skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How scary is it? I guess the selling point of your idea is actually "anonymous".

Some holders bought bitcoins at $0.1/BTC, now they are spending coins like having a 99% off.

Well, if $0.1/BTC looks too dramatic, fine, let's say they bought at $200/BTC, still, 70% (which was paid off by newcomers if you think about it).

What I'm saying is the prosperity is based on how much profit your users will get, like Groupon (in the early days when they were providing huge discounts). While newcomers now are buying coins at high, how long do you think the prosperity could last?

Not sure if i'm thinking it right. Just wanted to point out.
Or gets bought, changes focus, ...
I think I qualify as one of those people, and I make way more than $150K, and have done so for a decade. And I work 40 hours a week.

The people who puzzle me are those who fetishize programming so much that they don't demand proportionate cold hard cash to do it well.
5 research mistakes and why you must avoid them 
Design research and web design research are activities that can be happening along the entire course of a redesign project. They tend to (and should) happen organically as questions arise, so it’s likely you’re more than satisfactorily addressing at least a few of the above warnings. However, these are called pitfalls for a reason: at one time or another, one or more of these oversights has very possibly tripped you up, whether or not you were aware of the cause.
> On what grounds do governments think they have the right to tell every person what to do with their money?

On the grounds that it's the law; those are pretty good grounds.
here's an explanation:

http://imgur.com/3ZjRtsk
I'm guessing that in some English-speaking countries, the natural continuation of the phrase isn't just a thumbs up, but the words "... but sounding good and the actual reality are totally different".

i.e. "Sounds GOOD!" vs. "SOUNDS good..."
Ill-Conceived, Even If Competently Administered: Software Patents
You can certainly use JQuery as your API base if you're willing to take the hit on performance and a few hundred KB download, and are willing to take that hit on every project you write.

The problem is that this shuts you out of a lot of hot, emerging markets that can be quite lucrative. You will never work for Google (as a front-end engineer) if you only know JQuery and not the native DOM APIs. Your mobile HTML5 apps will suck and will lose out to native counterparts in the app store. You're at a disadvantage in any competitive web market where people bounce from the website if it's too slow (there are more of these than you think).

If you're willing to limit yourself in this way, sure, go for JQuery. There is still a pretty booming market for Intranet apps or progressive-enhancement mostly-static sites where JQuery is just fine, and it provides a nice productivity boost for those use-cases.

The advantage of polyfills is that they give you flexibility and let you push the edge of technology today, and then they don't become obsolete tomorrow. As the web evolves you just get rid of the polyfill and you already know the latest & greatest of tomorrow. That lets you push into the emerging new markets that can be quite lucrative, at the expense of actually learning the (sometimes hard-to-use) APIs on the bleeding edge.
Who wants competition? Big cable tries outlawing municipal broadband in Kansas
This is why you just upload a Truecrypt or similar volume for things that absolutely must be private.
You can manage your own backups, and then you don't have to feel how safe your data is, you can know it.

If you aren't worrying about petabytes of data, you can run your own scheduled backup, take a copy off site, and test it regularly.

With Dropbox, you're right that they have more overall resources, but you also have no way to audit their processes. Other cloud services have lost people data. If you want to be secure in your data, you need a way to audit those processes, so you would need to do it yourself anyways.

If I know I have a known good backup in a fire resistant box off site, I know I'll have access to that data later. If I have data in Dropbox and then the next day it's gone and they don't return my inquiries, that's a possibility. Maybe they get shut down without warning for hosting copyrighted materials like megaupload. Maybe they have been cutting costs by gambling on the safety of your data. Maybe they get attacked and all of their online backups get destroyed, and they don't have an offline copy.

When I look at Dropbox's backup policy they tell me what is backed up, but they don't tell me how. I just have to trust them. But I really know nothing about them.
Facebook is backing away from anti-anonymity, unless moot is dreaming.
Been there, done that, switched back to Dropbox. Dropbox has a very nice API that everybody has integration with.
There are quite a few startup jobs doing interesting things that don't require fake "passion" or crazy hours, especially outside the Valley bubble.

In real life there isn't a dichotomy between getting a so-called career job at some stodgy company and frat-house crazy-hours fake-"passion" startups in the Valley.

Perpetuating that dichotomy is dishonest and helps keep startup employee diversity, treatment, and compensation down.

The people I work with aren't "career programmers who don't particularly love it." They're not putting in a "minimum effort." They certainly know about suffix trees and bloom filters. They're years-of-experience, extremely talented people who put in unbelievable effort to achieve our goals at work, but they also go home to families and other passions.
I think they nicely represent my design skills. I'm all open for suggestions, what did you have in mind?

