skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't saying the buyer wouldn't have to share his wallets address normally. Of course the buyer must share his wallets address, but the caveat is that he must do so publicly so that everyone can see that he owns that wallet, so that everyone can see that he received that money.

If the buyer didn't reveal his wallets address, he could claim that the seller owned the wallet where the bitcoins were transferred, or that they were transferred to someone else. There's no way of proving otherwise unless the buyer did something to tie the address to himself. (he bought some movie tickets and the theatre disclosed it was him, for example.)

Of course, that's looking at it from a pragmatic view. As others have explained, payment services don't care at all about what's actually happening, only that what HAS happened fits protocol. So this won't matter until the world has come to terms with crypto-currencies.
I am not sure that I see the connection to VC-istan. This is a website that was posted on HackerNews, not a funding announcement declaring that all of the coolest VCs pumped tens of millions of dollars into the startup of a follow celebrity. If anything, the comments seem pretty negative and dismissive, despite the celebrity behind this.
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I don't get it. How the hell do i put this in my computer? The second image block implies not the usb port. And even if it were to be put there, i wouldn't want to put glue in there, and have no idea how a thin sheet of material is supposed to maintain contact. Maybe i need a special drive for it?

Note, i don't actually care for the answers at this point, just wanted to lay out for the guys who made the page how its very confusing and useful for getting me to want it.

Edit: So as it turns out that this is in fact a fake advertisement for a non-extant product i feel compelled to point out this irony: I assume some ad company or group made this in order to attract customers, likely because they have a hard time getting real customers. Now the ironic part is that my confusion when faced with it demonstrates perfectly why they have such difficulties.
Ashton coded it himself from the set of 2.5 Men.
It's because of VMware Fusion and Parallels. Simple.

My next system will probably be a Mac primarily running Windows 7 or 8 where I'm currently the most invested. The ability to have both in the same box justifies the extra cost of a Mac to me. My older XP music production system is actually a VMware Fusion virtual machine running on an older MacBook and used mostly for the XP apps.

Both integrate flawlessly on my home network where I use TeamViewer to access them from what is currently my main Windows machine.
With graphene + imagination you can do anything ... in your imagination.
"fuck snapchat"
It's very nice to read about a political leader who renounces to the
ostentation people in power usually have. However I am a bit concerned for
the man's security. Since he can't be corrupted, assassination would
be an option for a powerful group that sees him as an obstacle. For
example, it's very plausible that a mafia would see its revenues drop
from the sales of cannabis, and so would have strong interests to have
cannabis illegal - I don't know the revenue the mafia generates from
cannabis, I'm just taking this as an example, and for that reason
would try to assassinate Mujica hoping his successor would be more
malleable. However as a former guerrillero Mujica must know well what
he is doing about his security.

Having said that I do hope his example of leading a simple life even
at the highest level will be replicated.
It irritates me when people talk about "bitcoins", plural. Bitcoin is so divisible that it really seems like more of a "stuff" that can't be pluralized, like sand or water[1].

I forgot where I read it but there was once a description of data that derided the term "datum", singular, to mean one data point. "To anyone who's ever worked with it, data is a _stuff_." Wish I could find the book or article.

[1] Yeah, you can use "sands" or "waters" in a somewhat poetic manner, but that definitely stands out as a special usage.
It seems that they're all stuck on an "optical data transfer surface", whatever that's supposed to be. I'm guessing this is just a visual design study, not an end-to-end product design. (Seems to me a workable solution might involve Bluetooth LE - good luck filling a 32GB drive that way though - I estimate it'll take you about 11 days)

Of course, you could store just some cryptographic keys and unique file IDs on a small, low-throughput drive in a form factor like this, and link it into a cloud storage service. That would at least approach making practical sense.
Pycharm>Pydev by many accounts.
There's been somewhat of a trend in that direction since Pope John Paul I in 1978 kicked it off by downplaying some of the royal-seeming aspects of the papacy: he switched to using "I" instead of the royal "we", and opted for a simpler inauguration ceremony instead of being crowned with the papal tiara in the traditional coronation. John Paul II continued some of that trend towards more informality, though Benedict moved a few things back in the other direction (not so far as to bring back the tiara, though).
The 4chan thread where the C-plus-Equality troll started
In our first lecture at graduate college, the prof told us how to read research papers.

Rule 1 : Louder the guest shouts of his honor, faster you should count your spoons.

Similarly if someone tells you about 50% savings just because you switched to some other technology you should be extremely skeptical. Besides those people who engage in `Node vs X` debate every now and then should spend some time educating themselves about compilers and interpreters to understand what makes some programming languages faster than others in certain circumstances.
native apps wrapper, but html inside it.
The buyer can make a fraudulent claim and get his money back.

