skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the Roadmap, they are planning on retrofitting Java 8 syntax in Groovy 3.
Cash is individually numbered. It's not always that anonymous.
You mean people in America don't feel this way about street preachers? Even the kind that walks around with a sign and shouts REPENT! and all?

> I could give a $100 bill to a cashier at the grocery store without getting in trouble.

You mean you literally handed her a 100 dollar bill? That's not her fault, you should exchange your money. Imagine someone trying to pay with hrivnas in 7-11.
I guess depending on the hardware and software that you have/require. Google's Ganeti [1] is pretty easy to get going, and it is based on Linux Xen or KVM. There is a hands on tutorial @ http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18544

If you have hardware -- Ganeti basically allows you to create a Xen cluster of X nodes, create VMs, move them around the cluster (live migration if using DRBD), etc. I have several clusters with ~100 VMs and it has been rock solid. Ganeti is much better than trying to roll you own solution, and with live migration, it makes a nice alternative to VMware, just without the fancy GUI.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/
its back now
What are the risks associated with Coin as a product?
It's only some pages here (UK), I can see the homepage and some videos.
It's down due to too few G+ comments. Youtube needs a minimum amount of a-hole comments in order to survive.
Anyone able to decode/make sense of the error string?
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show
Note that the article is from 2011
And now it's back on for me
Judge questions his role in NSA case
You don't make eye contact with everyone you walk by, no. But if you do happen to make eye contact, you typically smile - and it would be a little awkward if you didn't.

I think there's a difference between a polite smile of acknowledgement and a smile give to someone that you already know well, however.
I wonder how many ppl are repurposing PS4 or XB's to mine.
And now when you succeed in spite of this, it will be that much sweeter!

Never let the failure define you, only let it temper your proficiency so that you and your projects pass through each phase stronger than before.

Just because one does not perceive the value as highly as you do does not mean the world reflects that opinion. Keep taking the shot.

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
the decoded data has a frequency distribution similar to random output so probably encrypted :) maybe that did something lolzy like stream cipher with the same key.
> Remember that Groovy, Grails, and Spring Boot are run by the same company, there might be some synergy

It's because Groovy and its apps like Grails are part of the same company that many developers are afraid of creating anything web-related for Groovy that's not a Grails plugin.

Grails head Graeme Rocher was evn one of the 5 Groovy despots for 4 yrs, and didn't leave until a few months ago. This could have been what prompted the Play! 2 framework to purge itself of all its Groovy code.
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Which are optional
I ran into giveit100 and I'm planning to use it in the near future. So please keep up the good work!
TravisCI-like indicator for anything
Noone in their right mind would do that
They'll soon have a 100bln. Withtout even having an idea. Apart from "let's buy bitcoins".
No problem. I might not have even thought about it if not for another recent discussion I'd been having about authentication and permissions.

Long and short of it, Github is screwing me over by not letting me get fewer permissions, and I won't release an app that takes more permissions than it needs. It's quite the quandary, really.
Which part made you uncomfortable? The fact that his wife was cooking for their family or that he had eight kids?
This is Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPJPIF4DBE8
Their apis look to be down too
http://www.outageanalyzer.com/?id=4080618
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Livechat goes up tonight, actually. You ask, we deliver!
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Well did you pick the wost possible service for the job. Currently you can't buy coins at Coinbase til the 22nd.
> If X works great as the short-term transfer medium, then it keeps/raises in value, and becomes good also as a long-term store of value.

This seems very simplistic. Is there evidence that the value of a currency is directly related to transactional volume? It's obviously not the case that that is the sole factor. Even if that were true, your point is contradictory. As you say, 'If X starts to fail as the transfer medium, then the value collapses as well', and there's nothing that guarantees Bitcoin will become a serious transactional currency, or if it does, won't be supplanted by something else. Under no circumstances is this a place where you'd want to store substantial savings that weren't set aside for speculation.
Can't NSA datacenters with specialized crypto chips simply get 51% of bitcoin mining power for some time, if they want? Now that would be 'fiat currency'.
I don't think the APIs are down. http://fixyt.com (submitted to HN 3 days ago) is working for me.
When I lived in Canada (in Québec - I'm from France) it mightily pissed me off when the cashier at the bank always asked me "hi! how are you?" with a large fake smile everytime I came to deposit a cheque or something.

