skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories, one bit of backstory is that billions of years ago the Slaver empire colonized planets with yeast to feed to their livestock -- giant bioengineered slugs. In his "World of Ptavvs" he describes a survivor coming out of stasis on earth, long after the fall of the Slaver empire, very confused about what happened to his planet...
Yet there are labeled(!) test points visible for the I2C lines on the board, and a number of other labels... so the question is, why doing the epoxy stuff while leaving the labeling on the PCB?
"Financial stability" in the sense that the government has the final control on literally everything, from your money to your property to your labor. "Stable systems of investment and lending" in the sense that large members of the finance industry operate with impunity (see the big bank bailouts). "Managed inflation and currency supply" doesn't really mean much without talking about how well they are managed.

And then you have the real bad consequences: runaway military spending and mass killing of people from other nations, runaway prison populations for victimless crimes, massive market interference that stifles innovation and efficiency, public schools which create the next generation of unquestioning patriots, etc.
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As someone who just finished a data structures class (as in had my final yesterday), I wish I knew about this site before today!
This is the same situation as Facebook's IPO with NASDAQ. Orders were placed $40, then cancelled, then filled at $40 six hours after the market closed (at which point Facebook was already trading below its IPO price).

Unless you are a massive financial institution with some serious clout/legal department, I recommend you cut your losses and move on.

Your time is much more valuable spent doing something else rather than the time you will spend trying to recover $X,XXX
They can play the 6th movement from Holst's "The Planets" at their opening ceremony

Uranus, the Magician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets#Structure
What is "bucketing"? Isn't this a simple case of goods paid for but not received? This is the same as if I buy 100 gallons of fuel oil for $5 and they don't deliver it.
I would be more concerned about the microphone. I can easily cover the camera with tape. Also, random pictures of me programming or reading HN are probably less damaging audio recordings of conversations I might be having.
I always cover the camera with a Post It sticky. But the mic might be listening in on me.

Embrace Big Brother, folks, 'cos he's here.
Back in 1995, Toy Story was rendered with a server farm of 87 dual-processor 100MHz SPARCStations w/ 192MB of RAM and 30 quad-processor 100MHz SPARCStations w/ 384MB RAM.

I used to do professional digital video editing on Media 100s and Avids with 80-96 MB of RAM back in the mid-90s.

It's amazing how quickly top-of-the-line becomes crap.
http://www.bankersonline.com/regs/210/210.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/4A

Please explain to a judge how something called 'bitcoin' is more like a car than cash. If it was called bitcar and people were could redeem their bitcars for a ride then you might have a point.
Separate thought.

I was at a funeral the other day for a man who built a very successful residual alarm installation and monitoring business.

At the eulogy it was said that he taught his kids to say "and that's only" specifically the word "only" (not "just").

Btw, I would think that there is a fair amount of elasticity in this pricing. I would guess that people would pay $125 as easily as they would pay $100. "think" means that I would test. You may have already.

Since I brought up the point (which you answered) the way I would restate the copy (since this is HN and people want to learn and debate) would be:

(for now let's go with $125 for my illustration)

"The cost for this?

It's only $125 to setup an employee.

That's it.

The fee is one time and there are no additional or ongoing charges.

None at all."

(Note the word "setup" is used).

My point is by saying "$125 per employee" in my mind the (ad copy) gives me the impression that I won't have to pay if I replace an employee. The "only $125 to setup" in my opinion takes away that issue for the most part.

Strictly my thoughts from playing with pricing and wording for many many years. Others may feel differently. Personally I feel $125 is a better number than $100 can't quite put in words why.
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His argument was that you seem to be under the impression that this dilution has not already happened long ago, which is clearly false. He is not diluting the word war: you are just trying to restrict its usage for some reason.

Look at the definition, which reflects usage today: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war
> Now the real dilemma for me here is the fact that while CoinBase.com has locked in a price for me, because they have failed to deliver I cannot sell my coins at any rate. Bitcoins could drop down to $200, and only then might they deliver the coins.

It's scary that they can literally guarantee constant wins for themselves by choosing how long to delay the delivery of Bitcoins to customers.
Coinbase customer service sucks - I rarely get a response, given I've never been this screwed over
No way. Regulation won't solve these sort of things. It will just make the barrier to entry that much higher. Now people have a voice more so than ever before. If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer. This is exactly what's happening here.
This is a real pet peeve of mine. Blowhard bullshitters asserting overgeneralized statements as fact.

I think bitcoin is cool, I've bought a couple because I used mine back when they were $2 per share. I don't have libertarian masturbatory fantasies -- I see it as a toy that could make me money if it continues to blow up.

