skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting what human computing endeavor has first crossed 10-20 exa-flops - the estimate of computing power of the brain. 500 exa-flops is something that would be enough to emulate the brain.
How would they know when I mined the coins before I sent them there to be sold about 3 days later?

Another question is, how can I figure it out?

Back when software mining was profitable and difficulty levels were high 2 or low 3 digits, I just let the thing free run for months as a "nice"-d process. So I'm not even sure when I mined them, other than "a long time ago" and then got rid of them late last summer/fall.
Really good question. I would guess that the states issuing MSB licenses are going to keep doing whatever they've been doing. This is taxation guidance, not necessarily a definitive ruling that Bitcoin shall be treated as property by every entity for all legal purposes.
> Isn't gpg already a convenient cli for basic gpg tasks?

There's no way within GPG to easily determine whether you have a trust path to a given key unless you have all the intermediate keys already.
Thanks for the link. I enjoy such type of presentations.
Sure, we mention it even in the README (https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop/blob/master/README.md). There's probably a workaround if you have a phone with internet access - you could create a local WiFi network on it and connect to ShareDrop through it. Haven't tried it though.
This report is probably put out by some secret organization. It's part of the conspiracy!
Then I'm curious to see what happens when Matthew Green releases Zerocash, a cryptocurrency with built-in strong anonymity.
Can I skip the lock when reading an integer?
I know some guys in the cloud storage space ... been doing it since 2001 ... name escapes me ... it's on the tip of my tongue...
I love the look of the font preview. One of my major gripes with web fonts and listing multiple sources is not knowing which font rule is actually applying. Looks like this might solve my problem.
I don't believe OP was implying that this is the path all startups need to take. I think he was simply using a more extreme example to convey that startups are hard.

Not always that hard. But yeah, sometimes that hard.
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Theoretically you could probably choose any arbitrary price on the day you "receive" the bitcoins.. which given the nature of bitcoin price fluctuations could be significant.
This strikes me as the most expected outcome. They are essentially treating Bitcoin as gold (actually slightly better, since gold has a collectible tax rate of 28% which doesn't qualify for the long term capital gains rate). The trickiest and scariest consequence will be for miners, who might need to report taxes at the time their bitcoins were mined and at the current market rate. This will mean a lot of people will need to retroactively declare gains, many of which may not have been realized. For small mining operations likely the miners will avoid reporting and just sell for cash. But for large miners who will need to use the exchanges, this becomes a real issue. Consult an accountant!
I heard this point. A number of times. And I'm happy to send email patches to Linux or whatever project wants them that way.

But GitHub PR UI is more convenient. At least for me and a number of other users. It also lowers the bar, making contributions more likely.

The people that would have not contributed if there was no GitHub might be wrong, but the projects get more patches. That's it.

Finally, youtube-dl is on GH, but if you send me a patch via email, I can just 'git am'. GitHub won't get in the way.
Microsoft provides free* virtual machines, each with a specific version of IE. Not quite the same thing though, but they are actually pretty cool.

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

* not sure if an enterprise can use them though.
That's an incredibly arrogant post. Java programmers are just idiots waiting around for the joy of functional to dawn on them? Give me a break.
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Super idea and execution! I think it needs a few more iterations in a teaching environment to actually make it effective though.
I tried running this by someone with absolutely zero css or html experience.

- The instruction (e.g. 'Select the small apples') isn't noticeable enough.

- There needs to be a pause after you get an answer right, so you can work out why you got it right (otherwise you can bang away at random combinations until you get to the next step without any idea what worked).

- Similarly, when you try a wrong answer, there needs to be feedback as to why. E.g. if you try 'bento small plate', when the answer is 'bento #small plate', then there needs to be an explanation as to what you didn't do. This is not trivial to achieve!

- The instructions at the right hand side is visually noisy, and should be hidden until needed, or perhaps presented first (in a modal popup) to give the visitor a heads up as to what they are supposed to be adding to their knowledge.

- Because of the right hand instructions, it's not initially clear that the HTML code is at all part of 'the puzzle'.

You are 90% there, just the last 90% to make it a true gem of a teaching tool.
When it comes to the IRS the prudent thing is to treat them as a force of nature.
XText and DSLs.
Yes, what is that price ?

That is, what does 1 GB cost to upload and then store for one month ?
Retention is not difficult to measure. You essentially track how often a user comes back over 1 day, 3, 7 days, 15, 30 days, etc, and benchmark against your competitors. The hard part is figuring out why your numbers are low and why the drop-off is happening, and coming up with creative solutions to solve the problems.

