skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. First, regarding point 2, I use a period of time in which 90% deflation occurred (from the perspective of bitcoin-holders) and consider what affect that would have on profits in a bitcoin-only economy. I do not assume 90% annual deflation forever, though I do suggest that deflation will continue. If anything I wrote seems to suggest deflation will continue at a rate 90% forever, please point out where and I will correct it.
CoinBase might be a good integration point for Biitcoin support.
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Not surprised, their installation instructions should have had "update firmware" as a step...
What's your opinion on inflation as an economic driver? I'm also a fan of deflation (as I want to save my money) but the Federal Reserve and other central banks (Japan being a notable example) are advocating for higher inflation, which begs another question:

Are they right and both deflation and inflation can supply economic growth? If so, does that mean another factor is the main proponent for growth?
I signed up for 23andMe, got the results, had a brief chat to my GP. She said it's interesting, but only useful if you're looking for the source of a problem.

Even my health insurance doesn't care, they only worry about diagnosed conditions. Plus any pre-exisiting conditions are covered after three years.

On the other hand, the country where I live has universal healthcare.
Same here. Swapped out the stock drive in my MPB with a Vertex 3 in April 2011, and its been rock solid ever since with everyday-use.
why? if the app performes badly they can just reject it, regardless of the programming language
This looks awesome; I think most folks who shopped these items on CL have envisioned this. Nice execution, I hope it blows up.
9-year-old kid sells his Apple shares to buy Bitcoin
Thank you for your contribution.

Your post exemplifies why I continue to personally justify spending a statistically significant portion of my productive hours each day scanning HN.
Bitcoin's security against double-spending is proportional to how many clock cycles are spent mining, which is affected by the price of Bitcoin. A parallel network with a far lower market cap would be less secure.

$1000 per coin is speculation, but it's not particularly different from a startup people are buying into purely because of where it might be in five to ten years. The effect on Bitcoin is magnified somewhat because the maximum number of shares is capped.

Unless something radically better than Bitcoin comes along, I don't see it being replaced any time soon.
> "And this is really the biggest contradiction of them all. Tons of people have invested countless hours to build these VMs, these new languages, these compilers, these optimizations. Yet somehow, they all seem to agree that it is impossible for them to sit down and define the most basic glue that binds their platforms, and implement a shared baseline for their many innovations. We really should aim higher than a language frozen after 10 days, thawing slowly over 20 years."

It's kind of hard to redesign an airplane in flight, and because of the way the web works, that's a problem that applies to browsers a lot more than some other pieces of software.
This is a salient manifestation of the patronizing view we hold when it is even suggested that we are in some way beholden to someone else.

"If they're getting MY pennies, well then they should be micromanaged to fit my stringent moral standards."

I think it's a kneejerk reaction in response to being unable to hold a certain population of society as full adults like themselves, and this time it really shined through.

If you blank out the subject involved in these posts and fill them with [social boogie man du jour] its horrifically on point with the argument Grandpa will be using to lambast them this Thanksgiving.
Someplace mid-peninsula in the bay area would be nice too, like Mountain View, Palo Alto or similar.
Deflation, where your money actually goes up in value, real bad. Ok got it.
http://tinypic.com/r/2d102dj/5
3 votes (which is actually only 2 upvotes) in quick succession after posting will give a story good momentum of votes over time (gravity). That will get it to the front page.

As I now understand it, HN will recalculate that story when the next upvote is received (though there is a random selection recalculation to mitigate this as well). So a story may temporarily benefit from 2 quick upvotes (moving it to the front page) followed by no additional upvotes for some time (preventing recalculation). But if the love stops, eventually it will drop like a stone.
Bingo, we have a winner.

What is important is NOT deflation vs inflation, but to keep that value _stable_. USD inflates at a rate of 3% year over year, so we can compare investment vehicles against the rate of inflation and see whether or not they are good deals.

But since BTC is extremely volatile, its impossible to use it as a unit of value. Until it settles down and becomes predictable, it will become impossible to form a "BTC Economy".
I have no idea why chrome is so slow at this.
I'll provide a dissenting data point. After going through 5 RMA's with Vertex 2 drives, I finally convinced them to just upgrade me to a Vertex 3, due to reports of better reliability. The Vertex 3 failed within a week. Considered the drive a lost cause, swapped in a Crucial M4 -- been rock solid ever since.
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You mentioned it won't have access to Google Play or Play Services APIs. That will be a serious challenge, and they are bound to end up with a lot of frustrated customers.

