skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Less philosophy, more inevitability really.

As cryptocurrencies grow the power of governments to tax will diminish.
I think it'll be similar to music and movie piracy - they will be simply used so widely that it will be impossible to fight. Embattled governments will turn to deflation and increase the tax burden on those who continue to use state currencies, increasing even further the incentive to switch to cryptocurrencies. With only worthless fiat to pay armies and bureaucrats, governments may well collapse.

What comes next I have no idea.
Yay! \o/ :D
If you want to get good at something, you're going to have to work at it. No one else can give you a shortcut to common sense that comes with mastery. Only pointers. That's just the way life works.
We have several responses, more needed. So far mostly git, then SVN, ClearCase, and MS TFS, although mercurial is a surprise. Which SCM do you use?
The site is not working :/ try to fix it because HN is a great opportunity for exposure.
Yeah, call in the regulators to get some back. Thank a US fiat tax payer. You're welcome.

It's the biggest load of hypocrisy that people who enthusiastically wanted to play in the libertarian paradise of an unregulated currency think they should be able to turn around and request the help of the regular, regulated, tax-supported economy to make them partial or whole.

First, we'll crap a bunch of processing resources into thin air, ponzi up value in the system, scream self-righteous screeds to the nay-sayers... then, when it goes to shit, call in the cops you were giving the finger to a second ago.

You took your chances. You relished in the freedom of the risk. You eat your pudding.
Beware! Spanish government wants to limit real crowdfunding, i.e., equity crowdfunding, not Kickstarter-like funding.

Not that it changes the story a lot, but I just wanted to make that clear.
I wish there was a way to answer that appropriately in the space of a comment. Regarding nutrition, this is what I tell people to start with: http://www.amazon.ca/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-Gr...

It's a great book, and more accessible than you might think.
Karpeles says ALL Bitcoin are gone
IMO, they are going to be screwed anyway. There are MUCH better systems of measuring people's credit worthiness. I looking forward to future tech slaying them completely.

Also, if I am able to fully execute the vision for BUKIT. It will screw with the credit bureaus bonus
What seems to me a more realistic concern is that you could create a beam of energy that would be lethal to an individual device. Brains are typically a lot more durable to EM radiation than electronics.

And more generally, it seems like relying on coordinating devices you don't physically own opens you up to all sorts of new kinds of DoS attack.
I know this law well, it's not a tax but a grid fee – you pay a c/KWh fee if panels are connected to the grid and/or use the grid for alternative supply, but not for off-grid panels. The fee doesn't specify if the panels are for personal or industrial use. Something very similar to what the state of Arizona does. That article doesn't do a very good job of explaining the raison d'être of the so-called "tax".
site crashed from too much traffic, should be up soon
Whilst I like the concept of this and Numbers (which incidentally appears to be remarkably similar bar infinite scroll), I really couldn't work on a tablet with a spreadsheet. I need a real filesystem and keyboard to be productive. The latter is partially solved with the iPad with a keyboard but why bother.

I tried many times to do it on a Windows Phone with Excel and an iPad with Numbers and it's terribly error prone which is something you don't want to hang yourself with on a spreadsheet of critical data.
Meetup is under a massive DDoS attack
Elon Musk: Visionary or Rent-Seeker?
Mission was to create something that people needed, and should exist.
It's basically a common pattern when it comes to UI for the lists, I remember MFC had it like a hundred years ago and I bet they weren't the 1st to do it this way.
Here's one more to add:

* Stop copying and pasting the same code over and over. If you do a complex series of operations several times, encapsulate them in a function/method.
Hack Madness: The MIT Tournament of Hacks
As long as I know, it refers to the total monetary volume of fiscal fraud. It would be a "80/20" rule case but this is not the point.

