skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I'm looking at this as a buying opportunity. I put everything I had available into BTC during rise to $1000+ (I first invested early, so I'm just about breaking even right now, though if it drops any further, I'll be showing a loss). But, I've got a paycheck coming in soon, and it looks like prices are gonna be nice enough for me to buy a couple more BTC with that money.

I'm longterm bullish on BTC, so a low price is an opportunity to buy, not a time to beat myself up for timing the market wrong. Of course, I could be wrong in my bullishness. It could all fall apart, or one of the other cryptocoins could prove to be "the one" (though I tend to think most are just also-rans and can and should be ignored). But, I'm absolutely confident a cryptocurrency, of some sort, is absolutely the future. It's one of those unstoppable forces, I think, and as long as the number of people preferring it to USD (or other fiat currencies) keeps rising, the real value (not the exchange value) of BTC is going to keep going up. I want as much of that future as I can afford.
China Bans Payment Companies From Clearing Bitcoin, News Says
Maybe this one is more to your liking?

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1855.txt;type=a
I have no problem with that kind of future! Mono rules.
I am not so sure that no governments would like to sponsor cryptocurrencies.
Obviously, not states with dominant currencies for the reasons you mentioned, but I could see other countries jumping into the opportunity of altering the status quo.
Cannot read article. Paywall.
You do know that RMB is not fully convertible right? This is just the government cracking down on a forex loophole; you can still buy bitcoin in China with your $50K/year USD exchange limit (available to all Chinese citizens, foreigners with tax receipts). Of course, you have to take a hit on forex now.
What a difference a few months make
IBM reveals its top five innovation predictions for the next five years
Have a look at test driven development for embedded C by James Grenning for a viewpoint of how TDD might work in the embedded world. I found it to be a great resource.

http://pragprog.com/book/jgade/test-driven-development-for-e...
I started a conversation in #python on freenode and people were a bit outraged by the way frameworks are compared. Some open Database connections and never close them (example: GO) and others open and close DB connections for every request (example: flask). The guys at techempowered should review every pull request and check if it is implemented in a fair way.
If you believe in bitcoins, hold onto it.

It's only a loss if you sell it now and never buy bitcoins again, or if this is the highest price bitcoins will ever reach.
"Bitcoin or any other crypto-coin has real chance of adoption only when it's sponsored by government."

While I agree with your assertion that governments have no reason to support Bitcoin, I don't believe it follows that government sponsorship is necessary for the success of Bitcoin. I suspect most people betting on Bitcoin are aware that at some point, governments are going to act forcefully to kill Bitcoin, and the fallout will be utterly unpredictable.

But, I don't think it's something that can be put back in the bottle. We're crossing into uncharted waters here. Nothing like Bitcoin has ever happened before...so, we don't know how it's going to play out. I'm bullish even with the expectation that major world governments will collude with current financial elites to kill Bitcoin, because I suspect there is no way they can actually kill it.
If/when you do add extensions will it be easy to add sourcemap support as well?
>"It is not issued by a central monetary authority, it does not have the properties of legal currency and it is not a currency in the real meaning of the word."

Certainly an amusing quote, given the extensive actions to stop the spread of such a non-threatening non-currency.

By "ban", I assume they mean "made illegal." The former of course being a euphemism for the latter. A couple questions come to my mind as such.... How will China enforce such a ban? Can China physically or technologically bar access to Bitcoin deposits?

