skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin doesn't eliminate security risks, it pushes the costs onto consumers. It's inconceivable to me that regular users can be trusted to maintain and secure their own wallets, so the only solution is an online wallet. But those businesses will need to be paid for their service, and face security risks as well, which under the current system are ultimately transferred to users. For bitcoin to work, we need a system that guarantees that consumers will not bear losses from fraud or hacking.
Freedom of speech? It essentially turns individual voters without deep pockets into the citizen equivalents of flyover states. All the Supreme Court did was eliminate any pretense that the US isn't quickly turning into an oligarchy.
Also decreased risk. Loose your cash and it's gone, loose your card and you just call in for another.
do you really have a pet goat?!
Huh? One way transactions cut down charge backs, they don't cut down fraud. It just moves the fraud risk to the consumer (and the wallets), instead of the merchants. Great for merchants, not great for consumers. Again, as merchants are already willing to take a cut to attract consumers via credit cards, it seems unlikely that consumers will be motivated to use bitcoin over credit cards.
Both have a dependency system, but they are quite different in how they work and resolve dependencies.

Apt/dpkg is also a lot more careful about its treatment of configuration files. Debian packages generally ask questions during preconfigure, build a config file, and then run out of the box. But if you already have a config file it will either be left alone or ask you to resolve the merge.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/634/what-are-the-pro...
How unlucky, you must have just missed it. Clone via ssh was added in May last year!

What were the other must-haves that were missing?
These are all good points. Except for the goat.

When I was working at home and the kids were still young, I had a door to the office that was closed when I was "at work". Family could knock if they needed something.
Funny how MS deals with this js fiasco...

they had Jscript.net , refused ECMASCRIPT 4 which was basically Jscript.net, and now come up with Typescript?

And people still trust Microsoft after all this...

but as a language it's really behind other languages and will likely remain so. This makes large-scale Javascript programs more difficult to maintain.

You can thank Microsoft for that. They refused ES4 spec.
I agree. The messaging should be focussed on the BENEFITS, not the features.
Right now I'm seeing that I can run test more easily without using code...but how does that help me? Why do I need to run test? How will it help my business? What kind of results can I see?
Focus on the benefits and solving my problems rather than what the app actually does.
> Definitely a good point, particularly that bitcoin will have credit mechanisms built on top of it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the point of bitcoin is that any credit mechanism built on top of it wouldn't have the same problems of identity fraud.

How?
I'd also suggest* using tools such Tomatoes[1] that help you stay focused and manage your working time.

Another suggestion is to try to not work from home at all, find a nice coworking space or a shared office.

[1] http://tomato.es

* I'm the author a proud user of this tool
I was the first software evangelist
Ah, these articles really make me feel uneasy.

I prefer this mindset instead:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
There are a lot of potential benefits of cryptocurrency. And why can't we have both?
Really? I would have guessed South Dakota.
I worked from home for about three years. At one point I had an entirely separate desk and computer for work, adjacent to my personal computer and desk. This is legally required for tax purposes, but it's also the best work/life balance I could find and still maintain focus. If I'm in the work chair on the work computer, I'm working.
>Also, the rash of 5-4 decisions in the supreme court lately bothers me.

I believe this is actually the first 5-4 decision in the current term, which has been going since October:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_term_opinions_of_the_Supre...

There have been a lot of 9-0 decisions, and several 6-3.
Sounds like a bad VC, he's going to miss his unicorn investment and probably get shitcanned.
Looking forward if they will present the C# native code compilers that were talked about at Visual Studio 2013 launch event.
Why Cities Should Charge for Parking
Oh, no I wasn't implying they were going to launch a campaign of evil and despair against their users :)

Regardless, for an online backup/sync service, I think a very compassionate ramp-down plan is on the order of 6 months with a few secret months of emergency recovery in the cases where people "forgot their child birth pictures were on there!" and the like.

If it wasn't a "backup your life" service, sure, a more aggressive ramp-down is fine... but for a service that tried for a few years to convince you to stick you life in it, I think it's overly aggressive.

I can't imagine their burn rate is _so high_ that it is not something they could have funded for a few extra months.

Anyway, just my opinion... a few of you have pointed out "how long does it take to move your data?" -- sure, if you are paying attention, have a stable/non-metered connection in a 1st world country and are always ontop of things the moment they happen... you are right, a few days maybe.

I am thinking of that small 10-15% of stragglers that miss the emails, miss the announcements and legitimately have important information sitting in One and don't realize it's gone until too late.

I'm pre-emptively feeling compassion for them :)
Working from home on a team feels different. My work hours are more constrained, to align with the office-bound team. I'm on video calls with the team several times a day, and need to be available for that.

