skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Except that there are dozens of alternative currencies in use in the USA right now...

Right. They're all little joke currencies that don't affect anything. "Aww, that's cute. Your town trades tickets redeemable for an hour of work."

If any of them were adopted by a nontrivial number of people or if people started using bitcoins or euros or yen in significant quantities the government would definitely get involved in a very hostile fashion.

>Well let's put it this way: what currency can you use to pay your taxes? Now, if you are a business that actually pays its taxes (as most do), what currency will you need to do business in?

Doesn't matter. If people don't actually hold dollars and just change their bitcoins into dollars when they need to pay taxes the government doesn't gain anything by printing dollars. It just means every year when I go to pay my taxes I get many more dollars for my bitcoins than I did the previous year.

>USD is backed by the law: tax laws, debt laws, torts, fines, fees, etc.

Right. Nothing, in other words. The same was true for the Zimbabwe dollar until they gave up. It just means people will convert whatever they're holding into dollars when they need to deal with the government.

>First of all, there is basically no chance of Bitcoin supplanting the US dollar, for the reasons outlined above.

You haven't made your case for that at all. If the CPI goes back to what it was, say, in the Carter years (and it will), Bitcoins could supplant the dollar very quickly.

The biggest obstacle to adoption is the fact that you can't hold a bitcoin in your hand. But if that mental block was overcome people could switch over very quickly. Personally, I doubt it will happen because people will be reluctant to trust a virtual currency, and a few rumors about a mathematical flaw in the algorithm is all it would take to shatter any built up trust. But it's not impossible.

>That being said, even if by some miracle Bitcoin supplanted the dollar, the government would not go bankrupt, it would just start using Bitcoin. The switch from the gold standard did not bankrupt the government; why would a switch from fiat currency to Bitcoin bankrupt the government?

The switch from the gold standard didn't bankrupt the government, but a switch to the gold standard certainly would. You realize, do you not, that QE is nothing more than a sophisticated way to print money? The government could not pay the interest on the debt without the fed creating money and using bond purchases to drive down treasury rates.

>Despite the ramblings of certain libertarians and anarchists, this is not Zimbabwe, we are not bankrupt, and we are not expanding the money supply to avoid bankruptcy.

This is just wrong (except the part about us not being Zimbabwe). That's exactly what we're doing. The only reason we're getting away with it is the monetary contraction that occurred when the housing bubble collapsed. But that contraction is pretty much over. Balancing the budget without printing money at this point would require politically impossible decisions.
This is just microsoft running chat logs through automation scripts. I'm would assume these links also coordinate content of the conversation with the link and are correlated into bing search results.

Side Note: I wouldn't be surprised if google chrome submits url and page content to googlebot (for crawling).
Anything designed around non-uniform rows and columns is immediately a no-no in my book. I was very pleased when Facebook reverted that change back to the single column
http://code.google.com/p/propforth/ Not sure if it counts.
Hi folks,

Good to be here!

To the Chicago-based commenters: if there's anything I can do to be helpful before I leave, email me at andrew@ycombinator.com. I'm happy to hang out and give "advice" if you'll make the haul up to Evanston and help me assemble a ping pong table or cat habitrail or whatever my loser project of the week is.

Whoever said Chicago's challenge is one of talent network effects, I agree (although it depends on the nature of your company - Chicago is great for Groupon). I'd love to help solve it, but not enough to endure the handicap. Building a company is hard enough as is. And if you're really intent on self-inflicted pain for your startup, there are far more interesting ways to do it.

The album is real. Looking forward to more 50% off jokes! Can't wait!

Andrew
Yahoo stinks of uncool while Tumblr is hip, addictive and growing fast. Never the twain shall meet.
In some places I do, like G+. Here, and on Twitter, I chose my handle to remind myself to not be an elitist dick.
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That makes sense. Paying with personal information was the statement that I was responding to. The personal information is worthless without the exposure to advertisements.
CupidWithMates, for those Aussies and Kiwis among us.
I second this. I demoed the Sugarcube repl for our mobile team (I'm primarily a JavaScript dev who has fallen in love with RM) and everyone was universally blown away. It's the most useful thing ever -- well that, combined with Teacup.
I'd like to see your data on this and whether the studies they did corrected for genetics. A lot of these studies like where parents talked to their kids more and the kids ended up being smarter ended up being proven false because there was no 'control' in these groups, children who were adopted, etc. Check out Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate. This talk sums it up pretty well:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_chalks_it_up_to_the_b...
Thank you, and thanks for reading.
Let's see if The Oatmeal is right this time too about new user interfaces:

http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout

(see second part)
Does anyone know what it is? Apparently the production is like the brain of a jellyfish, which is cool I guess. Maybe it is a food item? There was that UN announcement that we should eat more insects. Maybe their take is jellyfish brains in a can.
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And as of last week, with the 2.0 release, you can now build desktop apps using RubyMotion as well. I kind of think that was the nail in the MacRuby coffin, for better or for worse.
> I believe in our product, but I don't believe in our business model.

