skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Coinbase website: Up to 97% of customer funds are stored offline in bank vaults to prevent theft or loss

Visa/Mastercard/Amex take on the risk of deferred payment (you buy something today, and they don't get paid for a month). They compensate for this with merchant fees and high interest rates for those who don't pay.

Bitcoin seems to suffer from similar problems as cash: https://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2013/05/02/why-bitcoin-transfer...

However, it's worse, because its value relative to cash is neither stable nor predictable. If someone comes out with a better protocol that solves these problems in the future (and for which the Bitcoin protocol can't be upgraded), then Bitcoin could be worth nothing.

Is it really smart to suggest that loading all your money into Bitcoin is a good investment strategy?

Money is purely based on trust. That when I take dollars or bitcoins from you today, I will be able to spend them on something real in the future. I don't see why Bitcoin solves this fundamental problem, and therefore, the current system of high fees for deferred payment will apply equally to Bitcoin as it will to dollars or any other currency. Banks protect your money for a fee. How is Coinbase or any other provider in the Bitcoin ecosystem different? Let's just assume that Bitcoin disrupts all other currencies and takes over the world. Why will a Bitcoin money system not have the same problems as our current monetary system? Coinbase is still storing most of their currency in a vault...
Nuclear waste is a pretty small downside, too. The amount produced is tiny compared to the energy you get out.

People will bring up the long life of nuclear waste. It's dangerous for ten thousand years! OK, how long is stuff like mercury and arsenic dangerous for? We accept much worse stuff dumped much less carefully for much less benefit.
I'd actually return to my first love: theatre. I've been wanting to do some playwriting again, but i'm too busy paying the bills right now. I taught myself how to program so I could actually pay the bills, but I'd love to be writing again.
Some screenshots or a detailed explanation of how this works would be great. I like the idea of the project, but with out knowing anything about it, I am hesitant to link this with my GitHub account.
Would love to hear from folks on how to change a city's Internet/ISP policy
This comment is unrelated to the topic and unhelpful.
For unintentional, inconsequential failures. Unintentional, consequential failures are called 'negligence.'
This is absolutely correct and insightful. Glad to see it on the BBC.

Now here's a scary question: when you want to give someone a bonus because of their successful performance over the last 6 months, how likely is it that their string success is a coincidence?

You're forced to make a similar conclusion, and if you don't, think about why you have the bias you do.
Looking for devices that spoof GPS signals?
Hm, I work with Embedded systems and each product has a different virtual machine that's hosted somewhere.

I have nothing in my work machine but a linux shell. I just vi everyplace in the world, edit things there and compile there and then scp to the product. My work is 100% remote.
Tim, you should check out the folks at http://get.planningcenteronline.com, they make RoR hosted church applications and seem like kindred spirits.
I came across this yesterday (probably on HN) http://betterexplained.com/cheatsheet/
I plan to read through all of this in my free time.
>> any programmer could say that about any framework/language/platform they use regularly I suppose

True. I know lot of guys made killing with Wordpress, Drupal, Perl, Java. Networking, etc., Career success is nothing to with any particular technology.
It would have been interesting to see HN's reaction when Rails was introduced.

Show HN: Ruby on Rails (rubyonrails.org)
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I expect it differs from city to city, but the police will sometimes search for missing people with helicopters. It's not an across the board guaranteed no as ck2 seems to believe.
Looks horrendous according to the sample images.
I'm not really a web backend person, but I know XMPP well, and have a couple of iOS projects on the app store. You can reach me at ag@em.net
Unit testing ExpressJS route functions
Do you still plan to keep the project opensource now that you have a license available to purchase?
Coke Pays Employees to Breathe China's Air
I get aware about functional language years after I learn to program. I think I lot of devs I know barely know it (in fact, because I'm dreaming in build a language, I get more info about).

Probably swift will be a significant cause of exposure for it.

However, I don't think a total functional language is the best, but a mix (like swift, julia).
Because Chef is awesome? (no real answer here, just a fan)
Why Golfers Buy Hole In One Insurance
Elated to see Glenn & team grow this amazing and much needed community to 17,000+. I definitely see this filling an important gap in our society for years to come.
Where is the wp-admin directory and the files in wp-includes?
Indeed, even if a missile strike is accidental in the sense of mistaken identity, it is misleading to call the situation a "plane accident" or "air traffic accident". It is a military accident.

Just like when a car is blown up by driving over a mine, we don't call that a "car accident" or "traffic accident".

Doh?
Thanks for creating this. Some time in the future, we'll hopefully be all editing slides in the cloud, but this is useful till then in the corporate world. #DeathByPowerPoint

One question I have though, is where, in your blog, you said highlighting changed portion is more complicated to users than rendering the two slides side-by-side. I understand it is way more technically complex, but I hope you're pursuing that. For text slides, that feature is a must-have.
>For cars, we're more likely to get automated charging stations that just plug themselves in. That's going to be a useful problem to solve.

