skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most obvious use for bitcoins is bitcoin transaction fees, which isn't entirely circular as we find more interesting ways to use the block chain.
Oh no sorry, I didn't take it that way at all so no worries.

Thanks again for your feedback, it's really appreciated. Feedback for tyto has been great.
> And another to keep your millions. You can bury it, put it in a safe, or keep it in a secure storage in a safe. Not for daily use.

It's worth noting what happens in the real world: Most folks do not store their own. They instead rely on banks and trusts to do the job. Those are backed by various types of insurance.

I suspect that sort of ecosystem will need to evolve for bitcoin too, since average joes don't know to protect their digital wallets.
No, most people would not do that. They would click the links on the page.
I don't work at Shopify, but I've been grateful to them for allowing many of the local dev meetups here in the Ottawa area to use their fantastic space for our meetings. So I am glad to see things going so well for them.
Why would invisible watermarks in any way deter the thieves?

Granted, you can catch them if that is your intention, but it more effort for less gain.

I don't understand the reason for this policy.
Damn, I had the idea to do something like this a couple of weeks ago. Figures.
There are various solutions to managing assets in a rails application but we didn't like any of them. The one you linked to requires having separate list of dependencies and using bower directly which means hacking standard rails deployment.
There are videos on YouTube converted from 90s DVDs which show classes filmed from the back of the room. This one from a rather famous yoga teacher, Pattabi Jois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgtMaAZzW0
7 Startup Co-Founders To Avoid And Keep Your Sanity
I was working on Google Shopping.
Lots of images are checked by a combination of machine learning and humans (still, errors happen, as it's lots of data to deal with).

The main problem with the watermarking is that the images can be shown in product listings where an image like this wouldn't look nice and also the image can be used for a product that is sold by multiple merchants.
> This does mean that the UK is now on the list, along with the US, of places where no credible crypto startup is possible, though.

I can think of very few developed countries that, when the rubber hits the road, will let you do what you want. Taking measures to aid official police or court investigations is simply an implied obligation in most countries with developed legal systems. Very few countries will tolerate service providers whose raison d'etre is "we won't cooperate with the authorities" except in limited situations like off-shore banking when the primary purpose is to hide assets or information from people in other countries.

This isn't specific to crypto or police investigations either. Say you want to start an accounting firm that guarantees it will never share your records if subpoenaed in a civil lawsuit. This would never fly in the U.S., not now or one hundred years ago, and while I'm not super familiar with European law, I can't imagine it would fly in any western European country either.
> So what's the difference between 'money' and 'currency'?

Uh-oh don't get us started on that one, that's a can of worms!

Used to be, way back in the past, "money" was "coin or bullion in your bank's vaults" and banks' receipts for "money" starting circulating -- hence, we have the separate word currency.

Nowadays, I suppose the distinction is largely lost, other than "currency" now implicating different jurisdictions -- EUR and USD are considered different "currencies" but both are considered "money" by and large.

Money is spent or lent or hoarded, currency circulates. One necessitates the other.

Whether "hard" or "soft", in all history and today both are certainly always "credit" -- a (rightly or wrongly) trusted claim to some future consumption of some future production. Whether the "money" is paper or metal or digital. If we swap a banana for an apple, a trade is completed and settled, no money was needed. But since most of apple sellers are not also banana buyers "right here and now", this purely mental value-association, regardless the medium it's recorded on, is needed and used and traded in-place with ease and the world mostly works! Money hence is always a debt for future trade settlement -- completion of exchange.. (Whether banks should create new money for all their lending is another question, whether all savings of people should be in ambiguous claims on future production is another question. Doesn't change this most fundamental nature of "money".)
Ostensibly I gave up the daily news a few years ago when The Times [of London] put up their paywall, 4-and-a-half years ago [according to Wikipedia].

I do read a lot of tech news however and more recently have taken up reading the headlines on the local newspaper websites.

For me it's an effort to help me be more positive about life as I have struggled with negativity and sometimes intrusive thoughts.
With the eletricity costs of mining it can be actually negative-sum game.
The Limits of Capitalism
Counterparty risk makes this an even worse option than buying bitcoin.

Consider many of the antecedent events which might cause bitcoin to implode. How many of them leave unregulated derivatives exchanges up and capable of receiving your "Assign 10,000 BTC puts at $100 to those people who are short them" notice then rounding up a million dollars of actual money to send to you?

I've unfortunately wasted non-trivial time thinking about this, since if it were as reliable as shorting Zynga, I'd be as long puts as my risk tolerance can take.
There is also reporting every day about who ate the most elephant ears at the local fair. It doesn't mean more than a handful of folks either care, or read something just because it is in the paper.
> I declare Eric S. Raymond officially unseated as 'chief archivist of hacker culture'.

