skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, it says that you are taxed on their value at the time they are mined.
The non-nil checks are particularly useful in core.async code as nil is a special value for channels (indicating they've been closed). This family of functions can be used to more concisely determine if a value from a channel is a value or means "close".
Inspired somewhat by redo, I wrote "credo" as a set of small command-line build tools, so build description files are in the shell language rather than a standalone DSL.

https://github.com/catenate/credo

(I don't like how makefiles have so many features that reimplement what you can do in the shell. I also don't care for big languages with build-tool DSLs--though you could say credo is a build-tool DSL for the shell, like git is a version-control DSL for the shell. With only language directives, no constructs.)

I wrote it in the Inferno shell to take advantage of some nice OS features and its cleaner shell language. One of these days I should port it to bash, so other people might use it.
I'm ok with porn at 60fps at almost any resolution.
He says this is for FFOS 1.4+. When will this make its way to the public? Mozilla Hacks has some directions on how to get 1.2 on your ZTE Open [1], but I've seen nothing about 1.3 let alone 1.4.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/01/upgrading-your-zte-open-to...
Okay, so how do the ones that are just text appear, I wonder? (Like my newsletters, for users who've not yet moved them back to their Inbox.)
> is full of people who (a) are really good, like top 1%

Measured by what metric?
does a client send you their entire adwords campaign?
Haven't started talking about it yet. :)
"BTC Anonymity requires the use of mixers"

There are different levels of anonymity.

"using mixers is against the law (its money laundering)"

I think that's likely the case, and I think if it's not yet the case it will be soon, but do you know if this has actually been prosecuted (or otherwise made legally clear) anywhere yet?
Much as I agree with you concerning the interface and lock-in, I do find myself on Quore quite often through their weekly(?) digest email, and every time I'm there I keep wanting to click around. So they're doing something right, even if just with the email (I usually never open newsletters).
I am confused about bitcoin taxation and mining, I mined coins back in 2011, when they were $7. They matched my costs of hardware and electricity. Are they both income and capital gains (when I sell over a year later)?
Cool project; I'm working on something similar. But I'm using BFSK, which means two frequencies instead of 16.

You don't really need an FFT (expensive) to decode these 16 frequencies. Instead, you can shape them into square waves with a software Schmitt trigger, then measure time between transitions. When n successive transitions indicate the same frequency, you emit the corresponding nibble.

The more frequencies you use in your encoding, the longer it takes to discriminate in the receiver. I think this is why real-world FSK systems are usually BFSK.
Sometimes I wonder if Chrome and Mozilla could standardize on some DevTool APIs, like JVMs standardized on JVMTI/JPDA, so that a portion of the code could be shared and people could build JS dev-tooling that would work with either browser.

Obviously, there's lots of stuff that is tied to internals, especially when it comes to profiling and native code bindings, but it seems like something could be done.

A good start would be for JS VMs to adopt a standard debugger protocol so that attaching a tool to the JS debugger would be browser independent.
The trick is that knowing what addresses are yours is not necessarily easy.
How to double your pull ups
There are ~9000 people on the Clojure mailing list and ~8000 members of Clojure meetups on Meetup.com. Hopefully those are useful and concrete numbers.
It's the Microsoft Research License Agreement (MSR-LA). MSR-LA text from another project: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/msr-la.txt
If you look at the semiconductor industry as a whole, it will eventually start to become less capital intensive because (at some point in the future) the vast majority of chips produced will be old generation technology that is "good enough".

There will still be companies trying to push miniscule improvements, but eventually those incremental improvements won't be enough to justify using them over older cheaper technology (for most use cases). We're already getting there by the way-- just look at the number of cheap embedded CPUs with relatively large transistors produced each years.

Say we get to the point, call it x nanometers, where we can't really get any smaller because we've reached physical limitations. 50 years after what will the cost to produce an x nm chip be compared to 50 years before--even if we've moved beyond silicon 50 years later there will still be countless applications capable of being performed by older cheaper technology.
True, so what _should_ happen is that the title summarizes and maybe provides additional data about the content of the article rather than says something else, I accept that that doesn't happen but I also say it's ridiculous. :)
In your opinion, which cloud providers are the most trustworthy? I see you comment about AWS being trustworthy, how do you feel about Azure, Rackspace Cloud, etc?
But it will nevertheless be under copyright until long after we're all dead, so if you read it Microsoft could presumably still decide to sue you for copyright infringement if that ever happens to seem advantageous for them. I think that's what the parent comment was asking about.
You can get a high quality wrist-impression of a key in a couple of seconds if left alone with keys. You can even learn to sight read keys quite trivially. I don't think its so much the speed you are talking about as, perhaps, the accessibility of technique. I mean, if you can get a clean photo of a key, you can reproduce it. It's a physical object, its just metal. One of the first keys I ever made was from an old saw blade & just based on memory. Worked the very first time.

