skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
trippy.... i'll have to read more about them but the fact that systems like this are emerging is kindof giving me some closure. It makes perfect sense. Convert as you want "Or you can keep it simple in Ripple". Perfect.

I'm excited to see when they open source the code. I think a key part of this model that is missing from Bitcoin is that for this to work they'll have to keep an actual bank account to pay out to users whatever was put in. With Bitcoin once you buy a coin that cash is gone. The burden of maintaining the value of the system is then, somewhat paradoxically, on the buyer.

EDIT: Ugh, WHYYYY?!!! They mint a finite amount (100 billion XRP) and Ripple Labs plans to donate 55 billion to "users, charitable organizations, and strategic partners". This is MY WHOLE BEEF with cryptocurrencies. They are all redistributing wealth in a way that hasn't proven to be mathematically sound just cuz they're like "eh what's the big deal us originators can just print ourselves as much money as we want for a while". Now again faced with a situation where something that is supposed to be currency is now a trading platform with somewhat arbitrary rules that make the market difficult to predict.
Nuts to OOP [1999]
The St Louis federal reserve has a good article describing both monetary policy and how it is implemented.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/aggreg/meeks.pdf
> This should be built into the law though, not into unions.

Who do you think is going to get these protections built into the law? Who do you think has been responsible for getting the protections we do have built into the law? It's unions. They're not perfect (no organization of people ever is), but they're a hell of a lot better than an alternative economy in which unions don't exist, all workers are atomized and disorganized and the public policy dialogue is entirely dominated by what large corporations want you to think.
Heh no I believe in the utility of the tech, my gripe is just with the implementation details. I agree with what you're saying here there is a lot of possibility here. Checkout Ripple (another responder pointed me to it). It's basically exactly what I was saying I was hoping for (I think, have to read it over more carefully).
>And than means that either by that time we drastically change our distribution of resources - where 'having a job' is not needed for living; or expect literal class warfare.

So? We've been due for class warfare for decades now. The sooner the better. I'm tired of seeing the entire planet's worth of societies optimized for hoarding capital. Enough!
(I'm one of co-founders of Lookback)

As sksksk noticed there is an interface that comes with Lookback from which the user can turn on and off the recording. In newer versions of our SDK there is also a small indicator in the top menu so the user doesn't forget that the app is currently recording.
If my employer/boss decide to screw me over, what's the worst that can happen?

Suppose exactly the day after a paycheck they decide to stop paying me. 15 days later I don't get a check, and 7 days later I stop working due to the paycheck issue not being fixed (maybe I gave them the benefit of the doubt, it's a minor snafu). At the worst, I'm out 22 days of pay, assuming their high priced lawyer lets them get away with this (highly unlikely).

I don't need insurance for low cost, low probability events.
I worked on the OS for the Atari ST. It sure wasn't ahead of its time. We looked at the Mac and felt jealous; that was some real engineering, while we had a bunch of crap from Digital Research (and a lot of it was unadulterated junk).

I never used things like MiNT, but those weren't supported by Atari anyway.

Atari just didn't have the resources to sink into an OS that could compete. They knew how to make cheap hardware, but after a while the PC ate their lunch. Nobody wanted to do biz with the Tramiels, so games were pretty much off the table.
Meet the flying machine that was inspired by a jellyfish
But""Was the second letter of your first girlfriend's middle name between A and M?" is a bad question on many levels -- people who aren't attracted to females, people who are but have never had a girlfriend (including children), people who got married to their wife as the start of the relationship, and cultures where "girlfriend" would be hard to define because of that sort of thing.

I can think of almost perfectly 50/50 questions based on odd/evenness of numbers (is your current weight in grams/age in hours/number of hairs odd or even) but those are completely time dependent.
I am very pro-union and very sensitive to union bashing, but this article is not guilty of this particular bias. If anything, it might be guilty of a slight is-ought fallacy[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
The Entertainment
Don't know about probably_wrong, but I learned that the americas are divided into South, Central and North, with Mexico usually in Central America. Got it in geography class in Brazil.
>Why will a reduction in money printing cause a stock market crash?

Because asset prices aren't being supported by underlying capital accumulation from the sale of goods to meet demand. They're being supported by flooding the capital market in cheap money. The underlying "real economy" of nonfinancial goods and services is pretty much still in recession, and the labor markets and aggregate demand with it.
Read:
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell
Clean Code by James O. Coplien
Test Driven Development by Kent Beck (save this for last)

These books will teach you how to think and approach coding in a way that will make Object Oriented programming simpler to comprehend.

