skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IRS purposely keeps the definition of income loosely defined so that they can broadly apply it as new schemes and technologies arise. I am sure the IRS could bust you for income tax evasion if you didn't declare your bitcoin appreciation as income.
In my experience "the community" cannot be trusted for security audits, as far as most FLOSS goes. In fact if a program can be "made secure" by yourself just by firewalling it properly, I'd be more inclined to trust that measure over any FLOSS community audit.

Having said that, the idea of running software I mistrust so much that I have to firewall it on my network is unacceptable.
You assume that software doesn't automate the process.
Is salesforce making money?
Hint: you won't get right answer listening to Benioff pumping and dumping on CNBC.
Also, Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden.
They die because over time the filament sinters causing grain growth and necking at the edges. The individual grains shift until due to the 1D constraint they each have grain boundaries with each other that stretch from the radial edges of the cylinder across. Once the grain boundary looks like that, you see increased surface diffusion at the grain boundary near the surface that forms a pit which weakens the filament.

Perhaps you could argue that it requires cycling because the cooling causes increased axial stress and gradually pulls the filament apart, but it is most certainly more complicated than just thermal shock. I believe that so long as you're not shattering glass, it's more about how long it's been hot so far and how many times it's been completely cooled.
This almost makes it seem like angel investing has some risk associated with it.

But seriously, this is about as low content as a post as you could imagine:

- Angel investors regret bad decisions

- Angel investors want lower valuations

- Angel investors want less "hot air" (which is ironic because most media sources highly recommend you "hustle" when raising money)

All of this is obvious. And a company that is replacing the guesswork of valuing early-stage companies with their own arbitrary guesswork doesn't strike me as an upgrade, especially since I'm sure they take a cut somehow.
I have to say, the combination of your username and comment was rather perfect (even if it was on purpose).

And you're pretty correct there, too, according to the last person I asked this question of.
I'm sort of what you would call a small developer and WordPress jobs are the majority of my business. I'm speaking only for myself here but when I see stuff like this I pass:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^_escaped_fragment_=(.*)$
RewriteRule (.*) http://crawlspa.com/s/%1 [P]

I understand what you're doing, but there's something about writing redirects to relatively new 3rd party sites that make me uncomfortable.
StarCraft.

;)
yes, absolutely agree. that's what i mean by "solved" in quotes. i mean that computers can beat the best humans, not that the games are solved in the absolute sense like tic tac toe.
Can you call it a game when it doesn't even work? This looks half baked. Maybe you need that JavaScript after all.
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I really am not a bitcoin fan, but my hatred towards PayPal's payment monopoly may one day weigh more heavily than my reservations about cryptocurrency. :)
Can we do the exchange in plump helmets?
Luckily Bitcoin addresses use Base58 encoding [1] and have built-in checksums, so any typo you make likely won't be a valid address.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
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Never knew about this feature, though it seems darn useful for all the times I'd like to restrict search-and-replace ops to a single function or block.
Do we know who these two people are?
No?
Then it's anonymous.
Creator here.

You're totally right it's not a good way to learn the language in isolation. A little context: this is the first project I've built in any Lisp, so learning Clojure/ClojureScript from scratch is still very fresh in my mind.

When I worked through the original Clojure Koans, I had a REPL open and made judicious use of online resources to figure out each answer. As an experienced programmer who was brand new to Lisp, treating the koans as a sort of 'open-book exam' was very effective for me. Perhaps explicitly suggesting that workflow on the home page would be a simple but worthwhile addition.
Especially when it is that 50% regret 1 or more investments.

What percentage of stock market investors make at least one investment per year that goes down?
I can attest to knowing at least a few examples of "people on HN who work for these companies but don't say so out of abject (and not misguided) fear that the rabid 'copy and paste' tech blogs that call themselves 'journalists' would take some random quote out of context and splatter it all over the web."
I got a few great suggestions for https://codeable.io as well!
Consider joining ICC (http://chessclub.com). It's the best place online for playing chess, and also comes with an app. Tell 'em gk sent you.
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You make a good point that I've seen echoed in different ways in different books/articles/talks.

If I can chime in with my take, and I think you had something to this tune in your post, it's important to not only be specific but to be opinionated. You not only have a problem that you've targeted specifically, but you also have the a specific solution.

It reminds me of when I had to write papers in college and the professor would say "Don't just summarize the different sides of the argument, choose one and argue it. I don't care if you're wrong just argue it." I think startups are similar. You pick a side and you come up with a market strategy/argument for it. If you fail, you pivot. But at each step of the way you should have an opinion, an obvious solution that can be conveyed to the user (or investors).
... and I go right back to building something to help Bitcoin mitigate risks
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> will put us ahead of the curve here

Unless it's the same kind of curve Go is judged against (aka the curve of 30 years ago), that's a very tall order. Are you working on something better than a time-traveling debugger?

