skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know what the code is "compiled" into, if not a hash table?
Did I miss something? Bernanke's comment basically boils down to "no comment", phrased in the polite speech Senate committee hearings. What's the news here?
> That's true, but you can write C code in D as well, so switching to D won't make people write idiomatic code either

With a Pascal like type safety. You need to be explicitly mark your code as @system to be allowed to do C like tricks.

This alone is a very big advantage.
Bitcoin hits 600 one day after reaching 500
I don't plan on it.
I'm 46. My oldest software is from 1997, still running, a software for checking technical details of airplanes.
Eh I'm sorry I just don't buy it. Without a maintenance contract, they could never win the argument that you were required to perform maintenance. And freelancers/consultants/employees-in-general have very little liability. I code people's websites all the time with 0% fear of losing my bank account in court.
Yeah, the validation on the URLs is pretty basic. That, along with listing the recent/popular URLs and usernames are probably the areas for my attention.
Am I alone in the conspiracy theory that SnapChat's founders are just pranking us for the heck of it? "We're 23, we can code just fine, the worst thing that can happen if this all goes south is that we get a job somewhere."
Fastmail's not an alternative. I use it and it's great, but with Gmail you're talking 15GB+ free, and the ticker and 2GB was what set Gmail apart in the first place when it was invite-only. I pay Fastmail $30 a year (not much, granted) for only 500MB (!). I don't see who's going to realistically take on Gmail in the free space.
Pretty much everything in FastMail can be done with a keyboard shortcut as well: http://fastmail.wikia.com/wiki/KeyboardShortcuts. It's "m" instead of "v" for move, but other than that, most shortcuts are the same as for GMail.
Fad. Most show hn sites have zoom disabled. As does most look-how-cool-and-web-2.0-this-designer-website-is start ups.
What can I say? Shameless self-promotion. Although the ref code does offer a 10% discount off trading fees for the first 30 days. So it's comes with that as a benefit. The company doesn't advertise either and uses word-of-mouth and promotion from customers.
Thanks for the reply.

The number that appears in parentheses next to my username is positive - does that preclude that explanation, or might I still have reached some negative karma threshold?
Forget these 10 reasons. The real 10 reasons are

1. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy
2. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy
3. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy
4. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy

etc... it all works out until it doesn't... it's long overdue for a major correction
Huh? 1GB is $20/year, 15GB is $40/year – https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html
I sincerely thank you for hitting [reply].
Bitcoin passes 600
Software development with more than one person is inherently a distributed system. People work on outdated versions and in parallel and conflicts arise. Development requires branching and merging.

It is probably impossible to package this complexity into an easy UI. I like git, because it has a simple core model, but the UI could certainly be easier. Mercurials model is not so simple (e.g. multiple types of branches and commits), but the UI is easier. Subversions UI is even easier, but the model is so simple that some things are impossible (the distributed stuff).

(can we assume on HN that people have understood "simple != easy"?)
Google services remain hugely strong, sometimes it all reeks of the desire to make a story out of nothing, like how a national press will play up some pointless political intrigue.
Investment-wise, the prognosis is still the same as it ever was: BTC will either become a huge thing worth a lot, or it will be worth near zero.

The only difference is the % of total BTC you can buy given your availabe assets.

For some people that % is now close to nil, whereas before it wasn't, so they've missed their opportunity.

For others, the % is still significant. Those people should probably still get into BTC if they agree with the premise of this comment.
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> which extensions to install

I don't think you need to install those extensions, you just enable them by putting a line in .hgrc
No matter how small it was, it was probably the largest money-bitcoin-money faction.

Lots of people mine and trade coins. But only the few thousands (hundreds?) Silkroad users were actively pumping money constantly into the system, giving a much needed reality check of how much people will pay for a made up currency with established made up money.
Either beards or full suit-and-tie a la IBM.
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Ah, a long time since I first signed up, maybe the prices have changed, maybe not, but either way you're getting a lot more storage with Gmail for the price.
The news is that the government isn't likely going to throw a shitfit and freak out over bitcoin. Because it's money related, and they can tax and regulate some piece of the transaction.

Doesn't really need to be said that Wall Street, Washington, and Lobbyists are all in bed together. Wall Street types and some Valley people have clearly told influential politicians in this that they should be cool.

Bitcoin gets another serious mark in the de-risk column
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I did buy 1.5 BTC last week, just for fun. Bought another 1 BTC tonight. I may regret the latest purchase, or both purchases, I dunno. But, since I found myself wishing I'd bought more last week, I bought some more tonight.

