skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having a hard time following your argument.

PR: With no evidence to support your claim that this is a nightmare, I believe you're overstating the situation. The current BPI/Winkdex/etc. values show there are plenty of people still quite confident in the Bitcoin system.

Risk management: Consider parent's option (a) again: there is no intrinsic reason Bitcoin-based services can't reduce their hot wallet size down to zero and send all settlement through a human review process. The "hot/cold wallet" design is a choice that many naive but greedy people are choosing in building their Bitcoin-based systems but it is not the only choice. In banks you usually only STP low-value, low-risk transactions; in the current breed of Bitcoin-based systems, it would appear that system designers are naivly STPing everything. There is no evidence I have seen to suggest that Bitcoin-based systems intrinsically cannot manage risk properly (this is obvious when you simply consider that the majority of coins have not been stolen).

Regulation: There is some kind of strange unstated assumption on HN that regulation magically makes banking safe all by itself, and until that regulation is in place Bitcoin-based systems cannot be safe or effectively risk managed. With the exception of insured deposits, which is a question of policy and time rather than strictly a matter of regulation, there is no reason that Bitcoin-based services can't proactively implement policies that the banking world is required to implement by law (AML/KYC rules, auditing, active risk monitoring, human review in settlement, etc.) Using a service that doesn't implement these policies is a risky choice (and yes, I believe many Bitcoin supporters will probably have to change their opinions about e.g. identity verification if they want to see Bitcoin survive and succeed).

Before anybody makes assumptions: I do not have an opinion about whether Bitcoin will succeed or not. I do think the underlying technology and possibilities are being unfairly stigmatised by critics' generalizations of the inadequacies in implementations of current Bitcoin-based systems.
Since the site was made in FrontPage, I’m guessing that the FrontPage WYSIWYG view showed the site as looking fine, so the author didn’t bother to visit every page on the site after mass-uploading the pages.
So far you have no flight out of BitCoin, however. The high-profile hacks do not seem to be depressing the price. Why?

If even a loss of $500 million - gone into the night with (so far, for anyone outside of the information sink of Mt. Gox) no trace - can't depress the price, what can? How many hacks is the critical number? Will even outlawing BitCoin depress the price at this point? Why is adoption failing to slow down, as it would if people were looking at this thing as just completely over-the-top risky?

Perhaps most of us just view this as a practical concern. We have to figure out how to keep the coins safe. And until we do we're going to have hack after hack after hack... Surely this is possible, though, isn't it? We've solved harder problems.

It's hard to say whether BitCoin will survive in its current form - legal and open. It is a big enough threat at this point to the establishment that we're going to see one of two things happen. Government and moneyed interests will either wage a foolish war against it, as they have with other nascent technologies like MP3. Or they will seek to appropriate it so as to profit from it. My bet is on the latter - which means BitCoin might just be here to stay.
This kind of tech reminds me of a story from Einstein's Dreams. It's a world of two kinds of people. Those who live close to the Earth living out there lives happily with no reservations and those who live at high altitudes because they believe the higher you are, the longer you'll live. Those who live at high altitudes measure the time they're at lower altitudes with stress and worry then haste back up so as to not get older.

So busy quantifying your life, you forget to actually live your life. My 2 cents.
Will continue to be
This sounds like the making of a superhero, Triage Man!
this page would be tough to scrape with an xpath to get to "Dull Needles" text node.

/html/body/center[3]/a[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/font/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[2]/h3/font/font[1]/text()
Offtopic: It's funny that an article about polyglottism has a grammatical error in the title and a misspelling in the first sentence.
Quite, only an aide memoire is needed, not War and Peace.
I disagree, a domain name is part of a company's brand. Having it be short and memorable (so it can easily be recalled and searched for later), is an important part of brand recognition.
It's different from something like mjpeg. More like the jpeg2000 format used by digital (4k) cinema[1].

For web cams, where you might not want true "live" video but prefer higher resolution still frames, it sounds like a reasonable choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package
So domains don't matter anymore (or won't in foreseeable future)?
This is an example of a page that begins talking about sewing and embroidery, and eventually becomes about typography.
If the surveillance they did was under EO12333 or similar (basically, Presidential orders), it was not illegal. That's why the fix has to be something more fundamental.
Twitch new mobile sdk allows ios and android app streaming
This story is a monthly fixture on HN.

Not sure why everybody and their mom is mad about something that affected a handful of top engineers five years ago. Slow news day?
It's not just propaganda, it's very crude old-school Soviet propaganda. No subtlety at all. A US based anchor for Russia Today just quit, saying: [1]

she could no longer be "part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin. I'm proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth, and that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning."

