skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Bitcoin is really a decentralized messaging system...

>The fact that it's used as a form of currency is just an interpretation of what Bitcoin is.

Gold star for your comment.

Many of the other interpretations are not regulated as currency and arguably should not be.

I can understand why people are excited about it being used as a simulation for something financial institutions would want to regulate. But the real potential is in the technology, and the innovation potential that comes out of it.

Recent regulatory moves may lead to attempts to try to kill bitcoin:

http://www.ownlifeful.net/2013/07/how-to-kill-bitcoin/
What on earth was the point of the quote that introduced this release? It felt like a retread of Andreessen's famous "poorly debugged set of device drivers" line. Are we still on Slashdot? Is it 2005? Hot grits! Natalie Portman!
"Please note that babylon.js use a left handed coordinate system"

Thank you very much and please close the door when you leave the room.
Lately I started using SFML instead of SDL for C++ Game Development. However, I'll still use SDL on future projects I hope. It's a brilliant library, so compact and portable that the games you write will be able to be compiled to a lot of platforms, even high school graphing calculators[1].

The SDL development still impresses me and 2.0.0 is a major milestone and multiple windows, new OpenGL, touch support, Android and iOS support are here to keep SDL alive with all the new frameworks and "engines". I hope it does well!

[1]: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?topic=12378.0
When you have paper promos and rewards cards floating around it complicates the usability of the alternatives a bit. You end up with asking people to go to custom URLs etc which results in user confusion
Doesn't work on Firefox?
These are citizens, not statistics. A lot of people are choosing to renounce their citizenship not because they are hiding assets but because the burden of having to prove that they are not is becoming excessively onerous.

Moreover, using statistics from when the program has just changed and pretending that a massive uptick in renunciations won't continue and will merely flatten out after a temporary bump is at best intellectually lazy and at worst dishonest and misleading.
1. Wealthy people hoard large sums of cash.

2. Banks stopped making most of their money from deposits a long time ago.
I once browsed reddit, and I have no idea who this guy is. He's lying.
SDL_main is no longer mandatory (though it is still there); #define-ing SDL_MAIN_HANDLED and calling SDL_SetMainReady once before SDL_Init is sufficient now.

Edit: Ah, if the main loop you refer is SDL_Event loop, as exDM69 said, SDL always supported passive event functions that can be called at your original idle function. SDL 2.0 adds an active event watcher (SDL_AddEventWatch etc.) as an alternative though.
Yea, Google Glass would be ideal for DoucheScript Brogramming. Everyone could listen to you reindent your code while you held up the line at Starbucks.
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Discount codes shouldn't be highly usable.

edit: downvoted, sigh. ok. I'll elaborate. When you give me a discount code field on your checkout page, I automatically open up a new tab and Google around for "your site name discount code". If I can find one that works, you're just losing money for absolutely no good reason. I would've happily checked out without ever thinking of saving 5% on my $50 purchase. (c'mon, $2.50? That's not even a latte!) But, now, I'm obsessed, and I go back into 'bargain hunter' mode. If you're really unlucky, I'll find another site that undercuts you without a discount field, and just use them.

Save yourself the trouble. Apply a coupon via a cookie from a special landing page. I'll feel excited and grateful if one is applied for me at checkout and I won't even think of shopping around any more if I don't have one.
Fully agree
This why we started working on a new language called "english script" :
https://github.com/pannous/natural-english-script/tree/maste...
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Firefox now only has one HTML parser
That's exactly how BT Sync (http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html) works, but for data.
My guess as to the dynamic is this. If a VC knows that SOME other VC is interested in you, they can't feel out other VCs to see who it is because it might get a third VC involved.

But if one VC knows who the other VC is, then collusion is simple and clearly in the VC's best interest.
Wrong. If you aren't on CNN, they won't lift a finger to help you. About 12 years ago my life was in very real danger, my best friend at the time was the British embassador to the country I was in. He told me if I was a British citizen he could help me and told me to go to the Us Embassy, because that's what they are for. When I went I was interrogated by four guys with buzz cuts and shiny shoes who obviously had no clue about what was happening on the ground outside the embassy walls. I refused to talk until they told me what they could do to help. Finally a woman came in who appealed to my patriotic duty, and finally pushed a piece of paper across the table and told me to write down an address in the States where they could ship my body, saying "it is not the policy of the United States Government to help citizens abroad." I was floored, but finally declined her generous offer and took my chances. Luckily it only cost me a few broken ribs, though one of our offices was firebombed, another partner chopped up with a machette in another part of the country.

If you're in trouble abroad, don't hold your breath.

