skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC agrees that they are not stock or securities! [1]

Bitcoin payment processing (or ATMs, or foreign remittances) is going to be a big business but many of the current operators are charging only 1-3% as a transaction fee. It's not uncommon for there to be drops of that magnitude during the time it takes the payment to process and the transaction to verify in the blockchain, let alone be sold off as fiat to balance the payment processor's books. This is one way of hedging against that.

It's also effectively a way to short Bitcoin in the short term (not to 0) since it gives you a way to profit from a downswing.

[1] - http://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-bulletins/investoral...
I thought that was the case too. But it seems it actually starts on scroll.
I clicked on this thread wondering: 1) why is this news?; and 2) why are there so many comments? I'm not sure I learned the answer to either one...
Strange - I was under the impression that GIF was larger than mp4: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell...
Like this a lot. Well done. Heads up - collaborator is spelled wrong in your demo video (right hand side).
The criteria on the YC website specifically says they aren't talking about employing 1,000,000 people. They are talking about creating new things for people to do to earn a living.
The original submission of this was killed at 11pts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8045214
You can add a muted attribute to HTML5 video tags (muted or muted="muted") to autoplay the video without sound
Calendar Hacks
That's only epsilon better. The only time that a web page should play music is if the user clicks on a button to start a video or play an audio clip. That's it. Period.
sorry, if the page was laggy and you initialized scroll, the pages scrolls to position and autoplays a video. It does not happen on load, lessons learned
Thanks! foreign designer! :)
Trying To Design A Better Parking Sign
That is an excellent idea for a browser plug-in.
yeah, brings back those myspace memories for me. the browser even became unusable as well - just like it used to, with those decked out myspace themes. (actually, it's amazing to think that IE survived some of those profiles.)
Aren't those like $75,000?

I'm curious what you are basing the operational economics statement on.
OK...must..not let...autoplaying video...harshen critique...

So can the OP elaborate how this is the "Github" for video, rather than, the "YouTube for Video"? Because at a glance, from what's on the page...A "Dropbox for file sharing, Vimeo for video review, and Email for communication" is what I would consider YouTube to be (well, Youtube + Google+)...

A Github for Video would, in my mind, involve some kind of diffing thing...and a way for collaborators to do something like freely tinker with audio/video, all at once, and share and merge those iterations in some much easier, more harmonious way than just uploading clips to the cloud and annotating them, which you can already do with YouTube.

(also, the video on site, on the iPad, seems to be unresponsive to the replay button, which makes it hard to review the demoed details)

That said, this is definitely a cool thing to try out in theory. I'm especially interested in seeing how bandwidth issues are handled (or if a slight sacrifice in resolution and fidelity is the tradeoff...and if that tradeoff is even possible with the tastes of the intended audience)
It's terrible here. Just terrible.
Congratulations with your first app. I've tried the Android version and it worked as advertised : it's simple to use although it can use a little polish design-wise. Others have already made some great suggestions, here's what I would like to see.

1. Skipping an exercise (eg for people with a health problem)
2. A little description of the exercise, what muscles are activated and so on
3. Auto-count. One of the app permissions is for camera/microphone. Wouldn't it be nice if the front facing camera could be used for automatically counting how many reps you actually did?
4. Choosing between a countdown and number of repetitions

Good luck with your app, may many follow!
Bigfoot and Yeti DNA: results are in
For bleeds I just use the same container structure inside of a wrapper div that has the bleed.

For images that you want to touch the side or whatever, there is some of that fiddling with the margins on the interior elements, yeah.
Please reread my first comment. I've said nothing about the page being laggy. In fact, on my system, it didn't lag at all.

What makes you think it's okay to automatically play sound when the user starts scrolling? What were you thinking? That's not a sarcastic put-down. I would like to know what could have possibly been going on in your brain when you thought that this was anything but a horrible, off-putting design decision.
Ride-share city: Helsinki to pilot an end to car ownership
A sun dial will only ever show you solar time, not whatever political abstraction passes for "time" wherever you happen to be.

Fun fact: Only with the advent of railroads did time begin to be synchronized in larger areas. Until then, each city and town set it's own time, based on the local solar time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time

There exists public clocks that track both local and standard time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exchange,_Bristol#Clock
I see this on the ordering page[1].

> Sundials will be shipped from Vermont via USPS Priority Mail.