I understand it's just the way store keepers, cashiers, waiters and other customer-facing staff have to behave in North America, but, well, it's difficult not to see it as insincere or hypocritical when you're not used to it.
Here is what drove the Internet bubble: during the whole nineties, the stock market went upwards. People thought we had entered a New Economy without recessions. There were plenty of good reasons to believe this. For example, due to the end of the cold war, we could allocate resources to much more productive areas and gain a lot through globalization and increased international trade. This effect was also known as the peace dividend. Furthermore, the Internet promised to bring enormous productivity increases. The sentiment was that everything will be done online sooner or later and that whoever is first to occupy a particular niche in the Internet would dominate that market globally and forever. For example, the first to create an online shop for pets would have such an advantage that if executed well, competitors would never be able to catch up anymore. By buying a share of pets.com, you did not want to buy a share of a company without profits, you wanted to buy a share of the future before it was too late. People thought they would be buying the equivalent of a few square feet of future Manhatten. Domain names changed hands for crazy prices. It was very hard to resist the general sentiment as it was repeated over and over, for years. One of the few that resisted was Warren Buffet - and the media pitied him for not understanding the New Economy due to his advanced age.
Very sad. The world is a very big place though, this kind of stuff is bound to come up. I do hope the Maps folks take some action.
No, the article is claiming that to Westerners a smile is neutral and that to a Russian no smile is neutral. The article is making the implication that a smiling Westerner and a non-smiling Russian are expressing the same emotion, it's just that the Westerner is faking something.

The poster to whom you're responding is actually saying that the no smile in Russia is because of an actual underlying difference in the emotions being felt.
Alright, the market has remained irrational longer than I've remained solvent in resolve. So I'll admit it: This would have been a nice bandwagon to have jumped on.

But hollow disruption porn and worse-is-better are still fucking tragedies.
Hi, I'm from Lithuania, where people are smiling (or not smiling) in the exact same way as described in the article. I can assure you that teeth has absolutely nothing to do with this. Same goes for your missing muscle theory, absolute nonsense. It seems like you think people are way more conscious about smiling than they really are. I could not care less about my tooth when "deciding" whether to smile or not. It's not very conscious decision after all.
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It´s not down completely. Sometimes it loads.

Seems to me like their DB is not reachable from all their webservers..

Or perhaps they did push a fix that has not reached all fo their webservers yet.

EDIT: now (few minutes later)it loads just fine, seems the fix had to be pushed to all servers and thats why it sometimes loads and sometimes it doesn`t
Square Wallet Is Almost Awesome
An HTML5 remake of the original Super Mario Brothers
Came across this same issue a few days ago, but it lasted for just 3-4 minutes.
Well, in summary, I don't think there are many ex-poor people posting on HN.

The primary problem is he had too much hope. If he knew it was going to come to this, cashing in the chips earlier and moving out of the house ASAP would have been much better off financially than letting the house drain his net worth to zero at which point it couldn't drain any more.

Part of that hope is he still saw (still sees?) himself as a wealthy comedy writer and he might get hired as a local... but not if he's living in Germany as a house-husband. So to move away he'd have to give up hope, which he apparently refused to do. Ever.

Now the wife's "skill" was in having German citizenship. So she comes from a more civilized country where she doesn't have to sleep in a '97 minivan and can occasionally eat. So she pretty much has to go there and take the smallest of the kids with her. As an economic refugee or whatever. I've occasionally considered if I absolutely had to (like, ultimate worst case scenario) I'd become an economic refugee and move to a more civilized country, like Canada. I actually have enough "points" to immigrate legally, for that matter. Depressing as this sounds (because it is depressing...) as my elderly ancestors are dying off, I literally have fewer reasons every year to stay in the USA. So an upgrade is likely in my future.

You have to do what you have to do to keep the kids alive, and that means the wife is moving to Germany with the little kids, and he is staying in CA in the wild hope that he will get back in the biz. And long distance relationships being what they are...
This is a pretty big thing. Processor-In-Memory has been discussed since the 80ies, but no real world application in sight. And here comes a multi-billion-dollar company and announces an actual product - after having worked on it for seven years in secrecy!

Here are some more links:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320124
http://electroiq.com/blog/2013/11/micron-announces-developme...

edit: yeah i know, youtube is down! Much more important!
This sounds very encouraging to me. A number of panelists have talked about how banks aren't allowing btc businesses to setup up basic checking accounts and how this needs to be fixed if the US isn't going to be left behind.
I understand that argument that the author is making, however why does that make what Microsoft tweeted incorrect? Why is it incorrect of them to ask people what their favourite font is? Perhaps they intended for the people to respond to the question with a font choice, not typeface...
Metrotube still works, as probably other clients not based on web version.
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I'd take that any day instead of speculative finance attched to food trade.
That works for technical reasons but not legal reasons. You can't "virtually" agree to the terms&conditions and then delete your agree-ment along with the VM. (Unless the terms or the law let you do so. Sometimes they do.)
I mean it hasn't gone down two days in a row for over a month now and is increasing in price 10% per day. It's not just going to straight up to the moon like people think. There will be bumps along the way and it's overdue for one.
Right. A Romanian friend of mine told me that when he moved to the US, he thought that the women would be easy and sleep with him because they were smiling so much.