So a mac zealot with no FOSS tendencies, or any legit hacker cred, decides he wants to take over a jargon file he barely understands, and wants to update it with pointless additions?

Consider yourself overruled. ESR's still doing fine, thanks.

Also, I must have missed the meeting that nominated you as his replacement. Perhaps you could provide us with the meeting minutes?
I had a look at the demo, and as far as I can tell it only allows users to see the diff that's been committed rather than the change in context with the surrounding code. That's quite important when you're reviewing things in a big project. (Unless I've just misunderstood the interface... which would be a different problem.)

Aside: On the front page you're loading http://codebrag.com/stylesheets/images/screenshot.png and having the browser scale it down to 609x340. Don't do that.
“You have teachers who are fully unaware of what’s going on in the classroom, they’re sitting reading their notes and the students are doing whatever they want.”

So there's at least some benefit. But a locked-down consumption-oriented device is wrong tool; the kids should have real computers.
Agreed 100%. I was just touching the surface, and by "shipping" I really meant inventory management, purchase orders, and everything else involved in stocking physical goods.

It's clear the POS app is a test product for them, and I'm happy to see them experiment. I just wish they'd put a little more love into the core functionality. Even for ecommerce, Shopify is lacking some really basic things:

- Editing orders (e.g. marking an item canceled)

- Editing tracking numbers (fixing typos -- not allowed today)

- Allowing coupons to offer both a discounted price and free shipping (today they're mutually exclusive)
This is awesome. While it's great how performant the approach is, I also really dig how elegant the whole solution is -- using Postgres FDW with Numba is very pragmatic and clean, while at the same time potentially extensible to GPGPU. I might try and give this a go for some DSP stuff at some point.
How many of us does it take to slashdot a C64 web server? Two?
I expect bitcoin to crash as well, but I'm curious, why do you hate it? As much as the crypto-currency fans can be annoying, I'd rather see them get rich on speculation than see the credit industry keep its oligopoly on online consumer payments.
That's why I said “release cycle” – moving from numbers to “when it's ready” was definitely the key part. The trick was breaking the tyranny of significant numbers where people would hold off until they had enough features to be worthy of a major release.
Anyone find it ironic that a news agency (the Guardian) is saying news is bad for you?
I've edited the title to specify Google Shopping.
The National Library of Norwegian is digitizing its multi-hundred-thousand book collection, dating to Middle Ages

The National Library of Norway is digitizing its entire collection. The Norwegian Legal Deposit Act requires that all published content, in all media, be deposited with the National Library of Norway. The collection is also being expanded through purchases and gifts. The digital collection contains material dating from the Middle Ages up to the current day.

In parallel with digitizing of analogue material, the National Library of Norway is working to expand the scope of publications covered by legal digital deposit legislation. The Library wishes to receive the digital source of the publication and in this way expand collection’s digital content. The digitizing programme started in 2006. It is estimated that it will take 20–30 years for the entire collection to be digitized.

From Reddit, Gnurx has a fascinating thread on some of the technology and infrastructure behind the repository:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1smus7/norway_is...

The book deep storage vault, which looks like something out of the movie Brazil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Mmb...
Chrome Experiments - Journey through Middle Earth
What does the expression ":-!!" mean in C?
I grew also up without a television. That was no deliberate choice, my parents are orthodox christians. I was very creative in that period and I kinda miss that now :)
Yes, this one has a date of yesterday, still, it's very familiar

Not sure if this one has any new information
> I know a lot of people don't like the doom & gloom of news. But it's needed. I recently discussed with someone who doesn't consume news about the NSA revelations. They were shocked. They said "why didn't anyone tell me?"

So I've been following the NSA news closely. But I'm not American! What actionable information has following the minute of the NSA revelations provided me? I can't influence the US government in any way. The most I got out of it was that I should move to non-US based service providers if possible - but this was clear when the first revelations hit. Did I really need to spend (I'm guessing) 10+ hours reading articles about the NSA's revelations?

I could see a case for following local news - where local might mean relevant to your industry or to your community. The more local the news, the more actionable the information. Nightly newscasts rarely focus on this though - they're basically entertainment, real reality television.
This isn't so much a bet on bitcoin as it is a bet on virtual currency. If another currency trumps bitcoin, Coinbase will become the wallet for that. So as a VC, if you buy the digital currency story, this seems like an intuitive investment.
150$ or 750$ ?
So did a lot of others that haven't ever gotten one.
If knowing the reality of what happens in the world leads to fear and aggression then perhaps we should be angry and afraid? We can't just shut reality out if we don't like the emotional state it puts us in.
> So if I put a gun to your head, and you give me money, you haven't been forced to, right?

