skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 2.5 billion adults walking the earth right now with no access to bank accounts[1]. I don't know what the "actual" value of bitcoin is, and I don't know if it will win the cryptocurrency race, but I am pretty confident that about a third of the population of the world will have a cryptocurrency wallet before they have a bank account. This is A Big Deal. Electricity is certainly an issue for many of those, but plunging hardware prices on smartphones and wireless internet access will allow them to skip checking accounts and go directly to a global financial network, just as many in the developing world had access to cell phones before land lines. At some point in the next few years, some entrepreneurial kid in some dirt poor corner of the world is going to become relatively wealthy via cryptocurrency; something that just isn't possible without a decentralized financial system. That's when I'll know we've hit the tipping point.

[1](http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165...)
That's why I said "pretty much": You may have to pay but the value for money deal is one of the best deals we ever got for anything, worldwide. We can do so many things online with a minimal cost.

The industry can do whatever it wants as long as it is legal. But it's not only about the industry, it's about the bigger picture. It's about a few guys with cameras around you recording every single thing you do and say (yes, yes, only while you are online and only while you are carrying a cellphone). I don't know what exactly they are doing with this information and I don't need to know in order to have the right to say that I don't like it.

I have hope too, but things are currently heading in a very wrong direction.
wow congrats guys! unbelievable growth, I love homejoy and I can't wait to see how you use this capital to scale up.
freebsd-update
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So are you suggesting that you don't track "meta"-dependencies (dependencies of dependencies)? I've been bitten by issues from this before, which I think is kind of the point of pip-compile.

I don't really see how it's much different from Gemfile.lock for Ruby or npm-shrinkwrap.json for Node.
Because it's trivial to change colors in the browser if one wanted to?
Ray Croc's book is interesting. http://www.amazon.com/Grinding-Out-McDonalds-Ray-Kroc/dp/031...

He is the guy that made McDonalds what it is, he was a milk shake machine salesman who bought the rights from the McDonalds brothers.
I would very much like to see patent applicants having to argue for the length of the requested patent.

When someone goes to the government and asks for financial support, they don't get a "one size fit all" cash bag. It matters how great in need you are, and how great an idea you have for a youth center. But when it comes to get an government enforced monopoly, no argument is even needed. No one will even ask if 3 years would be enough, or what the extra 17 years are there for. It's 20 year or nothing.
Truly Incredible
"WebDAV should be enough for everybody"
Dependency diagrams for KDE Frameworks 5
It’s hard to get a job
Check out my blog. I am going to be writing about entrepreneurship, quitting yout job, lessons I learned at my job (Network Engineering)
> Game consoles - proprietary 3D APIs

Back in the day that was true, but I don't think that's the case these days. Xbox is obviously DirectX. Wii was OpenGL, and I think Sony used OpenGL as well.
Thenmap
Twitter Names Marjorie Scardino as First Woman to Join Board
What is Portugal doing on the front-page of HN?! :O
This is lunacy at its finest. Those that have no access to bank accounts live in third world countries. Bitcoin pre-supposes that the user have access to a computer either stationary or mobile (cell phone, tablet, etc.) with access to the internet.

So what proponents of this idea are saying is that bitcoin will somehow, magically?, provide these people with not only the know-how of how to use a cryptocurrency but also provide them with these three indispensable resources:

electricity (dependable and stable)

internet (dependable and stable)

computer (mobile or not)

...all before they can then turn around and use bitcoin.

And that the central bank and government of said country will stand aside and relegate its monetary system and control to an outside force.
Have you tried the "reset" procedure? I don't think what you're experiencing is normal.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix...
1. Play Eve Online 2. Set a route going through dozens of hisec system 3. Hit Autopilot (ctrl+s) 4. Enter windowless mode (ctrl+F9) 5. Sit back and enjoy the nicest interactive screensaver
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Now, this isn't snarky, but you really run into issues like that, where its noticeably bad in a particular tab, enough to need to kill it? What sort of sites, and what processor?
Copyright is concerned with the creator of a work. The photographer created a photograph by setting up the camera and pressing the button.

That said, the smart photographer will obtain a license from the model (a 'model release') to distribute photos with the model's likeness. If you find photos of yourself being reproduced when you gave no permission, you may indeed have a legal beef with the photographer ... just not under copyright law.
If something is that dangerous, shouldn't there be armored escorts, lojacks and all sorts of other security measures on it?

Isn't it criminally liable to transport something this lethal so carelessly?

I mean people were ready to declare this a terrorist's dream of dirty-bomb material.

We can't take more than 3 ounces of shampoo on a plane but actual dangerous stuff, no problem, just throw it on a truck.
Well in hopeful theory land those other tabs that aren't active shouldn't be hitting my GPU. :)

I can also pop over to IE and it scrolls a-ok! (To be fair, IE11 has beautiful scrolling, everything else looks jerky in comparison, it really is quite a lovely effect!)

