skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coinbase may have a track record of terrible support, but they also have a track record of doing the right thing (eventually), so I would think "whining on some Internet forum" (which happens to be one their CEO and employees browse, that's run by one of their investors) would in fact be a very efficient way of resolving the problem. Somebody else did the same thing yesterday and got a prompt response from Coinbase about rectifying the situation, so there's even precedent for this being a useful tool with them.
well you get lower premiums by being in less wrecks, in theory.
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I've never liked Target for its intrusive tracking of customer spending through their branded credit cards and other loyalty card schemes, because those never add any value for me.

They give you 5% off your purchase when you use the card. I consider it a fair trade in value given how much I spend there.

That "intrusive" tracking...I don't know if I feel the same. You're in their store. If they choose to watch how you shop there, you can stay or you're free to walk. They can't forcibly drop items into my basket...yet. If I choose to buy something personal that I feel Target shouldn't remember or relay to others, I'll pay cash.
A school system in my area did it and got a lot more support, but had to stop for now because the kids broke so many of the iPads.
Same thing happened to me. I sold $35k of coins a few weeks ago. Coinbase did 2 ACH transfers by accident to my bank, a few days apart. They reverted the 2nd one 4-5 days later.
Learning jQuery (http://www.packtpub.com/learning-jquery-with-simple-javascri...) seems to be generally well reviewed.
So he's built a file sharing tool which requires an SSH server to work? So why not just use sshfs, scp or rsync?

I don't mean to stamp on someone's creativity, but SSH already has a whole bunch of tools for transferring files - all of which already work pretty well.
Unless altcoins can freely float with any other altcoins. Then an altcoin simply becomes a stock in a network effect that altcoin can sustain. There's a reason why Dogecoin (as a "joke" as it is), has almost a $10 million market cap, and it just over a week old.

Next year, we'll start seeing altcoins pop up for anything and everything. The marketcap doesn't have to be millions.
The best thing about Objective-C are the API's. The API's are really great (no matter if you use them directly through Objective-C or through Xamarin's C# layer). In my opinion the Cocoa Touch / Foundation API's are of comparable quality as Microsoft's .NET (I love them both).

Personally I find the Android API's harder to use.
I downvoted you. I'll also tell you why.

There are lots of reasons to get rejected by Apple other than the reasons you list. I haven't kept track recently but I know Apple still reject most things which allow user development or a user-visible programming language inside an app.
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What age did you guys actively start searching out pornographic content? I'd bet for a big portion of the male population it is somewhere between 12-14.

I admit things have changed considerably from my days of watching late night tv in the hope of catching something naughty. I still think most young adults will self regulate their viewing habits.

If anything I think we should have introduced a voluntary meta tag for pornographic content. Perhaps even having ratings for different categories of porn.
"You are willing to take far higher initial development/maintenance cost (for sanely working app) just to reach people with far less buying power."

The far higher development/maintenance cost claim is unsubstantiated, and is largely driven by talking point anecdotes. For instance the utter and complete incompetence of the BBC team who seem to have so much trouble delivering a simple video streaming application (which they bizarrely built around embedded flash. They represent every poor decision possible, yet always get held up as prophetic).

The far less buying power thing is a common and gross misunderstanding of the applicability of averages.

Imagine that you are making a fruit holder, and you aren't sure whether you should target people who eat bananas, or people who eat apples. So you do a survey of the potential markets.

Incomes of people who eat bananas
$55235
$23737
$19083
$65928
$75239
$48679

Average income - $47,983.

Incomes of people who eat apples
$62234
$57201
$53233

Average income - $57,556.

As someone making fruit cup holders, does this make the apple market a better market? Of course not. Yet that is exactly the flawed reasoning so commonly used to laughably discount Android -- using the fact that there are low-cost, accessible devices to try to marginalize the top-tier, luxury devices. Only reality doesn't work that way.

Google Play spending still lags iOS, largely as a mechanic of the lack of some of the top tier apps, limited access to the pay market in the Play Store in some countries, and the slowness of Play Store gift cards to pick up, but that gap is closing at a stunning pace (iOS app spending is up 20% YoY, while Android spending is up 235%).
UK broadcasts normally replace the crowd noises if there are racist / homophobic / etc chants.
Once again, I am free to speak my mind.
Bablrr gives you a choice to be anonymous, it gives you a choice to be free to live in the moment, and the most importantly, it gives you a choice to be who you are. It does not leave any digital trail of what you say. It respects your privacy as it deletes all your posts after their purpose is served so that nobody can access your personal data.
Also a backer that didn't watch the video. I've always been more swayed by ideas and text than videos anyway. We got our copy, and it's in christmas wrap right now, burning a hole in my floor underneath our tree. I can't wait to try it out on my 3.5 year old!
I really understand your feeling.

