skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economies get in a liquidity trap must faster than division becomes a problem. The difference is so marcant that almost nobody even talked about divisibility before the bit coin people.

Anyway, I'm not sure the expression "liquidity trap" means anything when talking about bitcoins.
The Bitcoin craze is without a doubt one of the most insane things I've lived through. I feel badly for all the late arrivals who are (anecdotally) dipping into long term savings and levering up to buy them.

The dynamic is identical to me between this, the NASDAQ at 5000, and the Case Schiller index just under 190. Maybe some economists out there are trying to be polite, but this is just nuts. Best regards to those involved, I hope I'm wrong for your sakes. But if I can convince _one single person_ on HN from wasting their savings on BC, then I'll feel like I've made a difference.
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This has gotten increasingly silly. I still don't know why you brought up stocks but now I have to waste time looking up very basic information.

#1. Yes, they do. [1][2]

#2. "Growth stocks" are just one more abstraction removed but in the end it all comes down to expected future earnings.

[1] http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stocks/technology/personal-...

[2] http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm
Citation on the 24 Mbps cap, please. I've never heard of anything of the sort; there is a 5Mbps cap on the "one time install fee, then free" plan, but it would be awfully silly to sell gigabit internet and then cap it at 2.5% of capacity.
I'm so stressed… I can't believe I play my future in a lottery.
You disagree with my supposed fact and then go on to support it in the following paragraph. I never said anything about it being infinite or total in scope.

As for the ultimate power of an individual to choose freely, I totally agree, but I won't pretend for a second that society doesn't always influence my choices in one way or another. That would be arrogant and short-sighted, especially since, no, most people don't get to choose their teachers and influences until they're 18.
Colin Powell and Condi Rice are both reviled for their roles in the Iraq lie. As far as I know they are still considered examples of racial progress, despite this fact.
In US Dollars: 2.74 (1)

Started out as tech support, made sysadmin, then switched to dev. 10 years.

btw PeterBraden is right, you need an inflation adjusted figure.

(1) In Uruguayan Pesos, it's meaningless (inflation, etc).
I'm always surprised that FITS [0] doesn't get more of a look
in outside of astronomy. It works very well in my experience
for storing tables of data as well as images.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
I've always found the C in CSVs to be needlessly limiting. I'm not aware of any tool that contextualise commas in addresses and other "free text" fields that might form part of the data dump/extract.

For this reason, I am strongly in favour of pipe-separated values in such files. The probability that a data extract has a pipe symbol in any data field is quite small (in my experience, it's been 0 so far).

The first thing I do in any Windows system I have to use on a regular basis is to change the the system separator to '|' in the Regional Settings..
And please don't make me download a pdf to see the menu.
The name comes from Sybase, not Microsoft.

Microsoft SQL Server is an offspring from Sybase SQL Server.
I've been in the Valley for around 15 years, and I'm not someone that revels in job perks. Sure everyone loves perks, but I prefer a great work environment, and interesting work, etc, over things like snacks, X-boxes, etc.

That being said, my current employer has Zerocater and I freaking love it more than any other perk in any job I've had. Sure, maybe 1 out of every 5 meals isn't a winner, but I still really really love it. I wouldn't come close to quitting my job if we couldn't afford Zerocater anymore, but I would be sorely disappointed, because the convenience of having food brought to us, the high quality, and the great amount of variety is something that I really appreciate.
She was highly corporatist - which is a hallmark of fascism.
Would you call it 5 or 6 blades (given that there's a single blade in the back and 5 in the front)?
I don't know if I am an introvert or if I just have poor (awkward) social skills (?)!

I like hanging out with close friends; but I prefer hanging out with one or two friend at a time (as opposed to a group of friends). That makes me an introvert?

I don't usually go to clubs because loud music makes it impossible to talk (but this means, I have a 'need' to talk, so does that make me an extrovert?)

I have very awkward speaking skills - like if I were to tell you a joke, it'd sound monotonous and you'd miss the punch line. But I often fantasisze of having such awesome speaking skills that I'd walk in a room of very large audience and just own the room with my amazing stand-up comedy or some other entrainment act. But I am neither skilled at telling jokes, nor writing jokes. I have less-than-averagish sense of humor, in fact. So, that makes me WANNA be extrovert!?

I guess I am just a socially awkard person.
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It's long past time to put these up for bid instead of lottery. Companies that really need talent and will pay fairly for it are being held up by cheap CRUD labor sweatshop employers that file mountains of applications. If we met the serious needs first, measured reasonably well by willingness to pay, there would be more than enough visas.

