skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing that out - will be sure to add a subscribe box on each page. Appreciate the help!
Such a shame; an amazing city with wonderful prospects, becoming almost entirely uninhabitable.
I work from home and brew my own beer.
(home -> home -> home -> home)
I'm also a huge believer in P2P learning. I believe that it has very interesting implications both online and off. I'm hoping that a nonprofit (like Khan Academy) will pave the way for future ventures in this space.
>The moment a physical address / name are associated with a wallet, any spending from that wallet can be tracked back to you forever.

You mean 'bitcoin address', not wallet. A wallet can, and usually does, have many public addresses.
I'm assuming this is a joke. If so, it is funny.
Built times were cut in half! Pretty impressive. Time to take a look at this platform.
I see no reason why backing a project requires any benefits or ownership and why the benefactors cannot turn a profit with that project. If you don't like it, don't back it. Federal regulation isn't at all necessary because the deal is clearly spelled out. You aren't buying a product, you're backing a project which you may be rewarded for.
Exactly this. Be wary. Given the liquidity of the BTC/USD, the amount of capital needed to substantially move prices is trivially small for an investment bank, or even for many individuals.
I was just skimming the comments to see if anyone would mention Greenwald's gambit. That news honestly excited me.

And I do find it amusing how many other commenters are bothered with Curtis' unwillingness to "dumb down" his style, as that seemed to be one factor he was lamenting in his article. The lack of the spoonful of sugar should not immediately discredit the medicine's need to go down.

And for the article's core point- I still have faith in citizen journalism. It has always existed in one form or another, though it is frustrating that the ones whose soapboxes are most accepted in recent years have difficulties in exhibiting non-partisan voices. I feel that genuinely unbiased media is dependent upon the ability to resist taking sides- especially when all sides are rather dirty to begin with.
(i.e. "tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them")

That's what many subscribe to. There are schools of thought that disagree. Some readers enjoy not knowing where the text is going; done well, it makes the payoff significantly more pleasurable.

What you said certainly does seem to be the fashion at the moment; the number of books whose first chapter is simply a dull forewarning of what each of the following chapters is going to be about certainly seems to have increased in recent years. I find it horrifically dull and generally skip that entirely. I see the same thing in presentations; it's just as dull (to me).
Spammers use it because it converts really well. Ugly as sin, but it converts.
Their procedure seemed a little lacking too. They measured jogging on a treadmill in the lab, then fitted them with 'unobtrusive armband' monitors. Does that measure the same thing as the lab equipment? Why not just use the armbands when on the treadmill, to get a comparable measurement?

Also, people doing Anything while others are watching, do it more deliberately than when private. So they only have conclusions about the activity level when wearing an armband, and while planning what to write in your journal afterward.
What? But China ratified the Kyoto protocol and pledged to reduce their pollution. This can't be true! It's almost as if the country completely disregarded the treaty to grow their economy at any expense.
The app looks like it's a syncing service that has the possibility to add "clouds" as source - only Google Picasa supported now. It won't transfer, which I guess means syncing to their servers, the one item I added to it.
> maybe one day we can hope to "hack" cancer

Not in the way you are meaning, but we already have.

As well as virus call and bacteria we have tested using altered cancer cells as a delivery mechanism for medication (particularly against other cancer cells). I'm pretty sure there have been no human trials of anything like this yet though.
Are you wearing an armband while doing all that? For science!
Yeah, today was not a great day to be here. We contemplated not letting our children go outside, but eventually sent them to school.
You must be doing it wrong?
Apple Reveals That 74% of Devices Are Now Running iOS 7
These recent analyses, even if correct, attempt only to compare bitcoin to currencies or commodities. They are not addressing the potential of new functionality enabled by features of bitcoin such as multisignature transactions and the nascent payment protocol. They don't address the network affects either. Bitcoin only has to get a toehold on a class of transactions and will then start to become more valuable.
Bill Nye's Open Letter to President Barack Obama
I don't think NYT has any particular beef against Bitcoin specifically. They'd call anything unregulated "murky" or some synonym.
Step 1. Download Ubuntu.
Step 2. Overwrite your windows installation with Ubuntu.
Step 3. Profit $$$
When you open search you see a table section header that reads "Friend Requests" I don't have any friend request but the presence of the header made me go looking for this type of functionality.

