skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bitcointalk.org or the bitcoin subredit has this info plastered all over the place.

Also before you do business with any BTC company you should probably search Google and Pacer for pending lawsuits. BFL has had lawsuits pending against it in state and federal court alleging fraud since at least late Nov. 2013 but no one noticed until yesterday because they named BFL as "BF Labs" which is an uncommon way of referring to them. Some other mining equipment manufactures have federal lawsuits pending against them for fraud as well.
Russia bans Bitcoin, btc-e.com halts fiat deposits and withdrawals
> Privacy will be the hot topic of this decade

... in the First World.
Is it just me, or does MTGox seem to be the BTC site that has the most problems? Maybe its just because of their size, but in comparison Coinbase and Blockchain have few problems.
Lets say I want to tip you roughly 10 cents.

I can send 0.0001 BTC
Or 10000 Satoshi

BTC is too big. Satoshi is too small, something in between is just ... nice.
Toyota Accepting Bitcoins?
Bitcoin is terrifying to someone who has read stories of hacks and theft for a few years as an outsider, so "The one that no one takes seriously yet" is comforting.
I'm surprised by the amount of comments declaring "Berners-Lee supported DRM so his words are meaningless". Not that I myself put a lot of weight to his words, but not for some silly DRM issue (frankly I didn't even remember that), but because I can't really say what his contribution to the web (or anything relevant) has been in the past couple of decades. Looking at his wikipedia page, it mentions that he founded W3C in 1994, and that's about it. Everything since seems to be some sort fluff, often with grandiose names and concepts but very little substance.

So I'm not surprised that people do not put weight on his words, but rather the reason why they don't and the apparent recency of this opinion.
They aren't careful eaters, so some grasshoppers almost certainly eat things that aren't kosher.
Indeed. If einhverfr and usaphp and their fans do in fact represent the majority opinion of this site (which they apparently do), this makes HN a very uncomfortable place to be.

It's for these reasons I prefer not to have political topics or anything regarding social injustice and religion on HN at all. I actually prefer not to know what most people here think of women, gay people, poor people, foreigners, atheists, you name it.

The interesting thing is that those same people can appear completely reasonable and enjoyable to talk with in most contexts relevant to hackers. But every once in a while a topic like this one comes along and you discover that they believe homosexual propaganda is a thing, that persecuting homosexuals is a valid move to maximize reproduction, and that we should respect oppressive systems because of their culture.
And that she was the only person so far to have done so.

We're stabbing ourselves in the heart with a fork.
I'm one of that poor guys who has to work with IE and I have to detect IE issues, so for me it's very important that when I'm using a tool like bugmuncher that I get what the user sees!
I'm not bitter that I got rid of a hard drive with 20 $1 bitcoins that I got for free...No not bitter at all
I expected when you come up with this piece of Goebbels propaganda in order to justify your nazi wars. The very article you refer confirms that we have a piece of Goebbels propaganda. The polish officers, arrested by Soviet Union, have nothing to do with your "killed 20,000 of its politicians, lawyers, doctors, scientists, artists, clergy, etc" In fact, all politicians, lawyers, doctors, scientists, artists, clergy, and etc. were fingting in the red army, against nazi. The officers that you are referring now, left in Katyn, were killed by Nazi. This atrocity was used by Goebbels to quarrel the Soviet and polish people in 1943, when it became apparent that germans are defeating and the truth will resurface. They were bonded by german ropes and killid from the german guns by german bullets. The fact that burgeose Russian governemnt manufactures documents to support this Goebbels lie cannot deny the evidence. Neither, it cannot be used to justify the fascist behaviour of polish burgeose (i.e. predatorish) policies. This is what you try to do: you use german Nazi propaganda to deny the truth and justify your crimes.
i think you're point is a bit off-the-mark, so i'm going to add a qualifier to the title to put you in the right direction.

"Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants..."

...in order to fully maximize revenue per employee.
Does anyone know whether Gox keeps 100% of deposits in reserve?

In a somewhat similar situation-- online poker, where poker sites took deposits in a wildly unregulated space-- Full Tilt Poker only kept a small amount of deposits on hand and paid out much of it to insiders.
The first option is really easy to get started with. It can get a little clunky though when you suddenly need a repl, because now you need a new window (be it terminal or emacs).
Because you already have their money?
I think Dropbox is leaving money on the table with the current pricing structure. They need a $5/month bucket, DigitalOcean style.

