skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its vital to understand that even if bitcoin is never used for any commercial transaction, application , services or goods, it can be very valuable just as a fiat to transfer dollars/yuan/currency from one place to another. This is a very international, expensive problem. I wouldnt be surprised to see that china is leading BTC trading because of chinese people sending money to their homeland, this time, with a much smaller fee than Wester Union or wire transfers. For giving money to someone else, its better than banks (which you might not have an account to, or the wires are expensive), WU (very high fees), mailing money (gets stolen).

I share a negative feeling when i think that someone with 10k U$S in BTC last year is now a multi-millionaire, i find it hard to believe that much value was created.
My surprise is that those insta-millionaire's arent cashing out. Or if they are, the demmand is so big its still working out.
The author is a little confused about the history of Libertarian thought on this issue. A minimum basic income (MBI) is NOT a social progressive concept first thought up by western social democrats but was originally a fundamental tenant of a flat tax system. Something Libertarian's have been arguing in favor of for a long time.

The basic design is simple. You give every person a single dollar amount as a MBI and then ALL income (besides the MBI) is taxed at a flat rate of X percent. For example (and just using simple numbers for maths sake) pretend that the MBI is $10,000 and the tax rate is 10%. Everyone making LESS than $100,000 would actually receive a subsidy because their overall paid tax would be less than the $10,000 they received from the MBI. Everyone over $100,000 would pay a progressively higher tax approaching 20%. The results are:

1) A tax rate that is perfectly progressive providing a MBI and fully scaled real tax rate for everyone.
2) Increased income has no tax disincentives (your tax rate doesn't change because you move into a higher income.)
3) Simplifies that tax code dramatically (which would also increase revenue.)
4) Doesn't artificially encourage capital gains manipulation by large income holders.
5) Removes government manipulation of social policy by giving them ONLY two number to play with... MBI and tax rate!
6) Finally, it provides a real mechanism for everybody to feel the effects of tax rate changes. Making it MORE responsive to economic factors like income inequality. For example, if 90% of people would get more money in their pocket by increasing the MBI to $15,000 while also increasing the tax rate to 30%... the likelihood of that change actually passing through Congress is dramatically higher that it currently is because such a system is transparent to your own pocketbook.

ALL of these effects without negatively affecting market freedom. Again, we see Libertarian thought is both MORE "fair" AND more compassionate.
> People want BTC to be a currency.

It is a currency. It satisfies the Coincidence of Wants, it is used as a means of exchange, that makes it a currency. Cigarettes have been used as a currency (in WW2 concentration camps, prison, times of famine or war etc.).
But nobody suggested cigarettes or tobacco be the thing we pegged our national currencies on, its just a thing that represented value that people traded for goods and services. That's a currency, not a national currency though (because as you mentioned earlier, that's probably a bad idea which we know from history with gold).
Registered where? California? New York? The Netherlands?

That's the problem with creating .lawyer, .plumber, etc. as TLDs rather than a subdomains of an appropriate ccTLD. There's not enough local oversight to make them actually valuable. If I were in need of a California lawyer, someone who owns a .lawyer.ca.us (administered by the state) would look much more trustworthy than someone who owns a generic .lawyer domain (could be a scammer in Nigeria).

Ditto for things like .paris and .london. There's no reason they can't be administered as paris.fr and london.uk respectively, and I'm disappointed that the national registries of these countries failed to offer enough incentives for people to prefer such subdomains. Besides, I can easily imagine residents of Paris, Kentucky (paris.ky.gov) and London, Ontario (london.ca) getting pissed with those big cities who think they can get away with exceptions like that.
Build a custom Google search engine and try it
https://www.google.com/cse/
URL currently is:
www.vice.com/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dance-music-if-youre-an-html-coder

Article title currently is:
'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)

So html coders are nerds?
"Give people enough that they could do anything. But not so much that they can do nothing."
answer> delete your cookies and the paywall is porous
The fact it would be great (if you could preserve 1/1000th of a country's wealth this way) is precisely one of the reasons why Bitcoin succeeds.

You may argue "it should not be this way" but people are tired of losing 20%+ (in some countries, 3-4% in the US) of their wealth yearly due to inflation.

Bitcoin elegantly fixes a very real problem of inflation. You cannot wave your hands telling people "this is the way things should be, deal with it".
Never, never pay attention to what the market is doing. … Stay away from the crowd. “A good time to start in [the investing] business is when markets are terrible…." A classic value investor looks at a price drop of a stock
they like as a chance to buy more, whereas the ordinary investor may panic and sell.
The post says kernel versions newer than 2.6.31. Did this happen on older versions as well?
It is launching in Finland, do you think it is meant for you to buy it for Mom instead of an iPhone today?
That sort of depends on your definition of "legitimate", but in my opinion, no.