But all my plugins are in FF, so.... with an SSD it is not like FF takes too long to come back up anyway! Still annoying though!
That's why some small and not so small companies created their own silos inside government structures, and spent the last decades milking that sweet tax euros.

Now this type of business will end, or at least it will be very obvious who is doing favours to who.
Humble Bundle spun off from Wolfire years ago. David is still working on the game full time, he was only involved in the very first Humble Bundle.
I manufacture things out of steel. Steel costs 50 cents a pound for sheet and $2 a pound for welding wire. The freight to ship it to my distributors is another 50 cents a pound, and the advertising and marketing cost is about $2 a pound.

So ultimately I agree with Page. The cost of manufacturing anything goes on along a 1/x curve over time, and approaches the raw material cost. Its the other costs that don't do that, like engineering talent, marketing spends, warehousing, shipping.
The prospect that material that could be used in a radioactive dirty bomb had gone missing sparked an urgent two-day hunt

Seems like this could have been considered beforehand; maybe transporting this stuff in a lone vehicle with no security is not a good idea?
If you use pNaCl, you can have an Emscripten fallback.
I really wanted to not sound like an asshole and start critizicing this because I like low-level programming articles but this article is confunsing:

1) You don't need an OS to press keys and make them come out in the screen. An OS is kind of a library that an application uses to do things.

2) I believe what the article refers as "OS" is a small process manager. I don't know if it's preemptive, no mention of timer of any kind.

3) As far as I can see, this is not an OS but a ring-0 application that reads the keyboard using IRQs. IMHO an Operative System should at least supply filesystem/memory manager or process-manager services.

Hacker school alumni, those articles are awesome but please get your concepts right and at least learn the correct terminology or you will only confuse people. But I suspect those articles are vague on purpose to incite controversy.
Bingo. And there's no way in hell that the CCP would let equity slip out of the country in any large amount.
Climate simulations of Middle Earth
Inside Google Glass, a Developer's Perspective
WordPress is a better starting point for a project than you thought
Go-Pro strapped to a MiG-31 “Foxhound”
Poor bastards. Curiosity killed the cat, I guess...
The tech start up that's going to save the chicken from the egg.
You're right that a lot of finance is mostly smoke and mirrors. I send you money through my bank, but what actually happens is that debt gets moved around, rather than money. The result is that it looks like I have less money and you have more. And it gets even more tricky when I start paying you back for the loan on my house - you sell off a bundle of loans to someone else, who says that the bundle of loans they bought is a good investment, because now they own debt which is the primary market commodity. Now, there's a market that's built on there being a predictable ratio of payers to defaulters, which makes it easy to calculate how much the commodity is worth.

But we do get the benefit of the trickery - I can go buy shoes at a store because the employees are paid out of debt, rather than out of the store's profits (which are mostly reinvested into other capital that, hopefully, exceeds the debt). Without the debt, and the ability of the market to utilize it as a commodity, I wouldn't be able to participate in mass-market purchasing, and thus my $50 shoes would cost $200
Why Microsoft needs three or more operating systems
Um... Strengths Finder? http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/default.aspx
But people at the top can act selfishly while people at the bottom need to establish a culture of also caring about each other. So at one side you have individuals with a lot of resources that don't need that much of help from others and at the other side you have individuals with no resources that also need to rely on others. Makes the game quite hard to win right from its beginning, no?
I'll admit I wasn't a fan of process-per-tab originally either. However, since ever browser leaks memory, the ability to close some windows and reclaim the memory that was lost has been very useful to me (I tend to have 50+ tabs open at most times, and for many days at a time).

That being said, I'd also be ok with process-per-window, as that would give me the same basic ability.
Web We Want
Sounds like a very similar chain of events to the Goiânia_accident [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident
> A distributed ledger with proof of ownership that makes it impossible to forge transactions

All that means is that I can prove beyond any doubt that I own something that's worth nothing... :-)
Give it a few years (infographic for the lazy): http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTINFORMATI...

EDIT: to address your last point, I don't believe that it is within the power of any but the most sophisticated central governments to prevent adoption of a decentralized financial network. Look at the history of file sharing and bitcoin drug markets, for example. Every regulatory action creates evolutionary pressure on the network, and the succeeding services become more difficult to suppress.
I'd be up for a HNBA fantasy league this year or next.
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Learn You Some Erlang is truly a labor of love, and I can't recommend it enough:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

It can be a bit verbose if you just want a reference, but that's because he spends so much time teaching you the details.
Your premise is itself a delusion of knowing the truth from a lie.
Also from a desktop computer?