IMHO I think that a personal Dropbox account (with no business features) for $5/month for 100gb would kill competition and would take in tonnes of cash. Making it the Spotify of storage.
I want to add my wallet without using the scanner.
Good article but I disagree with his basic conclusion. To illustrate what I mean a couple of quotes:

"... will increase the hold that formal ontologies have on us. They will be constructed by governments, by corporations, and by us in unequal measure,..."

"We will define and regiment our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of ourselves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can “understand.” Their dumbness will become ours."

I think the opposite is in fact happening, that academically for example there was a fixed system, in the UK for example you did GCSEs, A Levels, bachelor’s degree etc., which was something like a formal ontology constructed by government - physics shall be divided form chemistry and both shall be graded from A to E. Now we have all kinds of new forms of education like online courses, Wikipedia and so on so you can pretty much find an educational form to fit what you want to do. We're moving more from a formal approved ontology to many competing ones where you can choose.

I'm not sure where posting on Hacker News fits into this. Maybe it is regimenting our lives, including our social lives and our perceptions of ourselves, in ways that are conducive to what a computer can understand!
Slightly improved translation over the google translate version:

In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland, in order to assess the post-war reconstruction progress. The photos are from their visit in August in Warsaw. The Group extended their visit to Warsaw by a few days to meet with the architects from the Capital Office of Reconstruction and reported that their work commands respect.
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Electronic payments? Banknotes have a number and in France they are probably renewed after 2 payments in average. If you take cash from an ATM and use it to pay a criminal, but the number will be traced.
'“I want them to be worried that we’re watching,” Biehl said. “I want them to be worried that they never know when we’re overhead.”'

He means criminals. But it applies to citizens too. This is the chilling effect. Right here.
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It's a bit harder to get in on those opportunities at a good price since to get in before the IPO you have to be an accredited investor. Bitcoin has no such restriction and in that way really was/is a one of a kind opportunity.
> I bought some Jalapeños [again] ... after my January order was not shipped until August
> I will probably not order from them again.

Do you have it already now, are you completely sure of that?
Most current smartphones are ARMv7, Apple's A7 stands out as a(n albeit slower) ARMv8 SoC. I'm not quite sure about the compatibility between the two, but at least iPhones 5/5C should be architecturally compatible.

Performance might be questionable, as current Android phones tend to be quad-core models clocked around 2 GHz while A6/A7 feature only two cores at around 1.3-1.4 GHz.
It runs on a Chromebox
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It would a appear a visual cue by the target would be superior... propagates to all soldiers at the speed of light, assuming normal rifles (range etc), all soldiers are likely to receive the signal at what for practical purposes are the same time -- the signal might be created by way of a mirror reflecting on the wall, so doesn't require any special technology, and can be projected almost instantaneously ... sadly such a practical solution makes for very a trivial fsm...
Libcloud: One Interface To Rule Them All
I'm not sure what your point is? Are you saying electronic payments are less anonymous, and the tracking of them less privacy-invading, than cash?
Well this isn't going to go well for Google. At least I sure hope it doesn't. When corporations trump nation-states, we're all screwed.
For us, it just worked. I'm a one-man engineering team at a startup, so I don't have the resources to devote to running an in-house CI setup. Circle took care of it for us, and their UI and features are just perfect.
So how would someone discover that they can make a complaint?
The feelings have been going on for about a year, though they have been getting worse lately. I think you have a valid point. Thanks for the feedback.
The jankiest thing about Android (well, aside from crappy manufacturer skins and undeletable carrier spamware) is the pauses and delays in user response. Those all come from the disastrous choice to use Java as a programming language. User facing software always feels slow when it's subject to the performance losses of automatic memory management. Java is inherently garbage collected and low power mobile devices just multiply the performance failures inherent in that design.

Garbage collection is actually better for performance where instant response isn't important, such as in servers. In UI and realtime it always seems janky and slow.

But even the choice of Java is related to multiple hardware vendors. There was some idea initially that Android might run on non-ARM platforms. That hasn't turned out to be an important use of Android, but it probably helped push Android to Java initially.
There's also the question of where the money will come from to improve the technology. One of the benefits of BTC is the low transaction cost. But it might be that those transaction costs are exactly what's needed to fund exchange development.
BBC as a distributor still has way more influence than a single individual. By rejecting DRMed content they'll send a strong message to the publishers. It works in other cases, so I see why it can't work with video as well.
It was pretty awful when I stayed there many years ago.
The company that really disappointed everyone is Sony. Sony was Apple when Apple was beige boxes, and then Sony turned into just another commodity vendor when it comes to non-playstation hardware.

