skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in common use, "infamous" has become mostly interchangeable with "famous" or "notorious" and the negative connotations are somewhat dulled.
Pretend that $1 million / day (in BTC) flows through the BTC network. I'm making this number up, but you can see that this number would be roughly consistent.

This represents the number of people using Silk Road (well... used to anyway), maybe purchasing domain names through Namecheap, and so forth. People out there are trying to use BTC as a currency, so they will be spending BTCs in exchange for services.

Now, if the amount of BTC starts to shrink, then the "value" of BTC needs to grow to compensate. At this point, governments would typically print money, so that the price of a currency wouldn't deflate significantly. But since BTCs don't have a means of "printing money" to meet demand... we are seeing the massive deflation in the currency right now.

Massive deflation discourages spending, and encourages more speculation. As more people speculate on the currency, the price goes higher and higher, driving more deflation. So the currency is in a deflationary death-loop right now.

People will only use BTC if it stabilizes to a price. But as it stands, its simply better to speculate (which means there is no "value" in using BTCs right now).
"Jolla is powered by Sailfish OS, a truly open and distinct mobile operating system. Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user interface and load the phone with top Android™ apps."

I assume you are talking about this? Because that really told me nothing worthwhile.

I wish these (horribly to use scrolling) sites would just give me link that takes me to a half page description that explains in some detail what the heck they are talking about.
Coin And The TechCrunch Effect
They run Dalvik, which is Googles proprietary VM. Its similar to the JVM in purpose, but it is supposed to avoid Oracle's patents and has a few specializations for mobile.

AFAIK (I'm not a java developer), any language that can target the JVM can target Dalvik.
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Nope, by "no longer experimental" they are now officially in the core language. More information here: http://rkh.im/ruby-2.1
Ask HN: Production of a hard plastic product overseas?
Hello HN!

I can not seem to find a preferably cheap producer of 3D-models. Does HN have any tips? I will happily be willing to use an asian company.
This is my problem as well – and I have no solution either.
I am guessing, this site calculates page-rank for the network of articles it has and removes the top 10^? articles and re-calculates the page-rank. That's how I would do it.

And I would guess this would be closer to vanilla page-rank than Google's secret sauce...
It would only begin incentivizing work after you make 25k? And what about people like me that took 28 years to get to that point?

Incentive to work is only one issue. Another is that people don't want to lose their job because it would mean that they die. That mean technological improvements are more likely to be opposed by workers. With basic income, programmers and other job destroyers will be able to automate at will, and everyone will benefit.

I would have never worked as hard as I did to finish college if I didn't have the threat of perpetual poverty and possibly homelessness hanging over my head.

Then find a way to incentivize yourself to work. I never finished college, but now I am pretty active as a self taught learner and actually care more about learning than most college students. It has been a while since I didn't study and learn something new everyday.

The threat of perpetual poverty is like the threat of dying in wars. Yes, it propel you forward, but it was not a good incentive.
A beautiful feedback loop
The thing is that NaCl lets e.g. game developers use languages and tools _they_ like _today_ to generate great products that run with reasonable performance and are deployable to a decent app-store, here is a poster child: http://www.tested.com/tech/web/3263-how-bastion-can-run-in-a...
This explains succinctly why almost no computers were sold in the 1990s.
It does matter. If you have already decided on the purchase (so you're ignoring the opportunity costs of investing in BTC) then spending USD will not affect your position in BTC and thus you'll be better off spending USD if you believe t1 value of BTC is higher and t1 value of USD is lower.
You must be referring to fractional reserve banking and M1 or M2 supply of a currency. There will still be a need for real M0 supply of Bitcoin. There is currently about $3 trillion worth of M0 supply worldwide (any country). That's simply how much is necessary to run the global economy. BTC is of course much more efficient, but we'd still need quite a bit to run any major economic activity.
The .NET StringInfo class provides methods to work at the grapheme level, not code points.
Company driven sabotage does not require excessive flagging, it requires a number of real-world accounts usually used in a correct way that are one-spot abused to avoid that the weakness of their product stays in the home page for too much time.
It's not a person. Microsoft has statements like that. Why don't they have a soul? I'm actually not trying to be flippant. I think that people need to question their assumptions about "companies as people"...Nokia didn't "have a soul". It was a business. The fact that people think it did reflects more on their marketing than anything else.
OKPay adopted Litecoins
Gold is dropping probably for its own flaws. It's heavy and expensive to handle, and you have to trust same banks you trust your other money to. Bitcoin has almost all positive qualities of gold and none of the negative ones. Plus some bonus uber-cool features.
> I find it funny that the comment police seems to think the NSA scandal is over

It's pretty obnoxious that a scandal that is projected to cost the US tech industry $180 billion by 2016 is treated this way on HN.

