skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are smaller denominations. You can have .00000001 bitcoins, for example (it's 8 decimal places = 1 satoshi right?)
Are you really using this as evidence that College is Bad? There are a lot more homeless dropouts and college-educated people with successful careers. By your logic, having a 300k/year salary is A Bad Thing cause, well, look where it got this guy!

His point was to illustrate that traditional predictors of success, including even prior success, don't guarantee you anything. He's really proud that his kids were able to receive strong traditional educations that led to college degrees and promising stable careers. How is that subversive?
Except that the NSA and FBI have been defining crypto as suspicious activity, so kind of a double-bind there.
Check out prices at bitcoinity.org/markets, prices haven't gone down to $520, it's short term stabilized around $720 after the first round of congressional meeting.
I coach teams to perform better, so this topic is a bit of a sore point for me. I think Hamnming was on to something.

I've worked in about every possible configuration, and I've seen teams work in about every possible configuration. In addition, I've coded in all of these environments.

After working from a nice, quiet home office for many years, I'm trying out coworking. When I'm not with clients I drive an hour to an office to work with random people.

Why would I do this? Don't I value my time? Sure thing. But I find that the hassle and pain of being interrupted actually helps me to a reset to think about whether what I'm doing or not is important. Without that reset, I'll just grab on to some problem and keep tweaking it. I'm like that -- and I suspect many others are like that too. We desire uninterrupted time because we desire a deep problem to dive down in and forget about everything else. And sure thing, there are problems like that.

But 99% of the time problems are not like that, and we hurt ourselves more long-term than we help.

All of this is just conjecture, mind you. But this is an area where I see the natural inclinations of technology people diverge for what looks better for the effort as a whole. It's non-intuitive and uncomfortable. But that's the way life is, right? Dang humans.
Google finishes upgrading its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys
That guy won a Noble prize.
Regulation and Keynesian policies are not socialism.
Man I really wish I had a handful of bitcoins right now.But I think that it is going to be rough for people either way if the price goes up you will have a bunch of depressed people not buying in and if it goes down a bunch of people are going to be REALLY depressed for obvious reasons
But they do have "bitcoin dimes and quarters," in the form of fractional bitcoins.
Thanks for getting this on HN. We really need feedback on our app redesign, and the process/approach we're taking. We're really excited about it!
I signed up with Coinbase (YC S12) today specifically to engage in gold rush type speculation. Much better odds than lottery tickets, and more convenient than driving to Vegas.
Good question! Yes you have a reason to spend. While it is true that bad money drives out good, in this case we are not comparing equivalent monies. The reason is that in order to buy drugs safely online you MUST spend bitcoin. So even if you are just converting temporarily to make the transaction happen, we don't get the liquidity freezes that most hard currencies had during scrip floods.

For example, Joe wants drugs, he takes $1000 to Frank for a bitcoin. Joe sends the bitcoin to Charlie's address for some cocaine. Charlie sells the bitcoin for $1000 in order to buy some cocaine from his importer. Its status as sole-use currency for certain transactions provides liquidity to the market.
Interesting.

Clarkmoody is using "Mt. Gox", which is a well known exchange where it is damn near impossible to get your USD out of. Notice that other BTC exchanges (btc-e is more cannonical right now...) have prices closer to $550.

Keep in mind WHICH exchange these prices are coming from. Unlike more established currencies, there is very little arbitration going on between exchanges, and prices swing DRAMATICALLY between say... Mt. Gox and BTC-e.
Coinbase (a YC backed company) is probably the easiest (and one of the more trustworthy) places to get set up and buy some.

[disclosure: this is a referral link]
https://coinbase.com/?r=5125b580c746f00bc6000018&utm_campaig...
Also, if that's the plan, live WELL below your means. Note that the OP had in fact saved up $500,000 --- a pretty sizable sum of money by most standards. Downsizing earlier and more aggressively (e.g., selling the house while he still could) might conceivably have stretched it out a bit, but the expenses of eight kids living anything close to a middle-class lifestyle are ferocious no matter what you do about it.
I'm not entirely sure which side is 'reeking of ignorance' here.