In addition to Net Promoter score, consider tracking K-Factor for virality, which is way more objective, and might give you some hints on what your NPS score is.
Yes, you are correct. I wasn't clear in that I was talking about my current hurdle.
I'm not as concerned with the app engine as I am with the compute engine.

app engine is more like AWS beanstalk where as compute engine is more like ec2?

Maybe I'm wrong here.
They do. You can report your costs as an expense.
I've been keeping track of this book as it's developing and I must say, it's an excellent, well thought out, high level primer.
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TDD is oversold. I enjoy picking at TDD guys by asking them to explain me how to TDD GUIs or algorithms like a B-Tree search in language X.
From original paper[0]:

Figure 2. Post lifetime/Probability density function, grouped by page type, of the temporal distance between the first and last comments of the post. Posts with qualitatively different topics (alternative information, political activism, and main stream news) show a similar behavior.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3344
would this ruling encourage more Bitcoin hoarding?

>Bitcoins held for more than a year and then sold would pay the lower tax rates applicable to capital gains — a maximum of 23.8 percent compared with the 43.4 percent top rate on property sold within a year of purchase.
My friend scored his dream job "game tester" for Rockstar. The fun turned into tests like "Run to edge of gameworld, fire 25 rockets, run back, swap rocket gun for pistol, run to edge of gameworld, fire 25 shots, run back, repeat"
The 'Monad tutorial' linked in the article doesn't use analogies. Instead, it takes you through a couple of pieces of code that have an obvious abstraction, then shows you that these abstractions are all the same, and that this abstraction is called Monad. It's really very good, you should read it.
The affordances of debugging are almost more important than the language.
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Looking for a Technical Cofounder – Asseta (YC S13)
Asseta is building a marketplace for manufacturers to buy and sell used equipment. The incumbents are unscrupulous brokers and the industry has not seen any innovation in decades. That being said, it's B2B, so the status quo is extremely difficult to change.

If we are successful, we will empower a new generation of hardware startups. The next Jawbone, Nest or Soylent will use us to get started faster and with less capital.

If you're ready to be a cofounder and are motivated by building technology that generates value for customers, we'd love to hear from you. Last month we hit ~$200k in GMV and ~$20k in net revenue. We have also raised a seed round but are prepared to offer >5% equity for the right candidate.

The full job description can be found below, but feel free to contact me directly, anton at asseta dot com.

https://asseta.recruiterbox.com/jobs/30769
if i buy $1 worth of bitcoin today and the price of bitcoin appreciates to $10 per bitcoin, i'm now wealthier and won't have to pay taxes as long as i transact in bitcoin. for example, i can probably now by 10 cups of coffees instead of one as long as i can pay for the coffees in bitcoin.
Yeah, I'm kind of confused on this too. I mined a few years ago, played around with the coins a bit (lost a few), and have left them in a wallet since.

So, technically I pay the taxes on them in 2011 as income tax (when I 'mined' them), at the price I mined them at, and then I will pay the difference between that price, and the price I sold them at as capital gains?

Can anyone else in a similar situation chime in here?
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or this is just a culture mismatch, but are you serious about the one year warning?

For context, the Windows Server 2008 R2 Lifecycle has mainstream support dedication from 2009-2015. The extended support date is 2020.
It's a mix. For example, Staples Innovation Lab is trying to scale rapidly and hire as many as 300 people this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHTFo2Rf2w). Walmart Labs is here. Climate Corporation is here (recently bought by Monsanto). And lots of others as well, certainly including many small shops or consulting companies.
> "[A guy in charge]..."

That should read, "One of the most influential mathematical statisticians in history..."

He also invented the "Wald test".
I don't understand the meaning of "crack the egg with a sledgehammer." I would think it means "to use way more force than is necessary," but the context is more along the lines of "get the problem solved at all costs."

I also followed the link to the other article where that phrase is used[1], and found something a bit concerning: "Nawaf moved the entire engineering team over to work on it. He called them all in to work nights and weekends until it was fixed, [...] Nawaf saved our bacon."

Umm, what about those engineers? I'll give the benefit of the doubt that they were rewarded appropriately, but the wording here seems to almost deliberately stoke the developers vs. management flames, especially coming from a VC...

[1] http://scott.a16z.com/2014/02/03/harvey-keitel-ceo/
What I'm thinking of doing? Hanging up the jacket. Consulting is a tough business.