The NSA poisoned the tech well in America, and it could mean the end of telecom infrastructure companies in the US and it could prevent the overseas expansion of telecom service providers.
Good Luck !!! You have a lot of courage to reach out and tell your story ... you have the spirit, you will succeed ... Good Luck once again.
This is unpopular here, but I really believe that if you can't provide for yourself financially there is something seriously wrong with you, and I don't think treating you like a child is unreasonable. Beyond washing and feeding yourself, getting an income is pretty much adulthood 101.
If you want to cash out to USD or Euros I run a service http://bitcoinsaresexy.com - you can cash out to amazon gift cards or even paypal money and then buy whatever you like ;)

Edit: really ? downvotes on this ? why ?
Umm. For that case you definitely can define a valid reversing algorithm. The key is using grapheme clusters as the indivisible base unit. Sure, there are probably some weird languages that will not reverse properly with such algorithm, but it would still be a significant improvement over the current situation.
My favorite line in the whole thing was the final line: This article was amended to represent the fact that the artists mentioned weren't creating music with HTML.
I remember when Julian Assange won that poll some time ago. To no one's surprise TIME didn't give him the title but as usual to some mainstream politics lackey.
Saying that bitcoin isn't scarce because someone could fork the blockchain is like saying that gold isn't scarce because everyone in the world could suddenly agree to start using silver instead.
I'm not sure how useful traditional economic analysis is for Bitcoin, it's very different.

If you asked Viking long boat builders to evaluate modern day aircraft carriers I'm pretty sure they would tell you it won't float.
If you can compare case-insensitively then you (or the library you call into) must be aware of case and you face the exact same problems. It's a pretty good thought exercise to attempt writing your own Unicode-aware case insensitive string compare. A lot of people call into libraries for this stuff without realizing how complex the problem gets.
I think it will certainly be used against citizens for non-security purposes. They're already restricted by the Constitution from doing what they're doing, they're already violating their charter to only spy on foreigners and mass collecting domestic everything. Of course they're going to turn this against non-threatening citizens; they're probably doing it now.

> should society continue blaming people for having hypocritical private lives?

No, we all have something to hide, from someone's point of view. I'm an atheist, which probably wouldn't have played well in John Ashcroft's Justice Department. He did, after all, order a curtain to cover the statue of Lady Justice and its somewhat traditional single bared breast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Department_o...
> Probably hasn't been getting much attention because so far it is vaporware (until you can actually buy a device, it's not all that interesting

I think having other "Android"-compatible phones out there is very interesting. The more options there are for the consumer, the better off we are. Take a look at the iPhone vs Android scene. If it weren't for other options being available, we'd still be living with 3.5" LCDs and a completely closed-source operating system.

Btw, you could call any product vaporware at some point. (take a look at kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites. most of those products are in some form vaporware, yet lots of people now know the Pebble, Oculus Rift... etc...)
Or you know, when people simply recognize that BTC miners are the "governing body" of BTC rules and regulations, and realize that to solve this issue is as simple as changing the rules of BTC so that the rate of inflation is more sane.

But as long as BTCs are touted as a anarcho-capalistic wet-dream, no one will wish to see the truth. BTC Miners are the government. They can change the "law of BTC" extremely easily.
"Give people the freedom to make their own economic decisions"

Why should they be free to make their own decision about how they spend MY money?
Cool, thanks! I put the a link to the article in our press section.
What are you missing concretely and why?
> Although the problem remains: the same methods can be used to silence dissidents

But you and the NSA know which is which, right?
Beyond that simple statement, I'd agree with Jason. My first impression upon reading their webpage was "why?" Scrolling through I didn't find an answer. No differentiator in apps, function, power, memory or price.

I've often been wrong when I wondered that about a product, for this once I genuinely would like to know if there's an answer to the question. Why a new phone called Jolla?
What does this phone do differently from all the other smart phones?
I bet gold at some point will go down massively too. Why hold gold somewhere in the vault of a bankrupt banker when you can hold bitcoins? I wouldn't bet on what happens to the gold. I only feel like it will go very low over the next 20 years. Shorter term - have no idea.
Why did you sell on MtGox? If you'd done any research, you would have easily found that they have been having huge problems with cashouts for a long time now.