I am fully aware that I make below market pay. Almost everyone (except for my developer co-ops, who I need to pay above market to be competitive in the local market) at the not-for-profit I work for does. It's not something that it hidden but our revenue comes from government money and membership fees that is best applied towards fulfilling our mandate so from a community perspective standpoint there is some degree of necessity.

There are other compensation factors though. There's some amount of profile enhancement (in a smallish pond), I've learned a ton, I get to work with a huge number of startups, I get to participate in any of the company-run events I want (and there's a lot).

To me, those are legitimate reasons for me to accept a salary under market value. But if we were a for profit the equation changes dramatically.

Salary is not the be all and end all for all (arguably most) people, and if it's within a certain percentage of market value, then other factors of compensation do make it worthwhile. Maybe you could get 10% more working in grey cubes but you wouldn't be working with those people, you wouldn't be part of a significant force in the geek culture world, and for some those trade offs are worth it.

What makes it stink for me is that I feel like PA could afford market rates, and they're not entirely because they know they don't need to be competitive in that regard, and to me that feels exploitative. They have a huge crowd of people willing to sacrifice some financial gain to be part of them, and they're going to take advantage of that.

It's reasonable from a business standpoint, I think it's even ethical, but it doesn't mean that it's a good thing.
If you want something more intellectually rewarding than Brown you have many, many options.

You are of course right that Eco pushes a number of the same buttons that Brown does, yet without being ridiculous.
"Group messaging" can be done by separately encrypting a message to each member of a group.

If you want resistance to traffic analysis check out Pond, which is also using this ratchet:

https://pond.imperialviolet.org
People keep saying 21 million bitcoins. There are a significant percentage lost forever.
"New" or "previously undiscovered"?
Really not sure why I can't reply to dragontamer, but yes, the 10000 BTC was worth it. It's one of the reasons why one BTC is worth $1000 today. Without this transaction we probably wouldn't be talking about it.
The answer is 42 (or 0.6198) - When great artists hit peak creativity
> "That brings me to bitcoin and it's deflationary nature. Well, you're still going to buy the stuff you want to buy. Then, you'll save more because you know it'll be worth more later. Why wouldn't you buy the things you always need ? (food, shelter, a few gadgets, etc.) Should I spend on a new iPad when I might be able to buy 6 months worth of food with that money a year or two later ?
You'll save as much as you can. You'll consume less junk. Isn't that a good thing ? Shouldn't we ask ourselves if we really need all the crap we keep buying ?"

Presently, you can't really buy things you "need" with Bitcoin. Ask a landlord if you can pay your rent in BTC or a bank if you can pay your mortgage with it. Take your Bitcoin wallet to the grocery store and try to check out with it. You'll get blank stares at best.

On the other hand, you can buy things like iPads with BTC. The Bitcoin economy is not an economy of essential items right now, and this is largely because even if it were possible to pay for essential items in BTC it would still be just as easy if not easier to do so using some sort of fiat money.

The whole philosophical justification for Bitcoin is fine, and I am on board with that. But the present price dynamics of Bitcoin are directly undermining its viability as a currency and the philosophical motivations that support it. Satoshi was frustrated with the destabilizing monetary policy of the Fed, but having rampant price speculation due to an inherently depreciating currency isn't any better.
"It would make much more sense if it were compiled to some kind of bytecode (like NaCl)."

asm.js is a bytecode. The ".js" is misleading; it's not wrong, but it's misleading. asm.js is actually a bytecode specification that has a syntax that overlaps (but is not a superset of) Javascript, and the semantics of the bytecode overlaps (but is not a superset of) Javascript, but it is not Javascript. It's a bytecode that happens to have a serialization to a Javascript-compatible syntax.

Do not be fooled by the surface appearance and the name. Look at what it does. It is a bytecode, just one with a bizarre serialization. (And as a result of that serialization, the most literal interpretation of "bytecode" admittedly doesn't quite work, but it's a bytecode in every way except for a literal fixed-length code of bytes.)
New material 'stanene' could replace graphene with 100% electrical conductivity
To compare strings case-insensitively, you want case-folding instead of lowercase or uppercase. Unicode defines case-folding for comparing strings. There are enough complexities with case, like characters that don't have other case or multiple mappings, that it can't be correctly used for comparison.
On that site what does it mean when they say "Amount Available: $100 - $500 USD"?
Too much people hope this will happen => it will most probably not happen. People will start buying again at 700-800$ and will not let the price drop.
> If every child is eligible for his fair share of minimum income, there's a good incentive to direct productive-work energy into baby-making activities, boosting household's basic income numbers with each new addition.

