skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has there been much talk about how stores using Bitcoin reduces the anonymity of Bitcoin by tying IDs in the transaction of acquiring that coin to the person that ultimately uses it?

I'm sure the uber nerds were already aware of this but has it been brought up enough that the general community thinks this through? One booking on Expedia and you've revealed any possible Silk Road or other curious transaction you've ever made, right?
Predictably, Ruby is the first thing anyone brings up on HN when someone makes a point about how backwards the Japanese software scene is. But if you'd spent any time in the Japanese tech scene, you'd know that Ruby is not very popular in its country of birth, and if you'd spent any time learning about its creator (a Mormon with 4 children), you'd know that he's far from the norm when it comes to Japanese people.
If your apps treat customers right, and are minimally competent, Apple won't reject your app.

I did get one rejection for a stupid UI error that would have caused confusion. It took me 30 minutes to fix it, and then no problem.
Is this a premature press release, I can't find anything about an API on their website
Yeah this popup really lacks a way to accept/refuse some permissions based on what seems logical for the app.

I would typically uncheck a lot of permissions on some apps, but since I can't do that I'll just click through if I really want it or cancel if I don't.
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While obviously dated, a lot of it is common practice these days. You know, because every man is a sex predator at heart.
They do send raw unprocessed texts? Thanks for warning.

From my understanding, unless some really tricky and CPU-savvy math's in works, it probably would be more efficient to update language model on-device then push the change. Not only it would somehow avoid (not really, but at least obscure a bit) revealing the exact typed texts, but also lower the necessary server-side processing.
A better understanding of what it is they are doing. I am currently reading "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...), and I have difficulty imagining how it could not inform a scientist-reader about their own methods. (Except if they had already encountered these ideas distilled elsewhere.)
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It's really hard to talk about "truth" anywhere, but it's really crucial to both talk about and agree upon the meaning of "truth" in science since, ultimately, that's the goal of the scientific process—the pursuit of the thing.

Karl Popper was a major study of this problem and wrote about probably the most common and universally acceptable notion of scientific truth in the mid 1900s. Before then this notion of truth was in practice used, but it may have been difficult to have a clear conversation about it. Worse, without a clear understanding of the properties which give rise to processes with generate "truth" (i.e. the "scientific method" which, even being really generous, is better thought of as a menagerie of related methods) it may have been a little hard to determine whether someone's scientific program would be effective or agreeable.

So Popper clarified the notion of "Science as Falsification", of "Truth as what weathers evidence". For Popper, nothing was science unless it was vulnerable to falsification and nothing was true unless it was both science and withstood all attempts to falsify it.

This has a major effect on modern statistics. Statistics can be regarded, not entirely incorrectly, as the quantification of the pursuit of truth. It seems to give mechanism to the idea of models relating to evidence and the pruning out of falsified models. It's difficult to ask questions about why statistics is a meaningful tool for scientific pursuits without invoking Popper.
How much game can you fit in 32x32 pixels?
just last week a house got burnt down overnight due to an electric bicylce's bettery catching fire while left charging. Luckily nobody got hurt or worse. Moreover, a quick glance over news sites indicates this happens a couple of times a year.

Run indeed.
I haven't tried Hailo, but in Boston the uber cabs have never felt scarce to me.
Fair point. I was more meaning that arguments about how he couldn't comply (in that case for legal more than technical reasons) didn't cut much ice. The general view of the authorities appeared to be that the operator of the service was required to comply and if they hadn't left themselves a way to do so without violating some other obligation then that was their problem.
This doesn't make sense. First off, when I buy a CD at walmart, the maker of the CD doesn't get my email address. So iTunes is no different in that regard than any other retailer.

When it comes to apps, you do have a relationship with the customer, via the App. you can communicate with the customer within the app, via push notifications, or you can ask them for an email address as part of a registration process. You have many choices in this regard.
Sort of. IPv6 adoption is a matter of supply/demand economics. The supply of IPv4 is quickly approaching zero, while the demand is rising fast. At the same time the supply if IPv6 is effectively unlimited, but the demand is not there. At some point, the supply of IPv4 will go so low that its cost will suddenly jump. The cost of IPv6 deployment is still too high (mostly in human labor to set it up, and somewhat in equipment costs since some large legacy networks are not IPv6-ready). However, that jump in the IPv4 cost will price IPv6 deployment at a point much cheaper than alternatives (IPv4 large scale NAT or other workarounds). That's when we'll see a huge jump in IPv6 deployment.

