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You need to understand what a bubble is and what isn't. It's a bubble when bets are made on things that have nothing backing up their immense valuation.

Now, you need some smartness to understand that the value in currencies is not in it´s physical value ($100 are worth maybe $0.02 in physical value), but how many people use it.

Millions of people now use bitcoin, thousands of businesses have started accepting bitcoin over the past 6 months. In a year these numbers will be 50-fold.

Things that people use a lot, are not bubbles. Also, this doesn't take into consideration the potential, which is a major factor determining a valuation. And that is that Bitcoin or something similar has the potential to replace all banks and all currencies entirely.

EDIT: Changed "don't have an underlying value" to have nothing backing up their immense valuation". And sorry I was a bit angry, but I've read it now a hundred times on hackernews over the past 2 years, we're in a bubble here, we're in a bubble there. It is not a bubble, when millions and millions of people are using it.

The 2000 bubble was a bubble because there were 300M internet users at the time. Now we have 2B, that's the difference.
Anecdotes aren't data, but where I live in Minnesota, every hockey fan that up until 2 years ago always had season tickets, won't even contemplate buying them again.

These are people that have been buying NHL season tickets for their entire lives in what amounts to "hockey country".

We'll see how it affects certain teams but the NHL does have fallout from the lockout.
I don't care how bearish you are on Bitcoin, you'd have to be crazy to short it.
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Shorting bitcoin doesn't really make any sense. You can't loan someone bitcoins and if you could, how would you get them back? So no.
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This is very cool!

I'm worried about the long term stickiness of the LEDs/Timers/ICs. If I was to buy this I'd probably stick foil to the adhesive bottom of the components so they can be rested on top of the copper tape. That or put a few pins on the +/- areas. That way you can tape the copper to cardboard instead of paper and then punch the components through the tape.
I think either greasemonkey or firebug extensions would do what you are looking for. Remember, firefox is all about extendability. They want to only provide you with the minimal features which most users need and let you choose what features you want to add.
It's a thing. At the moment, some people are willing to trade ~600 cheeseburgers for one of them.
It's more like gold than a typical currency, due to its scarcity (20 million Bitcoins will be mined ever).
To be specific, starting a search with a % searches only in open tabs. + searches tagged pages, * searches bookmarks, and ^ searches frequently-visited pages that aren't bookmarked.
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other things that are completely unreasonable and yet seem to exist: the internet
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I keep forgetting why extending the reach of a free broadcast is such a problem. More viewers==more ad revenue, right?

Oh, right, it's because the major broadcast stations don't actually want people to watch their broadcast; they'd rather people buy cable, watch their programming there, and be paid by cable for the privilege. Plus the ad revenue.

A guide to laws surrounding cable retransmission:
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/cable-carriage-broadcast-stations

And why do the sports leagues care? Kickbacks out of the same system. The article even says so: "The leagues collect about $100 million of the $300 million broadcasters receive from “compulsory” license fees paid by cable and satellite outlets, the brief stated". Plus the money the broadcasters keep is used to buy the sports content.

So: this is just another attempt to discourage cord-cutting and preserve the (huge) cable money stream. If people can actually watch the broadcasts (which, I'm convinced, only exist due to historical and political inertia), it's one less reason to have cable.

But why do we need trickery like Aereo to watch OTA programming? Some of it is convenience, but a large part is because the "digital TV" transition seems to have removed reliable reception for lots and lots of people. I'm 13 miles from a whole host of 1000MW towers, and can barely get a decent signal. That's just terrible. It ought to work fine 50 miles away. I'm not big on conspiracy theories, and it's probably just poor execution, but it sure is tempting to think that the digital broadcast transition was subtly sabotaged to push people to cable.

So good luck to Aereo. I don't think they're breaking any laws, just threatening an old business model. And that shouldn't be illegal. Sorry, entertainment industry (including the leagues): cable is gonna fade, whether you like it or not, so you better learn to deal with it. Deal with less money, lean more heavily on ads, or, even better: use the Internet! I'd pay the NFL directly for a decent streaming solution, but that'll never happen because it would tread on the toes of the networks. Maybe let the networks sell streaming directly? That would tread on the toes of the affiliates! Oh well. Figure something out.
Persistent. You type into the search bar and it stays there until you clear it out. Whereas url bar search you lose it. You have to click on your search engine's search bar on the page.
This is a dupe of something submitted earlier this morning. Was the original deleted for some reason?
In theory you are right, but in practice that is rarely the case. See the link I posted above to Google's case study and explanation.

