skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that Coinlab (in the best case) was only able to handle a very limited number of number of daily transactions. This was presumably due to a combination of liability and supply issues that would prevent them from being a general supply for BTC until they had reached the sufficient "critical mass".

I'm surprised Mt. Gox would enter into such an ambitious relationship without exploring the negative signals (limited exchange capacity, very much unproven market record, limited userbase). IANAL, so I can't weight the evidence of the lawsuit sufficiently, but if the terms were that explicit (with no escape clauses or relevant conditions), then Mt. Gox has demonstrated they have very little institutional stability. In many ways, it seem more likely that Coinlab is very much vulnerable to such an attack, but that is purely speculation. Technical infrastructure for an exchange is obviously essential -- but the business and legal framework for a system that is inextricably connected with currency should be demonstrably stable. I am curious to see how the facts are revealed.
"Cloud" just means "outsourcing your infrastructure". Or, in some contexts, "I don't care how it works, as long as it does X, Y, and Z" (like the cloud in a network diagram).
O'Reilly: Save 50% in celebration of Day against DRM
Good to hear that. I love Shenzhen, not as cultured as many other Chinese cities, but it was fun.
Well poor you, having your valuable time wasted by losers with no cash
fluxcapacitor looks like 'macfly':
https://github.com/haypo/macfly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
> try to explain to tax authorities why you're not paying payroll taxes for servers if you're a restaurant. Instead many companies will have to increase prices.

What would most likely happen is that one set of restaurants would increase prices, whilst another would try to avoid doing so, by trying to find ways to reduce service costs (e.g. customers place their order at a machine, rather than with a human). Some of each would be successful, some would not. But over time the trend is towards more and more low paid jobs being pushed back to the customer themselves. In many countries minimum wage has been a key factor in killing off many jobs, (e.g. as pumping gas.)

Also, if minimum wage is raised to above your current wage, you're now competing for it with people who were in that higher wage bracket before. If a business now has to pay someone, say, $10 an hour instead of $7, they will be able to get people with more experience / skill for that price, making it harder for people to get entry-level jobs in the first place.
I agree largely with what you're saying, though not quite with what you say about limits being cumulative.

Personally I find that some stresses multiply more than others. For me lots of areas of work stress are often better than the same amount of stress across your whole life. If there's going to be an amount of shit then I'd rather contain it in one area so I can get away from it from time to time. For me the worst thing is where you have no area where you can get away from it.
I did too! In a little window in the middle of my screen. Sometimes the game would freeze for a second or two to load a sound effect.

Tonight I played the first half of the linux beta at 1920X1080 resolution and it just made me giddy. I'd been waiting a long time for this day.
Worthwhile read, though note this was written in September 2012.

A quote from the article that captures the apparent shift of power to investors:

"...one can hardly imagine a Carnegie or Rockefeller anxiously fretting over what bankers might want to hear at a pitch meeting or anxiously studying how-to books on pitching and business plans; they’d have just walked into the room, hours late, with blackmailer swagger"

His point is that many "entrepreneurs" are actually not; rather they are a new labor class building features and negotiating for funding or acqui-hire...
The point of an MVP is to control costs, to avoid spending millions of $ and precious time to develop something that no one wants. The first step in avoiding spending that much money, is to be able to quantify the costs of building an MVP.

Besides, a stealth fighter jet cannot be a MVP. Maybe you have better maneuvering technology, or targeting technology, or maybe you have teleportation technology. That would be the basis of your MVP. If it still costs above $100,000, then minimize again, and again and again.
WTF is up with Maven 3.1?
Programmatic UI on iOS
This is said in the most sarcastic voice imaginable, right?
Bunkr launches its Powerpoint killer to get rid of the ‘blank page’ syndrome
The 7 Types of Digital Marketer
I can't promise to deliver but I'll sure look into it this weekend =)
I'm searching for a small side project right now. Maybe you'd like to collaborate on this?
It's not just Shenzen. Many large Chinese cities seem to have an area composed of these kind of electronics malls. In Beijing it's located in Zhongguancun, for instance.
Online learning, yes. However, what is wrong with writing? Why this youtube mania for making videos of everything? Not everyone wants to listen to hours of videos of some guy droning on about something that they could have read in a few minutes, with random access ability to concentrate on the few bits that they don't know.