> Anyway, I expect you to headline the inevitable "Bitcoin Once Again Breaks 1k" thread with a post linking to your comment here, explaining why you were full of shit...

These people don't tend to do that, because if they had any degree of introspection they wouldn't be so full of shit in the first place.
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So what does one say to a woman who is being too emotional?

There's lots of guidelines about what not to do. There's less guidance about what to do instead.
TCP is done via the IO monad and this is an excellent example of what the IO monad is used for---it forces you to realize that there's another layer of (this time quite leaky) abstraction over your potentially simple inner abstraction.
Those aren't data structures.
Make sure you give him the new price.
We've had some recent bitcoin companies simply shutting down/running away while taking the customers' stored funds. Sure, they lost reputation - was that any help to the depositors?

And from history of 'classic' banking we know very well that the 'lost reputation' doesn't work - we've tried that all over the world in the earlier times, it resulted in people creating new 'fresh clean reputation' companies one after another and sucessfully repeating such things over and over.

Raising the barrier of entry is the whole point - if you're unable to meet your agreements, you should be kept far, far away from that business permanently.
Submitting and publishing dodgy, fraudulent or sloppy studies isn't trying, it undermines all of science. And when animals are subjected to pain and death for fame or career advancement, it's morally corrupt, even criminal.
If you need the "clamshell laptop unit" around to make this work, doesn't it just make more sense to carry an actual laptop? Motorola did this with the Atrix I believe, and that was piece of garbage.
Where do you see that it is cheaper? That base model is $2300 without real RAM and no graphics cards.

Where are you going to get "Dual AMD FirePro D500 with 3GB GDDR5" for under $699?
Semantically there is no difference between adding network requests for assets or inlining them, whether through data URIs or inline script/style tags. It's a fast vs slow debate. :)
I guess it's not, more of an observation that I find interesting. It doesn't negate or confirm anything you said.
> Bitcoins have no intrinsic value

Neither does gold, paper money, or diamonds. And yet they've remained valuable for a long time. What gives?
His complaint meets neither of those terms of service.

Coinbase confirmed the banking side of things, and then failed to deliver the coins. As a result, the investor is taking a material loss solely due to Bitcoin's failure to deliver. You can't TOS a failure to deliver out of the equation.

At the least, he should be entitled either to cash or Bitcoin credit for the difference in value between the delivery date and the actual delivery date.
Except, people who work at tech companies like Cisco, Facebook and Google are largely spending their time making things that are good for the world, or at least give people what they want. This is validated by the market for their products. Pretty much no one outside the US government thinks that the NSA's infrastructure is good for the world.
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It would be nice if there was a physical switch to disable the webcam and microphone.
There are rules that govern ACH reversals. My understanding is that reversals are permitted in cases where the amount transferred was incorrect or the transfer was not authorized.

As another poster on this thread noted, Coinbase's terms of service appears to give them great flexibility in processing transactions. The OP, on the other hand, seems to have the understanding that Coinbase was obligated to complete his transaction within a very specific period of time.

This is a dispute between two parties to a transaction. One is arguing that his counterparty failed to meet its obligations; it appears the other has the ability to argue that under its terms of service those supposed obligations never existed. Given the amount of money involved, either party might be motivated to resolve this matter through legal action.

Again, this is all an inherent part of the wonderful world of counterparty risk.
I think that it does, to some degree, in order to fulfill some of the promises that proponents claim will be delivered in the near future. There are ceaseless calls by BTC advocates for retailers of all kinds to accept bitcoin payments. For this to happen on a large enough scale there needs to be distributed demand by a great number of consumers, not frequent demands by a few edge cases.
I don't understand the introduction:
"0:15 as part of an effort to reduce use of traditional fuels like oil
0:19 which contribute to climate change"

How would using algae as a source of oil not contribute to climate change? You'd still burn it in all the old familiar ways.
Is slightly different, you have a party vote/appointment for the candidate for prime minister, from elected party ranks, which is similar to the US presidency, apart from the president not having to be elected to government already.

But then the presidential vote doesn't vote directly for the president, but elects electors, who then elect the president, which seems an unneccessary step given you already have the vote results from each state and only has any effect at all if an elector does not vote the way the have been campaining.

I am not saying it is any more or less democratic than my government, I am just saying that this detail seems weird.
For sure, attraction matters. The point I was trying to make was the stereotyping of tech workers as socially awkward nerds, even though that isn't true for all.
Given two males with the same physical attributes, one being in tech and other say sales/marketing or whatever, which one is the girl more likely to go for? That's my point.
Are we really running out of deserts anytime soon? Isn't the issue more the capital and labor intensity of harvesting energy from sunlight, and transporting that energy to places that actually need it?