Hell, you can't even walk into embassies any longer for citizen services, you have to make an appointment for all citizen services and even then, they still make you wait for half an hour in an empty waiting room with bullet proof glass before they get around to seeing you.
You're correct. Much of this does need to be clarified. It wasn't my intent to be brusque, just disagreeing where I saw cause to. Thank you for your feedback.
I know http://www.hotukdeals.com/ have branched out into discount codes at some point, but they're obviously UK-only I'm not sure how many people use that section of the site.
I never understood SDL vs OpenGL. As somebody who does OpenGL why should I use SDL?
I pretty much agree with what you are saying : Governments (and central banks) would never voluntarily give up the control they have now, especially when a currency is being exchanged for one they have control over.

It is also interesting because bitcoin may be influenced by governments, but not issued by them nor central banks, which is already a fundamental difference in the battles that have come before.

The amount of time/resources that will be spent to try to control something that was never in their control (like kind of along the same lines as government measures in Argentina), nor under the control of any single entity for that matter, will be extremely telling. As far as I'm concerned the writing is on the wall… what is going on now is just the ongoing manifestation of what is to come next.

Not to mention that as more bitcoins are used/accepted by people in exchange for goods/services between individuals, governments will be and are increasingly being side stepped. It will be interesting to see this dynamic unfold more in places where (local) governments are becoming insolvent.

Bitcoin is in no position to supplant the USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, RNB etc, because bitcoin operates in between them now. And as more people loose faith in their respective currencies but still want ways to exchange between other individuals for goods/services, bitcoin will increasingly operate as well in a realm of its own.
"I cringe at the hassle my American friends have to go through whenever they travel through a densely-packaged country region such as Europe"

As an American citizen who's been to over 60 countries and as someone who's currently traveling through Europe, I've been treated with nothing but warmth and welcoming attitude by immigration (and other) officials.

Never had a single issue anywhere.
> Over the threshold, you only pay taxes if you live in a country where taxes are less than the US, which is, to be honest, not that many countries.

It's (sort of) that simple for earned income. In another country you may throughout your life receive money from a wide range of sources (health benefits, health recovery, child benefits, pensions, scholarships, the list goes on...) - the US tax status on these is incredibly complex at best. The punishments for making a mistake can be severe.
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OpenGL is a platform-independent API for graphics. SDL is a platform-independent API for everything else relevant to the game development, and also provides an initialization procedure for OpenGL (which OpenGL itself does not provide, so you needed to use platform-specific APIs like WGL and AGL or later standards like EGL).
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Were people still excited about Perl in 2005??!
It's very different for different programmers.

I've worked with people who are skilled developers and who can't even touch type. They have a slow-pace, methodical way of working. Many look at the keyboard over glasses and hunt and peck. The professor who ported plan 9 to raspberry pi (recent video here) is an example of this approach.

On the other hand, I have a shocking memory and can't hold context for long. Sometimes I come to write a piece of code and find that I wrote it last week and can't remember a thing about it.

I work by crashing through. I stalk the problem, procrastinate, drink tea, write short essays about what's stopping me from getting started. Eventually I get the whole problem in my head, and then need to get it down and done before I get tired. When I'm in this state and I need to solve a problem that I could use a standard library function for, often I'll just hammer out code to make the problem go away (list comprehension, string manipulation and the like) in order not to cause any extra load on my short term memory or distraction. Raw typing speed is very important. A drop in pace would hurt a lot.
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> My only gripe was that it needs to hijacked the main loop.

SDL has never hijacked the main loop, unlike e.g. GLUT. SDL has SDL_WaitEvent and SDL_PollEvent and leaves the main loop to you.
Could it be that Musk got some of his inspiration from the (stalled) Swissmetro project in Switzerland?

http://www.swissmetro.ch/en/content/technology

Same idea, different technology. Anyway, implementation is important, not the idea itself.
LiveCD?
But I think that's the point - the traffic is effective the merchant's own. They're not driving spammy visitors or buying false visits; they're just redirecting the customers who would have already been browsing the site back to the checkout funnel - they'd just get the benefit of the affiliate tracking code added to the order.
Let's be fair. Krikorian had access to the ENTIRE video and this professor only a short Youtube video clip. Kirkorian wrote, "Three seconds later, another vehicle goes by, traveling from the restaurant front door to the crash site in about seven seconds." And you can see from the video clip, that Hastings' car travels the same distance in about 3.5 seconds-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaPHWNzTHQ

The car that slowed down was travelling the other direction. There's no indication the two cars travelling the same direction slowed down.

Why wouldn't Krikorian, a former LA Times reporter, want to not break the biggest story ever, proving Hastings was driving 35MPH? His investigation also contradicted other things Miss Dvorak claimed-
http://krikorianwrites.com/blog/2013/7/24/michael-hastings-i...