Go to any so-called sports bar. The majority of people are obese or overweight and look as if they'd be hard-pressed to run a hundred yards. Look at the majority of commercials during sports games broadcasts. They are typically Doritos, McDonalds, or something else related to fatty, unhealthy food. To go shopping in most places, you have to get your ass in a car since the bloody mall is like 20 miles away, and when you get there, the aisles are full of frozen pizza and cookies instead of fresh produce and meat.

Don't bother nitpicking my statement (it is obviously an exaggeration) -- just notice all these things about your "game Sunday" next time. But since you seem almost slavishly devoted to "omgsomeoneinanewspaperorscientificjournalsaiditsoitmustbetrue" sources, here are some.

1) Map of obesity rate in the US for all states from 1985-2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Obesity_state_level_estima...

2) In 2012, the NFL generated $9.5 billion in revenue http://www.businessinsider.com/sports-chart-of-the-day-nfl-r.... Yet, it is registered as a non-profit organisation, which essentially means that all of us are indirectly subsidizing it as taxpayers. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/25/1241265/-Wait-the-N...
I look at it and think its a con. Coincidentally after a several massive thefts, the price suddenly raises? sounds like deliberate manipulation to dump stolen coins to me.

Wouldn't mind betting some syndicate took a huge upfront loss to drive up price, and are now recapitalising that loss with said stolen coins.
I would like to see something that talks about the efficiency of both approaches - ideally from a controlled test.

The reality is offices are much more enjoyable then cubes. Many years ago I was part of a consulting project that cube-farmed a large organization previously used to offices. Everyone but the senior-most execs were pushed out of offices. It was done under the guise of improved teamwork. I saw lot of theoretical support for this, but never did see empirical evidence. Maybe it exists - I'd like to see it.
Hey, just yesterday it was the same price as a share of Apple stock, which is very stable! Now it's even higher, so, maybe think about converting those Standard Oil shares.
Coinbase is definitely the best if you're just looking for stable and easy to use. They also have great APIs / merchant tools. (If you want more detailed volume depth for "day trading" then other exchanges are better).

This link earns us both $5 if you buy 1 BTC: https://coinbase.com/?r=4fedfb2d6cbd3b0003000845&utm_campaig...
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Duboce+Ave+%26+Cherry+St,+Ric...
Hmmm.. That's strange considering Steve Matteson (the type designer)[1] optimized the typeface for both mobile and web use. Perhaps the mobile browser you're using is rending it quite differently.

1: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
"Barrera said he plans to formally complain to Google and to lobby state lawmakers for their help in removing the image."

Don't believe he's actually asked Google yet to take it down.
This visual cryptography method uses a four sub-pixel subdivision method that I haven't seen before, but almost precisely the same effect is achieved when visually demonstrating a Vernam cipher (a.k.a. one-time pad).

1. Create a one-time-pad, or key. This is a set of randomly chosen 1's and 0's. Now, make a bitmap out of this data set, with 1 denoting a white pixel and 0 denoting a black pixel. It will look like static.

2. Distribute a copy of the key to the person you are trying to communicate with via a secure channel. (This is the hard part, security wise).

3. create your message as a black and white (not greyscale) image. It should have the same dimensions as your key.

4. Pixel-wise XOR the key with the message. If the key was well randomized, the resulting cypher will also appear to be perfectly random static.

5. Send the cypher to the person who is holding the copy of the key.

6. When that person receives the cypher, if he XOR's the cypher with the key, out will pop the original message!

The only visual difference to this method vs that in the linked article is that the message won't start to show up when you're a pixel or two out of alignment because there is no four-pixel subdivision. You have to line things up spot-on.

The Vernam cipher was originally published in 1926, so it's defintely older than "Visual Cryptography". However, I don't know if the visual demonstrations of it (I've only seen them in lectures, not surprisingly, with transparent overheads!), predate visual cryptography. I've seen a couple of lecturers use this technique to demonstrate how a one-time-pad works and, crucially, why you can't reuse keys more than once.

