skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably something we'll just have to agree to disagree on. To me, gold is a ridiculous thing to base money on. It serves the interests of an elite few at the expense of everyone else, it is impossible to transfer over the Internet without a trusted intermediary (presumably someone with a presence on both sides of the transfer and owning large quantities of gold) imposing high fees and inconvenience on all parties.

There's nothing, in my estimation, good about gold as a currency. It is, maybe, a useful store of value, if you're wealthy enough to store it safely. But, its value as a substance (should you decide to make it into things) is vastly lower than its trading value. So, you're still trading mostly on what everybody agrees the gold is worth, rather than its expected utility as a substance. Bitcoin just removes the fiction that it is "backed" by a useful substance.

In the past, there have been times when gold was fantastic as a store of value. When the Jews fled Poland, Germany, etc. during World War II, the lucky and the rich had some physical gold or silver reserves to take with them. That allowed them to rebuild in a new country, even after all of their Polish or German currency became worthless or was confiscated.

So, that's cool. Gold has a purpose. I understand that. When shit hits the fan in your home country and you need to rebuild, historically speaking, gold and silver were good to have. Why? Because they were accepted for trade the world over and had some kind of value. But, nonetheless, the fiat money economy is vastly larger than the gold economy...and Bitcoin is slightly more gold-like than fiat money, in this instance.

If, suddenly, my government became really oppressive and started spying on everyone all the time and I felt unsafe because the police had become militarized and equipped with drones and tanks and had placed cameras all over the city (umm...wait...that's sounding vaguely familiar...but, whatever, let's continue...) and I felt I needed to flee for the safety of myself and my family, I could take my Bitcoins with me. They'd be spendable or convertable to local currency in almost any locale on the planet. Even if there is no currency exchange operating in a given local currency, there may be individuals who will sell local currency for Bitcoins. And, that's happening more frequently every day, just as more local exchanges spring up.

"Bitcoin could utterly collapse tomorrow and the impact on the markets wouldn't even register. If gold collapsed tomorrow the markets would crumble."

Of course. Gold has had thousands of years to establish a vital position in the market. Give Bitcoin a little time. It's still a puppy.
It looks like there are many 1-second long .flv (Flash Video) files for each channel.

This is second 37 on channel 3:
http://content.interlude.fm/video/dylanLive/rc2/ch3/c3s37.fl...

Here's second 125 on channel 6:
http://content.interlude.fm/video/dylanLive/rc2/ch6/c6s125.f...

and so forth.

You can run this in your terminal to download all of the files for a given channel:

curl -O http://content.interlude.fm/video/dylanLive/rc2/ch6/c6s[0-284].flv

FFMPEG should be able to join FLV files but I haven't tried it yet.

Interestingly enough it seems to pre-cache the channel immediately above and below the channel you're on, so if you're on channel 11 it will download the next couple seconds of channel 10 and 12, so you can switch channels without having to re-fill your buffer.
Nope. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/samsung.asp
Why do these companies seem to always get away with violating their customers privacy? Why don't they have to pay huge fines for that, or even better, go to jail (those who made such decisions)? Seriously, what they do is criminal.
Uhm, ad-hoc?
Creating custom special files in linux
I was wondering if anyone has pointers are where to start reading documentation. Google searches aren't turning up anything interesting.

