skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea why you would ignore $8 trillion in interest bearing deposit accounts. To the extent these funds come from other banks, they will show up on the balance sheets of those banks (as loans).

Maybe try working from the assumption that what I am saying is (more in the direction of) correct. The banking system may be set up to work in favor of the establishment and bankers, but it isn't a giant fantasy.
Fair point. Is Los Angeles cheap? I know it's cheaper than SF, but is it considered cheap in general? I don't think it is, but I'm not sure.
"64-bit UEFI understands long mode, which allows applications in the pre-boot execution environment to have direct access to all of the memory using 64-bit addressing."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...
Chinese supercomputer twice faster than closest US rival
Germany set to introduce legal quota for women in boardrooms
When in doubt, don't park there. (Even for a second)
Hopefully this means we will get some Ubuntu engineering talent flowing into emberjs as a result of this.
So this is good tip. I actually did transfer out my first bitcoing from Coinbase to Blockchain, so it makes sense if their algorithm doesn't like that. I just transferred that coin back in to see if it makes any difference. But frankly, it is impossible for new users to buy bitcoin on coinbase. I had used my daily limits just to find out about this problem.
Russians also like to dress in black or grey. I once was looking at a picture of a group of Russian mountaineers on the summit of a Mexican volcano and realized, that there was not a single red or yellow article of clothing, all black. I don't have any non-black puffy jackets either and I am a... Russian :)
Aaron, there is no question in my mind that the MTA laws are at best inappropriate and the varied enforcement (or lack of enforcement) of the laws are irrational. But I wonder what goal the complains and lawsuits would bring do you want to accomplish?
Your point is; how can you call suicide a bad or evil thing if it relieves pain and suffering in exactly the same way that the traditional definition of euthanasia does.

I very much appreciate you reaching out in such a way. It helps to know that we're working toward
an understanding of perspectives, instead of arguing. Thank you.

That is not quite my point. I do accept the possibility of a "dishonorable" or "reckless" suicide, but I suspect such cases are the exception, rather than rule, given the significant taboo suicide carries today.

My point is; suicide prevention isn't just about demonising suicide, the act, but about helping people not get to the point where they feel/know that suicide is the only option.

Re: "isn't just about demonising suicide", the demonization of suicide is one of the key issues that I was getting at in my post. It hurts everyone involved. Family members wake up one day only to find their loved one dead all of a sudden. This happens because of said demonization. It wouldn't happen if suicide weren't illegal, if people weren't locked up against their will when they say they are suicidal, etc. A suicidal person should be free to talk about killing themselves with those close to them without fear of loss of liberty, social ostracization, and chemical rape. A son, father, daughter, mother, wife, husband, should be able to speak openly with their family about wanting out. Unfortunately, it seems our society is not mature enough for such conversation, and thus suicide becomes an agony for all involved. The person who killed themselves went through extra guilt and agony, and those surviving are also left feeling guilty, indignant, upset, angry, depressed, etc.

It doesn't have to be that way.

Re: "not get to the point where they feel/know that suicide is the only option", I can't comment on that without a concrete example. People get sideswiped and end up close to the edge. It can happen gradually, or very suddenly. Each situation is unique, and must be treated as such.
OK. Then with the current bitcoin price, their risk level goes significantly higher. They should really open the option to people walking into their office and drop off physical checks. I am willing to do that and that does not have the problem is ACH because it is in physical form and has your signature on it.
Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world, documents show
The fact that they are actually practical makes them not "arcane." A rotary dial is an affectation for anyone; a physical keyboard is a valuable tool for some users.

You seem to have a problem distinguishing between "useful" and "trendy," based on your other comments in this thread. Mass-market popularity of a feature has no bearing one way or the other on its usefulness or "outdatedness".
Very Interesting Ad and as being a Pakistani I can actually feel it. Although, technically finding places in Pakistan using Google Maps is not as easy as shown in the video. There are still many problems with wrong land marks and more.

But as a whole the content of the ad is very strong and positive that it can touch million more hearts!
"The bottom line is, if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well"
Can you give a little more explanation for that claim? It sounds like you're saying the US will blow cities up if people stop accepting the dollar.
I had that immediate rejection too. A few days ago when they launched instance buy, I was qualified to buy 1 per week. I did it, not only it immediately reduced my quote of buy by 1, but it immediately got cancelled due to high risk. So, there is something to say about this.
> It's like PCs in the 90s. People used to complain about their PCs being obsolete in six months. You don't hear that any more because PCs are fast enough.

Instead, you get people pining for the days when PCs were obsolete in six months, "before consoles dumbed down PC development."

