skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Promising in what way? It shows that Bitcoin is gaining more popular attention, which is translating into increased sales for Coinbase.

The issue is that Coinbase has some serious flaws that make it immensely unappealing to any serious Bitcoin enthusiast.

If you go to some Bitcoin communities and search Coinbase, you'll just see an endless stream of negative opinion.

(Reddit search for Coinbase, first 5 results are complaints: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/search?q=coinbase&restri...

The same search on bitcointalk.org shows similar results )

It'd be more promising if they showed returning buyer stats; i.e., those who bought a BTC and then returned the next month, let's say, to buy more.

I'm kind of disappointed in Coinbase. I really hoped they would be a serious competitor to Mt. Gox, which would be a great thing for Bitcoin.
Is that so? I signed up for an account a few months ago, and from what I could tell I was unable to do anything other than link my Dwolla account and read the instructions on how to submit photo ID to get approved.

edit: I just checked. It's still the case. I cannot transfer money (USD) from Dwolla to MtGox without sending MtGox my photo id.
Weeks after shutdown, Bitcoin exchange customers still wait for refunds
Brilliant, snapped up the last 2 letter (yl.io) as soon as you posted this, I saw your comment in the other thread and looked through your submissions.
I tend to agree with this viewpoint. In my opinion, the prevalence of Google Glass and similar devices will make the streets safer because people will know they can't get away with stuff.
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Exactly.

I always thought that part of Adobes dominance in this market was to allow some piracy of their product because that's how teenagers learned how to use it.

Adobe then made their money from actual business users who MAKE money from the tools and therefor must have legit licenses. And those businesses use Adobe because their workforce learned it already, and it became the defacto-standard because of that.
It would depend on how rayiner formed that opinion.
This is not photoshop in a browser. It still runs locally, your files are saved locally, etc. The only real difference is the monthly pricing instead of having to purchase the software upfront. (There are some additional cloud features for saving your files in the cloud if you want but you can ignore those)
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That depends on the use case. The subscription model will be significantly more expensive for people who don't need the newest features. At about $50 per month the $1200 for CS Design Standard are payed off after 2 years. Whereas I'm still using the 6 year old InDesign CS3. And a nearby t-shirt printing shop is using Illustrator 10, from 2001.
Potatolicious, you seem to be hell-banned even though you made the most valuable comment:

"There really is no excuse for not internationalizing your codebase from day one. Even if you intend to be English-only at the beginning, wrapping your strings in NSLocalizedString is just good form.
It also separates your app's copy from your codebase. If your shop isn't purely staffed with programmers, it allows you to hand off a file to someone who is better at writing copy and have them edit it without assistance from you.
Internationalization is easy too - there are shops out there that offer translation services that plug neatly into iOS. You literally upload a string file and they will hand back a string file translated into the language of your choice. I've used Tethras in the past with a good experience (all except the Greek translations... whoever they're farming the Greek out to is awful)."
GTA players kill hookers. But they also kill police officers, businessmen, joggers, and old ladies. In the upcoming game they will also kill animals. The only thing they don't kill is children, because they don't appear in the games (if they did, they wouldn't be any safer).

This has nothing to do with sex workers' otherness.

> There aren’t consequences for these actions. You can always load a previous save, or you can always wake up at the hospital after you reach five stars and lose the chase.

What separates the real world from a game is not that one has consequences, but that in the game you are killing simple computer programs, whereas in real life you'd be killing real people, like you.

Moreover, the games we're discussing are RPGs. When you play them, you are playing the role of a villain. This is analogous to reading a book or watching a film with an anti-hero, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
This is from a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663917
Finally someone who gets it. "Tech startup" has become a term that gets thrown around way too much. Let's face the facts - every business utilizes technology in this day and age. Is ToysRUs (toys) a tech company? Or Airbnb (real estate)? Or even Uber (transportation services)? Companies are categorised by industry, not the tools they use to run their business. If McDonalds adds an iPhone app for ordering burgers or gets robots to make the burgers - it's still in the fast-food industry. So what's a "tech startup"? There's no such thing imo. There's the software industry & the hardware industry. Microsoft is in the software industry, a classic example of a "tech company". Apple does both. Boeing does hardware. What about Google & Facebook? Are these tech or media companies? After all, their revenues come from selling ads. They are the new magazines, the new yellow pages, the new classifieds.

I sure wish we had more "technology companies" making great new leaps in software, operating systems, hardware, etc. Unfortunately there aren't many examples of such companies becoming billion dollar businesses, compared to the variety of other industries that fit under the "e-commerce" umbrella. Why try to invent and sell great new software or hardware, when there are much easier opportunities in other industries, which are typically slow to adopt technology.
> Google "WP:COI", which was the standard in place when I was editing back in ~2007. The notion that "that website" hasn't the "faintest grasp" of what conflict of interest means beggars belief.