When I bought those 1.5 BTC at ~$200, I had planned to buy more when the inevitable crash came. It may still come, but I'm feeling pretty confident the size the BTC market has grown so much as to make it likely the new low that it falls to is gonna be well above that $200, maybe even above the $500 it's trading at now. Timing the market is often a bad idea, so I setup a small monthly buy tonight, as well, so I won't be tempted to try to figure it out.
Do what you are
All companies do when they reach a certain market size. I still remember the days when almost all geeks I knew would dream for a job at Microsoft.
I use HN as a kick in the butt. Whenever I feel down or demotivated I just browse to HN's home page, see what amazing work is being done in the tech world while I'm just sitting there, remember that I want to be a part of it, and go back to work with my motivation restored.
"Real"? "Counterfeit" software isn't like counterfeit hardware. It's exactly the same thing, but with less legitimacy. Counterfeit medicine might poison you, or at best be biologically inactive. Counterfeit videos are no different from "real" videos except in the fee paid to the copyright holder. How does that affect you?
^ People like this. The real reason bitcoin is going up in value.
I still think Moldbug has by far the explanation of the increasing moneyness and price of bitcoin:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitcoin...

So when people say bitcoin is "bubble" they are essentially correct - although the condescension is usually misplaced. All money is a bubble in the sense that its reservation demand is far higher than its use value warrants. This is true for the dollar, and it's also true for gold, which also has a large element of "moneyness".
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Imo. The difference is the control Steve had over the company when he was alive. At Google, despite how well run the company is, you really do not know the direction or vision for the company although everything _seems_ really cool. Where as at Apple, the idea is you were sacrificing in order to help Steve achieve _his_ vision.
Appeal to common sense is an informal logical fallacy so you could try to up your argumentation instead of complaining about HN commenters.
Using your own mail server?

That is what I do. For me, gmail is only an easy way to aggregate email from separate accounts and chat with friends on gmail.

At home I use my trusty Thunderbird.
To disagree, no.

the quality (for a western show) is generally at least as high as you'd expect of official merchandise

I got all of Futurama on many fewer discs than the official stuff uses, at no visible hit to quality

If you got Futurama on many fewer discs than the official edition, it is extremely likely that the quality was not "at least as high as you'd expect of official merchandise." You may not have noticed it, in your viewing scenario, but it is almost guaranteed that your copies were compressed at a much higher level of compression loss. That, and the physical media itself is of unknown quality.

As a user, I would complain. Loudly.
To credit the original author, Github profile pages have evolved a lot since this project was created (~3 years ago) and much of what you see now is likely influenced by projects like this.
In larger teams you can assign merging and conflict resolution to specialists. For example, Linus Torvalds does pretty much exactly this special role (merging stuff from separate departments) all day long and git is excellent at this.

The interesting question is, how much can you automate? Git is the "very little" department, because Linus prefers a deterministic and simple process to an easy, but less reliable one.
Not sure what you mean but to your point, you are not like us. In a fire I grab my laptop and get out. You have your family. We're very much different. And likewise are taxed differently.
My thinking is that if bitcoin becomes a monetary standard for online commerce it's orders of magnitude undervalued. If not, it's probably overvalued. So it's a perfect asymmetric bet. The most you can lose is the price of buying a few (or many) bitcoins. The most you could win is 100x or maybe even more. It's kind of like making an angel investment, except that instead of investing in a single company, you're investing in an entire economy. Imagine if instead of being able to buy shares in Pets.com or Altavista in 1995, you had a chance to buy a share in the Internet as a whole. That would have been an awesome asymmetric bet
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> Investment-wise, the prognosis is still the same as it ever was: BTC will either become a huge thing worth a lot, or it will be worth near zero

Almost but not quite: it must surely go to zero at some point, because chances are extremely high that we haven't accidentally hit the holy grail of digital cryptocurrencies and no better thing could ever be possibly come along for all eternity. Before that happens, it will most likely become a bigger thing than now. So I think most folks are just wondering two things: before we reach zero, how much bigger will it become (multitudes? exponentially bigger? orders of magnitude? or just another $3.50 higher?) and over what timeframe.

And even the most educated guess at those two questions is as good as any other, truly.
We have just gone down this route in the last 12 months with our SaaS product (http://formitize.com) and unfortunately for now the choices are limited.

Paypal is the obvious one of course, but I am not a huge fan, hate their API and don't trust one day the account will be frozen for 6 months from an income spike.

Pin is coming along but is still in beta so we were not prepared to risk it just yet, and forget the banking API's, the costs and hoop jumping is a little silly.

