skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks[1] for the useless comment indicating that some joke has gone over my head. I get that. Which is why I said I don't understand that part. So maybe instead of being a jerk and posting the obvious... maybe you could have actually pointed out the joke. Or am I not worthy of knowing?

[1]not really thanks since that was sort of a dick move
What schlock.

Many things that don't kill you can make you weaker - try quadriplegia on for size. Health is closely tied to money and employment in the US. Someone working at "the local burger shop" with three kids can't spare a day's pay - and $100/day is pretty unlikely take-home pay for minimum wage, anyways.
I agree mtgox prices are borked, but historically mtgox prices were used as the "official" price, and I think this is going to continue well into the future. Since these price milestones are arbitrary anyway, does it really matter?
Anyone know what is driving the price?

My supply-side model, which I felt pretty smug about for the last couple of months, only calls for a price of $450-500, so it clearly can't account for the current price. So much for that.

Seems likely then that this is coming from an increase in demand. Does anyone have any good guesses about where that increase in demand is coming from?
I also read that page, although my search used different terms. Seems I have the same internet superpowers that you do.

There is no mention of biological isolation in the Q/A you linked to, just controlling the atmospheric environment around the vehicle.
It's a phone from a small finnish company with a new (as in not MS, Google or Apple) operating system, that happens to have an Android compatibility layer, so you can run native Sailfish apps and Android apps.

If you happen to have heard of the N900, it's the team who made that one. They founded their own company after Nokia sold its soul to MS.
Fucking Chinese are going all-in. What a pain in the ass.

Hopefully they actually use their BTC to force retailers to accept BTC, instead of just letting it sit there gathering dust like their endless swaths of vacant apartment buildings.
To buy bitcoins, right? RIGHT??
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I'm having real issues with the windows of certain specific apps (Chrome especially) either vanishing or retreating to the edge of the screen and becoming unmovable each time I lock the machine/it goes to sleep. Really annoying. Hopefully a bugfix soon!

p.s.: a fix I've found is changing the screen resolution (and back again) each time you unlock. hmmmmm.
Trust in Bitcoin == distrust in other currencies + distrust in government ability to handle economy
Of course there's an upside, and I'm sorry if you got the impression that I'm unsatisfied with my work. That's not what I wanted to get across.

You get to see a more complete picture of projects you work on. You mature a lot as a person, and develop various skills you wouldn't otherwise. It toughens you up, that's for sure.

My main intention was to warn you that it — more often than not — actually means doing more than one job. Both physically and mentally.

I guess the reason I chose to do this is that I get nervous when I'm not in control, and I still like to be in touch with what I set out to do in life; which is to be a good interface designer.

Best of luck to you.
That's why the article says, it's better to have a bare-bytes data structure, than a broken string type.
Tell me about it... Just few hours ago I filed a bug report where Mail hoses up at IMAP-fetching Gmail conversations that are at GMail's theoretical limit - 100.

Spent too much playing with it last week or so, just to get the core functionality out. But hey, it works now. :)
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Hey, I made this thing.

Each rain drop takes an image, scales it down, rotates it 180º, positions it according to the drop's position and crops in a round shape. Then a small border is added according to the drop's size. The trick is getting all those values right.
Not only mail, but the native cal app has become unbearable, too! Used to be one of my favorite applications until about snow leopard.
Are there any decent estimates for how much one bitcoin will be worth if it ends up being a generally used currency for international transfers?

i.e. if it becomes the new Paypal, how much would one bitcoin need to be worth?
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.NET uses 16-bit characters, but you can use the System.Globalization.StringInfo class to iterate through a string one Unicode character at a time, index into strings by Unicode character, etc. The API's a bit awkward, but it works.
For instance, in the search that I provided, there are several articles that I find intellectually gratifying, for example "Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth" and "Climate Change Authority Admits Mistake" from the MIT technology review and "Nasa.gov: Evidence of Climate Change". Do you think these articles are less intellectually gratifying as articles about the NSA or articles discussing the merit or insanity of Node.js? If so, then you are applying a much higher standard to climate change articles than those other articles.

