skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a payment processor like BitPay would allow this. Essentially you click to pay in bitcoin, you redirect to the BitPay site, you pay them bitcoin and they transfer the USD value to the recipient (in this case the state).

So an individual could pay $10k in bitcoin and the state would receive $10k in USD. BitPay currently offer their service for free that would meet these requirements.

https://bitpay.com/pricing

so to answer your question instantly means instantly.
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Same reason we don't heat our homes with nuclear weapons. More capacity than we need by orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude, but rather hard to extract & manage just what you want.
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Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges
Sinonjs site is down. bower install of the library will fail
It's hard for me to have anything but contempt for this entire proceeding. None of these actions are a crime in a free society. And if they were, there'd be no need to dictate what can and can't be introduced as a defense. No "politics?" What garbage. Every line of code that DPR wrote was political.

Free Ross.
No point remains. The earth is not some exhausted husk, as implied by the OP. Its fecund and fertile and ready to produce orders of magnitude more food as required.
Not new actually, Medium started with Holacracy either in late 2011 or early 2012. This article is about a year and a half old...
By that definition, everything is philosophy.
Hi Anand you're right that 2 of our analytics layouts share a very similar aesthetic to those on CBI. On behalf of myself personally and on behalf of Tech in Asia and the Techlist team, I apologize.

We're doing a lot of work to make sure Techlist is unique behind the scenes, and of course the data we're pulling into our site is unique and Asia-focused, but we definitely made a mistake in taking too much from CBI's visual design. It was a shortcut, and one that we shouldn't have taken, as it does a disservice to you, to Tech in Asia, and to our customers. There's really no excuse; we should have put more time into coming up with our own visuals.

In the immediate future we will be working on finding a more unique aesthetic framework within which to present our data.

Note: I'm the CEO of Tech in Asia that runs Techlist.
Heck, maybe nobody in China ever bothered to improve the shoulder pole, because they didn't need to when they had the superior Chinese wheelbarrow!
Ulbricht guilty in Silk Road online drug-trafficking trial
The more your learn, the more there is to learn!
Features:

Will probably get you fired if you use this in an office setting

sounds good to me
It's nothing to do with JS code execution, the problem is in the rendering engine, essentially too much repainting and rendering stalls, and too little GPU accelerated animation paths.

Javascript is in a very good state these days in terms of cross browser compatibility, and while CSS support has converged between browsers in terms of correctness, CSS support has not converged on performance between browsers. Safari, Chrome Firefox, and IE have wildly different animation performance hazards on the same markup and debugging this often isn't trivial, for example, finding out that the GPU is stalling on texture uploads deep inside of the render loop.

One bright point, is that apps like Inbox are forcing these issues to the front, as is libraries like Polymer/Material Design. As the issues are raised and fixed, jank free rendering on mobile web platforms improves, hopefully reducing the need for native apps.
Both functions (2^x and 4^x) have exponential growth, but their exponential growth is not linearly related.

2*(2^x) != (4^x)
>everything is philosophy.

I know a more then one prof who'd agree with that statement.
These things are great, I have always thought it would be a great resource to have a library of them that are creative commons.

There doesn't appear to be a name for what they are however. Concept-expressed-as-code-generated-animation that-is-sometimes-interactive is a bit longwinded. Ceacgatisi is a bit of a mouthful.

The idea that it should have a name is not as trivial as it might seem. If these things had a name it would stimulate development of new ones. "I'll make an X" "Let's see if there's an X for that concept".

The odd thing is it would probably be best if a name used for the idea didn't actually express what the idea was. An abstract name that allowed the idea to form naturally rather than directing a specific manner. Much in a similar way to Kodi is an abstract name rather than the descriptive (but inaccurate) XBMC.
I like the popup that I get that asks me for an email so that I can be notified when this is released. It won't accept an email address. Finally went over to the Chrome store and got a lot more info, but I'm not sure I trust it enough to install it.
I have trouble wrapping my mind around the concept of being imprisoned for the remainder of your life. Why do they even do it, instead of just execution? Might as well, right?

Especially for something like this. I haven't been following it closely at all, but presumably he hasn't stabbed/shot anyone, right? So why isn't it "prison for N years then we keep an eye on you for the rest of your life"? That'd be a whoooole lot cheaper than locking him up until he dies, and a much more reasonable punishment, IMO, for anyone who hasn't proved themselves some kind of psycho-killer.
My first real, non-toy app was an Android card game. I knew the basics of Java going into it, but nothing else. Following tutorials got me to where I had an app that I could install and run on my device.