Space exacerbates those two issues.
> To all of you who say that Bitcoin shouldn't be regulated - this is what it results in.

My interpretation is precisely the opposite of yours. Every other method to exchange bitcoins and USD has been shut down (or at least had its US presence shut down). Coinbase nearly has a monopoly in the United States (I say nearly, because there are certainly still ways to get on other exchanges based in other countries, they're just much more difficult). Coinbase, from what I can tell, must have some political advantage that allows them to stay in service.
So if I have a random characters + numbers password that's reasonably long, do I actually have anything to worry about? Microsoft and Google don't allow brute forcing through their web login interfaces, do they? I keep things like IMAP and POP disabled.
They were initially valued as collectibles (just like gold) and then as a speculative investment. Now that a market exists and there is liquidity, they are valued for other reasons as well (payment system, black market transactions, hide wealth ... etc). Explain how we get to 0 from here since they will always have an underlying value as a collectible and speculative investment?
Care to enlighten on how it's disguting?
How could you get that amount of money back to dollars, if lets say the price doubled and you wanted to sell?

Like back in my bank account dollars.
I've had a terrible customer service experience with Coinbase too: http://amit.roon.io/an-open-letter-to-coinbase
My experience is with hiring technical freelancers: design, network, security, development, etc.

It is entirely possible that elance is great for non-technical jobs.

The issues I ran into were providers who have great ratings but who can't do the job! Later I found out that elance has a loophole where buyers who disputed or cancelled projects are not able to leave feedback. So you're not getting the full story when you look at a provider's history.

elance doesn't really care about this. So you have a huge portion of freelancers on elance who cosmetically pump up their ratings to get more jobs and then either farm them out to others or do a shoddy job themselves. when/if the job goes into dispute or is cancelled it disappears from their history. if the client is dumb enough to be happy with the crap work, they get a nice rating in exchange for turning over the final code.
Gold and Diamonds have obvious intrinsic value. Paper money does too, but it's harder to demonstrate.
If you are going to say something like that you should at least say "extract energy".
If companies don't act appropriately, people can post stories and complaints online. The companies reputation will then suffer. This is what's exactly happening here.

That's great for all the people who watch and learn that Company A will steal your money, but not so great for the people who provided that evidence for everyone else.
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allow me to quote Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi never said the "first they ignore you" thing. It's been traced back to a speech by a union activist in 1912 or so. Lots of previous discussion about this on HN.
Maybe they meant kbytes?
One of my friends always keeps her MacBook open, and had Skype set up to auto-answer video calls. (Until I fixed that for her.) She's a very educated professional woman who teaches at a university you've heard of.

In other words, HN readers might come up with defensive hacks, but 99% of the population is completely vulnerable to all kinds of spying, whether government or stalker, and the situation can only get worse as wireless electronics pervade every part of our lives. Books? Internet-enabled. Fridge? Internet-enabled. Car? Internet-enabled. Our own bodies? Carry wireless-connected smartphone 24x7.
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I've been working through Freelancer/Elance for about 5 years now. I'm quite an experienced iOS dev and typically only apply to the higher priced jobs which then tend to lead on to repeat work. I just took a look at your site. Although I would consider myself quite experienced I'm not a 'rockstar'. What kind of devs do you accept to join Lambda? What do you consider an 'exceptional developer'?
Because in the process of creating the oil algae uses carbon dioxide. The net cycle is 0.
You could save the page, paste the following into a file and run "perl file savedpage.html > fixedpage.html" and open that instead.

I'm sure a Javascript programmer would come up with some better solution instead?...

local $/;
$_= <>;
s/<(.*?)>/$id++; $t{$id}=$1; "<$id>"/sge;
s/([.?!][^\w].*?)([a-zA-Z])/$1.uc($2)/sge;
s/<(.*?)>/"<$t{$1}>"/sge;
s/(<[pP]\b[^>]*>\s*)([a-z])/$1.uc($2)/sge;
print;

