skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what the license it. The guy from copy.sh promised to make it open source, but didn't yet. Can I hope?
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To fairly judge my background, you should really only look at Bitcoinica between Sep 2011 and Jan 2012, when I actually had a management role in the business. The subsequent mis-management was entirely out of my control. I owned exactly zero percent of the company before, during and after any of the three hacks. I sold all assets related to Bitcoinica in November 2011 (~4 months before the first "Linode hack").

I honestly want Bitcoin to be successful, and that's why I joined CoinJar and started the journey all over again.
http://i.imgur.com/xvNRKIT.png
"a simple file sharing server on their own PC or a server they own..."

I think that's the part you're missing. What fraction of the general population can set up a file-sharing server? What fraction of the population even owns a server? What fraction of the population even knows what a server is?

DropBox faced this objection over and over again from the investors they pitched, and Drew's answer was variations on "But how many of them have made it easy enough for your grandma to use?" That was the killer innovation - making filesharing so easy to use that you didn't need to set up anything, just install DropBox and drag your files to a folder. And that's been the killer innovation for many startups - Apple, Google, Amazon, Intuit, etc. all let you do things that many other companies have let you do before, but they made it so easy that even the average Joe can do it.
I can't see how Bitbillpay is remotely a custodial or depository service. No dollar ever changes hands (I pay your bills with my credit card, and you pay me in Bitcoin). Australia Post also explicitly allows "third party bill payments" in their terms of service.
Beta launch, reserve your ID & test free support chat
you should reread the essay. He then goes on to mention how mainstream physics experiments have failed to do basic things like "repeat an old experiment with the new apparatus" and therefore careening towards pseudoscience.
It's worth pointing out she used the full version of her name herself.
This information has not been released:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485041e...

The irony is thick:

1) They were unable to reproduce the experiments from the papers alone, and this is considered normal.

2) The "scientists" required them to sign an NDA before helping them to reproduce their published results.

3) We're left here drawing conclusions from anecdotal evidence from a study that cannot be reproduced.

Luckily, science is self-correcting so we need not be overly concerned.
IANAL but applying your implied criteria it seems that every online store should hold AFSL because they take money from consumers. A "financial product" has been clearly defined in CA.
Reminds me of this:

Don't Wake Up the Programmer!

http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html
> Why do I need to scan my ID, picture and fingerprints

You don't, this one just scans your palm, which seems a lot easier than the runaround necessary to create an online account anywhere.

Since there are no 'palm databases' linking your palm to your identity, seems pretty anonymous too. It is only to ostensibly prevent any one user from going over the daily transaction limit. (As an aside I personally don't see anonymity as a big issue most of the time anyway).
About Google: OAuth 1.0 has been officially deprecated as of April 20, 2012. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but we encourage you to migrate to OAuth 2.0 as soon as possible.
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2?hl=it
There's a sliding scale of HATEOAS-ness. I've seen a much more extreme form of it described elsewhere. Mark Seemann (http://blog.ploeh.dk/2013/05/01/rest-lesson-learned-avoid-ha...) describes an approach that encrypts all URLs so that clients have no choice but to follow links because generating URLs from templates is impossible.

So instead of

http://foo.ploeh.dk/customers/1234/orders

You'd have

http://foo.ploeh.dk/DC884298C70C41798ABE9052DC69CAEE

And you'd have to get that URL out of the response to another request you'd already made. I never liked this idea, and the linked article provides a really strong counterargument to this approach to HATEOAS.

When browsing a website, decisions on what links will be
clicked are made at run time. However, with an API, decisions
as to what requests will be sent are made when the API
integration code is written, not at run time. Could the
decisions be deferred to run time? Sure, however, there isn't
much to gain going down that route as code would still not be
able to handle significant API changes without breaking.
Shameless plug http://www.boyter.org/decoding-captchas/ I wrote this a few years ago. Has full source code too.
Code quality means a lot in my opinion. A nicely structured and organized code not only shows its programmers' expert skills but makes it easier (and faster!) to modify or extend the present functionalities. Also if you care about code quality it really helps you to develop your skills.

As others stated it is needed to start a project in a way that you care about the quality. Even when there have not been a single line written. Also being agile also means that you refactor and redesign from time to time when it is needed.

I always check my code after implementing a functionality. If it is needed, I refactor my code. Also there are numerous tools to check code quality (e.g. Sonar). A very good approach is to have code reviews as well if you can.

There is a very nice book in this topic which the others have not mentioned, but if you are interested I advise to read it: Clean Code by Robert C. Martin.
XML gets a lot of flack, and I think part of it is that "enterprise" solutions have mis-used and abused it so much (and part of it might be that people started out with only DTDs for specifying schemas).

