skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most obvious use of bitcoin is to enable peer to peer exchanges of currency without banks, that's its purpose.

Well, yes. But in general, we as a society like banks. They're big, reputable entities. They're easy to sue if things go wrong, deposits are insured if they go missing, and they're subject to extensive regulation. I'm old enough to remember when ordering stuff online seeemd weird and strange; these days it's routine. And in large part that's because of standards like PCI.

> Setting up a website that accepts payments just became vastly easier without the need for PCI compliance

I know. But PCI isn't a wandering monster that ambushes parties of brave coders; it emerged to solve a very real problem, and it does a pretty good job of it. As a consumer, "look, no PCI compliance" isn't a feature, it's a nightmare. I only want to pay for something with Bitcoins if the process is easier, cheaper, and/or safer than doing so with my credit card. And right now, that's not the case; it's not enem close to the case. Paying for things with my credit card is very easy, quite cheap, and very safe. Today, in the real world, Bitcoin is none of these.

In short, you've identified what Bitcoin is good at, but what we need to do is identify what Bitcoin is better than existing payment systems at. And I don't think "startups too small or lazy to sign up for a Stripe or Paypal account" is an actual niche. Accepting Bitcoins isn't that easy.

TL;DR: You say the obvious use isn't evading currency controls, it's peer to peer exchanges of currency without banks. But evading currency controls is one of the only reasons why you'd want peer to peer exchanges of currency without banks. ;)
Signup button broken :(
Wow, that never happened to me. I always get the card re-keyed without any kind of security. And that is from low 3 stars to 4 stars hilton and Cliff in SF to name a few.
> to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo.

I thought we had UN for that?
> They're suppose to be making money on the voice/data usage for 2 years

And they will! You can throw your AT&T sim away and never touch it again. But you will still pay them the $70 a month or whatever you were paying them before, unless you actually break the contract with them and pay the ETF. AT&T doesn't lose in either situation.
> They are fun, but they are useless as they never happened. There is no point thinking about them besides playing with your imagination.

Just because something happened doesn't mean it's useful to think about. Conversely, just because something never happened doesn't mean it isn't useful to think about. I've read fiction books that made me examine my perspective or way of life in a way that nothing else has, and I've read non-fiction books that didn't register a single change in me.
Other than the note that has already been made about the difference in the age women first have children, I don't think this is a huge surprise to most "millennials." In most circles, as well as in most pop culture, an ideal expectation of equality is the well-accepted default.

Now an expectation of equality and the practice thereof are two very different things, but it seems like we're making progress, and I can only hope we continue to do so.
Ask HN: Does anybody rent ergo keyboards?
I've been starting to have RSI pains, and have been looking into ergonomic keyboards. I've been contemplating the Kinesis Advantage and the Truly Ergonomic, and have also considered the Kinesis Freestyle.

Given the cost of each of these keyboards, I'd really like to get a feel for these before I bought one. Would anyone know if there's anywhere to rent any one of these?

Thanks
But in many cases they are solicited, and people want the behavior that gets triggered by knowing about opens:

You always opens our offer e-mails? We'll send you more of the same of what you open, and less of what you don't, increasing the chance you'll find something you like.

Stopping web-bugs from the spammers will improved things, but stopping it from legitimate opt-in marketing mails will make the experience worse and less targeted for people.

The company I work for send millions of e-mails on behalf of customers. All opt-in, and I spend far more time than I'd like making sure we comply with all expectations of the mail providers and ISPs...

But I'm all for Google proxying and hiding IP, cookies etc - I wrote a webmail solution back in the day, and co-founded a company to run it, and frankly I pretty much assumed Google did this already; we did that back in '99 because it was the obvious thing to do.
It's not just about rendering a single screen, it's about rending two different scenes even if it's one screen.
Yes, that's the tradeoff.
Nice, though when I login with G+ it doesn't seem to register it.
The employment picture for millennials is supposedly bleak, from what I've heard. If a lot of men in this age bracket are now taking sub-optimal jobs as an alternative to being completely unemployed, that could also explain a narrowing in the gap. There's a lot more wage parity in hourly service-sector jobs.
Why is santa claus a man?
Well, death and rebirth is a major theme of the game (what with your main character being immortal). They need to show the player that death isn't something to be feared like in most RPGs of the time.

