skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's disappointing. I really like Bitfloor, I like the approach they'd taken to their API, and I felt among the major(ish) exchanges they were refreshingly open and honest. When they were compromised earlier they seemed to make a real effort to ensure all their users were taken care of, which is a nice change from the many other exchanges who just packed up shop and never paid out.

Sorry to hear the bad news, guys.
Where is the feature list? do you have screenshots?

I know it's hard with a CLI, but still if it's colorful better show the baby...
It's a digital clock.
I concur. Forget the naysayers. okcofounder is great.
I made the front page of Make magazine blog... Yeah baby!
http://blog.makezine.com/2013/04/17/stress-testing-lego/
I like the guy who asks why I'm being rude after suggesting that I arrived at my public policy positions out of a concealed financial interest.

You have a weird and broken understanding of how engineering firms are contacted to test for vulnerabilities. CISPA has absolutely no bearing on my firm whatsoever.
> Are we talking about the same thing?

Admittedly I stopped following the development of Haiku and other alt operating systems over a year ago, so I couldn't say for sure whether the file system is in userspace. Doesn't seem like a good idea in the long run, hopefully it's just a temporary measure.

> being able to ship custom versions of libraries without having to deal with a package manager, library incompatibilities across applications, et, al, is an advantage.

But it's not always an advantage. Library duplication has a cost in terms of storage, plus the mechanism for program upgrades is clunkier than package managers allow (essentially either you have to download the full version of each program update or programs are bundled with their own package management mechanism, duplicating effort).

> Led by ex-Mac people, including the former CEO of Apple. Targeted at the BeBox (PPC) and PPC Macs. Shopped to Apple for purchase. It was intended to be the successor to MacOS that Copland wasn't.

Jean-Louis Gassée was a senior member at Apple, but never the CEO. BeOS was targetted at BeBox (their own machine) at first, then when that platform didn't take off it was targetted at PPC Macs, then x86 PCs. The purchase talks happened because the OS was struggling to gain market share.

> Then maybe the new Haiku leadership should stop blindly copying what they're familiar with from Linux.

As I said before, the design is quite different from Linux package managers, so Haiku are doing things their way.
Fair enough.

It seems that in your case though, you may want to stop using your keyboard for a while as you explore options with your doctor rather than just try to mitigate the pain– there are quite a few carpal tunnel horror stories out there, and it's infinitely better to stop using a computer for a month rather than become unable to use a keyboard for life.

As far as keyboard recommendations, my PhD advisor had wrist problems and used something that looked very much like this: http://www.mac-pro.com/Adesso-Tru-Form-Pro-Contoured-Ergonom...
I think so! :)
For a friend that's 29, it said he was 10.
that works just as well I guess. But what if I want to make an alias for "sudo the last command"?
I'd not be surprised. They've also been claiming that I don't actually have a use for faster internet.
Congratulations. With that kind of success, I hope you treat your employees well. Most are probably poor women supporting their families. If I were ever to use a service like yours, the cleaners' wellbeing would be the deciding factor.
Some of us tech entrepreneurs in Boston built this site yesterday to aid in the collection of photos and videos from the Boston Marathon. http://evidenceupload.org

It can be used from a mobile phone to bulk upload photos/videos directly from the phone and preserving all metadata (timestamp, lat/lon coordinates).

We used Filepicker.io for the upload widget, Amazon S3 for the file storage, Heroku for hosting and Ruby on Rails.
It reminded me of a project we did by analysing the reviews using basic NLP techniques. http://goo.gl/TqhfL
Hey Anthony,
If you do pivot and take okcofounder forward as your primary venture, can you do all us solo founders a favour? Can you NOT take on a cofounder for okcofounder? That way the irony of it all will make the startup scene a better place for solo guys like me. All the best!
Indeed, and yet, you see so many bitcoin articles in major publications talking about bitcoin's lack of intrinsic value.
This article makes me think there are only two kinds of people: entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. And all entrepreneurs hate work at big companies... You see the problem? The article didn't recognize that there are variations about entrepreneurs and there are variations among big companies.
Anyone looking at fish may be interested in the design document, "a description of the design principles that have been used to design fish". The principles are

The law of orthogonality
The law of minimalism
Configurability is the root of all evil
The law of user focus
The law of discoverability

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/design.html
http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/index.html
Man, Winston-Salem? I can't believe they'd come through there. Boone does seem like a more natural fit.
> TCP error correction should take care of this for most parts ...

Oh no it doesn't! We have an analytics service receiving HTTP posts from browsers all over the world as JSON. There is an astonishing amount of single bit errors going on. Usually the initial 20 bytes are okay, but after that we see all sorts of patterns including a bit flip every 8 bytes or so. Note that these will have been received at Google's appengine servers with the correct checksum. I believe that much of the cause is intermediary devices (eg performing NAT or routers) that are responsible for the corruption and recalculate the checksum putting a good checksum on what is now corrupted data.