Regardless of the Chinese government's ability to effectively enforce such a ban, the price of Bitcoin has taken a noticeable dive.
Is the speaker going to practically show how to snoop the network/phone calls? From the description I'm imagining a very vague talk :/
figaro, with some extra benefits
U.S.A. Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Remember, it's just money.
I've worked at Wall Street firms and Google, and nobody has ever asked me for my grades :)
Hard to imagine frankly speaking, but any sort of "monopoly" is bad.
Color and "animation" in git commit messages
This is an interesting take on it. I assumed all governments would want to destroy Bitcoin (once they see its impact), but that really only applies to nations that have a dominant currency to defend, as well as a need for inflationary debt-based currency to support massive deficit spending for war and/or empire building (so, the US, China...maybe nobody else).
Maybe, but I doubt it. ES6 is almost certain to get implemented in browsers. Other languages won't have that crucial advantage.
Sorry, I hadn't seen it before, and my quick scan of it for joke-signifiers (date near April 1, funny names, strange references) didn't set off my alarms.

Only the engineering (and regulatory) challenge of a glass-bottomed plane seemed strange – and I was hoping for educated commentary here, because with Virgin/Branson, who knows?
My entire original reply was about philwelch blithely spouting his opinion as if it were relevant at all and that jmccree needed to hear it. It's a blatant replication of his smugness.
O.E.C.D. Warns West on Education Gaps
Not correct; another reason the deals are made is to save the state the cost of a trial. And if they won't give you a deal, go to trial and get some expert witnesses to say it was impossible to tell that it was you. The government has to prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and get 12 random people on the street to agree. That's risky. Hence plea bargains.
> This Region will allow China-based and multinational companies to make use of a broad collection of AWS services while remaining in compliance with China's legal and regulatory requirements

It'll be interesting to see how that works out in practice.
I thought they were appalling. The very essence of everything that is shit about TED. This one in particular http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
How do you know it is the right job until you have worked there?

My current job has gone from being "great" to being "average". Down to a number of factors, none of which would have changed in the job description. In the beginning I was designing and building a database system. Now I am maintaining it, and getting a lot more donkey work to do (fixing excels, tidying up the data when something hasn't been entered correctly). The organization has grown - I started in an office with one other person. Great for being able to concentrate. Now we have 4 people in the office. This makes learning new stuff a lot more difficult, as there is a lot less quiet time. Got an extra boss, on top of my team leader. So rather than concentrate on a task until it is complete, I have two people changing my priorities for me, forcing me to switch tasks, and destroying my productivity.
>I put everything I had available into BTC

Please don't do this. No matter how confident you are in your investment thesis it doesn't ever justify 100% allocation into a single asset - that implies infinite confidence.
Now with this temporary crash what will happen to the farms that heavily invested in ASICS, and that with difficulty will be mining at a loss in weeks? (honest question)
Use your brain and try thinking of one of the many plausible ways one might come up with that opinion.
> Bitcoin might topple the dollar hegemony if popularized, which might be what China wants

Why would China want this? The current system works in their favor, even they admit RMB isn't ready to be a world currency yet by disallowing full convertibility.

> but central banks lose their power to control the money flow in the system

Exactly. Also, this is a big loophole over the RMB's non-convertibility limitation/feature.
You haven't lost anything until you sell. I'm confident it'll start going back up at some point (it's starting to get a lot of vendor attention)

Just hang in there :)
Microsoft to pick CEO by early 2014
> Developers must keep up with new SDK and new iOS.

It's also a great way for Apple to defend against companies spending time and money building/updating for Android and other platforms. They'll continue to get priority.
Key detail here: "You will need to create an AWS account that is specific to the Region."

Be a completely isolated region by the sound. My question, will this open up that region to more external developers?
I reckon I could get the bulk of a side project done in that time.
Below are the links to the Delhi Pollution Control Comittee's live feeds.

http://www.dpccairdata.com/dpccairdata/display/index.php
http://aqicn.org/city/delhi/r.k.puram/
Sorry to mislead with that statement. I meant, "Cash on hand." I still hold GOOG and TSLA, as well as physical assets, and 48.5% stake in a business with significant value.

I am only investing money I can afford to lose. I don't want to lose it, but I won't starve if I do.
WebGL Tombstone
By "ban", I assume they mean "made illegal." The former of course being a euphemism for the latter. A couple questions come to my mind as such.... How will China enforce such a ban? Can China physically or technologically bar access to Bitcoin deposits?

