skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for that? According to the social security administration, the average monthly payout is about 1100/mo.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/

Even if social security was completely removed for a basic income of 10k (I'll clarify again that I'm not endorsing that figure as a blanket basic income), it would be a cut of a couple thousand a year, not a cut of more than 10k as you claim. Hell you could even keep all the net SS+basic income payouts the same and social security costs would drop to 1/5th of what they are now, saving over a trillion dollars.

Also, That was like, one third of one fourth of my post. The fact that your estimate was way way off (far from "simple math") is barely changed by excluding social security.
I'll bet they'll never attribute the value to Youtube that comes from being able to better target ads off-Youtube based on your Youtube views. Youtube might lose on paper, but generate more value in total for Google than direct costs.

Google also gets a whole pile of AV to do speech-to-text and other analysis on (before any additional compression) that no other firm gets a chance to do.
Furniture or WoW Chainmail are not money. They still have value to some people.
Did you read my first point? Whilst I understand it's perfectly normal for BTC community members to jump to rash conclusions, I feel this time it's misguided given the numerous ways that tweets can be recovered. So what exactly would wiping them achieve?
It works just fine.. for non-realtime games (and has been widely used for such games since forever). I've done the tests - you cannot just "tweak" it, and even if you could you'd be relying on the networking stack to do something it's not intended to do.
As a German I also second that Bild is not a trustworthy source and I find it odd that such a charged information would be seeded to Bild instead of Spiegel, FAZ or Süddeutsche which all have a much higher reputation within Germany and internationally.

Funny though - I guess Bild is right about this anyway ...
4: People are building legal barges. You can pay £90k and buy one off the shelf[1]. The difficulty is finding somewhere to moor it: London's waterside is as much in demand as land in the city. You'll have to pay the riparian owner for this. Tidal Thames prices are very high; historically the canals have been lower, but they're largely full up.

In addition, the waterway authorities don't really want more 'liveaboards'; they place a lot of demands on waterway infrastructure yet it's difficult to charge them much (for legislative reasons, and getting legislation changed is a slow and unlikely process).

[1] http://www.newandusedboat.co.uk/new-boats-widebeam.php
That's a good theory...they may be figuring out that they can't possibly provide what they've promised, and are wanting to not have an easy trail of evidence of exactly what has been promised.

But, I don't think deleting things from Twitter has ever been considered "destroying evidence" in court. But, I suppose there's a first for everything.

Usually, it'd be manipulating or deleting emails that have been subpoenaed, or other sorts of contractually binding documents (email can be a contractually binding document, Twitter probably not...yet). I dunno. Maybe we're about to see something interesting and new happen in the courts. I guess we're certain to, because Bitcoin hasn't had much play in the courts, yet. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I'm vaguely concerned that things that should be civil matters may end up becoming criminal matters because of the way Bitcoin is viewed by law enforcement and states. But, then again, this may very well be something that should become a criminal matter. I don't know enough to know.
Not even close. If your CEO is an idiot or a naif then he can't evaluate his lieutenants, he will pick idiots to manage the day-to-day, they will do shoddy work (or screw him over behind his back) and he won't know, and disaster will ensue.

Reminds me of Groupon, which is one of the worst cases. And on Google, I submitted this to HN for a reason: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3106555&cid=41288357
When this was in the news in NZ, there was a good series of posts on a local blog with some criticism of the way the survey is constructed: [1] [2] [3]

Demographia itself has a certain ideological bent (go read the introduction to the survey!). NZ readers will also recognize both NZers represented as current and former members of the right(er)-wing National Party.

The impression I get is that these statistics are constructed to support existing policy, not in order to inform the development of policy.

[1]: http://transportblog.co.nz/2013/01/23/demolishing-demographi...
[2]: http://transportblog.co.nz/2013/01/24/demolishing-demographi...
[3]: http://transportblog.co.nz/2013/01/27/demolishing-demographi...
Ethical hacking organization hacked,Edward Snowden’s passport
The EC-Council, a US professional organization that offers a respected certification in ethical hacking, was itself hacked this weekend. Passport and photo ID details of more than 60,000 security professionals who have obtained or applied for the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker certification are at risk after the breach, many of whom work in sensitive political and military positions. They include members of the US military, FBI, United Nations, and National Security Agency.<p>Among their number is Edward Snowden, whose passport and application email for the certification were used to deface the EC-Council’s homepage, alongside the message “Defaced again? Yep, good job reusing your passwords morons.” It appears applicants for the CEH qualification emailed their passport or photo ID details to the EC-Council. The self-described “certified unethical hacker” responsible for the attack reportedly used a DNS redirect to access those details, which were stored in an inadequately protected location. The hacker — who calls his or herself Eugene Belford after the character in 1995′s Hackers — said that he was “sitting on thousands of passports belonging to LE (and .mil) officials.”
You might be surprised. World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2 are both TCP. It's pretty common for MMOs. It can also work well for some types of RTS games where the added latency isn't a major issue.
Why is there a contradiction? Sounds more like a formula for a lot of small to medium sized businesses being started. If there were no Big-COs that provide thousands of jobs, people wouldn't roll over and decide not to work. On the contrary, it's likely more people would form their own business out of necessity.

