skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. I had assumed the freeze starting a few days ago applied to trades as well but clearly not.
How we increased chat performance by 10x without writing any code.
You think there is a big overlap between the people who read his books, care about what he says on his blog and think he is way off base criticizing the monetary policy built into bitcoin?
I think you had the only decent reply. Thank you.
I know bitcoin, and was really just fishing for others that may share my view on the current state of affairs for the digital crypto currency. Some of us have been around just long enough to be aware that the field of technology doesn't create a buffer from unclean people and business characters. Also, that just because a lot of smart/clever people made something that a lot of people believe in, that at some point it passes the point of no return or is immune to failure. I think bitcoin failing may be good, could wake a lot of people up, many mistakes won't be made a second time, and the freed up focus and brainpower will go towards a better generation of technology to benefit humanity.
Tossed an email to my AppleCare contact expressing my frustration... You should too if you have one!
I personally think that people did mind, but they minded the fugly messages interface even more. Every HTML email had to open in a modal pop-up because it would get messed up by Facebook's internal styling.
> Yeah, but shouldn't they try to pay people back before they spend what's likely tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to superficial marketing?

"Should" based on the assumption that they are profit-maximizing entity, or "should" based on the assumption that they are a moral actor? Because, you know, the answers are quite different.
Sure, I mean the prices were listed by Mt Gox. No one involved in the transactions were claiming that the BTC were of no value. It's just more of a CIA thing :)
You don't, but that doesn't make it true if you remove your question mark.
I'm using an 'iBeacon' (raspberry pi) in a museum setting to nudge visitors entering a certain gallery: "if you'd like to take our Matisse audio tour…" They slide that notification and iOS opens our app directly to the audio tour.

Here's a much richer interactive tour: http://blog.estimote.com/post/77385955199/estimote-beacons-a...
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Is there a way to send the form submission to multiple emails using this service?
> Principally, he said, just because someone is intelligent, doesn’t mean they can actually run a business and go out and execute.

> “You can be surprisingly stupid if you’re sufficiently determined,” he concluded.

Oh that's nice.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when some kid accepts homecoming king with "Thank you for not choosing the popular jock and electing me, your intellectual superior, as homecoming king".
I don't see that either, here's the code I'm seeing: https://gist.github.com/christianbundy/9213200
The way it has turned out is sort of the other way around. Nearly the entire press corps refers to BLE beacons as "iBeacons", so there is some value to hardware manufacturers in being able to market their product under that name.
Based on current observations, I would assume they are and have for some time.
Yes, because the Wild West stopped being wild. Governments organized, police departments and fire brigades and schools were set up. Roads were paved, water and sewer lines installed. All the appurtenances of civilization, in other words. And you can't install the appurtenances of civilization without installing civilization with them.
There was a comment on some forum about a guy who interviewed with them for a job & learnt that they don't have a testing environment. They just push changes to the production code & see how it goes. In my opinion, they were asking for it.

Edit : Here's the link : http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...
Thinking back to the Google Talk glory days makes me so sad...
Open-source isn't very different from closed-source in terms of security unless users compile from source.

Even in the case of the original app, most people are downloading a pre-compiled binary from the Play store, which has a similar security concern.
I was able to compile some small expressions, but I couldn't compile some larger functions which had parts that were not compilable (I don't remember why).

However, looking at the compile support now, it looks like it's more fully featured. For example, I see type hinting is supported now (maybe it was before and I didn't know it).

It looks like it's worth trying again.
Still waiting for the superior iBacon.
What? It's a one-line, clearly understood bugfix. (The extra goto wasn't there in 10.8.x and that hasn't caused any problems) Rebuild the library, spend a few days regression testing at least software update so you can re-push another update, and ship it at the same time as the ios and appletv fixes!

You don't spend a week holding the fix hostage so you can fine tune a new os release with "improvements to autofill forms" in safari while script kiddies are running wild with mitmproxy.

Also I would think that a full ios+appletv OS release is much more complicated than an OSX release due to the way the mobile OSes are packaged (probably 10+ unique/model restore images plus delta downloads)
Regardless of the fact that you, and I, realize that two separate teams are working on these things, it looks really bad (well, at least to me) to have your flagship OS vulnerable to an amazingly easy to exploit security hole for multiple days, widely and loudly publicized ...

