skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big driver of ubiquity would be a transaction processor / guarantor similar to how Mastercard or Visa work on top of USD; then using BTC would be as easy as using a credit card.

Why is this not an option right now?

- Volatility of BTC exchange rate

- Endpoint security

- Trust in a big organization like this to securely handle BTC

- Uncertain political future of BTC

- Need to roll out merchant point-of-sale solutions globally

All these are being worked on though, and really there's nothing stopping anyone from making this a reality Real Soon Now with a lot of investment.

The biggest risk might be a huge negative reaction from entrenched USD players such as banks, financial corporations, Wall Street, and the Fed. With the extent that they control the legislative branch, BTC might be excommunicated and fizzle out.
41.

The oldest code I'm aware of is the content management system that runs infoprint.com, written in 1998 when that product line was a division of IBM.

I know they have been modifying/updating it for the past 15 years, but I can tell from the URL structures that it is still the same architecture. I'm sure some lines of code remain from back in my day, but I am equally sure that it has been re-factored many times over. so it is much more their code than mine at this point.
Current price at ~$500 means that a growing trust is evident. I believe that lack of awareness is a bigger hurdle than trust right now
I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez".

My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites.

This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html

Other links:
http://www.freewebs.com/chewee/aolprograms.htm

Wonder if any of you were around the AOL scene back in the day.
I'm 20. I wrote this when I was 15 or 16, put it on GH when I was 16: https://github.com/Macha/Machat/commits/master . Basically an IM system. It wasn't very good, it worked at some point but I don't recall if it was working as I left it.

Most stuff on that GH account is pretty terrible, I stopped using it a few years ago so it's mostly a reminder of "Remember when you were bad at this?". I have one under my actual name nowadays which has stuff in a more professional state, but is still pretty disorganised.

Previously there was a school website I created when I was 14, but that got replaced with something in the last year or so.
Great CEO will not go to work every day
Take a look at this fantastic charity recycling scheme
It needs to be faster than 1-2 hours for every transaction because the store is waiting for confirmations.

When every other normal store only takes a minute to process, 1-2 hours is way too long.
> a contract is only good if the dollar amount is enough to get a lawyer involved as far as filing and pursuing any legal action

I disagree, contracts are much better than an email trail for keeping both parties on the same page. Email trails are murky and take effort to navigate. Emails sometimes lack a complete context. A contract is a canonical text for your work arrangement. Starting your work with a contract is not just good practice to CYA so you get paid, it's a good way to start conversations with your client to make sure you both get what you're looking for and don't want to kill each other (or if you do want to kill the other person you at least have to blame yourself first for agreeing to such foolish terms).
I'm 53. This rather crude little website I wrote has been online for 14 years (since 1999). Some folks subsequently have monkeyed around with some of the content, but the basic design is mine, still intact.

http://rivervalleyradio.com
I believe the word "racist" is used only with a negative connotation, so I don't think that applies to your comment. But some of your colleagues seem to have a positive prejudice towards Indians. I have had European colleagues express such a positive prejudice towards (a regional caste of) Indians, a couple of times. (I assume those with negative prejudices preferred to remain quiet.) I merely expressed my own opinion to the contrary, rather than argue hard to correct them.

You are probably right about the logistics of outsourcing. I have not been involved in either end of such a transaction.
I'm 2^5. My oldest code online is a Forth compiler I wrote when I was 2^4: https://github.com/benhoyt/third#readme
Another thing to consider is what constitutes a karma point. I don't have any statistics to validate, but it seems that posting new submissions rewards more karma points than responding to submissions. Maybe the Admins/Mods could run some stats and see if this is true or not. While I do not personally care about karma points (I'm here because I actually enjoy the community), basing the ability to vote (as in, influence the ranking of what is presented) on a single metric that does not differentiate between submissions and comments likely results in a skewed representation of the community.

To put it simply, if you want lots of karma points, don't bother responding to submissions (presumably in an attempt to help someone with a problem, or contribute to the conversation). Instead just find some "hot" controversial articles on some other tech related news sites and submit them instead. If this is true, then it should not be surprising that there is more "white noise" here at HackerNews, as this approach facilitates submitting stories instead of contributing to conversations.

My recommendation (if anyone cares), break karma points up into two separate values, one related to submitting articles/stories (which is valuable), and another related to submitting comments (which is also valuable). Then I would remove any reference of points from the system (make them hidden from users) as to remove any desire to "game the system" for points. This would result in a system where points do not influence how people contribute to the community.
To some degree, I think you're right. But I also think there's another argument to be made here:

Put as straightforwardly as I can, the two conditions in your original post seem to me negative:

a) Those who want to abuse others anonymously create negatives in society.

b) Those who want freedom from abuse are trying to escape negatives in society.

