skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First read up on it. Ebola requires physical contact with body fluids from an individual who is currently symptomatic. For this reason alone, it is unlikely to spread the way (for example) influenza does.

I have an advanced degree in microbiology from UC Davis and it is my opinion that the Ebola "scare factor" is way overblown. People simply need to read the facts about the disease and how it spreads. It doesn't spread via aerosols (sneezes)... nor by magic.
This is true for 0.02 % of the world's population, at best. (This is more than the estimated number of people owning Bitcoins, like it or not.)
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The marketing scheme portrayed in the article is valid. However, I could see renting a game to decide if its worth buying, and my decision will be made in less than 4 hours so I have little interest in renting it for a week.

I could also see a gaming party where we rent 3 or 4 games and see what we think as a group. Again my interest would be in minimization of total spend, not optimization of hourly cost. Obviously the lowest hourly cost would be poker night or go on a hike and picnic.

Also, for an article only two months old, Amazon reports I can buy the game new with free prime shipping for $17.99 which makes the "rent 90 days for $30" rather odd, because less than 60 days later I could buy the game for about half the rental cost.
Same, but also hoping they'll call the corporate hardware/services company "DEC."
The interesting part is that a couple of similar services popped up in this thread and most of them are great but not well-known, so should we have a Hacker News Toolbox?

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413016
Poll: http://poll.lab.io/dcla2GhYRr0lDLV7icEDMw
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Well, they are the 3rd largest in revenue in the IT / Software services segment after IBM and Fujitsu.
> like a serious event creating major doubt in USD.

I think you are way overestimating Bitcoin's (current) significance. If something major happens to the USD -- i.e. something major happens to the US economy -- Bitcoin will be the last thing people think about, and there are quite a few other currencies (with much better track records) that people will prefer before betting their money on Bitcoin.

> It's entirely possible, as the protocol becomes more or more utilized, those days of risk and reward are well behind us.

If you have any evidence that Bitcoin is becoming more and more utilized, I'd love to hear. And I mean actual transactions, not services supporting the protocol (which could be publicity stunt, very cheap bets for something that just might take off one day, or simply wishful thinking).
>there is no raison detre to pay workers more

Pedantic comment: it's "raison d'être", and it's used wrongly here. It means "reason for existance".
> It's objectively true that increasing the cost of energy amounts to something like a regressive tax.

No, this is not (automatically) true, it matters how the increase is implemented. See, for example: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-...
Also a lot of these basic questions can involve quite a bit of complexity. Take a look at the debate in this SO thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1035008/what-is-the-diffe...

Plenty of very smart people have spent lots of time thinking about basic questions.
This kind of thing is what investor due diligence is for. This, along with guys like Madoff, would be easily uncovered with an asset test. Basically a phone call to the bank asking how much equity an account has, naturally with the approval of the entity being tested. Surprisingly few investors actually do this.
From HP to H&P.
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Wow, really good work. Reminds me of cut scenes in megadrive games.
He means it's reason before faith contrary to religion which is faith before reason.

I can recommend exploring one of the lesser known "strains" of zen buddhism Madhyamaka.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhyamaka
It isn't just the New York Times saying this. Google's management has made public statements saying diversity needs to improve. It's a major initiative. Just maintaining the status quo isn't interesting.
They're mostly operating on streams, so at some point (based mostly on how GC is managing, I imagine) the speed will be constant per-row regardless of the record count.
If it becomes more utilized and popular, assuming people use it as currency and not as exchange medium, then inherently the price has to go up because demand for bitcoins goes up, and the supply barely changes and does so with algorithmic inputs and constant loss due to lost wallets.

I like to think of bitcoin as cryptogold. The inevitable outcome assuming continued success of the bitcoin protocol is that as more people want it and supply cannot change it becomes a lot like gold, in that it is traded as a resource backing currency. You could still use it for transactions, but a money that is long run appreciating in value is not very conductive of exchange. Something like dogecoin, peercoin, or any cryptocurrency implemented that algorithmically adjusts generation rates to maintain consistent monetary velocity would be much better suited as a day to day exchange commodity.

Also, one of the most prominent uses of bitcoin is in international exchange, in which case yeah, it acts as an intermediary between local fiats, but there is substantial pressure to just use the bitcoin outright rather than constantly converting it back.
That was a bit confusing, here The Times is not the NY Times...

