skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It had more to do with the fact that you might be reading a reply to an original you hadn't seen yet, but which would be delivered to you in its entirety... soonish, for varying definitions of the word "soonish". And when I was a kid with 300 entire baud at my command, connection time actually cost money. (In '93, it wouldn't be uncommon for the access gateway to be long distance and charged per minute as well. Oh, Kansas City, how I miss thee not at all.)
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These look great! Need any help with development? I'm about junior-dev skill level but am actively looking to get into some side projects until I land a job in the industry now that I'm out of the programming bootcamp I was at. I'd ton a bunch of C/Python/Ruby before that, but it really solidified my core software dev skillset and is allowing me to learn at a rapid pace and I'm loving it :)
"composer update" maybe?

"composer install" will install from composer.lock.
Well, they have been managing fine since 1915, apparently without it hindering things all that much.
It's not much different than having to open a PayPal account, and it's much easier than opening a bank account.
While I agree with you for US and Western Europe-based freelancers, it's not true for other places. When you live in a third-world country, Odesk/Elance are some of the only ways for you to make money as a freelancer.
But the ACH is completely reversible. So not really a risk specially considering that price has fallen :).
""they ignored all the practical, economic and legal challenges it would need to overcome before it could become a real currency""

Bitcoin is born liberated and will continue to, irrespective of governments giving their stance. What else would a 'fanboy' expect from established players?
$2/hr is a lot of money to some people in some places, particularly certain "developing nations".

Of course, you get what you pay for. Most people looking to hire on these sites aren't interested in quality; they want quantity at a discount. It works well for both them and the people doing the work at least in the short term. After all, some money (food) is better than nothing. I consider it a pretty base form of exploitation, though.
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Fuck their shitty TOS, call the SEC and have them investigate, they need to comply with the law.

They are acting as financial services provider and must be in compliance with those laws.

The law gives the OP a clear resolution.

There's a pretty clear resolution here, give the customer back their money because your business doesn't actually work, or give the customer the coins at the most favorable price.
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pan69: correct. Updated my reply to fix that.
PHP isn't the most fun language, but it's not that hard either. It's unusually quirky, but not unusable. As for WordPress, though — if you're used to a nice, sane API like you get in Rails or .NET, you're probably going to find the massive heap of cruft that we call WordPress a little bit aggravating.
According to YC the online coding education market is too crowded
"I would also highly recommend that you work for a company (or many companies) with vision, mission, and values that you connect with strongly."

This statement is extremely important. You can walk through hell if you're in good company. If you end up working with on great technology with people you can't stand, you will not make it through your job. The opposite will generally lead to your work environment being a lot healthier for you.
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For anyone considering using Coinbase or similar services where you have to pay via bank transfer -- think twice and take this as a serious warning that you have almost no protection if they screw you/up somehow.

I have a problem with Coinbase for a much smaller sum (luckily): ordered at what I was convinced was a fixed price and just received less BTC at a much higher rate. Their customer support refuses to help (or even to cancel the transaction) and banks just don't get involved in direct transfers on your side, the way they would do on a credit card transaction.

Short of going to the police and lamenting on forums (hello!), there is nothing you can do.
Re: warranty clause

The FAQ has a section explicitly addressing warranties with a free WTFPL sample snippet to use. You are free to modify your WTFPL, or specify warranty separately. I don't see this as a big issue, but I suppose it could be easy to miss too.

http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
This is awesome on so many levels!
You probably won't have too hard a time. With that background, your main challenge will be overcoming the wave of nausea that will sweep across you when you realize that WordPress is a gigantic mass of procedural code studded with inconsistently documented hooks and filters rather than something with a nice, clean, easily extensible OO architecture. But with liberal applications of patience and Pepto-Bismol, this feeling eventually passes.
It's easy to be nostalgic about past times, but the fact is that quality of life, by many measures (including but not limited to healthcare) has been improved.

Intentionally slowing economic growth is a cruel sentence for those less fortunate than yourself so that you can be "happy".
Actually you'd be wrong in this case as it is an illegal practice ("bucketing") whether due to a technical error, human error or malicious intent.

The settlement amount may defer for the plaintiff, but the as it would be considered as/or similar to securities fraud the repercussions for the company could be dire.
If the price went back up to $1500 a coin, Coinbase would cancel his transaction whether he wanted them to or not despite the supposed price lockin (and return his dollars in their own sweet time). Their usual justification is "excessive risk".
This class of devices is often made at a ridiculously huge volume and the cheapest way possible, so they're very likely to contain one-time-programmable devices with no test / debug lines.
> San Francisco is more expensive than San Jose because more people want to live in a city built like SF than one like SJ.

