skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what I do - "remote" repository in dropbox and push/pull in a "local" copy in my home folder. Works just fine for sharing code between my own PCs. I use it only for my personal projects, sharing repos this way is just asking for repo corruption -- if you both push at the same time, say goodbye to your repo.
I feel bad buying it through amazon so cheaply, knowing the delivery fees charged to authors. Looks great though!
The Wild Bill Protocol
Restricting shell use, rather than loading up with tricks and extensions, also has its charm.

I liked this presentation: http://shellhaters.heroku.com/
He probably created a new wallet each time he restarted the miner. If he found a large enough investor (e.g. the Winklevoss brothers), he could just transfer a number of his wallet files to the investor. The investor could do a transaction himself to transfer the coins into a wallet he is sure to own, and Satoshi's real identity would never be involved in any transaction.
AutoIt is a popular software to automate GUI applications.

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
How are "natural capital costs" calculated?
I follow over 1000 accounts on Twitter, almost all of them linked to specific individuals and involved in something creative - games, music, art, or writing(including journalism). So I have a little bit more data than most.

The tweet-per-day rates for these accounts roughly follow a power law, going by a mix of sampling individual accounts and observing my own TL. A decent number are known to be real but look essentially abandoned(from a follower's perspective - they may be lurking). At the other end some top 200 tweets per day. The middle of the curve is at around 4-5 TPD.

These accounts do not all treat Twitter uniformly, of course. Some broadcast their personal updates to work or life. Some of them ask questions. Some are posting bon mots. By far the most popular activity is commentary on news items, though. Because I follow so many accounts I also see a substantial subset of semi-private conversations, which usually appear from the commentary tweets.

Now: Is this valuable? The technical restrictions mean it doesn't replace email or regular blogging, but I see a lot of serendipitous conversations that can't occur in other contexts(too much overhead). This is nearly ideal for creative types, and I believe that is what's making them gravitate to it.
in the form, they ask you specifically at what stage the startup is at, so it seems they would be looking at all startup submissions... Though of course, if you have a prototype it would not hurt... :)
They may be trying to say that, but they actually said the opposite.
There's an interesting point in the bitcoin forums that someone basically had to mine the entire first year or two, just to ensure the network even existed. If someone downloaded a client to play around with it and there was no network to connect to, the project would never take off.

So it's possible Satoshi ran a client or two for that purpose, which had the side-effect of mining coins.

To me, this seems like a very likely scenario. Almost required, even.

Another interesting comment- if enough miners agreed, coins from the Satoshi blocks could just be blacklisted from the network. Some irony there, eh?
What an incredible story. Money, technology, mystery, criminals. this would make a great book.
Oh how far we´ve come. United States Government usability guidlines (2006)
The Well Deserved Fortune of the Federal Reserve

Seriously, as the world's currency and failures of other countries to issue a reserve currency, one of the dollar's biggest threats would be a crypto-currency. Either the project succeeds and you have an enormous source of potentially hidden money in the currency to maybe overtake the dollar, or it fails and you make sure it fails with such repercussions that no other crypto-currency can be easily introduced again, either due to new laws or loss of confidence.

Additionally if they have the ability to crack SHA256 (designed by the NSA), the government could print the money. And they could probably have planned a way to sabotage bitcoins if they decided to back out before a certain point.

The financial crisis may have helped sway the final decision to execute the plan:

August 7, 2007: BNP Paribas terminated withdrawals from three hedge funds citing "a complete evaporation of liquidity".

September 6, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac placed in conservatorship by the U.S. government.

September 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

November 1, 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto publishes first bitcoin paper.

Sources of dates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932012_global_finan.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae_.... http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/
My friend invented a lens adapter with built in variable ND.
Honestly, it is kind of sad, rather disastrous, that a leading site such as Linkedin is unable to stir things up a bit and come out with the exact truth.

When he says "... we’re seeing that more and more people are spending more time in the app, and the app is running out of memory ..." what he means here is that memory allocation to the browser on iPad (for example) is too little to handle the volume of user interest.

Mark his words, users ARE interested to see the wild wild web through their browsers, even porn, but it is the vendors of these closed gardens that have made it difficult for everyone. This is certainly not the fault of HTML5/web developers, or lovers of open web, but only of the vendors who have not provided sufficient resources or enough support for web standards on their stack.

We're actually back into 1995, I think, with every other for-profit firm talking about its own "experience" and "standards" these days.

Edit: This discussion is meant specifically for browsers supplied on iPad/Android tablets. Not the desktop browsers which are not only good but also in an extremely competitive space (Thanks to Firefox!).
Not multilingual, but open source, is the lovely collection of lists included with Dan's Guardian (In configs\lists\phraselists in the source, available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dansguardian/ )

Maybe someone should ask Dan if we can stick them in plain text somewhere easily accessible for future projects to reference. I know we don't really need to ask, but it's polite.

