skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nice, fat, red flag for human interaction.

If you find someone mentioning distinctions of this sort, you can be reasonably sure you're dealing with a pedant who enjoys 'educating' or correcting more than producing or doing.
"A good currency slowly inflates." This is the "common wisdom" which BTC assaults frontally.
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It's just that you have a limited amount of smile capital to spread per day. In New York, it gets stretched pretty thin...
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Our company inherited a Grails project, and I had to help the developer out occasionally.

Frankly, Grails seems horrible, especially since it mixes the nice language that is Groovy with just craptastic JVM stuff.

Is there any other mature framework for the language? I have a feeling Groovy is wasted for Grails.
Is fractional lending even possible with bitcoin?

And, if not, why do you need reserve capital?
Sounds to me like focusing on the slight shift in tab location, as pioneered by Chrome, is exactly the kind of nitpicking you're complaining about. It's not like moving the tabs up a couple pixels fundamentally changed the browser.

When Opera first pioneered tabs they were found on the bottom. It was Firefox that made the drastic (though unsurprising) change of moving them above the page contents. One could argue maybe Chrome should not have employed this "tired" design choice and perhaps placed their tabs on the left (a la Ubuntu Unity). But this whole line of argumentation sounds ridiculous when someone has already figured out a pretty optimal place for those tabs.
I'd agree. Back when I was working on campus (now, mercifully, purely remotely), I'd sometimes head off to the main coffee joint instead of the completely open-plan office. Whilst it was hardly any quieter, it somehow worked much better for me, probably just as you describe.

For my part, I avoid phones anyway - which seems more commonplace than I'd imagine, amongst other technically-minded sorts.
I'm not claiming anything. That's what the article claims.
Yeah, but the CEO always ends up commandeering the nicest conference room as his de facto office, or else he's always on the road.
+1. Dear lord..
It's still gambling, even if it's the opposite of casino games.
Some stats: http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/richmond/crime/
Not being around as your family grows up means that they have less emotional support when things go wrong. If he had worked less and earned less, then suddenly things fail, he may have had a better relationship with his partner to say hey, let's figure this out. At some point not having your partner around because they choose to work instead of being with you just gets hard and you start to lose faith in them as the person you want to be with the rest of your life. Not to say that under any circumstances things would have worked out but it's not fair to say the wife wanted money and otherwise get out.
Current first line:

"Google says it will replace a Google Maps image after a California father complained it shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009."

EDIT: To remove my own snark as I realized the article was updated. Sorry!
Fun fact: btcchina is trading at ~5400CNY/BTC right now, which is approximately $880 while the average on other exchanges is $700. Good day for arbitrage.

btcchina: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/btcchina/CNY

bitstamp: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
Rise of the Robot Artist
Everyone knows computers are good at processing information and humans are good at creativity. What if it's the other way around?
I hate to be cynical but after he realized his career was gone, why not take the $500,000 and buy a house nearby San Marino. And then both him and his wife get any job possible, even if they had to lie on their applications.

It's seems extremely reckless to know that things are going bad but spend all your savings and borrow all your equity hoping on some Hail Mary miracle that you'll get another high paying job.

How is it not woefully naive and self-deceptive to let it come to that. The article is nice but the lesson I see is one he doesn't seem to recognize; humility. Be financially realistic, live under your means and reduce your monthly expenses as much as possible especially in a time of crisis.
I'm trying to see how you find those statements to be contradictory.

Maybe you think that the same concept is being discussed in the two sentences? Really there are multiple concepts at play so calling one of them neutral relative to one another and the other one "fake" isn't a contradiction at all. They're different things.

Just because the emotion being expressed is supposed to be neutral doesn't mean that the facial expression can't be implying something more. The article author's contention is that the facial expression is fake and expressing more of an emotion than is present, given that the "real" underlying emotion is one of neutrality in the smile and no-smile cases.
That it's a cultural phenomenon in the US and not in [other place x] does not make it immediately fake, and that some people may be faking it (I'll assume this is the case for argument) does not mean the phenomenon itself is fake.

I'm an American that smiles and greets strangers regularly. It's not fake when I do it, and I know it's not fake when many of my acquaintances do it.

I do know that this is not a natural/universal thing (though it took a trip to Japan for me to materially understand that). But just because it's not universal doesn't mean that, where it happens, it's backed by some kind of underhanded, guarded cynicism.

So have a nice day. ;)
" It makes the job of law enforcement much easier."

It makes the job of law enforcement _different_. Their existing skills/procedures/relationships/precedents for dealing with cash and banking-industry-mediated finances don't work for Bitcoin - presumably that makes it scary for any change-averse members of the LEO community.
governments aren't exactly known for their long term outlook
Nothing surprising here either. Same thing happens in USA and everywhere else. The media plays to the tunes of whoever pays the most. In case of China no one else has actually bothered to pay the media to do the opposite. May be if India was not in the hell hole of self inflicted poverty and servitude they could have countered Chinese propoganda.

