skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well for starters, you can go crazy and start spending BTC ( bitcoins ) directly and buy stuff instead of encashing immediately.

Coming back to if withdrawn in as local currecny.

Income that is earned through the exchange of services with another person, whether in the form of bitcoins, any other currency or even barter; is included in gross income, and would be subject to income tax.

So practically bitcoins could be subject to self employment tax if BTC is considered a commodity like gold.

If considered as a currecny or a debt then the gained currency could be taxed based on market value at the end of each tax year. Also, IRS never conisders currency as long-term investement so if treated as another currency then it would be taxed as holding an account in any non-functional (foreign) currency.

All this is just assuming its your owned BTC via trading/exchanging and not via business which accepts BTC or via selling items online or via mining.

Edit : Forgot to answer your question "Where can I buy BTC?"

Here are few reliable places

https://mtgox.com/

https://coinbase.com/

https://bitbargain.co.uk/

https://bitfloor.com/

https://www.bitcoin.de/

https://btc-e.com/

https://www.bitstamp.net/

https://blockchain.info/wallet/sms-phone-deposits ( Hybrid wallet + small exchange )
In former times (when patents mostly covered only machinery) you had to present a working prototype or product that demonstrated your invention.

My suggested solution to the current software patent disaster:

Inventors have to demonstrate a solution (in source code and running) that covers "ALL" the claims. Earlier inventions, e.g. those from the last 17 years, that have not provided this by means of ending up in a product during this period are automatically revoked / declared invalid. Inventors can appeal against this (at cost increasing the older the patent is). Demonstrations within appeals are only possible with technology available at the date of filing.

This will automatically revoke all the fantasy patents (I call them Jules Verne Patents), bring sense back into patent filing - particularly when "pure front-end" patents are disqualified, and will help to protect us from the 1999/2000 patent litigation tsunami some are already expecting.

(Reg: 1999/2000 patent litigation tsunami - this could be caused by all those start-up companies that filed patents within the 1999/2000 bubble and then went belly-up - many of those patents might soon end up in patent troll litigation portfolios.)

Update: And patents should only be enforceable by practising entities vs. PAEs along the lines / to mitigate the issues that Google, Blackberry, Red Hat and Earthlink have outlined in their letter to the DOJ last Friday ( https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwxyRPFduTN2VTE4TXlNcW9MR2s/... )
Is there any possibility of another virtual currency - a Bitcoin competitor - being created? Surely this would have a big impact on the value of Bitcoin.
Where do you get that figure? ASIC and GPU devices are completely different in power consumption for the same amount of MH, for example.
Pride (or shame) in other people's actions seems irrational to me (unless you had some involvement).

Why should I feel proud that I am from the same country as Isaac Newton? Or shame about the bombing of Dresden? I had nothing to do with either of those things.
Women in technology, in US census sample, are paid less
> Cost and price are 2 different things

this may be true but contextually it is not acceptable.
If a salesman emails me that the cost of their car is $500 (mind you, without asterisk or even something like 'terms and conditions apply/see (blank) for details) all am thinking about is the price of their car.

but if you start asking questions like how much is my time worth, because it counts towards the true cost of ownership it starts getting ridiculous.

and which time are you referring to? the trip to the corporate meeting or the trip to my son's baseball game? seriously
Timid US visa reform will keep skilled workers away
Indeed, although I don't agree "internet-enabling software" is trivial in terms of engineering and support costs, considering the range of devices today. But mostly I just wanted to clarify on the point that interception is not fully transparent: that the ISP does need to compromise every device that connects to the network.

But I do agree with your original point that to the extent possible, there should be legislation (if there isn't already) against intercepting TLS-encrypted connections of ISP customers, in cases where the ISP is also a browser-approved CA or is actually willing to distribute its own CA cert.
One thing that really grates me as a more-introverted-than-not person is the modern Open Plan Office.

Constantly having to hear the annoying voices of other people, interruptions, etc. I'd must rather be in a little corner office with the door closed. I really have no problem going entire days without interacting with another human being and I'm way more productive that way. Music is also not an option really. I don't want or need any further "stimulation" to concentrate. Just the thoughts in my head are enough.

(I know this from experience as I worked for more or less 1 year on my own from 9-5 with no human interaction doing development).
Some cost information about Prius battery packs (not a Tesla, but relevant) http://www.tirebusiness.com/article/20121120/NEWS/121129994/...
Ah, I missed the extract-method example.

Similarely to the convert-local-to-instance-variable example, to me it looks like overkill. I never had a problem, doing these things manually. But if you like doing it this way - I dont complain. To each his own.
> PSR-1 and PSR-2 are controversial
> Much of both standards are an amalgam of individual
> practices produced via an internal survey of PHP-FIG
> member projects.

