skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0 representation here - I do not own any, though that is reflective to my fiscal status currently though have not owned any previously either.

Why I own 0 bitcoins (currently):
One aspect I find facinating about bitcoins over normal money is how they can be tracked and every coin can be audited openly down to its creation. Whilst with notes this is possible, tills and other transactions do not note down those serial numbers used and coins have no way at all of being tracked. Both due to the analogue forms of transactions mean that no exact coin or note is tracked and at most the amount is tracked albeit in a form not tied down to the history of said coin or note. Bitcoins are completely different.

Reason that is important is whilst the media etc seem to portray the criminal usage of bitcoins, the whole system is more secure and auditable than any paper notes or metal coins and with that any bad press about criminal usage of bitcoins are more equaly so with other forms of currency due to the very nature of usage.

So one day I may very well get some bitcoins, but finances aside I do see them as dynamic as shares and in many weays less spendable than shares, due to lack of mainstream recognition and acceptance. When you can go into a major bank and get an exchange rate is when some stability gets introduced and the whole dynamic price akin to shares is removed. That is when I will personaly utilise them as a currency of transaction and fiscal storage.
"Point number one: Planning, be tidy or be late."

I don't think that's an either-or!?

(Justin Bieber should not be your role model.)
"it seems to me to be a pretty desirable state of affairs."

Oh I wouldn't put it that way...

One interesting issue/analogy is a lot of lawyers (labor lawyers?) won't take conflict of interest jobs where they financially benefit if their client loses / opponent wins. Too much opportunity for malpractice motive, or appearance of it anyway. If you take it out of labor law, as an analogy, say you were suing a company, you'd never hire a lawyer for "your" side who gets most of his net worth by owning a 20% stake in the company you're suing, would you?

Would a board of director hire a CEO who spends part time at two jobs, both direct competitors of each other in the same field?
Your reasoning is a bit strange. You might as well recommend using windows for the same reason (popularity). I personally run Fedora for the exact reasons you gave. Eye of the beholder, and all that.
Nancy Grace is Charmeleon from Pokemon.
Yep. this part of the piece only works if the company is a cooperative, or you're just back to "get them to drink the kool-aid and sell their lives to the company" psychological slavery.
It is a laughably bad grain food source. Due to overzealousness in my youth, I have a giant jar of quinoa as a last-ditch food source in case of thermonuclear war, worldwide famine or biological catastrophe. Once I've eaten all fresh and canned goods and MREs, I'll still have a gallon of quinoa held in reserve.

Probably a more serious problem (than eating quinoa) would be the difficulty of finding fresh water to clean and boil the quinoa under such circumstances.

Quinoa as a sole food source embodies a strong argument for cannibalism (perhaps the Incas agreed).
To be fair to them, the first 5 steps is just about getting a domain and server hooked up.
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You would pay far more for the electricity consumed.
It's a fine line. I can see where Greenwald is coming from, but I don't think that gives journalists carte blanche to just release whatever they feel like without concern for national security.
Depends on the local conditions. E.g. according to Wikipedia, "In eastern North America, it is susceptible to a leaf miner that may reduce crop success; this leaf miner also affects the common weed and close relative Chenopodium album, but C. album is much more resistant." That said, it seems pretty hardy as, "Quinoa's optimal growing conditions are in cool climates with temperatures that range from 25°F/−3°C during the night, to near 95°F/35°C during the day."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa
At time of writing 2/7ths of respondents own > 0 bitcoin. Are there many other new technologies you'd expect 2/7ths of all respondents to use/own? Especially one that doesn't really have a direct use to most consumers yet and high risk for people investing.

2/7th's is huge.
Zero here. I don't own any bitcoins for the same reason I don't own any British pounds or Russian rubles: no reason to.
Yep, same here. Recently used https://bitbargain.co.uk (no affiliation at all) to get myself a couple though, and was surprised just how simple it was.
> The whole idea of why the print yellow pages was good was that it was biased toward people who believed enough in what they were selling to pay for an ad to sell the product or service.

Note that this benefit disappears online, because of targeting. If you see an ad in print, you know the company had enough money to put that ad in front of thousands of people. If you see an ad online, it might have been targeted precisely to you, so the company might well be a scam. I wonder if there's a business idea in making online advertising into a more costly/believable signal.
I used this[1], and it worked great. Setup my blog in 30 minutes or so.

[1] http://0v.org/installing-ghost-on-ubuntu-nginx-and-mysql/
If you're going to store info about sessions in the database and thus have to query the database on every request to make sure the cookie-delivered session is okay... why wouldn't you just use the ActiveRecord session store instead of the cookie store?