I think the morning ritual is to an extent wfh specific. It's obvious that you get yourself together when you're heading into the office, but at home it's so easy just to open up the laptop and stay in bed. It's so easy to blur the line between work time and home time this way, and lose your balance one way or the other.

I have the vpn token on a lanyard; I find this helps as a mental signal that I'm on company time. I also try to do my morning session in a cafe - this forces me to be up and out with the world, and introduces a cutoff point when 'home' ends.
I'm not sure it's something that can - or event should - be overcome. Being a small minority in any setting, for any reason, whether is be physical characteristics, beliefs or experience can be alienating to some degree, that's a characteristic of being a minority. You are free to let that affect you in whatever way you see fit, and you are also free to use that to your advantage.

For an example that plays off the original poster's idea, imagine a group of 6 couples, 5 of which have children, and a single couple that does not. Conversation may drift into parenthood related topics based on the high percentage of parents present. The childless couple can choose their own level of involvement in this conversation, and the two ends of the spectrum are probably awkwardness and center of attention. The center of attention strategy is fairly easy to achieve in this scenario. Profess your ignorance to child rearing strategies, and you will almost instantly be regaled with countless tales from those present...
Cost of living, mostly just rent.

Why would I choose to live and start a business in NYC when places like Seattle, Portland, Austin, Chicago, and DC all have drastically lower costs of living?
This is another blow against what remains of a sane US political dialog. The door has been further opened to the cheapening of American political discourse by monied interests, who are able to overwhelm the public with their carefully shaped messaging and attack ads. The current US Supreme Court is doing quite a lot to move the US to a "one-dollar-one-vote" business model.
You said:

"If any SVN dev truly believes that svn is better than git in any technical sense then I wouldn't trust the engineering judgment of that developer."

and I gave one example in which svn 'is better than git in a technical sense'.
You sound sexist. Are you sexist? Why female engineers? Are male engineers not up to the challenge of instructing your offspring?
On ChromeOS, I got stuck on the very first screen:

I can either enter a Project or a URL to edit. Typing text in either place does nothing interesting. "Enter" does nothing.

Clicking around, I can't find any way to make a new window. All I want to do is see your editor and start playing with it. I don't even really want to edit a file yet. No obvious way to make any of that happen.

The first window is too small. The note about how to edit remotely requires scrolling, but it isn't obvious that the page needs to be scrolled.
If you are running a torrent client, you're probably downloading illegally.
"In a refugee centre in Rome we had been taught that Americans, when they ask "How are you?" don't really expect an answer"

Still true. I responded to someone's 'How are you?' yesterday with an actual status report, and they were taken aback.
NSA is not covered by FOIA. Try making a request on FOIA.gov, they aren't even in the list of agencies.
Bad word choice. I first heard about it from my high school government/history teacher.
Good for you for helping her find her calling! Maybe you can meet someone through this!
http://www.meetup.com/Geek-Girl-San-Diego/
That's another thing -- having a chair makes a huge difference. I'd been sitting on a water jug at my desk for the last few months and recently got a chair -- what a difference! (I wish I was joking/trolling)
If individual voters are contributing nothing to the speech/press promoting the candidate/cause of their choice, they have nothing to complain about.

Just because some don't exercise their rights doesn't mean they can suppress the rights of those who do.
maybe get in-touch with the SWE chapter at UCSD (http://swe.ucsd.edu/home.html). I'll bet they will have some events or could arrange some informal tours of interesting facilities on campus.
And Prop 8 itself was a constitutional amendment. It was only overturned due to the constitution above it; And that constitution was not amended. (Also speaking as a non-american).
Apple patent’s everything intuitive to humans
IIRC - Typescript compiles to Javascript - it's a bit like coffee script, but with strong typing.
It's great that you see your daughter's interest in engineering and are encouraging her to pursue this passion.
My opinion is there has been a failure of IT to realize that mobile is completely different from everything else and we continue to leverage desktop technology in the mobile world.

Apps work best because they do not carry baggage of the desktop world with them. People have the freedom to build specifically for mobile with mobile tools.

There are no two bigger movements that contribute to this than: Responsive Design and the Mobile first.

Responsive Design implies that mobile is just different from desktop based on the display size and that you can design a single interface that can work for both. Both of these ideas are completely wrong.

Mobile First implies designing for mobile and then desktop is the best approach but this can never work as both platforms will suffer from inferior implementations.

----

Setting the ship back on course would take us building "Mobile Only" with mobile only frameworks, by dropping the ones that were created in the desktop era.
Obviously there are some very smart people working in government intelligence agencies, including the CIA, MI6, etc. However, in my experience working in the private intelligence sector, I found that many former government employees lacked creativity and relied too heavily on 'classified sources' and their network. The best analysts were extremely lateral thinkers who used Google and public databases, but would never have passed a government test on account of their quirks.
I want to like working in Cafes. I focus easier, the energy is invigorating, less loneliness.. but invariably every coffee shop visit is accompanied by flaky connection issues. I usually lose 30 min of productivity messing with it and then give up and go home to good internet.
If I really enjoy the task working from home improves my output, but when it's boring I do almost nothing.