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/?CMP=INTstp2
First look at some results from Washington chips
Only one RFC... but that doesn't mean you can just reject all Excel-exported CSV as "invalid" and force those people to figure out some other solution. :(
The network is single-purpose and costs real electricity to run. If the mining cost stays above the value of the coins mined for long enough people will start turning off their miners.
Also, if bitcoin is basically abstracted from the user, there is risk that the middle men will switch a newer protocol. Coinbase and bitpay could easily switch. All the people speculating in bitcoin price would be left holding the bag.
Bitpay only does Bitcoin -> USD/etc so they really shouldn't have many bitcoins floating around in their accounts unless they are having difficulty finding buyers for them. With a downtrend the longer it takes them to sell the more then lose.
Yip. Feel much better :)
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Because selfreference is meaningless for something that isn't a function in the usual sense of the word. Your example only shows that "lists" in Haskell really are functions, or at least what you would call an iterator or enumerable in other (non-lazy) languages.
The return of Compaq and DEC? That would be lovely!
It's a crying shame that the Museum Of Questionable Medical Devices [1] closed; it was one of my favorite places to take friends visiting when I lived in Minneapolis. You could sit in THE ORIGINAL ORGONE ACCUMULATOR! You could get your head measured by an AUTOMATIC PHRENOLOGY MACHINE! You could marvel at the things RADIO-ACTIVE and ELECTRIC that were invariably fitted to be inserted in the anus!

[1] http://www.museumofquackery.com/welcome.htm
Not to mention that a large set of keys are known to be reflectively weak under Blowfish:

http://iacr.org/archive/fse2007/45930168/45930168.pdf

And of course there's ciphertext malleability attacks as it's not using authenticated encryption
> I'm confident that as soon as the need arises, this limit will be increased.

Why hasn't the need arised yet? People have been saying this since the limit was introduced, and it hasn't changed.

> Wrong again. At the moment, the recommended minimum fee is 0.03 USD, or 0 for high-priority transactions (those who move large amounts or old coins).

This is before the next halving. Right now, miners get 25BTC for completing a successful block. Satoshi expected that at the time this became halved, fees to the miners would take over. So sending 0.01BTC wouldn't make sense since they'd need 12.5BTC in fees to make it profitable.

The reward will be halved in two years ( http://bitcoinclock.com/ )
"5% of originations" er, thats not a sane margin. That is around where current banks charge, probably higher, but banks take credit losses in that, but this is pure intermediation.
>In the 1970's they thought that we were living in the most important time ever, and that things were picking up pace. In 1980s we thought the same, in the 1990's we said the exact same thing. pick any year and humans would say the same, "we are living in special times".

Actually no. Most of the millenia of human history have been repeatitive and slow moving. Most people in history lived in exactly the same material conditions, and general culture, as their parents and grandparents.

This is something quantifiable, in productivity, in number of inventions, in being able to do extremely important things for the first time in human history (electricity and artificial light, urbanization, nuclear power, flying, space exploration, tele-communications, computing, medicine and biology, etc). All those things are totally unlike the 16th or the 9th century, and they have been picking up pace since the industrial revolution.

And the 70's to today (50 years) is not that much in the course of human history. Not even the whole 20th century is. So it's not like those were district periods that "got it wrong", all those decades belong to the same historical period, and were indeed "special times".
The argument against unbundling a couple years ago was that the server/desktop divisions were able to leverage the volume they purchased hardware on, and the obvious synergy in having the desktops/printers open up a channel for servers and software services. Not to mention the value in having a single sales, finances, sales, ordering, procurement, manufacturing division.

I'm wondering if this argument has changed? Looking very forward to hearing what the rationale is.
Yeah, pretty much that's what I also find the most appropriate.

GitHub seems to be the second-best option ( sometimes the first ), but when you have unlimited non-paid private repos your mind goes also unlimited : I serve my important configuration files, various scripts, small personal projects, even my bank statements on a git repo, hosted on my personal server. But if every repo costed me 2$ per month, I doubt I would do that.
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> there are quite a few other currencies (with much better track records) that people will prefer before betting their money on Bitcoin.

So I'm in the US. Assuming hyperinflation starts tomorrow, the only money I have, or anyone else will accept broadly enough to keep me able to exchange in the market, is bitcoin. Nobody has Euros, nobody takes them, nobody takes Canadian dollars on the boarder, and nobody would accept or buy the equipment to measure weights of gold or platinum.

Of course, the market would probably broadly move (more due to ignorance than any real justifiable reason not to) towards another states fiat in the event of a gradual loss of faith in USD. You would not have a situation where you woke up tomorrow and suddenly your dollars are worthless, at least if you are paying attention.

> If you have any evidence that Bitcoin is becoming more and more utilized, I'd love to hear. And I mean actual transactions, not services supporting the protocol

Overstock is apparently making like 2% of revenue from bitcoin sales. I know the Subway nearby that takes bitcoin is making money when I spend btc there. I'm exclusively buying computer hardware for customers through tigerdirect / newegg in bitcoin, though they have not released statements on how much revenue is generated through it yet.
Both IBM and Sony sold their PC business. Dell showed us how well stand alone PC business with low margins fares on the stock market.

