skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are extremists that believe Bitcoin is poised to be the new world's reserve currency (which to me means a highly sought after commodity to compare against), as gold once was in the past 200 years to some degree. This party of thought see it as digital gold that is fungible through the internet. It doesn't have enough critical mass of actual economic value hedged on it yet to be that, if ever, so it's going to be a wild ride when any big players decide to put some monies in the slot machine of the market. Small level purchasers aren't moving the market, and if they're in the US they're probably using Coinbase or some other "Bitcoin bank" that does off-chain transactions. The begrudgoned trusted entities that the current world requires to exist for people to get involved aren't moving the price for the most part, and their prices reflect what the other exchanges are saying. Regardless of the potential for transaction exclusion collusion, any large amounts of Bitcoin bought off the chain can cause wild swings on the markets that are averaged for the prices, and for a while if Bitcoin continues to excel, it will remain just as exploitable as any other financial system such stocks w/ press.
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Bitfinex does shorts, which is similar I guess.
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..that was cofounded by PG:

Viaweb was a web-based application that allowed users to build and host their own online stores with little effort and technical expertise, directly from their own web browser. The eponymous company was started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. Graham claims that Viaweb was the first application service provider.[..] In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
Since this seems to be the overall point

>But when other people are totally happy to talk about speed and blood pressure and comas and the crime rate, and then suddenly switch to a position that we can’t talk about IQ at all unless we have a perfect factor-analytical proof of its obeying certain statistical rules, then I worry they’re just out to steal cows.... But when people never even begin to question the idea of different cultures but make exacting demands of anyone before they can talk about different races – even though the two ideas are statistically isomorphic – then I think they’re just out to steal cows.

There is of course, the opposite problem, which is that people take things like IQ and infer wild conclusions, usually in the service of white supremacy. An example of this is the MAO "Warrior Gene." There are several studies showing a weak correlation between a variant of the gene and violence. Black Americans have this gene more often.

There is a specific, very bad, study that is often quoted. It cherry picks its data, and still can't achieve a significance of p > .05.[1] Yet it is often brought up as indisputable proof of the savage nature of black people. It's ridiculous, and IMHO, much worse than the tendencies criticized in the blog post.

[1] http://www.soc.iastate.edu/staff/delisi/MAOA%202013.pdf
There was an attempt at this game on HN a year or so ago. It was insanely hard, but also super flawed - just one example you may get a scenario about half way in where you find out you have a dog, which you suddenly have to pay vet bills for.

Found it: http://playspent.org/
This is not called a liquidity trap. That's a concept in macro econ, it has nothing to do with trading or (this kind of) finance.
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The global road death toll
Same. Not sure why this is such a popular thing to do. Makes error handling almost impossible to reason about.
How do you expect endless increases in population to affect the climate?
That seems like a miss. I don't understand why, if they have such good technology, they wouldn't just have sensors on the trashcans or toilets that inform them when they need emptying/cleaning.
Google, Apple, MS et al all track us by our phones and I think you know by now that the NSA, and police can also access that data.

I wouldn't really object if the government knew when I cycled into town, and when I visited friends etc... if it would get my stolen bike back. There could also be a rule that only bikes reported stolen could be logged and alerted, but there could also be benefits if this rule was let slide. For example, popular cycling routes could be studied for prioritising path repairs, or the building of new cycle lanes.
The global road death toll has already reached 1.24 million per year and is on course to triple to 3.6 million per year by 2030.

In the developing world, where this pandemic has hit hardest, it will become the fifth leading cause of death, leapfrogging past HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other familiar killers, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) most recent Global Burden of Disease study.
Ask HN: SQL vs ORM - Why Not SQL Web APIs?
Recently I was looking at yet another API that an IT vendor has put together (rest + xml). I also read this http://wozniak.ca/what-orms-have-taught-me-just-learn-sql article.

This go me wondering why so few sites use SQL type APIs (with SQL cleaning)? (only found http://docs.cartodb.com/cartodb-platform/sql-api.html and paypal business).
Wow I am old. The entire time I was picturing a VCR.
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Yes, they are financially independant to remain where they are, but they are not financially independent to do do great things, e.g. they couldn't start a company, buy a new house, send their kids to college. (except your friend became a millionaire)

This financial independence normally is temporary and normally doesn't last long. Humans crave for change, living on a pottery farm is really nice for the first 1-2 years, however, for the rest of your life? Humans are not built for that.
Sounds like the neural net tank story: https://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/
It was fun to look at your source code. About 600 lines.