I think the next big step for ISP's is to provide IPv6-only native service to their clients, and add IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways to allow access to IPv4-only internet.
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I feel like the nearest thing to OO in Haskell in common use is the records-of-closures pattern. Still doesn't have persistent identity, of course.
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It's journaled now. I used DOS and Windows for years and never had any real problems (well, on hard drives, floppies were more vulnerable).
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NTFS may not checksum everything, but I also never had it silently corrupt my files and helpfully provide me the 'missing parts' when I rebooted.
Telling stories on the Web, the hottest way to engage your users
Storytelling is virtually as old as the human race itself. Ever since human beings could talk, they used storytelling as a way to communicate ideas, lessons and concepts. Web design is all about communicating ideas and concepts, as well, which is why storytelling on the Web is the perfect way to engage users.
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I'm scared of anonymous social networks and here's why
Almost all of these merchants are receiving USD and they do need some party to handle the exchange risk. Coinbase/Bitpay do this and their fees are substantially lower than credit card companies.
One would think that it would be Starbucks corporate legal and not the manager that would answer that kind of query.

Do you or I have the legal representation of Starbucks corporate?
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> Right, it doesn't feed us entirely most days, but we don't have to buy many veggies.

This is in the context where, as ZenPro stated above:

> industrial countries spend between 9-11% of their annual income on foodstuffs and less than 5% of their time gathering said foodstuffs - the lowest in time/money expenditure for food in the history of the world.[1]

Things would change radically if you had to feed off it entirely most days. Having a small garden is great, both as a hobby and through the healthy food you get from it, but glorifying the times when you spent "quality time" working your ass off in the field is a bit far fetched...
It's indeed really fast. Also it's possible to deactivate Firefox' default "Inspect Element":

about:config -> devtools.inspector.enabled -> false
How does this work, exactly? I use a unique address each time I receive bitcoins. Then I sometimes move money between more unique addresses in plausible-looking ways. I always use Tor for talking to the bitcoin network.

How easy is it to de-anonymise me?
From our perspective - yes, that's pretty silly. But we are different, we are extremely far from the majority.

For many many people, computer is just a box for writing stuff in MS Word and watching porn.
SIMD.float32x4 and SIMD.int32x4 classes are available in Firefox Nightly, but without Float32x4Array and Int32x4Array loads and stores are horribly slow. About 100x slower than normal JavaScript in my tests.
I would contend that though you are at the tail end of the curve that doesn't need an intermediary, many of your customers are likely to need/desire an intermediary to facilitate for the people you mention, with no idea how to get bitcoins.

Regardless of whether you, I, or HN hates Coinbase or loves Coinbase, they provide a layer of accessibility to an otherwise intimidating ecosystem.
If more users use Feedbin, then it will also be DDoSed and blackmailed. I think self hosting is the only solution here.
I believe there are similar issues with children and x-rays to the head/brain.
Amazon is big, but I don't think they're big enough to take on Time Warner in a fight.
And the BNP bank fined $ 10 billions for not respecting US law while doing operations between foreign countries (under the preposterous argument that if you use US dollar for a transaction anywhere in the world, it must respect US laws).

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/30/bnp-paribas-...
you'll be selling my data

Not mentioned anywhere, not even in the EULA. FUD.

you'll be doing in-app purchasing

Err.. did you miss the announcement of the IAP theme store? Because that's exactly what they're doing.

my point is that as a paying customer this is not a good way to communicate. I have no idea what the strategy is

Sounds like give away the base app and sell value adds. A perfectly legitimate business model.
Another interesting lo-res (40x48) game is "Escape from the Homebrew Computer Club", a "modern(ish) raycasted 2 1/2 D game for the Apple II"[1]

[1] https://archive.org/details/Kfest2011-DavidSchmenkEscapeFrom...
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The CEO responded to reports of issues in an interview:

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/06/05/moniker-ceo-bonnie-witt...
Hey, they rediscovered the way Plan 9 C compilers work: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html
Celery beat is pretty much exactly the same thing as cron except it's another service to configure and worry about keeping up and running. And it uses 35 MB of RAM instead of...well, I guess cron uses a few kilobytes.