I'm a tea drinker as well, but I think it's other way around.
Is procrastination as common in other fields like engineering, accounting, marketing etc when compared to programming?
Are Solar Power Floating Homes The Future?
I always respond with an actual status report.

If you're not interested then stop pretending to care.

Plus getting people off balance is always fun.
...for some values of 'wrong'
Being under active development doesn't mean that ReactOS is secure. Sure, there's attention being paid to OS-level security policies (user accounts, passwords, etc.) but there's nowhere near enough dev resources to focus on the kind of vulnerabilities that are actually exploited against win32 systems (ie. bugs).

Running a Windows firewall and virus scanner might help, but a) do they run reliably (they certainly hook into the OS more than most standard apps) and b) how many exploits will be ReacOS-specific?
>> illustrates that someone is mad at Coinbase and is lashing out

>That's an ad hominem attack.

No it isn't. I honestly wish that people would stop erroneously calling out logical fallacies. An ad hominem attack is refuting someone's argument by attacking their character in a way that has nothing to do with the discussion. For example, this is an ad hominem attack:

Obama: ObamaCare has insured 7.1 million people through the exchanges.

Sally: Oh sure, but what difference does that make - you're a muslim and want this country to fail!

That is an ad hominem. Because Obama being (or not being) a muslim is irrelevant to the discussion and is only used to impugn the character of Obama.

What is not an ad hominem attack is evaluating evidence of someone padding numbers to make Coinbase look bad and then determining that they must be biased against Coinbase. If you think evaluating evidence and coming to negative conclusions about someone is an ad hominem attack, then you are seriously mistaken.
Codio Boxes are a cloud-based, full-stack, server-side development environment
The great thing about open source code is that no matter how many Git repos get taken down, someone somewhere has the latest clone and can still share it. Once software is created and shared openly, there is no amount of threats or coordinated destruction of source code that will eliminate it completely.
Does anyone have a script that is close to his, except for linux?
> You can thank Microsoft for that. They refused ES4 spec.

Do not forget to thank Yahoo and Google as well.

"Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and other 4th edition dissenters formed their own subcommittee to design a less ambitious update of ECMAScript 3, tentatively named ECMAScript 3.1"

-- Wikipedia
Who refuses to believe that?
Show HN: CouchTalk push-to-talk demo for Chrome
This uses new HTML5 features (getUserMedia, Web Workers, etc) to build an audio/visual chat room. Hold down the space bar while you are talking to record messages.
"Analyze"
>Restricting how money is spent in political races only protects incumbents and their party.

This is false.

http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-election-money-2012-...

People who spend more money win. So the rich and powerful can completely override the majority of people. People with no connection to a race can invest large amounts of money to secure a win. In fact, if you look around the world, the only way to make sure incumbents aren't over-protected is to restrict money. Looking at the American system, I don't see how anyone could utter the above line seriously. How has more money not protected incumbents?
> * They were not interested in a level playing field, they were again protecting their interest.*

A system where the person with the most money wins is a level playing field?

I'm very happy I'm not playing your silly game.
custodians of a file format

Plenty of companies have been jealous custodians of their file format to prevent interoperability.

Amazon's S3 interface seems to be widely emulated by cloud storage providers. Although that's very far from a complete sync solution.
this could be the answer moving forward?
From the ruling's summary:

the Government’s other arguments [reason] that corporate political speechcan be banned to prevent corruption or its appearance. The Buckley Court found this rationale “sufficiently important” to allow contribution limits but refused to extend that reasoning to expenditure limits, and the Court does not do so here. While a single Bellotti footnote purported to leave the question open, this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. Later the Court elaborates on the reasoning behind this; I suggest you read it.
2048 in Haskell
Just for fun I decided to implement the game 2048 (http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/) in haskell. The UI is all console and ugly, but I was more concerned with the game logic.
This is very much a speech issue.

Citizens United overturned provisions in BCRA which prevented corporations (which happens to include unions and non-profits) from speaking about a candidate 60 days before an election -- in the form of outlawed "electioneering communications". That was the crux of the decision; the law displayed speaker discrimination. It had nothing to do with monetary limits.

After Citizens United it's much easier for individuals without deep pockets to pool their money together to run advertising campaigns or other forms of political speech. Anyone can start a Super PAC and crowd fund for their cause, and they have to do so independently of any related candidate.