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/03/05/rt-anchor-qui...
Bitcoin rising star Autumn Radtke found dead in Singapore
That page loaded ridiculously fast.

Maybe flat HTML is the way to go.
One of the benefits is that ingestion is flexible -- In general movies can be distributed via broadband (well in advance of release too, as the files are unplayable without decryption keys). For stuff like film festivals there's usually crates and crates of HDs :-)
CIO to me is just a job that the CEO can cut loose if some disaster happens to save his ass. Nobody needs a CIO around to ponder about IT security. It's something that has to be owned by individual admins and developers. The CIO can dictate strategy or policy or whatever, but its going to be individual mistakes like playing loose with credentials or messing up configuration that lead to data breaches.
Yes, they could, but I don't think dirt is the biggest reason why they wouldn't.
> But seriously this is a critical test for Pres. Obama.

A critical test? He doesn't have enough power to do anything about it. He can't even get rid of Guantanamo, which was central to his campaign. His response to the Snowden leaks was entirely supportive of the intelligence community, against the general public's perception of what happened. A political figure like him supporting Snowden would have made a massive difference in the public's perception of the events that took place, but he had to side with the NSA.

You're absolutely wrong if you think he has even the slightest bit of control over the CIA. The executive agencies that are supposed to be directed by the president are probably much more directing the president than the other way around.

Maybe you consider it to be conspiratard nonsense, but there's a bit of history behind what happens to presidents who are at odds with the intelligence community.
Companies complain there aren't enough engineers. Seems like that can be attributed to wage suppression?
We strongly encourage owners to set CPM prices on their images and a substantial portion of our images do. For example: http://imgembed.com/portfolio-image/johnnywestcoast/26237/im...

However some image owners have not set prices for their images and a 'Request for price' from a potential user usually gets them to set a price. We have built it so that by clicking the 'Request for price' button, an email automatically gets sent without additional user input.

Our business model is to take a 30% commission on premium sales and hence that also drives us to encourage image owners to set prices. I must admit however that due to the novelty of the format, prices vary, and we are researching pricing guidelines and hope this will help our image owners better gauge the price they should set their images at. Once you go premium however, there is a price lock so there is no need to worry about a price hike.
If you like jQuery, you will like cha.
Cha allows tasks to be connected together into a chain that makes better readability and easier to maintain.
Looks like modern browsers aren't rendering the page correctly.
THe GPIO is not going to help you build a custom H-bridge to drive motors forward and backward with variable speed. You can use the 2 relay switches to make one of those, but it will be noisy and you only get 1 H-bridge out of all that wiring. You can get an add-on board for the Pi but most designs (I have seen) seem to hijack all the GPIO pins, so any sensors you want to add onto your robot will likely have to use USB (which rules out a lot of the cool low power stuff).

There is a place for both systems, they do different things (even though there is some overlap) so for any moderate project (say a little hexapod robot) you are likely to use both. The Pi as a general purpose computer that can do all your nav/ANN/signalling stuff and an Arduino board to receive the signals and actually run your motors/servos (assuming you need more than 1 or 2).
I thought it was a result of nested <font> tags with font-size defined by em units. Since the each <font> tag is 1.75 times larger that it's parent.
It's all contextual. There are many people in their 20s, 30s, or 40s that won't be learning these things, and instead they'll be learning other things. To think that these things are universal smacks of a certain type of cultural privilege. What about the unmarried, the underemployed, those living in extreme poverty, etc. These stories come around every year, it's fill in the blank journalism. Terrible stuff.
Pathological stuff going on here. Not to mention the author also appears to be a dick.
Ask HN:What are the best opensource web frameworks?
We are planning to develop a web framework for the user configuration and management of a system Application.
What are some of the open source tools we can look into for this, we need to support concurrent user configuration ,clusters .
I do have ruby on rails , Dangjo as options .Any expert suggestions ?
Sounds like as terrible boss! Any salary changes, good or bad, should have a conversation preceding them.

I couldn't find your email in your profile, but found it in some other comments you made. Your skillset overlaps nicely with what my team already does!
> API requests can be made inaccessible from XSS (and that includes self-XSS) by means of a CSRF token that is properly secured

How can self-XSS be prevented with a CSRF token? Can't the script included via self-XSS get the token out of the page and use it to make requests that appear as if they originate from the app itself? Can't a script injected through self-XSS do absolutely anything the page can do in the first place?
"Elsewhere, untimely demises unrelated to bitcoin have claimed the lives of bankers at JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Zurich Insurance Group." Conspiracy trolling. Bad NBC. Bad.
I'll throw my hat in the ring. I started an eCommerce enterprise SaaS focused business in high school as a hobby, sold it for $4M at age 21, bought it back for $32k, built it again into a $6M/year revenue (profitable) business, and sold it again in 2012 to Answers.com. All of this was 100% bootstrapped with revenue, no debt, no outside funding. In neither case, round one or round two, did I self-fund it, other than the $32k -- the revenues from the business funded the business, it wasn't me funding anything. Sure, it was a long slog, but worth it.
someone is always watching ;)
"Santa Clara County, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has the highest average wage in the country, ... It would be a mistake to think of these plaintiffs as an oppressed set of victims."

