skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With enough social network analysing and recouping information, especially with the governement weigth and files, it should not be hard to "uncover" the true id.

There's already zerocoin, a proposed extension of bitcoin, which guarantees completely anonymous bitcoins.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-mak...
jQuery is used a lot, because it describes a set of features and an interface that many other libraries build upon.
Notwithstanding the critics, I've read many explanations of Monads, and I found this one helpful, especially coming off of Eric Lippert's:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2704795/4525

I get it now, so thanks!
Ah, the title is misleading, this is not a client for http://livereload.com/, its just an auto-refresh that I built in node.
We can't afford hourly rates of $120 and RAM most definitely doesn't just cost $20 when you factor in the inevitable new VM/machine. RAM is critical for maintaining concurrent connections plus there are times you need to keep large datasets in memory to avoid hitting the database.

This casual disregard for resources would explain why a lot of startups run into infrastructure issues so quickly and settle on terrible solutions (or outright snake oil) to mitigate problems that shouldn't exist in the first place.

People need to start realizing that The Cloud is only a metaphor. Hardware isn't intangible and neither is their cost.

Servers don't grow on trees; they live on a rack and grow on electricity and NAND.
Copying my other comment here:

There's already zerocoin, a proposed extension of bitcoin, which guarantees completely anonymous bitcoins.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-mak...
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For people that worry about jQuery being to big, there is a lighter replacement for more modern browsers, doing (mostly) the same as jQuery: http://zeptojs.com/
Are these ASICS going to be good for anything after mining coins? I can't help thinking they're like a shovel that only works within a goldfield and has no utility (other than as a doorstop) once superseded by faster technology or obviated by the last Bitcoin being mined.
Why would a government create Bitcoin? Simple! To help them track money launderers and penetrate black marketplaces like Silk Road.

Many assume that Bitcoin is anonymous. It's not. At best, it is pseudonymous because every transaction is published in the blockchain for all the world to see. That means that users can be identified by conducting network analysis on the blockchain - see http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/bitcoin-i... - and matching the results up with data from other sources (e.g. credit card payments records, emails, intel from spyware, etc.).

It doesn't actually matter whether Bitcoin was created by an agency like the NSA or not - there is no doubt that they (and probably at least two there intelligence and security agencies) are doing this.
Are you familiar with the pesecution of Phil Zimmerman?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

This is probably going to end a lot worse:

(1) bitcoin survives, lots of parties angry

(2) bitcoin is broken, a fatal flaw is detected, lots of people lose money, lots of parties angry

In either scenario there will be a lot of parties pissed off at bitcoins creators. Anonimity seems to be a smart move, just like many other pre-emptive strikes that are embedded in bitcoin.
Social security is built on a population bubble. Like the housing bubble, we can't expect it to last.
From the moment I saw this I immediately thought it's probably wrong, because they think the biggest volume of mining is done with PC's, when in fact it's with ASIC's and FPGA's now, which are far more efficient than PC's.
This is very interesting, could you comment on what impresses you about bitcoin implementation?
Looks interesting, thanks. I'll have to look more into that and see if it could be a useful path to adding in "radio" functionality (one thing I'd really like to see in Napster.fm at some point).
Wouldn't it make sense to use an object storage style interface to SSDs? Instead of managing sectors and cylinders the SSD would provide interface for managing objects, pretty much like cloud storage services like S3.
Perfect service for making sure you never miss anything posted on twitter you may have scrolled past. Also useful for checking out links when time suits you best rather than when you see it on Twitter. Reliable, quick, easy and new features are starting to be added which is a bonus.
Your jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {
$.ajax({
url: "test.html",
context: document.body
}).done(function() {
$(this).addClass("done");
})
});

Without jQuery:

var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.onreadystatechange = function() {if (this.readyState === 4) {
window.document.body.className += " done";
}};
oReq.open("GET", "test.html", true);
oReq.send();

Screenshots (blue indicates successful ajax):

without jQuery: http://browsershots.org/http://evening-harbor-8654.herokuapp...

with jQuery: http://browsershots.org/http://evening-harbor-8654.herokuapp...
The problem isn't the prediction, full solar is probably only slightly more volatile than full grid on a large scale. Maybe not hourly but the companies would still be able to work out the supply side.

The issue is that the supply side and supporting infrastructure is built for an entirely different system where power leaves the power plants and goes through the grid to consumers. Now people are adding solar panels which generate a ton of electricity during the day (when everyone is largely at work/school) that must then be fed back into the grid, opposite the direction of normal flow.
I hope you flag everything with Flash, too.
I just take my ASIC into Starbucks.

Free BTC for me...
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Well, in the specific case of using native selectors (document.querySelector), I'm sold. It's supported very widely:

http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/selectors-api-testsuite/level1...

