skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my RMA process was similar - a barrage of tests + pictures with a week or two for every response (or lack there of). Luckily, after a month of this i got the replacement, but terribly frustrating nonetheless.
Hate BitCoin or like it. Let's agree, nobody can explain this; and nobody can predict BitCoin value or usage.

Some top HN members criticized BitCoin heavily. I, for one, invested $0 in BitCoin.

But we can be sure about something: Bitcoin is weird, new and innovative. It's something completely new and has no rules. The game is open. How the market will react will not depend on your limited (or wide) experience.

Bitcoin can go all the way down to $0 and the rest is history. It can go up and widely used that it changes history. I'll be just watching though.
Do you consider Clojure a Lisp (it certainly is), then there's for example prismatic: http://getprismatic.com/
The only reason people did worse is because either the questions are worded somewhat deceptively (question 1 presents itself like a math problem where 4bn would be correct) or they challenge something no none would know and would have to make a guess based on their current worldview, such as poverty overall decreasing in recent years, which contrasts the cries of many politicians and talking heads. Chimpanzees don't "know" any more, but they're not going to fall for the traps in questions designed to trip people up. This is basically a test of common misconceptions.
Yes, it's working.
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I have money in bitcoin, I believe in its future, and I acknowledge we are in a bubble. Nothing to be terrified of;

As long as you don't have significant money in it, it's no big problem, but say you had your savings in it or were paid a salary in it - at that point the volatility would be a nightmare and the prospect of a bubble seriously troubling (bubbles always burst badly, and frequently go through successive waves of euphoria before they do). That the price has returned to a new high does not mean it will stay that high.

To supplant other currencies bitcoin would have to deal with the volatility and perhaps more importantly the lack of regulation and verification - with the current setup and community that'll be a huge issue, and perhaps impossible. It'll be really interesting to follow the trajectory of bitcoin and similar currencies as they negotiate these problems but I don't trust them just yet.

I do think email is broken for precisely the same reason - it thrived in spite of its anonymous insecure nature, not because of it, they simply didn't think about having to verify identity at the start, which has led to all sorts of problems with phishing and spamming. A lack of verified identity is at the heart of both these systems and causes issues for both of them, so I think email is a great example of a system which has problems of abuse (spoofing, spamming, phishing, fraud) because of anonymity being allowed.
Depends what you mean by "syntax hack". Its point is to create a syntactic scope where `yield` can not currently exist and can be reserved. Since yield is a valid name in javascript today there might be code in the wild going

function foo() {
yield = some_computation();
return yield;
}

this code would be broken by enabling generators. Same with yield* foo() (which would be interpreted as multiplying the variable `yield` by the result of `foo()` in ES5).

It also creates a nice parallelism between function* and yield, as a side-effect.

See http://esdiscuss.org/topic/proposal-to-simplify-generators-i..., there should be more extensive previous discussions in es-discuss and TC39 notes but it's a pain in the ass to look it up.

edit: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/ also points to the use case of 0-item generators — mostly in relation to delegating from yield — with

function* () {}

in Python (and JS/1.7) you'd need the unwieldy

function() {
if (false) yield
}

and notes that having a star in the header function makes it easier on the reader.
Meyers' presentation slides, with notes, are available and excellent: http://www.artima.com/shop/overview_of_the_new_cpp. They include C++14. It isn't the deep dive, but it's a great overview.
To me, it's more interesting to see the willingness of large companies like PayPal to leverage "new" technologies in any way. The common narrative of large companies suggests otherwise.
Why are copyright lawsuits ridiculously big?
I think everyone will agree that using 4 bytes to store the size a much better idea than potentially enumerating millions of nodes just to count them, in the process completely blowing the cache and any optimizations the processors may do.

It's four goddamn bytes. Or eight if you really want more than 4 billion elements.
I've liked Rosling's talks before, but this is annoying. No, most of the respondents did not pick at random. In all the questions except one or two, the majority chose the response with the closest value to the correct response. And it was usually within a reasonable margin (60% vs 80% literacy).

So I think we may be able to extrapolate that most Brits have a slightly more pessimistic view of the world that what the facts show us (depends on how many people they surveyed and other factors), but not that they're somehow dumber than chimpanzees.
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What is the difference to Moonscript? http://moonscript.org/ Apart from small syntactic differences, both seem to offer pretty much similar feature extensions to lua (i.e. List comprehensions, OOP, etc)
Ahh, that is very helpful, thanks. So my evaluation of their answer was premature, but I guess no more premature than those who would take it as an indication that "B&N sure showed Microsoft".
I have better question:

If all transactions are public, in theory you could trace user, who has your bitcoin now. Than you could sue him to get your stolen stuff back.
>> The dimensionality of L^2(R) is still countable.