I can see how that would be off-putting though.
For the same reason Starbucks grows all its coffee in Seattle.
I gave HD Nation a tweet about your site and they mentioned it on their podcast this week.

http://revision3.com/hdnation/chromecast-plex-appletv-update
Why do you think there's no point in reading Shakespeare?

I like many people, read Shakespeare in high school and disliked it. Reading it again as an adult is a completely different experience, and one I highly recommend.

My favorite play is Titus Andronicus. How often do you have Anger, Rape, and Murder personified on stage, or forced cannibalism? The Quentin Tarantino of Shakespeare for sure.
I got a really crazy one-liner:

''.join([chr(int(z1 + z2, 16)) for _, ((_1, z1), (_2, z2)) in groupby(enumerate(ciph), key=lambda (i, y): i // 2)])

edit: my goal was not to do indexing explicitly
You can somewhat do this with the current system. I had no problems sending an email with 10 10mb images. Google happily fetched all 10 of the images off my server.

Not sure if they limit it at some point, but if a server accepts urls such as:

http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/9Y5FDz7.jpg?2
etc...

Google would fetch each separately. Send this out to a bunch of people, and it seems problematic. I'm going to be optimistic, and assume they built in some sort of limiting, but who knows.
Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories?

What we all need are experiences (and any reading counts as an experience) that change us, that help us grow and mature our worldview and increase our self-awareness. Reading good fiction can help tremendously.

You may not learn about dating by reading Ishiguro, but it's the case that the profound humanity of his writing makes you a more compassionate and confident person and that's the kind of stuff that can and will make you more desirable to be around.
Financial Journalists are not Revolutionaries
Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2013?
In case it wasn't obvious and if you want to lose a few hours, here is the site map. Awesome stuff.

http://ludens.cl/sitemap.htm
Isn't that special. Maybe now they'll stop conducting so much of it.
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"TraceBTC"in the container links to http://wbpreview.com
I assume this means that google is caching images only on demand, when the user opens the email first and only then. Otherwise there is no way for them to track the first open.
No. You're equating evolution with adaptation, and also making assumptions about beneficial mutations occurring as and when needed.
I'm less certain about this being the usual shakeup. There was a lot of talk that he was very well traveled and had stronger connections with the outside world than most within their government. He'd have been hard pressed to make the current situation worse so what if he was trying to do something different? Obviously just supposition, but food for thought.
I'm not sure spammers particularly care if they have a lot of email addresses that people don't really read. Google was already bouncing messages to invalid recipients, so completely nonexistent email addresses were already filtered.

Granted, it's one step further to know if you're getting past the spam filter. But I feel like that's testable using your own accounts.
The day twitter puts granular privacy options for each tweet is the day I will begin using it 10x more. Facebook has this nailed and I make religious use of this feature.

Having your side conversation with your family show up in your prospective customer's feed isn't acceptable.
If we can get official recognition of programming languages as just language, then it might be easier to make them recognize that it's just math and should not be patentable.
Clickable Infographic of NFL Quarterbacks
Reddit, for example, sold for like 20-30 million so isn't included.

I know some other YC businesses that seem unlikely to ever be huge but are profitable and probably will be as long as they want to be. Own Local has that feeling to me, although perhaps it's actually going to be larger someday I don't really know.
Protip: resize your window to your favorite reading width. Works perfectly.
Ah, the clean air act....
This looks great, do you plan to add an RSS Feed for the front page at some point ? I couldn't find anyone yet!
Still, fiction is fiction.

"You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer.

For example, we've all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast and saves his three buddies.

Is it true?

The answer matters.