Even Google shows paid ads on the top of the search.
Is Aereo a clever trick by cable to destroy broadcast TV?

Step 1: Get declared legal

Step 2: Have cable companies stop paying retransmission fees or threaten to stop paying them.

Step 3: Cancel local broadcasting in response

Step 4: More subscribers for cable
Here is a map of poverty rates at the county level:

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/percent-of-...

I have a hard time believing that obesity is causally related to "college football" or televised sports in general. Except perhaps the fact that it's a sedentary activity, but a sizable chunk of HN probably spends far more time working in front of a computer.
Nothing like this will ever be easy or decided in an instant. A close friend of mine once categorized these types of decisions as "choices no one should ever have to make."

Once you're faced with them, you learn something new about yourself and no one can prepare you for it. I find comfort more in the fact that a decision is made rather than dwelling on the consequences because life is just too precious to be spent on resentment and regret. Sometimes, just having a decision made can be the best possible outcome...
gone are the days when you could send it /quitquitquit sadly.
Karen, I don't have any special insight into pg's mind (having never met him), however when I watched you at Startup School, two things struck me about your session during Office Hours.

The first was pg seemed intrigued by the idea. He was even feeding you additional ideas about where you could take it. It felt a little like you hadn't fully thought through why what he was saying was good or bad. One thing you could have concentrated on would be whether your idea has any kind of network effect and if you really can keep getting people to come back to your site. The barrier to entry for starting something like this is pretty low, so focusing on the community is really important.

The second point was that Finbarr didn't do much of the talking. pg is a geek at heart, so I felt like if Finbarr could have talked more about the technology choices, things could have gone better. The choice not to use YouTube to me (despite YouTube being down as I write this) seemed really odd and I think that didn't sit particularly well.

Being rejected by YC certainly isn't the end of the world, so stay positive and keep plugging away at it.
The FBI and government have considerable bitcoin holdings, assuming they acquired the silk road wealth + what they already have their total BTC is at least 524,000. src: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321265.0
That's why I don't trust gold and silver either. They lack inherent value.
I am confused why they need to include that if there is little customer support.
Roman E. Maeder:

> Pattern matching and term rewriting is the fundamental operating principle of Mathematica’s evaluator. All other programming constructs are implemented by way of term rewriting.
When every single customer counts
Cash doesn't leave a publicly available audit trail of every exchange.
That would mean the networks lose a lot of money, and they're not exactly profit machines as it is

You're looking at this precisely how the NFL and MLB want you to look at it. The reality is that MLB and the NFL are congressionally-sanctioned monopolies that make a ton of money for the owners and players. Ever see an episode of MTV's Cribs?

The networks are "not exactly profit machines" as you say because the leagues are charging them so much. The networks in turn have to charge an arm and a leg to sports fans to make up for it. Sports fans are rebelling with both illegal and legal options like Aereo.

I don't know how things will play out but when you have a situation where a single person is making over $150,000 to play a single game of baseball, that's probably not a sustainable business model (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_sports_contract...).
I understand this conundrum - I experienced homelessness myself. I had a top notch education, attended a top program in mathematics for graduate school as a PhD student, ABD (All But Dissertation)...and ended up homeless after leaving graduate school. I did not prepare for the real world at all - I naively expected the real world to recognize a talent like mine and seize it. I quickly learned that was not the case.

I joined the military out of desperation over that reality. It was a hard way to live, but it had its rewards. It wasn't the life I wanted to live though, and so, after completing initial active duty training, I was out on the job search again.

I applied to just about any white collar job I could, touting my education, excellent intelligence, and ability to learn quickly. Still no luck. I got fed up and started to teach myself coding. I started to enjoy it greatly. A little more than a year after leaving active orders, I found an entry level job at a non-profit - a dream position for me at the time, minus the pay, but it was pay that I couldn't even touch in salary before.

My pay made me more hungry to succeed, so I spent many offhours & downtime during work to learn as much as I could about web development. I switched jobs only 10 months into that first career job in web development and became a senior frontend developer.

It has been not even a year since I started my career & I'm on track to be a successful professional. From 3 1/2 years ago to 1 year ago, I was essentially homeless. I used whatever means possible to survive, and kept as sane as I could throughout all that time.