[1] http://www.digitalsundial.com/ordering.html
Where Ocaml is better:

- Single Core Speed (Ocaml is fast)

- native compilation without requiring some installed runtime

- Polymorphic Variants (Last I read, to be used only when regular variants are not sufficient)

- Modules and Functors (there's a proof of principle for F# supporting these)

- GADTs (allow for richer more expressive types, much more flexibility than regular algebraic data types)

- camlp4

- more pervasive structural typing, higher kinded types...type system is not weighted down by a foreign runtime

Where F# is better:

- better support for not-sequential programming in all its forms: actors with lightweight threads, parallel, async, gpu (many production ready choices), reducers (and Go style channels if they accept joinads)

- Active Patterns are a dark horse

- Type Providers are curious. They seem like dumbed down metaprogramming at first but it's one of those cases where constraints benefit creativity. Although you could certainly do what they provide (and more easily at times) with metaprogramming, I've never seen metaprogramming used that way before. And especially with the proliferation of APIs, stuff like json inference makes going to a language without them like going from 3 monitors to one.

- Units of Measure

- More libraries and Better cross platform support via Xamarin and unity3d

- #light. F# syntax is a tiny bit cleaner and surprisingly close to Python at times.

- Computation expressions/do notation are not quite monads and can be more flexible. Tomas Petricek argues the case here: http://tomasp.net/blog/2013/computation-zoo-padl/

Why the above do not matter: The MLs tend to be more pragmatically focused than other functional languages and espouse using as little fancy code as possible. The core of both languages are the same, so much of the time and ignoring library choices, you won't be seeing many differences between F# and OCaml. It's more like Portuguese vs Spanish than English vs German.
> hired a high-profile lawyer to very aggressively press the case after the initial decision to close it and did not retract the allegations.

hmmm, got source for that statement? Hiring laywers is the exception in Sweden, and the common method is for the state to provide one to everyone involved.

In this case however, it seems that lawyers are being paid by outside parties or provided pro-bono. That means to me that I will take such statements with a slight of salt in favor of direct statements from the person herself. There is a bit too much media circus to take such statements as representable of their client, when the client is not the person paying the bill...
> That fact is a very controversial _opinion_ that is on the way out of mainstream thought. Certainly, it isn't a fact in the "tested and proven" sense of the word.

Did you read the article he linked? These differences have been demonstrated in independent studies. And contrary to what you might read on Tumblr, the knowledge that there are observable differences between boys and girls is still very much in the mainstream.
This is seriously an awesome and well executed concept.

I am working in genetics lab that studies complex disease. Many of these diseases have many environmental component and there is much interest in investigating these so-called gene-environment interactions.

Currently to investigate interactions between genes and the environment, we rely on patients to fill in questionnaires, which are problematic because people are inaccurate. Other more specific measurements are gathered with nurses taking blood, serum etc.

I wonder whether this could be deployed in anyway in medical research, using the smartphones currently on the market.
Futures are more important in commodities and currencies than they are in stocks.
most video advertisements start out with the volume muted, then you opt-in to hear the sound. that'd be my suggestion, at least
I had to call a human being and use a fax machine to get my power turned on with the local utility. I can spin up an EC2 cluster with an API call.
Thanks! Reading through the linux source is always funny if nothing else:

/* syscall to call a syscall! /
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/include/uapi/a...

/ 222 for tux */
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/include/uapi/a...
If you compare one zombie to one bully. But if you think that one bully = all the zombies in the game, then it is not so easy to overcome all the zombies.
Ha, of course! That’s an issue I also have run into. Luckily it’s not often that I browse my podcasts that way, but if you do, that clearly sucks.
Could Apple Destroy the Password?
Hmmm. I'd love to see some data around this. (I don't mean this as snakily as it sounds, surveying some folks about this would make a good blog post, it's sort of an interesting lesson either way).
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Oh ok.. I just fixed the volume to 25%
Probably something along the lines of "if we put a play button and a video not many people click it so why not just play by default?"
As neat as the Bootstrap grid is, the day that we have broad browser support for the CSS Grid spec cannot come soon enough.
Watch the tech talk. It's possible to prove to yourself that your vote was counted correctly and simultaneously be unable to prove it to others.
Inconsistency Robustness is concerned with building software and logical systems that continue to function correctly even when the inputs they are given are inconsistent. Carl Hewitt, MIT Emeritus, is a principal theorist.
Show HN: Live multiplayer blackjack for Android using Pubnub
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let alone useful enough to enough people to warrant extended time on the HN front page.