This sounds like you'd be okay if the business model was different. Tell them that either the business model changes or you're leaving. Then it's up to them whether you leave. You may or may not be able to negotiate interpersonal problems.
Can you elaborate on the OS on a USB thing? You mean you'd reboot the machine to the OS on the USB? Wouldn't that trigger things? Or that machine merely a conduit?
One thing that jumped out - "Travel restrictions on Soviet private citizens stayed in place, enforced by the Departments of State and Justice, until the Kennedy administration unilaterally lifted them in 1962 as a symbol of the openness of American society."

The administrations in question were surely perfectly aware that there was no such thing as 'Soviet private citizens' just up and traveling to the US.

But, anecdotally at least, the symbolism did work - my father first visited the US in the early 70s as a Soviet-bloc citizen working for UN IAEA Safeguards. He was impressed by how unrestricted his travel was - he wanted to extend his trip slightly to do a bit of sightseeing - the Grand Canyon and Vegas (I think both off this map). His hosts helped arrange it for him in a few minutes and with a couple of calls. To a travel agent, not the CIA.

Which may seem innocuous now but it was the height of the cold war, the UN was a much-beloved Soviet spy-insertion vector and the working destination of his trip was, in fact, Oak Ridge - not a place famous for its guided tours.
Or, don't. People certainly do succeed based on PUA techniques. But they're confusing the causes of their newfound success.

This will get you 80% of the way there:
1) Volume, volume, volume.
2) Look to have fun, not for your soul mate. If something's not happening, BFD.

And this will get you to 150% of the way there:
3) Do interesting things, have interesting stories to tell, and meet interesting people.
Is Marissa Mayer About to Buy Tumblr for $1 Billion?
Interstellar memes
The iOS 7 Power User Challenge
its like a coach right there making sure you're on top of it
Thread profiling in Python
Sprint say, "Each subpoena typically requested subscriber information on multiple subscribers and last year alone we estimate that Sprint received approximately 500,000 subpoenas from law enforcement." Because each request is typically about multiple people, we're talking millions of Sprint customers per year.

Sprint goes on to say that they can't determine how much of that information they happily turned over (and charged for too!). Is there anyone who thinks that they wouldn't have complied with almost 100% of those requests?
Bad Idea? I'm a web dev and maybe some other people could weigh in here on the privacy concern I could imagine from this. Scenario below.

1. you visit site: whatever.com

2. I have a hidden input with a name="address"

3. I have an onchange event listener for the hidden input

4. Now auto complete fills in automatically and I just associated your ip with your address (assuming the the auto fill is correct).

I always think this whenever I hear about auto complete. I NEVER save form data just for this reason.
"andrew"
The headline is a bit silly. People tried to help the cops stop a thief, but stuffed up and inconvenienced bystanders. Those people happened to work for ISPs. So what?

The real problem is the second order one: Australian cops are so bad at prosecuting fraud that they resort to blocking websites instead of arresting the people running them. A few websites going down is the least of the consequences.
My name is like GUID across the entire internet and I enjoy quite a few benefits in ranking high on search engine.
Yahoo looking to acquire Tumblr?
Honestly, the biggest asset I can see from your message is your girlfriend. Spend the next few days working on an awesome proposal, instead of working for people you don't respect any more.

The startup? Almost irrelevant, in comparison. When you look back on this in ten years, you'll agree with me!

After you've proposed, sit down with your fiancée (an awesome proposal is one where she can't say no!) and ask her what she honestly thinks of the business. Women are far better judges of these things than men - particularly men who are building the thing in question. If she doesn't think it's compelling, simply tell the other guys you are getting married and need a steady job, so you're leaving. You've learned a lot (about finding good co-founders, as well as al the tech stuff) and are a more valuable person because of it, so take that as your payment.

If she thinks the business is a great idea, things get more complicated. My suggestion would be leave, find a better co-founder, and start over. Or you could try to negotiate with the other guys for some up front payment and changes to the way they do things.
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There is no numeric measurement for personality in online dating. If women had to balance height and personality in online dating it would reveal a much different picture.

Just like real life.
New technology will always cripple a game project, yeah. The core task of actually prototyping and iterating on mechanics and design until you have something fun is just incredibly expensive and difficult; layering difficult technological challenges on top just makes it worse.
Yeah, I'm the same way. I've been internetting as sophacles forever, it doesn't mean that moniker is any less real than my name. Hell, if I've tried to even switch to my "real" name online a few times, but it gets difficult when you realize there's a decade and a half of accounts, online relationships tied to the one, and who the hell is this Erich guy anyay?
While I post under my real name for all the obvious reasons, namely to minimize how many stupid or mean things I say, I very often wish I did not. There's something lost when speaking for the world to hear: how many things will I say that might make me look less than awesome? (har har, I'm sure you could dig up a few). So I tend to go for the conservative point instead of the crazy idea that might be totally off the mark. It's not about "speaking truth to power" so much as speaking the truth about yourself.