Our solution in the end was Braintree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/) who's API is infinitely easier than Paypals and handles most of the tricky stuff you might need to throw at it being a SaaS company.

Best of luck, hope it helps.
I am not sure what is there that this makes a news (and that too on HN). Spying is a very old tool in the art of statecraft. It is neither inherently immoral nor illegal.

Even when we show outrage against NSA's snooping program, the only valid argument is that NSA perhaps can not snoop on American citizens as per the 4th amendment.

The only locus standi that we as tech people can have is that we should focus building on technologies that are more and more government proof and beneficial to the tech community and government. We should fight tooth and nail with any attempts by government that might force us to put backdoors, bugs and deliberate vulnerabilities which can ease any governments job.
I sincerely doubt they have done so with the same thoroughness as in the references I gave. Anyway, the original question (which started this thread) was by cscurmudgeon: “I am curious. Can you be more specific? If I am making my living writing software, and if you buy a copy of it and make it available to potential customers, why is it immoral to ask you not to do so?” I was not, I think, disingenuous in laying out the argument for people who, similarly to cscurmudgeon, had not grasped the argument for the other side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker. Operating a power plant is done at a computer, but I would call that blue collar; artistic painting can be done at a computer, but I would call it neither.
The video uploader needs work. Even content optimised for the site uploads like a dog.
If they sell to Australians, they're going to have to support it for longer than that, at least for australian customers. Our consumer protection laws include an implied warranty with every product sold, and it covers a 'reasonable' period after the product is bought (for example, Apple's 1 year standard warranty is really at least two years in australia, because being a premium product means users expect it to work for at least that long)
atmail?
Only if it's real growth, and not just a speculation bubble. The only way bitcoin reprsents real value is if people transact with it. My vague guess is that it can do that if its users can exhange to/from it per-transaction, because otherwise the value fluctuations will make it too risky.
Technology ADD is a issue I have been struggling with for some time. The compulsive urge to chase every new framework is real and I do not know how manage it as it eats through my productive time.
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The reverse question is, what about Mercurials UI is better than gits with the appropriate aliases and wrapper scripts?

In both cases the answer is pretty much nothing.

Git is not optimized for the minority case, it is optimized for simple implementation. It basically leaks implementation details left and right. I believe git users come to like this, because the core model is so simple (for a computer scientist). Git internally is just snapshots of the code connected with prev-version edges forming a directed acyclic graph and then some named pointers into this DAG.
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> Taking your logic a bit further: the final product is what we (should be) interested in. Python or C++ or LaTeX or whatever are just to help us make it. Everything else, whether it be Python or git or C++ or Mecurial or vim or Windows or an ergonomical mouse, is just there to help us make the final product in an easy and quality manner.

This is my mindset. I do have my preferences, but it is all about what technologies our customers require.

So I tend to say I am language and OS agnostic.

The hard lesson about this came from the time I was still trying to get into the game industry and was spending more time thinking about FOSS technologies for game development, than the game design itself. After getting a foot into the industry, it became clear to me that what matters is getting a game released, the technology religion has no place.

So nowadays I always advocate the goal is to have a project done and solve the customer problems. The technology used for it is secondary.
If goes btc keeps going up like this for 10 years 1 BTC will be worth more than all dollars in the world today.
I think i'll keep hoarding 3 euro coins instead, at least you can make bullets out of them.
I have no experience with perforce so I cannot directly compare it to git. Some of the things you ask for can be done with git. As eru mentioned, you can sign a commit (and therefore all history leading to that commit), which will prevent anyone else from modifying its history undetected. With abundant signing and tagging, you could probably create a thorough audit trail.

Git by itself does not have granular access control, and relies on filesystem permissions for security. The most common tool I know of to finely control write access to git (other than GitHub) is gitolite[0]. But even gitolite only provides read access control at the repository level.

[0] What is gitolite? http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html#what
I made a processor <edit> I emulated it </edit> in c++ in college. Started off with an abstract logic gate that had two inputs and an output, created an event queue to propagate outputs to inputs, created a couple of different buses, tristate and open drain I believe, and then created methods to link inputs and outputs as well some concrete logic gate classes to each other and also to the various bus end points.

The event queue even handled propagation delay.

I made it so that if a tristate bus was held to both high and low at the same time, then an exception would be thrown that told you you "let the blue smoke out" and ended the program.

Binary instructions were read from a static string buffer which were then interpreted by the logic to implement the functions of the cpu and alu.

In the end, I discovered that the cpu logic block that we had been told to emulate was missing a one clock cycle delay buffer and should not have functioned properly if anyone else implemented it accurately.

