skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Course not.

But all I am asking for them is that they had delivered the coins on the day they said they would.

If BTC went up, I would have had no advantage of them crediting me the coins on the day it was actually due or today.
Are there maybe some JTAG lines exposed on the board?

Maybe these could be used for finding out the contents of the mem chip and the CPU used.
FWIW, I made a small transaction with Coinbase not long ago and while they "guaranteed" the coins would be in my account by a certain date, they didn't actually deposit them until 2-3 days after that. Struck me as pretty odd.

Hope your situation gets settled quickly.
Awesome - two of my favorite SM companies working together to make my life a little easier... nice one Buffer & Mention!
I was at a conference once where they ran a contest that had people who'd never worked together pair-programming a solution to a problem neither of them was an expert in. After a period of time, the various pairs presented their solutions to a jury.

One of the pairs started off with a member saying, "Okay, this code is kind of shit, but it's the best we could do," or words to that effect. (It was 5 or 6 years ago; I can't recall precisely what was said.)

The reply from one of the jurors has stuck with me ever since. Paraphrasing, it was something like, "Don't ever say that about your own code. Remember, at some point, you will always work with someone more junior than you. If they hear you commenting like that about your own code, they're going to be much more reluctant to approach you about problems they're having with their own."

It's partly about having a certain level of professionalism, but it's also about trying to create an environment where people feel comfortable asking questions about code they're unsure about, without feeling like they're going to be attacked. Even if you don't mean it that way!
I'm not trying to say that she should "just deal with it". These are legitimate feelings and struggles, but they have nothing to do with sexism. Her attributing these problems and feelings to sexism prevents any actual discussion of how to effectively address these feelings because that's sexist, obviously she plays no role in this if it's because of her gender.

She's victimizing herself, and by association all of the other women in tech who only work with men. Honestly, I'm a bit defensive here because I'm tired of being told by other women that any problem I encounter at work is because of my gender.

Getting involved is hard, and takes practice. Same goes for mentoring others. Had she simply wrote about those struggles, the comments would be filled with similar anecdotes and empathy from all the people in HN who have been there regardless of gender.

But claiming all of these feelings are because of her gender is, well, sexist.
Thanks for your input. The problem is that the linked article (http://pando.com/2013/12/16/bitcoin-has-a-dark-side-its-carb...) starts with wrong assumptions.

> At today’s value of roughly $1,000 per bitcoin, the electricity consumed by the bitcoin mining ecosystem has an estimated carbon footprint [...] [of] 0.03 percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas output [...] If bitcoin’s value reaches $100,000, that impact will reach 3 percent of the world’s total [...].

The value of bitcoin is not at all related to the network's energy consumption. It's not even related to the network's hashrate, and even if it was, mining is becoming more and more energy-efficient. It's hard to take the article seriously after this.
Newhaven Marine
Don't go to the top.
There have always been communities and clubs for entrepreneurs + tech folks (Rotary, Chamber, Homebrew Computer Club).

I wanted to recreate that feeling I get when I'm hanging out at a conference (in the hallway, after sessions) with other attendees. Being able to talk to smart people, exchange ideas and tips, on a regular basis is super helpful.
I'd assume they could scale fine but have a minimum resolution of 1024*768, I think that's what MS used as their base when designing Metro apps.
Speculation is a risky endeavor.
I'll give it a shot. In this series Seagate changed the platter coating. So after around 3 years the coating starts to flake off and get jammed between the head and surface.
I really would like to know how much of the current bitcoin supply was mined by stealing electricity from a public university.

And I don't mean hacked boxens but people (mostly PhD students) working there, running some unused machine for mining under their desk.
Most obvious feature seems to be the adoption of the done() syntax for async tests from Mocha, instead of the needlessly complicated runs/waitsFor syntax from 1.3.
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I just saw google recommending inlining small fragments of css/js in the newer pagespeed guidelines. This has definitely piqued my interest and I wondered if people were doing it, mainly because I'm never sure which side of the speed vs. proper semantics debate I want to be on.
The issue of knowing your people is such a basic fundamental tenant of leadership that every year or two another tool is invented to solve it. 360 degree feedback was the previous hot company evaluation tool and 15Five had a pretty interesting approach to this as well. I haven't used know your company, but it seems to me that at its core it is an employee feedback tool - with the caveat that it is as minimally intrusive as possible (which is always the goal by the way).

I would love to see how it actually works compared to other management tools, but my company is not big enough to actually be able to implement it.

I do think this is an example of the way that startup/technologists/hackers do things when compared to the rest of the universe of management/leadership: reinventing the wheel that the business management community has been chiseling on for over a century. Hopefully this will do great things.
> Terabytes and 5-6 thousand queries per second.

