skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get paid by a trade partner in Singapore almost daily with bitcoin, saves us both a large chunk (and time) on wire transfers!

I also rent out some of our servers for bitcoin (via bitpay) since there is no chargeback risk server (looks sideways at paypal/credit cards) of someone renting the server for a month and then leaving me with pants down at ankles and no money.

As for spending bitcoin:

* I have been buying all my hotels for a year now with expedia.com

* All my shopping at amazon.com been via giftcards bought at gyft.com, same for amazon.co.uk and giftoff.com, there are many other places they sell giftcards for but these are the main ones i use every week.

* For testing/deployment VPSs I have been using vultr.com

* I pay regularly my utility bills like electric, phone, water using bitwa.la

I even done a localbitcoins meetup and sold bitcoin for cash in last month, we had a great time having a coffee(s) and nerd chat during the trade :)
> A phased, unified, slow, and well-managed release process like Python 2 -> Python 3 might have made all of this unnecessary.

This is at total nit, but I really doubt emulating the Python 2 -> Python 3 release process would go high on anybody's list of successful project evolutions. Given that Python 3 was officially released in 2008, it's worth keeping in mind that as recently as 2014 most new projects were still being created in Python 2.x[1]

1. http://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/8269-python-2...
A better question would be, "what predictions did Krugman make which disagreed with non-Keynesians that turned out right (or wrong)?"

Various ideological enemies of Krugman made these same predictions. All you are really saying is that Krugman, along with everyone else, gets the easy ones right.
That was one of my questions. If that's the issue, then why consider moving to OpenGL and SDL 2?
* Better understanding of concepts like four-dimensional space or spacetime

* Innovative ideas when designing interfaces

* Easier visualisation of tiny/huge scales (time and space - cosmology/biology/physics)

* Deeper understanding of art/music/literature/philosophy

* Being able to look at things from a more neutral perspective and thus better seeing changes that occur over a long period of time or that I'm very closely involved with (society/nature/politics/health)

Those are not your typical complex problems that we're looking for here but for me it still feels as if there could lie some potential. In my case it seems to come down to helping with creativity and the ability to visualize in a more detailed and at the same time neutral way.
I don't think the article said it was a SWAT team conducting the raid.

I mean, I could see some off-hand justification by saying that they get to practice for real raids in an unfamiliar situation... but raids are prone to inciting over-reactions and media attention, which clearly doesn't provide long term value.
It's not really ok to bring someone's personal details into a thread and ask them to account for their choices. It's good that you were polite about it, and curiosity is a good intention, not an attack. Still, this is a questionable thing to do, so I don't think you get to respond rudely ("Chill out") when questioned about it, or react like what you did is normal; it's not.
I believe SWAT duty does get extra pay.
And since, "If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats," those people almost certainly didn't get that initial help from the idea itself. They got it from who they were.

In other words, if you don't have rich friends or family, or you don't have a 'pedigree' based on where you went to school, be very careful because you're in for a bad time.

I'm not saying it's impossible (because the lottery is also not impossible), I'm just saying I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Here is one video [1] from the channel I believe you are referring to.

[1] https://youtu.be/4sFuULOY5ik
An example would be multiple gestures for the same widget, which can be confusing, like a checkbox, switch or slider, etc. that brings you into a sub menu when you long-press it. That's what you see in Android's configuration. You look for a setting, but then you have to google for it only to find out how to get to the menu that offers your option.

I think the main reason that smartphones still work is that that most people use them in a really reduced way. One could argue for feature hiding, which is a good thing. However hiding I think means "moving it out of the way" and not "make sure nobody finds it".

I am not saying that Android and iOS are bad, but more that there is room for improvement. It's good to see new projects doing things a bit different. I always found it weird when people complained about copying. I don't think that's bad, but right now there doesn't seem to be a lot of progress. I like how KDE at least tries to do things a bit different instead of copying without understanding why someone designed their UX a certain way. Not every design works for every project/product.

I've also heard a lot good about Windows Phones, even though this caused fewer apps that really integrated. It's great when Microsoft tries new stuff, like in Windows 8. Yeah, it didn't work out, but the UX designes that sometimes are called innovative don't seem to be on par with the amount of research going into other fields of the big OSs. It may also be due to the market settling, but there is still room for improvements, so I hope it's not stagnating. It would be great to see other players.