EDIT: I did a rough estimate of the professor's math. The pizza shop to the impact is about 200'. Looking closer, it appears it takes Hastings 2.5 to 3 seconds to travel that distance. So if the video surveillance is played at real time, Hastings was travelling between 45MPH and 55MPH? To be 35MPH, the time would have to be about 3.8 seconds.

Sure someone could do a more accurate estimate but it seems very unlikely that he was going 80MPH assuming the video surveillance is not delayed. It'd be interesting to get accurate measurements and use some video analysis to get a real answer.
Yeah, it's pretty bizarre.

Was slashdot still relevant in 2005? Was perl? I feel like they both peaked right around the turn of the century.
I'm honored to share my experiences here.

While the initial expenses related to going off-grid may be exorbitant (to some) the resulting savings more than makes up for it, and you can always incrementally add to your system as finances permit.

I have had damage due to electrical storm, but placing a TV antenna higher than the panels has worked for the past 10 years or so.

Another concern is equipment replacement, with batteries being replaced at about a five year interval, depending on usage and maintenance. Most of the newer panels are warranted for 25 to 30 years at 90% of rated output but the panels will continue to produce power for many years afterward.

You'll learn to be frugal if you begin with a small setup, as I did, but that's what we're trying to to so I've adjusted well.

My electronics are definitely better off as a result of cleaner power from my pure sine wave inverter, which produces much better electricity and no voltage sags or spikes unlike our local municipal power monopoly.

I'm definitely a believer in alternate energy.
One of the rules of Forth was that you had to provide a standard pronunciation with the documentation of all your words, so you could speak Forth code over the phone. That was important when words consist of any sequence of characters or punctuation, delimited by spaces.
The lazy app developer's way to ship more code
"Uuuuhh..." should trigger the autocomplete menu.
Money is, in essence, a messaging system for communicating value. The Minneapolis Fed published a paper in 1996, "Money is Memory". It shows that if one defines money as "an object that does not enter preferences or production and is available in fixed supply" and memory as "knowledge on the part of an agent of the full histories of all agents with whom he has had direct or indirect contact in the past," then "any allocation that is feasible in an environment with money is also feasible in the same environment with money." Hence, "from a technological point of view, money is equivalent to a primitive form of memory" [1].

The reference to "fixed supply" equivocates to "fixed prices" in a growing economy, i.e. one dollar has equivalent purchasing power today or a hundred years from now.

[1] http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr218.pdf "Money is Memory" (1996)
Maybe. Where did the inputs come from?
The major red flag for me in this article was the line "He couldn’t really answer the questions, but I agreed to run a small trial. Based on our results, that marketing consultant is no longer with us." It really colored the rest of the article for me - making me incredibly skeptical of the manager and his instinct, opinions and judgement. It was no surprise then when the reason he was "scammed" was because his checkout process had the form equivalent of a big red call to action saying "leave my site" in the discount code box. I always Google for discount codes when I see those boxes.

If anything, this should be read as an educational piece for consumers about who is really making money when you search for discount codes online, rather than outrage at the affiliate marketing world.
I really dislike this UI concept. It is completely non-discoverable and when paired with "pull to refresh" it is hard to guess what the pull down gesture do.

Drawer is a better concept IMHO - it informs the user that there are some actions and the user can check them out to see what they do.

Or maybe I am wrong and people will love to pull down every list just to discover what is hidden there.
Yes, but you still have the time and pain of filing. This is not minor. To ensure you're not making a mistake you basically have to pay an expert to do it.

Also the US has now imposed laws that require financial institutions to report to the IRS if you are a US citizen. I'm not in the financial industry so can't verify first hand, but all reports are that the paperwork and reporting burden is significant. So much so that many banks now have a "no US citizens" policy.
If you visit the site, put stuff in your cart and get all the way to the checkout page, you must know by that point who sent them to your site. If the customer then goes away and googles for voucher codes, it shouldn't change the source. When (if?) they return, you should know they are the same person, from the same original source.

How did the affiliates manage to steal these customers? It seems to me like your referral tracking is massively broken.
That's a ridiculous statement. Virgin have a contract to run the West Coast Intercity network that connects London with cities up the west side of the UK. They don't have the contract for the East Coast or the networks heading East or West from London including Eurostar which carries more people than airplanes from London to Paris.
A theory: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/broken_windows
My European tax office has procedures to regularize messy situations (e.g. a child inheriting a foreign bank account containing undeclared money earned by the parents). A 15 minute chat with a lawyer specialized in this would help you out a lot I think.
Humorous timing for me as I made a (bad) joke the other day about such a piece of software: "I created an algorithm to turn a selection of strings into a regular expression but it just keeps returning (dot asterisk)"

In other news, how do you actually render an asterisk on HN?
In this case: yes. (Or for the most part.)
I think people already complained about posting minor version updates.
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"“It will form the foundation for future human studies investigating mental experiences occurring in the dying brain, including seeing light during cardiac arrest,” she says."

