skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes and no.

Apart from allowing you to find someone to trade with, validating the actual trade/settling the trade is an important part of an exchange as well, and those at least in principle could be solved using bitcoin-based technology.

And also, bitcoin at least partially could "solve" the problem by just not requiring the use of an exchange anymore once it has sufficient adoption. After all, most people don't directly need an exchange in order to use their local currency either.

And finally, there are suggestions how an exchange could prove its BTC liquidity using the bitcoin system, which would also solve at least part of the abuse potential of a centralized institution.

But yeah, it's not fully solved (yet?) and I simplified things a bit, but I think nothing that has any impact on my argument.
Technically, it does run offline. If you pop open your developer console, you'll notice it isn't making any requests. All of the wallet generation is done on client side, no public address or private key ever touches our server. After the page loads, it'll still work with no internet connection.
Fear and Open Source Intellectual Property in Las Enterprise
As I see it, the author of TFA is simply offering some heuristics for judging whether or not he's going to have a hard or an easy time working with a project's documentation. So in this view, presenting documentation using a structure that is specifically intended for documentation is taken as an indicator of care and attention to detail. I wouldn't say that he's arguing that a directory full of files isn't functionally equivalent or isn't useful.

(Personally, out here in the real world, I'll put up with all sorts of limitations — even a complete lack of documentation — if somebody else's existing code solves a problem that I have.)
> How can you tell if you missed one?

Similar studies, using as many variables as you can find. Residual confounding is always and ever a problem, but the odds that something is both a strong residual confounder and has never been observed to have an association with the outcome or the exposure is pretty rare?

> Why? Without any support, this seems to be an appeal to probability.

It's really not - if for no other reason than it's forced you to think about your system more than a simple guess would. It's not an appeal to probability, its using data to update whatever prior you came in with. Guesswork is just using your prior.

> The fallacy of moving the goalposts; also the no true Scotsman fallacy.

Not really, no. Some observational studies are crap - this is just true. But that doesn't say anything about the potential quality of observational evidence, and many of the commonly raised objections to observational studies are actually objections to poorly run studies. The example used was a study that examined no potential confounding variables, looked at a correlation with no prior evidence suggesting any linkage between the two or biological plausibility, and then asserts that they've found a causal link.

That's a bad study. It's not 'No True Scotsman Fallacy' to say that the problems with a bad study don't generalize to all studies. If it is, then we're all screwed, because you can run a bad RCT too.
> Why is Bitcoin still around? Why didn't it vanish a long time ago? Why don't people see the truth?

2000: ”Why is pets.com still around? Why didn't it vanish a long time ago?”

2007: “Why are mortgage values so high? Why didn't they return to historical averages a long time ago?”

If bubbles were obvious and corrected quickly, they'd never happen.
see the above comment where no data is sent to their server.
Why you should A/B Test to explore and not refine in your mobile app
Uses for gold (besides trade):

1. Jewelry

2. Electronics

3. Dentistry

----

Uses for USD (besides trade):

1. Rolling in it
This can run offline if you download all the files, as all the computation is done client-side.

However due to the use of require.js (http://requirejs.org) the script files aren't directly linked from the main page. You need to grab the following files, put them in their respective directories locally, and then edit the main page so all the src and href attributes are relative rather than absolute to root (e.g. src="js/lib/require.min.js"):

http://www.sixtylarge.com/index.html

http://www.sixtylarge.com/img/favicon.png

http://www.sixtylarge.com/css/styles.css

http://www.sixtylarge.com/img/sl-logo.svg

http://www.sixtylarge.com/img/hamburger.svg

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/main.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/script.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/coinList.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/coins.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/secretKeyGenerator.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/seedRNG.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/util.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/walletGenerator.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/lib/analytics.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/lib/bitcoinjs-min.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/lib/jquery-2.1.0.min.js

http://www.sixtylarge.com/js/lib/require.min.js

And there you have it, a nifty offline wallet generator without the risks of running code that could change unexpectedly (especially as there is no https version so greater risk of MITM).
Bringing right/left as if it were even relevant to this conversation is a simple way to shut out debate of the topic of the NSA infiltrating gatekeepers - which any libertarian or reasonable conservative would normally not defend, but you've made them by calling it 'right wing'.
All set. Sorry, I thought because I had entered one it would just show up. Anyway, Enjoy.
I don't suppose there is any chance that they at least gave you some interest for your troubles?
Jon Stewart On Bitcoin And Mt. Gox
HTTP Request IDs improve visibility across the application stack
California court greenlights smartphone use for maps while driving
I think an interesting point alluded to by the last paragraph is that hitting goals also depends on setting the right ones at the right times.

Sounds like YesGraph isn't planning to immediately repeat the 10X in 100 days goal because the right goal for the next 100 days is instead to expand the product so that it can support another 10X later on.