That kind of assumes basic income adds to rather than replaces existing welfare programs, which already have this feature. If it replaces them -- as most basic income advocates propose -- there is no reason to expect much change in this dimension, except that people already on the programs would, under basic income, have low-wage jobs as an option -- in place of baby-making -- to get more money, where in the status quo with means-tested programs, a low-wage job is often a net loss even in the immediate term, because it reduces benefits (sometimes 1:1, sometimes even greater by passing a sharp cutoff for important benefits.)
Let me clarify.

If you see a big group of people talking they probably all know each other (or there will be one person, such as a speaker at an event, holding court). Getting into such a group will be awkward. You'll either break up their banter while you do introductions, or you'll stand there smiling like an idiot while not getting all the in-jokes and being mostly unable to contribute. (If there is one person holding court you can work your way in, but these conversations are rarely productive.)

Hence the rest. I'm not suggesting you wait to ambush a particular person when they leave a group. I'm suggesting you talk to whoever happens to be behind you in line. Similarly, with couples or single people it is easier to have those initial conversations where you search for common ground.
Used it for five minutes, and already found two great websites.

I don't know who's behind that search engine, but thank you!
Downvotes? Come on. Manufactured controversy based on uninformed speculation to drive hits to ones blog is the entire business model of half the "news" sites out there. Is it impolitic to point that out?
You still need to be able to convert your BTC to a legal tender currency to pay wages, debts, and taxes. As long as that requirement exists, BTC will always be a secondary currency at best (and I'm not convinced it will ever be a currency in any meaningful way).
perhaps they could use a magnet to try and find it.

seriously though, every bitcoin owner can thank him for reducing the available supply.
I would love to hear this writer's take on chiptune, since he seemed way too amused that it was a "dance club"-type setting without any of the "dance club" stereotypes. I don't think most chip shows have the live generation like this, but there is a component of live-editing there.
That depends on what people invest in delivering.

The best idea in the world could be sunk by a decision to switch to Windows Phone, and you would judge it as "under-delivery"
Isn't actual real-world usage (market share) more important? If 99% of your users already has the resource cached, no request will be fired whatsoever.
Thank you, I did not know that.

So once split I guess the likely hood is that the coin will never be whole again.
I do not necessarily accept the premise that consumerism is necessarily good or bad but I do not find the argument that a currency that discourages economic interaction is a good thing very compelling. I do not think that having someone else prepare a meal for you in the evening, lets say, once a week is "useless hole digging" but and honest exchange of services for money. Drastically changing the dynamic of such interactions seems like a pretty wild economic experiment, not one to be taken lightly.

When spending within the economy is restricted in this way by market forces value will concentrate very highly in essential goods and infrastructure and attracting rent-seekers to those areas of investment. The net result, it seems to me, is casting off the tyranny of fiat currency for a new kind of tyranny. The same kind that lead to the trust-busting era in US politics.
Penny Arcade is not a small company, it just plays one on TV.
Looks good!

Minor fix: there are two generations of the Nexus 7 tablet, 2012 and 2013. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Nexus#Nexus_7
Agreed - often I read the comments and never get to the original linked article.
The photos seem to not look like much fun, either...

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/123487/_D...
Why does every bitcoin comment thread have this conversation? It doesn't matter if a tiny percentage of the currency does not exist in the marketplace or gets lost.

21 million / 0.00000001 = how many bitcoins can "exist".

So considering that there's no real blocking factors in how many bitcoins can be distributed, why does it matter if some get lost?

The value of the coins are hardly affected now that such a high level of adoption has occurred. Those coins weren't even in previous circulation in any marketplaces affecting prices.
>> "Do general office IT" - Don't need to do much of this, because we're almost entirely a Mac shop.

Oh, lord. No pesky routers, phones, cabling, or other infrastructure-level things, then? Machines never upgraded? Hardware never fails?
> My ability to invent and create is limited by my education. If I never got one in the first place because I had my basic needs met

This is wierdly backwards. The people least like to get an education are the people whose basic needs are not met.

Its not like people who grow up rich have on average lower levels of educational attainment than those who grow up poor.
Most people in the world don't count universal healthcare as part of the welfare state.
There are so many uneducated comments that I'll link to the bitcoin FAQ: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ.

Really, anybody trying to argue for or against BTC should at least have read that.
It looks like an interesting idea. 2 things.

1) The design looks a bit off. Needs a bit fine tuning imo. 2) If it hasn't launched, why does it have such an impressive media bar? I find it hard to believe The New York Times covered this idea yet.

Good luck.
Awesome, I hadn't thought to use that. Thanks.
Presumably it did not spring into existence fully-formed in a clean room in the last hundred years. So, it must be able to live in other conditions but at population levels that are virtually undetectable.
You give poor people a basic sum of money so they don't climb over the fence and kill you in your sleep.

