skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Coinbase does not create new wallets for any transaction. It creates new bitcoin addresses, but all addresses are contained in one wallet.
The server upgrade bug:

1. How many other customers were affected by the server upgrade?

2. Why was this not caught at the time or after?

The customer response bug

1. What steps are you taking to correct the issue it took a front-page HN story to get traction?

2. Will you commit to writing a post-mortem blog post?

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then you are deeply doomed. I don't want you to be doomed :)
Female birth control pills have a variety of fail methods.

> Don't stick your dick in crazy.

What a vile comment.
Well historically sure, but I didnt expect them to maintain them...
IBM's Global Technology Outlook 2013 [pdf]
Exactly, people need to differentiate between the unit and the network. One has intrinsic value and the other does not, but they are also intrinsically connected.
Yeah, it kills us that we don't have an offline Android app yet.
What do you mean by "running too hot"?
I disagree, at least partially. Feeling isolated, alone, or unappreciated are not, in any way, issues that only happen to women. However, the fact that she was often the only woman at the very least exacerbated these issues. If she had had female colleagues to share experiences with and provide encouragement, she might have come out of it with a different perspective. Female colleagues who already get along with with the rest of the team might have also provided an easier route to socializing with everyone.

I don't think she's trying to highlight that the men she worked with were sexist. She brings up one incident but then acknowledges that was only her interpretation of it at the time. Instead, the more general sexism issue has to do with the lack of women in the tech field. She might have still faced some form of these issues in a team that was more evenly divided, but having that support could help distinguish what's caused by sexism and what's due to other reasons, including her own inexperience or insecurity.
It does sync if you go online, but if you close the page, you lose the data. Yeah, iOS app could use a lot of love.
Once all the "free" bitcoins have been mined, the intrinsic value of bitcoin will be the computing power the network is willing to expend in exchange for that coin as a fee.

Quite apart from using it as a store of value, and international payments processing engine, this could in fact be valuable in and of itself for purposes such as document signing and verification, a kind of peer-to-peer twitter[0], and (I guess here Bitcoin bulls speculate) other hitherto unknown uses. The intrinsic value of a bitcoin is therefore proportional to the value of the blockchain itself.

[0] Actually, why _don't_ we have a twitter clone based on the blockchain? Doesn't seem to me that it would be too hard to implement. Of course, messages will take 10 minutes on average to send, be immutable and permanent, and throughput would be limited, but at the very least it would have a novelty factor.
It's such an obvious solution that I really thought that WAS the case until just now. Why in the world would you tackle this problem any other way?
LG launching its first 4K monitor in January with 31-inch ultra-widescreen panel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

It seems that the overwhelming popular opinion is that it's a digital currency.

According to Coinbase:
Bitcoin, safe and easy.
Coinbase is an international digital wallet that allows you
to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoin currency

So pretty much everyone agrees that bitcoin is a digital currency.
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From a US based dev's perspective, I'd agree with you.

But it really depends on your definition of "horrible" and "well paid".

$5/hr in US is horrible.

$5/hr in a developing country is awesome and well paid - Even for talented freelancers.

And finding clients who are ready to pay you, as a developer from outside US, an standard/decent/well US wage for the job is pretty hard - almost impossible - at least in my experience.

Do you have any tips on finding well paid (generally better paid than oDesk) jobs for freelancers outside US/Western europe?
These are not technical dangers that Bitcoin possesses, they are dangers that exist with or without Bitcoin when dealing with money online. Computer security didn't all of a sudden become important because BTC came into existence: most of OP's same arguments could be made against having online banking:

* Online banking credentials are often stored in general-purpose personal computers running a wide variety of applications, managed by people who don't know how to secure a computer.

* In contrast, people regularly give complete access to their computers (where they manage their online banking, etrade, etc) to complete strangers by willingly or unwillingly installing software created by such strangers.

People have been being ripped off before BTC existed. The main difference with BTC is simply that a large amount of capital appeared very quickly in the hands of people that may not have been previously used to having a lot of money. If you imagine a hypothetical analogous scenario where .1% of online banking users suddenly saw their funds increase by 100x, and they didn't move those funds anywhere but instead continued treating them the same way, you could imagine them becoming fresh targets for malware or key loggers or phishing or what have you.
3.2% of seniors over 65 years old. I hope to be as engaged with innovation and have an early adopter spirit when I'm that old :)
You'd be wrong.
http://www.walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=safety+razor
After the 25mil from a16z, I doubt these problems will continue for much longer.
I used oDesk exclusively for hiring developers for a number of years, here is my 2 cents:

> it feels like fighting for scraps

You are fighting for scraps. Generally speaking, until you've been really burnt by a contractor you feel great hiring people in India to work for pennies compared to what you're reselling the service for.

