skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what you want to tell me. I thought you were trying to agree with the original poster in this thread, who says that America has a good social safety net. Now you're trying to say of course America has a terrible social safety net, but that's fine because fuck people who make mistakes like slipping on a patch of ice while walking to work and simultaneously being too poor to survive three months without attending their job that involves walking around waiting tables?

edit: deleted double post, got confused by caching
McxNow is shutting down (a custom coded exchange built 100% by one man in C++)
Basically all we know in medical science, which we all benefit from, is based on health data collected from other indivivuals, often (and preferably) many individuals. Collecting data and using that to gain knowledge is not a bad thing per se.
You're better off evaluating CDNs using real user/last mile testing than a few pingdom servers in data centers. Cedexis has has some decent analysis of this type on their website: http://www.cedexis.com/country-reports/
> I've been working on a new email platform

This! You're doing it right. I wish all the Gmail tweakers united to build a better platform rather than spend their time propping the old, PRISM-tainted, UI-crippled service.
It's disturbing to think people can cause such a huge ripple and the media will report it up without any skepticism.
It turns out you can build a surprisingly wide variety of secure application with just a trusted timestamp (or even simpler, a trusted incrementing counter). This paper, published at NSDI 2009, (and won the best paper award) is a pretty good read: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/78369/trinc_nsdi09.pdf
I think that all of those examples could be datamined today without any genetic testing (and probably are).
Canada, Israel, United Kingdom, United States voted against the motion. Interesting.
Bitcoin is "doomed" to fail (as a currency) by the simple fact that the supply is capped at 21 million.

This relegates it to the status as a "virtual collectible" (as someone so humorously put it).

Maybe Bitcoin 2.0 will be smart and remove a cap (or build in the ability to allow itself to float).. but Bitcoin as it is isn't flexible enough.
That's what I did with my IDE drives. Just a cheap housing off newegg but the speed is lackluster and having my current computers recognize the device was spotty at best. Probably just the nature of a cheap device but even if it preformed adequately I have trouble deciding what to use it for when I have a plethora of SD cards laying about.

Probably scrap it for the magnets at some point. Those are much better than the fridge magnets you find at the store!
This has little to do with IP law, and everything to do with contract law and negotiation. A position like "short copyright period and no software patents" is trivial reconciled with "don't do work without contracts, and have the law enforce contracts."
I'm sure many of Yahoo's employees and investors appreciate Mayer's efforts, but I don't think she really had a big impact on anyone else.

I have to admit that I don't know much about Sandberg, but her Wikipedia page doesn't really show anything worthy of a "person of the year award." Perhaps you can enlighten me?

How about Malala Yousafzai? She's amazing. Not really a tech person, but advocating for education is one of the best ways to nurture technological innovation.
If your bank account is associated with a bank from the EU, I'd recommend you to buy Litecoin through Kraken [1] if you don't want to acquire big amounts (I love this exchange but it doesn't move much volume). Otherwise use Bitstamp [2] to buy Bitcoin and move them to BTC-E [3].

You can also have a look at Bitfinex [4], which is starting to take off with Litecoin trading. I've heard they are already the 4th exchange in terms of LTC volume but haven't had any experience with them yet, so can't say much on them.

I live in the EU so I don't know what are the fees for wire transfer deposits, but I'd expect them to be lower on those exchanges that have low SEPA transfer deposit fees as well.

[1] http://www.kraken.com

[2] http://www.bitstamp.com

[3] http://www.btc-e.com

[4] http://www.bitfinex.com
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You are oversimplifying. The people getting the wages aren't necessarily the same people buying the ageearners products. Minimum wage is not the entire labor force.
The one thing that will kill a hardware company much faster than a software company is managing supply chain and inventory costs. I don't know the full backstory of OCZ other than seeing how the SSD segment of the storage industry has gone and the prices have obviously gone a lot lower and are more competitive. Depending on how OCZ managed their production, it would be very easy to be left holding the bag on millions of dollars of inventory. Unless you have billions in the bank, that's enough to sink a company every time.
Sure, I know people who spell it both ways, but in this case transliteration isn't an issue: you're talking about a public figure, the co-founder of Google, who's been in the US (and presumably spelling his name the same way) for 34 years.

This is just the case of a writer and/or editor being too lazy to look up the correct spelling.
I have been following Jolla for a long time and have owned n900 and the N9. Yes until they actually sell a phone to a real customer it is not being sold. Vaporware is a bit of a strong word but they have come out with many announcements so far and after nearly 2 years there is no product in anyone's hands.
These projects are already pretty advanced versions of this:

https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr
and
https://github.com/joscha/gmailui

In fact gmailr is used in "Cloudy" - one of the more advanced gmail plugins.
It is highly disruptive in terms of insurance. Insurance can only work if many people pay for the few who actually need the insurance. The best way for insurance companies to increase profits is to get rid of the people who actually need them from their pool: if they can have access to a good set of indicators to remove people with high incidence of diabete, kidney failure or cancer, they will use it. And once people understand that, nobody will use insurance anymore.