The point is that this government rules with a twisted logic. They assume the biggest fraction of population originates the biggest fraction of fraud. For them, everything is low and middle classes' fault.
That seems pretty unlikely to me; much taxation is based around physical location and economic relationships, not control of the currency. My employer pays taxes not because the government controls the money, but because they rent an office in Copenhagen, do business there, and employ about 200 people, and it's pretty hard to hide all that. For one thing, the employees want to be counted as employed too, or else they wouldn't be eligible for pensions or various other aspects of the social system, and would complain loudly if the company failed to register its employees and pay taxes.

Also, things like car tax are successfully collected even on entirely black-market sales through this simple expedient: drive around the city scanning license plates, and check whether the car is registered. The same is done with apartments: do you own a $1m apartment in the center of Copenhagen? Your income taxes better explain where you got that much money. Paying for the apartment in Bitcoin won't help you hide the physical apartment.

I don't see cryptocurrencies as all that fundamentally different than cash (or even gold) for those kinds of purposes, which are already fairly easy to use for black-market transactions. The availability of money is not what's keeping my employer from paying me under the table; if they could get away with it, they could slip me USD or EUR bills under the table. And in a handful of small-scale occupations (e.g. hiring a house cleaner) people do so. But for most larger-scale stuff the cash itself is not the limiting factor; the limiting factor is that you do other things that get you noticed. Even that part is pretty classic: Al Capone was famously taken down on tax-evasion charges because he was clearly living a lifestyle above what he was reporting. If you buy a mansion and Lambo with your Bitcoin, you had better have your taxes in order.
Yes, the current dark theme does not have high enough contrast. There is a bug opened to switch to higher contrast colors in the dark theme here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971418 (and this will likely be uplifted to Aurora after landing).
>(1) Split a $100 transaction into 10 $10* transactions executed incrementally (send $10 of BTC to Mt. Gox, exchange it, transfer it out, and only then send the next $10 of BTC over). This keeps exposure at any given time at a manageable level. The downside is it increases exposure to BTC/USD volatility.

This is an old anti-scamming solution and is very useful in some settings but this isn't really one of them. The main problem here isn't really losing your money immediately after making the transaction. Just making the transaction in one swoop and immediately withdrawing your money after is much more efficent (in terms of both time spent and fees).

Most people weren't screwed because they made one large transaction just before things went wrong - they were screwed because they kept money for long periods of time on gox. And yes, you can argue that some people just couldn't withdraw for months - but if they wanted to use gox and use your scheme it would've taken a year to execute all of those transactions.
But a lot of databases have to deal with people's names. To paraphrase an old saying, "I don't care why I'm in the database, as long as they spell my name right."
This is cool. One thing that Trello does well is scale to larger numbers of columns (because it scrolls horizontal rather than shrinks the columns).

Regardless, this looks very nice for custom needs.
Startup Lessons From a 125 Year Old Business
The point is that you should be prepared for this type of loss due to the speculative nature of Bitcoin. Here is a note from Morgan Stanley on alternative investments:

Investing in alternative investments is speculative, not suitable for all clients, and intended for experienced and sophisticated investors who are willing to bear the high economic risks of the investment, which can include:
-loss of all or a substantial portion of the investment due to leveraging, short-selling or other speculative investment practices;
-lack of liquidity in that there may be no secondary market for the fund and none expected to develop;
-volatility of returns;
-restrictions on transferring interests in a fund;
-potential lack of diversification and resulting higher risk due to concentration of trading authority when a single advisor is utilized;
-absence of information regarding valuations and pricing;
-delays in tax reporting;
-less regulation and higher fees than mutual funds;
-funds of hedge funds often have a higher fee structure than single manager funds as a result of the additional layers of fees;
-risks associated with the operations, personnel, and processes of the manager.
Here's hoping they get it right, because the way it stands now, building a good aggregator is very tricky. The "this is why we can't have nice things" attitude is really putting a damper on valuable developments, and it's very close to stifling competition. Why is it anyone's problem that their algo is not smart enough to see potential value in new kinds of services? Even human vs. software curation should be irrelevant here.
In this example, what variables are you talking about being causally related?
>The only problem with doing multiple transactions is the amount of time required to both withdraw and send. If I waited, the price could fall

There are two risks: the risk of the (1) price moving against you (delta risk) and (2) exchange defaulting (CP risk). The longer your funds spend waiting to transact, the greater your delta risk. The longer your funds spend at the exchange, the higher your CP risk.