I personally felt like the Internet gave us the power of managing several identities, having personas tied to some communities, making it simple to meet new people and yet (sort of) protect our privacy.

Now, I feel like the game has changed and if you want to enjoy anything online, more and more, you'll have to allow access to your life to everyone you ever interact with, unless you spend a lot of time tweaking privacy settings everywhere and live almost like a criminal on the run.
Jezebel: using ad hominem since before ad hominem was A Thing.
But you do know why this style exists and what benefits it has?
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934248 (cbc.ca) (24 comments)

Another discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930258 (krebsonsecurity.com) (8 comments)

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934595 (target.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934535 (securityweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934216 (wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6934038 (rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933163 (chicagotribune.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932782 (usatoday.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932186 (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932141 (theverge.com)
Yeah, I was thinking about my idea in the comment below, and realized that if a company (or conglomerate of companies) like IBM or a set of airlines which had an intra-coin that they used internally, may actually want it available to the public, as it indicates that the coin has a backing and importantly, it could be a good way for a company to raise capital.. instead of selling stock, it'd sell its intra-coins. In such cases only certain employees can actually withdraw underlying coins for special reasons, otherwise the underlying blockchain is hidden to staff who just see balances in their logins and transfer between other staff for day-to-day tasks.) Same with a government, who may fund projects and accept taxes in their own coin. The tyranny or tax to watch out for on top of all this is if some group comes in and says "I demand x% of all coins from your new blockchain."

On a similar note, Litecoins are big in China. If the blockchain were to come under attack, a large group of Chinese people would be pissed off enough to come together to do something about it. Or, more importantly the Chinese government may have high up officials or execs that hold Litecoins, and it could end up the preferred blockchain of the Chinese, and they turn a blind-eye to regulating it.
The reason 'exit might have found it off-putting is because it's almost only the right wing crowd that chooses to use this term now (and only in critical contexts). Take a 5-minute trip to freerepublic forums and you'll see what I mean.

Small side note: Referring to Manning as 'he' in events she was involved in before Manning to choose to publicly make a switch shouldn't be an issue -- that's something Manning herself suggested actually. So for the grandparent post to have used the 'he' pronoun would not have been an issue at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

:)
Too much negativity here. Some of their books are good.

I have both PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook and PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance and they are pretty good books.
One would suppose they would keep their proprietary charger and just bundle a cheap adaptor with European phones. This lets them continue screwing the rest of the world, and neatly contradicts the spirit of the European ruling by generating more electronic waste, meaning it's a win-win from Apple's point of view.
Here's a nice write up of the actual, bizarre details of how the sum was calculated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=ht...

Complementary dictionary:

Hittepåsiffror - made-up-numbers

filmbranschräv - a sly old movie industry fox

ickebevisade - non-proven

svajjiga - shaky
Yeah, that's what I thought. I didn't see anything horrible that were obvious, and by horrible I mean laughable just as the other pieces of code in the website.
They are not seeking to ensure portability between different kinds of services (and Azure has Linux VMs by the way)

But portability between, AWS, Google Compute, Azure, Rackspace, Softlayer, Nephoscale, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc would be quite beneficial.
Honestly iOS6 vs iOS7 is causing more pain than all the "fragmentation" on Android at the moment.
This is basically a popularity contest. Nothing to do with technical skills, just social skills. Good if you're wanting a sales person. Not so good if you're wanting someone who choose to sit in front of a computer all day doing a job which doesn't require that much social interaction.
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Ahh, I see how you can draw that conclusion. The quote is "'code smell' predates hipsters as a term", which I interpreted to mean that "code smell" (as a term) is older than "hipster" (as a term, or as a movement), while you interpret to mean "was used by people before hipsters used it."

I agree with you that "code smell" did not originate from hipster use.

But I don't think EpicEng implied that either. The parent comment is "it tends to be used by hipsters with little to no experience building complex systems." I don't see in it an implication that hipsters came up with the term.

So if that is fit2rule's point, then it's rather like saying "fixed-wheel bicycles existed before hipsters" - true, but a tangential remark which ended up derailing the conversation.

I know of no use of the phrase "code smell" before 1999, with its modern use. Could you speak more about your recollections from the 1980s? Was it used the same? Do you have a citation or reference?
My experience is that teams keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

For instance, so often the creators of some business app have a form that has room for 4 phone numbers and then they hit a case where there need to be 5 phone numbers and the client needs it yesterday.