There's just no pleasing some folks.
Check this idea out:

http://www.cointagion.com/

Scan QR code with your wallet, hit Send, instadownload. You don't even have to touch the computer. At all. No account creation or anything else necessary.

Now imagine this with... let's say, pornography or poker. Instant gratification.

Amazon "one click" ordering could become Amazon "no click" ordering :)
I wish Google could also improve the visa process for India which gets a brief cameo in the video. I've been trying for weeks to obtain a visa now and have been thwarted by the Indian government and its designated consultant's computer systems at every turn. It's to the point I've given up and am going to pay for a service to do it.
I agree with buy low sell high. If they do this at a large volume and keep some liquid at least during price surge, it may solve the problem.
This is amazing. I can see this changing the face of distant interaction by leaps and bounds.

We never cease to amaze.
Absolutely certainly, the voting system isn't working - and the biggest evidence of that is this bug's life span. If it had any effect at all, a vast majority of all of their (human) resources would be devoted to fixing this, since it has one of the greatest number of votes. And that is exactly the point of frustration of most of the people commenting there. I understand the "people work voluntary" reasoning, but you can't use that reason all the time.

A better way to fix comments is always to have a vote up/vote down system, rather than disabling it altogether. The website already allows to selectively unsubscribe from emails for each bug for those who don't want.
>>If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.<< I don't agree with this statement, however I do feel that someone who is being paid to do a job slips into a slightly different category. It's not that I feel an employer should be able to watch those on the clock, but the relationship with privacy changes. And when the employee is in a job which includes monitoring of, let alone policing of behaviour - absolutely monitoring is appropriate. How else do you resolve the he said, she said situation?
Wow, you consider that cynical? I guess you don't have much experience of life. I've probably got a lot more, and what you found cynical, I found obvious.

After over 20 years of marriage, I have found that every few years I realize that I'm married to a different person than I was. So is she. Some changes are for the better, some for the worse. In both of us. But I know that if I could talk to myself on my wedding day and honestly describe to that young man what his future would hold, he'd have never believed it possible.

Here are some tips for you. If you get married, planning on remaining the same people, you're setting yourself up for your divorce after the discrepancy between who you are and who you pretend to be gets too large. If you get married, planning on holding to an ideal of marriage that you see written for someone in a book, well, there is a reason that evangelical Christians have a significantly higher divorce rate than atheists. If you get married and depend on belonging to a community/belief system that makes divorce not an option, you will create a hell for yourself on Earth - as several ex-Catholics of my acquaintance would be happy to testify. (I know plenty of current Catholics who would privately agree.)

The only way that I know of to be married a long time, and be happy, is if you both work on growing together, and changing in the same direction. You have to take the possibility of failure seriously to even have a chance of success. And even so, it is only a chance. You don't always grow together. Some changes simply can't be reconciled. You think this impossible? Here is a random example. I know multiple people whose spouses realized that they were gay after marriages lasting over a decade. You tell me how a marriage can survive that. I can't, because the ones I know about didn't.

You probably think that I am saying something horribly hateful. That's fair. I remember being outraged after 5 years of marriage when my older sister commented, "You're still in the easy part." But she was right, and I was wrong. I was, I just didn't know it.

Seriously, unless you've been married more than 10 years, I don't think that you can possibly have enough experience to base an opinion of your own on. If you make it to 20 years, I dare you to tell me that I am wrong. If you can accept my dare at that point with a straight face, I would be willing to bet money that you are living in denial. (I've watched people go through that as well. It is not a nice thing to watch the illusions that someone's life is based on crumble...)

Why is this? It is because ten years together is not simply one year repeated ten times. It is ten times the accumulated differences, experienced for ten times as long. That's 100 times as hard.
Me, I'm looking forward to "Linux in 30 lines."
That's good to know. I want to give the benefit of the doubt to coinbase, but they haven't done a good job of getting out in front of this story.
Not really surprising. A lot of "big" nations from G8 and other places you'd expect to see are plain missing from this mess, and those left, while many are smaller, even they aren't thrilled at being pushed into this clearly US benefiting gig. The US' international cohesive power is on the wane and this is great demonstration.
Obviously you've never tried to use a terminal on your phone. Touch screen keyboards are massively inferior.
> The leadup to the April crash looked exactly like what we see now

Past performance is not an indicator of future results

> I didn't say the soon-to-come crash would be the end of Bitcoin

You said "I give it less than 10 days until the crash" which sounds rather dismissive. I think you should work on your communication.
It's a reasonable idea that already has use in displaying cryptographic fingerprints. Typically when servers present a certificate, if the cert is untrusted, a fingerprint (a hash of the public key) is shown to the user. This is meant to caution the user: if all of a sudden they see a fingerprint that they don't recognize, it might be somebody malicious trying to capture your traffic!