He was a bit disappointed at the lack of follow-through.
I give it days, if not hours.
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Not least because governmental power does not derive from the ability to issue fiat currency; it derives from a legal (or socially accepted) monopoly on force. Failure of a sanctioned fiat currency could reduce governmental legitimacy, but law enforcement is the backbone of governmental power.
Python: How to bring your supercomputer to a crawl as 1,000 nodes all try to access hundreds of non-existent files on the same network share.
I think a possible reason they're overwhelmingly positive is because the FBI has a pretty good cache of bc.
Interesting. It seems that Google is switching from an "attract" to a "protect" strategy. Which is, IMO, short-sighted.
Congrats on launching your app! The YC investors all have their specific interests of the moment and it could be for some totally random reason your site doesn't fit this particular round.

Building a business is a long journey. YC is only one of many roads to take, and acceptance in their program doesn't guarantee success anyway.

Good luck to you whether you decide to continue with giveit100 or move on to the next venture!
That's pretty interesting and bears some ramifications. Like the fact that Americans might have been not a smiling bunch before dentistry became widely accessible (this might have happened not too long ago). Or that before advent of cariogenic foodstuffs (eg in Middle Ages and antiquity) people tended to smile more. I wonder if it is any true.
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After that experience, why wouldn't he just lie on his next application? Have a friend give him a former job reference if they even bothered to check.

Sure it's slightly immoral but if you plan to stay for a longtime and it's the only way to feed your family...
Half of all marriages in the USA end in divorce. It can cost a lot of money in legal fees when child custody and access are involved and there's any contentiousness (say $50k normally, upwards of $250,000 for a real fight).

So yes, if the relationship deteriorates sufficiently, it is "that easy". Vows don't mean much anymore. People marry with very limited information. If they truly had to vow, they'd wait a lot longer (many years!) before deciding.

It is amazing how two people that once vowed to live with each other can become mortal enemies filled with rage, but it's surprisingly common.
Impact of Electric vehicles on the electric system. And on our pockets
In case anyone is still curious, part of the encrypted data in those blobs is almost certainly the entire HTTP request sent by the client. A tiny GET with just a Host: header generates a much smaller blob than a normal request with a browser.
> I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money,[1] spend gobs of money on huge office campuses,[2] then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers

It's because cubicles can be depreciated as furniture, over 10 (or 7, I've never been clear on the difference) years, whereas internal walls and doors get depreciated as real estate over a 27.5 year schedule. The CFO has to do something.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.318767....
I wouldn't disagree with the main point of this article, but I think C is also a good language for newbies.
> the value of each bitcoin could be $100,000 or more, assuming it can attract 1/4 of the interest that gold

what market capitalization of gold are you basing that estimate on?
As I said earlier on the mailing list, I suspect (without looking into it) that the cause of the I/O performance slowdown relative to C++ is something related to buffering—perhaps the I/O is not being buffered, or the buffer isn't functioning right. This would be consistent with the serialization-based I/O leading to larger slowdowns, because there would be more calls to write(2) then. If so, then this should be fixable.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see the object mode slightly faster than C++.
Because they don't get it.
That might be the one exception I can think of .. :o
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So you suspect favoritism?
I've never seen too many people smile waiting for Bart either, and I've looked for smiles.
I didn't get at interview either...
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or not...http://www.fullscreenmario.com/ DMCA complaint from Nintendo
But thanks for the source :)
"Profile. larrys. about: public relations, marketing.

Suggestion: Lie."
I think this is omitted in spirit of the slow web.
So many things in this article don't add up. First, the finances. Second, the two years of intentional unemployment to bring his family back together. Clearly, that didn't work, and he suffered financially because of that. The inability to pay bills and the foreclosure on his home were not immediate - he must have seen his finances dwindle over the period of two years. Then, the estrangement from his family and their lack of financial support for their now homeless father.

While there is probably some value here, most of the important parts are missing and its hard to find sympathy for someone when it seems like the fail happened over the course of many years and was avoidable.
i would say "rather unamazing"
How did the government create the Dot-com bubble?
that's totally what I think too
>the article is claiming that to Westerners a smile is neutral [...] The article is making the implication that a smiling Westerner [...] is faking something.

I don't see where you got the second sentence as the article's implication. Especially since it's rather contradictory with the first sentence.
"Google says it will replace a Google Maps image after a California father complained it shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009."

