skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I remember reading that now.

Good move on their part.
To the naysayers- there are 100 potential problems with Bitcoin. All reasons why it can "never" work.

Yet, I can also list 100 problems with all sorts of things that we use on a daily basis: cash currency, vehicles, firearms, libraries, etc....

- Cash can be stolen, destroyed, counterfeited. It isn't easy to divide (I need quarters at the laundry machine, but I have a $5 bill). Cash is dirty. Do you know how many people have touched that dollar bill?

- People could drive in the wrong lane, drive drunk, ignore all rules of the law. People might get killed!

- People could do incredibly stupid things with guns. They might misfire or jam. You can miss and hit the wrong target easily.

- People could steal books from libraries. They could burn. They cost money and make no money.

Despite these problems- all of these things more or less work. Yes, Bitcoin has problems. Yet, I don't see any of them as being actually bigger than the potential problems with things we use daily anyway.
I got it... I'll get back to you in a bit.. I still have the emails from the ticket.. I'll forward them to you.

I had a very positive opinion of EasyDNS before it happened.. I was lucky enough to have already moved to another service a few days before so there wasn't any site disruption... but your rep didn't know that.

Have 18 domains @ DME now....
"So I ran into this guy in a totally dark house, and before I know it I'm strapped to this chair"... what led to something does matter when evaluating sympathy or Schadenfreude. Which is what I actually said in my first post, "for me to care". I haven't been given enough information to get upset on behalf of this guy I never met -- sorry. And I actually don't think what interests me here would interest in court; so?

None of us are judges, now that you mention it. So if there is no use in asking questions, what is the use of accepting it at face value? What, exactly, are we convening here for, as it were?
Our project was outsourced to a barely literate group of developers overseas. The product quality was terrible. We moved the development back to the US, staffed it with competent native talent and got the project back on track. So much for outsourcing to the best and brightest "over there".
In particular, does this mean that the VCs get correspondingly less equity?
OK, so what is the formal definition of a "distributed consistent transaction ledger?" How is security defined here?
The links don't help though. The main one is an Op-Ed piece. The other is from GlobalResearch which is borderline conspiracy drivel.
No, but if there is a red cross on white on a sign, it's good to know it's not just advertising from back before the region became a warzone.
Actually, studies from multiple sources prove that sleep debt is a real thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03real.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/nyregion/the-high-cost-of-...
Disabling Javascript outright is the nuclear option. Most who really care about managing Javascript are using NoScript, an extension. Those who don't care, or don't have the technical expertise to understand Javascript won't really care where the option to turn off Javascript is located, because it already doesn't matter to them.
I graduated UofT in 2012 and got a real iron ring.
Hey jferge, Thanks for the feedback. You can already do linear (and polynomial) regression through the plotly spreadsheet GUI. Way easier than Excel, imo:

Linear fit with dates: https://plot.ly/~jackp/487
Partial linear fit): https://plot.ly/~jackp/489
5th order polynomial fit: https://plot.ly/~jackp/490
In my experience,

"A man who hates his life to the point of suicide is shown by a guardian angel how much the other people around him depend on him. As a result of seeing what the world would be like without him, he changes his mind about the suicide and ends up embracing the life he has, recognizing the simple yet wonderful things about it for what they are."

is not a conventional Hollywood story. Do you have any other examples? I'm mostly interested not because I want to prove you wrong, but because I actually want to be wrong and I want to watch these movies if they exist. Groundhog Day is the only other one that comes to mind.
In a small company, if I can't see the cap table- then I don't want to talk about shares. No investor would touch a deal if they didn't have access to it, and I'm investing my time.
Mapping the Human Brain Using WebGL
Retina macbook pro early 2013, chrome 26. Zooming some of the plots is noticably slow (and zooming out of the Hopf Bifurcation plot occasionally causes chrome to stop responding)
I recall Carmack used to go on week-long Sabbaticals, where he would lug his computer to a hotel room and do research.

It's probably along those lines, though I doubt his wife and kid(s) would allow him to do that these days ;)
What kind of a designer are you?
A static page is the simplest form of website. It is trivial to build a static page using Meteor. I hoped one of the authors would tell us why they chose not to dogfood on the marketing page for a book on Meteor.
VC probably got over 50% votes and forced this on them. Valuation goes back down.
I also highly doubt that the median income for Union City is $138k/year.
It took two of us about 6 months, with one of us part-time and a few friends helping after their day jobs.
These people are trying to exploit the pizza market by taking advantage of desperate pizza workers and forcing them to join their walled pizza garden with promises of absurd profits. It's a shame that people are endorsing this very obvious and pathetic attempt to use pizza for their own success.
3 Reasons to Crowdfund Your Next Project
Bitcoin might be more "secure" in some fiddly sense, but the credit card system is much safer for normal people.