Maybe I just happen to have a good idea, but that seems easy to do.
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> back in the day there were two big software essayists - PG and Joel

Don't forget Philip Greenspun!
Can you find an example in case law where someone's been prosecuted for obtaining access to a system by spoofing their MAC ID or user agent string?

Surely this has come up before now, yes?
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Net Neutrality, Zero Rating, and the Global Digital Divide
You're talking about computer misuse law - there are existing cases in UK and probably US that cover this.

Here's one BBC article that talks about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6960304.stm

> The Communications Act 2003 says a "person who (a) dishonestly obtains an electronic communications service, and (b) does so with intent to avoid payment of a charge applicable to the provision of that service, is guilty of an offence".

Seems pretty clear. A person is paying for hotel access; notices their Apple-device using colleague is not paying; spoofs the user agent; - these seem to cover all the points of dishonesty with the intent to avoid paying for a service.

Even if the hotel is in a country that doesn't have that particular law there is probably some fraud law that covers the actions. (I realise now that I should have mentioned the fraud because that's the more serious offence and it seems some people missed my point).
What subjects are you comparing with? I don't know whether the situation is that much better for physics, for instance. I think part of the problem is that mathematics books are in general either targeted at experts or at professors who need to assign a textbook. It looks like publishers believe the market for self-taught mathematicians is too small. In contrast, programmers are a pool of people who are willing to spend money on books to teach themselves, because they hope it will have a direct career benefit.
That said, mathematics curricula must vary a lot from country to country. I was taught the fundamental of calculus in my penultimate year of high school!
30.000 downloads in a day. What I learned
Have you used PowerPoint recently? In my experience it's no worse than Apple Keynote (although the latter is more affordable), and certainly more powerful than Google Slides.
Ask HN: Name a company in Canada with a name trademarked in the USA
I found a great name for my company, let's call it "XYZ Labs", and xyzlabs.com is available. However, xyz.com is taken by a company called "XYZ Software" which has the trademark in the US for "XYZ Software" under the description: "computer programs for use in computer networking, business, and education."

That seems pretty broad to me. I develop software which is used in education. But it's a completely different category of application than theirs. Also, I am in Canada, where XYZ is not trademarked at all, except as a beachwear company.

Am I safe to buy xyzlabs.com and do business as "XYZ Labs"? Or is this a bad idea?
Show HN: Fruit Ninja Meets Pong (Atari)with cute bunny
He made the following statements in the very first shareholder letter back in 1997 [1]:

We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations
rather than short-term profitability considerations or short-term Wall Street reactions.

When forced to choose between optimizing the appearance of our GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take the cash flows.

We aren’t so bold as to claim that the above is the “right” investment philosophy, but it’s ours, and we
would be remiss if we weren’t clear in the approach we have taken and will continue to take.

He said he was going to do this from the beginning. You can call that spin if you want, but when you consistently do what you said you were going to do it seems more accurate to call it transparency.

Not saying that Amazon hasn't leaned on the PR machine from time to time, but at least on this issue they have been pretty clear and consistent from the beginning.

[1]: http://benhorowitz.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/amzn_sharehol...
I would hack on and port apps to https://sandstorm.io/

Last week, before I found out about Sandstorm, I would have said work on this: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/search/label/ClearSky - I sketched out some ideas for how to apply current cryptographic techniques in new ways and use WebRTC to make a P2P social network that would still address scenarios like logging in and having access to your data from random library computers.
Those nuclear ice-breakers are not merchant ships. Their primary purpose is not to carry containers or people.
It probably took a lot of work to do so I'm not going to bash this... But somehow I feel that the letters are not round enough for my eyes to easily flow from one letter to the other. But then again I don't have the best eyes either so hopefully it's useful to some other devs.
IBM is a slow trickle kind of lay-off place. So there are always lay-offs happening.
It's installed through Composer. In composer.json it sets up a custom repository to download the latest version of WordPress, and then uses the "extra" section to install it to a custom directory (in this case the public directory).
Do you have thoughts on a better way, or are we forever destined to be sub-optimal?
Great idea! AFAIK, the only "serious" literature we have on the subject is the GPU Gems series, although it's pretty outdated now and I suspect a lot of other great resources have emerged since my time.

I'll take this opportunity for a shameless plug of one of my articles [1] with some musings that may be relevant and/or interesting to read and know.

