skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why a hash now, do you think they're going to be able to release fake keys that somehow decrypt the cyphertext to email addresses?

And converting into bitcoin months preemptively is a speculative gamble, not a verification of anything.
An alternative path would be to add it as a plugin to Codemirror and put it up as a javascript tool. That way you share a technique in an environment that is familiar to a lot of people, and is easily shareable.

people are starting to play with interesting techniques for augmenting programming like:
http://jsdares.com/
http://tributary.io
https://github.com/CrypticSwarm/js-code-walker
Google and SpaceX revive the search for impractical inventions
Reconciliation is a fundamental operational procedure of financial entities. It's how they find system failures, process failures, fraud, etc. You take feeds from various systems and correlate them. It's not super complex, but it is fundamental.

I actually work for a startup selling reconciliation software as a service to the financial industry, so it's something I'm learning about myself. Lack of it suggests Coinbase are a little bit clueless.
I just wish there was a button in each example that would populate with some demo data. I like to watch something go and then figure out it out by playing with the parameters. From this I don't immediately know what kind of inputs and outputs to use/expect (integers? floats? strings?).

very sweet project tho!
You mean New York City. There is a whole state outside of NYC that is great for start-ups.
> It IS "value", because the resources used for mining have measurable value, and can be traded for things other than Bitcoins.

It is value, but its not value of bitcoins. It is the value that would need to be sacrificied to replace the bitcoins by mining, but its not value that can be recovered from the bitcoins, so its not intrinsic value that supports the market value of bitcoin.

Intrinsic value, as the term is used for currency, is value that you can recover from a currency without trading it -- e.g., the use-value of gold for ornamentation or industrial uses is intrinsic value.
On the road again - Joe Armstrong
More like epoch time followed by bytes and then IP address
Good thing we've got this regulation to protect consumers!

Meanwhile, in the bitcoin thread...

..wait, is that the sort of equal and opposite reaction you meant?
What was used before? gcc?
If that works for me on my Mac Mini, I'll donate $10 to Archive.org too.
The question isn't whether one F22 can beat one Gripen. The question is whether one F22 beats three Gripen (seeing as how the F22 is three times as expensive).
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"and thus, in a sane market, ought to be a ceiling on its market value, since if the exchange cost is higher than that, you are better of mining then buying"

Modulo time preferences...

But yes, bitcoin's intrinsic value is that it is the only method to pay transaction fees to have work done on your behalf by the bitcoin network. I don't know how to price that, though.
I like the idea. Some feedback that is less useful than patio11's: bold, don't underline, today in the header.
Can someone just make some data visualization of corporations getting hacked and to what extent, e.g what kind of data was leaked - private messages, health info, credit card, passwords, etc. Methods used for infiltration should be listed too. Getting tired of reading 5 articles a day on how huge site X got hacked. It would be good to just be able to look at a graph and see some peaks once in a while, click on them for detailed info about the breach. Such a site would be useful for backing up arguments.
How Deep is your Source?
Sorry, but how does Google ads mediation have anything to do with stickers and the like? I fail to see the connection.
If you delay orders due to your fault (no matter if it's liquidity, intentional, technical or whatever) then you're liable for the market swings of the delayed good.
Let the hoarding of 60-watt and 40-watt bulbs begin
"By definition Alternative Medicine has either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work?
Medicine."

From Tim Minchin's excellent Storm.
If you'd like to see the slinky in isolation, I've got a page up that has better compatibility: http://css3playground.com/slinky/
While I wouldn't make the claim, one argument I see is that it balances the regressiveness that a sales tax typically exhibits.
Yeah, Pilot Induced Oscillation. It was actually the same pilot too. Not to blame him though, of course.

Looking at the statistics though, the Gripen has been in very few accidents compared to other fighter jets.
But he is not controlling for it.
From wikipedia:

"Antibacterial constituents and mechanisms identified include hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), methylglyoxal (MGO), bee defensin-1, the osmotic effect, and pH effects."

With a footnote to here: http://dare.uva.nl/document/175222
Strictly, they said "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place for different reasons", which is quite a bit more reasonable claim than the idiomatic and factually false "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place", though whether it's actually an appropriate guideline is still a good question...
A lot was said about it back then.

After the explosion, the Brazilian Space Agency was criticized for using solid-fuel rockets, which are easier to build and ignite than liquid-fuel rockets, but also dangerous because they lack throttle controls and emergency shut-offs.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_rocket_explosion)
Apple are already charging extra an AU to cover this.
You want me to find citations for other peoples claims about hard work as a reason why some people make it and other don't?

You don't have to believe me, but just because you haven't heard that I am not going to spend time finding citation.