What do you gain by using the cookie store with this database component, over just using the active record store to begin with? (The ActiveRecord store used to be the default back in... Rails 2.0?)
Yeah, you're right. There's always going to be a group of people that want to configure everything themselves and setup their own servers. I'm not really targeting this group with silvrback. Open source ghost would be the best route for you.

However, there are a number of people looking for hosted solutions so they don't have to waste any time with config issues. This is where Silvrback comes in. Also, Silvrback should really only be compared to the hosted version of Ghost (which isn't out yet). Comparing it to open source isn't really possible.
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around 0.3 btc and more ltc than I should've bought...
I don't recall a vote.
Oh yeah, I agree with you, I should probably reword my response though, it sounds like I am disagreeing.
I find it very hard to tell some of my brilliant friends that it appears that they are in this case talking our of their fundaments, or at least being somewhat nuts. I used to be more critical, but then people would not want to talk to me. So I learned to be constructive and positive. Which is a great thing and I thank California culture for that. However, I can't find a good way to be an ass to my friends for their own good. (assuing I'm not talking out of mine, of course)

Any tips anyone?
UAW was forced into being vested in Chrysler and GM as a condition of the bailout, and it's a condition that they fought tooth and nail.
Stallman is right again, but he leaves out a very important point about privacy and constitutionally limited government: Without privacy, ANY law can be implemented.

Imagine re-arguing abortion in this era of big data. If makers of pregnancy and baby products can reliably infer that you are pregnant, do you still have an expectation of privacy in what it going on inside your body? The government almost certainly knows you are pregnant. They have your call to your mother recorded. You have admitted it!

The government knows you are pregnant or not. There is no barrier to fairly and uniformly enforcing laws against abortion because reliable information is universally available to any prosecution.

Let's imagine all the other previously impractical laws that would improve society!
My guess would have been "exactly strictly higher than 50%".
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Doesn't work in Chrome/Chrome Canary/Safari on OS X. Just get a black screen after the points are loaded
I agree that's why we are launching a POS Terminal they are used to, its a long term play. More info here coinkite.com/faq
This is a good point that's easy to forget. Mining is not a zero-sum game, but rather increased mining activity increases the security of the network as a whole. Whether it's worth throwing all these resources into Bitcoin in the first place is another question, but at least it's not the case that nothing changes when everybody doubles their hashing power.
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Seems like it should work on other OSs too, actually. Thanks for the link.
True. It wasn't clear to me from the article just how much community support this guy has, but if the answer is almost none, that would certainly be a problem, and not only for raising children. If you're going it alone in that sort of environment, imagine the consequences of something as simple as coming down with the flu.
This is too realistic, I'm super stressed out now because I didn't have time to answer everything right. Next thing I know, there's probably going to be something embarrassing on my FB timeline!
I understand that there's an unseemly faddish element to the gluten free thing, but I think it's unfair to say that your acquaintances suddenly "developed" gluten problems. More likely, they just hadn't been announcing their chronic bowel problems to you all along and suddenly found that their symptoms improved when they tried out this new diet they'd heard of.
Not even as a way to diversify some of your savings?
You could try my Veusz http://home.gna.org/veusz/ package. GUI, scripting and multiplatform. Quite a few satisfied users!
We are just developers.
Denmark has several EU opt-outs in its accession treaty. Equal treatment of non-resident non-nationals for the purposes of property ownership is one of them, mostly because they were worried about Germans buying up all the summer homes (joining the Euro and joining the European military command are two others). I believe Malta has the same opt-out, and Finland had a temporary one that's being phased out.

However the coops are where the residency catch-22 hits most often, and those are just structured with contract law. They have the typical owner-occupied-only rules that most coops worldwide have (some NYC coops are similar). When you buy a coop share you sign a contract agreeing that you, the share owner, are buying the coop share because you plan to reside there. You agree in the contract not to sublet it, and to sell your share if in the future you no longer reside there (usually with a 2-year grace period).

What's different from the U.S. is that it's fairly easy for the coop to enforce the owner-occupied requirement, because there is a central register of residence addresses. Every person resident in Denmark declares themselves legally resident at exactly one address. So the coop can trivially check if you have declared yourself resident at the coop or not. If you move out of the country, then to avoid Danish taxes you must declare yourself a nonresident, which removes you from the register, which the coop then sees. It also means that you can't own shares in two coops, since you can't register yourself at both. (Though in either case, some games can be played by spouses.)

