skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know how Bitcoin prices spiked after Cyprus had it's banking issues? You do realize that that happened, and could only happen, because a large number of people believed the Cypriot currency was in fact not likely to remain "valueless" seeing as how it was still the sovereign currency of Cyprus, and were willing to exchange at least Bitcoin to hold it.

The examples you give, are not examples where just fiat money fails. They're examples of the entire architecture of a society falling apart (the government is being overthrown in the Ukraine, post WW1 Germany was in the midst of a massive recession). These are all situations where no currency retains a stable value since no currency allows you to eat, fuel vehicles or defend yourself. In those situations, Bitcoin is as valueless as anything else (more so, by virtue of being unusable without the internet).
That's strange - their shipping is incredible in Australia - you order something before 6pm and it shows up by courier the next day if it's in stock (the website tells you how much of each part they have in each warehouse, and how long it would take to ship). That used to be for any price - but now you have to pay postage for orders under $50.

Before that, I once bought $15 of parts including a $6 micro controller, which was in stock in the US. I got everything else courier end the next day, and then the micro controller three days later.

You do pay for it though - you can get things half the price other places, but it's awesome for quick prototyping.
Economics is fascinating. It's a fairly new discipline, and like, say, astronomy, conducting experiments can be tricky, but throwing the whole thing out is silly. There is a lot to be learned for those interested in learning, rather than just backing up their own political view of the world.
We (the systemd developers) want systemd to provide the basic building blocks from which you can build an operating system. Networking is definitely one of these, so we want to include it by default.

However, you are of course free to use an alternative network management solution, and at least in the beginning we expect most people to stick with what they have. Distributions could easily ship networkd as a separate package, if they so chose.
This guy invented email, right?
Next time it reaches $1000 she will come out with a shiny new article about how fabulous bitcoin is
Intel's JavaScript Framework
Playing with the settings on the left is a good way to frighten small children.
Mondiality: Dynamics of a revolution
This is exactly right. It's why I don't use Trello anymore. I have a single sheet of paper that I split down the middle with a line and fill up on either side of the line with my tasks.

Even still, I end up with backlog that I have to discard from time to time. The problem seems to be the speed with which items can be added to the list. When the list is nearly full, I have to think hard about whether or not I'm going to throw any old task on there. But when it's nearly empty, I start filling it up.

Since I only keep one list for both business and personal needs (because I only have one set of waking hours in a day), I have started to fight myself by filling it up with things like movies I want to see but know I will forget about. Now, those tend to be the things that fall to the "backlog", i.e. the top of the list, as the unfinished things are the first things to get written down when the page is full.

So yeah, my paper is also self-prioritizing. The longer a task has been on the list, the more likely it is to bubble to the top of the page. Also, scratching off items is motivating, especially when there are only a few left.

Hah! Who am I kidding? There's never "only a few left". But I've gotten much better about getting through the churn and making sure nothing ends up more than a month old.

Hah! Who am I kidding, again? Filing my tax returns has been on there for more than a month now!
Explanation of combinators for the working man
How English Killed Bitcoin – don't let language get you goxed
And yet app revenues keep increasing every quarter (http://www.asymco.com/2014/02/10/fortune-130/).

First, I'm not sure poor marketing practices can be blamed on the App Store itself. It is up to those companies/sites to decide how to promote themselves. I'm also not sure it is the App Stores responsibility to provide many marketing channels.