Those member projects include codebases like Zend Framework, Symfony, Composer and Doctrine. Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written.

The only controversy I'm aware of is those petty pull requests opened by people who didn't like that they chose spaces over tabs, which eventually drove one of the founders of the group to quit out of frustration.
JabbR is open source and is highly active. Pull requests are accepted relatively quickly.
Cyberattacks Abound Yet Companies Tell SEC Losses Are Few
Why can't you just buy a Mac?

Also, you seem to say “Apple should” as if it meant “I wish Apple would”. You don't seem to be saying it would make Apple's offerings more cohesive or otherwise make Apple a better company.
There's a nice British comedy sketch about naming everything -gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
I think that a tool like this will, with time, become much more efficient than a simple search replace. As mentioned in my sibling, there are edge cases which need thought, and a proper refactoring tool will excel.

I'd love to see a tool like this start to support a bunch of complex refactorings, especially on a project level. With time, it could start to support a bunch of nice things which make it easier to use, such as aliases or readline support for auto-completion, etc. People may then write plugins or scripts for various editors such as vim to make various refactorings even simpler to use.

Of course, this is all wild speculation, but it is what I would love to see. I hope it works out very well, because I am a massive fan of the refactoring in the IntelliJ PHP plugin/PHPStorm.
mechanical compressive wave ,traveling at the speed of sound? Why do u introduce these? What has sound to do with my example? Imagine the stick not tapping on ground but just getting close. to it. Not an audio, but a visual way for the receiver to tell the 2 different singnal states. Then he'd grab his end of the stick and do the same. I am sure what you say is correct by itself but.. it feels there is just something from it that doesn't fit with my example.. Edit: reading again your comment and trying to understand what you say.. if i get it right then it's totally misleading to call it "speed of sound": it should be called speed of mechanical compressive waves
There are many.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrenc...
IOS gives you a friendly and official-looking "accept this certificate?" dialog when you connect to a router that offers one. Non-technical users will accept and proceed without blinking.
Excellent, should be an interesting read.
You've answered your own question. It is all of the above.

The price system in any market factors in all of the information and motivations of the participants, and balances them out with a single value : the price.

The killer feature of the freely-trading market is the price. It communicates the state of the market as both an input and an outcome of the actions of the market players.

Remember that for any exchange to occur, two things of unequal value have to be exchanged by two willing participants. But the inequality between the items being exchanged is in the eye of the individual holder. The motivations are rarely the same for each participant, so you can never actually make blanket statements about why a market moves where and when it does - very rarely does a single issue dominate a price, because in those circumstances you have a market that stops exchanging if everyone has the same view.
Why not use irc?
> There was an attempt to port homebrew to linux, but it didn't go far.

Linux already has more package managers than you can shake a stick at. To gain traction on linux, homebrew would have to offer useful features that other package managers don't have. Even then, people are more likely to copy the features into an existing linux package manager.

I don't think people tend to shop around when it comes to package managers; you use whatever your distro provides. If it sucks, you find a better distro or submit patches, depending how involved you are.
I think the best advice is not that you should start working right now, but that you should plan that the last 20% of your project is the one that will take most of the time.
Being pissed off as I always fall into the trap, last week I wrote a userscript that adds a 'clone' button to gh webs.

Combined with xdg-open, I clone the repos locally just clicking the 'Clone' link.

http://i.imgur.com/AiTFm2R.png

Userscript itself in:
https://github.com/kidd/org-protocol-github-lines/blob/clone...
Unless it's from a trusted source...
Tuesday night bingo:

* Requires preparation and organisation each time.

* Requires people to actually run it.

* Is not done often (Once per week if we take your naming of it into account).

* Cannot be done whenever the residents feel like it

* Is one thing (Bingo)

To be blunt, your comment added nothing to the discussion so why bother posting it.
The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics  Hypothesis  Experiment  Act
IANAL (or accountant)

I'd imagine (in the UK at least) that they would be subject to capital gains tax.
Historically, you can't serve multiple sites from one IP address (i.e. named virtual hosts) and use HTTPS. The reason for this is that the hostname of the site is included in the HTTP request from the client:

HTTP/1.1 GET /
Host: mysite.com

By the time the server has decoded and read this header, you have presumably already started the secure connection, so the server has to have already selected which certificate to use for the session.

Workarounds are to have multiple IP addresses on your box with one cert per IP, or run the server on multiple ports with one cert per port. In both cases this enables the server to know which certificate to use from the underlying connection properties, and not wait for the encoded traffic to start arriving.

SNI (Server Name Identification) is an extension to TLS (Transport Layer Security) that essentially adds the hostname into the SSL negotiation, so this cert can be selected by the server in advance. It made it into OpenSSL implementations in the mid-2000s and is reasonably widely adopted.