I think in addition to those, there is something that makes privacy a positive.

Here's an analogy: it's like defining mental health as "not being sick." A lot of psychology has historically treated it this way, but then I read people like Victor Frankl, or look at the Self-Actualisation piece of Maslow's Hierarchy and I see health can mean connectedness, joy and many things that don't fit on a purely negative level.

I don't know how I'd even begin to articulate the things I find positive about privacy, but I do think there's something. Perhaps I'd start with appealing to you as a writer. Isn't the ability to get lost in your thoughts and be creative without censoring the flow somehow connected to privacy?
Suprmasv is a home for the hacker class
I did something similar for a batch log processing system I wrote in Python some time ago. All the log messages could be classified as representing one of a few dozen 'packet' types, each represented by an object instance (so I could do some additional processing later), so predefining each type's fixed sets of fields using slots noticeably decreased memory usage. Of course, it was the first time I had ever done anything like that in Python, so I may have been doing it wrong...

Anyways, definitely a good short read, thanks for posting!
My daughter specifically avoided creating a Facebook account until she went to university -- however, one of her classes had meetings which were calendared and discussed on a private FB group, so she had to join in order to participate in the class.

She used an alias that would be recognizable to her classmates -- but, like you, she didn't want her legal name to be easily searchable by prospective employers, health-insurance companies, estranged family members, bad-breakup exes, etc.

But, yes -- having a unique name makes anonymity and privacy more complex. And it shouldn't -- it penalizes people for the name they were BORN with, just because they can't blend into a sea of Bob/Joe/Sue/Tran/Wei names, which are more common.

The ability to create a persistent pseudonym and to use it for unmuzzled online discourse is especially vital for people who would be all-too-easy to track down otherwise . . . but I think that it's still essential in terms of free-speech and privacy concerns for everyone.
there are first bits and they easily convert to a QR code which can be emailed or sent via sms.
was on AOL but not as a programmer:) Yahoo! chats maybe:)
I remember AOHell, HaVoK
I don't know of any that are hiring, but there are lots of non profit conservation orgs that could probably seriously use some tech help if you're just looking for somewhere to volunteer.
I'm 45. Oldest code I could find is 18 years old. Game was from 1995 - last code drop was 1998. I thought I had some Commodore stuff from the early/mid-80's up, but can't find it. Ack! :)

http://www.ratajik.net/TunnelWars/

(And YES, that IS a OS/2 program!)
if you only require 1 confirmation, and for a coffee or lunch this should be fine, which would take perhas 10 minutes at most.
It's held up pretty well!

<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

:)
I think one difference between us is that you see jobs as a resource that the government should regulate in order to maximize the social good, while I see employment as a private contractual agreement between the employer and employee, where the government should respect the freedom of the employer. Hence the high bar I set for government intervention. The current very limited protections against discrimination that the law provides, are closer to my view than to yours.

While the government should not punish a person who has served their sentence, convictions to become part of the public record. Since this is the case now, it is implicit that the consequences of this public record are also part of the "punishment".

On the social benefit of reintegration, there is also a social cost to giving people who have committed crimes special rights or privileges. Doing so removes some of the social stigma of crime that is part of the justice system.

On discrimination in the justices system, it would be good to provide some quantitative information on how much of the increased Black conviction rate is estimated to be a result of direct discrimination, and how much is a result of Black people committing more crime.
Well, it's a small and localized data point, but my kids (both in middle school) have had a blast with theirs. They've played around with a lot of things, including Scratch programming and a little bit of Python. We've gone back and forth between RPi and the desktop, since they can run pretty much the same software anywhere.

Something to consider is that the RPi wasn't launched into a vacuum like the earliest microcomputers were. So it won't have as profound of an impact.

At the lower grade levels, around 3rd through maybe 8th grade, Scratch seems to be a pretty big deal. Somehow, Scratch has been installed on every computer in our house, and a couple of Arduino boards arrived shortly after S4A was mentioned recently here on HN. I'd encourage Scratch in the schools before RPi.

The RPi has certainly been educational for me. I'm sure it wasn't the first, or the best, little Linux board. But in part due to hobbyist interest in it, there's a lot of good tutorial information out there, making it easy for someone like me (minimal formal training in programming and electronics) to create some pretty cool things.
Haskell allows plenty of undefined behaviour! unsafePerformIO, unsafeCoerce, the FFI, even something as simple as unchecked arithmetic can cause it.
Haha I used to write utilities as well but I can't remember what they were called (punters, IM clients, etc).
... and yeah, that site DOES look like it was written in the 90's... as it WAS written in the 90's and hasn't been updated!
Would they be able to operate on folders and subfolders recursively ? That's tree traversal, and important for devops ... maybe you're talking about doing it in context vs out of context ? or your devops are mostly sysadmins ?
None of the journals I work with will accept any format other than .tex or .doc for submission, its pretty ridiculous. We totally rely on the journals to distribute information but they have no incentive to optimize the process for reproducability or ease of use. Don't get me started on publication fees and access fees.
Ok thanks for the advice. I guess I'll wait for the next gen to upgrade
That will be inevitable with the growing attention and efforts of startups, developers and tech ecosystem, don't you think?
I'm 40.

