skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the volatility, probably price fluctuations is the main risk. That could have an upside or a downside for a seller.

The seller would also have to trust bitpay (who it seems shopify are using) to store the coins securely, but that's really just like trusting any other payment provider, and hopefully bitpay have insurance and proper financial controls, unlike many exchanges.

Great to see this happening though - I wonder what the comparison on fees is between accepting bitcoin and credit cards, have the fees just moved from one provider (mastercard say) to another (bitpay), or are they significantly lower?

Is there anyone here accepting bitcoin who can enlighten us on the pros and cons?
So basically Freenet?
Just realized my Windows laptop is still at Gimp 2.6 and while at www.gimp.org let's take this as an opportunity to update to 2.8 series:

Not Found

The requested URL /pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/gimp-2.8.8-setup.exe was not found on this server.

Bad timing for me apparently.
it would be interesting to see as a baseline the study of for how many generations descendants of an alpha lion/wolf/gorilla get into the alpha position themselves, if any.
Interesting article, but I was a bit disappointed; I was expecting it to look at names originally derived from occupations, like Baker or Smith. Their approach obviously makes more sense; it's just not as much fun.
Considering that many of the coins are simply generated with electrify calculating hashes (proof for work done) out of nowhere, and a portion of it being generated by hijacking computers and many wallets getting stolen and became unrecoverable, there are still rooms for improvement (which Bitcoin itself couldn't solve unfortunately.)
And there is no near instant payment which makes it quite hard for micropayments (sorry haven't followed much lately, does that getting improved?)
Well using a Google Apps account using the web interface it included it. So maybe only gmail?
"The 50th anniversary issue is gaudy with intellectual firepower. Four Nobel Laureates have bylines. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer muses on reading Proust. There’s the transcript of a long-lost lecture by T.S. Eliot. British novelist Zadie Smith writes about her dad and their walks in public gardens."

It has its quirks and limitations -- Anglophilia, Isaiah Berlin, clubby-ness ("the New York review of each other's books), East-coast myopia. But it is consistently interesting, smart, confident, and deep.
ماكينات طباعة مستعملة
ماكينات استعمال خارج
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
Looks like a thing to scare you in to buying the VPN service from Private Internet Access (PIA)
What did you do there if you don't mind me asking?
The main point of equality it to allow a brilliant child of a not so brilliant parents to bring as much value to society as he can. If a very bright kid is born in a farmer's family, we want he/she to become a top member of the society and work on the hard to solve problems, and not become a KFC store manager.

Equality of chance and fluidity is as important to society as it is to individuals. Of course there is a price to pay, for this to be possible it also means that this kid's education will be as far as possible removed from his parents world of view and opinions, and be set under society's values and management, which would be detrimental if the parents could have actually given a better education.
But I think it's something we should strive for in balanced proportions.
Also take a look at: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts#Example_7:_Rapidly-adju...
وظائف خالية بجريدة الأخبار والأهرام والجمهورية اليوم السبت 9-11-2013
How does this work with GLSL?
I love this example. Working through this made me finally get started on reading Hoare's CSP book. Thanks!
Thanks very much for the heads up! I'll get that sorted on Monday.
Credit cards & banking are much less distributed outside the developed world. While in the US, 63% of the 15+ population has a credit card, in Mexico it's barely 13% (in Latin America in general it's only 18%). This is a HUGE obstacle for e-commerce and bitcoin's cash-like, informality (no requisites, no need to register or be approved by a central entity) might allow it to spread where banks have so far been unable to. (Source World Bank Financial Inclusion Data http://datatopics.worldbank.org/financialinclusion/)
They use Bitpay, all the incoming transactions are converted to USD automatically.
It's intersting how generations of successfull girls each marrying someone higher in society than her parents wouldn't be traced by this study on surnames.
I am not accepting bitcoin or using BitPay but the fees seem to be much lower than any credit card: https://bitpay.com/pricing

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by price fluctuations. BitPay accepts bitcoin from the customer and automatically converts it to the seller's local currency at market price. So the price is always fair and the seller never deals with bitcoin.
Why don't they advertise this?

Little "dig"ging showed who your provider is, and Google gives me no results on this feature. Also read related docs too, nothing. Wonder why.
In particular, Sapphire Technology is a major manufacturer of AMD GPUs. That would have been very interesting.

http://www.sapphiretech.com
Intel Acquires Ed-Tech Startup Kno
Does anyone have a sense of what percentage of the smartphone-owning population actually knows what QR codes are and would bother to scan them? I'm as technically savvy as your average HN reader I would think, and I ignored the things for years before finally spending the 2 minutes to learn what they are. It's always made me assume that the average person wouldn't bother with them.
Android OS UserManager.isUserAGoat()
We hacked this nonsense by creating a simple redirect on our website: http://eyevel.com/G+ ;)
You can too! It's a simple htaccess line or a router on your app

put this into the .htaccess of your host and change where appropriate
(yourdomain, extension and G+ long userID)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourDomain\.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourDomain\.com$

RewriteRule ^B\@G\+$ "https\:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/103815970554408703928\/posts" [R=301,L]
Hy is neat. I love Lisps that "compile" or are embedable within host scripting languages.