At that point, it was up to me to figure out what to do. I started with a single screen that showed some text and added a few more screens that had the same text. Then I added a button that triggered a change of that text. Then a button that displayed an image. And so on until I had a real card game that could even identify whether there were any legal moves available and if the player was stuck.

Every step along the way was not easy and I got derailed a couple times, nearly giving up. The hardest single feature to implement was dragging and dropping a card. It took a lot of cribbed code from a few useful blog posts, but the feeling when I actually got it working was indescribable. It was a Saturday morning and I was running around my house, dragging and dropping cards on my tablet like I was 8 years old and it was the greatest Christmas gift ever. That was the moment when I realized I could actually finish this if I was willing to put in the effort. The rest of that weekend was spent in blissful coding and my commitment to becoming a developer has never wavered since.

Now in my job, which I got an interview for because of the card game, I have witnessed other people with less self-guided (contrasted with CS class projects) experience than I started out with be unable to persist long enough or self-teach hard enough to solve a problem by themselves without asking for help to get over minor bumps. I won't ask for help from a more senior dev unless I have exhausted my abilities to understand the problem space and can enumerate the things I have tried. I refuse to be the person who simply "doesn't know how".

Never ever give up.
it takes a lot of energy to maintain a monoglot system on such a scale, with enormous resources poured into language training and translation in non-Anglophone countries.

I don't understand this argument. Ok, so you have to train half the world in a non-native language. That's not free. But what's the alternative? Training the whole world in two to three non-native languages? (Thinking of the German/French/English polyglot system)

Am I missing something? What is the superior alternative? Short of the Hitchhiker's Guide babel fish, of course.
I don't get it. I know how prototypes in Javascript work, I can agree that you get a certain degree of flexibility that you don't get with class-based languages, which sometimes is useful, however people are still modeling classes in Javascript and people blaming education have the burden of proof - show problems that could have been solved with classes, but that were solved with a "class free" design instead.

And heck, I'll go further - in my mind, both class-based and prototype-based OOP, at least as present in Javascript or other mainstream languages, sucks because it mixes data with behavior and still suffers from the expression problem, because while you can take any object and modify it for a new interface, a process called monkey patching, that's just a terrible way of doing it.

OOP as a means to achieve polymorphism is simply inadequate for many use-cases. Sometimes it is much better to have type-classes (or similar, like protocols in Clojure). So you know, comparing 2 ways of dealing with OOP, misses the point that OOP on the whole is not enough, even broken as some would say.
Absolutely it is, on a few grounds. First off just looking at the various conspiracy charges (Money Laundering conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, and criminal empire conspiracy) can lead to numerous decades each in jail time. Functionally speaking this would lead to a life sentence but it could be something like 200 years in prison without possibility of parol.

On the count of conspiracy to commit murder, 6 times over, if those are ever brought to trial, can come with an actual life sentence, or life sentences. It is very likely he could face numerous sentences of life in prison plus a number of years of prison on top of that. All of this depends on the judge and how s/he would like to handling the sentencing portion of this trial, which probably will not happen for weeks or months.

As there was no plea agreement accepted by the defendant, it is quite likely that the prosecution has always believes that he would be found guilty and pay a very high price for his crimes. Because of this they either a) never gave him a plea deal to consider or b) gave a very costly plea deal which wouldn't have been much better than just going through the trial and going to jail for life.
Where have I heard this before...

Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
This is something I really don't like about Go.

80 lines of code to parse some JSON?

Meanwhile, in ruby...

foo = JSON.parse(STDIN.read)
Ah. I misconstrued the comment to mean the conversion would happen upon some massive fluctuation. Thanks for the clarification.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Not monthly, but we're hoping to do it quarterly though that may change. That's the plan for now though!
Agreed; "enjoy building stuff" paints a more complete picture than "enjoy coding."
Are you ignoring the attempt to have several people killed? Even if it seems he was actually getting scammed, it sure looks like he tried to arrange murder for hire.
Hiring a hitman isn't a crime in a free society? Paying people to hack others isn't a crime?

Okay.
I was lucky because I started coding at 13 (Pascal and C). At that point in my life, I could spend all of my free time developing something cool just for fun (and learning a good foundation in the process).

