skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a great response until he got to the 80 hours thing.

Why would you take a below market wage to do twice the work? Is there equity in penny arcade? Some kind of lucrative upside we don't know about?
This is what a lot of people seem to get wrong.

Banks extend credit money which is backed by reserve currencies. Money may start out as value-based (gold, bitcoins) but eventually a whole credit based economy springs up around it, and we're just where we started.

The "killer app" isn't being able to pay someone quicker. It's going to be the ability to borrow money!

(Although paying someone quicker is already the main reason two people use blockchain.info or something similar to transfer money instantly instead of waiting for a few confirmations. In small amounts you'll see "banking" like this, and then those banks will start lending money on the reserves they have.)

In other words, the same cycle always happens:

1) A value (scarcity) based currency is widely acepted

2) People store it when they aren't using it. They want to earn returns on it.

3) It is lent out by the "banks" to others, keeping a fraction on reserve

4) Governments regulate these reserve requirements and set up central banks which pay interest on the reserves

Now with Bitcoin right now the biggest thing stopping it from being used as a currency and 1-4 to happen is th massive price inflation. Who wants to spend a bitcoin when they can hoard it? Lots of people but apparently more people want to hoard it. Which is understandable because metcalfe's law is going to make ALMOST ALL the cryptocurrencies grow in value.

The good news is that this will make even more merchants accept bitcoin and once its price settles down (it might reach a saturation point only when many many merchants accept it, would be at least $100k a coin by then) then it can be used as a real currency that people really spend.

But then 1-4 will occur!
What is Google AdWords and How does it works?
Google AdWords is a consolidated advertising platform that allowsadvertisers to reach their target audience in over 150 countries using English or local languages. The platform was originallycreated to serve text ads on Google Search results pages under the “Sponsored Links”.
You might as well complain that they are launching in Finland.

You don't seem to understand anything about the context or audience for this phone at the present time.
Another way to mine for bitcoin.
Because it's the most prominent newspaper in the United States?
Not a novel but the _Postscript to The Name of the Rose_ is really interesting. It has been written a few years after the novel and published at the same time as the english translation. It's a short book published independently. Eco writes there about the writing of the novel but also other topics.

http://umbertoecoreaders.blogspot.de/2007/11/postscript-to-n...
PlayStation 4: the rebirth of cool
There is a way. The way in which you're completely misreading a joke about an office ping pong tournament.
The "bullshit" and "government meddling" you decry has almost completely eliminated long-lasting panics and depressions in the industrialized world. Even the most cursory examination of pre- and post-Great Depression economic trends in the West shows that recessions became shallower and less common once governments adopted countercyclical policies.
Yev, the same dev who is commenting here, has admitted to the claims about back up times. You should read through this reddit thread, it shows that Backblaze does not do things as you'd think-

http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1q14ca/ysk_th...

> If you boot up real quickly and want to do a scan one thing you can do is open up the control panel and hit "Alt" + "Restore Options", we'll do a small-file rescan immediately and schedule a large-file scan.

>Small is files under 30MB or so, it's a quick index, the larger files take a bit longer and we try to spread those out over the course of a few hours so as not to be too heavy on your system.
> -I need to put away a lot of money to support myself when I’m getting paid a truly ludicrous wage -> indicating he is getting paid well at PA and was able to amass money for the low paying job when teaching.

Non sequitur.
Yes it is actually. He pointed out the obvious between the lines message.
Everything Is Hackable
I'd prefer the money to go into big metal bins and be set on fire.
well; for me its fun. before bitcoin went through the roof i would invest in bitcoin and periodically buy stuff that i could only buy with bitcoin; or replace my bitcoin as i spent it (using coinbase).

now for me, as well as probably others.. i got so much upside on my bitcoin i don't mind spending a bit here and there. i still hold it mainly as speculation because i deeply believe in its long term value--but i bought a plane ticket at like $860/btc .. no regrets whatsoever. i got to buy a frickin plane ticket with frickin bitcoin.. that might seem like 'oh yeah whatever' to most people, but if you have been watching bitcoin for years, as I have.. as many people with decent stashes have, that is one of the main things people came back to again and again to say "it will be a real currency when".

i am waaaay over vested in bitcoin so i can't justify 'replacing' my bitcoin anymore; when i am so exposed to the exchange rate; but 'spending it' is like cashing it out
The ledger may not have your name on it but merchant and payment processor metadata may well link your identity and Bitcoin addresses.
My idea is to bring the buyers first. Doing thing that doesn't scale the first weeks like inviting gamers personally and give free credits to grow the inventory.
But I'd love to hear what do you suggest.
universal health care is coming no matter what. The best governments will figure out a way to provide that, and if we want to stay competitive, that's what we'll have to do.
This is true, but you gloss over one point. Any society will have its haves and have nots, but those will not be the same group of people across societies. In the U.S., the "haves" are pencil neck geeks. In Somalia, they're strongmen. Government creates this cocoon that allows the geeks to thrive. When there is government, and the concomitant law and order, having a good eye for investments is a trait that can make someone a "have." When there is no government, what makes someone a "have" is the ability to lead men in the exercise of violence.