But whether or not YOU should find these articles intellectually gratifying is beside the point. We already have a feature for those kind of articles: don't upvote them. Flagging is not for those kind of stories. Again, if you find a discussion inappropriate, flag the comments in the discussion. Anyway, I don't think this discussion is going to be productive any more, so this will be my last comment.
I think bitcoin is extremely interesting, but price reports like this are not intellectually stimulating. 1,000 is an arbitrary number. Let's talk about bitcoin, but for a volatile currency, let's not fire off news articles every time it crossed another arbitrary threshold?
That, and MtGox is often a leading indicator for the other exchanges.
In 5 years Bitcoin will replace almost all world currencies and cause massive reallocation of wealth in EUR and USD territories. USD and EUR will hyperinflate and lose value dramatically and eventually become abandoned.
Bitcoin Black Friday? http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/ There are a surprising number of businesses participating.
tl;dr "somebody used a web framework"

plzz post about the radio tech instead :(
I run tech for an independent online radio station and it's mind-numbing how difficult it is to find an inexpensive solution that uses popular protocols. At the moment we run a Flash server stack using Amazon CloudFormation but they require a large instance for that. Man would I love to kill it but we've had issues with the reliability of the open source options. I wonder what this company is about, or if this article really is just "I used a framework and use some paid streaming service".

Well, any suggestions from the audience for running a 24/7 livestream that is smartphone compatible? Admittedly I would have put much more thought into myself if the company had an R&D budget but they are rather small...
The scrolling issue is very annoying. Sounds more like a Chrome issue though as other apps appear to be okay.
It has to be speculative purchases. Demand for any real commodity or currency doesn't double in the real world without a major event of some kind [e.g. war, natural disaster].

People got exuberant with the fast ramp up to $500 and didn't want to get priced out. It happens often enough in other markets.
As someone who witnessed the dot-com boom, I always tell the kids nowadays: sell. sell it all. now.
Some pointers:

http://www.btcglobe.com/tool/calculate-future
Be careful. That much heat near the display can damage it easily. Better to leave keyboard gathering dust than get hue defects on your display.
Definitely been guilty of it.

Still naming your branches like this is where I draw the line.
I think their main focus right now is getting the devices in peoples hands. Do you think compatibility with android would help with this?
Speculation I guess. Maybe Cryptolocker too.
Wait 'til Wall Street gets on board.

I've setup a simple webpage (with @btcprice) for displaying prices:

$1,022.90 mtgxUSD

$943.00 bitstamp

$943.00 bitpayBBB

http://btcpricenow.com
I am not sure if thats "cool"
Love Thomann! Unfortunately stopped doing music for 3 years now. Bought lot's of equipment there! : )
Bitcoin is a bet that it becomes world money. If it's not broken and trust is not shaken, its target price is somewhere from 1 to 50 millions of today's dollars.

When it's suddenly broken, well, people will sell off and lead the value to zero.

I bet it will replace currencies, gold and silver.
> If you make changes to your site that make both IE6 and all other browsers fast, then what are you optimizing for?

This is really a philosophical debate at this point. All the one side is saying is that if a team of engineers focuses on making a certain type of code run fast (they look at that code, have benchmarks for it, find stuff that makes it run faster, etc.), then it is fair to say they are "optimizing for that type of code." While the other side is saying that if they write general optimizations that speed up not only that code but other code as well then they are "not optimizing for that type of code."

Both sides are correct in what they mean. The only disagreement is in how to define the term "optimizing for." But as long as we all understand what we mean, there is no disagreement here at all.

Yes, you are exactly correct that v8 does not notice "use asm", but yes, it is also correct that the v8 team has been optimizing for asm.js code, just as they optimize for typescript code (which like asm.js, Google deemed important enough to be put in Octane).
Apple really dropped the ball with multi monitor support since introducing the full screen mode. Seems like they have their sight squarely on laptops (with no external monitors) where it works really well (with swipe gestures etc.).