Regardless of the Chinese government's ability to effectively enforce such a ban, the price of Bitcoin has begun another wild (and fascinating) price fluctuation period.
I have a 2007 iMac and it is still a better computer than any other desktop I've ever had. It can't run the latest OS X releases but it got more releases than I expected.

You can't magically make older devices support newer features, especially in a market that has evolved as much as mobile.
As a McMaster engineer, that was cool to see the Iron Ring clock on that page. I knew it existed, but forgot about it until I clicked.
Wait a year.
>Another perspective - what if they just followed cars leaving those bars and clubs for 1 mi., then returning and starting over after observing the driver's behavior?

You might notice someone being completely drunk that way, but not someone who's just moderately drunk reacting 10 times slower; unless something happens, of course, but you don't want that either.
Show HN: Affordabl.es, a collection of creative gifts I built in 7 days.
Just in time for the holidays. Affordabl.es is "creative designs and gifts for under $50". I made it live in about 7 days but have been adding products 1 by 1 for the past few weeks.

So here's my list of plugins:

● Theme is a very modified version of IMBALANCE by WPSHOWER.

● Better WP Security, locks out bad logins, and is a must have, the first plugin you should install

● Advanced Custom Fields Plugin, used to add custom fields for product listings like the link to the store, the last checked price in the upper left corner

● Contact Form, used for the "submit product" form

● Displet Pop, Popup window script used to ask new visitors if they want to sign up for the monthly newsletter

● Easy Automatic Newsletter Lite, Sends out a newsletter of all the posts that month and emails them to subscribers

● NextScripts Social Networks Auto-Poster, Automatically posts links to content to Twitter, Facebook, Google +

● Scheduled Post Shift, changes the dates of the old products one by one each hour

● WP-PageNavi, Turns "older posts" into "Page 1 [2] 3 4"

● Widgets on Pages, Used for my "submit product" page along with Contact Form plugin

● W3 Total Cache, takes a huge load off your server by creating a static html version of your site

● Use Google Libraries, Use Google's hosted version of Jquery

● Ultimate Posts Widget, used for the "Featured Posts" section on product pages

= TODO =

● Implement AJAX loading when a user reaches page bottom

● Implement a "love it"/"stupid" voting system

● Remove my picture, other design blogs do it to add a more personal touch but mine just feels strange
> You should really avoid publishing incomplete benchmarks.

If we had followed that advice, there never would have been a round 1. I was so uncomfortable with the idea that we'd be publishing surely-flawed benchmarks of frameworks we didn't really understand that I requested to be taken off the project (prior to round 1). It was only after seeing the post-round-1 discussions and the flood of pull requests that I realized I was wrong.

These benchmarks are always going to have flaws. I think it is better for us to regularly publish our best attempt than to try for perfection.
> No meaning to ethics if this is your philosophy.

What's the basis for the belief (you seem to hold) that it's more ethical to silently tolerate unethical practices instead of outing them publicly?
Awesome work guys!

I'm curious how you guys decided on a 4-day week? Was it a group decision or founder laying down the new way of getting stuff done?
This is another thing I find strange in interviews. People are expected to know the ins and outs of the company. Fair enough if you are Apple or Google, but for anything smaller, why would you be expected to know much about the internals of a company.

So everyone just reads the webpage, the interviewer gets the answer he expected. Not sure how that makes the developer better at his job. Sure they took an hour or so to read the webpage, but does it in any way matter?

(Actually one company I applied to recently did the opposite - they had a fake webpage with minimal detail - I am not sure if this was to catch out bullshitters. Anyway, when asked what I knew about the company, I was honest and said I didn't know much. The job didn't go ahead in the end, though the guy said he was impressed with me at the end of the interview).
Wait overnight to send emotional responses to messages. If you
have really strong feelings about a subject, indicate it via
FLAME ON/OFF enclosures. For example:
FLAME ON: This type of argument is not worth the bandwidth
it takes to send it. It's illogical and poorly
reasoned. The rest of the world agrees with me.
FLAME OFF

This doc is full of gems. Trolls and flame-bait? Just invoke your best Johnny Flame impression.

