skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems pretty huge for Bitcoin. Newegg sells much more than computer parts now. Glad to see that Newegg is headed back more to their roots though
No-ip is operational, but no longer handles the 22 domains Microsoft took over. I use no-ip's DNS for a domain name that's registered somewhere else, and it's unaffected. From what I read somewhere else, the reason legitimate domain names are being affected is because Microsoft's servers can't handle the load.
I'm sorry I know I shouldn't but I'm so sick of people writhing "this." that I couldn't stop myself.
Then you'd judge some smart people as not-smart, possibly to your detriment.

Ignorance is not opposed to intelligence. Arrogance is a flaw that can reduce the benefits of being smart, but it doesn't make someone not-smart.

(Unless you're using 'smart' differently to the conventional meaning, which is an unhelpful thing to do.)
I created an account under my real name (e.g., not Dr. Edward Morbius, an homage to 1950s SciFi), shortly after the public beta was opened. I closed it a few weeks later when the "Real Names" policy was starting to be enforced. I created a second account, as Edward Morbius, another few weeks later, to see how things would evolve.

I all but killed that with the YouTube Anschluss.

So, yes, there were people who created accounts, and a large number of those I interact with on G+ (a couple of dozen folks for the most part) who did similarly.

Which isn't to say I'm not still massively conflicted about the site.
what the fuck is wrong with the world this days!!!??? are you all in prison because few morons stole something??? wtf Microsoft is wrong with you and you damn courts!????
i will sue you bastards because i am loosing money due to your stupid actions!!!!
Where are you seeing it? Overstock the most regularly promoted name as a retailer has only seen dropping numbers since they started.

Notice bitpay stopped reporting 7 months ago?

Coinbase has also been called out on posting contradictory numbers on their blog posts in the past which lead to them deleting most of their posts related to numbers.
Nice source, directly from the university. Doesn't seem like a hoax at all.
Some more information here on the new t2 instance types:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

"T2 instances are Burstable Performance Instances that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. The baseline performance and ability to burst are governed by CPU Credits. Each T2 instance receives CPU Credits continuously at a set rate depending on the instance size. T2 instances accrue CPU Credits when they are idle, and use CPU credits when they are active. T2 instances are a good choice for workloads that don’t use the full CPU often or consistently, but occasionally need to burst (e.g. web servers, developer environments and small databases). "
I'm also only about a quarter through, but so far it's interesting for non-economists. Some tolerance of technical explanations and simple formulas (i.e. not panicking at greek symbols) is required, but nothing unusual for the HN crowd.

This book has generated a lot of discussion, and so I went into it with my controversy-goggles strapped on. This is absolutely not required, as the book (based on what the author says he will cover and has covered so far, anyways) is more of a history and description of capital than political narrative or policy-making.
Actually the most sensible thing would be to just use UT1 for wall clock time. The deviation of a UT1 second to TAI second (`d/dT UT1(T) - T` where `T = TAI time`) is small enough that your average time signal distribution system (NTP, radio time signal, etc.) can not even resolve it (less than a microsecond). Yes, with GPS time distribution or checking against an atomic clock you can resolve it. But it doesn't really matter (even if you go the Google-way and "smear out" a leap second, the deviation is less than a ms which is below the resolution of most operating systems' scheduler tick length).

Leap seconds are stupid, because they create discontinuities. Here's a nice picture: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php?index=leapsecond&lan...

At home I hacked a OpenNTP based time server to hand out UT1 instead of UTC. Right now it's based on a simple software patch,

I yet have to a program to fetch the Bulletin B reports and parse them (ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulb_new/bulletinb.dat). I don't know what they're smoking over there, but they're giving UT1 deviation relative to UTC instead of TAI. So first you've to get to UTC from TAI (respecting the leap seconds, gah), just so that you can go to UT1. Why not simply publish the value for UT1 - TAI instead?

Anyway everytime a report gets out, the clock rescaler in the UT1 timeserver gets adjusted apropriately (manually).

In the long run I plan to make this a small embedded project that uses GPS time to stabilize a high precision temperature compensated crystal oscillator^1 (TXCO), maybe I'll add a rubidum clock either, just because. And this is then to act as a stratum 1 time server on my local network.

----

[1] from my work I know that those have way less short term jitter than "naked" rubidium clocks; most precision frequency normals that come in a nice box with buttons and a display are actually TXCOs that are frequency stabilized by a rubidium clock.
In the Australian vernacular "yeah nah".
Is this common practices in the us legal system?

