skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent was trying to say "I have been a supporter of Schneier and I have a track record (should anyone care to look) to demonstrate that"

I doubt he is expecting you to review his comments pages. Probably full of typos anyway :-)
Definitely the browsers fault here for the unexpected behaviour and one that could easily trip up those that are not aware of this sort issue (probably those copying and pasting from random sites).
Embedding the JVM for the sake of database drivers. Good/Bad?
That's not true at all. Aside from it's use in jewelry, gold is used in electronics and industrial chemistry. It actually has industrial uses, thus there is a certain floor on it's value.
I think part of the problem is that he had short term changes and long term changes. His long term changes, which include making over the store to have mini-stores in it and new brands, seem to be pretty successful. But his short term changes like getting rid of sales were pretty much complete failures, and caused the sales at the existing stores to drop disastrously.

Honestly, if he had not changed the pricing strategy, he would probably still have a job.
He's making a big deal out of the fact that some evil human may concoct an evil plan and swindle an honest man out of his hard earned bitcoins.

He's missing the entire point, bitcoin was designed to stop the federal reserve and US Mint from systematically diluting the value of our money through systematic inflation, (taking taxpayer dollars and giving it to AIG buddies for bailouts and million dollar bonuses) while bribing the media to trick the masses that inflation is somehow "good" for us.

Yes, evil men exist, and they will swindle others with tricky transactions. The purpose of bitcoin is to stop the people who create the money from stealing most of the value of all wealth on Earth every 20 years or so through Quantitative easing, inflation, and "printing dollars and giving the money to your friends" which is running rampant in this country.

He's ignoring one of the primary strengths of bitcoin, that if you want to acquire bitcoins, you will have to either A: deprive another human of them through specific and traceable theft/deception, or B: to provide reasonable goods and services in exchange them.

It stops the "Government printing Money and giving it to buddies" inflation problem dead in its tracks. But who cares? It means 5 hours of human labor deposited into bit coin equals 5 hours of human labor back out 20 years from now. We don't have anything like that now. It is as revolutionary as the invention of agriculture.

Sadly his conclusion is right. When this thing starts taking off (especially in cyprus where the governmental theft is rampant), anyone who uses it significantly is going to find their head on the chopping block, having been convicted of aiding and abetting the domestic terrorists. We must think clearly, putting ourselves in their shoes, on how they will crush BitCoin like a bug, and be prepared for the counter attacks.
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I'd love to short Bitcoin.

Are their any platforms/startups that allow short selling this currency?
It does have certain mathematical properties that make it rare. or at least harder and harder to produce as times goes on that leads to scarcity. And as we all know price = demand / supply
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Eventually, perhaps. At the current rate (doubling every few days), definitely not (for long).
Every seller must have a buyer, and vice versa.

A better way to state it is: "More people are willing to buy at the seller's asking price, than are willing to sell at the buyer's bid."
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Nice, always wanted to set up one of these for myself, but never found a good example. I'm wondering if you would like to tell us (me), what you used to set it up?
OTOH, it's a sad state of affairs that a retail company can hire a CEO who ignores the basics of the psychology of pricing.
Canadian residents most definitively cannot vote, they pretty much can do the same as a citizen except for voting and spending too much time out of the country.
That was actually one of the most interesting articles I've read today. I'm fairly familiar with the technology discussed but the specifics of how far it has come in practical use is quite interesting.

Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYAAmHvt-g
Well stated, he has zero authority on the subject of finance.
Something is very wrong in economics. Falling prices increase the standard of living and spread prosperity. This is what built America. I can't help but think this is a con game being played on us when people call it "deflation." If they had advised Henry Ford, he wouldn't increased wages to his employees and dropped the price of his car. There are also many unexpected events that would make you spend money: Pregnancy, illness, a Shiny New Thing, etc. Amazon would have kept its cloud services prices high too. I lived through the stagflation of the 1970s. There is no way in hell people can ever convince me inflation is a good thing.
> I have no idea why his thoughts on Bitcoin would be worth spreading on HN.

Ad hominem attacks are somehow better? One would hope the crowd on HN is mature enough not to be swayed by those...

It's popular because he made valid, well-supported points. If you disagree with his points, why not attack those instead of Denninger himself?
Direct link to the mentioned project: https://github.com/firebase/firepad
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It also depends of who's the target audience. I did two Show HN for a medical literature search engine and got a total of two comments. On a medical-related reddit, I got much much more comments, thanks, suggestions, etc etc.
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Paul Volcker is “too old” for bitcoin
I know that Baio commissioned the art, and didn't personally create it. The decision to just take it rather than negotiate for rights was his. It should be pretty clear from the context of this discussion that I don't mean literally "copy-and-paste". The Disney ripoffs are also not identical to the source - does that mean that there is no issue?
I really really don't like going through a 20+ minute interruption cycle every time somebody needs me for two minutes.