I really think that if more people took time every day to scour the annals of IETF RFC history, they'd find answers to many of the "new" problems we discover every few years.
Maybe someone here can answer this. Do founders of important technologies generally have a good idea of the primary use case(s) for their product? Seems silly to ask, but I posed this very question to Meta, and their answer was essentially that they are going to "let their users decide that." Three use cases were listed off, but I didn't find them particularly impressive. What should be made of this?

I ask because it seems contrary to the importance of solving a problem. With SpaceGlasses, the users run around deciding how the product can enrich their lives. Seems pretty odd.

I've found that with lots of successful tech products, I've been able to pretty quickly see the how I could use it in my everyday life. The iPhone is the classic example, but even search, email, Facebook. I don't really see that here. I'm pretty young though, so my experience is really limited. Also, I realize my personal experience doesn't make for a very strong argument. Still, it's a pretty terrible pitch.
Very interesting.. But I can't see it being much use for foreign developers unless they make getting an ICP license easier.
More specifically, it means apps will have to be built with the iOS 7 base SDK (you can modify Xcode 5 to build with the older SDKs as base).

This ensures things like the new style keyboard and status bar UI are used in your app when running on iOS 7.
That's not how it came across to me at least. His reply came across as a reasonable part of a discussion, and you came across as being a total asshole. Your assertion it was a "blatant replication of his smugness" just reinforces that impression to me.

If that's not the impression you want to give, you might want to reconsider your approach.
Running a business is about solving a problem. Some problems are things that need innovative development because they can't be broken down in to smaller units that people have solved before. More often though, people's problems are actually a configuration of smaller, very simple steps that have been solved before. Recognising the problem, breaking it down in to it's constituent parts, knowing that those parts have been solved, and knowing how to get the solutions to work together - that's the clever bit. That's what people give you money for.
> US citizens have nothing to worry about.

Oh, alright then, there is nothing except the trillions of spies queued up behind US borders.

There is a shocking news to be revealed:
Not all non-US citizens are spies.
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> Could you explain what you mean?

Minarcho-capitalism has only one moral rule: the Non-Aggression Principle. It has no considerations of the virtues its system inculcates in people, nor for their utilitarian well-being. It only acknowledges one rule as being a moral factor. Ever.

Meaning: go ahead and eat puppies or kick people in debtors' prisons, because you're still obeying the One Rule of not violating private property.

Hence my objection: you can't structure an entire society on one moral rule that corresponds to nothing else in any other form of ethics or morals.
For serious entertainment, Bitcoin markets now are great places to try some day trading rodeo. Instant buy/sell with lots of drama and reasonable depth. Stick with your stop-loss strategy and it's a real adrenalin rush. I trade a small amount up and down and even made 40% profit for the last two weeks just by trying to catch bottoms and selling a little higher. Cheap entertainment IMO.
I don't think the GP is saying that; I think the GP is saying that to be ethical you do something that is right regardless of if you get credit for it.

And in practice, publicly stating that you turned in your company for something (even if morally right) can hurt you when you apply to other companies since if they learn of it they are likely wondering if you would accuse them of something if you worked there.
You need patience with Bitcoin. It does swings like this all the time. The last spike topped out at around 250 in spring this year and then dropped to 100 for some time. Then as you know it recently spiked at 1200 and now is down again. Hold it two years, and if you don't have a 10x increase, you can decide it was stupid. Deciding now is indeed stupid, so I would advise against it. Take a deep breath, see it as a risk investment and look what's coming ahead. And never judge based on a few weeks of data.
But surely an "off" button for all those intrusive and omnipresent IAP buttons is what he is looking for, then? And this is what is provided in the iOS settings.
Like Israel actually, North Korea runs one of the most competent smuggling groups in the world. They smuggle drugs into Australia and Japan regularly, and possess all the resources needed to infiltrate borders of most of their neighbours with ease. In spite of what we think about what a 'traditional nuclear strike' would/should look like, the fact is that a two-man team carrying a portable nuclear device is quite a valid threat to a lot of modern western democracies, and this is quite well understood by most governments. (In fact, its the basis of Israels' own investment in nuclear armament: the David option ..)

