skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it does!

BTW, here are a couple of rule-base references of firing an event, in:

1) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.81.... -- "An event can fire, i.e. it is active, ..." -- Representing procedural knowledge in expert systems: An application to process control (1985).

2) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.12.... -- "The object manager identifies fireable events, and fires the rules of each of the participants of the event." -- Using Objects to Implement Office Procedures (1983).
TL;DR summary: Watch the burn rate on your money - bail out or adjust before to late. Reboot - do anything to get a foot on job market again.

Almost the same here. Quitted a well paid job, sold my flat giving enough money to live on for a couple of years, moved together with girlfriend starting a webshop and loose plans on freelancing as IT-consultant too.

Webshop not taking off and I neglect to pursue consultants job, thus not keeping myself "warm" in the market.

One year later I form a start-up with 2 other guys. 5 months down the road I realize this is not going fast enough - I'm seriously running out of money, about to sell all I own, which only will pay bills for another 2-3 months.

Miraculous, through a friend, I get a break on a consultant gig for 2 months. Another stroke of luck (and marketing myself) this is followed by another gig for 5 months in a new company and the consultant path now on track with a third gig.

The two co-founders took it were badly I jumped ship, as I were the only techguy, although we had outlined the consequences if doing so (no share of company/product) if leaving within first year.

Lesson learned: Do your math, look at $ burnrate. If you go "all in" you might risk "go all out" if you keep going to long. If co-starting something with others be very clear on terms for quitting, and be sure it's ok to do so.

Scary experience loosing almost everything ....
Webshop now very slowly getting tracktion - but still not earning "real money" to live by. Still got some startup ideas, but will be outsourced or groomed as side projects

Best of luck to you. Endure the next period, focus to get a foothold in jobmarket again.
Is it possible to add optional typing to Ruby? Something similar to what Dart has.

Optional typing would be very useful for big Ruby apps.
They just added to the list of legal defenses that can protect "bothersome" people [0]. We basically now have evidence that can be used to claim reasonable doubt whenever a bothersome person is in court defending themselves. Since the state is likely to rely on state secrets laws to prevent this information from being subpoenaed in a trial, the possibility that the state used this tactic against a bothersome person can no longer be ruled out and that should constitute reasonable doubt.

It would be supremely ironic if all these NSA surveillance shenanigans resulted in a broad invalidation of any digital evidence in a court of law when bothersome people are involved.

[0] http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
What I mean is, there's no identifying information except that the wallet has 10BTC in it. Even if you could generate all the addresses at once, there's no way to know which one is the right one!
I immediately assumed Hoy-ya. As in the San Diego town La Jolla.
Smartphones aren't portrait. They can be held in either orientation and the browser will comply. So it's we humans who mostly choose to hold the phone in portrait orientation. There's no single answer, but I'll offer pointers:

- Ergonomics. It's generally easier to hold and handle a smartphone one-handed in portrait.

- Readability. Speaking personally, it's mostly annoying to have wide text lines and a short display height. The exclusive reason I use landscape on the mobile web is when the site doesn't handle mobile and the text is just too small even on a high PPI display. Switching to landscape generally increases the text size while keeping each line visible.

If you haven't already, search for resources on Responsive Web Design. Ethan Marcotte's essay[1] at A List Apart was a big spark under this movement, and a LOT more has been written and implemented in this vein since that was written.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/
What does the sign mean? "4th year... You can't or you don't want...?"

* What is the "4th year"? it's not how long Levinson has been hostage (unless the date in the photo caption is wrong)

* Is the message an anti-US taunt by his captors?

* I thought Levinson was missing, not actively held hostage by a captor who advertised his presence or demanded ransom.

Can someone clarify?
It is, but they monitor Enterprise CDNs not public ones.
Sure you can find CloudFlare/cdnjs there but not Google, Yandex, jsDelivr, jQuery

Unfortunately this is hard to implement with our limited resources.
Fallout from the recently enacted and ironically titled "America Invents Act":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
Unimportant, but revealing.
So basically what the writer is saying is that bitcoin will fail, because "bitcoin developers are trying to privatize money". The writer is either really incompetent or jumping in the bitcoin hype train with controversial articles to get cheap traffic. Adding comment so it get's penalized, since as I understand comments here work like downvotes.
Yes. Or that a contract was not created before a certain date. Or, as another poster suggested, that a photo of a damaged rental car was taken before you took possession of the car.
With 50 bitcoins per block, 6 blocks per hour, that would be 7200 bitcoins generated per day total.