But a quick look around this thread should point you in the right direction.
Plenty of times I have mentioned being from Rochester, NY when in Florida or California. People there often assume it is a part of or suburb of NYC. Even after I have told them I am a 7 hour drive from the city and never even visited it until after I moved to Washington DC at 26.

Wikipedia even notes the differentiation is important.

"The city is referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part"
Can you please send a search and rescue for your support team? It has been days and there has been no sign of of them any where.
Yeah, that's correct. I was thinking of the example of the guy beating his wife to "put her to place" and show her who "rules the house", but clearly there can be other examples too (and of course men hit men too, all the time).
You need to have at least one person in charge of reconciliation. If you're not running recs with data feeds from the various parts of your system doing transactions, you're just a lawsuit waiting to happen. If you were an actual regulated financial entity, not running recs would be illegal under risk management requirements.
Slide 13. TL;DR: From Sony, yes - as well as an independent third party toolchain.
Overview of the Innovator's Dilemma
I just got off on a tangent and ranted away. Coreutils is a package, you're comparing apples and oranges. Fedora works as a baus now and it's very usable out of the box, it even packs the latest version of Eclipse! Except for a few forbidden items, it's pretty much a laid back (feet on desk, cigar locked in fingers) operating system (to use that is, the devs are probably working tediously).
Yeah but what if you decide to withdraw while they are waiting for the price to dip?
Is there any value to a CS degree at 50?
I'm 50.

I've been building hardware and programming since I was 18.

I live in the Santa Clarita, CA.

College was touch-and-go. It was always going too slow for me. By age 20 I was working as an engineer doing both hardware and software. At age 24 I had saved-up enough to buy my first house. I had a good career and was soon making over $100K per year doing the stuff I really enjoyed.

I eventually started a tech business in my garage. Within three years it grew out of the garage and into a good size industrial facility with a dozen employees or so, in-house SMT assembly, CNC machining, low volume manufacturing, etc.

As is the case with most businesses, there were ups and downs.

The economic implosion of 2008 caught me in a perfect storm that ultimately led to killing the business after a two year gut-wrenching attempt to save it any which way I could. At the end of 2010 I had to capitulate and let it die.

Three years later. No job. I've sent out hundreds of applications. Very few call-backs. I've even lied and implied I have a degree just to see what might happen. No difference whatsoever. I had a recruiter tell me I scare the shit out of people because of the experience I have and the number of roles I've played, from rank-and-file engineer to founder/entrepreneur, CEO, CTO, etc. And, he also said, reality is I cannot water-down my resume because my life is all over the Internet in one way or the other.

The good news is that my wife is more than able to support our family and we've been OK. No urgent financial needs at this point.

The last three years have come with a lot of soul searching on my part. You go from knowing you can tackle any project anyone could care to place in front of you to thinking you are absolutely worthless. You navigate this imaginary line back and forth over time. Back and forth.

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Apple price increase in 3,2,1...

It shouldn't. Apple were already legally liable to repair the products for that long (or longer) under Australian law. This just stops them misrepresenting their responsibilities.

(And if it leads to an increase in claims, which does force them to increase their prices, then yes, I agree: Apple products must have been underpriced originally. Or another way of looking at it is that it explains how they maintain their high margins)
[Part 2]

I've kept busy. I had dabbled in web and mobile development before but the bulk of my work --where most of my value in the business was found-- was in high performance FPGA and embedded hardware and software development. I've developed entire product lines from scratch on my own. I am no stranger to hard work.

Not wanting to remain idle I decided I needed to shift away from doing hardware --due to how capital intensive it is-- and focus on software. I jumped head first into web and mobile technologies did a few experimental websites and published a free iPhone app. Making money in the app store is hard.

In the end, technology requires money. I've made a little money here and there, enough to pay for servers and have a few thousand laying around for judicious experiments. I told myself I would never touch my wife's income for my experiments and have stayed true to that over the last three years.

During this time I've also logged hundreds of potential business ideas spanning the range from pure software to web, mobile, physical and hardware products. Most are admittedly bad. That's OK. I forced myself not to pre-judge anything. The other day I saw these guys on Shark Tank who sold over a million dollars in ugly sweaters. My prior self would have discounted that as a dumb product and a dumb idea. I try not to think that way any more. Lessons such as watching something like Instagram do what it did have taught me things I just didn't know.

I have convinced myself I am not employable because of my past and my age. I never thought I'd say something like that in my life. A past of constant learning, accomplishments, entrepreneurship, hard work and, yes, success and failure. And no degree. I can't rightly describe what this feels like.

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Yep, exactly. Thanks!
What's apparent is the fact that you are incapable of analysis.