For that service we have to use HTTP (grumble grumble IE grumble). For our regular stuff we use HTTPS where we do still see the problem but it is considerably rarer. In that case the cause is most likely the client device having problems (eg RAM bit flips, cosmic rays, overclocked/overheated CPUs etc)

All else being equal I'd recommend you add a layer of checksums as a helpful sanity check. Using SSL also does that for you, but it sees the data late.
This is silly. An entrepreneur is someone who takes a financial risk to organize and operate a business. It doesnt matter what they are doing.
As a New Zealander, quite frankly I have to say that Americans sound like a bunch of racists to me whenever they discuss Samsung vs Apple.
>one way or another

Speaking of another:

export PS1="\t $"

For a lot more information on bash prompts, I'd recommend http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/bash-prompts/
The EMH applies to market-traded securities. Your car is not a marketable security.
Roughly 25% of my generation has been killed by abortion

As I understand it, the majority of pregnancies result in abortions:

http://www.emcom.ca/health/abortion.shtml
This is just fetishism.

All currencies are fiat currencies, and all currencies are creatures of the state. If a currency is set at a fixed exchange rate to a precious metal, it's because a "statist fiat" made it so.
Is mongodb a good choice for CRUD apps also?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value
Presumably those competitors won't have access to fiber to the home. Besides the fact that it doesn't make sense to roll out separate fiber for each provider it is clear that municipal owned fiber would decrease barriers to entry and therefore increase competition. You simply cannot expect good outcomes in situations of monopoly/oligopoly regardless of who the monopolists are.
Does a reasonable phone app utilize this yet?
You're right to pick this quote. The central thesis, which is about money, rests on the assumption that entrepreneurs are categorical idiots, unable to accurately assess the wealth of data that clearly indicates the vast majority of entrepreneurs earn less than corporate careerists.
I feel that with this map, yes it does show what parts of our country "hang with each other" and it is evident that these parts cross state lines. But isn't that the point of the state lines? So that you dont have any 1 certain group of people (whether they be similar related in religion, political affiliation, or ideology) living in the same place. This is why counties get redrawn now so that certain political people do not consistently hold a majority in the white house. It good that these state lines are drawn, so they we have a diversity of people representing individual states.
Fair enough, I don't see any problem with in memory benchmarks, as long as they are marked as such, and if you're comparing apples to apples. The best way to do this being actually using the data from the read queries to do some trivial operation like computing the XOR hash -- that would still be a best case for your library yet still real world.

I've read the papers on your DB and they are quite interesting. What do you think about the work in the paper linked in this post? It's unfortunate that they just compare with skip lists. I don't think anybody seriously believes skip lists are a good idea ever, so it's a bit of a straw man at this point (though I may be wrong).
I have an emacs macro that redirects stdout and hooks in ipdb, the i here is important because it's an ipython wrapped pdb session. It's amazing.

JS is the usual Chrome debugger instrumentation.

Clojure is a mixture of REPL, println, and Ritz. Tbqh, Clojure needs an ipdb equivalent. Ritz is really ghetto. I realize the REPL suffices for most people but I'm accustomed to injecting my full programming environment dynamically into my runtime, not having two disjoint realities.
If you read the terms, in the non-Device Specific Addendum:

> You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift, unless otherwise set forth in the Device Specific Addendum.

So, nope.
After reading about a paragraph I assumed that it would only be fore the initial trail run going on right now.
Pardon the tangent, but did you ever write/blog about those "inventive electronic toys"? I am not speaking as a producer, but as a consumer and over-grown child. Were they like robotic/Legos/construction kits like they had back in the 80s/early-90s? Or something completely different?
Oh yes, precisely my point rolls eyes. Since you seem to be aware of the NSA's intentions, aside from your sarcasm, perhaps you could explain the purpose of this data center: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean shady things aren't happening.
Teenagers Leaving Facebook In Droves, What's Next?
Seems that Facebook is loosing its cool when it comes to teenagers. Who is going to be number 1 in this segment?
Out of curiosity, could you describe a scenario where you'd consider time-stamping like that to be a lifesaver?
When I traveled in Oslo, the excellent bus system had stops with realtime arrival information. Wonder if this can't be bootstrap into a similar system. (And an aside: Why oh why can't we have the same thing in SF?) Some examples below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54493673@N00/388240155/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21779731@N07/4876550088/
I think the biggest issue for me is the fact that I have to work with people who should have been fired a long time ago instead of some co-founders that know how to execute. Working at a company that has never had a lean year can be very frustrating, people can have little motivation outside of CYA and a paycheck, it's the lack of desire to build something focused and exciting and to push back against bad ideas. This is not every large corporation, but it is many.
Two comments:

1. Without the decentralized network that you mention, a bitcoin has no value. But the decentralized network requires some level of acceptance for anyone to run it. So bitcoin's value depends on its acceptance, in a way that gold does not.

