skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because auto-sellers don't want to work both days of the weekend.

Let's say I run a liquor store. I get together and collude with all my liquor store running buddies and pass a law that says liquor stores can't be open after 5pm.

Ta-da, we all get to go home at 5pm. We don't lose any sales to people open after 5pm, because no one is allowed to do that.

And if someone wants alcohol after 5pm, fuck 'em.
Browsers have debuggers, which allow users to set breakpoints and inject/run arbitrary code in the context of some function. (At least Chrome allows that, not sure about others.)
I doubt it, since the data will cross state lines, putting it under Federal jurisdiction (please correct me if my law is wrong)
Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Can you share more about psyduck? How much time was invested in building out your testing systems?
“Dropbox is used in 95% of the Fortune 500”.

I wonder what percentage of those officially allow their employees to use it though. A lot lower I bet.
Someone thought it'd be cool to hack some popular exchanges and info sites. And now everyone sells in panic.

Most probably the hacker is short-selling BTC (or, dumping off stolen BTC from an attack)
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You might think a lot of things, but your description of Zotero is completely inaccurate. Zotero isn't a browser-based application, and it can do everything you describe.
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thanks for the response! nope not yet, but definitely will do so when shooting over the info about the toll to be reimbursed, it seems like the founders themselves are answering the 1-866 line, 2 birds with 1 stone, that whole deal
Well, true enough. (You also save money on the taxi, if the alternative were taking one.) I just think there's a certain value to be attached to the bother of having the thing hired out with some random driving it while you're not around. I don't have an actual figure for what this value is, but my gut says that it's not sure airport parking is quite expensive enough to make up for it :)

I'd want to be at least certainly making a profit on the basic rental, no matter what happens. (But then again, it's probably unlikely that every renter will drive it 90 miles per day. Additionally, perhaps the free carwash and valet clean should swing me more than it does. And maybe I've just always visited airports with cheap parking. Etc.)

Realistically, I suppose, I've just made this decision somewhat irrationally, thinking of the bother and expense of sorting out a knackered clutch and a pile of parking tickets and a tank that's only half full (probably of the wrong type of fuel). But even after trying the more rational approach given in my original post, I'm not finding the figures to stack up well enough to convince my gut otherwise...
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I guess most people were buying BTC because its value was rising really fast. Any price drop could cause them to lose their faith in it and want to sell them. And the drop (or at least growth end) was inevitable, because the price was rising faster than exponentially.
Something bad is happening at MtGox - they quote a price of $156 for the last trade - yet my order at $200 was not filled and is still marked as "pending".
Isn't this just the same thing as Gumroad!?
Yup, the arbitrage opportunities are real. Just yesterday the Canadian exchange (cavirtex) was trading $40CAD/BTC higher than MtGox (CAD); if you had an account with both, and free money to spare, you could take a handsome profit (minus fees, usually around 3% each, so 6% roundtrip)
Intrinsic value is highly subjective. Paper money has about 0 (you can burn them for a few seconds, right). Gold has some uses, true, but value is (as someone said above) is simply created by demand. (Gold is worth zero if no one wants to buy gold. Its perceived intrinsic value can disappear (well, most of it) as soon as people stop thinking that its valuable. Of course, its very unlikely to happen, because we're programmed since childhood to think that gold is valuable.
I grew up with a mother who heavily emphasized respect and courtesy. Thank you for doing the same with your children, it often feels like this world is very lacking nowadays.
How can you confirm this?
A genuine crash in which everyone was trying to sell at once might look like a DDoS. How do you know this is not that? (No opinion, just curious.)
Oh yeah, I get that much. Wondering how they got the "either day, but not both" part. Usually those laws are just "no sundays".
Supporting more states is a top priority for us at the moment. We'll be launching additional states before the end of this quarter.
Intrinsic value and market price are slightly different. I imagine the difference brings us back to the fact that bitcoin is unbacked by any government. There is a worst case scenario that bitcoins are worthless. Government backed currencies despite not being tied to the standard of a physical good have a sovereign entity responsible for their value thus they are as valuable as your trust in that sovereign.
How is someone in Cyprus going to buy bitcoins? If the exchange is out of the country, then it doesn't help, because you already have to move the money out of the country to get it to the exchange. If the exchange is within the country, then the rate offered is likely to be far less favorable than elsewhere in the world, because demand is higher.
I like this prettier and easier to read interface: http://realtimebitcoin.info/

I've been watching it drop from $200 to $157 over the last hour or so.
Without size cohorts that graph doesn't mean much. I'm sure that if you'd have those it would be very impressive but just by itself that graph is not interesting other than to show very good growth and very good future prospects. It's the kind of slope investors like to see :)

If optimizely is as well represented in the top 100 and top 1K as it is in the top 10K then that would be a much stronger statement.
It always baffles me how The Land Of The Free (TM) has laws that are so clearly anticompetitive.