That is not much info :)

Just for reference: a simple query by pk index on my veryveryvery low end pc¹ on a table with 1mil rows takes about 0.04 ms (so says pgsql analyze). That is 25000 queries per second. What type of app are we talking here where the db needs to scale? Something like reddit? Stackoverflow? Just curious. Never saw such a beast where a DB server needs that much power. Where I work we have 200 apps on the same DB server, and it's idling most of the time.

¹i5 CPU 2.40GHz with 2GB of RAM

> run Python scripts as stored procs. Great way to slow down your DB.

There is more than one way to shoot yourself in the foot :)
The amount of currency doesn't really matter. We can always trade in kilodoges or something.

It's interesting though, how it's pretty much an exact clone of bitcoin yet has such a different value. The value doesn't come from the thing itself, it's how many people are using it.

Dogecoins do have some minor value though as there is a subreddit of people willing to perform petty tasks in exchange for them.
Yes, turns out it takes some effort to be aware of power imbalance and work against it. Those words have different social meanings when spoken to a woman than when spoken to a man.
Did you have prior experience with CoinBase and buying bitcoins from them?

If not, why didn't you start with 1k to make sure the transaction went smoothly before sending over 35k?
Bitcoin Suicide Hotline, Coinbase Celebrates 650,000 Miners
It depends. ;)

I think there's a difference between "shovels" (which are tools) and motivation.

> your advice caters to, doesn't really go far enough with people who sell other types of products

What type of products are you selling?
Still doesn't make sense. There are countless examples of shit gone wrong, but until you can prove that it is systemic and/or that the responsibility of the fraud, complacency, etc lie in the majority (or hell, say significant minority) of researchers and scientist, it's really not fair to paint them all with the same brush.

Certainly there are countless examples of fraud, complacency and bias in all human endeavors, but that hardly indites all of humanity to "not trying to get it right".

Furthermore, "do or do not" is childish when applied out of its proper context. The intention of "do or do not" is to remind you that in terms of your effect on the world, the effort you put into an unsuccessful act doesn't get you any closer to the actual act. What "do or do not" does not make -any- sense in is in situations with many factors out of your control (especially factors you don't even know about!), and especially when trying to judge someone or a group of people.

I'm not sure exactly what point you're trying to make, but I think its that "when the fate of sentient beings hang in the balance, how hard you tried to do it right doesn't matter in my judgement of your ability to conduct your work". Which is completely nonsense. Go tell that you a paramedic, or a doctor right after they had someone die on them.
And how is "BitCoin is a mathematical fact of the universe" a serious idea?

And how is Bitcoin itself not an "extremely radical, society destabilizing measure"?
Nice! Do you have a landing page up we could look at?
Most traditional recruiters charge around 20-30% of the first year salary. 10% of the first 2 years is actually a bit cheaper.
You'd be interested in The Gone Away World [1] which touches on this quite a bit.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Gone-Away-World-Vintage-Contempora...
Spoken like someone who either isn't a programmer ( a PM, maybe? ) or is projecting. Programmers don't 'goof off' more than any other group of people.

Programming is generally a solitary activity, largely due to the immense amount of concentration it takes to build a mental model of a system that you're working on. Tracking variables, context, structure, side-effects, out-come scenarios, etc. takes a lot of brain-power. 'Pairing with someone' for long periods of time adds another dimension to that... Communication and synchrony with another person.
I have purchased from them before, to a tune of $18k over several different transactions.
Since it has taken this long, I guess you would rather have the lock price removed. It's around ~551.57 vs your original 868.91
How do merchants even price things to sell using bitcoin when it has volatility like this?

Do they dynamically change the price of goods based on the bitcoin/$ exchange rate? Or do they actually sell the same goods for 1$ one day, $3 the next and $2 the third?
You're welcome.

What was the hardest part for you?
> Further avoidance by them will lead me to make a few calls to news stations.

Eek. The best case scenario is that you'll get a news blurb on local TV where you're portrayed as a sucker. "Weird online currency thing does weird stuff in the way you'd expect weird online currency thing to do, and look at this greedy rube who got sucked in and lost it all! Film at 11."
You completely missed dalek_cannes' point.
TL;DR Yes.

The ISP knows that your IP is connecting to the IP of a TOR relay. (EDIT: the ISP is technically renting the IP address to you, so they obviously know it.)

And the admin of your network knows it too, which is exactly why the guy got caught.
Reverse now. You have plenty of proof. There's no need to take a bath on this.
The comparison between massage and tech is not apt because, in very broad terms, tech is mostly about knowledge and problem solving. Massage is mostly about skill.

Both can be honorable careers if practiced honorably, but it shouldn't be surprising that the habits and inclinations of the people in each career differ.