Would love to hear your reasons for this.
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JJ & K is an accountancy firm that offers wide range of accounting services to clients in Bulgaria and entire European Union. Bulgaria is part of EU and has the same accounting system.
Treating Bitcoin as property might make adoption by business problematic in the US because of UCC section 9.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/ucc-article-9-going-k...
I use KISSmetrics to measure retention. Their cohort reports are great.
You probably never use the command line. People like me who use pipelines on *nix [1] every day write these sorts of filters all the time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_%28Unix%29#Pipelines_i...
(Warning: Post contains expletives as part of an anecdote.)

About 15 years ago I turned on the TV one day, zapped to the music channel and was faced, all of a sudden, with the face of Kid Rock.

He was talking to some sort of host on the German channel when the following interchange happened:

Kid Rock: You mean I can say anything?!?

Host: Yes!

Kid Rock: Anything at all?

Host: Yes!

Kid Rock: Ok, here it goes. Pussy-licking finger-fucking ho-ass cunt.

And then he smiles as if it's his fifth birthday. Indeed, in the US, you can't say these things on TV if it is a live transmission and they will be beeped in a recording. Even today, it's always funny to see American celebrities on British panel-comedy shows being startled by the nonchalant usage of coarse language.

That's also a regulation of speech on the airwaves. Granted, it's organized by private entities (or is there a law?) but the effect is the same.

Now contrast that with the limitations of free speech here in Germany: While I'm no friend of hate-speech laws in general, I must say that the one we have in Germany served us very well. The only thing that is banned are the Nazi party symbols and the general patterns connected with it (Holocaust-denialism, preaching against a minority, that sort of thing) and it has been an effective tool to counter any resurgence of "The Nazis 2".

Because, as most non-Germans are most likely unaware, Neo-Nazi groups have been actively trying to gain a foothold in youth culture here for a very long time. I can distinctly remember the knuckleheads that tried to distribute "those" tapes/CDs back in school.

Of course having the "illegal" tapes was enough to radicalize some, but they never could organize on any scale, since any organization or music group that attracted too big a following was rapidly banned.

Weighing the good and the bad consequences of our German law comes IMO very much out on the positive side. And no, there has been no feature creep, even though the law is decades old.

Beeping the potty-mouth on the other hand is just off-balance.
More importantly, that you understand how the underlying language runtimes work and their call/data structure models. Most of us will still embed an existing system.
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"Income tax? Sales tax? Why not both?" - Canadian government. sigh
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But I just don't believe that you can't be a successful founder and still have a life/family/healthy lifestyle.

You can be successful in any number of odd scenarios but that is not the norm. It is not hard to prove: if you talked to any founder that led the creation of a billion dollar enterprise from nothing, you will find an endless stream of stories such as Adora's.

One of the things people fail to understand is that when you are embarking on an ambitious venture, the goal post keeps moving all the time. When you start out, you think that at a million dollar revenue, you'll be golden. Then you hit the million and now the goal post has moved to ten million dollars. And then something happens that completely threatens your whole business. Now you find yourself not just trying to grow revenue but save the entire business.

In this situation, how much time you find for life/family/health will vary from founder to founder but as a rule, it is good to go in assuming the answer is "not much".
This is a good talk probably for most people with a decent amount of physics background. More technical than most articles, with some interesting discussion about the results in context of String Theory.
From Word

If dos_ver == "dr dos" then
Print("error")
Abort()
End if
I think what may happen is that there will be a minimum level of knowledge that has to be acquired across technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, and a backend language), but beyond that we'll see more specialists with deeper understanding of specific parts of the development process. I would think that this would be the typical cycle in any information based profession (doctors, mechanics, etc.).
I don't see how this law could be enforceable. Hiding bitcoins from the IRS seems to be trivial and lying about the real acquisition value as well. This is very different from stocks where all trades are overseen by the SEC. You can't just go to a neighbor's house and pay for stock in cash without telling anybody else.
This tidbit from the DOS 2.0 README.txt (section 5) is fascinating:

The user manual contains some significant errors. Most of these are
due to last minute changes to achieve a greater degree of compatibility
with IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS). This includes the use
of "\" instead of "/" as the path separator, and "/" instead of "-"
as the switch character. For transporting of batch files across
machines, Microsoft encourages the use of "\" and "/" respectively
in the U.S. market. (See DOSPATCH.TXT for how you can overide this.
The user guide explains how the end-user can override this in CONFIG.SYS).