It's hard to put it better than Adam Kirsch, albeit in a different context:

The essayist is concerned, as a fiction writer is not, with what the reader will think of him or her. That is why the new comic essayists are never truly confessional, and never intentionally reveal anything that might jeopardize the reader’s esteem.
Google's "Card" Design Panacea: Flat design or subconscious skeuomorphism?
You mention getting intros from your network. A first-timer is probably less likely to have people in their network who could introduce them to a VC, although they may have a large network. Accelerators like Y Combinator seem to solve this problem, but what about those outside of the accelerators?
Hm, I'm not sure... proposing when money is dry? Wouldn't that trading one problem with another?
Awesome project.

I will be using it. Although I have to second others.. It'd be nice to choose my exercises.
Great! Bookmarked!

Feature request: a nice sound when each section is finished. Sometimes I'm not looking at the screen while doing the exercise, so a sound marking the section changes would be nice.
You wouldn't even need form.submit() this could be accomplished just through url encoding and ajax. This is exactly why this concerns me too, but it sounds like it will prompt the end user when the api call is made (similar to geolocate apis).

As long as the data is NOT filled in automatically on call and the user is prompted, then this feature SHOULD be safe to use.
Ok, you're just talking about plug and play. That's a separate topic about micro frameworks. What I'm asking about is a real world example where reactive programming solves a problem better than traditional techniques.

As an example, look at Promises. At first glance it seems like overkill to structure your code to return objects that get resolved later. But when you use examples of deeply nested asynchronous callback functions and how they get cleaned up with Promises, it's obvious why they are better.

What is an equivalent real-world problem where reactive programming is better?
There's a lot of CPUs around in VHDL or Verilog, e.g.

* http://opensource.zylin.com/zpu.htm

* http://www.altera.com/devices/processor/nios2/ni2-index.html

You could use ghdl , http://ghdl.free.fr/, and supporting tools for simulation. Most FPGA vendors have a free version of their tools as well.
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requestAutocomplete pops up a permission dialog to the user, it's not automatic on sites you haven't already granted permission to - the article mentions this.
What if you also get consulting/full time job at the same time? You can always turn the startup part-time if it doesn't pay the bill.
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why is it so often assumed that the novel is the highest form of writing?
"I'm really happy with the results and look forward to sharing them as soon as I figure out how to load music onto iTunes, hopefully in the next few weeks."

It might be a while.
I really enjoyed your talk last summer at pioneer way. Really excited to see you join the YC team and look forward to talking with you more in the future.
That is not just a function of using your name. I used to use my full name online and said whatever I felt like. I was a homemaker at the time. I didn't worry what an employer would think or whatever.

There is more backstory than that, but I became more careful when I worked for BigCo and more free again after I left that job. Lifestyle impacts such choices, not just attaching your name.
How long ago did you sign up? It took them two or three days to send me the first set.
Epecuen is coming out from under water
It's not just about salary. It's about the culture of people.

Your job descriptions talk about what YOU want and the tech, and you claim that we are going to change the world. What about what your prospective team wants? That's who you need to appeal to.

For instance, look at Shopify's career page.

http://www.shopify.com/careers

-Video of the team (Show don't tell, culture, work and play)

-Lists of the benefits (You're a human, that has a life, and we aren't going to abandon you when life events happen. We want you to stay healthy, have current gear, an vestation in the company and the ability to hone your skills and keep learning.)

-Pictures of a great environment and what it's like, testimonials from team members.

Salary HAS to be competitive, because no one in their right mind would say "Now hiring for 20% less than the industry median!" Get real. You need to talk to people about why it's worth it to come in and work their asses off for a super risky company.
Quantum computing reminds me of power from nuclear fusion: it's always 15 years away. I was awfully surprised when I read that D-Wave was already selling quantum computers. I'm glad that someone is willing to counter the hype. I find truth more interesting than fiction.
Flat design or subconscious skeuomorphism? Both (therein lies the genius).
Consumer marketing would be a good example of something that has no long-term benefit because society changes too often. Marketing techniques that work in one decade won't work in the next. Because of this, marketing isn't cumulative. Our knowledge of the hard sciences is always improving, building on the work of the previous generations.