This is one of the biggest myths in the SEM world, most likely a result of paid search managers charging a percentage of ad spend, and therefore motivated to find justifications to bid more and spend more. (I am not saying this is a conscious effort, but you certainly can't deny the validity of the bias... and the fact that there is a better explanation to why the data might mislead you. (the better converting ads, end up in higher positions.)
MS went through a terrible process of whipping up and discarding frameworks a few years back... the churn of Linq2SQL being abandoned almost as soon as it was launched, Silverlight, all those rapid-fire dead-ends. Plus there were some horrible false-starts - EF3.5 was nightmarish, as was ClickOnce, and I've been less-than-impressed with SqlCE. I love the newish linguistic features of C#, but I've seriously slacked off in learning the new libs after being burned so many times. I still use WinForms for Pete's sake.

Has it settled down enough? Is it safe to start learning about WinRT? To actually figure out how MVC actually works instead of doing my best to ignore it while I do everything in Javascript and the Controllers?
Well, just go to their website (link in prior post) and you can see they run hundreds of forums. That always rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't learn about this until much after I purchased my vB license. Had I seen this prior to making that decision I would not have used their software. I wasn't trying to build a large community. I just thought it was a huge violation of ethics to sell people software and then go off and compete with your own customers. This isn't disclosed in the vB site. You have to dig to find who owns vB and then it's kind of in the fine print. The average prospective buyer is unlikely to discover this until much later, if ever.
You can't loan someone bitcoins

Someone should probably start working on that.
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Yep, a bit of inside baseball there, I suppose! Glad it's all sorted. :)
Transfers. The overall transfer market utilizes 100 BTC (made up) and the overall transfer market at any given instant is worth $65000 (made up) therefore the average price on the transfer market is $650, although that doesn't mean anything to anyone in the transfer market.

If the price collapsed to $10 tomorrow, then the international transfer market would still be worth $65000 at any given instant (duh, unless world trade collapses), it would just require 6500 BTC instead of 100 BTC. If the market can't provide 6500 BTC at $10 (I don't think it can..) then the market clearing price will rise until the transfer market obtains its average $65000.

The buy and hold and the pump and dump crowds get all confused about what it means.

The current exchange value on the open market has to remain constant-ish for months because of middlemen. So I ordered a Debian branded swiss army knife and the whole transaction must have taken months, I'd be pretty pissed if the exchange rate from $ to swiss francs or whatever it was varied much. On the other hand as a replacement for Western Union to send cash to Mexico or whatever, I guess the value needs to remain constant for what, like 10 minutes?
Seriously you people don´t understand what a bubble is. It´s when bets are made on things that don´t have an underlying value.

This is not true. There are many bets you can make on something that doesn't have an underlying value which does not constitute a bubble -- and many bubbles can be formed from things which have underlying values (such as real estate.)
I think they have some data showing that when they're separate, people search more. Since Mozilla gets almost all of their money from searches, it seems like a good idea to keep it that way.
Use "don't" instead of "can't". Works wonders, trust me. There was actually an article on Lifehacker regarding this.

"Sorry, I don't do x."

Doesn't fit all situations, but for a lot of invitations it works wonders: restaurants/movies/concerts/meetings etc.

You can get creative: "I don't do x with friends" if it's a business project. :-)
Apple reportedly acquires Kinect-tech maker PrimeSense for $345M
I hindsight I see Paul Graham is a founding member of fwd.us hahaha love it.
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OP is not necessarily the one who asked that favor - Anyone can submit a favor and one is chosen each week: http://ask.io/about.html
Whats the deal with these .io domains?

How is that supposed to be talked out "ask eye ooh", "ask input output", "ask eye yo"?
So how exactly does one come up with a "reasonable" price for Bitcoin? Why is $100 any more "reasonable" than $645?
That is not what a bubble is. We have bubbles in the stock market all the time, and they are bid on things of significant "underlying value" (companies). A bubble is (roughly) when the bids are disconnected from that value, and more connected on the other bids in the system.
It's not like reddit's traffic is a secret. When I worked there, we had no trouble sharing our uniques and pageviews, it is still the same today. Just ask them.

And for the record, the traffic doubles about once every 18 months. The pageviews double about once every 14 months (so slightly faster then user growth).

In fact, the traffic is right here:

http://www.reddit.com/about
If in, say, 5 years, you turn out to be hilariously wrong, will you eat your bitcoins?
Yeah, the trouble with CPA bidding is that you need to figure out how much you are willing to lose though. If you set your Google CPA at your actual CPA, then you won't make very much money. If you set it too low, you'll get crap traffic. The innards of these systems tend to be pretty complicated, so it can be hard to figure out where to bid.

Don't work for Google, but have worked with various bidding engines over the years.
Pfft. They can just map-reduce over each bit in the frame.
Now I'm just a little bit disappointed I didn't buy any when I first heard of them... But this feels like the same bubble Bitcoin has had twice before - it spikes then plummets, but it plummets to a point higher than the last drop
You know, like houses. Or dotcom stocks.
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> 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off.