I wonder why HP toke a different approach, no buyer, no immediate need for cash or something else?
Wishful thinking. Bitcoin does - at least right now - not solve any interesting problem with the way we currently handle our financial transaction. In consequence there is no incentive to mass adopt Bitcoin which in turn keeps the capitalization low which keeps the price fluctuations high which decreases incentives to adopt Bitcoin even further because now you have to buy Bitcoins for real money, transfer them and sell them quickly in order to protect you against this price fluctuations.
They also made a huge bet on Itanium which obviously didn't pay off. HP, along with Intel, has arguably recovered from that strategic decision, but a huge amount of money and corporate energy went into running that play. If that money and energy had gone into other things, HP might well be in a better overall place today.
The price right now isn't based on actual demand for usage. It's over priced due to speculation.

But some of these methods of using bitcoin greatly increase the velocity of bitcoin. If demand rises 10x but velocity increases 20x, the price would fall.
Look into the Bates method, it's natural vision research from an ophthalmologist in the 20s. The argument is that animals (including us) naturally move neck and eyes in exactly tiny little movements literally all the time, non-stop. And that is healthy because constant movement promotes relaxation, whereas keeping your neck (and eyes) fixed leads to tension and over time is what actually increases our prescription, which he argues is just like being inflexible (that is, it becomes your new normal), but in the eye and neck muscles.

So I'm actually pretty excited for something that needs me to look around all the time. I've still gotta try making my text editor twitch about all the time. A moving target makes more sense for our predator eyes, so maybe VR will finally allow people who work with computers not to have disproportionally more need for glasses.
I send money internationally a couple times a month and have known about bitcoin for a long time and its never even a consideration. Even though I have access to exchanges where the fees are low the time effort in first sending my money to an exchange then buying then sending it to the other side then having them sell on an exchange and then transfer the funds out is so much more painful than the existing "Open wire transfer, receive funds next day" unless your time is worth $0 it costs more too. There are now a few "instant" exchanges but unfortunately all instant methods at them are still marked up a fair bit.

Add in the fact that if you don't have access to a good exchange and you're using LBC or an ATM you're probably paying more than wire fees for any non-negligible amount even without considering the time.
I'd definitely look for a tech co-founder. At the bare minimum, you'd gain in credibility. If you feel ok with the hw, look for a sw eng. I assume it won't be hard to know someone in the gym(s) you're targeting, that can fall in love with the idea and be not only a co-founder, but also a user/tester.
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Read what @sama says about cofounders. Solo is better than someone you don't really know. Trust me. Getting someone you just met on HN is very risky.
>Would you look down at me for wanting huge TVs and a large home?

Yes. Especially if there are huge sacrifices in your overall quality of life for such meagre rewards.

The idea behind culture and civilization is that not all ways of life and aspirations are equally valid and good.

It might be debatable who is right and who is wrong, but people can and should "look down" on other people for wanting certain stuff.
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http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.com/2014/08/sad-...
Jeff, I run the largest peer to peer for tech startups CEO's in Toronto @ the Ryerson building. I'm happy to have coffee with you if interested since I imagine there is more context here that is missing (don't like just giving advice until learning more....) email is latif@roadmunk.com.
Couldn't there be automated traders waiting to jump in if the price changes, rather than having orders on the books? (I know they exist, I just don't know whether they would appear in the order book)
From my perspective, foreign keys are important as they are the last guarantee that two bits of data belong to each other. Also they do have a positive performance impact in JOIN scenarios.

If FK performance is an issue, then there are better solutions before you break them (denormalise on write etc).
The poll is here: http://poll.lab.io/dcla2GhYRr0lDLV7icEDMw, but I hope you can also vote this post so I can get more opinions.
An interesting read, I would agree with the author, Apple is making it difficult, not impossible for govt to get your data.
TLDR, apple's claim is misleading, govt can get data in other ways
Even those who think "I'd decide if I want to buy the game in less than 4 hours" are also likely to think "it's only 2 bucks more to have it for a week" and try to use that as a hedge against the likely scenario of wanting to play a little bit more, but not liking the game enough to buy. It's very rare to find someone who would pick the 4 hour decision as a result of rational process (minimize total outlay to find your favorite game of a group, and buy only the best.)

Sure, a few people will take the 4 hour option, but I'd bet their internal numbers show that the presence of the 4 hour option drives a lot of 1-week options -- and they'd rather rent 4 games for a week each ($28 revenue) than one game for a month ($14 revenue).
I don't think VR ide will be practical. You have a screen beaming inches away from your eye. It's bad enough we stare at the computer monitor all day.