Yes, there are legitimate fields that don't have rigorous math behind them, but the social sciences try to use studies and numbers as the foundation of their theories. They want to be treated like biology, but their studies are not up to par.
What do you recommend for learning about web design?
JTypes: A more powerful TypeScript alternative with no pre-compilation required
I sent the request more than 17 days ago (the first one). The second I sent a few days later.
Define Real Identity.

I use a real email address a real twitter account and A real username that I've had on various services online now for decades.
This kind of correlational study is awash in survivorship bias, and may not even apply to age cohorts born in a different society in a different era. Most likely, the study results neither show what is sufficient for a happy life for all nor what is necessary for a happy life for anyone. It would take an experimental study design with a study population more representative of the broad range of present-day people (not just Harvard men) to find information like that.

http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/43616/1/626014360.pdf

AFTER EDIT:

A second-level comment below asks:

Weren't women allowed in Harvard in 1938?

No. Women have been able to attend Radcliffe College (very near to Harvard) throughout my lifetime and even before, but women being admitted as undergraduate students to Harvard only happened in the 1970s.

http://www.college.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k61161&...

(In other words, the girl I know from high school in Minnesota who attended Harvard was one of the very first to do so.)
It has the potential for a "quantum speedup" in the way that D-Wave's marketing defines that term. Just keep in mind that it has no resemblance to the usual meaning in a quantum computing context.

The D-Wave is not a quantum computer (as the term is normaly used), and was never meant to be one.
Link is an annoying wrapper around http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/thanks-m...
I've had actually trouble sending any links at all over MSN. Oddly, removing http:// sidesteps it completely.
Congress sends Google a list of questions about privacy and Glass
Yeah, me too: the alias is a protection against a simple google research.
I figured there had to be a prompt of some sort like the one's with geolocating. Still if there is an automation of some sort...this is an easy way for sites to associate multiple user id's, assuming this would matter to you ;)
Yes. Despite the niche I work in (threat intelligence), I've become increasingly transparent with public emails and real identities on HN as rbijou, writing my thoughts at rbijou.com, etc.

If I've learned anything, it's that sincerity and 'faith' are increasingly important commodities on the web. One only needs to take a look at Youtube comments to see the opposite side of the spectrum..
iOS design can almost be pixel perfect

I would go so far as to say that iOS design can be and often is pixel perfect.
There are a few complications, like the impossibility of clonning a state, and the rsult being probabilistic. Also, there is the entire "let's operate that in a mixture of all possible integers" thing, but when I got to read about it, it was surprizinly possible to understand.
Which has now been completely invalidated by the internet changing how we all live our lives.
Same -- I have used shortstuffsushi for every account since 5th grade, to set up my first AIM account (boy, that feels like forever ago). People who know me in real life are able to identify me by that handle, so if I use it, it's really no different than my real name (aside from being unique to every site I've ever visited...).
Presumably, as with tor, a little slowness is acceptable when the data being transmitted is of a clandestine nature.
No, actually, they went to Radcliffe. Harvard did not admit women to undergraduate programs until 1973.
among my friends they think movies are the highest form of 'writing', and we aren't even in California
I do this almost daily. I use a PDF converter driver found on the internet . Install it and it becomes a selectable converter option.Then you can convert PDFs to many forms in any program at all, including Adobe Acrobat . Just open a PDF, select convert, and choice a form you want, the task will be finished in several seconds. if you haven't found a good choice , you can have a try. best wishes. http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/csharp-imaging/pdf-convert-...
Yup. Or at least something that could very easily be traced back to me.
With angular and now polymer, we are seeing a complete paradigm shift in approaching web client development. This is a beautiful metamorphosis to watch. From the days of early HTML tag race (blink, marque, etc.) to addition of asynchronous XML reading with IE 4, to various AJAX helper libraries (jquery, etc) to frameworks with their own complexity and now what we are seeing in the past 12 months or so.
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Linked at the bottom of this article is the counter point: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/here-there-and-everywher...
Well, right, but what if that payment never comes? At what point do you say, "I will not make money here, I need to get a job to support myself?" When the company closes its doors (supposing it even has an office)?
Who here has a lot of close personal acquaintance with French children growing up in France? What is the actual behavior you have observed there?
Me, Deadbeat Dad? Um... Perhaps I am. My ex thinks so.
This is certainly true. For myself, I suppose I just had more patience to fail at programming for whatever reason.
I know why you wrote it. You know what you should do, but you are on the fence about it, or maybe don't want to, and you want us to tell you what you already know.
Totally agree with you.

Though I keep my Facebook visible to friends only because I don't want anything Facebook related ranking high on a personal name google search. I use twitter or blogs as the public facing searchable content tied to my name.
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Yes, the problem is about expectations. D-Wave told everybody that they made a quantum computer, when in fact they've redefined the term to mean something else.

Well, that something else is working, and altough a nice physics experiment, it still lacks any real world utility.