I really liked the arcade version of asteroids, so me and a friend wrote a version in PDP assembler for a class project. I wish I still had the source code, but let's just say it was not as compact (e.g., we had to do the video driver, random number generation, trig, etc.), and took a couple of weeks.

Although the basic OO design is the same, which is cool.
Service looks incredibly dated and the pricing is all out of whack.

The whole "in 2 minutes" thing never resonates with me. To me it implies a crappy service. Anything (sizable; like, oh, say, going into business) doable in 2 minutes is NOT worth doing.
Just like Flatland, Grav has removed the extraneous third dimension allowing for critical content to reach the user at never before CMS imagined speed and clarity
I built a one time password system a while ago (https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=69e92695-f6eb-42e...).

I'd like very much to display the OTP pad on a watch and enter the code into either a desktop app or a phone app.
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FYI -- signup is no longer loaded w/ mixed content. Appreciate the heads-up.
I was going to suggest it, even though I had zero success using it (as a buyer, not as a seller)
A foreign worker can form an LLC in the US. You can also sponsor an H1B visa for a founder IF you can satisfy the employee employer relationship criteria (more http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Laws/Memorand... or google) but basically it means the founder can't hire himself. There needs to be a board in place which can hire/fire the person in question.
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Thanks for the article! You just pushed me to want to learn Nodejs.
> >Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down.

> http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

The first two chapters are really good, but it goes downhill very quickly. Fiction requires suspension of disbelief, and I nearly burst out laughing at the dialog in the fifth chapter. It also fails to explore some of the more interesting aspects of robots-as-blind-managers.

For example, the robot asks workers in a store to report the shelf stock and asks a second to verify. What happens when typically-mischievous teenage workers lie to the computer (either individually or as a conspiracy)? Do they convince the computer that duct tape is a highly-shoplifted item? Is the software smart enough to correlate the misreporting with specific workers or groups of workers (and does it ever misidentify the perpetrator)? Do engineers spend untold hours figuring out why "Manna" keeps overstocking (or understocking) duct tape?

The computer manager in Manna is shown as a all-knowing with human intelligence and common sense. We all know that real software isn't like that.
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I would buy into it if the voice recognition was just a little bit better. It is impressive and nearly there, but I still wind up correcting just about every message I send.
HN is a crap shoot and we're not going to organize an upvote ring. So yes, it's necessary.

https://camoji.com/c/LxHJwWfxy9qL
That was a bit different as they were trying to replicate the JVM in hardware (i.e. as an instruction set). This is just a rewrite of python that can run on a small ARM chip. Still very impressive mind, but a different beast. It is more similar to .net Micro Framwork ( http://www.netmf.com/ ) .

There are small JVMs that are well suited to doing this. As a matter of fact ST sells a developer kit based on the exact same microcontroller series used here, the STM32F4 ( http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM147/CL1794/SC961/SS153... ) of course it comes with rather crippling limitations of 3 month eval time, and 1 hour run. It is obviously aimed at a rather different market though.
Side note...

Funny thing about white supremacy. If you go on raw IQ statistics alone, then whites are certainly not the master race. That title would belong to Asians and Ashkenazi Jews.

But then again I'm a skeptic of IQ = everything.
I will be counter-intuitive here and ask you this.

Is the domain worth 20k for you? If it is, and you think in the long run it will add 20k to your bottom line, then buy it.

If for any reason the startup won't succeed (knock on wood), if that is an appetizing enough .com, it will still be worth its asking price.

I recently read the examine.com guys bought it for 42k. I thought that was a very big risk for a starting blog. But in fairness, i think a domain name like examine.com could be re-sold for a very similar amount in short time.

If you think the .com is not worth 20k for you, or if you don't have 20k - then go for a prefix/suffix.

Buy cheap brand PPC campaigns on Googlee for your brand (I assume the parked domain isn't doing it) so that when people Google the name, they get to you. And eventually if you have constant Ads on top, and your site has a content as opposed to a parked domain,it will rank better in google too.
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> What is one thing that you can do now that your future self will thank you for?

Learn something new every day.

> I'll set it off with: Decide who you are.

All right, but don't expect that to be permanent -- individuals evolve just like species do, and we're not necessarily the same person we were even ten years ago. Put another way, grooves often become ruts.

> Knowing who the real you is gives you stability in life.

My personal opinion is that being able to accept change -- in ourselves and in others -- provides even more stability.

Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.
A stop hunt?
They are probably hosted in some eastern European country, I'm not sure how well cross boarder/international judgements go.
This is demonstrably incorrect. All you have to do is read a few years of Patrick McKenzie's advice to underemployed tech workers to see how different the character of tech jobs is from medical jobs. Scoring by "status" or by compensation, the variance among tech jobs in the first 5 years of a tech career dwarfs those of a medical doctor. Some people with CS degrees end up working helpdesk or patch management. Some of them wind up writing J2EE LOB applications wiring up form fields to SQL columns over and over again. And some of them work in challenging roles that offer opportunities to build a career.

The difference between the high-status roles and the low-status ones isn't school, excepting possibly that an absurdly small subset of the industry (Stanford and MIT grads) have easier time avoiding helpdesk jobs.

The "rigid hierarchical track" you suggest exists for tech also doesn't exist. I have a single semester of university. If you want to make the pot rich enough, we can bet on whether I can get a full time job at Google or Apple. I'd warn you that I've got an information advantage on this bet.

Hiring in technology is warped and driven by bogus apocrypha. A tiny component of the overall demand is fed by truly credentialing universities. But the majority of the demand is fed by a pool of candidates not distinguished by the particulars of their degree. Instead, they're distinguished by ability to navigate hazing rituals.

Your last paragraph isn't an argument. It's what you'd like to believe is true. It doesn't even fit the anecdotal evidence we have here. Have you met a lot of VCs? I have. As a group, they tend to be attractive: fit, the product of school, career, and social tracks that build social (and athletic) skills. They're well dressed, which comes of having large amounts of disposable income. And yet, strangely: women founders appear not to be comfortable being propositioned by them. The only way your last graf works is if we assume that those women are simply lying.
> Like it makes a fucking difference... Your civilian gun rights can't protect you when there's a team of police armed with assault rifles and body armor marching down your street.

20,000 civilians with guns can protect a region against a few hundred police, even with their armored vehicles, tear gas, etc. I think you're underestimating the population difference between civilians and police.

> Are you seriously suggesting civilians take up counter-sniping positions against the police?

If there are police snipers, then absolutely.

> The days of the old west are over, we need laws and regulations not civil war.

I'm not calling for the old west, or for civil war, or for a lack of laws. You're the one advocating a greater power disparity between police and civilians.
Agreed. This isn't really a function of having too many layers involved though, Dalvik here is just bootstrapping and then gets out of the way.

Additionally, having dealt with memory issues on Android (particularly on 2.3 & below), Dalvik doesn't set the bar very high for an alternative runtime to be competitive in memory management.
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If you are in the US the easiest way to get money into an actual exchange seems to be by buying BTC via coinbase (they support ACH transactions for US citezens) and then transferring it to an exchange such as Coinsetter, Bitfinex, or Bitstamp to trade. Coinsetter is based in the US and will rebate you your Coinbase transaction fees.
Give the workers daycare, food, accommodation, training/education and pay them peanuts...

In practice, many low-wage workers already get these resources, but via the government (i.e. your taxes) rather than the company.
It's usually called a liquidity spiral. Brunnermeier and Pedersen's 2009 paper [0] is the standard reference. For a quick overview, see their slides [1] or Pedersen's summary for Vox EU [2].

As Pedersen emphasizes in the Vox article, the amount and price of funding available to participants in financial markets is intimately related to macro factors. So market liquidity, through the funding linkage, can dive along with the real economy.

But liquidity can also evaporate due to endogenous factors, particularly when markets are set up so that the funding available to traders depends on the price of the asset being traded, e.g., through margin rules. That's what seems to have happened on BitFinex today. Positive feedback loops make for ill behaved markets.

0. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~lpederse/papers/Mkt_Fun_Liquidit... [PDF]

1. https://www.newyorkfed.org/registration/research/risk/peders... [PDF]

2. http://www.voxeu.org/article/understanding-liquidity-risk-an...
Summary: Because you aren't reading it "cold", you're reading it with confirmation bias. You're reading it already knowing what the intent and purpose is, so your brain glosses over the details and fills in the blanks.
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> Do you mean to suggest that Americans should carry guns so that they can fight back against the police when they get out of hand?

Maybe not carry, but own. And they point isn't to actually fight back against police, it's to deter the police from causing that to be necessary.
Right, and it looks to me that the police in Ferguson are exerting a very large amount of control over the population, much more than normal.
My personal theory is that my lizard-brain procrastinates in the hope that some percentage of the things it puts off doing, will eventually not need to be done. (Either they take care of themselves, or turn out to be unimportant)

Basically, procrastination is a rational manifestation of laziness, which as has been discussed in the past is a survival trait (avoid expending energy if possible)
That wouldn't be a stop, it would be a buy/limit order with a price far below (20-30%) the current market price.
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If you were building a system like this for real, you'd probably put sensors on toilets and trash cans in addition to the cash register connection. Real sensors fail, and, in a system where workers are explicitly discouraged from using common sense, that leads to overflowing trash cans.
> Runabove announces cheaper instances and simpliest [sic] billing

It gets simplier and simplier.
Yeah but what's the termination condition?
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"unless you are using Android UI controls." is a pretty big caveat.
Just as an aside, we will be discussing many other monetization topics over the next few months. It's just that Ads was an easy one to start with.
If people used Bitcoin the same way they used the USD, it would be much more stable as a currency.