Courts not understanding the social effects of technological law and making an order in favour of the more "respectable" looking party? Happens all the time.
On choosing web technologies in 2014, Part III – The FrontEnd
mmmm should you not consider the World Top Incomes Database?

http://topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/
True there's no advantage to paying with bitcoin currently and most people are just using it for the novelty value. But enough growth and merchants will just have to offer discounts with bitcoin purchases to stay competitive.
This is fake. The pictures is of a baby kangaroo. The story is from NewsHound, a fake news site.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dinosaurclone.asp
Isn't it more like a baby kangaroo?
Things disappear from the internet, for good, all the time.

Also, if people become aware someone is naive they automatically are dicks to them? Regardless of wether that information is actually of interest to anyone, just because someone wants to take something down, they should not ever be able to?

Some people act and think like that that, yeah. But to accept this as the baseline of human behaviour is, well, not for me. This entitledness to watch the lives of others from the the dark may have been bred by reality TV or whatever; but it's more a personality flaw and an addiction, a useless misfiring of synapses become culture, than a cornerstone of an information age.
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In Beta interviews OpenHatch (June 27, 2014)
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The folks at Oculus have done some good research on this, they found out that generally people find it hard to spot any difference in frame rate after 90fps.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dinosaurclone.asp
'British Scientists Clone Dinosaur' - Declared a Hoax - March 31, 2014 12:17 BST

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/british-scientists-clone-dinosaur-d...
more like ford closing all charger stations because a few fords left unlocked got the stereos stolen. (how could i forgot the analogy windows=car left unlocked)
That's like saying someone who kills in self defence should be tried for murder. You're crazy.
> lose all consumer protections

Nonsense. Consumer protection laws apply no matter the payment method.
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git2pdf: Get your GitHub issues on your wall
A little command line tool I wrote last night so we can print our GitHub issues in a pretty way.

We love using Github for requirements, tasks, stories and bugs, but we want to have these IN THE ROOM on a board, Kanbanstyle.

Feedback welcome.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/british-scientist-...
That was part of the point: back then things weren't supposed to be easy nor documented and investing months to really learn how the intricate details of a Doom map worked paid off in giving us years of fun creating our own levels and episodes.
HOLY SHIT. RUN
Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance
An awesome free tool imo.
Official announcement:

New Low Cost EC2 Instances with Burstable Performance

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/low-cost-burstable-ec2-insta...
I'd like to see a source for your claim that "Overstock ... has only seen dropping numbers since they started." I think you're probably getting it from the FOX Business interview in May, but that's not really as cut-and-dried as you're making out.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-ceo-patrick-byrne-1-6m-bit...
yeah. Looks like it's configurable.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12033/how-many-c...

https://bitpay.com/downloads/bitpayApi.pdf
“transactionSpeed” - "medium" An invoice is considered to be "confirmed" after 1 block confirmation (~10 minutes).
Not true in all places.

In the UK part of your protection is the fact that there is a third party involved (your credit card issuer) who has a variety of responsibilities to the consumer over and above the responsibilities of the retailer. In practice this means you get better protection as the money can be taken back from the retailer by a third party with a big stick.
Credit card companies use to dictate that you couldn't charge different prices for them but they were sued and lost so now you can.
No-IP’s Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown
> Personal accountability is something that is socially learned.

But the problem arises, when you then need to take things into account which you simply can't anticipate.

Consider this (overly simplified) exampe: I have to choose one out of A, B and C. I know that A is ruled out because of this and this. So I only have B and C as realistic options. I choose C, as it is furthest away from A and I could use this as an reasoning for it to be the safest bet. So, C it is. But then it just happens that for whatever reason C is ruled out too for whatever reason. Thus, by choosing C out of the three, I make no mistake. I had solid reasoning, for all I knew C should have been the safest bet. The fault is not mine, the fault is external.

How can someone ever just suck it up, when they follow a precise, definite and convincing procedure to come to a situation in which external influence just makes it all fail for them? How could there be any personal accountability in an example described above? There is none, the reasons for failure are absolutely out of my control. I can not be held personally accountable (in a philosophical sense, world out there doesn't give a fuck) for things I have had absolutely no way to anticipate.

How could you just go all "Oh well, you should have picked B instead, because had you done so, your choice wouldn't have failed!". Yeah, that's true, but there's nothing to learn about personal accountability there.
This article is rubbish

> What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

> For instance, Paris in recent decades has had a persistent policy to dramatically downsize and reduce roadways. “Driving in Paris was bad before,” said Duranton. “It’s just as bad, but it’s not much worse.”

Bigger roads are worse, and smaller roads are worse?

