skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Forbes insists on putting an ad wall in front of their content, here's the full text of the article without ads:

Dogecoin – Bitcoin’s goofy little brother – has just made history. A member of the Dogecoin community donated 14 million Dogecoins (worth about US$11,000 on the exchanges) to a charity with one single message on Twitter. That tweet, to an automated Twitter-bot, is the most money ever donated or sent directly via a tweet.

The Dogecoins were for Doge4Water, a charity set up to help people in Kenya get clean drinking water. The Dogecoins will be converted to real money, and that money will be used to build new wells. The tweet, by an anonymous person who goes by @savethemhood, helped to push the Doge4Water to well past its 40 million Dogecoin (US$30,000) goal. The charity had hoped to reach it by March 22nd, which is World Water Day, and it met that target with a week to spare.

This isn’t the first time the Dogecoin community showed its charitable nature. Last month it raised enough money to help get the broke Jamaican Bobsled Team (yes, that one) to the Sochi Winter Olympics. The generosity makes sense, as Dogecoin is positioned to be the “tipping currency” of the Internet.

For a crypto-currency that was started as something of a joke, Dogecoin is doing some good, and part of that is through the sheer number of Dogecoin users. By volume, it’s the most-traded crypto-currency in the world. Part of that is because it’s so easy and cheap to get into. A person can buy-in for as little as a dollar (US$1 is worth about 1300 Dogecoins at the time this post went live), and the tipping culture is rife within the community. For example, on the Dogecoin sub-reddit, users are encouraged to tip one another small amounts of Dogecoin for insightful or positive comments along with “upvotes” (the quasi-currency of Reddit).

The Dogecoin community has the aim of expanding that “tipping” culture to the rest of the internet by keeping the price of Dogecoin artificially low. Unlike Bitcoin, Dogecoin is not meant to be an investment currency, so much of the shiftiness that Bitcoin users have had to endure likely won’t make its way to the Dogecoin world (though that’s not to say it’s immune).

Still, there’s always going to be some controversy with crypto-currencies, and besides being used as a force for good for bobsledders and Kenyan villagers, Dogecoin, with its catch phrases, such as “wow” and “such currency” and “so crypto”, could be a great way to explore what these new virtual currencies can and can’t do, all while maintaining a sense of humor.
Proprietary assholes. Maybe if they just made the source available we wouldn't have to spend countless man-millennia trying to reverse-engineer this thing.
So, your not a potential customer for Mod Notebook, which is fine. But that doesn't really add anything to this discussion :)
I agree that this is better than most of the post-Newsweek followups I've seen; but it still has things I take issue with like suggesting that the real Satoshi wouldn't have money problems because he's worth $500M-$1B in bitcoin.

I'd love for someone to explain to me how someone would go about converting the early Satoshi stash of bitcoins into even just millions of real dollars over a timespan of less than a decade or two, because as far as bitcoin has come on a number of acceptance fronts, it just doesn't have that sort of real-world liquidity or transferability to USD (or something else that does have that sort of liquidity).
Seriously... It looks like a toy comparing to a good old swiss watch :

http://www.omegawatches.com/planet-omega/bond
Show hn: btc-atms, a Bitcoin atm locator
Native is faster but I think the browser will eventually catch-up enough that the difference would be negligible. There are also a lot of advantages to having at least web development done in the browser.

I am the founder of Crudzilla Software (crudzilla.com), a browser based web app platform. I can tell you that there's a lot that our product is able to do because it is built in the browser that would be very difficult to accomplish in a native product.

As far as issues of network connectivity, I think that's a legitimate concern but increasingly network connectivity is not an issue for most situations.
Ditto. How about in this thread?

I was watched the video waiting for some big reveal, but was sort of let down by the offering. The site says more about the notebook's quality than the OCR/digitization, which is what I was more interested in.
An incubator is different than VCs. If an incubator figured out a way to "hired" founders, that could be a hackaround if it didn't expose them to other employee rights assertion issues.
It looks like Heap is making some progress with their UI which I'm glad to see.

That said, I'd love to see Heap pull in the rest of the web analytics picture. Event data is interesting, and they seem to have a decent solution for the issue of setting up a massive amount of event tracking (and losing all the data you haven't set events for yet). However event data in a silo without the context of things like referral URLs, search query data, campaign metrics, etc. are critical for gaining the full picture.

Perhaps I didn't tinker with the demo enough, but I didn't see those pieces of the puzzle present. For any online marketer serious about analytics, you need the complete picture under one roof.

