skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe I'm confused. Why is the address, name and email necessary for BTC payments? Is it a stripe requirement?

Its necessary in that they need a place to send your stuff. Email is often used for accounts and confirmation. This would also be stored by whatever system you are using if you are a repeat customer: Amazon, Stripe, etc. My point is that its a wash and that they are not comparing like for like in an attempt to make credit cards more complicated than they are.

> And, as you probably know, a bitcoin address is WAY more secure than a CC#. They are nowhere near "equivalent"

If you read my post beyond the first few sentences, then yes, I know that and specifically discuss it. The context of the first paragraph is discussing whether credit cards are more difficult to use in terms of inputting information. The equivalence here is that there is some number that you have to input somewhere to make the payment. Thats it. There's no other inferences beyond that.
A lot of communication is non-verbal, body language, tone of voice, etc. It is incredibly easy to misinterpret when you are only given a small part of the communication. :)
I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -
> rich people from non-UK buying property there

I.e. property speculators. There's plenty of speculation in the Bay Area too.

> artificially constrained supply

Thanks to lobbying from people who benefit from constrained supply ... e.g. NIMBYists and speculators.
This particular type artifact is created because the plane is bright and moving FAST enough that it isn't in the same position relative to the sensor from the beginning of the image to the end. My best guess is that you need something moving at least 100MPH to see this effect at all and the position of the double image (assuming the same sensor) should be a function of the speed of the object. Islands of garbage moving fast enough to be mistaken for a plane are probably interesting in their own right.
It may make sense for you to look at the Disney/techstars accelerator as it might be more closely aligned to the kind of connections you'll need.
These Companies Are Giving Virtual Workers a Home
>> and one that apparently the GIMP devs seem to be ignoring

If you can code then contribute the feature, if not then hire someone to write it and contribute it and if neither then at least file a bug/feature request.
The Wasatch fault zone does pose a significant seismic hazard but earthquakes on the WFZ are not nearly as regular as on the San Andreas. On this page [1] (second picture, left side) is a figure showing the instances of known earthquakes along the fault through time; you can see that they're quite irregular, both in space and time. An updated compilation of this data [2, gated] has better accounting of the uncertainties and a fuller record, especially on the older end. In any case, it's clear that some of the fault zone seems to be 'overdue' but other segments, including the Weber and Provo segments, have had moderate earthquakes within the past ~500 years, which is a bit shorter than the median recurrence interval. The SLC segment on the other hand may have enough accumulated stress to cause a pretty significant earthquake.

Note that it's really not clear to what extent faults rupture periodically; there are researchers who argue that the likelihood of an event is basically independent of the time since the last event (basically a Poisson distribution), those who argue for fairly regular events, and everything in between. It probably varies a lot from fault to fault and is more regular on big plate boundary faults like the San Andreas than on smaller (or slower-moving) intraplate faults like the Wasatch Fault.

The real danger, both here and for the San Andreas system, is that an earthquake will break through the segment boundaries and cause a much, much larger earthquake. It's not been demonstrated that this is has happened on the Wasatch fault (there is one instance about 6000 years ago where this is possible within the data uncertainty) but this has happened in California in the 1906 S.F. and 1857 Fort Tejon earthquakes. Although this might not cause more displacement of the fault in any one location, it creates such a bigger swath of destruction that there are more opportunities for associated disasters (fires, floods from dams breaking, etc.) and make response much more difficult. It's also a bit outside my expertise but I think that for a long rupture, there is enough constructive interference of surface waves from the earthquake that ground shaking is much greater than is predicted from displacement at any point on the fault.

[1]: http://michaelhaskinseportfolio.weebly.com/earthquake-hazard...

[2]: http://www.bssaonline.org/content/98/6/2918.short
This is how DOJ describes their use of malware to judges
That's a fair answer.
While I never used photoshop, I also never quite liked the gimp.

I actually sometimes use blender (yes, the 3D software) to edit photos. It's not the same paradigm as photoshop or the gimp, but it lets me do advanced color grading very easily.
I can use textured 3D objects for 2D Animations or non-destructive editing.
As an added bonus it works for videos and the compositing setup can be reused for multiple photos.
Probably if I were really adventurous I could use more of the paint mode and texture paint mode to get even closer to photoshop. But then again I'm not a pro...
> I would have said that the tax issues DO change because you've held an asset for Y years: if Y >= 1 year then you are taxed at one rate and if Y < 1 year then you are taxed at a different rate.

Fair enough, but my point is that you aren't taxed at all until you sell the asset. People who haven't invested much don't get that, and it's an argument in favor of buy & hold.
Twitter, Youtube (and Facebook) are beyond the geeks now. One could argue that today the most passionate users are non-geeks.
My business partner was in the construction industry, and had a direct need for the product at the time. My family is also in the construction industry and when I consulted with them on how their employee time tracking was actually done (paper time sheets filled out bi-weekly) I was somewhat shocked. The toughest part is actually convincing some people that there is a better way and that they will save boatloads of time and money by using us.