It's not WP:COI. It's a different page, a Wikipedia RfC that they held for some reason or another; they were theorizing for quite some time why it doesn't matter if a contributor holds a conflict of interest, Wikipedia will correct itself over the long term, and only eventually someone came up and defined what a conflict of interest actually is. I still cannot find the page but wish I could show you.

[edit] It's this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/...

Jesus Christ, twenty years ago the medical press learned about conflicts of interest at the hand of the tobacco industry, and still a substantial part of contributors believes it's unimportant or will correct itself eventually.

Only a few months back, a BP representative declared their involvement with BP and proceeded to edit the page on BP unimpeded. Companies send press kits to trade journals, but they never got to actually write material, unless labeled "advertisement".

The way Wikipedia deals with PR is simply hideous. OK, they are waking up, but the fact of them ignoring centuries of real-world experience with the subject thinking they could do better just makes my head shake.
So it's a bunch of point-to-point links between computers in government funded research labs, approximately where the capital-I Internet was in 1970?
> If I had to guess, I'd say it's based on the fact that math involves a lot of critical thinking and critical thinking is very difficult to teach.

I think it's even worse than that -- I suspect that many teachers in American public schools are terrified of math themselves, and they transmit that terror to their students. It's going to be very hard for a student to learn to view mathematics as reason if their teachers don't see it that way.

There was a point when I was in grade school and we were learning formulas for the area of different shapes. When a trapezoid came up and I noted that it could be decomposed into a square and two triangles, I was admonished to just use the formula from the handout. Don't get in the habit of trying to think while doing math, it'll just get you in trouble.

This was from an otherwise excellent teacher, but when it came to math we were to turn the thinking switch to "off". This fear of math seemed to not been exceptional, even among my high school math instructors. I may have had a bad run (public school in California in the 80s), but I've been told similar stories by most everyone I've met who eventually managed to figure math out on their own.
Epic: "But the chain of logic from 'Linux is about
choice' to 'ship everything and let the user chose how they want their sound to not work' starts with fallacy and ends with disaster."
I'm curious - have you been burned by issues with licenses in the past? I've never had licensing affect me in any tangible way and so they are really more of a vague theoretical, and thus low priority, concern for me. But I am vaguely aware that this is theoretically the wrong position to have while yours is the right one.
I don't think Gruber makes any pretense of acting as an objective journalist at all, he's just a guy that writes about things that interest him. It's true that the things he chooses to write about frequently fall into the "Apple gets this right, everyone else is on crack" category, but (usually) he's got a valid observation to make. If there's any pro-Apple bias, it's in the specific topics that he chooses to write about (things that make Apple look good) as opposed to bias in the content itself.

There's a difference between being selective when you choose what to write about and actually being biased in how you present a topic once you've committed to write about it. I think he's guilty of the former but (usually not) the latter.

The fact that he spends so much time countering what he sees as invalid criticisms of Apple by market analysts ends up making a huge difference in the mix of topics he covers. I totally think DF would be a lot more interesting if he actually tried to cover a much wider swath of topics and perspectives though. There are weeks on end that are nothing but "claim chowder" articles and harrumphing about dumb analysis by other people, which can be justified sometimes but it seems like he could be doing so much more.
Convertible debt in plain english.
If you only use the software occasionally you can pay $75/month only in the months that you use the software. (The individual app subscription can work out as well if you only use one or two apps, but by the time you get to 3 it's cheaper to get the whole suite).
I know I'm "supposed" to be against this, but if my livelihood depended on Photoshop, I know I can easily generate more than $50/mo of value from using one of the apps. (Hell, even as a hobbyist, I can justify the cost if one considers how much a hobby or typical weekend night out with friends cost)

It's a better deal than paying $1000 all at once and you can stop paying at any time. From an accounting perspective, nothing really changes because the subscriptions are basically equivalent to depreciating a boxed copy of CS.

Where this model doesn't make sense is for businesses that don't upgrade CS every 2 years. In that case, the subscription model is more expensive.
Let's just say, they would go as far as saying parachute is unproven as it has never undergone a double blined trial.

They would then go on and somehow imply parachute is bad for you by citing parachute accidents.... Nicely sourced.

It's... disgusting.

This is actually not isolated to big pharma, a whole host of other pages on Wikipedia suffer from the same kind of agenda pushing editors.
You make it sound as if everyone thinking always-on DRM being a PR disaster and a net negative for the company is a given. Blizzard didn't think so, neither did EA, and I could really see Microsoft thinking the same way (hello Windows Genuine Advantage!).