NFS issues... sigh... I'm so used to them that I stopped noticing. Getting Linux and OS X to agree on exporting/mounting NFS shares is why people hate computers.
Is there a surge in Chinese speculators or users?

I remember a few years back there were stories about how broken the savings system was in China; something like the only two legal investments were state banks, which gave 1% interest when there was double-digit inflation, and real estate, where you could buy apartments in empty cities on the premise that it was really hard to do worse than the negative 10% real rate of return you got from banks. In that environment I could see how an investment vehicle like BTC could really take off.
> After an online merchant fined a Utah couple $3,500 for writing a negative review

How can a company fine a private citizen?
Isn't fining something only a government can do?
Nokia had a soul? It was a corporation.
Bitcoin soars above $1000 on popular exchange
Primary value of Bitcoin is being money. To be good money it must be widely valuable, there must be as many hands willing to hold it, as possible. Since the supply is fixed, price must grow. So price acts as an indicator of liquidity. Other functions based on blockchain (contracts, timestamping, escrows etc.) are only valuable if Bitcoin has enormous hashrate and is trusted by everyone as money. Hashrate is supported by high demand for generated bitcoins and desire to make transactions (reflected in voluntary fees).

I wrote about it here:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/66953255676/transactional-curr...
I love how people who don't have Facebook are excluded from voting. Not that I care, but there's no way Edward Snowden should suffer the indignity of appearing in the same list as Miley Cyrus for anything... and to especially lose to her?
Speculation and true global interest. BTCChina has lots of activity which hasn't been as true in the past. I think it's mostly speculation fever opening in markets that had previously not been aware.
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PHP is hated if you are a Ruby developer and you've got nothing to do.

If you have the time, test RoR vs Laravel, that's a very good study :)
Our notions of "extremely likely" differ then. I have never had syslogd crash. If you have, you should be switching to a different syslogd.
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I think the above poster is talking about UX...

> 3. It works on mobile devices, flash doesn't.

False. Many (120000+) Flash apps are actively running with Adobe AIR on App Store and Google Play. AIR is a technology to package SWF as a native app.

> 4. The tools are out there. Check out appcelerator or unity's tools.

Unity can not export for HTML5 yet. Apparently they are working on it but I don't think it's that easy (As for the original article, I DO MIND the initial load time. That will be a big problem for Unity as well).

> 5. Flash never had the native performance or hardware acceleration that modern JavaScript has.

False. plain (non asm.js) JavaScript is slow. Don't trust micro benchmarks. And at least ActionScript is faster than plain JavaScript (http://j15r.com/blog/2013/07/05/Box2d_Addendum). And Flash Player 11+ has Stage3D which utilize GPU acceleration as well as WebGL. For instance, please watch this Facebook game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBIJVt05jwc). Note that this is a commercial product. Not an experiment. Moreover, the same "Epic Citadel" demo was released for Flash on Mar 2012. One year earlier than HTML5 (http://epicgames.com/news/epic-games-releases-epic-citadel-i...).

> Compiled other languages to ActionScript?

Adobe Alchemy...

Please don't denounce Flash without a knowledge of Flash. I'm already not a user of Flash and currently developing with Unity and Cocos2d-x instead, but I feel I need to advocate Adobe guys from unfair bashing.
If at some point chain reaction is triggered (people are not afraid it's another bubble and jump in non-stop until everyone has some coins), then the growth must be not exponential, but even faster.
I think I'm the only person on the Internet that didn't see that Miley Cyrus video.
Exactly. If the goal of bitcoin is to be a great buy/sell commodity, then it's definitely looking like a fun rollercoaster ride!