Today, I think it's obvious that xml shouldn't ever really be written by a human, it should be used for machine generated interchange of data, much as html -- markdown and rst are reasonable languages to write in -- html "requires" a gui/wysiwig editor -- just as it really isn't pleasant to work with eg: xml config files directly. Or ant-scripts. It just isn't. Yes, you can hide the ugly with a smart editor, but it's still pretty ugly.

Now, html might be pleasant compared to writing in Postscript -- but it's not really pleasant to write (hence things like sparkup).
They're journalists more than economists, but the folks at The Economist were talking about a housing bubble in the US and elsewhere.

Also, this kind of article adds little to this site: it's basically round 4348388282998271193 of "mainstream economics vs Austrians and other heterodox schools of thought" on the internet. It's all been said.
You say a bunch of stuff about how it's the same old same old, and ma and pa can set up a file sharing server and figure out syncing between all the computers they use.

The comments on TFA and yours all miss the point. You touch on it in parentheses at the end. It's easy. Normal people don't have an always on server they can administer and have reliably available. It is literally sign up, install tiny program, put files in a folder. Done. This isn't a problem people didn't have, it was a very real and common problem, hence the success.
And Risk!
wow, thats great
And therein lies a fascinating fact about Dropbox. Drew made the tradeoff between convenience and security/ownership one that convenience won out, particularly for a lot of people that from the outset were not expecting it. I think Dropbox's adoption in the smartphone world has been one of the most ingenious partnerships. I had pretty much the same experience in that I really only started looking at Dropbox as a serious solution to me when my Samsung phone shipped with a free account (+ I got a whole lotta free space through my university finishing high in the space race).

I'm not a daily linux user myself, so what particularly interests me is what Dropbox's adoption rate is like in the linux world. This seems to me to be the toughest nut to crack, since most linux users are power users in the sense that they're savvy enough to setup their own Unison/rsync etc. system.

My conclusion after thinking about Dropbox more is that it's a testament to the fact that to the majority of people convenience wins out over most other things (so long as the execution is bang on).
even emotional-rage induced, totally irrational criticism can sometimes uncover rough spots in need of patching!
Opal: a Ruby to Javascript compiler
Interesting to see this idea as the top rated comment here on HN. I wrote a post about a year ago about a similar concept (for different reasons - Twitter API limits, Apple rejections), and most of the HN crowd disagreed back then. http://www.techfounder.net/2012/08/30/developers-vs-bigcorp/
Is it free to use in my commercial app?
Interesting that someone calls this a good competitor to "GDrive", even though google drive was unveiled several years later.

Also interesting is the link to Aaron Swartz's blog, where he describes the need for something similar. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/lazybackup
Careful! A lot of would be Drew Houston's end up discouraged by naysayers. As a founder, it took me a while to know who to listen to. One of the toughest things about doing a startup is people telling you you're wrong all the time. One of the things YC (and pg in particular) gets right is that they're very encouraging of potential for success.
One thing that I'd recommend any supporter of the official story* (~1963) to look into, and invite them to elaborate on, is the story of Eugene Dinkins.

http://themostdangerousbookintheworld.com/index.php/hot-arti...

*Note: As of 1979, the official story changed. A Congressional Report from 1979 suggested that JFK was assassinated as part of a conspiracy. This was 16 years after the Warren Commission.

http://www.examiner.com/article/congressional-report-john-ke...
>Much like healthcare is now directed by insurers, science seems to be increasingly directed by bureaucrats. Should we be surprised by the disappointing results and soaring costs?

I think you have really hit the nail on the head with this one.
"It has to be brought up everywhere. That's the whole point behind trying to change usage"

It's not much of a point then ;)

If it even did some good to anyone. But all this linguistic ritual smells of magical thinking to me. The idea that if you change the usus and call things differently, they will change. It's pushing on a string.

Basically it's another incarnation of Facebook's "liking this picture will end world hunger" :)

No, fixing the world is not that simple. Just you wait, gender inequality - I'll replace all the "he"s with "she"s on my blog. Ouch that's tough blow, I can only hope my misogyne silicone bracelet will shield me!

"Unless your point is that you're tired of it coming out as an explicit point for discussion, as in this current thread of the conversation. That's optional to the core of the effort."

If one decides to be importunate and pushy (ever had that friend who wouldn't talk about anything else that 9/11 conspiracy, for example - be it at work, at lunch, parties...?) - fine, but don't be surprised if it creates backlash and is counter-effective on occasions. It's a trade-off that should be weighed in. You're free to use that tactic just as I'm free to comment on it :)
Today: Put your smartphones down, pick up your guitars, and play along with Perfect Day.