I can't suggest a book that explains basic OOP principals, hopefully some other much smarter person here can. I learned basic OOP through practice and through my education/class - but to be honest the basics are dead simple. It's only when you start getting into the very abstract that OOP starts to get really complicated and that's where the above books will help you.
Detroit has had a 60% drop in population since 1950 though.
I'd venture in saying that if recruiters have any kind of idea of what it is to build a startup, they'll consider it a major plus. That being said, and considering what you usually see from recruiters, I'd say they'd have to be in a startup to know...

At a startup you're put into a situation where you are under major pressure and you're constantly faced with tough/unsolved problems and or all imaginable difficulties when it comes to sales. This can be an amazing growth experience, depending on how you deal with it. 7 months into my startup, I find that I've grown by leaps and bounds when compared to my former jobs, where I was already quite entrepreneurial.

As to an eventual stigma in the UK, it's only worse in other EU countries; I know it is in mine. Here, people are more valued for obedience rather than for entrepreneurial attitude.
One of Nature’s Most Extreme Dads, the Darwin’s Frog, Is Going Extinct
I interviewed someone who had a failed startup. He couldn't tell me what he would do differently if he was to do it all over again. It didn't fill me with confidence that he's learned anything during the experience.

Make sure you can answer that question when you start interviewing.
Those chapters show that any consistent (in some sense) statistical reasoning system must result in the same answers as a Bayesian system.

They don't show that the frequentist approach is wrong. If both methods result in the same answer and frequentist methods are easier to use then what is the problem?
We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft
Imagine your mobile phone as your PC
There are times when you need to have high CPU performance, but the reality is that all semi-current machines are amazingly fast and capable of productive work.
Ah the fun I had playing with this machine. First bit of 3D animation I ever did was on the Amiga.

Trying to rack my brain as to the music sequencer I used to spend hours with.
Keep your Bash prompt simple, and informative only when you need
yes. events like this encourage better security.
Sleep No More
Boehm Garbage Collector for C Overview [pdf]
Reimplementing JavaScript
I can't speak for PG, but I don't think he believes unions are bad. Actually, one of the things I found amusing (due to my own preconceived notions about Silicon Valley, formed as a result of reading the young libertarian commenters on HN) when I was going through YC was how much it functions as a union. In a sense, PG is a union leader himself.
Some problems are best solved using FA. Pac mac? Vending machine? ATM machine? Once you have the rules. You can be confident of no bugs.
Unfortunately many employers may assume that you're more experienced with failure than success. Failure can be a teacher, but success can as well.
Link to whole serie: http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
Did you see this in yesterday's story about OS/2? Good article.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-sy...
Nobody expects work to be fun. People expect it to have reasonably short hours (ie: eight hours per day, for instance), to pay well enough to support themselves, and not to actively insult and humiliate the worker. If you can't meet that minimum standard, take your "job" and shove it.
Hey, also cofounder here. It should work fine, but you'll have to write a little bit of Objective-C for it. We plan to make it a drop-in kind of thing for PhoneGap, RubyMotion and other such tools.
Kicking Ass And Saving Lives – iHELP From Slovenia
Single page version:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-and-def...
- the list of countries doesn't change over time

- when countries appear or disappear there's some sort of logical predecessor/successor country

- internet address suffixes correspond to a single country

- a country has only one internet address suffix

- you can tell what country someone is in by their IP address

- people don't move from one country to another

- well, at least companies don't move from one country to another

- a country has a single language

- a country has a single currency

- a currency is used in a single country

- the currency used in a country doesn't change over time

- a country has a single legal system

- a country has a single tax system

...
> Better example could perhaps be The Hague (Den Haag or 's- Gravenhage in dutch).

I don't think so, the official name is 's-Gravenhage, even though many people and official organizations use Den Haag.
Open Source project Graylog2 receives seed funding from four VC investors
Yes. I haven't optimized it for games yet (there are several shortcuts you can take in such a scenario), but it works fine for the OpenGL games I've tried with.
>Do people still think the irrevocability of BTC transactions is a good thing?

Yes. Third parties will provide escrow/insurance services if there is demand for them. Transactions been irreversible "by default" is a core benefit of bitcoin and merchants may preffer that over chargebacks at 18€.
It might be worth trying to get a count at how many workers died fighting for the 8 hour working day over several decdades before presuming that these concessions were supposedly granted easily.

May 1st as the international day for workers demonstrations was a tradition that in part started in commemoration of the Chicago Haymarket massacre, for example.

US unions first started agitating for an 8 hour working day in 1836. Not even the introduction of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 went all the way there.

Hundred years of demonstrations and strikes, leading to the deaths of dozens of labor organisers was insufficient.

To then try to propose the idea that it was easy for management to give in to unions, is ridiculous on its face, and indicates a lack of knowledge of the labor movement.
I'm feeling optimistic about Python 3. For personal and work projects I've been writing 3-compatible code, and am hoping to have a production system using it by the end of the month.

I think everyone is expecting a really long tail to the transition, but we'll get there eventually.
Craft a narrative about your startup experiences that addresses any concerns the hiring company may have.