If you bothered to read the other thread, you'll see parallels to the current situation:

- transaction delays on the order of 1 week

- Coinbase is blaming technology (last time it was a database migration, this time server upgrades)

- Customer support has been silent (znowi described it as "information vacuum" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985)

- Online account system called into question, users unaware of current positions (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428090)

If this were the first time, you can cut some slack if Coinbase responded appropriately and took steps to prevent this from happening in the future. Based on what played out recently, it's not clear if Coinbase actually learned anything from the previous issues.

And in the future, if you ever do decide to start a company and find yourself in a similar situation, I hope you would be a bit more communicative and proactive than Coinbase was in this case.
[Part 3]

During dinner last night my wife said she wants me to focus on finishing a Bachelors and then a Masters starting next year. She said she doesn't care if I don't work during that time. She feels this will be good for me mentally and that it will/might bring opportunities to the table at one point or another.

If you ask me today I am absolutely convinced that a degree will be useless to me. I've tried to imply I had a degree in resumes just to see what would happen and it made zero difference. I've also seen countless articles, some of which on HN, highlighting the fact that older engineers are having one hell of a time finding work, credentials or not. I don't know. It could take five years to get to a Masters in, say, CS. I'll be 55 years old, not having held a job for eight years and looking for work. How is that going to help me?

My current view is that my only way out is through entrepreneurship. I need to keep trying until I hit upon something that works. I know I have a few potentially good ones but I don't have enough money to launch them correctly. I have to boostrap from small ideas to larger ones.

I tried a startup pitch competition. I the judges where real assholes to everyone, it was a regular "let's see who's dick is longest" fest. Not my scene. Regrettably. I also think a lot of VC's want young 20-somethings who will virtually kill themselves working. I can't neglect my family and simply can't live like that at this stage.

Looking for thoughts, ideas, opinion. I am sure there's something I might be missing in my thought process. It'd sure be nice to go back to feeling like a productive member of society as well as to contribute to the financial well-being of my family. The kids are getting older. It isn't going to get any cheaper.

Thanks!

EDIT: Please reply to this comment so all three parts have a chance to stay together in the thread.
No money is actually in the coinbase account. It only stores Bitcoin. If you sell bitcoin, the USD balance will immediate be ACH'ed directly to the bank info you have set up.[1] Otherwise, I guess you won't be able to use the sell feature(?). BTC-e.com is different; you can sell all your coins and have a USD balance[2].

You can create a Coinbase account without banking info. But after you've created it, I'm not sure what good it would be to you. I guess you could just use it to manage your bitcoins and have one place to check. But the real service coinbase provides is transforming BTC to USD and vice-versa. If you're not going to enter your banking info to use that feature, you might as well generate a pub/priv key at bitaddress.org and just make sure you don't lose the private key.

1. http://i.imgur.com/LMowl3F.png

2. http://i.imgur.com/3K1JPgR.png
No, it's just that those things also doubled in value.
1) "Different" is insufficient. The UI on my cable company's DVRs is much different from my TiVo DVRs, but that makes it "stand out" in much the same way a rusty nail sticks out of an old board on the ground ready to stab your foot.

2&3) An anti-feature. One Android actually has, unfortunately, adopted to some degree.

4) I don't know how it "conserves" data usage, but both iOS and Android absolutely do tell you how much data each app uses, and iOS at least lets you disable cellular data usage for specific apps.

5) An increasingly irrelevant office suite. Couldn't care less.

6) A marketing gimmick for the uninformed. Packing more pixels into a smaller sensor only goes so far when your optics are hamstrung by a fixed aperture and the need to fit in a pocket.
it can't be higher than Vancouver, BC.

Tax Payable on Earning 150k:

$$20,127 CAD (New York)
$45,624 CAD (Vancouver, BC)
1.07 (USD/CAD)
Well that's the point - if you take a short/long position in BTC, then you must afford to pay it out even in fluctuations - if you can't, pay someone to hedge/'insure' it; if you don't - declare bankruptcy and pay up whatever you have.

The whole point is that 'comparatively small' players shouldn't be allowed to take up insane amounts of volatility; if you accept consumer's money then it would be reasonable to require to put that $25mm as a bond to pay out your debts, and put a ceiling on how much deal volume you're allowed to hold if you've got only tiny amounts such as $25mm.
I just checked an account recently used at Target, and it had about $800 in fraudulent charges made in the last couple days.

Called the bank, cancelled the card. This is becoming almost routine, the third breach of my personal accounts in two years.

I wonder why learning algorithms aren't preventing more fraud. My card has a very clear pattern of use -- locations, merchants, etc. The fraudulent charges are invariably in distant cities, at merchants I've never patronized.

Yet occasionally the bank will take the initiative and shut off an account for suspected fraud -- for charges made within 2 miles of my home, and merchants I've done business with for years, etc.