That said, this is a great step forward in a space where this pain point around setting up event tracking has been largely unsolved for some time. I wouldn't be sad at all to see them acquired by someone like MixPanel, KissMetrics, or Google.
Doesn't the adwall go away if you click the link a second time?
US vs Canada for immigrants
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To go along with this release, I just pushed out a new version of Firefogg (https://firefogg.org) with support for creating WebM VP9/Opus videos.
This is more or less simple Bayesian logic. There is an explanation of every claim Newsweek made (explaining away). At the same time we have a lot more evidence of Dorian not being Satoshi. I just think that probability we would have observed all that evidence and Dorian being Satoshi is exceptionally small.
Why not all 3 and throw in the US as well?

The goal is too record everything which means implementing programs like this in as many countries as they can. Actually identifying which countries such programs are currently operating in would be tricky without a leak. It's a real shame this article didn't publish it.
I thought Google sold Motorola to Lenovo. Anyone knows why it still says - Google Company?
Sadly, sim software has been getting less and less user friendly as it becomes more of a niche product. Flight sims used to be a major gaming category in the early years of computers, but now with the gaming market having become so ruthlessly competitive, sim developers have fewer casual customers.

Nowadays, most sim enthusiasts are semi-pro pilots and aerospace engineers. The biggest draw of sims is being able to fly aircraft that you normally couldn't, like the A-10 which is masterfully simulated down to its tiniest details by DCS in DCS Warthog.
A+, didn't think I'd see this reference on HN :)
If this is just Fizz Buzz (ie, a very low-level filter to see if you can program at all), why is he testing for elegance? For cleanliness? For speed of writing on a whiteboard, for god sake? He may claim it's Fizz Buzz, but he gives it and treats it like a normal programming test, with all the problems associated with it.
Edit: student visa (Tier 2)

student visa (Tier 4)
This was the case in something like 15 us States until the Supreme Court struck it down.... In 2003. (far more States are included if you go back just another decade)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_Sta...
I think a web ide would be great if an organization could host it themself. Hell I would even by one if I could put it on my own webserver
This looks pretty similar to the venerable WebGL Inspector extension.

Project - http://benvanik.github.io/WebGL-Inspector/

Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webgl-inspector/og...

Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webgl-inspect...
That or the development environment is far too complicated and the company should simplify. It's entirely possible that LinkedIn has some byzantine system that even a competent engineer would have some trouble getting everything set up.
I can't imagine anyone releasing any sort of smart watch that breaks the $1000 barrier. I think that sub $500 is probably necessary to get any kind of traction at all.
What is Historical Materialism?
its inflationary in the sense that 5% and decreasing new coins are mineable each year after all 100 billion original coins are mined,

the actual % inflation is comparable to bitcoin's and less than litecoin's.
The Secrets of Web Video Marketing
We knew they were. But no one knew that they were spying on literally everyone all the time. There was no information that the NSA and British GCHQ were actively watching thousands and thousands of private yahoo video chats etc.
I think the follow to 'Hall of Fame' inductions style, recognize the contribution much later in the career or post-retirement.
And that's a big part of why video games suck these days. Creating a photorealistic or cinematic experience is extremely difficult and requires a huge amount of artistic assets, and even then the illusion only holds up under certain tight constraints. So game developers do as much as possible to enforce these constraints all throughout the game.
from marc's blog:

* Throughout the eBay board’s process of divesting Skype, I fully disclosed
my potential interest and recused myself from all deliberations on the
transaction, including all discussions, negotiations, and decisions. I was
uninvolved in eBay’s decision to spin off Skype and in eBay’s decision to
choose to partner with the Silver Lake syndicate.

* eBay’s retained ownership in the Skype spinoff was 30% vs. Andreessen
Horowitz’s approximately 3%. That much larger ownership gave eBay a far
bigger role in decision making on Skype after the spinoff than Andreessen
Horowitz, as well as a far bigger economic payoff on the sale to Microsoft.

http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/03/03/my-statement-on-ebay-director-role-and-governance/

Ebay retained 30%, so we're really arguing over 70% of the gain that didn't go to ebay. And some of it was always going to go back to the founders because Meg Whitman is a fucking moron -- she not only bought a company without buying the backing tech, but then proceeded to fuck over the founders, screwing them on over $1B, who retained ownership over the backing tech. No cause for bad blood there! Leadership!

Anyway, it does seem a little sketchy, but on the other hand, marc seems to have acted well within established business practices.
Ask and Show HN: Startups, do you have your integration tests?
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I know writing tests is good practice but many times due to time crunch we aren’t able to get to it. For those of us, we have built www.pingsure.com.

We are also validating the market so we would love to know how many startups/established companies have their integration tests already in place? If not, then would you want them or you don't care.