> imagine DTrace at a program level

so... DTrace?
3.3.2 An Internal Use Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's built-in WebKit framework.

I take this to mean that the javascript has to be downloaded by the webkit/uiwebview as part of an web page and you can't supply the javascript externally if you get if off the network.. There is a lot of confusion online on this point(some people disagree) but that is my understanding.
you're right. i should clarify that i mean "a life long pursuit" kind of interest and devotion. That something could offer that many stimulating moments to many people intellectually and aesthetically and socially.
It seems like the obvious solution to this is to actively increase airflow. Small fans or synthetic jets could be included on the bulbs themselves, although this would be tricky to do compactly, especially for fans.

Alternatively, they could be built into light fixtures designed specifically for LED bulbs, which would be less expensive overall, and would allow the cooling to be designed for the specific fixture (face up vs. face down, for example).
OMFG? What is going on??? : Bitcoin
Oddly enough, the pioneers on this subject are actually game currencies. Look up Julian Dibbell's Play Money.
Ask HN: Why does Apple make my enter my password when downloading free apps?
@Watty even if you create new bitcoin wallet you need to fill it out with bitcoins. You either have to mine them, or get from someone else. Since we can safely assume that mining is out of the question the only other option is to use exchange.. There will always be a point of entry that the transaction can be traced to..and this place/person/organization will know who the user is. From that point forward they can track you..
Chess.com has a good app with tactics training, live play, and (my favorite) correspondence play (1-5 days per move; great for busy people). My favorite place to play live chess is lichess.org.
The statement regarding checking logic in computer programs is not misleading (though of course, your characterization of it is); there are many systems which are not subject to the halting problem in fact (at least in any way that affects practice ---> You can simply limit constructible terms to those which provably terminate, if you please). Statements like yours about Turing & Gödel are a common mistake.

You don't have to _decide_ whether a program halts in order to prove it. In many cases, termination is not so much even a proof obligation as it is a _fact_ by construction; in the harder case where termination is not obvious structurally, you can simply rewrite your general recursion as a call-graph, and then termination is a proof obligation which you must satisfy if you wish to execute it.

Decidability is much a much stronger thing than "provability in most relevant cases", and it turns out that the latter suffices. By Gödel, there are indeed "true" sentences which you cannot prove in a particular system, but I am willing to give you a hundred thousand dollars if you can actually find one and print it out. That is, Gödel's result was indeed sort of constructive, in that it did provide a scheme to construct such a sentence, but nobody does so because the term is so unfeasibly large.

There are many things which we should like very much to be decidable, some of which _can_ in fact be decidable (by Turing, termination is not one of those). For instance, in some systems (such as Intensional Type Theory), type checking is decidable, which is really nice. In others, type checking is undecidable (such as in Extensional Type Theory); does this mean that type checking cannot be done? Of course not. It simply means that type checking becomes a proof obligation, since the typing derivations may not be entirely synthesized by the type checker. (A simple demonstration of this is equality in a NuPRL-like system: propositional equality is reflected into definitional equality; there is not decidable equality for functions; therefore, there are equations which might hold definitionally by equality reflection, but for which further proof would be required; therefore, definitional equality is undecidable; therefore type checking is undecidable; but we can still prove that a term is well-typed, even if type checking is undecidable.)
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So, I actually own an LED lighting company, and I found the article quite fair. This has been bugging me for a while with the new LED bulbs, there's frankly no reason to get them to replace a CFL except for mercury, and the build quality is garbage. The heat sinking stuff is absolutely critical, and while yours may be fine, a lot of these bulbs (and more every year that new players get into making them) are simply not amenable to being used as direct replacements without some extremely clever design that's not being done.

Not to mention that the incremental efficiency gain is negligible. Incandescent to CFL is a huge efficiency gain, so you can actually pay back the increased cost in electricity usage in a short while. A 60W equivalent CFL might consume ~13W. A similar LED bulb will be around ~9W. That extra 4W is such a marginal improvement that it would take decades to make it back in energy cost. So the only selling point is lifetime, and I've seen no indication that there is a big difference between the two -- both have similar types of failures, usually control electronics or power supply passives due to poor quality manufacturing.
Comparing a centuries old board game with completely balanced rules, to an infant video game that still has major balance problems (if you looked hard enough), is silly. Chess is as balanced as it gets.
Thanks! (Creator here.)

