skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>not to mention that there's no freedom from being prosecuted for non-payment of taxes.

What? If I pay my taxes, I won't be prosecuted for non-payment of taxes.

>in that case Bitcoin's intrinsic value is that it's backed by the freedom of storage

Storage of what?

>transfer,

It doesn't matter how easy it is to transfer something to someone else if they don't want it. That thing must be seen as valuable for some other reason for anyone to care how easily it can be transferred.

>global acceptance

Who across the globe is guaranteeing they'll accept a certain number of bitcoins in exchange for a certain amount of something else?

>immunity to being counterfeited

If I generate a random RSA public key and use it to sign some randomly generated blobs of useless bits, do those blobs of bits and their signature have intrinsic value because it's hard to counterfeit them?

>immunity from inflation caused by printing

These things you're listing make bitcoin a more suitable currency than some other arbitrary thing that doesn't have those properties, all else equal. It doesn't mean bitcoin has intrinsic value, as I've defined it, and it certainly doesn't mean bitcoin is a good currency overall.
Launching airbnb.jp in record time (2013)
Wouldn't use for a serious project then?
Yes! They mentioned me in the last paragraph: "a high school student who's already shipped 28 apps"
The quote from Judge Hurwitz says it well:

'The protections of the First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, engaged in conflict-of-interest disclosure, went beyond just assembling others’ writings, or tried to get both sides of a story. As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable: “With the advent of the Internet and the decline of print and broadcast media . . . the line between the media and others who wish to comment on political and social issues becomes far more blurred.”'
Hacker found 70,000 records on Healthcare.gov through a Google search
Update: here's the graph of rankings... anyone other suggestions for what could be causing the change? Used to steadily improve, then suddenly a change in behavior:
http://postimg.org/image/gk0t343gp/
This is right. It was clear we weren't going to be able to raise another round of financing, and even if we could, it was unclear how that would enable us to change the state of the things, namely that our business didn't represent a startup opportunity. Frankly if someone had offered me a term sheet, I wouldn't have accepted it.

We didn't really have many options. We tried to build a business and failed. We could have tried to raise a bridge financing -- but what are we bridging to in that case? A financing (no), an exit (also not an option, as we found)?

Ultimately spinning things down into a skeleton state and doing our best to operate the service for the coming months (heck, maybe years) was the only path forward.

Re: the OP, I think 400k MAUs is actually pretty decent for a mobile app, but maybe I'm mistaken.
A fork bomb will quickly take up your systems resources and invariably will force you to turn off your computer.

A non-terminating loop will simply drag on forever, stealing cycles whenever it gets the chance.
Mapquest is free, but only up to 5k per day, right?
Should consider what Jacob Applebaum revealed in his CCC preso about Hard drives: http://youtu.be/vILAlhwUgIU?t=46m25s

Cross out WD, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung drives. Hitachi wins!
No, they change the meaning of language. Language is never living on an island. It lives with the users and the uses of it. By misusing the language, bending and caricaturing it, they corrupt it.

Do you not realize it?
Am I the only one that doesn't mind the car-buying process? All it takes is the fortitude to sit through a litany of maneuvers trying to convince you to agree on a price - when you've got zero obligation to consent. Sure - it takes time, which is a scare commodity for many - but for the amount of money generally being spent, I've got no problem pushing a salesperson to get the price to where I want it.
I'm guessing for legacy reasons. They've been using gifs for a long time. If this was the first time they needed an animated video, perhaps they'd jump to video tag.
Thanks for the comment. Sorry your hope at the bottom of your post is a pipe dream :)

I am a woman. I am thinking of being a founder. I guess I'm a founder of something since I'm working on selling products (ebooks) online. (Huh. A realization.) I am totally interested in this Female Founders conference because I might see people "like me" who have succeeded. How exciting to learn from them what worked!

Some guy will read that paragraph and tell me I should just learn from guys. I already do -- I read HN, pg's stuff, books on iOS, tutorials on python, lifehacker stuff, coding stuff, math stuff. I learn from guys all the time about many important things.

But not one of these guys is going to show me by example how a short woman can come across as authoritative but not (too) bitchy or how a woman can negotiate for VC funding effectively without bringing a guy along or how a woman can manage a public or pseudonymous online identity through the shoals of denigrating emails or sexually explicit snarking.

I want to see how women do it, because that's what I'm going to have to do.
Very touching. Thanks for sharing, Andy.
Please stay. Don't let the vocal minority dissuade you. There are a good number of people here that do care. Gender is being increasingly discussed here now, which inevitably draws out this discussion.