So this guy made up more than 1/7 of the entire bitcoin network?

There were less than 6 people besides him that had as powerful of computers?
I'm not saying that Friedman is right but this is a thorny issue in economics:

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
—Milton Friedman, 1963
I think the idea that states co-opted money doesn't stand up to historical scrutiny. States have evolved for the purposes of providing situations where "markets" can arise.

I have to be honest though, I'm not an expert on the subject. Also, everything about the critique presented doesn't have to be false for the successes that bitcoin has had to be real. I think that bitcoin really serves as a form of regulatory arbitrage... its real value, the value that people are placing on it, represent gains that can be made by avoiding fees and oversight. Its an alternate currency that couldn't exist without a state system.

As for the inflationary ideas...I find it really very similar to gold or maybe some other more rare natural resource... don't all of the ideas about hoarding and "de beers" (sic) style monopoly still apply? I'm genuinely asking not trying to be a prick...
> [F]irst of all hand grenades, aren't technically arms if you use the definition of arms used when the constitution was written

This is the crux of the entire argument to me. The spirit of the second amendment is to allow the citizenry to violently overthrow the federal government if they become too powerful, as a last-resort measure. The weapons that the colonists were fighting against were 3 rounds per minute muskets and single-shot cannons, not Apache attack helicopters. Is there a really a regulatory framework that could conceivably exist that would allow for ordinary, private citizens to overthrow the full might of the US military while protecting society from wanton gun violence?
Who let the 4chan kids out of their cages?

Edit: No, seriously, that "DongML" stuff is like something 4chan's technology board might aspire to, if they could put down their bongs and endless WM tweaking for five minutes in a row.
Yes it matters- the Sun is the main provider of gravity for this consideration.
I don't think the solution to this problem is to make our string classes more complicated. I think it's to make our languages and character sets less complicated. I can't believe that multiple codepoints being used to generate a single glyph made it into the Unicode spec. That breaks a bunch of extremely useful abstractions. I think it is reasonable to expect human languages to be made up of distinct glypths that do not interfere with each other. Any language that does not is too complicated to be worth supporting. Let it die.
I'd be intrigued to see how a ruby type checker would handle boolean expressions.
So in Zimbabwe, receiving $1,000,000 in the morning was a losing proposition because by nightfall you might sell the same good for $1,000,000,000.

With hyper-deflation, spending $1,000,000 in the morning would be a losing proposition because by nightfall you might buy the same good for $1,000.

Both suffer severe problems, economically, but who loses and who wins changes. The matrix is something like this:

Inflation| Buyer | Seller |
---------+-------+--------+
Early | Win | Lose |
---------+-------+--------+
Later | Lose | Win |
---------+-------+--------+

Deflation| Buyer | Seller |
---------+-------+--------+
Early | Lose | Win |
---------+-------+--------+
Later | Win | Lose |
---------+-------+--------+

Ultimately, neither one is good. In the case of moderate deflation and inflation it's similar. There is less motivation to invest, greater motivation to save under moderate deflation. Moderate inflation increases the motivation to invest, but decreases the motivation to save.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying -- you can't use this library from a CDN, but you could load JSON.
They might want to get commit@defensivepatentlicense.com rather than @gmail.com...
I agree that there is a point at which allowing the market to decide on fair compensation breaks down. Hence minimum wage and policies against discrimination, etc. I just don't see how one could possibly make an argument that this is the case here. The job pays enough to live well on, and while it does involve performing tasks typically associated with different roles, I don't see any indication that it involves doing more than one person's job. His description of the time involved doesn't sound that far off the norm. The main argument seems to be that the position is under-compensated, but I don't see any reason why in this case the market shouldn't be allowed to determine that.

Basically this whole issue seems to be a case where a significant part of the compensation is non-monetary (essentially, working at PA), and people whose utility functions assign that compensation zero value are getting bent out of shape about the fact that there exist people whose utility functions assign that compensation high value. (For the record, I'm in the group who assigns it zero value.)
I find the opposite. I can handle a couple pages on the computer, but after that I want to print it out and tape it to the wall. It's much easier for me to find relations when looking at everything on the than trying to scroll around on the computer.

I regularly print out large amount of code across dozens of files to mane sense of someone else's mess.
There are many arguments for and against Bitcoin. Only time will tell.

