skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that if you measure bitcoin as a currency it's doomed to be a failure. I don't care if its called a crypto currency, it's a crap currency. After one minute of reading about it the major benefit to me was its supply limit. Demand is erratic, supply is limited. It's an option on a black swan-like resource. Its name or what most people think of it as, doesn't change the fundamentals.

I'd agree my usage of the term 'hedge' isn't useful. But it is nice to have something that has appreciated so well over time, where my own currency has sucked.

I don't worry too much whether it succeeds or fails, but I assume if it succeeds it'll have to move through the hysteria and a trough of disillusionment to find some niche.
First of all, I realize this game is very similar to some existing games out there - I drew inspiration from puzzle games such as Candy Crush

Secondly, this game was developed from start to finish in just 2 months' time, owing to Sprite Kit's simplicity and elegance. Though there's not much example code out there for Sprite Kit given how new the framework is, it only took a short time to start drawing some graphics and animations. However, for more advanced things, such as sync'ing and sequencing several groups of actions/animations/sounds on multiple on-screen sprites, that required more custom work on my end (which could be worthwhile to explain in a blog post later on).

Anyway, try it out and let me know what you think. And if there are any other developers out there using Sprite Kit as well, I'd love to chat or get in touch! (especially if anybody has experience porting a Sprite Kit app to Android!)
From what my accountant tells me, there's a good chance the people inside the Google bus (driver excepted) are making 10-20X what the folks protesting them are making.
I want hardware on/off switches for camera, microphone, wifi, bluetooth, and maybe even external speakers. These should be power switches, not switches that make a polite request to firmware for the firmware to act as if the devices are off.
Do you really believe these systems are so non-automated? Of course the price swings must have something to do with their delays!
Companies not in the city have no use for city buses. They need regional buses.
Without an agreed upon definition of "in the direction of" and "AGI", it's hard to have a good conversation about this. For my purposes, I do consider Watson a step in that direction. How big of a step is certainly open to question, but I do believe it's a step nonetheless.
Pebble launching its own app store early next year
People aren't gearboxes. There's no analogy here.
VCs are wrong about “Bitcoin as a Protocol”: Would you rather trust BTC or Guns?
Thermoneutral means zilch energy consumption at basal metabolic rate when motionless in a windless environment. Its a narrow temp range. For bare humans its about 80F which seems warm because we're usually not motionless and usually wear clothes.

You can make a joke out of the whole thing in that they're trying to turn the mice into couch potatoes who don't burn a single excess calorie to better match the human couch potatoes.

Its not totally ridiculous to think a drug could be developed that would have different effects on human couch potatoes vs the now somewhat unusual athletic humans. We already have identified compounds like that, take all the roids you want, no exercise means no gains. Off the top of my head there's some medications that screw up human thermoregulation, like prevent or reduce sweating, so exercise for someone on those meds equals heatstroke (well, not guaranteed, but close)
Apple's Inter-App Sharing Dilemma
When people say that the Linux kernel is monolithic they really mean that it is not a microkernel architecture. In microkernels the designer says "Having a minimal microkernel with lots of separate modules is good therefore we will do everything that way". Linux simply says that modularity is good therefore we will use the appropriate integration technique at the appropriate times.

In the Linux kernel, you use printk to print messages on the console. That is modularity. There are device drivers. That is modularity. There is a range of loadable/configurable kernel modules for many things and these used to be more visible when more people would configure and build customized kernels. The Linux kernel has far more of these modules than earlier OSes that I used (TI DX10, UNIX 6th ed., Xenix, 3B2 Unix, SCO UNIX). The Linux kernel is linked into a monolithic binary that runs in kernel mode, but it is composed of many modules, some of which are integrated at link time and some of which are loaded dynamically (lsmod).

There is a good reason why the kernel is more monolithic than a business app, and that is that the kernel is doing a vastly different job at a vastly different layer of abstraction than a business app. You might also note that there are still lots of jobs for C programmers but most of them mention "embedded systems". That's what the Linux kernel is, a big featureful embedded system.

Perhaps some day someone will write a book on integration and cover all the different ways in which functionality can be integrated to produce an application. Most developers lean far too much on only one way of doing it, i.e. the link editor. For most apps, loosely coupled integration techniques are more valuable.
"Our" or "your"?

So basically you want to treat humans like animals?

I assume you think you want to treat animals like humans, but that's not going to happen. If people listened to you it would end up going the other way.

So I'm glad your opinion is a marginal one and that virtually everyone on the planet disagrees with you.
There was an article about this before - with a case where a hacker in California tried to blackmail students who he'd spied on having webcam-sex during a long term relationship.

Since I read that, I've been keeping a piece of post-it note on my Macbook Air camera, although it does fall off occasionally (and I need to remove it, very rarely, to actually use the camera.)