Are you organizing the next 100 days around a similarly ambitious and measurable goal?
So far, the Silk Road busts have nothing to do with Bitcoin. Everyone should assume that all BTC transactions are trivially traced, forever. Just make sure you aren't tying any identity you care about to dangerous transactions. That's the only (and of course difficult) trick.

If a drug buyer in a BTC transaction got the coins anonymously (say, sent a self-destructing robot to drop off cash in exchange for BTC), then that part is fine. They can go use those coins anonymously. If they ship drugs to their house, well... that alone sort of undoes it all.

The drug sellers that were caught from Silk Road were caught due to things like making a huge amount of trips to post offices, getting the attention of postal workers. That may be a parallel construction, but it seems legitimate enough. Buy drugs from large seller, look at the postmarks for patterns. Then go gumshoeing around and wait 'til you see the same car or people going to the same post offices over and over and over. You can probably pull this attack off without even having government capabilities.
That 'facilitated communication' isn't mentioned in this article is worrying. How were the vegetative people communicating, how was it observed and recorded, and how conscious were the experimenters of (possibly subconscious) mistakes in the past related to the interpretation of slight movements from the disabled or vegetative as communication?

edit:

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/man-in-coma-23-...

http://www.skepdic.com/cleverlinda.html
Yup, the Samsung model. Use it for most of my work. I've got an old clunker that is x86, but that thing is showing it's age so only use it when it's absolutely necessary (when there is no ARM port for an application i need, for example). The battery life and weight/size of the chromebook are really awesome. Using crouton to run an OS is pretty painless, although you do run into a few bugs every now and then. Also, the hard drive needs to be supplemented with and SD card. But for the most part, works as good as a MacBook Air for a quarter of the price.
Procurement Made Easy? Absolute Commerce thinks so...
No. It would not. The court has no right to decide if your religion is legitimate or not. The IRS and the government does recognize certain religious _organizations_ (e.g. churches for tax exemptions), but the state cannot pass any judgement on the underlying belief system when they recognize these institutions. This is what the Establishment Clause clearly protects.

Sources:
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part7/irm_07-025-003.html#d0e1146
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_Clause
Formulaic – A Form Filler for Feature Specs
Industry Expert Shares How To Start a Global Hosting Company
I made a painless way to integrate native libraries into Java (Android NDK support too) with some automatic JNI generation [1]. It uses GWT's javascript comment syntax (edit: see [2] for examples).

[1] https://bitbucket.org/wetherbeei/acceljava

[2] https://bitbucket.org/wetherbeei/acceljava/src/4140d721c11b5...
GNU does the same thing.
I am not sure about Stripe since it is not available in our country (Slovenia), but Paymill doesn't allow processing 3rd party payments. Plus it took them 57 days from the day we sent them paper documents (they travel max 5 days to Germany) to respond that they cannot help us (since we do 3rd party processing). I was not impressed by their customer support and look forward to the day when Stripe will become available.
Is this an attempt at humour or did you really miss the entire point of the article?
Oh of course not, and I'll likely be treated to an audit to boot. People were selling their FTP balances for extremely low amounts (.20 on the dollar at one point?) though, so while ridiculous I'm still on cloud nine. Someone stole thousands of dollars from me and I got it back..not everyday that happens :)
i was responding to the parent's assertion about monetizing, just curious what he/she was thinking along those lines. it was a genuine question.
Community has a broader definition than you are giving it. We can each think different aspects of a thing are more interesting embodiments of different definitions.

I think it is interesting to look at the kernel as the community and come up with some other word to describe the participants. You think this is crazy.
It's not sent at all. Everything seems to be generated locally.
What about plumbers? Not respected, everyone thinks they can do it, most people can't.
Why Citigroup’s ‘Three Risks Facing Bitcoin’ is Misguided
The whole "use __iter__ whenever you can" thing is dubious too. It may be fine sometimes but the example is poorly chosen. If the department gains a name and a manager, using __iter__ makes much less sense. And now you also need to implement __len__ if you want to count your employees, etc.
Yeah, pushing for scale when we know how to improve the experience isn't the right goal. Ideally, you'd do it all, but you need to manage and focus your attention.

This will be elaborated in a future post, but we broke down the funnel into 6 parts, and gave each of our 3 engineers two ownership areas. There are clear metrics for each component, and the responsibility to make those metrics go up rests on them. It is still very focused, but embracing incremental improvements in different areas takes more resolve than a single goal.

More on this soon!
The unconscious (often institutionalized) manipulation is the most "effective" anyway. See Manufacturing Consent for a good explanation of this if you're not familiar.