If anything, any company wouldn't be as crazy to do that after all the outrage/negative feedback they receive about it before launch. Releasing it after all of that - now that would be insane.
I'll second Acorn. It is weird compared to other image editing interfaces, but it's actually quite usable for most people's needs (or at least what I imagine are most people's needs) and it has really nice polyglot plugin support that should please developers.
This is absolutely a fair point regarding the total cost over time, but I'm referring to the first cost, where I don't have the product and am considering purchasing it.

A one-time $1200 fee is a non-starter. There's no way I'm paying that much money for a product that I'm not even sure I'll use next month.

$50 (or, as I've been corrected by others -- thanks) $20 to try it out? That's a much easier decision.
مسلسل فريحة الحلقة الاخيرة
اكيد بتدور على الحلقة الاخيرة مسلسل فريحة اها كلها مسلسلات
وتكتب وتبحث وتقول تحميل الحلقة الاخيرة مسلسل فريحة مسلسلات تركى اها كلها مسلسلات
وبالاخص تحميل حلقات المسلسل التركى فريحه اها كلها مسلسلات
عايز احمل مسلسل فريحه الحلقة الاخيرة مسلسل فريحة و تحميل مسلسل فريحه كامل & الحلقة الاخيرة اها كلها مسلسلات
او تحميل مسلسل فريحه الحلقة الفلانية اها كلها مسلسلات
او مشاهدة مسلسل فريحه الحلقة الفلانية اها كلها مسلسلات

مسلسل فريحة اقوى المسلسلات التركية
This reminds me of the comment PG made about people with the most negative rebuttal to the argument getting up-voted.

The argument wasn't entirely about how you perceive math and more about being socially accepted, even proud, of being able to say "I can't do math". It's a very North American perspective and it would be similar to saying "I can't read" in most of Europe.
There's no guarantee it was the last two letter. However, it was the last "common" two letter domain.
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In the same way that women put on makeup for themselves. However, the desire to be attractive "for ourselves" is baked into our genes precisely because it helped our ancestors attract members of the opposite sex too.
Please, please, please, please: link to your website from your blog, in the header. Just do it!
In comparison to whom they can go up against (at least on one end of the size spectrum), and the degree of resources they can exert via other arms of the executive branch, it is probably safe to state its power is unrestricted (if not fiscally unlimited) in scope.
> If I had to guess, I'd say it's based on the fact that math involves a lot of critical thinking and critical thinking is very difficult to teach.

I don't think critical thinking is very difficult to teach.

I think critical thinking is, despite being foundational, not prioritized in most educational curricula (and, particularly, not in most of the high-stakes testing regimes which we use to evaluate students, schools, teachers, etc.), and consequently insufficient effort is put into teaching it.
Yes, this is exactly the situation I find myself in. I'm not really much of a designer, but I bought Creative Suite when it was called Design Collection when I started my first company, did my own flyers and booklets in InDesign, business cards in Illustrator and earned money doing Photoshop and Illustrator work even though I'm really a software engineer.

Now I'm a nearly-40 year old software engineer with enough disposable income to flatter myself by upgrading Creative Suite on the trailing edge, but hell will freeze over before I pay for Creative Cloud at those prices.

Adobe have also screwed over Audition in the later versions to the point where I'll just use Cubase in preference; so much for the fast, elegant, simple workflow they inherited from CoolEdit.
I don't see anything in your comment about how Wikipedia deals with PR. I cited the Wikipedia policy on conflict of interest issues, and you keep talking about some discussion that took place on Wikipedia at some point, as if a discussion on a site run by anonymous volunteers was somehow dispositive.
This is the story of a dominate company in a market were it's users feel it can't go anywhere else, if they wanted to. It turns to be a good thing.

I think this is going to put a big dent in piracy of adobe products going forward, provide a large window for competitors to provide products to people that don't want a subscription, and give the users some really great benefits of using cloud products.

It's one example of a company moving forward and doing good because it has a mostly captive audience and it's a win,win,win.
LOL there's a difference between woodworking and being a carpenter. Probably 90% of carpenters build cookie cutter houses same thing every day. On the other hand there's probably not very many people in the whole world who know what ornamental turning and geometric chucks are, much less actually do it.

One wood supply shop nearby me is apparently haunted by people who make wood pens. That's it. They just make really cool looking homemade pens. They have tons of gear and parts and supplies specifically for that kind of work.

Another example, there's a guy named Roy Underhill who's been doing mostly traditional jointery on a PBS show continuously since 1979. Over 400 episodes and still going. 200 hours just of one obscure historical corner of woodworking.

Then there's carving, pyrography aka woodburning...