A chargeback system is a protocol requiring centralized trust. A company will no doubt implement this.

Centralized trust is of course necessary. One could argue that it defeats the point of bitcoin. Yet that's not true, if you think of bitcoin as being a currency (rather than a "secure" currency, or any other label). If it's a currency, then a chargeback protocol is simply a company waiting to happen. And the company would necessarily have to be large, because it has to bear the cost of fraud. Luckily, PayPal has already done a lot of the homework necessary to pull off such an endeavor.

Lastly, it doesn't matter what normal people use. It matters what will become convenient for normal people to use. That's a subtle distinction, because it means as soon as infrastructure is built then people may start using it by default.
And where do you think that money comes from? The financial system bears the cost of fraud by taking more money from everyone. That's an horrible replacement for proper security.

I'd much rather to simply pay insurance to cover for fraud, or avoid paying that if I know that I'm storing my money securely - mostly offline and encrypted with a password that only exists in my head, and small amounts for day-to-day usage somewhere more accessible.
First of all, it's gorgeous, far more visually pleasing than Matlab's plotting tools, which still seem to lack a decent compositing engine.

As far as UX, I would expect click+drag to move the graph, but instead it gives me a context menu to zoom. (And why is "zoom out" in that context menu? Why do I need to select anything for that?) It would also be nice to be able to zoom into a point with the scroll wheel. Also, the command line doesn't seem to work at all in Firefox Nightly, and is quite slow to respond in Safari.

I'm also a little curious how the concept will work out. There aren't many situations where I've wanted to put an interactive plot up online, and I suspect that the online Python environment is too limited for me to do my data analysis online (although perhaps this is your eventual plan?). If I could put my locally generated plots on plot.ly directly from Matlab/Python/Julia, I could see myself sending (private) links to online plots to my collaborators, but I'm not sure I'd pay for the privilege.
Aging into Obsolescence
>>I've also heard that all the 19th century novels were so long because originally they were serialized, and the author was basically paid per chapter.

That's exactly how A Tale of Two Cities was written.
While it could possibly happen, it would be very difficult, even if the US government (and general power in the US) was much more powerful and organized than it currently is. The US is big, and the borders between the US and Canada and Mexico are also big; there's a lot of room to set up some discreet wires or even microwave transmitters and receivers some distance from the borders. Latency would be crap at first but would get better over time. It would be harder to get a packet from the US to a European country if all trans-ocean cables were cut, but not impossible, and at that point we're probably well into WW3. The US population is also well educated as a whole (still with many offline centers of gaining technical knowledge--i.e. books) and many citizens would have strong motivations to get the internet back, there are many large concentrations of highly technical nerds who wouldn't be afraid to start wiring up their own internet (I'd love to see a wireless mesh network take over), there are lots of computers and routers and cat5 in circulation and other useful equipment as well. Many people also have printers, flash drives, and cars, it would not be hard to communicate across cities and states with a sneakernet. For a total internet blackout cutting US citizens off from other citizens (intra country) and from the world, the amount of individual and corporate cooperation with the government which the people would hate (for taking away their access to cat videos among other things) and powerful businesses would hate (for hurting their profits) is astounding.
extremely cool, guys! Especially liked the script functionality.
Just brainstorming: Do you guys have an API one could use to send python code to your app? Or even get back the plot to embed it in one's own app? That'd be helpful for many other (python based) web apps, I'd think.
P.S.: Where are the "Share/Tweet" buttons? :-)
> As Brooks put it, software is the most complex thing humans have ever built; perhaps we should find some other term that sets us apart from ordinary engineers and architects.

Peter Naur (of Backus-Naur form) called it "theory-building".
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/502901/naurtf.pdf
The story of bottled water. A must watch.
And you just know more than the experts. Armchair expert...
I'm a little disappointed, insofar as this data tells us nothing we don't already know-the area around Fremont BART is more affluent than Fruitvale, OMG! But it is a nice bit of data visualization, and I applaud them for that. I live in the Bay Area, develop software, and rely on public transit everyday. I definitely see improvements in what data should be presented.

For example, for Caltrain, break each graph down further. Find the number of passengers who board at Baby Bullets, NB and SB, for the weekday commutes. What you need is more demographic data about the riders of each system, at specific times. Anyone whose been on Caltrain can tell you that the weekday commute is very much a white collar commute. Finance, Law and Tech going north to SF, mostly tech going south to MV (by the time baby bullets get to SJ Diridon, they are very empty). Palo Alto is an outlier, a lot of people commute from points south to Stanford, which obviously isn't a tech company.