I came this close to delaying the site launch so I could build in a table of contents, but figured it wasn't 100% essential to shipping. Given the great response I've gotten to the koans, I'll probably add one in very soon.
Here are your hashmaps:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Associations.ht...
There were mainstream articles published about how bad for businesses Groupons were wayyyyy early on in their existence. I'm sure it can work for businesses with a low marginal cost and a product that's designed to be a recurring purchase (e.g. yoga studios that aren't already fully booked), but businesses apparently didn't take the time to do these estimates. For a long, long time, Groupon has just been burning businesses (who tend not to come back) and counting on hype to keep signing up new ones. I can't see how this wasn't clear to Groupon years ago. That is to say, I'm sure the founders _did_ know in the first few months, and either were fine with fooling investors/businesses or were desperately hoping that they'd find some way to "pivot".
How often is there a direct transfer of this size? Fedwire moves about 2.7T/day and I believe it would have cost $0.26 to transfer this amount, assuming that its at the upper end of their sliding scale ($0.08 - $0.26/transfer).
There are dozens of exchanges where you can get "cash money" for Bitcoins. Lately, the buy side (the people with cash money wanting to buy Bitcoin) is much more active than the sell side, which is why it's been climbing. In the US there's Coinbase and CampBX. Worldwide, there's Mt Gox (probably the largest, and, I believe, the oldest), and a whole lot of others. But, to get US dollars deposited into a US bank account, I'm using Coinbase.
Hi, my username is saraid216 and it has been 123 days since I quit Facebook.

...oh, wrong thread.
It's just not cashed out. You'd have to spread it over a long time period.
It's really that when we went to do things like animations and using some newer browser features, we threw in the -webkit prefixes and didn't test in a gecko browser. We were expecting to only stay on Android and iOS but we quickly realized we wanted to do more.
I would love to know why I got doubled-down with this answer.
Here's a related and interesting article [1] titled 'Unraveling Google’s Product Strategy' from the author of a post that is linked to on the HN front page (Ode to Little Data)[2].

The author in this related article is really showing the total commitment to ads by google. I find it very unsettling.

[1]http://katsenblog.com/post/58721533658/unraveling-googles-pr...
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6782205
I wish they gave the girl announcer access to the laptop as well so she could describe what she's saying using the screen just like the guy can.
Cash doesn't have to change hands to exchange bitcoins.
But they do last longer in lower ambient temps.
in the short term, you should check out spyder

http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

we ship it with anaconda
Link saying what VS Edit and Continue is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/bcew296c.asp...
FBI clearing out DPR's accounts?

...or DPR associate moving around his money? ;)
You can wash BTC of any identifying information by sending them through a conduit -- someone that is willing to operate an address used to obfuscate the eventual destination of transactions.
Exactly. With small children in the house this is a good thing. I use them in torch style lamps to save energy and not break when tipped over.

With incandescent bulbs I was also concerned with electric shock from broken bulb, cuts and burns... though I wonder if the LED bulb would be a fire hazard if it were to rest on something.
i love this

this is just another reason why bitcoin will not work

5 years later; several orders of magnitude later, so many arbitrary "milestones" met (parity with dollar, can i buy airplane tickets with it?, well we'll see when the government recognizes it)

when do you decide that bitcoin 'works'? i mean; it is absolutely undeniable 100% certainly no-matter-what-you-say currently working RIGHT NOW; the mental dissonance around bitcoin naysayers is becoming hilarious
www.chessclub.com and www.playchess.com have the best and strongest player pools. They also have educational materials and coaches if that is what you are after. Only ChessClub has a Mac client.
Little innovation in "little data"? What about the whole academic field of Statistics? Most of the innovation is about how to make maximal use of limited/censored/missing data? I don't hear "big data" folks talking much about multiple imputations, structural equation modeling, mixed-effects regressions, etc.
The Cree bulbs - at least the ones in Home Depot in Canada - actually do have a warning about using in enclosed fixtures. It says (to my recollection) "Do not use in enclosed fixtures with other types of bulbs". So my take on this is that they are supposed to be OK providing you don't mix the Cree LEDs with CFLs or incandescents in the same fixture.

I am trying them out in some enclosed fixtures, too early to tell how that will work out.
It will be interesting to see if Chess, or other boardgames for the matter, will benefit from streaming services as much as video games have.

I've seen the Chess-Network on twitch.tv break 1k viewers which is tiny compared to the 300k League of Lengends and Dota 2 tournaments but still a substantial amount regardless.
Sorry but you can wire transfer $150 million dollars and it will not cost you millions.
Actually if you look carefully, the fees is 0 and not 0.5 BTC. 0.5 BTC in fees is quite high actually. That's right, he paid $0 to move $150 million.
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It's pseudonymous, because if they make a transfer later we'll still know it's the same people.
I can appreciate that. Is there anything that would alleviate your concerns? It is something that should only affect crawlers and I'd expect most new users of the service to have zero Google presence (so better than nothing/worth a try?).