I know different styles make thins harder for people doing cross-platform applications. Sticking to status quo makes things easier, but it also leads to stagnation and it feels like KDE4 and Windows 8 made a lot of people scared of trying out new stuff.
Interesting, thank you. I was just looking at expedia, but I saw some horror story articles which made me think that their Bitcoin integration is a second-class citizen. Unfortunately most of the services are US or UK only (it's hard living in a place with no Amazon :p).
These?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KTqPloUiU
This looks very useful. Would this be a good base to make something like a custom HTTP proxy with?
I wonder if the Talespin source code is lost. All I've ever seen are reproductions like this one.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9945543
It no longer produces this error for me. Yay!
The account name "oldmanjay" suggests to me that the "exceedingly popular in my youth" refers to the first "renaissance in the anglosphere".

That is, http://www.awf.com.au/history/HallOfFame.aspx says that the 1970s were "“the golden years” of the sport" in Australia, and there are many here who were youths in the 1970s.

So when you write "Almost nobody knew what weightlifting was", what population were you considering? If it's predominately those in their 20s ("millenial scale") then you should consider oldmanjay's comment as suggesting there's a bias error in your 'almost nobody.'

While it's not all that indicative, Google ngrams gives an interesting comparison between the use of 'weighlifting' in "British English" at https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=weightlifting&... vs "American English" at https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=weightlifting&... .

There's a clear drop in British English during the 1980s, which is what I would expect from your first/second renaissance description, but it doesn't exist in the US English chart. So another possibility is that oldmanjay comes from the US.

Also, in attempting to verify your statement concerning the "perhaps three dozen registered weightlifters in WA" I found the 2007 AWF report at http://www.awf.com.au/governance/docs/Annual%20Report%202007... .

Under "Number of Lifters in the Top 10 Male Rankings by State" are 58 from Western Australia, and under "Number of Lifters in the Top 10 Female Rankings by State" are 39 from Western Australia. This sounds like there were easily more than three dozen registered weightlifters in WA. I didn't carefully check to see if there were duplicate names, but a spot examination shows few overlaps. And in any case, these are only the top 10 winners.

How do you know there were "perhaps three dozen registered weightlifters in Western Australia" when the limited evidence I can find suggests there were more than that?
PhilJobs: Jobs for Philosophers
In hindsight, it's obvious to everyone that Valasek
and Miller went too far. Renting a track for a few
hours costs less than the plane ticket for the
journalist to come out and visit them.

In a good world, this would be true. In the world we actually live in, we should remember that a different group of researchers did this in 2010 and 2011[0] and as far as I know, not a single automobile was recalled from the road over that. This time, over a million were.

Security researchers do irresponsible shit like this because too many organizations don't fix bugs when they're "disclosed responsibly". And no one cares about that. When an organization sits on a bug that was quietly reported, no one tells them they're being irresponsible or endangering anyone. It's only after someone does something "reckless" enough with a bug that change happens, and then we blame the people who did some particular reckless event, rather than the people who created a whole system of reckless neglect.

Don't get me wrong. I wish we lived in a world where security researchers didn't have to disable cars on a public highway to make a god damn point. But I don't blame them that we live in a world where that may well be the best avenue available to them to get dangerous flaws fixed.

[0] http://www.autosec.org/publications.html
Nicely summarized, thanks!
You have a good point and it complements my comment rather than contradicting it. I should've been clear that, by SaaS, I meant the cloud-hosted-monthly type we see the most. Traditional software that's paid for monthly is still licensed, commercial software. You are totally right that this can be financially advantageous to the company: it's the reason many of us avoided certain software in the past. ;)

Now, with the entrenched doing it, it's looking to be difficult to avoid for buyers. One negative side-effect is that it might be more difficult for newcomers to start without a lot of capital. Snagging a few customers for $1,000-3,000 each can cover costs more quickly that slowly building up subscriptions of $10-50 a month. On the other hand, it might make it easier to sell.

Still not sure on that part. Wonder if anyone has published a detailed analysis of costs and benefits of that for a startup doing a native application on subscription. Probably just missed it.

The recurring model is proven, though, for established software companies to iterate more on and squeeze more profit from their offering. The shift of the profitable firms toward that market argues heavily for it.
Actually I'm using this system with my reading stuffs, efficient with chasing and really good for work but I have a lot of unrelated and unique files. Tagging will solve my problem but I don't know there is a chasing system.
"the other half is actually winning"
That top level and this one (which is in response to someone who answered your question) are both rather combative. If I wanted to create dialogue, I wouldn't attack answers as rude.

"I'm not interested in that kind of work" is a fair answer, but it seems pretty rude to dismiss it as an ugly hacky legacy code base without reviewing it first.

Like I said, I wanted to disengage but I see this kind of attitude repeat itself over and over within open source communities and can't escape the feeling that it only pushes people away from contributing.

Before this conversation, I planned to do some work on Wesnoth, but it reminded me of all the politics involved in contributing. I don't want to be called out when my ideas don't align with those of 'the elite' so why would I possibly get involved in a project?
He painted Milton Friedman as a radical in the top post's article ("radical free-market ideology", "Chicago School", "Milton Friedman's 'win'").