That's why MtGox price is inflated, high price != the best place to sell.
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Great catch, thanks!! Fixed.
You consider striking up a conversation to a person behind you in the food/drinks line as "bum-rushing by a random creep"? Jesus Christ, I really don't think you should be dishing out conversation / networking advice!
I don't know why I'm responding to this as I can tell I'm trying to have a discussion about pragmatism with someone who's goals are ideological.

Bitcoin solves none of these problems. Fractional reserve banking, the mutability of the money supply, interest: all of that will continue to exist regardless of currency. Just as people borrowed money on interest when gold was the currency (or the standard) people will do so with bitcoin. These financial tools were created from necessity, not as "tools of oppression". Bitcoin will be saddled with the same financial services (banks, credit and so on) that currencies always have been because, for better or worse, we need those services. I recommend The Ascent of Money as I feel it’s a fairly nice, brief history of financial services.

But that's really beside the point. People don't make decisions about their money based on ideology; they make it based on what they need to buy food, clothing, shelter, entertainment and all the other stuff they transact every day. If I go out to people on the street and give them bitcoins and tell them it will free them from oppression, they will still pull out their dollars to buy milk because that's what the supermarket takes. There's no shaking of the shackles of oppression here because the shackles are social, not financial. The exercise of power and oppression goes much deeper than the kind of currency we use.
On the Internet? Nonsense.

Next, you'll be telling me that I'm not really getting a 10% finders fee from the $75M fortune of Oil Minister Louis N'Kornongo of Nigeria for helping him transfer the money to the USA. As if.
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Imagine the difference had they said "Jolla is a smart phone powered by Sailfish OS, a truly open and distinct mobile operating system. Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user interface and load it with top Android™ apps." rather than bury the most important point on the whole website as a single word at the end of a long paragraph full of technical jargon.

That would qualify as calling it a phone. Better still would be "Jolla is a smart phone", dispensing with 28 unnecessary words.

Hopefully somebody at their end has the homepage up in an editor and can make the fix.
Gotta drive those ad eyeballs somehow.
Christ, not this shit again.

Can we all please rise above talking about personalities? How fucking drab.
We were looking at adding Bitcoin to our startup but worried about the volatility. What if all our customers paid in Bitcoin and it crashed?

The reverse is also true - we might gain upside if the price continues to Skyrocket - but how do you protect yourself from this?
Massive deflation is terrible for an economy.

When the Wii was making record sales in the USA, Nintendo was reporting record losses. Why? Because the Yen to USD exchange hit 80 to 1, and all of a sudden Nintendo was making 20% less revenues on all US sales.

Deflation is BAD BAD BAD for companies who work with your currency.
Failure sucks. I have been there.

In my experience the hardest part was that I couldn't separate myself from my startup. So when the startup failed, I was a failure. This was compounded b/c the startup failed in large part b/c of my weaknesses. As a founder we are responsible for all aspects, but we can't be strong in all aspects (I suck at sales).

Take some time to focus on your strengths instead of your weaknesses. Luckily, that is probably the easiest way for you to pay the bills too.

It is going to take some time to rebuild your self-confidence, but it helps to acknowledge that is what is going on.

Good luck!
Ah, well that's something then. Thanks for the clarification.
Oh! I saw a course titled "Make the most of your 20s" at the top of the main page, and thought it was a slogan.
Right now there are 50+ comments that all seem to be some variation of 'WTF'. Whose hardware is up & running sailfish? Or is this more vapourware? The page looks pre-launch still...

We'll notify you when Jolla is available to order... [?]
Shopify rules. It seems like every week, they roll out another cool new feature. Shopify Payments and POS got a lot of attention here, but another excellent recent feature is gift cards! Gift cards are SO nice to be able to sell during the holidays.

I also have a fraud-screening app that is tightly integrated with Shopify: https://www.merchantprotector.net/
Whilst indirectly, you can still purchase pretty much anything in BTC quickly and easily:

http://all4btc.com/
http://www.gyft.com/
Because they are sold in different markets. Its just like a fish or vegetable market, supply and demand at the market will set the price. The difference with traditional currency markets is those markets are very deep and competitive so the slightest discrepancy in price between markets is an arbitrage opportunity for someone which then pushes the price in line with other markets.

