skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh God, I still have nightmares about emails with the subject line "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Problem with my account". It'd be from my manager, with a note that said "Look into this, this is your top priority. I'd scroll down, he was forwarding a note from his manager, which would read "<boss>, look into this immediately please, and keep me in the loop." In horror, I'd keep scrolling. Oh, there's my director. And my VP. And my SVP. And at nearly the bottom, there'd be an initial email from jeff to my SVP, and its entire contents would be "?".

There is nothing that terrifies Amazon management like a "?" email.
Not from the public key.
Yeah I suspect the only way bitcoin gets to $1 Million is if a load of bread is several thousand.
I've added both to my list of passwords for pentests. Thanks.
What do you think of my first product everyone?
This is my startup's first product. What does everyone here think of it? Good? Bad?
SETIhome Donation History Since 1 Nov 2011
It's a reference to "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov: http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
As a 16 year old, the main use for Snapchat is a photo sharing service. Students take a picture of themselves, caption it, and send it to their friend(s). Think of IM but with a photo attached to each message. However, the conversation is based off of a photo, and only used for short conversations. Awkward phrasing but get what I mean?

However, at the same time, teens are more willing to send racy photos if sent over snapchat. They just view this as an added bonus, not the core feature though.
I'm never really been a fan of Farhad Manjoo's writing when he was at Slate and now he's jumped to WSJ. Hopefully his replacement at Slate is better.
Has your life ever been repeatedly threatened by a very serious internet stalker behind his own well crafted anonymity?

There are reasons for wanting a mask that are legal, ethical and mandatory. My life is of more than middlin' importance to me.

I totally fail to understand the crass blindness of those who limit their reasoning to their own bland case.
Give me both!
The mindfulness business
Yes, that is bet that every Amazon investor is making.
Yeah - unfortunately there aren't a ton of companies in this space, which is rough. I've started using Domino (http://www.dominoup.com) and it's pretty similar - probably the closest thing out there right now to PiCloud that I've seen. Worth checking out for sure.
That's wonderful. But the value you get out of it and the value an investor gets out of it are two very different matters. A price of $3 billion demands something like $120 million^ in profit, annually, in perpetuity... or more, if there's significant risk in the business plan like "we assume we will get that money in the future and are not making any of that money now".

(^ using a S&P500-ish 4% real discount rate here, to keep things simple)
M2 is probably not the right number to use. Bitcoin will have an M2 far greater than 21 million. It's the M0 of Bitcoin that is fixed to 21 million.

But the world money supply is also much higher than just the US money supply.
Excellent post. Just one correction -- there are only something like 425,000 addresses with more than 0.01 bitcoin in them, which is probably a reasonable upper limit on the total number of users:

http://bitcoinrichlist.com/charts/bitcoin-distribution-by-ad...

It looks to me like speculation is driving exchange services in different countries, which is encouraging arbitrage. Which is pushing us towards a world where one of the huge businesses bitcoin eats is the banking sector's spread on currency convertibility.
Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?
the winkovoss twins will make more money on bitcoin than on facebook. Both are house of cards, and ultimately not worth anything.
Working at Google: What's the worst part about working at Google?
I don't know what the literature says, but someone who is very big gets a lower quality scan, which surely correlates with greater miss rates with imaging reports (slices have larger voxel due to thicker slices, larger slice gap, lower image matrix etc). We resort to more robust imaging types which tend to have problems of their own (lower resolution usually). Then further down the track, operations are more complex and recovery slower. It's all bad.
Once you do decide to use an assert in python, there are a couple things to consider. The first is to make sure you are expressive in your message. Your assert may very well hit one day, and it may only occur at the most unpredictable times, so you'll want to make sure you have enough information to see why the assert failed. To use the OP's example:

assert x > 0, "x is not zero or negative"

When this fails, you're going to be at a loss to understand what actually happened. If you change the message to something like the following, you're going to have a much easier time tracing through your program to understand why your constraint was violated:

assert x > 0, "Expected positive x, got: %d" % x

Once you get in the habbit of this, you'll quickly run up against style-guide imposed line limits. My usual trick here is to use parenthesis and let python's automatic string concatenation work its wonders, but you have to be careful because

assert (x > 0, "This is my longer message "
"for x")

evaluates to a tuple, and thus is always true. Instead only use parens around the message:

assert x > 0, ("This is my longer message "
"for x")

Lastly, don't use asserts in tests. Use the standard unittest library which will do a much better job explaining what was received, what was expected, and what the difference between them is.
Ask HN: Events in the near future that can crash Bitcoin's value?
What events in the near future might take place and cause the Bitcoin value to crash? Planning to buy me some, but right now, the price is too high. Or is the only way up right now, really?
What can I say about sexism in tech without getting shadowbanned?
I finally figured out my previous account has been shadowbanned for some time. I cannot begin to fathom why. The last comment that appears on the account's public profile was a comment commiserating with the parent comment about the high level of sexism in that thread (the submission was about sexual harassment at a tech conference). The first comment that only appears when I am logged in is a request that someone refrain from referring to text in languages that use non-Latin characters as "moon runes".