IMO, this is the vast majority of people hiring on oDesk.

In addition, there are SMB or Agency type businesses that are looking to form relationships; they don't want to have to constantly search for new developers. Often, they will find a group or business with a stable of developers even if the quality of the work is a little bit poorer. Many of the firms I worked with just had a project manager that communicated with the developers on their end (often because they did not speak english) and maintained a single point of contact for us. Those were our best experiences.

> Does it get better once you "establish" yourself on the site?

It should. By the end of the time I was using oDesk I had several filters set up when searching so if someone had not completed a test or rating they would never appear on my radar.
White house task force recommends curbing NSA surveillance
The 5 Whys (parody)
How many watches can one person wear?
A year off school: My internship at Mortardata
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Workflowy Agent does a decent job of being a 3rd party solution.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.karelklima....
You could pay taxes using the German Papiermark or Zimbabwean dollar, and look at what happened to them...

Intrinsic value is not determined by the ability to pay taxes.

Fiat money has zero intrinsic value (well, beside the value of the paper and metal bills and coins are made of, but this value is negligible - spare the US penny coin).
Im learning how to code and contracting a developer to build the product at the same time. This coupled with being a "singlish" founder and all the things that come with that have been the hardest
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or open field offices in the city proper.
I don't. It's just our decade's version of deep blue. A pretty damn good calculator, but zero steps in the direction of a mind. It lacks 'common sense', for want of a better term.
Walter Isaacson's Next Book
There are merchants that accept gold in return for goods too, but we don't consider all gold transactions to be money transfers do we?
Although I haven't looked into it in detail, yet, the T430 I have at the moment has a physical switch for WiFi and Bluetooth functionality.

I want the same for the built-in camera and mic. A little physical "red switch" that no amount of coding can defeat.

I agree with others, here. I'm worried at least as much about the microphone as I am about the camera. I can always physically block the camera -- and control what it is pointed at.

Further, I'm not comfortable with plugging in a microphone to "override" the built-in microphone. Physical design alone leaves me certain (although without proof) that this "override" is controlled by code. And a bit of experience with software that overrides such defaults to allow simultaneous input over multiple, "normally" orthogonal channels leaves me convinced that such can likely be done with the internal microphone of most devices.
You say you know "a lot about economics" and yet you don't know that currencies don't necessarily need to hold any intrinsic value. They are simply means of exchange. Paper money in the form of US Dollars has no intrinsic value (the value of the cotton paper... less than a cent per bill?). As long as people assign value to something and use it for exchange... it's a valid currency.

Will people all quit on Bitcoin some day and its value will fall to $0? Perhaps. But it won't be because it has no intrinsic value. It will be because they decided it's not a good currency.

Societies have used seashells and wampum in the past as currencies, which also have limited "intrinsic value". They're simply scarce resources that everyone agreed could be used for exchange - just like Bitcon.
I don't read this as her telling you you're "not allowed" to say something.

I read it as her explaining how this choice of phrase, done likely without any malice, carried with it additional and possibly unintended connotations to her, due to her past experiences.

Despite being well defined in dictionaries, language is, like everything else about the human experience, inherently subjective.

So no, I don't think she's providing a rule for you to follow - I think she's just letting the reader know how a small phrase can have an impact beyond its intent.
So with Amazon I'd just return the product if it arrives too late. Does this work with Coinbase too?
For Wordpress installations I get it but it's the School Administration Solution for US$400 that's scary. Otherwise I agree, good luck to all inhabitants as the ghettos merge.
I think you have a point here. Money is a medium of exchange (check) and a store of value (?). Fiat currencies are backed by the country of origin. Monetary policy for each respective currency is managed by their Reserve Bank. Who or what backs the full faith and credit of the Bitcoin? Which individual or governing body sets the supply of Bitcoins?
I don't think you quite understand how Coinbase works. Since most transactions are ACH (and reversible) they take ~5 days before the coins are available.

This is disclosed up front, and again when you purchase bitcoins.
> Still, people are upset to the point that they are starting to interfere with traffic.

They've always interfered with traffic -- by removing cars from the road.
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mgrunin, you must be retarded. spend actual money for toy coins.
Obviously they spread. I guess my use of "meme" was a bit too broad, I meant image macro, specifically. They used to be humorous, but they're now so overdone and generic that they simply hurt to look at. It's like a fast food five second dose of "comedy", which I guess is fitting for our present fast food society.