We based our pricing in part on the cost associated with average usage. Some additional features are billed on a per use basis since the standard deviation from average use for those features is so high.
Golang LightTable plugin
I think there's a bit of a difference between a fairly length debate about the extent to which statements about weapons of mass destruction were 'sexed up', where the government position is eventually discredited and a Youtube recording of government ministers conspiring to start a war.
ROC (originally "Regatta-on-a-chip")

Really? Ha, that is funny! I guess sun got the codenames and the fact that it was MCM full of GP's, but apparently didn't notice why it was MCM, or the fact that there were 4 MCM's in the full regatta config.

I mean, like, did sun expect to make a wafer level chip?

Its good to know the envy went both directions, I remember a lot of talk about sun's E10k...
Comparing floats for equality is equivalent to a comparison with zero tolerance, not an uncontrolled tolerance.

Consider storing a timestamp as a number of seconds since the epoch. We might use == to check if the timestamp has changed.
I feel your pain, If I had to do it all in java I would of cried to no end.
i'm going to guess that they will exchange at spot and take a small transaction fee. having bitcoin on your balance sheet (volatility-wise) is not the wisest move for a startup.
You can literally email the PDF or other formats to a unique address for you and your Kindle after you set up the account. http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email
Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL
Well, let us say you start out with a pool of 10 people.

Week 1 - 11 [10%]
Week 2 - 13 [>10%]
Week 3 - 15 [>10%]
Week 4 - 17 [>10%]
Week 5 - 20 [>10%]
Week 6 - 23 [>10%]
Week 7 - 26 [>10%]
Week 8 - 29 [>10%]

Would a growth rate of 2-3 paying accounts at a SaaS price point of $10/month really affect a decision?

Sure, if your MRR grew by 10% and your starting base was $10,000 I could see a reasonable extrapolation from that. But if your starting base is 10 accounts @ $10/month [$100 MRR], you might die out once you realize your niche is only 1000 accounts deep.

So I'd say 'growth' is probably the equivalent of a +1, criteria met, rather than an overpowering criterion that is weighted higher than any other.

That is just my guess tho.
The Origins of the Term: "Startup Culture"
I think it is a mistake to measure GIMP against a standard set by Photoshop. If a person wants a program to work like Photoshop, they should probably use Photoshop. The standard for GIMP should be whether you can use it to accomplish your goal.

You might as well publish a guide on how to make a circular table saw cut like a band saw. That's completely useless both to anyone who doesn't already know how to use a band saw, and to anyone who already satisfies all their wood-cutting requirements with the circular saw. They are different tools; they don't need to work the same way.
Microsoft launches Office for iPad
As a developer, I've often felt that if I can't script something, embed it into my own software or service, or even redistribute it, then I haven't really done it with software. This is an unrealistic goal if I was in DTP work still, but by setting this bar, I've been amazed about how my understanding of the context of a problem has broadened my horizons. For instance I feel I now have a great grasp on Nurbs, Voxels, and 3d meshes in general from having done it all with Clojure instead of Blender. Batch processing with Imagemagick is now so second nature to me I can't stomach the idea of having to load up PS or even Gimp.

I think when the process involves subtle interactive hand touches and nuances, then an interactive editor will always win out. However rudimentary, discrete "operations" are things computers should do well, and PS and Gimp fall short in my opinion. Gimp being slightly better sort of with its open scripting.
Now that I think about it, the more interesting and challenging strategic factor in Starcraft is probably the fact that it's not a perfect information game. That's probably a big part why AIs are really good at isolated parts of Starcraft (like executing build orders in the first couple minutes of the game, or micromanaging armies in controlled situations), but really bad at actually playing a normal game and winning.
For CC I get "charged" ~1.5% (pay extra, because prices are higher due to high CC usage), because I get ~1.5% back as a reward I'll definitely use. The exchange spread cost for Bitcoin could easily be > 1.5% and it would be extra work for me with every transaction to determine that cost.
> Third and related, the corollary of "HTTPS=secure" is that "sites that only use HTTP = insecure". This is leading to a requirement that any guy who builds a website with login functionality needs to implement HTTPS, and that saddens me.

HTTPS may not be secure, but HTTP (over the public internet, at least) is definitely insecure. If you have login functionality that matters, rather than serving as a very basic deterrent to accidentally getting somewhere you shouldn't be, yes, you need to use HTTPS.
I'm genuinely interested in what steps do other people on HN who spend their work day on a computer take to "protect" their vision ?

I took on the habit of looking a distant wall every half hour or so for a couple minute or go drink a coffee, but while it helps with the "always looking close" vision I still have a very tired feel in my eyes at the end of a long day.