Regardless, nobody's votes are being bought. You still control the outcome of the election, nobody is forced to vote for anyone because they saw a campaign ad for them.
Microsoft unveils Windows Phone 8.1 with personal assistant Cortana
That's if you only rely on CrashPlan-provided encryption, which is certainly not a cream of the crop.

We were talking about eCryptfs/encFS-encrypted copy, where filenames are (usually) encrypted. That means navigating around names like `l00Dqf,A49VqDd8AveLMrbBE` or `qR,bmE-73cA2H6wOxZxlKSwD`.
What makes you think I'm a SJW? I'm an active member of /r/TumblrInAction.
See: Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, Adobe PSDs, WMAs, RARs, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
The last laugh will be mine
This uses new HTML5 features (getUserMedia, Web Workers, etc) to build an audio/visual chat room. Hold down the space bar while you are talking to record messages.
Role models, yo.
I would love to use a chromebook as my main development machine, but the main thing is that I would like to be able to use Git offline. Has anybody moved to a chromebook as their main machine and been able to use version control while not connected to the internet?
> 1) Email suffers from the tragedy of the commons. The more email that is sent the less valuable each email app is.

I'm not sure it's so much the tragedy of the commons, as it is "any fool can mash some text and whatever random markup he thinks works down the pipe and call it email". With proper use of headers (and x-headers) most setups can handle mail just fine (filter on delivery with sieve or similar).

> 2) Current email tools are woefully inadequate to deal with the existing volume of email users receive.

I've yet to see anyone roll out proper server based filtering that truly enables the "regular" user to do what "power users" already can do easily. I think sieve coupled with imap and server-side search holds great promise, but I don't know of any clients that actually make good use of this.

The alternative approach of indexing for fast search/filter on the client only really works for a single client (eg: "hosted" mail, either webmail, only reading email on a single computer (eg: laptop) or reading email over ssh).

I suppose we need a standard way of a) syncing email (like imap), b) syncing filters (like sieve) and c) syncing indexes and search/view/tag preferences. I'm not aware of anything that fills c).

> Worst is the fact that email forces users into a LIFO queue and doesn't allow for import-based ordering.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Are there clients that don't allow reverse sorting by message date? That sounds like a broken client. That people don't use the feature is another matter...

> We need innovation in email processing more than we need more email based applications.

Looking at the design of MH [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System ], and sup/notmuch -- it would seem we should've come much further than we have. As a vim-user I quietly resent the cult of Emacs for probably having a "good enough" email system, and therefore no longer contributing improvement for "the rest of us" ;-)

> (Even SMS has a better model for organizing data than modern email: one thread per counter party group.)

Most clients allow sorting by thread ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html ) or grouping by participants?

Now, if you want to argue that the state of email readers on Android is atrocious, I'll agree without further comment.
Take a look of some of the most recent pictures here: http://www.latercera.com/multimedia/relacionado-articulo/201...
Think of it this way - do you think it'd be healthy for a person to play World of Warcraft for 80 hours a week? What if they were having fun and it felt like they were only playing 30 hours a week? Just because you're building a startup instead of playing WoW doesn't mean it's any less unhealthy.

What I'm suggesting is that working 80 hours per week is by its very nature harmful to you, your coworkers, and the company, regardless of whether it sout of interested for the things you're doing. It leads to scope creep, burnout, and other unhealthy outcomes. Everything should be done in moderation, including (especially?) work. I can foresee a situation where you or somebody on your team will ignore the obvious signs of burnout and power through until its too late.

If you feel like you need to work that much I would suggest you re-evaluate your scope or find more coworkers. Look to other companies who have built fantastic products without sacrificing a good work/life balance (37 Signals comes to mind).
By definition if you obtain any monetary benefit from a criminal act then it is Money Laundering. It encompasses a lot of different possible activities. Tax evasion is a crime but if you take that money and transfer it to an overseas account then that is money laundering.
Are you kidding? PHP is by far the most supported language among web hosts, and I don't see that changing drastically any time soon. "Beginners" aren't switching to VPSes because they don't need them; shared hosting still makes more sense. It's about the right tool for the job.
Amazon's FireTV set top box is also a gaming console
Microsoft demonstrates Windows Phone 8.1 with Cortana voice assistant
How Do You Know If A Startup Will "Make It"?
I found this to be true as well. You should really look into a mifi. At ~50 bucks a month it is well worth the investment, especially if you have a bus commute or like working in coffee shops, etc as you mentioned.
To what degree can you opt in to all this, while still producing code that'll run on standard PHP? Not a lot, seems to be the answer, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
Nice, succinct advice, especially the bit about multi-tasking.

I've always said that multi-tasking is like fixing a flat tire. It's a valuable skill to have, but you should avoid putting yourself in situations that require it.