I really think that this site will become more inclusive, but it needs your voice (and your votes).
If you noticed though, the article constantly referenced the ability of both consumers and merchants to NOT possess any actual bitcoins. The actual bitcoin is so volatile, not to mention the gold-standard-like deflationary nature of them, that convincing most people that holding onto actual bitcoins rather than fiat currency does not seem to be a16z's goal (which is a good decision on their part). So its hard to argue the merits of the article while basically rejecting one of its main points (that you dont need to hold any bitcoins for it to still be super cheap).
Well, it's just a crude barter system, it has none of the complexities of a real capitalist system.
If there really hasn't been any meaningful innovation in that other technology stack, then the situation looks actually looks worse for the long-term fate of Bitcoin, because it means that the other technology stack could easily improve given the incentive.

That doesn't mean that Bitcoin will disappear or anything like that. It's just not going to become the prevalent unit of account as a currency.
Much, much less :)
Don't know about startups... but definitely seems true for romantic relationships (by and large).
Some companies can make more profit by repeatedly ripping their customers off by small amounts. AT&T has done this to me repeatedly and your recourse is to call customer service and waste hours to recoup a few dollars. (And yes, I need to find another solution)
I thought this guy went too far, but no, it seems there are a lot of examples of code tattoos:http://readwrite.com/2012/01/03/32_more_of_the_best_and_wors...

Which begs the questions: which snippet is important/timeless enough to use and, of course, which language. As the OP found out the hard way one should use a Lang where whitespace doesn't matter.

Ideas?
I referred in the top level comment above to Byzantine Paxos, a modified version of Paxos that is BFT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)#Byzant...
Sheesh. Somebody feels threatened.
Let them be, seriously. We have enough "Ruby-on-rails super-star douche-wad with tits and porn jokes on his slides" events for overgrown man-children, let there be something for women that doesn't make them feel awkward or weird.

We already have a problem with this industry being a boys-only club, no need to get your panties in a bunch over this.
I thought it would be obvious by just reading the articles. Even in environments where there are a bit more women than men, men still have male privilege (as McIntosh describes it), women are still under oppression (as Frye describes it). Women still fear rape and all other male violence on college campuses, for example. "Majority" makes no difference when it comes to power structures; look at "the 1%" in the US..
Some examples of Orwellian terms in common use:

Enemy combatants,
Collateral damage,
Leader of the free world,
National security,
War for peace,
Premptive strikes,
Enhanced interrogation

Some Orwellian concepts:
War on abstract nouns (e.g on terror),
Pervasive surveillance,
Pervasive propaganda,
Casual use of torture,
Widespread hysteria and hatred over minor threats,
Former hated enemies now allies and vice versa,
Stark divides between the haves and have nots,
A distant and poorly understood enemy necessitates perpetual conflict and sacrifice

It's a really interesting book and I disagree that we are any farther on in these respects than we were in orwell's time. His book is of course a fantasy intended to illustrate our failings by exaggerating them, not a strict prediction of the future, but it still has a lot to teach us.
Another is that there is no credit.
I think this is the reference.

8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%2038:8-10&ve...
Goals are for Losers, and Passion is bull#$%
Sure, until they decide you have an overdue balance and send it to collections.

(Not suggesting they do this... but if they think you owe them money, they certainly could)
Have you been improving your app in that time?

Bad ratings may be relative to other apps improving while you idle, or focus on improving the wrong areas, or your improvements aren't helping like they should.

Are you providing a communication channel for your users outside of reviews where you can get feedback and get to the bottom of problems they have?
lol. They are the new AOL.

scaring old people with threats into paying recurring premiums for absolutely nothing besides their own corporate incompetence.

Also, kids, this is why you change your credit card info every year, at least.
Once again there's this ridiculous "intrinsic value" / "value" dichotomy.

So then what, is your definition of "intrinsic value" that a recognized government accepts it as their official currency and exchanges bail bonds for it?

That's incredibly arbitrary.
That is definitely a healthy number for a mobile app / game, something that can be leveraged into a new product.

With the $$ amount that advertisers are paying for mobile installs, a app with good engagement and viral reach should have no issues being monetized.

If their goal was to build a company around 1 app then that could be their issue but doesn't seem like the kind of app that could grow to support full team indefinitely.
This is pretty cool, especially as he only used the developer tools. The final product is here: http://afranoubarzadeh.se/cssart.html
You broke the #1 rule of tattoos: only get one in a language you're proficient in :-)
Interesting essay on this from the man himself.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
I'd gladly pay someone else to do that for me (assuming their commission falls below the cost savings they provide). I have zero tolerance for salespeople and their associated bullshit.
there is the "APA" car buying service in a couple major cities, if you pay them <100$ they'll get some firm quotes for whatever you're looking at. I've never used it personally but I've heard 2nd hand that it makes it easier.

http://www.apa.ca/purchasing.asp
At the moment I can open up source code in almost any language up in any text editor. It just has to know the encoding and vomit out characters I can comprehend and get the line breaks right. I can print it out and have a hard copy which represents what was written by the programmer. Send it and receive it by email and read it.