At the same time, the "have nots" are not the same group of people either. I think many people rotting away in the ghetto, getting involved in gangs, would in a different sort of society be leaders of men, people of rank.

Taxes are what the geeks pay for the government to suppress the people who would otherwise be the "haves."
> You don't seem to understand anything about the context or audience for this phone at the present time.

Neither do I. Since the website didn't, do you care to explain?
People want BTC to be a currency. You clearly don't have that goal.

But when you see websites saying "Pay for stuff here using BTC", it is clear that they are trying to make BTC into a currency.

Those who wish to use BTC as a currency are discouraged from doing so, as long as this stupid hyper-deflation is occurring. No one wants to spend BTC on anything anymore.
well yeah, the Brazilian model. But this sucks, try living behind barbed wire and being dependent on your bodyguards. I definitely prefer being able to walk the streets at night by myself and not getting robbed/stabbed/hijacked.
200kg of gold is of course easier to trawl out of a pile than one (possibly destroyed) hard drive is.

Look forward to treasure hunters attacking the site though.

Bitcoin disks may be the future of buried treasure.
Same boat. That was awful.
Everyone doesn't get more money, the money is just distributed differently. The rich would be paying in much more than they get back in basic income. This doesn't change the money supply, just the distribution.
The issue of "incentive to work" is one that I think people in general are too philosophically cowardly to explore seriously: people tend to resort to cultural tropes rather than think about what principles are driving their analysis.

As kiba implies, you're basically saying "work or death". This isn't a real choice, unless the person in question is suicidal or otherwise interested in dying. Freedom of choice necessitates at least two desirable options; without this, it's coercion. You can replace "death" with the more optimistic "poverty" or "homelessness" if you prefer: the philosophical problem is the same.

The issue isn't even "a basic income will remove incentive to work". The issue is "why does there need to be an incentive to work in the first place". If society will break down if we all stop working, isn't that a problem to be solved, rather than a state to be maintained?
They are just a few bytes yes. But it's rather hard to generate the correct bytes.

Referring to the bytes that constitute a valid block in the blockchain.
You should upgrade to build 484 because of this: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-i...
They're rock-stars looking for a digital roadie. The roadie doesn't care he's abused because he's "with the band".

They need to admit to themselves that they didn't treat the previous guy right for the kind of work he put in.

Honestly, given PA's history I'm not surprised by this whole situation. They seem like a great bunch of guys who suffer from some serious Aspie-myopia about how life works for everybody outside of their club, and they've had to fight enough trolls and lunatics online that they can't sort out the legitimate criticism from the noise anymore, so when they screw up they just double-down.
A Calling
Wait...what?
I am not suppose to upvote from the article page but the main pages? I know I'm new here, but I find that counter-intuitive and disappointing that I've been doing wrong.

Wouldn't it make sense to remove the upvote option on the article page, surely I'm not the only one who got this wrong (I hope).
I totally agree with you... and my comment was in no way a praise for their marketing team. I actually couldn't tell from the image if it was a phone or not. I had to actually hunt for the word phone. It could have been an 'iPod Touch' clone.
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself
That was my initial thought on what you'd end up with. Aren't the top 1 million most popular sites popular for a reason? Of course there's some garbage in there... but what's the value in removing Wikipedia?
Why are American annual reports so ugly?
chilling indeed.

More here: http://colombiareports.co/swedish-tourist-missing-in-northwe...

http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20130708131957815
> "They run conventions. Obviously they want their IT guy around to help set everything up. The wifi at PAX Prime 2012 was unusable the majority of the time. How do you mitigate that?"

By hiring enough qualified people to handle setting it up properly instead of relying on a wing and a prayer and an under-appreciated, underpaid worker doing too many things at once?
> Bitcoin is a great electronic currency, and a real challenge to money transmitters like Western Union, but it is not a store of wealth (in my opinion).

You can store your wealth in any commodity. I can store my value in stocks, gold or BitCoin to hedge against inflation. Just because something doesn't have physical intrinsic properties does not mean it somehow stops being a store of value.

