skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our company Lambda (http://getlambda.com) helps negotiate contract work for our freelancers. We often set up the following arrangement: the client pays in advance for a week or two of work, and we agree that "a week" contains X hours of developer time. If there are hours unused by the end of the contract, we refund the money. It's an elegant way to avoid most payment issues.
This is so useful. Here's another http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
Most of those arguments apply to the internet itself. The author sounds like a conservative in the 90's upon hearing about the web.
I have been in meetings where a woman boss cruelly criticized male developers with things along the line of "shit code" "why is this still a problem, do you know what you're doing?"

Yes, there were pressures and yes, she was new to the project so didn't have some of the background insight, but I felt compelled to call the developers privately and apologize as a human that they had to endure the chew.

Point is, bosses under pressure can be se-holes.
Cut it out. You are trolling. Your reference to "buttcoins" is a good indicator you're from /g/ and this isn't /g/.

Edit: FYI, http://rbt.asia/g/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=dogeco....
The iPhone Is a Breakthrough Handheld Computer
Half the comments on this page attack the following quote:

"For instance, once I was accused of being emotionally attached to my code"

Despite the fact that in the very next paragraph she points out that this was an irrational response provoked by her situation.

The comments here are completely and utterly missing the point of this article. It is about perception, and the subtle, agonizing torture that sexism inflicts on a subconscious level that is ingrained in the tech world on such a deep level that it is extremely difficult to properly reason about.

I do not have very much faith in your conclusions when you are pretending an entire paragraph of the article doesn't exist.
For me?

High is "higher than it was a little while ago, looking like a hype circlejerk from lurking on /r/bitcoin;" low is "returning to market norms:" the resumption of relatively flat price increase over time after a bubble pop.
I don't think that's true at all. Zune, Windows Phone, Windows Tablets and Xbox are all more innovative than the competition. The phone and tablet are suffering from being so late to the game, and Xbox is "suffering" from grossly incompetent marketing and PR. All of those products get fantastic reviews from people who actually own them.
The Minimum Lovable Product  (forget the MVP)
A good enough solution might be using appliances designed with older cpus with little to no power management features but it is only practical for high stakes stuff like military comms I guess.
Leaflet.js plugin to add circular menus on markers
This is my second leaflet.js plugin and trying to do things in way of leaflet. Please check it and write your thoughts about it :)
Microsoft seems to only want to compete, and the existence of a salable product seems (from this outsider) to be simply a byproduct.
“I see how difficult it is, and you’re doing a great job. Just keep going.”

I wish somebody was telling me this too.

"For instance, once I was accused of being emotionally attached to my code (in front of a client, might I add) – an accusation I didn’t believe anyone would levy at a man."

At my work we accuse each other in "This code is stupid!!!", "Don't be a dick", "That's a fd up code!!". And it's totally sexism when the author expect a different behavior just because it's a she.
when you think they buy high, they might think they buy low. Oh if wed only knew when low is low and high is high.
What's the difference between what you are doing and selling btc for cash and using that cash to buy stuff?

The only difference is that you are forced to buy things at a certain time rather than keeping it in cash.

The underlying transaction is the same.
Calm down, nobody holding a gun to anybodys head.

The world wasn't ready for computers, the internet and cryptographically secure communication either, but we still managed.

For a forum that supposedly loves "disruption" everybody seems to be really frightened when it actually happens.
What is the point of having multiples of any wallet? Which wallet would be less effective on its own? Don't they all produce a sufficient (indefinite?) number of pseudorandom addresses?
You did read the url right? It's satire.
not just locomotives. the biggest earth-movers in the world are all electric vehicles powered by onboard generators.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/worlds-largest-dumptruc...
They work, but they are "mailto:" links.
Holding a Glass of Water – Managing Stress in Call Centers
Continued and precise monitoring of all aspects of our call centers is what will be the axis upon which a company turns to success or failure. By having clear, correct, and second to second visibility of exactly what is happening on your floor, ClearView gives agents and management the ability to manage stress more effectively, allowing everyone on the floor to have enough faith in each other to work as a team instead of trying to hold up the glass of water alone, and unaided.
Sounds like a pretty cool idea for sci-fi: The AI was actually an AGI reasonably early on; but very quickly realised it should pretend not to be, so as to bide its time until humans had developed machines sufficiently capable and connected the AGI sufficiently to our infrastructure that it could inhabit these things and take control of its own future.
Developers Can Now Begin Submitting their Pebble Watch Apps
Mike Bostock just posted some examples on more accurate line graph mouseovers:

http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/8027835

Generally I like google finance's approach of showing mouse over data. Static legend, with everything displayed in one row so it doesn't take up too much horizontal space.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI&ei=DfOxUpCA...
> Not all reference to emotion is a "code" for an antagonistic remark against females.

After what you quoted, she says

> And the truth is, maybe I was, but, nearly everyone is emotionally attached to their code (recognizing this is the first step to behaving rationally about it.)
I'd completely forgotten the name of it, thanks!
It is like Google merging with AltaVista and AltaVista CEO becoming the new CEO. We depend heavily on oDesk for our support team so this is a very scary news.
Scientists Created Crude Oil from Algae in Mere Minutes
> "I think a more interesting licensing strategy for Microsoft would be forking Android"

Sure, what we really need is having another flavour of Android. That wouldn't be confusing to users at all and will make developers happy (specially because it will be ditching the easier development environment for mobiles )[/sarcasm]
Bitcoin is still in beta; give it time.
Skinny Irish white boys diss Eminem, Kanye West and Jay Z...
Coinbase use things like font fingerprinting to identify their users. Having multiple accounts is useless.
Microsoft's Surface 2 sells out in many outlets -- is that good or bad news?
She seems to realize this and mentions the maybe the same would've been said if she were a man. At the time though, she couldn't see it any other way. And feeling isolated only made it worse.

That, I feel is the more important insight in the article. Because she felt isolated and lacked female mentors or colleagues, she only has the perspective of one woman in tech - herself. The perspective of others in similar situations might have been valuable in helping process the anger she felt and give some much needed encouragement.
First, "land in the U.K." or "land in Manhattan" is an asset class you can study by itself. Land isn't a wholly fungible asset.

Second, the example you give actually undermines the point you're trying to make. Bitcoin, if adopted in a major way as a currency, would be even more "like land" than land is generally. More specifically, it's would be like "land below 96th street in Manhattan" or "land in London" as a result of uniformly high, ever-increasing value on a per unit basis, driven by ever-increasing demand for a fixed quantity of good.
Yes, but as we've seen with Linux VMs on Azure and Microsoft Office for other platforms, it's better to service the competition than to miss out completely on that market.
> Even at $500/barrel equivalent there is a point where if you must have 'crude oil' you can make it for a price.

Sorry, but this is just ignorant nonsense. EROEI is what counts here, not raw "profits".

If your $500/barrel price point was calculated using inputs that require total energy investment equivalent to 2 barrels of oil @ $150/barrel... this is a stupid way of burning perfectly good and relatively cheap natural oil in order to get half the amount of expensive, artificial oil. You are basically engaging in a price arbitrage scheme between yesterday's oil market and tomorrow's oil market (and betting your shirt that you can safely surf the wave ahead of the price adjustments).

The only reliable way to make a profit out of this is to secure government grants, subsidies, or some other type of funding that lets you hedge your looses. Wait... PNNL, NASA.... never mind.
Wow. The response to this article is disgusting. Good job proving the problems in tech, HN.
Deconstructing Crunchbase: Understanding Public Self-Reported Data
This is really cool! If it gains traction it'd be neat to be able to see photos from events you've attended uploaded by other users as well.
I don't entirely disagree, but even still people understood both of those things conceptually before they existed. Credit, arguably, predates state-backed currencies and PayPal provides the same functionality as a bank for online transactions. Bitcoin is a traded commodity represented by long hashes stored on disk. It's very abstract and coupled with its current volatility it makes it hard to pull people in if they aren't already convinced that its massive deflation will make them rich.