The more liquidity there is on the BitCoin markets, the less the price will differ. BitCoin just doesn't have that sort of liquidity or market depth yet.
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I'm confused too. I don't understand if they are a manufacturer selling the phone directly to customers, or if they are an OEM selling to carriers. It looks like it is different than android, but it runs android apps? Is this another skin for android that is tied to the physical device?
You know, I wasn't trying to be a troll. Nokia is a large business that makes money just like other businesses. I think its strange to generalize them the same way that we do people...
MtGox has the longest price history, I think this is probably why it's often quoted.
Regarding talking about the food:

The specific instance I was thinking of regarding food was a conference I was at recently. It was actually two conferences held back-to-back, and I was attending both. At the first one the snacks were fruit smoothies, fruit skewers and the like. At the second it was chocolate bars. So during the second conference I grabbed something, then made a comment about the different food and what that implied about the different audiences, and that led into a conversation with a group of three people, exchange of cards, and some follow-up emails since. So yeah, it helps to have something interesting to say about the food, but it's still a convenient way to get talking. And people are at these events to talk to other people, so it doesn't take much to get started. Similarly, if someone says "nice crab dip" to you, rather than shutting down the conversation with a "yeah", it behooves you to open it up some random personal detail ("yeah, I don't normally eat crab back in <home town>", "it reminds of the time I visited <random seaside place>", etc.)

As for "seeming creepy":

Whatever, man. One goes to networking events to talk to people. If you have a problem with people talking to you at a point in time and your social skills are so low you can't you make that obvious, don't go to these events. The other side of the coin is you don't glom onto people when they obviously don't want to talk to you. That's why chatting in a line is good -- you have a maximum of 5 mins if the conversation goes nowhere.
I went through this list:

CEO of Yahoo? (For making some teenager a millionaire) No

CEO of Twitter? (For taking the company public) No

CEO of Amazon? (For buying a newspaper) Maybe

CEO of Google? (Google does amazing things every day) Maybe

Pope? (I don't know enough about what he has done) Maybe

Person in charge of Obamacare.com? Hell no

Lebron James? Hell no

Angolena Jolie? Hell no

Hanna Montana? Hell no

Next in line to run Fed? No

Putin? (He is Snowdensitting, threw a big FU to the #1 democracy) Maybe

Obama? (Coverage for those with pre-existing conditions,forcing insurance companies to use premiums to pay for healthcare) Sure

Snowden? (Giving up freedom, family, to expose government missdeesds at 30) Sure

Mr. Syria? No

Everyone else? What did yall do?
Would Sailfish also run apps that use google play services?
I hope Haskell Prime solves this. In Haskell String is literally a list of characters. This causes some overhead and leads to bad performance. Of course we got Text and for binary data you can use ByteString, but it's a bit of pain compared to having a real string type by default.
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And what happens when it decreases the number of people who choose to get an education to seek greater opportunities? After all, the thought of perpetual poverty is a huge motivator. With that gone? Won't we see a higher divide between skilled and unskilled, rich and poor? I'm a bit skeptical about this supposed panacea that cures crime, disease, and teen pregnancy, all in one fell swoop.
Why? You got a large position on Gold?
If sustainability and social responsibility reports are what make up (a part of) the soul of a company, Nokia is in good hands.

http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/re...
Failure Is The Engine That Drives The Future
Well then take heart. A recent BI article (here on HN somewhere) says that cable is losing both TV subscribers and internet subscribers, and speculates that Comcast and TW could merge one day. I hear TW is loved at least as much as Comcast.
Bitpay immediately converts your Bitcoin payments to USD. Customers pay with BTC, but you receive USD.
BTFATH?
I think you have your heart in the right place with this advice, but I don't agree. When you are standing in a line for food at a party, you can hardly call someone talking to you, an "ambush". And if both people look like they belong at the party, the assumption would not be that this person is "a random creep".
Well... I prefer to say that I worked as freelancer or even as a employee, only describing the project and how I participated technically, strongly avoiding to mention shareholding in companies or startups. Even doing it, I already heard from recruiters that the position is not suitable to me because I'm seeing to be a lot autodidact only due to my diversity of experience in technical areas without any related formal education.

Sometimes I think that there are not positions in Brazilian labor market for who is really competent and resourceful. They prefer to hire a bigger set of poorly prepared people because this is how the corrupt outsourcing market makes money.
I think this would have to be combined with universal healthcare. If basic income is enough to live on barring any medical issues, then universal healthcare would take care of the medical issues part.

As for social security, it would have to be slowly phased out. The people on it now and the still working have been paying into the system, and should at least get there money back plus interest.
I actually never realized the banking system was not trustful. Obviously, I thought that when I entered my credit card number, you can easily check I have enough money, switch the money from one account to another, and let the store knows the money is now in his account. But it's obviously much more complicated.