Maybe he didn't know how to reach someone in Google? I don't know, why does that matter?
I said that mostly in jest. If you're starting a site though, just don't fucking pick .info, is my .02. Don't be a cheap ass, spend the extra $6, and get a 'real' TLD that doesn't have it's reputation destroyed by russian spammers.
I meant from a browser.
Im not sure if it would be helpful for your exact vision, but there are several open source social network platforms like www.elgg.org which could give you a jumpstart on the backend to get underway.
At first, I was confused too. So I asked on the ML. See [1] and continuation in [2]. You could also browse the docker-user list, there are a number of threads asking to clarify various concepts about Docker.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/docker-dev/OcpLrYti64Q/Ue6vP...
[2]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/docker-user/4acVRnOd9Dw/RZRc...
Cash is a lot more anonymous than Bitcoin. oinksoft's argument is valid.
I fully expect it to go to the low $4000s by the beginning of the holiday season, perhaps even by early December.
This may be of interest, but IANAL. http://castle.eiu.edu/alsb/Archives/JELLvol12/You%20Can't%20...
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China drove up the exchange rate 3x; what makes you think they couldn't drive it right back down?
I have this discussion at least 5 times a year with clients. In industries with lots of price comparing, I have clients insist that lower positions produce better leads, cuz they already shopped around... The data just doesn't back this up in my experience.

I agree completely that you should measure and optimize around every metric you can, and bid management solutions can often do this for you.

I personally have yet to see data that supports the theory that searchers who click on different positions of the page convert at different rates...
What's your point? Russians don't smile because they are chimps, but Lithuanians don't smile because they are true to themselves and others? Ok.
NY Announces $17M Multistate Settlement w/ Google Over Tracking Of Consumers
Interesting, this certainly doesn't happen here...
http://lenta.ru/articles/2013/02/28/grumpy/ interview with the guy, if you can read Russian (he's from Belarus, by the way). Doesn't seem there is any real back story to it actually.
Are you looking to sell? Looking for investors?

How will you scale the attorney review @ $99? Takes at least 10-15 minutes of attorney time to do a solid review.
It looks like it's a url-safe base64 encoding of an encrypted blob (perhaps a stack trace). They're using '-', and '_' instead of '/' and '+'. Replace these characters and base64 will succeed, leaving with ~3k bytes randomly distributed between 0x00 and 0xFF.
I'd say it depends on what the newbie's end goal is. Because many people may use programming for higher level things - like using Matlab to process physics experiments' data.
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Use a free software alternative like LightSpark.
Maybe I missed it, but where's the failure part? The author's startup didn't get into YCombinator. That's not failure. She and her co-founder did not make any mistakes.

Failure is what happens when your business doesn't go anywhere. The only possible mistake here would be for her and her co-founder to believe that they needed to get into YCombinator (or any other program) for their business to go somewhere.
http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

Look at "Submissions that get automatically penalized"
I think this all remains to be seen. Right now the currency is experiencing rapid growth due to network effects. This is an entirely new type of currency in an entirely new environment. Until initial growth reaches an equilibrium, we're not going to notice any deflationary issues with the currency.

I suspect that once we do reach the top, we'll discover that bitcoin deflates rather predictably and boringly. So much so that it will make the interest rate in your bank's savings account look interesting. You'll still want to invest for the same reasons you want to invest right now--greater returns.

I just don't see the doom and gloom here. Maybe if Bitcoin was the primary currency in use. But it's not, and I don't think it's in danger of becoming so anytime soon.
The definition of bank is not an entity that holds currency, otherwise any company or you or I are a bank.

To keep it simple, Banks hold reserves because they lend. Paypal, for instance, is not a bank.

If your tiny Bitcoin startup holds $1000 in bitcoin, and your obligations are $1000, I don't see the problem.
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Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements
In this context, I'm referring to failure in the "setback" definition. Not ultimate, unrecoverable business failure sense.
The libraries I mentioned are all located in the Clojure GitHub group (https://github.com/clojure/). Actually, the Clojure community has thus far done a very good job of keeping the core language relatively small and implementing the "interesting" bits as libraries. (Personally, the idea that Go-style/CSP concurrency is a language feature of Go, but can be implemented as a library in Clojure is rather appealing to me.)

As these are Clojure-Core libraries, I'm fairly certain you'd need to submit a CA before you can submit a pull request (details here: http://clojure.org/contributing). Probably the biggest help you could provide in the near-term, though, would be to find interesting uses for these libraries.
Saw this gem on the front page, it goes in more detail about China and BTC

http://www.coindesk.com/china-leading-global-rise-bitcoin/
Had the satellite flown over earlier this headline might have said 'google maps helps solve murder case'

so sad.
Glad to see someone understand the purpose of currency.