Homelessness was a humbling experience. It was painful, but it was illuminating. I made bad decisions, as well as my parents, but the situation got me to reflect and put myself back on the right path, with some help from friends. I am still the same person as I ever was, but my compassion for others with legitimate troubles has grown. I still help anyone I can & who is willing to set their lives on the right path, as others helped me beforehand.
How can you say FF copied the tab design from Chrome when neither one of them created the concept of tabbed browsing in the first place? They are both using the conceptual model of tabbed folders, which have been around for ages. Curved-corner tabs and sharp-corner tabs are both variants of the same thing. Nobody even cares how the tabs look.

Clearly, both Firefox and Chrome are copying Avery. They are literally killing innovation.
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How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city
At Bloomberg, we've open-sourced our Chef recipes used to build our OpenStack environment. I'm guessing concrete examples like this are what you're looking for.

https://github.com/bloomberg/chef-bcpc
> I think this all remains to be seen.

What remains to be seen, everything he said it well known economics.

> we're not going to notice any deflationary issues with the currency.

You're already seeing it. Who wants to spend a currency that keeps increasing in value... that _is deflation_.

> I suspect that once we do reach the top, we'll discover that bitcoin deflates rather predictably and boringly.

I don't think you understand deflation.

> I just don't see the doom and gloom here.

Because you don't appear to grok deflation. When the demand for a currency spikes, as bitcoin is now, and the supply is unable to increase to handle that demand, deflation occurs and the price of the currency sky-rockets. Deflation isn't just about the size of the money supply, it's about the size of the demand of the market in relation to the size of the money supply and if a currency can't expand supply to meet that demand then it'll deflate to meet it and that makes it a terrible currency because it punishes spending and rewards saving, exactly the opposite traits of a good medium of exchange.
Aw come on - but you're really missing out.
They wouldn't care if those coins were worth $5 billion. The federal budget is silly compared to a few hundred thousand bitcoins. Or maybe that's the other way around.
By the way, is this the same Jeremy Allaire that wrote coldfusion, which was acquired by adobe, and was exploited in the biggest privacy data breach in history?
Did Paris gunman also launch DDoS attacks against his targets' websites?
"NFL and MLB have enormous public good will" is drastically overstating the case. Americans love professional football and baseball but the NFL and MLB are far from beloved institutions. I think the average fan is more likely to see this as another instance where the team owners are trying to screw over the little guy who just wants to watch the game.
Two possibilities:

1. You didn't say your third paragraph or didn't say it loudly/clearly/often enough. If this is the case, be more clear about it next time.

2. You said it but they disagree with you. If this is the case, maybe they are right, or maybe you need to find a way to prove the adaptability. Keep in mind everyone thinks their startup is adaptable to a huge market to a degree. You need to be relatively more able to develop a huge market than other interviewees.
>"serious people are the rulers, because if you do stupid crazy things you are dead" over thousands of years that forge a culture.

This is the pinnacle of all the BS political mythology in this thread. Stalin and his best friend Rasputin would so totally impale you for smiling.
And you know what? It'll keep going. If they're willing to invest billions in ghost cities they're willing to drive bitcoin above $10,000.

I think that is an unfounded conclusion. The ghost city phenomenon is a lot more than just "no other investment vehicles." The process of building ghost cities is ripe with corruption, everybody in the chain gets a cut of what is ultimately land-confiscation and government funded construction loans.

Straight out bitcoin speculation isn't even in the same league of opportunities for corruption.
I'm not sure what exactly your idea is, but may I suggest you partner with experts in the field?

I'd recommend you ping Prof. Joshi at Stanford, who was involved with a suicide prevention program in Palo Alto. And if only to run your idea by him and solicit some feedback.

This is a video of him talking about suicide risk factors in teens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lIqp6odvp0

Good luck!
Youtube down
youtube.com seems to be down
Takeaway: socio-cultural is the most important sort... Without a large baggage of skills to bounce back on, this story would not have ended the same way.
How and why: Read "Software Inspection" by Tom Gilb

Learn by doing: Read "A Discipline for Software Engineering" by Watts S. Humphrey. Skip to the exercises at the back, as 95% of the value is in the exercises, the main book is not that good (wants a re-write).

Often, people make the mistake of only doing a code review. While this helps, much better is possible. A review will typically remove 60-80% of the bugs, but to hit 99%, you need to compound your reviews. Capers Jones shows it is easy to hit 99% bug removal if you combine several quality control reviews, such as requirements, design and code reviews.

Quality control is not one innovation, it is a combination of several innovations. Several innovations that improve quality and there are many such innovations, more than 20.
BTC China gets $5 million funding
It's really interesting to see how art, architecture and engineering mix together. You can have a variety of more practical applications in house building[1]. Or you can see more artistic, non-practical uses but are heavily rooted in engineering and architecture [2][3][4]. It's gets even more interesting when you throw robotics into the mix humans could create things that are physically impossible today.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yv-IWdSdns

[2] http://vimeo.com/55657102

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHduM9odoJk#t=11

[4] http://vimeo.com/49450015
That has a simple explanation, people naturally try to maintain positive self-image about them (ie upvote comments that make them feel about themselves). And most hn visitors are american (who are also above-average patriotic).
And it's proving the common wisdom true, as history has already done.
Of course it's possible.

