skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Mt. Gox users are reporting the verification queue to be at least 14,000.

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/04/the-mtgox-verificati...
And people tell me I'm being paranoid for keeping my firewall on "block outbound", running as non-admin (windows), running the browser with noscript, adblock and no external cookies...
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Not only the Kiwis. Quite a few Dutch people remember this clearly as well.
It takes days, not months, to get verified, and a cell phone camera picture of a drivers license and utility bill will go through fine.
Another competitor in this space, Trovebox.com, does exactly this.
extremely annoyed by the lack of upgradable storage.

Do you happen to know if it is integrated into the motherboard or if they are simply using a mini pci express card internally?
I'm curious as to why? Do you think it's deficient compared to what you currently use to fulfill that niche, or do you have other reasons?
Can your idea for a startup be stolen when looking for a co-founder?
I can imagine it's investor-minded people who are just trying to ride the wave. We'll know what the floor is at some point over and over again, which would be the only time to buy - unless society starts to distrust it - which might be good at least for keeping the investment-profit schemed people out.
would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust

Please... this was probably the only real crime solving these guys did all week.

I'm going to leave myself open to the "citation needed" charge by generalizing here, but doesn't most police activity involve pointless traffic stops, traffic direction, prosecution of victimless vice crimes, domestic disturbance calls, and paperwork?
No it wont, I uploaded a 200dpi scan and they refused saying they wanted a 300dpi scan, without the words Mtgox watermarked in red text across it

What sort of fools upload hiqh quality passport scans to shady sites online who can uses these to steal your identity with great ease
Link to Nazca lines in sattelite imagery: http://goo.gl/maps/ehh0w
Blowing up a civilian vessel with people on board is murder.
It will, because that's all I gave them when I verified my account.
Bad Advice: “Stop Working So Hard”
"In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in the long term it is a weighing machine." - Buffett

If you'd like to hold BTC for 10-20 years, they may be quite cheap at the moment, as most of them have already been made. If you're looking for returns/stability/growth over the next six months, look out.

As a medium of exchange, the BTC is presently sub-par; it's just too volatile. I can't be certain that, if I exchange USD for BTC in a wallet on my phone, that it will be worth within 1% of what I paid by the time I walk to a store to spend it.
They appear to be doing some A/B testing between the simpler landing page and the more comprehensive page. They'll probably appreciate your feedback, but base the decision on conversion rates. At least that's what I would do, but I don't know much.
Not to negate your main point, but:

> Halo opened the door for Tom Clancy games,

The first Rainbow Six game predated Halo by three years (and the announcement of the XBox itself by two years) and though it started as a PC title, it was released for all the consoles of the time, including the Nintendo 64. You could argue that Tom Clancy games paved the way for Halo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Rainbow_Six_%28v...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28series%29#Original_tril...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox#History
Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, the floor is around $20ish.
Building a Roguelike in Javascript - Part 3b: Exploring Caves
Well then you are lucky, in meantime I will use bitstamp who dont fuck around freezing your bitcoins and dont ask for documents unless you are adding/withdrawing thousands.
Looks pretty cool. One thing I don't get tho: How does the image upload work? Does it just base64 encode it and use inline images?
It's soldered down/integrated. There is a mini pci express slot that the WWAN connects to, but it's wired electrically to the USB2 bus, not the PCIe bus, so that doesn't help.

(I wouldn't be annoyed if it were possible to swap it out for larger storage somehow.)
I should have added that to my post, I waited this long because I learned a few years ago never to buy the first-model revision. (I had a bad first-year redesign Honda Accord of all cars and will never make that mistake again) I saw the same thing on the first-gen ultrabooks (pre Asus Ultrabook Prime). (It seems the manufacturers were rushing to play catch-up with Apple).
If these things are true, why isn't someone making a killing in arbitrage?
I like MG's comment on being included (@parislemon)