Now that I think about it, that statement was asinine. I'm quite familiar with 4chan, Something Awful and Reddit. Never underestimate the stupidity of a general community. But sometimes, I just wish people would take the time to watch a 64k demo instead of a YouTube celebrity video.
There isn't any more to it. I disagreed with what I received, they said "we're so really deeply truly sorry but don't care, kthx for the money". Bank said "lol direct transfer". End of story.
But today, Android has huge market momentum, so a phone vendor switching off it would be abandoning most of the available customers, something they are extremely reluctant to do

Wrong, consumers aren't attached to phone OS's like they are to windows on the desktop.

You'll be betting wrong, if you bet that windows mobile is just "going to go away".
We use the resources we have available.

The sad thing about most of the experiments you list is that we gained a lot of useful knowledge from them. Sure it's easy to now look back and be horrified by them because we have the luxury of being able to do so, a luxury that is (in part) derived from the knowledge those experiments give us.

And yes, I think 100 years from now people WILL look back at us and be horrified about how do experiment on animals. But they'll be able to do so because they can afford that luxury. A luxury that's being built now, using those horrible methods.

Morals are never free of context.
I was going to write the exact same thing
As a cyclist (and driver), it is as likely to be the cyclists fault.
As if the current financial system doesn't have a carbon footprint ...
because of your delay, he lost $13226.98 at current market rate: http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/177828-where-my-bitc... I hardly think $50 is going to make him feel happy.
As a data warehouse engineer, I feel the frustration here. d'oh.
SMPTE in this case is relevant because the claims aren't defensible under the rules of Physics. You can't push the stuff they are claiming though Air, or with microphones. There is one claim in there about the capacitance of a human that I can't provide counter claims for, because I really don't know, but basically you can't move the kinds of data they are talking about via Air, sound, and mic cables.

Once you realize that doesn't work everything else is irrelevant.
Pa. police pull people over for random DNA tests for feds
That the victim in this case didn't see the light, doesn't mean that it wasn't on. She might just not have noticed it. If the older models required so much effort to hack, i doubt it got easier with the newer models, especially since we are talking about Apple here.

Obv. its still a problem, even if the light turns on. Taking a quick picture doesnt requite the light to be on for long, so it could go by unnoticed.
You might want multiple wallets for security reasons. For example, you could have one wallet on your phone for everyday transactions, and a separate wallet on a computer that's normally disconnected from the internet (a "cold wallet"). You can also store bitcoin wallets on USB keys or even on paper and put them in safe deposit boxes. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage

Since all Coinbase wallets are the same in terms of security properties, there's no reason for an individual to have more than one Coinbase wallet.
I wonder what their opinion is on school buses from expensive elitist private schools? Also, I know I'm not the only one whose picking up on the subtle racial undertones in this article. Why are they so quick to describe the villainous tech workers as "young white men"? I keep seeing this pop up in bay area news concerning gentrification in Oakland. In St. Louis, numerous races (Black, White, Asian) take part in gentrification and it's seen as a good thing. Yet, in San Francisco it's so demonized and race is immediately pointed out.
I thought the problem was not eco related, nor related to gentrification, nor weath inequalities, but more that private busses are using public bus lanes.

Thats the fucked up part in my mind.

Proliferating different forms of mass transit in general seems like a shitty solution, just take a look at how many different bus companies there are in Buenos Aires.
Hopefully you are selling him the BTC at today's rate, and not at $868. This post is an admission of guilt on your part, so if you don't, he likely has a great case when he sues you (which I would, if I suffered a $12k loss like he just did).
Remember how they got dragged kicking and screaming into the Internet era? That's the real Microsoft.

Kicking and screaming? This myth has developed that Microsoft completely missed the Internet bus, and only billg's belated realization and just-in-time gamble saved them from market disaster.

Except billg's famous "Internet Tidal Wave" memo was written in May of 1995! Netscape Navigator 1.0 had been released a whole five months earlier. Essentially nobody from the old PC guard saw and acted on the web's potential before Microsoft did.
Yahoo Working On A Google Now/Siri-Like Voice-Controlled Assistant App [video]
This argument comes again and again in this discussion, and I still dont get it. Why would you value something because it can be taken away?
By that logic, increasing taxes makes the currency more valuable. Lets go to 99.9% taxes on dollars and see our money shoot to the sky!
You're right. But, to elaborate, it seems to me that the answer to 'these jobs don't pay enough' is 'get a better job'. The bottom line seems to be 'do what's hard and in fashion (coding), or you can't eat.' Reminds me of the Glengarry Glen Ross contest: 'First prize is a Cadillac, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is you're fired.' Is this really how we want to run a society?
Right, but that doesn't mean anything when we're only getting ~16% efficiency in our ICE.
> Later I found out that elance has a loophole where buyers who disputed or cancelled projects are not able to leave feedback.