Same thing with Uber and the special taxi law, or the city sponsored DSL monopolies that seems to be the norm in the US.
I heard that he resigned because Rust won't support tail call optimizations.
1.1 / 1 year.
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This would be the only reason I would want it voted down / vetoed. If you enable this for electric, it should be enabled for every other car manufacturer.
..and 5 minutes later, its back up to $190 USD/BTC.
You could also submit a feature request to Zotero:

https://forums.zotero.org/7/

Or build it yourself if so inclined/able:

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/sample_plugin

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/svn_and_trac_access
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USD are backed by the fact that US citizens have to pay in USD to pay their taxes. Bitcoins have no such imperative.
We're more than happy to offer this free service to iOS developers to finally receive feedback the right way, can't wait for HN opinions on that.
Also speaking very hypothetically, why do you suppose that all the input electrical power is wasted for the propulsion goal? Each fusion mini-explosion will have a total energy that is the sum of the input (ignition) energy and the fusion itself, not just that of the fusion.

Edit: This would mean that the thrust could be higher than the electrical input power even below break-even for the controlled fusion. If you only consider the electrical input, you could have a >1 ratio for the electrical energy/kinetic energy conversion (thanks to the fusion).
This post is is so popular, my fork from half a year ago (very few additions), still gets starred approx. once a week.
Domino effect? And is this caused because we use the data from just one major site? (MtGox)
I have a casual interest in economics, markets, currencies, etc, but I don't understand why DDOS attacks would cause the price to drop as opposed to just causing trade and prices to halt altogether?
Whose affiliate link?

A Google specific one? If that's your question then the answer is trust.
yeah, at the bottom of the return receipt they actually give you a very rough estimate - long term airport parking for $18/day @ 10 days, + the $40 i received from flight car, add in the round-trip cost for a cab ~$100, and that's a +/- of $320. but, as to3m said and i had mentioned in my post, i don't know if it's worth the post-rental hassles as well as the added stress during your vacation - again, it was my choice, and i don't regret trying out the service
In the end it doesn't matter what your currency is made of, people are going to trade on credit mostly. The creation of fiat currency in the first place was less an attempt to scam the world into devaluing its currency than it was to bring the physical medium in line with the way the economy works anyway.

Many say that one of the biggest advantages to bitcoins is the anonymity of the currency, but in the end, it'll probably be its downfall as well. When people can't place a name and location on their debtors, loss aversion tends to kick in.
I would be very sceptical about using weight training, and squatting and deadlifting in particular, as remedies for back pain. These exercises can bad for you if you have pre-existing issues, EVEN if performed with proper form. Exercise is obviously useful, but I see no clear reason why putting your body under serious loads is a good idea. Most serious amateur powerlifters and bodybuilders, for example, end up suffering from back/knee/shoulder issues at some point. Posture and mobility deficiencies can be improved in other ways, but this normally requires more thought than hitting the free weights.
What if I FedEx a letter and a FedEx employee opens it and keeps a copy of it? (Replace FedEx with USPS if it makes a difference)
The fallout is from neutron radiation of the ground, which doesn't happen in space. The amount of direct radiation from the uranium that is used is actually quite small.

Can you cite this? I think the major dose component of nuclear fallout is from fission products, not neutron activation products. For example, skimming through these appendices on dose calculations from historic nuclear weapons tests [1](e-h), most of the significant radioisotopes are either fission products, or transuranic activation products from the weapon (e.g. Am-241). The environmental activation products discussed, C-14, Mn-54, Fe-55, and Co-60, are much less significant.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallout/
I would say it was an initial push on 1.5 months of one engineer with 10% of time of one engineer for maintenance. As the load increases we have to invest a few days here and there to scale the system.
> Most probably the hacker is short-selling BTC

How? Where can you short Bitcoin at the moment?
Next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box
But Google and Facebook are not the only two companies that store users' electronic messages (it's not just email, remember, but also direct messages, stored IM chats, etc.)...
Actually I believe the law does not prohibit the manufacturers to sell directly to consumers, it requires the seller to be located in Texas. A subtle, but important difference. I believe the original reasoning for this was to prevent sales tax avoidance by purchasing cars out of state. This was pre-Internet.
Looks like the creator announced a plan to stop caring for the dictionary in January of 2012. FASTAR apparently agreed to take it over, but if they did it is locked behind their authentication system.