A more interesting comparison would be with other types of engineers or maybe doctors.

EDIT:

To elaborate, FTA:

> I can see that men are sometimes so desperate to be appreciated by me, they try to impress me and this blocks them from learning from me because they will find my criticism very painful.

...or they realize that employee evaluation is a hard problem, and because they are knowledge workers they decided to focus, at least partly, on being correct.
Haters gonna hate.

I installed Windows 8.1 on my laptop (2008 model so no touchscreen) and the experience has been great so far. I do spend more time on the desktop side than in Metro side but even then in overall is faster, more reliable and with nicer features (i.e win+x, universal search, etc.) than windows 7.
Yes, and that is only because they didn't deliver the coins on the day they locked in the price even though they said they would deliver then.
Sexism is a problem in many places, especially in tech, on many levels, degrees and for many reasons. I'd like to focus on one, which is the lack of representation of women in tech, programmers especially. Some of the best programmers I met in school were female, some of my best teachers were female, and some of the most amazing people I've met in the industry are female. I've never been at a company or place where there is only one female and I imagine this is very hard. I also think that it is the root of the problem. Rather than go into detail, I hope someone would chime in because I cannot directly relate to this problem both because I am male and my past experience. I think information from someone with a better perspective on why it is hard to be the lone female, and what prevents other females from becoming programmers.

I would like this opportunity to reemphasize how important women have been to the field of computer science. My mother studied computer science and is the reason I chose to pursue it as well. One of my favorite "bad-ass" (for lack of a better term) contributors was Grace Hopper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper) who created the first compiler as well as the COBOL programming language. I hope that people respond with some of their favorite females in CS from the past or recent years.
I used the analogy because both entail responsibility.

I am not favoring increase or decrease of either age mandates, I am just commenting on the disparity, if one cannot be trusted to consume alcohol responsibly then should the same person be trusted to be responsible for another human life (marriage and raising a child).
The reaction to all of this is completely ridiculous, because it lacks good context.

Bitcoin is still up around 444% if you look at the chart from six months ago: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD. It's still one of the best investments of the year, if you compare it to pretty much everything else (the stock market, gold price, options, housing, oil, you-name-it). When the fed tapering program begins, I think we are going to see a similar (though probably not as drastic) drop in the stock market as well, which I also believe to be overinflated. That hits a lot of people too, most of whom have their retirement funds built on it. It's just the nature of investing, which I have a lot of trouble at times isolating from the idea of gambling.

The real lesson here is that if you're just trying to get into Bitcoin to make easy money, you're going to be disappointed. People should be hesitant of get rich quick schemes in general, and in altcoins in particular. When friends and family ask if they should buy Bitcoin, I immediately warn them that getting into Bitcoin solely on price increase speculation is akin to gambling or stock investing and should be treated as such. As Roger Ver said, Bitcoin's price is the least interesting thing about it. What excites me about Bitcoin is the ability to control your own purchasing power, and not require a central system (bank, payment processor) to manage and send it. Bitcoin is still at an incredibly early stage in its development, and like anything, there is a lot of uncertainty now, and to come.

It's not my intention to gloat, but I want to give you a positive story against all this. I sold enough of my ownership of Bitcoin at about $950/BTC to pay my usual salary in USD for an entire year, which will allow me to work on Coinpunk and Neocities full-time, and have some extra funds to pay people that help me work on it. I have never had this opportunity in my life, and I'm really excited about it. It's like getting angel investment without the investor, and it gave me complete autonomy to do for the project what I feel is right. For me (and for people that were sensible about it), it's been a very good year.

My prediction is that the China situation is going to get sorted out eventually. But sure, until that happens, the value of Bitcoin has fallen because of concerns about liquidity. If the US banned the ability to exchange dollars, I imagine you would see a similar drop in its value as well. And it's looking like most countries are invariably going to not ban Bitcoin. The US hearings in particular were quite positive. If China's government decides it's done with Bitcoin, it just means that other countries will have the opportunity to become the leader in Bitcoin startups. And that's also a positive thing for me ultimately, but sadly, not as much for future entrepreneurs in China. As someone that works on startups for a living, I would always rather have a level playing field than be given an opportunity due to a punitive effect.
Elance and oDesk Announce Merger
Yes, but the usual significant expected risk is in the market value of the speculative commodity, not whether or not the broker ever bothers to execute your order.
If you find an ant taking a crumb of bread from under your table you aren't afraid. You're annoyed. Let's not lose perspective here.
> I don't care if we're coding in procedures in the future

In my opinion, the procedure/sub-routine/method/function, and specifically these things with parameters, as an abstract concept is the reason why software engineering isn't maturing.