[1]: http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/the-end-of-fixe...
Why not just look for a partner? I'm sure you'd have plenty of takers. This thing is ready to start billing tomorrow by the looks of it. Then you would have more freedom to pursue your passions, while someone else deals with the customers for a percentage or whatever.
Ask HN: Did you talk to your boss before job hunting?
I've realized that the time has come for me to find a new job. Since I have a close relationship with my boss, I'm wondering if I should tell him that I'm going to be looking. Or should I just wait until I've gotten through an interview and need a reference? I've been at the company for several years, if it matters.
I've never seen a whiteboard interview with only one interviewer. The smallest was 2.

Whiteboards are for diagramming things more complicated than lines of code. [e.g. Interactions between several web services or paths of control across entire programs]

I've honestly just accepted that by the standards of many people's interviewing processes I'm a bad programmer. :)
This link downloads an executable. Please don't do that.
I'm not super familiar with Haskell, but I'm fairly proficient in one of its siblings--OCaml. I've found that compilers/interpreters are almost the ideal use case for those types of languages. (That's where my OCaml knowledge comes from--writing toy compilers).
It's got a pinch gesture that I haven't seen on a game before.
I've often wondered why one would want such a thing and appreciate you taking the time to explain it.
Flipboard launches debugging tools for iOs
> we were talking about the regular Dvorak keyboard

"This car sucks! It can't even reach freeway speeds!"

"If you would shift out of first gear, you could reach freeway speeds."

"We weren't talking about higher gears!"

> There's hardly any information about Programmer's Dvorak

It's a more recent layout, yes, but it has achieved decent enough penetration that I would expect anyone seriously contemplating the switch after 2010 or so to be aware of it. Anyone who looked at stack overflow opinions on Dvorak, selected a Dvorak layout on linux, or googled Dvorak and programming in conjunction would have run across it.

You still haven't substantiated your claim regarding carpal tunnel.
> Amazon reminds me a bit of Ford back in the day.

This is utter fucking nonsense. It's pure tech-world/silicon valley circle-jerkery. It doesn't jive at all with the labor complaints leveled at Amazon [1]. Ford famously doubled the wage of his workers [2] and promulgated a philosophy that his business should improve the situation of his workers [3], while Amazon doesn't even pay subsistence wages [4].

[1]: http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_..., http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f..., http://www.mhpbooks.com/amazon-anonymous-campaigners-take-to...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Labor_philosophy

[3]: Not to say Ford was perfect. I find his anti-union stance particularly problematic.

[4]: http://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-com-Hourly-Pay-E6...
To be fair, rural areas are insanely cheaper to service with fiber actually. You have cities like SF where NIMBYs are demanding all fiber equipment boxes be buried underground out of sight, and all cabling has to be tunneled. In rural areas you just string fiber on power poles or trench in the ditch.

As well, almost every successful muni fiber out there has been in an area with a muni electric provider, and little to no fiber providers outside of the muni, providing them an almost monopoly for commercial business. In major cities, commercial service is well served by multiple fiber providers, so the investment is mostly residential with no subsidizing by commercial. Many of these rural areas also have some of the cheapest electrical rates in the country as commercial user subsidize those.

Source: I grew up in Dalton GA that has muni fiber/elec 30 mins from Chattanooga who also has muni fiber/elec. I can't see this working in a major city like Atlanta.
ISRAEL WILL BE PUNISHED?
Could you elaborate on what you are using chef for and why you didn't use something like fig.

I'm getting a bit overwhelmed by the number of meta tools around docker deployment.

Also, and most importantly, how are you handling logging? Is it being persisted on the host volume or is rsyslog-streamed
That's not a scary question. One could simultaneously believe that an employee's performance was coincidence, but still give that employee a bonus (why not reward luck, after all?).
Announcing Hydra 1.0: free and commercial software
I remember it was what introduced me to MVC. That and pog (php object generator).
Crows are impressive animals. The more we learn about animal intelligence, the more I wonder what exactly it is that we do with all this extra brain matter we lug around.

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/crows-could-be-the-key-to...
Flynn 1.0 release in 3, 2, 1... crosses fingers
Any thoughts on pricing for this? Will there be a free / low-cost version for open source projects?

I'd love something like this for my personal projects.
Fair enough. More nitty-gritty details coming soon. FYI - I chose a very limited OAuth scope for pre-launch sign up. All I have access to is your email address and public GH profile stuff.
Something that lets me go back to working for myself.
via https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."
Ditto is fantastic. The data storage is in SQLite -- fast and capacious -- and it supports patterns searches of history. Usually, one can hotkey it up, type in a couple of characters, and be at or within a couple of down arrows of the entry of interest.

I wish I could find something truly comparable, in the *NIX world.
It looks like Digital Ocean hopes to eventually support coreOS: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...