So, I don't think these services really change the game at all, but perhaps provide a new level of information to the general public?

Hopefully, as a rule, people would tend toward protecting their keys. Here's a gorgeous Cartier key protector: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/25421384_a-cartier-of-lo... if you want to do it style.
Xojo: About cables, chains and other curves…
I think this is great, and long overdue.

Not only from a historical perspective, but for future people who may need to run some ancient software in order to extract some ancient data from obsolete formats.

I sure wish Turtlebeach would open source the software on their Audiotron. They abandoned it maybe 10 years ago, but it's still far and away the best standalone media player, but it could seriously use a software update.
Closing a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word
If you spent $900 in depreciation and electricity to mine $1,000 worth of BTC, would you owe taxes on $100 or $1,000?
Mostly this happened to people that got bad advice (I really hope all of the entrepreneurs reading this site are smarter now).

For most, the issue was exercising their options. This is a tax event -- and the tax is owed on the difference in your strike price and the current price of the stock. If you find yourself in this situation -- immediately sell enough stock to cover the tax.

If you are given stock -- that is the tax event. You need to have enough cash to cover taxes on stock given to you -- if the stock is illiquid, and this is a bonus or something, then you should ask for part of the bonus to be in cash (to cover tax). If the stock is liquid, immediately sell enough to cover tax.

If you are a founder, and your stock just goes up in price, that is not a tax event.

Being given at-the-money options is not a tax event. You only owe 
stock
 tax once you exercise.

IANAA (not an accountant)

EDIT: replace "stock" with "tax" in the second to last paragraph
> This can only be good for Bitcoin. If you can pay taxes on it; it increases its legitimacy.

Prostitutes are expected to pay tax on money they earn. Drug dealers are expected to pay tax on money they earn.

Paying tax is nothing to do with legitimacy.
Thanks for your comments. I would love to hear more about what you think of the space ryen - if you have a chance, can you please email me at victor@datanitro.com?
You need news/content expert, how do I find you? 
I've got 25+ years in creating/managing news content. I understand my background could be helpful for certain types of startups, but I have no idea where to look to find the right people. Ideas?
The names were chosen by Rich. Many choices were considered and they all had pros and cons. The new some?/if-some/when-some functions follow the "not nil" notion in "some->" (but break with the meaning in "some"). Naming is hard. :)
Just watched the How it works video. When the coupon increases as more people use it, doesn't that hurt the merchant? Or is the goal to just get more people to buy?
Most if not all of what MS-DOS did has been re-created under FreeDOS. [1] Writing an equivalent to Word 1.1 is also pretty straight forward. So I'm not sure what the fuss is about with regards to licenses, it is a historical artifact, and fun to look at, but kind of useless as a code base to start from.

[1] http://www.freedos.org/
It's worth going back to read what Reuters finance journalist Felix Salmon wrote about Bitcoin almost exactly a year ago.

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency
https://medium.com/money-banking/2b5ef79482cb

Why bitcoin’s rise is nothing to celebrate
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/04/03/why-bitcoin...
That wasn't a response, it was a non-explanation defending his right to support disgusting ideas without facing any criticism for it.
Not only when they're exchanged for regular currency, but for anything else conspicuous. The IRS regularly catches people underreporting cash earnings by noticing they're living way above their official means: someone bought two cars and a vacation home despite no significant source of income reported. If you buy the cars and the vacation home with bitcoin, it'll be the same deal.

To avoid scrutiny, you'd have to either not spend the bitcoin at all, or only buy inconspicuous things with it, perhaps intangible things like streaming-video subscriptions and videogames.
A. Michael Froomkin and Zak Colangelo on “Self-Defense Against Robots”
As a grad student who knows little about taxes (but quickly needs to learn more), what does this mean with regard to the 2 BTC I lost on Mt. Gox?
Miners are taxed at the time they are mined. This is probably consistent with diamonds.
Here at Clojure/West (350 attendees), almost every company is hiring and looking for Clojure developers.
Ask HN: Webservice that lists most popular User-Agents for an input site
I love using SimilarWeb(www.similarweb.com) for checking metrics of any given website. Similarly Google Analytics gives us all the required info for websites that use it. What I am looking for is a service that can list the top user-agents for a given website (free or paid). Can you guys point me to one?
That means a client submitted a write that was successfully committed, but the client never found out that it was successful. It's more or less inevitable in the face of network partitions.