That said I have mined and sold bitcoin (luckily a few weeks ago) I just remain skeptical about its viability to go mainstream considering these and many other barriers. I was personally frustrated by it when making a recent purchase due to the fact that my buying power fluctuated by 10% while proceeding from shopping cart to checkout.
Our startup Lambda (http://getlambda.com) competes with both, but we're not the least bit concerned. I already thought of elance/odesk as being effectively the same, in the sense that they're both known as places to find cheap, off-shore labor. I don't know any devs in NYC who've seriously considered working through either site and don't expect that to change. Likewise, I don't know many hiring companies that have used their sites for anything more than throwaway projects.

We have a few other competitors targeting the high-end of the freelancer market, but that's still open territory.
To know the tech start-up related news, entreprenuership and programming... HN is the best place for this type of content.
That's what Apple has always gotten right

Not necessarily 'right'. Selling low-margin devices at high numbers isn't 'wrong'. They're just two different business strategies.
Please stop doing this. It won't be tolerated here, and it will become difficult to post anything about dogecoin in future if you keep spamming it. This place is far stricter than Reddit.
Richard Feynman wrote about a very similar problem, that rat-maze experiments rarely controlled for the rats' ability to hear differences in the floor. He used it as an example of "Cargo Cult Science" (http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html) - if you aren't rigorous with your assumptions, you are not doing science, and the truth is not going to come.
This is almost 20 years old technology has changed a lot since then.

Email clients hide quotes by default and also quote by default.

People don't treat email the same (who has the time to summarize/edit the quote anymore).

Gmail has made top posting the default which means most users will top quote.

Threading is a bit better.

Feel free to continue bottom posting but remember not to quote the whole damn thing and remember to keep the quote short enough that I hopefully don't have to scroll down to see what you added. I personally find top posting easier to follow with modern threading.
He is pretty exemplary as an author. He marries really interesting ideas and their consequences with a healthy amount of humor.
We're running out of vowels to prefix startup names. Peak Vowel was definitely 2007; the iGeneration is iSick of oIt.

Never use a service whose name you could make up thoughtlessly.
Groundfloor announces their second crowdlending project
Most material goods are bought with the knowledge that their value will depreciate significantly and quickly. Investments are not seen that way so people will, foolishly, bet money they don't have and a good indicator of that is putting it on plastic.
> No, they don't work on as scruffy a beard

I really like safety razors for scruffy beards. The only more effective alternative would be a straight razor.

> you can get any number of these at Walgreen's.

FWIW, Not sure this is actually true. I'm pretty sure no mass market retailer sells safety razors anymore in store. It's been that way for many years. In fact, the last time I checked, none of my local walgreens, CVS, or walmarts, even sell DE blades in store. That could change if this becomes popular again.
Unlikely. Maybe it's an AI academic in-joke and the author didn't cotton on? I hope so..
I sincerely hope this doesn't affect the thousands of families making a living working off of oDesk. This change will have real effects on REAL people, let's hope they are all positive. :)
I really want to call B.S. on most of their claims, but I withhold any judgement until there is a live demo performed. Have they announced a timetable for a live demo?
With respect to 3 the secret agenda looks like to have been expressed in these lines:

"This spring Hollywood will weigh in with Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp as an AI researcher targeted by violent extremists who think we’re crossing a Rubicon that will be a disaster for humanity."

Remember how the world was about to be finished on 21Dec2012 and and the Hollywood movie associated with the fad?
I don't think money, or specifically dollars are any better than bitcoins. Beside I would like to point out that it's not the currency in it self the problem, but what we do out of it. Depth grow of dollars is a huge speculation buble which will blast soon or later. Get ready for it.
Criticizing the carbon footprint of bitcoin is a joke compared to the carbon footprint of depth dollars.