Most times this question is asked it ends with somebody stating "Well you'll have to hook the virtual file system and I wouldn't want to do that."
Tools for integrating Heroku apps with Salesforce.com
Instagram and Snapchat come to mind as companies who don't monetize their huge userbase. Instagram was in business to get bought out. We'll see what Snapchat does.
It impossible for an app to do this, because sandboxing doesn't allow it.
How would you deal with equity in an offer from a company such as Dropbox or Square who clearly aren't going to disappear soon, and have a lot of momentum as a mid-sized, well-funded company?
That's like saying don't hate the player, hate the game. Fuck that. Every person who writes marketing copy like this is partially responsible for creating the sea of cognitive bullshit we all have to wade through every day. It's gross.
So this is basically a stylus that feels like it's made of wood? Or it is made of wood? That's about it?
One article won't get any site ranked, but a site with many good articles will build traffic regardless of SEO. Saying otherwise is selling snake oil.
First Alert sues Nest over smoke detector patents on voice alerts and vents
Guys if you have links to other tiny things in js like that, of about 30 lines of code or less, please send me links. http://30lines.info
How to stop the NSA from tampering with your vote
'm just back from a two-day PhD Voting Workshop in Switzerland. A great event in many ways, from the location (all security events should be held in castles from now on!) to the food. Oh, and we talked about voting too.
Photorealistic renderer in JS
Missing the drastic tumble. $700 yesterday. $700 right now.
Here are the links to the various digital formats:

[PDF] http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.pdf

[Mobi (Kindle)] http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.mob...

[ePub] http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/mature-optimization.epu...
You can easy buy one of this right here and right now. All of that you can buy in the store.

http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=keyboard+wire...
"The majority of Bitcoin miners are using ASICs" and "the majority of the mining is being done by ASIC miners" are two distinct claims.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
> Interest rates would go down to match the deflation rate for that reason

Huh? Why? Look at it from the bank's perspective. Lending money would be more costly for them than it would be in a normal mildly inflationary economy, so they'd _further reduce_ their profit on lending money? In a transition to a deflationary economy, banks would likely have to raise consumer rates just to stay in the black.

> Also many people argue the same thing about printing money to cause inflation being a continuous upward transfer of wealth.

Do they? Who?
Why not put out an MVP for free (beta testing, so to speak), then once your product is feature-complete, start charging for it?

Kinks matter if they make your product unsalable.
> “At first,” he says, “the numbers were not encouraging. Even the low-scoring managers were doing pretty well. How could we find evidence that better management mattered when all managers seemed so similar?” The solution came from applying sophisticated multivariate statistical techniques, which showed that even “the smallest incremental increases in manager quality were quite powerful.”

As someone without a strong statistical background, this really sounds like "we got data that didn't agree with the point we were trying to make, so we tried a bunch of different ways to look at it until we found the one that matched our hypothesis".

Can someone explain to my why my reaction is wrong? I'm sure it probably is.
What It Actually Feels Like to Stutter
I don't think Andy's point is that equity is a strong retention tool. It's that when people stop vesting, then it's almost active encouragement to go look elsewhere.
Just because the equity is likely worthless doesn't mean I want to be a cog in the machine.

I agree, I work for a salary and generally discount equity but the lack of monetary incentive doesn't mean I'm not in the game. I've always offered my opinion on business strategy and the best way to accomplish goals and I hope other early employees do the same.
Indeed. "iPhone app I downloaded running custom drivers on my network hardware" is exactly the sort of non-evil thing the sandbox is supposed to stop.

There is simply no way what they're doing is kosher with Apple, nor should it be. For a sandboxed application to run custom drivers on my hardware defies any notion of security.

Jailbroken phones where people have acknowledged the risk of running things outside the sandbox? Sure. Great.
Has someone redefined the word "make"? Because plugging stuff together isn't 'making' anything, in fact it's undermining kids by setting the bar for 'making' so incredibly low.
I'm not sure how often this happens anymore and why is it even a problem. When ever I've talked with a startup, they always talk about salary and equity, they're both part of the negotiation.

They offer you a salary of X and equity of Y, and then you can say that you hoped more for Z for salary. Of course a startup with a million or two in a bank can't pay you like Facebook or Google could but they can give more equity than any of them. If your needs and the startups offer don't match, don't work there.