The idea that free-market proponents in the 70s and 80s were "radical" is at best a lie, and at worst revisionist history.
Legal+age+teenager+dilettante+home+porn+-+Russian+porn+videos
Tablets previous to the iPad didn't fail...except perhaps the Newton. Tablets were successful in industrial markets. What made the iPad a consumer success was the same thing that made the iPhone successful: a little bit of genesis touch technology and a whole lot of ubiquitous bandwidth backed by billions of bucks of marketing. Pull bandwidth out of the equation and the app store via a cable connection to a desktop connected to Dialup makes touch appear as the incremental improvement on pen that it is. ATT's data plans are what changed mobile from RIM and Exchange to the future we live in.

As an aside. editing a post to complain about Downvotes makes it worse. Please invest the effort in improving the way in which your ideas are communicated instead. The HN guidelines discourage such complaints anyway.
As a data point on the topic, Kery Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize for PCR, claimed that LSD was a source of inspiration for that work.
Tagging looks good to me but I don't know there is a program for this job? How do I tag and chase?
Oh I am in Ireland, dont get me started on Amazon (its hit and miss at times when it comes to deliverability)

As for Expedia their integration could be better (need to use a US ip for coinbase payment option to even show up nowadays) but had no issues spending thousands with them, if it wasnt for bitcoin I just use any of their dozens of competitors, so one little change and they got a loyal customer.
I heard of cheapair.com accepting bitcoin for flights but I have not tried it yet

that reminds me: VPN from purevpn.com :D bought with bitcoin as well for wathching BBC etc and surfing more anonymously
Also timing. Mobile devices have come a long way in that time period, as has ecommerce.
Did you dig into their website? They have a github repo:

https://github.com/friendlyarm
I'd like to explore the possibility of contributing to its development and maintenance. I may not be an "experienced" C++ programmer, but I am an experienced programmer looking for more experience with C++.
What regex does it generate for the inputs shown on that page?
Now that whites are far more directly endangered by police, one sees articles like this pop up all the time.

"In a very real sense, the 'middle class' is not an economic category, it's a social one. To be middle class is to feel that the fundamental institutional structures of society are, or should be, on your side. If you see a policeman and you feel more safe, rather than less, then you can be pretty sure you're middle class. Yet for the first time since polling began, most Americans in 2012 indicated they do not, in fact, consider themselves middle class." http://gawker.com/ferguson-and-the-criminalization-of-americ...

The author still argues in favor of policing. (Just like he doesn't question whether he had any right to invade another country.) Advocating that police return to his side, against the common domestic enemy.
The Heroin Heroine of Reddit
I'm Esben, cofounder and chief product officer at Cobalt (https://cobalt.io). I can confirm that Nexmo has been running a bug bounty program with us for more than a year now. They have rewarded researchers and are in general keeping a good response time through the program.

They have now also added a link "Report Vulnerability" in the footer of nexmo.com linking directly to the program, making it easy for everyone to find it.

You can read more about there work with us here if you are interested: https://cobalt.io/case-studies/nexmo
What is up with so much of the software community getting involved in meta discussion about how everything doesn't suit their perfect little bubble lately? So what, some people are going to be abrasive. Being an adult means doing what you want in the face of that.
Can ffmpeg play a DVD .iso ?

I don't need menu support or parsing or anything ... I just wonder, can I point it at a DVD .iso and it will play video ?
Here's another disturbing story about Apple's attitude about security, from 2007.

http://scripting.com/stories/2007/12/22/macsAreEvenMoreExpen...
I don't like how they interpret the table with the numbers of commits.

I tried this criteria, I divide the committers in three groups:

A) Michael Niedermayer

B) People with more commits in FFmpeg, i.e. Clément Bœsch, James Almer
Carl, Eugen Hoyos, ...

C) People with more commits in libav, i.e. Vittorio Giovara, Martin Storsjö, Anton Khirnov, ...

(I supouse there are other commits from people outside the published table, but they are few.)

Statistics:

libav FFmpeg
A) 46 1831
B) 37 1071
C) 1074 856
Tot: 1157 3758

An alternative interpretation is that if tomorrow Michael Niedermayer is hit by a bus, the other committers of FFmpeg still make almost the same numbers of commits than the committers of libav (even ignoring the ported commits).