Second, websites are free, that's why most people probably expect apps to be free, too. I think people like to pay for experiences. A coffee is an experience. And you get a friendly barista, a nice store with wi-fi, a whole table with extras to mix in, etc. Software in comparison is really abstract. Out bodies tell us they are hungry or sleepy, and pressure us to do something about it. Our bodies do not pressure us to try out a new calendar app.
I had js blocked, that's why it wasn't showing, thanks
Trolls just want to have fun. (Trolling likely manifestation of everyday sadism)
Mocked this up in 30 mins this evening.

http://pastebin.com/MyB0UUFD
The fact that is so adapted to all those current needs is also its weakest point.
what's 'acq'? 'acquisition'?
The MtGox guys haven't been accused of competency a lot lately, and they're probably not operating in a very lucid state, what with the magnitude of what's happening, and worries about their own financial and even personal survival.
End-Users And The Enduring Challenge To IT Security
On-topic: I remember my undergrad course in macroeconomics. It was a total and utter mess. Just tons and tons of theories and formulas that could not be demonstrated, but had to be memorized. Most macro-economists suffer greatly from the lack of a "credible" scientific base for their studies. Hence the article, a generous serving of all possible stereotypes that macro-economy can give.
BUT, I also remember microeconomics, and that was a totally different story. Most useful when thinking about markets and how people behave, but interesting if applied to greater scales (macro-micro-economics?).

Off-topic, but considered interesting: Am I the only one that finds it frustrating that Subtle blogs have no local comments? I find it diminishes the value of the text in itself.
How Micron’s Automata Promises to Improve Parallel Processing
Xiffe – the best mobile app prototyping tool
> Can you see everything that I read?

> Well, we have to provide the content to you, don’t we? For more information, check out our Privacy Policy.

Or, the app could run locally after downloading a dictionary. Just sayin'.
In the article, an economist assumes engineers have no knowledge about economics. In return, Hacker News assumes economists have no knowledge. And this comment assumes everybody in Hacker News thinks the same way about economists.

Assumptions...
Both awesome and creepy!
> They build a product - ship it - and if it fails, they start working on the next idea.

Insert "economic theory" instead of "product".
I was a paid undergrad security researcher that made double that any of other on-campus student job, where labor was cheap and abundant.
creepy, but awesome
Isn't it simple really.

With coffee (and food in general) I know what I going to get it's a craving I have right now, it's chemistry.

With an app I don't know what I am getting and I don't have that same need so my intellect needs to be persuaded which is a much harder thing to accomplish. It's psychology.
I have no other explanation. Wikipedia doesn't, too.
Laughing at someone's misery is called schadenfreude.

Laughing at someone's tragic folly is called comedy.

Not knowing the difference between misery and folly is fucking hilarious.
Snowden [1]:

> Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on.

Of course you can infiltrate the facility to access the keys or attack the management systems with zero day exploits. But every bit of protection is worthwhile, because it might be the crucial step that the NSA is not able to break with the assigned budget.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-...
Yeap. Industry has to ship something useful.
Has some strange black flickering (screenie http://i.imgur.com/dUOSudN.png).

I'm a webgl developer and WebGL works perfectly fine otherwise (no crappy driver, no crappy GPU etc.)

Browsers: Firefox 26/27 and Chrome 32/33 (error visibile in all)

OS: Linux Ubuntu 13.04

GPU: GTX-780

Driver: nvidia 331.20
Same here. I remember seeing the advert linked in the article. So many great hours programming and playing games.
Since it's not mentioned in the article, FRP stands for Functional Reactive Programming
Do you think these are the top 15 sites built with Ruby on Rails?
Hypothetically, if someone integrated this into their own proprietary app with hidden code under a proprietary license... how would you know it hadn't been compromised?
And that's how spritz gets its speed improvement -- by forcing you to go faster than you would choose to read.
So presumably every site I visit in 2014 will request my location?

Didn't hang around long enough to read it after that..
Taken by other people. That's the more interesting note, IMO.

My understanding of the problem is that some people went to withdraw money and due to transaction malleability MtGox thought the transaction failed and resent repeatedly. But the first transaction didn't actually fail and they received their money multiple times.

Whether this happened to a lot of people a little or a few people a lot, and whether they were accidental beneficiaries or intentional instigators will probably never be known. But some number of people received a share of that missing 750k BTC, and I don't recall a one of them posting a "Hey, MtGox just sent me more BTC than it should have" blogpost that ended up here, so that's pretty interesting.