Instead of presenting the fingerprint as a big hexadecimal string, some clients instead produce ASCII art and display that instead, on the theory that the human brain is better at memorizing that than a big string of digits. For example, OpenSSH: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/unix-sysadmin/visual-ssh-fingerp...

I would argue this has even more use in a system that is trying to warn about changes, rather than about possible malicious attackers. After all, in the SSH example above, an attacker just needs to get a certificate that looks close enough to the real one that the user will accept it.
you should try it and see what happens.

go ahead, give yourself a 2 year break.
English is one of the official languages of India and almost all people who are wealthy enough to own a smartphone browse in English.

In fact, many kids actually go to schools where English is the primary teaching language - it's not uncommon for kids to not know how to say the days of the week in Hindi.
Some of these suggestions appear not to coincide with the creator's 'slow web' philosophy, however.

http://theslowweb.com/
Verified Vector Clocks: An Experience Report, Part 2
Live Wikimedia server statistics
Where do Kickstarter projects find their engineers?
A google search didn't seem to find anything so here's what I'm thinking...

A) does it exist?

B) it could be similar to openbounty, but let people work together on passion projects rather than staying alone. Postings could be for specific skill sets or interests. It could remove the burden of doing everything alone for similarly interested people. And provide projects with a wider array of talents.

C) The community could develop documented workflows for getting projects done in distributed, remote, fashion.
Well done guys. For good insights on how you could approach some UX challenges in a tool like Plotly, I highly recommend watching Bret Victor's "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations".

For the non-Plotly folks reading this, Bret's presentation is also very effective at blowing your mind in general.

http://vimeo.com/66085662
Just wondering if reactions would be as positive if the product wasn't Google but, I don't know, Glock pistols or Royal Dutch Shell (aired 7 days after an oil spill). You could change the story to fit almost anything, after all.
I think you have a quadruple negative going on there. Not trying to nitpick, but it was too hard for my currently sleepy brain to parse.
"It sounds like you will have lots of people with Bitcoin holdings."

Which is all it takes to have lots of people who want to buy things with Bitcoins. Since there's almost zero barrier to doing so, once you have enough vendors accepting Bitcoin, there's little reason not to buy things with Bitcoin.

What I'm getting at is: The influx of millions of new Bitcoin holders will lead to an influx of new vendors accepting Bitcoin. Sure, people are still clinging to bitcoins like gold...wanting to hoard it rather than use it. But, that desire will fade when the market settles down and becomes more predictable.
Probably. However, I do get much more work done on my phone than many people might imagine. With most modern phones, there's also a "glass ceiling" on how much work you can do on a phone. Because there's no physical keyboard, you can't do really serious text editing. You can't write long emails, you can't edit documents, and you can't do technical things. And these limits aren't because of the phone's small form factor, they're because of the imprecise input device (the software keyboard).

I think if more people had hardware keyboards, you'd see more people getting work done on their phones.
Can you link to your podcast? I'd like to listen to it but googling the podcast name is not producing any good results.
Obviously this wouldn't work as bitcoin clones will just pop up.
> with the us wording patent-knockoff chagas cures would be allowed in a chagas emergency.

I'm not clear what you meant by that. Are you saying the US objection was to allow generics treatment of Chagas in any form?

FYI - here is the WHO fact sheet on Chagas disease. Seems like a major public health issue for Lat-Am countries.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs340/en/index.htm...
>"Is there no end to what the US Govt will do for large lobby groups?"

This is not an issue. "Large lobby groups" also include organizations such as the EFF, ACLU, unions, and foundations such as the Gates Foundation. And let's not forget the biggest lobby group of all: the American citizenry. If you ever wrote your elected representative to vote a certain way, you are lobbying.

>"...because that would deny its pharma companies a lucrative & desperate market."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't make sense. HIV/AIDS is also a lucrative desperate market with no vaccine currently available. Heck, why is the US okay with malaria being on there even?

Also, wouldn't the Latin-Am governments purchase supplies and any future vaccines from the pharma companies? In a national emergency, the government throws more money at the issue. So, when there is a Chagas vaccine, the Latin-Am government can throw more money at the pharma company who is producing the vaccine. How is the pharma industry benefiting from the US striking out Chagas?
I would stick with Bitcoin. Litecoin is more controlled by pump & dumpers, giving it much less stability. It also has a far smaller community. I predict both will grow, but Litecoin more slowly. Also the person who works on Litecoin doesn't even do it full-time.
Just to be clear, fractional reserve banking is the bank lending out $10 of the $1. "10% reserves" means they keep all of the deposited money. $1 deposit leads to $11 in "money".
I really wouldn't be able to find my way around the internet or on my cellphone if all the text were in Hindi. It stands true for most Indians.
What changed since your last post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831) ?
Having spent 15 years in the US (I am Russian), now I am somewhat shocked when I don't get a smile from a cashier in a store in, say, Billings, MT.