The new Xperia products give the hint that Sony is crawling out of that hole, but they have a long way to go.
The live broadcasts, is that like private Hangouts on Air? I know some people who would like to do private HoAs. Currently they do them and then delete the public posts that are generated.
I mentor alot of startups. This is exactly how I work. Also the peer to peer coaching i did with Joel from Buffer uses similar principles. we only asked each other prodding questions but never gave an actual answer. It was all about leading them to a discovery that could work for them.
No. More like "I'm going to catch you, hold you down whilst you struggle, and circumcise you". Please give me an answer to this one. I'm genuinely curious as to what this will be.

Incidentally, that example you give is sexual abuse. It should be stopped.
Look for manufacturing consent and Noam Chomsky to understand why the facts that I tell seem outlandish to you. He speaks right about indoctrination, the indoctrination that turns white into black and vice-versa.

It says about "landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests". The same cleanup was done in the Soviet Union 10 years earlier. It is class struggle. There is nothing national in this question. 40 years later, in the 199x, this class of "intelligent people" killed much more workers in their capitalism restoration. You cannot justify your fascism/nacism by the class war conducted.
"They also blamed me at the end for asking many questions. I think they thought I needed much help like it's a bad thing."

I am going to go with this statement you made.

I've worked with a few people that are what I call "leeches" . I'll give you a quick story. I was on a project and this person comes by and asks how he can't figure something out. I walk through with him through the codebase and run through a debugger session and by the end he has his answer. Now, there was nothing that I did, that he couldn't do himself. He just wanted some kind of hand holding or didn't know how to dig to figure it out. It took about an hour and I charged the hour to another bucket. Not surprisingly, this person also didn't last too long and was let go from the project. He had other issues but this "leeching" definitely was a factor.

So, obviously, only you know your situation and this may not be your case at all, but in any new position there is a fine line between "figure it out yourself" and hey I need help. I would say the first month of any job is a real hustle. You might be putting in 8 hours "on the clock" but maybe another two to three on your own. The ask too many questions is an indicator that those questions should have/could have been answered by yourself and you didn't take the initiative to figure it out. This is a fine line but the question you should ask yourself is - "If I spend another 2-3 hours reading the code base, googling, whatever" can I figure this out for myself. If the answer is likely then go for it. Figure it out. Those 2-3 hours will give you more insight into the code base and make you more comfortable with it.

If you are hired as a junior there is a lot of leeway for that. If not, there isn't much. Once you've built your credibility this sometimes changes and you get more leeway but definitely not when you are starting out.

I get that for some this might be the opposite, since the notion is that you're a new hire and they should "get you up and going" but they are not hiring experienced developers for their ability to ask questions that they can figure out themselves if they put some effort into it.
> In many regards I'm anti-privacy. I think privacy probably causes more harm than good.

Privacy is necessary in order to feel free to express yourself, in your space, without fear. As long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of others, such a private space is where you can retreat to be creative and to enjoy life without pressure. Not just people, but also businesses, lawyers, doctors and such need privacy in order to function. How would you run a company when your competition has direct access to your inbox?

A society under surveillance suffers from self censure and over time, a decrease in initiative and creativity - just check the communist block in Eastern Europe.
If it wasn't for that quote from Woz, pretty much everyone would go 'well that's ridiculous'. And it is, it is ridiculous, Apple would still want a hardware premium because that's the business model, so they wouldn't be able to try and out price the other manufacturers. They'd gain nothing from it. People that want an iPhone want it for the hardware software combination.
BECAUSE it wasn't a "purchase" this was a very poorly researched article.
If Mt.Gox does implode like a lot of people are expecting then that is going to start a news cycle that is not favorable and probably cause the price to depress for a period. It will be a good time to get in though if you have been looking for a chance to buy at a good price.
I think the fundamental problem is that "human rights" don't really have a solid epistemology behind them, i.e. there is no real theory that allows one to objectively argue whether or not something is a human right. This means, effectively, that they become avenues to convert the world to one way of life.

The problem though is that solutions to social problems aren't free and what sorts of solutions the US can afford (and at what long-term cost!) are very different than what could be afforded in a place like Indonesia.