There is no way to prove he got the money if he claims he doesn't own the wallet, and there's no way to prove he owns the wallet unless he ties that wallet to himself somehow. (which is possible but not reliable, and countermeasures exist anyway)
I remember playing Half-Life and finishing the game and only after I replayed the intro again did I bother to understand the premise of aliens teleported to us. I only wanted to wind the game. FPS are fun to me because of the speed I have to react and not because of the weapons detail. In fact weapons don't interest me if they don't have a sci-fi feel to them. So yeah, it's just a game.
"Each of the dataSTICKIES can be simply peeled from the stack and stuck anywhere on the ODTS (Optical Data Transfer Surface), which is a panel that can be attached to the front surface of devices like computer screens, televisions, music systems, and so on. The special conductive adhesive that sticks the dataSTICKIES to the ODTS is the medium that transfers the data."

This should be made MUCH MUCH clearer, because it's a really cool idea that takes way too long to find in that page.
That would be true if hiring were generally rational with an objective of finding qualified workers.
One thing I don't understand about long-term unemployment is why you wouldn't immediately start freelancing if you couldn't find a job. Start a company, take occasional contracts, and list that on your resume. Boom, no employment gap.

Can someone explain why people don't just do that instead of complaining about "discrimination?" Heck, I myself would never hire someone who had been unemployed for a year and lacked the ability to either get a job or start their own thing.
I can see this being really handy in a small size for storing an album (25-50) worth of photos, a CD of music or a paper or presentation.

If they were cheap enough they would be nearly disposable. I can also see them having the same problem as disposable information storage.

Like their namesake, sticky-notes, they might be great for quickly storing an idea but terrible for retrieving them because they end up getting misplaced or lost among a big pile of paper.
http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/icv/js/bdlss.icv.page.js seems to lead to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software and more specifically http://openseadragon.github.io/
It looks like the answer is in the pictures on the right in the How block near the bottom. You stick a strip called the Optical Data Transfer Surface (ODTS) to the edge of your computer screen. It can somehow read any dataSTICKY that has been stuck to it. Presumably that strip is connected to your computer through a USB cable or Bluetooth.

But yeah, it is confusing that the site doesn’t make that clear. They should show how you plug dataSTICKIES in right next to that “not the USB port” image in the Why block.
Oh Jesus, it's an American war game, what did you expect? They have to make up fictional enemies in order to have something to fight. It's not realistic and it's not supposed to be.

I think it says a lot about the current state of the world, how implausible world war scenarios now seem.
tl:dr; there is a surface (called ODTS) that you stick the drives to. The surface itself connects to your computer via USB, and its through that the drives' content can be browsed.

Not a bad concept. I just fear that the adhesive might not last very long. Unless, if it uses another form of adhesion, such as magnets.
Ashton Kutcher's been an angle investor in startups for as long as Hacker News has existed. Both began in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Investments
But why!? He's not miraculously accomplished at anything...
From the FAQ:

"NVIDIA graphics card (AMD and Intel graphics support coming soon)"

I believe VirtualBox emulates a graphics card, and not an NVIDIA one, so it may not run even on machines with an Nvidia card.
Yes, specifying which proteins are made, and how much of each and how that varies with cell type is most of what determines an organism's phenotype. This is largely because enzymes are proteins, and enzymes control all the biochemical reactions in a cell. But proteins can also be transcription factors, which control which other proteins are produced, and they can be important for their mechanical properties, etc. So, not some boring category of biomolecule that gets listed on nutritional information section on food packaging.
>They removed WarZ

Actually, they didn't. All the developers did was have it relisted under a different name ("Infestation: Survivor Stories").

http://steamcommunity.com/app/226700
So did New Zealand 20 years ago. Not sure what your point is.
While no doubt he will grow up to be of high intellect, having a very high IQ by itself does not guarantee you will accomplish anything major.

Case in point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong
Also, the seller could just transfer the coins out of the wallet after he ships them. I can't see a way to prevent the seller from doing this.

The USB drives and the paper wallets are meaningless. Only the transactions can be trusted.
Something has gone wrong with Steam's caching/CDN solution, possibly because people have been hitting the direct URL instead of this one (steamstatic vs steampowered.com)

You'll probably need to wait until the rush dies down a bit.
This is just a proof-of-concept, correct?

Well designed, but, don't they know USB sticks are on their way out?
Hard Problems: The Financial Graph
The terms are "mass noun" and "count noun". You're saying that bitcoin should be regarded as a mass, not a count.
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My name is Erik Christensen

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I can do Rails or Javascript (Angular and Backbone) or Node or Python

Recently graduated college, taking a few months off to decompress and save up some money.