For example, when the startup I worked for ended abruptly while I was out of the country (and came back without a job), it was easy for me to talk about wanting more stability in jobs I interviewed with.

I also talked about working til 2am regularly, and hoping to scale back those hours to something more reasonable so that I could spend time with my wife.

When I knew the company I was interviewing with had better technical processes, I talked about getting overwhelmed that it was standard practice to push to production at 3am when nobody was using the service and debug things live.

Would I use the same narrative when interviewing with another startup? No. Instead I talk about loving the flexibility to work until 2am, being able to eat lunch with my wife more while working from home, and not having to jump through hoops to deploy code to production.
Have a child. You are more or less guaranteed a dozen years of early wake-up calls.
Show HN: txtcam — webcam for your terminal
NSA 'infected' 50,000 networks with malware
I think the right amount of customer service is industry/product area specific. I don't think he's talking about modifying your product. But, if all your competitors are offering phone supoprt and your not you might want to consider it. This is all part of product market fit though.
Microsoft acknowledges Xbox problem with disc drive
Why Snapchat is screwed
If you're not taking simple, easy steps to improve your presentation, what you're being isn't authentic but sloppy. You dress down in old jeans and a t-shirt, not the shoes you work in the garden with.
I once went through the VMS documentation, and could at least find some of the design ideas that I knew from Windows NT.

I think it is good that the industry enjoys different types of OS architectures and designs.

Just because UNIX managed to spread as it did, doesn't mean it is the be all of OS design. After all, its creators tried to fix UNIX, just the industry did not adopted it.
The Single Most Important Metric for any Startup
If you think the worst case scenario is that you don't get paid for a single period, you have not thought things trough.

Here's another scenario for you: Your employer accuses you of gross negligence to get out of dealing with a harassment claim you've made. Now you're out of a job, in circumstances that makes you basically unemployable, unless you manage to successfully defend yourself.
Salesforce Hackathon: Bigger != Better
Apple has no sense of humor
I was an Amiga in a town of PC. They all thought I'm the odd one out, but still they all came to play Kick Off and Super Cars etc. because their games were sub par.
OctaMED?
New Snowden leaks reveal US, Australia's Asian allies
And since they obviously thought it was so much fun the first time they're planning to do it again in Gällivare.
I think in your case CLTV < Customer aquisition. Maybe you should have looked at charging more or looking at cross selling.
Public domain movies (Streaming & DL)
Right - PG makes the mistake of talking about what labor is actually worth, but this value is dependent on what the political system will allow - the balance of power between labor and capital. Where labor organizing risks torture and death, labor is cheap. Where labor organizing is a protected right, labor is relatively expensive.

This drives offshoring, as capital seeks production regimes where they can reduce the cost not just of wages, but of meeting environmental and safety standards. The naive capitalist then claims that the low ball cost of production in unsafe, toxic, politically repressive locations is the "true" cost of labor.
Unions declined in power in the US as the economy moved away from manufacturing, and Reagan set the tone for service unions by firing striking air traffic controllers. By declaring open season on service workers unions, the capital backed Republican right made it clear they weren't going to allow them the same sort of power industrial unions had in the mid 20th c. This political struggle continues today in efforts to raise the minimum wage both nationally and for individual large employers like Walmart and macdonalds.
Or, why don't they automatically roll up windows when it starts raining? They already have automatic wipers that use a sensor in the windshield, and they have hands-free automatic windows with a safety cutoff in case anything gets in the way. Rain starts? Windows roll up. Never worry about a summer drizzle again.
this is common linkbait tactic now. They take the current high trading value of BTC & multiply by the number of BTC involved to get some crazy-high-looking USD price. It's not money in hand, the reality of getting that money out of BTC can be pricey.
that doesn't mean you couldn't sit the phone on a tripod / stand (I think thats what the above post meant)
My first PC was a 386 SX.

After I got hold of Windows 3.1 and had some Windows only software, I trimmed my autoexec.bat and config.sys to load just the essential MS-DOS stuff, and jump strait into Windows.
I would let the users know that requests get routed through a server you control.
"FoxTales" by Kerry Nietz is also a good read. Kerry talks about his experiences joining FoxPro development as a freshout college grad. I never cared all that much for FoxPro/xbase, but the book is a good read.

http://www.amazon.com/FoxTales-Behind-Scenes-Fox-Software/dp...
Routing all your x-domain requests through an unknown third part via vanilla HTTP? What could possibly go wrong?
Protracker?
Neat interface design, but probably its more useful to have this information in a spreadsheet. The visuals actually obscure the data, IMO.
Not sure if it's a joke or not...
work on your "being a guy that a CTO would want to have a beer with"... is probably not the best advice.

