skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An odd one for me is from a user Arrington 1532 days ago, who seemed to post the same comment on hundreds of old threads - look at thread 1 onwards - it's all over the place but on threads that are far older than the user / post (ie post 1)
Among many other good reasons, it's an app whose nature is determined by the same kind of dynamics that govern many restaurant and product reviews.

Most of the time, satisfied customers don't bother to review the product or service because a certain psychological barrier first needs to be overcome (i.e. "writing this review is worth my time because it's SO good/bad"). Middle-of-the-road reviews rarely make it through, and when they do, they are typically short and uninsightful. Reviews that draw the most attention are those at the extremes.

Human beings are generally more prone to extreme dissatisfaction than extreme satisfaction. It's in our nature. When is the last time you thought, "Man, that person drives SO well!" or "My bill is SO low this month!"?

In the case of Lulu, the comments will heavily skew to the negative since "satisfied customers" will likely still be dating the guy (and thus not posting reviews) and dissatisfied ones will have every incentive to write vindictive comments in a last attempt to "get even". And those who are initially angry with the guy but later change their minds are likely to write a review during the angry phase and forget about it later, when their opinion of him has moderated. The end result is that most of the guys on the site will be portrayed in a much more negative light than is actually merited.

In terms of its user base, it's really just catering to the female equivalent of guys who engage in "slut shaming". But it's more socially acceptable because the app targets men instead of women, and men are expected to be more psychologically durable.
That's not really that affordable, either. Its just copying the same rates as everyone else. Rates that are simply a bit on the high side.
Do Eighty Percent of Life's Defining Moments Take Place by Thirty-Five?
Also don't forget about Carnivore/Echelon and their ilk that presumably have the ability to intercept and store basically all email. Then once your email is duplicated in a government database somewhere, it being primarily housed on a Google or FB server is irrelevant.
Right: mining produces whole bitcoins, and does it infrequently. That's why pools exist; people weren't willing to wait months to randomly win the bitcoin lottery. (Maybe that's a design flaw!)
Most pools pay proportions of their actual winnings, not their predicted ones.
Bitcoin bubble popped?
Bitcoin has lost $100 in value in the past 24 hours. Just as all NPR, WSJ and other news outlets start to notice it.
That's our bad. We'll update this.

Payouts occur every two weeks, not every month. This is one of the changes we've announced today.
It's a matter of quantity - a ground burst produces enormous amounts of radioactive material. An air (or space) burst only has a few KG of radioactive material.

From: http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/effects.htm

"Air Bursts. .... there is essentially no local fallout from an air burst."

"Surface Burst ..... In contrast with air bursts, local fallout can be a hazard over a much larger downwind area than that which is affected by blast and thermal radiation."
I mean... where else is the data going to come from? The future?
Its time Americans realized that their government does whatever the hell it pleases. There are too many secret courts and black op intelligence agencies operating within US borders for a rational citizen to reach any other conclusion.

If the government wants to read your email, it will. If it refrains from reading your email it's only because it doesn't find you interesting enough to go through the hassle of doing so.
Where do you get those valuations? Every site I know of is down.
Simple cash-in on profits
Tell me again why any sane person would accept bitcoin as a currency for goods?
Note that the price may not be live, but instead a CloudFlare cached version. The price may be incorrect.
Why the reduced confidence?
Wouldn't a Javascript solution involve sending the same information via a HTTP POST?
It lost over $100 today and is still dropping from the looks of it. From $266 to $140 right now.
I'd vote getting to use RAII is a better win than TCO.

And really its by definition not a tail call when you have to run destructors after a "tail" call, and tricky/annoying to express that destructors should be run prior to a tail call.
How do they solve authentication?
What a ridiculously naive comment. First, why should tesla take up this cause? They're trying to run a bush was, it makes no sense to do/spend any more tha. They have to. Second, you obviously do not understand the practicalities involved in passing a piece of legislation. If it doesn't pass then you gain nothing. Better to fight a battle you can win.
We have thousands of C++ unit tests and hundreds of thousands of functional SQL tests
What are the best sources for viewing a chart of intra-day price movements?
It's just lagging horribly, as in, taking more than one hour between receiving an order and executing it: https://data.mtgox.com/api/1/generic/order/lag
My common courtesy wake-up call: MIT mechanical engineering students often had to go through the course "secretary" to see their faculty advisers of high-level MechE professors. At the time, the course secretary was a middle-aged women with a desk outside of the MechE administrative offices. When you walked into the office, you spoke with her and she would send you to the appropriate faculty office.