My favourite one to hack on (owing to my PHP ability) is Pharen[0]. Very neat little Lisp that compiles down to PHP, which is very fun to play with. I highly suggest giving Hy a go if you're a Pythonista, as you can learn a lot about programming in general by seeing how these sorts of languages map to the host. Very fun to hack on, too!

[0]: http://scriptor.github.io/pharen/
Oh, you have no idea how badly Zuckerburg wants to be successful in China. Zuck has been learning Mandarin for a long time, I really think a primary motivation for that has to do with plans of really getting going in China. When he visited China in 2010, the first two places he went to were Baidu's and Alibaba's offices. There was supposedly a partnership in the works but much to Zuck's chagrin it ended up never materializing.

The company has been trying on and on again to get into China somehow, Sandberg has been on the record saying "China's the big one" (she talked a lot about it in the Charlie Rose interview from some time back), Zuck himself I think was scheduled to give China another visit but those plans were presumably scrapped in the post-NSA-leaks environment.

Now more than ever, it is clear that no American social networking media company will ever have substantial market share in China. The Chinese government will never let it fly, it's as simple as that.
> ...no sense at all to use Bitcoins to purchase legal items in the vast majority of countries

I'm speechless.
Lessons from Twitter chaotic creation story
Using `lein cljsbuild auto` should enable you to see problems in your clojurescript code as soon as you save it, and using the browser's js console enables you to see problems in the compiled/generated js. The stack trace printed out in case of an exception is usually informative enough. I experienced its helpfulness quite recently during my study of OP's example.
Do you feel this way from a societal, "consequentialist" point of view, meaning that doing such would necessarily maximize the quality of society on the whole? If so, what if there is an opportunity cost by which such a moral choice stimies your next cancer cure or breakthrough in clean energy?

Or perhaps, instead, do you feel that the overall effect on society is not as important as the individual's "right" to maximize his or her own opportunity? And if so, what about some other individual's right to choose the best available mate?

Or is there a third way?

Thank you for the response.
While I really appreciate learning from a good language-lawyering, and also acknowledge that there are many places where subtle interpretation issues have led to crashing code or even exploitable malfunctions, in practice the issue about different representations of Zero or the NULL-pointer are indeed mood.

I'll just be flamboyant now and claim that on all currently relevant platforms calloc'ing the memory of all supported numerical and pointer types will give you the numerical value 0 and also the NULL pointer.

Can someone name any CPU or microcontroller currently being produced that violates that statement? (e.g. uint64_t x; calloc(1,sizeof(x)) and void *p; calloc(1, sizeof(x)) or maybe memset(x,'0',sizeof(x))... and still x != 0 and p != NULL)? Even for gross missalignment? What about DSP platforms that don't have a useable byte-addressible memory? GPUs?
How many pop culture references to Cat's Cradle have you seen? Even that shower scene - I've seen references, jokes, even the scene but I have not seen the film and don't know who Janet Leigh is. And don't say everyone. There are people who have not even heard of Psycho and there are people who REALLY hate spoilers.
Well this is highly anecdotal: none of my parents or grandparents were engineers, yet here I am.

The lawyer practice is structured differently though: there's limited supply of positions at law firms where the money are, and without connected family the chance of fresh grad getting there is slim. Same with banking in Scandinavia: certain banks' departments annual retreats can feel more like family reunions.
Mitsubishi is one of the major "Keiretsu" in Japan, the descendants of the pre-WW2 Zaibatsu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
See the link in my profile. :)
Very nice. Surface syntax (and some semantics like interop) seem to be heavily inspired by Clojure :-)
I don't agree with your premise here. I'm sure cockroaches have no concept of existential suffering, of the 'how unfortunate I am' variety. That doesn't mean they don't experience pain while it's being administered, and this backpack thing doesn't exactly look comfortable.
Sure. But there may be a better way: http://thevenusproject.org
You beat me to the mental arithmetic there. I wonder what % of downloads are testing development releases and what % are downloading a stable version?

I use GIMP on a linux laptop of course so it is the version in the Debian Stable repository (2.8.2 on Wheezy).
Yup, my provider is quite easy to find, I don't mind. I just didn't want to make this info to be googleable with their name, to respect that they never publicly wrote about it.