2. Bitcoin certainly incurs inflation risk - the large recent drop in the purchasing power of a bitcoin is inflation, after all. Perhaps you meant "without risk of manipulation by the currency issuer," but currencies may move for many other reasons.
Mashery Is Selling To Intel For More Than $180M
Muni does have that...
It was only around the time of the Elcomsoft report that we (at AgileBits) became aware of the importance of authenticated encryption. The theorems had been around for more than a decade, but news didn't filter down to application developers (or if it did it went in one ear and out the other). This is a big problem in general.

Part of the problem stems from the fact that application developers are also (correctly) reluctant to use things that aren't in standard libraries and that don't have standards behind them. Even today, Apple's CommonCrypto offers no authenticated encryption modes, and only documents CBC and ECB. (CTR is available, but not documented as such.) And back to the current issue, we would have moved to scrypt from PBKDF2 already if it were readily available in well-reviewed implementations.

But also this stuff is hard (fun, but hard). And not every development team is going to have the expertise on board to really follow this stuff. They are just going to go with what's in the most easily accessible libraries, and if we are lucky, they won't use their encryption keys as IVs for CBC.

Lots of people are talking about how to improve the situation. I'm "cautiously optimistic".
All my nail clippers are japanese make. They're truly amazing compared to the crap that floods the aisles of your average US retail store.
Akka - The most important middleware you've never heard of.
I'd maybe also suggest pythonbrew since you win by getting the exact version of Python you want and virtualenv is packaged up nice with it.
When Google purchased Double Click they got a bunch of cool Double Click advertising technology along with the Double Click affiliate network. They did an ok job with the affiliate network (GAN), but you could tell it was never a priority of theirs.

This will cause some trouble for affiliates, but most major stores are in multiple affiliate networks already.
Narrative.ly is not like Medium, and it has been around longer.

Narrative.ly is an online magazine. Every day, one story is published, of someone's experience living in New York.

It started out as a Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/narratively/narratively
Bitfloor certainly had the best exchange connectivity. They had FIX integration for gods sake!!! Really hope more exchanges with there focus on back end connectivity pop up soon.

I have a lot of FIX connectivity code just lying around now :(
Can you explain how the way engineering firms are contracted means that CISPA has absolutely no bearing on your firm? As far as I can see, the bill doesn't say that if a company is contracted in a certain way, then its protections don't apply.

Surely it's not rude to ask if you have a personal interest, given that (1) CISPA has explicit provisions for security companies (2) it's not clear why this would not apply to your company and (3) you defend CISPA on almost every CISPA post on hacker news.
On the other hand if bitfloor had no reserves you couldn't steal from them.
We use a minimum of 10000 iterations, and where available we use CCCalibratePBKDF

http://blog.agilebits.com/2011/12/01/staying-ahead-with-secu...
Samsung are one of the biggest and most diversified companies in the world (did you know they are the world's biggest ship builder? Or that they offer life insurance?). I don't have difficulty imagining a lack of organisation and direction in management when they have so many arms doing so many different things.
Leveling the Playing Field: Eliminating gender bias in the workplace
I doubt it. People who like those features are typically very vocal about them (especially since they're dying out).
Additionally the newish QJM will allow those namenodes to write to a quorum of servers.
What about an HTML5 coprocessor?
What we learned from our fundraising process
That's the one! Cheers.
By 'cell' I meant the overall pack, not the individual unit within the pack.

From your link: "A full recharge of the battery system requires 3½ hours using the High Power Connector which supplies 70 amp, 240 volt electricity"

Multiply that current by 10-100 to 'charge it faster' and you have a huge problem with thermal dissipation, not to mention using truly massive cables.
First, as has already been pointed out, nothing has intrinsic value. Things only have value inasmuch as somebody values them. Value is a relationship between the subject and the object, not a property of the object.

Gold has a 'base value' that arises because of its demand for non-monetary uses, such as its industrial uses or use in jewellery. This base value is what makes it suitable as a medium of exchange as the base value sets gold's initial non-zero exchange rate vis-a-vis other goods. Once gold (or any other commodity) starts being used as a medium of exchange, it generates further demand AS a medium of exchange, and this will increase its price in relation to other goods, giving it a currency value higher than the base value.

It's like mathematical induction - where the general case is predicated on the base case. If there is no base case (or base value) there is no foundation for the general case (or for a currency value).

Bitcoin has no base value. Yes it "can be transferred (spent) electronically over a decentralized network without double-spending risk, chargeback risk, inflation risk and confiscation/bailout/haircut risk". But so can Bitcoins based on an alternate blockchain. What makes the 'official' blockchain Bitcoins have any higher base value than the worthless bitcoins on an alternate blockchain?