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We would love feedback and suggestions. We are looking for beta customers.
I honestly can't think of any job I'd be happy leaving in the hands of a controller beyond the obvious HTTP routing and view rendering concerns.

Even adding a presenter, as I prefer, serializing your data should be handled by your service layer.

I'm not advocating writing an ORM, just some simple data translations from the raw database row data to a persistence-free domain object.
I dunno if you're from/in the US, but this kind of view is a lot closer to. home than you'd think. Go back ten years and a dozen or two states had similar laws, and needed to be forced by the Supreme Court to invalidate them (go back a bit further and the number jumps).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_Sta...
I've used Nitrous when it was called something else (I can't remember what it was) and it was a great idea but the editor felt really slow and odd use.

It couldn't even autocomplete HTML closing tags. That's a major point against it for my use cases.

Another alternative is: https://koding.com/ but they are also really slow. I'm going to give Nitrous another try for my Go development, it may have gotten better.
Clickable: http://www.pingsure.com
JDK 8 Release Notes
Dogecoin has got a great attitude, think Bitcoin would benefit from being more endearing.
It just shows that this a culture and organizational issue that has been going on for a very long time. Now, it's automated and scaled up.
A watch that aim supposed to wear 24 hours a day cannot runout of battery every three days. Give me two months of battery life on an ARM device that is smaller than an average cheeseburger and I will be impressed.
iRacing scans racetracks, but that's for physical accuracy; it likely increases the time and money involved rather than decreases it.

http://www.iracing.com/track-technology/
I understand this is all mud-slinging and I think most of us agree that Icahn probably got more mud in his past (though I am sure someone will disagree).

The question for Andreessen is that did he think (and could prove) that he's a more ethical businessman than Icahn (note I am not saying a better person here) Apparently not, at least in the Skype sale.
We automatically annotate each event with referrer, search keyword, and all UTM properties. Full list of properties here: https://heapanalytics.com/docs#events

Would love to know if there's other important context we're missing.
The dial is just too big and too thick!
Absolutely not.

1. The dynamo would take up too much room
2. Pinching a tiny metal shaft is ergonomically awful
3. have you seen the tiny wind-up flashlights? they're huge, and they require quite a lot of winding, and that's just to power an LED for a few minutes.
4. groundbreaking features like a wind-up piece of personal electronics, are *flagship* features. If this thing had a 1 week battery, or was windup, or whatever, that would be a *very high visibility* part of the ad campaign.
I've heard phrases like "I wanted to see how the candidate approaches the problem" and "I want to see how they think" a lot with regards to coding questions. I'm currently working on the thesis that such phrases are nothing but hand-wavy BS to dodge real criticisms of algorithmic questions. As such, I'd be really interested to hear what constitutes good signs and bad signs in questions where you "want to see how they approach it"? What are your actual criteria?
That would be like a programmer writing "Hello World" in C if landing commercial aircraft was as easy, inconsequential and irrelevant to the main part of their job as writing "Hello World", or if programmers worked in a highly-regulated regime where their lives were dependent on absolutely perfect execution of repetitive "Hello World"-type tasks. Or indeed, if piloting and programming were remotely comparable activities.
I hope the folks at Apple are paying attention.
That sealed it for me, too. Satoshi and Dorian Nakamoto write like completely different people--so different that it's an unbelievably good false flag operation otherwise. Futhermore, Satoshi's style is appropriate to the demographic you expect of the creator of Bitcoin, and Dorian writes in a way consistent with what we know of him.

Wrong guy. If you want to find the real Satoshi, I'd start with the union of open source contributors, with an interest in early digital money, and a CS/math/ish grad student somewhere in the +1 to -10 years around 2007. Probably 30 to 40 years old now.

I think the academic angle (based on the use of a paper to announce the system) is pretty clear.
OpenGL ES 3.1 unveiled at GDC, brings efficiency to mobile GPUs
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js

If they cared about the open web, and they cared about open source, they would be helping open source game engines like Ogre3D and Torque3D.

Instead, for the sake of expedience, we see them promoting proprietary components.

It was not too long ago that they were lecturing the world on the evils of proprietary video and audio.
Personally I find it insane to go home and work on a side project after work, if it's not something you hope to make money from.
Lots more examples would be very helpful.
That's true, and that might account for a day, perhaps two, before discovering the military radar data. But they didn't start searching west until four days after the disappearance, and didn't stop searching east until even later. Even crazier, they started searching west while denying reports about the military radar data. That military radar information leaked to the public three days after the plane disappeared but was denied until a couple of days later. Crazier still, Wikipedia says:

> According to the Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Transport, Pham Quy Tieu, "We informed Malaysia on the day we lost contact with the flight that we noticed the flight turned back west but Malaysia did not respond."

