skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you live, but the central heating in my house has a fire in it. That's how the water heats up! And for more localized heating, the heat given off by some kind of flame also seems to be commonly preferred to that from an electric "fire".

Fires are also better for everyday domestic cooking, whether due to basic usability (in the case of a hob) or warm-up time (in the case of a grill or oven).

Passing electricity through bits of metal until they heat up is fine, but I don't appear to be unique in my feeling that simply setting stuff aflame works better. So all in all, I don't see the humble fire going anywhere.

(Lest you think I'm a stick-in-the-mud, do note that I fully approve of the use of electric light over candles.)
Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving
>fire superseded by central heating and electric fires

Last I checked, my gas furnace was basically a controlled fire.
"...how do you go about finding Eastern European technical talent..."

Advertise for remote positions?

I mean, I occasionally get either some recruiters or see interesting companies, but it always stops at the fact that I'm not willing to move my family to USA or London just to get a larger salary that'll still likely buy a lower quality of life.
Were you being sarcastic? I've heard this before and it's usually considered that once someone gets married/has a family of their own, they simply will have to devote much less time to their profession/'hobbies' (like math) because of time constraints, and then they just start degrading due to lack of practice etc.

One of the times it was specifically brought up in reference to a known mathematician. The takeaway being that getting in a relationship, or even married, automatically disqualifies you from achieving anything of great importance in the future....made me pretty sad that it's such a common pattern of thought.
There was april fool's joke 12 years ago about a device called FuFme that did exactly that. The world changes.
The averaged perceptron is the one to which the proof applies :-)
Suggest a better way to distribute new asset "fairly". Facebook shares are also distributed unfairly. And gold. And dollars. Also, something that looks fair for you, wouldn't look fair for another person.

What's important to me is that money is hard. If you have it, it can't be printed out of value. It should not be very costly or risky to store or transfer (like gold or USD). I want to be sure that even the richest guys can't simply extract money from me. That they have to earn it by doing work. Or earn service from others by paying them, not forcing them. Bitcoin allows us to get to that kind of protection closer than ever.

Consider this: gold was always as hard to protect as to confiscate it. It's symmetrical. Therefore, most powerful and brutal were accumulating gold over time. Gold is now owned massively by largest governments and banks. Regular people can only own as much gold as they can hide in their pockets. Extra gold is too easy to take (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102). Bitcoin is much cheaper and easier to store and transfer than to extract it. It's asymmetrical. Now big guys with guns would have to work more and steal less to get some money, then before. Stuff that was stolen or destroyed will never come back to you, but at least, over time, distribution of wealth would match more closely actual merits of market participants, than amount of gunpowder that they have.
Real assholes, those who are truly dangerous for coworkers would pass interview and get accepted by the author at any time. Such people are smart enough to not badmouth their former employers or coworkers.

Closing note is most important: act immediately and give feedback. Employers usually don't do that, because it would hurt their image of successful interviewer.
What about when China gov hacks into Google (has already happened) (and NSA is still happening) and uses Google user data for China Govt "common occurrences"?
Sure hope this is sarcasm.
That's a tough one.

I wouldn't for my business blogs, but my business readers are mostly corporate types. I'm slipping a "damn" or a "hell" in every now and then, but that's about all.

For HN, I'm moving much more towards using "fuck" and the rest. The crowd is 20-something, and they still think if you say fuck every other word that you must be saying something worthwhile.

So no, I think he did it right. But I were just writing for my HN buds, I wouldn't be so cute.
You can buy plane tickets for btc now at cheapair.com
Are most home internet connections sufficient/allowed to support a datacenter?
PS3 and Xbox1 were released in the last month. Both download all their software and updates and over the internet! The future is fine, you just happened to pick the one month where there's been too much of it at once for the internet to cope.
Yes, they want a monarchy, as long as they get to be peers. I don't see them saying "working as a wage-slave is fondest goal" - that would be for the other people.
My comment about sleuths was directed at other commenters in this thread.