Code which can be represented as plaintext is versatile and portable and, more importantly, has its comprehensibility decoupled from any specific company, or project or group providing the necessary tools to make it human-readable. If an alternative file format isn't natively human-readable then it is by my definition less readable regardless of the standards put into writing the code itself.
Well I found a partial answer to the question I asked right in Andreessen's essay, but it's not the one you give here.

I guess I think of the authentication of sender and content for recipients as being equivalent to the elimination of double-spending, and I don't see either as being responsible for the failure modes of fraud in digital payment systems. As a practical matter, recipients don't have has to question whether a particular person actually has the credit to complete a given transaction right now, and I'm not aware of double-spending credit as being a big problem for credit card payment systems. Who cares about solving that problem when we have a perfectly workable solution right now?

But sure, I get the point about other forms of fraud might be harder -- namely, stealing account information necessary to initiate transactions.

The question there is whether that problem too goes away in a world in which credit numbers are kept as private keys on a physical device (like a smartphone) and exchanged with merchants via something like SSH. Is the overhead of Bitcoin still worth it?
I used CarWoo a couple years ago to purchase my current car. Before I was introduced to CarWoo, I did my own "no-haggle" negotiating by contacting various dealers via email.

I think I contacted about 3 or 4 dealers, all of them local (within 30 miles). I ended up with one that was my best price.

Then I found CarWoo, and thought I would try my luck with them. They did a similar search, and contacted 5 dealers, two or three of which were the same ones I contacted.

Of the others, they were further away than what I was willing to deal with initially, but after seeing one offer a fairly significant savings over the other (about $750), I decided to take that offer to one of the local dealers.

They matched it, and I walked away with about $700 savings (after the CarWoo fee) vs. my initial offers. So in the end, I was definitely glad I went with CarWoo.

If I had to do it again without CarWoo (and I would now, apparently), I learned that I should open up my searches to not-so-local dealers just to get the best offer, then have a more conveniently located dealer match it. That is, unless you want to reward the best-offer dealer with your business, and it's not too much of a hassle.

But I was still able to get roughly the same experience on my own, just dealing with the dealers via email.
Could I push to my own debit card for budgeting purposes? e.g. push $500 every month
shrug It seems to work for Amazon. All you need is patient investors.
People who might not have the ability to succeed in the wider market are encouraged to start and then drop out and they extend the perception that females aren't suited to be start-up founders
Better Income and/or Health begets better actions, generally. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a real thing.

It's rather difficult to be noble when you are starving. That isn't to say it's impossible, but if we are talking about increasing odds of success, it is true.

I'm concerned with enabling people to become better than what they are now. All people. Regardless of their mistakes, the mistakes of their great grandparents or their particular luck in the geography lottery. Can you say you are for the same? Because although you are presenting that outwardly, in detail it seems you are content with enforcing an unequal distribution of hardship based primarily on an ignorance of the human struggle outside of small town USA.

I'm always very wary of people and opinions that suggest suffering is beneficial, particularly when such suffering is notably absent from their own lives.
Also, fees are tax-deductible.
"are we pulling women up (the conference in question being a great example of that), or are we dragging everyone else down"

"everyone else" happens to be men, and plenty of self-identified feminists believe that men need to have power and privilege taken from them, because no one should have the kind of power we do, by nature of the gender caste system. I recommend the first essay, first. "feminism" isn't a monolithic "movement," it's kind of like saying "I love conservatism!"
It's not just employees, it's students.

My dissertation project is in a Github private repository, yet it looks like I abandoned Github - at least to the few people who seem interested in what I do.

Combine this with the use of StackOverflow Careers and Github Jobs, I might as well have died as far as potential employers are concerned.
I used truecar (through overstock.com, I don't think overstock uses them anymore though) 2 years ago to buy a sonata. It was a great experience, and quite a lot off sticker.

Zero negotiation, walked in with the paper, that's the price of the car.

I don't think you will get the deal of the century through them, but you'll at least not get screwed. Just don't let the dealership nickel & dime you on protectants & floormats, etc. If they can't honor the exact price, just go somewhere else.
The state of the world is improving, sorry but it is, but that doesn't fit into the epic narrative that so many want to believe. Your life is not as epic a struggle as your parents or their parents, all men are essentially kings today in terms of freedom and opportunity and a million other metrics. No one reports good news, progress is not as exciting as doom.
AngularJS SEO
How do you get enough money to buy an house at 21? A loan?
I liked Namecheap, but have had major issues with their DNS service. you can't switch off of them without downtime. So don't use their dns, otherwise you are locked in. which is kinda shitty.
Draw the Olympic Games logo in ASCII (code golf)
You shouldn't feel obliged to give to charity, but you definitely should give to charity
Other founder of Geocodio here -- thanks for your feedback! You bring up a lot of good points.