I have read the guidelines, and had prior to creating that account. It is obvious to me that some interpretations of the guidelines would justify banning me - if all mentions of sexism or other issues of inclusiveness constitute "flame war bait", then of course my comments would fall into that category. It seems to me that banning all such comments is counterproductive, but I can't figure out a narrower reading that would explain why I was banned. Neither comment was especially rude or sarcastic, at least no moreso than what I frequently see in threads here, and I feel both comments contributed to the discussion. Why was I banned, and more generally, what is the difference between an acceptable and an unacceptable comment on this community's very real problems with inclusiveness?
> Even when powering electronics in the home, you have to worry about which sort of power the device needs. Does it need a great big 240V AC outlet, or just the regular 120V AC (using American values...)?

This isn't accurate as to the electronics that I use. All the adapters say "input 120 - 240V". Non-portable electronics tend to be compatible with the plugs in the same area where you buy them... since they're not portable.
Thanks for the perspective. Understanding how things are perceived by others is an incredibly hard thing to do.
You can convince yourself that price discovery is what's causing the rise of the value of BTC. But it's not. It's rampant speculation. Why? Because there is no substantial use of BTC to buy and sell goods.

And even if there were (which there isn't), the fact that the currency has doubled in the last 2 weeks suggests that there is massive hoarding going on now, and people would rather own the currency rather than exchange them for goods or services. Why would you spend 1 BTC when the price of the good or service could halve in BTC in a week? It's better to just dig out your old fiat currency and pay for it with that, since the price is much more stable.
A simple calculator in Ruby
you could always use gitlabs or phabricator and you get much of what you just said is a PITA.
It certainly sounds like you already decided to sell your present CTO down the river, and (at least) downgrade his title/responsibility on the advice of investors. All good. Just capitalism at work, and engineers have a history of being shafted by the MBA types after doing a lot of work getting something to an investable-in stage. (but why would yet another capable engineer (the type you want as a CTO) want to work with you if you have a history of treating your cofounder like this?)

Missing in all this - What does your present CTO think? (what does he think/say , (not what you think he would or should say,what does he actually think/say is a good solution?)
Dean Baker has been making an argument similar to yours for years. He usually presents it as a free trade vs. protectionism issue, which is an interesting way to think about health care costs:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/support...
The last question - Isaac Asimov
The biggest risks are these:

1. Strong U.S. or Chinese regulation

2. An irreversible, fatal flaw in the Bitcoin protocol is discovered

3. A competing cryptocurrency, or other emerging form of money, manages to outpace it in growth and steal its thunder
What's so disturbing about what IPs were looked up on a site?

The only way I find that remotely possibly of any interest is perhaps maybe some of those IPs are slightly more prone to having some sort of public unsecured service. (And uses this API/site to find the public IP.)

Is there an actual legitimate complaint or worry here?
'- Revert the merge commit' this is what i had problems with. i got an error message back from git that you can't revert a branch commit and when i googled it the conclusion i came to was i needed to go back in time and change our configuration to make this possible. its entirely possible that i ended up down the wrong path from google searching.

now, googling around i find some stack overflow answers and such i'm pretty sure i found at the time i had the issue. when i am next there (at work) i'll see if i can find a copy of that repo or recreate the same problem so that i can show what happened and why it is difficult to solve and dangerous in a production environment. actually... i might just try and repro it now, but my connection is so poor here (at home) that even installing git is likely to be painful.

however, ignoring that, the process you describe is horribly counter intuitive. well done for working it out in the first place, although i do see this suggested in a few of the stack overflow answers... :)
I don't really like the fact that despite having to pay to use the tools you're not getting all the royalties. Like buying carpenter tools and getting 80% royalties off the table you made.
Google as Two-Face
Here's a video of a FOSDEM 2013 talk about Mercurial's changeset evolution:

https://air.mozilla.org/changesets-evolution-with-mercurial/
So, it sounds like you're saying a fundamental use case is "sending illegal pictures", which seems like it will eventually result in a devastating lawsuit / prosecution.
Well for me personally, it's been a long series of small stuff that convinced me that they were an engineering organization first and a for-profit company next.

I remember when Android 2.3 was released and at one of the Google dev conferences, a Google engineer answering a question about why "X feature doesn't exist in stock Anroid" answered that Google thought that was too confusing for the lay user and that one could look to the custom ROM community for adding that feature later. It was something that no large company would ever do it seemed to me, That's the first thing that comes to mind whenever I read something of this nature about Google. I'm sure I could pull up others. But that's the one that comes to mind.