Even if we could produce a neutral translation of an event, biases still come into play though the selection of which events to cover and which to pass over.
Looks pretty slick. For a recent project, I ended up building a 100 line Makefile, and fig could have covered about 70% of that. That said, Makefile are good to have around
PHP can do anything, what about some ssh?
The relevant amount lost is the amount lost by the person who is hiring said lawyer/private investigator, not the overall amount.
An analysis of Facebook photo caching
Simple. Printers support PostScript which is an executable file format. And for some reasons some vendors like HP though it to be a good idea to add an instruction that allows to update the firmware.
cool, thanks. just curious what your thoughts were along monetization.
This has also broken all of our own deploys on Jenkins. We had to use solution 2, and then upgrade, because solution 1 also produces the certificate error.

It was surprising that npm status didn't have any sort of warning. I had to find out about this via twitter. I think it's extremely irresponsible and I'm glad we've started to move away from node.js and started to use Java.
This would be interesting to see as long as the free version isn't hobbled to the point of being unusable. A majority of Microsoft's income comes from the corporate space, so I imagine they could make room for this in the consumer market.
Look at ratemyprofessor and see how well an incredibly difficult professor that is also engaging and interesting does; now imagine that in a situation where the people in his/her class are forced to be there.
I mean, like, this is a subdomain for ycombinator.com...
I believe that healthcare is one of the most important issues the country faces, on the same level as education, or climate change. And this was an opportunity for me to help out with that.

This is also one of rare times where we have a non-zero chance of pushing the government towards solving technological problems in better ways than hundred million dollar contracts with broken specifications for projects that are doomed for failure.

Kalvin is a friend of mine, and when he called me up I saw it also as a chance to work with a good friend and a great group of people, so it is exciting as well. It has been a great experience working with Brandon and everyone else on the team.
Thank you. I didn't mention Java because I'm a little Java hater :)

I like the idea that backend works only as an API (in fact we'll try to implement this in our future projects).

Problem is that, currently, client-side rendered pages have lots of performance problems. I guess that this shouldn't be a problem in future.
But since the content isn't delivered over HTTPS, it could be MITM'd to include malicious code that does send your keys somewhere.
I believe it was included as debt at the artificially low GOX price.
Raw metal precedes the human race, but its use as currency was generally tied to a government's decision to collect taxes in it.
2a. Revealing it would show that although they did not commit the current theft, they have been running another unrelated scheme.
In some cases the meanings of the kanji have nothing to do with the meaning of the word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji
Why don't you use https://github.com/leafgarland/typescript-vim?

There is also https://github.com/clausreinke/typescript-tools
I worked in Barbados years ago for a short time and it was the same story. Apparently the speeds have increased, but the ILECs still probably have a stranglehold on prices and speeds. The prices for outgoing calls were so high people would use "callback" services to essentially make a reverse call from the US to the island and then connect to the intended destination at a lower rate. The fastest connectivity used to be ISDN, seems like ADSL now.

What would probably bother me most are certain cultural differences. If they're majority conservative or religious they might go to extremes like hating or outlawing homosexuality, and most alternative culture would probably be frowned upon. Could be different now, but I remember hearing songs on the radio about killing all gay people...
Show HN: Sysinct
Since the promotion was targeted at their existing audience, the bit that annoyed me was they didn't estimate the amount that audience would have bought over that period even if they hadn't had a promotion to respond to. I have no doubt it would have been lower, but it looks from the graph at the bottom like JewelScent's weekly revenues were pretty substantial anyway, and the run up to Valentine's Day should have been a bumper week for them.

The flip side, of course, is they also don't guesstimate future revenue from new customers attracted by likes generated by the promotion, or from increased engagement (or revenue lost because people made purchases they were going to make anyway but at a 10% discount, or because they were annoyed by the promotion and unsubscribed). Even direct marketing often is more data alchemy than data science :)
It seems a bit odd for you to be so cagey about the identity of this "original site" while at the same time lamenting that they aren't getting the traffic they deserve. Why don't you tell us who they are?
Yup, this is the same researcher from a few years back:

https://www.google.com/search?q=facilitated+communication+St...

It's shameful, really.

See also this article (about the 2010 'revelation'):
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/fabricating_communication/

"At the beginning and at the end of our trials, we tried to make normal conversation with Houben, and the FC seemed to work perfectly fine, producing intelligible and sometimes even elaborate sentences. In one test, we asked the facilitator to leave the room while we showed Houben a large printed word, which we read aloud to him several times. The facilitator was then allowed to return and assist Mr. Houben in giving the word back to us. Although a well-formed word, the resulting answer was completely wrong. We tried the same test with a large and simple drawing, which yielded identical results. In another test, we shielded the keyboard from the facilitator’s view in the midst of an answer. Immediately, the typing changed into gibberish and soon halted completely"
I can see that now. Sometimes it takes another set of eyes. I think I had the mechanics stuck in my head, so I always looked over it. I'm going to fix that now.
I imagine it was automated (with PHP!). I also imagine that it was a large part of the reason we're all in this thread.
I guess I wasn't counting speculation in Bitcoin itself as an application of Bitcoin.
There's a brackets[1] plugin[2] that looks like it might have potential.