No, its more expensive than SJ because it has a major port (driving commercial value) and substantial beachfront, and because groups attracted directly by those two things also, themselves, produce additional indirect demand.

California communities with even one of these things that are built more like San Jose than San Francisco are often more expensive than San Jose -- and even can be more expensive than San Francisco.

> Correlation isn't causation.

But the absence of correlation is pretty clear disproof of causation.

> The laws of supply and demand show that more supply will lower prices

Sure, more housing supply will lower housing prices -- and the resulting increase in population will increase the demand for everything else that plays into affordability of living in the city. What do the laws of supply and demand say about that?
Something as simple as the contractor wont provide you with the full code until you leave a 5 star rating.
Many SSDs do on the fly AES encryption. Secure wipe is then just a destruction of the private key. All the encrypted data stays put.
BTC exchanges aren't regulated in the same way as stock exchanges. Coinbase isn't a BD AFAICT, so they don't have the same type of fiduciary responsibilities. They also aren't registered as a bank or as a NY private bank, so they aren't subject to FDIC or other banking regulations.

They are much closer to ebay than to IB
Brian from Coinbase here. Sorry for the delay on that - definitely not the customer experience we are striving for.

We should have things squared away for you by end of day.

Edit: your bitcoin credit has now been processed. It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal. We should have certainly caught it and responded sooner so that was our fault. My deepest apologies for the delay and trouble on that. We've credited $50 worth of bitcoin to your account for the trouble, as a small way of saying thank you for bearing with us.

Edit2: we'll push through the bitcoin credit at today's price instead of the original buy price (which should be in your favor) since the mistake was on our part. Sorry again for the trouble!
Getting your funds 'eventually' is not reasonable nor acceptable for financial deals.

A stock/foreign currency/whatever to-be-settled on 16th december is one item, the same stock to-be-settled on 17th december is a completely different item - it certainly has a different price, and there are a bunch of valid finance situations when you don't need the purchase at all if it's delayed; you just need the money back + compensation for the breach of agreement.

There's a term for when a financial institution is unable to settle deals on the agreed day and needs to postpone - it's called insolvency. Such repeated situations are quite valid reasons to require them to cease operating and liquidate all assets in order to pay out their debts.
I guess the value fell to zero. :)
I sell ebooks, I actually give them away if the person can only pay with PayPal, because PayPal is such a hassle.

It's all relative, I guess.
Market risk would be the risk of the value of the asset changing (which is also present here). Counterparty risk is the risk of Coinbase not living up to its contractual obligation of delivering the bitcoins in the first place.
Using a Windows Phone, Windows Tablet and Xbox all feel very similar. None of that happens with different companies.

Why should a game machine, controlled by a gamepad, operate anything like a touchscreen smartphone, or a keyboard and mouse controlled desktop? There is absolutely no value to that, and it is exactly what is being pointed out as the problem with Microsoft: Everything hinges on trying to leverage and push other parts of Microsoft's empire (Windows 8 has been a relative disaster commercially because of this misdirected unifying vision, just as it would be if Honda gave their cars motorcycle handlebars to unify the product line), and the end result is that the few products that should do well are diminished because of it.

Microsoft is now on a path to unifying the ecosystem and this is fantastic from a developer perspective.

Microsoft has always been unifying the ecosystem, to largely disastrous results. DNA. OLE. WinFS. And on and on. Longhorn was a total disaster for exactly this reason, someone declaring "You know what would be cool -- if one single technology foundation served every one of our products. Let's call everyone into a meeting!", where suddenly the only superficially similar needs of Exchange, Access, Windows NT, and so on all have to try to come to some consensus (hint - it never happened. It was a disaster from top to bottom). Metro is more of the same, though Microsoft became committed to pushing it through. It was a gimmick for a short while, but is there anyone who says "Boy, I should would like an Xbox One because it works like the desktop I no longer use and is like the Microsoft tablet I will never own"?
Consider a slightly different version:
"As you pose it, it's not a race between the darker aspects of The Internet and our ability as a world society to check off the items on your wishlist."
I don't think Adi Shamir is interested in writing fake articles and a fake paper about the same topic:

http://www.tau.ac.il/%7Etromer/papers/acoustic-20131218.pdf
I too hate elance and have been using oDesk for years. The experience at oDesk was just phenomenally better than elance.

You're right about ripe for disruption too. I wonder who will move into the space.
Definitely true, good to keep that in mind. Clicking up-vote doesn't mean you're calling the hotline.
Honestly I didn't even realize I was trolling until I slowed down and gauged the responses from everyone.