Health may become another kind of risks you can't insure against anymore, like divorce or unemployment.
We were actually just talking about how Ebay faked it till they made it last night. The four of us each have a few accounts we use to stimulate conversation and there is a small organic active user base on the site. I wasn't aware that Amazon Mechanical Turk existed. This is a really cool concept. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
You agreed to it when you paid in order to watch it.

So yes, you didn't. But if you don't agree, you shouldn't watch it. It's a simple deal, regardless of whether or not technology means you could.

Otherwise you can turn it around and ask "when did the artist agree to you watching it without paying" which is pretty similar to the case described here, just replace watching with using.
I am embarrassed to know to that they split sometime earlier this year.
I never realised it until now

I searched for "180sx" on this site and the first ENTIRE PAGE of links were amazingly relevant and from sites I'd never seen before. Seriously useful information -local Australian body part suppliers, build logs.

I google car-related stuff all day and this is the most useful stuff I've seen in ages. From the first page of results.
A few thoughts:

1) Conversely, why would I want to keep my wealth denominated in a currency that loses 2% value every year?

2) Supposing 90% annual deflation forever, as this article does, is disingenuous. Bitcoin is currently a 5 year old technology, and of course it will have periods of significant volatility. In the long run, bitcoin will stabilize, and deflation will be on the rate of global economic growth, currently estimated at around 2% [1]

3) In the long run, people could keep their wealth denominated in bitcoin, and spend dollars. There you have the best of both worlds: your wealth storage is deflationary, and your spending currency is inflationary.

edit: 4) Perhaps most significantly, remember that bitcoins and dollars are exchangeable at any point in time. Any dollar you spend on goods/services is a dollar you could have spent on bitcoin. Have bitcoin enthusiasts completely stopped spending dollars on goods/services?

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+gdp+growth
I haven't heard of any, but AFAIK there's nothing preventing someone from writing a wallet that allows automated payments or the equivalent of direct-debit, with or without the involvement of a bank.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-one-small-ame... is a good overview of the company. IMHO it is unlikely you'll get better than that inside the US.
Yet people do not buy bitcoins because they need them. They buy them in the hope that the valuation increases (or buy one or two for sports).

Otherwise, what can you buy with bitcoins that you can't buy with dollars?
Recently watched Gattaca. Found it interesting how in that world, DNA profiling for job placement was illegal, but because the technology was so widespread and available, it was easy to circumvent the regulations without getting caught. Just shake someone's hand or take a drug test, and they have your entire genome.
This is the new beginning after the burning platform company has finally been sold to Microsoft. Alternatively the new beginning for maemo/moblin/meego/whatever.
Aka Keynesianism, before Congress bastardized it to mean printing money and handing it to bank owners.
I have an old laptop with Core 2 Duo and 2 gigs of RAM. Had no problem with the website.
From what I understand, asm.js is using JavaScript as a kind of portable assembly language which means there is no VM.
Like any personal information, there are ways that it might affect or interest others. There's no magic, foolproof way of stopping people from using information against you other than not revealing it. Hence, hiding it is always a good fallback.
Well a big part of this whole problem is that he had no contract to begin with ("We never signed any contracts or work-for-hire agreements").

That aside, he works as a freelancer in an industry where naming and shaming specific agencies could very well hinder his ability to get future work, so I don't blame him for not doing it.
I'm not going to explain the joke, but Android is backwards compatible.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ... until you link your Google+ and 23andMe accounts.

(there's already a link there between YouTube comments and flecks of spittle ...)
It's possible a speculative bubble would just fade into the supply-side trend.

I was expecting BTC to hit $1000 in a few months anyway, depending on how quickly difficulty increases. So what could happen is the buzz dies down and the price just sits at $1000 for a couple of months and then once the difficulty increased the price will be locked in.

Likewise, real user demand could increase fast enough to take the place of any speculative demand before the proposed speculative bubble collapses.

Honestly what I really want to see is what happens if the bottom falls out and the price stays well below the mining cost for a prolonged time period. Say, $100 for 3-6 months. There are a number of non-disastrous things which could happen, but it is hard to guess what will.

