skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those are going to draw in users - i think the "killer app" for bitcoin is still yet to be found. I went to a bitcoin meetup/talk recently, and what i m hearing is that bitcoin's direction is more heading towards what might be called 'smart' money, such as a more trustworthy escrow, contracts, etc.
Fact-Checking the Hype Surrounding FireChat in Hong Kong's Protests
Google won't fix a security bug that's in almost a billion Android phones
Bitcoin bottomed at $152. Back up to the low $180s now. No idea what happened. Bitcoin is roughly back to before the China bubble now.
A few typos (maybe you should run the text through a spell checker):

Vocotional -> Vocational
didn’t knew -> didn't know
univerity -> university
It's hard to make the case for the early 90s being the peak of game quality, use Origin as an example, and completely miss out a reference to Roberts Space Industries and Star Citizen.

The golden age is in the future, and the future is already here (just not evenly distributed).
Am I the only one seeing a bit of delusional attitude in this article?
Kickstart your ass off with a great game idea and you'll get paid what you deserve while still working by your passion.
But wait I am not going to believe the author doesn't know about Kickstarter...
In the sorting world it's called a bucket, not a shard.
I like how articles like this help elevate Nim's status. To me, deep inside, Rust always felt like this grand high-stakes project, by wise people at this big experienced company Mozilla, and Nim felt like a hobby project that got out of hand. That's an entirely unfair judgment of course, but I bet more people feel that way. I like that Nim is starting to get the attention it deserves.
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bitcoin is dead. long live the bitcoin!
"Was meant to be" based on the claims of all the leading people in the bitcoin world outside of Gavin. Barry Silbert has been telling everyone about how Wall st was coming in 3 months since Nov 2013. Go back to January 2013 posts on /r/bitcoin to get a feel for what people expected of the year. With the exception of more merchant acceptance it has failed all those expectations.

No one cares what version the software is and that you would think anyone does is one of the problems with the Bitcoin community. Bitcoin had its chance to impress the general public and get them on board when it had all its media attention this past year and it failed.
http://Everyone_in_news.yc_is_pure_cancer
See: https://github.com/sebmck/roadrunner
This is one of the reasons why the Objective-C GC failed.

It just didn't work out mixing Frameworks compiled in different modes, many times leading to crashes.
Bitpay is basically just a one way exchange that handles the trading for you. It is no different to end users except in the amount of work required. Xapo is a huge flop and accounts for 1/10th of that 400m. Bitfury accounts for another 1/10th.

Blockchain raised a silly amount of money for a platform that most people in the community have lost faith in due to repeated security failings.
That's exactly what I was thinking. When high frequency traders are doing it it's OK but when this guy tricks them into actually taking some risks it's fraud.
Time to get more cheap coins
Although Bitcoin is often marketed as such, it doesn't necessarily compete with banks. I personally see it as a currency which competes with other currencies. It's a bit like paper cash except that it can be stored digitally. I don't see what would prevent "big bad banks" (although unlikely) from adopting BTC as one of the many currencies they support and offer all the protections and services they offer with other currencies. This is actually the direction that Coinbase seems to be taking.
It's not beta software, it has been running for years and not much has changed. It has constantly lost value/trust for one year now. I can't think of a piece of software that is clearly _losing_ momentum (especially if it's beta) and then, magically, after 1.0 things turn around.
Your approach sucks even more. Proving yourself to a company just to get a job offer is a lot of effort for very little gain. Simply sending a resume to 50 companies has a much higher chance of succeeding.

Even if you do spend the time and impress someone. All you get is a standard job offer. They don't make the effort to impress you. So then, why go through the hassle? Why waste a day to make your case when you can easily send 20 resumes and get a higher probability of success?

