skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly while Bloomberg suspended this reporter; prepares to lay off 50 people [1]; and possibly shutter its investigations division [2], [3], there is "good" news too: 'NewCo', the Pierre Omidyar-Glenn Greenwald news venture just brought on board NYU's Jay Rosen.

>> Out of the press box and onto the field - http://pressthink.org/2013/11/newco/

As Bill Bishop (one of the best 'China experts' on Twitter) recently said:

"Perhaps the new omidyar news venture can hire some of the excellent Bloomberg journalists in the projects and investigations team"

https://twitter.com/niubi/status/401645221022142464

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[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...

[2] https://twitter.com/niubi/status/401618179878686721

[3] https://twitter.com/niubi/status/401618756192858112
It seems likely that they'll be required to AUCTION them off through an approved process rather than sell them themselves on an exchange.

And they probably won't do that until they've convicted "Dread Pirate Roberts"
> what prevents collisions from two miners mining the same bitcoin at the same time?

Absolutely nothing. There can, in fact, be two blocks at the same height. This is a temporary fork. What happens is that miners mine the next block on top of one or the other at random, and the chain which gets the next block "wins", and everyone then mines on top of that.

To make it clearer, at any time, the longest chain of blocks wins. There can be two chains of the same length at any point, but that doesn't last for long, as it's statistically incredibly unlikely that this will continue for more than a block or so.

There's a page full of times that it's happened, here: https://blockchain.info/orphaned-blocks
Regarding #1: it's not really coins that are mined, it's blocks (which happen to include a reward paid to the miner). Blocks are numbered and include a hash of their parent, so you can get a tree-like structure of blocks. But only the longest branch "counts", so miners have an incentive to spread information about the current highest block as quickly as possible.

In cases there two blocks happen to be mined simultaneously there's a brief period of uncertainty regarding which transactions were committed and who earned the mining reward. But as blocks are generated on both branches at random intervals, eventually one will become longer and snowball from there. The key is that the average time between blocks is about 10 minutes, muck longer than the communication delay between miners.

As to #2: first of all, the Bitcoin protocol knows nothing about exchange rates. And secondly, in a market-based exchange, you can't just "tie" a price to anything. You could set up a fixed-price exchange, but if the market price was different from the one you picked, either buyers or sellers would look elsewhere to get a better deal. (That is, unless you provided some additional benefit over the existing exchanges that was considered valuable enough to make up for the price difference.)
Google, and tech companies in general, should not be trying to innovate despite the need to make money, they should be trying to innovate because of the need to make money. If Google have lost that culture of innovation because of a short term need for operational efficiency then it will hurt them in the long run. People have observed how Microsoft failed to capitalise early on the internet, the smartphone explosion and the tablet explosion because of a poor culture. While that effect takes many years to hurt the bottom line, it is real and it hurts. If Google go down the same road then that is them failing at plain old capitalism, not the death of some alternative utopian dream.
If your only goal is to have people play it and have fun, you should make it free but have In-App Purchases.

Many more people will end up downloading your game, and it may spread better that way (since it's multiplayer).

Now the question is how do you make money with IAP? Maybe keep some awesome game modes locked? Unlock them by getting enough coins (e.g., 100K). You can do this by playing enough, by sharing the app with friends on FB/Twitter, or by purchasing coins through IAP.

Good luck!
Very true. When I see that @ sign, only two things come to my mind - an Email Address or a twitter handle.
Replacing an avatars' face with an @ symbol feels like some violence has been done to a person — in other contexts, portraits are defaced by scribbling over the eyes or face, and that is what this icon feels like.
Additionally, the @ symbol usually means email, and I'd expect to end up in a mail compose window after clicking an icon with such a prominent '@'.
This is pretty awesome. Though I'll probably never code dekstop apps, something like this for Addons would def. trigger a coding spur.
>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

Well, I find this hard to believe, given what I've read about their relationship/feelings towards Jobs from lots of other ex-Apple employees. Makes me hard to believe the claim that you even worked there in the first place.