I can't see the point of it at all.

When I want to kick off celery tasks I just have a cron job execute a django shell command.
Side note, I'm noticing a lot of merchants accepting bitcoin asking for more information than they should need.

For example I tried to buy an ebook recently and it required my home address.

For Credit cards I believe that's required to verify the billing info, but there's no reason bitcoin purchases should need it for non-shippable products. And it cancels out a lot of the benefits of using bitcoins (fast purchase, anonymous from marketers)
Who's In Charge?
A lot of consultants that are either working out of their home office or at a client site only for so long count themselves as full time remote workers because they have no defined daily place. I know I and several other traveling consultants considered ourselves in this category. I believe a lot of people that are expected to travel frequently (conference speakers, so-called "community evangelists" might also count). I've gotten the impression that most programmers that are traveling consultants are probably able to negotiate with companies that really badly want their specific skills and as correlation to that need results in some wage boosts. I would have liked to see a better breakdown of the compensation side and if bonuses were a higher percentage for remote workers with lower equity to other groups, that'd closely fit the profile of most consulting groups (pre-sales might mix the results up too). The data points they have aren't exactly comprehensive though unfortunately.
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How big a family and how big a farm? My grandparents used to have one, too. As they grew old and the family either shrank or less of it became available for regular fieldwork, it simply became unsustainable for them. They kept a small-ish garden that provides them with most of the fruits and vegetables they eat fresh, some livestock, and rented the rest of the land.
Centralization tends to be more efficient and convenient. It also is more profitable for whoever does the centralization.
I find the Firefox built in Plugin click-to-play is horrible to use, and simply broken for the way I browse.

There is no way to disable / hide the "enable plugins" message.
There is no way to temporarily enable plugins for a single page load.

Flashblock works great.
The State Department does not support ISIS. In fact, ISIS is the primary reason the Syrian rebels are not getting significant practical support from the West right now.
Why many British homeowners don't actually own their homes at all
I used Scala for a project of mine, and I relied on Eclipse for the build environment... I didn't use sbt directly, and incremental compilation was very fast.

I've recommended Lighttable because it's a very dynamic editor: it has a REPL, it can evaluate every line you type. It makes it easier to learn: no apparent compilation.

I dream of using Lighttable to develop something... Check this video: it's in Javascript, but it shows why Lighttable is so amazing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52SVAMM3V78)
The patent landscape around eye/gaze tracking must be a minefield.
I found this link to be more easily understandable than Wikipedia :

http://packetsdropped.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/mac-address-u...
Does coinbase sit on the Bitcoins, or turn around quickly and convert to USD somehow (where?)?

Holding thousands of bitcoins as a startup seems like it would introduce a lot of volatility, even if the long-term prospects of bitcoin are good (still need to pay the employees).
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My phone is already sending everything to Google, so what do I care?
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It's definitely not just about mathematics. What the scientific community considers acceptable (as in publishable in a good journal) proof has been shaped by the last 100 years of logic practice.
Yes, we had rational reasoning before 1900, but it did not look anything like today's "rationality". We used to do piggy-back mathematical models to experiments; now we build from the ground up models and we try to make sure that they match our experiments. This is basically the mindset change that happened in the math community when logicians said that "it's not math if it doesn't start with axioms" (no, I'm not actually quoting anyone).

Also, the second paragraph of my first comment is not about logic.
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Without knowing any of the details,

>several months of carefully measured feeding.

That doesn't sound that bad, at least as a temporary solution to an otherwise permanent problem?

I've been through this before - any time a doc recommends surgery it's worth getting second and third opinions. Sometimes the first one is that guy with the hammer to whom every problem looks like a nail.
About $10,000 per server, equipment (very heavy) was shipped from US so there were import duties but it worked out a little bit cheaper than buying in EU in end, and had other reasons to shop in US.

Anyway its a once off cost, that accountant can do all sorts of magic with this.

Ive been in business for 7 years and hope to remain around for as long.

Have already saved money as to compared to renting dedicated servers before. AWS etc were never an option the sums simply never work out.

