skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really see no difference between bitcoin and baseball cards? The lack of vision embodied by such statements is quite tiresome.
You can't make as many Bitcoins as you can pokemon/baseball cards/pet rocks. That's one thing backing it. There will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence. Ever.
It's not really a retraction. Because they had stuff in parentheses. Because they were after headlines.
Go does not support internal pointers into strings. You have to use slicing for that.
Ask HN: Learning Rails but wanting to launch
As someone learning rails and touching up on HTML, CSS/Frontend I'm super excited to get my product launched but while I am learning, I'm wanting to get a page out to get some interest and ideally some signups.

What would benefit most in terms of perception by the public vs time spent etc.

Bootstrap, a pre-made HTML theme, solutions like Webflow, LaunchRock or other.

Any recommendations? Cheers
> I must have overfit

You did overfit.
I'm not from SV, and only visited for work, but I took a quick Google street view tour, following Atherton avenue past El Camino Real to Fair Oaks lane, then to Marsh road that seems to run into the bay after crossing 101. Oddly, I didn't see any of the signs in Spanish or "treeless flats" as described in the article. Did I take a wrong turn?

Looking at satellite view, I do see a trailer park on the other side of 101, but that's the only thing that sticks out as treeless and rather sad looking.

The article make me think that if I take two steps outside of Atherton, I'm going to immediately be greeted by poverty and "servants" of the masters... from the streetview perspective, it really doesn't look like it at all. Fair Oaks ln looks almost like Atherton ave, if a bit more modest. Marsh road has some multi-family housing and a few strip malls. Only sign I noted was "Atherton Subs", which isn't in Spanish or hand-painted.

I'm sure there is a huge chasm between the wealthy of the Valley and those less fortunate, but same is true in many other places. Montecito in Santa Barbara county isn't exactly cheap and competes for that zipcode accolade from Forbes mentioned in the article. A short drive to the south is Oxnard, the original home of the hell's angels... Beverly Hills and Bel Air in Los Angeles are short drives to really bad gang areas... Travel to other countries, and the proximity and contrasts get worse.
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I personally know 5 people who are telling me they will buy the second it hits $300-$500ish.
> PA is a family

> you're going to be taking a pay cut most likely.

> not much opportunity for growth or change

Are you delusional?
You're not the opposite of everyone here. I've driven a company into the ground and was an early employee at another where I watched someone else drive us into the ground--not sure which was worse. Have two little kids and after one of the experiences above had to get a 'real' job for a while, in cubicleland. Felt like, and was really, a total failure, at least professionally. Probably doesn't help a ton right now, but you're not alone. Three years after that low point the situation has improved amazingly. It may be a slog, but you can dig out.

If you're in the Bay Area and an engineer or know SaaS sales, my company's hiring. It's a good place to work. Email john@entelo.com if that might help.
We could use bitcoins to set up an anonymous prediction market that the government can't shut down. Oh wait.
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For someone trained in the field, the original version is more concise and easier to understand. They key "jargon" terms are very common in economics, in particular "procyclical", "labor adjustment costs", "labor hoarding" and "inventories".

So really it's just a matter of using a common technical language that is less ambiguous than ordinary language.

Your rewrite adds a lot that isn't in the original article. E.g. the last sentence doesn't reflect their meaning. They are looking for explanations for why firms hoard, not trying to make suggestions to firms.
Yeah, love that one too. Insanely great. But it's raytracing the sphere and raymarching the water distance-fields per fragment, right? Not gonna fly realtime any longer (or at all) if you ever wanted to use it with additional polygonal art. ;)
I think the big question is when and where the "natural dynamics" of the coin will stabilize. It's been widely discussed that bitcoin will cause massive hoarding and appreciation for a long time, causing massive deflation and ultimately limiting practical utility, which at some point will cause massive inflation, and so it goes -- what's the equilibrium of this?

I'd say we're still far from saturation, probably 1/5 of market cap for medium term (long term depends on more widespread adoption). And the practical utility which would determine it's target market is debatable -- will bitcoin settle for being a kinda-useful method of transferring money among nations using exchanges/locals as intermediaries (which already has a lot of competition), laundering money and buying illegal things or will it become a widely adopted worldwide currency?
> It seems as though it's a bubble that's almost ready to burst

It's not a bubble if you already own and keep owning - California Prop 13 prevents the tax man from raising property taxes more than 2% a year.

It's not a bubble if you paid cash, which is majority of real estate purchases in Santa Clara County - unless you choose to go the HELOC route.

It's only a bubble if the buyer is taking out a mortgage to buy the piece of real estate, has very little as far as rainy fund, and needs to have a job to continue making payments.