That's in addition to other reforms this program needs like the right to switch jobs.
> Let's give Disney [...] some time to respond

Why should anyone give Disney more leeway than Disney gives natural persons they accuse of copyright infringement?
Poll: How many times have you applied to YC?
I've applied to Y Combinator a few times. I'm curious to see the distribution across HN readers.
0 (haven't done a startup)
0 (doing a startup and interested)
There are direct equivalents to Bitcoin and I am interested in a global virtual currency however, I don't believe that Bitcoin is going to be it.

I believe that Bitcoin's value is more of a speculative digital asset rather than a currency because, there are two reasons to own Bitcoin - either to derive indirect utility through purchasing goods with Bitcoin in the future OR the expectation that Bitcoin will rise in monetary value. Currently, Bitcoin can be considered elastic (to some extent) although it’s subject to future diminishing elasticity meaning that, in the long run there will be a finite supply of Bitcoins and an inelastic supply (after all there are only 21M of them).

However, a long-run inelastic and fixed supply currency is not useful for a real world economy because, currencies are supposed to be used as a medium of exchange to facilitate transactions which, allows the multiplier effect kick in and increase the economies wealth. Whereas due to the deflationary spiral you're incentivised to hoard Bitcoins & let them appreciate in value instead which is the opposite effect of what a currency is meant to do.
They already changed it: http://i.imgur.com/NzCo3ns.png
>Imagining events as fragments of gigantic intractable problems that may soon crush us all infuses our opposition to them with a sense of heroism so American that we feel naked without it.

This rings so true. I think you just hit upon one of the reasons why American politics is so polarizing. Maybe middle ground and slow progress don't get talked about because there's no bad guy to rally against.
Britain was bankrupt after the Second World War (and in hock to the US for billions of dollars as well). As part of the attempt to rebuild the country a consensus was formed that the British state would step in and help people - hence the NHS, hence free school milk (as rickets was a very common disease). The unions had too much power for much of that time, but British industry also had terrible management practices so I would put both "sides" as bad as each other.

But while Thatcher shook things up and modernised many parts of the economy, she did it in an extremely divisive and many would say callous way - by devastating communities (especially in the north of England), destroying British manufacturing and putting unemployment up to 3 million (with millions more on disability, to make the jobless figures look better).

And these are legacies that still live on today - where I grew up there are still houses with barbed wire between neighbours who have lived there for years - as a result of the miner's strike. The north is still significantly poorer than the south, with much higher unemployment. The current government has just pushed through an extremely painful reform of disability allowance that appears to be punishing the genuinely disabled as much as the "skivers". And in Scotland she is so despised that you can't even say her name in public after shutting down much of the country's industry and taking North Sea oil revenue down south.

For the most part, nowadays, the question isn't whether the reforms were needed, but whether they had to be done so painfully and whether the benefits of those reforms were shared fairly. There is definitely a north-south divide within the country on that.
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Or they could go to a subscription model. To be honest, when it comes to entertainment I see little problem with paywalls (unlike news, academic publications, etc.).
Mostly correct, but what's at stake here isn't the cable fees so much as the local/affiliate fees. Those are still a decent business for companies like NewsCorp (and others), but let's face it: local affiliate television is dying on the vine, one way or the other. It faces a fundamental challenge much more significant than the one posed by Aereo.

The entire premise behind affiliate television is that local station owners can license the rights to national programming, and then exercise a quasi-monopoly over distribution of that content to local markets. (If I'm the FOX affiliate in NYC, for instance, I pay FOX for the rights to its shows, and I have exclusive rights to air those shows in NYC).

This business model was threatened the minute the internet took hold, really, because the very idea of local exclusivity is anachronistic now. It's one of the two horse-and-buggy concepts of the 21st century content distribution business (the other being time-bound content viewership). It is threatened much more extensively by Netflix, by YouTube, by Hulu, by Microsoft, by iTunes, etc., than by any one startup. It is threatened by virtue of its irrelevancy in the modern, globally connected era.

The idea of moving television networks to paid subscription models has been bandied about for at least a decade now. IIRC, it was NBC who first proposed this idea in the early 2000s. Indeed, this may come to pass at some point: not because of the likes of Aereo, but because broadcast television starts to make less and less business sense as time goes on (whereas content ownership and distributorship is still viable). Eventually, we'll probably have nothing but content shops, who distribute their wares across all channels -- perhaps offering different tiers of the products at different prices in different channels, and/or extracting licensing fees to different distributors.