At this point I was implicitly talking about Linf(R). Does it still have countable dimension? With the sup norm I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but with Lp taken at p->inf maybe it does?

In any case, thanks for cleaning up the rough edges.
Django-debugmail: A very simple app to redirect e-mails to ADMINS in testing.
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Legally, yes you can.

But should you?

One of the great advantages of the internet is that it allows you to launch and test a new a product without all the bureaucracy that comes along with a traditional company.

And bureaucracy = financial and time costs.

My advice is to only incorporate in the US if you have a STRONG reason to. If no STRONG reason found, don't incorporate yet and ask yourself this question again X weeks from now.
Which only works on small hobby projects, startups and a few companies of the likes of Google, Facebook and friends.

On the real corporation world, it is a whole different thing.

Good luck enforcing coding styles across multi-site projects, with rotating developers and off-shoring subcontractors.
Paragraph 1: It's likely your fault, luser

Paragraph 2: If it's NOT your fault, stop whining about the shipping costs. Do you know how expensive it is for us to pay for that stuff?

Paragraph 3: If we made stuff that didn't break we wouldn't make money. So we make stuff that breaks.

Paragraph 4: We've ditched this anyhow. Why are we still talking about it?

OK, maybe "NFC ubiquity" is crazy hard, but so, apparently, is customer service.
Tesla can't produce 7150 cars per quarter as of today, the production capacity as of Q3 end was probably on the order of 6200 cars/quarter. The reason guidance is lower than this, is that the company is expanding to many foreign markets and hence many cars are in transit.

This was also covered on the earnings call. Tesla is currently shipping to Europe and will if I remember correctly start shipping to China during Q4. Remember, shipping cars takes time since they need to go on freight ships.
I think he's conflating "MVC" with "server-side template generation"
I genuinely wonder how it is possible for paypal to have such terrible design for so long? Everyone knows its an issue, and it seems like a couple 100k in design work would clear up the issue for the next 4-5 years.
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items Stock, Location, Open Hours... All that in a phone app or on google map ?
Convenience mostly.
Surely there are only 95 repeated pairs of three digits between 100100 and 194194? And another 95 symmetric numbers. With a leading zero you have 195 each way.
I'm excited about this - but cannot seem to find a 'hello world' or any other actual code examples?

--Edit-- is it the exact same syntax as Haskell? Unclear.
just looked at the code, i was wondering about the reason for not choosing construct library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct_(python_library)) for parsing packets ?

edit : fwiw, i have used it for writing a rfc-3315 (and a few extensions) compliant dhcpv6 client, and it made the entire experience great fun.
> It's four goddamn bytes. Or eight if you really want more than 4 billion elements.

As long as you don't have millions of lists with a few elements each -- you can't presume that they are only used one way :)
Let me know if you find one
>We cherish every dollar we get from our community and would not do it justice to spend it unwisely. So yes, we expect you to cover the postage back to us.

I'm not sure I would've worded it this way. There is a lot of negative connotation is those two sentences, and some of it is in reference to the character of the company founders.

Good luck, and I hope you have less customers inserting their batteries wrong in the future.
Why would yield as an lvalue or var conflict with yield as a statement? Yes it would be unavoidable if a variable named yield was used as a statement, but that's a pretty strange thing to do. Reserved words are unnecessary.

As to convenient empty generators, they don't need to be enabled by syntax. You could define a function empty_gen() that is even fewer characters than function* () {}.
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Tumbling simply makes the accounting harder, but not impossible.
I hear fairly solid rumors that MS is going to scrap the forced curve in their review system. Apparently new hires are starting to ask questions about it (and so they should).

Beyond that, they have serious problems with Windows and its never-shrinking accumulation of legacy. Apple did a great job on iOS (certainly compared to any embedded Windows offering). If Microsoft really is serious about their concentration on devices, they're going to have to lose a ton of fat and get a good understanding of what it means to ship consumer level embedded products. (The Xbox group has a good handle on this, though they had to do a bunch of work to make Win8 be reliable and predictably performant enough for a console -- I understand that the Windows group is unhappy with this. Not surprising, it's a threat!)

Maybe an outside expert will break up the internal politics enough that they can make good inroads. A strong CEO who had a clue here would do the job, too.
Disagree. Readability is not about 4 or 2 spaces, it is about strongly enforced convention that makes these typographic details literally disappear from the eyes of the readers. This effect is very noticeable in book publishing: if you ever notice the typography, the typographer failed at his task. It is the same in code, just file the rules and it will become your preferred guideline in no time.