I can't see a better way of handling the integration.
I love my 35 watt CFLs, and still can't find any LED equivalents at an affordable price :-)
The bitterness between the go and chess communities is silly to me. There is more depth in either game than any one person could ever fully appreciate. Hell, checkers has more depth than any one person can appreciate, and that's a solved game. Pick a game and enjoy it, and don't try to yuck someone else's yum.
Absolutely, I think you have to be bullish with whatever solution you first present to a potential market. That belief and (apparent) momentum are, in my opinion, part of what leads people to look harder at your offering.
Huh. So I have zero experience with "real investors" - but... my understanding, and my experience at the small scale where I have worked is that people who have ownership in your company have influence over your company.

Having someone who has a conflicting vision have ownership can be difficult, sure, but I can deal with people that I respect disagreeing with me. On the other hand, I can only imagine the hell that having a co-owner who is stupid must be.
I really don't see myself implementing my business logic with algorithms only ... OO makes my code verbose, I can read it and understand what goes on. Not every thing can be boiled down to an algorithm ...
Hmm, it looks like you are right, but I think they can't start actually selling until January 1st. I'm not quite sure there.

In Washington it will still be a few more months, since anything sold recreationaly needs to be grown explicitly for recreational use, and that process cannot start until the permits are issued (I believe they have until the end of this year before they are required by law to start issuing permits to grow (or sell)).
You can pretty well use it for anything you want to use it for. It's persistent, networked shared memory.

It's powerful and flexible enough that I've used it as a primary datastore for the back-end to a web/multi-platform app/service. I don't necessarily recommend that, but it does work and is blazing fast and extremely reliable.

It's definitely some-assembly-required, though -- transactions aren't free, you have to do a little work yourself[1] (on the upside, you always know what it's doing).

Also, it is intended to be used with the entire dataset in RAM. You can let it swap to some extent, but... don't. If your dataset is huge, you need something else.

[1] Actually, this is less true post-2.6 with lua scripts. I should play with those more, the bulk of the code I wrote that uses Redis was built in the 2.0-2.2 timeframe.
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It's possible that he died.
That 0.5 BTC you see there is another output, not the fees. They didn't pay any fees for that transaction.
Taking Apple to task is pretty sad give OS X programming is basically NeXT's environment which was advertised as one of the easiest computers to program (see their Sun vs NeXT videos). Not to mention HyperCard which hit a nerve with a lot of people.

If you want an actual example of WTF programming, do something you did in the 90's in Visual Basic on the web. The amount of infrastructure and types of things you need to know how to program is daunting. It is still easier to program an app on NeXTSTEP at the time of the webs creation than on the web today.
Anyone know of a simple comparison chart with the many options available now? (eg- AeroFS/BTSync/SpiderOak/Mega/Bitcasa/Cubby/Younited/Dropbox)
@ismaelc Our authentication process is fairly simple in the fact when you sign up for an account you are given a auth_key and auth_secret which then gives you access to make a call request. Very similar to other API's. Our API was built by developers for developers to be very easy to implement and use for a wide range of products.
Either https://cavirtex.com/home or https://localbitcoins.com/
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Since you're specifically asking for examples on non-OO code, and another commenter made mention of Haskell code: try xmonad.

Here's a link to get started on studying xmonad's code: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Guided_tour_of_the...

Incidentally, it's like only 1000 lines of code, so it's super efficient and super optimized.
Someone wanted to be on the bitcoin 100 richest list.
>between two entities usually consists of a heavily guarded, insured, physical shipment of cash or gold.

Err, life isn't a james bond movie. For money transfer like this we use bank wires. We dont buy gold and ship it on gunships anymore.
How does it compare to Tahoe-LAFS? They sound pretty similar.
Did Bitcoin 0.1 have a mine-every-block-to-a-new-address feature? It's also possible that he mined to ephemeral addresses and didn't save the private keys which would make all that BTC lost.
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You're just not pushing hard enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_welding
Wallets generate addresses and prove ownership of them. On the other hand, it's very difficult (impossible) to prove that a given address is controlled by the same person who controls another address.

In other words, you don't have to generate a new wallet, just a new address.
We have hotel cubes now. We can't assign names to a hardware phone because a different person could be sitting in the desk every day, and giving someone a floating hardware phone would mean you have to carry it home daily.

Not sure if we have 2 drops per cube. There's 2 ports, but I don't know if they're active, cabled but not hooked up to a switch, or not even run to the cube. Haven't bothered to test because our old Cisco phones had a pass-through port, and now I only have 1 device that could use an ethernet port.
From the freelance world, it was an implementation of, "it'll be good for your portfolio," for retail.