But I have three comments:

1. Personally,

I would probably be - out of self interest - a strong supporter of Bitcoin if I had any, or would have belonged to the first miners. But I have no BTC, and such I only observe as a bystander how this technology develops.

2. Energy and intrinsic value of BTC

For me, the argument that cryptocurrencies can be made out of thin air and thus BTC is just some digital data does not hold. Gold can be mined from many sources as well (e.g. in can be found in the oceans as Au2+). Or another currency can be created and printed/minted.
However, with a currency such as BTC it takes a lot of energy to fire up such a system until a certain level of penetration is reached, and it takes energy to maintain it. Actually, this is one of the greatest drawbacks I see: every BTC that is created now now will be more expensive in terms of energy cost. I prefer a one time energy and material cost for the creation of a currency, and minimal energy/material costs that come with its operations.

3. Penetration and access.

I wonder if it might not have been better to distribute all BTC among all of mankind. That way, everyone would be in possession of an instant amount of currency and could readily engage in trading. The early mining process support the creation and distribution of bitcoin but gives extreme gains to early adopters. A better initial distribution might have helped to position BTC as the dominating cryptocurrency. Right now any follow up can beat BTC if it excels the parameters that define the adoption and usage rate of the currency as trading medium.
What if the situation continues and large percentages of the bitcoin pool are of unknown status (could be lost, could be in the possession of a government institution, could be being hoarded). Would this make bitcoin more risky compared to a hypothetical competing crypto currency that can account for the status of all of it's coins? Could this make bitcoin untenable?
There's a new "Save to drive" button now anyway!
I encountered Mr. Shaw's rant on Rails years before I happened to find myself on a Rails project, and thank God I did; otherwise, my experience with Rails might've led me to think there was something wrong with me.
"It's good policy to expect that a govt. can do anything, unless presented with evidence to the contrary."

WTF does this sentence even mean. Evidence to the contrary that the gov't can't do anything? Could you give an example of such a piece of evidence?

Also TIL Disney dollar is against the constitution.
Considering this is targeted at businesses this is not at all surprising.
There is only one legitimate threat to Bitcoin that I can see - a world government. I don't believe we have a world government now, but the conspiracy theorist inside me warns otherwise.
>The important thing is that I don't want all the other garbage I have backgrounded showing up in my field of view when I don't want to pay attention to it and I want this happen with a single mouse-click. This is a solved problem on virtually every other platform with a windowing metaphor in the last 25 years.
...
> I don't want to install addons, I don't want to spend several seconds breaking my work flow to resize windows just so or any other madness. This should have been solved with the first release of OS X, not the brain-dead hacks that keep getting shipped that nobody obviously thought to actually try and use in Cupertino.

If you're spending several seconds to press a button on a toolbar you're already disrupting your workflow in a way directly comparable to resizing a window by grabbing a corner. If "disrupting your workflow" is such a huge concern you'd want a keyboard shortcut for this action anyway.

Sorry, but I actually think not full screening a window is actually the far superior handling in a world with high resolution, large screens. There are other ways to "hide" things you are background like using Spaces or whatever they're calling virtual desktops.

> I do have an addon installed to solve this, but this is stupid core OS functionality and It's unbelievable that I'm living in the 21st century and full screening apps on multiple monitors requires years of waiting and entire OS upgrades.

Ok. Seems like it takes virtually no effort one time to get the functionality you really want. If that's enough to make you super crazed and need a huge vent, that's fine. For me, that's a very plausible solution to a specific problem related to a preference that you likely developed because you are used to working on a different platform. It's true that:

> I'm not asking for weird edge case user environment things, or highly specialized workflows, or ultra-specialized niche window management or other things, just for the things to work as the user would expect.

... but you are asking for OSX to act like Windows has rather than how OSX has since it has had windowing (or at least as far back as my memory goes to the mid 90s). There was a choice made. It's a choice I didn't like when there weren't things like virtual desktops and when screen resolutions were lower and screen size was smaller. On a big screen with lots of pixels, I think it makes sense to double down on the traditional way they've handled enlarging windows.
An Open Source Thanksgiving from &yet
Here's what we did for Thanksgiving:

- $20K to http://scalenpm.org from &yet + ^Lift
- http://community.andyet.com
- $50/wk per dev towards Gittip

More on the blog: https://blog.andyet.com/2013/11/27/happy-thanksgiving
That isn't how pricing works. Your competitors would raise prices, not lower them.