So, don't just consider the ideal that nuclear weapons have to be delivered by missile. They can also be delivered by donkey.
I assume that some future major revision of node will move its API across and that in the meantime, promise versions of core libraries will start appearing on npm.
Nice! Looking forward to full support for Symfony2!
Quantum Waves Found at the Heart of Organic Solar Cells
That's not a uniform trend; five years ago in Python you put together a lot of small pieces (and e.g. Turbogears was a nominal framework that was actually a lot of small libraries being composed together). Nowadays Django has a lot more mindshare, and many of those libraries are abandoned. I'm not sure why you're comparing Rails with Struts, which never seemed particularly popular in my experience; Rails certainly feels heavier than spring-webmvc/wicket/tapestry (e.g. it reaches down to the ORM layer, while the Java frameworks expect you to handle that yourself) which is what I saw in use. Many of the Javascript libraries that are coming out are "micro" oriented, but we're also seeing the rise of Angular which is much more of a heavyweight framework.

I think you can get the advantages of both if your big framework is built on smaller pieces that make sense in themselves. So in Scala land I'm very pleased to hear that Play is moving to be built on top of Spray (which is a microframework I'm using at the moment - and itself is built out of pieces like spray-json that can be sensibly used in isolation).
> the price of Bitcoin has taken a noticeable dive.

Don't judge on one day. Wait for a week, 10 days before making conclusions on the price of Bitcoin. Bitcoin has shown to be pretty resilient to news that were considered bad by the media. We'll see.
I love when people just like that are assuming that everything has to happen in U.S.A. and that world around it doesnt exist ;)
adding vendor prefixes isn't free. with Dart it's only one extra command to run. With prefixes, you have to keep track of all the usages.
Remember that talk is an interruption to the other person. Only
use as appropriate. And never talk to strangers.

Thanks Mom.
I wrote that article, and I think you are right. That was not the right tone for a review of a new product, even if Telegram's attitude (in particular here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456 ) has been of denial and arrogance.

I usually have no temper problem, but everytime someones proposes a new secure system and ignores the holes people point out, because that means I will need to spend months explaining to pepople that they should not use it, even if it is "hype".

So, yes, again, you are right, my apologies.
I don't blame the guy there's money to be made from hosting in China as well.

But i suspect this will end up being an isolated island in their system limited to the Chinese market only.
Don't worry; it will rise again. It's already at $550. If you keep on to your BTCs, in a few months it will get back to $1100+. At which point I would suggest you sell some of it and get some money back; $11k seems like a lot of money; the first rule of trading would be to invest as much as you can afford to lose :D
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What makes you say temporary?
How did you find people for your project?
Hello everyone,

I have an idea I started working on by myself. There are people to whom I explained what it is about and most of them think it is worth doing, but even though it sounds like a good idea I can not get an interest of my friends or acquaintances whom I trust, that are in development jobs, to join me. I tried only with them for now but I wanted to hear someones experience how did you start it off when you do not have your employees or equally interested team members?

Cheers,
Dusko
The wager makes perfect sense if you don't think BTC will rise again though...
>He wasted valuable city resources on an experiment the outcome of which he should have predicted, being a criminal attorney in Roxbury.

Its not a waste of time if he's a report, reporting on a social condition that requires attention - and that is exactly what this is all about. The fact is that there is a police state industry in the USA and any light being shone on it is positive.
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