It only works from mobile browsers here.
In Chromium it's generally runaway memory hogging tabs. Facebook is generally awful for example. Leave any Facebook page open all day (background of course, possibly on another virtual desktop) and you'll be staring at a multi-GB tab by evening.

I'm not sure what's causing the CPU utilisation in Firefox. It's common to blame extensions in the FF community because there's no easy way to determine where the problem is.
7 Benefits For Startups Joining The B-Corp Movement
The issue with the 3G is well known and hasn't really repeated itself. If Android fans get to tout community support as a positive then why not us too? Install whited00r, and your issue is solved.
According to the map, the green band is Earth's ecliptic, The suns path from our view on earth.
Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby’s EventMachine
The attitudes vary wildly within Europe, too. It's a big place.
Showing Up - Life with a spouse who isn’t afraid of failure.
We are talking about Mexico here right?
I interned at Google's Mountain View HQ in 2009 - I don't remember there being an actual nap room, they just had a few nap pods (like this http://www.hammacher.com/Product/12199) scattered around the office.
I ran into http://www.esop.pt/ a while ago which "aims to stimulate the market for open source solutions" in portugal. Oracle is one of its members. What exactly is their role? Gate keepers for governmental procurement? Their admission procedure at least seems a bit obscure.
The poem is one massive slippery-slope fallacy, and it's also a poem, not reality. It's fiction. Just like 1984, Brave New World, or any other literary piece that gets bandied about these days. Absolutely zero anchor in reality.

And "Jews" isn't the same as "terrorists". The US isn't going after people based on what they look like or who their parents are, they're going after people based on what they do and say. I know, it's shocking, that when you try to enter into violent combat with a nation-state, that nation-state is going to kill you. Those assholes.
Those poor idiots.

I feel nothing but disgust reading the comments cheering their lethal poisoning.
Great answer about employer contribution to 401k, etc, although I wasn't aware it was becoming less popular.

I'm not familiar with the UK, but in the US there is one important distinction between a pension and individual retirement accounts like a 401k, 403b, IRA, etc. Most pensions are defined benefits, meaning they are not controlled or accessible to the individual, they are, which are a promise for the future with zero individual control. The other instruments are ultimately owned and controlled by the individual.

You are typically limited to using the 401k your current employer offers if you want an employer contribution (which has a vesting schedule) and pre-tax investing, but when you change employers you can roll the money into another retirement instrument. The flip side is all responsibility for investment management, or even having retirement savings, is on the individual. Of course there are many people willing to help you manage it (for a fee).
Culture is what you make it. I'm a big believer in power naps, and I used to work at Google. This was a while ago and there were no nap rooms in my building, so I just lay down on a couch and zonked for twenty minutes every afternoon. This was in a hallway with dozens of people going by. Never any problem. (Of course, this only worked because I didn't mind the noise, but with more effort I could have found a quieter location.)

Obviously, there are plenty of more traditional workplaces where this wouldn't fly. But at most tech companies, the problem is not that you wouldn't be allowed to nap, it's people not realizing the value or feeling too silly about it.
That certainly depends on the complexity of the product. Many take longer then that to successfully market. The last thing you want is a bigger competitor with a huge marketing department to copy your idea and get it out to market before you can.
"How I (*Finally) Learned Ruby on Rails"
In general, I've found it a bit more helpful to think "Where do I want to go and what is the clear next step to a place closer to there than where I am today?" rather than "Why am I not like this other person who I am not like?" It's less disempowering and more actionable.

Bully for the gentleman who lives in Costa Rica. His success in no way makes you worse off. If you presently do not have a software business, and you want to some day have a software business, there's a very short list of things I could recommend to you. Writing software and selling software are at the top of the list.

If you want to run a software agency, your two tasks are stuffing the pipeline and delivering engagements. If you don't have an engagement yet, find an engagement, preferably one which will provide you a client/project that has citation value in dealing with new clients. You then go on a cycle of stuff pipeline to bursting / hire new employees to deliver engagements / stuff pipeline to bursting / etc.
The social network that Dorsey, Arrington & Ashton Kutcher are talking about
If you think the world today is anything like post-WWI Europe, you're either immensely blind, or you don't know what post-WWI Europe looked like.
Yes, this is general knowledge. But what you are asserting is a non-sequitur because you are assuming a direct link from adoption of cell-phones in third world countries to the adoption and use of bitcoin as a currency.
you do realize its absurd to talk about 'out-of-context' quoting when the full comment is sitting right there for everyone to read?

I was responding to a particular part of the comment, hence why I highlighted that, but obviously the whole comment is right there!

My opinion, and what I was articulating is that saying

this will suck if you're 50 years old and get laid off the assembly line

is a flippant dismissal of a serious issue.

Its like saying 'it will suck if you're a Syrian whose family gets wiped out in the civil war ... but hey we've been having wars in the Middle East for 100 years and its not particularly terrifying.'
There are people living in first world countries who have computers but can't get a bank account. If you have a negative report on ChexSystems, you won't be able to get a bank account, even if you have plenty of money for a computer.