Building off of what's above, Geocodio is intended to be accessible to developers who don't have $10k to drop on geocodes. We found that this is a big need in the community (and for ourselves for our other projects). All of the other non-major-mapping geocoding services we found, including CSV upload instead of API, were more expensive than $0.001/each (oftentimes much more -- $0.25+)

Also, we don't have limitations to how you use the data. No requirements that you use a specific brand of map with it, no attribution requirements, etc.

We priced it at this point, with a free tier, so that people can give it a try first. No, our data isn't quite as good as Google's -- we get about 90% of addresses within 1 mile, and most within a tenth of a mile -- and we want people to be able to play around with the service and get to know it before they have to give credit card info.

With that said, we definitely plan to continue improving the product and add international support.

PS. We are HUGE fans of Mapbox, so we're pretty excited that you listed that as a potential use case :)
> It fascinates me because I wonder who the leadership team is and what the company culture is like. Do they decide to be terrible by sitting around in meetings brainstorming ways to screw their customers?

Yes. i mean, no, because they get bonuses for every revenue they drive like that, so they won't discuss it in a meeting. They will instead gather a small band of loyals, and implement that in the dark, reporting only way up.

I know because I worked with a company that was like monster.com but charged from the poor people looking for the jobs. Companies could list the positions for free, and the people submiting to the positions had to pay. It was free the first month, but you had to give a credit card. Which WILL be charged every month unless you fight on the phone. Simply canceling on the site does absolutely nothing.
Better title: "Libertarians Find Out Delivering Mail Is Hard and Expensive"
Coincidence. Sean is working with our support team as we speak. We had no other issues with restores during the time he was attempting them so we suspect it's something on his end. We'll collect logs and try to get him back up and running as quickly as possible!
I agree with everything you say. I agree that the most likely point of attack is the merchant's website. I agree encrypting the credit card number in javascript would not remove PCI responsibility from the merchant.

But I don't see how that affects the question of whether the merchant should encrypt the credit card number before sending it to Stripe. Are you saying that such a practice would not improve the overall security of the system? Or that there is no need to improve security if the system is already PCI compliant?
Not sure why people are voting your question down, it it not an uncommon question. The answer no. Bitcoin, like most currencies, does not have any intrinsic value.

To understand how a currency works (and why intrinsic value isn't required, difficulty in counterfeiting is the only requirement ) Will be covered in a text or class covering microeconomics.
I know economists are good at math, I'm more curious what kinds of math they tend to use.
What's with people wanting to dismiss opinions they don't like with poorly thought out strawmen?
Candy Jam: Fight trademark trolling - make a game
In 2000-2001 I was an admin for a day trading firm managing around 80 computers and servers. The drives worked great. They were really fast right up till the moment of their clicking death. At around 6 months around 15 out of 30 had it occur.
Please don't take it down. I'm not even interested in either Clojure, IDEs, or Obj-C, but I ran into many "abandoned" projects before which had a useful part somewhere inside. Or used one api call in a way I wanted, but couldn't get to work because of some silly detail. There's a lot to learn even from completely broken project.

Even if noone uses the project for what it was intended, please leave it there. You marked it as dead already, and that's cool. Since you don't pay for the public repos, just leave it be.
OP says he will be transferring his domains elsewhere. Seems like he is in for more suffering before that happens [1]:

A Phone Call is REQUIRED for Domain Transfers from Network Solution to Other Registrars

.. Transferring a Domain from Network Solutions to another provider requires the Primary Account Contact to make a phone call to Network Solutions technical support (average time 10 to 30 minutes).

.. Use of the Network Solutions website procedure to obtain a Transfer Code, by the Account Primary Contact, requires a minimum 3 days wait.

(EDIT: Formatting)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Network_Solut...
Nope: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-...
Also, "scrip"
I’m not sure what you are referring to, do you have a link?
MPEG LA Announces Proposed HEVC Licensing Terms
LiteCoin Mining Trojan Infects 300,000 Computers Through Legit Applications
In essence, yep. The tech behind IoT is basic enough that it is widely valuable--especially because it is not solely for IoT; instead, IoT is a side-effect of those technologies.

I would be curious how you think that open source will make PIoT any less risky or a compromise any less dangerous.
I just moved away from Network Solutions. Their scumbag business practices just keep getting worse. "Auto renewing" your domains and forcing you to call in to turn off auto-renew was bad enough.