skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats the number of accounts on a website. Anyone can create as many accounts as they want and they don't limit that chart to accounts with bitcoin. It's a pointless metric that is easily faked. Given the number of wallets with bitcoin in them worth >$50 isn't really growing I'd say its pretty likely a lot of those are fake/unused accounts.
@Daniela I hope you aren't exhausted by all these, but X would be cool comments. If not: A walkie-textie would be cool, something less expensive and fragile (as emilv said) than a smartphone with a keyboard instead of a touch screen. Is there a serial interface to gotenna?
To protect US (non-military) systems from foreign intelligence agencies and hackers? Probably not. I can't imagine many security researchers would want to work for the DHS unless the pay was enormous.
Funny there's always this one little thing one can bring up to point that a non-mainstream group is definitely a cult and thus are a bunch of loons :).

I used to be involved with a religious group many outsiders consider to be a cult. There was always this event that everyone outside kept bringing up - that one little prediction 40 years ago that some people took too seriously and ended up making stupid life decisions. (I'm not close to that group anymore, but I still value those people as the most honest and consistent in their thinking folks I ever met)

Yes, people who extrapolate things from their beliefs to guide their life decisions can and do make mistakes. They will reach stupid conclusions and believe them until they figure out that those conclusions are stupid and rethink things again. I still respect them more than the usual crowd (both in religious and non-religious groups) who claim to believe (or believe that they believe) one thing and actually believe something else. I value consistency in thinking.

EDIT:

Disclaimer, before I get labelled as a cult priest for replying in the cult thread for the fourth time: I have my pet peeve with cult accusations, because I've been close with many groups accused of cultishness - both religious and secular, and I know how this is an impossible accusation to defend from. If you try to tell "hey, it's not a cult, because X" then it's definitely a cult, because that's obviously what a cult member would say.

Also, you want to see real cults? Try political parties ;).
Does latitude and longitude not suffer from the same problem?
Can either of you give any concrete examples of how Go's standard library is of higher quality than python's? I'm honestly curious.
Good info for writing bash scripts that are large enough to need debugging, but why would one do that in the first place? Python or Perl would be better choices at that point.
Where do you see what is available? Do you have to pay to know?
Perhaps, but before I had a Kindle I spent roughly $0/year on books. Now I buy 3-4 books in the $1-$5 price range a month.
[Ruby] MiniRecord, schema in your model
I wonder how enforceable that indemnity is. It seems to me that Kraft wouldn't be able to protect their big pockets by passing off liability to a company with relatively little in the way of assets.
Basically, there should be a Free Trial system forced or at least strongly encouraged like Microsoft Xbox does for some titles. That way, for a great game like Smash Hit, you don't feel tricked for not getting the full game for free.
Ya the switch to white font on dark bg is no good.

Here's a fix:

$('.blue-grey').css("background-color","#F0F0F0").css("color","#0F0F0F")
Just a thought: You might want to put contact info in your profile if you want to make this shout out more effective than a passing conversation in this one post.
The law changed recently. The lower limit is now 25cm, but I'm not sure if that's due to Digital Globe's new satellite or if that is the new legal limit. [1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/15/digitalglobe-satel...
Note: You can nominate yourself...
Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming
Or just prefix with a spoiler warning. However I think they are appropriate. Some people need a little more incentive to start reading or watching something besides a link to it, or an empty recommendation from a friend or community, and the "spoilers" often found in some reviewer's blurb on a back of a book/movie box serve that purpose well. And anyway, those "spoilers" from the perspective of the whole story are really just cool little blurbs about what you might expect without spoiling the actually interesting parts of how, why, and the aftermath.

A succinct blurb about what to expect plot-wise could be something like "covers many of the events of the actual series, but all in the first year and more rationally". If someone has read the canon HP books, they can probably infer Azkaban, Horcruxes, Polyjuice, portkeys, Quidditch, and so on will make an appearance in some fashion. They might not think about the time turner though, and if you're trying to get someone to read the book, and that someone knows about NP problems, mentioning the author addresses possibly solving NP problems with time travel, that's such a small spoiler but can pique the interest enough that someone may read it who otherwise wouldn't have. (Can you get talk about NP problems in fiction outside of sci-fi? Would you expect it from a Harry Potter fanfic?)
The way Cyber Command operates is quite offensive (e.g. attacking servers used by "enemy" "combatants").

The NSA's job is to secure US systems, the Cyber Command's job is to go attack foreign country's systems.

There is definitely some overlap there (particularly with cyber Command working to improve DoD security).