I am a big fan of science and research - and I think we should always be questioning everything. But I'm curious to know what benefits this research has. I genuinely don't know where this kind of research could lead so I'm not naive enough to suggest it's not a good use of time or resources, but how can this help us improve our lives, health and world? Does it matter? Not to be crass, but are those last vestiges of electrical energy in a dying brain going to be of any use?
To do it the way he described (buffer of zeros + fill):

import qualified Data.Vector.Unboxed.Mutable as V

encode len fields = do
buffer <- V.replicate len 0
forM_ fields $ \(fieldPos, fieldData) ->
V.copy (V.slice fieldPos (length fieldData) buffer) fieldData
return buffer
My guess is they check the cookie after the checkout, which is somewhat reasonable. This is an edge case that became a major case due to this scam.
This product is relevant to me in two ways:

* I am a programmer and I care about my health
* I am a startup founder and I am impressed with the package Joe Kutner provides: A book, a website and a (free) IOS app with lots of resources and features.

Slashdot has a review of the book: http://books.slashdot.org/story/13/08/12/1239250/book-review...
It might not be built in real life, but somebody should at least build it in a mod for GTA5.
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By the way, the linked slideshow is hilarious, never seen it before:
http://www.slideshare.net/tenderlove/worst-ideas-ever
Email me (in profile), I know a few propel that have been in similar situations
Here goes my frak.el port attempt
Hong Kong is only part of China in the same sense Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

If you are a citizen then you can hold a Hong Kong passport. The majority of the population is either Cantonese or Han Chinese in ethnicity (Han Chinese being the largest ethnic group in Mainland China).

Hong Kong has a pretty liberal immigration policy. After 7 years continuous residence you are eligible for Permanent Resident status. Gaining temporary residence is pretty much as easy as landing a job there.

(I'm an Australian who has been living in Hong Kong for the past few years.)
Strict fields in records are probably a better default than lazy fields. So you indeed see lots of strictness annotations in data structures. It also helps with unpacking/unboxing.

However, strictness annotations in functions is a relatively rare thing.
Affiliate networks require you put their code on the "thank you" page shown after checkout. Conditionally removing that code would be seen as an attempt to scam the network and get out of paying commissions owed. What you're proposing doesn't work anyway -- you don't know that they didn't come through an affiliate link a week prior; the cookie isn't on your domain, but you owe a commission for that referral.
> I believe Facebook has a history that shows it repeatedly failing to be trustworthy

You can say that again. Here's a great list from over the years: http://pleasedeletefacebook.com
I still don't understand why you even raised a reddit thread -- "Go with Data.Binary.IEEE754 and see if there's any reason not to like it -- it just works"
Damn straight. Clapper to the slammer.
raises hand

I'm currently reading all the papers/talking to people so I can design one (still torn between doing something historically accurate or modern, new, and potentially useful).
I really want one of these please message me!!!
(tom dot larkworthy at gmail)

preferably python but a link to theory is useful too.
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>In all seriousness, if you don't at least support the American gov't with your wallet or with your life (military service), you aren't really American.

Supporting the US government is not a prerequisite of citizenship. Not at all.
Microsoft has the option to override your settings, just as it happened when they pushed the WGA validation tool in the wild. When it happened several years back, you had to completely disable updates, because if you had it set on manual, it was still automatically installed. This coupled with the fact that the WGA validation wasn't working properly / had bugs, has led to serious problems for many users.

Also, with Ubuntu for example, you don't have to build it yourself, but it's yours in a way that Windows will never be.
So put linux on there. Then again, if you are so bad with computers that you are "paralysed by the possibility of nagware" then maybe you should be on ChromeOS or something.
Then surely those people won't vote it up.
Welcome to the wonderful world of brandbidding - and yes, you facilitated the scam by using coupon codes (hint: by 2013, they do you a major UX disservice for the reasons everyone is mentioning). It's been out there for a decade, but networks still do a horrible job at explaining the situation for you, as they're cashing in as well. Affiliate marketing is no more of a "free lunch" than all the other marketing methods out there. You got to either know your shit to protect yourself from fraud or pay someone to do it for you. Either way, you need to actively manage your publishers and watch out for the metrics you presented for all of the channels you're employing. If you're handing out free money without looking after what you are getting out of it, be sure that there will be someone to claim it. Wisely used and managed, affiliate marketing can definitely be another valuable tool in your marketing chain, but the total costs will be comparable to anything else.
Oh and what he proposes instead is a service charge - screw that I've paid for my food, surely the cost of serving me is included in that?

The real problem is the low wages that waiters and waitresses get so they are forced to rely on tips to live.
1000 isn't much, no, but it could just be the trickle before the flood. There are a lot of nice places in the world.