In addition, I very much doubt Silicon Valley has the cost-of-living-adjusted highest average wage.
All I want right now is a polyglot programmer - tommy@knoxpayments.com - remote fine, solving a problem that is killing businesses
Yes he is, he is trying to motivate him to find another job.
yes that's my concern (drug interactions) I've seen curious users mix all kinds of things without checking first, and they've never had any experience in doing drugs (either legal or illegal) and end up worse off

In terms of reactions, I think it varies from person to person. Generally speaking though, hallucinogens aggravate existing psychotic disorders. If you suffer from PTSD/depression it's not a psychotic disorder (so it's relatively safe for you to take).

Curiously enough, a subset of patients suffering from ptsd/depression/anxiety don't experience the euphoria associated with amphetamines. I'm sorry if I didn't word myself clearly enough
Brilliant Hackers wanted for Caribbean Codefest 2015 (Free Trip included)
IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE. IT' A FREE TRIP TO THE CARIBBEAN.

Submit at site.

Looking for A-list hackers with hackathon/hackfest/codefest/hackday experience to compete in first Caribbean International Invitational Codefest to be held in Curacao in March 2015.

As this is the first event, it's an unpaid gig, but all expenses and travel will be taken care of.
Fixing Money Transmission Regulation: A Proposed Bill to Amend 18 U.S.C. § 1960
IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE. IT' A FREE TRIP TO THE CARIBBEAN.

Looking for A-list hackers with hackathon/hackfest/codefest/hackday experience to compete in first Caribbean International Invitational Codefest to be held in Curacao in March 2015.

As this is the first event, it's an unpaid gig, but all expenses and travel will be taken care of.

It may also be filmed for a pilot for an unscripted docudrama so extroverts preferred.

Quite simply, we want a dozen of the best, most dynamic, characters from the scene to come down to the Caribbean Islands for year one of an annual event which will help drive innovation in the islands. We will assign 12-24 developers from the various islands to work with you and proteges as well as give you five partner positions via Skype within your own networks (designers/UX/UI/Biz Dev) so you also have a virtual team behind you.

Are you game? Are you "The One?"

It's not about your Ph.D. from Stanford in Computer Engineering, it's about the passion and creativity you bring to the table. And your willingness to share your intelligence with kids in the developing nations of the Caribbean. It's just a totally cool thing to do and we want totally cool people to come onboard.
That's the thing, going and walking around or going to a social event... it's not clear which one will help you solve your problem. Sometimes sitting quietly and thinking about an issue helps me, sometimes it leaves me chasing red herrings. Sometimes closing my eyes and visualizing helps me, sometimes it's about as useful as chewing bubble gum. Sometimes inspiration will strike for seemingly no reason... the other day I literally had to get out of the shower with shampoo in my hair to send myself an e-mail. I've been working on a hard problem for the past few weeks, at this point I'd say a considerable portion of the "clever fixes" have come to me in my dreams... I'll literally just wake up with a new idea about how to approach the problem that weren't even on my radar when I went to bed.

Also, social events and casual conversation is a great way to be social and engage in conversation while excising rubber duck debugging. So long as you make it entertaining for the other party, it's fun... explaining how stuff works for people who are curious is usually fun for both parties.

It's different strokes for different folks for sure, but don't limit your stroke options... and try not to get shampoo in your keyboard.
If the link is in an iframe loaded from their own site, that's hardly a problem. And, I would guess they nofollow it anyway.
Journalist ponders if we're better off investing $20b in compression technology
One should hire people who care, and who continuously broaden their own horizons. When it comes to developers, these inevitably happen to also be polyglot programmers in my experience.
This was originally reported on Feb 27th.

Still sad.
Sterile, cold. Existence is more than identifying the next self fulfilling prophesy.

Also, by the way, correlation != causation. Live it.
Misleading headline from Businessweek - They are not using their earned wealth from Bitcoin speculation to fund or invest in Space Travel. Instead they are buying a rich man's ticket for a sub orbital flight and suggesting that this type of ticket purchase supports future Space Travel exploration.
thank you! I'm hoping this thing works out.