I mean, "Just yet another eccentric old dude", really?

The difference was that, that PARTICULAR "eccentric old dude" had started the company you worked on in the first place, had ressurected it from bankraptcy just some years ago, has turned it into the most profitable company on earth, had outmost control over it's products and directions, was named "person of the year" several times, had a worldwide cult following, and micromanaged often the software and hardware Apple pushed out -- to the point that people talked about his "Reality Distortion Field".

walking around in a place full of eccentric old dudes in skirts and high heels.

Huh? Was Apple full of transvenstites?
And what's your preferred client?
PS4 sells 1m in US, despite mixed reviews and technical issues
It really does, just don't over-complicate things and add support for plugins and it will be perfect!

Do the commercial license cost 299$ per year?
Is it limited per install, or company-wide?
Obsolete? I still use it on headless boxes. Should I be using something else now?
Commenting on the wrong article? This is the article on contributing code to firefox :)
Considering they're also pushing BTC to no end -AND- they've been caught reading their customers' communication with no authorization you can draw your own conclusion about about bloomberg's integrity as a news organization.
Ask HN: Newsletters, articles or blogs on CRO?
The people at Firefox are absolutely great help. Those of you who have time on your hands, please do contribute to making an already awesome browser, even better.
Ok, I am impressed
.SHABAKA
Which part of those steps feels "simple" to you, compared to the various protections my credit card company and bank offer me?

You also haven't covered anything about backups, which means if you lose that USB or it dies, then poof all that money becomes unrecoverable permanently.

You can't even access that money now without booting an entire new OS on the computer, which means good luck spending it, not to mention, for a digital currency you might want network connectivity as well.
> free

Some people realise that free services have disadvantages - ads, lack of customer support, restrictions on use, etc.

GMail has some great features, but I fully understand some people wanting to move away to other solutions.
Most of the advice is good, but I disagree with some generalizations:

"My one big mistake in life has been providing a trust fund for my five children. I’m very comfortable paying for an education for as long as they want to study in a reputable university. However, providing additional funds so they could have a lifestyle beyond what they have achieved on their own was a mistake." - DICK RESCH

I don't know how big that fund was, and it might have been a mistake in his particular case - but I can tell you that the opposite (not providing any financial help under the "you must get ahead on your own" mantra) creates a lot of bitterness - missing U$ 10.000 for a down payment to buy a house (which I wouldn't mind having loaned, not a giveaway) and having to keep on paying rent and toiling at an awful company, while your parent inherits several millions, hurts. So does not having the possibility of asking for seed money for a startup, and having other people deny you by saying "your wealthy father doesn't invest in you, so why would I?". (note: I'm 32, I know I should have some money saved away by now, but I did make mistakes - actually I think I prove my point, not giving money doesn't guarantee your children won't make mistakes :P )
Dev job interview: asking the right questions
Golang net/http examples
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they acquire you, then you win."
This quote is from the about section of the website.
Quotes Of Advice and Inspiration From Famous Entrepreneurs
As I understand it, that's for 2 devs. Subtract the Kickstarter fees, sending out the Kickstarter rewards, and various taxes, that leaves them with maybe $20k per person. Of course, that number is meaningless by itself, not knowing how long it will take them to complete the project. If they devote more than a year to the project, depending on where they live that's not a lot of income.
> All bitcoin has done so far is make the people with as little as $50 to spare (in 2011, 2012) into rich people. The rest of us in recession hit Europe have merely been screwed by it. I'm not saying it will crash or won't, but it's promoted more inequality than most other instruments.

Distributing a brand new decentralized currency is a hard problem. I think Bitcoin did a pretty good job with its mining reward mechanism. Also, it's not "all" Bitcoin has done. Would you say "all" Paypal has done is make Peter Thiel and co rich?