Other notes:
- This morning I wanted to add a journal entry for the day. I looked for a compose button but it seems like that's only possible for things that are system created.
- I like the time-travel area and local push. That's nice and seems better then TimeHop
- I saw a couple things on my timeline that I wanted to delete. Swipe to delete didn't work, neither did tap and hold. Tapping the photo and dragging it into the lower shelf seemed really broken. (I later discovered I could swipe delete from the description, this took some exploration to discover)

Shoot me an email if you like.... graiz@raizlabs.com
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My day job is at a gardening company and we're in the process of remodeling our offices. So, do these desks actually exist for sale yet? No way we'd be able to outfit the entire office, but it could make for a cool couple of showpieces for when we have investors and suppliers dropping by.
Want to be more successful? Put a woman on the board.
Yes, I fully realize that Kickstarter is not directly a store. You're not pledging money towards immediately available products. They've added some unique factors to it. Otherwise, we would have never heard of them in the first place.

But calling it a pledge just because there are caveats attached still does not (IMO) change what people SEE Kickstarter as... I haven't heard from too many people that "pledged" money into a successfully funded project that never delivered walk away saying "Oh well, no big deal".

Kickstarter is basically leading people to believe they are going to get something very specific in return for their money. The projects even list higher-valued items for higher pledge amounts. This is much more "store"-like than it is not.
I know someone over in China at the moment and they said that the pollution was so bad this morning that looking out of a window you couldn't see the building next it. Scary thought of how much damage that'd do to your lungs.
> Not in terms of worthiness. Obama ... was pushed through on racism ... non-white people voting blindly

Subjective opinion is subjective, bordering on offensive.
It's a panoply of obfuscations, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.

For instance, the Federal Reserve really is a federal institution.

Also, saying the Fed provided $9 trillion is a counting game. The $9 trillion comes from adding up a bunch of short term loans, the outstanding amount was never near that much.
Not effective then - the guys at Kickstarter are not dumb.
It's not exactly uncommon for a narrative to suddenly jump to a seemingly unrelated scene, only for the threads to weave themselves back together by the end. It's a standard literary trope. Fair enough, it is often a feature of bad writing. You should probably read this article though.

His recent post about syria was excellent as well, and more concrete than this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/the_baby_and_the...
Err, the reason why the App Store has been attractive to developers is because it's a distribution channel that generated money, period.

> If we train users to be wary of apps, it will not be good for honest developers

So what you're saying is that users would learn to not trust implicitly random strangers making promises in exchange for cash and that would somehow harm honest developers? Like how in the world did you reach that conclusion?

Dude, selling an app on the web or in an app store is no different than selling something in the real world. You find some initial customers, if your product is good those customers will give you reviews, they'll tell other people and so on. Trust is something you earn. I don't see where the problem is for "honest developers", I really don't.
Huh. That's kind of the definition of a moral act.
It depends.

I work at home so I find that working out of the "office" helps clear my head.

I take a tablet to the gym so I can read O'Reilly books and technical documentation while I work out. It gives me a chance to think reflectively about what I do without spending more time in the chair.
Good, because we're certainly not ready to compete in serious benchmarks yet. :)
"This log does not contain the actual characters you type, but it does indicate whether each character was among those predicted by Telepathwords."

And, as always with password checkers, you can enter something similar to your actual password.
I thought this was a joke re the headline. But no. The author of the blog post, who also considers herself a writer, is the one sending the wrong message.

I don't understand why people get YOUR and YOU'RE confused. And I mean that as a serious puzzle: the two do sound alike, obviously, but they are not identical. And the apostrophe (which replaces the 'a') is a dead giveaway as to which one to use when.
I really don't get the point of password estimators that need to send the password server side.
I may as well just not have a password then.
If you can't find instances of the apartheid government intentionally doing terrible things to civilians all by yourself, then you don't deserve to be on the internet.
Unfortunately we all only really can change our individual behavior. So individual morals is all there is. Given that, you can 'go with the flow' and become a person that does immoral things, or you can hold the line and perhaps be an example. And keep your self-respect.
"Loser pays" is usually a republican ploy to gut regulation. E.g. you're never going to sue Exxon for polluting your town if you could be on the hook for Exxon's legal bills if you lose.
Just make the desk bigger and replace cubicle walls with these plants.

Regarding the high-oxygen plants, I wanted to get these after watching the TED talk about them. However I found they were rather obscure and couldn't find them at nurseries.
The disclaimers are because they used to be overt fraud. Now they are mostly paid for by "soft commission" and are supposed to be "independent research" for people who will not pay for research with their own money but will spend customers money on it.
So they may actually be able to estimate what passwords are in use, by what people DONT type in? Interesting.
You can do what you want because it's your software. But from the open source policies I've seen companies use, there are generally three lists of licenses. The first list is "you can use any open source software that follows these licenses". BSD, MIT, Apache, etc. are on this list. The second list is "you have to get approval from Legal to use software with these licenses but we would generally prefer for you not to." GPLv2 is generally on this list. The third list is "don't even think about it", and GPLv3 and AGPL are on this list.