In the next version I want to color them on transaction volume (combined with square sizes).
Twitter Buys Over 900 Patents from IBM
Except you could go look for yourself on Google and see this is my normal IRC name and if you wanted to read the conversation that sparked this topic since I'm pretty sure the #django IRC logs are public.

You can accuse me of down voting you but you're accusations are misplaced. I wouldn't waste my time. How about you go ask the site owner to check who down voted you.

I will bet my life that it's not associated to my IP address or this account. Go troll someone else man and lay off the insults, it makes you look like you're a child.
NYT sat on a story for a year because it would anger the state, thus meaning they would be denied access to any gov officials or military so they waited for somebody else to do it. US press is largely neutered. As for Italy their MPs were brawling each other yesterday like drunken yabbos
Yes and no.

There is a rather large market for the machines people do business with.
Yes, money laundering is profitable, but I wouldn't call it safe; I'd shut it down fast before you get yourself into real trouble.
A bookmark system focused on what's important to you
I feel https://github.com/mycozycloud/cozy-setup should have a special mention here since it looks more polished and stable than ownCloud.
It's kind of hard not to be cynical when 95%+ of job adverts in all industries have the same 5 buzzwords in them. I mean, if the guy/girl in Subway is supposed to be 'passionate about great customer service', when it's manifestly implausible that anyone is (EDIT: put too strongly, I do know people who just love pulling pints in a pub, but whatever), how am I supposed to take seriously any ad that uses a word that's been reduced to complete banality? It's the (ab)use of passionate in job ads that's truly cynical, and of course it leaves job-hunters no option except to view the matter cynically.

I agree with whoever it was who said that it's not so much about actually getting passionate people, but more a test of how ready you are to eat shit and be compliant. So when you say:

> As someone who has put passion(ate) in job listings, I absolutely wanted people who were passionate about this field.

I have to ask: well, did you actually get more of that kind of person when you put 'passionate' in the job ad than you would otherwise? I'm genuinely curious, because - having spent some time in the dole queue in recent years - I can't imagine anyone responding sincerely to a clause like that in a job ad.
OK, but what does that have to do with what I posted above?

Also, if you think spooks only come in the front door you don't have any security anyway. More so in the UK, with the extremely stringent Official Secrets Act.
Because they pay above the market average and the benefits are good. (145k for 1 year out of college + 4 weeks vacation a year)
Hitting #3 on Hacker News will murder any website which uses shared hosting. It happened to me with Dreamhost, and it got so bad that my website was irrevocably corrupted.

Needless to say, I switched away.
shrug, as i've grown older i've learned that language matters. And i've seen enough of these so called naive "passionate programmers" who get exploited by management into working much longer and harder than they are getting paid for(and not taking vacation time), to think that he has a point.

The language we use is part of establishing a culture that can have a meaningful effect. Drilling into employees that a good programmer is passionate about his job breaks down work/non-work boundaries over time.

Another similar example of this is startup founders using the pressure they are under and fear of company failure to "inspire" the salaried+options employees to work harder. When in reality most salaried employees at startups have much less at stake than the founders and can usually find another job if things go south.
How federal agents ended up as the movie industry's copyright enforcers
This is a really hard problem that will not be easily offloaded to someone else.
Have US Income and Wealth Inequality Actually Increased?
Well, OP is saying that fallacies in logic are really only fallacies if the assumptions that constitute the definition of that fallacy actually apply to a particular situation. Because situations differ so much, context is critical, and OP is saying that people often incorrectly define real-world social situations as instances of logical fallacies.
This works for life in general, not just client relations.

If someone says "let's have coffee sometime" jump right to "How about next Weds afternoon?" instead of "sure, good idea" and leaving it. If they're just blowing you off you'll find out there and then, either way you won't have to initiate contact and get it back to this point once more.

Making arbitrary decisions is taxing. Give people something to agree to.
I've been on Ubuntu for several years, and I see the same as JoshTriplett. Must be platform dependent.
>> When I see phrases like "multi-level marketing", I kinda throw up in my mouth a little.

Fixed that for you
In any case, its great to see growing number of hardware hackathons. The hackathon kit seems to be a right solution as of now.
We're long past due for a free and open-source tool for managing one's own identity on the public networks.

When we go out into the world, we dress ourselves in a manner befitting the way we want the world to perceive us. For a decade, Facebook has been mandating that we can only wear one hat, ever, and never any masks, and services like Google+ have followed suit.