And nothing comes out. Oh, except this, a specification for pushing ads on you based on your location.
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With two or more beacons in range you can triangulate for an accuracy within centimeters. It's a key enabling technology for Augmented Reality. It's also how you're going to talk to ambient environmental controls and retrofit older buildings with situational awareness (thalience) that allows them to be responsive to the needs of humans passing through.
>Consider just how many people lost a significant fraction of their wealth and now have underwater mortgages.

Exactly. We really do need to design systems to be used by the human beings we actually are, not the super-humans we like to think we are.
It depends. I think the problem most data websites have is that the user still has to do a lot of work to actually use the data.

Although not exactly a market, data.gov is a good example of what not to do. It is a gigantic list of datasets which is hard to search. Often the dataset is not in a usable format such as PDF or HTML, or it just links to another website which has a worse UI for accessing the data. The counter example is Factual which has a nice API and the ability to download their curated and cleaned datasets.

Many data websites are more like data.gov than Factual.

EDIT: I made the assumption you were asking about data websites. There are data markets that have existed for years behind closed doors between big companies. An example is health insurance companies buying de-identified health records for research purposes. As far as I aware, these markets are still doing well.
Yes. For example a recent update to Automatic [1] included iBeacon support. It is supposed to make the connection between the phone and the Automatic it's self more reliable when you get into your car.

They've actually said they are the largest iBeacon deployment at the moment since they turned that feature on.

[1] http://www.automatic.com
Regardless of the fact that you, and I, realize that two separate teams are working on these things, it looks really bad (well, at least to me) to have your flagship OS vulnerable to an amazingly easy to exploit security hole for multiple days, widely and loudly publicized ...

And nothing comes out. Oh, except for iBeacon, a specification for pushing ads on you based on your location.
Oh, please. How sensitive can people get? That was hardly a threat.
College recruiting: the distribution of student preferences
I see this as more of how local banks were before government guarantees started being implemented. If someone robbed the bank it was your money they were taking and not the bank's. Heck, if the bank burned to the ground your money was gone. Made for a tighter community in some cases; you rob the bank the whole town hunts you down.

What was a bank? Any person off the street with a safe in a building who claimed they could keep your money safe for you until you needed it. Sound familiar?

Personally, I would have put about as much trust into these exchanges as I would have of those old banks.
It will be interesting to see if any governments ever conclude that the only way to win is not to play the game: Instead of trying to play the same game as the Big Boys they decide that they would rather be snooped on less than to do more snooping themselves.

So, instead of going through the exercise of trying to keep their own people in the panopticon while pulling some futile curtain around it all, they give their government, industry, and perhaps even the people tools to avoid snooping.

I'm sure the usual suspects will be here to say this is also futile, but at at the very least it's different from obvious futility.
I simply prefer to show my email address. People know what to do with an email address.
That's not entirely true, about $5 million was seized by and is currently being held by the US government and another $5 million is being held hostage by CoinLab a US company that once had a deal with Gox to handle US customers but things went south along the way and they are not being sued by them instead. So about $10 million is tied up in less than ideal situations.
I'm getting a little tired of every (justifiably!) angry group of people being called a "lynch mob" by default on the internet.

You might want to wait for something resembling actual violence before applying such an ugly characterization. A bunch of people saying mean things is not a "lynch mob".
It's fertile breeding grounds for conspiracy theories, so I'm not going to post my elaborate speculation here. I'll just summarise it as "there are several people working at Mt. Gox and they're probably not very good at talking to one another".
> WHICH it will (too much investment money in too many companies) for it not to.

That sounds like bubble talk to me.
Would be especially cool if it supported input type=file as well :)
Fair point. IIRC, Java and C# allow "break" statements to have a label associated with them specifically for this case. C++ "break" statements are all implicit.

So a goto is the only thing that can solve this problem.
I wish there system was as strongly encrypted as this message.
You're both taking my advice a little too literally.

There's a huge gulf between the impossible ideal of somehow achieving an "all knowing, zen mastery" over an investment and the "this looks fun, prices keep going up and everyone else is doing it".

If you're going to risk large amounts investing in to something you should to try and get yourself as far away from the latter one as you can.
I'm waiting for iFrancisBacon, the photo-sharing app that turns your selfies into wall-sized nightmarish canvases of melting paint and distorted limbs.
- Four clicks to quit Hangouts.

- No ability to delete more than one conversation at once.

- Hangouts receives SMS even without permission.

