skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you hold your own gold, and it gets stolen, nobody is going to pay you back (unless you have some kind of insurance, which presumably could cover Bitcoins as well). Similarly, if you hold a gold certificate and a trusted party actually stores your gold, and it is stolen from them, you're in the same boat. Maybe they have a refund policy and enough capital to cover the loss. Maybe they don't. The point is, equal protections could be offered for Bitcoin.

Personally, I think that hardware wallets have the potential to solve this problem. Picture a device that contains your private key, and is capable of signing transactions (after you press a physical button). This thing could be designed such that it is physically incapable of leaking your private key via its USB port (or whatever). And maybe it has a little LCD screen that shows the transaction it's about to sign before you confirm. With something like that, there's really not a whole lot a bad guy could do to steal your Bitcoins.

Of course, if a bad guys does coax you into sending them Bitcoins via some more social-engineery-type means, that could be a problem. E.g. if they briefly took over a popular website and made it show their Bitcoin address rather than the real one, there wouldn't be a whole lot of recourse.
Did you forget an operating system in 150 lines of JS? (Four libraries used)
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$800 million is a fairly good breakup fee for a $6 billion deal.
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Isn't it $795/year for 5 users and 1TB plus $125/user/year including an extra 200GB?
I always wondered why there are no "real life" sized quadcopters in use for manned flight. From what I understand the design is simpler and requires less maintenance compared to "normal" helicopters.

Are there any reasons why we're not flying quadcopters around instead?
This looks very promising. I've always had trouble with the fact that most sites just list all courses, but there is never a stepped approach to know what to take next and so on. And you have to try to figure it out yourself, from all the very many courses out there. Thanks for doing this.
Do you have a reference for this hypothesis?
for my age-group (or at least for those i hang around) it seems that facebook messenger is the space between email and linkedin.

There have been plenty of articles on how facebook is losing traction, it's mainly due to pivoting relationships on the user's end. We all started out with trying to add everyone we knew - this is fun, seeing what everyone is doing. Now i really only use facebook to keep up with friends that are outside of my close circle (cause i don't need facebook for the close circle). I don't use facebook messenger for 90% of my friends list because of this, but i'd still like to have something for that 10%. If the Google Hangouts app wasn't such a resource hog, i'd probably just uninstall facebook messenger from my phone.
I've received the following email from Amazon:

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We've been in the tough situation where some business/banking websites only worked in IE9 while others that we were having trouble with only started working properly in IE10. Ultimately we rolled back to IE9 because the former out numbered the latter and because IE9 is still the standard version of our corporate image.

IE10 snuck onto a few servers and unrestricted desktops because it was installed silently through Windows Update along with the normal patches. That did give us the unexpected opportunity to test it out with real users.
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awesome advice!
how much is http://www.google.com/patents/US8428453 worth
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Ask HN: What is the right amount of equity to give?
I was just offered 10% ownership in a startup with no revenue. Now, the company has had only 1 seed funding round. The CEO has 51%, the seed funding party owns 15%. Leaving 34% to split among 4 other people. They offered me 10% . I would be CTO. The CEO isn't technical and their app was build via independent contractor. What do you think? Is this a good deal?
that does not change the fact that the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer

Hard-nosed seems like a better term. In many cases indistinguishable by obserbation, but Greed is both pejorative and moralizing. Absent special knowledge of the principals state of mind, its use also seem presumptory.
New Facebook Messenger sends messages with phone numbers
> Isn't it $795/year for 5 users and 1TB plus $125/user/year including an extra 200GB?

Sorta: it's technically "unlimited" space[1], but they want you to contact them and justify any usage after 1,000 GB + 200 GB per user after five[2]:

> Dropbox for Business equips you with all the space you need. You'll be given 1000 GB when you start your account (5 users). Each additional license you buy will give your team 200 GB of additional space. If you come close to approaching your limit, contact us and we'll work with you to accommodate your storage needs.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/business/pricing

[2]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/225/en
Great story. I was a bit astonished about the lack of backups as well, but I'm way more astonished that nobody seems to be astonished about the fact that the break up was sent by email and it didn't really contain a reason except for "I don't want to". which is only okay if you're under six years old.
People do the same for Java, though, which probably contains one of the best JIT compilers out there currently.
> an 18 year old in the NYC area actually was decapitated ... Yes, Decapitated.

