholds Sales Tax for Online Retailers
Messaging at Scale at Instagram (video + slides from PyCon)
Are the including Studios in this or just 1BR? I ask because a 1 BR is a luxury apartment for a single inhabitant. Most folks living by themselves would have a studio. SF is expensive but it's not that expensive.
> if Facebook owned Vine, they would have the holy trinity of apps.

Just for the record, Vine belongs to Twitter, so don't count on that happening any time soon :)
That was about as useful as all the people putting #firstworldproblem hashtags on their tweets, which is to say, "not at all".

Look, if those of us who happened to be born as white males in the United States are supposed to apologize for that, then ya know what...

No, never mind, not going to try and incite a big flame war over this.

There are millions (if not billions) of people in the world, living in horrible conditions, and that's a terrible tragedy. But there are better ways to point that out, and raise attention for causes like clean water, sanitation, etc., than mocking those of us who happened to be born American born WASPs, and who want to improve our own lot in life and maybe, just maybe, make the world a better place for everybody in the process.
Good point. But even if you reveal ownership of any bitcoins "as soon as you have to" (oh yeah I sold some consulting overseas for 100 BTC ...), and pay the taxes on them, it still functions as a great way to protect your savings against inflation-happy governments, in a way that commodities and "inflation-protected government bonds" can't.

Ask any Argentinian if they'd like to have kept a stash before the Corralito.
That mockup is fucking ridiculous.
Show HN: Crontab monitoring and logging
I built this application to ease my inbox of all the cron output that gets sent to me.

The application logs cron output (so you can search it later) and also alerts you (email and SMS) if a cron fails to run or is late.

I'm working towards alerts based on the cron output itself.

I'd love your critique and thoughts. If you're inclined, I'm in a competition to pitch this at an upcoming conference, and would appreciate your vote: http://www.futureinsights.com/app-it-out-vote
We've tried to use NSIncrementalStore and we found it quite tough. Documentation is sparse. You buy yourself into the SQL-ish interface of NSFetchRequest throughout the app. There are fun bugs to discover like this one:

https://github.com/stackmob/stackmob-ios-sdk/blob/master/Cor...

And once you discover that you can't fix all the problems that Apple is struggling with, you have dug yourself into a VERY deep hole :)
Ask HN: How much bandwidth does the US Internet use?
I'm writing up a business plan for the startup that I wish to begin. However, I'm lacking certain facts and details I need to really make a potential pitch really pop.

Mainly, I've spent the past 2 hours trying to research how much bandwidth the northeast data corridor (Northern VA -> DC -> NYC -> Boston -> Toronto) uses or has available. I've found nothing.

I then looked for eastern seaboard Internet usage, and also found nothing, and then I found a report from Cisco[1] that says world IP traffic in 2012 was on average was 43EB per month, and North American usage was almost 15, however it only breaks it down to North America and not down to US or regions in the US.

Have any of you seen such a report? Thank you in advance

1: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360.pdf
Interesting idea for a startup if they go through with this: a service that provides plausible deniability for bitcoin wallets.
Balanced. Braintree. What are you looking for exactly?
I know a lot of developers use Octopress and its many variants. Tie that together with one of the comment services (e.g., Disqus) and you're pretty much set. Or you can just link every post to a HN submit and direct readers to your HN submission.

You can then deploy to Github or just some CDN.

I don't particularly find it appropriate to use WordPress as a tech blog. It just sends the wrong message in my opinion.

That said, I am of the opinion that developers should take pride in developing their own blog platform. It's conventional wisdom after all that building a blog platform on a modern framework only takes (a few hours | a few days | certainly not a week).

I put together mine [1], including the javascript in about 3 days. People tend to hate the background, but I wanted something a little more visually engaging and I'm not a graphic designer. :)

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/simplest-of-webapps
Not only that - for Game Center it seems that this has actually happened.
OK. It's probably more common in folklore than in real life, but I was thinking of the situation where mass production was the hard part, for example, where a lone inventor comes up with a process or design, but does not publicly disclose it because of fears that someone else (with better ability to mass produce) would capitalize on it.

So I agree that patents (and the extent of their protection) makes sense for things that are "hard and expensive", in software as in other fields. But it seems like many software patents that get discussed are for things that did not require a lot of work; the 20-year monopoly seems to be a disproportionate reward just for being first, regardless of the work involved.
According to TechCrunch the press invitation says "Come see our new home on Android"; if they were to take Amazon's approach I would expect them to omit mentioning Android completely, so I guess this tells something.
If she's working the booth then she is working there in one way or another.

Saying "Do you know anything about this product, or are you tits for hire?" doesn't seem like a great question either..
Meta and/or OT: I simply don't believe public statements nor PR, any more.

I seem to recall prior FB comments on this (PR or senior executives) being: We're not doing a phone.

So... "strategic" and "protecting our interests" and "must maximize our value" and "timing" and... Lots of arguments for not giving a straight answer prior to this (even if that is "no comment").

However, with all the talk of "corporate personhood" being bandied about, these days, I'm going to choose to treat businesses that do this the same way I'd treat an individual that did so. You lied.

Why, then, should I believe anything else you're telling me?

Again, this is aside from the specific topic of this phone. Nonetheless, I find it pertinent.
An Introduction To Modern Electronics - PyroEDU
Troll. But just in case you're not permanently damaged yet:

Imagine you're invited to a party where you are the oldest, fattest, least appealing person there, and you're not particularly made to feel welcome.

Now imagine you're expected to attend dozens of these parties in the course of your employment.

Now imagine that these parties are intentionally arranged this way, and that the pretty people are paid to be there for the express purpose of making you look and feel old, fat, shabby, and unwelcome.

Does this compute? Does it seem fun?
I've wanted to actually try practicing mindfulness meditation for a long time. Maybe this will finally tip the balance.
What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about in life?
Ask HN: What do you do to stay motivated?
I often ask myself with what habits,things or whatever other hackers stay motivated throughout the day (and night).

For my part, its mostly 3 things.
First one: Having a nice playlist in iTunes with some slow music ("tracing arcs - babydoll" is one of my favs).
Second: A little list written on paper or the whiteboard with some tasks i'm eager to finish today (striking through something on paper or a whiteboard is more "satisfying" than just doing a 'git commit' for me)
And lastly: Going for a walk when i am stuck or just need some time to think more than 2 minutes (and thanks to siri and iCloud i never lose track of good ideas on my way).

Any methods you want to share with HN and me?
Can you describe Cogent's reaction to your request to blackhole the route? We had a very small incident with XO recently (perhaps 500Mbps reflected DNS flood), and it took them 24 hrs to get back to me to blackhole the target! We just packet filtered in our edge switch. Was Cogent any faster?
>none of my close friends use facebook

I'd say you're lucky. Most of my friends use Facebook. I refuse, so I'm out of touch with most of them. I figure if we aren't willing to keep in touch in other ways, our friendship isn't holding up very well anyway.
Excellent example and case. How Stuff Works did a podcast on her a few years ago, http://castroller.com/podcasts/StuffYouMissed/2118275 she's a fascinating person to learn about.
Just curious, but is CakePHP seen as a major framework by people outside the PHP Community?
I know the law, but I'm saying that we already have protection for expression on an algorithm -- i don't think we need to patent an app that is simply an implementation of an algorithm.
500,000 is the sort of number that is huge to a company like Feedly and can't even be distinguished from day-to-day noise in the statistics to a company like Google.
It's an iPhone 5 with the touch buttons added.