Anything that someone wants to buy and someone wants to sell, that can be stored and transferred, can be a store of value.
This is unpopular here, but I really believe that if you can't manage to empathize with those different than you there is something seriously wrong with you, and I don't think treating you like an animal is unreasonable. Beyond breathing and feeding yourself, empathizing with other people is pretty much human being 101.
There is a one more issue -- the easier it is to manipulate strings in some language the greater chance that they will be used as an internal data structure for things that certainly aren't texts. And this almost always causes substantial performance loss and awful bugs that are either untraceable due to a dependence on subtle configuration details or form security holes. Or both.
Which is great if you don't consider overpopulation a problem. It's good to try and ensure a high standard of living and economic comfort, but that doesn't happen in a vacuum: If your solution encourages procreation, it's important to review that not just in terms of problems it might solve but also those it might create or exacerbate (as well as results that may not be so clearly positive or negative but will introduce further change).
Historical Event Ticket pricing - API?
Has anyone found an API or access to another dataset for Historical event ticket prices? Is the only way to pull from current prices of Stubhub etc and build my own? Looking to gain access to a dataset with the tickets prices over time for various events (ie. Football games or concerts etc.)

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
One of your big blue buttons says: Coming Soon Live!

Not sure if it's just me, but "Coming Live Soon!" sounds more natural.
Tell me. Was the 10,000 BTC Pizza worth it?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

When the price of BTC goes up by orders of magnitude over the course of a couple of years, people are discouraged from making purchases of any kind.
Wow! I remember PG's wrote in one of his essays "What hackers are using today will be used by regular people in 10 or so years." Though BTC is statistically yet to claim the status of being used by "regular" people, it has certainly passed the early adopter status it seems.
The funny thing is that, according to "the rules" (the Real Academia de la Lengua Española), in Spanish we should be always using \u0130, but of course no one does...
The main difference being that the Homepage scaled much better, made it's creator a million dollars and had no physical counterpart product that had to be manufactured from a handcrafted original.

But otherwise, it's really "smaller" and "cheaper", I guess.
> Paying someone "near market value" for a regular developer at a normal company, but leaving them on call 24/7 for 5 years is paying them "way below market value".

I say this as someone who went through that exact situation: I worked at a small company

SOP for small companies, except the market value bit, you'll usually get less.
That is actually /not/ very good for the economy at all. If you abruptly reduce spending to the absolute minimum, sure it sounds very idealistic, but you're grinding most economic activity to a halt, causing hundreds of millions of layoffs, and minimizing the job market.

I estimate that we'd have about 60-70% unemployment, and no jobs for those people to go to because, well, other people just aren't spending any money.
Kinda off topic, but as soon as I opened that page in a new background tab, it froze my browser and PC for about a minute with an hourglass before it would respond to my inputs. I thought it crashed the system, but everything is okay now. I did close the tab after giving it a cursory look because it looked too noisy and light on content. Perhaps someone can analyze how much RAM, CPU and bandwidth that page takes up. And I am rocking a quadcore computer with 8 gigs of RAM.

Sigh, the more the hardware giveth, the more the new fangled web pages taketh away.
Sure, but realistically not every organisation has the capacity to develop entirely different apps for every platform. And especially not for minority platforms like Jolla.
For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9/N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile. This is not very surprising, because Jolla is a Finnish company principally made up of ex-Nokia engineers, including a lot of the people who created the N9 in the first place. Sailfish OS stays closer to Linux than Android, using Wayland, Qt/QML, PulseAudio etc, and adhering to the Linux Standard Base specification. It also comes packaged with an Android runtime based on Alien Dalvik, so that it can run Android applications (similar to Blackberry 10), although it won't have access to Google Play or the Play Services APIs. The phone is being launched this week in Finland, and there are plans for release in the rest of Europe, and in China, though not so far in the US.

Edit: Some more technical details about the OS: https://sailfishos.org/about-technology.html
Really? After removing the top million hits, the top results for 'bitcoin' are bitcoin.org and wikipedia?
Can someone please answer me this.

If a Bitcoin is worth +$1000 and I want to buy an item worth $50. How does one receive change?
Uberwatcher - Portable Baby Monitor for your Smartphone
Have you seen Hank Poulsen's documentary about precious materials that make it into mobiles? He referred to Nokia as a company that does not do bad and is responsible.

If only to force/guilt-trip companies to do better and be responsible to their workforce, customers, supply chain, country etc., I am going to talk about companies and their soul.

http://bloodinthemobile.org/
Don't blame archlinux for your forgetting of the wallet, you did that.