I don't see how they can advertise that it runs "top Android apps" & "latest Android apps" without supporting the Play Services APIs.
> 1) don't use Google services

Is that really possible today? Have you tried to browse the web without trying to hit Google servers? Do you know how hard it is? No common man is capable of doing it frankly.
What would happen if bit coins were produced at a steady rate indefinitely? Maybe not linearly but at some predictable growth rate. The amount of bitcoins in circulation would always go up and therefore decrease the value of each in circulation?

Obviously I don't know much about economics but I can't see why this wouldn't work. Why does bitcoin have a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins produced?
It's against the law.

The courts in my jurisdiction disagree, but in any case, I wasn't making a legal argument, but an ethical one. Unless of course you consider that any illegal activity is necessarily unethical, in which case we have nothing to discuss.

You can play the music you bought for other people for free

Not freely, I can't, only under the very restrictive limits of fair use. But I grant you the analogy isn't good. In any case, the point stands: why should I get to decide who can do what with the works (in my case, software) I produce, after I sell them?
> I believe penalties for polluting our externalities [sic] should be greater, yes. As evidence I cite the fact that people keep polluting with existing penalties/enforcement.

This is a neat example of contemporary use of the externalities concept in political discourse. First, although the word appears in your statement like a totem, you're not using it correctly. Second, your second sentence doesn't support your first, unless you assume that the harm from polluting the environment is infinite. If we priced pollution perfectly for everyone, people would keep polluting because society would rather have some pollution and some products than no pollution and no products. Raising the cost of polluting will lower the amount of pollution, but there is no reason to expect that it will lower the amount of pollution to zero, and the position "keep raising the cost until the activity disappears" is grounded in religion, not economics. It requires you to assume that the harm of the taboo activity is so great that no amount could ever be desirable.
Most Bitcoin payment processors provide merchants with direct bank deposits. It's really little different to using a credit card processor, except the rates are cheaper and the audience smaller.
Except that Bitcoin's intended purpose is as a currency, so to make meaningful comparisons you would need to look at other currencies or currency substitutes (gold/silver/jewelry/etc).

Assuming that it reaches widespread use ignores the chicken and egg problem that producers of goods will not want to use it if the depreciation is too high. Currently you can spend bitcoins mainly through intermediaries and various online purchases that quickly convert the BTC to some fiat currency. I.e. pay a company for server space, they quickly turn it into dollars or euros to pay their electricity and employees.

But to be a legitimate, full fledged currency it will need to both be a reliable store of value (low volatility) and be useful for producers (minimal depreciation). It has neither right now, and I personally don't see a path from the present state to that ideal equilibrium.
Microsoft didn't have an app store to censor in the 90s. You're thinking "Apple from the 2000s".
Yeah, I keep wondering why I didn't see more press blasting the "America Invents Act" as a fake reform that made things even worse.
Why does the YouTube video player suck so bad?
No. That may be a post hoc justification/apologetic for the status quo, but that is definitely not a historically correct model for why we have inflation. In the roman era, there was inflation caused by the cupidity of the emperor who debauched the gold coins by cutting them with silver. In the American revolution we had inflation because the colonies desperately needed to raise funds for the war effort and the British printed fake currency to derail the economy... Something similar happened during the civil war. During the depression FDR adjusted the gold standard to cheat laborers of their value (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvm9UgJBtg). In the 70s Nixon went off the gold standard because the French kept recalling their portion of the dollar backing, believing the us was not going to keep its word in the face of a stalling economy.

If you want to argue that it SHOULD be the justification that's fine (and morally questionable, unless you like screwing the poor) but there is no historical evidence that you model ever has been the rationale for inflation.
Not at all. Bitcoin's value will continue to increase while the new technology is adopted using the old rule of supply and demand. Then it'll stabilise. No new rules are needed.
Absolutely, Backblaze are at fault here. Having a dashboard lie about files being there is a really, really serious bug.

But computers always lie. Your disk says the file is there, you double click it, and it starts making noises and the file doesn't open. Backup systems are the same. It says the files are safe, but unless you test it, they may not be.

In the end, all I want to say is, I wish ZFS was free software :(
I think the exact moment I knew housing was a huge bubble was when I saw a 9 year old on tv waving $50K checks around saying how easy it was to flip houses.
Github's Two-Factor Authentication
quoted from the article:

After reaching out to the Play team, their feedback was that though application itself is harmless, and not actually in violation of their Terms of Service,...
Edible Instagram: Your photos turned into marshmallows
With the CM Installer in the play store many lay-people started using it, rendering their phones unusable[1] when any little issue cropped up.

Also the process wasn't foolproof even for people capable of dealing with technical issues[2].

It isn't polished enough to go in the play store IMO. I don't know WTF the cyanogenmod team was thinking, non-technical people messing with CM will just lead to negative press.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/1qkfaw/cannot_uninst...