Bitcoin is a volatile asset, making delta risk expensive. But the exchanges are opaque and operate in a legal grey area, amplifying CP risk. The risks are also correlated - if BTC/USD falls, the odds of the exchange collapsing increase. This makes the problem complicated. What I can say is this: the solution is far from either end. You should never have a significant fraction of your liquid net worth in any of these exchanges.

The most innocent excuse for taking weeks to process withdrawals is operational inefficiency. Even this increases your CP risk. Do not react to long wait times by increasing your transaction size. Instead, aggressively seek out alternatives.
Unless you interpret what I said literally,and are going to point out that no one trades apples for gold rings, then the answer is - literally everyone who buys gold. You might pay with a fiat currency,but then you obtained it by either selling something that you produced or work that you carried out - so "goods".
Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy, Blames Hackers For Losses
From the "$1000/mo or more" in the comment I was replying to. The "or more" adds lots of wiggle room, but it goes both way: he might be paying more, but he surely has the option of paying less. Moving to cheaper digs is one obvious way to help out your budget.
While I think charging cell phones and Telsas is a problem, getting cheaper than petrochemical energy is the key. So I have always thought that some sort of space-based energy source was the solution but how do you get it back to earth? 1000's of small solar cell beaming back energy concentrated at one point would be a great solution. How much would this cost would be interesting to find out?
All that text, so many points, and somehow the author managed to avoid the 800-pound gorilla in the room: the use of goto.
I can figure out how to look up these projects myself. The point is, if you are going to give examples on error handling be more specific. I don't need any general "life lessons" here, the point is it looked like you were trying to make a point, without having one. I.e you did not actually have any examples, you only made it appear so.
> It would be interesting to know how the whitespace (tabs vs spaces) before the extra goto compares to that one the other goto lines.

(in case anyone is curious, the "goto fail" lines in that part of the code are identical: all spaces; and the file in general does have an unfortunate mishmash of spaces and tabs)
Ah well, the man has already apologized. What's an extra one or two hundred thousand bitcoins between friends.
The main reason I don't switch to Firefox's dev tools is whenever i write a css attribute in the inspector, Chrome will present me a nice list of possible values I can choose, while Firefox just sits there patiently until I start writing. I don't always remember all the values and this really breaks my workflow.
> and some people stood to lose their entire savings.

While I am not defending MtGox, having your entire life savings wrapped up in Bitcoin is hardly a sound, proven financial decision and evokes absolutely zero sympathy whatsoever. Losing it all in a get-rich-quick frenzy is sad - but it's sad in a "I can't believe people are willing to bet their lives on this" way, not a "this poor person lost his/her entire life savings due to the corruption of the financial industry" way.
Did you try to get your money out of MtGox? A friend of mine has been trying to get his money (CAD) out of MtGox for 2 months. He received his money yesterday.
Has LinkedIn been Hacked?
I got an anonymous request on LinkedIn from a guy Christopher Highman but when I look at his profile his skill sets seems unrealistic.

Then I googled about this guy and found this document {http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/press-releases/2008/highmanSent.pdf}
If you use Chrome, there is a "Personal Blacklist" extension that does essentially what the manual blacklist used to do.
You can also add a gallery in jquery :)
I did it with apache, and nginx
https://github.com/jul/prettyAutoIndex

I did not published nginx version though
The combination of dislike for Apple and paranoia in this thread makes for a pretty potent combination. Every communication channel has it's flaws. Once upon a time, the post office was opening mail to read it, or wiretaps on telegrams and telephones. Now, it's iMessage. Every channel has potential exploitations, and if you can't agree with the ones that a channel comes with, don't use it. iMessage is optional. SMS is optional. Don't open your mail. Whatever.
Even reading some of these comments is a bit nauseating.