I've just upgraded it to a proper piece of card with real tape. ugly, but effective.
I liked Clef when I first looked at it, but I'm not sure about its security. I really, really like 2FA and really, really hate passwords so it looks like Clef is a good fit. However, it never had any major accounts (Facebook, Google, etc.) Now someone has built a Chrome plugin called Waltz as a go between for sites that don't have Clef native capacity. Neat!

I just wish it was open source. :(

The last line of the NYTimes article mentions something about not releasing the source code to keep competitors away. Then goes on to say that some people have reverse engineered the Android client and have given them valuable feedback on their code that allowed them to improve the product. And Waltz was build by private hackers without the companies help.

Imaging what people could build if they open sourced this thing!? Not only that, they might actually get some traction and jump ahead of their competitors (who are also closed source)! Why do these companies not see that OSS is a good thing? :/
Most of his complaints are FUD. He didn't even bring up legitimate concerns like how big of space you would need to have the entirety of the block chain in the future.
No...Bucketing would be you buying 100gal of fuel through a broker for $5/gal and your broker in turn not buying your fuel until the price drops to, say, $4/gal. Thus they get to keep the $100 difference + their normal fees.
Why did it take a public complaint to get you to do your job?
Did you process the transaction using the current exchange rate or the December 8th rate?

If its the latter why would anyone use your service?
lol, wow, that's pretty intense
> Don't see the argument for the intrinsic value of paper money at all, but would love to be enlightened.

You can pay your taxes in it.
Yes, it's probably worth mentioning that even people willing to deal with PHP find Wordpress code to be 'aggravating'. It is, unfortunately, not an example of PHP application design at its best...

Upshot, though, there's plenty of documentation and SO threads out there and a huge ecosystem of plugins. Most of the time you never even need to look at the actual source code.
If there's a 5% chance that BTC will become a major world currency, and a 95% chance that it will fail miserably, and the equilibrium price of a BTC as a major world currency is $40,000 and the equilibrium price of BTC as a miserable failure is $0, then BTC is a good buy at $1000 despite the fact that the price will almost certainly decline precipitously.

Not that I necessarily believe in that particular scenario. But it's worthwhile to remember things like this when reading smug blathering about what's "obvious." Markets are complex. If the future price of something is "obvious" to you, there'a a good chance you're not thinking hard enough, or at all.
I don't think "intrinsic value" is a term in economics. It's a term in investing.

Economics is far from clear about predicting how Bitcoin will end up. The professional economics world has yet to seriously weigh in about Bitcoin. I just searched the top 10 journals on this list: http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/whorrace/journals.htm and none of them appear to have anything published about Bitcoin.

That said, Bitcoin does have "intrinsic value" as a payment processor. Think about PayPal. There's two kinds of value in PayPal. First, they have their deposits, which are denominated in various different currencies, and which are backed by various governments and insured. Then there are the people, the servers, the contracts, the buildings, all the other stuff that's necessary for those deposits to actually move around the globe. Ebay didn't buy PayPal's deposits, which aren't really PayPal's, they belong to their customers, eBay bought PayPal's assets.

Think of Bitcoin like that stuff... a distributed payment processing company. It just as reliable as PayPal, except no one can ever freeze your account, and you can only transfer Bitcoins. PayPal was worth $1.5 billion to eBay, so that's a reference for your "intrinsic valuation" that you're working on.

You might be thinking "well PayPal wouldn't be useful if it could only transfer Bitcoins and the value of Bitcoin is $0 so there's a chicken and egg problem!" Except I don't see a scenario where Bitcoin goes to $0. Let's imagine Bitcoin crashes all the way down to $0.01. Bitcoin is still useful if you're trying to get money to your grandma in Cuba, or to pay your Latvian web development contractor. Maybe it's extremely volatile, but that's OK because you otherwise have no way to get your money where it needs to go, and you're only going to keep it in Bitcoins for a few days. You buy some Bitcoins, send where they're going, and the other side cashes them out.

Now why is this relevant? Well, if during those 4 days, there was $1,000,000 worth of money that people were trying to send this way, then there need to be at least $1m worth of Bitcoins to "float" those transactions. Essentially those people all show up on Monday being like "we don't care how much it costs because we're selling them again in three days, we just need $1m worth of Bitcoins to send to our grandma/contractor/etc". Therefore the "value" of Bitcoin goes up to at least $0.05 ($1m/21m).

This is just one of Bitcoin's many "intrinsic" values. It is the "payment processor of last resort" for everyone who falls through the cracks of Western Union/Paypal/etc. This creates a floor below which Bitcoin is unlikely to fall.
Wow, this is perhaps the single most ignorant article I have ever read about bitcoin, ever. There goes my respect for Charles Stross.

Not a single point is actually true.

1) Compare the carbon footprint of bitcoin mining to the carbon footprint of all the industries it displaces.