And repeated experiences everywhere point to the fact that code text is already very hard to manage, very sensitive to alterations, misreading, etc. I'd rather remove layers and tools than add more.

Edit: obviously, readability is ask about convention when they are within the realm of sane acceptable conventions. And by everywhere I mean in teams where the loc count is above a few thousands.
I did the same a couple years ago. Development speed has sped up drastically.
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An interesting read, some actually novel empirical data, although the title is a bit link-baity.

I can't help but wonder if this is a learned response in most cultures, i.e. where clothes play a significant social role. One doesn't see many scantly clad university professors vs. working without too much clothes is usually reserved for jobs not requiring particular intelligence or education, so we come to extrapolate from that experience. It would be interesting to see if this effect manifests in societies where people usually go naked or without much clothes. It would also be interesting to see whether this is just about the nakedness or does it apply to other imaginable forms of "embodiment" (from this article I somehow get the intuition that it would).
> Much better.

You now have two files to do one thing, and your solution doesn't work (it doesn't pass the arguments from the shell script to the python, or pass the exit code back, and it's making an extra process which can screw up monitoring). You could add the extra code to make it work; but even if you did, you're going to a lot of extra effort to become equal, not better :P
...aaaaaaand we are now in the realm of philosophy. This discussion is over ;) "What does the word 'rational' mean?"
Small addition: for something to become a currency, it must have value and market acceptance. The value is coming only from the speculative desire to hold money (either expecting it either to grow, or at least to outperform alternatives, like Argentinians holding dollars to protect against peso inflation). In case of Bitcoin, the amount of acceptance is reflected in the price because the more people want to hold it, the higher price they will have to bid. Therefore, price tells everyone that 1) bitcoin has value and 2) bitcoin has growing acceptance. Only after that it can be used as a currency.

TL;DR: Speculative investment is the only way for an asset to have value and thus become useful currency.
It would be nice to drop the archaic languages and technologies as well, e.g. CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
Probably a false memory.
The article is light on conclusions and full of fluff.

This has nothing to do with chimps. A chimp is used as an example of an agent selecting at random...as a rhetorical device it obscures the author's point and simply confuses the reader. A proper headline would be "British people seem to be more pessimistic than is justified."

The point that the professor seems to be making is that many of the preconceptions that British people have about the world are pessimistic. That's a fair point, but there's no discussion as to why or what it means - is it a national tendency, is it to do with the images in the media, what are the implications for the economy or the political situation, is it even a bad thing to be slightly pessimistic? What opportunities does the national pessimism create and what opportunities does it destroy?

Aside from a few interesting 'gotcha' questions in the quiz, there's not very much to this article at all.
This is a really strange opinion. SQL is an awesome DSL for interacting with structured, relational data. Got no idea where you get your 90% stat from; seems to me that's a product of your personal ecosystem rather than an objective statement about the universe.
You are wrong and overly pessimistic. Look at DPR. The govt confiscated 174k BTC, but he supposedly has another (encrypted) ~500k BTC wallet, and he is NOT/will NOT be tortured to reveal the key.
a new programming language is a perfect excuse to drop old ways of doing things, that way there's no legacy code pulling you back into old ways of doing things.
I am still learning about Bitcoin... so these may be a silly questions or questions based on wrong assumptions. From what I understand, as you get close to the max (21 million or so) the coins are harder to mine. Does that not mean transactions take longer to verify? And if you cannot verify transactions in a 'timely' manner is the system effectively dead?

What is the acceptable user experience for maximum verification time of a transaction? At that max 'verification time' difficulty level, how long would it take to generate all remaining coins?
Instead of "accountability from the creators" you have accountability of every single investor and bitcoin business. Every single one of them is motivated enough to keep system working well and preserving their individual wealth. Compare that with coercive power of government which simply declares something a "legal tender" and then you are forced to accept their paper and their monetary policy as a fact.
have a look at: https://github.com/Frege/frege/tree/master/examples
I have used localbitcoins.com a few times to buy bitcoins, and have been happy. Remember to use the site's escrow though.
Yeah – Clojure's counts for sure. Thanks!
... 'an .exe file onto an iPad', ahem.
3 days? People haven't been able to withdraw BTC to USD in months as far as I was aware. http://www.reddit.com/r/mtgox
What about the wicket framework, is it ok?
> ... there might be code in the wild going ...

There definitely is. We have millions of lines of JS and many applications that deal with yield of a security. This yield: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/y/yield.asp
Hike dem goalposts. You asked what they could do with the information they illicitly obtain, and I provided an answer.

"Has the US government killed a bunch of your neighbors? Disappeared them?"