Whenever any of my (mostly male) coursemates talked about visiting the office, they always referred to her as "bitch," "cunt," "hag" etc. I never understood this - she had never been anything but nice and respectful to me. After one interaction I witnessed between the secretary and another student, I finally began to understand. Those other students really saw her as just a "secretary" who had no business running interference between students that were clearly her betters. I on the otherhand never went out of my way to ingratiate myself to her, but I did treat her as a human worthy of the same respect as any other faculty member, and I guess she noticed.

One year, I signed up for more classes than I intended to take with the intention of auditing the classes, deciding what I wanted to take and then dropping the excess classes before the drop date. I decided pretty quickly to drop one of the classes, and therefore didn't attend any of the lectures or do any of the coursework, but I procrastinated in getting the signature of my adviser to drop the class.

Eventually the drop date loomed, and I realized I had only a couple of days to get that signature. I walked into the MechE office, exchanged pleasantries with the secretary and asked to see my adviser. "Oh I'm sorry," she replied "he's out of the country for the next two weeks." She saw from my reaction that something was wrong, and I explained that if I didn't get my adviser's signature on the drop form ASAP, I'd fail the class. She smiled and told me that in situations like that she actually had discretionary power to sign forms on behalf of absent professors. She asked for the form, signed it (in her name) and gave it back to me. I was all set. A year after that, I handed in my thesis and forgot to sign a form. She called me and waited after hours for me to run down to the office to sign the form so I could graduate on time. All because I treated her like a human being.

I later told some of my coursemates about that, and they had absolutely no idea she had that kind of power. I like to think that maybe they started treating her a little better after learning what a little courtesy can accomplish. But I certainly learned that "little people" can hold great power that can be wielded in your favor if you just treat them like you want to be treated.
Wow, this graph (3 days) is SPECTACULAR http://bitcoinity.org/markets/mtgox/USD?span=3d

From $160 to $240 down to $140, and up currently to $160
Why can't they establish a dealership company of their own that sells only Tesla cars? If the dealership company must not be owned by the car maker they can certainly arrange the owners of the Tesla dealership to be something else. Am I missing something?
Why the use of the past tense? Mendeley still has all those features and more. :) Also, the open API we provide allows for building third-party applications like Android apps and such. But I digress. :)

(Disclosure: I'm part of the Mendeley team)
How is positive speculation any more admirable?
If I wanted to sell my bitcoins right this minute do you think I could get a higher price? I don't. And that's the only measure of price that matters.
From intermittent access to the live version of bitstamp, sorry but I don't have any screenshot nor high res graph of this exchange. And bitcoinity has lot of lag.
Thank you for cutting through the ad hominem crap and to a real point.

I'll do unpleasant work on occasion for a manager-- and more often to keep my own promises and see through projects I care about-- but managers who expect reports to subordinate their careers (rather than just doing a bit of work) and keep their heads down for 18 frickin' months are either entitled jerks or extortionists (depending on whether their attitude is subconscious or conscious).
Mercurial repo bugspots
A Python based implementation of the bug prediction algorithm proposed by Google on http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/12/bug-prediction-at-google.html
mtgox.com and mtgoxlive.com were both pretty good.

Most BTC exchanges seem to be down right now though.
I'm puzzled: if Rust and Clojure won't support TCO and they are both cool, why is there such bitter complaining every time it comes up that Python won't support TCO?
hackdesign.org ...hands down.
Please quit with the superficial throwaway comments, that's two content-free crowd-pleasers in under 15 minutes.

In answer to your question, pricing goods in a fluctuating currency is a well understood problem, and even with a single Google you'd find the Bitcoin community already have established solutions. The short answer: spot price is 99% noise, so don't use it.

Unapologetic for being annoyed at this stuff. Check parent's submission history, top-voted wise cracks have a ripple effect on the remaining comments for a particular submission.
Day low of $70 but now $180. Huge potential profits for some.

Edit: that low is on bitstamp, mtgox has a low of $126. Still huge swings.
I've never had a problem with pacman breaking things on install/updated except for when I attempt to use unstable repositories.

You can get the exact same font aliasing/hinting, you just need to change the hinting settings (if you're using gnome, install gnome-tweak-tool, if you're using xfce it's in the font settings menu, I don't know about other DEs).

Arch wouldn't really be arch if it had a release cycle. Part of the simplicity of it is that it's a rolling release.
Awesome point, Mike.

We'll have Quickbooks IIF export by the end of this month.