Legacy libraries, Internet Explorer <=7, and Windows <=XP won't support it so it's not quite ready for mainstream use. Give it 5 years or so...
Why use irc?
Competing on not competing
Maybe, but rather to favor its corporations than workers.
I explored the possibility of using a bank safe as a replacement symbol in the original piece. A bank safe is very difficult to represent symbolically, particularly at the scale of a small icon, so I think we can probably rule that out. A folder symbol is an even worse candidate, as folders are already used to symbolically represent levels in a hierarchical file structure.

Any replacement for the floppy would need to be immediately recognisable and not already tied symbolically to another concept. My argument, simply, is that I don't think there's anything better. The floppy is a unique shape and conceptually tied only to "saving". The effort required to move away from a commonly-used symbol isn't trivial and I just don't think there's much to be gained.
Nice work. Is there anything similar in the Java world?
Or you could apply proper, professional project management methods to make sure the last 20% doesn't take half the time of the entire project.
The Tesla batteries are more expensive - at around $10k a pop, it's not so trivial http://green.autoblog.com/2012/11/30/tesla-adds-replacement-...
“Schindler’s List” compie 20 anni, ma l’antisemitismo cresce
Windows XP: One year to go but is it already too late to move?
Web Analytics Tools: Which is most accurate?
2140. Roughly the year we'll hit this point.
Sweet, I'm also learning masm, may as well learn gnu assembly.
uid/gid on Linux also is terrible for trying to enforce inheritance. POSIX ACLs help, but they're strikingly poorly documented/supported.
I don't know how up-to-date it is, but there's this list of libraries and packages:

https://bitbucket.org/pypy/compatibility/wiki/Home

I'm mostly missing Qt GUI support myself. Hopefully cppyy (http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/cppyy.html) matures, as then it will be possible to use C++ libraries automatically without none or very little binding work.
Unless his co-founder helps him a bit by letting Tuna stay with him and his puppy for a while. Puppies learn much faster when they have an older dog around so that they can copy their behavior.

I have an English Cocker Spaniel that once gave birth to three beautiful puppies. What had taken me 1.5 years to teach to their mother took me virtually no time to teach them.

It was incredible. And also, a lot of fun! :)
I would guess the shape as follows:

- build a Prolog and FSM combo with search engine, DuckDuckGrouse.

- when any one human consults or advisees another, capture the advice as part of the mediated transaction - this would essentially need online start points (I have filled in my tax form so far what do I put in box three) and the logic process behind the endpoint (43,000 - your income for the year)

- rinse repeat and extract.

After a while it will look like AI
That won't help you much, if you, say, need the fusion of matrix operations I mentioned.
How is it better than Netbeans or Eclipse? I've been using mostly the former (after Zend Studio went AWOL). How does PHPStorm compare to those alternatives?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSL_certificates_... Claims StartSSLs Free certs are valid in IE>7, Firefox>3, Safari and Android>2.1.
I can personally verify they're valid in Google Chrome.

Which browser/OS combo are you using?
Ask HN: Help, I learned too much from Apple products?
I'm in hardware. I like hardware. I like Apple. I'm in awe in what they do. I like Steve Jobs philosophy on hardware and design. I look at the designs. I like what I see. I want to create something like that.

The problem? I'm in hardware.

It might be my bad luck but let's just say that the highest priority in many hardware companies is NOT BEING APPLE. Whatever philosophy Apple shows, they want to do the opposite - in the worst way possible.

I see a lot of software companies out there similar to Apple and are creating wonderful things. Where is this happening in the hardware world? What options are there?
This won't help against overly generic patents. And those cause most damage...
How to migrate a REST API written with RailwayJS to CompoundJS
There is a subtle hint that all is not well if you try to select the code using triple-click: it will only select one half at a time, suggesting it is not the one-liner it appears to be...
Is there any way of estimating the 'real" bitcoin economy?IE, Use of bitcoin to buy & sell goods & services rather than exchanging bitcoin for cash & via versa?

I mean lot of investing/speculation is obviously going on, but is there growth in bitcoin based commerce? That's ultimately the problem I hope bitcoin will solve.
Who'd dare mess with a guy who poses in a hat like that?
Pretty sure anyone can be nominated for a Nobel prize. Simple nomination does not mean that the Nobel committee are taking that person under serious consideration.
Common words translation sheet for indie game developers.
How do you know they were cis?
I have a boner
I think there is something to be said for not dithering over how to do it too much.

It's a balance.
Did you read the bit about how he escaped any penalty previously? Nothing's taught him otherwise.
The mechanical joke maker.
Done by my friend, I think it may be quite useful to some of the iOS devs out there.
Your talking about police/fire/ems dogs, but they are talking about saved dogs from bad situations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_dog
> Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written.