I'm honestly just worked in to a bit of a stressed out frenzy here in San Francisco...

...and I'm taking a break from this bullshit. No more HackerNews for me... it is driving me, and I think a bunch of other people, batshit insane...

I'm also looking forward to getting out of SF for a couple of weeks and hopefully not hearing anyone talk about fucking Bitcoins or Google busses or Seasteading...
Oh, That was not a critic on the essay, but on you. The Author seems to be quite aware that not everything is sexism, but choose a clickbait headline.
also note the Minimal Delightful Product.

http://www.startupblender.com/product-planning/minimum-viabl...

and Minimal Marketable Product.

http://java.dzone.com/articles/minimum-viable-product-and
Which law? I can see something under non delivery of goods paid for but that would just be a civil court matter. If you order a car at your local dealership and then they don't give it to you, that's not something the SEC cares about.
Is letting people starve among abundance a problem? I'd say so.
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HN is really getting overloaded with bitcoin noise the past couple weeks. Honestly this just doesn't feel like the right venue for advice and support about this stuff.
ActualLOL at that correction.
HN is now a coinbase support forum?

Why would you put that much money into a service that isn't a true bitcoin exchange? Do you realize they're an extra middleman that is likely to add more delays to any transaction?

If you look at reddit.com/r/coinbase you'd know this sort of thing is a common occurrence with coinbase- Why are you surprised this is happening? Seems like they have a history of this sort of thing that should have warned you of the risks you were taking. Why give them your business if they're known to do this type of thing?

If people keep supporting businesses that act in a manner they're not happy with then what is the incentive for anyone to create a better alternative?
Not directly related but shit like this really scares me away from these sites and make me lose some faith in humanity (look at the client's history): https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/job/Artist-Needed-for-Home-Page...

He's basically selling ratings. 147 jobs — which would usually cost you at least $200+ each — done for $829 total!
Nice.

I own a Logitech C920 Pro and a software called webcam settings allows me to easily turn off the lights. If this software can do this, so can a malware.

Also, a malware can be designed to click quick snaps when there is no keyword or mouse activity for a specific period. This can help the malware go unnoticed without controlling the light. Want to take it to the next level? You can use the mic anytime to estimate the user's distance from the system and then enable webcam accordingly. I know this would not be very accurate, but possible.
If you get it in front of a judge miraculous things can happen, if a judge finds as a matter of fact that they are an exchange than suddenly their more like IB than eBay. By guaranteeing a price they are acting as a counterparty to the transaction.

That's the whole point of this, CoinBase doesn't want to be like IB so they should refund the customer his money rather than acting like a fraudulent IB.

There are plenty of more serious operations like http://bitcoincapitalpartners.com that take client money seriously.
Just recently when Freelancer.com acquired vWorker I expected the overall quality improvement at Freelancer. However despite any logic it became worse.

I have the same expectations for this merger/acquisition. Elance won't become any better and Odesk will cease to exist very soon after transferring all users to Elance.

Sadly this merger is dictated by nothing else but increasing market share of Freelancer.com.
"You can blame me if you want, but I don't think I'm really the cause of the problem."

You can draw a lot of comparisons between the economic/class struggle in SF and the NSA scandal. Techies and engineers 'just doing their job', insulated from and making excuses for the larger system. Not really a direct comparison, but an interesting one to think about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6927003
It would probably be easier to read the chip in-situ with a Bus Pirate and flashrom :

http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate

http://flashrom.org

I used one of these to reflash the BIOS on a logic board after the utility provided died, without removing the BIOS from the board.
I'll add that it is obvious when certain types of calculation start, too. It's neat to be able to point to this and say I wasn't crazy to a few friends who didn't believe me.

On an older computer an animated gif on a web page caused my speakers to feedback differently than playing video (and this worked even when the sound card was muted). And the signals never fully masked each other. I always suspected it was a grounding fault, but it was subtle and generally unobtrusive so I never tried to fix it (it's almost a feature, like a blinking hard drive light).

Notably it is far easier to hear through the amplifier that is the sound card, but even with no speakers, a quiet room will still show the same. As others noted above, CRT monitors are notoriously loud, and you can definitely hear different image patterns.
Thank you! And I completely agree that secrets.yml is a win.
> 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.

I don't understand this logic at all. BTC is primed for speculation, bubbles, and deflation, because it has a fixed or slow-growing supply and no automated procedure for fighting deflation by printing money. In other words, it has no central bank. There's no way it can prevent deflation and speculative bubbles. And yet as the BTC population grows, you think that speculation bubbles will reduce? That's a pretty out-there argument.
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It's systems, not smarts
I should say it's systems, more than smarts, because smarts matter - alot. But, smarts alone won't get you there because smart people stuck in bad systems create lousy results.

