skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an Aussie, but I saw two films starring Paul Hogan.

I'm trying to make this transition as well. I think it basically boils down to the following:
Ask lots of people what their problems are (lead generation, paperwork and team coordination appear common themes), explain how you can help them out while using non-technical talk and then charge them. I'm hopefully going to start doing that next week.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?
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I won't disagree with you - more and more, people wear their politics on their sleeves and have their ears plugged to any view to which they don't agree. This isn't restricted to leftists going after conservatives, nor conservatives going after leftists. It's everywhere.

I think it's one of the side-effects of living in a society where so much information is available. In the past, we could know the politics of people in our immediate surroundings, but we also had to take our relationship into account. We might be acquainted with politics on a larger scale, but the people behind it were much more distant.

Now, we can be exposed to any and every political viewpoint out there, frequently whether we were looking for it or not. The kinds of politics we can be exposed to aren't just local and we're surrounded by a sea of strangers, all clamoring for our attention.

The natural reaction is to filter out the things we don't agree with and with so much political noise, we have to do it vehemently, just adding more noise. Or we can take another route, which is just to let someone else do the thinking for us, and there are people all too willing to step into that role.

Even though I lean left, I don't think Eich was the wrong choice for CEO. His religious beliefs didn't really have much to do with the job. I could probably work for the guy and disagree with him all the same, but it wouldn't matter - that would not be the nature of our work together.

Dr. Rice is another matter entirely. Her entire legacy under the Bush administration disgusts me. I would gladly chauffeur her to the doors of the World Court for her involvement in what I thoroughly believe are war crimes. Furthermore, her beliefs on privacy and security being subservient to the needs of the state are almost equally as disgusting to me.

I really hope Dropbox will reconsider adding her. I'm sure they can find someone else to fill their needs to work with foreign governments who is far less engaged with the state apparatus destroying our personal liberties.
Change all your passwords, now.. it is that simple // re:Heartbleed
They will only stop once the electricity is more expensive than the mined bitcoins. We're not there yet.
Well, you do understand how to write proveable programs. Most programmers do not.
The seems the money spent, more than anything

But: Enterprise is hard, bootsrap even more-so.
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Absolutely. A fixed reward (25 BTC) is rewarded each time a block is mined. Each block is based on the prior blocks in the chain, so when one miner mines a block, all the other miners must start over. Blocks are mined on average once every ten minutes, so basically, a random miner is selected approximately once every ten minutes to receive a reward.
Doesn't seem to have deterred professional investors SecondMarkets Bitcoin trust just reported that they reached the 100k BTC milestone.

https://twitter.com/barrysilbert/status/454391450353295360
I think your comment deserves many more replies. It is taken completely granted that this is the case. I don't think it is good at all but that is the mindset.
> bulk data collection

Including whatever the McDonald's free wi-fi might store? I'm not insinuating they were an actor, but is that how simple it could've been? Anything communicated over unsecure/not-secure-enough wi-fi could've been captured & apparently now decrypted using newly-acquired information?

I'm halfway sure that's what it means. But that would just be crazy, right?
"What matters is not to always be right, but how you correct errors."

In my opinion, heartbleed is a counterexample to your point. It's a case where making the mistake at all caused a lot of damage, no matter how quickly they patched it.
That will be a poor flame detection scheme if HN gets too many readers like me. I use up-voting as a way to mark articles/threads that I have NOT yet read but want to come back to. The HN interface actually implicitly suggests this use for up-voting, by naming the list of articles you have up voted your "saved stories" instead of "up-voted stories".
Gmail has literally become everything I hate in webmail interface. Classic interface is mostly all I use anymore.
> Gold has value. It can be used by dentists. It can be used in electronics. It has been inherently valuable for millennia.

This is a moot point. The value of gold is almost totally unrelated to its utility.
Lets Godwin this bitch right up.

Would you like Hitler on board of directors? Sure, he invaded half of Europe, Asia and Africa, then there is holocaust.

On the other hand he will guarantee mad money for your company. We are talking IBM money, Hugo Boss money, VW/Mercedes/Bosch money.

SCREW the dead, we are rich baby!
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When I read this I couldn't help but think it emphasizes the core problem with creation waste, meetings and communication lag, e.g. time between emails, IMs. I think we can all learn from that part.
https://en.mail.qq.com/ also offers free domain email hosting. It is a good alternative.
I've used their own weapon! :)

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IDK what the video is showing. Can't see the lights half the time.
Gandi gives you email for domains registered with them: http://en.gandi.net/domain/mail
How would this have been in the documents? Didn't the documents come first? This came later, I thought.