You'd feel cheated if it never happened. Without the grounding reality, it's just a trite bit of puffery, pure Hollywood, untrue in the way all such stories are untrue. Yet even if it did happen -- and maybe it did, anything's possible -- even then you know it can't be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth. Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. For example: Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it's a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. Before they die, though, one of the dead guys says, 'The fuck you do that for?' and the jumper says, 'Story of my life, man,' and the other guy starts to smile but he's dead.

That's a true story that never happened."
Well, Google never can enable pre-caching of images - simple reason: it would allow an instant check if the email address is valid. Just send a mail and wait a bit - and you'd know if the mail was valid.
I really hope this takes off, not that I won't miss Snowden posts and general CNN-ish news :-)
This is one of the "HN for X" websites that I truly hope takes off. I have signed up, and submitted a few interesting articles. I've already found a few interesting reads on their homepage.

Best of luck to the DataTau founders!
I think a lot of those features need to make it into V8 first. I myself cannot wait for destructuring assignment to make it into node.js.
Well, I'm no Bill Gates, but here are the best books I read in 2013:

* So Good They Can't Ignore You (Newport). If you've ever daydreamed about how much better your life would be if you were only working at that cool company, you should seriously read this book. By not focusing on just getting a cool job, but instead doing deliberate practice and being "so good they can't ignore you" you can increase aspects of any job that are scientifically-proven to make you happier (control, autonomy, and expertise).

* The Making of a Chef (Ruhlman). If you have any interest in cooking (even if you just watch Top Chef) you will like this book. A major theme of the book is discipline which aligns well with software; code quality, good design, maintaining a test suite — all of these things are signs of a true craftsmen, but they are easy to shrug off without discipline.

* Are Your Light's On? (Gause, Weinberg). I would recommend it to anyone dealing with arguments about solutions or confusion about problems, especially when non-technical folks are involved. The biggest win for me was making a mental shift from "Problem Solver" to "Solver of Problems", which allows us to focus on finding who is impacted by a problem and identifying the real story behind the problem.

I'm currently reading Punished By Rewards (only halfway through) but it is pretty interesting so far and will probably make the cut on my final list :)
Thanks Terrik!
When Christmas lights get an API, here's what happens...
I set up some servers in the US and Asia and had some images proxied to them through GMail's proxy. The traceroute paths and latencies from the requesting IPs lead me to believe that the servers were in the US, most likely Mountain View.

I probably shouldn't have asserted Mountain View, as it's more of an educated guess.

Edit: here's a traceroute from Hong Kong to the Google server that made the proxy request. Is there a flaw in this method?

@hongkong:~# traceroute 66.249.88.203
traceroute to 66.249.88.203 (66.249.88.203), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 119.9.72.2 (119.9.72.2) 1.168 ms 1.130 ms 1.122 ms
2 119.9.64.64 (119.9.64.64) 1.092 ms 1.058 ms 1.052 ms
3 vl902.edge3.hkg1.rackspace.net (120.136.47.19) 1.307 ms 1.205 ms 1.304 ms
4 RHI-0001.gw2.hkg3.asianetcom.net (203.192.178.65) 1.169 ms 1.148 ms 1.123 ms
5 google.gw2.hkg3.asianetcom.net (203.192.178.30) 1.782 ms 1.755 ms 1.741 ms
6 209.85.248.62 (209.85.248.62) 6.716 ms 209.85.248.60 (209.85.248.60) 17.183 ms 209.85.248.62 (209.85.248.62) 2.105 ms
7 66.249.94.31 (66.249.94.31) 81.019 ms 80.999 ms 80.966 ms
8 64.233.175.1 (64.233.175.1) 53.256 ms 53.077 ms 53.060 ms
9 209.85.245.206 (209.85.245.206) 72.528 ms 72.488 ms 72.14.239.55 (72.14.239.55) 80.903 ms
10 209.85.242.89 (209.85.242.89) 150.251 ms 148.859 ms 64.233.174.176 (64.233.174.176) 149.147 ms
11 72.14.239.80 (72.14.239.80) 215.363 ms 215.368 ms 72.14.239.82 (72.14.239.82) 201.955 ms
12 209.85.249.45 (209.85.249.45) 223.694 ms 72.14.237.119 (72.14.237.119) 211.817 ms 212.567 ms
13 64.233.174.117 (64.233.174.117) 212.505 ms 216.239.48.103 (216.239.48.103) 215.874 ms 213.109 ms
14 * * *
15 google-proxy-66-249-88-203.google.com (66.249.88.203) 211.877 ms 212.484 ms 212.371 ms
Yes! I will add that soon. Thanks.
As the owner of a 27" 1440p monitor, I hate sites that do this. It's infuriating to run across sites that only take up 25% (well, 27% in this suggestion) of my screen width. Even worse are the sites that manage to keep the width in pixels the same even when I zoom.
You are correct. Most non-coding DNA is junk, which amounts to around 90% of the genome. Dead transposons alone make up just under half of the human genome.
TCL:

% puts [ binary format H* 416d65726963612043616e20436f646520 ]
America Can Code

Or if you want to see the trailing space:

% puts '[ binary format H* 416d65726963612043616e20436f646520 ]'
'America Can Code '
I just bought an iPhone 5s from T-Mobile yesterday. I paid $650 for it upfront. On a no contract plan. They won't unlock the phone for 45 days.
Rubycon.io, the best Ruby links every day. Ruby clone of SideBar.io
Who really sticks to a linear pay schedule like that their entire career though? Honestly you would have be rather unmotivated.
The list of things that are beyond me, and probably many member on this board can be quite long. A radical example is: who decided that planet Earth belonged to a bunch of corrupted politicians and executives and not the rest of us, preventing people to roam freely, and to freely decide where they can live, work, raise their family...
Maintainable And Scalable Systems With Rails Engines
Not if Google also requested images from invalid addresses. But usually you'll get a failure in the SMTP transaction if the email address is not valid. Otherwise a simple typo would send your important email into a black hole.
Me either! I've also been writing similar lists for a few years now. Here's my list for 2013:

http://bellm.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-best-books-i-read-in-20...
It's disclosing that the spammer (or "marketer") has a valid address. Since I only load images in email from people I trust, there is no way this can increase my privacy.
Open source means these things: http://opensource.org/osd

"Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"

Without being able to build and use it, the "derived works" section can't be met.
YC Equity stakes are likely unable to be diluted. Not all shares can just get 'diluted' aka expanded.
Nice chart, but "across five years" is a little unrealistic IMO. You're much more likely to change projects, jobs, etc. before you realize a five-year payoff.
> e.g. Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories?

Your point is moot. Even non-fiction is fiction in a way. The writer may have changed details, selected only specific facts, hidden some parts of the truth. You never know. At least with fiction you KNOW it's made up, but with non-fiction you can not really tell what is true or not because of your limited knowledge of how it was written and redacted.
users + revenue is private for a lot of businesses.

For the rest, they all belong to the category of "social monitoring". That's the name given to this. It's a crowded market.
AT&T just announced their own lineup of no-subsidy plans as well: http://www.zdnet.com/at-and-t-announces-new-mobile-share-val...

To me, this just underlines how the GSM carriers are playing in a very different field than the CDMA carriers (especially after the T-Mobile refarm added 1900 MHz HSPA+ to their network and since new AT&T and T-Mobile phones both support LTE band 4).
Basically, they have implemented the killfile feature from usenet (and mail) clients. It worked well there, why not try it here?
Yeah, I don't see Perl or Python or Ruby or well any option like that in Google Translate's drop down.
Shakespeare's comedies are absolutely hilarious. You need to watch one at an authentic Shakespeare festival as well. His tragedies and histories are good too, but I'm a sucker for the humor, play on words, and overall wit in his writing.
Fascinating isn't it? Take that creationists!
Or just cache unique images on delivery...
Hey, I documented this in Mashape, but can't seem to get a key to test it (the Facebook login popup disappears for some reason) - https://www.mashape.com/community/rijksmuseum

Does anyone have a key I can use to test this?
> Who really sticks to a linear pay schedule like that their entire career though?