I would much rather devote a solid 20 minutes, even an hour, to you than half-arsedly devote 20 minutes spread out over 10 hours in one minute chunks.
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I am an entrepreneur from north Africa living in France and I am as astonished as you at how people criticizing bitcoin never talk about it's potential for countries like mine where there's no well established and easy payment system.

Glad you wrote a good article about it.

If bitcoins works, it will change the faith of developing countries and I sincerely hope it does.
When I did it in 2004 it took one year almost to the date to get the approval, another 6 months to get the visa (you need to submit medical test). There is/was a web site where people posted their times so you could get an idea, also there's the official site, I don't remember if they give some times.
And then there are people who want to create great products and get paid to support themselves and further development. Neither selling snake-oil nor starving are an option to them.

Please don't make it sound like not making "free/libre open source" would equal being a greedy capitalist who only cares for profits.
How is this anything other than an ad hominem attack? You don't really make any effort to demonstrate any actual issues with his arguments in the linked post, or even provide examples of better-written alternatives or people who are more qualified and happen to disagree with him.

The article is formatted a bit strangely, and the author is strange, sure, but neither of those are legitimate reasons to discard the actual content without consideration. The article does go to quite significant lengths to try and establish a foundation for what he's arguing so that the reader can decide whether they agree with the logical steps he's taking to reach his conclusion, which I think is a good thing.
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>>>he's not a trained economist so far as I know

What? I'm astonished you said that. How many people who have created the companies of today were "trained" to do them. Show me Jeff Bezos' bookselling training. Steve Jobs' design training and programming degree. The Google team's former analog advertising agency and their degrees in those fields. Just stop.
The ad hominem fallacy is the fallacious use of an argument concerning an opponent. The words "ad hominem" aren't a talisman exempting all people from judgements of credibility.

So far as I can tell, all the points Denninger has made here are supported only by Denninger's bare assertions. It reads like a message board post. Here's an article critical of Bitcoin that does better than recasting opinions as facts:

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/03/1425292/the-problem-wi...
Don't start with a teaser and then just stop cold...
It all comes back to the pricing debacle at the start of his tenure. Getting rid of sales and clearance was just not a good idea: it chased away old customers and didn't bring in many new ones. That drove sales dramatically down at the stores, and when it was reverted, it took away a lot of his credibility.
tl;dr

* government will kill it

* not really anonymous somehow

* verifications take too long
So you're assuming all high street banks are RBS? That the government wouldn't have been able to support the payment deposit scheme?

I think you're a little bit confused between retail and commercial banking. It was the latter which was bailed out, not the former. A collapse in it wouldn't have stopped ATMs working, but would have quite likely had dire consequences for the global economy and businesses, simple things like an airline hedging their fuel price would have suddenly turned into an airline losing their money (depending on the product bought it might just be a premium or a the whole lot). In that one simple example imagine the main airlines going bust, owing all the money for previously sold tickets etc. That is the kind of doomsday disaster a collapse of commercial banking could have lead too.

The ATMs would still be there, there just might be no cash in them due to hyperinflation and lack of consumer confidence. However the retail banks would do all they could to keep operating.

As for reading Alistair Darling's autobiography, I don't really get why I would, the guy didn't really get round to doing anything, but had been a cheerleader for the team that deregulated much of the commercial banking industry. People forget that all Thatcher did was to open it up to people outside of Eton, Brown's light touch and continued deregulation helped encourage it to grow and grow.
Nobody trains to be a bookseller.
> nginx and haproxy were really close, it's almost not significant enough to say that one is faster or better then the other. But if you look at it from an operations stand point. It's easier to deploy and manage a single nginx server instead of stud and haproxy

From an operations standpoint, haproxy has other features (failover, cli management, clustering) that actually makes it a much better load balancer. I usually install all three haproxy, stud, nginx because they are each very good in their specific niche. As for the simplicity of installation, that can be handled with a configuration manager.
This technology looks very intriguing to me but I'm confused about potential applications for it. That is, what's it good for?
However, that floor (due to industrial/etc uses) is probably in the neighborhood of $10-$20 per Oz, or completely decoupled from the actual price at any given time in written history.
Memory analysis isn't right on this. real difference is:

561M - 487M(cached) - 23M(buffers) = 51M

vs.