It sounds super idealistic, but nowadays I think the only way to get real research out is to leave academia... which is why I decided to form a startup with my research partner. We aren't really into the whole get-acquired!money thing, it's more like; non-profits rarely work because people don't listen, using productizing techniques spreads ideas faster and research funding is dwindling. In the offer I was given, I was lucky to be fully funded but all the work I did would belong to NYU/Intel....
RIP.

Do we know this is Bitcoin related, though? Or even finance related, for that matter?
3 of Yahoo!'s problems are in much better shape today than before Mayer joined.

1 - Stock price
2 - Employee retention / happiness
3 - Viability for acquiring companies
Startup Slot Machine
See if you can get the customer/problem/solution to line up so you can win. Learn the difference between the right answers and the wrong ones.
You can get on the private beta for Australia, details here: https://support.stripe.com/questions/is-stripe-available-in-...
Yeah, except that the site owner didn't forget to add Facebook page and the page seems quite active.

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

It was created on August 14, 2013. I am just glad small business like this continues to run and use technology. We should send an email and tell them to fix it. I am also glad the site didn't go down after all this traffic...
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH GOOGLE GLASS?
yeah, reminds me of this other website:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

should we be hard-coding our styles into html and stop making stylesheets though? seems like a balance is needed
author has been bashing tech for years

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s...
There's a major battle shaping up on TLDs like .health. The WHO wants it to be used like .gov and .edu, and others want it to be freely available for things like Snakeoil.health or Homeopathy.health. And this is the case for thousands of TLDs

And yes, once the dust settles, the public will be willing to type in any one of the thousands of new TLDs. The brokers are going to make their most money off people having to protect this huge market for trademark issues. Disney will have to buy every one. Disney.sexy, Disney.tips, Disney.guru, etc. etc.

(edit changed copyright to trademark.)
there is no evidence this has any relations to bitcoins
I think you misinterpreted the parent post. You two are almost certainly talking about the same kind of REST aka the mainstream understanding of it popularized by APIs like Twitter, Twilio, Stripe, etc. The "real/pure REST" folks are talking about by-the-dissertion Fielding's REST which is far more complicated and confusing and is probably not a good idea for a public API. It goes beyond verbs and pretty URLs. Look into Hypermedia APIs. That's the One True REST.
So is the summary of your message that it's acceptable for the President to just give in to pressure from his subordinates? He is either incompetent or complacent, whichever you position you align with doesn't change the end result for the country.
I know it's just one datapoint, and SAT II, not SAT, but I took the SAT II writing test around 2000 and got a 600. I then took a test prep course over a few weeks, took the test again, and got a 690, which is a pretty big difference I'd say. I can tell you the test prep course certainly didn't improve my writing at all...
If you create a stylesheet through dev console and change h3 font-size it's funny to see how it gets re-rendered in slow-mo :D
Android 2.x is what holds me back.

Not specifically because i get a lot of web traffic from that, but i'm in trouble if someone clicks a link from their email client to a report on my SNI host.

Also, last weekend Linode removed the requirement to reboot when adding additional IPv4 addresses, which solves a hassle for me. So I might keep using many IPv4 addresses for a bit longer until Android 2.x dies off.
Show HN: This is my response to the lack of Americans Involved in Politics
It also uses <center> tags. But I'm not here to judge, obviously.
This is almost as wonderful as Subway's old website. I think that one had something like five HTML tags and a few BODY tags sprinkled randomly throughout.
I think it's safe to say suicide is rarely anything but mental health related. There are triggers for sure, but people in good mental health don't generally face those triggers and put suicide on the table as a potential solution.
Would pay anything to see live streams of that game.
Oh the irony. Hollywood has realized that "Piety is profitable"
I have a similar bug. But I was able to code a workaround so the original leak has still not been found. Good news is it's not causing any problems :)

Sometimes it just needs to work.
You are right about your suspicion. In fact, one of the central characters came out an flatly stated that Java was a better language. He had a hand in the "modern syntax" (anyone remember that?), property dot notation and the GC implementation that ultimately failed.

He also once said to me that Objective-C being a statically typesafe language was a fact that could not be argued about.

Hmm.

Also agreed that whether the (id) is there or not doesn't matter (much). I myself have been happily reading over it without really noticing for upwards of two decades now. What bugs me is the claim that it has to be there.
This isn't the first time this has been submitted to HN. The same story was submitted from another site 4 hours ago (and killed): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7351374.
Bitcoin is rapidly becoming the new meme for tragedies. Just like video games were before. "This guy killed himself. He Played videogames." No direct association, but the reader is bound to make it when you present only a SINGLE fact, and you bury this kind of observation in dozens of stories, no matter how poorly relevant that fact is.
and reported on HN yesterday or two days ago. Just saying.
Sorry, I was wrong. I can only guess that the fixings confused me.