If you have a small project (maximum 6 months) that needs to be done and want someone to flatten it for a very reasonable rate, I'm your guy.
I expected to be impressed by the printing itself, but what startled me was what one sees on pages 2 and 3 of the original link (and what http://www.barbaradoyen.com/book-publishing/physical-anatomy... calls the "Fancy End Paper"). I'm assuming those are the original "Fancy End Papers," but they look like something I'd expect in a 20th century modern painting, not on a 500+ year old book.
The saddest part about this is that it's the first I've heard of it. Nobody I know uses Y! Mail.
Whose Java SDK would you rate at the top 10%? I'm curious.
You should have made people Tweet or share a link to get access first!
> Sorry to say this but if Ashton Kutcher's name wasn't on this it would have not even made it to the front page of HN much less been worthy of people commenting on it

That's possible, but you could argue something similar about repeat entrepreneurs. Ashton is an incredible marketer, which is a HUGE part of a consumer product like this.
Easier said than done for most kinds of work.
Disabling zoom is also not good for visually impaired users and other people who need things to be bigger sometimes.
There is also the example of Evo Morales of Bolivia, who chose not to move into the Presidential Palace, and still lives in the same small modest apartment with his wife and roommates.

See picture of the apartment here: http://estaticos03.elmundo.es/suplementos/imagenes/2006/05/0...

Original article in Spanish newspaper El Mundo: http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2006/549/

Translated version here: http://www.ibaibarriaga.com/reportages-detalle.php?id=11
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. I have too much faith in people.
Ashton is also an investor in Fancy and understands the space well.

I would compare A+ more to Wanelo, which has massive growth. There's a lot of space for other players in the area.
Captives of the Cloud, Part III: All Tomorrow’s Clouds
A really interesting book on the characteristics of written and printed letterforms is "The stroke" [0].

One really interesting thing is the way that writing and reading have changed more than one might expect. A few anecdotes:

- Until some time in the middle ages, scribes did not consistently use spaces to designate word breaks. This was apparently an innovation of Irish monks. But it had important implications. Sounding out a string of letters is quite difficult. Our modern reading speed depends on the characteristic shapes of words, which only emerged once spaces were used consistently.

- Until relatively late, reading was a laborious process. And because the only things important enough to be written were worth reading slowly, no one much minded. One charge laid against the Jesuits was that they had developed a sinister method of reading silently rather than out loud(!) which allowed them to read much more quickly.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Stroke-Writing-Gerrit-Noordzij/dp/...
I tried with Firefox 25 and Google Chrome 31. Doesn't work on any of them. "I'm getting: Your browser is not supported"
Will your cloudservices give in to political bullying?
You're right. They would never allow you to create a business out of offering mainframe-as-a-service. But internally, offering this service to your developers in a large enterprise is feasible.
I'm talking about mobile Safari and mobile Chrome. Neither supports extensions, and neither has integrated ad blocking. And while you can get third party browsers that do adblock, they're somewhat crippled in that only Safari has the Nitro javascript engine. All other browsers pay a performance tax.
Zuckerberg, Spacey Celebrate Scientists
Just take the 5 minutes it takes to make an account and enjoy an awesome game. Use a fake email if you must.
You should check out adding a product. The flow is actually different from both Svpply and Fancy.
"datum" is pretty common in academic literature. Even more common is treating "data" as grammatically plural: e.g. "The data show..."

There are plenty of examples of plural mass nouns though, and they all have slightly different meanings than the usual sense of the word. peoples, monies, sands, waters, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun#Multiple_senses_for_...

language is complicated, and the rules aren't necessarily rationally intuitive.
Even Hollywood movies now have a global perspective, with storyline and characters that allow people in different regions to identify and own the experience.

Wonder why CoD has not caught up with the times.
Fancy end paper is truly a wonderful thing. If you like this, just look at some of the Kelmscott Press endpapers: https://www.google.com/search?q=kelmscott+press+endpaper&esp...
Being not from the mattress industry, a cheap simple mattress is exactly what I've been looking for (coming from someone who has been sleeping on an air mattress for 5mo). Paying any more than this for a mattress, even if a $1000 mattress is really good, seems outrageous to me (but everyone has different priorities)
>Are ... [they] ... pulling strings in Hollywood and at game studios to promote their agenda?

Only if they always have been. War movies are not a new phenomenon.

Couldn't it simply be that the American public are war-mongers and game studios are simply giving the people what they wanted?
Heck, I myself would never hire someone who had been unemployed for a year and lacked the ability to either get a job or start their own thing.

No matter how good you are, long-term unemployment will fuck up your confidence, especially after 50 when you're supposed to have your shit together. I've seen it happen to some really stellar people.