> and saying "the value of the bitcoin economy is $5bn" or whatever is disingenuous. Economies are measured by the FLOW of money - the gdp, not the STOCK - the total value of the money supply in a different currency. The amount of money changing hands is what matters - and afaik, that's miniscule in comparison.

When people quote Bitcoin's market cap they generally do so to illustrate how tiny Bitcoin is compared to USD or other currencies. The fact that it is still so small is an argument people use to justify its rising price. If anything, using a lower figure is what would be disingenuous.
Anybody else think this is suspicious given the current outlook.com advertising campaign?
I guess that is an important part of his self-identification,a person is proud of being a family man and wants to share it with the world. Alternatively this may be a signal for recruiters that a person is not willing to do a lot of overtime.
Art & Code from the Glitch Game Released into Public Domain
I wouldn't call "debugger" advanced, but it is certainly useful.

Didn't know about the DOM breakpoint, though.
I believe that it was thought
http://codefirefox.com/
Google to tackle child pornography with changes to search and Youtube
Panoramic Ball Camera
What about https://rukzuk.com/en/ ? Not open source but the only tool I found which has integrated CMS. Website says it's even extendable with custom code.
I'm sure that git with it's very powerfull backend has way for improving way someone works, but I'm not convinced by this example. IMO it shows again that usability of git is far from perfect. For example in bzr to accomplish this task you can:

1. (same)

2. (same)

3. put all changes that you are not interested in on shelve: `bzr shelve` (or qshelve if you want QT gui)

4. Run full test suite

5. If 4. fails keep editing

6. If 4. pass `bzr commit` (or `bzr ci`), and to revert shelving use `bzr unshelve`

You need to remember 6+ git command to accomplish this tasks, and only 3 with bzr. Moreover there is symmetry in bzr (fe: shelve - unshelve, commit - uncommit) that is no present in git.

edit: formatting
Ah fair enough, hadn't noticed. Yes, it does seem a little unnecessary + irrelevant.
The first popular youtubers back in '06 absolutely were "some swarth of "high school kids" and "young college undergraduates"". It found its way to other demographics and ages later.
Thanks. I have just tried it, and it is indeed awesome!
If they're turning down ~$300m each for the sake of a prank that's some serious dedication.
All of the US (changed the title, thanks)
It would help to have the steps described in text next to the videos as well. Not only because some steps can be boring to watch for some people, but it would also help to be able to copy-paste URLs and command line options and so on.
Tony Schwartz in his book "The Way We're Working Isn't Working" is big on naps. It's basically the crux of the book. In it, he mentions a study on laboratory mice. They were deprived of sleeping or even being unconscious until they died.

From this Tony Schwatz deduces we have a daily nap.

Michel Jouvet[1] was the researcher who developed Modafinil. In one of his experiments, Jouvet deprived cats of sleep until they drowned in a vat of water. On average, the cats survived 35 days with only micro-sleep[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jouvet [2] http://psychology4a.com/sleep8.htm
China is now such a big market and a big power that every industries, countries downplay any criticism. I think one of the biggest example is Hollywood, it has long gone the time where there was movies on the Tibet, now Hollywood is even making special versions of its movies to include few minutes with chinese actors (see Iron Man 3).
Check out the forks of Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser) ... There is a console and optional (to compile) graphics mode.

The section on the graphics stack is an interesting read.
Auto Correct: Has the self-driving car at last arrived?
There is an 'I' in Team
Also brings in the question as to when bitcoin becomes useless as there are not enough bitcoin in the wild for useful trading.
If yours is collecting dust, cant you sell them for half price or something?
Show HN: Online reviews are broken. Wi-card - Yelp meets Path
Born of frustration, we've built this website to have a structured way to memorize the places you've been and get recommandations from your close friends.
Património 2013
DPLOY is an FTP/SFTP deployment tool built in node.js
Especially when you borrow part of the solution from someone else and color it blue.
Realistic Google Plus simulator
Interesting that they focus on all the infrastructure they design and build/commission themselves. They are also a big customer of my company (http://www.newisys.com/Products/products.shtml). Coincidentally, they call out Facebook at the bottom of the article, in context of the Open Compute Project. Facebook had airflow and overheating problems with their intended OCP design and our Newisys engineers helped with some design adjustments to resolve those, too. Now Facebook is buying cheap Taiwanese-made (Quanta & Compal) OCP-design servers and shipping them to us (http://sanmina.com/) for racking, systems test, and shipping to their DC in Lulea, Sweden (https://www.facebook.com/LuleaDataCenter).