I don't know much about Neal Krawetz, but his bio seems awfully inflated. Two of the books he's authored are about Ubuntu customization. It appears as though he's a relentless self-promoter. That kind of fits with the original article; he levels some vauge accusations while asserting that he's an expert all in the name of promoting his personal brand.
I think it's more correctly and broadly described as people who think "Politically Correct" is insidious.
If the jackboot fits...
People are critical of these services, but the poster you're replying to is correct: bitcoin is not ready for prime time. As much as the bitcoin faithful would like to deny it, bitcoin will not be widely adopted until there is a financial services industry around it. The necessity of credit, the convenience of easy payment, the security of your money in a bank, it's just too tempting for people to walk away from. Nevermind that there is still a massive part of the first world population that can't program their clock, much less download a bitcoin wallet. And the fact that Internet infrastructure is still limited worldwide. Try paying with bitcoin on your phone in some more remote parts of Montana.
I don't expect real currencies to plummet but if bitcoins go above $1000 mark, that's pretty amazing.
Can you provide quote for your interpretation? For me "You cannot stop it if it’s a good idea broadly held" sounds more about global technological and ideological shift.
I would love to get an invite to start showing off my work.

Here is my portfolio: www.augustinba.com

Still in the process of revamping it.
I've looked for something like this before too.. I dont think it exists. Sometimes companies will get notified by USPS that your mail was forwarded and automatically change your address in their records or at least remind you to do so. That's my experience.

At the same time, being a security-conscious nerd, I'm not sure I would want to give even revocable OAuth access to a third-party portal to go in and change addresses to many of my most sensitive accounts... not to mention the fact that most banks etc dont have public APIs even if someone were to want to build something like this.

Just my two cents.
If Bitcoin was created by the government, how can they tax it?
This is amazing! I'm happy I came across this comment. I've always been frustrated installing python packages as a python newbie. in R (in R studio) it was always just search and click, and, suddenly, "I know Kung-Fu" like Neo in the matrix, except, err, "I know ggplot2."
A benchmark is of absolutely no use whatsoever unless you give others a chance to reproduce it.
I've seen stuff like this on both sides. It's what happens when one's desire for change and despair at trying to get the vulgar masses to the self evident "right" thing drives them to misanthropy. It's a misanthropy that sees the rise Leninist vanguard revolutionaries, or Straussian nocturnal councils. Or every armchair revolutionary on the Internet, on any side, who has ever furiously stamped on his keyboard the hoary phrase "Wake up SHEEPLE!"

It is the person who cannot convince the world of their position, and then comes to the conclusion the problem is the world.
It's a good question. I guess freedom comes from things like "limited government" and "pluralism", not directly from democracy, and maybe those things are more important than actually letting the people rule themselves -- for an individual person, the notion of their vote being a meaningful voice in a democratic government is kind of a fantasy anyway. But there's not really any better guarantees of freedom under any other system.

The whole "let's have lots of micro-states with easy exit" condition proposed by these advocates here sounds borderline quasi-plausible, IF somehow you could get that going to begin with (not bloody likely)... but even from a purely economic perspective, the transaction costs in choosing a new place to live and moving there are very high, so one would suspect this layout would lead to inefficient results. (and that's economic efficiency, which includes your overall well-being.) And who enforces that you get to up and leave whenever you want, anyway? The other micro-states, using WAR?
1. He was a math professor before his proof.

2. He wasn't a cashier, he worked on the business side of a franchisee.
>I don't understand - when you made this decision, did you expect that you were going to be good enough so that these features of chess (draws and deep, well-studied opening theory) were going to be relevant to you?

Yeah. I played chess competitively as a kid, attending state tournaments, taking lessons outside of school, and so on. However, I found that the more I got into it and better I became, the less appealing it seemed.

Ironically, I felt that chess between relative amateurs was much more interesting than chess between more skilled players, because the improvisational component that I loved was much more relevant when people hadn't been going through the opening books.
If the key was randomly generated (not derived form a passphrase), it is impossible to crack the key. Usually when people talk about cracking a "key", they refer to brute forcing a passphrase that either protects the real key (encrypted wallet), or is used to derive the key (brainwallet).
Viewing it on DocumentCloud provides a link to the PDF https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8383...
the bcrypt format is $2a$<rounds>$<salt><hash>

the salt is 22 chars, the hash 31 chars.
but you can often position the speakers where you want closer to power too.
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Hey There,
I'm in a bit of a similar situation to you. I enjoy studying Web Design in my spare time. I also really like helping nonprofits and small municipal organizations. I've taken some first steps to turning this into my profession, and the key to this was two-fold:
1) The nonprofit I worked for in the summer had a terrible website. I made a portfolio website that showed what I could do, sent it to the director, and asked her if I could redesign her website. She agreed, and we went for it. Things went well, but one thing about starting your own business is you really work closely with people, and if they are very difficult people, you have to find a way to deal with them.
2)So I had my first success at an opportunity I found by leveraging my current connections. How to proceed from there? Offer to volunteer your services. I reached out to a local Americorps worker offering to volunteer my web design skills. We emailed back and forth for weeks and just recently say down for a meeting of 4 people in a small municipal government office. We are currently putting together a proposal to update the current website and if it goes through, I'll have my second client.