Once you've established a "protection money" system, establishing their "right" to your money & property, they are now incentivized to demand - and take - more. Panem et circenses is the last stage of polite society; the cost eventually becomes unbearable as fewer work and more expect comfort & leisure for nothing.

You give poor people money because it's generosity, kindness and help - freely given as your choice. The recipient receives knowing the charity is out of goodness, and is coupled to an expectation that the recipient will make a respectable effort to overcome poverty.

As an American, we ensure people don't climb over the fence and kill us in our sleep because (A) the firepower many have within 3 steps of bed will give potential attackers pause, and (B) the local police will apprehend surviving thugs. We also strive to reduce legal barriers to productivity, promoting liberty to earn an honest wage for honest work (rather than creating high cost of entry with a flurry of stifling regulations). Between severe disincentives to crime, coupled with easy access to rewarding opportunity, we don't have to pay people to not kill us.
Are you sure you've chosen the right option (besides the text field)? By default it's chosen "Don't remove any sites".

I ask because my two top results for 'bitcoin' are bitcoinbrasil.com.br and bitcoin-today.yoyafi.com
Forget the bitcoins, why would you throw away a perfectly good, supposedly working, hard drive? That's a shame. And before secure formatting it?
And what is the problem with inflation? If something it is a great problem that we are having so little of it globally. Inflation in the 2-4% per year is healthy.
Honestly, they are more 'information efficient'. Digital is more space & volume efficient. Both have their place, IMHO.
I'm not saying people should have looming threats of poverty in order to work. I'm saying that having too much too soon is a disincentive to self improvement.

I've wanted to do what I currently do for a very long time, but there was no entrance to it without college, which was something I struggled with immensely. A $10k income with some pell grants would have meant food and health care while working my way through college (which I achieved by being a truck driver on weekends), but a $25k income would have meant "fuck it, I'm just gonna do nothing".

Solutions like "Then find a way to incentivize yourself to work" might be good advice, but not a good policy.
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"E-book readers have the capacity to carry thousands of books while still being incredibly lightweight."

This is one argument I never understand. Why would you care if you can carry thousands of books at once? I rarely read more than one at a time.

I don't use ebooks. Physical books are still more attractive. You can abuse them without worrying about damaging them. And most importantly, when you have finished reading a spectacular book, you can give it to a friend to read.
OK. Fair enough. That doesn't not make Nokia a sentient entity with "a soul".

It's a business that has a fair degree of social responsibility in its business plans.

My point with this isn't to be pedantic...I'm trying to say that referring to them in this way plays into the larger picture where it is in all businesses interest to have us refer to them as a person. They aren't.
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You are totally and completely full of shit and a serious troll.
Why is it "Aspie-myopia"? People with Aspergers are entirely capable of understanding that other people have different thoughts, expectations, emotions, minds. They sometimes (it's a spectrum which means that not all have the same symptoms) have difficulty understanding others' mental state from body language and other direct social clues but they understand that people have different opinions.

You are spreading misinformation, and potentially insulting people in a throw-away portion of your otherwise good point. You don't need to be on the spectrum to be myopic.
>Bitcoin's scarcity is based on a completely fictional and arbitrary hard limit of 21 million which can be changed in a trivial fork such as Litecoin.

Changed in a fork? Yes. Trivial? Not even close. Remember, you have to convince a lot of people to go along with your fork, due to the network effects required to get a new currency off the ground.
Related: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-hap...
Awful conditions for you.
FYI: Click on "link" and it is always possible to reply to someone. Usually, you are locked out of responding directly to someone for a few minutes. (The Hacker News way of talking is... bothersome. It is very difficult to hold quality conversations here).

So clearly, YOU value the fact that someone paid BTC for pizza two years ago. And you continue to value the fact that people are spending BTCs as a currency.

But can you not see that this dramatic rise in prices discourages future spending? Will you buy a pizza today for 1 BTC? For 0.01 BTCs? Or are you going to continue to hoard BTCs and hope the bubble goes even higher?

People spending BTCs is the true value of Bitcoin, and the promise of the future. I'm worried what will happen when people stop spending BTCs because they've all turned into speculators.
As always, context is king. Sure, physical books are desirable in certain contexts. They don't need to be recharged, they smell nice, you can proudly display them in your bookshelf, and you feel like you actually own something since you can hold it in your hands. But I'm guessing a percentage of 16-24 year olds much higher than 38% prefer ebooks when traveling long distances.
You aren't comparing apples to apples. It's pretty clear that Jolla was never intended to launch as a lower-cost competitor to Nexus 5. That makes it a bit silly to criticize it for not being one, particularly at launch. How long has the Android platform had to bring costs down? A long time.