EDIT: ...might've come later. exact timeline probably unknowable.
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Gold has utility besides its currency value; it's easy to work, highly conductive and non-reactive, making it ideal for many industrial and aesthetic purposes.

Paper currency is backed by a government promise. Of course, if people lose faith in a state or a government persistently debases the fiat currency, people will lose confidence in it. But as I've pointed out before, while there have been many hyperinflationary episodes, it's not that frequent of a problem relative to the number of countries and currencies in existence.
I had the opposite reaction. For me this is why I love JavaScript. It makes things I want to do in C++, C#, etc simple and easy.

Meta-programming is almost always scary looking regardless of language. But once written well using it is generally easy and I can ignore it and get back to work.
I don't quite get it. Being able to transmit images is "novel" but being able to query more information that has ever been available before in the history of the human race is not?

You should really separate the application of the technology from the technology itself. Your last sentence can be said the exact same way about the telephone "It provides some social value and exists for that reason" but that is clearly a ridiculous statement to make about the telephone.
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Money is used to exchange goods and services between people. Any kind of money has inherent utility value, just by being money. Bitcoin is currently the best form of money ever invented. Speculative market value predicts this utility value.
Look up 'value investing'. There, you may find kindred spirits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_investing
Daily Badge would do the trick.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhillsyste...
It seems appealing except the lack of IMAP and/or POP access.

How am I to see email notifications on my phone or through a simple email client on my desktop?
> Alcohol-centric social interaction is another form of exclusion.

And there's nothing wrong with that - people aren't obligated to accommodate everybody.
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Ask HN: Who can solder tiny wires to tiny devices?
I need to find a person or service or whatever that can solder a very fine two-conductor-plus-shield cable I have to the three pads of a batch of ten very tiny MEMS microphones and I don't know where to begin. Can anyone here advise me? Even to tell me an appropriate place to ask if Ask HN isn't.

The dimensions of the MEMs microphones are 2.75mm L x 1.85mm W x 1.00mm H. It can be seen here: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/SPV0840LR5H-B/423-1214-1-ND/4376286

I don't have a picture of the coax cable but it is flattened and isn't as wide as is the MEMS.

I'm an independent inventor in retirement and don't have deep pockets.

P.S. Why the hell do I get the ubiquitous "link unknown or expired" trying to submit this.
And it's backed by the faith in the US military to enforce US sovereignty and interests.
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That's assuming everyone who mines coins puts them up for sale and that's far from true.
Enhanced heartbleed: consistently get 64k of heap
The actual filing says "The overall increase was primarily due to increased employee compensation-related costs of $9.4 million and increased marketing program costs of $3.3 million"

So of that 37M, commissions et al. INCREASED by 9M from 2012-2013. I wonder how much of that 37M is actually salary/commission vs travel + lodging + fancy dinners + customer gifts et al.
Ah good to know about Reddit, I never saw that phase. HN wasn't the opposite, though it seems to be getting more that way.
Bitcoin price action has been suffering for the past few weeks. First the Mt Gox debacle, then China banning banks from processing it, then the IRS declaring it taxable as a property.

The major impact of that last decision will be on consumer adoption. Now, every time I want to make a transaction, I need to keep track of my taxes. I know that some wallet services are already developing ways to keep track of this automatically, but that's just an extra headache for the average consumer. This in essence will force consumers to think of bitcoin more as an investment, rather than a "currency" they can spend, and that will impede adoption.

I know nobody here likes to hear it, and I feel like a lot here in SV are tuning this out, but bitcoin is really, really struggling to find a relevant use case with consumers. Regular consumers have absolutely no reason to use bitcoin. The "1-click" payment and 1% price discount are not appealing enough to the average Joe who already gets 1-2% cash back, airline miles, and consumer protection on his credit card (and 1-click checkouts on many e-commerce platforms). And more regulation isn't helping the "crypto-anarchist" decentralization angle either. Add price volatility to that and it kills the consumer use case.

But... how about micro-payments? Consumers have always hated them. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht.... (Shirky, 2000)

But... how about international transactions? Hard to beat the fees at https://transferwise.com.

Bitcoin is great, FOR MERCHANTS.

BUT PAYMENTS IS A TWO-SIDED MARKET. A winning product must appeal to both sides, the buyer and the seller. Bitcoin appeals to the seller at the expense of the buyer.

Consumer adoption is going to determine whether or not it succeeds on a grander scale. Unfortunately, Bitcoin does not solve a problem for consumers. Especially with tap-tap mobile payments around the corner.

When it comes to money, consumers want to be insured and cuddled and protected and not run the risk (however small) of being criminally liable for transactions and have someone to speak with if they make an erroneous transaction or have their card stolen. And they can already do all that, which makes it tremendously difficult to compel them to change the habits they've had in forever to adopt a system that does not provide them with significant advantages.