People with passions that don't pay well (or at all), so they keep a steady job and pursue said passion outside of work.
He probably means he wants facts and not paradigms.
I was thinking the same thing. A huge round like this has me guessing they've got a hefty plan beyond improving just their current products. Others are mentioning that a shopping cart isn't enough, it's the apps. Maybe they plan on going that route either hiring to build them in house or using this money to buy those apps.
I hit a api at random (currency converter) and ended up at mashape.

Just FYI -- I'd never heard of it before.
Of course that's not the case right now as bitcoin hasn't yet gone mainstream. If you think we as a society like banks, I don't think you see what's coming because you don't see how many people despise banks.

I'm old enough to have grown up pre-internet, so let's not play the age game, I'm no kid.

People tolerate banks, they don't generally like them, they don't like being fee'd to death, they don't generally have enough money to give two shits about FDIC insurance, and pretty much consider bankers the scum of the earth; car salesman are more popular.

Crypto currencies are better payment systems technically, they're distributed peer to peer banking for cheaper, but they aren't deployed enough to matter yet; that will change.
I'd recommend Steinbeck's East of Eden and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
Check out the absolute pay numbers in the Pew Research article:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/12/11/on-pay-gap-millenn...

While women's wages have dropped slightly in recent years, men's wages have dropped much more. The OP article is misleading, or uninteresting at best -- both men and women are worse off in terms of wages.
Porn users targeted by German law firm over copyright
> Get a $200 iphone5 from AT&T, next day unlock it without paying ETF and get a cheap prepaid T-Mobile sim and never use the AT&T sim again; thus not paying AT&T's voice/data fees(and we all know they get you on overages).

Huh? You would still have to pay your monthly contract to AT&T even if you no longer used the AT&T sim.
So how does this affect various email template applications such as Tout or Hubspot's Signals? IIRC Tout drops a pixel in each email and uses that as a primary tracking source for opens/CTRs etc...
That's assuming that people are just as likely to allow images from a message that kinda looks like spam as they are from a message that's from a person/service they know.
Are the bless and release scripts not set up to automatically publish to all the major package managers (rpm/pacman/apt/etc), including homebrew? I had assumed that `brew upgrade nodejs` would already work following a new release.
country could make sense too. not all APIs are generic. I would love to find out what APIs are specifically available in my country.
We're not intentionally spinning off lifestyle businesses, but that is a common outcome for seed investments. For investors it's a failure, but for the founders it could be good.
Finally found a thorough answer on how open tracking will be affected by the new changes.

Here's MailChimp's analysis:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-image-caching-affects-o...
We weren't deceived... Just think about what they could technically collect based on modern technologies and logically conclude that they do or will do.
Can you expand on that any further? I can't tell what you are trying to say, because my comment was made in awareness of Semantic Versioning.

While I support a de facto standard around the meaning of version numbers, you must judge a project's version number by the versioning rules the development team communicates. By the Semantic Versioning Specification's own guidelines, Node.js should be at least at v1.0.0, but the developers have decided against it. Therefore, when judging the stability and maturity of Node.js by the version number alone, you can only compare it to previous releases of Node.js.
In practical terms you have little or nothing to worry about, and absolutely no reason to be "terrified". This is likely a one-off incident, a clumsy interaction from a clueless airport guy. From the same team of geniuses who got reamed out recently when they confiscated a sick toddler's medical device at X-Ray because they were worried it was a bomb.

Assuming you are not an international terrorist or similar, the NZ government has absolutely no interest in the contents of your phone, computers etc.

Also, on the one in a thousand chance that you are inspected at customs; Don't raise hell after the fact. It's not the NZ way, relax and save your stress for the real worries in life, which we all run into in the fullness of time.
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Why is this Gladwell character brought up so often? I'd never had known he exists if it wasn't for his detractors.
Interesting: to a close approximation, the odds of a positive payoff from YC (vs opportunity cost) is about the same as buying a California scratch ticket--about one in ten.