Good systems + Smart people = SUCCESS

Good systems + Dumb people = Struggle

Bad systems + Smart people = Struggle

Bad systems + Dumb people = Catastrophe

I don't mean 'Dumb' pejoratively, but simply as a person who does not know alot about something in the problem domain.

I've spent 10 years on a team of very smart people. When the good systems aren't in place, things don't go well. People wonder why. I'm telling you now why. The systems are not in place.

What is a successful business? A system. Big companies and some smaller make alot of money. They have each created a system and that system creates money. You can have the most brilliant people in the world in-house, you still lose if you have the wrong systems. LTCM.

Being an inspiring leader and all the other things all you aspiring billionaires are told are important. Many of them, not so important. You need a system that works and scales. It should be very easy to understand that. Finding the system is hard. It has to be. If it wasn't hard, finding it would have no value - and no reward.

Money being a scarce commodity (and necessarily so), your big system is guaranteed to be difficult to find. When they say 'there is no free lunch', that is the reason why.
I've always sealed the webcam opening with a strip of black tape on my laptop, personally.
Speaking as someone who knows a lot about economics, I think PT Barnum put it best...[1]

Economics is very clear in predicting how this will end up. Bitcoins have no intrinsic value and therefore the long-term price will be precisely zero. Each generation has its tulips [2]; each generation claims that the persistence in tulip price means that there is permanent intrinsic value; each generation is disappointed [3].

The only thing interesting about bitcoins is that this provides an opportunity to watch a bubble: observe the justifications people make, observe how nay-sayers appear to be wrong, and watch the progression.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_m...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions...
"A Furby is an evil robotic children’s toy wrapped in colored fur."

If only all technical reviews started this honestly...
I wish things like this had been around when Localytics was making its technology decisions. It would have saved us doing a lot of this investigation ourselves.
Interesting. I feel like the only person around here who isn't in the thick of it in Silicon Valley. Hacker News is it for me, as far as that is concerned.

Take a breath. Look around. Maybe you're doing great things down there, maybe you aren't, but chances are that nothing is as big of a deal as you're making it.

I know that I'm really nobody in any position to say this, but I will do it anyway. Relax.
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Not being able to afford a car is an entirely different matter from the government forbidding you from driving one. As for DUI offenders etc, once they've served their sentence they should have the right to drive like anyone else. During their jail or probation sentence, obviously they forfeit many civil rights.

It's a far easier problem economically to focus on those who can't afford a car than to build out public transportation networks. Perhaps in the future when there are driverless cars everywhere, driving could be a privilege. As it is now, and for the foreseeable future, driving is a requirement for many americans. I moved to a city with public transit to avoid driving, but not everyone has that option, and it's important to remember that.
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As someone who just finished a datastructre class (as in had my final just a few days ago) I used the heck out of this site all semester long!

The visualization for B-trees and Red/black trees was totally invaluable!
>What I wanted, deep in my heart, was for someone to say, “Yes, I see this is difficult for you – I see hearing that comment was hard for you because you are worried about the sexist implications, and it was a challenge to maintain composure in front of the client.”

So she wanted us to assume she was a fragile woman, instead of a woman able to take critique (as the comment about emotional attachment to code is)?

Not that I'm saying she is, but, that's how I would interpret what she just said.

Personally, I think these matters could be resolved bybetter communication with coworkers. They need to speak up if they feel uncomfortable in their environment. We can't read your thoughts, and, that goes for other males aswell obviously, but, that doesn't seem to be much of an issue.

As for men trying to impress women, I would very much say this isn't limited to tech. Maybe tech ppl more easily take a liking to their female coworkers, but it's entirely natural to want to impress someone you like.
Oil is a wonder molecule that is used as an input in thousands of industrial processes. Burning it to extract energy is just the use case people understand. Which is unfortunate.
I think it maps decently well to the concept of a currency. It has no intrinsic value, and the amount of it in circulation is controlled by a central authority.

In the case of the US, the Fed constantly adjusts the dollars in circulation to further their monetary policies (typically low inflation, with economic growth), while in the case of BitCoin, the amount in circulation is set by a mathematical curve that is deflationary in nature.

Analyzing it as a deflationary currency (which many people treat as an "investment", because it increases in value over time) is about right.
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I've read the linked document, but this feels like magic to me. Is the general idea something like : i can hear the CPU is doing 10 additions, then 20 substractions, twenty times in a row, so i can tell by knowing the algorithm used that the CPU is computing a public key and that it must be between 1 billion and 1.5 billion ?