I've been in bitcoin since 2011 and used to be a big believer, but I don't see bitcoin gaining traction with consumers, in part because of the huge regulatory risk. Any significant threat to the banks' business will be met with harmful regulatory control (friendly reminder: Wall Street banks fund the largest political lobbies in Washington). It could be destined to eternally remain a store of value (like gold) or find very targeted applications (like specific types of machine-to-machine payments). The underlying blockchain technology could be of more use (if adopted by the banking system, for example) but that is still far in the future.
I'm sick of slick designs too, but I didn't think too many people would've considered basecamp's UI as 'slick design'. So I'm curious about what Jason Fried is thinking for the new design. I hope they don't go all minimalistic.

Personally, I think Atlassian Jira does a great job of striking the right balance between great clutter-free design and functions.
I've been remodelling my bathroom and have had several times when I could've used a truck to deliver 4x8 sheets of whatever from the lumber yards
Pretty humorous how monetary cranks rant nonstop about the fed printing money being theft and about how we're turning into Zimbabwe and then goddarn it Paul Krugman was right and there's no hyperinflation and to top it all off your Ayn Rand bucks start suffering "downward pressure" due to all the Ayn Rand buck printing...
Of course there are exceptions. Yes it's sad to see intelligent people wasting their brains on nonsense.
According to @puellavulnerata: examining my own tests closer, if you use a payload length above 16k, it sends back an ill-formed response exceeding the maximum TLS record length. A lot of the proofs-of-concept can't parse it properly - the payload length in the heartbeat response doesn't match the TLS record length. That's what this code fixes.
angularjs please
George Bush's paintings are 'copied off Google images and Wikipedia'
I just created 4 account on Tuesday and as i was creating them, i was thinking to myself "I bet MS will soon start charging for this..."
How did i know...? Because their support system sucks, if you go on their support forum you will easily see 6 months old tickets without a single response. I still have one untouched for about 5 weeks. Now that you will have to pay, hopefully they will start giving a shti about support
At its limits it is.

Beyond them, it's negative-sum.
I work for Steve right now and I've worked at several different companies and in several different industries and our hiring practices are far better than what I've experienced in other companies. Are there ways in which I think the process could be better, yeah of course. Judging by what you have on this page, http://www.matasano.com/careers/ , the rigor of process is not terribly different what you guys do. Where there are differences is that we de-emphasize lots of phone/distance stuff and emphasize on-site stuff. If we think people have the technical chops, we're more than happy to have them come in and pay them to work with us for 1-2 weeks. However now that we have an open-source framework available out in the wild now, we're moving in the direction of judging people on what they build and do with our code, so that we don't have to rely on people spending as much time with us, because that's hard to do when you already have a full-time job.

Judging the hiring process at the company of a person based on a essay is naïve. There's a lot more to it that what fits on paper and what is in that essay has evolved in the past few years. I've met a lot of the people who Steve has hired at his previous company and all have been solid people I'd work with. Both Tom-Preston Warner and Chris Wanstrath worked at Powerset. Cliff Moon is brilliant as are the people who work with him at Boundary.

On a side note, after reading your hiring page, I'm not looking for work, but I am curious about what resources you'd recommend to people interested in learning about pen-testing web apps and building fuzzers. Never done any of that type of stuff before, and I know nothing about it and I'm curious.
The logic is that people who mined or sold bitcoin last year (and at the time didn't know how it would be taxed) now need to sell more bitcoin to get the cash to pay their taxes, and all that selling depresses the price. This is a plausible mechanism, but I think it's clear that news from China is having a much larger effect on the price right now.
Krugman was right, but I remember during the Bush years, he was predicting inflation caused by the deficits that Bush created. He's a really smart guy but can be pretty partisan.

That said, at least he adjusted his opinion in the face of evidence -- Econ 101 says we should be seeing inflation and instead we're seeing near-deflation while the Fed is literally printing as much money as they can politically get away with. The monetary cranks keep telling us we're going to see it 'any minute now', because they can't abandon their theories in the face of evidence -- and yes, eventually some inflation will happen at some point, but it's hard to say that'll have made the cranks correct.
2048... Is it the new Flappy Bird?
I'm curious how many of those installations actually see much use, especially on an ongoing basis.

I know several people who have all sorts of browsers installed on their Android devices, but only end up using one of them frequently. The others are used for the rare site that doesn't work well in the preferred browser, but these other browsers don't see much, if any, use beyond that.
I've read multiple articles on people doing this. Practice is the best way to learn. Admittedly, I've tried and failed on this before. I love seeing people succeed and become better at their practice using this method. It can only serve as inspiration for others. Thanks and congrats!
Correct! We'll be releasing data in the coming weeks so stay tuned!
False.