Having said that, since I really enjoy developing transit software, I'm really going to take a look at the code and see what I can do. Its a really good start, and I'm happy they posted it to HN.
Difference is that a bunch of bad economic decisions were built into bitcoin from the word go (IMHO, I know you're going to disagree). It doesn't have potential downsides like the things you list, it has built-in definite downsides.
Functionality may not be all that different, but the design is certainly different as it's focused on user experience, and not just transactional events.
Dumas’s complete works are over 100,000 pages in part because he was paid by the line.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/23/behind-...
Shouldn't the goal be for Bitcoin to have reduced problems compared to the systems it is meant to replace? Why should we go from one problematic system to another equally problematic system?
In this case the term "source" is obviously a rhetoric device, and we can avoid a lot of pedantry by noting that the poster was totally transparent about his reasoning thus achieving the ends we want via means that aren't awful. PS having a degree by definition implies some credibility as a scholar.
UK Ambulances are hanging out near the Syria-Turkey border every fucking day. See my other comments if you are curios how I know this.

Or, here is a quick hint for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi_al-Harati

Al Jazeera link is not thought-provoking, it's what the truth is.
His points are valid not only against Bitcoin, but against a large set of existing e-commerce sites and technologies. I think he would be more convincing if he could come up with some attacks that were unique to Bitcoin and would justify the undercurrent of his comment -- that Bitcoin is bound to fail, and fail badly enough that it will be of no use to anyone except scammers.
I wonder if they actually preferred Sharepoint-- or if they just didn't care at all, and not caring preferred to stick with what they already knew how to ~workaround~ use, rather than learn something new.
Compute hashes faster than the rest of the network and you win. The "51% attack" is a polynomial time attack, which is not an acceptable security margin in cryptography.
Honestly, I have no idea. I haven't ever tried to move a virtualenv, and it's not something that's supposed to be part of your repo (you should build your env separately on every box; it's intended to encapsulate dependencies from the system, not to transfer them around with your code).

If your system gets updated/upgraded to the point where your virtualenv breaks, rebuild it from scratch; all it should take is a bit of time.

[edit: I am not a developer involved with virtualenv, and the statement about what it's intended for probably shouldn't be quite so strong, as this is only my impression of it and the way I use it.]
It's fun... He's a developer who enjoys doing stuff, it doesn't matter if it has a purpose. To him it does, and he has enough followers that he felt he should share it with people, which makes sense considering I can't wait to see the result.

And I'm sorry, but if you turn off javascript this day and age you should expect more sites to not work then to work. You're turning off part of the browser, and you do not like having to turn it on to use the browser? Seems a little backwards to me... considering the extremely small population of noscript users.

I also understand that I'll probably get down voted into oblivion as every single noscript users is probably on this site. But it's true...
Injectable Oxygen Keeps People Alive Without Breathing
interesting. the authors made the statement "The results show the Bay Area's economic inequality and its relationship with transit and urban form."

you are saying that a fair conclusion is "there is no clear relationship between transit and income in the bay area", which could be the conclusions the authors were drawing (i think it's not clear exactly what conclusion if any they drew).

i actually was not thinking about it correctly in retrospect. i saw the nyc graph and i thought "manhattan = rich, everywhere else = poor". i saw these graphs and i thought "don't see anything". i assumed the conclusion from the nyc graphs was superior, because there was a clear positive relationship there. you are saying that the "don't see anything" conclusion is just as valid, even though it is not a positive relationship.

i (now) agree with you.
Regarding #1-

I worked in food service for 17 years, opened my own restaurant, etc. ALL my employees had to have a food handler's permit, and there had to be a manager with an expanded permit. So the idea that only one person needs a permit in an entire restaurant is scary. Perhaps it's a terminology issue...
My guess is that "black market" transactions make up the vast, vast majority of the economy (as in 80%, 90% or more on a txn basis and probably even on a volume basis) (assuming trading is not included). Is there any other use case for Bitcoin?
Indeed, 24-hour rail service, even though it runs at infrequent and irregular intervals, is a big point bringing NYC up to barely average in its peer group. Other measures like coverage (suburbs count), travel times, intermodal operations (awful airport connections), connectivity (think Jersey), and jitney service and taxi availability drag NYC's score down.

I can count NYC as barely average only because the peer group includes not only London, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, and Osaka but also Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Istanbul, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. If I'd just used your list, NYC would be dead last in almost every category.
If you are looking for the truth, it's really not hard. Go to Youtube, search about the street reviews in Syria made by BBC, see how Syrian people expressed themself to rest of the world.
These aren't "issues of the day." These are systemic and fundamental problems that lead to downfalls of nations.

During our greatest advancements, we maintained a well oiled machine of an educated constituency, a public-private partnership and a middle class bursting at the seams with potential and opportunity.

