skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally know a gold owner who dumped all his gold (accumulated over past several years) for Bitcoin in February. Bitcoin has different risks than gold, but you can 1) move it cheaply and quickly to a safer location any time 2) you can buy stuff with it directly. Gold sits there and you always have to fear that government or someone else confiscates it, to makes it PITA to sell a portion of it.
Whats wrong with not liking Google? I don't like them. Then again I don't like most corporations. Unfortunately Google also being an advertising company gets double my hate.
https://www.runscope.com (I'm a founder, happy to answer any questions.)

Hurl.it

Also check out Mashape.
This one opens really well, then the inevitable kicks in:

The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system, based on the Constitution's view that it is meant to benefit the public, not the copyright owners. Today, one of the benefits the public wants is the use of computers to share copies.
thaumasiotes, I appreciate this. I think, to an extent, I understand where you are coming from.

Just as a side note, I say all of this as someone who does not agree with the MPAA nor copyright law in the US.
I definitely see the benefits here. But whenever I see a point like this I wonder: if you had replaced hacker news with a different activity, could you have formed a similar list of things you learned? Perhaps a longer list, or one of higher quality? Not trying to criticize you, just something I think about in these cases.
> Don't worry about tax details or bank approvals. The only thing you need is a PayPal email address!

That is an incredibly bad idea to phrase things that way. In general, unless you're a tax attorney, you should not ever tell somebody not to worry about tax details. In the US, it's almost certainly the case that income from self-publishing is taxable, and there are lots of details that need to be worried about -- enough that a self-publishing site probably can't even get close to worrying about it for you.
The concluding sentence screams "flag me".
I am changing from gmail mainly because of privacy considerations. Other people arguments also include g+ profile enforcement and negative UI changes, which I both agree with, but it were not the reasons I am changing. Also many are generally against companies growing too big.
This is silly. If you have the liquidity, who cares if you have to wait 6 weeks for free money? This is why other exchanges are dry. Not everyone is a broke college kid for whom six weeks waiting for money is a life-stopping crash
Obligatory horror story from 'mcantelon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6687580

I was going to buy $300 worth when they were 30 cents each. I didn't, though, as it involved travel to a nearby town and I was working on a book and thought I should be practical and spend the weekend on that. Ah well, one less house.
Replying to myself, since I can no longer edit.

From the gonuts-dev discussions, Go main toolchain might actually get support for dynamic loading in the future.

So I was wrong it seems.
This seems to be more or less exactly the same as http://jetstrap.com
I'd rather people buried their heads in Gawker for this.
I agree with you, but I'd like to remind us of something. Netflix doesn't use AWS for their primary thing: streaming videos. So their AWS workload is probably just not that demanding. What runs on AWS is just a bunch of scripts for selecting which videos to stream. Since the costs of hosting these scripts are negligible compared to the cost of streaming videos, Netflix just doesn't care about the fact that they are overpaying. If something is responsible for 0.1% of your costs, the fact that you're paying 2 to 10 times more for it is easy to ignore. That's the reason why they still use AWS. Their needs are not particularly elastic, in my opinion. Yes, people probably access Netflix more often in the evenings and weekends, but that is true of just about every entertainment website or blog, and it doesn't make AWS cost-effective.
Yes but this one is slightly different being open source - it means (rather than everyone re-inventing the wheel) it can be integrated into Drupal, Wordpress, any other CMS... which I for one would be in favour of, as it would level the playing field again.
> This article is idiotic and is clearly written by someone who doesn't understand Subversion.

Or maybe you don't understand what the article is about.

> You work on feature branches, then merge them into trunk. Only at the point of that merge are you sharing changes with everyone.

> Merges aren't any scarier than they are in Hg/Git either despite common belief.

This is the theory, but in practice I haven't seen SVN people doing it, I once worked for a company that had SVN and told the people that we should do feature branches, and the lead developer instantly rejected it, because it is too hard to merge.

So either 99% of the people don't know how SVN works or branching is simply too damn hard in SVN.

> Merges aren't any scarier than they are in Hg/Git either despite common belief.

> All VCS problems are usually external to the VCS i.e. human or process issues.

A lot of major projects switched to git from SVN, so either the are all "idiots" or they had a real issue with it.

Even if all VCSes are equal as you say, the fact that people lack the mental capacity to comprehend the greatness of Subversion makes it inferior to Git.
They can regulate the hell out of merchants and exchanges, if they want. (And there's a lot of restrictions already: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/15/bitcoin-c...)