"Hope they like Giants baseball and then Michigan basketball tweets tomorrow…"
Now that I think about it even more, I didn't think about my rule for the Yoga Book (it was a first-gen remodel) and I had problems with it.
According to the article:

"Interesting that first iPad can be pretty much ignored now (1.5%), whereas iPad 2 is still more popular than any of the later iPad models."
Although the results are impressive, the title is a bit optimistic. Haskell beat GCC slightly in the first benchmark. Haskell beat C in the second benchmark because the C code is very poorly written. They did not compare with the obvious C implementation. Secondly, GCC isn't the best C compiler, even though the paper claims that it is the best compiler that "we could find". They should have used ICC. C++ is also 4x faster than Haskell in the second benchmark, giving further indication that the C is slow just because it is poorly written. So it's hard to justify such a title. The work itself is very good however.
Tim Ferris's second book, the 4 Hour Body is a decent starting place for beginners who want to lose weight, increase muscle mass, get stronger and a bunch of other performance/fitness related topics. There's a chapter called 'The Harajuku Moment' where he outlines the steps that he used to help Rails-nerd Chad Fowler lose 70+ pounds of weight and increase his strength. I'd highly recommend Tim's book (The 4 Hour Body) to anyone who's interested in "hacking your body".

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/28/the-big-ques...

Another book/person I'd recommend HIGHLY is Kelly Starrett. He recently did a 2 day seminar on Creative Live about resolving pain, preventing injury and optimizing athletic performance. He's also coming out with a book at the end of April called "Becoming a Supple Leopard". You can check out a 50 page preview of the book below:

http://www.allthingsgym.com/50-page-sample-of-kelly-starrett...
Ubuntu and the Leap
I explored Everpix. It started importing all of my photos from my account. It was seamless, I loved it, and wanted to explore more.

So I was about to upload from my NAS. I realized they don't support RAW. I guess having JPGs, etc are better than nothing but I don't shoot in JPG. I shoot in RAW and maybe convert to DNG.

I looked over the size of my library. I was shocked to learn the size. This made me realize I need something serious, reliable, etc. I reached out to their customer support and asked what exists or what is intended when I lose everything and want my entire archive. I received a link to a support article that didn't address my question. I asked again and they said they couldn't support such a request. Make sense but that's when I knew it wasn't the right fit.

Since then I've looked into Trovebox.com, Smugmug.com or just going manual with Amazon services, S3 or Glacier.
At least there's a lite-version available.
> - Recommendation to use creatine with no discussion of what it does. Creatine does not in itself make you stronger, but it makes it possible for you to sustain a harder pace for a longer time in your workouts. Even if you're experienced in the gym, you have to be careful about overuse injuries when you start using creatine, because the sudden ability to work harder, longer, allows you to put more strain on your connective tissue than you're used to.

That is literally flat out wrong/bullshit.
Actually, I thought it was interesting how different they were, at least in some respects. If you look at the ratio of pre 4.0 versions vs post 4.0 versions, in the Unity stats it's about 27% vs 72%, but on the Android dashboard it's 45% vs 54%.

Perhaps Unity apps aren't as widely used on older devices and thus the stats are skewed in favour of more recent versions of Android.

Then again, the Android dashboard data is collected from the Google Play Store, so it isn't a perfect representation of all Android users either.
That's because you're using crude programming languages. Sophisticated programming languages let you use arrays of bits, as well as manipulating bits in integers.

(let ((a (make-array '(4 2) :element-type 'bit
:initial-contents '((1 1) (1 0) (0 1) (0 0))))
(b (make-array '(4 2) :element-type 'bit
:initial-contents '((1 0) (1 0) (1 0) (1 0)))))
(list (list a 'xor b '--> (bit-xor a b))
(list (aref a 0 1) 'xor (aref b 0 1) '--> (logxor (aref a 0 1) (aref b 0 1)))
(list #b1100 'xor #b1010 '--> (logxor #b1100 #b1010))))
--> ((#2A(#*11 #*10 #*01 #*00) xor #2A(#*10 #*10 #*10 #*10) --> #2A(#*01 #*00 #*11 #*10))
(1 xor 0 --> 1)
(12 xor 10 --> 6))
^^ This.