So the BTC aren't missing so much as illicitly redistributed.
I find Mouser and Digikey's sites fairly unusable, myself... I search for stuff on Element14 because I find their filtering so much easier, and once I've found an appropriate part I search the part number on Digikey and buy it there if I don't need it in the next few days...
The goal is not to enumerate the powers of 3, 5, and 7. The goal is to iterate through the groups which hold BACKUP superblock/GDT copies. “three”, “five” and “seven” are not especially good names for iterator state, nor is there an obvious good reason for exposing the inner details of iterator state.
Knowable.org: hardware collaboration
I think the problem is the mixing of concerns: The generation of the sequence (which apparently is a function of whether the filesystem is sparse or not) and whatever it is trying to verify.
A sincere and non-troll question - I'd be really interested in hearing from people who have a major use for speed reading. I'm finding it difficult to visualise the material such readers are encountering - are they reading for pleasure or work? Presumably, if the former, reading speed is unrelated to enjoyment (in fact, a slight negative correlation), while, if the latter, isn't the time spent actually reading a vanishingly tiny portion of digestion? It takes me (and I'd imagine most people?) around 5 minutes to read a menu, for instance, of which time my estimate would be that around 5-10 seconds were spent actually reading the words. But this technology is clearly of great interest to people - what am I missing?
A Modest Proposal for Ethical Ad Blocking
Pff. A pair of exchanged 32GB microSD cards full of random data would give you OTPs for a hell of a lot of tweets/SMSes :)
WhatsApp-branded mobile service, coming in Germany
You seem to know a lot about this. Why didn't the US government, in all the bailouts, completely wipe out existing shareholders in order to not provide an incentive to do this again?
I haven't looked at vim code in ages but if it is really 300K lines of code, I wouldn't refactor it in any major way. If I absolutely wanted to scratch that particular itch, I'd rewrite it from scratch. In another language (not C or C++). And structure it differently.
Surprisingly, in Europe we had that fade two years ago.

Every company wanted a Facebook page and a year later an iOS app. Amusingly the marketing departments and executives of many companies were out of touch with their audience/consumer as most had a Android phone or tablet. Two years ago many disco, bar, smaller shops, etc. had such native apps. The main point was they all were useless as they lacked a lot of features that there equivalent websites offered.

Fast forwards to 2014 (Europe), most such native apps vanished as well as many business related Facebook pages have decreased in popularity or "dried-out". Now, some companies offer hybrid apps for Android/iOS that is basically a WebView that shows a slightly modified version of their HTML5 website.
No idea why they didn't just admitted all the wrongdoing at start of this month instead of pulling so much wool. As much as I wish, people recover their coins; I am not sure if there's any trust left in whatever they are going to do/say.
The web is not going to "win" because the average consumer has been trained to look for "apps" from the app store, not to use web apps. Web apps packaged in the app store might be a bigger thing moving forward, but the point remains - on a phone people expect an app. No amount of needing out over how things "should" be is going to change the basic behavior of millions of users. Instead of hoping the web will win, smart devs will accept reality and make the best of it.
They might be protected, but this protection isn't always in the interest of the average citizen.
I really, really think this is a Silicon Valley bias. You all have had pivot! pivot! pivot! Nokia used to make tires! drilled into your heads to the point that the very idea of questioning whether a team is up to a challenge has been driven out.
Well - I wasn't advocating that it should be entirely dismantled as a discipline. But I do believe it should be avoided by those with the sort of personality that would seek to make up for its flaws with their egotism. That's why I offered that suggestion to the author.
This is surprising? Did the authors never tease anyone? But there are multiple shades of trolling, and I wouldn't necessarily call all of them "sadism". When I take a contrary opinion on a friend's Facebook post to draw them into making a fool of themselves because I already know their opinion is not based on logic (even if I necessarily agree with their end decision), that's not sadism, that's just teasing.