There's a point here somewhere but they've failed to make it.
The statement given is equivalent to the parallel postulate, and thus is true in a Euclidean geometry. The statement is tautologically false in a non-Euclidean geometry.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry#History
I struggle with that article; the "leaked" email it links to is so incredibly poorly-written, I can't see any way to take the rest of it seriously:

http://pastebin.com/RmqxWcnB

The fun thing is: even if it was an elaborate secret-service recruitment drive, I'd feel a bit let down that it wasn't something "more."
That's not what the timer is referring to. The 15 minute timer is in place due to the exchange rate. Newegg prices their items in dollars, BitPay converts it to a BTC price and presents that price to the user. They can't show that same BTC price forever, becasue if the price of bitcoin drops by 50% over 24 hours, and you decide to leave your window open and order then instead of now, you will get whatever you are buying for half the price. Bitpay guaranteed the USD price that was set on the item to the merchant. Now they owe it, but have only collected half. Thus Bitpay would be out hundreds of dollars (or whatever half your order is). Similarly, if the price rose by 100% over 24 hours you could accidentally pay double. So they put a timer on it.
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Goole said "Well less than 0.5% have ever had a problem", you quote a blog that turns that into "up to five million have ever had malware" which shows some ignorance of statistics, and then you turn that into "about five million are infected with malware now".
Yeah but not everyone gets what these changes are, though they are listed in the comments section above.
http://onbitcoin.com/2014/01/31/bitcoin-executives-testify-i...

http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-million-bitcoin-sales-futu...

http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-ceo-patrick-byrne-1-6m-bit...

Jan 1 - 170K

Jan 2-29 - $15K/day average

Next 36 days to March 4th they do $400K - $11K/day average

Next 83 days to May 27th they do $600K - $7200/day average
>>That's like saying someone who kills in self defence should be tried for murder. You're crazy.

You are aware that an argument of self-defence is used whilst being tried for murder, right?

Anyway - inappropriateness of your comparison aside - fine, you don't believe in taking responsibility for your own day-to-day actions.

I hope that changes someday.
I don't think pure jokes automatically get downvoted, if they're funny enough, though I have no recent examples in mind. But this particular example is more condescending than funny.
> almost no consumer growth in the bitcoin world

There are quite a few metrics on http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/ that seem to indicate otherwise.
Credit card chargebacks have nothing to do with consumer protection laws. It is just a feature of the credit card payment system (good or bad, depending on point of view).
Microsoft will rebrand mobile devices.
reading that i almost wish they deny status to everyone writing coffee under bsd and mit and only allow gnu gpl :)
'disengage from situations like this' is a rather casual and insulting way to depict the idea of bailing out on founder/co-founder status on a startup you care about just because one of your cofounders turned out to be a piece of shit.

Arguably her course of action was the correct one. She tried to resolve things quietly by being an adult, and tolerated a little bit of abuse in the hopes that the job could keep working and the startup wouldn't be undermined - obviously she cared about it.

When it became clear that this shit wasn't going to stop, she resigned, and sued them. The best hope for Tinder as a company at this point is for the problematic founder(s) to be ejected so the company can be run by actual adults. For her to just roll over and quit would be unacceptable - they'd get to continue their abuse on other employees - and for her to just sit there and take it would also be unacceptable.
Yes I meant payment system features and reversibility without having to go to court(if its even an option for you on international orders).
Paying in Bitcoin makes a lot of sense:

1) You don't have to provide private info like CC number.

2) If you bought bitcoins at X and now they are valued at 10X you may effectively enjoy 90% discount on all purchases.

All these mythical user-protecting chargebacks are almost never used by consumers for refunds (companies who care about brand help them settling refunds) and almost always for the cases when you CC details got stolen and used by someone else. Of course, bitcoin payments do not leak your private keys, so the entire class of problems goes away.
The Great Facebook Bait and Switch
This sounds interesting, but it's not clear how it's done. Could you give a few examples?
I've only ever used GCed (and largely dynamic) languages up until now (Python, JS and Clojure primarily); C is alien and C++ is frankly terrifying. With all that, I've been having a ball using Rust to solve Project Euler problems, with astonishing speed compared to what I'm used to.

It doesn't quite have all the libs you might want for general development yet, but for the things it's currently equipped for it's a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy. (Up until I find myself in a quagmire of lifetime problems of my own making. Looking forward to the coming lifetimes inference enhancement.) It's a surprisingly reasonable functional programming environment too.
1) You're ordering something to be delivered you have to provide the same info.

2) True, but now once you've spent them does it make sense to buy them back and do it again?

Because most companies are afraid of chargebacks and will take steps to avoid them. Bitcoin payments don't but any minor lapse in personal computer security likely will.
Like the header says, it had been paraphrased/had structure modified to remove watermarking elements unique to each individual it was sent to.
James Hague
Here's the press video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6weVhtllZ8&feature=youtu.be
Which ones? The number of accounts on a website? The number of transactions is flat as is the transaction volume.
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False.

Here in the UK the credit card company, as a party to an incurred debt, has a legal responsibility to the consumer that encompasses various things like product quality and returns/refunds. If the retailer does not live up to their responsibilities then the CC provider has a legal responsibility to return the money.