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/l/lou_reed/perfect_day_ver2_...
Oh shit! I come here to read about web services/applications, and yours is something way outside (and so awesome)!

Your limit is clearly your imagination (not the web ;))
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Ask HN: How should I promote a non-profit that gives cash directly to the poor?
I have been helping New Incentives, the only non-profit that has decided to use CCTs to reduce poverty in this world. It seems that even though the HN crowd really likes the idea of research-backed efficient and transparent giving, the donations often don't follow this trend. That, or people just haven't heard about New Incentives' efforts. CCTs recently got covered in an article in the Economist and has been trending on the Hacker News. Link to article: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-money-directly-poor-people-works-surprisingly-well-it-cannot-deal, link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6625473.<p>I was wondering what could be done better to promote and communicate such an organization that aligns well with the thinking of HN readers and some philanthropists.<p>Thanks-in-advance everybody for up-voting and responding!
A cloud requires at least 2 computers to be online at the same time. This is not the common case for people.
Once upon a time I was working with a very challenging legacy code and I was building similar constructions in my mind. The office was sometimes noisy and chance of interruption was not that small. So I established a habit of writing kind of stack trace of my own thoughts so that I could easily come back to my state of mind after such thing. It looked like:

There is a bug in module X
Module is X is calling module Y when user is not yet activated
We are creating user subscription
We are using current subscription in subscription creation
Current subscription is A when user is not activated
Current subscription is B when user is activated
Probably bug in method c()
Think what is going to happen in situation M when changed the implementation to d().

The list sometimes had 12 elements that I was trying to fit in my head to find the solution to the problem. I now work remotely from home (quiet and all that) and most of the code that I work on is of much better quality (another company, better practices) but I still sometimes resort to this method when working on a complicated piece of code that is unfamiliar to me.
What I still wonder about is where that 7/10 rating for Stroustrup comes from. I've seen it mentioned in some other posts on hackernews, but just with the remark "Stroustrup rated himself as 7/10 in an interview". I'd like to see the entire interview (or what other source it comes from), just to be sure it's not an out of context quote.
Not to be a downer but an academic study found this to have limited effect. I heard about it on freakonomics so can't vouch for how biased it was. Just an interesting point against the economist article. http://freakonomics.com/2013/09/26/would-a-big-bucket-of-cas...
I'm not a iPhone (I have Nexus 4) user but looking at the screenshots of iOS 7 it looks way better than iOS 6, why are the people complaining?
Have they made the usability worse, or are they used to the "old" (in my opinion ugly) look of iOS6?
New Incentives is an organization that only gives money through CCTs and has seen exceptional results!! newincentives.org.
In particular, "linux users" in context doesn't include anyone with a smartphone.
The article is accessible without registration: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/papers/ICPC2010-CamelCaseUn...
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Such a thing happened in my graduate school lab. I'll even cop to having a data point in one graph where I just got sick and tired of doing the experiment so there's an N of 4 instead of an N of 5 as it states it is in the methods section (this is actually impressive for the field I was in at the time, which typically didn't even do replicates at all. I am sure my colleagues' results are, at best, cherry-picked).
I have a NAS in my house and I still put a ton of important files on Dropbox. Before I had Dropbox I would suffer from pretty significant anxiety every time I went on a trip. What if someone breaks into my house? What if there's a fire? I would literally hide my NAS in my closet when I went away for more than a week. I don't treat Dropbox as a single source of backups but I do treat it as redundant storage to my NAS. It's simple and it just works without having to mess with a lot of settings.

Disclaimer: I work for Dropbox and I trust the people I work with with my files.
Not just in the case of cs. It could work on electronics, where building some stuff is relatively easy, given design data.

In general, a replication requirement might drive us to build replication tools for each science, which could be quite useful.
The man who ordered these strikes has a peace nobel price.
Another interesting resource: list of best practices on https://blog.apigee.com/taglist/restful?page=5, with comparisons of big names such as Twitter or Facebook
SaaS pricing parameters
It's our first step make people happy.) Now it's support: match (hotornot, tinder), geosorting, geoforum, multilanguage, adaptive markup, async chat...

Next step we gonna add video-chat, and some gamification part.

Working on django.
good point, not everyone has skin as tough as me (I'm in the sciences, where the most searing crucible is not your colleague's criticism, but the cold, silent, emotionless failure of an experiment).
skydrive, icloud, ubuntu one?
Well done hitting $1m ARR!
Interesting to see Helvetica ("Helv") in Windows 1.0 Write. According to a quick Wikipedia, Arial was only introduced with TrueType in Windows 3.x.
>Education goes to the lowest common denominator and becomes basically crap for everyone involved

>health services which are subpar, with waiting lines and mediocre equipment

>the middle-class and the poor are forever restrained to a diminished quality of life

Are you sure you aren't talking about present day America? All of these things have become widespread here as a result of income inequality--something you've said you support.
This has him here as far back as 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
In fact, they all do.