Those things have all either been stripped, scammed or atrophied out of the public, and what we're left with is a paralyzed public sector and a private sector that's racing to the bottom of the moral barrel. I just don't see any hope in anything short of some sort of awakening. Call me pessimistic and dismiss me, or at least recognize that something has to change.
Has private higher education reached an inflection point?
Scoutzie is a great company to work with. Our project that went through Scoutzie hit some snags for many reasons which were completely outside of Scoutzie's control. Scoutzie promptly offered us a refund of the full amount remaining in escrow and declined our attempts at giving them back the fee portion of the refund. After the resolution of our Scoutzie contract the designer ended up signing a contract directly with us for this project which was of a much broader scope then our original project on Scoutzie. We continued the project and have produced a great product that I hope to share soon.

The Scoutzie founders were very nice and understanding people to work with throughout the whole process and I'm sure this new product will be a success.

PS: I'm glad the site works fine without Javascript enabled.
Citigroup leaked memos (2005)
I thought a long time about whether to do economics or a computer science PhD, eventually deciding on CS / machine learning. The usefulness of both is very appealing, and economics is full of interesting problems, a wonderful analytic method to approach thinking about society, and fascinating ideas and techniques you don't see much of in CS or statistics. The smartest economists are really smart and great at just thinking about the world.

But economics is also saddled with crazy non-empirical theories they force everyone to learn in the first two years, and an anemic journal-centric research culture that requires years to get an article published. I mean, from the OP:

And after you pass the prelims, there is little risk of not finishing a dissertation; unlike in most fields, you do not have to publish to graduate.

That is insane. Talk about tyranny of low expectations.

I wonder if their centrally-planned job market hurts academic productivity. It lessens the risk to spending years with mediocre research -- everyone gets a job eventually.
While what you say has merit, Linode's actions demonstrate an ambivalence toward security. Public key encryption for card numbers (yay!). The private key stored on the same machine and the key loaded in memory (boo!). ColdFusion was not properly secured (simply preventing access to /CFIDE would have neutralized this vector) and they focused first on preserving themselves. I've also been personally annoyed when there are sweeping outages and information is withheld for seemingly arbitrary reasons. Support is apparently instructed to be vague. It's overwhelmingly frustrating.

I'm just as annoyed at Amazon for this, to be honest, and in the large, annoyed at our industry for being so unnecessarily secretive. We need to stop thinking of our infrastructure as our competitive advantage; to pick on Google as an example, while Google are obviously masters of running systems at scale, their infrastructure efficiency is not the reason people choose Gmail. Obviously their platform gives them some competitive advantage but, for example, their policy of withholding even the innocuous names of internal systems is bizarre. I think the rest of the industry follows that lead.

It's weird that we embrace openness in the FLOSS communities but when it's time to build a revenue-making company, the details of the inner workings are immediately a hush-hush secret. If you're doing something simple enough that describing it means someone can replicate it, it's an idea that can be replicated trivially anyway. I bet everybody in hosting knows how Linode works, and I doubt there's any kind of espionage taking place.

In this case, it's fine to be secretive if you'd like, but at least tell me how you plan to prevent the problem from recurring. Linode always says "we're working diligently to prevent this from happening again" but provides no details whatever. The announcement from the founder of Linode[1] underlines this; the entire tone of the post is "here's how we band-aided the immediate problem," with no details on where they go from here as a business or culture.
I think the Twitter link / Javascript issue is caused by Twitter's wrapping all links into their URL shortening system.
Voice-controlled Home Automation with Android [video]
Facile. Where do you think security comes from? It comes from money: engineering interlocking distributing systems to be free of vulnerabilities is extraordinarily expensive.

The question isn't whether systems are or aren't secure. Security is a function of the capital invested in making systems secure. The question is who bears the cost of securing systems. The financial system puts much of the burden of that cost onto the financial system itself; it is thus incentivized to mitigate fraud.
I think he was just surprised that something like a simple link needed Javascript.
For the case of buyer-seller disputes, Bitcoin has a really neat way of handling escrow with its m-of-n transactions [1]. You can make a payment that requires 2 of 3 public keys (the 3 keys being the buyer's, the seller's, and a trusted third party) to be redeemed. If the buyer/seller agree, they can move the money on their own. If they don't, they can go the the third party and solve it with them. Yet, the third party never controls the money and can't take it without one of the buyer/seller signing the transaction. Indeed, all is needed is some trusted company to start doing that.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0011
I can make anything trustworthy by positing that someone will eventually come around and make it so.
I am from India and recent survey said that 90% of college graduates in IT/Software in India are incapable of professional programming. Indian companies still hire these bad developers and train them for up to a year before letting them loose on the IT industry(gulp). Why don't you move to India and get into one of these training programs. You will have a job waiting for you in corporate India even if you don't improve.
Yep, them too, don't tell anyone about their hacks.

(I mean, "More about governments than organized crime? There's a difference?")