I think what would work is some sort of hologram reality agumentation that is able to project 3d images in the environment you are in.

Again, this ergonomic aspect of the Oculus might be improved but my primary concern is the vision health aspect of it.
Google's new experiment?
Another book I found very helpful was "being nobody, going nowhere" by Ayya Khema

I bought a handful of copies of this book so I could give them away. Of course often it is very important WHEN you read the book.
And, in many markets, a good deal of kneecapping is still involved. (Not a joke.)
Not sure the counter example of Apple stands; they have a specific goal: be in full control of the whole technological stack for their products. They don't design processors and sell them like Qualcomm; they just do whatever is necessary for their product line.

A conglomerate like HP and Samsung often has little to no cross-pollination between divisions. Obviously the semiconductor part of Samsung can benefit the whole business, but the intersection between TV and dishwasher is probably zero, even at marketing level (they have totally different marketing and sales departments).
How is this different to the strategy/plans outlined by HP's previous CEO Leo Apotheker before he got fired abruptly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Apotheker#Hewlett-Pack...
If you're in the US and hyperinflation starts tomorrow who is going to be buying your hyperinflating USD for bitcoin?

>Nobody has Euros, nobody takes them, nobody takes Canadian dollars on the boarder

That is because they don't have to USD is fairly stable if it starts to go into hyperinflation that will change quickly. Also as a Canadian that travels to the US a lot. There are large swaths of the US where CAD is accepted.

>Overstock is apparently making like 2% of revenue from bitcoin sales.

At last disclosure Overstock had done $2.6m in bitcoin revenue in 9 months. They are far from 2% of revenue. Their CEO keeps throwing out random numbers about what they plan to do by the end of the year that don't make sense(He still claims $10-20m by year end regularly) to cover the fact that their bitcoin revenue has been dropping from day one.
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Assuming this Glen Beckian Armageddon, I doubt you'll be able to use Bitcoin much at all, as it requires internet access and electricity, both could experience disruptions in the chaos that will surely ensue when world's leading economy collapses (remember, nobody (seriously) lost faith in the USD even during the 2008 meltdown, so nothing short of a '29-like collapse will do it). If that world-changing catastrophe happens, people will start taking Euros, Pounds, Yens, or Yuans long before BTC.
Fortunately this is happening in an undemocratic country and not coming with the typical terrorism / save-the-children propaganda. I hope we soon can hear about the benefits Google glas will have for example on enforcing Dubai's stand on homosexuality:

In keeping with traditional Islamic morality, both Federal and Emirate law prohibit homosexuality and cross-dressing with punishment ranging from long prison sentences, deportation, for foreigners, and the death penalty. (1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai
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I've always dismissed people complaining about volatility, as it's not really a huge problem for currencies... But I've never seen a real-time track of Bitcoin!

There is volatility, and there are currencies that change each second the same that the normal "volatile" currencies change a week. Bitcoin seems to be the latter, and that's a qualitatively different problem from mere volatility.
I'm sorry, but this is just plain wrong.

Let's take "since the key is physically burned in"... You don't need to burn it in, it could easily be stored in a few bytes of on-die sram. As for the assertion that a de-powered chip can't wipe itself? You can just go out and buy a self wiping chip ... you don't need to be either Apple or the NSA, just have a credit card.
> When Bitcoin becomes a pure cash equivalent, no one will care about the price. I believe that once the price becomes irrelevant, it'll trend downward

Assuming world wide adoption scenario, that's mathematically impossible. People generally have some amount of wealth (most of us have it in a bank). If you have, let's say, 100 million people (a small fraction of the world really) using bitcoin instead of fiat, and, let's say, they have $2,000 worth of bitcoin on average (which is much lower than the current US average), it would mean that 1 bitcoin = $2,000 * 100M / 21M = $9523.8.
Sorry, calling bs on this.

Your last four comments all start with "I once was an intern" - and my guess is that's why your alias is "I.o.w.a.i."

Did all this stuff really happen? And to you?

Because from your past comments, you were an intern in the "golden 90's" and in this scenario, in 2014.
In one of the companies I worked in the past, we found that for a similar server configuration, Dell provides lower quote than HP and others almost always. So I doubt, HP can compete on prices with Dell in servers and support.
It's not perfect if you're worried about people voting more than once. We tried doing an office poll about something people held strong opinions about -- what video game to bring in for an office tournament -- and within twenty minutes, coworkers had rewritten ballot stuffing scripts in bash, PHP, and Python.

Not to mention that you can submit multiple votes by opening the page in an incognito window in Chrome.
At the current levels of volatility it's probably not a good idea to keep a lot of open orders - unless you can watch the markets 24/7. Automated traders would likely wait for a significant price change and then execute a market order or just place an order on very short notice.