Customer A deposits 2 BTC to Bank A

Bank A loans 1 BTC to Customer B

Bank A is now a fractional reserve bank, with 50% of its outstanding debts to Customer A actually on-hand.
If this is the case, it's very sad that the relationships he values the most come with the caveat that he can't be vulnerable around those people. He's not allowed to fail before them. Not able to ask them for help when in need - or they lose all respect for him.
This negotiating maneuver is known as a "bluff."
Does it matter. They got trained monkeys to fix it. And now it is back up "in no time".
I wonder… I've seen a lot these last few weeks about the volume of Chinese Bitcoin transactions. I wonder if the "hobbyist/geek/hacker/early-adopter" Bitcoin miners will end up attempting to "hold the balance of power" while state-backed Chinese and US crypto-clusters fight each other for 51% of the hashrate? So long as "we" can keep a few percent of the global hashrate out of US/Chinese government control, perhaps they'll both escalate at similar-enough rates that a few thousand USB ASICs and a few tens of thousand gaming-rig GPUs might keep everybodies stach of Bitcoin "safe"?
What technologies and projects did you have when you got the initial position at the non-profit?

I've spent about a year doing the same, but I still feel unprepared with only some small, unfinished projects in my repository. There always seems to be some additional technology I need to learn before being job ready.

Thanks for the read.
Opened these coordinates in 2 browsers, one shows old low res imagery with no body, one shows newer high res imagery with body. My guess/hope is that the older low res imagery is being pushed out and just isn't on all servers yet.

I think the main thing I got out of this story is that Rob Enderle is an ass.
Just put a question mark in front, and you shouldn't have an issue. I used to run into that problem all the time.

Not sure how it would work if you wanted to search Amazon or something...
Probably depends on whether you are in Minnesota, trying to get warmth, or in Phoenix trying to stay in the shade...
I have noticed that this is happenning with other Chinese exchanges such as OKcoin and FXBTC as well. There must be a reason why this arbitrage exists. It's probably the difficulty to close the loop between cashing out in RMB and funding your account on Bitstamp with €/$.

Meanwhile the safest way to do arbitrage is between BTC-E and Bitstamp because they both have low fees for SEPA deposits/withdrawals. Must be European though.
Here is a reason why.. http://jsperf.com/queryselectorall-vs-jquery-jb
The definition of bank is not an entity that holds currency

Ok, you're right, that's an oversimplified view.
I believe it's a pre-Google legacy. I seem to remember seeing it a few times back in the day.
They could spend a lot of money and gain the ability to double spend and stall any (or all) transactions, but they couldn't create more coins than allowed or seize assets.
The original question was:

Why would law enforcement be eager to support a technology which...
Why stop at sports? Let's start bullying people-who-love-music-but-can't-play-an-instrument-themselves! Or how about people-who-watch-movies-yet-can't-act-their-way-out-of-a-bucket? Those people definitely deserve our scorn...
This is a very sad story. Even more sadly, it reflects many similar stories.

All this calamity for this family of 10 came from bad planning. This guy had a career that would have likely lasted until retirement, but he took a risk and quit it. That was a smallish risk, not nearly the risk he took while in his next job.

He admits that writers careers don't usually don't last into their 50s. Why did he not save more money so he could retire early? Why did he choose to have more and more children? Why did he not position himself for transition into another job as his writing career progressed? Why did he just quit without having another (less demanding) job lined up?

He was making upwards of a million dollars a year at one point. I had some neighbors while growing up in the 90s, they had 8 kids too and their father probably make 2-3 million dollars over his entire life. They were never homeless (in fact they had a pretty nice 5bd house), never hungry, cold, had decently new cars and clothes, ETC. This guy blew his wad all at once like a pro athlete.

All bad choices.

After his job, why did they not cut back on their spending? They should have downsized and cut back dramatically rather than continuing their expensive lifestyle.

At the time he quit, he was probably worth over 2 million dollars Add half a million that they borrowed after that and you still can't make that last more than 6 years?

I know someone who did something similar. The person that I know took a couple of years off like this. He got so used to it that when he started looking for a job again - it was half-assed (he was spoiled with still living lavish on savings and not having to work). He sabotaged many interviews, turned down some for bogus reasons and when he got jobs, he could not keep them for long (self sabotage again). It was like he was mentally ready for retirement already, but he was only 40.

It is a sad story, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for someone who has grossed over 10 million dollars over his lifetime but squandered it.