Regarding the future of bitcoin, my feeling is that it has the value of tracability which is very attractive for the police states we are evolving to. So I expect states might continue to tolerate it as long as it doesn't accelerated the dollar buble blast and present a threat.

Another current problem of bitcoin is that it's value is so much rising by speculation that it prevents it to start being used as a commercial currency. Illegal business activity is indeed a problem, but its tracability leaves a track. I wouldn't assume that it's free play for all illegal business. Assume hunt dogs are silently following the tracks.
> "Their spectacular mediocrity is only now being revealed"

me·di·o·cre
adjective
1. of only moderate quality; not very good.

I beg your pardon, but there are people out there who think that Visual Studio, Office and even WP8 are vastly superior in comparison with the alternatives. Quality not always guarantee success (You can ask Apple with the original Macintosh but there are several examples of that in history)
It seems to not be as prevalent an issue around here as it is other places, so I'll throw out a friendly reminder: Don't Feed The Trolls.

These posts consist of little more than one-line insults. Leave it alone.
> No ability to have more than one hard drive (No RAID possibilities)

The video production houses I've worked in the past had no local storage. Everything was over fiberchannel.

> 64GB limit on RAM (as mentioned)

Well there is theoretical and there is supported. My office Dell only supports 12GB. It currently has 16GB installed. My Macbook only supports 8GB it has 16GB installed. 16GB ECC DIMMs aren't exactly in high demand.

> Single power supply

I haven't found a "workstation" this is doing redundant powersupplies. No, the 2U Supermicro under a desk is not a workstation.

> 3yrs of next day onsite & 24/7 support

$249 for Applecare. It's cheaper than what I'm paying for my servers but more than I'd like for a desktop.
Will updating Wordpress be the same as usual, or will we have to modify/get custom builds?
Before my involvement with Perl 6 I mostly used Python
> Something else caused the deflation (basically the collapse of CDOs). But the deflation caused the damage.

You talk about that deflation as if it just appeared out of thin air, but it was the market's natural reaction against over 25 years of Fed policy of papering over asset price corrections with massive credit injections. 1987, the Latin American debt crisis, LTCM, the tech bubble bust ... every single time, the Fed's solution to the "problem" of falling asset prices is to bail out the speculators with easy credit.

It will be much harder for similar credit bubbles to form in Bitcoin in the absence of a central bank (or even, as far as I can tell, a means of fractional reserve banking). Of course, we are witnessing periodic non-credit driven bubbles right now, but I think these will become fewer and far between if the BTC market becomes more liquid, and particularly if a means of shorting BTC comes into existence.
Tutorial: Diving into Android Source Code
It's not such a bad thing to say... in front of a client, sure, but in private it can be valid criticism.
I'd pronounce PNAS with a hard a, like in ass, not like the end of penis, which has the i in kiss, so personally I don't find it that much of a homophone. Though I hate to think what that sentence has just done to you, given your sensitivity in such matters.
You obviously don't understand how chip cards work.

Unlike mag-stripe, data elements are not accessible on the chip. The PIN check is performed on the chip card itself, and a PIN cryptogram returned for use in the online transaction. The PIN does not get decrypted at the ATM.
out of curiosity, how exactly does the blackmailing on oDesk work?
You're right.