Wrong. I HAVE been forced. You have threatened me with death if I don't comply with your demand.

GCHQ never demanded that CertiVox shut down their service. They (or, rather, the Home Secretary) demanded that they hand over the key(s) required to decrypt one (or more) of CertiVox's customer's data.

If CertiVox took it upon themselves to then shut down the PrivateSky service, that is their choice. But it is a lie to claim that GCHQ forced them to.

CertiVox could claim that they "felt they had no option but to shut down the service" or that they "could no longer, in all conscience, continue to offer and market a service that" blah blah blah but, the fact is that they always knew that PrivateSky was vulnerable to section 49 notices.

RIPA's been on the statute books for over a decade and section 49 has been in force since 2007. CertiVox launched PrivateSky in 2011, which means that they either built a service that they knew was vulnerable to RIPA disclosure requirements or they didn't know about RIPA. I don't believe that they didn't know about RIPA.

It doesn't matter what special snowflake rationale you come up with about what's reasonable or unreasonable. The simple fact of the matter is that the headline is misleading. GCHQ did not force PrivateSky to shut down.

EDIT: Even the CEO of CertiVox refutes the claim that GCHQ forced the closure of PrivateSky!

"The headline strongly infers our friends at GCHQ “forced” us to take PrivateSky down. That’s hogwash."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894316
If you were ever part of an MLM network, or quixtar or amway, or anybody who was ever big on 'selling' things, you would know better than to read the news. A typical newspaper has a ginormous amount of negative articles. HN is different though.
The fact that you don't see any major movement besides small select groups here and there protesting about the issue and anything real being done about it.

I'm tired of hearing on HN "oh democracy is dead, the USA is run by the rich and by mega corporations". No, the issues your keep hearing endlessly brought up on HN every day are in fact not as popular to the rest of the USA as you think.

The Guardian is doing a great job improving their reader base by stretching out these Snowden revelations and keeping their traffic high for the minority of folks who care about the issue. So maybe that's why it seems to be bigger than it is, as each new release has 10 new HN stories posted about it and also how the NSA is the Most Evil Thing Ever.
Twitter and reading ability
Android app development in the cloud
> This is a sensible rule too--if everyone had watermarks the pages would be hideous.

So as a merchant, I have to invest a ton of money into getting quality photography of my products ... only to have my competitors use those same images for free?
That's one of the paradoxes of pricing: price itself is inferred to be an indicator of quality, so "free" is often perceived as "lower quality".

While this can be true, it isn't entirely reliable.
>Did I mention it was slow? It was slow. Soooo sloooow. Slow slow slow. Like, minutes to read and render a page slow.

This. People wax nostalgically all the time how fast running Star Writer or something was back in the day, and how "bloated" modern OSs have become, without understanding that those old PCs did 1/1000 of the things modern computers do, and even those simple stuff (running a text processor) was slow compared to today's standards...
1) [citation needed]

2) You're not exactly coming out of this looking like a saint, you know.
There will always be a market for altcoins alongside Bitcoin because (a) they can remain completely anonymous and (b) pure cryptocurrency exchanges that do not engage in trades for fiat currency provide an indirect avenue for trading in and out of official fiat currencies, via Bitcoin. With KYC and AML attaching themselves heavily to most Bitcoin exchange services, people will trade into or out of Bitcoin non-anonymously, and they'll trade their Bitcoins anonymously for another cryptocurrency. Those cryptocurrencies will then by used for illegal purposes and it'll be very difficult to prevent that value from being laundered back into legitimate currency because the exchange between different cryptocurrencies can't be effectively policed, especially once distributed exchanges get off the ground. In my mind, because of this, the whole field of KYC/AML restrictions being forced onto Bitcoin will ultimately fail or at least be extremely easy to circumvent, as long as altcoins exist.
I think that is what has my righteous indignation stoked much higher than the average absurd patent trolling news. I just can't fathom how someone who is supposedly "business minded" in this field could think it was a good idea to patent this, much less to start sending C&Ds to non-profits.
So in short Google wants to use merchant's product images, which they've worked to produce or paid for as generic product images without compensation and if merchants don't like it their account is banned.
The Unpleasant Part of Open Source
Good work.