50M - 21M(cached) - 6M(buffers) = 23M

2x difference (4M of which is vmtoolsd)
Look, the constitution is 250 year old parchment and it appears a lot of legislators have probably forgotten what's on it.

1. Applies to most european countries as well. Some, like Scientology, are actually called what they are, scams. Not because of the dogma, but because they put greater emphasis on raising money.

2. And what EU member country doesn't have this?

3. The US has only been invaded by a) the British b) itself. Just like torture, when push comes to shove the government will find a way around this. Do remember the government confiscated property from the southern gentry by classifying them as traitors.

4. Minorities (black, hispanic, asian, arabic) throughout the US would like to have a word with you. Hell, NYC doesn't even try to gus it up. They call it "stop and frisk".

5. You have the right to vote. Not all states have to make it easy or convenient to do so. I'm lucky in that I live abroad so I'm entitled to an absentee ballot. If I lived in my last US address I could not vote by mail on my free time. I would have to go to the polls, on a tuesday, during working hours.

Europe isn't one country so I don't know why you describe it as such. I could equally say the US has a beheading problem since Mexico is right there and they are the same, right?
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>>>Transactions from them can immediately be trusted due to trust in the bank that is sending them.

Well that's a bit hilarious to consider since the entire point of alternative currencies is to bypass that clot in the circulatory system.
"let's be honest, here – a large proportion of the actual use of the currency is criminal in nature"

The criminal does not discriminate when its about to choose a currency for criminal activity. That is, if we're talking about the common criminal, but how about printing money? How government mass money printing on the current currency owner's expense is not basically just value stealing and therefore a criminal activity?
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Hi,

I am trying to find a developer who is interested in the following:

Job description:

Python developer with a verve for adventure sought for an already developed OLPC-project in cooperation with Dom Bosco Angola. We estimate between 2 and 3 months for the project, starting in August 2013. Due to the charitable cause, we can only provide costs for flights, basic accommodation and a fairly allowance. Your job will be to help the schools faculty members establish extensive training activities for their XO computers as well as teaching the administration staff how to amend the activities' contents.

Requirements :

* Python (Minimum 2 years)

* You need to be able to cope with one-of-a-kind Luanda. If you love challenges and are looking for a fantastic addition to your resume, you might just have found exactly what you're looking for!

* Basic Knowledge in Portuguese or at least Spanish (You still got some months, so get cracking!)

* Of course experience and knowledge of the OLPC-concept would be great, but motivation and good apprehension would convince us even more.

About the project The Angolan OLPC-project was established by the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in cooperation with schools operated by Dom Bosco Angola, based in poor areas where children do not have easy access to computers. Today, 700 students use their laptops as a regular teaching tool, and 400 more XO laptops are on their way. Now we need your help to add more content to those computers.

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All right, I'll bite, I think it was a little condescending. I consider myself pretty proficient with Git, with maybe above average understanding of the internals and the porcelain. I use the command line for most git operations, but have ended up using `git gui` for a lot of simple and complicated commits, which almost always end up using `add --patch`. My workflow is something like:

work on the code
use git gui instead of add --patch on the command line
use git stash -k on the command line
run tests suite

Git gui lets you pick individual lines much easier than `add --patch` does, and I find that wanting to have that available at my fingertips means I use it for non--patch adds too. Maybe this is an indication of some other "flaw" in my workflow where I'm generating a lot of changes that I don't want to commit yet, but I think it's common and inevitable when working on legacy code or in maintenance-mode. But even for new projects I use this because I'm usually cleaning up my work via --patch.

Another nice alternative to `add --patch` is magit for Emacs which lets you select a region in a diff and add that. I find both of these (git gui and magit) to be much easier and faster to use than `add --patch` on the command line, which has a pretty clever interface given the limitations, but is really far from perfect (split often doesn't work with small hunks, which means you have to open it in an editor. which means Emacs, so I might as well just use magit)

I've tried to get colleagues to use a workflow like this, so they stop committing garbage like bad comments and logging.

In my experience and humble opinion, your generalization is often enough wrong that I would avoid it. I've met plenty of people who prefer GUIs for this or that task which they could script or shell circles around me. It really all boils down to taste and what you find to work for you. Git's command-line interface is badly enough designed that you shouldn't make anyone feel bad for using something different. (I say this as someone who loves Git very dearly)

That said, I DO believe that users who NEW to Git specifically should use the command line a bit while they are learning, since it helps with the vocabulary used everywhere to talk about Git, while some GUIs bury it behind a leaky abstraction.
It would be interesting to see the difference with HAProxy if this line was removed: https://github.com/observing/balancerbattle/blob/master/hapr...