2) and 3) are actually the same item, and both wrong because ASIC miners are absolutely dominating in the mining stakes now and for the foreseeable future, hacked bitcoin miners are ridiculously minor by comparison with almost zero returns.

4) There are already markets in drugs, assassination and child pornography. The currency most frequently used in crime is the USD. Quick, someone stop the printing presses and we'll bring crime to a screeching halt overnight.

5) If Bitcoin actually does manage to destroy the state, and that's a very big if, that is by far the absolute best thing that could ever happen in the entire world without a doubt. And it would imply it happened without bloodshed and because people chose it as a simply superior option, which if the negative scaremongering aspects of the disintegration of the state actually started to manifest, would not happen by definition. So even if you don't take it for granted the state is a shambling monstrosity that deserves a quick and merciful death, the very fact that Bitcoin ever gets to the necessary fraction of the global markets to kill it implies that people accept that and don't worry about it.
"What is the converse to "luck" in your argument? Is it effort, or work, or something like that?"

There are more inputs than hard work and luck. An obvious example would be the decisions one makes in life.

For instance, having a child at 20 years old, outside of a stable relationship has long been known to have different results than having a child at 25 in a stable relationship.

Decisions themselves have lots of inputs, so it's a complex issue. For instance, family and culture have a big impact on decisions, so those with different backgrounds would be expected to make different decisions, and therefore have different results.

It would be quite a surprise if different families and cultures produced the same results, after all.

Note that I'm certainly not saying that cultures are better or worse than other cultures. They may have different measures of success, for one thing; and even on one measure (like financial success) the rankings of various cultures might change radically if the environment changes.

I guess you could say that it's "luck" to be born into a family and culture that encourage the kind of decisions that are best for the environment you're in, or something like that. But that just doesn't seem to usefully inform any policy proposal.

If bad decisions are a major factor in bad outcomes, it might be more effective to encourage better decisions than to try to deal with the consequences after bad decisions are already made.
"Utterly pointless" is a bit harsh. Interactivity in a line graph is useful because it helps the user understand the value of any chosen point.

But I do agree that one way to improve this is to make the key static, moved off to the side so that it does not obfuscate the graph.
Didn't you read the article? She addresses exactly the point that men feel isolated, alone, and struggle to mentor others in paragraph 7. She also addresses your idea that she "blames [it] on her gender." Please respond to the article under discussion rather than a similar, but different, article.
Hey, do you know your website has been hacked?
Martin Grunin can still be a sucker when it comes to bitcoin.
Ask HN: $5000, 18 months. How do I get the best return?
I would love to hear the best ways I can invest $5000 and get the highest return in 18 months. Thanks!
> I can't directly take bitcoins or gold or copper and purchase anything at my local wal-mart.

You can't do that with Euros, either (assuming you're in the US, otherwise s/Euros/USD/). But that's obviously closer to cash than commodity.

There are merchants that accept bitcoins in return for goods. You're just purposefully avoiding them in your argument.
A double decker bus at capacity holds ~80 people. Imagine if the FB/Apple/Yahoo/Google transportation infrastructure didn't exist at all... [0]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/axZLrMT.gif
This was built as a Chrome Packaged App. There are some plusses and minuses with them. The fact that you have most of a desktop experience, with auto-updating, is really nice. The fact that there are some critical differences, that are confusing to the user. I wish Chrome wasn't trying to invent a new category of app :/
Amen. FWIW, the tech buses allow me to not own a car at all.
Because apple is still spending billions of dollars, and relying on existing brainwashed users, to tell them that "it just works"?
Configure the android to increase the life of battery
The battery life has been a concern due to excessive consumption, probably out of guilt of not having the recommended consumption to save settings...
Its not just surfers that lose here. Anyone wanting to access public park areas in the mountains that need to traverse across small sections of private property can also lose access.
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> one of the big features of a modern fiat currency is the ability of the central authority to react to market changes

This is also its Achilles' heel if this central authority acts poorly. There are MANY worldwide currencies which are very poorly managed.

> you don't understand the level of resources that banks can bring to bear if they have the right motivation

The Bitcoin mining network is now more powerful than ALL of the top 500 fastest computers COMBINED. So, good luck with that!

> It's naive to think that these companies couldn't/wouldn't exploit the fact that Bitcoin is almost entirely unregulated: if they can get control of the node network and print money, it's not clear there's anything illegal about it.

There isn't, but consider this: If word got out that this happened, people would flee Bitcoin, eliminating any incentive to do so, unless your only goal is destruction, and that's a pretty shitty motivation to do anything by.
That's interesting. I love to talk with you sometime about your experience with those higher priced jobs. I'm particularly curious about what kinds of clients are mosting higher price jobs on elance, since our experience has been that it's mostly a race to the bottom. Could you send me an email: andrew at getlambda dotcom

For the types of projects we work with, "exceptional developers" might be better described as "competent developers, great entrepreneurs". Of course, that wouldn't be ideal marketing copy :)

In general, raw technical ability isn't a huge factor in commanding higher rates. There's definitely a minimum threshold someone needs to pass, but you'd probably clear that easily if you've been freelancing for 5+ years.