Let us not sensationalize when we don't know the facts either, shall we?
US companies will increasingly copy China's monetization models
This is great. It could really help someone geographically plan the opportunity cost of going to the valley vs heading to other locations that have a closer proximity if they happen to be in the middle-US or towards the East. Heck, I never realized Columbus, OH even had any accelerators.
Six days before the interview, my laptop crashed and we lost our entire demo.

Brandon: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

I'm glad you mentioned how you lost your work because of lack of a backup. There are quite a few snarky comments here about it, mine won't be one of them. Instead I thank you for your candor.

There are some cultures where mistakes and failures aren't explicitly mentioned; they're swept under the rug (wouldn't want to lose face!). I hate that. Instead I think we can all learn a great deal by reading someone say (in not quite as vulgar words): "I fucked up. I made a very simple, stupid mistake". It's of course implied the takeaway is "don't be as stupid as I was".
The difference in decapitation and blunt force trama is huge.

People die every day. Being squeamish is no excuse for not reporting accurate and honest information.
Rethinking the PhD application in Computer Science
I wouldn't say less maintenance, you've got 4 times as much motors running than a conventional helicopter.
Well here in India WhatsApp is really big and Facebook messenger is nowhere to be seen. This article doesn't explain how the new Facebook messenger is better than all its competitors.
Both would usually be 200 level (2nd year) courses.

FYI, this may not be a universally-accepted numbering system. At Berkeley, lower-division courses have two digits (1A, 55, 64), upper-division courses are in the 100s, and graduate classes are in the 200s.
I wonder what the laundering rates will be and what the economy of "dirty coins" will look like.
Human maximum of what? Survivability or capable flight? The human body can survive more than 20Gs.
What do you mean by "new"? Do they have a MVP? Or just the idea and you need to code everything?
In the worst case, white market Bitcoin transactions will be no more tracked than cc/paypal/swift/sepa transactions. On the bright side, people will have much harder money and state will have much less power (no deficit spending whatsoever).

In reality though, the contamination of the market by Bitcoin will happen much faster than anyone could set up a framework of tracking it. Black markets will grow huge. A lot of intellectual work can avoid taxation easily. Especially, when younger generation finds itself in a situation of economic disaster that was created by their parents and grandparents. Teens will be less likely to tolerate all this banking nonsense.
As an Australian (US by birth unfort, I actually hate my country of birth at this stage because of their governance), I'm actually looking to China and non-partisan countries to fix this mess. The solution isn't going to come from a country so entrenched in corruption.
The topic is a hideously over-valued company turning down another hideously over-valued offer. There was no substance to begin with.
> has Dropbox for Business always been $795 / year at unlimited capacity

For as long as it's been called "Dropbox for Business", yes, but that only started in April of this year[1]. Prior to that, it was called "Dropbox for Teams" and it was $795/year for 5 users and 1 TB[2].

However, like I mentioned in a reply to kondro[3], while they advertise Dropbox for Business as "unlimited", you have to contact them to justify anything beyond 1,000 GB + 200 GB per user license after 5.

[1]: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/04/say-hello-to-dropbox-for-bu...

[2]: https://blog.dropbox.com/2011/11/introducing-dropbox-for-tea...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731075
Fascinating -- the author uses YC admission as a proxy to evaluate potential as a grad student!
Is the helicopter in the video under manual control, or some kind of control system preprogrammed manuever?
They have a completed product ready for beta. My first task would be setting up the servers.
Lady Gaga flies with a hexacopter @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2499954/How-L...

... what the world is coming to?
>the owners are incredibly greedy not to accept a $3 billion cash offer

You can look at this another way -- Maybe greedy would be taking the life-changing amount of money here, and they're not because they actually like their jobs.
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Or they're just a bunch of people trying to make a buck which, unfortunately, makes the world go round.

If they manage to establish themselves as LE's provider of Bitcoin info, then they're got a monopoly and a guaranteed income for the rest of their lives.
Am I missing something? Between mixers and single-use addresses - not to mention every mundane transaction that hasn't opted into into this tracking scheme - the odds of them being able to say much about a typical address seem practically nonexistent.

I can see some strong similarities to DRM. There are large organizations that would very much like for a technical impossibility to exist, leading some to step forward to sell a fundamentally flawed patchwork to them whose primary impact is inconvenience for end users.
Definitely playing video games and fantasy (both already mentioned). Games will teach you about the language and forms of the offensive and defensive schemes as well as the basic rules (why a penalty is awarded and what its repercussions are) and fantasy will keep you up to date with the the current players, which is nice because players rise, peak and fall very quickly in the NFL (for very sad reasons, but while it's here and on TV, I'll be watching it).
Some has scripted it to alternate between "Seriously though..." and "NIGGER"

How nice.
I think the cutoff point is more like 100 million. With 20 million you're still having second thoughts about your NetJets use or the size of your yacht.
Disclaimer: Not speaking in any official PR capacity here. Just sharing my personal opinions as a guy who has been in a bunch of cross-team meetings.