Regarding moving data seamlessly between ZenPayroll and other applications -- it's something we're actively working on right now, with a particular emphasis on seamlessly integrating with major time, attendance, reimbursement, and expense reporting applications.
Correct. It would just be a matter of switching out your payment gateway credentials. Of course, the assumption is that you were with us from the start or long enough that we had vaulted your cards. If you're doing a net change over we'd have to get your cards from your payment gateway (which per the post they may or may not allow)
Using the UN's defintion of famine as "at least 20 per cent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per cent; and the death rate exceeds two persons per day per 10,000 persons." [1]

Not including Somolia in 2011 (which the UN did declare a famine), "... famines have been declared previously in southern areas of Sudan in 2008; in Gode in the Somali region of Ethiopia in 2000; in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 1996; in Somalia in 1991-1992, and Ethiopia in 1984-1985." [1]

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39113#.UWW2dKtA...
I believe this one pre-dated the one you cited. Two popular Cowboys players first had to establish what the "Don't mess with Texas" meant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYp1gc5joQg
Re: The Complexity of a Simple Prefix
One key difference over other payment processing sites is that Ribbon lets vendors be in any country of the world (as long as you have a Paypal account). Most similar services are very restrictive over which country you can be in is vendor.

The huge caveat, however, is that Ribbon's payment form for customer only allows US addresses.
The YouTube integration looks awesome. I see so many indy artists put up janky iTunes links on YouTube - that needs to be fixed.
What I meant by that is the page will sometimes call a cached version from earlier today, which would be more inaccurate. I had the page load a cached version that had it at $225, and after retrying for a live version, it had it down to $160.
If you're selling something illegal, for instance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Currently none, we should wait for the lag of Mt.Gox to decrease
https://data.mtgox.com/api/1/generic/order/lag

order lag is over an hour at this point. Good luck to anyone who is trying to sell.
It's a young experiment, it'll take time to see what happens with it. Although according to WordPress, their primary motivation for accepting it as payment is to facilitate certain international transactions. (There are a few existing fiat currencies that make BTC look rock-solid by comparison.)
I don't know if intrinsic value is the right term, but I've been thinking along the same line.

A Bitcoin is essentially a tradable hashcash, which has direct value in spam filtering.

"Isn't it enough that I ruined a pony, making a gift for you?
Because it offers the opportunity to trade without the shadow market of banks and financial regulators which get pennys of every damn good you buy without doing something important.

the only problem is exchanging bitcoins which is the root of all evil for a non-backed per-trade-valued currency.
Sometimes electricity is essentially free. My home is heated by electricity (I live in California) - any watts that I spend mining bitcoins produces the same amount of heat as my electric heater, but has the advantageous side-effect of maybe making money.

(I don't actually do this because I don't have a desktop computer, and it's unclear if building one at this point will pay for itself before custom integrated circuits push the bitcoin difficulty so high that GPUs become worthless)
What is tail call optimization? How does it usually work? There's an implementation example on the Wikipedia page to answer this question a little bit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call
The only reason would be that any other currency has a higher personal risk of using.

But given the trading activity I'm guessing one of the hoarders had decided to "actualize" their earnings. Or maybe they are raising cash to buy ASIC miners. Who really knows.
No, they do prevent exactly that. In Texas, car manufacturers are not allowed to have company stores, only franchisee-run dealerships.
bitcoin bubble is destined to pop; soon: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/09/176708504/bit...
Just wait 20 minutes.
You don't think it's important to have accurate price history to sell something?
You don't lose your reasonable expectation of privacy by making something publicly available. You lose it by exposing it to a third party (note that e.g. nothing prevents the recipient of your letter from handing it over to the government without a warrant). When you send an e-mail, you make the complete clear text of the e-mail accessible to a third party.

The extension of 4th amendment protections to telephone calls dates to a time when it was a direct analog connection between your phone and the other person's phone. But Google/Gmail is not just a dumb wire. It's an intermediate third party that can read your email and scan it to sell you ads.
Correction accepted. The mainframe was an IBM 360? and I talked to that one with punched cards. The PDP-11 was on a single rack I remember.
Market is all over the place - I logged in with chrome, hit "Sell at current Bid Price" - (which was $135) - but the interface wouldn't accept a click on the "Sell Button"

Thought it might be my browser, so I tried logging in with Firefox, hit "Sell at Bid Price" - Which, about 30 seconds after my first attempt with chrome was now $175.

Something is going to crash spectacularly when you get a $40 swing on something like this in 30 seconds.

I still can't sell my BitCoins though. The Irony is I had 20 of them left over from playing around a couple years ago on a linode VPS - they are actually worth quite a bit, if I could only sell them. I wonder how many other people out there are checking to see if they still have a .bitcoin directory sitting around on their various linux systems...
I just did several googles, and can't find an answer to that question. Maybe you could enlighten us on the "well established solutions" (or just some google search terms to pull them up)? It seems like a serious question to me.

Currency volatility in the real world is generally considered a near-disaster-level problem. So if Bitcoin has truly solved this in a "well established" way I'm sure there are a bunch of national bank managers that would love to hear about it.
For one thing, the price was almost completely driven by speculation. That's not a problem in itself, betting on the future of a new technology is something this site is devoted to. But the excitement got way ahead of the actual adoption in this case, so the price has nothing meaningful supporting it.