Navajos, who don't make eye contact or smile either also take some getting used to now.

It's cultural, but Russia is a harsh place, so it goes deeper.

The part about people in the street not being helpful to each other is also true.

Just watch those dash cam videos where people witness a horrible crash, drive around and keep moving. You can die in the street and nobody might care. It's cultural and it's not a good thing.

The mob mentality is also a lot stronger. Westerners are a lot more tolerant to people being different or choosing their own way. It is in fact encouraged to be different and individual. Russians on the other hand, have whole layers of culture dedicated to making sure everybody is not sticking out of the crowd and not being an individual.
Probably because that doesn't sound fun at all. City41's video makes it sound even worse. The bounce angle depends on the number of bounces since the start of the round? Sometimes the ball just passes through the last brick 8 or 10 times for no obvious reason? No thank you.
Many of them may not have USD bank accounts overseas, or wish to have the funds associated with their name.

I suspect a large amount of the funds are ill-gotten gains from rampant corruption by government officials and cronies.

Also, many will probably decide to hold on to at least some bitcoin even if they do have means to convert to foreign currency. Since there is a massive amount of money trying to get out of China - hundreds of billions - it's certainly possible there is significant net demand. If each purchaser keeps 20% of their assets in bitcoin, and $10M is fleeing each day, that's $2M in net demand - enough to influence price significantly at current volumes.

The differential between the Chinese exchange and US exchange may partially be explained by Chinese purchasing in China - raising the price - then selling overseas.
Bitcoin vs Snapchat vs Tumblr
Show HN: IP Lookup
How was your account funded?
I'm not sure if it's an American thing, but I smile because I want people to like me, or at least not kill me.
Thanks! We are indeed huge fans of @worrydream
My Book: Akka Concurrency has been released
The Median Isn't the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould
I've only owned one phone with a real keyboard, an n900. The keys are far smaller than the virtual keys on the screen of a newer, larger android phone like my s4.
That is disruptive technology.
I grew up in and around Mumbai...the ad is (unsurprisingly) quite disconnected from the facts on the ground but holy cow. Great production values, great storytelling, relevant tie-ins to Google products. Just great.
Absolutely. And I have had numerous situations where I have wished there was a record of what I said or did. My interactions with the public would be far easier if they were recorded. Too often there is a difference of opinion, especially when people are stressed out during interactions and miss key instructions or messages. Most recent occasion? A complaint over something that happened yesterday.
I wonder if you'll feel the same way in 5 years.

My startup failed about 5 years ago now, and I went and got a real job that was fortunately a step up from where I was before a startup. But for about my first year or two on the job, I felt like I was behind everyone who had joined straight out of college and now knew all the ropes much better than I did.

That flipped after about 2 years at the company, though. By then I knew the company's internal systems as well as anyone else, but I also had this great skill base on how to build things from scratch, how to identify problems that needed fixing without anyone telling me, and how to take initiative and plan out a solution. Many of those skills became invaluable later on, as I started tackling harder problems, while my peers often became frustrated because they were 5+ years out of college and the only thing they'd ever known was how to fix bugs and implement features in one server of one company.
>>because the demands of his high-stress job did not leave room for his role as a husband and father.

This guy was in a no win situation here. He was working 17 hours a day to provide for the family. And their expectation was that he could just provide, provide and provide. After they had enough of the money, they wanted his time. But after some time, they needed the money again. It more or less seems like this guy was treated like a money making machine who exists only to serve their purpose.

When he hit a bottom he was just abandoned. The wife went on some where and with someone who could provide further. The children felt its not their obligation to take of the father. While they expected it was father's obligation to care of them.

Ultimately this feels like classic 'Use and throw' attitude. He was used, and when he was no longer useful he was thrown. Frankly speaking if I were him, I would no longer want to keep any contact with that kind of people again.

Its likely if this guy gets rich again. His wife will suddenly discover love for him again. Children will suddenly find compassion for their father. Its just all about the money.
And they call Bitcoins a currency?
Here in Australia all the exchanges I know about require you to physically deposit cash at a bank branch to fund your account. This type of deposit can't be reversed.
Show HN: A/B testing for Unity games
Depends on the library, and perhaps on when you ask. The Cambridge Public Library web site now says they require a "current local address", so the homeless may be out of luck. But they used to require only that you be able to sign your name. (This was advertised with posters featuring a very dejected looking cat.)