It's going to be way more exciting if when bitcoin hits $100 than if it hits $10000.
I was excited about 23andMe, but I decided against it solely for this reason. You can change your passwords, but you can't change your genetics. Whether it's the mundane and real concern of invalidated health insurance claims, or the far-flung hypothetical concerns (future clandestine organizations developing individually targeted assassination viruses), giving away one's genetic code involves too much risk and moral hazard.

(It's a shame, too. I badly want my full ATGC sequence to be a zip file on my hard drive.)
Sophomoric semantic rationalization. Two different settings for copyright violation, but sure, just use synonyms and related concepts to make one seem bad and the other OK; gullible message board nerds ravenous for validation for pirating movies, music, and software will lap it up.
Is it related to GSM modem only? What about wi-fi?
See the other story today about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807275
I am very skeptical to anything coming from UN, they as an organization are completely deprecated.
As for this shameful bunch that voted against this, it is just state of where they are and all of us in terms of freedom and civilized conduct.
Just like facebook shares did not drop after IPO?
Next time the government decides to do away with "undesirables" they'll have a list already built for them.
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Good old Googlesoft.
They couldn't. If you pegged the price to one, there wouldn't be enough units for everyone to buy anything they want. Remember that there are only 12 million of them, and only ~20 million will be ever available. Tying their value to one would mean that the size of whole economy would be only 20 million USD, which is pocket money on a global scale.
Like a startup, Bitcoin failing is the expected default. I think it will fail, too. What makes it notable is that it's also got unusually high chances of succeeding.
"FDA is concerned about the public health consequences of inaccurate results from the PGS device - the main purpose of compliance with FDA's regulatory requirements is to ensure that the tests work," said Alberto Gutierrez, director of the FDA's centre for devices and radiological health, in a letter to the company.

"Patients relying on such tests may begin to self-manage their treatment through dose changes or even abandon certain therapies depending on the outcome of the assessment," he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25100878
After discovering the time machines true purpose, he decides to use it in a get-rich-quick scheme. He goes back to in time planning on buying lots of bitcoins when they were super cheap so that he can sell them in the future for a massive profit (that he can use to pay of the debt he acquired during the purchase of the time machine).

He waits and waits for bitcoins to be invented, but for some reason they don't arrive on schedule. Suddenly it dawns on him, and he knows what he must do...
At this point it really looks like Google have zero interest in seeing Android improve, beyond ensuring it stays superficially in line with iOS or Windows Phone, and will use whatever means necessary to ensure no one else does it while desperately trying to shoe horn irrelevant features into Chrome in an effort to reach feature parity.

The clause about no forking with the SDK is probably going to rear its head in anger soon.
From what I remember reading about the Swiss giveaway, some thought that it would actually save money overall because people would get this money, but the plan was to cut away welfare and other social services at the same time. The reduction of administrative costs and govt inefficiencies would be saved.

That is an interesting notion, but it seems that there is no plan for those who will inevitably blow all their free money on possessions, drugs, gambling ETC. and still need to eat, be clothed, housed, buy cable TV (like most welfare recipients do) ETC.

I hope that they actually pass this new law because it is very interesting. Assuming enough people don't just waste the money and still need the govt cheese this could actually transform a society.
2% less fee, than credit card. It's enough to take over the payment world. And it's only one of the advantages.
Who do you think you're kidding? You obviously know about the obligation to pay; you've just decided that if the product you want access to has been laundered through at least one 3rd party, you've never had to look any of the producers in the eye, and therefore you have no obligation to them. If anything, you're even worse than the person who originally published the content you're taking: they're at least accountable to the original relationship that gave them access to the product.

That first sentence sounds outraged and pointed, but it's not; it's a serious question. Every time this issue comes up, I feel like I read people making similar points, as if they were remotely convincing. I really want to know who, among all the people who are not already on your side on this issue, you think would be persuaded by the logic that "I didn't have a contract with the producer of _Wall-E_, and so I'm not obligated to pay them before downloading and watching their movie." It seems to me that a child can see where the obligation to pay comes from.
Indeed. I haven't see mincome in (usually religious) cultures that promote massive reproduction (6+ children surviving to adulthood).
In the long run, birh control must be a key component of mincome. This aspect makes people squeamish, sadly for the wrong reasons.
I'll happily cash your bitcoins out into real currency at ten cents a bitcoin.
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Because losing 2% to 3% every year is actually quite stable. Its so stable that the typical person doesn't notice it.

Deflation at the rate of 100% over two weeks on the other hand (ie: BTC's current rate of change), is absolutely and utterly ridiculous.
> In the long run, bitcoin will stabilize,

Why would this be true? Gold and silver have been around a long time, but both are still relatively volatile.