So yes, these guys all do lots of tough engineering work, but it's not in isolation and not without assistance from industry veterans whose careers it has been to ensure properly functioning data centers and networks.
Comments and feedbacks are welcome!
They are in Equinix SY3 (Sydney)[1]. Pretty sure Dell doesn't do DC design for Equinix. I heard some stories about the truck loads of servers going in when they were rolling it out, but I don't remember the vendor.

[1] http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/442144/equinix_expands_its_...
When someone without knowledge in the markets tells you to buy something, it's time to get out. They either heard that golden advice either on TV, the radio or read it in a newspaper but the common denominator was that it was probably a paid ad by someone who wants to offload as much as possible to the next sucker^Winvestor.

So remember, when your bus drivers or barista tells you to buy Microsoft shares, it's probably best to consider Put options.
How feasible would it be to "guess" the private keys to a wallet? Could the computing power people dedicate to hashing be directed toward this?

I'm sure this question makes it pretty obvious I'm not a cryptographer, but I'm still curious.
Hi! I think that the most important concept behind a vCard should not be the card itself, but portraying a (virtual) personal identity. In this way, when we represent only the persona shape instead of the card we make strong emphasis on this.

Second, and I paraphrase from the blog post, "using a circular container has its constraints, and trying to adapt a rectangular design in a circle is something problematic, specially by correct use of the available space and margins". This also was a driver towards the current circular shape.

Last, the at(@) symbol is crucial for the link between communication and virtuality, and also to separate this to the classic "user" shape.
Australia 'spied on Indonesia President Yudhoyono'
I think you underestimate how much Google knows about people. It seems to me that what you say is much less relevant to marketers than what you do, and in what you do, it's not obvious to me that Facebook has a big advantage.

On Facebook, you might fill in a field saying that you are married or that you have kids of a certain age. Google knows that you have made a number of searches about diaper price, or quality, or about using cloth diapers, and have spent time on, say, price comparison web sites or parenting forums. From this kind of Google data, advertisers would know to send you adverts emphasising the price of their diapers (rather than trying to sell you high quality, expensive, diapers), and they know this with more confidence than they could extrapolate from what you say on Facebook.

It's true that Facebook also has data about what you do (commenting and liking on particular updates and photos, for instance, and web traffic data from Like buttons on pages), but note that this doesn't depend, any more than Google's data depends, on the user being truthful about their own real-world identity.
Recursive Recruiting
Funny, I'm the opposite. I've found DOM breakpoints useful for a while, but I've never heard of `debugger` until now. It seems obvious I guess.
Is it socially acceptable to work for NSA?
The NSA destroyed the security of the Internet
and privacy of communications for the whole planet. But if any healing is possible, it would probably start with making the NSA and its ilk socially unacceptable ...
Could also partner with providers on data/sms/'SmallTalk' plans.

I'd love to be able to get a hold of call connection data and see what the average cost-per-minute of a call is. I'm sure there's a lot of calls where it runs 1 min 10 sec. or so, and that 50 seconds is wasted but still charged (as it's per-minute).

It would be interesting to try to get the partner provider to value a 'SmallTalk' call around what the actual profit for a call is (vs. published rates), for a little more transparency (and cost control) to the pay as you go market it would make sense in.
What, no love for Dillo?
I totally agree; but you can speed the videos up to make the tutorials drag less.

