skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what he really means, despite the use of "sine qua non", is that the vast vast majority of people really don't like dealing with more than one currency, and if their government uses a given currency, most people will use it because they have to pay taxes with it.

> Sure, taxes increase demand for money, but that is a far stretch from saying money can't exist without taxes

it really depends what you mean by "money". prior to government meddling in markets, most historical evidence points to economies relying on ad-hoc, non-denominated credit systems (aka, i can drink at the tavern all year because the barkeep knows i'll give him some of my grain come harvest time). these tabs were, notably, not denominated in an abstract currency. it wasn't "you've spent 16oz of gold at the bar this year", it was just "you've had a lot to drink, you better give me a good portion of your harvest".

you only really start seeing professional merchants and money-based trade after currency has been standardized by axial age governments for the purposes of funding their armies. to fund the armies, governments would mint money out of precious metal reserves, pay the army, and require the coins back from the population at large. all of a sudden, the whole population is now legally required to, in some manner, economically service the army (as they are the vehicle through which all coinage enters the market). the armies would then take over neighboring countries, enslave their population, and the slaves would mine more metal for coining. a nice little feedback loop.

anyway, sorry i got a bit off track there, but my real point was: currency was, by all historical evidence, definitely an invention of/majorly promoted by the state.
The power of the "Matrix" concept is its illustration of the subjectiveness of what we think of as "reality." I think we for sure live in the meatspace version of the Matrix. So it's more blobish, but it's a distributed construct that is quite convincing to its inhabitants as long as it holds together!
Oops wrong link, I meant here http://algorave.com/about
The "OPSEC for Hackers" guy, @grugq, is also developing a Tor appliance. PORTAL is opensource (unlike the SafePlug) and targets the Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi
I can help with beta testing your app. kapilnakhwa@gmail.com
Making "junior" developers solve problems with regex sounds like a recipe for terrible maintainability, unless it is necessary
Fortunately, Android is open enough

Well, make CyanogenMod Installer Application open enough and put it onto F-droid.

Don't wan't to? Well, neither GOOG ...so much about openness PR.
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Please, use something open source and truly secure: PORTAL on a Raspberry Pi.
Developed by @thegrugq, reviewed and trusted by many. For a really lighter pricetag (the price of a RPi).

https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi

P.O.R.T.A.L. Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty https://github.com/grugq/portal

A Linux router that connects to Tor over one interface and shares the connection over another one. Simple and secure.
On Presentation Tools
did you read the article? the article is about how he views bitcoin as a response to governmental failures in practicing responsible monetary policy.
If someone could link me to the paper in question, I would really appreciate it.
You're right about the potential abuses. However, the only reason we have any kind of biological privacy is because the stuff we leave everywhere is too small for most people to notice. But we are not clean animals. We shed everywhere. I don't think biological privacy in the long term is a realistic goal unless we're willing to make full-body plastic suits fashionable.

More to the point, it's absolutely necessary to research this stuff. The more samples we can get out there, by whatever means necessary, the better. This kind of research will absolutely save lives, and in no small portion.

It's good to keep the security implications in perspective. However, if privacy concerns held back or halted basic research on biology, they would do more damage from voluntary and legislative protections than they are capable of doing by creating advertising profiles.
Facebook hijacked Yahoo login page
yes, most gold-backed currencies were issued by governments and contained a significant fiduciary element (aka, one gold coin was worth more than its weight in gold).
The statement that Christchurch, New Zealand is leveraging 12 percent of the $30 billion reconstruction fund for this type of project is wildly inaccurate. The article referenced only discusses a potential $5m project.
Can't agree with this more. All the plus pointed touts for FP are available in Scala without the necessary mental context-switch that is required to grok the parenthesis extravaganza. Why Clojure instead of Scala?
Depends on the model of the SSD.

Personally, I have had 3 different Revodrives, all of which have failed. The last one I sent in, and asked to get a more reliable disk back, and I got a Vector. So far so good. Keep away from Revodrives.
Stories are community property; the first person to submit a story doesn't "own" it, and shouldn't have a special right to editorialize the submission.
Thankful & Bootstrapped for 10+ years
Hm, I was just wondering why a personal site need to be powered by node? If it's just as a learning experience - no shame in that!
If we are currently in S, then it is true that (a) our species will reach/surpass the posthuman stage before extinction (perhaps even preventing species extinction) and (b) our species [will likely] run a significant number of simulations (of which we likely, so it follows, are not the original biological implementation).
Amazon Launches Online Video Service in Japan
Yeah, I'd be open to replacing the username. One of the biggest things I overlooked when I wrote HN is that I didn't make any provision to let people change their usernames. There are no internal ids underlying usernames; the actual usernames are stored everywhere. But if I wrote something to let people change their displayed username, it could also be used for this.
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Intel launches Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo board
> They will fail, because money that is not issued by governments is always doomed to failure.