Wish I still had the code for that, it was super fun to make.
Precisely. It's as though Google is the new network television. Advertisers pay to be delivered bits of your attention, and the network focuses on trying to keep your attention, and with a little data mining & demographics match you with the "best" advertisements.
Having less legitimacy makes it a different thing to most people. The legality and legitimacy of an item, while social constructs, are important to many people and are worth value to many people.
Maybe you're older or maybe you know something more than me but Micro$oft I remember already won the Windows and Office game. It was Borg Gates by my time. They then used that market dominance to handicap, break, or deny entries by anyone else into the platform. They also used it to make Internet Explorer a thing.

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say about the profit motive either. Distribution doesn't necessarily means profit nor driven by profit.

They could have tossed Windows on to blank CDs and threw it out of helicopters if they want but it serves no purpose when they were making fat margins licensing Windows to Dell.
Note that I said bits, not only software. Most everyone has their music collection. Also, in regards to software, show me an average person who hasn’t had a pirated version of, say, Photoshop or MS Office. Even in business office settings it is, I am given to understand, very common.

Also, does a mere legal barrier suffice to make something an excludable good? Could you turn, for example, the observing of the Statue of Liberty into an excludable good merely by passing a law mandating that only those allowed may observe it?
> Bernanke's comment basically boils down to "no comment", phrased in the polite speech Senate committee hearings

Genuinely wondering.. isn't that always the case no matter the question?
Been at Apple and at Google.

Googlers annoy me endlessly because everyone knows the mission and everyone thinks they're on the same mission. Even if their job is indirectly related or even if what they're doing is potentially evil.

They all believe they are changing the world. It's what they tell their aging hippie parents when they visit, it's what they brainwash the legions of school children that visit, it's what they insist to the political leaders when they visit.

Every Googler thinks they're there to serve humanity and it's pompous.

When I was at Apple the goal was helping the user. You made a better thing so someone can use it better. You made something that your mom could use. You tried harder so that a baby can pick it up and it just works.

Most people didn't care about Steve. Hell, he walked around the cafeteria, grabbed his cookie, but no one really cares. Just yet another eccentric old dude walking around in a place full of eccentric old dudes in skirts and high heels.

What I hated about Apple though was that we loved users so much it became a problem. We suffered from the battered-wives syndrome. Where we tolerated and accepted everything. It became to be a love-hate relationship where on one hand we appreciated users but on the other there was such a disdain for them as well.

Every Apple person thinks they're different because they make things work in a world where things don't work because people are too stupid to make it work. It's equally as pompous as Google.

Hell the whole of Silicon Valley is really pompous, geeks just do a really good job hiding it when the attention wasn't on this place.
> Counterfeit videos are no different from "real" videos except in the fee paid to the copyright holder. How does that affect you?

It's about who you are supporting. People get upset when they find out they are supporting industries that are detrimental to the very franchise they are buying into.

How happy do you think someone who wants locally grown produce would be if they found out some dude was just importing stuff and selling it as locally grown at a farmers' market?

tl;dr It's about who the money is going to.
Higher level of compression, of course. Why higher level of loss? There are various compression technologies. Some are better and worse, according to your purpose.

My viewing scenario was a 16:10 17" screen (I believe 1440x9XX) and Bose headphones. That beats the resolution expectations of broadcast TV, and definitively crushes the audio expectations.

Full disclosure: I've watched Futurama in the form of torrented episodes （quality varies), chinese bootleg DVDs (high quality), and official DVDs (also high quality).

May I ask about your experience with Chinese DVDs?
Of course spying is immoral. I sure wouldn't want to be the friend or partner of someone who thinks it isn't.

Torture and genocide are also very old tools in the 'art' of statecraft, so that's not much of an endorsement.

If the supporters of this stuff are really down to 'well everybody does it', perhaps that's a sign that it's really just bad behavior.
No, you forgot about the horrifying "):" email.
Spot on. The whole thread can be summarized as "dev do not get either mercurial not git, complains they want to use git because they have more workflow articles on reddit to copy paste solutions"
It's true...can you imagine if the adults have their chance of showing the true valuation of SC in the public markets
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> this link will give you and I both $5 in BTC

If you buy or sell at least 1BTC on their platform. Since that sets the mark at, oh about $500 now, ... ;)

Edit: ...or $600.
Repeating my description: Git internally is just snapshots of the code connected with prev-version edges forming a directed acyclic graph and then some named pointers into this DAG.

This is the simplicity of git. I do not use or know Mercurial, but from the article Mercurial seems to have multiple types of branches and commits. This makes it more complex.