If you enable the html5 player on youtube, you can watch videos at 1.5x or 2x speed. Go to YT, log in, scroll to the bottom, click 'Try something new!' and choose the html5 player.
Evolution of a CSS developer
There are people who contribute to OSS and get traction in the open hacking community, but I know also a number of "stars" in the business/closed side of the code. People that are great but just focus on fixing business problems with their great code. These people also get acknowledged for their capabilities, just inside smaller circles, but those circles are very important business side so they are successful, have an easy time to find a new position when they want to change, and so forth.

Long story short, try to be great, oss or not.
> What is this?

> Is that how kids use it? Me and my friends are a lot older but we also
use it as a photo sharing service - for sharing random stuff from
your day, not on yourself.

> Completely OT but what's up with the scrolling? Why would you do that?

> What does front lit mean?

> I still see people commenting with their normal YT usernames.
How do they do it?

> Why do you need npm or even a server for this?

> Why are you using NoScript to begin with?

> What are you building?

> Uhm, in 99% of the parties I go to the usual answer to "So who are you hoping
to meet tonight?" would be 1. "my friends" or 2. "someone to sleep with".
Not sure what kind of parties you go to where that is a normal thing to ask...

> I don't understand this. For what reason are first-time offenders sentenced to lifetime?

> Isn't the Flash version using the same back end and API calls as the iOS version?

> Why are you stuck with ESR?

Serious question: Do you prefer questions or answers? Because your excessive love of the former may be hindering access to the latter.

Also, to answer your original question in this thread, it's a (non-comprehensive) list of high quality browser logos for use in your products/services or what-have-you where browser preference and/or compatibility may be prominently displayed.

Of course, it is still your responsibility to investigate whether such usage falls within developer or creator copyright conditions of said browsers.
Nathan Barry uses Gumroad, as he suggests in his book 'Authority' for the above reasons. It's not really a 'book' publishing platform though, or at least it's not specific to that.

I'm not entirely convinced it's the best thing for most authors, but that's a longer post for another time.
Hateful, badly executed and simply not especially entertaining.

I never seize to be amazed at how much energy people put into hating things when they could just simply not use it and then continue with their day.
"this may be a signal for recruiters that a person is not willing to do a lot of overtime."

well played :D
exactly my sentiments.
Nice. What technologies are you using to build Frontend?
IMirror
It's not just for two people.according to "Why crowdfunding?"

We are asking your help because we would want to give 100% focus to xchema frontend, and it is not possible by doing our daily jobs. With your support we will be able to afford renting a working space, work full-time, hire talents, and bring frontend to your hands.
Salesforce Expands to the Internet of Things
Perhaps it's pride in work/abilities gone too far. Perhaps we overvalue ourselves...

My experience has been that it is simply a lack of perspective due to ignorance. It is very tempting to be dismissive of what other people do when you only understand what they do at a very simple level.
Mercurial also has named branches. Which suck. I'd rather use bookmarks, but my team uses named branches, so that's what I have to use as well. This problem wouldn't exist with git.
git reset --hard at least has the benefit of sounding like it's going to do something scary. "git checkout ." will also completely nuke your working directory without warning, and looks benign enough that you would never expect that problem.

Which really, at the end of the day, is the real problem with git. It's not that it's inherently more dangerous, it's that the CLI is so inconsistent it can be hard to remember what you're doing, what's safe and unsafe, etc. Sometimes you need to pass "--force" for dangerous stuff, sometimes you capitalize the argument (like force deleting a branch). Sometimes "--hard" indicates that you should do the dangerous version of something. Sometimes there's not even a safety switch.
Hey dude,

Thanks for buying the app! I think there's one or two validation fails that occur which are causing the crashes. I've put several fixes in to the upcoming build so fingers crossed that sorts you out.

If you want to get in touch, send me a mail: ger [at] hipsterCEO [dot] com
How? The retailer gets exactly what they would if they had just asked for local currency, except maybe a little extra business.
It's a one man show, my friend!