Bitcoin isn't going to solve the problem for everyone, but there are definitely people who could get access to bitcoin but not to conventional banking.
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I usually feel groggy after naps and it would be hard for me to go back to studying or working.
> not being able to set a custom font for a text view is such an obvious miss

Can't you just use an attributed string? Xcode lets you pick a font using the standard system font picker then.
I agree .... robotics, 3D printing, automation based on AI (including commercial drones) etc. is going to be recipe for huge unemployment ... this cannot be compared with evolution/revolution when computers were new - this is different and will impact civil society at large.
It's not a process manager because there are no processes. And how do you get keypresses to come up on the screen with no OS?
Devair Ferreira himself survived despite receiving 7 Gy of radiation.

Whoa. I wonder if some people have genetics making them slightly more tolerant of radiation.

This is a horrifying read too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acci...
Yup, Google Chrome on Windows here. Might be geo-restricted though, I'm from Europe.
Or you could just keep it simple:

If you are hungry, eat. If you are tired, sleep.
> They are tedious, but for the wrong reasons: you have to make a lot of guesses on what are exactly the semantics of what you're supposed to implement, sifting through the forum and the FAQ for relevant information.

I look at their exercises more from a "I'll do it until I feel I have learned the core concepts" rather than "I'll do it until the grader gives me 100%".

If you're not taking the course for credit, your goal should be learning, not grades. That's what it's all about for me, and learning reactive/functional/Scala programming has little to do with debugging a black box of a grading system.

(Totally agree for those people who paid to receive credit, it must be very frustrating at times)
This is somewhat impotent advice, you don't just magically make money by giving up everything you're no good at. There are two reasons for this:

1) I'm good at making things. I'm bad at sales, marketing, hiring and delegation. I concentrate all my efforts on making things. Where's my 5 million?

2) You have to give it a reasonable punt. For example, there would be no professional musicians if everyone followed this advice. No one picks up a guitar or bassoon and declares themselves "good" straight away.
re #2, that's not entirely true. There have been a good amount of times that another answer gets upvoted way higher than the accepted (ie. "ticked") answer because it's better. In those cases, even the original asker has chosen one, the community has chosen another ... so it's often worth scrolling to see the other answers that have been given.

That being said, I agree with everything else you've said :)
You can't assume from your limited experience with a 3G running iOS 4.2 that an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6 or an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 will be as bad.

Those issues were caused by the anemic processor and 128mb of RAM in the original 3G. The 3G was arguably unusable with iOS 4.2 but the same situation really hasn't repeated itself with more recent devices.
Ok, so no mention of JSON but we have PDF there. Nice.

Stupid PT government as usual. And as usual, you can be sure the ones deciding on these are the same people that have their own software already supporting this.

Reminds me of the secure protocols that all accounting/tax software had to implement a few years back. The person that design it was the head of one of the largest sellers of accounting software in PT. Ohhhh how open.

Seriously, as usual, fuck them. I'm all for open standards, but mandating this shit is out of line, specially for this country that has already so many problems, this is what they spend their time (2 to 3 years according to the article). Will just mean you will have less SMB entering the market and it being monopolised by the big ones that can afford to do so.
The tulip mania is probably a myth.
I wonder about the efficacy of paying non-trivial bounties for errors spotted in papers. I mean if you're not paying people for spotting errors in something then what difference does it make if they're good at it or not?

Asides from giving people an incentive to actually spend some time and expertise on them, it'd also provide a rough guide to how important you expected a paper to be to the field. If you weren't willing to pay a lot for the discovery of errors, then you'd expect that for one reason or another errors in the piece wouldn't make much difference; either because its claims are unimportant or because you didn't think they'd be hard to find.

Problems?

I could see people trying to contact someone who was reviewing their paper to counter-bribe them, or someone who was reviewing trying to contact the author to elicit such a bribe. Double blinding might take care of some of that but in some areas you can guess fairly easily who someone is.

Perhaps a combination of double-blinding and multiple reviewers - preferably with some from a number of related disciplines - with flagged errors that are already reported, so that the bribes that would be required of the author don't scale well.
Is this the premise of where the saying "you snooze, you lose" came from?
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I could be wrong but it won't just be the idiots that die, innocents that come in contact with their bodies could also become ill.
If you understand spanish, I recommend this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIalaC0M_A

It's a Uruguayan folk song about the accent, it's a really nice song but very very sad.

(If you don't understand Spanish, you might enjoy it anyway).
I was addressing three of your previous points–electricity, internet, computer. I don't see these as issues, and to assume that cryptocurrency will remain as under-serviced and difficult to use as it currently is would be remarkably shortsighted.