Does anyone know if this Visual Cryptography offers anything useful that a one time pad doesn't? The linked page is very cool and all, and I wish one as well constructed existed for one-time-pads! (Possibly one does, but I was too lazy to spend more than a minute searching for it.)
"One likes to believe in the freedom of Bitcoin. But glittering prices and endless rate rises shatter the illusion of integrity."
And it was particularly hard to foresee that the replacement wouldn't need writers, which had been a basic requirement of broadcast serial entertainment since before television.
Will cross $1000 within 2 weeks.
> I just wish there were more framework options

Grails head Graeme Rocher was one of the 5 Groovy despots [1] until a few months ago. He joined the despotry 4 yrs ago, which could have been what prompted the Play! 2 framework to purge itself of all its Groovy code. Groovy really needs its managers to be divorced from those developing the apps that use it, so others will join the ecosystem without being suspicious of what might happen in the future.

[1] http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/groovy/members
Murder is justified for all sorts of reasons. IIRC, the US was founded on a base of murdering people over disputes on taxes and government. Treason was (or is?) punishable by death. I'm not sure why message board political bullshit is intrinsically less valid than "official" government or LE reasons.

Additionally, most people believe lethal force is justified in cases of defense. It's not a huge jump of logic to view these hits as defense.
Fusion reactor achieves tenfold increase in plasma confinement time
When Steve Klabnik's Dad was sick many did this: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-03-26-birthday-cards...
Death to the IF statement
Yeah seems like the upvote downvote part isn't done yet.
What really grinds my gears is that you have to assume that everyone who talks positively about it, just does so to make his bitcoins "worth" more. For that reason alone I hope that it will fail. Speculation and hype should not be rewarded.
> but it feels as though there's an innate conflict between its role as a speculative investment and its role as a currency.

Exactly the reason a deflationary by nature currency isn't going to succeed as a currency. Bitcoin might want to be a currency, but it isn't a currency, it's a commodity like Gold and its deflationary nature dooms it to be.
Yet he's talked to CNN. I'm willing to bet the causality here went the other way. The reporter got a tip about a murder scene (or whatever it was) on google maps, did a little digging to figure out who it was, called the folks involved, and ran with the first lede that would draw links.
> FFS, this is not an anti-euthanasia project.

Indeed. I didn't say or think that it was.

> Euthanasia is distinct from suicide, and is usually treated as such by people campaigning or working in the area.

Yes, they treat it differently and invent various criteria and judgements on what is and isn't an acceptable reason to commit suicide.

Frankly, it's all a mis-mash of opinions and cultural beliefs. If you were in Japan a few centuries ago, you'd think it was perfectly rational and reasonable to gut yourself just because you shamed yourself (or your family/lord).

And frankly, you'd be just as right about that opinion as the folks working in Euthanasia are about theirs today.

>How does this help discussion?

The hyperbole doesn't help (I addressed this in another reply to someone else), but there was a point there that just wasn't stated very eloquently, and that is that our present culture (in the United States and many other places) does, many times, actually result in people suffering more than they otherwise should, were suicide/euthanasia a more normalized and talked about practice.
I bet the only goods that are currently bought for bitcoin are US dollars.
This is the exact reason that people should avoid bit coin... I am serious...
>but unless suicide is an area where you have more potential to cause harm than to do good, it seems like a worthwhile direction to spend resources.

Um, yes, you have serious potential to cause serious harm.
That's funny because that's how soccer is becoming in America. We all EPL games on NBC's channels.
But how many more weeks before it comes crashing down?
Find maintained forks of your favorite GitHub repos
BTC-e is above $610, BTCChina at $830.