(I guess it's mostly this even a possible problem in SF since most companies in other places or parts of the world, don't really give out equity for employees.)
I wouldn't hire you.
This is insanely cool, and a bit crazy too. 45 minutes to map 10km^2, so two of them, swapping out batteries, you're talking one person mapping 90 km^2 a day. So a city like San Francisco (121 km^2) in a couple of days? Or San Jose (467 km^2) in a week? That is pretty interesting. Make your own map with license to your own assets pretty reasonably I'd guess.
Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature
One Weird Trick Successful Startups Use to Grant Equity
NFL Player Quits Because, You Know, Noam Chomsky
I think you may be a little too active in your own post's discussion. You don't need to reply to every comment, especially if all you're going to do is argue and shut down any critical debate.
Trade secret information is not blanket protected. For example, the recipe for Coke is a trade secret, but you can still try to reverse engineer it. You cannot try to steal it, or pay someone to give it to you. It seems that the user agreed that the TV would give that information, in some sort of license agreement, and plugged that data into the TV also. I don't think it would count as a fraudulent way of getting the data.

With regard to TOP SECRET info, I think that the person plugging the data in is at fault, if they were under an obligation to keep it protected, and they failed by letting it go to a private server.

Identity information could be a liability for them, I think. By instituting this feature, they open a possibility of collecting private information, which they should have a duty to protect.
> If X works great as the short-term transfer medium, then it keeps/raises in value

Why? Currently, if you're using bitcoin as a token of exchange, the safest approach is to get rid of it as soon as you receive it (particularly if you're in a low-margin business, though few currently selling things for bit coins are in low-margin businesses).
Introducing Brackets – An Open Source Code Editor for Web Developers
Shoot, no patch for the 1.2.x series? That's disappointing. It's not that old, is it? I feel like I upgraded to 1.2.x, which was then the newest stable branch, just over a year ago.
That's ok I probably wouldn't accept your offer.
Keeping a debugging journal
Simply not true. Good content will develop natural backlinks over time, you don't need to create them via marketing. To say that Google can't find a site with first marketing it is simply not true.

Now if you're a business, of course you want to market because it's faster than relying on organic growth, but faster doesn't mean sites that don't do SEO and marketing won't get traffic, they just won't get as much traffic as they could have.

> So you need to market (build backlinks) to have any chance of driving search traffic.

You can start a blog and just load it with good content and the traffic will slowly and steadily build as long as the content is good and new content keeps visitors coming back. You don't need to market it.

To say SEO is required is to say that Google is stupid; they are not.
ASUS is selling a $229 Ubuntu notebook on Amazon
Thank you for sharing your story. It's easy to find negative stories of crossing the US border; it's generally easier to find negative stories about anything. Positive stories like yours can help give perspective that can otherwise be lacking.
You might be surprised. Genetic engineering of our bodies is not necessary to take advantage of melanin's UV absorbent, antioxidant and radical scavenging properties. There have been a couple of "melanin" pills developed to that end. Of course they don't create energy for the body, though. They have also found it difficult to achieve final regulatory approval.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afamelanotide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanotan_II
"Australia's gotta become one country first."

The reply from former NZ Prime Minister Rob Muldoon when asked if NZ would ever become part of Australia.
> With the exception of ensuring a good future quality of life with a pension (largely 'taken care of' by your employer) many people have no interest in such investment.

They may not know they do, but it's likely that their employer, say, is dependent on investment and/or cheap credit. They are also rather likely to have long-term debt (mortgages etc); that can get very ugly in a deflationary spiral, as wages drop but the debt remains.
Where's the login page? I need to get my token
the compiler will perform transformations behind your back that increase space usage

This is not exclusive to Haskell; even C compilers will do this with jump tables and so on.
As someone who has done a decent amount of digital art, this is a far inferior solution to existing Wacom products. Not only are there issues with using such a large "pencil", but the iPad simply doesn't have the ability to differentiate between different levels of pressure like the Intuos or even the much cheaper Bamboo tablets.
Daily Cartoon: Facebook
The rise of tech VC in Silicon Valley (and the fall of everything else)
My KSP-based solution would be to send up a new stabilization module to attach to Kepler.
It sounds like this solution was for cable shows, not every piece of media that is played.
What exactly are kids learning with this?