Instead of learning to code faster, you'd be better served by learning to code less. Clients often have big ideas that would take 6+ months to build in their entirety, but which could be shipped in weeks by eliminating unnecessary features. Convincing them to cut those features is a skill in of itself, which is often what separates "freelancers" from "consultants".
Coinbase is not an exchange like Bitstamp or Mt.Gox. This fact is not just something buried in their T&C. Their company communication has never described their product as a tool for day-trading.

They made a promise to deliver bitcoins at a certain price and on a certain date. The original poster's issue is equivalent to Amazon promising 2 day shipping but the book came a few days late.
Yea, let's never question authority/malpractice/racial profiling, because it may mean someone gets away with a petty crime. That's super logical...
Maybe. Or maybe Google (Facebook etc.) employees would be forced to live closer to the Peninsula. Or maybe Google (Facebook etc.) would be forced to invest in the public transportation infrastructure with all the taxes they're not paying.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

I don't have the silver bullet answer, but if you live anywhere near San Francisco and are not on the road to tech millions, you can see that we have a big livability problem. Every day SF looks more like Santana Row, or the Plaza in Kansas City, plus homeless people.
Apparently mgrunin's website was also hacked. Not his week.
I read through part of the slightly scammy-looking long sales letter (complete with bullet points and money-back guarantee) at https://knowyourcompany.com/ and still don't have a clue what this product does.

Can anyone enlighten me?

PS: @jason - the comment about the sales letter is not a comment about 37S, of course, but I'm sure you're aware of the format you're using there...
> They are bad because they've found a loophole that lets them monopolize a critical distribution channel for taxpayer-funded research

There would be no monopoly if scientists didn't agree to their terms and refused to submit papers to them. They'd go out of business very quickly.
His website is hacked by some terrorists: http://www.winningportfolio.com/
For security reasons, I'm really happy that Apple maintains the "walled-garden" or sandbox like environment for apps.

You can still share data between apps you've built by creating your own APIs that let your apps interact through network requests, similar to what you mentioned.

The main issue I guess is the offline sharing, but I can't think of any way to do this without taking some serious security risks.
These are not the data structures you are looking for, move along...

A good source on this subject, with applications, is Steve Hanov's blog (read a year or so back - he started an ISV and his recent scope expanded to include business issues...):

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php
funniest article of the day
Let's not forget how much mobile devices by Apple, Google, and company assist in navigating public transportation.

They are most certainly encouraging better public transportation. This doesn't excuse blocking the bus. I wouldn't argue that they're doing it out of pure goodwill, but its crazy to ignore how much efficiency and value their apps have added to the system. Not to mention the drastically increased accessibility to people new or too confused to ride prior to this.
You can use http://backbeam.io It supports mobile-only development with SDKs for iOS and Android as well as web development and server-side logic.

Disclaimer: I work in the company behind it. If you have any questions we will be glad to help you out. By the way, the SDKs are Open Source and we are working on a "community" release of the backend for our customers to not be afraid of the vendor-locking.
Traditionally, we would be exclusively using "others" usually identified by race and religion, or perhaps socioeconomic class, so that's a pretty big wrench in the ethical / philosophical works. Not as simple ethically as rodents vs humans, more like rodents vs (most likely) non-white humans. Probably better off killing rodents than deciding which religion to genocide.

The Germans did some scientific research under this protocol in the early 40s, its still highly controversial WRT should the results be destroyed and ignored out of respect or kept around as a memorial or ...
Epoxy blobs tend to be more about cheap mass-production than anti-reverse-engineering. If you're getting a custom chip manufactured, it's often easier to just stick the die straight on the board than it would be to have it put in a package, then put on the board.
The 'fake' Mandela memorial interpreter said it all
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The Software Inferno
Do you have a network on Twitter? I see people looking (and responding to) freelance inquiries all the time. All based on word-of-mouth and friend-of-friend networks.
The Chess Master and the Computer (2010)
Did you credit his account using the rate of the day he purchased his coins in? If not that's unnacceptable. Why would anyone use your sevice?

Why does it take a public shaming for you to do your job?
Is it possible to still use the Composer-goodness of this stack with your own deployment (or something like ftploy)?

How do you guys handle database syncing / deployment / rollback (if at all)?
Not every thing is about the NSA or bitcoin give it a rest
> Tell me how regulation stopped Enron.

One of the major problems at Enron was deregulation specifically. You need to a do a little more research to bolster your regulation = bad for bitcoin argument.
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