Starting a startup and failing doesn't look bad in your CV, don't worry about that.
But if you are looking for a job, you should definitely work on your technical skills, learn new technologies etc instead of your networking skills...
The importance of the User-Agent in the Botnets connections
Aegis Sonix? It was the first I laid eyes on, followed directly by trackers.
I've heard that this type of insurance is expensive and a large part of banks' transaction fees. I can only imagine how expensive an insurance service like that for Bitcoin would be.
So instead you must use baking soda?
Owning Your Platform (And your Audience)
Remember setting up X11 and needing to manually set signal timings for your monitor? Good times.

That experience ranked up there with writing my own PPP init scripts and endless hours tweaking my fvwmrc. I didn't play video games during that period, because I was quite seriously having more fun learning every nook and cranny of any unix or unix-like system I could get my hands on.
When the FDA sends you a letter like this, you either pay a fine and change tactics or you embark on one of the most frustrating approval processes known to the world (all for people's protection.) Good luck with that.
How is this remotely trending? Yes, HN, let's vote a MITM attack to the frontpage. This is a terrible idea.
Every country has a single education system (e.g. high school exams, length of degree courses etc.)
Seems a cool idea to use with mockups and prototypes, but an awful idea to use in a serious product.
New Secure-Filters NPM Module for Simpler Output Sanitization
bitstapm is withing 10 usd of gox in the past days
Picked apart and debunked within hours of being published. A good summary thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1reuwq/vigorous_deb...

The real story here is how Adi Shamir can get caught up in such horrible published research, not once - but twice now[0]. They keep referring to blockchain.info as the blockchain, and have again scraped the website (referring to 'HTML output') to get their data - even after it was pointed out to them last time that the websites are just a representation of the blockchain.

You really have to question just how much the authors understand what they are writing about when they don't even understand the blockchain. This research isn't even worthy of a blog post, let alone being published as an academic paper by a noted cryptographer.

[0] https://gist.github.com/jgarzik/3901921
Why I’m Switching Over to (AngelList) Syndicates
A warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that we are the scientists the Jurassic Park cloners stood on the shoulders of to create the horrors that ensued in that trilogy.

Everything goes back to Goldblum.
> Therefore, 23andMe must immediately discontinue marketing the PGS until such time as it receives FDA marketing authorization for the device.

No joking around.
Started to practice genuine Shaolin QiGong & Shaolin Kung Fu. Got lucky with the master I found. Been practicing for 7 years, wouldn't trade it for a pile of gold. It just enables me to do everything better. I mean everything. Most of the ordinary day-to-day stuff doesn't bother me so much. I don't waste as much time as before doing useless things.

Also reduced the amount of TV/Internet time; started to eat vegetarian practically every day.

<shameless plug> I built this app just for that: https://routinetap.com. I'm working on a pure js version.</shameless>
That's probably because they likely need to know those languages. At best only a percentage of Americans could find a second language, Spanish, useful in their day-to-day lives.
This list was clearly made by someone from Switzerland. Other countries have plenty of other crazy examples.

Someone else already pointed out that the city that houses the Dutch government has to different, equally valid names (and is also not the capital).

Not only are there addresses that lack street names, there are also addresses that lack house numbers or towns. It wouldn't surprise me if there are addresses that lack a zip/postal code in a country that normally uses them.

Then there's reassigning addresses to other houses. The original building stays, but gets a new address. I'm a victim of this: a nearby swimming pool had my address until 15 years ago, but I still get a ton of their mail. Clearly in those 15 years, a lot of their contacts never bothered to update their address data. (Or maybe nobody expects a swimming pool to move.)

Edit: Beyond regular enclaves, there's of course also the crazy of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog. It's bits of Belgian enclaves in Netherland, some of which in turn contain Dutch enclaves. The country you're in can change every other house. It's possible all your neighbours live in a different country than you. I'm not sure if it's possible a single house is in two different countries at the same time. Maybe the front door in one country and the back door in another? Exactly who gets to maintain the streets, I have no idea.

Links: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Baarle-Nassau&hl=en&ll=51.442...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau
Anything that shows initiative is a large plus (other things we care about are basic techical competence and, and jasonkester said, whether we like talking to you). Working at a startup probably shows some amount of initiative, since said startup wouldn't keep you around otherwise. Showing less initiative (and less apparent willingness to learn) would mean you would need to show greater technical skills.
The author of the comic went out of his way to contact the estate, ask for permission, and removed the comic when permission was denied.

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/cartoon-blog/amusing-ours...
http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...

And that's on top of the fact that his comic has probably sold an incalculable number of copies of the book, due to people discovering Neil Postman.
This is just a proxy. If developers wanted to go this route they would set up the proxy on their own server instead of routing it through a 3rd party.
AutoJS – JS library for textarea lookahead
New Earth-eyeing cameras getting a lift to space station today