We could then let the moderators of certain subreddits, or 4chan, have commit access to add new, creative terms of profanity!

I think this would be a humorous list to have around, if only to find out what people are being offended by these days. I have a feeling that, for every term, phrase or word you care to quote, there'll be someone who's offended by it.

Which brings me to the point that there has been a fair bit of debate over the use of profanity filters (a few good links at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273516/how-do-you-impleme...) and how effective they are. One of the references in the link above is for a 14yo circumventing a profanity filter (based on a white-list) with the phrase "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny."
Your gripe isn't with organic food, it's with the FDA, which is headed and controlled by captains of the agriculture industry.
> P.S. If any of you think this won't happen to Mt. Gox ...

This has already happened to Mt. Gox multiple times. At one point they took a French bank to court to get their account reopened[1]. Currently they use a Polish bank for SEPA transfers in Europe.

Mt. Gox knows that they cannot rely on a single bank account. They are prepared for such events.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41317.0
How The Focus On Profit Nearly Destroyed Our Startup
that's quite an accusation.

I assume you mean they're emailing you things, and you have an account there.
@mkbrody - Panel 3 'We clean' on the front page of your site - 'professionaly' should probably be 'professionally'. And before anyone steps in to be disparaging or #irony, lots of creative people have dyslexia and this is a typical error.

Excellent story. Thanks, mkbrody.
Is there enough liquidity (I'm not even sure if this is the right word) in the standard exchanges to move $100M USD of BTC?
Lucky me! Someone just contacted me via email to offer just that.
If they were forced to price all this in things would just cost more and they would go on being profitable.

Also there would be a ton of innovation in negating these costs.
Why does your API still use HTTP Basic Auth?
http://www.halifaxexplosion.org/intro.html
Paradox, the legendary DnB producer is still touring the world with his c64, his akai sampler and zip/floppy disks, destroying dancefloors with live tracker sequences. Here's a little video of him at the Sun and Bass event in sardina, showing you his setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e0wg_618ac
I used to write bots for Yahoo's (and a few others) chat rooms back in the mid 90s. Nothing malicious, I was just a bored teenager so we're talking pretty dumb stuff like spamming naughty words in public chat rooms, etc. Anyhow, my point was this: the bots I wrote did just what you described, I used Win32 APIs to control the chat clients. As you said, it took only a few seconds to bang out the code and the bot could work on against multiple different chat clients with very little additional work.

The only time I've every bothered to write my own chat protocol client was for IRC in the late 90s (at which point I'd left college, was working full time so had turned my programming skills to good) and the only reason I bothered to write my own IRC client was because I was utterly fed up with the quality of Windows clients.

Back in the old days, Win32 APIs were so insecure that you could have all sorts of fun with them. I'm not sure how things stand these days though; my development these days are almost exclusively Linux and UNIX based.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE
160 millions of packet per second on Intel server
Reboot? Anonymity (and liquidity!) seems more feasible with multiple viable cryptocurrencies coexisting.

e.g. using an exchange site (which has legitimate reason to exist), sell Bitcoins for Litecoins, then sell Litecoins for Bitcoins of different provenance.
It was mostly the media who got off on this, to the point of creating mobile apps that gave you information about how much people near you made. Ridiculous. I'm glad it's been restricted in that regard.
Agree that the practice of just redirecting http requests to https is a bad idea.

Hope this can help raise awareness why it's bad.
Rejected, from Bangladesh. Our video got viewed 9 times :p
Well my employer does tell us the median salary for our roles. If you have clearly defined roles within your organization then salary woes should not be an issue. It is part of being a professional organization. Then you back this structure with a clear process for evaluation and advancement. Advancement does not necessarily need to be upward.
choose two integers x and y. These represent the first point on a plain. Only adjacent points can be added i.e. any point can only be 1 integer away from this origin point otherwise there will exist an integer point between the origin point the chosen point. so now we have (x, y), (x+1, y), (x, y+1), and (x+1, y+1). Adding a fifth point anywhere on the graph will make it such that an integer point will exists between two of the selected points.
> "if enough miners agreed, coins from the Satoshi blocks could just be blacklisted from the network. Some irony there, eh?"

Well, if enough miners agreed, anything can happen, but I doubt you'd get the required majority. It would undermine the entire system.
The Best Gadget Feeds On One Page
Are HTML5 web apps still viewed as wise first move into mobile app development?

We're seeing companies consistently move from web to native... but generally only after hitting some performance barrier. Switching to native then seems to be like any other optimisation. So even if the web performance barely improves, does developing for web first still make sense (platform independence, rapid iterations etc) or should we be thinking native first?