You're probably on the hiring side. This would explain your skewed and entitled perspective. Getting a job these days is just a numbers game. Doesn't matter how skilled you are. You're either extremely sociable with a large network of people that can get you a job. Or you're spamming job adverts until something sticks. Meanwhile, employers want to be impressed. And can't figure out why skilled people don't come running to their shitty jobs with shitty pay.
> most people(in western nations) learn about it and respond almost unanimously with 'Meh'.

I have very mundane needs, and I've never figured out a compelling case for me to use bitcoin. In general, it's always been more trouble than convenience.

I know there are people with exotic needs, but I think the majority of people are more like me.
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it hasn't hit quite yet, but when self-driving cars arrive, it's going to turn into a shit-storm, as predicted by this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Which will most likely immediately follow people buying at low and preparing to pump again.
>Bitcoin is the electronic version of "let's buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere".

It's even worse than that because gold is palpable can be used to make things.
The software isn't even called 1.0 yet

Neither is node.js, yet tons of successful startups run on it.

For years, Gmail was still "beta". If it had a major security leak, "it's beta" would mean little. It would still qualify as a failure.
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there will be people who have money (for example, those who inherited their wealth, or those who own capital/businesses). Their needs may vastly differ from the poor, and because they have money, the market serves them. The jobless poor will just either live on what little the state/charity can provide, or just die on the streets. I don't see basic income as feasible politically nor in practise. Therefore, what you must do now is to ensure that you are one of those who have money.
> It's been said that the golden age of language design was the 1960s. C was designed after PL/I and was a really big step down so that it could compile on a DEC mini-computer with 8 KB of main memory while PL/I always had at least 64 KB.

UNIX's success in the market brought C upon us.

Actually it was a very big step down, not only in terms of what other systems programming languages of the same era were capable of, but also in terms of security and compiler research.

One just has to look at PL/I, PL/M, Algol 68, Mesa and then to C.

Just as an example, Algol for B5000 systems (1961) already had the distinction between safe and unsafe code, with unsafe program modules requiring some form of "root" access. Sounds familiar?
I think the only evidence for fraud here are the recordings of the people discussing their aims of manipulating the markets. If those didn't exist then it does sound like the trades alone could never be considered market manipulation.

If that is the case, am I breaking the law if I just buy some shares and, during the phone call with my dealer, make a comment that I hope my share purchase drives the price up?
It does seem like a reasonable step to take because any 3rd party who takes such a username does piggy back on the brand reputation of these companies; intentionally or not.
bitcoin, just like oil have dropped because energy will be cheap / nearly free soon.
Social networks and consumer Internet products: unsustainable in the current form?
Are we really running out of helium?
The submission url is malformed :(.
Since the edit deadline has long-passed, I'll reply with a note:

I suspect my comment was downvoted by people trawling my history after seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879389 and disagreeing strongly. It may just be confirmation bias, but this isn't the first time I've noticed my older comments getting downvoted after a comment of mine gets a lot of eyeballs.

I realize karma means nothing, but this behavior harms the quality of HN. The mods may want to consider writing a detection/mitigation feature to ignore such downvotes.
Didn't say I never dated -- I don't date because I'm married. And you don't need to be a lobster yourself to be able to observe how lobsters live, feed, mate.

Also, I thought I was saying something pretty much uncontroversial; I'm surprised people go out of their way to say it's "bold" and "sad". Really, it's neither.
If people actually started using it as a currency instead of only using it to trade for other currencies, it would be more stable.
It's not federally insured.
> Until then, however, it might be a good idea to [...] get a new phone altogether

As 'Brave new world' teaches us: Ending is better than mending...
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For many years we've had enough food, we just don't distribute it properly. The other problem with hunger is lack of micronutrients so a GM rice that provides vitamins would be more useful than a GM grain that allows a weedkiller company to sell more weedkiller.