Malaysia had all the info they needed to know that the plane had not crashed into the Gulf of Thailand almost immediately. Ideally they would have acted on it right away. Realistically, I can understand a day or two of delay as they look into the obvious things first and try to confirm the other data. But to wait so long and ignore so much is well beyond what ought to have happened.

Edit: especially in the 9/11-paranoid US and other similarly fearful countries, the plane would have been noticed on military radar in real time and would have been intercepted right away, and this whole question of who knew what when and how long it's reasonable to search in the wrong place would have been avoided because the fighter pilots would have watched the thing sail off with their own eyes.
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No, that would be an incredible, revolutionary, first-of-its kind feature. You'd see it trumpeted all over every single piece of concept art and advertising. There's absolutely zero chance that the first color e-ink display would be a stealth feature only shown off at launch.
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I have one (well, two at one point). The LCD is rectangular in a round bezel.
I think problem are working conditions. Modern programmer is expected to work in coffee shop on tiny laptop, practically worst conditions imaginable.

If I ask for decent private office and 3x32" screens I just get blank faces and bullshit excuses. Since I started working for myself remotely, I can sustain 10 hours of uninterrupted concentration. Before in office it was more like 30 minutes of concentration per day.
And Omega is to Swiss watches what Lindsey Lohan is to acting =)

* I'm Swiss and this comment was made in good humour
Marc Andreesen should be in jail over that Skype flip.
> Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen?

Motorola has made a phone with a round screen before http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_aura-2562.php
This makes me wonder how Greenwald, Gellman, and Poitras come to a consensus on what to hold back. Clearly they all have access to the data and it would be possible (read: very likely) for them to disagree on what should and should not be withheld.
Amazon is one good option for IAPs with web games:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/platforms/weba...

edit - Forgot to mention, they even have a Unity plugin:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/platforms/cros...
The focus on mobile web development is key here.
How about Godot Engine http://www.godotengine.org/wp/

It seems powerful, 2D/3D and open source?
No it's not, because you're not counting familial help or jobs on the side or savings. Also, you didn't address any of my other points. This program sounds great because they're actually charging less. They'll need to increase the terms of repayment by at least 50%.
How much will google pay its user for using this spywearable?
Remember that this is likely to have touch and voice input too, unlike the Pebble.
I actually take my Fitbit Flex off when I'm writing (typing) for extending periods of time on my Macbook Air. The edge of the Macbook presses into the rubber at just the right angle and annoys me enough I have to remove it. I don't know how this isn't more of a problem for all wrist-wearables, honestly.
Starting at $299. iWatch not included.
Personally I think there's a decent possibility that whoever was manning the radars that night was in on it somehow. It's a crazy idea and it's not too likely, but no other possibility seems particularly likely either. It does neatly explain how the military "ignored" an unauthorized intrusion into their airspace as well as why they "didn't notice it" for some days afterwards.

I'm not too serious about this, yet at the same time it seems like the least improbable idea.
I assumed that they used only large arms to make the device appear smaller. On a typically sized woman's arm, I suspect this thing would look quite hefty.

The fact that it seems to be relatively large may unavoidably limit its appeal to smaller individuals of either gender.
Good point. I, too, enjoyed using custom tags like <zoomer> or such, but I'm going to think twice in future.

Interestingly, out of the box Angular provides directives as a, input, or form—meaning that when you write <input> you are, in fact, invoking a directive that provides extra features along with native tag's functionality. While using Angular, you may as well consider every HTML element a directive.

Nevertheless, Angular uses ng- prefix with their built-in directives that don't replicate some existing tag's functionality closely.
that's the only way to look at it; Icahn is a thieving sack of shit. Look at TWA: Icahn got fucking paid no matter whether TWA succeeded or failed. I can maybe see how these leeches ought to get 1/2 billion dollar payouts if they come in and rescue a company, but 0.5B when they ruin a company?

Heads I win, tails you lose.
Patch is pretty interesting. Why was buffer overflow protection behind a debug flag?

http://nginx.org/download/patch.2014.spdy2.txt
Just thinking out loud I guess.

Altneratively: it went to Diego Garcia, and the US military is in on it. No civilians or public air services required. It refueled and launched again from there.

Don't necessarily believe these are likely, it's just interesting to think about.
I have a Nato watchstrap but it scratches anyway. The buckle is more to the side than a normal strap, but it's still on the bottom of my wrist and still makes contact with the laptop. Maybe my wrists are even tinier than yours.