I can only find a tweet that linode is "considering" it: https://twitter.com/linode/status/488045339023532032

anyone have any other information re vps vendor support?
Shaders != CUDA

Shaders have there own stripped down C language to run on parts of the graphics pipeline as apposed to CUDA which is a much richer framework with a lot more control (and knowledge) of the GPU it's running on.

CUDA is an NVidia only GPU framework.
Shaders are used in conjunction with graphics frameworks like OpenGL, DirectX(?) and WebGL.

The interactive nature is great. Normally shaders are a just a big string or file that gets submitted to the graphics card driver to get compiled and run on the GPU.
If you care about the magnitude of the change, use a percentage change graph, not lograthmic.
Being a new dad while working at a startup
Yes, please draw this diagram. Do it in Confluence while you're at it.

Yes, it sucks that I'm forced to use a crappy tool. That happens all the time in the software world. Sure, you can take the HN fantasy path and quit every job you have every time you disagree with something, but you'll never make any real progress that way. I'm still working hard to ship a good product in spite of the fact that some aspects of how I build it will be sub-optimal.

However, if the people that work on shitty products would fight back a little bit more, perhaps those of us forced to use them wouldn't find it so distasteful.
In the past decade churches have moved towards explicitly having their books run by non-members. It takes away the temptation of members abusing funds, and makes the people in charge apply the normal amount of oversight on bookkeeping, instead of "he's one of us, he'd never steal."

PS I love the word bookkeeping and would love it even more if the "p" were doubled.
How is Gezira relevant to the topic of this book? The title says the book is about "graphics programming", but from the description it seems clear that it is primarily about GPU programming, and pixel shaders in particular.

I'm not familiar with Gezira, but from what little info I could find it seems to compile to C code and runs entirely on the CPU. They say an OpenCL backend is planned for the future but not there yet. I agree it might be a good environment to learn about graphics concepts in general, but it wouldnt really teach anything about the details of GPU programming.
This isn't really meant to compete with economy parking though, it is? Parking nearer the terminal at LAX is apparently $30 a day.
Very cool app, I migrated almost all of my Slate config to it (since Slate is unmaintained at this point).
Really looking forward to 1.1 bringing event triggers, so I can get the rest of my Slate config over and go wild :D
15 startup ideas
Exactly, it should be held to the same standard as all the other companies that rapidly transformed from an online bookstore to the leading online retailer.

The same standard as all the other online retailers that helped create and then dominate a new electronics product category.

And the same standard as all the other companies with the foresight to harness excess computing capacity and become the leading cloud services provider.

It's true that Amazon is, at the end of the day, just another company and we owe it to ourselves to judge it objectively. But in any other sense, it's not a standard company.
I suspect the threshold is >500, and that most people don't notice the difference between 500 and 501.
I grew up in the south where this is a pretty standard exchange at a restaurant:

"I'd like a coke." "What kind?" "Pepsi"
I think the clarification "watwut" makes is fitting -- it's not like it's complete perfection in every situation, but I use WebSphere 8.0 running a ton of apps written in a pretty wide variety of techs (Portal, Commerce, Message Broker, services). It even runs crappy legacy projects with minimal changes (literally 1 or 2 quick fixes suggested by IDE).

Obviously it is a bit opinionated & works best when you code specifically for the APIs/standards it is currently attempting to embrace, but the all the open source scripting tools I've used are way more opinionated. I like WAS's take because I often find that it's exposing services that I don't even know about until I eventually need them. And it's not a lot of bloaty junk, it's essential JavaEE interfaces/protocols.

I'll admit it took a while to grow on me and we have fantastic hardware...
> Will there be a free / low-cost version for open source projects?

To be determined. The primary use case is for teams building their commercial products, but if it appears open source users could gain value from it then I'm not opposed.

> Any thoughts on pricing for this?

We will likely start in the $9/user/month range.

Thanks for the questions!
Do you really think merchants are going to lower their prices? Wouldn't it make more sense to just pocket the difference?

They already sued and own for the right of giving lower prices to other customers (or actually, charge more to card users), so there's no reason to think otherwise.
> They could buy out the rest of the contract, but that could be quite expensive (and the other party is under no obligation to agree unless there is already an option defined in said contract

What kind of dumbmass businessman signs such a contract? No matter the price, the contract should have included "responsibility to meet customer expected speeds and availability of the wifi service provided". And then cut the contract because they arent in fact providing a usable wifi.

I think its just a bullshit excuse to keep paying very little while not giving a crap about their customers - since they got the 4 or 5 star rating anyway.

This website is great - I will use it.
I know a lot of pastors, and none of them have lifestyles that stand out in their communities.

The inner city churches I know all have food banks, clothing banks, free hot meals, or similar programs. The churches I know in Utah set up safe houses for women and children fleeing polygamy.

If you're connected to a church that operates as a business with the pastor taking home the profits, time to find a different church.