Collapse of pollinators carries a risk of human die-off.
> First, "If you can't be replaced then you can't be promoted." That resonates a lot.

that is a very sneaky way of saying that their wage/salary cannot increase.
I think it is expected that relatively new currencies have a turbulent period of a certain time.
And as for interest, here in the Netherlands it is less than inflation so you loose money (interest on savings accounts is about 1%, inflation is between 1 and 2% over the past years).

Bitcoin has or will have its niche, perhaps it will not be for your savings but sharing money with friends using a bitcoin wallet app is by far the most frictionless paying experience I ever had. I think you opinion is on the spot though... for now.
There's still a vocotional on one of the titles.
If another host connects to the db, and the transaction doesn't span to that second host. Its not as safe as sql transactions.
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I won't troll IE
Norx.js: implementation of the NORX authenticated stream cipher
Thanks for the answer. I guess it makes sense that it'd come down to trademark law or somesuch.
I wanted it to be as close to the Java version as possible.
Of course in Haskell you can't write

x.(map f)
>I wonder what became of 0x10C after Notch dropped it. Has anyone picked it up and kept working on it? Alternatively, I know Space Engineers is similar in kind, and was quite a bit of fun to play. It just doesn't (or didn't?) have any computing component.

There is some successor projects. Perhaps the most famous is Trillek at trillek.org .Forums are dead, but IRC is pretty active at freenode #project-trillek

Actually we have a full computer working with a more realistic behaviour, using TR3200 CPU (RISC like 32 bit cpu), with screen, keyboard, floppy drive, timer, RTC, beeper, hardware "random" number generator, etc. Tehre is two assemblers for it, WaveAsm and VASM. Also, SmallerC can output assembly code for it, and there is other C compiler that would have TR3200 backend (qcc , D language write C compiler).

A BASIC interpreter for it would very appreciate (or FORTH or any other easy learn language)

Links :

Computer specs : https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-computer

Computer implementation library with a not very friendly emulator and a few tools (I'm working in an user friendly emulator using the lib): https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-vcomputer-module

WaveAsm : https://github.com/Meisaka/WaveAsm

VASM : http://sun.hasenbraten.de/vasm/

SmallerC : https://github.com/alexfru/SmallerC

Toolkit recopilatory (wip) : https://github.com/trillek-team/computer-toolkit

PD: I forgot to mention that we have a simple firmware that detect devices, prints some information, try to bootup from floppy, and have a machine code monitor that is a clone of Woz's monitor ? https://github.com/Zardoz89/trillek-firmware
Banks can already transfer fund between themselves electronically and efficiently. And a bank account is exactly storing paper currency digitally.

Again, I don't see what the innovation here is, except the technical aspects (the blockchain as a distributed system is very clever).
Probably this link: http://www.itexto.com.br/devkico/en/?p=60
im looking for a software for open source app that will let me build a similar looking community.

I agree with your points tho, happy users and incentivize them.
They still are.

When I started learning how OS/400 work, now IBM i. I was quite interested to see the execution model of having everything stored as bytecode, with a JIT kernel doing AOT compilation at install time.

Something that is kind of being done on the Android and Windows worlds, attempted on Oberon and Inferno, but not with the extent that the OS/400 does it.
> What other things? Did you run FSecure, Panda, ESET, Emsisoft, Avira, Avast, Herdprotect? It might be useful, but it is dangerous. It should be an absolute last ditch effort, not standard procedure.

I should clarify. I am predominantly dealing with annoyances, adware and unwanted applications – not viruses or malware, in the main. It's junk, not malicious or infecting - at least in the vast majority of cases.

Removing the non-viral noise makes the process of cleaning up anything else far easier. Number of rootkits encountered in 3+ years of domestic and small business technical support: zero. Number of file infecting viruses encountered in the same period: 2. Number of ransomware (Trojan horse, worm at a push) infestations: dozens. Number of adware and miscellaneous browser infestations dealt with: hundreds.

>Try running it twice in a row without a restart. Try running it before and after a malwarebytes scan, without a restart. Does it find things?