You don't want the database to report that a transaction was successful before the data is actually committed, or else you lose consistency. But if you wait until after the commit happens, there's a chance that the client might no longer be reachable. There's no way around this aside from waiting an indefinite period of time for the partition to be resolved.
How much did you buy them for? That is your reportable loss.
No, only what's needed to update their model. We also don't use the data in any way other than to send updates - we don't even store it on our servers.
For a startup, you don't need "many". You need a handful. If I'm trying to hire three programmers and they are make-or-break for the success of my company, I'd much rather be picky. I'll leave the hordes of generic Java coders to the people who have to hire a hundred at once.
State of Entrepreneurship: Too Many Startups, Too Little Traction
Will Microsoft CEO Nadella put a nail in Windows' coffin this week?
http://chester.me/archives/2014/03/2048-2600-the-2048-game-f...

He did a blogpost
Isn't this the one organization that would be best at finding stashed away money?
and don't forget: 2048-DOS!
That's a good question. You never realized the gain. What tax would you owe if you bought a diamond for $1, it went up to $10, and then got stolen. My guess would be nothing -- but I am not an accountant.
Show HN: a pecking order for music, images, and videos
If you paid money to get them, you can declare the money you spent against losses on other investment earnings you have.

IANACPA, but I don't think you can declare the full 2BTC as losses, since those were never realized.
The point of this card is there are some people who want both.
Looks like front and back end instances are down 37.5%. But discounted front end instances seem to have been removed, the new standard F1 price is the same as the old discounted price. If you were optimized for discounted instances, you might not notice too much difference.

Outgoing bandwidth and datastore are the same as before.

[0] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20131215071917/https://developers...

[2] https://developers.google.com/appengine/pricing
I got mine a few weeks ago.
Completely agree with your observations. But there's a certain nice quality to the leaders being people who provide genuine energy and guidance rather than people who just claim control and demand things.

In addition to the passive masses, things like meetup groups tend to attract people who want titles or to boss people around or to take credit for things, but at the same time are really not offering anything that is of value to members. (demanders, not providers)

And unfortunately lots of companies are run this way too; the nominal leadership is parasitic and the majority of the constructive force is provided by people who have lower titles, less authority, less control of the environment and don't get credit for anything.

Leaderless isn't great but parasitic "leadership" by demanders isn't either.
I doubt it.

I mean, Adobe also released the source code for an old version of Photoshop. So old that it didn't even have layers. It didn't signal anything about the release of source code for say, Flash Player.

And look at which version of Word they released -- 1.1. Not even 2.0, because 2.0 was the version where it became mainstream.

Microsoft has already released a lot of source code that's a lot more useful than DOS and WinWord. For example, the .NET Framework Reference Source.
I thought I recognized your name; you're the dtrace guy!

I know a group of engineers who work on a very high performance (500k ops/second) distributed system running on hundreds of nodes that have an unofficial church of dtrace. It's the debugging tool of choice for when weird shit happens.
When a network partition occurs it's possible that transactions be committed but not acknowledged due to the inability to receive the ack.
Isn't that more a problem with legislation not with the basic principle?

I.e. Drugs and prostitution should not be illegal.
If everything goes alright and nothing unexpected comes up, that amount is going to come from my savings. I know it's a risk but I am willing to take it.
Nothing. No. It was a comment pointing out the actual percentages of millionaires in the US. The now deleted post had made a reference to the old trope about Americans being temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The post I responded to was indicating the number of new millionaires last year. I was putting that number in context with the entirety of the US population. Is there a problem with providing percentages along with the raw numbers?
Show HN: A curated web directory
Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator
I'm guessing relative.
Bob Moore speaking last year. Pretty amazing story (There was a fire that destroyed his first mill)

http://vimeo.com/70167461
That makes perfect sense. If it is the case, I think it's worth mentioning that the acknowledge write happened when the partition happened. I assumed that it happened when everything was going well, which is odd.
Taxes are typically paid on profit. BTC are not the only things with cost to acquire and carry (e.g. Cattle) -- and I believe those costs are taken into account.
It’s true that Trello never supported IE8, but we never promised or intended to add IE8 support. We wanted to support the browsers of today and tomorrow, which was IE9 at launch.
Everyone has a copy of the blockchain, the NSA has every email ever sent along with full copies of portions of internet traffic (if not all of it).

The NSA knows the physical location, email address and browsing history of nearly all US based bitcoin addresses.
Has elements of The Unincorporated Man to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unincorporated_Man
Adds credibility. If someone else is willing to bet on your idea, that itself speaks for the idea.
Well crap. I bought them for about $50 in Feb 2013.