No idea why they don't advertise this feature. They wrote that they only tell about it to people that are actually having a problem about it. I guess it might be easier for them or for other email-ops to handle abuse/spam issues when this header is available?
It's precisely the opposite thing though: success through inherent qualities vs via available social context.
there was a U of W study posted here a month or two back showing the first human brain to brain interface. Very cool, very creep.

There's a video of one guy playing an FPS without a fire button on his mouse, every time he goes to shoot someone, his connected partner in another wing of the campus presses the fire button on a keyboard. The man with the fire button can't see anything except for a keyboard.
I thought kickstarter was supposed to be used for raising funds to develop products? He clearly already has a working product, kickstarter will just be pay-out day.
NUS is offering credit for "Flipped Classroom Modules" on Coursera
Absolutely agree. It's written like a badly scripted History Channel "documentary"... "But what was discovered in the tomb? Find out after the commercial break."

Ugh!
By investing heavily in the company they lock in an exclusivity contract. They essentially buy all the production capacity of the only significant producer.

In increases global availability, but all that availability is going to them, so everybody else sees reduced availability.
Cool. This is pretty much exactly what I've been thinking of doing. The path, pictures and map - more or less spot on.
I just tried to explain that even guaranteed minimum income can discourage people from working. Basic income will have even more severe counter productive effects.
I don't see AT ALL why it would not.
Lavabit's owner : 'I used to think US best country for privacy & freedom'
Refactoring to Functional - Basic Primitives
Since this is supposed to be a 101 tutorial, could you please add (maybe in a later episode) some info on debugging and on parsing the stack trace.

When I add the text

1+"

to core.clsj and have auto compile running, I get a gigantic stack trace but none of the entries points me to the line where the error occured. I wonder how people are supposed to handle a code base bigger than a few lines of code and I stop following the tutorial before having written a single line of clojurescript.
Just tested on iOS 7 default Mail app, definitely leaks. Is there any way to stop this?

I'm guessing Gmail app would. edit: tested, doesn't leak!
This is not a condemnation but people often like to invent perfect employee performance systems, as you have done here, and it is akin to people writing their own cryptography. There is evidence-based research out there - look for papers by Elaine D. Pulakos for example. My understanding is that no system works in and of itself and training managers to get the most out of their people is probably the best thing any firm can do.
You are right it was. But most people do not track all issues of all projects they depend on. While I'd love to do that, there's simply not much time.

I belive this should have been in an earlier RC or Beta. This way, more people would have tested ot, ir got a chance to read changelog (I follow the blog and check each beta release). If that window was missed, it should have gone for the next major release.

What I see is that Google announced AngularDart (http://news.dartlang.org/2013/11/angular-announces-angularda...). Dart has _ prefix for private fields. Then AngularJS team goes ahead and forces the same on the JS implementation.

Seems that there is always some political reason to mess with things at Google.
How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese
Intent is the difference between murder and manslaughter.

If the intent is education, then I condone this, if it is entertainment then I do not.
Hey swannodette, just curious about why you ended the <input> tag in your tutorial. Was this deliberate?
"Such competence is potentially heritable and is reinforced by the human tendency to mate with partners of similar traits and ability."

So does this mean that over tens of thousands of years rich people could evolve into a separate race ?
What makes Woz unique
A story on the day I met Woz
For those who had a hard time finding the official information, I will repost it here:

Brian Alkerton
Shopify Employee

Hey Everyone,

Just a quick update on this: our Bitpay integration is feature-complete and can be added to your store now.
Due to the fact that it's a very new feature and not something we're ready to roll out to all stores just yet,
you will need to contact me to have it enabled, and I may want to follow up with you for your feedback once
you've been using it for a while, but it works. When active, Bitpay will appear as a credit card processor
in the Checkout page of your shop admin - enter your access key and you'll be all set to go.

One caveat: at this time, Bitpay functions in the same way as the other credit card processors on Shopify,
meaning that you can't use Bitpay in conjunction with Authorize.net, Stripe, or other credit card processors.
PayPal Express Checkout can be used as a secondary option with Bitpay in the same way it can be used with all
other gateways.

To activate, email me your shop URL at brian@shopify.com and I'll do my best to get everyone up and running promptly!
I always did wonder about this, since orange cheese is near-exclusively an American phenomenon these days. Even in eg. Australia, another British ex-colony where "cheese" defaults to "cheddar", it's always the natural yellow-white.
So, what does people here think about Twitter's valuation? Aren't they basically a 22 billion dollar advertising company? I am agnostic in this regard (although perhaps a little skeptical), but I was wondering what others think.
I think we interpreted the book in different ways.