I'd say that ultimately the NSA has a far bigger/better legal right to be doing that kind of thing than the Cyber Command does (and also the law wouldn't be super-clear-cut if the Cyber Command had to attack a US-hosted server, network, or client).

Or to use a really bad analogy: You could have the US Army defend Washington DC instead of the Capitol Police, however most would be more comfortable with the Capitol Police and there are far less potential legal hurdles also. Everything is fine if all the US Army did all day was stand outside of buildings, but as soon as they literally have to shoot someone all hell is going to break lose (or in our case as soon as Cyber Command had to act in an offensive way against a US company, citizen, or similar).
Yeah, but the problem (as you point) is that you can say that navigating is astronomy, or physics or relativity. But you don't call "traveling is relativity!", you call it traveling. Math, (classic) physics and relativity are ways to understand it, sure, even describe it, but what is more true than the other: classic physics, relativity, math?.

Here the problem is not about understanding the foundation of things, is about not apply to all the levels in the abstraction the same label. When you walk in the part you are NOT doing math. Your are walking.

This is the point expressed in the blog. It have not argued that programming is totally devoid of math, that math can't be used to formally think about it or something like that. Is that is better to think that programing is programing, and like you don't say "programing is relativity" then teach programming using relativity(!) and dismiss programing as a real, whole thing that only can be explained by relativity(!) and tell everyone that to be a good programmer you MUST understand very well relativity.

That is what the article is saying.
With 51% a miner could orphan everyone elses mined blocks could they not? Essentially giving them 100% of the rewards.

Thats pretty huge.
No, /dev/urandom fails the 'properly-seeded' criterion during early boot.

The real answer is to just change the interface and be done with it, and to hell with backwards-compatibility, but that'll never happen.

The really real answer is to make /dev/random and /dev/urandom the same CSPRNG, seeded as early in boot as possible (and continually refreshed with more entropy, of course), and never blocking thereafter, but that'll never happen either.
They look really great. That's been a project I've wanted to try for fun but have lacked the time.
Why? The screens are too small and the resolution is likely to be poor; plus you can only interact with a finger on a 2D surface. 3D in space gestures in such a small area are way too inexact and subject to false recognition.
> how do you live with javascript disabled nowadays

Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/). 2,159,875 users according to that page. Javascript is off by default until I decide the page/app. is sufficiently engaging that I want to turn it on.

> Nowadays everyone's on facebook

Incorrect assumption. I, for one, am not on facebook. Therefore, not everyone is on facebook.

> and everyone's likes shiny features and eye-candy

Fine, but the basic content of the page (i.e., the actual information vs. the shiny objects) should be accessible without needing to enable javascript.

If you actually had an accessibility issue, you'd likely have a very different opinion. Be thankful you don't have an accessibility issue.
Be an open source dev superstar without writing code
As a fellow developer at a software company, I totally get where you are coming from, and can see the challenge this presents. It could absolutely require a change of direction for your company.

As a consumer, I really don't like being asked to buy things in a Free game. I'm more than willing to shell out for a quality game upfront, and do so without hesitation.

The "free" games upselling me at every turn has honestly made me a bit burnt out with the Play store. If your app/game is of high quality, let me try it for a few minutes and I'll buy it if I like it, no problem. No need to badger me about "optional" extras.

People like me may or may not be a large chunk of the Android-using population, but I figured I'd share.
Pretending Quebec is a small province, it also helps a lot to work in Ontario near Ottawa.
It is way easier to "be your own bank", using free software like electrum or the reference Bitcoin client, than trying to "be you own email" by setting up your own email service and whatnot.

Coinbase or Bitpay are optional facilitators, for people who want to buy or accept bitcins. That is not centralisation, that is just providing a service. Lots of people use Coinbase to buy their coins and then withdraw them to their offline-decentralised cold wallts created in electrum.
Thanks, killswitch. There's no reddit without Steve Huffman (now hipmunk CTO+cofounder) but I will gladly accept my spot on your list, albeit undeserved, so now I need to earn it!
How does lrmin compare to camlistore?
The number of bitcoin transactions/day hasn't really changed, at all, despite all these vendors adopting it.

http://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions
It's against the HN guidelines to editorialize in titles, even when the editorialization was done by somebody else.

This one was particularly bad because the submitted title ("Did TomTom founders just kill the postcode?") caused the post to receive a barrage of user flags.
Wow, gotta disagree there. I found that having projects on Github was impressive to potential employers 100% of the time I brought it up. Before I had them on there (in particular, two small personal side projects) it was much more difficult to prove that I know stuff because I commit to private repos.
It shows a lack of attention to detail, a lack of viewing the full picture of all your potential users, and a lack of consideration for those with accessibility issues.