These are all the mistakes Google consciously built into the app. I'm amazed it has as high of a rating as it does already. Then again, one needs a Google+ account to rate anything on the Play Store, so the ratings are far from unbiased and certainly not representative.
What's the fake in this case? They would be convincing people that bitcoins are worth less due to their actions (and it is worth less during this period, as people have lost much faith), buying at the reduced priced, and then covering their losses and supposedly restoring at least some faith in the market, once again raising prices. Where's the fake title? Where's the lie?
See my little rant, and I agree with you.
> Graham said that, after thousands of founder presentations and pitches, he and the YC partners are now able to tell “within minutes” whether a startup will pass muster or not.

This I find slightly worrying. It's amazing if it still works (and I've been wondering how YC was still able to scale), but is the minimum amount of information that needs to be exchanged between startup and YC in order to get a good assessment really that small? Or is the quality of selection (due to scaling issues / less time per applicant) nowdays compensated by the effect of YC's reputation?
Ouch! I was dreading this from the day AngularDart was announced. I don't want AngularJS to be a second-class citizen within the Angular world -- my startup now depends on it!

Btw, what's the benefit of Dart? I never really understood (or bothered to find out, for that matter).
Ah, I took your point to be completely the opposite! Oops.

Whether it's a native app or "in the cloud", I think most people want their data to be synched across devices, so you're going to have to trust somebody with it.

(Well, unless you're synching encrypted data, but maybe what we should all be doing, but I wouldn't hold my breath...)
Zuckerberg’s Vision of a Benevolent Internet
I don't think your (or their) equating "competent programmers and businesspeople with common sense" with "obsolete fiat economy" is what happened - it's not really a meaningful logical jump. There's got to be something else.
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Bitcoin isn't regulated, there is no oversight or regulation. There is oversight and regulation over the car industry, just like there is over the financial industry. It doesn't stop all fraud or loss, but it does stop some.

I can't redeem my fiat currency for gold bars, but I can and must pay taxes for it, and that creates a demand floor. It means there will always be someone willing to trade dollars for something so that they can pay their taxes.
Every little bit counts. I for one welcome the demise of American hegemony - and I don't see why this isn't a step in the right direction. Just because a bunch of Americans say "nu-uh .. we'll just hax0r your cables" doesn't mean the rest of the world needs to bend over and prepare for a greasin' ..
> You know, you could just learn how science works.

Your condescension is hilarious.

> Because I've cured the common cold, and because I've met all the requirements that you feel are necessary for science, I deserve a Nobel Prize. Yes or no?

No. My observation of your claimed data is fine, but it is an additional matter of interpretation to make any causal claims, or claim external or internal validity.

What you are not getting is that the correlation stands on its own. It's when you try to read into it some other claim (and I use the pronoun 'you' very deliberately here), like 'the rich are rich solely because they are smart' or 'only smart people are rich' or 'the rich are morally better', and are revolted by them, that you try to pretend the data doesn't exist.

It does. Deal.
Don't worry, the internet is pretty good at these. I mean, Reddit did a great job with the ... oh, that's right.
Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Intro blog post: http://bits.usablebytes.com/?p=72
Not even remotely true. Gmail may have become the largest webmail service, depending on who you ask, but Outlook.com / Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail are still huge too. In many markets Gmail comes well down the list.

"Everyone" in the tech world has Gmail.
Windows Phone sales stagnate – will Android come to Microsoft's rescue?
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I gave up trying to register as an iBeacon developer after Apple pushed me to a $49 Coface credit rating service.

You can't even SEE the specification without spending $49? Come on.

I'm assuming the credit check is so that you can have the privilege of paying Apple a royalty for every device you stamp "iBeacon" on.
Thanks! :)

As many have asked, at least for now there's no real spam protection. Asking you to confirm email for every email/referer pair prevents me from adding your email to zillion sites (although confirmations could also get annoying at that point :) and spamming, but of course that doesn't still prevent bots from filling out your form.

I think in a way it's a tradeoff between ease of use, both for you and the visitor. Alternatively we could do heavier registration process and/or let you configure some running on our server, but then setting things up wouldn't be as easy and you might as well just run your own backend. For the visitors forms provide an easy (than, say just email) way to reach out. I guess the question is, do you prefer false positives (spam) or false negatives (folks not reaching out) :)

Regarding having clear text emails in the source, I'd argue (based on nothing but anecdotes) it doesn't matter, much. As throwawaymsft said elsewhere, bots are pretty good at figuring out what "you (at) email (dot) com" means, so in most cases you'd anyway be getting much spam. We considered a token-based approach instead, but decided to go all-in for simplicity. Also, since we're using forms anyway, they're more likely source of spam than some bot crawling just for addresses.
Presumably, you'd send the message to the IMEI rather than the phone number.
The rules are more complex. I'd say just do away with the refer(r)er.
http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/47405/how-can-...