PHP-FIG members have repeatedly cautioned[1][2][3][4] that the PSRs (notably PSR-2) are not a set of best practices, but merely a survey of commonalities of PHP-FIG member projects. Even then, several member projects do not, and have stated they will not, implement PSR-1 and/or PSR-2. Treating them as the best or most accurate representation of how PHP is being developed at large is exactly the wrong thing to take away from the PSR process.

[1]: http://www.php-fig.org/faq/

[2]: http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/2420

[3]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/php-fig/TRpoq0kdrZk/OkyD-J4u...

[4]: Matthew Weier O'Phinney's comment on http://brian.moonspot.net/php-coding-standards
I believe you're talking about "search and rescue" dogs. The others were talking about dogs that had been rescued from abusive or neglectful owners.

In any case, you are correct :)
At least people outside of tech are starting to notice there is a problem with patent law. Check out the "Tabarrok curve":

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/09/pat...
> All this is just assuming its your owned BTC via trading/exchanging and not via business which accepts BTC or via selling items online or via mining.

All of those would be taxable too. The only question is when: every year at their current market value, or when traded for (official) currency.
Google up "bitcoin days lost", that's quite a good indicator for the traffic/volume. Also, most of the volume indicators ignore BTC trade, as that's done using the exchanges' internal systems.
1. When USA government accepts bitcoin for taxes.

2. When Amazon decides WoW gold is good enough too.
How is that really inventing anything? They're either following instructions to use a product, or doing something completely obvious.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the intent of patents, but I would've thought they protected the interests of the inventor against competition by other inventors rather than users of an invented product?
Do you know if any of these are likely to reach the heights of BitCoin anytime soon, or are we a while off that?
As far as my understanding goes for the UK tax position - if you bought the Bitcoins then you purchased an asset and then sold it again thereby creating a capital gain on which CGT would be due when you do your tax return. You could try and avoid paying tax by simply not telling the Inland Revenue - but that would appear to be tax evasion.

Not sure what the tax situation would be if you mined them - perhaps they would count as income?

The only thing I'd be sure of is that if you did have $10m worth of coins in the UK then you'd be silly not to speak to an accountant who specialises in tax planning for individuals - excellent ones do exist!
Thoughts on becoming a better developer
It's not just relatively older, e-mail is one of the oldest technologies on the net (we're talking 1960s technology here!)

Frankly, I wish it would die already as it's pretty much held together with ducttape:

* it's all transmitted via ASCII; so any binary attachments have to be base64 encoded that increases their file sizes by ~30%;

* transport encryption still isn't the norm (this is the 21st century, why the hell are we still sending stuff in clear text!?),

* there's no standard error responses meaning it's often guess work whether mail has been received or not

* there's no standard way of rendering HTML mail, so anyone sending mailshots has to revert back to a 1990's web developer mindset (ie assuming that everything doesn't render so resorting to HTML tables and hours of frustration).

* it's not real time / real time daemons are not standardised. (I'm not saying we need something like instant messengers, but it seems silly that we have a small handful of proprietary push systems (eg Exchange) and the rest of us normal users have to instead rely upon re-syncs every 5 minutes (which means a fresh set of handshakes as well). A persistent connection would make much more sense for a 21st century e-mail network.

There's been so many attempts to "fix" e-mail, but most have either missed the point (eg Google Wave) or just added yet more ducttape to the existing problem (eg pretty GUIs that change the way we interact with e-mail clients but without actually touching the core technology itself).

I might actually write my own mail server and client one day because it's becoming obvious that most people are happy with "good enough"
How to convert PS Vita compatible videos on Mac
Sony, the traditional tycoon in game industry, has its new PS Vita released, which a powerful mobile gaming and multimedia device. It does not only play games, but also houses a host of other features, like Cross-play, Web browsing, Google Maps, Cameras (both a front one and a rear one), as well as movies and music. In terms of video quality, taking full advantage of the 5-inch OLED display, the videos look great.

You can try this well-known Mac video converter software to convert personal owned videos to PS Vita compatible videos to check out the image quality yourself.
How is it better than Netbeans or Eclipse?

It's been a couple of years since I last looked at Netbeans/Eclipse, so take this with a grain of salt: PHPStorm just works.

The biggest issues I used to have were finding Netbeans very slow, and auto-complete in both Netbeans and Eclipse being somewhat unreliable - great when they worked, but that wasn't 100% of the time.

Essentially, PHPStorm is what I always wanted Netbeans/Eclipse to be.

As I say, though, it's been a long time since I last looked, and that's for a very good reason: at long last, I'm completely satisfied with my IDE.