But I have noticed a trend in recent years that people have gone so far into anti-bullying being their pet issue of the year, that they are quick to call any form of teasing "bullying".

I had a friend who, for years, hated that people teased him but never said anything about it. I mean, we all teased each other, it's what friends do. Stuff like, whenever he'd try to show off with climbing on monkey bars (at age 30, mind you), I'd call him a monkey (not attention whore, mind you, which was what he really was), and that would upset him. He even engaged in the teasing of us, but couldn't take it himself. He said we bullied him and that we were not good people and must hate him. We assured him that we liked him a lot. He refused to believe it. We are not friends anymore.

The general lesson of the story: cut the wilting flowers out of the garden. Teasing is fine, and if someone can't take it, leave them to their own devices.
Weird. MtGox, seemingly dead, has an intriguing line of source code...
You can't reproduce the issue with the information he gave. He doesn't tell what operating system, terminal, java version, etc he is using.

Most likely his problem is due to his terminal (my guess: cmd.exe/powershell in Windows) and not his program code at all.

FWIW here's my non-reproduction of his problem, on Linux amd64, Sun Java 1.6.0, running in urxvt:

real	0m3.568s
user	0m0.616s
sys	0m1.152s

real	0m3.393s
user	0m0.648s
sys	0m1.060s

In other words, I could not reproduce the issue with the information he provided.
Evading Profanity Filters Using Bi-Directional Text
Yes probably - I've often seen acq as shorthand for acquisition in various notes and drafts over the years.
The branch prediction pitfall
> Hopefully they get again in fashion

Android has <15-min "refund" (actually I wonder if this is a "undo" where the payment didn't actually took place and goes through after the timeout, like gmail's "undo send mail", thus avoiding a chargeback)

Also, IAPs allows one to implement the demo/trial/shareware model. Most implementations are poor though, making you think you have the full game/app but subtly (or not so subtly) crippling it beyond usability, or compromising the experience with ads.
Aaaand, it's down.
Everything in the Pixar Universe is Connected
"(nodeJS for server-side javascript, many JS libraries and frameworks)" - the saddest part, as if we don't need language innovation anymore... One to rule them all.
No, that's a different type of fraud or downright incompetence. A Ponzi is when investors who are expecting positive returns are intentionally paid with other investors' money. That's not what happened here. Exchanges don't offer investments.
Lot's of people suggesting to add explanatory comments. I don't think that's a good idea, it would be better to change the names of the variables:

unsigned counter1 = 1;
unsigned counter2 = 5;
unsigned counter3 = 7;

or use an array:

unsigned counter[3] = {1,5,7};

No more confusion. That being said, I doubt that the names of these local variables is actually a real source of confusion and is not a problem that needs to be fixed.
That doesn't match my experience at all.

Find the maintainer of the relevant subsystem, talk to them via mail or IRC about what's bugging you and how to improve it, implement it, send a patch and it will most likely be accepted.

Where I have had difficulties getting something accepted is if your patch might cause problems later or doesn't solve the problem in a way that aligns with the vision of the maintainer. But while that might be annoying as a developer that wants a problem fixed now, I'd say that it's probably for the better of the whole kernel.
Show HN: I quit Harvard, made this wearable sensor. Do you get enough sun/light?
I did it (and repeated a few times) and I didn't know anyone. I did it by reading about the process, formatting my patch correctly, and sending it to the appropriate list. If it were so difficult, Linux would not be a success. Now, just like other large projects, maintainers might dislike comment-only nit patches, but if it objectively increases readability it might work.
What's going on with Bitcoin
UK's Ignite100 evolves accelerator model – 4 months, no Demo Day
I just did a random reading speed test and got 1640wpm with 90% comprehension, and I definitely do not read linearly -- it's hard to explain, but I often find that I scan far ahead and see the ends of sentences before their starting words, then wander around somewhat randomly in the middle of them. I'll notice typos and grammar errors several sentences or even a paragraph after where it occurs, probably meaning that I'm taking huge "gulps" of words and internally buffering it, then processing it very nonlinearly. I've never taken any courses on speed reading, but I guess I developed this habit from reading code (where a lot of the time is spent seeking). The Spritz experience was a little disorienting since I kept wanting to seek around in the text, and being linearly spoonfed it gave me the feeling of losing track of what I'd just "read".
well, is it better to have a hacked MVP released in production, or spend forever making it and never actually releasing it and then missing the window?
the workaround just does not scale.