I do have good vision and have it checked every year, but I worry I'm doing some long term damage anyway, and the white of my eyes does look more bloodshot than they do in average people my ages (and gets a lot worse after big long hours release/bugfix days).

Do you guys have any tips to help the eyes rest ?
Shoot yourself...just shoot yourself. Never use the word 'disrupt'. You aren't disrupting anything but people's reading pleasure. While you are at it...Shoot yourself.
The described challenge looks like it's different from the actual game in important ways.

Obviously there's the different chances for a 2 vs a 4 (used to be 10%, here it's 25%). More importantly, though, it seems that you don't have to slide any tiles for new ones to be spawned.

I've only beaten the game once. By far the hardest part (given the strategy I used) was when I was forced to move in a direction I didn't want to, because all of the other directions didn't move tiles and thus didn't generate a new one. Without this, the game seems like it would be a lot easier.
Introducing TEL Beta Program
Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.
IP blacklisting is not as appealing to governments as DNS blocking because of virtual hosts. The collateral damage from breaking DNS is bad enough. IP blocking runs the risk of breaking essential economic services.

It is possible for governments to invest in session interruption like what China does is possible.

Layering trustworthy DNS, ubiquitous SSL and Tor
The difference between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference
I wasn't aware Rubinius was a polygot vm -- but are there any usable languages ported other than Ruby? Both the Smalltalk and Python port appear to be unfinished and abandoned?
The same argument has been made against OSS. Google's products are free like broadcast TV. They are selling access to you via their services to marketers.
Is another media console really needed? The market is saturated.
My first compiler (still in use) was for the Burroughs B6500 mainframe in 1970. During my brief and inglorious college career I did not take a CS class. In fact, there were no CS classes. The college didn't even own a computer. Yes, there were such times, in living memory, hard as it may be to imagine.

These days you need a union card (i.e. a CS degree) to get a job. That's a shame. I've been refused a university position for lack of a PhD - to teach a subject that I largely invented. There's something wrong with that.

We have no such requirements on the Mill team.
This looked fun back when I first started learning web development...

...then I started building real apps.

I can't imagine the practical application for this framework? By the time you've built something, optimized it, and likely pulled your hair out getting it to play right with all the forgotten things in web app demos (Ajax, data persistence, security, etc), you probably could have done it native. Additionally, at least by doing it native you'd know that browsers aren't going to come along, update, and wipe out the framework.

Does anyone pay attention to user activity, experience stats? Trying yo habitualize your users into using a web app, ESPECIALLY MOBILE, is a losing battle. If social network giants can't get users on mobile web apps.............therefore picking this framework isn't just building with new tools. It's also trying to onboard users into something they typically avoid.
In 2048 a player move that causes no actions on the board will not cause a new tile to be created. It seems at first glance this is not the case here.
Non-destructive editing has been on the list of GIMP feature requests and roadmaps for many years. I may be wrong, but it sounds like the problem is more a misalignment of project goals with target user requirements rather than a sheer lack of development resources at this point (since so many other features have been implemented in the meantime).
Microsoft unveils Office for iPad
Intel to ditch its Hadoop software and support Cloudera instead
> The main problem is that it is deflationary

Actually it's current inflationary and will be for a while. It's deflationary eventual nature is a long term issue with plenty of time to be addressed; short term, it's inflationary.
It's likely this will just end up on filesharing/torrent sites depending on who buys it, how secure their recording process is, how trustworthy the recording studio personnel are etc.

They're really just selling the box.
Lots of people playing with it... it is in a similar state as Docker, in that it is "pre-production" but people ignore that...
Cool, I was thinking about one for a while, but I see one problem. Harlem Biospace doesn't really scream "Hacker News for Biotech". Not intended to offend the Manhattan based incubator that charges $1k for a desk/month.
It can also be seen as an amazing statement of how pompous and out-of-touch the music industry is, and how badly we need copyright reform.
> How does Stripe set the dollar denominated bitcoin price? One easy way to make a bitcoin payment look cheap is to offer a low fee but offer a slightly inflated exchange rate

I just made a $5 payment, and the btc value matched the bitstamp exchange rate
What does the ACH process look like? As far as I understand I can simply give a customer by banks ACH/routing info and have them pay directly.

If there's some value add here I'd jump on it. Offering ACH has been a significant credibility boost with my (enterprisey) customers.

Also, wow you guys have grown. I remember when your team page had two rows.
the intersection of HN readers and Wu-Tang fans is surprisingly large.
Can you quit whining about downvotes? It happens. Just move on. You've made as many posts complaining about losing 10 karma as you have about the topic at hand.
I sure as hell wouldn't go through the effort of listening to that even if it's the most divine thing i will ever hear (seriously doubt that).