How to connect cables? How to put together a box? Are you preparing them for a life in manufacturing?
The Growth Difficulties of Passive SaaS
I disabled ABP on the thecupcakeblog but I still don't see any ads.
Nah don't be so hard on yourself. This was posted weeks ago and everyone determined it sucks but HN is half just a garbage dump for free advertising of any piece of crummy tech that claims to be part of the maker zeitgeist, so IT'S BACK!!!
What is marketing automation?
"TL;DR: DigitalOcean is a good VPS provider with minor issues. I like them and have been using them for over a year." -- Thus a dishonest title.
From the product website:

>> Wish that O(n^3) algorithm could execute in real-time? Now it's possible! We encourage you to push the limits of our platform and disregard what was previously intractable.

One of the most important things to note about asymptotic analysis is that the speed of your computer is immaterial. An O(n^3) algorithm will experience cubic slowdown, irrespective of how it's implemented. A blazing fast, parallelised solution just reduces the constant multiple in front of the n^3, but ultimately, n^3 will outgrow that constant. I'm sure you know this, but it's disingenuous to say that you can disregard an algorithm's complexity because of your data / results. A particular algorithm with particular space complexity (also important) was run on a particular input and was much faster - granted, this is impressive - but not definitive enough to justify labels like '1000x faster' and 'disregard what was previously intractable'.

Also, O(n^3) is considered polynomial, which is absolutely not intractable. The whole point of intractable problems is that they are too complex to solve (given current best known methods). This might be very useful for applications that are currently too slow to run in real-time, but absolutely not a solution to problems of much higher order (read: non-polynomial) complexity
"Original credits" have been around forever but they are typically watched pretty closely by the acquirers, processors and associations (V, MC) since they are ripe for enabling fraud. But I could imagine someone with Square's clout could work out a deal with Paymentech/First Data and/or Visa/MC (Visa is an investor).

As someone mentioned, we did this at PayPal a long time ago but it was frowned upon. We even looked at refunding prior credit card charges that were unrelated to the new payout. We'd even make money on those txns!
Dos and Don'ts of Hiring on Github- by Joe Johnston, Founder of Connect.Me
That the rate of "fires from a collision" in a Tesla is 25x that of the average US car. The OTA update reduces the number of undercarriage collisions and thus the number of fires.
It's a strong retention tool as long as your employees aren't acting as rational agents.
Depends how far you want to take it...

There's plenty of links on the web, but if you're really serious (it can be quite addictive writing one), get hold of the "Raytracing/Rendering bible" : Physically Based Rendering by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys.

There's also a plethora of research freely available with cutting edge techniques to read.
Ask HN: Saving SSH/Telnet Sessions in OSX
So I'm a network admin that's been using Windows/PuTTY for connecting to a large number of telnet and SSH services on networking kit and servers for years.

However I've recently moved over to OSX on a Mac Book, I'm quite happy with connecting to devices via Terminal/Console, just wondering what tips/tricks people have for creating shortcuts to devices?

Would be great if it was quick to use, may be also auto-login and easy to update IP's etc.

Not found anything suitable so far, so might have to throw some code together myself...
I bought the predecessor as well and you're absolutely right: the design is lovely. While I'd say it's more of a full-featured HID than a remote it's well designed and comfortable to use. I didn't know about the new one and I'll keep an eye out for it.

A problem I see is that the tasks of set-top-boxes and displays are relatively constrained, so having a reduced input device seems like a good idea. But how to support free-text searching without a full keyboard (on-screen menus are painful) or having to deal with limited battery life due to a touchscreen?
This is really fantastic. It's highly readable, with a good mix of high-level headiness and practical advice. At a relatively early stage startup many of the techniques are overkill, or simply out of reach, but it's nice to peer around the corner and get an overview of the approaches and problems of performance at the next order of magnitude of scale. And the fundamental lessons of each of the optimization anecdotes are applicable, even if the techniques aren't.