My Commodore 64 game "Space Caverns 64" was published in Run Magazine in 1986, and you can get it here: https://archive.org/stream/run-magazine-36/Run_Issue_36_1986...

(Note: there are a bunch of ugly tricks to get the code to fit onto one single C64 40x25 character screen.)
The PS4 exclusive titles don't look all that much better than PS3 titles, honestly. Knack is more of a mediocre beat-em-up than a platformer, and Killzone is a blurry mess.

Coming from an Xbox 360, I've got to say that the user experience on the PS4 is a mess. I put a game into the system, and I can play within a minute, but it is a pared down version of the game while it installs. Then I have to exit the game to install it. Oh, and if I want online multiplayer, I usually have to download a 700MB patch before that is available. If I access a TV app through my library, it will boot me back out to the main screen if I have a game running, but if I access it through the TV apps section, it will close my game and allow me to run Netflix.
Gladly, in private conversations. Esp with people that could be key stakeholders or contributors. :-) Otherwise not ready enough to go very public.

Emphasis on building and validating and iterating rather than too much talking or guessing. Though a little of the latter is good and necessary sometimes I think.
That was probably done because comments also appear on one's Google+ page. In that context you want to see what video was commented on.

But it seems extremely clumsy not to implement a solution that takes into account the context in which the comment is shown. Just more evidence that the project was pushed through in a rush, without regard for consequences.
I have tried this guide and others a couple of times. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, Gmail and Hotmail always classify anything I send from it as spam. DKIM? Check. SPF? Check. Reverse DNS? Check. Spamassassin score? 0.0. Result? "google thinks this message is spam". While it was an interesting experience, the end result is invariably a server that can't send mail to most of the people it needs to, which is quite frustrating.
Thank you for your specific story and examples. I am creating a repo of this. And hope to eventually make it a source of some authority for others in this situation. https://anonimos.piratenpad.de/21995
I'm 31, and my oldest real code is about 2 years or so. Unless random stuff from college counts (10 years ago).
Show HN: Chaturly - Persistent chat about any URL, with anyone
Belguim: receive 40 % of your wadger and the governmentis still stacking debt amd selling buildings and taking payments in advance on future income..

Socialism: spending money you don't have...
Waiting 10 minutes for your coffee payment to go through?

Pitch that to Starbucks and see how far you get.
What static files? I don't know how cumbersome it is, but Acrobat supports interactivity using JavaScript. See http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/filter/search&category=13&.... You can also embed Flash in Acrobat files.
I've been pondering on this lately. Apple certainly has set the bar with smartphones and tablets, making them practically indispensable. What next?

I don't have much expertise in OS's, but it seems to me that that IOS would be the perfect OS for smart machines. It's already optimized for mobile, wifi, cellular data, lightweight (relatively), and most of all, has a rich and vast developer community. Home Appliances that run on iOS would be a logical step, don't you think? In that case, this purchase would make sense. They could also be developing gaming units as expansion modules for AppleTV?
While I'm not aware of any that explicitly focus on conservation, there are established ways to get involved as a business. I'm in the sensor-networking space and spend a lot time following this domain. What follows is just general advice in leu of respoding with 'I want to know too' to your post.

First, (and USA-specific) check the RFQs from various government organizations. The process can be foreboding and favors established companies - but a real need (and money) exists for those that follow this path.

Secondly, check with local universities to see what research is currently underway or planned.

Lastly, profit models really only exist in parallel with regulation. Sadly, unless corporations/landowners are chasing tax breaks or avoiding fines, you won't see people flocking to buy technology for auditing water/air/soil quality.

Edit - Also Agriculture is a profitiable conduit for developing conservation tech. (Water conservation , animal tracking, soil quality, etc are all in demand)
My university gave us all one when we arrived. It's just been gaining dust as my laptop runs Linux and I just do all my programming on there. That and if I wanted to do a hobby project, I have coursework to do.
I have since linked it to a dead-end G+ page. However, I wasn't given the option to do so initially -- I was confronted with my name and photo appearing on a comment that I'd been leaving under my YT identity (which is deliberately blank, doesn't identify gender, etc.)

The fact that it's possible to get around this idiotic move doesn't mean that it should have been made in the first place.