2: http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/1qi5lw/official_cyan...
Wrong wrong wrong! Even if you don't want to participate in their way of doing business - there's an _enormous_ amount of very high value skills you can learn from them.

"A bunch of salespeople in suits tossing around buzzwords so they can land a job taking advantage of a big company's big budget. Everything is a pitch or a comp or a big lead."

That is indeed exactly the difference between most "agencies" and most small design firms/freelancers.

The agency has salespeople who know how to value and sell the work a freelancer can do, for an order of magnitude or so more money that that freelance will negotiate for themselves. You might think "I could give that company what they want in a few days with WordPress, a great theme I'm already very familiar with, and a solid day's worth of graphic design and css futzing - I'd do it for a friend for a few grand, but they're a big company so I'll see if I can get away with charging them $8 or $10 grand…". And you'd quite likely lose the job to the agency who comes in talking about Business Goals and Website Goals, Audience Demographics, Conversions, SMART metrics, Information Architecture, User Interface and User Experience design, Content Inventories, Conversion focused and SEO focused copywriting, Social Media integration, broader alignment with current marketing activity, leveraging existing business relationships and co-branding key messages - they'll spend two weeks (billing by the hour) talking to key stakeholders and decision makers at the client (while dressed, as you point out, in smart suits), then submit a proposal for a $280,000 project and, in case the budget doesn't stretch that far, a simpler $150,000 version. And they'll also have the known-effective "sales closer" tactics, probably something like "we've got a few slots open in out pipeline next quarter, I'm pretty sure if we could get this approved and signed before the end of the month I could talk finance into a 12% discount on a full upfront payment…"

The _good_ agencies will actually deliver a lot more business value that a freelancer with a good design eye, a folderful of WordPress themes, and a GoDaddy hosting reseller account.

A _bad_ agency will just have search/replaced the company name in their previous pitch powerpoint decks and web project proposal docs - and deliver a not-very-varefully-planned canned-theme WordPress site anyway, probably farmed out for $8k to some freelancer with the promise of heaps of future work and some great exposure…

Knowing which clients are going to get $100k+ value out of a project, then pitching a proposal based on value delivered, rather than hours worked. _That's_ what a successful agency does. (And what most freelancers have very little idea how to do.)
There is no international agreement which requires costly action, and is adhered to; most simply require signatories to do what they would have done anyway. International agreements simply are a method of signaling at very low cost.
Can't you take advantage of a kernel vulnerability on any reduced environment, regardless of LXC?
Ask HN: Which companies/startups are sponsoring H1 visas?
In other news, the 4th amendment doesn't cover internet communications because "there's no social consensus on an expectation of privacy" there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6803409
No, it is so bad. OCZ was a terrible company and nobody is going to miss them.
I think BC is a fantastic platform--I am sure the currency will see some massive spikes (we are on it) and bigger troughs--but to make the assertion that it will completely fail is a bit ignorant. The only downside I see right now is the valuation of goods pretty much has to keep a real-time pricing engine in place for anyone that wants to take BC. Much like in countries that experience super high inflation or deflation...they have to first look up the value of the currency before they can complete a transaction which is a total pain. Right now there isn't much risk from the perspective of a vendor b/c the value of the currency keeps going up compared to other currencies. The second that trend goes the other way, me as a vendor might not be so interested in taking BC anymore unless it's totally liquid and I can sell it on the market instantaneously.
Many businesses accept Bitcoins as payment for physical things. The last Bitcoin meetup that I went to was at a bar/grill that accepts BTC as payment. Most of the attendees paid for their drinks with Bitcoin. You don't need to convert to cash in order to buy things with Bitcoin.
Right, "Price Stability" is a different thing with real merits.
Having a rule in the TOS doesn't make it right.

And you are right, it's not 90s-Microsoft, it's worse. I'd say it's reasonable to believe that vast majority of average users _never_ acquire software outside of the walled gardens of Mirosoft, Google, and Apple's app stores. There sure are benefits to these walled gardens, but the loss of freedom to corporate whim should be a very serious concern to everyone here.
It's actually smart. You are more likely to get press traction and a response crucifying an individual than a faceless company. Also, everyone is responsible here, "having people who handle it" is all too often an easy way to free everyone from responsibility.
I was wittering on about this earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807778 and other comments in that older story - but my brief summary is: if you know your genetic data, you can then make insurance policy choices based upon it without telling the insurers. But when enough people do this collectively, the insurance market will (possibly) fail or be forced split offerings into various levels of cover. Customers then self-select and the end result is the same as if the insurers knew the data in the first place.
Chrome gets Google Voice Search via Hotword (Beta) Extension
After some careful calculation, you determine that it will
cost you 1 BTC to produce, market, and sell a single widget,
and that it is only worth your effort if you can sell each
widget for 2 BTC, a handsome 100% margin.