By the time I got to college, new concepts took me a fraction of the time because I already had that foundation.

Even now, I went from 10+ years of PHP development to building full Python apps in a short amount of time. Aside from some newer features, it's mostly a syntax change. The basics are the same in every language.

I don't think I could start from knowing nothing. I just don't have the time.
Is this going to be the next open office concept?
As a javascript programmer, I have perceived es6 "classes" as nothing but syntactic sugar. They should just construct the equivalent constructor+prototype combo. You can still create anonymous objects quickly, and use any object as prototype for another.
> Can you collect enough measurements for the time series database to be useful?

Yes, instrument everything. See http://prometheus.io/docs/practices/instrumentation/#how-to-...

> I worry that I would have lots of metrics to backup my wrong conclusions.

This is not so much a problem with time series as a question of epistemology. Well chosen consoles will help your initial analysis, and after that it's down to correct application of the scientific method.

> I also worry that so much irrelevant data would drown out the relevant stuff

I've seen many attempts by smart people to try and do automatic correlation of time series to aid debugging. It's never gotten out of the toy stage, as there is too much noise. You need to understand your metrics in order to use them.
I meant using the content placeholders like Facebook does.
I'd argue that Europe in the Industrialisation was in a slightly different situation because the world economy wasn't as globalized yet.

If Cambodian labourers unionize and become more expensive, the business could easily move to the next third-world country, leaving them economically worse off than before.

The problem is that the suppliers they work for are as dependent on the international companies paying them as their workers are dependent on them.

Basically, either the international companies have to act against their immediate economical interests and invest money in improving the working conditions and pay at their suppliers, or the suppliers in different countries would have to "unionize", too.

Alternatively, all labourers in all countries would have to unionize in the same timeframe (so the business can't just keep country-hopping) or the businesses would have to be forced to act against their own interests.

I think the most realistic sequence of events is that as the national economy in each country improves their workers begin to unionize and within a few decades the conditions may have improved universally. But that won't be an easy process and will likely result in a lot more protests and violence than the alternatives.

The naive ideal would be that customers force the businesses to pressure the suppliers to improve the situation, but outside a few marketing stunts I don't think that is very likely. All previous calls for boycotts have been unsuccessful and the average citizen doesn't care enough about these issues to do anything politically (aside from the obvious difficulty of out-lobbying the established lobbies).

We'll see.
Glad to hear that these improvements are being addressed, but if the problem was animations why not opt-out of those when performance is an issue?
It's cases like these that make it difficult to believe that our system is about justice rather than political repression.
> Security on the other hand...

Sneeze once and everyone has a copy? :)
Are you some kind of novelty account? Ross hired hitmen to kill rivals. He personally maintained and profited from an illegal drug trade. Please go back to reddit, thanks.
There's no "source" to be run/executed in the usual sense either, it's just information.

That being the case, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use one of the Creative Commons licenses? The non-commercial variants would accomplish the "don't sell it" part, but may be even more restrictive than they wanted.
'keeping an eye on' turns out to not work very well. Too easy to just disappear and become another person. So, for someone who will misbehave again its either life in prison or death.
He wasn't on trial for soliciting murder.
Note: Despite the domain, this is a good Mat Honan thought piece.
I don't really agree with the notion that software development is something that others cannot learn if they try to do it; that seems like a very harsh perspective which, from my anecdotal experience, is far from the truth. Any skill can be learned if you have the discipline to put in regular effort: that's just the way the human mind works. I do agree that for a lot of people, Software Engineering is easier because they have a certain kind of brain, just like Mathematics or Physics or Music is easier or "makes sense" for some people more than others.

If anything, we need to promote education among adults, give them the choice to possibly check out any vocation that they would want to try. Liberate them from the notion that they are "stuck" doing what they chose to do earlier in their life. I'm not saying that its easy; you have to start small and take baby steps. And its not something that can be done in a day or a week or a month. But if modern society has provided us one great benefit, it is of making knowledge accessible very inexpensively.
I'm assuming he was talking about what they charged him with, in the article it states: "Ulbricht didn’t face murder solicitation charges in the trial and prosecutors said they don’t believe any murders were carried out."
If his defense was 'I ran the site, but I don't believe the site violates the laws I'm charged with violating', you argument would hold some water.