As a consumer, expect a generally upward trend in content pricing in the long run (i.e., free to paid). It'll just depend on whom you're paying. Advertising-subsizided, free content will still exist to the extent that distribution channels like YouTube continue to thrive.
I believe I misread a table when comparing it to AT&T. It was AT&T that was capped at 24 Mbps.
The bitcoin protocol can be changed to add as many decimal points as needed. It's not static. Whether a change is adopted depends on each person running a node: it's decentralized.
Nice! What were the results?
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It continues to amaze me how that once you do something one way for a few years (or a few decades) how established businesses are willing to fight tooth and nail to keep doing it that way even if it stops making any sense to the consumer to do so.

We have this same fight with RIAA, and with IP in general. Once a business model gets established, it's the dickens trying to change course.

This is what concerns me most about the internet: when we were putting this all together, it was just a bunch of hacks out there pressing buttons, seeing which ones would work. Web pages are a kind of location, like a street address? Okay, let's run with that. Search is a way to monitor user intent? Okay, that works. Facebook should be the new version of the yellowpages? Yeah, that's the ticket.

Watching all of this happen, I've been amused, concerned, and finally blasé. I mean if Facebook doesn't work as a universal phonebook, or if it starts thinking it owns the net, who cares? Surely somebody else will come along eventually. But it concerns me that the patterns we've set up over the last ten years or so are going to be just as hard, if not harder to overcome than these decades-established ones.

Everybody loves riding the rocketship up, and milking the cash cow. It's a completely different picture when technology starts making your model obsolete.

He has to know how weak his cards are. My money says they're bluffing. This is a cry for support, not a real option.
I wonder if this would work as a platform for desktop apps. HTML+CSS is quite nice for quickly creating GUIs and then Ruby could power the domain logic.
Or even fork off the existing block chain at a pre-determined block.

This way, all existing owners of the parent crypto currency would have equal coin-to-coin values in the new crypto currency as of a certain date.

I'm surprised I haven't heard of any existing alternate crypto currencies intentionally forking off of the existing Bitcoin block chain. They all seem to start off with their own new block chains.
AFAIK, when Google (or any other FTTH provider) comes into a city the incumbent ISPs improve service/lower prices only in that city. I don't know how to scare them into lowering prices without actually competing.
Fine, that's perfectly fine with me. But nothing you said suggests that recording slaughter practices should be some sort of special "first amendment black hole". If it grosses people out, then maybe we'll just end up with more vegetarians, oh well.
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Sorry, but people and companies come and go from open source projects all the time.

Yes, bad things happen all the time. Frequency doesn't turn a bad thing good though.
That's the image from the front of the bag, the image in question is on the back.
Which only means that its value can drop to zero, unlike other commodities.
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Harvard's CopyrightX event on Appropriation Art (fair use) feat. Shepard Fairey
One thing that struck me about this article is the poor use of punctuation. It really damages the credibility of the author when their language is so choppy. It might seem superficial, but this completely ruined the author's argument for me. Just one example: "At the current rate, 25 Bitcoins are generated every 10 minutes although; this will be continuously halved every four years...". That semicolon is so wrong.
Why not make it proper open source so it's not necessary to extract code from the PDF?

I'd like to use this from the command-line.

Thanks.
The web can, and will continue to accumulate stuff. You can't clean up a mess by accumulating more stuff.

There is no technical reason why a proper GUI framework couldn't be as ubiquitous as HTML+CSS+JS+SVG+etc, except that historically it didn't happen that way. It's definitely not inconceivable that somebody will build Kay's VM vision as an abstraction layer on top of web technologies, so that at least we no longer have to deal with the mess in each and every web application separately. If such a VM becomes popular enough we can implement said VM directly instead of on top of existing web technologies.
"Take a trip to North Lanarkshire and you can still see the impact that the closing of Ravenscraig has had on the area."

Might be worth mentioning that Ravenscraig had a very up to date seamless stainless steel tube rolling mill and brand new blast furnaces just completed when it was closed.

Seamless stainless steel tubes with mapped stress patterns 30cm in diameter and a few metres long used to cost my project about £300 to £400 a pop then. When the facility closed, we had to source from specialist mills in the then West Germany. £2000+.

(I spent some time in Shotts and Paisley around that time)
Have you ever met people who work on Wall St? :)

I'm not saying they're not smart, I'm saying that the proximity to money has a lot more to do with their earnings than the value they're creating for the economy.
$11B year for 20M homes = $550/year per home = $45 monthly

Currently Google charges $70/mo for the service. The numbers doesn't look that bad to me, am i missing something?
This lottery always amazed me from outside. Now that I applied, I find it awful =)
I still think CSS is one step away from making something awesome for developers of all flavors (from not developing at all to extremely competent in other languages) to make native apps even easier to code. I'm working on a more natural language version for iOS right now.
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I think Bitcoin can change it's implementation in a later version to make bitcoins even more divisible.
It's insane.