I don't think Valley real estate prices are that reasonable (and have voted myself out of the market by selling last month), but it's not truly a bubble where you hope the greater fool will come around and buy the stuff from you.
I see your point, but from my perspective it means little. There will only in history be x number of hairs on my head, but that doesn't make them worth anything.
I was in the same spot a few months ago....

http://railsapps.github.io/rails-prelaunch-signup/
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Guess we'll see, not afraid to admit when I'm wrong :)
- IPv6 multicast addressing is a real boon on an internal network; the ability to address entire classes of nodes with one address.

For example, in IPv4 how would you implement a quick all-routers heartbeat script? In IPv6, just ping ff02::2.

- Multihomed hosts are a cinch ( scope identifiers make it easy ), and inversely so are unihomed hosts with multiple addresses. No messing with virtual interfaces like IPv4 requires, just bung another IPv6 address onto the interface. I have some hosts with > 10 addresses on one interface, each aligned to a particular service.

- Link-local addressing just works without any need for messing with DHCP and ARP like IPv4 requires. A new client joins the network, immediately generates a LL address and is addressable, all without external assistance. It's beautiful.

- Router Advertising in my experience has proven much more reliable than DHCP, and much faster. There are still some issues with rogue RAs, however.
I actually took this a step further a few months back and implemented unicode's "Skeleton" algorithm https://github.com/mtibben/tr39-confusables-go

This is useful for example, to ensure that users don't try and spoof each other's usernames. Simply create and store a skeleton string for each username, and keep a unique constraint on it
https://www.predictious.com

I'm not recommending it, just pointing out that it exists, and that is exactly the sort of thing people are making predictions on. I looks a little expensive to participate (fees seem high for what the site does, to me).
I'm not sure about Google's CE, I don't really know what it can do, but Amazon's AWS has had for some time auto-scaling capabilities by means of auto-scaling groups coupled with their ELB load-balancer. We used it and it worked out great.
> They're likely up in the 95th percentile of earners.

For 95% of people in the Valley to earn less than average software engineering salary, 95% of people would have to be employed outside of tech specialties outside of tech companies. And that's not the case.
Anyone know the background. Is it worth a read compared to more traditional books, like Stroustrup's book?
In the old days the Darien encompassed a lot larger area than it does today.

The Darien Scheme was actually in the San Blas islands now part of the Kuna Yala territory belonging to the Kuna tribe. This territory lies further west that the Darien province of today.

But yes it is an interesting story that I always bring up to Scots.
Yea, seeing zedshaw's comment I thought he was about to ridicule the guy for whatever reason. This was unexpected. A good deed, though it doesn't make him not a bullying cock all of a sudden. He's a stellar rockstar with attitude. It happens :)
Dont fall a victim to Emotional Blackmail
Atleast its good to know that people across the globe are good, offer help to people in need. However its not a good feeling if you realize that you've been emotionally blackmailed.

Same piece of advise to my fellow HN pals. Some one might need your help describing how bad situation he is in and naturally you would do anything to help him, a piece of advise dont let your good-side dead, instead help people in a safe manner by being safe yourself in first place, like they say teach how to fish instead of feeding fish.

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805699
If you are trying to build something that is compliant with the various standards, the best people are the people who wrote the standards. There are about 10 of us who have been on enough of the standards bodies that we know all the ambiguities and how they are meant to be interpreted. There is no guy standing around in China who was spying on those meetings and therefore knows more about them than we do.

And many of the people on that list are not English speakers. Math is the primary language.

Do you know what Chinese for discrete cosine transform is? Discrete cosine transform. Hebrew for Deinterlace? Deinterlace.
I found a somewhat interesting job on odesk the other day (via a contact, I don't keep an eye on odesk). Once I informed the person offering the job what we could do for them and how much it cost, they pulled the advert and recast their plans.

tl;dr; It's not always as grim as it looks. but in this case it might be.
A big player could manipulate the price by buying their own bitcoin through an exchange.
The Owner and PM believes in the project.

I don't want to own the code base, I feel it's a matter of loyalty, responsibility and maybe optimism of my part that leads me to this idea of keep working.

However, what I fear the most is to have the opportunity of keep working on the project and fail.

I understand the compensation problem, it can hurt both parts and I don't want that
I don't think it was overfit, though just historical data isn't anywhere near enough information to make accurate predictions about things. I just find it funny that it wasn't as far off as I thought it would be.
Making a new account, or using a new account to tell people to be cautious about who they throw money to on the Internet, is hardly equivalent to writing a sob story and then accepting donations from the Internet (which, to his credit, the OP seems to not have yet done).

This is the Internet. People lie on it. This is not novel.
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I know that. I mean to say 'Creator of Bitcoin'.
very cool! initiative.
Well, some scientists propose that smell uses quantum physics:

http://www.ted.com/talks/luca_turin_on_the_science_of_scent....