Stopped reading right there. Does this author actually believe that money is issued by governments?

Why do you think your notes have "Bank of England" or "Federal Reserve", or whatnot written on them?

It's because they're issued by those private institutions. They're not government bodies.

Of course, the government has the alleged power to regulate those private institutions, but in reality it works the other way - those private institutions have the real leverage to regulate governments.

It's because the governments are in debt to the private institutions that they can force the government to back their monopoly issuance of currency, and of course, they can force the government to privatize publicly owned assets to pay back the debts.

Once you see past the very basic myth that "governments issue money", you quickly realize why politics is theatre, and any chance of change to the status quo won't happen through government. Bitcoin is the game changer.
Some reduction in lines of code may have come if they had rewritten it in Java too, due to better understanding the problem space after having written the first version.
Java has a fair amount of boilerplate type code other than getters and setters. For example forcing you to use "classes" for everything, even when you really want a procedural or functional API. Some people try to write semi functional style programs anyway using object oriented "patterns", which can sometimes lead to really just a lof more lines of code too. Also explicit type annotations take up space. And the Java style of using exceptions can be quite verbose. There may also be better designed libraries to do a lot of things for you automatically in clojure. Macros are very helpful too. But I'm just making all of this up, haven't actually seen the codebases to compare them.
Gem install wedding
This is the bible of regex. Its explanation of "unrolling the loop" will change how you write regular expressions if you don't already use that technique. Its discussion of the operation of NFA and DFA engines is great too.
So profound a concept, yet so simple, and often at the root of so much fallacious thinking. Thanks for taking the time to educate our economically challenged friends.
Technologically, yes, it works, but not always correctly. Users don't like it. That's like public transportation with Ferrari seats claiming Ferrari experience.
>Have you tried paying your taxes in Bitcoin?

Not yet.
I think an accurate comparison would be EA providing software via the Playstation Store which attempts to change the OS, leading to a situation where the warranty becomes void and Sony refuses to replace or fix broken PS4s free of cost.

When problems creep up on a product like this, the user will get shafted badly in the end. Google will refuse to help (cue complaints about Google allowing potentially destructive apps in Play store) as they don't support either the software or the phone, the manufacturer will also wash their hands off it, CM does not provide support for this from what I understand.

I have been using Android phones since 2010 (rarely on a stock ROM) and even now flashing anything is done with a prayer on my lips. There are just too many things that can go wrong with the way it is done right now.
Please don't use regexes.
I do actually somewhat agree here. If one doesn't know what they are doing, it is very easy to do regular expressions incorrectly.

That said, regex is sometimes necessary, so it is important for developers to be competent in this realm. In my opinion, ideally, junior developers would start with using them in non-production environments to become familiar, then go from there. It is also important to be able to distinguish which problems should be solved by regular expressions, and which shouldn't. A good mentor here can be great.
The WeLL worked like that (come back and erase comments), it made for some very problematic reading of old conversations.
I love saying this:

Do you think that cryptocurrencies spring fully-formed from the forehead of Zeus?
Interview with drug trafficker/money launderer
The problem with studying metaphysics is that it's quite hard to do experiments.
As always, any epistemic framework (all the way through to physics) must cohere with the phenomenological departure of [things like] us, humans. In order to cohere with our modality of gestalt perception, such a framework must at least consist of Decisions, Principles, and Predictions as the underpinning conceptual substrates of that framework. Rationality amounts to reasoning to the best explanation which allots Decisions, Principles (First Principles — Metaphysics), and Predictions (expressed typically as statistical Laws) and their interplay.

For instance, sometimes Decisions and subvert Principles. Sometimes Principles are more intuitive than Decisions, given that some Decisions are not fathomable by all epistemic agents. Sometimes evidence invalidates Predictions, but we ultimately Decide what evidence is within scope of those Principles which determine valid Predictions.