Think of it like you're losing 3 days of cpu cycles, not 160K.
Maybe there are some families where a parent funding their child's business is in it "strictly for the money", but I've never seen one.

Why would you believe that parents who would selflessly spend $100k+ on college without expecting any personal monetary ROI wouldn't offer money on the same terms for their kid to start a business?

In either case you're buying experiences and trying to create opportunities for your kid. Even from a purely educational perspective, launching a business can be far more educational than lots of college programs.
> And what happens when it decreases the number of people who choose to get an education to seek greater opportunities?

Why would it do that?

> After all, the thought of perpetual poverty is a huge motivator.

The threat of absolute poverty may have some marginal value as a motivator, but what it motivates is largely risk-averse behavior to maintain the status quo from those at risk of poverty but not currently in it. At the same time, the reality of poverty often means, regardless of motivation, the absence of the means to many things, regardless of motivation.

> With that gone? Won't we see a higher divide between skilled and unskilled, rich and poor?

No, if we are funding a basic income guarantee from progressive income taxation, we won't see a greater divide between the rich and the poor, in any case. We might (though I don't see any reason to believe this is particularly likely) see a greater gap in skills between the "skilled" and the "unskilled" by some measures, but as this gap won't produce as large of a gap as currently between the opportunities and choices available to the next generation offspring of the "skilled" and "unskilled", that will simply reflect a greater realization of human freedom.
You have to understand that much of debate in the US is coded for racism. There are a lot of European bigots who do not want to extend benefits and social services to (legal) immigrants, particularly islamic immigrants. In the US it is the same only the attitudes are also held against large segments of our citizens.
How smart cars enable smart criminals
Ok, I see your point, TypeScript is not a good example then, I did not analyze it in depth as you have. But my point still stands in general: Stuff in Octane is code that is intended to be optimized for, by definition. So recursive code, numerical computation code, asm.js code, Mandreel code, functional code, etc. etc. - browsers are optimizing for all of those, and different parts of Octane test each of those.

edit: perhaps an even more specific example is the regex stuff in Octane and SunSpider, they test something very narrow. Likewise GC tests that pretty much require a generational GC to be fast, they also test something very specific. While the TypeScript test, as you said, is more general.
It definitely needs to be combined with a huge overhaul of the healthcare system (no, I don't think ACA is quite enough), and another huge overhaul of the education system (stop giving unlimited guaranteed money from the government to universities for starters).
does it have dna?

what if it's a branch new genome?
It doesn't want to live in dirty rooms, only in clean rooms.
Yeah, there's good live coding, but that definitely wasn't an example of it.
Only if it was really easy to get USD out of gox. It isn't.
We all know how well N9 did in unseating Apple...
The aircraft carrier builder could probably give a concrete explanation for why the long boat builder's understanding of buoyancy is flawed, and also demonstrate why his model works better for both his boat and the long boat builder's boat.

Similarly, if you're going to assert that current economic theories don't apply to BTC because it's special, then you better be prepared to follow that up with an enumeration of what those special characteristics are and why they matter. And then you better be prepared to follow that up with a new theory of economics that does a better job of explaining the behavior of both BTC and other currencies as well.

Otherwise it's impossible for others to distinguish a credible objection from wishful thinking. Which is a kind of critical distinction to make, because history tells us that whenever the price of something starts going up rapidly and people start talking about how the economic orthodoxy doesn't apply anymore because this time it's different, nearly 100% of the time what happens next is a tragedy.
this will also get tons of money from ppl "investing" in another domain rush.

$120 non refundable fee for meet.singles, date.singles, etc... multiplied by every sucker out there... it is a considerable non-refundable fortune
Why the QR Code-Enabled Virtual Stores are not adopted widely in the US?
That's assuming the data will still be intact when the drive is recovered.

Edit: I'd guess the odds of the data still being intact are close to zero. A drive is so fragile I doubt it survived. Consider it being thrown around in a garbage truck and then slowly buried under several feet of other trash. Several inches of trash at a time, over time, with trucks rolling over the area each time. Then, consider the weather and other garbage juices drenching the device.

It's a goner...
They are divisible into 100,000,000 parts. So you can pay for a $50 item with 0.05 BTC and still have 0.95 BTC in your wallet to spend.
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Ya, I'm surprised to see so much outrage here over this. You see sometimes people here taking work/life balance seriously, but work yourself to death seems more the norm here.

They rationalize it because they are working for themselves (read: their VC) to death.
I think a lot of programmers don't properly understand character encoding simply because their programming languages don't give them the proper treatment. We need more APIs that force developers to acknowledge character encodings, probably in the type system.