I am not saying that this guy does a bad job but, in general, I avoid videos like plague after many bad experiences with them. Especially those where there is just scrolling text and some god awful soundtrack with it.
You expect Internet Tough Guy Syndrome to manifest as physical action?

Spend a week in one of the Anarchist newsgroups on Usenet during the early 90s to see how far that usually goes. ;)

Edit: Bonus - you'll understand why Fight Club was so popular.
I thought we were talking about development not graphic design
The craziest part is how these cities are rapidly merging, with the Pearl River Delta well on its way to becoming a single city at least in structure. Coupled with the Yangtze River Delta and the Bohai Economic Rim, with active policy to to connect the constituent cities. It makes London and New York seem like little villages. We're talking potentially forming a continuous megalopolis of quarter of a billion people or more within the next couple of decades, consisting of a handful of tightly connected megacities.
BioShock Infinite, ludonarrative dissonance, and “next-gen game design”
Wow, the Chosen Nation much?
Nations have been rebuilt thriving ages and it is not something unique. Take Poland for example. The country was gone for 123 years, yet it is back, catching up to the European level.
There's nothing "special" about your country, sorry to break it to you.
Yes, it still is powerful on global scale, but keep doing what you are doing and you won't be for long.
I live in Europe and stuff I hear about that goes on in the US makes me stop and wonder.
Another nail in the NFC coffin?
I found out many things I do, I can do without any gadget, walking down the street without Google Glass and finding place to take a coffee is easy, just turn your head, and you will find many cafes around you, if you are traveling, why do you need assistance, it is more interesting to travel without any assistance, if you cant find something, you always can ask people around you (google glass owners), where is the place you are looking for. Or buy "analog" :) compass with paper map, and manage how do they work. Imagine, no battery for magnet compass and paper map is needed, incredible!!!

Do you really need notifications from every place you have signed up the news letter while driving, while eating, while taking a look at the beautiful thing around you (in truuuuu HD, retina eyes provides you with truuuu HD, trust me).

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, look around you, do you see crazy people? Buy Google Glass and become one of them, join the dark insanely stupid legion controlled by Google.
he probably means MBps.
"Environmental destruction happens because government restricts property rights and creates commons which belong to no one."

Under that scheme, who would have the property rights for the atmosphere? I rather like living in a place where atmospheric pollution (both domestic and commercial) is tightly controlled by regulations. We tried the alternative years ago and it was a disaster on many fronts.
Focus on your strengths
Good Things Come to Those Who Code Campaign Wrapup
For Matlab, there are several implementations, including the DeepLearningToolbox: https://github.com/rasmusbergpalm/DeepLearnToolbox

For Python there is the great Theano, and the RBM implementations of MORB https://github.com/benanne/morb
Horace Dediu on Analysts, Apple and Emerging Markets
Similar to this: pcDuino [1]

[1] http://www.pcduino.com/
China’s PC online game market to hit $11.9B in 2013
I would go vote for real time Natural Language Processing and translation.
I love the sense of entitlement here. "We should have lifechanging robots by now, but even though they're late I still have hope."
Amazon, Bracing for Strikes in Germany, Plans to Hire Engineers
I know, I didn't mean to imply sharpness is the only factor. It's just one of several important factors.

But I couldn't care less about the font being deformed, as long as it looked better than it used to. The fact that you seem to care so much about the deformation into a different font seems to imply to me that your goal is to preserve the original font, rather than to make it look nice on the screen.

If you have the time, would you mind taking the pictures in the comment below and making a smaller bitmap that shows exactly which character(s) you think are not kerned well, and which Linux or Mac kerns better? I'm really curious what I'm not seeing.
Reading that article I cannot help but think the entire thing is misguided.