While I'm glad that Zuckerberg has finally admitted that one might want to change hats or put on a mask, I don't think it would be wise to just leave it all up to him, or any other person that has no vested interest in your online identity. It has to be something no one else can control but you.
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I come to HN specifically because I cant trust my friends and family to post interesting content on facebook ;)
While I think his conclusion is pretty correct, I have to disagree with some of his premises, particularly where he says prototyping is difficult (or more difficult than software). My reasoning is mostly based on the fact that a great product (or the proof of concept for one) can be based around something like UI/UX improvement, and that's pretty easy to achieve with modern technology (Nest and Fitbit both being great examples of this - simple concepts well executed in reasonably simple hardware platforms). There's tons of capacity to make some really cool HW prototypes in a weekend, or even an afternoon - we do live in the age of the $50 Linux Dev board, after all.
Here's the recap of the hardware hackathon that Electric Imp hosted last month on the Firebase blog: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-12-19-electric-imp-hackat...
Wait, we're going to stop listening to music? I can see plenty of arguments for Apple falling, but that is not one of them.
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People are saying this is pedantry, but there's a good point being made here. Coding passion is a deep cold analytic burn that is nothing like what people assume it to be. It typically is a reflection of the interest you have in the project not the product. Most developers can hate what they work on and do incredible work if they love what they are doing minute to minute.

No I won't be a passionate evangelist about spreadsheets, but I could get happily lost in the codebase for Google Docs. People code for 48 hours when lost in the happy delirium of discovering some new problem, that's passion. However it might have nothing to do with their personal investment for the finished product. In fact they likely really enjoy the challenge of fixing something broken more than seeing it run once fixed.

Putting passion on a job spec is really quite unreasonable, but it seems easier than saying single minded to a fault and willing to sacrifice personal health to do a bit more hacking.
You have to fight back against this kind of thing. You have a big advantage, you can easily leave and they can't easily replace you. So use that to extract concessions in the form of salary, work-from-home days, latitude in which tech stacks to use.
How a bitcoin which is anonymous can be laundering? A bitcoin in my understanding is black by default, it is like cash. If i was that guy i'd be happy (of course taking some protective measures as working through tor and having hosting in a 3rd world, but this is something i suggest everyone who does any e-business).
I'm definitely just wanting background- I don't think I'm a lawyer.
It's crazy to think, in 10 years, who will be the grandchildren of these legends..
Fwiw, in my experience, simply knowing all or as many as possible logical fallacies better enables one to recognize and discard invalid arguments quicker. It facilitates a more systematic process of elimination.

It also helps one realize and appreciate just how difficult it is to construct a correct argument, when you can quickly spot the fallacies in your own assertions. As a result, on a personal level, this has caused me to tend to read, listen, and question more, and assert less.
Caffeine, based on the Percolator incremental processing framework: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Siri Co-Creator Ponders the Future of the ‘Her’ Operating System
N.b., this comment brings out something that many people have said - that MS is a bit of a "bubble" with an echo chamber.

It's something to consider when thinking about this possibility.
On the top - does anyone know a good reliable place where you can get Starbucks Gift cards - for Bitcoin?
I'm not arguing that you can't have a private server that's secure. I'm arguing that setting up an OwnCloud box is probably more insecure than using Dropbox.
Just use it. There's no reason not to - it's fairly lightweight, and even if you don't "need" it on this project, you might on the next. Better to stay familiar with it instead of mucking around with bare javascript.
You know you can launder cash, right?
Interesting computer picture
A nice and funny picture of a computer when you are addicted to it!
Anyway why worry? If bitcoin is anonymous, just host in 3rd world and work through ToR.
OwnCloud + DO or Linode, and your backup problems are solved (more or less).
The limit case of this is lesswrong.com, which is a kind of cultish/Vulcan purge of all fallacies. (Ask around about Roko's basilisk)
> Not a bad idea if you're running the service anonymously.
Isn't running an anonymous (or unregistered) money transmitting service itself illegal?
Very cool. Thanks for sharing the link. It gave me some idea to improve upon my approach. I like the idea of planning one task for each category at start of the week. Right now, for me that weekly task list stays in my mind instead of showing up on whiteboard ... definitely room for improvement. Thanks again for the great link.
Do you want to work on a project for someone who doesn't know what they want?
This type of statistics is useless, it does not include army of unemployed people.
I use owncloud, as a document repository for a non-profit. It replaces google drive for us. It doesn't see a ton of use but has worked well for us as a simple document archive.

I did like the fact that you can go into linux and find where the files are stored and back them up.
What makes Node.js faster than Java? In a nutshell, it's all about concurrency
Monitor Your Online Rep or End Up an Amy, eh
I would say that's middle-of-the road for an experienced engineer in NYC.

Location is everything, I suppose.
Why I dropped Hostgator for anything else.
We aren't talking about sandwich shop ads. We're talking about software development ads: a generally high compensation, very flexible, and huge variability of skills career. And the truth is that the majority of ads do not have it in them.

Most ads list educational requirements, a list of required technologies, and give you a contact number.

But those ads that do...boy do they burn the asses of people who feel excluded. Those people are the ones who'll declare bombastically that those employers will never get candidates, it's a warning sign, etc.