Now, would this be better for the US economy in general? Maybe. Maybe not. When I was in college I spent a stint as a Political Science major (focusing in IR). When learning about Asia I remember a lot of discussion about Taiwan's economy being successful in part because of their strong small to medium sized businesses.

Taiwan's government seems to be a fan of this idea as well:
http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=127151&CtNode=429
Please tell me more about how Bitcoin (an electronic currency) matters for a country with very poor internet connectivity and constant power outages.

Furthermore the country has abandoned its native currency and is using USD/GBP/ZAR in any case.

Economic freedom is irrelevant when there is a gun being held to your head [in a very literal sense].

Disclaimer: I lived there for 14 years of my life, and visit my family there often.
Even a cursory glance at the Libertarianism page on Wikipedia would've shown you that not all libertarians are anti-State police. But I disagree about your criticism even against those that are.

Playing Devil's advocate, if the Mafia took control of your city, and forced you to pay 20% of everything you made (or be taken from your home and family), but offered to "take care" of any other criminals that might bother you, would it be hypocritical of you to not want to get robbed twice, and therefore use the services that you already had been forced to pay for?

When you live in a system that is forced upon you, it's not hypocritical to use the benefits of that system, since you're forced to withstand its drawbacks.
All flash games use TCP (as you can't use UDP in flash). There are many realtime flash games. Many MMORPGs use TCP for compatibility reasons: they are very much real-time, especially something like PVP in world of warcraft, etc. Guild Wars also uses TCP and is very much a 'twitch' based realtime game as well.
Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life
I'm not much of a fan of "X probably didn't do Y because I cannot guess what would be to gain."

There has been no word from Gox that their social account has been compromised so the clearest conclusion to guess is that they wiped their timeline. Why? That doesn't exactly matter before establishing who and right now the who seems to be Gox.
The banking system isn't that developed and people are used to paying in cash, even if you buy a house here your downpayment is likely to be 50% of the house's value.

There is a lot of gray money flowing into foreign, some of it actually corrupt, but much of it just very gray. Some of it is real money, with no other way to invest RMB domestically (domestic real estate is a basket case, stock market...ha!), many just look abroad for investment opportunities and aren't too creative about it.
DRM is inherently broken in its own right.
Well, there are many sources of malleability which could be eliminated. Certainly I would consider each of those a bug. However it is not yet known whether malleability can be eliminated entirely (e.g. algebraic manipulations of ECDSA signatures).
Mt. Gox was weak, and they died.
De nadelen van een te hoog zoutgebruik op onze gezondheid
I guess you mean 1 specific email message, right? You need to be careful because when you say "your email" I'm thinking "my whole inbox"

In general I think email is a very private thing (for the receiver, but there's also an implicit assumption of the sender)

However, I can imagine a few use cases.
People tweeting copies of their acceptance letters to university: vanity.
Also people could emial2tweet annoying marketing emails: public shaming companies. That would be nice---maybe then the recent email marketing craze will calm down!
That would definitely be one of the craziest tweets of the year.
The fact that browsers are buggy does not allow to list that as expected behavior. It's like "Some cars are made of paper and everyone dies in any collision >20km/h, but let's make this expected behavior" or "some chefs use cyanide instead of salt, therefore force salt manufacturers to add cyanide to all salt".
These days it's not like deploying new version of browser to user requires major update to operating system, which would take 5 years to cover 90% of users.
To be fair, it was weighted to median income. So if everyone was poor, that would drive the "affordable" price way down.
Companies want their executives to wear suits and ties but their engineers have a new uniform: "no uniform".