Can somebody (who won't presuppose my motivation or my opinion) answer my question?
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Our users have asked for this for 2 use cases:

1) You send an email bcc'ing a bunch of people. Those people start responding, Gmail threads it into 1 thread. Sometimes you want this and sometimes you don't

2) The topic of a thread changes and you want to split the thread into two logical threads.
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No, it's definitely not. Some execs tend to ramble, but they don't use run-on sentences. Some of Microsoft's other execs are actually pretty staccato (Kevin Turner).
Yes, it's so obvious it's hard to see why Google hasn't implemented it already. I wonder what will happen with this project, unlikely that Google would acquire something rather than assign a small team to fix this within a week?
Angular.js Cliffnotes
Even if we're only counting recent times, Apple did not come out with it first, they followed Windows 8?
Many of the same effects can be obtained using even non-functional languages in a disciplined way. However, many of the best strategies and patterns for constructing pure, stateless software are enshrined in the Haskell standard libraries.

Once you learn the techniques and programming styles of Haskell, you can certainly apply those ideas elsewhere, but they lose a lot of their power when you (or another developer on the same code base) start "cheating".
PR crisis clouds Human Brain Project
"Looks like a vulva" would be a more accurate description. /pedantry off

On the other hand, the oldest surviving human art on at least two continents is crude drawings (cruder than the Airbnb logo) of vulvae, so the artistic impulse in this cases is about as old as humankind. (I will be no more willing to rent a room through Airbnb than I was before after seeing today's discussion, and I wasn't very willing before, knowing someone whose reservation was cancelled at the last minute.)
Please feel free to correct any typos, errors, or non best practices.
Well, yelling Fire in the crowded theater is the iconic example of manipulating people into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.

There's a clear time vs risk component. If you don't have time to evaluate the speaker, and the risk is high, very few people will not believe the speaker.

For regular old speech like "this flavor of ice cream is better" i agree with you.
@dbla

Your pricing goes from $5/mo. to Call us for pricing.

Call us for pricing implies super expensive.

That seems like a big jump in pricing.

Just my 2 cents.
Looks like a great idea. But good luck implementing those iOS-style blurring effects in a real browser.
Number of YC companies Steve Jobs has worked at, so far: 0
You are right. The github part was for the tech community and only refers to version control videos, and EDLs, or Edit Decision Lists, to track changes in an edit. From version to version. Thanks for ending on a high note, most of our industry response has been wonderful
The problem is Linux, not LibreSSL. Kernel.org needs to figure out if they are depreciating or keeping sysctl and if they aren't, find a failsafe way of gathering entropy inside a chroot or when file descriptors are exhausted. You can't expect OpenSSL nor LibreSSL to cater to the slapstick that is linux kernel development. If they can't get their shit together then switch to BSD or OSX.
If you want to be pure, you can add a strict WriterT to your monad stack, or something similar.

If you don't mind temporary impurity, Debug.Trace provides some helper functions, but they call unsafePerformIO, which can do unexpected things.
> Hopefully in a month I'll have lost this weight

I think it's important to have realistic expectations here - 20kg in a month is a massive weight loss, and you're setting yourself up for failure if that's your goal. Even 5kg in a month is a lot.

A far more realistic and attainable goal is 1-2kg a month.

(Don't use The Biggest Loser as a guide to how much weight you can drop in a week!)
Well written.

? How does logic programming (Prolog, etc) relate to probabilistic programming ?
Caught us there. currently it is only an purple tinted overlay!
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> What do you find most useful about talking to core OCaml devs? If you were developing in Java, do you think you would see a similar benefit from talking to core Java devs?

OCaml (and Java, and Python, and any other "old" language) evolves in small steps to avoid breaking existing code. A forum like this allows language developers making those design decisions to check them with big users, as well as to gather the qualitative feedback that only comes from trying to use a feature in a production system.

For example, OCaml's recent move in 4.02 towards immutable strings has generated a lot of debate [1] about the right tradeoffs to make with respect to backwards compatibility, and a number of the module system improvements such as module aliases have been driven by big libraries such as Core (to reduce compilation time and binary sizes).

> How do you find the OCaml standard library compares to standard libraries from other languages? Is it expansive?

I consider the OCaml "standard library" to actually mean the compiler standard library, since it really exists for the core toolchain to use. There are several alternatives that are one "open" statement away -- I've co-written a book about the Core library (see https://realworldocaml.org) for instance, which is extremely expansive. The OPAM package manager makes it trivial to use third-party packages now (http://opam.ocaml.org), so the distinction between standard library or not is pretty moot now.

> Do you find yourself reaching for 3rd party libraries frequently (or writing your own)?

I've written my own operating system in OCaml, so I'm possibly the wrong person to ask about that...