I have a coworker who is an unbelievably talented and respected developer both at my company and in the open source community. He has been working on a student visa after he graduated from an Ivy League school in computer science last year.

That the U.S. is even considering deporting him is batshit crazy to me.
Re: 3: If this is the one thing in the world that can only get more valuable as time goes on, why aren't you spending your entire net worth on it as we speak?

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/tw2ltp/chappelle-s-...
As long as the PDF contains text (and isn't just scans of paper), it's usually not TOO hard to select and copy the relevant tables/text, paste into a text editor, and use regex's to transform it into whatever you want (CSV, SQL insert statements, etc.)

Since there's no universal data format (e.g. the data equivalent of PDF), I pretty much assume that whatever format data comes in, I'll have to be doing regex transforms to it in a text editor, in order to import it wherever I want.

So as long as it's copy-pastable as text, PDF doesn't seem appreciably worse than pretty much any other format.
Years ago a bought a game which was part of the Warhammer gamma and which featured the same approach. You'd build your own map out of the hexes, set the armies and conquer. :-)
They demonstrate this by lobbying to suppress freedom of speech? Weird. You haven't justified restricting free speech. I am willing (happy) to admit that some animal-rights people are uninformed blowhards. But that doesn't justify punching holes in the first amendment.
The amount of bitcoins you have just describes what fraction of its wealth humanity owes you.

If you lost some BTC it doesn't destroy any value. It just means that you allowed humanity to forget that it owes you some of it's wealth. If you lost some BTC the fraction that humanity owes all other people who own bitcoins just increased.
TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde's statement on Michael Arrington
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yeah, i was just wondering why the author kind of explicitly recommended against using white space when most parsers (including MS excel in my experience) handle white space encapsulated in quotes just fine
IRS collecting tax payer information from Facebook and Twitter
I think it's a shame that something as as unambiguous and nice to work with as, say, the Cocoa framework and MVC (using that example because of familiarity), was available for us web developers without trying to shoehorn it into javascript and the browser environment.

Having had a taste of native app development, it makes client side web development comparatively frustrating. We're continuously getting new features but little in the way of a more satisfying environment that can help bring all these parts together.
Backed in the structural sense not the monetary sense. I should have written 'Bitcoin is a commodity with a solid foundation of Mathematics.'
What's missing is the return on investment data.If it's good , the $11B number would be an advantage: a good investment at a huge scale, something many companies are looking for.
And how many for Churchill? Blame for casualties is usually chalked up for the aggressor in a war, not the defenders.
So ask for a raise.

A thing is worth only what another is willing to pay for it. If others are willing to do the same work for the objected-to price, you're asking too much.

Of course the company gets more value out of the work than the employee. If it were just break-even, the question would be "why bother?" and either just not have the work done, or find a radically different way to get it done (say, hiring Roomba if the cost of human floor-sweepers gets too high). The great thing about employment is BOTH get more out than they put in - yes, that includes the employee working there instead of elsewhere for lower pay, or not being paid for not working anywhere.

Sucks, yes, at times. Most of human history involved a lot of effort to eek out a meager existence. If you want more, you gotta do more that others are willing to pay more for.

Oh, and yes - you ARE asking for a "living wage from somebody's personal bank account". The Waltons are people too.
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You'd think that, but it's not like they make money on the razors, it's all in the blades. Not sure why they're pushing people to move.
It's up to the Congress to increase the cap. USCIS just executes on whatever decision they're handed down from the Congress+President.
Sell half and let the rest ride.
That's an overly simplistic understanding of the energy industry and upcoming resource crunches that is unfortunately common with people who have never worked in the energy industry. Knowledge and finance doesn't replace the UK's need for energy which costs ten times what we sold off our reserves for in the 1980s. On Hacker News of all places you must be aware of that key idiom "you cannee change the laws of Physics, Jim".
It creates discussion. That has to have some value on the internet, especially for ad based sites.
I ran into the missing CherryPy module issue....
How did you sort it out?
Thanks for all of the great info.
So push to a remote feature branch that is named after your username, then rebase the changes in that feature branch onto the 'trunk' branch and push the result ?

The D in DVCS is all well and good, but there are business reasons for having a canonical store of all source materials.
Virtual currency declares war against the Federal Reserve