Strongly disagree. I look at it the other way: if I weren't at work, what would I be wearing? Well... the same thing I just happen to be wearing at work. I own a couple suits (one of them actually well-tailored and fitted), a few blazers, a bunch of buttoned shirts. They're great when I'm going for that look, but they're never going to be as comfortable to me (both physically and psychologically) as a tshirt, jeans, and hoodie. When I get home from work, I don't change into something more comfortable like my dad always did when I was growing up. I'm already comfortable.

I think that's the definition of dressing informally to me: not changing my look based on the current situation.

Many nerds have lost their right to wear formal clothes and they've just not woken up to that reality yet.

I do agree with that, unfortunately. At the worst end of it, some people are rejected for positions because of "culture fit", and often the signal for that lack of fit is that they showed up to the interview dressed too formally.

On the other hand, a employee at my company (before my time, sadly) just showed up one day wearing a suit. When asked about it, he simply said, "I just decided I want to dress like this from now on". And that was that.
Merely rebranding won't resolve the millions in obligations they have to customers. There's real money at stake here; it's very unlikely that it will be something that can be swept under the rug.
Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck (2012)
I use an input with type="email" just to give mobile devices a clue to which keyboard they should show. But otherwise I expect the input to behave just like a text input.

I have auto-complete code which needs to set the selection in the input and this is now no longer possible, because the spec for email inputs removes the selectionStart and setSelectionRange methods (no reason being given).

This is a coupling of too many ideas into the type="email" attribute. Ideally, it should be possible to just have an attribute that tells the mobile device what keyboard to use without affecting any other behavior of the input.
Wasn't that written from a mac/ipad?
What is this crap? I'm not giving Twitter authorisation for a random app I don't even know about.
Something like a Select2 dropdown? Not a problem. I'll do that.

edit: Actually selectize.js looks a bit nicer
That part made no sense to me either.

I think their requirements were to transmit every action the other player(s) took, so it seems like things would still be failing all over the place. But maybe occasionally insane results are better than occasionally blocked.
Car horns are meant to be used in emergencies only, mostly to prevent accidents. Unfortunately in some countries like Israel (where I live) it has become more of a device for expressing anger or frustration.
> I think the various Unicode whitespace characters are likely to gain more use generally. The big problem though is that whitespace characters all look alike and so you can't read and parse the way a computer does.

I think the big problem is, that there are people out there, that think Python programmers have a huge urge to use non-standard whitespace characters in their source code.

> Perl is a wonderful language, but to write good quality, maintainable, robust code in it takes some work. But that work is well rewarded.

The reward for that kind of code is the same in all languages, but your statement implies, it's maybe better to choose a language, where it's not as hard as with Perl to write good quality, maintainable, robust code. Point taken.
Mt Gox resigned the board seat Karpeles currently holds. Karpeles is still a founding member of the foundation, and Mt Gox is still a gold sponsor of the foundation.
wow, this happened to me too, the deafness came to me really quick, one ear and the other one. I was very nervous, I thought some thing serious was happening to my hearing. I had a doctor check out my ears, it turned out to be a small pea sized earwax in both of my ears...
When the payoff for not hitting a certain monetary threshold is extremely negative and out of proportion to the amount of money in question (lose your wife/house/family/life) that can actually change that calculus, and taking a losing bet is your best move in the absence of other options.
what did you use to create this plot?
Yes, you are right. It's a specific email message. I'll change the wording a bit :)

Indeed, you've pointed out some nice use cases that I didn't think of. Thanks for your comments!
You can convert natural gas into synthetic petrol pretty easily these days. New Zealand has been subsidizing its fuel usage this way with a 20%?synthetic at the pump mandate since the 70s?. As the price rises america will do the same if it isn't already. I thought that was kind of the point for fracking?
"Worked at Yahoo! 1997-~1999" seems like a very strong positive signal on a resume (maybe less so now because there have been other similarly great periods in other companies, but certainly in the early to mid 2000s). Not a "hire without any consideration", but I'd certainly weigh it highly. I'm not sure what the end date on that should be -- clearly by 2007-2008, but I don't remember the best people going there in mid-2000s either as new hires; there were still existing good people, but mainly they entered through M&A.
> 89 pull requests were merged this week. This is the most pull requests merged in a week, ever.

The activity of this community never ceases to amaze me. Contributions and improvements are coming in thick and fast, and yet still we still seem to be keeping on top of it. Only 54 PRs are currently open on Github, despite the churn.
I think it was because, for lack of a better word, you were "weird". It's not just the clothes, it's the entire look. Had you worn the same clothing, but had a "normal" haircut, you likely would have been perceived to be more like the business/non-tech type.