The nonprofit housing associations are just regular landlords, who own large parts of the city and rent out, again with no-subletting contracts.
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Cost of industrial non-organic grain production, herbicides, insecticides and the whole lot vs hey cow, here's some natural prairie, now go eat it, which doesn't cost as much environmentally.
I also wondered whether Devise handled this issue and looked at the source. Devise doesn't address this issue. It relies on warden underneath and serializes the user into the session without any sort of expiry (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devi...). There are a lot of options for remediation, though, like overriding the aforementioned serialization hash to attach an expiry, or setting an expiry in a separate key in the session.
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Thanks! Loved that documentary on Channel 4. Have dropped them an email asking if they can help. I'm not clear if they provide online banking or instant transfer notifications (SMS for example) which would be a core requirement for running a Bitcoin exchange. But I've asked, and hopefully something could come of it!
I can see that, though then you run into all manner of ethical questions of eating animals as well. What we eat is a pretty complex social, environmental, and moral problem.

Also, is it possible that grain farming is worse for the planet in some circumstances and better in others? I am sure that a small rice paddy is much better for the environment than a barn full of chickens in cages too small for them to stand up.
It's absolutely huge. If 2/7 of the world population owned bitcoins, there would be at most 0.01 BTC per person.
At times numpy/scipy/matplotlib have proven pretty troublesome to install with pip. I think they have it working now, but it's still not 100% reliable.
You're not going to get rich being "just a coder." Especially working in painful low-level imperative languages such as C or Java

How true is this,especially the last sentence?
4 poll responders have over $1.5 million in BTC?
Absolutely. I see this need to form tribes based around language and technology really, really bizarre.

(EDIT: I understand it's human behaviour, but most of us developers can get on with their job, picking the best technology for each solution, without chest-beating.)
The company behind the technology to turn images into point clouds is Pix4D [1]. Their website has another few pretty demos.

[1] pix4D.com
I don't own any. I'm waiting for when BTC will be a stable currency and not just a volatile speculation/investment object.
Works on Chrome on 10.8 here. But not Safari.
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The Rails & Angular combination should have a name like Rangular og RoRA. ;-)
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sorry, but..who gives a shit?
There is a whole field of economics doing controlled experiments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_economics). Most of the behavioural economics is derived from evidence from these.

Otherwise, a lot of care is taken to identify causal relationships in economics (e.g. thorugh instrumenting explanatory variables).
I'm still on 10.7, Chrome 32.0.1664.3 dev
The OP did not say there were no reasons. The OP merely asked why should he/she use it.

You claimed "SO many reasons", which implies lots and lots of reasons, especially with "SO" in capitals, but you you only listed 4, most of which IMHO were weak, and really only there to puff up the main reason which is that you don't like WP. In fact, in this new tact of yours, you just go on to criticism WP.

But, all you can say to sell this product is that is has less features than WP, and, well, its not WP. But WP works, and works well. So, unless one has a huge problem with WP, which millions of users seem not to have, I'm still don't see much of an answer to the OP's original question, "why should I use this and not WP?"

And of course its personal choice. There are already many alternatives already out there to WP. Most of them as light as this product is, there for already filling the gap for something bare bones. Yet, people make that personal choice to use WP, in their millions.

One big reason people would go for feature rich WP is future proofing. Would be a bit of a mare to use this, then discover you needed more features in the future and have to ditch it for WP, or similar. On top of that the massive user base gives rise to a massive amount of support knowledge. Always a comfort.

Finally, I have to say, if a hacker type in the web business wants something bare bones, what one earth is one doing with blogging software at all? Surely bare bones would be straight HTML with a sniff of CSS? Don't even need a database, and let evil google do the searching. In is most basic form, blogs are just blocks of text linked up. Im pretty sure most people here could rattle up a serviceable blog site in less than a day. I know I could, and I'm crap.

You know, well done to the people who did the work and what not, but Im not seeing any massive positive reason to use it over WP. In fact, in some ways I see it as a risk. What if I want to expand in the future, and this simply cant have the same level of support information. Which is a shame.
As a parent of two little kids, I learned from the NYTimes/Atlantic/New Yorker/National Enquirer that there are several dozen essential keys to success. They include:

- sports (that enhance "executive function")
- music
- art
- reading a lot
- learning a second language
- unstructured play time
- engaging in lots of conversation
- dance
- creative writing
- playing in dirt
- identifying animals and plants in nature
- games that involve spatial reasoning
- mind melding with pregnant martians

...and many, many more!

And here's the truly terrifying thing - you have to do all of them. After all, your friends on facebook have posted pictures of their kids doing all of them. So, ahem, get to it!