With DuckDuckGo, it's easy to prepend/append "!ddg" onto the offending text to force a search. I sometimes have to do this for arithmetic operations, the first operand of which the bar interprets as an address. For me, the small amount of extra time this takes is worth it. A unified search/URL bar, particularly with DDG's bang functionality, feels like a command line. And a command line feels like home.
I also highly recommend using https://github.com/10up/varying-vagrant-vagrants since they bundle a few different versions of WordPress. It's mostly used for development of WordPress core but it's also great for theme and plugin development.
This seems very light on details of what/how it will actually boil down to in terms of simplifying web application development.
Imho, WinForms had a lot of nasty bugs and counterintuitive messes - the databinding thing was clumsy, and the tabular data control has a lot of warts.

But still, there was a lot to like in the simplicity of OOP Widgets.
Sounds like a police thriller novel. That said, and BitCoin hitting an all time high, is it even possible to convert BitCoin into dollars any more? I note that the article says the agents seized over two million dollars from the Mt GOX founder [1]. So given how many btc to dollar exchanges have been targeted how does that work now? Western Union or something?

[1] "The seizures included $2.9 million from a Dwolla account that was controlled by a U.S. subsidiary of Mt. Gox and $2.1 million seized from two Wells Fargo accounts, one controlled by the same subsidiary, the other by Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles."
It's clear that such a slope is unsustainable in the long term. If bitcoin continues its growth, with a $5B market cap now, and a ~$100T world GDP, it's clear that there's, at most, another four orders of magnitude to go.

And, given that perhaps a few thousand collectors are each willing to pay a few dollars to own most of the world's BTC, there's perhaps six orders of magnitude of room for the price to fall.
South Korea?

The conscription program there definitely has problems both with the treatment of the average Joe (Kim?) and the ways for the privileged to avoid risk. There will never be a perfect system (c.f. Bush essentially going AWOL when he was in the service here). But I think the circumstances are different enough - you guys already have 100% conscription, that's a big cultural difference from spinning up a draft.
I hate this tab design so much. I hate it with a passion since the first release of Chrome. And I don't even know why :)

So I'm quite sad to see it landing in Firefox.
The new iOS icon shape seems to imitate ubuntu phone (http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/app-ecosystem).
On (2), that's good. I have a WP7 phone and it's terrible about typed URLs in the history... search words obliterate your typed URLs 90% of the time.
Coinbase: Note! We've exceeded our normal buy limits for today. If you would still like to purchase you will receive the market price of bitcoin on Friday Nov 22, 2013 at 11:01AM PST after your funds have arrived.

The price is rapidly dropping, lost nearly 10% now from today's peak.
Ask HN: Is YC turning into the next Google, Microsoft, and IBM?
Saw some awesome companies with passionate founders rejected from admission to YC. Wondering as YC becomes more successful, if it is leaving it's original roots. Or was this the actual goal of YC?

Could Reddit and Dropbox still be accepted with the way YC works today? Is the days of rogue startups being accepted into YC over as its pool of more "qualified" applicants keep growing?
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As a developer who has struggled with depression, I really dig this.

I've got a lot of years doing backend work, and I'd be more than happy to help pro bono.

I personally would not get too hung up on the stack you use. Find something that will get you up and writing tests and building pages as quickly as possible.

Discussions about various stacks usually have to do with scaling and scaling usually is a problem after the prototype stage (which is the goal I'm guessing).

Up and coding.

I also agree that you should do the bulk of the work yourself. The knowledge you gain will be priceless, and in today's software development world, it is helpful for front-end guys to know what the backend guys do and vice-versa.

Certainly lean on people here for help and advice, but I wouldn't have someone do all the backend work for you.

Good luck to you!
I think the OP might be missing the point of what an MVP is for. It's about trying to achieve the maximal amount of learning and validation with the smallest amount of work. It's an efficiency equation, not one about perfecting a small bit of functionality. As such, an MVP could be a presentation, a landing page, a video... those are all valid MVPs.

Here's a great article on the subject: http://blog.bizelo.com/blog/2010/09/27/minimum-viable-produc...

(I just submitted the link on HN a few minutes ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6756166 if you want to discuss that blog post)
One other thing, no matter what, this is your project.

All the advice you get here, much of it good, and all the advice you will get throughout the project (especially if you open source it on github which I highly recommend) is for you to assimilate and then build into your opinion.

Listen to experienced dev's telling you why and why not a particular course will work, listen to people here on the research and the unintuitive nature of suicide, but in the end this grant was given because you seemed to have an insight or a gleam in your eye.

Trust that gleam, and tell us lot to go hang, if you think you are being pushed into something that in your informed opinion is not the best for the app.