However if it truly wants to be considered a currency, the developments it needs are more ATMs (like the one Vancouver), more merchants accepting bitcoin, and more adoption in terms of velocity.
Another fan here. How gratifying and unexpected to find such a niche story on the HN front page, won't last.
put up a donate button You might need to add more features. or other projects.
Very cool. Was expecting the jump to conclusions mat, but this looks fun.

I have noticed that going old school like this at parties is way fun. Apples to Apples is pretty awesome at a party, I'm gonna give this game a shot.
The article briefly mentions JavaScript, which uses something similar to UTF-16/UCS-2: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding>

Here’s a slightly more in-depth blog post on the many issues this causes, and how to avoid them in JavaScript: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode Some of these problems are briefly mentioned in the above post, too.
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I don't think it's fair to say that it's entirely arbitrary. The 1000$ mark holds significant psychological impact. When the price rises, it's going to be reported on, and it makes sense for it to be reported on when it hits a psychologically important value like 1000$ rather than 947.13$
Doesn't this usually mean a crash at some point?
I have literally never seen a single "competent software developer" who understands indexing or query optimization at all. All I see is spray and pray style indexing (create indexes semi-randomly until things seem fast enough).
Are you serious? Isn't this like asking whether you would trust the coffee from a coffee shop because they had a sign on the door printed in Papyrus or Comic Sans? Good or bad design decisions aside, who cares? What could that possibly have to do with the coffee?

There are endless websites with terrible web designs that provide valuable, reliable services. And there are endless more websites with good-looking, hand-built designs that offer no service of value and, could have their (plain-text) password database cracked tomorrow and disappear off the net forever.

Even if you are going to judge an entire company by the web framework it chooses to use, Bootstrap could be a good sign, as they are at least tech-savvy enough to know what that is, as opposed to using the default Wordpress theme!
Why Cryptolocker?
You've just said that the guy will get a lot of leverage described as the ability to write one's own salary.
> stuff would start breaking for characters outside of the BMP (which is where JS is still stuck at, btw)

ECMAScript 6 fixes that, mostly. See http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode for details.
I always thought that were true, until I saw gold perform so bad these days. Somewhere there is a flaw in that logic - or some manipulation.
I'd say most people are quoting coinbase as the "official" price at this point.
Looks like it was pulled- I can't find it on any EPEL mirrors.
Welcome to Extremistan

http://capitalideasonline.com/articles/index.php?id=2270
It is not untraceable, and in fact it's the most traceable currency ever. I can't imagine what a forensic gold mine it will be about spending patterns and who spends money where, especially when coupled with the online activity already used.
Yes :'(
Remember kids, it's only real once you sell. Until then it's paper money. With a price rise, either there's more demand from speculators or more people holding.
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Quite the opposite, deadlines made me cram and guess the multiple choice since 1/2 weeks per quiz was a ridiculously small amount of time to learn. I was taking both Coursera Computer Cryptography/Networks. If there was no deadline I could absorb the material at my own pace. In regards to marks, fuck 'em. I want to learn, not to get "marks" or a "paper".
Transactional currency and store of value
Is this some sort of cruel nightmare? This is everything that's wrong with the world.

Miley Cyrus essentially wore not very much on live TV and everyone went partially insane for 6 months. Snowden revealed a tyrannical regime to the world, risking his own freedom, so that we could take action and make the world a better place... yet here we are.

The latter is regarded as less important, less of a standpoint in human history than some meaningless celebs rear end.
Congratulations on the completed study, Leif!
This sounds like a clothing manufacturer who only makes clothes in black because trying to match colors would be too frustrating for customers. At the end of the day, lots of people have multiarch networks, and don't want to have to choose between using a tool or supporting just one platform. Removing functionality does not make their lives easier.
Right, the ledger is public but the ledger doesn't have my name on it. Big difference there.
Of course it's feasible. It already "works": i.e. I can buy things with it, which is how currency works. Will it displace all other currencies? Unlikely. There are major barriers such as lack of financial services, difficulty of use in any area without Internet (which is lots of places worldwide), volatility, etc, but there's no fundemental reason it can't work.
It's now been over 5 weeks since I sold all my bitcoins on mtgox and still haven't received any of my money from them.
paypal claim to have done $44 billion of trade in Q3 2013(1). so lets assume paypal do $4x44 billion of trade for the year.

there will only ever be 21 million BTC in existence* , there are much less than that right now (12 million ish).