You just gotta think 3 simple words everyday:

Keep moving forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbi__sQ7F5Q&feature=youtu...
It's the End of the Ad As We Know It
In my career I have stacked shelves at a supermarket and worked at the UK equivalent of circuit city. Oh that was recovering from a nasty bankruptcy in the middle of the dot com crash.

So my advice is yes, take a job - but take a part time job - three or four days a week. They exist, honestly. Worst case scenario see if someone on HN will jobsharer with you and if a employer will take on two talented hackers who are going places.

Take the communities growing around your projects (let us know which ones!) and do not be afraid to try and turn it into consultancy - running a business is not the end of the world.
Why? So they can run all the indies out of business?
Unless you are running a server, there is no reason to be running Linux directly on your hardware. You can, of course, but it's not a good idea.

What a bizarre statement. It works quite well if you prefer the Linux environment and don't require specific software only available on another OS. Just because some setup works well for you doesn't mean it is appropriate for everyone.

I have both Windows 7 and Linux laptops and prefer Linux from a maintenance standpoint and from a driver standpoint. Usually, if Linux drivers are supported they are supported very well. With Windows things appear to be less uniform.
Right, I definitely don't think PyPy+[ctypes|cffi] is universal ("many," not "all"). Lots of people are doing Cython. Also, anyone who has a performance-sensitive workload that depends on SciPy is out of luck on PyPy at least for the time being. All I'm saying is that PyPy as a performant-Python strategy is common enough now that it's worth supporting in new performant-Python projects.
Thanks a lot!
Apparently Modern Perl book is available as a free download :)
Inlines a data url using FileReader
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yes. See lock.UnblockThreads(); in the parallel example from the article (the sleep is executed without holding GIL).
I'd add a qualifier that if you know what you're writing and you're writing from scratch, it's relatively easy. Modifying existing programs can present an interesting challenge.

For example once you have a working program and decide that actually some value could be read/written using a file instead of computed at runtime and the place you use it is 10 levels deep after calling a non-IO function, you've got two choices. Unsafe IO (then why not use it everywhere) or a minor program redesign. Haskell is the only language where I run into this kind of situation. (it's still quite simple despite this)
http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/SF...

http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/03/navigating_the_trea... is a wonderful explanation

Realize it is so bad they have a many-page colored guide on replacing a fucking window:

http://www.sf-planning.org/ftp/files/publications_reports/St...
Video: Autonomous Quadrotor Mapping, Localization and Trajectory Following
This is a fully autonomous flight, following a pre-set trajectory, but without any prior map. Localization and mapping done with two Hokuyo lidars and a servo motor.
This would be nice, if not:

1. Most services get acquired weeks or months after launching (Sparrow, Mailbox), and
2. Those promises are pretty hard to deliver on. If a company fails, who are you going to complain to when they don't keep running as promised? When a company gets acqui-hired and the mothership chooses to kill or freeze the service, they can just change the Terms & Conditions.

It's becoming more and more important to show that you are seriously committed to your product and not just in it for the short-term win (and even then an Instagram can happen), but I'm not sure an insurance would be worth more than an empty promise.
Tetrachromacy in humans
Yeah could be just different demographics (and as usual, with any data set you have to keep in mind that it's not "perfect").

E.g. Unity apps are mostly games, so this probably represents "android users who play games". Whereas google's is "anyone who went to the store" (which I guess is a much wider population - as soon as anyone wants a Facebook app they have to go to the store, right?).
Well, the problem with minorities in US, Germany and everywhere else, is that usually they are immigrant, poor, living in bad neighborhoods, so yeah, they will pretty much score lower at school, have much more crime, etc. But not because they are Mexican, Gipsy, Turkish, but because they are poor immigrants.
"If you'd like to hold BTC for 10-20 years, they may be quite cheap at the moment, as most of them have already been made."