[1] http://brackets.io
[2] https://github.com/fdecampredon/brackets-typescript
Of course it helps that Rust has notation for object lifetimes. :)
Don't forget empowering organised criminals.
Another POV from Greg Maxwell (a Bitcoin core developer):

Claims that MTGox has a lot of coin so far look completely spurious to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1z3v4k/claims_that...

In Falkvinge's case, it may be wishful thinking. He has also posted that he had 160 BTC and 1500 euros on Mt.Gox
The git integration could be a lot better but I like the green or amber hairlines next to the line number that give you a real-time git diff against HEAD. Cool feature. It is a bit slow, especially when opening files, I've noticed.
Does Atom have an emacs keybinding mode?
There are some people who claim to be beyond convincing. There are probably some people who are beyond convincing - and there's probably some overlap between those two groups. It's just not the case that either of these sets includes everyone who doesn't "believe in" evolution.
I tried making the software cost for my side projects $0, and the non-Microsoft community does make it feasible, but I'm way too invested in Microsoft tools, so the productivity hit was way too steep.

I started with a stack of Grails + PostgreSQL, hosted on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, etc.), it worked pretty nicely (I was particularly impressed with the ease of use of Elastic Beanstalk for an absolute newbie).

What I need is some free time, or a job switch (working on the 2nd part :) ).

Still, I tried most IDEs and other ways of development (Eclipse, IntelliJ, Sublime Text), and I still like Visual Studio the most. I also like Microsoft SQL Server a lot.

The Microsoft stack is certainly a lot more expensive than an equivalent stack if you have to pay for it, but having the BizSpark option, it makes a lot of sense if you come from a Microsoft background.
FWIW, I'm colorblind and I use and prefer the dark theme.

Also, (warning this gets a little hand wavy) most pages on the web are light, so the light theme blends in. It is useful to have that contrast by default. Easier to make a distinction visually, and also "self xss" is deterred a little because the devtools are more obviously not part of facebook or whatever.
PyCharm will read simple type annotations like

def get_error_message(error_code: int) -> string:
...

and use them for autocompletion hints and type warnings.
> Don't support elections in the first place? So continue business as usual?

Not quite.

Basically, I do not condone elections for anything bigger than a small city, and neither should you. They don't work. They don't empower the people. They're an illusion.

That was the problem. Now my solutions:

(1) Don't vote for elections that don't make any difference. This means most elections bigger than small cities. Or do vote, but put a blank entry.

(2) Spread the word.

(3) Think of alternatives, such as random trials. Some of those have already been tried. Look for instance at ancient Athens.

If we can get the majority of citizens to acknowledge the problem and know about the possible solutions, there will be a revolution. Hopefully this one won't be too violent.
How do you manage in erlang without mutable arrays? It must be expensive to build it out of tuples.
Yes. So why isn't it more common ?
> When short-haired, god-fearing and country-loving patriots are the good guys (no cops bust up a tea party rally), while the long-haired hippies are the bad guys (see COINTELPRO, police treatment of occupy or the WTO protests), what else you want to call it?

The Tea Party generally gets permits for its rallies, and complies with insurance and crowd control requirements. Occupy and WTO protestors generally do not. This is sufficient to explain all or most of the differences in treatment.
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Decimating our ads revenue
I thought this was an open source project, but when I read FAQ beta version is only out for OSX and they talk about charging for it so it probably wont be open source.
Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits Picked by Its Users
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Not quite. Jobs gave him a chance to present. Maybe not very long, but the article does indicate the opportunity was given. Diamond took the opportunity, and it didn't work out. That Jobs gave him the time at all (however short) was a significant step.
I was speculating about what the original complainer meant, not about what python does... b^)
> It's all well and good until governments step in a regulate/destroy it. Which will happen.

When governments control spam, then I'll start to believe they can control digital currencies. My point is not to equate Bitcoin with spam, but to say that certain Internet activities are completely outside anyone's control, regardless of how much public or political pressure is applied.
This is awesome news. I hope other vendors follow suit.
You're assuming they have sufficient control to hit within evenly-distributed noise of their target.
Also, if it's set up to, it will sync automatically to all your devices via iCloud. This could be exploited I guess.
no call stack(?)

There are breadcrumbs across the debugger's toolbar for quick always available access, or there is a tab to display the whole stack at once next to the sources tab on the left sidebar.

breakpoints are a bit of a hit or miss, especially when callbacks are involved.

If you have a test case / url / steps to reproduce, please file a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox&c...

We can't fix what we can't detect.

So kudos to them for all the hard work.

Thanks :)