Someone should scrape and preserve.
A year and a half is an eternity in software development. It makes sense if the developer likes the project, feels good about his peers and his manager and feels technically challenged. If those two or more of those criteria aren't met, it just breeds resentment in everyone. As a manager you shouldn't even want someone on you team that is becoming resentful. It's toxic. If a manager were willing to keep someone on their team that is becoming more resentful and tried to change the situation by changing teams and that manager prevented it, then I'd fire that manager. That's not how you lead a team or company.
Nobody extends credit to "unknown borrowers". That's exactly why credit scores exist, which map 1-to-1 with the probability that a borrower will default prior to some horizon. This is a solved problem.
That's a transaction based on market value, not intrinsic value. Someone might take you up on that, but it would depend on their valuation of your bitcoin, not some kind of inherent equivalence between bitcoins and other assets.
http://tomayko.com/writings/that-dilbert-cartoon
Texas had a bunch of restrictive laws about Sunday called blue laws, the last one left is for liquor sales.

Used to be you couldn't sell cars at all on Sunday, but they added this "either or" clause a few years ago for some reason. Dealers claim having to be open 7 days a week would drive up costs...go figure.

http://www.texastribune.org/2011/03/11/why-cant-i-buy-a-car-...
Validation and free press are really good reasons to go public about raising an investment, you also signal to potential customers that you are now in for the long haul and have a serious warchest so you are not going to go out of business any time soon. This communicates that you're a safe bet when it comes to investing time, money and manpower into integrating the product.
After Reader, I'd say "still flying" gingerly..
And don't forget his interactive course! http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-ruby
The article makes a good point (it's much more nuanced and interesting than its title, on which I was prepared to make a judgment immediately; I'm glad I did not).

It's worth looking at in the context of the post it references, though [1]; several very useful and valid responses were made by people citing the practical issues with responding to every inquiry from every applicant.

Granted, I don't believe that applies to the author's anecdote, but they do both have a place in the same discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5518881
So if someone decides to sell 1 bitcoin at $157, immediately the lowest price falls to $157, causes panic among other bitcoin-ers and they all start selling, is that how the market works? I am not sure what is going on, I placed an order to buy at $210 but that is still pending since yesterday.
> So here's the point for other designers of user interfaces. When your use is in a text box, TAB might take them out without them realizing, and then hitting ENTER or SPACE might perform an action they really aren't expecting, and didn't want. perhaps you should design the interface so that the button they get to after the text box does not perform an irreversible action.

After typing my reply in the other thread, I read far enough down the page to get to this entry, and I have to say I agree 100% with what you've said here. The fact that pressing [TAB, space] sends the email irreversibly is dangerous, and can pretty easily happen by accident when typing quickly.

Having said that, the behavior of TAB moving between form elements is a long standing behavior. Many "power users" use it to great effect, but it's discoverability is very poor. The solution is a tough compromise though. In Gmail, many users rely on the [TAB, space] sequence to send email. I do the same thing on Hacker News. When I finish my comment, I use [TAB, space] to submit my comment. The people who write the software are loath to give that up.

My feeling is that within the rich text editing area of an email message, TAB ought to insert a tab character, but I'm not sure how difficult that is. The TAB keypress is handled by the browser, so if the Gmail devs were to go through the trouble of trapping TAB and inserting the tab character in to the text area, they'd be breaking the expected behavior of the web browser. In that way, this solution creates another problem. Which one is "right"?

It's a bit of a paradox. If nothing else, I hope this helps shed some light on why these design decisions aren't always as straight forward as they seem.
My theory is that it's far easier to sell bitcoins than it is to buy or mine them.
Freestyle is the best part. You can generate an entire (gibberish) rap song from one line:

What light through yonder window breaks?

To be great, i'm giving it all it takes

Lookin' at me, now they know my face

Driving my car to a foreign place

This is no trial, this a closed case

I ain't looking in her eyes but her face

Prps cover my eight’s, uhh, lemme switch my pace

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It's $18[1] to park at SFO. Assuming 4 days it's $40 vs. $-72, I'm not sure it would be worth $28/day to me to run the risk of damage to my car, tickets, etc. There is the upside of a carwash and not having to worry about damage in the lot.

If I'm travelling on business somebody is going to be picking up the cost of parking anyway.

[1] http://www.flysfo.com/web/page/parking/options/long-term/
You're new here so pro-tip: More concrete details, less snark, or you're gonna downvoted to oblivion.

Instead of just telling someone they're wrong, explain why. How is Zotero not a browser-based application, and how does it do everything OP described?
I have a personal reason to hate it: it thinks it's revolutionary when it's actually just... money.

It solves no problems because it carries greed with it.
How is stock sale a loan?
> I wonder why MtGox doesn't shut down for the day to deter panic selling?

Because the next morning everyone panics that MtGox feels they can lock you out of your money and withdraws everything?
Do many folks here use Dropbox for large(r) scale collaboration (i.e. 100 or 10,000 users)?