But I guess there's already a critical mass of very motivated and interested people on Wall st. who send a signal to legislators (whom they own) about importance of Bitcoin. If U.S. tries to shut down Bitcoin activity, it won't affect Asia, and Wall St. will have hard time going to that market. Instead, it's better if they can reap the benefits where they own infrastructure already.
i've been using it in html mode. it's not so bad!
Responding to Scoble (2005)
Based on his comments, he's not really someone at the forefront of civil rights. He prefers no death penalty because he doesn't believe it causes enough suffering to the guilty party. That's very different from opposing the death penalty for altruistic motivations.
"Irellevancy until some absurd valuation"?
There is one of the flying mockups in a the museum in Speyer in Germany.
> Bubbles pop because people lose confidence.

Or, in the case of cryptocurrencies, when something goes wrong with the underlying encryption. We are very far away from that eventuality (SHA256 is pretty damn secure and ECC is in the realm of "we don't think this will ever be broken unless the NSA curve weakness is real"). Still, one day.

Still, bubbles really worry me on a psychology level. All it takes on journalist to write an ignorant article on Bitcoin (which they never do) and then a whole bunch of other journalists then cite without research (which they never do) and POP!
I'm gonna make an Internet of my own. With hookers and blackjack and threaded newsreaders :-).
Meh, pretty frustrating. All it shows is that I have no life. Wish I could hide my github profile. I don't care to impress employers with how nerdy or willingly to contribute I am.

The less they know from 3rd party, but me, the better!
That seems a more likely explanation.
Because if I wanted a non-legitimate copy I would have simply torrented it for free?
It is already too late. You should buy when it's low, not when it's high. Wait for the next crash, and then buy, if you want.
Seconded. The best keyboard I ever had belonged to a third generation IBM Thinkpad. When I saw the Thinkpad keyboard on amazon, I jumped on it. The trackpoint takes a bit of getting used to but it is really great for programming because your hands can remain in a single position and it'll help conserve energy and alleviate strain.

This is the one I bought, is this the same one? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002ONCC6G/B004D9R9OM...

Apparently they removed the touchpad in this later model but improved the stickyness of the keys (some folk complained about the keys being mashy in the 1st generation.) I kind of would have liked a trackpad but the trackpoint does suffice, it's just really hard to get used to after years without one!
Yup, it's pretty inaccurate. I think it's inaccurate to not "deface" people, or an act of nicety. Altough, seeing that someone is 24 coding all week, isn't a good sign of health too.
I think the author doesn't know how to prove a hypothesis that's why the article is confusing.

He tries to prove that kids are not predictors of successful startups, but then he cites successful startups that were popular with adults. That's not how you make a prove, you can't make a prove of x causing y by showing that z causes y.

For this article to make sense, the author has to find out if the ratio of successful startups that were initially popular with kids is higher that the one of successful startups that were initially popular with adults.

Example: If 30% of startups that were initially popular with kids became successful and 42% of startups that were initially popular with adults became successful, then his hypothesis holds true. That's how you prove a hypothesis, but not at all the way the author did it.
That is not true.

According to graph at the top of mtgox.com there are about 1000-3000 bitcoins being sold for USD every hour.

This volume is huge compared to the volume for euros or any other currency on Mtgox.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/mtgox/EUR
I think they intend to sell it. Now seems like a good time for that.
EPUB format is HTML based. I don't think if would be very hard to get this working on e-readers as long as there is an input method and you don't mind the slow refresh rate of e-ink.
Botcoin, bitcoin mining by botnet
This is fine, assuming you don't use Gmail or other Google services as primary - and many people do.
Freaking zoom disable is the most pointless thing ever put in a mobile browser, ever.
"OpenStack &gt;(OpenStack)" dare to intro OpenStack components in 5min
I put this in because reading the last bitcoin thread I realized, hey this is a good money making scheme for all those botnets out there. And then I googled it.
what does it mean you lost your wallet? #noob_here
I wish HN was more about real hacking. Black-, Gray- or Whitehat. The highest upvoted things aren't startup's but privacy related posted (ie. NSA) and HTML5/CSS3 experiments... Not to say, I don't see gem's in here, but most are more interested in webdesign stuff.
And they have said that they will liquidate (sell) all of that back to USD, like they do any other seized asset.
How can a currency have an exchange rate of infinity?
> right time to sell it

And plummet the price back to sub dollar values
Looks like its different because its not for building only front ends but actually fully functional websites on Node.us. and its open source.
Dear Googles: watch the whole thing.

Pay particular attention to 2:48-3:19 & 3:20-end.

Yes, Shimrit, you.
Take a moment and reflect on this - when you hold a gun in service, it's to point it at someone else.

I hardly believe that the group of people who benefit from software is smaller than the group of people on this side of your barrel.
>Or, in the case of cryptocurrencies, when something goes wrong with the underlying encryption.