Therefore, if the simple landing page has all of those lacks, it stands to reason (since the app. is written by the same folks that created the landing page) that the app. may likely have all the same lacks, and possibly even more.
This has been my experience as well. With large companies, once you have "Senior" in your title, you are officially pigeon-holed. I broke out of that by going to a small company[1], but I think my varied background and career path is now blocks me from ever going back to a large one.

[1] Incidentally, a non-enterprise Java shop, where I was hired despite not having written much code in Java.
Portability without dependencies.
You say "why would I spend bitcoins if I don't have any?" That's the problem of bootstrapping an economy. But I would like to point out that the history of Bitcoin demonstrates it is not such a big problem. Indeed more and more merchants are accepting it, more and more users are setting up wallets, more and more people are giving bitcoins to friends and family, etc.

So given this adoption, at some point you will probably receive some bitcoins. Perhaps a friend will give you bitcoins as a birthday gift, or a coworker will insist to pay you back his sandwich in Bitcoin. Then you will say to yourself "hey, why not spend it on that ergonomic Dell keyboard"?

And you will have played a role in bootstrapping the Bitcoin economy.
Weak Abstractions
You are encouraging those sick people you seem to have a lot of disdain for to come in to the office when they have diseases and spread them to you.
Variable Coalescing
> it's not hard to imagine a future where these companies are the only practical option for real people interacting with the bitcoin economy

It actually is hard for me to imagine that. I don't see why having centralized payment processors (which are essentially just online wallets, fiat exchanges, and SaaS providers) makes it less practical to interact with the Bitcoin economy in other ways.
It's probably in a contract they have with the design company. I would think it's very common, kind of like a software vendor indmnifying purchasers of their software against patent lawsuits.
very nice.

I'm curious - is there some kind of international standard for these glyphs, or just an emerged convention of what eg. 'cloud plus rain' looks like?
"number of blockchain transactions has been more or less constant"

No: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&s...
Ask HN: Should I leave my encrypted emails to Fastmail?
All my puzzles have unique solutions. I said the difficulty of generating is from multiple solutions, not that the puzzles are difficult because of them.
"The company can't seem to attract experienced software developers to move"

... at the price you're willing to pay, I assume.

"Compensation and benefits are reasonable as well, considering the low cost of living"

This seems to confirm my assumption. The benefit of having lower costs would be so I can save more, but if the pay is less then what is the benefit?
I think the point is that I don't really care how it's done, I just want it to work. I'd love to pay for road use, up to the point that transaction costs swamp things (like when people have to stop or slow down when going through toll booths). Hopefully it'll be solved through pricing. Maybe there's a technological solution (potentially if short-distance air travel were cheaper you could imagine that a 3D space with very little infrastructure to maintain might solve at the very least the traffic problem).
> Intentional or not, there have been, at most, three passenger jets hit by anti-aircraft missiles in the last thirty years.

At most 3 is incorrect.

Not counting MH17, there are at least four civilian passenger aircraft that were definitively shot down by missiles, and more that were suspected to be (or were definitively shot down, but where I can't find definitive information on the "by missiles" part) in the last 30 years:

LN 602 (March 23, 2007): attributed to the Tamil Tigers using Manpad missiles

Siberia Airlines 1812 (October 4, 2001): admitted shot down by Ukrainian military

Two Transair Georgia flights (September 21-22, 1993): shot down by missiles fired by rebels

Iran Air 655 (July 3, 1988): shot down by the USS Vincennes

Air Malawi 7Q-YMB (November 6, 1987): shot down by Mozambique (can't find anything one way or the other about whether this was "by anti-aircraft missiles" rather than, say, guns, so maybe not technically within scope.)
That's why I loved learning Spanish so much through Central and South America for two years.

I learned on the road, and every person I met was extremely encouraging and helpful, even when I knew I was getting the genders and tenses wrong. No matter what kind of nasty sentence I would create, they would smile and welcome me wholeheartedly.

After two years, I was having political conversations in Argentina (their favorite topic...)

I've immensely looking forward to tackling French in the same manner.
The problem is not IAP on itself. The problem is when the apps mislead about what you get for your payment or when so called "free" apps are unusable without payment.

In a way, non-exploitative apps (with or without IAPs) are probably victims in current situation. I guess I'm not alone who simply do not trust anything with "offers in-app payments" label and avoids it as much as possible. There is no way for me to distinguish between "real game company" and exploitative company.