Financial stress poisons everything, and only a small percentage of people (maybe 5%) can prevent that sense/fear of letting their family down and being a drain on society from crushing them. Trust me on this one.

It's easy as hell to find work (consulting or full-time) when things are going well, especially in our industry. It's not so easy for people who take a fall, especially when it's unexpected.
Machines of Loving Grace: The risk of terrorism vs. the surveillance state.
Intel Seen Threatened as Google Mulls Own Server Chips
Totally agree, some level of hype is necessary no matter how much bullshit hype really is.

But nearly all lasting companies have one thing in common, a great product.

Right now this site is a long way from that ... but then again they always say you should eventually be embarrassed of the first version of your product.

I think it's fair to say he will be.
What are the SteamOS Hardware Requirements?
...
Hard Drive: 500GB or larger disk

Default Installation
... The image provided here requires at least a 1TB disk.

It is odd that they are publishing these specs and making the default image so large when <500GB SSDs are the ideal drives for gaming computers.
Hardly, faster time to market is a value multiplier, not a loss.
Why Last 2 Speakers Of Obscure Mexican Language Don't Talk To Each Other
This is bad science self-congratulatory wank.

Graphene organs, stick them to your face and let them compensate for your bad health via sound.
A big fuck you to Snapchat
Is there any graphene prototype that suggests this could be sold in the near future (next couple years)?
Amazing.

It's interesting to see the typographical conventions. For example, the first sentence of Genesis (the first black sentence on image 15): "In principio creauit deus celu et terram." meaning, if "celu" is really "celum", "In (the) beginning god created heaven and earth."

But look at all the oddities. The "d" and "e" of "deus" are run together. What's up with that? The "m" in "celum" is missing, but there is a horizontal line above the "u". I guess that means, "Throw in the obvious letter after this." And then there is another word thrown in between "celu(m)" and "et": "dicim". This is in red, apparently marking it as going with the note above, and so not part of the flow of the text.

And "creauit" would normally be written "creavit", but "u" and "v" used to be the same letter (along with "i" and "j").

After that red "dicim" mentioned above is a little mark that looks like a raised "9". That mark is all over. Does anyone know what it means?

Beginning at the end of the 5th line: "Dixitqz deus. Fiat lux." I guess that little "qz" thing is an abbreviation for "quoque"? Thus: "Dixit quoque deus. Fiat lux." "Also God said. Let (there) be light."

Fun stuff & a nice post. :-)
Because people don't buy CoD for the single player campaign they buy it for the multiplayer. So long as the Single Player sets up some nice maps and environments for the multiplayer that's all that really matters in selling the game.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Apparently adverts for products which don't exist and never will exist are also nearly indistinguishable from adverts for advanced technology.
I've got two suggestions. First, the foam materials; what are they? The last mattress I bought was through amazon and, having researched for a few hours, I came to know some of the basic traits foam mattresses can have (talalay latex, dunlop latex, polyurethane, high density, low density, and ways of mixing those different types within one mattress). Most online buyers will do some research, they need straight up information. You can mention quality and care over and over agian, but if you don't have some believable reason to back it up people can be put off by it. For example tempurepedic's marketing commercials and pamphlets usually mention some kind of micro-bubble foam. Which is bs, but people see that and somehow forget to look for another opinion. It's better if you give me the information than if I have to go out and find the facts or psuedo-facts from somewhere else.

Second, your website shows your "team". It also says you manufacture them yourself; not in those words, but that's the gist of it. There is no way those 6 people meet the demands of manufacturing and all the other things involved in running a product company. Nowhere does it say that the team is the whole company, but mentioning "we" so often puts a spin on the only staff you can see or hear mention of. It makes the reader think we're a small company and we do everything ourselves...and here's our pictures. Show some care for the whole company and everyone involved. I personally think very highly of companies who do that.
> This is not true. C++ beats Java performance in constrained environments

Every environment is constrained. Devs just got lazy and scaling now means buying more machines instead of performance optimisation.

> You see some really fast Java database

That eat up way to much memory for little.

When you see popular java based os , tell me.
Thanks for taking the time to write this up -- it's extremely helpful. We're almost certainly going to implement at least a few of your tweaks. I really like the idea of adding marks in the scrollbar to the left; indeed, that's a major purpose of the left-side scrollbar.

The hard part is deciding how things should behave while one is in the expanded view. We're working on it.
I don't get this. We never discuss iOS App Store or Android's Play Store when an OS update comes out. It's just a program to a new Operating System.
Employment reduces turnout: workers have less time to hate politicians
I'll take your word for it. It really is a nice bed. As soon as I saw the date on the tag, though, I assumed you guys were trying to make it look JIT when it wasn't.

Thanks for responding to the comment.