Yes, he realised that the culture of trying to trick women into bed via tricks or routines was wrong, and the people who went down that path had flawed, weak personalities. It's interesting that on HN we tend to laud people who try to "hack the system" - but it's a shortcut, it's not real, and even if you succeed you can't handle it when you get there.

He realised that the real way to "win" women was to be yourself, the very best version of yourself you could manage. That is the central truth to which I was trying to refer. If you want to get the girls, be cool and confident and popular and successful. If that doesn't drive at least 50% of the startup community then I don't know what does.

I think we actually agree, except you have picked up a negative bias somewhere that I don't have. I liked that book very much. I have never been, nor want to be, a "PUA" but by god do I understand the sentiment.
BitCoin can be better viewed as gold. If you would use gold to buy something then you will use BTC (illegal markets apart of course).

But peercoin could stand a chance to become a sort of online trading currency because of it's inflationary[1] policy. Something BitCoin should also have in order to become a widely accepted currency instead of a hoarding mechanism that gives the early adopters huge advantage over anyone else.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCoin#Steady_inflation

[1]: http://ppcoin.org/
An alternative to the insurance model is to implement something like SSS ("Shamir's Secret Sharing")...
Another example: currently there is about 30% arbitrage opportunity between BTCChina and bitstamp. That is, there has been more than $100 difference in the price of Bitcoin between those markets.

If you know how to move money quickly between those locations, you can make lots of money. It isn't easy problem, because otherwise the arbitrage opportunity wouldn't exist.
> Is it practical to make eyewear (glasses) lenses from sapphire?

They would be way heavier than good polyc lenses, yet more expensive than basic (heavy) glass. I doubt there's much of a market, but might have more luck/info asking manufacturers directly (essilor, leitz, nikon, zeiss, ...)
Jerusalem. Reasons:

[1] your screen name translates to "good/OK" in local Arabic so you can answer both "Who are you?" and "How are you?" with the same sentence. Think of the efficiency gains!

[2] very multilingual society - Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian, Yiddish, French, (Amhari?), Aramaic + others

[3] safe (yes), cheap, good internet, tourist visa renewable every three months by crossing border
Terminal is now in your chrome dev-tools
There's a reference (that prompted me to read the book) in a movie by Al Pacino and Colin Farrell (The Recruit.) Not an incredibly good movie (good for a lazy Saturday afternoon.)
"(defun f x (x))" gives a Python stack trace.
According to Wikipedia, that question doesn't really matter: "race has no taxonomic significance and that all living humans belong to the same species" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28human_classification%29

I suppose if some group of people got themselves into their own species, where they could not in fact mate with what we know as "human", it would be a pretty big deal.

Edit-- I quoted the same line... please feel free to respond to my comment below.
10 Mistakes Women Make In Relationships
I am not accepting bitcoin or using BitPay but the fees seem to be much lower than any credit card

Sounds good at $30 a month or 1% per transaction, $30 per month almost too good to be true, but I guess they can make it up in volume if they have enough customers sending payments through. The only drawback would be persuading customers to pay in bitcoin, but that could come in time.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by price fluctuations. BitPay accepts bitcoin from the customer and automatically converts it to the seller's local currency at market price. So the price is always fair and the seller never deals with bitcoin.

Ah I see, thanks for the correction - I'd assumed the seller set a price in bitcoin. Can't see much risk for sellers then if the prices are not set in bitcoin and it goes through a payment processor who moves it immediately to their local currency, and pays out (immediately?). I guess bitpay then has the risk as they have to hold bitcoins till they can sell them and deal with fluctuations in the meantime.
The Rise Of The Mobile-Born
The problem is, trackball-style movement is super useful when you get used to it. But is simply awfully unintuitive, and I'd probably never use it somewhere that not something like a professional tool.
You decided to spend money instead of free domains? ;)
Couldn't agree more on education. Putting a strong emphasis on educating your children to themselves be successful must surely be a strong success factor for them - and something they're likely to do in turn for their own children. Conversely, neglecting your children's education is also likely to be passed on, and also likely to have significant effect.

By "education" I don't just mean what happens at school - most school systems provide only the thinnest veneer of "education", which includes many things not taught at school, like critical thinking, social skills, being widely read, broad general knowledge, the habit of trying to solve problems yourself, and many other features of people in "elite" positions.

For example, one might notice the strange preponderance of Jewish people in those "elite" positions, both academic and artistic and commercial and political. This is perhaps more easily understood when you know that the Jewish culture places enormous focus on educating the next generation and on critical thinking, probably because of thousands of years of history where Jews might be chased out of their homes by mobs with pitchforks and torches, and leave with nothing but what was in their heads. In that context, social mobility is total: you rise or fall to the level of what you can carry inside your skull.
Indeed and at this point the game turns into articulate managers defending their people and less true performance driven.