I've been working as a developer in Redmond in "Server & Tools", now called "Server & Cloud", for the better part of a year now. I know for a fact there are teams that work to address piracy, but I personally haven't seen it as a driving force in specific goals.

Without wanting to give away key strategy (not that I even know much) Look at how the company is structured and where the revenue comes from. Our division serves primarily enterprise customers. Enterprise customers are totally loving the cloud and are the primary driver of this demand. So we're focused on delivering a first-rate cloud platform (Azure) and first-rate developer tools (e.g. VS 2013 and cross platform Azure libs) to develop for it.

It seems to be working, our deployments are growing steadily. Public reports claim that we are deploying semicustom data center capacity in markets that impose some localized requirements.

Look at the investment in infrastructure capacity being made here. Such a fundamental shift wouldn't make sense (to me) for the goal of reducing the number of over-deployed licenses, when that could probably instead be addressed with far cheaper (even if annoying) DRM-like solutions.

So again, our customers told us they want cloud, so we're going to build them the best darn cloud ever, not forgetting our experience with their particular needs and requirements.
Keeping your family out of work is not the same as giving them the option of not working.
Asia’s Submarine Race
Businesses with existing storage infrastructure can just host themselves using any Storage as a service model. Syncplicity.com is one good competitor
Nvidia 's new unified GPU physics solver
"At the equivalent stage" - I disagree on all examples. It depends on what we are talking about though. I was talking about 3 billion + valuation, not 2 years into company. I'm pretty sure each of the above mentioned companies were pretty successful companies by the time they got to a 3 billion valuation. Obviously there is some inflation over time, but microsoft didn't get to that point until several years after IPO. Pretty sure at that point it was a bit more clear they were going to be able to make money than snapchat.

Now, snapchat can make money, don't get me wrong. They have a lot of eyeballs and it is worth a big number. I just don't think the number is that big to too many people other than Facebook.
> Well, the Boolean operators in C-like languages are NOT normal functions, which is the point.

"Not normal", because the language is strict, and there is no way to make a lazy function on your own, even when it is so tremediously useful.

In other words, the C standard comittee decides which functions may be lazy. As a Haskell programmer, you decide.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin in a bubble?
The exponential shape of the price curve makes it appear that it is.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgTzm1g10zm2g25zv
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Neither does the government, these days.

'To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama re-defined "militant" to mean "all military-age males in a strike zone"'

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/
Then it sounds like a really good deal to me, assuming you also get a financial compensation(even low).
> For example, Olivier Blanchard, now chief economist of the IMF, wrote in 1990 that when a government tightens its belt to reduce deficits, households might start spending, relieved that the problem is being handled and there won’t be an even bigger readjustment in the future.

It is astounding to think that changing your personal spending based on what happens in DC is supposed to be the "rational" behavior. These are not economists, they are radical political ideologues dressed in pretend academic clothing.
Care to supply any proof of that claim?
It would be interesting to know ADB's users' demographics
How is it worthless? It protects you against passive monitoring/data retention!
Thats really interesting and would add another dimension to these "self monitoring" devices but i am skeptical as too much self monitoring can do more harm than good.

DIY EEG/EMG can be used for alot of interesting applications though, if you want to play around with "mind controlling" things ;)
Its picture chatting and that hasnt been done before that well, so instantenous and fleeting.

The others cant compare, its not a chat with oh send a file or upload picturr click here there herr and there. ugh.
Sheesh, if any ol' schmuck can afford Costa Rica it can't be all that good, I clearly need a different goal. Primary criteria: more expensive
Here's a quick version using flexbox: http://jsfiddle.net/zfSt4/67/
There would be no salary. The deal is only equity until it starts making money, then there will salary negotiations.
Yes this is the difficulty as there is no set standard. We went with the basic 3 digit system as most people in the US are familiar with it. Most will understand (some subject) 101 is an entry level course. There are those in other countries who don't get it as we have found out. We are working on a new design that will be clearer in explaining this.
It's a very annoying deal to me. Both the one year commitment and the minimum number of users feel like the kind of outdated package deals of mobile providers to me, where you pay for stuff you don't and may never need.