Edit: changed \. to [.?!] in line 4.
Honestly, I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to create a camera chip not susceptible to any software hack. The camera sensor needs electrical current to work. Simply place the LED inline or in parallel to the camera and you are done. Any time current is sent to the camera sensor, the LED cant help it but light up. My knowledge of electronics is limited, but I know for a fact that this can be achieved without the use of any reprogrammable microchips, with the use of a simple electrical circuit.
Really? How many mobile platform do we have now?
I've had poor experiences with Coinbase as well, hit major bugs, which cost me hundreds. The only reason people use them is that they are the only choice at the moment. Can't wait for more alternatives such as Circle to launch! In cases like this , regulation and compliance don't sound like something negative!
SPDY (and thus HTTP2) is implemented and shipping in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 11 (except win7) and Opera. It's all ready and mod_spdy and the nginx spdy module are solid and available.
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You are aware that the BTC value just dropped dramatically right? Why dont you reverse if thats possible?
For every person who gets attention to their case on the internet, there's a thousand suffering with no attention. You think this is the only guy who didn't get his coins?
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Hi Jonathan. I would love to know which conference this was.
So their proof of concept malware... actually changes the firmware in the camera micro-controller? Do I have that right?

Here's the research paper linked to in the story, if anyone wants to see what the researchers have to say. I haven't taken a look yet myself: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

Ah, there it is right in the abstract, yep:

> The same technique that allows us to disable the LED, namely
reprogramming the ﬁrmware that runs on the iSight, enables
a virtual machine escape whereby malware running inside a
virtual machine reprograms the camera to act as a USB Human
Interface Device (HID) keyboard which executes code in the host operating system.

Ooh, neat.
This was a remarkably human-centric explanation. Thank you.
That's absolutely awesome. A simple and pretty elegant solution. Your non-javascript fallback is just going to youtube.com?
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So where would you go to find a talented freelancer then? (Assuming you don't have any good word of mouth recommendations.) Not sarcasm - I'm generally interested if you have a better way of finding them that's more reliable that google searches or trolling stackoverflow.
Texas police can get search warrants based on the 'prediction of a future crime'
No it isn't, because holding the assets is causing a depreciation in value for him.
Both are great to find freelancers but the UI of both of them needs work. You have to search to find the most important stuff (eg. paying, hiring etc.).
The good thing about bitcoin is that it will succeed or fail based on market principles.
So if I buy $1 in BTC and then come back to buy $10 in BTC I must be some sort of billionaire gambler. There's nothing out of the ordinary with making large transactions with a company once you trust them.

That being said, now that I've cashed out of BTC for a sizable profit I wont be touching it with a 10foot pole.
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"If XXX is long-term viable ... it's going to be created."

I disagree. For instance, games can have multiple nash-equilibra.
Understandable, thanks for your response.
Tons is an understatement.

You're forgetting the one plausible energy source, however: the gravitational energy that the biomass has in outerspace. If you could figure out how to capture the energy of millions of tons of material moving from orbit to the Earth's surface, that might be able to provide the large majority of the energy needed to bring it up there in the first place.

I wonder how efficient we could make space elevators.
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I really would hate to taint my MBP with ugly duct tap on the camera, but I may have to in the future.

Months ago I read about a company that rented laptops for people to make payments on and eventually own. They installed spy software so they could locate the laptops had the user not made a monthly payment. Employees were spying on users while they were having sex and other things. This wasnt on MBPs but they still managed to not notify the user.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/laptop-rental-spywa...
They've had some problems recently. I'm now at day 12 waiting for an "instant buy" to clear. The ACH transfer cleared over a week ago but I still don't have my coins. (Support #67989 for anybody at coinbase)

It's weird, I performed several small buys in a row just in case this exact thing happened. I got 5/6 purchases but this one is stuck in some weird state. I really like coinbase; they're just having some trouble handling the huge increase in volume recently.
Can you explain the difference between Coinbase and an exchange? I'm afraid now that an order I put in could be futzed up.
Fair enough but that doesn't really correlate with willingness to spend $10/month on some site that doesn't already have a reputation.

These sorts of things need some nucleus to form around, some other reason for being there that attracts smart and creative do-ers, and that will repel wannabes and service providers (lawyers, accountants, etc). Often I find the best "networking" happens at events which are completely unrelated to anything businessy.
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> The only reason people use them is that they are the only choice at the moment

Has anyone tried Kraken.com ?

Registered there, but no transactions yet. Serious question.
Its a way to convert one sort of energy to another. E.g. solar to petro. Its sensible, has a place in our economy, and is not ignorant, though the article didn't make this all clear.
I say let the unregulation continue. So many libertarians see this as an opportunity for no-regulation to be tested in scale, as a proof of concept.

I personally think that no-regulation will lead to implosion, as the bad reputation of a few firms quickly turns into a bad reputation for the currency, defacto scuttling the project as consumers learn not which bitcoin companies are untrustworthy, but that the whole system is untrustworthy by design.