Seriously, it's easy to get yourself all wound up, and there is no way you could possibly do all these things. So I'd just ask, is your kid engaged in something interesting, and does your kid seem to enjoy it? I'm going to guess that if you're the sort of parent who stresses about something you read in the NYTimes, your kid probably isn't parked in front of the TV eating cheetos for 6+ hours a day.

Just for the record (heh), I particularly love music, and I'm all for it as one good choice among many, but there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of things your kids can do that build all kinds of wonderful life skills. You're doing a couple of them, right?

You're doin' great. Seriously. Don't stress.
The most important thing with testing is getting started. Over time you can build a better test infrastructure and tooling, but just start with it.

At Codeship we focus on functional tests first. We use Cucumber/Capybara/Selenium a lot to test the user facing functionality. This way we can be sure that the feature works on the highest level. For some parts you might need to go down to unit tests, but start with functional tests first.

If you want to get started with testing your system try the following:

Everyone in your team writes down his 7 most important workflows in the application from a users perspective and ranks them. Then put all of the workflows together and try to find the 7 most important ones your team agrees on. Then find a tool that helps you test those from a users perspective. Build the whole toolchain (Tetsing tools on every developer machine, Continuous Integration server/service, ...) so adding new tests is trivial.

Now there is no more excuse not to write tests.

For mocking take a look at a screencast we did a while ago:

http://blog.codeship.io/2013/06/11/testing-tuesday-9-stubbin...

But still the most important thing with testing is getting started and having the whole workflow in place. Even if there is just one test, getting to a point where it is easy to add new tests needs to be priority #1
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As I understand it, there are only a finite number of Bitcoins.

Hence there will be an end to mining.
Got it, filing a bug at HTTPs github page. On a more serious note, this is why we have frameworks, and dont let developers roll their own because its "super easy".
He says it takes 4-5 minutes, but you might need to experiment with the best times for you, plus it involves crafting a lid out of foil. This is a preposterous amount of effort compared to removing pizza from a box and stuffing it into your face, or even just throwing it in the microwave for 20 seconds.
A problem with mining bitcoins is that the activity itself produces no value (But does burn silicon, rare earth metals, and electricity). Mining it is an economically pointless endeavour - it is like basing a currency on the activity of digging ditches, and filling them.
For a more painless install try Continuum's Anaconda or Enthought's Canopy. They bundle together the most important scientific libraries, work cross-platform and in this case include all dependencies.
That's a long and complicated story. The short answer is "we don't know". One company that hired me complained that every agile trainer they've spoken with has done a terrible job of explaining the role of management and I have to explain that's because it's one area that agile really doesn't have a good grasp of. It's a time of tremendous experimentation and we don't yet know how this is going to play out.

That being said, in my training I give several examples of Agile companies that either have no management or very flat hierarchies, such as 37signals, github, Booking.com and Valve. There are many reasons why they're successful and it would be silly to simply say it's because they're jettisoning management. However, we know that large companies tend to be significantly worse at innovation (Steve Jobs is an anomaly) and they also often focus on risk avoidance rather than reward.

The primary strengths of many large companies is name recognition, financial reserves, and mature products. That's very hard for smaller companies to compete against, particularly given the old saw of "nobody got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft/$insert_large_corporation_here".
I have just over 2 BTC, but now that Silk Road is closed down, I don't really have any use for them - my only purchases were pharmaceutical drugs that I can't get without prescription in my country.

So I'll probably just hang on to them in case Bitcoin shoots up in value some day, and I can sell them for real money.
This is exactly what I meant! Thank you!
> I've heard anecdotes that the iPad is that easy to use (children and grandparents).

You are right of course, except that the iPad is an unusual in being a hardware/software solution. Use the same interface and give somebody a mouse instead of a touch screen and they'll have the same old problems as before.
Personally I think Ember is closer to being Rails younger brother due to philosophies. I'd love to hear in detail why you picked Angular over Ember and (understandably) Backbone.
Please, make a version suitable for kids. This would make an excellent teaching tool.
1. Not everyone in London is Dick Whittington (and this is also a criticism of other comments in this thread, that seems to assume this), coming for the gold-paved streets. Some people live there because they grew up there, as did their parents and so on. As do their parents still, because 30 or more years ago, it was still possible for normal people to buy a family home.

2. You sound like the Golgafrinchans. If only "professionals" live in London, who cleans up after those professionals, serves them coffee, or does any of the other non-professional tasks that keep a city moving? Do you expect your £18Kpa hairdresser (or the minimum-wage junior that sweeps up the hair) to spend £5Kpa (after tax) getting to work, or would you prefer to have go to Northampton every couple of months to get your hair cut?
That would mean Dropbox reading all passwords. Use KeePassX or any such tool and store the data file in Dropbox instead
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