10 lines of code? Yes

Easier to read? Hell no.

If you have to sacrifice readability and idiomatic ruby for LOC then I think the entire premise is void and a lot of the advice misguided.
24,000 controls in one single webpage
MMR: How parents feel now about avoiding jabs
Turbulenz HTML5 game engine is now open source
Show HN: Collaborative climbing spots locator [news subsciption link]
Is it possible to use similar algos for meshing (used in finite element analysis)? Shape recognition wouldnt be needed as the first step, since CAD files are input in FEA.
IMO, advanced biotech and nanotechnology in general, it's coming eventually.

I personally think that we are at a point that we can make some significant advances in miniature engineered things that interact with the human body (and everything really).

Miniature robots in our bodies (or just blood, I don't know that much about the subject) that we can program or have upgrades for, or just monitor. They could clean cholesterol, monitor numerous levels/vitals, prevent clots, and anything really. They could be especially useful for preventing overdose or sudden onset diseases. I can imagine a text in the future to people, "Warning, your Blood Pressure is abnormally high, here are some tips to help you lower it." or "Blood Alcohol Content is currently at .10, you are not legally allowed to drive."

Yes, it's dangerous. Yes it will probably be possible to easily engineer something that will kill all of humanity, but those are problems we will have to make safeguards for.
What continues to impress me about these demos is that JavaScript has gone from "not useful for much more than form validation" to "can compile and execute a 52 MB block of what's basically assembly code".

52 MB of JavaScript is... a lot (even if half of it looks like data tables of some kind)
You can never change your Facebook account security question.
I certainly hope not. I was quite shocked to see such comments on Hacker News. While I can understand disapproval for the device, but a proud proclamation that someone would physically abuse another person, that seems out of place and very wrong.
Is Google Getting Serious About Gaming?
The Therac 25 medical radiation accidents are an illustration of this point. The 25 had low-quality software running a robot with too few hardware safeties built in, and caused injuries and deaths. Previous Therac models had similarly defective software as the 25, but killed nobody due to having hardware safety features independent from software.
That's been the goal of many research groups for 50+ years. I can see Google releasing a service (API) for it within the next few years.

What would be the applications for real-time NLP and translation? I can't think of anything beyond being able to have the words appear on the screen faster or actions being preformed half of a second faster.
Grid 2 developer discusses online cheaters and what to do with them (interview)
There is a huge difference between "smartest person in the room" and "best in the room at platform X". I'd be curious to see if the author is making the former claim or the latter.

The reality is that any "lead" role at a startup requires you to be the best in the room at your specialty.
Tarantool/Box -- a transactional NoSQL database
EGit will have recursive merge strategy in upcoming version 2.4
How Microsoft is using Yammer inside the company
A Most Profound Math Problem
Best startup to work for in India
Getting Ahead: A Letter to Myself
Yes I agree with saalweachter, but just if in case of steganography, A quick Google for file sha1 or md5 usually reveals ed2k or magnet links.
You can download Amazon AppStore on your Android phone, but you can't find it on Google Play, you have to download the apk from Amazon website.
Nobody mentioned the Shanzai. The term was explained to me by the founder of a hardware company in Shenzhen. They are small companies that specialize in infringing IP laws and copying consumer electronics products almost as fast as they a released on the market.

See http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/30/content_1058293...
I have real trouble taking an article remotely serious that misspells Riemann’s name. Don’t these guys have editors?
ODB-II hacking using an Android tablet
> As soon as the waters have an owner, the owner has an incentive to protect them

Or, the owner has an incentive to exploit the heck out of the river/lake until it's saturated with pollution, and then they move on.
I didn't see this, so maybe it's hopeless. BBC Horizon - "Tomorrow's World" - (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rwgt6). Not on iPlayer, but probably available via other means.