What the option does is close the connection between the proxy and the backend so that HAProxy will analyse further requests instead of just forwarding to the already established connection.

To be fair, I don't know what nginx does - whether connections are kept open or shut down - so I'm not sure that it'd be a fair comparison.

Also interesting are the HAProxy built in SSL times. I'm surprised they're so slow. Perhaps the cipher is also the culprit. The cipher can also be specified in HAProxy.

bind *:8080 ssl crt /root/balancerbattle/ssl/combined.pem ciphers RC4-SHA:AES128-SHA:AES:!ADH:!aNULL:!DH:!EDH:!eNULL
I've worked with Rails for 2 years after finishing University. One email to the London Ruby User Group got 15 replies and out of those I got 6 interviews and 2 job offers.
From the comments, someone notes that GZIP isn't enabled. Someone Pusher replies: "We use Amazon Cloudfront as our CDN right now and achieving this isn't as easy as we'd like it to be. It is on our backlog."

As great as AWS and the Cloudfront/S3 combo is, it's maddening that the combo can't serve both gzip and non-gzip versions from the same url [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5442011/serving-gzipped-c...
It's not ad hominem because it's not using the dislike of the author to disagree with the argument.
Cool concept, hope it adds to the community. Saw that a similar event is being kick-started from Berlin: http://register.founderstable.de/ (these guys are also doing a TNW side event).
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You might want to put some sort of URL validation as at the moment it could be used to store other data.

Also by entering what I've put at http://hastebin.com/ruxixitunu I'm provided with http://fry.io/9m which returns a 502 Bad Gateway error from your nginx server (BUG?).
Effects Of Raising And Lowering Speed limits
Comments that came to mind - "so they have sold two of those " and "to rule in hell than to serve in heaven".

Microsoft is just terribly slow with their phone os. They have lost 3 years so far and I have yet to see someone with a WP8 device.

I am not commenting on the merits of the OS. But in the position MS are in they should be delivering new version every six weeks and not every 18 months.
All the codes have been redeemed.
What I learned from being laid off twice in 6 months.
Why do people always benchmark on virtual machines running on someone else's server, and expect meaningful results?
Innovation is iteration.

Creation of truly new things happens at most just a few times in a human life span.

The rest revolves around taking existing stuff and making it better. And there's nothing bad about it. It's how our technological evolution has worked since the "invention" of the wheel.
There are Paul's essays and there is real life.

In real life, if I have a critical bug that falls into remote dev's domain, he'd better be damn sure to take his headphones off and get back pronto. Because that's exactly what would've happened if he were sitting across the room.

Nobody expects a telecommuter to answer right away, but quickly acknowledging a question is a rudimentary communication requirement that goes a long way in building functional team. The "I will get back to you within 24 hours" provision from the linked article is as laughable as it is absolutely ridiculous.
I hope you alert the authorities about this theft so that you can quickly recover your stolen property. Is your business being impacted in the meantime due to your deprivation of this property? Do you have a backup design you can use until you recover the stolen one?
Probably they are Picasso followers "good artists copy but great artists steal"

Blatant copy by the way...
Seriously? Then you know nothing about the field.
Is it possible to actually disconnect BTC from its source though? There will always be a transaction history. The best it seems you can do is obfuscate its source, by 'pooling' large quantities of BTC and then spreading them back out to new destinations - but if anything, that just seems to me like it would make ALL the resulting BTC suspect. It seems inevitable to me that if a government decided bitcoins were being used for illicit purposes, they would take all necessary steps to ensure that mechanisms for making them untraceable at scale become illegal.

The currency doesn't actually seem like the problem here: $100 isn't much even if it's in bitcoins, so how you spend it and where you get it doesn't matter much in practice. The purchase is what matters, because if the purchase is illegal that's what's putting you at risk no matter the amount of money.

Of course, once you start dealing in large amounts of currency - USD or BTC - that's when you start increasing risk because governments keep an eye out for large amounts of money being moved around. At that point, I think you'd have reason to be concerned about people simply tracking your large transactions towards their destination and using that to identify you.

The upside of more robust record-keeping does seem like a potential upside, though, I agree.
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Hah yeah, the common usage of "user" between software and drugs is a long-running joke.
Why isn't mining regulating the prices? Is it too costly?

It is a consensus that mining don't affect the price of bitcoin. However, mining is certainly affected by the price of bitcoin.
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Yes, there are. But consider that people have been saying this since BTC reached $30. Most of them would have been / actually are out of the market.

Of course, I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that the market can stay irrational longer than you solvent.
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