Been in the start-up situation twice where it's only 3 of us at the start and no idea how long we have to survive on a minimal budget.

Of all the services we used, Dropbox by far asks for the biggest and completely blind upfront commitment.
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I agree.

Good thing that Bitcoin flourishes from malicious attacks, otherwise it would have been dead a long ago or would die soon.
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In my case it's the rolling chair which causes the cord to eventually break. Doesn't matter if it's 100 dollar headphones or 12 dollar ones.

What I've since done is use an extension and reroute my audio cables behind my desk and aligned them the the monitor. I then plug my headphones into the extension instead. The cord is messy on the table though
Yes, I have got one of them. Its a good idea to start a thread on HN.
on 1) might be a bug... I check this.

on 2) The real-time-experience is a cool feature, but the most times there a not 2 persons really at the same time editing the same text-position. In EasyPad if two are editing seperate blocks the other one will see the changes as soon as the first one will save.

on 3) good point. didn't think on this...

on 4) thought about it, but sometimes I needed to copy a text-part and did't want to start editing.

on 5) ?? did't catch the point. Would you explain?
This is a great product/market fit. Full Kudo's to google on this. If it is a success, i think they will get a Halo effect for their brand. That being said, lets hop there's no surprises in the SW bundle, performances, settings etc.
You are right that exact price of Bitcoin is irrelevant when you need to convert 8 hours of your day job into an iPhone. But for anything to be a medium of exchange it must have value. And the value is derived solely from the desire to hold Bitcoins vs. holding dollars, euros, oil, gold, consumption goods etc. The more people on the market want to hold Bitcoins, the more liquid it is (regardless of the price). But since the amount of Bitcoins is fixed, increasing liquidity would always have to come with a growing price. Simply because for every new person to come in and buy a Bitcoin, he need to outbid all other people like him, and also outbid time preference of the existing holders.

In other words, growing price of a good in a fixed supply sends a signal of its bigger liquidity. Meaning it's even better medium of exchange for you to accept (even if you don't invest in it yourself).

Things don't need to be priced in Bitcoin for it to have value and to be used in exchange with this value. Things will be priced in the most stable, most liquid commodity and today it is fiat currency. Bitcoin needs to be spread to many more hands than it is today. This is what happens today and we are still at less than 0.1% of global population that is even aware that this technology exists.
Sounds interesting, i wonder if something like this will replace home computing in the future. How is the performance when watching videos or playing some casual game, does that still work ?
What I meant is that I read it thinking it would blow my mind. It didn't.
they get a tax incentive to take risks and not taking it is cheating I think. Super-connected people will attract money no matter what.

They can also call themselves a hedge fund or an investment bank and stop pretending if they are afraid of the risk, they can invest in oil extraction that is always in need for capital and is of absolutely no risk.
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This is a really neat hack. Maybe Google will sample it to improve their spreadsheet performance.
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Well yeah, people are different, this is blatantly obvious. But gravity isn't 9.81m/s^2 either[0]. And the speed of light isn't "c" (299,792,458 m/s) or even constant at all[1].

But these "wrong" facts are useful when creating predictive models of our universe. That's all this is - a "wrong" fact used to help simplify a model. Turns out the representative agent might be an oversimplification, but so are G (9.81 m/s^2) and c (299,792,458 m/s), depending on what you're doing.

In a "science" (science is a methodology and lies a spectrum, and is not a dogma, so let's try to keep some perspective) where you don't really have a "lab", all you can do is create predictive models that fit your observational data.

Technology of the past 10 years brings more data, and lets economics move away from the representative agent of the past 100 years. Good. Let's do that, but let's not forget whose shoulders we sit on - no one mocks the orbital model of the atom, or Newtonian laws of physics, even though both models are outdated [2][3].

[0] - http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=465
[1] - http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305457
[2] - http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys314/lectures/bohrprob/bohrprob.html
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanics#Limits_of_validity
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Exactly this. Algorithms have moved well beyond a simple "> 10000", and banks are interested in enforcing this, since the penalties are very signficiant (vastly outweighing any profit to be made looking the other way), and the modern anti-terrorism/anti-money laundering treaties are fairly non-gamable (in that they set outcomes and high-level behavious which are expected, rather than giving a precise set of criteria and rules that can be gamed).

Unless regulations relax, there will be an ongoing profitable business for people who sell software that does behavioural analysis on compliance-related cash behaviours for the finance sector.