I stopped reading right here.
Planetary protection protocols.

It's a best effort approach to minimize the risk of "contaminating" planets with Earth life. It applies to any spacecraft in interplanetary space, not just landers, because it's impossible to predict where an object that ends up in heliocentric orbit will end up, it could end up hitting another asteroid, planet, or moon.
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He's brutally honest. I don't know why people can't be more
honest. I knew 7 guys about 15 years ago who started a gaming company. It became successful. When ever they
talk about their now defunct company--they all lie about
how they became successful. The truth is one kid had a rich, lawyer father. The father set everything up, and
completely funded the company for years. Everyone of them
leaves that out of the "I want to get laid speech". It's
nauseating. The ironic part of their company success story
is they sold out too early, for 500K a piece. As far as I
know, everyone of the 7 dudes is broke now--or just game
testers. The two guys I kept in touch with thought they
were going to make a fortune in the stock market with their
big brains; they lost everything in 2008.
They are notorious for pushing out low quality products. You really should be a more informed consumer before you buy stuff, it's not like it takes a long time to research this kind of stuff.
Yes, and that's because your point is made up. The article makes no mention of them being asked to remove it while sorting things out or "add a disclaimer or something". While it's possible that's actually what happened, it's certainly not mentioned in the article. That's just speculation on your part - which I only called out as you accused fidotron of not reading beyond the headline.
I don't think "deprecated" is the word you wanted to use.
I'm curious to hear how people are using Common Crawl data.
Understandable. If people don't know how to enable developer mode, Adb debugging, sideload apps, etc..., they shouldn't be messing around with modding their phone. It really doesn't belong in the Play store.
Otherwise it devolves into "I will take it because I can."

A free society implies that should be the default, with well justified exceptions. I don't see decent justifications for copyright.

Why does that make any more sense for instantly-reproducible, yet still not instantly-creatable, goods than for physical ones?

The fact that the latter are scarce and rivalrous. Private property is a mechanism to prevent/reduce conflicts. But I'm not opposed to suggestions for alternative mechanisms either.
How do these problems arise from asymmetric information?

Blackmailers have information, which becomes valueless when it is made public; their activities have much in common with selling non-public information for the purpose of insider-trading. I do not see what this has to do with privacy.
Thanks! I hope you understand that I had to be brief in the blog post. Since you seem so interested, I recommend you read the technical report. Do let me know when you've got any questions after that. If you want, you could even clone the SOS repository and change the Python code to test out your hypothesis!
So between you and me, we uncovered more than the entire Finnish press with a few minutes of web searching?

This is looking more and more like a thread in /r/conspiracy.

Anyway, I don't know what Dodge & Cox achieved if they really influenced anything, Nokia stock went from ~$11 to $1.60 to $8 after the acquisition, and whatever Microsoft share price gained during the same time, it wasn't because of the Nokia acquisition or Windows Phone.
something about the platter in the HD being a magnetic medium...
Gain perspective, change your reality
The critical difference is that Bitcoin is intended to be a currency and not an asset. People use assets to store (and hopefully appreciate) value over time. People use currencies to conduct business and as mediums of exchange.

If you think of or use Bitcoin as an asset, you immediately nullify any comparisons with currencies because the two serve different purposes. You could, in principle, buy a house with, say, 10 cars. But that is not done in practice because the market for asset-to-asset transactions (bartering) is small and illiquid.

If you are willing to ignore Bitcoin's purpose as a currency and only use it as an asset, you need to consider what will drive its value in the long term. For most things, that value is just a function of the supply and the demand. While the supply of Bitcoins is fixed and the demand for items that can be bought in BTC is increasing, what will happen when everyone realizes that BTC is a better asset than currency and stops using it for transactions? It will become illiquid, and illiquid assets only have their tangible value. Since Bitcoin isn't tangible like a house or a car, its tangible value is zero.

For the record, I think Bitcoin has potential, but not with the present economic dynamics.
I'm not sure what "Microsoft from the 1990's" or the "Cold War" have to do with anything here.

There have been reports of users bricking their devices using the app (check the various support forums) they then try to swap them only to find out they have voided the warranty. Google is asking CyanogenMod to properly inform users about those risks.

Yet inevitably some on the comments here are cringe worthy
would love to have even smaller subsets (like 5gb) that students can casually play around with too to practice and learn tools and algos :) (if it's not too much trouble!)