Wish I'd known about this before. I've been using $('#main').get(0) when I didn't want a jQuery object. Which is all kinds of silly.
Not exactly; as mentioned in the About section, the database I'm using is actually Discogs: http://discogs.com/. YouTube is only used as a source of music.
Wow, I've never heard of GSAP before but it looks really promising, if you want to have a detailed control of animations for your app. I'd love to hear both plusses and minuses from someone who is using it production code.
Yep, that's my bad. I forgot to put in a redirect for mobile devices to another page explaining that they weren't yet supported, but I'll throw something up now.
The notion of education as a meritocracy is laughable at best. The correlation between standardized test scores, GPA, high school graduation rate and six-year college graduation rate are bound intimately to income and class. Poor people simply aren't afforded the resources to succeed, nor are they exposed to the social situations that promote ambition. Couple this the fact that the SAT, even when adjusted for economic disparity, is still skewed towards white men, and the notion that education (especially college admissions) is anything even remotely resemblant to a meritocracy is ridiculous.

Granted, there is probably a modicum more of equity than there was at the time of the story, given that colleges have de-emphasized standardized tests (to an extent), and score-inflation combined with increased tendency for curriculum to converge on tested material has made scores far less meaningful. (For instance, I got a 35 on the ACT, and I'm not inordinately intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. Moreover, I know not a single person who received below a 30 [save for a friend from Peru, for whom english is not a first language]. And this is just an average suburban pubic high school. I imagine that average scores at competitive private schools might be in the 33/2270 area. My hunch is that, as testing becomes more pervasive, underperforming education systems that begin using the test will shift the apex of the curve to the left, bringing even average students up the curve, but I digress.) However, this trivialization of testing has merely exacerbated inequality in admissions because it places on emphasis on things like internships (accessible only to the wealthy), hobbies/productive extracurriculars (which favors those who start young, and starting young often necessitates money and or involved parents), etc. Education has never been a meritocracy and it never will be.
I was in a bank yesterday and there were all these animals in cages shuffling paper around, worried that their customers would yell at them if they were off by a single digit, (because doing so would be tantamount to robbing the customer of their hard work) and it struck me that all that the shuffling accomplishes is moving tokens of value around, mere accounting entries.

And it doesn't even do that well! It's breathtakingly inefficient.

For instance, one can't tell how many shoes are sold in a country.. that would require a totally different, feet-on-the-ground statistical survey, or an industry association (voluntary reporting). We can't tell who's doing what at all. We're like the suckers in The Wire Season 1 (which seems so quaint by today's standards) trying to reverse-engineer IRL networks.

The hacker solution would be so much more elegant, so much less messy (no meatspace!). It's like your example of hackers in dorms doing voip way before Skype. No self-respecting hacker could (even on the wildest bender) have come up with pushing pieces of paper around as value-tokens. What a hacker cooks up today is what the world will use in the next decade.

With bitcoin, unravelling a network is trivial. Bust one node (a snitch or an undercover sting op) and the rest unravel.

The combination of government and hackers sits somewhat oddly in my mind. So I shall refrain from pursuing that line of thought.

However, in this spirit of prognostication, I like possibility #4. But you understate the case. It's not about USD vs RMB, it's about fractional-banking vs fixed-quantity money.

If #4 is the case, some might argue that USG must have pre-mined a bunch of coins (and conversely, that if they didn't, #4 is not the right answer). This need not hold, of course. One can make some predictions if #4 is indeed the case: with bitcoin, taxation is easy and automatic. Smaller governments would result (State, Local & Federal), deficit spending would end, the free-market would still work, but command-and-control would be much easier.

edit: I see I'm largely of the same opinion as user guylhem.
Sorry? I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the application does usually take ~5 seconds to fully load.
Yeah they should have linked to the guys actually shipping product... Butterfly said on their FB they are shipping next week apparently. But who knows w/ them
Interesting point about glasses in general. I wonder if there would be a market for small weights that attach to the arms behind the ears to make glasses feel lighter.
Bitcoin solves one problem and solves it well.

One way to make it anonymous:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor

Side note: if you buy something and it is physical at some point the package will have to be handed to you. That's a pretty tough nut to crack if you want to stay anonymous. At a minimum you're going to have to be proximate to the drop-point which makes playing 33 bits on you a lot easier.
Here is my theory. The US did behind the backs of the Federal Reserve, which is currently it's biggest enemy and threat and it's an internal enemy, controlled by the Private Banking economy. The Federal Reserve remains an economic black hole, sucking out money from the US system (at 6% of Profit on Interest in Bonds Raised).

Consider the system where the 6% dividend paid out to the share holders of the Federal Reserve is untaxed. Further as US debt spirals, the bonds raised increases and the 6% dividend increases further. It's like a sequence 1.0001 Raised to the power of n will finally start diverging very fast beyond a certain point.