I'd be interested in hearing whether LinkedIn and co regret going HTML5 in the first place.
Sensationalist headline. "Top industries" - when ranked by environmental impact. Kinda renders the article a tautology?
Poison is not good for you????? I am glad that years of research was spent to suggest this......
The "built-in protection" is achieved by the plant producing its own pesticide, in the form of a toxin, so you don't have to spray it. Look for "BT corn". It is argued that it is safer since the dose is lower, but you can't really be sure it is totally harmless either. (And apparently the soil is contaminated by the plant as well)
Its often supposed that Bitcoin arose as a reaction to the financial crisis, but that reaction is just as likely to have come from someone who was fed up with the government, as is it to come from the government. So your list of dates doesn't really count either way.
Please share those reasons. The only one I can think of is false positives of temporarily down servers, which could be mitigated by timed retries.
He admitted that the words in the review are true, but is the "negative" flag on the review true or deserved? From what I understand, just a few negative reviews can ruin someone's business on ebay and posting a negative review over 1.44$ and threatening their business sounds like a rather severe over-reaction.
> things would just cost more and they would go on being profitable

Unless they got replaced by something other that is currently unprofitable due to the de facto dumping prices of those industries.
Someone wanted to get rich so they invented their own money and suckered a bunch of people into a "cult" with a bunch of hippie ideas.

Nothing new here. Do you know how many cults have done this throughout history?
"There are a few things that are critically missing. One is tooling support — having a debugger that actually works, performance tools that tell you where the memory is running out."

"The second big chunk we are struggling with is operability, runtime diagnostics information. ...there aren’t as many great tools to support that, as well."

Could be me but looks like there is an oppertunity for professional HTML5 performance and bug-tracking tools.
There's previously been talk supporting blacklists for stolen coins.

I suspect it's the sort of thing that will increase in pressure if bitcoin grows much further. It wouldn't surprise me if blacklisting eventually happens in some form or another.
They are only missing how the genes turn into a plant: by absorbing nutrients from the soil (minerals - and also other substances)

So, wrong ph - fruits may taste different/have a different composition

Not enough minerals, excess - same things

Interfering substances (contaminants) - same thing

This is gardening 101, you are going to have different results because of the soil
At least where I worked, the dog just kept us company and wasn't obnoxious at all. It was very calming to just play with her when you're stuck somewhere, most of the time petting the dog yielded beautiful technical solutions. She should have been on the payroll (well, she did get snacks, but was worth way more than that IMHO).
Sort of.

Selling 1,000,000 coins on MtGox right now would take the price down to $0.10, with an average price of $19.64, so you'd net $19 million.

Of course, what would really happen is that everyone would see it happening and cancel their bids before the wave reached them, so you'd likely not be able to actually sell them all at once.

Leaking them out a few thousand a day, though, would be completely possible. And if done correctly need not move the market at all.
This system is broken.

Just have discrete salary levels that are well understood and public. That way you know what levels everyone is on, there is no negotiation necessary (which is an amoral practice anyway) and everybody can focus on actual work instead of secretly wondering if they're getting screwed compared to some random no-talent clown on their team. You wouldn't need that many different levels either, maybe ten in total. In my country, government jobs already kind of work this way, and the military does, too.

When we were doing our startup, we had three tiers for a company of about 15 people. Everybody in the same tier made the same.
Blast rips through Texas fertiliser plant
When it comes to Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto,
the first character comes to my mind:
Kira from 'Death Note'
How Do They Do It? Social footprint by email.
So if you offer a https only API and anyone makes the mistake of using http instead, what should be the response of your system? A simple error message with 404 code and without special/identifying headers?
Why would this prevent anyone else from accessing fiber to the home? I thought the whole neat reaction from the Austin, TX fiber announcement was that ATT was planning on doing just the same.
Interesting read: "However, the source of our funding is much more interesting: We are funded exclusively by the best high-stakes heads-up poker players in the world. Several of them grouped together and invested in Paint Bottle. This is their first investment in a startup. We met them through Craig, who opened their Canadian bank accounts when Black Friday happened to poker, resulting in a mini-exodus in which many top players moved to Montreal.”

Title could be renamed "High-stakes poker players crowdfunding next generation porn site"
Have you ever tasted two identical apples? Both organic? They often don't taste anything like the same.
As I said it was just my two cents and here http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23904 is what I had seen there and was referring to. Though, I myself was not very active on HS and never visited after this. There was one more incident that I couldn't find in my browser history.