Generally, whether or not we are in the Matrix is our Decision to make. (i.e. It is not something we "discover" in the usual sense of the term.)
Entanglement the ultimate ycombinator?... lol
> We can't really go back and figure out the exact history of how gold emerged as money

actually, we can. it's called historical anthropology, and books upon books have been written on the topic. to summarize those books for you: the chartalists were basically right. standardized currency and thus stable markets took off once governments did what governments do: pass laws to standardize things. also, contrary to your assertion that the only "monetization" event was "how gold emerged as money", we've actually gone through a number of cycles back and forth between gold/precious metal-backed money and credit-backed money. metal-backed money tends to hold during periods of imperialism and warfare (where the expected lifetime of a given state is low due to risk of being conquered/defeated, and soldiers have high exposure to other markets), while credit-backed money tends to emerge during periods of stability and peace (where states are more stable and trust-worthy than the rate at which some given metal comes out of the ground).
good. I picked up a 30GB ssd on eBay that was NIB for like 30 bucks and it failed while installing arch linux. I contacted the seller and he happily refunded me. That was my first experience with OCZ as I have always used Intel or Kingston SSD.
A simple light sensing trigger (coupled with a timer) would do the trick.

Light should be on but see no light and it's winter time? Turn on the heater.

Same situation in the summer? Send out a tech, the light's probably out.
Well, no.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506
so how do you e.g. remove trailing whitespace?
MBAs & Startups - A VC's contrarian view
Nomography, or Computing without Computers
I haven't played with the downloaded data yet, but I did this experiment once:

1) Copy Url of one of ur pics and save it somewhere.

2) Delete that Picture. (Now it doesn't show up in your photo album)

3) Access through saved link.

When i tried it, the image was still accessible, so FB didn't REALLY delete it. They just told me they did. I dont think it would show up in downloaded data (i am pretty sure they are smart enough), but they still have it. So...

Disclaimer: It maybe that for some optimization stuff, they use a deferred delete mechanism where they REALLY delete it from the system at a later date. But even if the saved link doesn't work, there's the possibility that they just changed the link.
Sure, but why should I have any reason to believe you?

If you had been served with a national security letter, you would be obligated to lie about it.

Plus, you have a pretty significant financial incentive to lie about how great Cloudflare is, with no downside, since you're not under oath on HN. And even if you were, officials who have lied about the extent of surveillance programs while under oath haven't been prosecuted.

Representatives of Facebook lied. Ditto with Google. Etc, etc, etc.
Bitcoin will come down to near 250 by Jan (end)/Fed(mid), if we go by the patterns shown in forex/stock markets. I'm not very sure if the patterns for Bitcoin/USD can be compared to the forex markets or stock markets.
Optimizing CCCs
we don't all work on the internet you know...

And the author didn't say that you must know regex to be a good dev. He said that he was learning it, and that he was putting more effort into it and finding it was paying off.

"I want to be a good developer one day, and I think as a young developer we should put in the extra time to try and really understand something and not just always do what is the quickest."
You can (and likely should) choose to store your locale-specific times in UTC, but you often can't choose to define 'days' as UTC days.

If your days are meaningful for your app in any way, then you have to have clear boundaries between days/weeks/months - if your website has a report 'downloads per day', then it doesn't mean UTC days (which for many locations would mean splitting in the middle of business hours. And it has days where the difference between 'start-of-day' and 'end-of-day' is not 24 hours, but 25 hours.

Also, no matter how you handle time storage, if you're doing any analytics, and your process is minute-dependent instead of day-dependent (say, power consumption, not purchases), then your daily totals will have ~5% jumps twice a year that you might need to adjust.
something like this would be interesting I think: <randomnumber>+accountdeleted so unlike reddit, in a discussion if multiple users delete their account but keep their comment, you don't get confused if its the same user or different user.
FYI: Tor Browser, in its current iteration, does not disable Javascript by default, and the NoScript is configured to allow Javascript by default.

There's also a large concern that using NoScript in any form harms anonymity, as your NoScript whitelist/blacklist is somewhat detectable by websites and can act as a fingerprint.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a bitcoin insurance policy?
Lets say you could pay $xx/month to have your bitcoins insurance, in case of theft or lost coins, or anything along those lines... would you do it?
Is that a serious question? Almost every major language has some kind of string trim/strip function for that purpose.
There may not be any sudden changes in the rewards, but that doesn't change the fact that the rewards are decreasing, and with more people involved, the competition is increasing.

It's also pretty much impossible to CPU mine anymore, and with the addition of ASICs to the mining pool, even running a GPU miner is no longer profitable after calculating electricity costs.

I understand that you don't have to be mining to assist in verifying transactions, as simply running the bitcoin-qt client aids processing of transaction, but there no longer is a financial motivation to do so.

With an increase in the rate of transactions as the Bitcoin market continues to grow, it seems that the transaction speed will certainly slow down, and the security of the network will decrease.