I find folders work okay for myself and maybe up to 5 people but as the number of documents and collaborators goes higher than that it seems like it'd be really frustrating.

Unless the "search" is significantly better for business users.
I've filed a new bug for this: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/3225 Could you please chime in with your browser, version and OS over there?
> I work for monetate

Looks like you have some serious competition.
> Could it be said that bitcoins _do_ have an intrinsic value equal to the marginal amount of electricity and equipment needed to produce one?

No, that's an intrinsic cost. It would only be an intrinsic value if that electricity and equipment could inherently be extracted back from the bitcoin. The intrinsic value of gold comes from what you can use gold for other than a medium of exchange. Bitcoin has neither the intrinsic value of commodity currencies nor the sovereign backing of fiat currencies.
This difference is what puts the second S in "SaaS" — apps are traditionally products that you buy, not services you subscribe to. When I buy a copy of Sublime Text 2, I then own a copy of the program — it's mine, full stop. But nobody believes they own Basecamp; they just have an account with 37signals' service. If somebody feels like you're selling an app but pricing it like a service, that dissonance reads as unfairness.
Whoever takes charge, I hope he/she keeps Mozilla going in the same direction it has been in the recent past, because the work coming out of that company has been nothing short of amazing in my opinion.

Basically, Mozilla, don't change, you're awesome.
Convince someone to lend you BTC, or use coins you stole in an attack or otherwise illicitly acquired.
There's no EMP in space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5526333
I've always wondered this as well. There was even a paper from the DOJ that advocated elimination of these laws:
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm

I think the reason has to be purely political: it stands to reason that state politicians would benefit more by protecting a local franchise vs. a national car company (even though it is ultimately detrimental to their constituency).
And what's the backing of US citizens paying taxes? If all of the population decided to not pay taxes tomorrow, what power US government has to make them pay up? Government itself operates on the backing of people's consent. That's not too different from Bitcoin users' consent.
People buy less, so those wanting to sell have to lower their prices, which makes others panic and sell at a low price, and there you go.
Are you opposed to iteration? Opposed to the bill passing -- believe dealerships would let it pass? Tesla has to potentially wait orders of magnitude longer while a battle they don't care about ensues -- dealerships versus gas-automobile manufacturers?
Exactly, or the cost of the cab to and from the airport
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No man! You can accept payments directly in-stream on Facebook and Twitter to leverage your social networks for selling your product or service. And today the pricing model was lowered to just 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction - very affordable for all sellers.
Thank god! This has been one of the features we've wanted since signing up, glad to see it launched. Keep up the good work
OK, can someone explain this 'pivot'?

I'm typing this into a laptop running Kubuntu (in my kitchen) which is based on a mainframe operating system (I used to talk to a PDP11 via teletype half a lifetime ago).

Won't mobile phones be running Unix soon as well?
lol yeah, but you could make such assumptions (who calls himself a scientist isn't one) in german too :D

Biologen
Mediziner
Chemiker
Mathematiker
Informatiker

Wirtschaftswisseschaftler
Kulturwissenschaftler
Medienwissenschaftler
etc.

;)
That 'lag' is every single person trying to sell their holdings at once.
It seems like part of decision was reached because of limitations in LLVM[1]. This makes me a bit uneasy, but I guess it has to follow C to meet its goals.

1) "LLVM does support tail call optimization, but it requires using a different calling convention than C and slowing down all function calls" from https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/00355... and http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#tail-call-optimizati...
Hey Pete - Alex from FinanceIt here (http://www.financeit.ca); thanks for the mention in your article!
We actually do solve most of the problems you outlined in your article. Our current focus is on improving existing point of sale financing systems for retailers - however we've developed an API (https://www.financeit.ca/api/v1/index.html) so any developer can offer instant approval financing online. I would love to connect anyone whose interested with our API people. Message me at acommons at communitylend.com
Firebase added Persona support to their API for apps built on Firebase. It's not (yet) supported on their home page.
I'm getting stressed about the amount of money I could make from the spare money I never had. So, yes, I agree =)
Gold is useful stuff in all sorts of electronic applications... I'd say at least 4x that of Bismuth or around $50/pound.
Heh, I meant to specify "type" and not "src", but you're right regardless.
You've clearly never been here. Dixie flags are not actually common - the Texas flag is flown everywhere.

Also, the use of the term 'Confederate' in the CAF originally had nothing at all to do with the U.S. Civil War, and later became a kind of running joke the members ran with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_Air_Force
Hi Fabpot,

I am with Google and will check what's going on / report back our resolution. Sorry for this becoming an issue.

Tzachi
Context. [1]

[1] - https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-April/00355...
Aren't they already? What's iOS? Android?
A series 'B' round is not a loan, and it is definitely not a risk but a huge asset.