(as I understand, Luca Turin's explanation isn't complete either - again it's a mix of different systems)

There's also the theory that birds detect magnetic fields through quantum effects:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826544.000-do-birds-...

Actually, I wonder if it's a coincidence that both of these are sensors.

I can't think of any other examples at the moment, but why would't life evolve to exploit quantum effects where it can?
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Neither have I. But just the other night I visited my friends house and had a look at his kids pc.

(And some windows pcs even come preloaded with mcafee scareware that will be showing pop ups and eventually block your Internet access.)
WOW, really?

Startups come and startups go, but family you will always have (unless you blow all their money in a failed startup)

This is a very bad idea.
Playing the devil's advocate here:

In 30 years time, you consider retiring, and you have a significant portion of your savings in Zerocoin. Someone, somehow, manages to fraudulently acquire your Zerocoin savings, perhaps through a flaw in the Zerocoin system itself. You go to the authorities, and ask them to help you recover your stolen retirement savings. They reply, "Sorry, as you know, Zerocoin is completely anonymous. We can't help you, no-one can."

What do you do?
I think he means crashing back down to that amount
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I like App-Engine and now that there are open-source, API compatible alternatives, there is no lock-in to worry about either.

The biggest drawback for App Engine is lack of async support. The only ways to scale are: multiple-threads (slow) or multiple instances (costly).
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We are suggesting 'Hacker News Person Of the Year', not 'Politician of the Year'.
'Narendra Modi' is nominated for 'TIME’s Person of the Year'. http://ti.me/1i3OkHT
Flash runs reasonably well on Android considering development for it stopped at v11.1.

The bigger problem for Flash on Android is the vast amount of content that expects mouse interactions. Small click areas and hover events are nearly impossible to interact with on a phone.
This document is good, but doesn't mention the case of ligatures. German's "ß" is a problem, and it is not obvious how go handles it.

In javascript:

"ß".toUpperCase().length !== "ß".length;

Does weiss == weiß ?
Is there an rss for articles of this blog ? Didn't found it.
Unless the US government decides to shut it down it will only go up in value with increased adoption and deflationary property.
They switched to the right tool for the job, with great success. They've contributed heaps of open source code to the community. (https://github.com/twitter)

But they didn't magically make Rails fast, so screw them?
At the moment, it would be really helpful if you could submit archives of the original cypherpunk mailing list, the p2p-hackers mailing list, the cryptology mailing list, and the original member list of the p2presearch mailing list (not the current one).

A copy of the original pdf would also be really helpful. Not the one that md5 hashes to d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042 please.

Here is some content in return: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/

I am secretly hoping that Satoshi (and many others like him) really were lurking throughout the entire cypherpunk history, because it plays well into the cyberpunk fantasy unrolling in my head.
you are awesome !
Agreed, but strong evidence could plausibly be found. Also the style of writing/spelling errors can sometimes reveal nationality if you're familiar enough with different languages. I don't think someone would go through that much work, though.
I read that as meaning "95th percentile nationwide" in which case no such conclusion can be drawn.

And FYI, what you are saying could happen with 90% of people employed outside of tech companies. (Because half of engineers earn below the median software engineering salary.)
Being a judge never give any worth, probably OP in the OT was actually in need, yet agree with you, having your self-safety in first place is a good practice to follow.
People make stupid mistakes when chasing after their dreams. Especially when heavily influenced by survivor biased that is rampant in tech media. Its the failure that make you smart in the long run.
None of (pokemon/baseball cards/pet rocks) have all of (fungible, non-produceable/counterfeitable). I see bitcoin as quite different from these, at a fundamental level.

Bitcoin is closer to gold. After all, gold's intrinsic value is negligible in the face of its market price since:

"[gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.” - Warren Buffet.
What, specifically, is wrong with them?
You hairs lack the ability to be transfered quickly and globally and it wouldn't be hard to find hair of a similar color one could substitute for it.
It's Profile Manager
https://itunes.apple.com/app/profile-manager/id750864132
There's many reasons these polls are unscientific, but I think one of the most glaring issues that could be easily corrected is it tells you the results before you vote which naturally influences how people think about their answer.
How will we see? It's obvious that Bitcoins are very different from baseball cards. Even if it's value falls to 0, that doesn't prove they're "basically the same".
Maybe I was unclear. To be explicit, the experimental setup was:
* Draw a sample of objects (in this case, an 'object' was a set of text documents)
* Apply the OLD and NEW treatments to each sampled object
* Show the results of OLD and NEW to volunteers (double blind, of course), get an evaluation.