A year or two later, you've moved on, and some other guy is going to need to add a 6th phone number field.

If the thing had been built to take an arbitrary number of phone numbers at the very beginning it all would have been so much cheaper.

I blame drifting requirements much less than I blame general incompetence for this sort of BS.
There are some exceptions, to be sure - for example, I don't share (offline or online) when I'm on the toilet, or what the results were.

But in general, if I have an opinion about something, I'm going to publicly and proudly state it - even if I later have to recant. I'd rather admit publicly that I was wrong than hide my views.
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Why not use toString()? It is clearer to the reader that way.
I am aware of everything u said.

Coinbase is dealing with real money here. Just on HN today, 30k USD have been locked up. Assuming 50 customers suffer from the same problem and same amount, they locked up 1.5 million USD. Bitcoin's has dropped its value from 1200 to 600 in 2 weeks. Assuming that trend continues, Bitcoin can potentially wipe out half of their customer's money. I know that is just a hypothetical but this is a real possibility.

You cannot excuse yourself for poor customer service just because you are a 'startup'.
Just because some coin's last trade was at $100 doesn't mean someone who holds 1 million of them is worth $100 million... volume and depth is important too.
You can even resell it on Amazon. When I was just out of college, I'd make a point of buying up stuff where it said "only 2 left in stock". Buy them, mark up 20-30% on Amazon/Ebay (or IRL), good to go. Risk is on me, but it almost always worked out.
kid's game market (not "purely" educational) is more competitive, and you have to fight with big players like toca boca/disney/nickelodeon. So you have to innovate even more. I've seen great apps disapearing from the charts in 2 weeks. Did you try free with not consumable IAP ? Did you try to work on your keywords ?
J has a similar feature: when applied to an empty array, /+ returns 0 and /* returns 1.

J doesn't have user-defined types. In a language with user-defined types, you would probably have to declare which operations are monoids.
I've only had to print terrible code to understand it. I think it's a way to leverage the spatial part of your brain more directly.... where was that part of this huge method that did that... oh, it's top left.
That's your choice. But it certainly changes... Well, nothing. It's no more forced in their face that they can go to one URL and see it, vs using any dumb rot13 proxy and accessing it that way instead (like I used to 10 years ago). Misplaced priorities, in my opinion
That was not what I said.
> I never bought through Coinbase, but I did sell some coins there recently for like $7k. They deposited the $7k in my bank account twice, and then a few days later took the extra $7k back.

Me too.
That could be true, but I think we should try to keep our opinions grounded in reality.
Perhaps they mean specifically consumer cloud/file services, a la Dropbox, SkyDrive, iCloud, Ubuntu One etc.
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Gender differences in email
There are easier ways to "JSONize" data, maybe? They aren't escaping the keys/values going in, which could be bad, but if it's a known set of strings that may not actually be a problem.

I notice that the two pieces of data actually going into the JSON are "CustomFieldOptionId" and "OptionName" -- which seem somewhat useless/obscure, but there could be a legitimate reason for that.

So yeah, I don't quite get it either. Most of the others are more obviously silly.
How about just starting with standards for downloading one's own data from cloud operators?

Maybe legislate an easy way to download all my emails from gmail and upload them to outlook.com. Wouldn't that be very useful?
By that rationale, it's also not illegal to enforce an unfair but legally valid statute.
There's a great footnote to the app:

> *When the vehicle is in motion, teens with iPhones® will see a banner on their home screen, reminding them not to use their phone while driving. iPhones do not support restriction of phone functionality.

A later bit of fine print says:

> The information provided by Esurance DriveSafe is for customer use only and will not influence your rate in any way. Personalized data generated by this program is hosted by a third party and will never be shared with Esurance. Esurance DriveSafe is available in all states where we do business except MA and PA.

This immediately made me wonder about being compelled to turn over your data in court if you do get into a crash.
FTP is just a horrible and massively outdated protocol which we really shouldn't be advocating for the modern internet[1]. Particularly when everything you've suggested can be much more cleanly done using existing tools on Linux / UNIX / OS X: scp, rsync, git, sshfs (some of which are often pre-installed on the *nix image)

[1] http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
Percival pretty much all property owners use leveraged debt aka a mortgage unless you happen to be a trust fund kid - it also has a bad knock on effect on the banks who lent the money.
PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook and PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance
I'm not sure if it is fraud or not. Maybe an attorney can comment, but here is how I look at it:

Fraud:

(1) a false statement of a material fact,

(2) knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue,

(3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged victim,

(4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the statement, and

(5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.