That's a really interesting question, and not one I can answer right now. I do intend to try this in a VM a la the OP link. I will endeavour to find out and report back.
> Neither is node.js, yet tons of successful startups run on it.

It will get them off the ground. Then they will need to start rewriting a backend pipeline in something fast and predictable.
There's so much that can be done with Bitcoin as a technology, yet people are treating it like a mineral.
39 of these 40 are waiting download/installation. Don't put my comment out of context :)
Jeez. Please do not mention client-library-managed transactions and then put "real" transactions in scare quotes. At least read the Wikipedia article first.
"I don't see adoption becoming anything more than anecdotal."

Well the value of the whole blockchain is over $2.5Bn, so it's more than anecdotal. http://coinmarketcap.com/
Site seems to be overloaded or broken in some other way.

Google cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wwwdesi...
Indeed. It is almost like it is a political tool used to mould and shape the actions of people to the whim of those who have the ability to control the message
You're missing my point: I don't want him to stand up in court and lecture on the nature of freedom and personal responsibility like something out of Inherit The Wind, I would just like to see him take the rap for what he (probably) did without this silly "it was the one armed man" defense.

It's not about the trial, because the trial is lost no matter what he does (regardless of whether or not he's innocent, he's going to jail, guaranteed), it's about nailing your colours to the wall and showing the rest of the world that you're willing to go to jail to stand up for the freedoms you ostensibly believe in.

Ulbricht won't be doing any of that, instead he's going to mount a defense that effectively says that his manifesto, his politics, his core beliefs, are all just something to be discarded when it's convenient.
They do: http://blog.bitpay.com/2013/12/11/bitpay-exceeds-100-000-000...
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Cant wait to see other derivatives Facebook sort or Linkedin sort....
Went to purchase $100 worth of Bitcoin back in the day at $0.03 ea. CC didn't go through. Thought I would try again the next morning with a different card. After sleeping on it, decided it was probably a waste of $100.

I'm even less inclined to spend $100 now.
I think it should be

http://www.itexto.com.br/devkico/en/?p=60
Could remove all of this malware with Malwarebytes Anti Malware. Buz still had zo reset the proxy settings, because they had been changed. The change was also removed but i had to unclick a checkbox so it doesn't use a proxy anymore.
It is so frustrating. I don't know if Windows can sustain it's software model like this. It is just unbearable.
Ninite and chocolatey would be great solutions i think.
When was the last time you transferred money to someone (esp. out of country), how much did it cost, and how long did it take?

Now, imagine you're poor, your family lives abroad, and a $20 fee on a $500 transfer is indeed a big issue.

There are usability concerns (a bitcoin ATM to deposit money and have it sent to an address would be nice) but the use case of near-zero, same-day money transfers is enormous. In the affluent western world it's strange to imagine that someone could depend on your speedy transfers and that even an extra $20 would go a long way.
> Is there any particular reason you don't just backup all of the user's personal files/configurations, note what programs they have installed and then reformat/reinstall?

Mostly down to client feedback. Personally, I'd much prefer to have the nuke and rebuild approach. I offer this as a preference (safer, faster, etc), but the familiarity of these pokey vendor-supplied apps for photos and the like is a very strong draw for folks.

The burden of technical knowledge doesn't run deep. They want a low-price laptop, and all their stuff safe and sound. The value they place in their data is, in my experience/anecdotally, proportional to their purchasing habits.

Most don't have hard drive backups, despite my continued insistence. Years of photos just get stockpiled without any recourse to a backup. There's some interesting psychology at stake, too; knowing that photos are there and actually referring to them are too entirely different things.
Someone always has the de facto authority to wield violence.

In modern society, this authority is the state.

In Dread Pirate Robert's universe, no authority should wield violence... except Dread Pirate and his associates if it suites them.

Libertarian and anarchistic ideologies start from the wish that no-one would wield violence and all would be equal.