The clip is stomach churning. Don't watch it if you're eating.
So, the opportunity to swindle investors, the Market for Lemon Startups that created the dotcom bubble is gone. How is that a bad thing? Assuming, of course, that you are trying to infuse capital into a real business and not run a Ponzi scheme.

Intuitively, a deal in which investors have reduced risk should have more favorable terms for the founders, too, since investors don't have to discount for the risk of the business becoming another gigantic flop. Maybe you are losing the extremely remote possibility to become a billionaire and leave a trail of very disgruntled millionaires behind you, but that sounds like a good trade-off for me.

EDIT: I've read the three parts. What I took from them is that, as creating a startup becomes a "science" that you can learn at school instead of an "art", entrepreneurs become something close to outsourced product managers, and frankly, I still don't see the problem.
Fake Twitter Followers: A Dirty Marketing Secret
Guess we'll find out in Round 5!
The dream is still very much alive.

There is more than one path, and admitting that I could use some help and a few tips here or there from the people who have already found success was a big lesson for me from the last 6 months.

If you succeed, it's success. If you fail, it's experience towards success.
Ouch for the taxpayers who pay for the prison places. According to a freedom of information request in 2008, it costs just over £200 per day per prisoner in the UK. About £60 per day is direct costs and the rest is amortisation of buildings &c.

Made me think... weekend prison like in Scandanavia, alternatives to prison &c
Speaker volume pumped up as requested but I'm not hearing a thing in Firefox, Chrome or Safari. Is it me being stupid or is anyone else missing sound?
I'm pretty sure it's slow due to the default inclusion of the Doctrine libraries (DBAL, ORM, annotations, etc).
That could be true for private companies, but the government plays by different rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite...
Does Chicken have immutable data structures? How about typeclasses/protocols? How about literal syntax for hash maps, sets, vectors/arrays?

I'm coming from Clojure, and I'm interested in Chicken. I really like the things mentioned above about Clojure and I am just interested in how Chicken compares when it comes to these things.
What do you think would be an appropriate punishment?
Thanks! Yes, we think we need a couple of higher-end plans. The current price points are perfect for learners and low-bandwidth/low-CPU side projects, but something higher-end would probably make it more useful and help our bottom line too :-) Would love to chat, drop me a line at giles@pythonanywhere.com.
Reddit, the Human Search Engine & Bullying People Online in China
Dare HN: Equations Puzzle
How a 17 year old girl won a hackathon
I could hear the sound. Looks like we are having some heavy traffic from HN.
Re: Premise A, a good application is not about "doing literature", it is about being able to describe clearly what you are building, why it is going to be a great business and why you are the right people to build it. It is harder than it looks and has to do more with how well you understand your business and less with writing skills.

Re: Premise B, there are plenty of people that get rejected at one point, keep going, and join later on. The Strikingly guys got rejected once.
I'm not saying the patent case is unrelated, but...

B&N has also been offering specials and dropping the price pretty aggressively (these examples are all from April, BTW, there were more offers earlier in the year):

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/04/30/all-nook-models...

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/04/25/bn-puts-the-noo...

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/04/08/bn-now-offering...
considering it's not income, it leaves you well below the median household income.
AWS S3 - Accepting custom SSL certificate for CNAMES
I can vouch for this. I use a Blackberry wall-wart type charger for my Pi, and it's been rock solid. I only power it down it when I'm off travelling someplace for more than a day.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uptime
10:58:03 up 17 days, 13:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
pi@raspberrypi ~ $
Dosi.io Makes LinkedIn Stalking Better With Info From GitHub
A reddit link?
Do all the startups get the ~$80k VC money? And is that at the beginning of the batch or at the end?

(This part isn't mentioned like the $14-20k funding is http://ycombinator.com/apply.html)
With the rise of crowdfunding, the days of angel investors are numbered. This new model will permit to the "be useful" mindset gain terrain from the "get rich" mindset and I think this is a good thing. Following and rewarding social profit is wiser then the currently wide spread, egotistical personal gain strategy.
The nvidia drivers have been rock solid for about a decade now.
A Big Deal for Brands: Instagram Adds an Identity Layer
You`re making his point stronger, not weaker.