I'm not where I want to be yet, but I've started to get some traction and very hopeful that I'm on my way.

I'd love to talk to you more and see if we could help each other if we can find similar interests.

- Max
I am an anarchist libertarian. So is [Hans] Herman Hoppe mentioned in the article. He has a book called Democracy the God That Failed where he makes some comparisons between monarchy and democracy, but he is not a monarchist.
No mobile site?
That's essentially true but if you don't discuss the views in greater depth "racist" is just used as a conversation stopping epithet. Affirmative Action is racist, but I don't think Tech Crunch would write about that by sneering "racist" and dismissing AA measures.
Why would I spend at this point? The deflationary aspect is just too hard to work with.

I have a $8,000 iPod Touch in my pocket that I bought in 2011 when I cashed in 10BTC @ $30.
One big issue is that people misremember the past, and it's not a random error but a heavily biased one;

The second is that CPI tracks the price of a fixed size basket of goods&services; but there has been a big change in how much goods&services does 'support a family' means.

For example, if you measure x% increase for cost of housing&utilities, then I'd feel a much, much higher increase simply because "need for space" in my family rising kids is much higher than in my parents' family and the tolerance of living with relatives is less - so we're buying much more "housing space"+heating+stuff for the same number of people and 'social level', and we're obviously paying more for that. In fact, if I think about the goods&services my parents bought when they were young and how much it'd cost if I lived that way, then it would be extremely cheap now, as many of the things that I spend money on simply didn't exist back then and people were happy without them; also many of the habits (how food and trips were done) were done in much cheaper ways - no plane flights for vacations, ever, for example. We're a dual-income family, but I'd say we could live in that 1970'ies style on a single income easily - but, of course, we don't want that.
Fire is not just about heating your home. Fire is used for cooking, it is used to generate electrical power, it is used in vehicles of various kinds (cars, airplanes, ships, rockets, etc.), it is used in various chemical and industrial processes, and there are hundreds of other uses.

Knives are not just weapons, and if you think forks can replace knives then you have never actually cooked anything more complicated than instant ramen. Go to your favorite restaurant's kitchen, and you will see lots of knives, specialized for various purposes. Knives are among the most useful tools ever invented. Quite a few people (myself included) carry a pocket knife or multitool (which almost always includes a knife) everywhere. There are a lot of situations in life that call for cutting things.

"I'll give you the wheel only because I'm still waiting for my hovercar"

Your hovercar will probably have wheels, unless you think there will be no need to cool any of those high-tech components (or that the cooling will be accomplished without any fans -- I doubt it). Even if we had a world of hovercars, there would be wheels all over the place, in various machines both in our homes and in factories and other industrial settings.
Fiat currencies have value because of laws.
Interesting. Is this site legit? Considering the ridiculous and opaque pricing scheme of airline tickets, I've always looked at sites like Kayak and now cheapair with some skepticism (preferring the old standards of expedia and orbitz). However, there's really no reason to believe that expedia has some magic that cheapair and kayak couldn't also harness.
Is India next? First Bitcoin conference in India
It's actually a really interesting question, and to answer it I'll need to give a whirlwind explanation of the Canadian political system, since it is quite intricate and different from the American. It's hard to say really what would happen. The Crown (The Queen of Canada, although for all intents and purposes it really means the Governor-General) is an incredibly powerful position. The royal prerogatives, which are not really written down anywhere, since the Canadian (as well as the British) constitution is partially unwritten and based on convention, include appointing ministers (including the Prime Minister) and dismissing them at will, as well as calling and dissolving Parliament, declaring war, signing bills into law through Royal Assent, etc.