AWS might be great at first when you are starting out, but the costs can cripple a business, especially if you dont have others peoples venture capital to burn.

edit: when bandwidth costs are factored in the difference is and order of magnitude between my current setup and amazon, at time of this post using 2200 mbit outgoing, 800 incoming

edit2: my only regrets is not collocating earlier, have spent well into upper 6 figures over all the years :( on renting, AWS etc werent around when was starting off either.
I'd be very curious to know how much of Time Warner's DVD/digital distribution is through Amazon. That's probably the most relevant metric for measuring Amazon's leverage.

Admittedly this is a crude metric, but Amazon's market cap [1] is about 3x that of Time Warner [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&ei=wWeYU_CtKs...
[2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWX&ei=sWeYU_CkLcea6...
Holy hell, Gary Bernhardt was right all along and the future will be METAL... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Is it common to include Javascript as a part of HTML - in the sense that they describe some of the demos as "pure HTML5?"

To me that feels ... wrong. Obviously Javascript is a core ancillary feature for browsers, but it's not part of the markup specification itself.
It affects the performance of the system! By "smooth", I referred to KDE's UX, which is more or less smooth. But the overall system performance reduces due to less resource when you run some heavyweight tasks.
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and where's UberROCKETS where I can offer rides on my private space ship??
This pattern is good only when you effectively compare 2 variables; you easily see that when one shrinks, other grows, and when does it happen. When you have more variables, it automatically becomes too complex.
The capital of El Salvador, it's the largest city of the country :|
Can I press super/win-key, type [name of application], press enter and it brings up the [application]? It didn't when I last tried, and I don't want a window manager that doesn't behave in that way. Windows, Gnome shell and Unity does it - it's not hard.
There are things stacked charts can show you much more clearly than other things. For a particular process I'm working on, I have a timing breakdown rendered as an area chart (not normalized, ordered by total time) that showed something I'm not sure would have been visible any other way.

My ascii art skills are failing me, and this is going to be hard without visual aids, but I'll try...

Overall, there was a significant and stable jump from best case to worse case (not worst case). What was interesting was that a chunk of time the size of that delta always fell in a single region but it was not always the same region but always roughly the same amount of time from the start. Since the process is small scale and kicked off at varying times, this means it was something asynchronous but triggered by our activity (or activity we were responding to).
We sell digital services (ebooks count), and require the customers address (or part of) to determine the VAT status of the sale.

Even though buying an e-book for Bitcoin seems like you shouldn't need any personally identifiable information, quite often merchants do need to collect it.
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> What is it with humans' tendency to centralise anyways?

I think it's less about human psychology and more about managing efficiency.

A well-run centralized system will always be more efficient than a well-run decentralized system, by virtue of having less overhead. Whether it's overhead from arranging logistics to one large city, instead of a hundred small cities, or overhead from interacting with one large federal government, instead of 50 small state governments.
Each tab and plugin has its own process, plus another process for the browser itself. Take a look at Chrome's Task Manager for some more insight.
You're right in that it was painful and frustrating and I'd be lying if I said there wasn't any emotion involved during the process. I think some of your criticisms are fair and provide an interesting counter-argument. (Likely closer to her perspective)

One clarification though - we weren't looking to push her out. She informed us (me, actually) that she was looking to quit and wanted to walk away. I'd asked her to stay on for a while and she did. In the end, she was planning again to quit and, instead, I offered the paid leave of absence.

We definitely could (should?) have taken steps to avoid the lawsuit early on and we probably didn't treat the case as seriously as it ended up being, but that's much easier seen in hindsight, I think.

I wonder if a clean break (with severance) would have avoided this issue altogether - I'm not exactly sure that would have worked either.
> Sometimes this can be a good thing but imagine Microsoft would re-arrange all the items in the menu system for ‘Word’ at random and would rename a couple for good measure.

Perish the thought!
Club Nautico did this years ago, in Florida at least. I am not sure if they are still in business.
Take a look at Francis Bacon's Novum Organum written in 1620, specifically the sections on the four idols of the human mind that sometimes prevent one from reaching truthful conclusions. To my mind, this is philosophy of science before any practices had really crystallized. Reading this in college, I remember being impressed that Bacon seemed so modern in his thinking 400 years ago. His awareness of and focus on the fact that cognition is influenced by cultural context is a huge step and I was unaware it had been made so long ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Organum

Full text here:
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/nov_org.htm