If you are a software dev, designer, etc, in almost any part of the world where you can read this, you are massively lucky.

Nevermind the whole "You have internet access and can develop software for a living? Welcome to the top 50% in the world", etc; there are people in your area barely scraping by; if your only metric is others in the same economic bracket, get out more.

One of my hobbies is a martial art. Many of the students there are in much poorer straights than myself. One in particular, a young adult nearly out of high school, and already working, rides 10 miles each way to work and the martial arts school on his bike, because he can't afford public transportation. He lives paycheck to paycheck, and has to work out special payment arrangements with the instructor because of it. I don't really care if his day job is 'easier' than mine (I did it once; it wasn't for me, but whose to say it isn't for him); he has to stress how to cover bills, how to get to work when not feeling great and facing a 10 mile bike ride there and back, etc. I can call in and WFH because I have the sniffles. Or drive, because I have a car, and the funds to keep up insurance, gas, repairs, etc.

If you enjoy coding, and you get paid enough for it to cover your bills and stash some away, you are massively, massively lucky. Is it as good a break as it could, or should (were this a utopia) be? No. But compared to the unfairness many others face, you should be reveling in it, while trying to affect change not just for yourself but those who are in harder circumstances.
I have a ton of respect for Aza Raskin, who has pushed this, and I respect that infinite scrolling was a neat solution for some problems of the 2004 web. But I'm not sure those problems are the biggest problems today, and I mostly I feel like "fixing scrolling" is working on the wrong problem, when we could instead be working on "ditching scrolling."

The addendum to Fitt's Law is key here: The current location of the pointer is an infinite target.

Or, to paraphrase, dragging is usability hell.*

If I'm flipping through pages, I want to click or tap one thing, I don't want to have to manipulate things by clicking one spot, holding a button, finding another target and releasing.

I know clicking and dragging is intuitive and easy for all of us, but compared to one simple click at the current mouse location, it's a usability eternity.

My approach would be to display all search results from the first page of Google cleanly on one screen. Maybe two columns wide if necessary, or fit to the screen in a tumblr style way. Not infinite scrolling, not any scrolling. I can keep my mouse on top of a little set of forward and back arrow buttons in the corner and flip through results that way. Or I could just use arrow keys or taps on a mobile device.

* Sure, dragging is the only sensible approach in some cases, maps and canvases and 3D object manipulation, sure. But if it can be designed away.

So I could see click and drag if your search results were not linear, but a two dimensional graph. Maybe you get that graph by... going right or left puts more priority on different terms in the search box, or going up and down adds different commonly included words to your search, I don't know.
> If you reach 30k€/yr, you must file a proper company and you'll get the normal 75% tax rate.

Ow.
Along with what everyone else mentioned, if you like podcasts, this one gave me some good insights along with the blog:

http://www.sustainabletdd.com/

One aha moment for me that's talked about here is to treat your tests more as a form of documentation and specification of how to use the system. They talk about how you should even do some basic tests to confirm enumerations and constants in the system as a way to be clear about their use.

You don't always have to be as thorough, but the mental shift from test to specification was helpful for me.

Edit: Unfortunately, if you download this podcast it's a bit out of order, so you want to read the blog and use it as a guide for which order to listen to things. They're in the process of writing a book about TDD and this blog is part of their process.
An enticing title, a good introduction, then... I'm a bit disappointed. Now, the problem with an alternate setup like this isn’t necessarily the individual pieces of technology selected. I definitely have issues with some of the ones in the example, but the real issue is how the choices were made and what the motivations were for using certain technologies.
I've always found it rather puerile, for exactly the lack of understanding and subtlety displayed by OP. It's no wonder to me that it's so popular with engineers, it's an expression of the same mindset an engineer has when he sees a problem from afar and is convinced that he has the perfectly modeled solution.