And remember, Its not the only suicide prevention work out there, so the weight of the world is not on your shoulders - your job is to do a good job and be proud of the work. Let the world decide if thats going to solve its problems or not.

Good luck and all the best
You can "secede down to the level of the individual" by leaving the country. Irrespective of whether the scope of territorial monopolies tends to go too far, it doesn't seem possible to have a civilized society filled with people who, having "seceded", refuse to accept the existence of any laws restricting their actions.
So the value of bitcoin going from just around 350 to just around 700 dollars in a week is not a bubble?

Have businesses using bitcoins doubled? Have users of bitcoin doubled? While possible, I must say that the chance of people investing in the currency not as a currency to be used but as a money multiplier would be a bubble.

What underlying value has bitcoin shown to necessitate a 2x increase of value in a week? I'm honestly curious.
Cool and fun. I'd just recommend making it more obvious what people are seeing when they view the landing page.

When I first landed, I kind of thought you personally were asking for this thing. It took a moment to process the context and realize that this wasn't the case.
the author of the article you link to set up a donation address and received 1.159 btc on the same day, currently worth 678.52 usd.
Well, for an appropriately narrow and trivial sense of "simple" I'd agree.

I think the biggest lesson we've learned from the rise of web apps is that most business applications are simple. They come down to some sort of database, some sort of guided processes for using it, and some sort of structured user interface for data entry and reporting. These systems are inherently centralised anyway because of the shared data store that they are built on, so running the whole thing centrally and using dumb(ish) clients is a natural fit.

This doesn't mean that all business software is suitable for running as a web app. If you're creating material rather than merely entering data -- writing a report, drawing a diagram, anything like that -- web apps are still many years behind native applications in what they can do. The more significant the creation, the more this effect takes over: when was the last time you saw a professional architect or engineer doing their CAD and rendering work in a web app, or a programmer working on a million lines of code in Google IDE? But it turns out that a lot of what people do with computers is more about simple data entry and then information consumption, and you don't need all the downsides of native applications for that.

In a way, Microsoft and the like decided their own fate, because they made deployment and maintenance of native applications so onerous. If they'd had a standardised and robust deployment/upgrade facility for third party software on Windows years ago, including good support for centralised management by IT departments in the professional levels of Windows used by organisations, we might have had a different picture today. If they'd also maintained the focus they used to have on trying to provide backward compatibility at almost any cost, and developed new technologies incrementally rather than making big announcement where you just assumed their new thing would be dead in 3-5 years, I'm pretty sure they'd still be a leading business in the software industry. But they didn't, so the Web and the iPad came along, and now Microsoft are just trying to keep up.
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Ouch.

Seriously you don't understand what a bubble is.

"It's when bets are made on things that don´t have an underlying value."

No. It's when speculation [betting] leads to overvaluing an "asset".

Homes have an underlying value. The bubble on home prices was a result of overvaluation [due to speculation].
MVP: Minimal Viable Product or Minimum Valuable Product?
You can do it using Ripple with trust lines.
Do not want.

I'm happy with the tabs provided with my OS theme and do not want each app to have tabs with a custom shape and wasted space. Do not want a rainbow in my title bar and have not met anyone > 12 that does.

What is it with these people and their obsession with skinz! and constant rearranging of buttons?
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Why do you think most online communities have rules against posting real addresses? Because exactly these kind of things happen.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just look at the public traffic information at http://www.reddit.com/about ?
Are action movies and violent video games next on cameron's list?
this is tight, i see a lot of potential in this product
So how exactly does one come up with a "reasonable" price for anything? Why is $10 for a chicken any more "reasonable" than $10,000?

Things have value because we (collectively) believe they do. Currency is a numbering system. In practical terms, what matters is how easy are the numbers to use, and what's the relative value of one thing versus another.

And if you think we can rationally decide how many chickens a hip placement is worth, you're still nuts.
Meteor UI. Better approach then any other UI framework out there (including Facebook's react or FTLab's fruitmachine)

Angular is better by a long shot
ML PhD student here. The reason why this is different is that the parallel monte carlo simulations are running on different subsets of the data in each machine, and then averaged.

It is not obvious that this can work at all in some cases. Think, for example, a clustering model. If there are two clusters, but one machine calls them A B and the other machine calls them B A, averaging will give you useless results.

So the contribution of this paper is finding a set of models on which naive averaging works, and showing an efficient mapreduce implementation of it.

That said, I don't find the paper particularly interesting.
I agree it's unsustainable forever, but I see it as analogous to Facebook when its market cap. was only $6 billion or so.
Good for Coinbase. It's in their interests to remain solvent, and to encourage moderation. I really liked having my desire to buy tempered by their ~week-timescale delays in the past.

(That said, if you really want to buy, keep trying, Coinbase's buy limit opens and shuts sometimes.)