In fact, I expect there will be alternate blockchains in the near future, and that is what will burst the bubble as people start to realise that the number of bitcoins may be limited, but the number of bitcoin-like currencies is unlimited, so really, the limit on the number of possible bitcoins is entirely illusory and meaningless.

A free-market, decentralized fiat money is still more useful for many purposes than statist fiat money, and for this reason Bitcoin will enjoy some popularity until a proper anonymous, gold-backed free market e-currency comes along. When that happens, there will no longer be any use case for Bitcoin and its currency value will collapse to its base value of 0.
If you buy a thing, do they have the right to do this? Is there a difference between "purchasing a physical item" and "entering a contract where someone supplies you a physical item on specific terms"?

Surely there are consumer rights that protect us from this insane greedy abhorrent shit?

What fucking right do companies have over your property? Surely even free-market capitalists should be recoiling in horror over this massive shit that is being taken over consumer rights?

The market is only as free as the consumer.
Ron Conway pledges to oust senators who rejected background checks
Epic quote from Ron: "We will employ the most sophisticated social media campaign ever to remove them from office."
> But calling a coworker "Car-bomb" as a nickname is so egregious that I just can't imagine it being said with malice,

Calling a black coworker "nig-nog" as a nickname would be so egregious that I just couldn't imagine it being said with malice.

I'd still be appalled if I ever heard it being said.

Don't these people saying these things realise that they're leaving themselves wide open to legal liability?
Epic quote from Ron: "We will employ the most sophisticated social media campaign ever to remove them from office."
Huh, oops... I wonder how 'commercially resell' is defined in this context. Can it be resold for non commercial purposes? Such as a private resale?

I found the same terminology in the Google Fiber ToS with respect to the Chromebook that comes with the service.

http://fiber.google.com/legal/chromebook.html
AFAIK Anonymous threatened a DDoS attack against SendGrid.
Not at all. Gold by itself is a currency / medium of exchange. It doesn't need any "statist fiat" to make it so. The fact that states (or other entities) might issue redeemable paper certificates or receipts (or dollar bills) as a convenient stand-in for gold deposited with them is entirely irrelevant. Gold is already money before that and without that.
> Well, I was doing multi-platform C development across all major commercial UNIX vendors and NT on those days, what about you?

Various Unixes, NT and NetWare 4-6. NetWare was, by far, the ugliest. But NT was really, really bad.

> At least they did work, not the same could be said about Linux and BSD distributions with their open source drivers 10 years ago.

I've been running a Linux desktop on and off since 1994, (last used anything else in 2005) and never had a problem getting X to work. And it wasn't until my latest Lenovo on Ubuntu 10.10 that I had a single crash because of a display driver.

> Windows problems with security were no different than any other desktop operating system before it.

Except NT4 was supposedly a server OS. It was bearable as a desktop OS thanks to moving GDI into the kernel, but just barely.

> As for being the beloved target for hacking, it happens with every system they see value into cracking, as the increase in mobile malware shows.

This is so wrong I won't even try to correct you.

> Are every single bug fixes you report to open source projects fixed?

About 10 for each one I report to a closed source project, and that's been the experience of everyone I know.
Have you considered another keyboard layout?

Supposedly the workman's layout has many of the most common keyboard shorcuts in the same place. I have typed on the Dovark layout for a long time and don't regret it.
That comment is a reference to another post on the front page of Crooked Timber right now: http://crookedtimber.org/2013/04/17/annals-of-the-gold-stand...
Fulltilt was operating against its license/charter agreement so they had to shutdown once it came to light (they were mixing deposits with operating expenses). Once shut down they couldn't afford to pay everyone back so they were subsequently sold to PokerStars once the DOJ gave their approval of the deal with the condition that Stars pays everyone back. So while the money should be returning to US players soon (FTP is actually open for business again not in the US) it has yet to happen.
AFAIK Anonymous tried to threaten SendGrid with a DDoS.
My recc after a lot of heavy use is:
RabbitMQ for the queue, Redis for the result store.

RabbitMQ for the result store is madness.
LG is building a washing machine that doesn't use water
It feels wrong to write a long piece on Phish without mentioning LSD. Phish continued the legacy of the grateful dead and inherited much of the 'family's cultural traits and people... And an undeniably big part of that family was always acid.

It's not that you needed to be on it to enjoy their (great) music, or that the band was always on it... Rather it's that it's always consistently available in their circle and this allows countless people to get turned on to a whole new part of life through their relationship with going to a show. This helps makes many people's first Phish show one of their peak life experiences.
Is this a fork of the other shell named fish? I use a shell also named fish with the same syntax as this one, but whose development stopped a few years ago.