Also this, from the documentation for the CharOper system call (that never made it outside of MSFT?) in SYSCALL.txt:

AL Function
-- --------
0 DL, on return, will contain the DOS switch
character. On most systems this will default to
'-'.
1 Set the switch character to the character in DL.
2 Read the device availability byte into DL. If
this byte is 0, then devices must be accessed in
file I/O calls by /dev/device. If this byte is
non-zero, then the devices are available at every
node of the directory tree (i.e. CON is the
console device not the file CON). This byte is
generally 0.
3 Set the device availability byte to the value in
DL.

It looks like we have IBM to blame for '\' and '/' as a path separator/switch character in DOS/Windows, Microsoft originally was using the Xenix '/' and '-' respectively. I knew that Microsoft used Xenix fairly heavily internally but never thought that DOS was quite so influenced by it.
It's a good idea. The problem is only how it should be decided and by whom, how much to print. It can't be government for obvious reasons.
I think that's because complex web apps don't make good examples. :) There are many people building very complex web apps in Clojure.
Seems like he is reaching for an Entity-component-system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
That makes me wonder, how much code do Firefox OS and Firefox Browser have in common? Was just thinking if some of the advances of the mobile OS world could benefit the browser as well :).
Ask HN: Is there a startup where users code review for karma?
Sorta like Stack Overflow but not for question.

I constantly find myself wanting opinions on a public interface and on how other developers would like it to be instead.
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I wonder how much bit coin you could mine with a whole rack of these.
Rethinking Peer Reviews for Node.js Code
Even more interesting: copyright laws seems to indicate that playing/singing a song that someone else wrote, even in the shower, may be infringement.
I am surprised that no hackernews users has responded to this news yet. It sounds an exciting platform for all kinds of innovations.
I'm not sure what you're doing, but using GeoHashes on GAE worked pretty well for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Ha! So, I guess my disclaimers have been made for me. ;)

In terms of trust, I would tell you that trust needs to be earned -- and that it can only be earned one day at a time and that it can be frivolously spent away with a single bad decision. (Trust me that Joyent has learned this the very, very hard way.) So I would say that you should force anyone to earn your trust. That infrastructure is such a trust business is part of why I so fervently believe in open source as a business strategy[1]; companies can change (or be bought) and earned trust violated by a new regime -- but open source can always be forked and its communities liberated from such abrogations.[2]

So while I would (of course!) tell you that Joyent is worthy of your trust (and ask for the opportunity to earn it), I would at the same time say that the open source projects we lead (SmartOS, node.js and -- yes -- DTrace) are the components in which you can have absolute faith.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/corporate-open-source-an...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/#pricing

Almost all of these services have ingress free, its egress that costs.
Also, there are many great videos online - try https://www.youtube.com/user/ClojureTV or http://www.infoq.com/Clojure/presentations/
I disagree - I think that's a confused example of what a halo product is.

I am not sure that Apple has a halo product, but if they did, it would be the new mac pro. (regardless of how you feel about the new mac pro...)
The same way cash transactions are trackable, which is to say they are not. In either event you can choose to evade the taxes but it's probably not a wise bet.
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If you go up to the main site, you'll notice there's a "free 3-month trial of BrowserStack". I think this effectively means that enterprise is fine.
> There's more, but I'm arguing with a person who believes that a question about stdin and stdout is a proper gateway for measuring skill toward any programming problem ever.

Apparently you missed his second sentence:

> The first question on the quiz is a triviality, just to let the candidate get familiar with the submission and testing system.
This is absolutely infuriating.

Every time someone hijacks a Google announcement thread doom crying about potential shutdown it gets under my skin, especially in this case when these “arguments” are so intellectually bankrupt.

If you are suggesting that GCE or the whole Google Could Platform endeavour is in anyway similar to any of the appendage service or features Google shelved over the years, then that calls into question the adequacy of your critical faculties or any vested interest you may have in undermining their efforts, and leading with a disclaimer doesn't take that option off the table.

The sales-force, dev-rel, and the enormous infrastructure investment isn't something you can honestly compare to a discontinued 20% project: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/02/03/googl...

There is also the argument that when Google deprecates something you are more likely to hear about it which creates the false impression that they depreciate more stuff or more important stuff than others.
Is there a reason why Github runs on it's own fork of Rails (I believe it's 2.3 or something), when they could just upgrade to Rails 4, from the official Master (which is faster and probably more stable AND most importantly with most security bugs fixed)??

Pardon me if I sound stupid, I'm just trying to understand why.
Whoops, I mean 2048. Big Robotron fan here.