My impression is that the second list exists solely because there exists GPLv2 licensed software with no viable alternatives to it. Unfortunately, your project is not one of them. It's your project so you can do whatever you want, but GPL is an obstacle to adoption in industry.
To quibble further still: the request line may have the protocol and version if the client is HTTP/1.0 or newer. HTTP/1.0 servers must "recognize the format of the Request-Line for HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 requests" (RFC 1945).
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Every time you log in to a site with a password, you are sending your password server-side. If you don't trust the recipient, don't send your password. But sending passwords to trusted servers is a normal part of using the web.
in the period 1976 to 1986, approximately 130 people were killed by what the source calls 'terrorists'

FWIW, Mandela was in prison at the time. From the 60s to 1990.
The Kyoto protocol has to do with CO2 emissions, which are very different from the sort of particulate and sulfur pollution described in the article. Also, I have no idea whether China is actually following that treaty, but the reason the US didn't sign was that it did actually allow China to drastically increase the amount of fossil fuels it burns.
I love China but pollution, the great firewall, and visa complications make it less attractive as somewhere to live.
The stem and the flower
None of then really support OpenGL though.

While they had OGL implementations, all of them basically require you to write against a low-level proprietary api to be competitive with other games on the platform.
Unfortunately once I typed it in, I can not trust the password anymore.
This gave me an idea which is probably terrible. Instead of eating errors or ignoring them, use genetic programming on the code until it passes all your tests and doesn't give any errors. It would still be terrible to actually use, but it might actually get the code to work.
They are way understating the growth potential of a currency that has unlimited growth potential because it knows no borders, and serves as a new technological platform.
I could imagine a few advantages:

1) Watering. The design appears to only have one water feed tube, which waters all the plants.

2) Weight. Pots are heavy. Making the pots part of the desk should be good for reducing that.

3) Stability. With the pots built into the desk I see it much less likely that a coworker or cat will knock over the plants.

4) Setup. With the design including specific recommendations for plants and needing no other parts I could see the both plants and desk being shipped together.

5) Aesthetics. A white surface with plants growing out of it looks very modern and may complement interior design choices better than a stack of pots even on the same surface.
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and the price of international schools for your kids, right?
Is there a level of public outcry regarding the pollution?

I realize that criticism may be somewhat muted given the nature of the PRC government, but I can't imagine a city as large and cosmopolitan as Shanghai merely accepting this level of environmental mismanagement. Unfortunately, articles regarding Beijing/Shanghai pollution usually fail to mention public sentiment above the level of brief individual anecdote ("It's hard to breath on the way to the office" - Chinese citizen, etc.).

Perhaps someone local could provide some insight?
How does this change with MongoDB? The question of development support applies equally to both but it's usually MUCH safer to add a SQL column (default null, etc.) than to dive into a thicket of app-specific JS.

This has been happening for decades in the RDBMS world – even the ultra-conservative Oracle admins I've worked with were willing to come of out in-place retirement long enough to do something like that.
Right! I really like the Raspberry suggestion and future Mailpile integration. Would like to see a big "Buy" button here to just order my raspberry Pi with everything setup and easy update. I think that "easy of use" would be a key point for such decentralized tools to beat Dropbox & Co
Indeed. The claim "Deflate sucks compared to Gzip" jumped out at me. A more thorough discussion here would be helpful, something along the lines of "While deflate would be the superior choice (though narrowly), it has historically been poorly implemented in servers and user-agents and should therefore be avoided for compatibility".
I remember visiting Shanghai about 10 years ago. It was very vibrant and exciting, and there were cranes everywhere. I thought, "This is like being on the ground floor of a great new metropolis. Wouldn't it be awesome to work here?" I'm glad that things didn't work out that way. There are health consequences for such massive pollution.
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Pretty much every Home Depot and Lowes has tons of them, at least here in Michigan.
I wonder how it compares with RethinkDB?
When is the bubble going to burst? I'm just asking because I've been told it's been coming for years, yet BitCoin is now many thousands of percent more valuable than it was when I was first told that it was another tulip bulb.

In fairness to you it is very difficult to distinguish an Internet-style network effect, where there is exponential growth, and a bubble. But it's not impossible. This is exponential growth due to a network effect because BitCoin represents real value and is not a bubble.
Don't forget about Twitter!
Relevant

Timeline of far future from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

To me the most interesting point in the future is 120 trillion years: when all the stars in the universe have exhausted their fuel, and the Universe has gone dark.
My thoughts on the BAML report:

The calculation of BTC's value as a currency uses the correct methodology, which I had previously outlined in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6829518

BAML uses M1 (cash + checking accounts) instead of M2 (M1 + savings accounts + time deposits). Using M2 is a lot more aggressive but it also captures the "store of value" value. M2 is really a best case scenario for BTC owners, as it assumes that users will hold their savings in BTC. BAML is fine to be conservative with this.