If there is anyone here that can explain to me why I shouldn't be worried about this situation, I'd absolutely love to hear it. I'm bullish on Bitcoin, and I think there is still a good future for the currency, but I'm worried...
Is it a good idea to build things without middleware?
But with reddit, you can also roll through every last comment you ever wrote and delete them (as it should be; you own the copyright to those comments):

Reddit History Wiper
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/111025
I think there are other admins besides PG. I don't know who they are or how many there are.
>A CMS Trap is a state of a web-application in which the development of content management systems is obstructing the development of the content.

I think this pretty neatly summarizes my experience working with Drupal.
* It's just nothing new or that compelling in this format / live coding, etc..*

It's interesting because some things have changed. There are more tools like SuperCollider, and they have become easier to install and on more platforms. And devices have become more powerful, reducing latency and unintended glitches due to processing requirements.

There also seems to be more languages people can use for this.

And more people seem to know about it.

So with all that you would expect to hear of more interesting things being done.

It feels, though, that the practitioners are prone to getting caught up in the pseudo-novelty (novel, at least, to them) of how it is done at the expense of creating music that presents some engaging development arc.

Reminds me of music created by some aleatoric process (Cage's I Ching stuff, perhaps). Interesting to think about and to discuss, less interesting to actually listen to for very long.
Pictures can take weeks to be purged from their CDN, but when deleted, they are removed from the origin.
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Contemporary insurance schemes usually rely on the insurer having some means (or some chance) of possibly recovering the sum, either by siccing their lawyers on the thief/thief's bank or getting the police to step in.

With bitcoin there's really no viable way to do this as there's no easy way for a sub-NSA-level actor to trace BTC transactions.

So I'm at a loss as to how such a system could be made to work.
>Because software shouldn't brick the phone.

It's not software, it's a damn operating system.
I can't say I know what it's like, but I can empathize by extrapolation from my own experiences having to do things by brute force search that come naturally to others. The crayon analogy was helpful.
Replacing the "deleted" username with its hash in the template would probably be enough.
You're playing a strawman game here, though. Some of are just practical and live in the real world.
On a second thought – I think a significant crash like this can be destructive to bitcoin and make it slide much further – considering that the sentiment towards bitcoins is still that of a “bubble” or a “ponzi scheme”
You're closer to the truth than the conspiracy theorists, but when Elop was hired, Meego was still actually on the table as The Nokia Future. He took it off the table because in his estimation it just wasn't ready. (I worked for Nokia at the time, saw the N9 prototype at the same point in its life he did when he made that call, and he was right. It just wasn't ready.)

And, as a fairly long article in Business Week (I think) detailed a couple years ago, Android was actually the first choice over Windows Phone, but Google and Nokia couldn't come to terms: Nokia wanted to be able to use the official Android branding and use Nokia's existing services (mostly their maps), but Google's license doesn't allow that.

Having said all that, I can understand some of the conspiracy mindset around this. Nokia wrote Elop's contract in a way which basically gave him a huge golden parachute if the handset division was sold to someone else, and that really is nuts -- I doubt the intention was to explicitly reward failure, but it's damn easy to paint it that way. But this whole "secret mole" thing? Frankly, whatever one thinks about Microsoft's business practices, I don't think it's plausible that they're really clever enough to pull this off.
Who says discussions on the Internet should be free of fallacy?
or the Play Services APIs

Huh. So I can't use any of the Google apps, like gmail?
Bitcoin crosses $1000
If it was also the feature users could use to change their displayed username, it would have to work that way.
SVG Icons FTW
happy thanksgiving :)
"misappropriation".. I had this word in my mind the entire time while reading the open letter. I can't really think of a word to better describe just what seems to be going on here.
But does it web scale?
No it isn't.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted
the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws
of geometry.
—Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (1922).

Predicate calculus and Modal logic supply us with more than enough tools to make experimental metaphysics convenient and easy to do.

The problem is that most people simply don't have familiarity with the topic, don't study philosophy (confusing it with Humanities, rather than seeing it as a gateway into the most fundamental science: logic), and because of the "science is sexy" crowd and the distraction of the Atheist Initiative (Dawkins, etc.) who push and preach Scientific Realism.

NLTK + Modal predicates[0]: Experiemental Metaphysics. Done.

[0]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/
One of their implicit pitch is that Jolla is "surveillance free".

Bullshit. Unless the phone can lie to the phone company about which cell tower its connected to, or some magic like that, it's not going to be anything like "surveillance free."