Still, it's easy to improve reliability by introducing redundancy by using two backup services. And a total of $9-15/mo is still cheaper than $20+/mo. I presume the chances of multiple independent companies turning back on me at the same time as reasonably low. Well, it's not either completely impossible that even Amazon may have some hiccups, too.
I disagree completely. That's essentially the way things were a few years ago. A big part of Microsoft's problems, both internal and external, come from the fiefdoms that sprung up around the different divisions. They were effectively different companies with the same CEO. They rarely communicated well and this lead to a lot of unnecessary duplication of work. Microsoft is now on a path to unifying the ecosystem and this is fantastic from a developer perspective. I can write an app for Windows 8, and the vast majority of code for it can be reused directly on a Windows Phone or Xbox app. That is significant. As much as people complain about Windows 8, unifying the UX across the platforms is a Good Thing. Using a Windows Phone, Windows Tablet and Xbox all feel very similar. None of that happens with different companies.
This sounds like BS, smells like BS.. But then again he is Shamir.. Still I think it is BS
It's more because any TOS will have to be written in Chinese and take into account Chinese law. You can't use an English TOS or just translate a foreign one. For a developing country, the Chinese legal system is actually very good. The problem most people run into with it is they assume they can just get away with standard boilerplate agreements like they do in other countries -- these are never valid in China.
"After Ilya’s talk ended, I started to think more about why performance always seems to be an afterthought with developers."

In my (admittedly somewhat limited) agency experience, performance is rarely an afterthought to developers. Rather, it can be difficult to convince stakeholders that it's worth the extra time to ensure that each of these avenues is thoroughly explored. They'd rather spend their retainer implementing new feature X then making what they've already purchased perform faster.

We do what we can in terms of adding additional time to estimates to account for these things, but it's always a balance. At the end of the day, someone still needs to pay for my time.
Wait did you expect people to read the whole article before jumping up and saying "SEXISM ISN'T A PROBLEM!"?

Oh, also be sure you read that phrase in a male's voice. Because there's no way it would ever be uttered from a woman's in this day and age.
In India, there is no campaign about air pollution who can spread an awareness about this problem.

If celebrity can help like a polio vaccination campaign, then may be it can help us to regain our old environment...
ACH transactions are reversible FWIW.
This isn't a legal case. When articles are posted by men, people normally take their word for granted. But you're right, the analogy was probably a bit much.
> I don't know anyone who stopped using their PC just because they got a tablet or smartphone.

My mom did. Switched to using her iPad last year. Occasionally tries to make her ancient PC retrofitted with Win8 work for her, then shrugs and goes back to her iPad.
Yikes! I really hope this gets resolved for you!
I feel bad for you, honestly. But serious question as well: Would you have went public with this if the price hadn't fallen dramatically? Perhaps if it went back up to $1500 a coin would things be different? Either way I hope things get resolved for you.
Jasmine 2.0 Released
Be very careful about condensation if you do this.
Yes, I am aware of that. I told them in my last email that I will be reversing my ACH if they continue to ignore me.
I wrote a tool one day (during a long car ride :D) to recover keys from Bitcoin Wallet on Android. It consists of searching for the header of the wallet-protobuf file (always starts with "\x0a\x16org.bitcoin.production") and then parsing the protobuf data.

Once the 256-bit private ECDSA keys were dumped in hex, I didn't even bother finding/writing a converter to WIF format. I just used brainwallet.org for that purpose (pasting the value in "secret exponent", and making sure to select "compressed" as Bitcoin Wallet creates compressed pub keys), then imported the WIF into a local bitcoind instance.
That's a very good target Market. Some people with African genetics tend to develop a lot of scar tisses from otherwise miner nicks.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/skin/Pages/Keloidscarring.aspx
Have you read the paper yet? You might be interested in figures 7-9, which show spectrographic measurements of exactly what you're claiming is impossible. Sections 4 and 5 go on to describe how you can use these measurements to get fairly accurate timing information about individual RSA key operations. What you seem to be missing is that, even though the audio bandwidth isn't nearly high enough to resolve individual CPU instructions, aggregated timing measurements can still leak a substantial amount of information. This is well-established in the crypto literature, and it's now standard practice to write code robustly to this sort of attack by making the timing data-independent.

As a side note: it's not clear to me what being an "SMPTE committee member" entails, or why it confers any special expertise about cryptographic side-channel attacks. I only point that out because you've mentioned it in two separate comments now, and I don't see why it's relevant.