That fact that most have already been computed has little bearing on the future price of BTC. What matters in the future is whether or not people will actually use Bitcoin as a currency (it has no other use); I am still not convinced that it will ever become mainstream. I hear about all sorts of places that accept Bitcoin payments, but I have yet to see anything that matters -- I cannot buy diesel with it, I cannot pay rent with it, I cannot pay utility bills with it, my local supermarket does not take it, and I cannot pay taxes with it. Even for black market transactions (drugs, guns, etc.) Bitcoin is obscure; even with all the sales that happen on Silk Road, you are looking at a tiny fraction of the market for illegal drugs.

Bitcoin is in a very precarious position. Most of the cost of buying in is the result of speculation about its future use, which is fueled by the media coverage it receives on tech news sites. A lot of the hype is based on questionable assumptions about Bitcoin's security and about the lack of authorities in the system. Bitcoin's ability to survive when the hype dies down and the assumptions are challenged is doubtful, at least from where I sit.
It's not so much that entertainers are more valued than butchers. On a individual level I probably appreciate butchers more. But a single entertainer can entertain millions, whereas a single butcher cannot feed nearly as many. It turns out breadth of impact is more lucrative than depth of impact.
> It's quite wonderful, and now I'm thinking about what the equivalent for Halo would be. Maybe a game that brings out the tragic aspects of war -- not just as shocking gore, but as sadness and horror.

Last year's Spec Ops: The Line did a lot of this kind of work, subverting the FPS genre while you play through it. Zero Punctuation's review of it is insightful as usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhPMjbgkXA
I'm using Crashplan because it offered a good deal. It took me two months to complete my initial backup (i didn't back up everything but I did backup my main Aperture library) and incremental backups (for two laptops and a Mac Pro) have been quick and painless.

Everpix is useless. Not only does it not handle RAW, it can't find pictures in libraries not in default locations.
If you'd like to hold BTC for 10-20 years, they may be quite cheap at the moment, as most of them have already been made.

Just over half have been mined at this point:

http://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#How_are_new_bitcoins_created....
There is a couple of research papers on bin packing with variable bin sizes, e.g. [1, 2]. You can probably find most of them with scholar.google.com, and you might get some more results if you look for "(2d) cutting stock (with) variable stock (sizes)" or for the "(two-dimensional) assortment problem".

In most papers it is assumed that you have a finite set of bins with different, but fixed dimensions to select from (as opposed to your problem, where both dimensions seem to be free). A notable exception is [3] (maybe there are more, but it's the only one I have come across).

There is also quite a lot of literature on the strip packing/cutting problem, which deals with the case of one fixed and one "infinite" dimension.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572528605...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305054808...

[3] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207540903317523
From the post: "I would also be interested in comments about how you came to your judgments. All comments on both experiments and all votes in the polls will be kept private until I decide that it is time to finish the second experiment."
I wonder if this is a market saturation issue. As much ad i love Louie, an think it's innovative, the world is really pretty good on stories of self absorbed white dudes. If you want to get noticed in the line of succession that includes Woody Allen and Seinfeld, you've got a difficult shot you are aiming for.

But good stand-up comedy for teenagers is almost non-existent. Good media for teenagers has been historically lacking, too old for cartoons but too young for adult TV.

Add to that the tech savvy of kids, and whst we're seeing now is a that teenagers are in a kind of feeding frenzy of media consumption. It's like a content gold rush.

In a few decades I expect those markets will saturate and it'll be harder to break in to them.
Technological Conservatism
I don't think it's just bro types working on Halo, Gears and other FPSes. There was an article (also posted here, I believe) about a woman developer's origin story. http://caitiem.com/2013/03/30/origin-story-becoming-a-game-d... - She worked on Gears and Halo 4.