Taxes also apply the moment coins are mined. See question Q-8 in the IRS notice.
Why #4?
I pointed out[1] 10 days ago that the Bitcoin had broken through a key support level and anybody trading a similar stock chart on technicals would be looking to go short.

From a purely technical perspective, there's no buy signal (yet).

Catching a falling knife is always a bad idea but seeing them before they fall can be highly profitable. It's just a shame there's no readily available vehicle for playing BTC on the short side.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500000
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I think it's worse that tactless; it's brainless.

Customers of a business care about who sits on the Board and exercise their right to take their business elsewhere.

The horror!

It sounds like the whimper of someone who stands to gain from a Dropbox IPO.

"There is only one boss-the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." - Sam Walton

Yes, he can fire Board members too.

s/customer/user/
I really don't think speculators were thinking that far ahead -- herd mentality is a way more believable explanation, there are hundreds of examples going back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I'm not here to canonize Krugman, in fact I'll link the sort of article you're referring to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/opinion/a-fiscal-train-wre...

I will say that deficits increasing interest rates in a time of expansion and deficits and QE not increasing interest rates during a recession when the taylor rule is at -5% or so[1] are not exactly the same thing.

[1] http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/speeches/2012/dud0524_1...
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Impressive idea!

So you say that you ever aspire to have enough bandwidth to tunnel youtube for a whole country? That's quite a pledge. Or you trust that only a small enough part of the population will ever use the service?

It sounds great. Keep up the good work.
The recent drop is due to chinese regulation of the exchanges there. Your theory is interesting too, though.
Glad I got in when I had the chance! I use to use googles service, but tend to like outlook just a bit more. Not that I favor microsoft, just like the interface and features more.
>People are increasingly incapable of living and working with people with whom they deeply disagree.

You mean like people that complicit with the death of thousands of people and don't get the benefit of the doubt because they were lying to everyone all along?
That's exactly the column I was thinking of, I specifically remember the mortgage reference. Thanks.

And I agree on your distinction there, and the historical record bears it out, with inflation rising from 2003-2007 and then near-deflation from 2008 onwards. Thank god we didn't listen to the fiscal hawks in 2009, most of whom were just trying to score political points and make things harder for Obama anyways. Could have been a deflationary spiral similar to what happened to 2000s Japan or 1930s US.

Hm, I think I just bumped Krugman up another notch in my head -- that 2003 article looks a lot less partisan if you look at it in the context of 2003-2008 rather than 2008-2014.
An IPO is a fundraising event, companies usually go public to raise money (very few are profitable at IPO). If they are already profitable, what is the main benefit of going public, increased scrutiny, lawsuits, and quarterly expectations?
It's not free, but Fastmail would be my recommendation. I really love it. (If you look through my history, it's probably my most discussed topic)

https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html

$40 a year is $3.30 a month. Price of a cup of coffee.
I don't really think the IRS ruling had anything to do with it. Whether it's legally property or currency, people will be able to continue using bitcoin as they always have. The only thing that changes is what they report on their tax forms at the end of the year.
It assumes they will be for sale eventually, which is true. At that time supply will increase and price will therefore decrease unless ongoing growth is experienced.
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There's a play through with more details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv3K3ikSdsM
Ask HN: Is anyone else working on this? Maybe I can help you.
I moved to Melbourne about a year ago. I've been slow at making new friends. Part of the problem is that I'll meet many people, but most I don't quite click with.

So, I started building an app that helps you find people with whom you have a high probability of getting along with. Here's my ultra lean MVP: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/will-we-get-along/id807034884?mt=8. It works by allowing you to indicate not only your "likes" and "dislikes", but also by how much. It then finds matches based upon shared passions and peeves (rather than mere likes and dislikes).

I can't build it alone, so why not dog-food it? That is, search for people who are also interested in building something like this, then use the app to screen for a good match.

So my question is, is anyone here working on an app like this? If so, how about seeing how likely it is we will get along (https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/will-we-get-along/id807034884?mt=8 my username is "tom", right down the bottom). If there's a good chance, let's start a conversation with the aim of perhaps collaborating.
Also, I hardly believe that the Starbucks gift card market has enough liquidity to be useful to launder a substantial amount of money, so nope, no laundering here...
Please find me a time when it was common to IPO with profits. Here's a hint: you won't find such a thing.

IPOs are fundraising events. High growth companies are almost by definition losing money. The idea is to raise money in order to fund expansion. Companies don't even attempt to be profitable during this phase.
Clickable: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/will-we-get-along/id80703488...
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