But yeah, that was a more open Google undeniably. Before Larry Page took over. Maybe there were a few oases of ideality hiding the vast curtain of reality. But it gave them a soul and connected people to the company. But that's maybe gone now.
It is possible for this to be true in general (in other words, there will be someone whose comments are more accurate than 99% of other people), but that's not the case for me. I just try to withhold my opinion on stuff that's not obviously true.
>>In other words: stop setting up false idols, and your reality won't be shattered when they disappoint you.

I'd say that it is Google that is setting up false idols with bullshit mantras like "Do no evil."
a few people have suggested this. disappointed that my initial google searches did not reveal this to me...
That's extremely arbitrary. That's just a psychological barrier.

In January, many thought that $15 was pretty high price.

In March, many thought that $30 was a pretty high price.

In April, many thought that $250 was a pretty high price.

Today, many think that $500 is a pretty high price.

Your claim is probably just as valid as someone claiming that Bitcoin to be worth $0.01 a piece.
Okay - what are the real alternatives to gmail?

-Outlook.com

-Ymail.com

-Hushmail.com

-Fastmail.fm

---

Of the above - the only one I've heard great things about is fastmail.

Can anyone else add to this list? (I'll try to update it).
What systems don't have an interpreter installed these days?
I'm wondering what you're referring to by "AMD architecture"?
Yes, we really need to re-establish the practice of using signed, contracts, (as opposed to clicking through a web page) negotiated to protect both parties in order to further the healthy practice for all.

A clause to protect the seller would read as simple as "seller shall not be liable for counterfeit media as long as intent was demonstrated to sell legitimate merchandise."

The situation sounds to me like a case of someone abusing power/authority to confiscate a large quantity of product or knock someone else out of a market.
What's the best and easiest exchange to get into? Lets just say to start buying bitcoins?

also, what's the best API to use to start charging my customers with bitcoins?

both serious questions.
BTC is the price of an Apple share
Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity
Looks nice, but there are three things that I absolutely need for any book publishing platform.

* The ability to sell multiple packages, each with different files

* The ability to capture buyer's emails

* The ability to set my own arbitrary pricing

No publishing site on the internet does this, and I am not about to give up these benefits just so I can have some automated convenience.
I for one, am leaving. Wasn't born here anyway, if I'm not careful they'll consider me fishing in the river in my tinny "illegal boat person", etc. sigh. What happened? :(
> its not official but apple will dick you over on a number of things if you ship on other platforms. most specifically the highly valuable 'being featured early on the app store'. from what i've heard they have a secret internal policy of checking to see if you shipped on android before doing that...

That sounds like bullshit.
He really was not in it for the money though. He genuinely believed that if you make fantastic products, the rest (including money) falls into place.
That sounds like every penny-stock investor ever.
He didn't say that at all
Government Refusing To Say Whether Evidence Came From Mass Surveillance
That's not at all what he's saying. He said that teens user SnapChat to send photos that aren't super important or need to be shared in the future.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you are sending pictures (or text) via snap chat that you do not want the world to see, then you are making a mistake.

It is trivially easy to capture screenshots from any screen, and the 'protection' that snapshot puts in place does absolutely nothing to stop this.

I would think twice before trusting that anything you post is not going to be widely available.
219 bytes for tron: http://quaxio.com/tron/, snakes shouldn't require a lot more :)
I've been using it for months. It seems like a serviceable IMAP backend. The spam filtering lets me down but anything is better than getting sucked back into Google again.
It's been awhile and vast improvements have been made. Outlook.com is legitimate these days.
I've been using it for several months now. I really like it. It's fast, and reliable. I made the move, and haven't (really) looked back.

The spam filtering isn't as good though. I've had a few false positives and false negatives. I don't get much spam, so it's not hard to have a quick look in the spam folder. Wish I didn't have to do this though.

I like paying for the product. It's nice to know my emails aren't being scanned to build up a profile on me. It's nice to know that I am a customer (of the traditional kind). I haven't had to use support yet, but it's there. Unlike Gmail.

I originally moved because I grew uneasy with the amount of information I had with Google. Now, I have none. A small win for me, but Google doesn't care. Ultimately, make the decision on the whole "best tool for the job" argument.
We've had some feedback about this so we're toying with a new pricing model. See http://tablo.io/plans

More inline with a blogging service. Thoughts?
Collecting Data on US Immigration Process for FWD.us Hackathon 
This week, our team at the FWD.us DREAMers Hackathon will be building visual tools to better display how different immigration paths work -- how long it can take for different nationalities -- and where fail-points in the process are.