Music is meant to be heard if you want to turn it into a publicity stunt keep it it's probably not worth my time anyway.

Although it would be hilarious to have a kickstarter to buy the album and rip it into mp3's for the masses to listen to :)) given how much you will be paying for i argue you should be allowed to do whatever yo want with it.
Billiard table chaos wins $1 million maths prize
Verilog or GTFO.
The 1st Version of Google, Facebook and More: What They Teach About Starting Small
Do it, it's another world.

With it, you lower even more the context switching.
Streaming iOS Developer News, Tools and APIs
Payment is next day with Bitpay...
Creator of this here.

If anyone is interested, this is how I created this twitter account automatically tweeting every single sentence of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.

It is rather simple actually, i just used Excel > Google Spreadsheet (with its script tool) > Zapier > Buffer.

Excel to get a text copied from a PDF, concatenate (as it is divided by lines, rather than sentences), then separating it in sentences and finally dividing the sentences by 140 characters (one tweet). And yes, I did chose Hemingway because he uses short sentences.

Then I created two sheets on Google Drive Spreadsheet. One with all tweets on a single colunm. Other with the new tweets. I created a script to copy each tweet from the "all tweets" sheet to the "new tweets" sheet, one by one, on a appended row, every 2 hours.

This is because Zapier needs a "trigger" to perform its tasks. So the zap here is every new row added on "new tweets" sheet, it will send it to the my tweets line on Buffer.

Finally, I scheduled Buffer to tweet 12 times a day. A not so flooded schedule I guess, but still able to tweet the whole book (2017 tweets) in less than 6 months.

So, follow if you will, it was a fun way to find out what I could with Zapier actually.
Microsoft’s Office Suite Finally Coming to iPad, Maybe Too Late
Intel jettisons its Hadoop distro and puts millions behind Cloudera
> Not for digital goods (maybe email)

Yep, for one-time purchases of digital goods, Bitcoin is superior. For repeat purchases, like my Amazon Kindle purchases, you have to beat one-click.

> Most bitcoin payments are done either through mobile phone scanning a QR-code, or through uri's opening bitcoin software. I've never manually typed in a bitcoin address (worst case is copy pasting the payee address)

Ah yes, I forgot about this part. Although you can store your CC# in your auto-fill or password management software. And most stores will save it for you. The argument here is that is insecure, because you're storing your CC# and it can be stolen. But likewise, you're storing your Bitcoin private addresses on whatever device and they can be stolen as well. Except without any chance of recovery.

> Not sure what you've been reading, but my bitcoin purchasing experiences have all been extremely straightforward. Scan QR-code, press send, done.

Well I'm comparing getting an invoice, scanning a code, sending, waiting for confirmations with literally clicking a button to buy and then another button to tell Amazon where to ship my stuff. Or in some cases, just one button to buy and ship.

Then I accounted for the stories in which the invoice expired before enough confirmations, and apparently the order just evaporated despite the bitcoins being sent. And there's plenty of Coinbase horror stories from people trying to get refunds.

Broadening the use cases.. There's stuff like paying bills where I literally have to do nothing. Netflix, my electric company, Comcast, etc all just pull the funds necessary every month. I literally have to do nothing.

> Uh...no you aren't. There's no chargebacks, not no refunds. That is, to get a refund the merchant has to agree.

That was in reference to Overstock and Tiger Direct specifically. If I remember correctly, neither allow actual refunds of stuff bought with Bitcoin. They just give you store credit.

> Basically, risk moves from merchant to customer (banks usually require the merchant to prove they delivered the goods in chargeback cases)

That's a problem I have with it. Merchants are better equipped to manage risk than consumers, so pushing it back onto consumers is a bad thing.

> bitpay already offer 0% fees for a flat $30/month, and things can only get cheaper (as there get more/better exchanges and less volatility)

Didn't know that. I was going off of Coinbase's rates. Thanks for the correction.
If you want to have friends who will be there for you when things are hard, then you have to be willing to be there for them when things are hard. That said, you should still choose people who have the abilities and attitudes that allow you to be what you want to be.

What does this mean in practice?

Here is a real example. A feeling of personal responsibility is important. While good and bad things happen to all sorts of people for reasons out of their control, the ones who take personal responsibility for their situation turn out better. And not just better in the long run, they become better people. How fast? There was an interesting experiment on this where students were asked to read an essay, comment on it, and then were provided with the opportunity to make a small moral decision. Students who had just read an essay on determinism were less likely to make the moral choice than ones who had just read a similar essay on free will.

The more we believe that things happen because they happen, the easier it is for us to justify immoral decisions like taking money instead of returning it to the owner. The more we believe that we are responsible for our own choices, the harder it becomes to justify petty theft.

So stick with friends through thick and thin. But choose ones whose attitudes represent what you want to become.