That is nonsense.
> Fiat means, in a short and sweet manner, the government can force you to use it.

Fiat, both from the original Latin, and in practice, means "it shall be".

In the case of money, it means that the token has no intrinsic value, and is not directly convertible into a backing resource with value. Its only value is that given to it by decree of the issuer. There is no component of government compulsion in the definition.

In practice, some fiat monies are the only accepted legal tender currencies for some purposes (e.g. taxes) but it is not a requirement.

A successful fiat currency implies that there is acceptance among users in its fiat value, and some of the most historically effective ways to get people to go along with your assertions boil down to making ultimatums backed up with sharp sticks.
I was cheering when you wrote that. I have a PhD in chemistry, where we actually do experiments, and am an armchair economist. I quit my science job to temporarily work for lyft while waiting on the IRS for 501(c)(3) status on a nonprofit I'm launching - and with lyft I do real-time economics, gauging supply and demand on a minute-by-minute basis, and observe whether or not my models are confirmed. It would do well for academic economists to actually get that level of experiential model-testing, informal as it may be. Obviously, they don't (I did undergrad at U of Chicago, I know the econ department there).

EDIT: Speaking of economic models and confirmation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867999

Also, a careful examination of the bitcoin chart reveals that it does not look like the traditional bubble (yet). Go to http://bitcoinity.org/markets and set it to 2 years and log scale (hidden control in upper left of the graph). The chart, rather, looks like this: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html Which is a web platform growth curve.
tl;dr. Jeff loves Apps and would like all of us to make more of them.
Google could help kickstart that ecosystem by offering a promotion category for "Best Free/Open Source apps" in Play. Only apps with a GPL compatible license and fully buildable from a public repo are eligible.
No. That would be the geolocation API https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocati...

You can of course use that in conjunction with realtime web technologies:
For example, see: http://leggetter.github.io/100-lines-or-less-js/realtime-col...

Actually, that one doesn't use the geolocation API. It's just a realtime mapping example.

This one uses the geolocation API:
https://github.com/leggetter/realtime-visitor-tracker

It's actually a really good use case, but not the only one.
I could have an office with a secretary at the front desk and charge people money to extract their teeth, yet that wouldn't actually make me a dentist.

Sure you would, just not a licensed one.
It's called one-page app. You can control the browser tab history with HTML5/JS5 and create WebApps that offer all the same functionally you see in most native apps.
It is what it is. Regarding your speculation about damage control, that could also be correct. That said, I edited and put a question mark after the title (though there is no question mark on the Computer World article title).
How many Hiroshima bombs in a Ferrari (or how I learned to extend GNU units)
I remember reading that it's only divisible by 10^100.
Except a shell company does generally have assets, IP and so on, when there is a bankruptcy, there is a chance the shareholders get something out of it. Also, Fiat money has the government (and well, the bank notes are worth at least something on ebay :)).

Bitcoin on the other hand, by design, has NO backing, if the system tank, you wont be able to get anything out of it.

Thus she's correct on that point, whether or not it's important.
I don't know. Upon seeing a variable named "three", I wouldn't immediately assume it contained the literal number 3, since that would be rather pointless use of a variable. It's an odd name, but I don't think it'll be mistaken for its literal meaning.
Could mean Annual Compliance Questionnaire...
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ACQ.html
Looks interesting but nothing on the site seems to answer my question: can I run node.js apps here? Flask? Or is it wordpress / PHP only?