Rather than ambitionlessness I use it to avoid thinking about a problem for awhile when I get stuck. Not pure procrastination, but there's a whole class of bugs that can only be identified by a fresh mind and the longer you stare the less likely you'll see it unless you take a break. Donno if I should be encouraged or discouraged by all the furniture (and scrap wood) I've made.
There are more that have been posted in the other thread, I nabbed the last on this list though.
Seems redundant with browser plugins like YSlow or PageSpeed which analyze your page loads.
I would be extremely cautious about #1 (replacing PNGs with CSS3 transforms and drop shadows). Your page load time may decrease but your website performance will suffer. For example, when we swapped out CSS3 box-shadows for repeating PNGs with the same color gradients/transparency, the scrolling performance on our page increased dramatically. I would also say from a design perspective, the 2nd Book of Mormon browser-rendered transform looks significantly worse. The edges are not being anti-aliased.
What more is there to say about it? It's fundamentally almost exactly the same as H264, minus a few features that would make it too vulnerable to patent litigation, plus a few minor additions that are meant to patch up the efficiency lost by excluding some of H264's features. For web video VP8 performs about the same as H264, for high-bitrate/high quality (think Blu-Ray/Full HD) it performs decidedly worse because it doesn't have most (any?) of the advanced features in H264 main/extended/high profiles. The one big downside is lack of widespread hardware codec support.

There really isn't anything 'amazing' about VP8, except that some people think it fixes something about video coding because it is 'more free' than H264, which IMO is vastly overstated. In real life, for 99.9% of people (including those offering commercial video products), the difference is practically philosophical.
Most data isn’t "big" and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
The main reason there are more women is that women live longer. This also means that most of the "extra" women are over 70.

If you break the population down into age groups (e.g. 0-10, 10-20, etc.) most younger groups have more men than women. Combine this with the fact that younger women tend to pair up with older men, and you get more unattached men in the younger groups (but more unattached women in the older groups).
IPv8 ... starts with IPv4 and evolves it.
Thanks, I knew that, that's why I also found people that could be interested because of previous related articles.
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Sadly the XAML export plugin no longer works in Illustrator CS6, I've spoken to the dev, Mike Swanson and apparently it'd be a nightmare to upgrade. I keep a copy of CS5 installed just for this reason.
the whole point is to have an open codec. if you have to reverse it, not only are you breaking the ToS/EULA, but you're much better off just using a natively installed codec.
HA! If you make pricing decisions for one of these companies please ignore the next paragraph!

This is one of the reasons enterprises will pay good money for software (even bad software) - because 30,000 users saving 5 minutes per month (1 hr per year) @ $20 an hour is still $600,000 savings per year.

Save them 1 hour per month = $7,200,000
Save them 1 hour per day = $30,000,000
He was also one of the most respected columnists at both VentureBeat and TechCrunch before moving to investing. I imagine that funds like to work with him because his journalism career has enabled him to do years of on-the-ground research on the direction that the technology sector is growing and who's doing interesting work in it.
Just to add, the redis code base is pretty clean and straight forward. I was able to digest enough of it to implement a multi-user system based on the redis databases[1] (1 db per user; I've never seen more than one used anyway). antirez and co do a good job at keeping it readable and understandable, which is awesome and I'm sure is part of the reason it's as reliable as it is.

[1] https://github.com/jimktrains/redis/tree/multiuser
Starting point: https://gist.github.com/tlehman/2865871
I think GOOG will fall back down to earth eventually. I'm not sure why Glass and self-driving cars seem to be driving it up. They seem like very long term projects and they're bound to have plenty of competition.
Indeed, it's just about using an OS that's great for developing. An OS that has certain advantages over others that appeal to certain users that like those advantages. By hackers, for hackers.
Using dropbox is different than working on something live. Like if I want to work on something right now, there is no way in hell I am waiting even 5 minutes for it upload. That's a total motivation and productivity killer right there. Total fail. Not to mention network connectivity issues, etc, etc.
canvas is incredibly fast. I think its 100% capable for anythign except 3d games.
Hello,

I'm contacting you, because I read an article of yours about computers and music ([article title]), and thought that you might be interested in my project as well - http://computoser.com

It provides a very simple web interface to a (practically) unlimited set of music tracks, generated without any human input. And although it is not the first algorithm to generate music, I think it's the first web-based, user-friendly interface to such an algorithm.

When I first released the project, I submitted the story to HackerNews to gather initial feedback from fellow "hackers", and the it was very positive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819269, which inspired me to make some improvements.

The improvements are already in place, and although the algorithm is not perfect, I think it's worth taking a look at. I'd be happy to get your feedback, or in a best-case scenario - get it covered.
> He clearly shows that he includes basic arithmetic in his definition.

He mentioned arithmetic just to show that he's not being 100% literal about the "I can't do math" statement.
Processed the Scrabble dictionary for all 3-letter words acceptable in U.S. Club and Tournament Play as of 2009.

Among which 283 are available .io domains:

https://gist.github.com/muloka/5527116
Wikipedia itself is... "innocent". But rather, those "anonymous volunteers" and their agenda have taken over Wikipedia contents. That is the disgusting part.