That is not correct.

You can dispute a project and as long as the freelancer received a single dollar for any work, you can leave feedback. Why should you be allowed to leave feedback if there hasn't been any payment made?

There are just as many clowns on the client side, as there are on the freelancer side. Many projects never get off the ground because the client has no money or is just an idiot. People like that should be allowed to leave feedback?

If you're having trouble finding quality help on Elance, try creating a private project and invite only those in your geographic region. So if you're in the US, that means US freelancers.

In the end, you get what you pay for. Don't expect miracles from India.
if you know even basic economics you know that bitcoin is not currency
Yet another article about high housing prices in SF that makes no mention whatsoever of the region's massively antidensity policies.

How many updates in this multi-part series is it going to take before NPR reports on that aspect of the story?
Yes, I used a poor example. Plenty of people believe in a God and in science and math.
"BTC with very little history may become very very valuable"

Perhaps, but I think that's why some degree of drug site users.. according to my readings, prefer litecoins. (just not sure how important of a feature ltc is, but it seems to be at least quite important to some)

The value is in having exchanges with little history, and having viable altchains that people can buy into and sell out of.
"Now all you have to do is warn users that the one LED is important and means something. Not like all the other LEDs that are on all the time and are mostly pointless."

No longer plastering devices with semi-pointless LEDs would help. Harddrive activity? Wifi? Bluetooth? I don't think all these lights are really necessary. Throw one on the power cable maybe, and a few to backlight the keyboard, but otherwise only use them as indicator lights for things that are actually important to the standard user.
And because of their delays, many others have made money on the transaction. They pay out at the market price of when the order was placed.

The OP thought it was worth it then, and bought them then.
It's not even that pretty Have a look at the Merkur "Futur" DE razor in satin or better yet, gold finish. There are tons of nice looking razors around, including some from the early part of the 20th century. You never know, maybe their products or marketing will work.
On your site it doesn't say whether or not you get a cut, but given the natural alignment of interests I think it's safe to say you won't have a problem with having to return unused hours, even an honest developer will simply maximize those hours.
Lemme get this straight, Brian:

Rather than refunding the dollar value ($35,104.11) of the original, clearly botched transaction, you ended up giving him the 40 BTC at their current trading value (about $560), that is, for net a loss of $35,104 - $22,400 = $12,704?

And you think $50 plus a thank-you note(!) is enough to make him whole on this loss?
If you have the LED hooked up in parallel with the chip, then you can't really do any fancy indication things like blink the LED, change colour (voltage level) etc. It's possible that the engineers wanted to maintain that flexibility.

Second, if the LED fails to a short your camera won't get any power. That means an expensive component appears to be broken when it's only a very cheap component, and you have no way to knowing that w/o opening up and inspecting or replacing parts. In contrast, if an isolated LED fails, one can still verify that the camera works via software, and choose not to send it in for repair.

Also, LEDs have a very small leakage current even in their off state. If somebody is hyperoptimizing power consumption they might choose to put the LED on a high impedence controller output rather than feeding off a power rail or similar.

Finally, the desired led might work off a configurable controller output, but that might not be the same as the output driving the chip enable pin. So you could require extra circuitry to convert to a compatible voltage/current level.

That's my guess.
I have a silver bullet answer:

Don't build terrible, dehumanizing, sprawl-encouraging, traffic-encouraging headquarters out in suburbia.

This isn't my idea - it's what every progressive minded thinker that spends even two minutes thinking about urban/traffic/sprawl ideas arrives at.

If google, facebook, et. al, were in the city, the network and wealth effects would be staggering. How many boats would be lifted by that rising tide ?
Seems like what you're describing here is BEM (Block/Element/Modifier) - those interested can read more about it here:

http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...

Basically it's anti-nesting and proposes being very specific with regards to class naming:

.block{}
.block__element{}
.block--modifier{}

I've experimented a bit with this lately but haven't come to a conclusion yet myself. Yes, it does decrease the chances of accidently styling the wrong elements, but it also makes the html more verbose and can in some cases make it more difficult to implement the website w/jQuery (because of the different classes in use, ie. instead of a .selected class you might have .selected__orange, .selected__apple so to switch the selected item you can't just do an .removeClass('selected')/.addClass('selected)