There's a time and a place for all games - the mindless shoot em ups, or the whimsical indie types. Or the serious Dark Souls types. Or even the cinematic types with a ridiculously large cinematic to gameplay ratio.
You can say whatever you want about this bubble, but a couple of days ago it was around 100 $ who bought it 2 days ago now have earned the 50%... In 2 days... It is just crazy.

I can remember the HN post of "BitCoin just hit 10$" and I remember to say to my brother... Whooa that stuff really worth something, we should start mining it...

Plus if there is more than 9000 people waiting to buy more than 50.000 dollars of bitcoin, the price is gonna raise again... I might buy some...
Just wanted to ask if you know about MetaCPAN[1]? It has a nice list of modules people "upvoted"[2] :)

[1] https://metacpan.org/
[2] https://metacpan.org/favorite/leaderboard
Learn to write AI code in trAInsported
You could also say the total loss is 10K to the merchant, assuming he has a reasonable expectation of making that 3K profit...that is getting a little abstract about it though.
But they are getting exponentially harder to make.
I have some bitcoin that I've been sitting on for 2 years which I'd like to liquidate, but the spotty track record of bitcoin exchanges makes me wary of providing the kind of identifying/financial information that seems to be required.
It would be fun to gather metrics about fund-raising quotas, funds raised, time spent, etc, per elected official. But, that information belongs to parties, not to the people.
> I don't think mechanical engineers get any perks anyway.

Not unless you consider going home at 5 pm a perk.
Very excited that this is a) awesome and b) still exists. Contrast with Gush, which was announced with fanfare with similar goals in 2011 (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/jesta-labs-hatches-gush-fet...).

On the website (http://getgush.com/), these words appear: "Thank you so much for trying Gush and working with us as we tested this concept. We have decided to not move forward with this project. As promised we will delete all of your data from our service and be shutting it down this week. Please uninstall any uploaders you have as they will stop working. We hope you enjoyed trying Gush."

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level web stretches far away.
He's the second best, after Stewart Lee
I was expecting this to use WebGL shaders.

When image filters came to Flash, they used a technology called PixelBender, which computed the value of each pixel independently and parallelized them on the GPU to maximize performance. There's a similar proposal for CSS that uses WebGL shaders for the parallelizing:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html

Opera also has a writeup on doing this in WebGL now without CSS:

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/webgl-post-processing/
I'm in agreement in that I believe, with all else being equal, every LoC increases your chances of initial bugs (and/or security vulnerabilities) and refactoring errors. It will also make the code take longer to mentally parse and interpret, not to mention that it means you will see less code on the screen at one time. None of these points are universal truths or anything, rather, given 2 solutions that identical in everything except line-count, choose the shorter.

* BIG NOTE * This excludes code which is artificially short due to 'clever' coding.
You could probably sell some in person if you live in a major metro area; for example if you're in SF I'll buy them off you today (in person).
...was thinking of the same thing. Julia seems much nicer for the use case of writing scicomp code, but Go overall will be a much more popular language. How would you choose one of them for writing performance tuned Python extensions?
Please check out this months job thread on HN and apply to all the options you like :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472746 .

You can also post an email to me if you are feeling low.

Not for the sake of argumentation but I have a slightly different take on what you have written. So some points IMHO :

.."I have two aspiring github projects with growing communities."

Great, you are a better programmer than me. Please mentor me.

You can train fresh young programmers anywhere in the world. Teaching is a great morale booster and you will be changing lives of your students.

.."But I don't know how to capitalize on that."

Gotta learn it the hard way.

Building a business is a different skill set than programming. Try something, fail and try something else. You will learn it and get better at it. The more skilled you get, the better you will be.

.."I don’t want to work for typical internet businesses like a web framework, analytics startup, or a newspaper publisher. I don’t feel enthusiastic about selling advertisements or stuff that’s purely virtual."

I agree with you on finding a more meaningful job. But selling advertisements is great if you are advertising a good cause. Making a web framework like Wordpress powering millions of blogs is just awesome.

Again it is your personal choice but making someones life better is better than doing something. And doing something is better than doing nothing.
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