Maybe later when you have a real problem, fix it then. Let's cross bridges when we come to the river, that way we'll all have much simpler code!
I have been using zapreader at
www.zapreader.com/reader for years now. Sometimes on the weekends I take about 20 long form articles and put them into the zap reader js form. I find that I get the main idea of an article much faster, I notice patterns better when I read at that speed. I wish amazon would incorporate this technology into all the kindle reading apps, instead of "features" like how long I have left in a chapter.

One hack for easily putting the articles in to zapreader is to look for a print feature. When the article has a print lay out it is easier to copy and paste the text.
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Ditto - it's a lesson to be learned for many young/youth that are deep in tech that sip the kool aid that all is fine in the land of 1's and 0's
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The Power behind Product Hunt
Do you have any examples of this? I was excited for this use but everything I can see suggests that it is highly inaccurate:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20332856/triangulate-exa...
Err, Sam Altman is the only beta tester of a YC-company trying to develop a better email client?

Anyone got any more details on this? Is this just an inside joke that I don't get? (Yes I remember the build-better-email-client thing, but actually trying, and using one beta-tester?)

To be honest I no longer think an email client is the problem. Its the lack of contact book, integration with all my devices and just generally tying up my orgnaisation for me - frankly a better email client from now is an AI.
I was first introduced to this concept by Discourse, where the frontend immediately puts into effect whatever you want to do - whether it's deleting or editing a post, and then using a callback if an error occurs. For precisely the same reasons you state, it feels faster but still gives you the option to backtrack if things go wrong.
If the leaked crisis plan memo is correct, then they had ~$50 million in dollars on account with them, and total cash assets around $22 million.

So, even ignoring the Bitcoin, they lost quite a lot of dollars.
Yes, and when people say "my Internet", what they're really referring to is not a home Internet connection but their own personal Internet.
Sort of off-topic, but wow, this is a really neat presentation format for tutorials. Love the markdown source[0] and the "open snippet in IDE" features.

[0]: https://www.fpcomplete.com/tutorial-raw/5133/cf0de9edd526ea5...
"You have a lovely home, sir. A lovely home. It would be perfect if it weren't for the broken front door and putrid, bloody trail up the stairs to your bedroom."

"People say to me, 'Rodney, what's it like being a zombie?' and I say, 'It would be better if I didn't have to send half of every brain I find to my ex-wife!' No respect for the dead. No respect."

"People say you gotta hit zombies in the head. I definitely agree. All I know is that when I was alive, and someone kicked me, it didn't take me all night to find where my nuts landed. I get no respect."
They will be returning all their miner's CPU cycles.
If Mt Gox has a single deposit wallet for example, we could easily audit how many coins it has.

We couldn't enforce rules, but if some people decided to set up a sort of "best practices" website saying it's "SAFE compliant or something (Sure Against Forged Equalities), in which case beginners guide would be "ALWAYS GO FOR SAFE COMPLIANT EXCHANGES!"

We couldn't punish them but it would allow some sort of feeling of safety(if minimal).
This kind of service will stay low on the radar compared to how many people write their email in plain text on web pages. It's quite unlikely that someone is going to crawl the web and harvest formspree "ACTION" fields when they can simply harvest regular email and get a million more.
What about the people who exploited transaction malleability to defraud MtGox? Will someone go after them? Doesn't MtGox have their details?
Can anyone explain why/how the following statement is true?

We can then change the slow field read from current.obj[current.field] to current.getter(current.obj) which triples the performance.
One thing that's important to note is that it's not a reversible calculation. You can't pay 7 million to buy someone or have them killed legally or something like that because that's the "going rate".
Wait, I refreshed the page a few times, and once, I got:

<html>
<head>
<title>MtGox.com</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
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</script>
</head>
<body>
<p><img src="/img/mtgox_logo_mail.png"/></p>
<p>Dear MtGox Customers,</p>
<p>In light of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on MtGox&#39;s operations and the market, a decision was taken to close all transactions for the time being in order to protect the site and our users. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br/>
MtGox Team</p>
</body>
</html>

This is very odd behaviour.
They are just trolling everyone now...
It is very likely that they are not focusing on the information being told, but instead they are picking up non-verbal communication clues.