Bitcoin takes you back to the days of the US around the Boston Tea party. When the British asked how do you deal with currency, the colonists replied - We print our own notes (not backed by debt paid to the UK). The Federal Reserve represents a similar debt trap. Bitcoin breaks free from this. That's my 2 bit coins.
BFL has (edit) not been (/edit) know to ship -but I can confirm that people have gotten their orders!- becuase It's taken some time as they've had problems with getting ASIC's. They supposedly will start sending them out at mid april (15th) which is tomorrow, so I'm going to wait and see what happens. If they do ship then I'll place my order.
They probably mentioned BFL because they're currently accepting orders and also have had more media attention because of the whole scam controversy.
Assuming you give your form elements names and the form an ID (unlike in the linked example) its trivial to get the query string using serialize and you don't have to fuss around with string formatting if you modify the form.

$.ajax({
url: 'ajax-example.php',
data: $('#myForm').serialize(),
success: function(data) {
$('#ajaxDiv').html(data);
}
});
A truly dismal scenario would be something like (hobgoblin)-coins being released where the country known as (hobgoblin) has a really handy exploit to punish the big players later. The dominant economic players have a not so hidden agenda to remain dominant. The best game theory solution for a small player is release a bitcoin like protocol, called (hobgoblin)-coins, then benefit at the expense of the larger players by crashing the whole deal later.

So bitcoin was probably not released by a tiny .gov. Most likely by a big player like .us, .ru, .cn, .uk, .jp, .de. Probably not the .us because its hard to encourage a replacement if you're the reserve currency see above. So it could be from the .gov of one of the five countries above, maybe a couple others.
Literally nothing. The point of ASICs are specialized circuits for a single task really.
So now say "death to jQuery" and it makes you look cool trendy right ? or what ? because saying "death to flash" is so 2010 ?

I hope you test your code like in 5 desktop browsers with different versions + 4 mobile browers with different versions , what , you dont ?
well jQuery devs do ...

you dont care ? oh yeah your one of these mobile first , desktop last devs , then good luck with old versions of android browsers ...

I'm always amused by all these "death to this" , "death to that" , like it gives anyone any credibility...

So you get it folks , dont use jquery , reinvent the wheel like a true purist ,and remember to tell everyone "jQuery must die" , while professionals have code to ship.
If BitCoin 'wins' and becomes very popular, these early adopters are sitting on massive amounts of bitcoins. That's a very tempting target for robbery (& more).
Certainly recruiting pitches shift, but if they shift into irrelevance or untruth, they become ineffective. How effective is a pitch based on the obvious injustices and hypocricy of the Guantanamo Bay facility? How effective is a pitch based on drones? How effective is a pitch based on "cultural imperialism" or whatever the next step down from drones?

It's pretty obvious that Camp X-Ray or whatever its called now is a very bad thing indeed: only a few cranks and people with ulterior motives dispute that. It's pretty obvious that drone warfare is problematic, and probably another hugely hypocritical and prone-to-abuse system.

So, what happens after we get rid of Guantanamo and drone warfare? Good things or bad things?
In short - No its not a very good file system.

Even ignoring the licensing / patent issues with it, its non-journaled and only has a single FAT in most implementations; Its easily corrupted and difficult to repair. It also lacks a number of useful features like pre-allocation, robust meta-data, etc.
This is the best article I've read these last few weeks - about education, signalling and redemption.

Many people play the education game just like this guy did, but find their salvation on the way. There are many opportunities, like when working on his summerjob he was reminded that selfbetterment was the goal, and offered to come to a meeting.

Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way.

If you play education for the signalling, you will get the piece of paper, but what else? Existential emptiness? Feeling of class envy? He is really envious of the pompous folk with the castle and the european car? Can't he strive for anything more???

Learn stuff you love, learn it because you think it is worth your limited time on this earth, and because you will be able to make a good use of it.

Whether there is a meritocracy or not does not really matter, if you can learn and make one around yourself.
Have fun doing things like $('div').animate({opacity: '0.4', left: '10px', background-color: '#44444'}); in native js.

Of course you CAN do it... but do you want to?
> could you comment on what impresses you about bitcoin implementation?

Obviously I don't speak for rdl, but what impresses me is the level of anticipation of future developments.
That's odd; I've actually been primarily developing/testing this on Chrome/Ubuntu. How long did you wait for the application to fully load? It usually takes ~5 seconds.

(I'm hoping this ends up being better feedback on my UX than my performance, because the site randomly not loading at all would definitely be a problem.)