When I came to Indonesia it took me a long time to understand how things work here, and how much my preconceptions of what was socially good or bad got in the way. For example, police corruption is a functional part of society and it is politically constrained by prosecution. The police may be corrupt routinely in predictable ways that people accept, value, and work into the social order, but if they step out of line and accept bribes that go against the public interest, it's jail time.

Similarly contraception is not widely available to the unmarried. This is a part of the support for a retire-with-the-kids culture. If the unmarried are having sex, they are probably trying for a parental-veto-overriding pregnancy.

Instead of universal human rights, I think most rights are transversal, and apply to a subset of all cultures based on understandable and objective criteria. Abortion as a right is relative to careerism and an economy that cannot handle the realities of family (i.e. Western Capitalism). Same-sex marriage is dependent on independent retirement. So forth.

As for an epistemological basis I would go back to Cicero's statement that there are functional requirements for people to live together in cities. Those functional requirements o course can be met many different ways, but certain patterns have implications, which pose additional social imperatives.

So by the function for civil living together and the functioning of society are how rights are to be known and tested and that's the epistemological basis I would give. I would also add that the CAP Theorem as applied to human communications implies a social imperative to individual and local autonomy.
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> SU has invateded its own territory, siezed earlier by the fascist Poland, after the polish government ceased to exist.

This territory was agreed upon in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, so how could the SU move to save territory after the Polish government fell, if it had already agreed to split it up before it fell?

Also, if you say that it's the Soviet Union's territory, why was a large part of it returned after WWII?
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Around here it seems that contractors are tied to contract houses that give you little flexibility and less than awesome pay. However I should look into it more. Yes, life is definitely brief.
I think your sentence has too much of a tone of inevitability. "... will improve as an asset ..." should surely be "will improve if an asset ..." or perhaps "... in order for ...".

There's plenty of new markets which failed to take off, and died after a few years of use. Confederate dollars aren't quite the useful currency they once were, as an obvious example.

Otherwise it cuts too close to survivorship bias: is there a popular asset where the market has "low liquidity and crappy technology"?
I wasn't (only) meaning to be snarky, but the proposition he makes is itself a bit of snark and, more to the point, begs the question. If you're assuming that, given a non-trivial webpage, all educated adult humans will agree as to what it's about...well, how can the computational scientist argue against that? If anything, the author himself should be keenly aware of how humans fail at general interpretation, even after having 12 years of education (K-12)...unless he's never had a comments section for his articles.
Well, just as with disk storage, scaling up doesn't mean things get cheaper per unit, because you'll have to pay for infrastructure that you take for granted at low scale (cooling, storage, security, power, network, etc). Many customers mining at different locations could therefore be more profitable as a whole than one company doing all the mining, especially since many hobbyists don't count their hours like a company has to.

Also, BFL will benefit from the share of users that will not use their equipment to the max for whatever reason and they may not have the equity required to do the upfront hardware investment.
Of course, that's not the point. The firing squad metaphor is just to describe the problem of coordinating a synchronous activity given a linear non-zero-time peer to peer communication mechanism.
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While the tool was still up, I did a quick search for #NSA -- and if I understood it correctly -- that the search field was tuned to give sensible sentiment analysis for tweets with the given hash-tag -- it didn't do a very good job. I can't verify now (as the site is down) but it seemed like it got about 50% wrong on that one...

Perhaps it does better with different hash-tags (there's a lot of bitter irony associated with #nsa -- possibly more than average for other tags) ?
So Google didn't just buy Lenovo shares: http://recode.net/2014/02/06/no-google-didnt-just-buy-750-mi...

Devices in Sochi don't get hacked 'before you drink your coffee': http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-nbc-story-100-fraudul...

And this blog post is also bunk, way to keep that going:

Google is maintaining they haven't done wrong and are appealing the decision, so they've asked the court to stay any penalties until the appeals process is resolved. End Of Story.
Yup, you assumed incorrectly. I can see the qualitative difference between operator overloading and monads. That's why I suggested to transfer the core idea of monads into more mainstream languages to provide more "semantic" safety, so to say.

Thanks for the clarification.
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A customer of many years, with at one point many servers with them. Now I only have a few to service some French customers.
Congrats Paul and team!
Are you describing a kind of socratic questioning ? I am just curious about your method.
Interesting if the original commenter will visit this link. Won't visit Facebook but will visit a random .pl link with a name that means nothing to those who don't speak polish.
Polish predatroish policies?
Thanks, looks interesting. Am I correct that there isn't an easy way to download data from the site with out contacting him for a specific quote?
Might be the best to sell on Sunday then.