Right now market liquidity on Bitstamp (I think that's the biggest exchange?) is 3 million per day. If you want to trade and buy $3m of Bitcoins, you're going to have a huge impact on the price. This is not an unreasonable transaction for larger parties and investment firms.

I don't know what the liquidity on the USD is, but consume an entire days worth of trade volume between USD and say, the Euro, you pretty much have to be a small country.

A lot of these fluctuations will smooth out greatly as Bitcoin's actual use and liquidy goes up. If investment firms and hedge funds start giving serious attention to Bitcoin, you'll see it approach a stability closer to that of gold. Still not the USD standard of stability, but a lot better than what it is today.
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The actual Gestapo was only 70 years ago. I'm referring to a longer historical time frame. Obviously most of Western Europe has been stable since World War II.
If we assume Alice and Bob use the keyserver network, and each have their own "master" key-pair that is mutually trusted, they can rotate public sub-keys quite frequently (you just need to search for any new keys before sending an email -- this is of course another (not smtp) channel -- but who doesn't use keyservers?).
Changing how you store and manage contacts on your phone
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Major sticker shock after clicking the 'Create your store' button—they drop you into an order screen with 1 year of the 'pro' plan selected for $828. Caught me very off guard. No free trial? I'd love to kick the tires before they try to get me to pay for a year up front.
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> For real, does anyone actually thing civilian gun ownership could ever actually play a role in protest confrontations like this?

I think it would absolutely play a role in deterring confrontations like this. I don't want government and civilians to fight. I want government to fear fighting civilians.
Google Authenticator voice action to display the current 2FA code for some account
Is the grandparent comment otherwise correct, besides the name?
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So... gpg + mixmaster remailers + Tor for http?
I would also suggest looking at Rivets (http://rivetsjs.com) which is my current go-to solution for this sort of thing.
Simply a great project with an astonishing outcome. The thing you did great is "UX" - or, to be more precise, lack of ux. You made a device which is perfectly accessible by your grandfather, asking him to deal with "modern" devices like smartphones would have probably resulted in an epic fail. Great work.
House can be worth a lot of time investment. It is, after all, where you live every day.

How about food? I would love to invest zero time into food, but I have to eat.
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diction says a lot about frame of mind. the negativity wont let you think differently here, but its definitely possible.

one foot in front of the other. get rid of the fear, its pointless after the first time - you have a network and a net under you.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

And no, spamming submissions does not increase your odds at all.
This 2.5 minute video gives you the scope and breath of how much support goes behind racing an F1 car.

It’s really the engineers making the pre-race setup for the car and making real time adjustments during the race that makes a winning F1 team. It has been argued the F1 drivers merely are “along for the ride” and it’s really what goes on behind the scenes that wins a race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j9r7Ue6XnA
https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software

It looks like they are heavily redundant boxes with the goal of reducing field maintenance, running FreeBSD as the OS.
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That's a good thing. Bitcoin fraud is the easiest large-scale fraud you could hope to deploy in the modern day.
show up, get things done, deal with all sorts of people.
Probably ought to math that out with waking hours. And add in your commute. And 2000 hours = 38/week. I don't know many folks who work that little, though I supposed vacation days ought to factor into it (the average american takes 4.1). Let's nudge it up to 2400 or so.

2400 hours worked + 260 hours commuting (US avg. is 25.5min - probably average higher in startup cities?) Let's say 17 waking hours (even though people who get 7 hours of sleep are proven to be less effective on a lot of fronts, it's certainly plenty common).

(edit: average hours worked/week in US for salaried workers is 46: http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/Most_employed_Americans...)

2660 / 365*17 = 43%
It fell from $29M to $24M: http://www.bfxdata.com/swaphistory/totals.php

But that drop doesn't happen at the same time as the big drop on Bitfinex, as far as I can see. I assume all times are UTC, unless otherwise stated.

The drop in total sum of USD swaps fell from 2014-08-14T07:30 to 2014-08-14T08:30, but the drop on Bitfinex happened around 2014-08-14T10:00