The name was chosen because Napster.fm is meant to be a very close approximation of the Napster UI design and feature set (and then some).
Even after the last bitcoin is mined you can still mine for transaction fees.
Have you taken a look at https://www.quantopian.com/ ?
$(element) does not implement return. $($(element)) gives $(element), which means that it does not work on an arbitrary datatype, which means that it does not implement return.

jQuery may be analogous to a monad. That doesn't make it a monad.
So this is like 10x worse than plain Fluorine [1], which is already evil?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWp45Eewtw
I had to read this article in Opera using view-source... tldr but I'm assuming this guy failed and I'm not surprised based on his blog code being such an awful mess... better luck next time
It is way more novel crypto than virtually any other implemented system. Usually you have papers, then protocols, then reference implementations. Bitcoin is a pretty coherent thing, borderline what one great individual would do; more plausibly a small team.
So... you're saying it's like Napster because it's open source?

Well, no; I didn't say that. Napster wasn't open source, as far as I know.
It's 2007. The economy is in increasing turmoil, with the housing bubble ripe for bursting and concerning news coming from overseas regarding the stability of the Eurozone. The CIA relays some troubling discoveries in the distribution of risk in the largest banks, and the Bush administration makes a request for proposals for contingency plans in the event of a global economic collapse.

Enter the NSA's contribution, a distributed proof-of-work currency that provides early adopters with a majority share of the wealth and has the potential to revolutionize currency in general. The CIA is authorized to develop and deploy a series of operations, including the fabrication of a social structure that results in a viably large computing network to sustain the technology long-term with a mind-numbing pace.

Enter Bitcoin, wherein the U.S. maintains a majority share of wealth in the event of a global economic collapse.
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Oh, the text is a transcript. I was very confused to be looking at text saying "And here’s what it looked like." with no images in sight.
So to show it's more modern, you take the name add .fm...

No, I don't believe that there is anything about the .fm TLD which in and of itself implies modernity.
>But when you consider the FED bad habits of "quantitative easing" (printing money), it make the US even less likely to be the originator.

Regarding the Fed, QE and USG. The Fed is a private bank (it pays its shareholders 6%, which no government department does!).

USG is different, and currently in thrall to the Fed. Now _I'm_ going to sound like the conspiracy nutcase when I add "in much the same way European sovereigns were to the Rothschilds".
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The Debian project constitution lays out the rules:
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution

The vote page on our website has more practical information:
http://www.debian.org/vote/
GMail and Google Now were also prototyped in one day, as was Linux. The hard part is the years of refinement that come after that.

I guess the lesson to take is that big working systems are built on small working systems. You don't get a big system by envisioning the final result, finding someone to fund you, and getting lots of people to build it for you. You take the smallest possible first step, see if it works, and then learn from it and expand it.
if I understand correctly, the selling point of zeptojs is that it saves an enormous 20kb while breaking compatibility with half of everything out there?
That's not how FinCEN treated it. In the guidance[1] they released there's almost a tacit approval, as long as exchanges are properly registered, keep proper records, and report.

1. http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G...
Totally different experience here. I've written more than ten books and I'm coding nearly full time.

Keyswitch matters a lot. I've tried Cherry MXes, ALPS and I've used good old IBM Model M for more than a decade.

One year ago I discovered Topre switches and now I'm using a HHKB Pro 2 (Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2).

I know it's great on HN to get upvotes to write: "TFA is pointless, it's not X that counts but Y" but IMHO you're totally off.

The switch does matter a lot. First find a switch that doesn't destroy your fingers' joints and that feel good, then find a keyboard with a form factor that you like, then find a key layout that you like (Dvorak or QWERTY or whatever).
Yes. Increasing immigration is a way of keeping that bubble inflated longer. Like I said, it was jokingly flippant, in terms of actual reasons.
Wrong way to look at it. Paying a brilliant guy 300k/yr to execute noops is a 300k/yr waste even if he uses the money to support himself. The broken window fallacy.
Phil Z.'s problems are part of the distant past, at this point. Going forward, nobody is ever going to catch that much grief for releasing encryption software. You might as well refrain from publishing role-playing game manuals about bitcoins for fear you'll be targeted by the Secret Service, a la Steve Jackson.

Trust me, no governmental entity gives a hoot about who created the bitcoin standard. They probably will give a hoot about how it's used.
or even "open transactions" -- the OT-issuer would then be the "offshore tax haven" of today's financial system.
exactly, start small and imperfect
I'm amazed you didn't see how much you contradicted yourself.
Well, considering what was happening to the founders of e-gold[0] at the time of Bitcon's creation, remaining anonymous was a very rational choice on the part of Satoshi. It now seems like the US Gov has accepted Bitcoin as a proper currency, but that outcome was never certain, and the potential legal implications of a negative outcome were very clear after the e-gold fiasco.
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
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