We're collecting anonymous data about how long it takes different people coming to the US to go through immigration processes. The information you give us here anonymously will be used to make our demo at the hackathon.

We hope that by sharing some information about our immigration journeys, we can make tools with a message -- that show politicians how difficult immigration can be right now -- and that other immigrants can use when planning their paths.

We're interested in hearing about the details of your journey. Thanks!

PS: Help us by sharing this survey with other international residents you know, http://goo.gl/vwKdt0
so, git reset was not able to solve my problem, nor was git revert, git gave me an error message explicitly stating that branch merges can not be reverted. when i researched it i came to the conclusion that the a configuration change was required to prevent this problem going forwards. i came to the conclusion that git had bad defaults for what i consider a critical function of source control - i consider this dangerous.

i was able to solve our problem at the time, but the amount of time i wasted investigating a 'correct' solution using git exceeded the amount of time it took me to later create an 'anti-merge' commit myself (the fix) and move over to hg (prevent recurrance). i also chastised everyone for using something they didn't understand instead of the familiar well known tool because it was more popular (curing the cause).

i am going to investigate reproing this since everyone is in such a state of disbelief and a good proportion seem to think i am completely inexperienced and stupid.

the branch disappearing is a small thing thats confusing, but it comes down to the implementation details of git - because its all just a pile of diffs with labels and such when i merge it seems like the 'branch' disappears, even though its exactly the same data that was there before, just organised into a different hierarchy of changes. this is quite confusing, but it also means that, e.g. producing the anti-merge change, required more effort than it should have.
I don't know if the point of this is quite medical. The words "recreational electrocardiograph usage" don't make sense right now -- but they might, given a $110 one you can throw into a junk drawer when you're not using it.
This is inherent to any country where software outsourcing is a significant industry.

The outsourcers sell billable hours that are supposed to be cheaper than hours of developers hired locally, but during industry boom any individual contributor worth their while will shop around for Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Facebook/Yahoo offers that come attached with H1Bs and salaries much higher than local, even accounting for cost of living.
It seems that Bitcoin will have a hard time recovering in the first two scenarios, yes? And I looked at the other cryptocurrencies but I'm not sure they're gaining any traction. If they do, however, why can't they just co-exist with Bitcoin without necessarily harming its value?
Chomsky was an early visionary, and his intuition was very good. I would compare him more to Freud than to Ptolemaic astronomers. He started from a single notion, and built a theory around it that was justified by anecdote.

But many of the tools and constructs that fell out of this theory are important. Consider the work with grammar. CTF is equivalent to PDA, but much easier to use conceptually.
my Gmail tab in Chrome often gets into a state where it's using 100% CPU and is sluggish to respond to UI interactions. Is that what you mean, or something else?
Easiest, coinbase. Best, maybe bitstamp.
I don't begrudge doctors a single penny they honorably and legitimately earn.

Your answer begs the question. Also, US doctors earn a higher multiple of the average salary than doctors in other Western countries do, while not providing measurably better patient outcomes.
Or, if you don't want to have to sign up and create an account, there's this piece from attrition.org:

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/
Of course, I think the company is massively overvalued.

One thing I think they do have, however, is really strong engagement. Whenever I browse facebook or twitter, I'm very detached. I'm probably even working on something else. It's the same as when I occasionally watch TV -- half attention at best.

With Snapchat, I've got laser-focus. Whatever I'm looking at is going away in seconds and will never come back, so it's got a special urgency.

I'm sure it won't be easy to convert this into revenue, but I believe that engagement is special.
Pi vs. Tau
would you report revenue. I always wonder how much people are making from these games. Of course if you don't mind.
If you’re good at something, never do it for free
Yeah I think that's pretty okay I guess. I'm guessing it shouldn't look like this:
http://i.imgur.com/QfWgsHs.png
Why The Value of Bitcoin is Skyrocketing
Related: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames. http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.h... (HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644955)
9 Reasons Not to Crowdfund Your Next Project
> It seems that Bitcoin will have a hard time recovering in the first two scenarios, yes

It would recover if it is regulated, but it would take longer. It would be adopted in countries that don't regulate it so much. The chance of a fatal flaw in the Bitcoin protocol is pretty low at this point.

> And I looked at the other cryptocurrencies but I'm not sure they're gaining any traction. If they do, however, why can't they just co-exist with Bitcoin without necessarily harming its value?

I agree, and in this scenario it's likely they would coexist (or even bolster each other's value)

I forgot to mention another possibility, which I'm sure has already happened many times. A large holder of BTC could suddenly crash the market. But the market recovers from this.
There's Bitpay, too.
Except Bitcoin is not penny-stock. How could you possibly draw a parallel like that?
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Example unit-less Accelerometer data from phones graphed for Train, Bus, Stationary, Metro, Tram and Car.