Conventionally, though, these powers are used only through the advice of the Prime Minister, since the Prime Minister has some degree of democratic legitimacy (although interestingly enough, the Prime Minister is not elected directly by the people. The Prime Minister is Prime Minister only because he is the leader of the party that was chosen by the Crown to form government) and the Crown does not, since the Governor-General is appointed by the Monarch, with the advice of the Prime Minister, and the Monarch is obviously a hereditary position. Now, if the Crown were given democratic legitimacy, say through an elected head of state, suddenly the position is empowered and the stability of the system is called into question. Maybe the Crown decides not to sign a bill into law, or dismisses a minister, or dissolves Parliament for no reason, the Crown could say that he (or she) has the mandate of the people to do so, which is obviously bad for the country.

I'm not saying its necessarily bad for the Crown to be empowered like that, just that the system is stable and strong as it is, and it is not broken, so why fix it? It throws a lot of the political system into question and unbalances the delicate balance of our constitution.
That's the most exciting thing about Bitcoin. The protocol and the technology is sound, just imagine how it will explode once the UX is polished.

You're looking at the internet in the BBS stage right now.
You should feel depressed instead. In men, creativity is destroyed by marriage http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/07/11/900147.htm
Sorry, Eric Schmidt had said that we could end censorship in a decade (10 years). That's the quote at the top of the article: "We can end government censorship in a decade. The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything."

The author of this article, "charlie", is contending that actually, Google could end it in 10 days, simply by turning on encryption for their own service and offering cached versions of any sites that are blocked.

So yes, Schmidt was talking about a global technological shift, while this author was talking about a simple pragmatic step that could be taken by one company, Google, and which they already have the infrastructure for as they already do everything needed (encrypt traffic, offer caches) for their other properties.
Point is, it's information. It's very easily copied. The whole point of 'something you have' is that it's not just data, but something more than that.
I wonder if they've put "Cathedral" into the HN-search, got some cathedral and bazaar-discussions, and concluded the royalists hang out on HN... after all, why would tech-folks talk about cathedrals otherwise, right?
Namecoin, A Replacement For SSL
Based on this, I'm an a-hole. I did 90% of the IT work for this last client because I was 90% of the IT department. I literally begged upper management for help at one point. I kept pushing to give this part time contractor in Russia more work because he did great work, but his management stopped responding to emails because, as it turns out, they were tired of getting stiffed on payment.

Eventually I wised up and quit, but in an interview, how do you explain such a situation where you did most of the work for 4 years without looking like a braggart or an idiot? Things have changed so much in the past 5 years and I'm afraid I'm obsolete already because this client was clueless and ignored every suggestion on how to use the latest tech or do things the right way.

The best way to detect the a-holes is to try to gauge their integrity from the start. We did hire someone at the beginning to build the front end while I built the back, but after 6 months of constant yammering about marketing related issues and constant "I'm almost dones", the kid bailed and said he couldn't do any more because his full time job was too busy. He then handed me a pile of half finished ^$&^^&!!. Then I figured out he had been giving access to the codebase to some Russian he'd hired to do his work for him...

So if someone is sort of arrogant... you have to expect that of 20-something young men overly enamored of their intelligence. But if they at least care primarily about the project, and not themselves, then they have a work ethic and that's what you want for your team. A-holes, liars, fools - none of them have a work ethic.
How about no states? I just subscribe to the protection agency I like, no need to move, nobody claiming arbitrary sovereignty over a whole geographic area. This is a less common type of legal system than whatever flavor of statism but societies like this existed and maintained civil order for centuries.
Or terminally self-absorbed and petulant children looking for their next press release.
> How about not voting for the people who do these things? Like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama

Pretty sure nobody will be voting for him since he won't be running in any more elections...

Seriously though in regards to some of the other names you mentioned is there really any difference by voting for whoever is running against them? Many people (myself included) though Obama was different - that obviously turned out to be completely wrong...so how are we supposed to know who won't do these things?
I just don't think the snark is necessary here. I'm pretty technically savvy and I found the wallet setup process to be... unintuitive. For example, transactions didn't show up until I told my wallet to sync back to before I created it because Multibit doesn't sync by default to a sane time.

Also, it's demonstrably less safe to give your Bitcoin wallet to a site than to give your cash to a bank. To imply that the security and insurance of these sites is comparable to banks is laughable -- you frequently hear about sites getting hacked and losing all of their BTC.

Of course, banks have other problems (depending especially on how you view the Fed), but disingenuous claims like this do nothing to help Bitcoin.