[1] http://blog.camlcity.org/blog/bytes1.html
Interesting idea, and I like the clean interface, but I could use a bit more info. Where are those really long tutorials? Do I have the option to match someone else's order, or can I only list my own orders and hope someone out in the ether matches it?
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>This falls under both "hardware access"

I don't really agree with that, unless you want to call any use of a CPU "hardware access," but ok. I also don't consider it to be like accessing architecture specific instructions like SSE, because I simply cannot think of a general purpose CPU from the dawn of the micro that lacks the basic carry, overflow, zero, and sign flags, and the ability to branch on them.

>WRT the first, you take some portability penalty for using GNU extensions, but that is probably significantly less than you take by writing in assembly.

In practice, for a lot of developers, there are only one or two relevant CPU architectures, and they're almost always from the set of 32 and 64-bit x86 and ARM. Depending on what kind of program you're writing, it could be much more likely that you'd switch C or C++ compilers than switch target architectures. And if you are programming for obscure microcontrollers or whatever, you've pretty much thrown portability out of the roof to begin with and writing the whole program in assembly is not out of the question.

>Modern compilers are quite good at register allocation and getting better, and chip architectures are complicated enough that you're likely to be wrong about what's fastest and/or best.

Compilers are pretty bad at optimizing virtual machine interpreters, and this is unlikely to change. Here we go, straight from the horse's (or, uh, Mike Pall's) mouth:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/badl2/luajit_2_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hkzg8/author_of...
Fully agree, doing what everyone else is doing is not managing risk, it's just taking on the same risk as everyone else.
I actually found the music and the video demo excellent! Great demo of your app.

The music was especially beautiful, I even looked it up. It's Planet Love by DJ Quicksilver in case anyone else liked it.

Don't let all these comments about auto-playing audio put you down. Great experience!
I'm reading in the comments that there's more on the page if you scroll. I'm using a laptop with no mouse and no scroll on the trackpad and neither Page Down nor Space nor the arrow keys work.
Well that was positive! Thank you! btw I turned it down to 25% in the last 10 minutes, I think it was at full blast before :)
Or highways?
Tell HN: Commonwealth Bank Australia crazy security processes
So my phone rings - no caller id.

The person on the line says they are from Commonwealth Bank and need to speak to me about my account.

"For my security" "to make sure they are not disclosing information to third parties" he needs to know my full name and date of birth and other identifying information before he can proceed with the phone call. I tell him I'm not handing out that information to a random person phoning me up claiming to be from the bank.

I DO believe he is from Commonwealth Bank, however why is the bank using processes in which they are encouraging people to think it's okay to hand out account access information to any random caller?

Anyone from Commonwealth Bank of Australia here who can explain this crazy security hole?
I don't get the hate famo.us gets on HN. But to be clear, their code isn't the best. Their code is quite janky in places and is very poorly documented (in the source and in the docs). I'm also pretty sure the bugs it has are design faults. All of this can be fixed, though, which is why I like to take a "wait and see" approach with famous.
> I didn't even know I could scroll down because holding the down button did nothing.

Wait, you can scroll down? There's no scrollbar, page-up/page-down/up/down do nothing, space does nothing. The site seems to be completely inaccessible to keyboard users.
This definitely would provide a visual hierarchy to view all the potential interactions, though I think your problem might be more hardware-related.

I assume if you combined as many of these apps(Moves, Cardiio, Foursquare, etc.) into a single app(including peripherals like the USB ultrasound, which seems impossible right now) you could get close to a pretty accurate picture of a person's total gene interactions throughout the day. Also, the app would have to be running continuously in the background.
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Taking responsibility for your own actions is a key part of growing up and the central tenet of major world philosophies such as Buddhism.

However, modern social science indicates clearly that people behave differently when they believe they are under surveillance and when part of large groups. So there is a real, psychological requirement for privacy and anonymity some of the time. There has to be space for this... a balance.

In general, "behind closed doors" has been put forward as an appropriate scope for that in a physical sense, though we are increasingly digitally monitored there as well. For instance, it is not uncommon for national gestapo of various ilks to seize hardware and search for digital evidence when someone is 'suspected' of something (ie. pretty much as they please). Similarly, mobile and landline telephones and wifi access are monitored, as is probably cable TV activity. And in general, the population of many regions is uploading photos of each other in these environments, providing streams of public social network and other online activity that can accurately predict their movements in and out of the home. So pretending that "behind closed doors" means private doesn't really fly anymore. In addition to this personal privacy, we need an option for public anonymity ... including online.
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You're absolutely right, I failed to read closely enough.
Since the entire site is basically built around the demo, I think it's fine in this case, and improves the experience of seeing the demo.
You can safely disregard that part of the TOS. Because law:

(a) A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent.[1]

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html
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Agreed--we're looking into how we can have the site degrade a bit more gracefully for visitors that disable 3rd party services that aren't critical to the main experience.