Unfortunately, how real world scenarios evolve is that existing system is replaced by chaos, from which a few entities reach political authority, at which point they take the authority to wield violence and make the decisions for everyone else they want to make.

Anarchy and the like work only in smaller social groups such as a family or a commune where everyone can rationally assume everyone can be trusted and to act fairly within the context of an uncodified behavioral standard - to stay within the groups culture.

At larger scales these types of population dynamics just don't work, and the stuff rises up which require the equivalent of the functions of modern state to function properly as a whole.

The point is, if there is no central auhtority, someone will become that authority (picture somalian warlords, russia after 1917 revolution and so on).

So replacing current state with an entity on 'non-violence' and non-coercion does not work - these are sociological oxymorons that do not exist.
The sf movie 'Her' has a very Apple-like feel in the production design. Great movie, but of course a totally different feel.
Its very easy to imagen a case where you lend your bitcoins to some institution, the problem is that there is not yet any investment in the bitcoin system.
io.js is a program that makes JavaScript run on a server.

io.js is a fork of node.js but is "better" because:

1) io.js always uses the latest JavaScript engine.

2) io.js is not controlled by private interests.
I have seen many people try and shoehorn various problems into MongoDB, when in most cases a relational database would have been better suited.

I have yet to see a real use case for Mongo unless you are building a Facebook clone. Can someone suggest when it is actually useful over a properly tuned relational database?

I guess I kind of reached the irrelevance stage just thinking about the sort of problems it would be suited to rather than actually building anything.
I don't see why everyone needs to work in order to keep the economy going. Suppose in the future we've managed to completely and fully automate all the work that was done by humans in 2014. Shouldn't we be able to maintain the standard of living of 2014 indefinitely, with no human "work" to speak of? (Assuming, of course, that our standard of living in 2014 is sustainable to begin with.)
me too, on a ZX Spectrum +3
Can someone explain to me why this is illegal?
Also seems like you could benefit from the entry() api (available on both BTreeMap and HashMap):

http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.BTreeMap.htm...

I think the example used in the docs is your exact use case.

This bit:

let found = match map.get_mut(..) {
..
}
if !found {
..
}

can be replaced with

match map.entry(word) {
Occupied(mut view) => { *view.get_mut() += 1; }
Vacant(view) => { view.insert(1); }
}
I don't think the first versions of Intels AMD64 chips had the NX bit, but those chips are so old at this point it might be unimportant.
What are the factors which could make bitcoin less turbulent later?
As for most frictionless exprience: you do not need new currency for that. My bank offers 'quick send' functionality in their app, basically you just enter amount and select whom to send money to, that's it. You don't even have to login.
I don't own any bitcoins, but felt like pointing a couple of things out.

Whatever shreds of interest your bank gives you will be way, way less than the inflation you're experiencing. In other words, your money's purchasing power keeps decreasing even if you're getting some interest on it, ie. you're losing your wealth.

Bitcoin doesn't experience inflation like that, so it should be a better store of value than your fiat currency. I said "should" because bitcoin has been in a speculative bubble, and just came down even more. Right now it's still just a speculative asset, but it could serve as a stable currency.

Your card is irrelevant.

Transaction fees are not extortion. They're a massive skimming operation inflicted on the masses, because the masses have no choice but to eat them. Thank your state-maintained bank cartel for that.
I wonder if this is due to the Bitstamp fiasco.

Because of what ultimately happened to mtgox, when the bitstamp exchange came back online again, a lot of people probably wanted out as quickly as possible, fearing it to be insolvent.

Since keeping bitcoins oneself is too technical, the easiest path to cut ties with bitstamp would be just to sell, and probably many of them did.
Interesting how much of the anti H1B will support green card for competent ITs. I suppose - quite a lot.
"A History of Violence" was the title of a long article (book?) I read by Pinker online sometime ago. I can't find the site anymore, just reviews of a book by the same name. It's worth a read. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html