4x44,000,000,000/21,000,000 = $8380/BTC

this assumes of course, that Bitcoin totally replaces paypal and nothing else (which is already not true).

* - this ignores the fact that there are already thousands, if not millions of BTC that have been lost due to lost wallets, forgotten coins, invalid transactions, etc.

(1) - https://www.paypal-media.com/about
Because php is widely used to make absolute ugly garbage. It may not be the language itself, but a lot of people saying: "hey I can write 10 lines of terrible php crap which somehow kinda works, I am web dev now!". There are tons of people out there like this.
What you say is interesting—so interesting in fact that I submitted your write up just now ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808420 ). I would much rather read that than see a post about the current exchange rate of Bitcoin.
When it will be as easy to buy a bitcoin as it is to buy, say, an ebook, it will go up significantly.

For example, I tried to buy some last monday and realized that I had to justify my address, my bank account, my identity and so on. I still can't figure out why it's so complicated to buy a bitcoin. I've been waiting for my bitcoin-central account since then, and received confirmation for my account on bitstamp last saturday. I still have to transfer some money there.

My question is: why is it so complicated to buy bitcoins?
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And Stalin, twice.

And G.Bush Jr, twice.

And Obama, twice.

(In fact, you'd be pressed to fill more than one hand counting the pleasant people on the list)

They claim it's the "most influential person, for better or worse", but don't admit that's as long as the person did not really upset the status quo.

The idea that Snowden might be Time POY is laughable. The "trolls" know this, which is why they make a mockery of the poll each year.
While JavaScript (in browsers) has no way to normalize precomposed/decomposed strings, it has standard methods to correctly compare them:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

E.g.:

var decomp="noël";
var precomp="noël";
console.log(decomp.split(""));
console.log(precomp.split(""));
console.log(decomp.localeCompare(precomp));

Prints:

["n", "o", "e", "̈", "l"]
["n", "o", "ë", "l"]
0

Browser support for this varies, The Intl.Collator interface is currently only supported Chrome (maybe also in Opera? Idk).

Note: In Chrome when comparing (e.g. sorting) a lot of strings String.prototype.localeCompare is much slower than using a pre-composed Intl.Collator instance (because internally localeCompare creates a new collator for each call). Using Intl.Collator rediced startup time of my http://greattuneplayer.jit.su/ immensely. node.js currently has no support for Intl.*. It probably will be a compile time option for 0.12.
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In the past three years the same thing was said at $33 and $266. Whenever new global interest arises it goes even higher. While I agree there is a ceiling I can't really imagine what it will be in a truly global market.
What sort of variables go into a model used to determine the price of something like bitcoin? And by "something like bitcoin" I mean something with no value beyond the trust people place in it. How do you determine a "true" value of something like that?
The shocking news to me is that in the US, a random company A can cause you to not be able to obtain heating from another company B, due to the existence of "credit reporting agencies". (Disclaimer: I'm not from the US)
It requires payment in bitcoin.
Balderdash is definitely great.

I'm thinking that this is to Balderdash as Cards Against Humanity is to Apples To Apples. (At least from my understanding. I haven't played Cards Against Humanity.)
On my worst days, my kids are still thrilled to see me when I get home. Hang in there! There's nothing wrong with getting a boring corporate job while you regroup. I think Zed is the best help you can find, but post an email address in response to this and I'll drop you an email and see if I can help.
Apparently the ransom is requested in Bitcoins when the victim's files are held hostage.
To me this is the interesting discussion. What's going to happen with the rest of the alt coins?
I think we should hack it to make Miley Cyrus win with 100% of the votes. Just to make fun of the irrelevant.