Procedures are difficult to use. You have to prepare to call them by obtaining all the information they require to be used (what you push into them via parameters), do something with the results and deal with any un-intended outcomes of using the procedure.

Procedures lead to specialization. In the world today, there are probably millions of procedures with unique signatures. Each time we create a new signature, we complicate the process by which our software framework(s) communicate. Specialization, in this case, is not good. It's makes using the frameworks more difficult.

Also, the procedural signature of any given behavior will be different based on the programmer who writes it and, even more so, the framework for which it is written. There is no way to easily assure, across the industry or even within a small group, that the signature of any given behavior will be the same.
Talented freelancers do themselves a disservice by using either of these "services". The only reason for a talented freelancer to use them is out of a desperate need for even abysmal compensation. This merger will likely make things worse for them (freelancers), not better.

Yes, I know there are some freelancers working on these sites who earn a "decent" living. They're anomalies. The vast majority of workers earn really horrible wages. The well paid oDesk or Elance freelancer is as common as a rags-to-riches startup billionaire in the software industry as a whole.
you should just get it reversed as soon as possible. Combined with the fall of BTC you are lucky to have a "out".

Also once you threaten the reversal there isn't much reason for them to work with you. What if they give you BTC tomorrow and you reversed the ACH already.
Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning
Its one thing to speculate on price of BTC, its another to worry about whether your exchange will hold up.
Those guys in finance don't make or sell anything. They're just greedy. Too many of the smartest people go into it just to make money... Me on the other hand, I'm gonna make a difference.

Where can I get me some of those Bitcoins!?
Let me prove without a doubt that you are wrong: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+is+delfation+good
So, um, what's new? I really wish that projects would make it a habit, especially with new releases, to tell folks what's so new that required a new major (or .1 minor) release. After 10 minutes of looking around, I haven't been able to find what's new in 2.0 vs. 1.3.
Interesting. It looks like this completely circumvents the normal user-configurable WordPress plugins and update architecture, such that the only way to change anything is to update it in the source tree and redeploy like you would with a normal monolithic app. I feel like this might be kinda impractical for a lot of the cases where you would normally want to use WordPress, but I suppose in the right situation it would be nifty.
It's not a big deal, but in case you weren't aware:

http://bedrocklinux.org

It was posted here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504878
>"Not to mention that "market" share will be much lower on those low-end phones"

You are thinking just in USA, the consumer behaviour is way different in markets like China, India and Latinamerica.
yes, and the skepticism is almost certainly deserved. it drives me insane how naive most libertarians are about how things would actually play out if they got their way. it's sad but true that there probably isn't a clean, self-consistent ideology/system that will work in a messy world. but if I had to pick one, it would be socialism because the only freedom I can imagine being better than having complete control over my money (Ayn Rand) is not even having to worry about it (Star Trek).
What if reddit was run by people who were the skeptics? Then the science community would be banned.

No, they wouldn't. A skeptic can be reasoned with, a hardliner in skeptic's clothes isn't. Or, more specifically, a "climate skeptic" is not skeptical about climate research.
So far I saw and feel empathy for about feeling dismissed and belittled. But the "It's because I'm a girl card" is annoying. Could somebody please consider that this can happen to everybody and it at least possible it has nothing to do with your gender?
What do you consider a solid income? It seems like the majority of the jobs posted on oDesk are asking for a lot and only willing to pay very little. I wonder how even someone willing to work for 2 bucks an hour could possibly make reasonable money on there.
"it was stressing them out so much they were going crazy"

An interesting theory, but one that they can't really say was the issue without a controlled experiment.
Yeah I thought we stopped arguing for 'civil society' 100 years ago, when we realized that it was a sham
I also have some very strange behavior going on in my account: https://twitter.com/agibralter/status/411685377015947264

Basically they're showing a transaction of selling BTC that I never made or authorized. Also, it's showing up in my transaction list but not in my history...

They said they're looking into it, but I haven't heard back in days.
Richard Poynder - The Basement Interviews
A good selection of interviews with free & open source leaders, although a bit dated(2006-2007) still quite interesting.
That's why you use a baggie.
"A "killer feature" for me is something other than taking pictures and video, running apps, making calls and texting. I have yet to find a phone that has something besides these 5 basic features."

The phone that slides into a clamshell laptop unit and becomes my laptop, with appropriate blended features. Acer has prototyped it, and a couple of others, I think, but the time may have come. Tablets are doing it, but there's probably still room for this to work.

'Course, Apple's probably got this already prototyped out somewhere and will be dropping the iPhoneMac on the world about two years before Microsoft can react....
I too had a sour experience with them, took more than 7 days to transfer coins after transfer took place.