The attempt at buying coins on coinbase while selling coins outside of coinbase, then if the coin price falls… If Coinbase doesn’t deliver the coins according to their TOS and you say to the bank that you want to do an ACH chargeback due to them not delivering, it doesn’t fit the definition of fraud in multiple ways:

The statement you would make to the bank would be: “Coinbase did not deliver the coins based on their TOS so I request my money to be sent back to me via ACH chargeback and if they do send the coins, I will send them back to Coinbase”

1) it isn’t a false statement

2) doesn’t apply since it isn’t a false statement

3) not deceiving anyone

4) they are relying on it, but it isn’t false

5) no one is injured since Coinbase waited to fulfill the transaction, they can just resell the coins at the current market price, assuming they are able to actually sell coins.
I'm guessing it's because the only thing I see when I follow that link is the long list of "buy now" buttons. No teaser for the comic, nothing to let me gauge the comics worth... just a poorly designed webpage that only seems to want to part me and my money.

I closed the website after about 3 seconds, and wouldn't even have commented except for your seemingly genuine puzzlement at why someone wouldn't want to read it.
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You can get a preview of Packt books over on Safari [0].

Personally, I've found the quality of content and editing in Packt books to be consistently terrible. I won't click on a Packt book in my all you can read Safari Library subscription, I certainly wouldn't pay $5 for any of them.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, I can't recommend No Starch Press [1][2] enough.

0: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=83&publishe...

1: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/publishers/no-starch-press....

2: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/browse?publisher=59&publishe...
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it's Acapela. it's impossible to build your own text to speech engine if you want quality - it's years of R&D to have a very good one.
Reminds me of "the highest level feature of C"

http://prog21.dadgum.com/166.html

"The possibilities when compiling a switch are much more varied. It can result in a trivial series of if..else statements. It can result in a binary search. Or, if the values are consecutive, a jump table. Or for a complex sequence, some combination of these techniques. If each case simply assigns a different value to the same variable, then it can be implemented as a range check and array lookup. The overall sweep of the solutions, from hundreds of sequential, mispredicted comparisons to a single memory read, is substantial."
"One participant suggested the president pardon Snowden. Obama said he could not do so, said one industry official."

I wonder who that is.
after reading a packtpub book, I realized even I could write a book.
Because with file-share, the file is never stored on the ssh-server; it is transferred the instant the other sides starts the download. The SSH-Server is required to share the file at a publicly available address (which my own computer is likely not). So no need to clean up files after the download, for example, or even to have any free disk space.
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Yes!

Can anybody help me understanding the financial markets?
The two reasons I've heard are preventing accidental variable assignment and preventing null references. Personally, I don't think either of those things outweigh the readability issue.
Note that all these require transferring the file to the server first, before a link can be shared with anyone, and especially cleaning up later. With my tool, the link is instantly available, and as soon as I stop the program, nothing is left anywhere, especially not on the server.
There's been some work over the last 4 or so years on producing cloud abstractions to enable a multi-cloud approach (effectively trying to provide a sensible API that can work independently of a particular cloud provider). Projects like OCCI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cloud_Computing_Interface have published documents on how this would look

Personally my take is that the proposed abstractions are too low level to be of genuine use as an abstraction layer across cloud providers - but I'm biased in that I was involved in the research and development of a higher-level abstraction that provided something closer towards a PaaS approach - roughly equivalent to provisioning an instance (with disks and networking as required) and configuring it with puppet (this was back in in 2007 though).

The general attitude I've got from cloud providers when I spoke to them is that small providers like the idea of standards (reduces barrier to picking up their service) and big providers have no motivation to allow such mobility or multi-cloud use.
I was about to disagree with you and say that anyone downloading pre-release low quality products know that they're getting low quality product and know that the film will be better.

But then I remembered the people with beta OS access who file reviews for software that doesn't work with that beta product yet, even though the software producers are not allowed to incorporate those fixes yet.
You need to answer more questions on your homepage.

- locations?
- how do you select people (anyone who has done tests is familiar with the 'professional testers' problem)
- more detail!
Nope, just evil.
DogeCoin value jumps 300 percent in 24 hours
Seems like most followed the same reasoning to back Robot Turtles: Dan + Programming + Kids = I'm in!!! ;)
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cough onewaybits.com cough (shameless self promotion)

Supports up to 50mb files for now.
No questions - but a thank you, as I'm one of the people who has given you money.

Your apps, if nothing else, are an excellent way to distract our kid if we go out for dinner :)
Indeed. Trying to think outside of the box. Why not start a discussion startup with real-life discussions?