And so the data I get is:
(object 1, SCORE OLD 1, SCORE NEW 1)
(object 2, SCORE OLD 2, SCORE NEW 2)
etc

So again:
* I don't have any prior knowledge of how the scores are going to be distributed
* The primary reason I expected OLD to be 'better' than NEW is because OLD had theory behind it, and NEW was an ad hoc tweak of a previously rejected treatment
* The very initial text corpus was fixed
* The objects were selected from the initial corpus through a multistep process, at least one of those steps was a stochastic optimization of an objective function
* One of the treatments was also obtained through a constrained optimization
* The initial text corpus wasn't all that large, and the samples were pretty small

So what I did was look at all observations for which OLD SCORE was different than NEW SCORE. Say there were n of them, and say that for p of those OLD<NEW. If NEW wasn't producing results that scored better than OLD, we would expect p/n to be less than 0.5, up to some uncertainty from the random sample. This is just a straight up test of a binomial parameter, so I computed confidence intervals and found that 0.5 was several standard deviations below the observed p/n, from which I concluded that NEW was better than OLD and we should switch.
(as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_test)

In a more responsible analysis I could have done something more sophisticated and modeled the scores as a sum of object effect, tester effect, treatment effect, fixed term, noise, etc. Given the magnitude of the sign test score, I didn't feel that was necessary.
It still makes for a pretty damned backhanded compliment.
2x is a pretty serious regression. I'm really not sure how that could be overlooked. doesn't rails do performance tests as part of their regression suite?
I first was a backer and then the main guy behind it asked if any of the backers had experience with LaTeX. So I volunteered as a technical editor.

The book seems to be written for those that have _some_ but not extensive programming experience, and have a desire to learn C++ as a real first or second (not fifth) language.

It is still rough, but it has all the content proposed now put together.

For those that don't know programming, but want to get into it: You might want to wait a bit, but it should give a gist of what code can be like.

For those that know programming but not C++: this should be a simple book that you can skim through and start writing (valid) C++ code like a college freshman.

For those that know C++ well: Skip this, this won't teach you anything new. You won't learn the internals of how inheritance works at runtime and how virtual methods are called or anything else cool like that.

Within the next week the repo should be opened up for those that wish to contribute.
Not really true.

We could fork the software and call it something else. Maybe change the hashing algorithm and the hard limit on the maximum number of coins, like Litecoin did. Trivial to do. There is no intrinsic difference between a Bitcoin or a Litecoin except they are used on different networks and have a different name.

By contrast, precious metals have inherent properties determined by nature. Gold is inert, it has never been recreated by man synthetically, which is what makes it so precious.
All you stat nerds keep on talking about statistical significance. While you are busy waving your hands, PG will keep raking in millions.

"Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
Finally, something about NSA that I can hear without disgust and horror. This is actually the kind of job I was expecting them to do. Unlike dragnet surveillance, breaking internet protocols, etc.

Although the problem remains: the same methods can be used to silence dissidents...
"I have for a while thought of you as (total honesty here) a bullying cock"

Notice the past tense. I based that opinion on the many aggressive attacking posts by Zed (for which he is well-known), particularly the attack of Mark Pilgrim (now deleted.)

That impression may be right or it may be wrong, but for good or for bad it's one that I got, and I felt my not mentioning that or hedging it here would be intellectually dishonest.

Note what I said next:-

"but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously reconsider. Kudos."

Which I really meant sincerely. It was actually meant to be a genuine compliment, but it is really hard to put that across without sounding sarcastic. Ah well.
True, baseball cards sometimes come with gum.
Sustainable startup career... hopefully, it exists.
Your hair can be easily counterfeited (it is prohibitively expensive to invalidate a fake). Your hair cannot be used as currency; bitcoin can.
Think of making a road trip to South America in 1961, as the subjects of my documentary did. They knew better than to try to penetrate the Darien Jungle -- that's why they went in a surplus Army Duck. Unfortunately, the DUKW (which was designed for a ship-to-shore dip like at Normandy) wasn't up to the seafaring in store, and they ended up marooned in that very jungle. Check out here for more: www.facebook.com/TheDuckDiaries
The nothing backing bitcoin is exactly the same nothing backing every currency in the world today. Hooray for fiat currencies.
@themanthatfell: I would like to offer you a solution to your problem. It may not seem like one, when you initially read it but I would request you to read it and try to apply it: http://findpo.com/secret-ingredient-actually-2/
Thanksgiving wouldn't rank on my top 100 considerations in starting or not starting a company.

-adam (6 startups, 3 IPOs, #7 on the way, bbfdirect.com, ask me about killer snacks for your office)
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Head of Marketing, Google Cloud Platform
I would suggest live your dreams. Funny that owner believes in the project yet want to live his dreams on my time & efforts.
Serious question - do you need a google+ account for a chromebook?