This is under section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act.
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When you kill yourself because of a predictable risk it's on you. When you kill someone else because of a predictable risk that should qualify as negligent homicide, at least (and lower-risk things than driving do).
Anybody has the right to criticize anyone; the question rather is, do they have a valid criticism. Your wording being so unclear I don't even know what you think about people banning IA from their site, but assuming you would criticize them, what would that criticism be? And would you also criticize someone for making their site private, or not making a site at all?
Any chance you have a link handy to their research [if its public]? I can find references to past research in their blog posts but none of their own on this exact topic.
> There was a 112-digit prime number to factor, a computing task so laborious it required renting a special server to run for seven hours.

Well, that seems kind of trivial :-). Surely they meant "a 112-digit number to prime factor"
This is cool. I can use it to share formulas with my existing study group.
Wasn't this posted a few months ago?
Time is already "wrong" by an hour or more in many places: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-...

I'd rather have no leap seconds until the accumulated error reaches 30 minutes and then modify time zone offsets (which is already done twice a year anyway).
Thanks! Hmm. It is only to be expected that the initial spike would drop off. It'll be interesting to see if that downwards trend continues or not.
All the things she said sound like they are true though. After only reading the texts she did exactly the right thing. She told the guy what he was doing was wrong. She let him know that it was really bad for her work. He kept going! How is that bait? She gave him all the information he needed to stop and he didn't. Throwing in a few of those 'legal' words should have pulled him right up, but he just threatened her. He's an idiot.
I have the Solardom oven that he mentions towards the end, and they really are a step above standard ovens in terms of versatility. I have had mine for 10 years, and not only is the oven technology pretty good, but the user interface is genius in its simplicity. I think it's the only oven I've ever owned that I have discovered and used all the different modes that it provides, because after all, who really wants to spend their time reading an oven operating manual...

That said, Nathan pretty much hits on all of the criticisms that I do have of the oven. Pre-heating takes way too long, high-heat requires hacking the safety mechanism of the oven, and no rotisserie (although they do use the pulsed heat hack that Nathan mentions).

I'm a foodie, and my next oven will be another Solardom, which is as high praise as I can give, but I wish there was something even better.
Bitcoin is still mostly a speculative vehicle. 9/10 links about bitcoin are not real news and are just propped up by people with a stake in it. Nobody else cares.
For 2), surely you would have to pay capital gains tax on the increase in value. To be fully compliant with the law, it may be hard to enforce in reality.
@nikitsaraf: That's the precise reason we made it. It's really hard for normal users to share math/engineering formulas or derivations on the web. we though we will simplify it a bit.
Facebook's Been Running Psychological Experiments On You
And if you bought bitcoin at 10X and they are now valued at X you may effectively enjoy paying 1000% of asking price on all purchases.
Like the header says, it had been paraphrased/had structure modified to remove watermarking elements unique to each individual it was sent to.

Yeah, that's kind of what I mean as well.

If it'd been written to only a few people, there are an incredible number of ways to watermark the content.

E.g. did all of the emails even include a questionnaire? Were some emails 5 words long, and others 5 paragraphs?

I guess the easy/lazy way would be to tailor the questions to each unique email.

Basically, I think the sanitation excuse is a bit too convenient, and an attempt to buy into the super-secret mythology.
KDE Randa Meetings 2014 fundraiser passes €10000
Being yourself doesn't mean what you think it means. It doesn't mean doing what feels natural or easy, it means that you should be honest and open about who you are, how you feel and what you want. Just knowing the latter things is hard and being honest and open about them is also hard.
I like that a group that claims to go without a name signs their emails with "3301".
I was going by the number of wallets & some of the repo stats.

You're right though, it's not gaining consumer adoption, but it is gaining merchant, infrastructure and developer interest.
And if you bought Bitcoins at X and now they're valued at .1X... now what? A revolutionary new way to gamble on the price of an online purchase?
>There is also “awareness”, but awareness is not a thing or localized in a particular place, so to even say “there is also awareness” is already a tremendous problem, as it implies separateness and existence where none can be found. To be really philosophically correct about it, borrowing heavily from Nagarjuna, awareness cannot be said to fit any of the following descriptions: that it exists, that it does not exist, that it both exists and does not exist, that it neither exists nor doesn’t exist. Just so, in truth, it cannot be said that: we are awareness, that we are not awareness, that we are both awareness and not awareness, or even that we are neither awareness nor not awareness. We could go through the same pattern with whether or not phenomena are intrinsically luminous.
-Daniel Ingram

You're too quick to reject it. The classic dichotomy works well in the objective sphere, but not so well on the boundary of objective and subjective.
Yes [1].

Cicada 3301 (wikipedia.org)
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6812668
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