With petabytes of transaction and fraud data, why can't they build more intelligent fraud detection?
If you have a great business you are by definition successful so that makes no sense.

With regards to the other sure but none of them will guarantee you a great business.
New York is not synonymous with New York City.

There's a whole other state outside of NYC. In fact, many of us don't even like the city.
>I never really believed that the DailyWTF was non-fiction - seriously?

Again, are you kidding me? It sure has some fabricated pieces, but I've seen tons of similar examples in real life, working with other programmers and project managers.

Heck, you can find tons of DailyWTF worthy material even in Stack Overflow questions and answers, and those are 100% legit non-fiction.
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But then you can't see the keys or the monitor.
Active x is one of the biggest hurdles facing Korean internet gamers. And IE is usually only version 6 on most computers at PC bangs. We need an active forum on this issue at our discussion site http://idiotsofkorea.proboards.com/ because a number of our members are game afficionados. Although I am a site moderator, I am not enough of an expert to help them. Anyone here want to lead the discussion?
writegood.vim: a plugin to highlight common writing problems
The mention of porting the rest of the plan 9 system to Go is the most interesting part of this document. Is this just academic, or does Google actually want a complete new system (kernel and all) implemented in Go?
If ever there were an article worth tagging with its year (2004), this is one. We've had another economic contraction as a data point since 2004 and it does not lend support to this kind of claim.
Yep, that's something I'll be looking at. Setlist.fm could definitely be interesting. Other sites often don't have data about what actually happened at the show though (setlists, photos, videos, attendees). Seems most are focused on upcoming info.
I believe WordPress is moving forward. Here is just one of the many OO classes. You can also do OO in plugin development as well.

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includ...
Well, I guess that settles that debate.

No more liberalism, ever, right everyone?
A blinking light requires electricity.
The sliding cover is purely mechanical, tamper evident, and requires physical access to hack.

The sliding cover is simpler and more secure.
Conditionals are evaluated left to right chris. It's no different than any other conditional. An assignment simply evaluates to the lvalue.
My father withdrew cash from an ATM a while back, he got less than he asked for but had the asked for amount deducted from his account. He complained. The manager of the bank nodded knowingly when he complained. He wasn't believed. He was told that at the end of the month they would do a stocktake and see. Some months later it was credited back. This is about the best of my bad banking stories. The time our deposit for a house got lost was stressful several years of hard hard saving vanished during a transaction.
Super Mario Melodies (2010)
Can someone please explain why an article about FDR written nine years ago is on the front page?
I wonder, if, and how MA and Boston might respond? NYC is probably a bigger competitor than San Francisco is for getting start-ups in the region only because of proximity.
Open Data 500 Pre-Launch
Yeah, exactly! My original goal was just to get my friends who I attended with to use it and upload their photos :)
Planes can absolutely be electrified. We just need to find a more dense energy storage medium than Li-ion/Li-poly batteries. Lithium-air batteries have energy density comparable to gasoline, so they might work if we can figure out how to make them rechargeable. A fuel cell could potentially work as well.
they're not talking about the plan 9 OS. Go ships with forked copy of several plan9 libs (lib9, libbio, libmach) & the plan9 c compiler. The plan is to obsolete the use of all of that code.
In this context, Russ is referencing the plan 9 libraries and compiler that is currently part of the Go source distribution.
Where are you located? Let me know and I'll suggest a company.

First thing to do is to pull the drives out of the freezer and never ever do that again. Put them into a bowl of rice for 10 hours or so in order to get rid of that humidity quickly.
Why doing that in a first place? What are you trying to achieve? This procedure was applicable only to one model of Fujitsu MPG drives that were selling 10 years ago. Pull the drives out.
Seagates have a number of issues. Let me know what the symptoms are and I will let you know what you might be looking at $-wise.
no, the system was greedy and corrupt, and the collapse gave us a chance to sweep away the greedy and corrupt parts and increase public skepticism in the system. The laws hid that and gave cover to the continued theft of the general public; and with the bailout, we not only failed to sweep away the bad actors but kept them in place so that they may continue to leech off us. As we continue to blame the loss of the laws for the corruption, we lose sight of the true problem, that the state stacks the deck against us, because now we 'rest in the comfort' that if the state were there, it would have 'saved us', when it's part and parcel of screwing us, all along.
I bought this exact webcam cover; it works great. http://www.amazon.com/C-Slide-1-0-Webcam-Cover/dp/B00AZ639VG
If this is really is business as usual, then it might be acceptable for a widget selling company but completely unacceptable for financial services. In financial services the same actions that you describe are gross negligence that (depending on jurisdiction) can mean personal liability, possibly including criminal charges, for the relevant CxOs, and a lifetime ban from running any other financial companies in future. You can't entrust consumer's money to companies being run like that, it's pure nonsense.