BAML's inclusion of Bitcoin's value as a money transmission business is absurd. While transfer fees accrue to the shareholders of Western Union, the transfer fees of BTC transfers do not accrue to BTC owners. In fact, the transfer fees are quite small to zero and they accrue to the miners. So if BTC does take share from WU, etc., it only shrinks the pie.

Some posters on HN and elsewhere are saying that BAML is "too conservative", but they have not posted their own numbers and assumptions.

The reality is that BTC's current real economy is nowhere near the size needed to justify the current BTC price, and enormous growth of this economy is already baked into the price. While it's not impossible that this growth can occur, there are real reasons to believe that it won't.
The problem is one of education. Schools should teach classes on protecting your online privacy, because Google or Apple in the end only care about their bottom line and "curation" only works to consumers' benefit as long as it's in these companies' interest.

You said "after installing your first 5 apps". Well, I never got past 1, because I never installed an app that asks for unjustified permissions. I also have a non-technical wife that is usually not interested in technical stuff, but if I want to teach her something and I choose the proper words, such that she can understand, then she listens - that's how I taught her to use BCC when emailing multiple people, or to be wary of browser SSL security errors, or to tighten her privacy settings on Facebook, or indeed, to read the permissions required by apps on her Android.

Education is the answer, in combination with smarter controls (e.g. optional permissions), instead of making the world a worse place for those of us that can read just fine.
Getting pretty esoteric there. So, you're about to be run over by a bus - do you just stand there contemplating your position in the universe, what good could be caused by your death, and let yourself be killed?

The talk of ecosystems is overused. In 'nature' its 'every organism for itself'. That means we get to try to outrun the bugs any way we can.
slightly off topic: I found this site's take on not preloading the Facebook, Linkedin and such social buttons rather interesting, for various reasons (privacy, load time)
I feel thankful to be in Beijing. The AQI (air quality index) is only 202 (very unhealthy) here right now.
I believe this is the why our Armed Forces recruiters often have the names, addresses and phone numbers of our graduating seniors every year. It's usually up to the school administrators to release this information upon request, and most do. Private schools do not have this issue.
(If you didn't read the article, cs702 thinks bitcoin could hit $90k.)

I still think you are off. The fractional reserve system warps incentives too much.

1. The world needs more than $600 of float. And most people think they have that. The difference is that its wrapped up in the fractional reserve banking system.

2. Due to inflation uninformed people are bullied into investing in mutual funds, stocks, housing, etc. with their savings. Just the existence of bitcoin as a major worldwide currency could transform the traditional saving model. If a 30 year old puts a days wages into an account and can expect a days wages out when he's 80 years old then he can drastically simplify his retirement. He can avoid speculative bubbles and bad mutual fund managers.

3. National currency reserves are currently done with sovereign debt - with the idea being that if a nation goes bankrupt they'll just inflate their currency anyway and the currency reserve may as well be in bonds. If Bitcoin were to become a major world currency, the reserves could be in actual Bitcoins.

All of this to say I still think that there is a 90+% chance that bitcoin will fail, but on that remaining percent, the limit higher than 100 times today. I've done the math a couple ways and I end up with $100k to $10m as my outliers given that bitcoin becomes a world currency.
Could you explain a bit more on who Bangladesh forgave that didn't go well?
Normal to get some service you desire. But this site is just collecting them, by their own admission. Its a little strange to assume folks will trust them, because they ask us to. Consider what a hacker would say to fool people? How similar to this site's message would that be? Identical?
LLVM may have been a poor example, but I'm not sure that justified downvoting my comment when there are, in fact, lots of companies with more restrictive policies against use of GPL software vs. other licenses. (Not even necessarily contribution, but even use). That GPL is allowed at all is a result of the fact that there are some essential GPL licensed projects with no good alternatives, like Linux. InfiniSQL is not one of them.
Lol, right now almost no one is using Bitcoin for actual purchases, because it's not a viable currency yet. Right now it's just an investment opportunity until Bitcoin has found its price.

Then not an investment opportunity anymore and becomes a viable currency. That point is reached when 1 Bitcoin is worth between $100,000-$500,000, because then it has replaced all banks, all currencies and taken up around 10% of the world gross product.

I give it 3 years.
First goog hit:

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