It's just self-comforting blather.

Can I say whether I got "more" of those types of people by putting it in an ad? No, I can't, as I didn't do controls so I have no basis of comparison. But essentially it was an attempt to save everyone some time -- include the unsuitable candidates -- and to exclude those people who, when asked how they keep on top of emerging trends and techniques, have no answer (shockingly common, and an immediate no hire). The same is true of various other seemingly decorative words that so offend so many: If an ad says that you need to be a JavaScript "ninja", and you know just enough to kind of decorate up an ASP.NET page, you know maybe save everyone some time and don't apply? Yet some people still do, and then they write the "Your JavaScript tests are bullshit!" blog post that sees a million seal claps on social media.
Even those who don't have such rigs can just rent them from, for example, Moxie Marlinspike's Cloud Cracker: https://www.cloudcracker.com/
My Brokerage Firm Is A Security Vulnerability
Facebook Will Challenge Google For Dominance Of Search
Yeah, that comment also reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0WStLAYB9Q. OK, I'll stop redditing all over the place.
This completely depends upon the industry, but from my experience in retail, I'd say the percentage of deadbeats / honest folks (when it comes to work ethic) is higher than you might think. At least here in the US.
Designing For The Web
> it's fairly lightweight

Really? 93kb of code is lightweight? Yeah I know it gzips smaller, but that's still not what I'd call "ligthweight". It's not bloated, but it's certainly not a micro-lib.

> you might on the next

I think this might miss the point. If you're just writing code on sites, sure, consider jQuery. But if you're creating a library or framework that thousands of others may use, your decision to pick jQuery is making that choice for THEM, which means you should think about it a lot more closely.

It's not then about whether you might like it "next time", but whether the people using your lib/framework will likely need jQuery. That decision should not be made glibly or lightly.

Especially if you're only using a small portion of that 93kb of jQuery, and could just "do it yourself".
One disadvantage is in such a system, once you publish something, you can't change your mind and delete it, any more so than you can with email.
> You did, although perhaps inadvertently.

No, I didn't.

It's funny you would give me a lecture about the terminology used for the place I live in.

What I'm saying is, if you want a life that isn't so rigid and formal and prone to the kind of reactions you've given me, head out to BC/Yukon. You'll be shocked, impressed and you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
Tax law isn't very relevant here; the primary areas of concern are federal money transmission laws and criminal state and federal anti-laundering laws.
I think the first part of your question answers that.
Just so. (My late dad was an industrial engineer whose recreational reading was all about the philosophy of science, so I grew up in a home with logic textbooks on the home bookshelf.) Plenty of incorrect arguments encountered here on Hacker News or elsewhere in cyberspace are incorrect not so much because they fit on a checklist of classical logical fallacies, but rather because they are based on false factual premises. One has to keep seeking knowledge of the world to recognize mistaken premises of arguments. One thing I enjoy about Hacker News is that it includes people from all over the world, including people who have seen places I have never seen, and done things I have never done, so that I can learn new facts here as I read discussion threads. That is often every bit as valuable as knowing lists of logical fallacies, although I did do a bit of teaching of formal deductive logic back in the days when I was a high school debate coach.

A previous comment of mine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5835453

from a thread recommended in another comment on this thread goes into more detail about why logical fallacies are not the only problems to look for when evaluating claims for truth or falsehood.
I don't see many people under 30 paying for music. And its only going to continue to get easier to share entire libraries.
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The only thing worse than a clueless thug is a thug who has a clue. The only thing worse than a thug with a clue is a thug who knows that he's right, and is on some kind of holy mission.

In the US they'd just whip an NSL on the paper. I wonder how many times this has happened?
"All we need now is for Google to wake up and actually innovate with Plus, and we’ll truly have a party!"

That's a pretty great observation. Google+ isn't BAD, it's just the same as everything else.
You are absolutely right, that's the word I was looking for. My apologies. :)
It's not what you know but who you know. But what you know about who you know helps too. ;)
Why not send "Email me back directly if something happens, but I don't think anything will."???
I'd hardly call it lightweight.
Not an expert here, but you might try reposting this question at http://reddit.com/r/askwomen.

And by "teens or women", do you mean "teen girls or women"? Or teens of both genders and women?
Reach out the the editors of teenvogue they always showcase apps. You can find their info on the Condenast directory.

Teen magazines are very influential, don't be afraid to reach them. Research all the companies that have magazines or media that reach women and teens and contact them. If only one or two reply and talk about your app you can have lots of attention and hopefully downloads.

Cheers
You can install it manually. It's one small python daemon + 1 config file:

apt-get install sysstat python-devel
git clone https://github.com/amonapp/amonagent
python setup.py install
cp amon-agent.conf /etc/amon-agent.conf
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Dropbox shuts you off if HN hits your URL, too.