I think it is actually exclusively confidence. Something could go horribly wrong with the underlying encryption and the perceived value would not drop until people recognised the implications of the problem and consequently lose confidence.
>If Canada said "fuck it" on dollars today and decided they were going to start a brand new currency (let's call it the Ford, after Toronto Mayor Rob Ford), what would it be worth initially? It would be worth $0.

That's not true at all. The Euro was launched as a completely new currency in 1995, across a huge and diverse group of economies and backed only by trust in the ECB. The value of the Euro has remained remarkably stable, launching at 1EUR=1.12USD, peaking in 2008 at 1.59USD and currently trading at 1.35USD. The biggest increase in the value of the Euro happened as a result of the declining value of other currencies during the US financial crisis.

BTC is in the midst of a vast speculative bubble. It isn't a currency in any real sense, as the vast majority of the trading volume is purely speculative. A currency is defined by liquidity and there just aren't many things you can currently exchange for a bitcoin. BTC might eventually become justifiably very valuable, but it might just as easily become worthless due to a run on MtGox.
Satoshi Nakamoto in February 2009: "In this sense, [Bitcoin]'s more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes. As the number of users grows, the value per coin increases. It has the potential for a positive feedback loop; as users increase, the value goes up, which could attract more users to take advantage of the increasing value." http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
> Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch [...]

Just like everyone else - the only reason we know about Microsoft is because that information was leaked. The only way to break from that is to run your own SMTP server and have all your friends run their own SMTP server.

Thinking that those argument can be used as a deciding point between different webmail/email providers is either insane or ignorant (unless said provider resides somewhere like Russia, on an oil rig or in space). Snowden already leaked documents indicating the NSA completely compromised the Google network[1].

The only way to securely communicate over the internet is with something such as IM with a technology like OTR Messaging[2]. You are lying to yourself if you think anyone else has the remote semblance of secure.

[1]: http://rt.com/usa/nsa-secretly-access-yahoo-google-982/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging
The exceptionally cool follow-on to this is David Chaum's work on using visual cryptography for voting --

http://www.constitution2.org/wiki/files/2004_chaum_secret_ballot_receipts.pdf

People have since built further on that work, but I seem to recall that Chaum's paper is what started a wave of work on end-to-end verifiable voting.
It's best to drink in moderation
I've made about $15k buying low and selling high but the current run has pushed me into hold mode. I don't know when this is going to top out but it's fun to watch.

It's not at all hard to buy and sell now as opposed to back in 2012. There are tons of options. Of course where the price will go is anyone's guess..

Edit: I should add that I did my transactions on bitstamp. Used to use MtGox earlier but it's not worth it, too many issues with them.
A Bitcoin wallet is a file that contains the private keys that allow you to transfer bitcoins from a certain address. If you lose that file, you can't use those coins, they'll just sit there forever.
The open source part of it is cool, but i still have a couple of issues with it:

+ why do you need 75K as a minimum ? Sounds a bit high, even for 2 people

+ They say its built with node, but what about the frontend of frontend ? Only jquery ?

+ does it support bootstrap or other layouting frameworks?

+ when will they let people contribute to it ?

Id really like something like this being open source, but in that case i feel it would need some more flexibility to be integrated into CMSes and Frameworks. Abstracted reusable components to plug it into existing systems, some kind of Content Repository integration for versioning etc. If thats the plan, ill fund in a heartbeat.
If its meant just as a downloadable tool to built basic websites it wouldnt have much appeal to me though.
This is interesting as well -- http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-bubble-2013-11
Google has always had a massive weakness: feedback.

Feedback on products is atrocious -Google Now on my iPhone shows me a route home that would send me the wrong way up a freeway, and I don't know where to report it. Years ago, I ran into a serious issue with Google Desktop, and the bug was poorly documented.

Their maps data in Johannesburg has some annoying data issues, and is rewriting the geography of the city, because it is relied on by third party sites. They do respond to some Maps reports, and other problems can be fixed in Map Maker, but some are too big.

The common thread in these problems is that Google has very poor feedback mechanisms - a problem that has existed for years. Given their success in organising data, you'd think there would be a way for them to handle feedback efficiently, and in a standardised way across products. But feedback doesn't seem to be a priority. A few months ago, HN became an unofficial support board, with various tales of woe posted here, and then fixed by Googlers

If they get their feedback and bug reporting right, I'd be willing to cut them some slack: as a company, they aren't particularly abusive. Wanting to clean up YouTube comments is commendable and overdue, and their search engine remains very useful. It's easy enough to lock down a Google+ profile if you want, and to tweak Gmail to be less annoying.
Do the components include back-end Node.is code also? If so I really hope your project becomes popular and is open source. Because I think that developers should code components not UIs or reinventing Crud or email sign up forms. So this is the right direction for developers not just designers or novices. The popular approach with a lot of manual code for basic things like layout and other things is very dumb. Components are the way to go.
This is a key point: they're not doing that so much for Google any more.