[edit current prices]
You are, I believe, correct about parallel construction. It is notably easy for police to find probable cause to effect a search, which is half of what makes parallel construction disquieting. But they do have to actually find some cause to conduct the search. They can't just go with the intel they get from inadmissible evidence; if they do, the new evidence from the unwarranted search is "fruit of the poisonous tree", and can be excluded from trial.
The most common question I get every day when the topic of bitcoin comes up: "This is skyrocketing. Is it a good time to buy?"

The truth is, there is no right or wrong answer. Bitcoins could very well go to 6000/coin and we'll still be asking that same question. Bitcoins could also just as likely go down to $1/coin and everybody would be talking about how they could've sold at $650/coin. The beauty here is that BitCoins is not managed by anyone, its completely p2p, and its 100% opensourced. Nobody controls it, nobody has insider info, nobody knows what is going to happen.

I would personally throw in a few thousand just see what it becomes. If nothing comes of it, think of it as a very expensive speeding ticket.
Really sad picture. I hope google removes it.
Very nice. I wrote/maintained some of the predecessors to this while I was at Mozilla (https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:New_to_SpiderMonkey and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction), and I love the video format.

Getting started with Firefox is pretty difficult, and its good that more folks are putting effort into it. Good job!
Beyond Open Access: Understanding science’s closures
When I first moved to eastern Europe I couldn't make friends at all. After a few months I started to get really discouraged and somewhat depressed and stopped trying to engage people. As soon as that happened, my social life did a 180.
Feds arrest ATM thieves after discovering $800,000 stuffed in a suitcase
Pulverizing the dead horse: it will hold value like gold, but its infinite divisibility and ease of transport make it more like an evolved currency.
Why did you sell all of it? I sold as it went up as well, but I always held back 20% of my original purchase just in case this very thing happened...
And my company will be huuuuge, once it captures 1/4 of the market of China.
Something that always shocked me in my travels to USA is how much people smile at you. The most weird thing is that it doesn't seem that fake, it seems complete strangers are just not afraid of you and happy to see you. Contrast it with Brazil, unlike USA people don't smile at you in the streets there, but if they know you they can't stop laughing. Brazilians parties are non-stop full-volume laughing. It's maddening!
Solum is still in the design phase. Read more about it's vision and development model here. http://www.rackspace.com/blog/solum-open-development-from-da...

This is infact a great opportunity for developers, like you, to get involved right from the start.
Steam's Marketplace - A Humble Competitor
In my opinion, Python is good enough at a lot of different tasks. I don't think is the best possible language for everything, but it's close enough that it's better than having to keep more languages in your head.

I do a mix of math programming and general programming and I'd like to stay in one language if feasible. I would far rather use a well-designed, general-purpose language with math libraries than try to use a mathematical language for general-purpose programming.
Really amazing. I have been so desperate about increasing accessibility to that vast trove of data, that i even started my own attempts at solving it.

Conceptually, I think the extension does many things right. Browsing sessions often have specific research topics, which should be grouped semantically and enriched with meta data. The extension does so in an aesthetically pleasing way.

The grouping is partially still confusing though. Some sites should be filtered out. Some pages appear repeatedly within groups, some deduplication seems to be lacking. Apart from that, great first release!!! Thx a lot!
Why do you say that? I'm not saying that mining bitcoin is a good idea anymore (even with ASICS, really) but I'm curious as to your rationale?
I don't know. I see the new tabs as an extension of the existing tabs [0]. All that's different is the curve flares are bigger. As someone who doesn't use Chrome much anymore, I thought these changes in Firefox seemed like natural extensions and refinements of existing designs.

Now, the elimination of the options bar ("File Edit View History ...") on Linux does seem more in line with Chrome, but on Windows it's been that way for a while.

I think this is a classic case of converging designs, not copying. A good idea is a good idea, no matter how you reach it.

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/m2ozMz3.png
I guess by the same token, everyone who doesn't have any has to criticize it to justify their decision not to buy.
Show HN: Export from Tumblr and import to Ghost
Or maybe it's to persuade you to give OpenStack a try. "If it's good enough for <LARGE ORGANIZATION>, it's good enough for me."
Depends whether you are a vi fan or not.
Which makes the idea that people who fall on hard times have no one to blame but themselves quite silly - people shouldn't be punished for failing to accurately predict the future of an industry.