Bitoin (or more accurately cryptocurrencies in general) are a revolutionary technology that will change the way we do business. But the network isn't there yet. It will be, someday, but someday is down the road. It's not overnight riches, though some were treating it that way.

Another factor is that mtgox, the main exchange platform, simply cannot handle large loads. So when there's a panic, it's made much, much worse by Gox's inability to keep up. People can't see what's really happening, and they panic sell at market rates, which just sends the price down further.

If Gox were perfect, we'd still see big swings, but they'd probably be a fraction of what they are now.

I think (I hope) that the gold rush mentality will be quieted now. Then Bitcoin can grow at a more reasonable rate for a while. It might fail, but we all win if more cryptocurrency infrastructure is figured out and built up.
Part of the mass in the fuel in the bomb is converted to photons; photons are massless but carry momentum.
And huge potential losses for others. Remember this is a zero sum game (outside the miners), money gained by one person is lost by another.
The Hollywood studios fought a long battle to directly sell to consumers via their own theaters, so it is not unique to manufacturing of cars.
I'd argue that HN has a built-in mechanism for determining what's interesting to its users. If a Bitcoin related story gets voted up to appear in the top page every day, then maybe it should be there.
We get it. Bitcoins have value and that value changes. Surely there's a better place to discuss this.
And maybe some of them should not have that huge staff actually and sell their product by lower price instead. I think that's a real opportunitity/niche these days and it will get bigger in a foreseable future.
Location does matter. With US based registrars you may be bound to US laws/regulations.
If enough people did... the exchange rate would not matter very much ;-)
Testing is all well and good, but I worry that software is getting into the trap that Manufacturing learned to avoid decades ago: you can't test quality into the product.

Most blog posts about software quality seem to focus on testing. While testing is certainly a component of a good development process, it's really better to avoid injecting a defect than trying to be sure you execute tests to find it later.
Thanks for the clarification / fix.

Is there a size limit for the digital products? and or data cap?
States will typically enforce payment of use tax at the time of vehicle registration for vehicles which were recently bought in another state and for which no sales tax was paid. This happened to me when I moved to Pennsylvania right after I purchased a car. This is one of the few places where use tax laws are not simply a laughable attempt to shame people into paying sales tax on out-of-state purchases. Texas has better tools to prevent sales tax avoidance in this case; the laws exist to protect dealers from having to compete with manufacturers. I suspect that a seller located in Texas may also not be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company based in another state.
Thank you. I didn't know of this distinction. I poked around a little and found something at the EFF website[1].

Now my next question is can someone force the third party to give up the information without a warrant? I know they most likely will just comply. However, just for completeness, can a company like FedEx say that they require a warrant before opening packages?

[1] https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy
Bitcoin "down" to $100. They were $10 in January. They'll be over $50 at the end of this month. When I was mining 18 months ago, they were about a quarter.

Smooth the line and bitcoins are doing exactly what you'd expect from a linear-demand-growth emerging commodity market with a fixed rate of supply. Everything is going exactly according to plan.

Note well that the exact same thing (a big speculative run-up and follow-up correction) happened a couple years ago for the $0.50 to $29 spike, and will probably happen again for the inevitable $300 to $1500 run-up.
I don't really have any issue with services like WordPress (whose per-user support costs are likely negligible for most users) accepting Bitcoin. In those cases the PR is probably worth it regardless of the the price swings. My issue is more with physical goods.

Lots of people seem to be looking forward to a future of buying physical goods with Bitcoin or bitcoin-alike currencies, which in some ways would be nice but I haven't seen a practical solution to the problem of potentially huge value swings. Nobody wants to sell a real physical good paid for with a stable currency to someone else in a currency that can lose half of its value or more in hours or even days.
This site seems to have a fairly decent up to date measurement in realtime. It lacks the graphing ability to see the dramatic drop off trend though:

http://realtimebitcoin.info/
Why should Tesla do all the work for all the other car manufacturers. They have a lot more money and yet they do nothing. I say fuck them. Tesla is doing the right thing. It is picking a battle that has a chance of succeeding.
never tinker with your lineup when you're leading your division
GNOME or KDE? The Old Question Is New Today
How about the other two calling conventions that support tail call optimization? (cc 10 and cc11)
Do those have the same performance penalty as fastcall + tailcallopt?
There is at least one web service that produces an average over some period. As to how you pick a good weighting, it probably depends a lot on how fast you intend to flip outgoing goods/incoming currency, or where you store value. Try terms like "VWAP", "Bitcoin average price" and so on.

I have no doubt a momentary search over on SSRN will produce a hundred papers entirely dedicated to formalizations of this process.