Thank you for the suggestion -- it certainly would have worked out much better if that had been the procedure that I was initially presented with, rather than clicking a number of times to refuse the link (on multiple occasions, spanning weeks), and then having the link forced without my permission, and with no opt-out option visible.
The day I was sentenced and began probation was the same day Mike Tyson began his probation for the cocaine charges in 2007. I sat across from him in the probation office. While his lawyers talked to the probation people, I made eye contact with him and realized that while we both were convicted of felonies, I was going to have a much harder time going forward than he was. (Granted, he has a pretty tough life with addiction.)

If you're famous, felonies are just an inconvenience. If you're middle or upper class, felonies are a big roadblock to a career that require great perseverance and stress. If you're lower class, a felony is a death sentence unless you turn to crime. 83% of offenders who violate probation or parole were unemployed at the time, and only 13% of companies surveyed in one study said they'd even consider applications from felons. I'd wager if our attitudes about felony convictions changed, a lot of crime in the inner city would disappear in the long term.

What a lot of companies don't know is that under certain circumstances, employment of felons can be a tax benefit. UPS famously uses this.
I'm 36. A book list application I wrote in spring of 2003 to learn php is still online (I host it).

I wrote some java applets (demoing the half life of radiation) in the summer of 1998, but couldn't track them down.
I'm 46. The oldest thing I can find online is from 1987. (I totally forgot I wrote it.)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/coda/src/coda/coda-src... (and various other files in that directory)

Sorry it's a bit boring, but the "online" requirement kind of skews the answers, doesn't it? Should I upload some more-interesting older code so it can be online too? :)
Last time I checked it was almost every class of conviction that Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be "affected" by.

Probably not embezzlement, insider trading, fraud, computer hacking, or other white collar crimes.

I don't see how this qualifies as racial bias, any more than requiring a high school diploma would qualify as racial bias

Because racial profiling means you judge people based on appearance before checking their educational background, it stands to reason that even Blacks or Hispanics with the same educational background as their White peers would still have higher conviction rates. Therefore a bias based on convictions would still favor Whites.
You might fairly consider this an insignificant anecdote, but: I have rejected people for contract work because they insisted on retaining copyright, sometimes on this basis alone.
LaTeX newbie here:

Can someone explain how this works (from a user standpoint)? How does userline below map mouse pointer coordinates to the line? It seems (2,2) is what is getting substituted with the (x,y) from the mouse (after adjusting for the origin).

\begin{pspicture}(-2,-2)(2,2)

\psframe(-2,-2)(2,2)

\userline[linewidth=1.5 pt]{->}(0,0)(2,2)

\end{pspicture}

I am totally lost on the following example. The lightblue line below behaves the same way as the line in the above example. But the code below is quite different, including sin and -y.

\begin{pspicture}(-2,-2)(2,2)

\psframe(-2,-2)(2,2)

\userline[linewidth=2pt,linecolor=green]{->}(0,0)(2,2){-x}{-y}

\userline[linewidth=2pt,linecolor=red]{->}(0,0)(2,2){0}{y}

\userline[linewidth=2pt,linecolor=purple]{->}(0,0)(2,2){-x}{cos(y)}

\userline[linewidth=2pt,linecolor=lightblue]{->}(0,0)(2,2)(sin(x)}{-y}

\end{pspicture}
Just say him "No", true friends should understand it ;)
This is probably because Firefox (and Chrome) clamps the setTimeout interval of background tabs to 1 second to improve performance.
I hope Valve SteamOS makes it, Linux gives you freedom
from unknown surveillance. If gamers start using Linux there will be a mass market and easier to find good Linux hardware for desktop setups.

Lets also face it consoles are a kind of credit purchase where the manufacturer of the console gives you hardware rebate which you pay with increased game prices. You also pay with your freedom as the console maker controls which software are allowed to run on the console.
The music reminded me of Gyruss, one of my all time favorites... :)
DNA Software Identifies People By Testing Relatives' DNA
haha..anything you can link to is good.
>The current very limited protections against discrimination that the law provides, are closer to my view than to yours.

What is your argument for government intervention in the current class of protected groups? How would it not also apply to convicts?
Plus if somehow Google thinks asteroids.com is a spammy domain (for whatever reason), it'll now be associated with his game.
It depends on how you define a startup. Do small, growing non-profits count? If so, then there are a number, such as http://www.spaceforgiants.org/

There's a number of ones on the periphery, one for example is Airware http://www.airware.com/ which is working on autopilot for drones, which you may say what does that have to do with wildlife/habitat conservation? Well they are partnered with Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya which is deploying a drone to monitor/deter poachers of rhinos.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. Spiders / bots / something like that?
Bitcoin addresses do have a checksum[1]. And for most payments in person, people will just scan a QR code[2].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1026.0

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....