In other words, the fact that these once huge industries were rapidly declining is a great argument for an increased social safety net.
Very sad. I feel for the father.
There's always been a fine line between a police officer and a criminal. Now apparently the same applies between intelligence agencies and black-hat hackers.
Oh, but in this case, they really really should be rewarded. The point is that military might has floated fiat for millenia. Pulling that down will require a lot of mindshare, and it's going to be damn hard without a lot of hype and projection. Luckily we have that power.
The number of bitcoins is fixed, so price is a solely function of mass adoption.

All else being equal, the more people who adopt Bitcoin, the higher its price.[1]

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[1] http://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adopt...

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Edits: replaced "supply" with "number of bitcoins" and "demand" with "mass adoption," which more accurately convey my thoughts. (Thanks for pointing that out, amalcon!)
I'm curious as to why holes are so bad in the eyes of an employer?

Is it a fear of non-compliance?
Dude. make a mobile web app. Hook up with a clinical psychologist. Also focus on a target age / market. Get some data going. Hit me up i can see what to do about a clinical psychologist hook up in NYC. There are several scales psychologist use to narrow down a specific condition and you can incorporate those scales into the app via logic tree / branching based on the input a user submits to the Q&A. you can hit me on twitter @adamqureshi
I wonder if anyone has used slavic populations to try to reproduce Paul Ekman's research, where Ekman tried to establish the universality of the use of smiles worldwide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman
So is this the death of the browser.tabs.onTop setting? Everybody has to use tabs on top now?
Super sad situation, but this is a classic Streisand effect in the making. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
>> Is it really that easy?

I don't know. I do know that marriages break up for many reasons, not all of them obvious to outsiders (or even one or both insiders). Do you think that the wife, who had spent the last n years raising eight children, had any skills that would get her a job bringing in enough money to keep both of them going?
As others have pointed out, blogging is absolutely essential to a product like this. Free content for conversion is also really valuable.

Don't be too wedded to your initial revenue model. There are lots of ways you can make money here - subscription, ads, etc. The middle-class investment industry relies heavily on getting a finger on the pulse of the cash flow for ordinary people. If you're deliberately avoiding touching that pulse, and deliberately avoiding remarketing to investment businesses, you may have a hard time getting reasonable return for your work from subscriptions or whatever.

You might want to look into investment clubs and how they work, not as a market but rather as an insight into your customers.
Not quite, tokenadult's username isn't not a tongue-in-cheek insinuation. The username originated on a website (http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/) where the majority of users actually are children, and he just chose to re-use that identity.
I wasn't talking to you though, unless you're a sock-puppeteer, but whatever.

> The thing is, I was responding to this:

>> This is a very accurate description

Is it not?

>>> I think Google is trying to inflate its G+ numbers in
order to seem competitive with Facebook, so its
basically a dick-size contest with users getting caught
in the middle.

At any rate, my point still stands. This is not a formal debate.
Good currencies aren't about divisibility or about holding value long term, they're about being useful for exchange. Being deflationary by nature makes Bitcoin a bad currency, but a good commodity (once it settles down). A good currency slowly inflates.
They must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.
Well, they still have an API: http://priceonomics.com/api/
C-SPAN Live: Senate Homeland Security Hearing on Digital Currencies
There is good reason to assume that the senate hearing on CSPAN-3 has something to do with it. Strong positive signals there.

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/
I bought a bit of BTC in October because I am interested in it. I've now sold off enough to cover my initial investment plus a bit extra, and now get to watch BTC with house money.
Running `lein kibit` is super low effort once you've got lein set up, and even having used clojure for years it still reminds of features of clojure.core that I forgot pretty regularly. I think as a noob it would really help you in learning the core lib.
I wish I knew how much I didn't know. Self-awareness for the win.