The dyed mohawk gave you enough of a counter-culture look that, when paired with the suit, gave you an overall look completely unique from the informally-dressed nerds and the formally-dressed suits, and that's generally viewed positively by the nerd crowd.

And it's also about the people around you. You'd presumably already established your personality and technical competence at your company before that, so while the change in look was of course a change, they already had context in which to appreciate the change. In that context, even if you hadn't changed your hairstyle, while you may have gotten some surprised looks and questions when you suddenly show up in a suit, your colleagues would still assume "the best" before believing you'd turned into a "suit" they don't trust anymore.
> I remember trying to get this game to load with himem.sys. Ugh.

Not this game. You're probably remembering TIE Fighter.

X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter ran on Windows 9x and required DirectX. That's why the article was talking about DirectPlay.
Sometimes being light years ahead and being completely out of touch are interchangeable statements.
GrubHub and Seamless merged last year: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732478700...
The Innovation Loop
Not in my experience. The requirement of 6 weeks' rent as a deposit is, however. I wouldn't be surprised if some ask for 8. This is partly what makes it so difficult to get in to the rental market for some people.
Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
Not necessarily. 100 companies each with 10 people may net more money per company than 1 company with 1000 people.
Stallman Computing
This seems a rather odd article, there are many useful sites (particularly in London) that enable you to search for properties in a much smarter way these days, check out the tools on www.findproperly.com , find spare rooms on www.spareroom.com or even act as a property caretaker on www.guardiansoflondon.com
It's also likely that Twitter still retains a copy of the Tweet even when deleted, and will be asked for copies during the discovery process if it comes to a lawsuit.
Reminds me of the story of how FedEx almost went under [0].

0: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/fred-smith-blackjac...
> Not sure why this is relevant to HN.

Why start worrying about this now?
These guys were at the forefront of online game technology back in '97. And not only that but they were also willing to share what they learned. Mistakes, warts, and all.

There's something magical about the internet where any technical post results in a slew of commenters trying to show they are smarter than the topic author. Good job.
Coinbase is not actually an exchange, and in fact markets themselves as a wallet:

"Coinbase is an international digital wallet that allows you
to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoin currency"

It really comes down to whether you trust Coinbase (equivalent of a bank, albeit a startup bank) or yourself (equivalent of putting cash in your mattress) to securely store your money.
I am not sure why people blame Mt. Gox for a problem within the Twitter protocol that always 'deletions'. We discussed the solution with the Twitter core developers and will allow our tweets to be displayed again once it has been approved and standardized.
EC-Council defaced with Snowden's passport(not only)
I'm sure everything that linked against it is vulnerable, and as soon as we have an update, they'll all be OK.

I just wish the update were out now.
I can confirm this, having been mostly responsible for the network code in Widelands. We exclusively used TCP with parallel simulation (i.e., only player actions are transmitted), and it worked just fine as early as 2007 even without any special tweaks. There are two factors that matter, I believe:

First, Widelands is a real-time game but with a slow pace, so relatively high latency is easy to tolerate. Second, the internet is simply more reliable today than it was 15 years ago, especially if the bandwidth that you use is small relative to the Mb/s connections that are common today.
Also http://www.ohloh.net/p/lyx
This may not help you, but it might help others understand what you mean: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/adventures-...

I kind of agree with everyone else though, some exercise and sunlight every day. And time. Change is part of life, it happens eventually.
"some complicated internal crypto scheme to minimize the scope of breaches"

Any half-decent online wallet or exchange keeps the vast majority (typically ~95%) of their funds in "cold storage", usually with an n-of-m encryption scheme, which will minimize the scope of breaches, with an occasional inconvenience when withdrawals exceed projections before they can pull funds from cold storage.

Even given the malleability bug (which actually isn't the real problem: http://blog.tlrobinson.net/bitcoin-transaction-malleability-...) if Mt Gox managed to lose more than say 10% of customer funds they were doing something seriously wrong.
That's really a very profound way to see it! Thanks.

I'd add to that: there is even a chance (quite high btw) we are not yet seeing all the problems nature solves AND maybe we never will even though we are constantly and exponentially growing our understanding... always, forever, now.
I am not associated with nimrod in any way, just an enthusiastic new user. Before I found out about nimrod I thought Rust was the best new language.
Correction: s/growers/landlords/

Which is to say: few rentals are interested in people, especially full families, who might be staying only a few weeks or months.

This does, of course, vary, but I'm aware of a few specific farmworker housing complexes which address just these needs.