Now if only those pesky humans and their idiosyncrasies would conform to the ideal behavior...
The article also notes that there may have been two suicides linked to Mt.Gox, thus far.
I see, thanks! That's pretty funny. :D
yes they do.

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barber...
Ok, thanks. If anyone else has one, please consider me. My email is in my profile!
Mind sending one? linrunix [at] gmail.com
"A total of 99.9% of mobile threats target Android" – Securelist
"Meetup is currently under DDoS attack"
Do you really need to transfer much money to an Italian account?

There is no particular need to have a 'local' account - you can pay all your bills with EU/SEPA payments from any european bank, the prices/etc will be the same, and you can do your daily purchases with a non-local card just as well.
I disagree. There are many things that are illegal because they are bad for society.

"crowdfunding" is completely unregulated, and just like other startups that decide regulation isn't a good idea (Mt Gox, airbnb, that unlicensed taxi thing, etc etc), things rarely end well.

For every 1 legitimate crowdfunding campaign, there's probably 100 that are just there to scam people out of money. And when people are increasingly scammed out of money, who will they look to to compensate them? Their government.
for the sake of simplicity, I've removed the speed options and set it to 500 words per minute.
Dave Ramsey's Opinion on BitCoin
Right, people have certainly implemented hyperlinked versions of code by re-implementing the parser etc. LXR is an excellent example of this. What sets Scribble apart is that

* It's a documentation system, not just a code formatter.

* It's a programmable documentation system, and the code that _implements_ your documentation is kept appropriately separate from the code that you are documenting. This makes use of Racket's support for phases.

* That it doesn't re-implement the parser etc, but can use the built-in one, because of Racket's macros.

And, as you say, even if none of this was unique, there's the fact that Racket does it, and has 500k lines of documentation, all done comprehensively in this style.
I am so fed up with spaniards complaining about this (I'm a spaniard myself). Let me rephrase the rule: if you pay 250 EUR / month, you get full health coverage in the public system, which is amazingly good. How does this sound to americans now?

There are only a couple considerations here: first, they do force you to pay this in any case or you can't do business at all. The rationale is that having health insurance / social security is not optional in Spain. Thus the illegality of doing business / working without paying that. I would leave this untouched.

The other consideration is that you have to pay this even if you have a salaried job and your employer is already collecting from your salary and doing the contributions for you. I would make it unnecessary to pay the extra 250 EUR/month in this case, it doesn't make sense, except for people with very low salary (for whom no social contribution is mandated for their employer), in which case I would keep the need of contributing separately, or it's a huge loophole to avoid contributing.

A socially-oriented state has some cost, you know. Having to pay 250 EUR/month when you do business is such a ridiculously low price to pay for near-universal health care.
> 83(b) election

Just a friendly reminder if someone is reading this - you have 30 days to claim 83(b) after you offer yourself shares in your business, otherwise you'll be in a heap of legal/tax issues that can be quite painful (i.e. cost a lot). Make sure you bring this up with your accountant/lawyer.
You can always register an account with Github and star it.

Edit: Then you can access the list here: https://github.com/stars
Edit 2: I now understand you want a place that showcases projects like these without you hunting for them. HN is definitely the place and I also regularly check Github's Trending page. https://github.com/explore
Mt. Gox and many other exchanges have put into people's minds that you HAVE to forfeit your rights to your Bitcoin when using online services. It doesn't have to be that way, though.
You could just use a system like we use at Bitalo [1], where fractional reserves or funds misuse are impossible because of use of multi-signature Bitcoin addresses, which means funds are specifically tied to user wallets and exchange operators cannot use them, because the user has to sign all transactions by himself.

[1] https://www.bitalo.com/why_bitalo