The problem of small game companies is that customers have no way to distinguish between good and crap game before buying and most of what is found in app store is of very little quality. I do not know how the company can solve it without better app discovery features from app stores themselves.
Ah, I misunderstood you - true enough, the multiple solutions cases slow down a random generation as the candidates have to be checked and eliminated.
Why you should not buy Apple’s Time Capsule
So, you start by assuming the answer to your own question:

"This means either merchants aren't seeing too many bitcoin sales OR a lot of these sales are happening offchain through coinbase/bitpay." (...) "in the latter scenario..."

And then you say something that makes little sense... what giant fee are you talking about?? Merchants are actually offering DISCOUNTS for payments via Bitcoin.
Indemnification clauses have been enforceable in contract law for a very long time. (And contract law never takes one's assets into account when determining whether a clause is enforceable, unless the agreement is deemed unconscionable or contrary to public policy, which to my knowledge an indemnification clause never has been.)

The clause in the contract doesn't mean that Kraft is immune to suit. But it does give Kraft the ability to file a cross-claim against the design firm if it is sued so that damages can be assigned to the design firm if necessary. See Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 13(g).
Ask HN: What does it take for a developer to be a successful founder?
As a web developer, I love learning new things from design patterns to new frameworks such as React and Angular. While I'm passionate about development, I'm equally passionate about startups and creating a successful one.

In the past, I've launched a couple of websites but in retrospect they were more side-projects than anything else. I have no problem building products but when it comes to things like validating the idea, acquiring users, and gaining traction, I get stuck.

What skills should I work on developing in order to put myself in a better position to build a product and most importantly launch it?

In terms of resources, I've read The Lean Startup, Running Lean, Innovator's Dilemma, PG's essays, some of Vinod Khosla's papers, and videos after videos of startup talks.

*Edit for formatting
.net magazine isn't about .net. It is (or at least was, I'm not sure if it's still going) a magazine about web development.
But lets not over estimate the probability of the worst scenario. And lets not take action based on that overweighted probability.
Looks extremely nice. Currently I'm using http://hckrnews.com/ both on my laptop as well as on iOS due to the lovely layout for mobile as well as cronologically ordering. If your app can do that as well I'm sold!
If someone got punched in the face in front of you and then looked at you and said "I'm not going to do anything, the chances of that happening again are slim and I'm not some brutish American" would you be impressed or would you think they're a little crazy?
Good. I remember when Steve Jobs said on stage "Free apps will stay free" but I can't track down the exact video of him. Seeing "free" apps in the top grossing column pisses me off.
Looks nice. What is your opinion on Swift now that you've used it for a project?
The Republic of Bitcoin
Monte Carlo simulations need to be repeatable. So you can take a seed from entropy, but then you seed your own deterministic RNG. You log the seed so that you can backtest.

Doesn't appear many people on this thread are considering such use cases, but it appears the authors have.
> What value does the decentralized back-end provide for your average consumer who only interacts with bitcoin through the front-end?

The primary benefit to end users is indirect. Because Bitcoin is a decentralized network, the firms which build centralized services on top of Bitcoin are doing so in a much more competitive market, because it's much more difficult for government's to restrict competition in Bitcoin services than in their own fiat currency. That competitive market is likely to lead to better and cheaper products and services than the alternative.
Libswarm demotime – logging
Washington C Corp vs. Delaware
Most of the discussion of incorporation on here seems to be focused on Delaware. However, my home state is Washington, and from what I read the corporate laws in Washington are adequate for venture financing as well: http://www.startuplawblog.com/where-to-incorporate/

Does anyone have practical experience with this decision? Washington seems cheaper all around, and worst case you reincorporate if an investor requires it...
> 3D in space gestures in such a small area are way too inexact and subject to false recognition.

Is this an inherent property of physics or just a limitation of current technology? Considering the strides that have been made with stuff like Kinect I don't see why we couldn't improve our tech in this area. IMO the biggest roadblock isn't tech but the strides in HCI that need to be made.
Number of wallets with more than pennies in them, interviews with merchants who accept it, number of transactions per day.
(There seems to be an increasing amount of evidence that there's nothing magical about consciousness, and that free will in all likelihood doesn't exist. I find this super uncomfortable, but there is also nothing I can do about, so I have to continue to function as though free will did exist -- which is exactly what would happen if it didn't.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one to come the this conclusion. I mean, I knew that statistically it was virtually impossible that I was the only one, but I hadn't yet talked to anyone who thought this.