That was not his argument. He was basically arguing "I'm not the guy that ran that site". That's is basically admitting, whoever ran that site committed a bunch of crimes.

Are you saying that you think running Silk Road didn't constitute "narcotics conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise"? Or are you saying that you don't like that those laws prevent running a site like Silk Road?
"the majority of scientists working today are actually not native English speakers. When you consider the time spent by them on language-learning, the English-language conquest is not more efficient than polyglot science – it is just differently inefficient. "

This is false. If science were still conducted equally in German, Russian, French and English, up and coming scientists in China, Japan, etc. would have to learn four languages to keep up with their field instead of just English. Conversely, assuming such newcomers rise to the forefront of their field, they might choose to publish in their own language, foisting a new language on everyone else.

One aspect of English that the author overlooks completely is how welcoming it is of new words. French, for example, has the "Académie française", which is an institution charged with maintaining the purity of the French language. This means resisting change and controlling the vocabulary in use. There are dictionaries for English, but those who maintain them simply try to keep up with common usage, not control what becomes common usage. If a researcher finds that they need a term that does not exist in English, it's trivial to invent a new word or, more commonly, borrow one from another language.

The author of this article argues that English speaking countries exert undue influence on science because of scientific monolingualism. However, English has been extensively modified to suit those who wield it in print, and an increasing proportion of them are not native speakers of English. English is rapidly becoming the world's language. One could just as easily write an article bemoaning the plight of Anglophones, whose native tongue is no longer something they control!
No, systemic risk and global financial collapse are not "only political".

But that said, your assertion, your burden of proof. Convince me.
I program in Scala, so structs are not a thing (classes can extend/"inherit" AnyVal to be allocated on the stack, though, I think). Functions are nice, but from a pure syntax standpoint I often prefer methods because it limits the parantheses. It's especially neat when the methods take no arguments, like .toString.

But yeah, otherwise there's no difference, really.
I'm not exactly on topic, but I hope you can forgive me touting my own project. I'm trying to raise money to fund the work necessary to get OpenBSD running on Apple hardware. One can buy an Apple laptop with cash in any mid-sized mall around the world. Add in what I think is the most privacy oriented operating system, and you have a great match. Apple only updates hardware a couple of times a year, and its pretty well built. https://www.reddit.com/r/LighthouseProjects/comments/2ukg1u/...
there are a lot of these in existence. Not a specific model to get the books into the right hands though. For example, the wikibooks if you look them up would fit the bill. And there's a model using version control like GIT to enable people to fork their own versions of the book into branches. BUT what's the divide? You have to get the book in front of the educators, and you have to make it as easy to acquire the printed item. The reason why coke and pepsi and frito lay are in every store and dominate? They keep showing up and restocking. Their product is the most available and they keep doing it. So make the book printable, easy to acquire and just as easy for the professors to say yes as it is for them to just sign a paper when the publisher's sales guy shows up with an expensive book and a small token bribe to encourage them.
The author accidentally reveals the solution and it's not 100% congruous with his own efforts:

"We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work."

The actual solution is to continuously learn, after leaving school. That is the formula for success. Getting fascinated by looking at 3-d printouts ("people enter words that turn into architectural forms") is a small part of motivating people to do continuous learning- but no one will learn calculus in a culture lab.
And the fact that there isn't nearly enough storage capacity being created in the world to contain said data for any reasonable amount of people?
Looks like he's going to have to learn how to break out of jail...
Shame its GPL'd.
> As someone who's coded C since the 80s and C++ since the 90s I find JavaScript massively freeing.

I've gone back and forth between dynamic and static and strict and loose in every combination and I don't find the dynamic/loose to be particularly freeing anymore. The problem is you can't really rely on anything. It doesn't so much as solve the problem that Crockford is talking about, it just moves it somewhere else. You don't have to refactor but you're going to end up with two (or more) different things that exist at the same time instead of one.

> Look at the mocking libraries for JavaScript. They're sooooooooo much easier to write than anything for classical languages because it's so easy to do in JavaScript.

This is a great point and it's a perfect example of the advantages and the horrors of the JavaScript model. A mock is supposed to be an object that does something completely different (typically nothing) but otherwise looks and functions like the real thing. Maybe just in one slight exceptional way. JavaScript makes this easy. But it also makes it easy to make those same changes outside of mocking and tests and that is just debugging hell waiting to happen.
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