It looks pretty good and I'm going to be going through at least some of the exercises. It always feels good to ship something, even when you feel like it isn't 100%.
I should have not read this news... i feel i little bad already
I'm a human and I'm really going to lose business over this policy.
This nonsense is exactly why the humanities should have no place in any scientific institution. They copy the language and structures of science without any understanding, like a cargo cult mimicking an air traffic control tower out of wood (in the hope that it will bring back the cargo planes) because they have no comprehension of the science of how a real tower works and think the form is all that matters.
Many people could benefit from tracking metrices for altcoins too. Do you plan to add some of the altcoins (StableCoin for example)?
7 Signs You're Fundraising Too Early
Learned the hard way. Have you ever had this experience?
They are used to attache indexes and constraints on them in order to speed up traversals. They themselves have very little logic right now, more will follow in terms of query optimisation etc..
Google News is most definitely trainable. NO WAY would I visit Reddit for news (I was an early adopter of Reddit, and with Hacker News in my portfolio of news sources already, I don't see enough value-add in trying Reddit again.)
> I could hold a gun to your head, for example. You wouldn't be forced per se to meet my demands, but you probably would because it would be extremely unreasonable not to.

GCHQ never demanded that CertiVox shut down their service. That is the bottom line and, no matter what sort of ridiculous "gun against your head" rationale you come up with or how firmly you plug your ears while shouting "LALALA!" at the top of your voice; you cannot refute that fact.

EDIT: Actually, why don't we see what the CEO of CertiVox has to say on the matter?

"The headline strongly infers our friends at GCHQ “forced” us to take PrivateSky down. That’s hogwash."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894316
I'm not sure how dropping off the grid would help you? If you don't d it all the way the others will find you. And living like that is impractical, while not preventing ability of authorities to find you (just minimizing).
I've been using a Kinesis (Ergo Elan) for 9 years now. After about 5 years some of the little rubber keys started malfunctioning. Now my ESC and F5 keys no longer work at all and most other rubber keys only intermittently. I probably should open it up and apply graphite rubber to the keys to restore their ability to make contact.

I don't mind the size of the rubber keys, but I wish they'd make a keyboard with decent switches for them!
I was in a similar situation and I laid down the cards.
I think I did the right thing by doing so and the client will reevaluate the viability of the concept as they said.
That's disappointing. I don't expect it to be a smash hit in the pro-gamer circuit - mouse-equivalent performance is way out of reach, but it needs to beat the ever-loving crap out of a thumbstick.
Another one?!
Seems you're double-posting this one. stay classy, poolpool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884756
Once we finally fully lost our ability to form bonds with others naturally and with ease, "services" might turn into what's going on in Japan already, stuff like "rent-an-uncle for $10/hr -- he gives life advice and goes to the mall with you". Not kidding, they have that there, targeted at apparently single women.
I think it's ironic that those who are in favour of personal liberties are often on the left of the political spectrum whereas, in this instance, it was the Tories who rolled back aspects of surveillance legislation that was introduced by Labour.
Python TripleSec encryption
not all articles can be classified as "news"
At first I thought you were part of the team and already fixed the font license issue on the public website, but I just checked and nothing seems to have been changed.

So maybe I misinterpreted your comment, and you are not part of the team, but just saying that this issue need to be fixed, and that probably it is there because of automatic generation.

Could you please clarify the meaning of your comment? Thanks! :)
but it's still an interesting metric that you can roughly infer network security from (eg 51% attack difficulty)
> Unitarity says the quantum mechanical probabilities of all possible outcomes of a particle interaction must sum to one. To prove it, one would have to observe the same interaction over and over and count the frequencies of the different outcomes. Doing this to perfect accuracy would require an infinite number of observations using an infinitely large measuring apparatus, but the latter would again cause gravitational collapse into a black hole. In finite regions of the universe, unitarity can therefore only be approximately known.

I'm sure the physicists have something coherent in mind, but the discussion of unitarity in the article makes no sense at all. The idea that the sum of all probabilities of all possible outcomes of some situation is 1 isn't even part of physics; it's the definition of probability. It's not necessary to make an infinite number of observations, or even a single observation, to know that the sum over all the possibilities is 1 (also phrasable as "something will happen"). If we did make an infinite number of observations, the only possible sum over all possibilities would be 1, because it's 1 by definition. No matter what we observed, it would still be 1, and we would assign probabilities based on our observations so that the sum of them all would be 1.

The previous HN discussion linked by Hopka seems to state that in fact unitarity is not in doubt, that it's just that under the system described in the article no one has yet proved that a non-unitary solution cannot be generated. But how could unitarity possibly be "suspect"? It's a definition.
It just shows us that it's business-minded people in control, who are running, YogaGlo.
I guess my point was that rather than have Bitcoin grow 3x within a month because of some big news, then crash to 2x of its height, and then grow back "slowly" to where it was within another 1-3 months, it could just grow more smoothly to begin with, and even if there were some big news in a row, there could be a lot of people betting against it and having it grow perhaps only 50 percent overall that month, and then another 50 percent the next month, or whatever.

Slower rises, and no (big) crashes.