I mean, I hope you're right, I'm just curious where you think volatility ends up and why you think so.
The point is the liquidity of houses is less than liquidity of cash. Likewise, the liquidity of bitcoins is less than liquidity of dollars. You can easily buy bitcoins(houses) if you have the money, but the reverse is not true.
Bitcoin is the Altavista to the Google.
It can be hard to tune your system, but if you build your rig with usual components, that is the ones that appear on guides, it is very easy to get running. We didn't make the right choice for our GPU's and suffered a bit at the start.

Check the litecoinmining subreddit, there's a lot of information there and the community is very helpful.
This commentary points out, "But as the FDA frets about the accuracy of 23andMe’s tests, it is missing their true function, and consequently the agency has no clue about the real dangers they pose. The Personal Genome Service isn’t primarily intended to be a medical device. It is a mechanism meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation against an unwitting public." Yes. That was reported in a Fast Company magazine profile of 23andMe[1] submitted here to HN 44 days ago, with a lot of discussion.[2] The basic problem that 23andMe faces is a business model that by its own acknowledgement really doesn't provide much benefit to the consumers who are paying to have their DNA SNP-sequenced and their personal health history data collected for 23andMe's use.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6549600
Really insightful. It's amazing how openly they talk about how they faked users in the beginning. I guess at this point no one cares.
If the UN is deprecated, what has replaced it?
Actuarial cost is a function of a population, not an individual. It isn't obvious that a finer-grained breakdown is superior to nationwide "open enrollment"
If the deflation ever becomes stable(ish), the increase of value can be accounted for in the price, as sellers will have a reason to prefer BTC and offer discounts (not to mention eliminating all those 2.9% credit card fees). We already buy all sorts of optional goods, even if those goods will depreciate compared to letting money sit in a bank account and accrue interest.
With 23andMe I'm waiting for the entertaining family scandals to happen when people suddenly discover they have cousins they didn't know about. It's going to be a cataclysmic mass phenomenon and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
There is no such thing as intrinsic value, all value is subjective, only existing if there is a conscious being that can provide a valuation. These beings have shifting, impermanent, prefecerences, and non-uniform preferences. The many factors which affect their considerations also change quite frequently: a glass of water is worth very little when I'm boating across a large pristine lake, yet it is worth an enormous sum as I stumble across a scorched desert.

BTW, the majority of gold's current market price does not stem from industrial/ornamental usage, but a collective "delusion" of monetary value (that has lasted thousands of years). Not to say gold shouldn't have any monetary value, as it is one of most useful materials in that regard. But the intrinsic value argument against bitcoin seems silly to me, given the story of gold.
Awesome. I had indeed seen this before and forgotten about it.
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That was true in the past, but is irrelevant now that insurance companies can't refuse to insure you, or even charge you more for pre-existing conditions.
The 0.0001 BTC Transaction fee tacked on to every BTC exchange is only going to get worse and worse as BTCs's exchange rate goes up btw.

What used to be a rounding-error that happened on every BTC transaction is now a $0.10 tax on every BTC transaction. If BTC continues to deflate, the transaction fees on BTC are going to become quite sizable.
Ask HN: How does a 0-comment, 3-upvote github.com url reach the front page?
There has been a lot of discussion about how HN's ranking algorithm affects position [1]. Supposedly there's an automatic penalty for some domains, including github.com.

I've posted some of my projects here hosted on github and have gotten something like 6 comments and 10 upvotes while still on the "New" page. None of them ever made it to the front page. Yet other github.com projects make it to the front page with 0 comments and only 3 upvotes [2] (could have been less before I saw it).

I don't want to come off bitter (I'm not), but there's a bad smell of favoritism and manual moderator selection here for lack of a better explanation :(

Any insight would be helpful, as I enjoy participating in the community here and want to continue doing so.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811490
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Being poor is all relative, in many countries, poor means you will likely starve to death, in the wealthiest countries, the poor eat relatively well, are educated (if they choose to be), have housing, electricity, running water and Cable Television.

My point? how long till those getting the stipend are whining again about how poor they are because they make the same amount as today relative to the general population. Now we are back to square one.
Hey catmanjan, see jamesjyu's comment :-)
No VM? What do you call V8, SpiderMonkey, etc?
Probably not. I'm under the impression it's where you do business that counts, not where you're incorporated. If you're incorporated in HK but have offices in SF you're likely exposed. The best bet is to start your company in Europe or some other sane business-friendly jurisdiction without offices in the US at all. Patent trolls have no power there.

For Americans, the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty[0] might be just what you're looking for.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_%28treaty%29
This is a known issue. The current design around smart fees is described here: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/6548612

The high level idea is to introduce market mechanics to bitcoin fees, with the expectation that competition will drive prices down.