It's not sth serious but I was very disturbed to see how one guy had raised a valid concern and almost everyone jumped on him with logic like "this is from a star personality", "it was not posted by someone from the company" and "one person didn't find it relevant, others did". The last one was very odd and even more add was the related founder's reaction. The guy (who had originally raised the question) had just mentioned and pointed out the similarity and the he(founder) was like http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23917.

And worst of all, people found it irrelevant when someone wanted to share a simple nice feedback(http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=23765); even forum owner(pd) frowned upon it(well, he was the firs one). And the entire community showed its double standard when it came to someone more successful, known on forum. Sadly the guy(who had first raised the concern) didn't post anything after that and neither the guy whose post was frowned upon.

Maybe rightly so, because I guess it was just me and that guy who found it odd or maybe some more people. This doesn't happen on HN. Here are too far many people for one post's fate to be decided by a small circle.

Here, if you deserve it, you get it!

@prateekdayal: Please understand that I didn't mean any offence if you took any. I had the almost the same questions and if you check my ID there(same as HN) I hardly participated, I was just a lurker but still I found it odd and not well handled. Maybe HS needs to mature and more members with down-voting power needs to be there, which shall certainly take time. 'People known to forum owner' was a remark marked as a 'maybe' and that's what it was. Yes, it did sound like an allegation of some sort(apologies, if it did) but then again it was based upon the behaviour I observed.

Thanks for coming here yourself and replying.
From the footer:

This is a tech preview of the application and
soon a released version will be made public.

So it doesn't work yet? It isn't live yet? You're just harvesting emails? This is a wish list?
Firstly I didn't say it would be impossible just potentially harder than if not a competitor.

I don't know the history of Steam that well but my understanding was that it started as an easy way to get their own games. Yes Sony Music could have done the same (maybe they did but I can't remember) but a store with a seemingly random selection of about 25% of pop music doesn't make a great hit in the era of Napster and when they are still pushing DRM (which Steam also uses).

I don't believe that as a company with about 25% of the music market could legally impose pricing conditions on it's competitors (Valve may allow flexible pricing but iTunes did not at least at the beginning and I don't believe was such a proportion of the market at the time).
Ask HN: What kind of companies are willing to deal with "eccentric" workers?
How many places are willing to deal with an "eccentric" employee who makes very odd (but inexpensive) demands that usually go against the cultural norms of the company but is otherwise a very productive worker?

Are there any big companies out there that are willing to accommodate the special exceptions of a harmless but eccentric employee?

Let's just say this employee will probably break every trivial HR (and Security and Building Management) rule for a traditional company and will definitely do things that makes any "rock star" company go nuts.
These lists can be very locale insensitive. A few years back my friend was trying to get a Gmail id with his name. To his surprise he wasnt able to get any id, no matter how long and obscure suffix he tried. Then it hit me that it was because of his name Kshitij.
Systems should take terms from other languages and locales as white lists in these cases.
The main problem isn't the response, the problem is that on the initial request, the insecure password will be sent in plaintext.
From the article:

close port 80 on your API host
It certainly seems that the most important feature of a revolutionary new porn site is ... media coverage.
> QB64 appears to compile to various platforms, while VB does not.

VB.NET does compile to other platforms via the Mono framework. In fact Mono is actually available for more platforms than QB64 is.

Classic VB is Windows only AFAIK though I've had a 100% success rate with VB under WINE. But suggesting VB6 was pretty dumb on my part anyway; aside scripting variants (eg VBA), it's a pretty much a dead language.

> Also, VB is pretty GUI and event-centric. QBasic is a pretty good local maximum of being quite expressive while still being a strictly procedural language.

VB.NET supports procedural CLI apps. But if you could equally write an OpenGL / DirectX game procedurally if you wanted (events are there to be used, but you don't have to create event handlers). However I don't really see the point in wanting to avoid using events; he's using a mouse, so it makes sense to have a mouse click event. The code would be a lot cleaner and the interface more responsive than having a looped procedure checking for mouse button states (believe me, I've had to do both - and the one thing I don't miss from writing DOS GUIs in Pascal was having to create a psudo-event wrapper to handle input devices).
WordPress plugin for protecting wp-login against bruteforce
Not sure, but given the wording it might just be $300 as well for homes in provo that aren't on the existing fiber network (like it would be to thread up a new home in Kansas City). Totally guesswork though; could be more or less as well.
I highlighted the conclusion of Lerner's analysis here https://tldr.io/tldrs/516f951cc8cb5249260002c5/the-well-dese.... This looks pretty convincing even tough one might think that Satoshi would own multiple wallets.
i have a bad feeling about that.
Food and Electricity aren't really things that can be replaced. Sure the details of the particular methods currently used to produce them would change, as would the level at which their consumed, but the underlying companies and industries would simply adapt to these new realities.
Majora Carter and Josh Harnagane: leading underserved tribes