The first few chapters in particular are a nice introduction to reasoning about performance, and the availability in multiple formats is also nice!
Thing is, there might be some other bug somewhere that would allow an attacker to create just such a directory (e.g. getting access to the same dir through samba or by exploiting a cgi script). Now you're vulnerable to a lot more trouble, so don't assume safety just because one particular bug appears to be more or less innocent.
Ah, sorry about that. I saw the standard formatting and had just assumed.
The US was on the gold standard during the Great Depression, and during the cyclical recessions and depressions which preceded it.
Payment delay has only a little bit to do with infrastructure and a lot with competition and incentives.

If you're required to do, say, next-business-day payments but your infrastructure gets them done in 5 minutes, you could still want to delay all those payments to the next day since there it makes a significant addition to your revenue (float of the money held, interest on overdue customers, payment fees for 'more-urgent' payments) - unless competition forces you to do so.

Banks aren't sitting on their hands - you should expect a "transfer system that works" from banks as soon as someone actually threatens to outcompete them. Square Cash doesn't seem to be that thing - it relies on banks allowing the debit-card-refunds (AFAIK they are allowed to kill this ability as soon as they wish to), and I'm sure the banks make sure they earn 'their due' in fees on every such payment anyway.
What a lovely experience. Took me a moment to get into it and then I smiled the whole way through. I just love the different feelings you get from the different channels.
We're working on a few new ways to deploy custom stuff, we want it to be really fly and work really really well and be really really simple so we are refining it. I can't give a timeline for this but it's in our short term roadmap for sure.
What else would you recommend we do?
Keyboard $20 + Wifi Dongle $10 + HDMI cable $5 + SD card let it be $10 + Speaker $3-5

I said nothing about the price. You can buy it in almost any store right now. There is no need for company in kickstarted.
1. I do

2. they can be split further, if ever needed. which is what I just said. if enough people agree to it and enough people migrate forward, via cooperation and "this-will-only-hurt-briefly" actions
I hate it when articles lack of technical details, or fail to disclose important information.

I find it interesting that their website announces that they're gonna be launching all of thei apps by January 2014, considering that their kickstarter hasn't ended, and that it's almost sure that Apple won't play along.

That said, I'm all up for a quicker way to share things with my friend's Android, so while the article is far from making me want to support this, I might give it a try once it's out.
It sounds like they took the layer written by the big bad boys and added in...their own...layer.

Errr...
Where is the paper for this novel clustering algorithm?
45 minutes to capture the imagery. Also, 100 acres is 0.4 km^2.

In the U.S., the big advantage over government imagery is going to be timeliness. I'm sure some people also have uses for the resolution.
JS is a weird language. There are competing quasi compatible implementations from a few different entities. Meaningful standards have taken a long time to come about. JQuery was the turning point I think.

My point is it's very accessible, getting more features every day and suited perfectly for the client/server model used in most applications today. That's probably a good fit for how we will interact with little embedded devices. Because they will likely connect to a home server.

It's not the best tool for every job, but experimenting is the best way really find out. If nothing else they'll learn from it.

Isn't this what hacking is all about?
I read Fasetto as Falsetto and figured they were using high-frequency audio to transmit data between phones. An app using that shouldn't have any issue getting approved (just needs speaker/mic), but I suppose the data rate would be pretty low.

It seems that it just tries whatever the device offers. From the kickstarter:

"If Bluetooth isn’t available it can use near field, if near field isn’t available it can use WiFi Direct, if WiFi Direct isn’t available it can use hotspot, and if that isn’t available it can use root sockets (TCP, UDP or any other supported protocol, using any port)."

I'm not sure what "root sockets" means, or how UDP is going to allow you to transmit without WiFi, NFC, or Bluetoth.
Critical flaws found in Australian traffic systems
Thanks! That's useful