I have friends at Google, they love it and have suggested I put in my CV. (No chance. I don't have a degree and my algorithmic insight is terrible.) But, ehh. An advertising agency with lovely working conditions and smart people to be around, and it's not like I wanted to see my kid anyway. OH WAIT.
DevOpsDays India 2013 - "First set" of Presentation Slides are up online
The Fed is not the government (its a private bank btw), and Bernanke's comments do not apply to agencies for which virtual currencies are their jurisdiction.
It is a CMS in itself. How is 75k high for two people? Are they supposed to commit to living below the poverty line?
Bandwagon + Peer effects = a "gold" rush.
btw, the current exchange rate - $600 is making it worthless for everyday payments or small shopping. It is just a mass hysteria.
My sympathies. I do think the current price is due to speculation rather than real value, but what is the value of a currency? If it is simply what you can exchange it for, in the case of bitcoin that is a freely floating value based on confidence, which will go down as well as up.
Chinese demand is currently driving global demand. They seem to love it.
The watershed moment was a couple of years ago, when they introduced G+ and pushed hard on the Real Names policy for it.

They alienated a shitload of techies, and all those early adopters' friends, and blew thirteen years' accumulated good will in about two months. This was the point at which G+ would never, ever compete head-on with Facebook as an actual social network.

What's happening now is they just did another burst of that and alienated a much wider crowd of people. More people are seeing the mask crack.
Even more so, the point I liked is about introducing the concept of open sourcing to medical equipment manufacture.

>Fed up with the unreasonably high price, cumbersome design, and dishonest distribution practices of clinical ECG machines, I decided to create mobilECG, a clinical ECG that is different.

Maybe one day we'll see some more open sourced sophisticated equipment, which are not only portable, but also reasonably priced and better designed.
I was talking about AWS not the whole thing.
Scientists produce most stable qubit, largest quantum circuit yet
>btw, the current exchange rate - $600 is making it worthless for everyday payments or small shopping.

Huh? Why? You can buy fractions of a bitcoin, you know.
Was there every any concrete evidence that they did in fact have access to the wallet DPR was using?
To be fair, credit card processors offer significant protections for consumers. I don't think we should discount the issue of fraud, especially given the recent Bitcoin heists.
They say its "An open source Photoshop replacement for web design" in which case it would be cool to integrate something like this into existing systems. Starting yet another CMS system from scratch doesn't sound like the best idea.
As is your analysis.
(OP here) You don't need to tell the rest of the team if you're using bookmarks, just like you don't need to tell the rest of your team the names of your Git branches.

Bookmarks stay local by default, but they can be exported to the server if you like. There's nothing to enable any longer since it's a core feature.
Your article did strike a chord with me, simply because I had the exact same epiphany that you write of, a few months ago, and have been spending less time on HN since.

So, point of my commment is, add me to your anecdata count, of another one that thought in the same way and arrived to the same conclusion.
Have you seen Webflow[0] and Froont[1]?

[0] https://webflow.com/

[1] http://froont.com/
I thought that last week when it was $300.
Unfortunately, these keyboards don't have enough modifier keys. You get Ctrl and Alt — and for any serious hackery one needs at least one more modifier (call it Cmd, Apple, or Super, doesn't matter).

In the past I actually used two extra modifiers (Super and Hyper) and was quite happy.

If the keyboard had one extra key on the left, between the Ctrl and Alt key, I'd be happy.
Ah, and this is why I shun fast forward merges. You were using fast forward merges (and, honestly, I absolutely cannot blame you for doing so). A very, very simple graphic explaining the difference can be seen here:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2850413/1397661

The fast forward merge loses any concept of where the branch was branched from and when it was merged back in. Many in the community find the fast forward version cleaner. Sure, it is cleaner, until you need to revert that merge.

After using git professionally for quite a while, my opinion is that one should almost always use --no-ff for merging (unless one really knows better). Sure, the history is a bit more complicated to view. But, if you want to easily revert that one merge, everything becomes much, much simpler. It adds a little complexity for the common case while significantly reducing the complexity for a number of slightly less common cases.

That said, this ties back into the learning curve of git. How were you to know that you should do non-fast-forward merges so as to make merge reverts easier? Git has probably the steepest learning curve of any current version control system. It takes time to figure out the proper workflow for a company, and I've seen many rather intelligent people fail at git.

By the way, you brought up valid points and questions, and I enjoyed this discussion.
I'm actually kind of curious to see the "moon rune" comment chain mentioned. Someone is actually calling non-latin languages "moon runes"? Seems humorously innocent if anything at all.