Apple, Microsoft and Canonical all provides Cloud Storage and "syncing" tools. Be it iCloud, SkyDrive or UbuntuOne.
Here is a wild concept, mandate that people take care of people. Use the government only to enforce this. The government is full of corruption and waste, they are innefective in matters that require an actual soul (such as people who have made mistakes, people who have no reason to care, impoverished people, prisoners ETC.)...

What if you could take the percentage of taxes that you spend every year and choose whom to help with it. Of course those who were receiving it would have to fulfill certain requirements, but wow what a concept. How about deducting some amount from that mandatory contribution of the person were to volunteer in the community?

We would have charities all over the place competing for this money, competition would produce far better results than the abysmal record of the state/federal social services. Many people may even give the money as cash to some people - personally. Have government oversight review and publish how well any charitable organization is doing at helping people become self reliant financially and socially (this will separate the wheat from the chaff).

People may actually become caring and have empathy for these people that they are helping. When people help others, they become happier people. Many people may even donate more money on top of the required amount and volunteer or switch careers to one that helps those in need.

Imaging that. That is something that no government could ever accomplish.

The government really de-humanizes people. It takes our money and does some things to help people. We never see this happen directly. The government keeps the bums and beggars out of sight so we never even see them. The government jails drug attics and other impoverished criminals so we never see them either.

All we ever see from the media is bad news. We never see lives being turned around from welfare or other social services.

My money says that once people start taking care of each other, their humanity will grow 1000% ala the Grinch.
Quite a few friends and family have put Dropbox on their personal machines at my suggestion. Because of a whole range of factors (trustworthiness, cost, business model, reliability, usability, design, ease of installation, features) I felt comfortable recommending it, and they felt comfortable installing it. The same could not have been said for Rapidshare, Megaupload, a custom FTP server, etc.
The savings identity is usually misinterpreted by laypeople, though.

Here's a small story to illustrate why S=I can be very misleading: Company C has always produced some type gadgets, for many years. Demand for the gadget has been stable, they just keep producing to what the demand is, end of story. Sounds boring, but this is what 99% of the economy is.

Now, for whatever reason (a recession, a policy change, it doesn't really matter), consumers want to save more. In doing so, they decide to reduce their purchase of C's gadget.

What happens now? Well, saving S goes up. At the same time, company C involuntarily builds up an inventory of gadgets that they had already started producing but which they can no longer sell. This build-up of inventory is counted as investment in the national accounts! So I goes up, and the identity S=I is maintained.

But S=I is maintained in a way that is in total conflict to the typical layperson's interpretation of the equation.

So, yes, an exogenous increase in saving will tend to push up "investment" (in quotation marks because it is involuntary investment). When all is said and done, we may all well be poorer for it in real terms, because the level of economic activity may have been reduced.

On the other hand, when there is an increase in voluntary investment, then I goes up. Then people's income increases, and that tends to lead to an increase in savings. So S=I is also maintained, but we tend to be richer for it in real terms due to a higher level of economic activity.
Sure, but then articles from there wouldn't end up on HN because they wouldn't be public. The NYT wants to have their cake and eat it too.
But access to college and health care isn't??
I admittably have a weakness for vintage human computer interface design, but for some reason, they don't make them like they used to anymore.
How did you attract SMEs - keeping in mind it looks like your service is aimed at developers? I'm keen to hear what your most common use cases are too.
Do the same as humans do : it's 25cl ... point. You won't be far off the mark.
if you want to capture the English market, please do some copy editing on your site.
A mathematician friend of mine once tried to explain some stuff about his field. It started with homomorphisms on Riemann surfaces and then got well beyond my comprehension. Anyway, after he'd been talking for about five minutes he said:

"And this has the cardinality of the monster, and no-one knows why."

Mathematicians keep finding peculiar and deep relationships between their subfields that, for the most part, are not yet understood. As the article states, a proof isn't really complete until it's comprehensible.
IIRC, at the time there were a bunch of third-party solutions offering 'GDrive' by storing files in Gmail with custom labels through IMAP.
Hm, how about nilfs2?

http://www.nilfs.org
So many people today are still harping on the security aspect (Not ~free~ software, you don't own the servers).

How does that matter at all when selling to a large consumer base? How many customers of dropbox know what those words mean?

Like so many commercial offerings you could built it from source and get some hacky scripts going on your own but 99% of the world isn't going to do that.