No, not yet. However, I believe there's a "there" there with the IRS scandals, which is definitely headed in that direction very, very strongly. Which is to say, it's riding your line, it crosses a lot of other more realistic lines already.
The survey illustrates a great point about how many conceptions the public has about the worlds are totally wrong. I don't want to detract from that, but I have a minor criticism about the whole "worse than chimpanzees" thing. I think they picked these questions knowing or at least having an idea that the majority of people would get them wrong. It's not hard to design a survey that gives you whatever results you want if you can pick any questions at all. Manipulating the multiple choices (contrasting the good answer with opposite extremes for example) might also have an effect.

The projection of children by 2100 doesn't seem accurate. Yes population growth is declining but after 3 to 4 generations of exponential growth, wouldn't populations with a high cultural or biological tendency to reproduce more be vastly over-represented by then?
Lets not fool ourselves, they are price constrained for a larger number of people. Once the rich blow through their gotta have it phase then we will see if the demand is there. Considering the X is going to cost even more I really don't care much for Tesla right now, get back to me when they compete against the Leaf
I think, because money as any other standard is always a network effect. Networks grow exponentially, in a self-reinforcing manner. Or they don't grow at all (when at a point of saturation).
"Node.js and javascript all the way up from just above the services layer to the frontend layer"

Sounds like a glorified web GUI layer. Good old statically-typed Java is still used for the stuff that does the actual work.

I propose a new article title "How PayPal switched to a more reasonable web GUI approach".
> Apparently new hires are starting to ask questions about it

Stack/Rank is the #1 reason why I don't return calls from Microsoft recruiters.
No. Promises work nicely with generators, but you can use generator functions freely.
@terhechte I'm not the author but looking inside the lib/ folder you can notice it is running on "ray", a coroutine scheduler based on libuv, as commented by the author: "Oh, and it schedules coroutines instead of using callbacks."

By the way, I think the "vocation" of MoonScript is to run on Nginx (see Lapis) while Nyanga could run as a standalone server.
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Once you have been acquired there is no longer a point trying hard.
You're right. I think the last few big online wallet breaches were Instawallet, and MyBitcoin.

For anyone who wants to get their missing BTC out of inputs.io (who doesn't), I've written a blog post here: http://bitcoinreviewer.com/inputs-io-hacked-refund/
It's a Pentium-class CPU with PCI Express. Intel says that it can run Linux and Windows.

If that's true, shouldn't existing drivers from NVIDIA and AMD just work?
> Firefox did it right

That is the "old" yield. It has been transformed into the new ES6 yield (w/ function*) in the current Firefox nightly.
What kind of application is that? Is it more than DB + GUI?

PS: I switched from JS to C# - it is an amazing experience!
1. Bitcoin can be explained if you take time and study it. It has no new or strange constructs in it. Hash functions and digital signatures were around for decades. You may also like this glossary: https://github.com/oleganza/CoreBitcoin/blob/master/GLOSSARY...

2. Bitcoin has rules and those rules are strictly followed and very strictly specified in actual software.
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The value of bitcoins is tied to the size of the bitcoin economy. If you believe the size of the bitcoin economy is going to grow over time, then the value of each coin will also increase (as there will never be more than 20m coins).

If bitcoins are to be used as a niche instrument to make financial transactions easier, the total value of all bitcoins should probably be more more than a few billion dollars.
Last rally started at $14 and crashed into $100. This time we started at $140 around Silk Road shutdown. If this history repeats itself, the bubble may crash into whopping $1000.
Take a look at this explanation:
http://www.fool.com/foolfaq/foolfaqcharts.htm
Business who accept payment online.
People who use eBay.

Let's compare that to the number of people who know what Bitcoin is.
How come? Wouldn't the company that acquired you want you to succeed so their acquisition wasn't wasted? If you're point is that the founder has 'succeeded' and won't try as hard his new boss will fire him.
With its packaging system called Einhorn.
As of today, Paypal still shows an interstitial progress screen after you enter your userid and password and hit sign-in.
How about this? http://goo.gl/VZ12Ds
While it does not prevent horror stories and frustrating experiences, it's not unregulated in Europe at least.
Can you provide a bit more detail? I'm curious, but the page doesn't really give much more than the title & TBC.

Btw, I really like the payment structure. Lower minimum with a suggested price, and easy refund processing.
The blocks (the fundamental unit of verification) get harder or easier to complete based only on how quickly the last set completed: this is to maintain a constant speed of block mining.

The bitcoin payout (which goes to the miner of a block) gets predictably smaller over time.

So no, this affect does not increase expected transaction time.