>> founders now have potentially 500 possible investors

This speaks directly to the OP's central point of "legibility". The process is open, anybody can participate. You don't need secret knowledge or connections to do these deals; all you need is a worthy pitch or money to come to the table.

You can get good terms. That`s the point. It`s much more difficult for investors to squeeze you; it`s also much more difficult for you to pull off a coup like the one Bill Gates did on IBM.

I think you`re reading the article wrong. Not surprising given the title and our forum. Obviously hacker news sympathizes with the entrpreneurs.

The title implies that the investors have won and the entrepreneurs have lost.

In fact, it makes a quite convincing argument that Wall Street & the traditional investment class are among the losers. It`s saying that the big winners are Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft, et cetera. They made 10's of billions.

The era of making 10's of billions is over. The rest of us are part of the "new middle class". But it seems that the "new middle class" consists of those who are either pulling in salaries over $150K working for the winners or those who make millions through aqui-hires, fairly priced venture deals or bootstrapped "lifestyle" companies. Sounds good to me.

Another thing that sounds good to me is the decline of the "entrepreneur as scoundrel". Bill Gates made 50 billion by exploiting information asymmetry. Todays entrepreneurs make 50 million by building better mousetraps. The biggest winner is the consumer.
Equations Puzzle
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
Spork_and_nailgun.el
a blog post about a small emacs plugin
JC Penney reintroduces fake prices
Make Client Side Data Available Server Side
"that's all I can say".

Lame. Put your money where your mouth is. It wouldn't take much work to find out just which State department has got Deloitte in.
Proof of work as an e-mail spam filter isn't effective protection for two reasons: botnets, and specialized hardware that can compute proofs of work faster than general-purpose PCs.
Having to deal ludicrously overcomplicated environments is what's kept me from writing apps for my own use for my Android phone. I recently took to the decidedly suboptimal choice (on Android) of "simply" writing js/html apps with localstorage as a workaround, so an OS that is designed to actually make apps written that way a first class citizen will be awesome.
The "hit refresh to see CSS changes" is a big crime I've noticed on my (and my dev friends') time. My logic with my recent project is simple:
-You have a computer
-Computers automate tasks
-Automate all your repetitive tasks

There's obviously no one-size-fits-all here, but think outside of the box for your workflow. Add macros to your editor, use something like LiveReload or Brolink.vim (shameless plug) to reload pages, streamline your build process, heck, even use AutoKey if necessary. Point is, you're the brain, and the computer is your slave. You don't need to be doing petty work that your computer can do for you.
Although, especially recently, YouTube comments have gotten much better.
Everyone is offered it; as far as I know everyone has always taken it. I got mine around early July of the summer batch; I assume it's roughly the same still. If you really needed it early I'm sure you could arrange that.
Don’t Blame Flat UI for your Design Problems
Do not blame Flat UI for adding complexity to your product. You did that. The beauty of the Flat movement is that it is exposing the problems we’ve been trying to hide with brushed metal textures and cut paper’d edges.
http://eyetap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcd...

Not Google Glass, but similar.
I'm UI/UX designer. I am seeking for freelancing and currently living in Spain. If you need translation of your app, website to good level of spanish (for both spain or latin america) I can provide good help. I also can translate to catalan and italian.

I'm really used with Git, poedit, linux and all the yada yada :)
Thanks! I didn't notice there were so many at first, but now it does seem kind of vain.

NOW IM QUESTIONING EVERYTHING.
> "What's the points of this? I've been doing the same thing since the 80s by piping four shell commands together?!?" - is not really constructive.

> I think using the slightly formulaic "What I liked: X; What could be improved: Y" has a high chance of being constructive feedback.

I think you're confusing critique with mentorship. What you're expecting is something wise to be said, or at least something useful to you. Critique is not necessarily like that. Critique is encompassing pretty much everything that others answer you freely, like it or not.