EDIT: Now I don't know what to do. This is kind of confusing. I bought 1.82 BTC in Feb 2013, traded, played around with them, and lost some. Then I sold what I had left to Gox USD about 5 months ago ($500) and repurchased 2 BTC during the "withdraws are disabled" period a few weeks ago. I'm going have to read more about this I think.
do we really need to see a post like this for every submission on a Google service? It seems pretty obvious GCE is fundamentally different than something like Reader/Wave, both consumer products (not platforms), given away for free, and very far from Google's main focus (cloud computing)

they are obviously putting incredible resources into GCE - comparing that to some of their consumer app experiments is just ridiculous
""" There are different levels of anonymity. """

You are either secure, or not secure. There is no in between. BTC is a permanent public ledger that can be analyzed for the rest of time. Without mixers (or similar techniques), it becomes possible to figure out lots of facts.

http://www.coindesk.com/194993-btc-transaction-147m-mystery-...

Similarly, your transactions can be tracked and analyzed because its all public information.

--------------------

And yes, people have been prosecuted for money laundering through mixers. (ie: Silk Road seizure + prosecution). So don't play the ignorance game, learn about the current state of affairs and understand the risks you're taking.
How does this compare with http://rethinkdb.com/ ?
What does this mean for Mt. Gox users? I know it would be for next year's return and we're not even sure how much has been lost yet since they are apparently still "finding" wallets.
> What is important for most users is the outer shell -- not the inner workings.

Exactly, so if the shell is a bunch of non-free restricted crap or is under the control of someone else in a remote server... what's the point? What practical difference does it make to a user to be running Android or iOS? What difference does it make to them if there is an invisible Linux kernel underneath?
Designing Tie Knots By Random Walks
This happened here in Seattle last year - a woman living next to a park looked out her second story bedroom window to find one of those toy-store, remote-controlled helo-drones hovering outside. Cops told us (media) she could have disabled it legally, provided she didn't break the law doing so (i.e.: firing a gun at it in the middle of the city). Perhaps we will one day need to carry non-lethal taser-type weapons to disable unfriendly mobile tech...
The actual notice from the IRS:

http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/2014/images/03/25/IRS_Notice_2...

[EDIT] - added actual notice
"Start ups tend to focus on signups / daily active" when they could be focusing on retention.

Could not agree more. Although retention is indeed very hard to measure, and things like net promoter score seems a bit flaky at best.

I am curious, Does anyone use net promoter score extensively and found it useful?
probably 2048.
You should probably cite something to avoid getting downvoted.

e.g: http://www.bricklin.com/wontprogram.htm
Magmas aren't mentioned much in Haskell because they don't have much structure to them, it's just a closed binary operation and typically we'd just refer to them as being subsumed by a Semigroup(oid) or something more complicated. Monads on the otherhand are "magical" in some sense because they all this rich structure to them that we can use to model computations of all kinds in a very abstract and useful way.

As for the name "monad", it's an arbitrary name that comes froms mathematics but I argue it's as good a term as any until the English language comes up with first-class way of talking about the relationships between natural transformations! The abstract algebra names are great because they force a different mode of thinking than the "nominative adjective" style of naming things in OO languages tends to prefer.
Because you need to commit a felony to not just tell them on your tax forms.
> Under Windows, including the most recent versions, you can get repeatable results for procedures that involve peripherals only if you disconnect them all, then reconnect them in the same order each and every time. Why? Drive letters.

So don't use drive letters.

Mount each volume in its own separate NTFS folder. Now you'll get repeatable results no matter what order you plug them in.
> so your reaction is more of an instinct than any factual basis.

Do Nobel prizes and Turing awards count as instinct or are they facts?
Of course for the many people who will do simple point-to-point purchases with bitcoin, these rules won't really apply, since those transactions and gains aren't detectable unless they're declared.

On the other hand, with retailers and 3rd-party apps adding Bitcoin payment layers, an increasing amount of bitcoin purchases will be on record and associated with an address or bank account in some way or another. I think it's good - we get both worlds and bitcoin grows.

I think they also did a good job of doing this without having it come off stiff or overly specific to Bitcoin. Doubtless things will be adjusted over the next couple years, but this is a big step in the right direction. (I also anticipate a couple small steps in the wrong one, but that's to be expected)
This is true but there are many people who do projects outside of employment.
Firefox OS will also support scrolling in a different
thread (async pan and zoom), which will make scrolling
possible even if the event loop is blocked.

That's a great news!
I thought the way these things normally work is that someone notices that your standard of living doesn't seem to match what they know of your income, and that news makes its way to the IRS (possibly via local law enforcement?).
Android is really a Dalvik VM that runs Java bytecode. You could port it to any OS, and BlueStacks runs it on Windows http://www.bluestacks.com/
Weren't they inserting ads in the promotions tab that look like regular e-mails?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/22/4546906/google-uses-gmails...

The plan seems kind of simple here:

- Make the promotions tab nicer.

- More eyeballs for placed advertisements.
What the New Bitcoin Tax Rules Mean for Investors – Total Return – WSJ
what do you suggest instead?

jGrasp wont install on my linux machines for some reason and I have never had anyone propose anything else.

(i'm an entry level java student)