Either way there are only like 3 players in the "basics" market anyway so we're closer to a monopoly as it is.
400 tons a year is nothing compared to other industrial metals. By comparison, world production of copper is 17 million tonnes per year.
I think most people only care about its failure in the 'money' sense.
Now I just have to trust their hashing algorithm..
If you decide to gamble and stay, then ensure a lawyer to have a look at the paperwork. I can recommend one in downtown SF (email me). When I was in similar situation 5 years ago, this guy helped me for $1oo! :)
Yeah, I am really annoyed with 1D versus 2D. However, if you're using a laptop, battery life from Mavericks alone makes it a killer upgrade.
Any protocol could come along and displace http, or a parallel internet could come along and displace it. But we're going on 22 years now and that's how we're communicating.

What if these protocols are not so easily displaced as you imagine?
The patent system is broken. There should be some restrictions where a company cannot make money from suing based on a patent without them actually producing the product themselves. That way you know that the people owning the patent at least are capable of making what they have a patent for. If that is not the case then they should expedite the expiration of the patent where they would loose it in a certain amount of years if they were not able to produce that product in that time.

The patent is meant to be a legal monopoly for outstanding innovations for a set amount of time, not as a revenue models for lawyers.
The global move to "first to file" seems basically an admission that the patent system is completely ideologically bankrupt and is nothing more than regulatory capture for cutting-edge industries and a jobs program for lawyers.

The paper matters more than the invention. What a world.
I'm an engineer on Facebook's CDN and Edge network, and, in my experience, the hardest places to serve people quickly are South America, Africa, and Asia. You should try to get some timing data for those places.
Hold tight. It's just a rough patch that will pass. A lot of people here are ready to help. Take it and mend somethings. Stay strong.
In my case, physical games/books because DRM.
How long can a computer hard drive remain in working condition while buried in a landfill?
Let's also keep one advantage of physical books over e-books in mind:

If I take a book into the bathtub, and drop it, the book may very well be salvageable. At worst, I'm out the price of the book.

If I take an e-book into the bathtub, and drop it, I've likely just hosed a very expensive e-reader or tablet.

Has anyone designed an e-reader which properly handles the "reading in the bathtub" use case?
> Government backing can provide one source of confidence. But so can strong crypto, and one could argue that these days people have more confidence in crypto than in governments.

Not quite. The confidence in "normal" fiat currency arises not so much from government backing, but from the fact that a well-managed national currency envelopes the GDP of a national economy. Government really needs fiscal discipline to not break the system (the consequences are well known); the trust part comes from the health of national economy and intersection of interests of all involved players.

Consider a major issuer like USA or Eurozone. The strength of their currencies stems from strength of the backing economies. In theory, the government could try fooling the system and run the printing press amok. In practice, such a government would be very short-lived, as it would piss off just about every person with money.

Save for outliers like Zimbabwe, there aren't really many cases of modern governments running themselves in the ground like that. Usually, runaway inflation is a consequence of a catastrophic event in the economy (bubbles, wars, loss of markets and other externalities).

Now, a super-fiat currency like Bitcoin is not backed by anything like that. It is a virtual construct with finite supply, and crypto is just a production vehicle here. It envelopes no economy, so the all trust here comes from compound interest of people who invest into it.
$150 billion a year is nothing?
Google is an advertising company. They would go out of business with the rest of their competition. It would be fantastic if the worlds brightest engineers worked on something who's goal was not to drive impressions and clickthrough. But solving the worlds real problems doesn't pay as well.
Do you remember when computers used to take whole rooms and apparently "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." and "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

Now iam replying to this from a phone

Just saying technologies improve over time, bitcoin is a very interesting mix of technologies, probably the most exciting thing to come along since email, web, bittorent and social networks
Definitely! Mind creating an issue out of it? I'll add it to the list
Except that they gave you the address. The trick is to figure out the private key.
I really like that description.
No. That is redefining the purpose of this limit. It was meant only as a anti-spam measure and now people like you claim it is necessary. There is a _natural_ limit to the minimum transaction fee which is determined by the orphan cost (including transactions means slower block propagation means higher chance of a found block being orphaned by another, concurrent block). Bitcoin needs to eventually scale to survive and that means removing the block size limit and optimizing the protocol for lowest possible orphan cost.