Complete table:

Developer libav FFmpeg
---------------------------------
Michael Niedermayer 46 1831
---------------------------------
Clément Bœsch 179
James Almer 155
Carl Eugen Hoyos 150
Andreas Cadhalpun 21 114
Lukasz Marek 98
Paul B Mahol 93
Ronald S. Bultje 85
wm4 16 83
Christophe Gisquet 66
Benoit Fouet 48
>>>Subtotal 37 1071
---------------------------------
Vittorio Giovara 294 294
Martin Storsjö 253 252
Anton Khirnov 206 197
Luca Barbato 131 113
Diego Biurrun 72
Rémi Denis-Courmont 32
Hendrik Leppkes 17
Himangi Saraogi 16
Gabriel Dume 16
Federico Tomassetti 14
Peter Meerwald 12
Janne Grunau 11
>>>Subtotal 1074 856
------------------------------------
>>>>>>Total 1157 3758
I counted dozens ATMs out of cash in Athens. And technically ATMs are still not working, since there are strict withdrawal limits. And card did not worked, otherwise Greeks would just raided shops, buy stuff, and empty their bank accounts.

And I see no problem in my comment. If cards would stop working in society which does not use cash at all, it would be even worse.
A New H.265 Patent Pool Is Causing Concerns
And there's short term winning and long term winning. You can win short term as a founder and screw things up long term.
Watch the lifeguard during this. She's covering her area, but stops sweeping it a few seconds into the vid, she looks down, checks back towards the middle, looks away, checks back. She begins to move into space to enter as soon as the kid's ring flips and is in the water as soon as he goes vertical. An excellent bit of guarding, totally exemplary. I'd be very surprised if she didn't mentally note him as a high risk a while before this.
What 12 Months of Record-Setting Temperatures Looks Like Across the U.S
Are we saying "libre" now, not "free"? Just want to keep up with the latest lingo.
It's really twisting things in order to fit a wierd corporate narrative on FOSS.

"Even companies like GE are helping to fund noncommercial software, having con-
tributed $105 million to Pivotal, the home of projects like Cloud Foundry." Uh... they invested for a 10% stake in a for profit company which creates commercially focused free software, among other things. The corporate doublespeak runs deep.

Reminds me generally of orielly's screwy agenda http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
I think the biggest question I need answered is "why would I use this and not ANTLR"?
KDE Announces Plasma Mobile, a Free Mobile Platform
Feds Regularly Monitored Black Lives Matter Since Ferguson
Good post on analysts, Craig. Couple thoughts: Startups should think of analysts as potential allies and win them over, much as they do reporters. The first step, just like with marketing, is bringing yourself to their attention. If they are publishing papers and being quoted about your industry, but they're not mentioning you, then you need to write them a quick email explaining what you do and why it's different. That's outbound. If you're kind of prominent, you'll get inbound calls from analysts. Treat them like reporters: Give them as much information as you can, help them write the reports they're paid to write, and above all give them insights into your industry that will make them smarter and more knowledgeable. That's their value add, and you can help them get there. If you do, they'll return to the well. I've built some great relationships with analysts over the years doing precisely that. Many of them are smart, curious people, and their reports can be solid social proof for young products. Help them wherever you can.
Newbie Guide – Linux Basics
How the game/scam (alleged) works.
USA the land of bullies.
Remember software app, help desk and Unix System Admins?
New Management flavor of the 2 year "Gartner Hype Cycle"
is now TQM or TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT.

Prof. Edward Deming - father of Quality Management.
Reason why Toyota wins and GM with USA Ignition Switch
cover-up loses.

THE OPEN SECRET IS HERE:
Principle Engineering: Use statistics and view of the total
system and asking for worker input to get a 'total view'
and work together to produce quality.

Boss View (insert Dilbert Cartoon) -TQM means ZERO TOLERANCE
or 'no broken windows' for the POLICE or tea party politician for GET TOUCH ON imaginary crime
or Donald Trump celebrity entertainer.
Mexicans (maybe a lot) are criminals and RAPISTS.

Boss (like the small town BULLY dressed in police uniform)
says ZERO TOLERANCE - no defects.

Prof. Deming - the key rule of Quality Management is
DRIVE OUT FEAR.

Most workers want to tell the truth, except there is a
GUN HELD TO THEIR HEAT figuratively.

see salon dd oo tt com
"Like Sandra Bland, I confronted an officer who pulled me over for driving while black." joyce king.

The officer, IMHO does not have to say sorry, but he
should say thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Joyce King, night reporter for saving my
job while I try to BULLY YOU wrong word, intimidate you
can't find the word, substitute some other word.

the SCAM is to yell at you and get you to yell back.
Then, its
1.)disturbing the peace in a vacant shopping mall lot
2.)resisting arrest and police body slam you and
3.)use choke hold (choke you to death) - nope that is
prohibited, but the hog tieing and leaving in the
small puddle of water FACE down may be legal.

4.)accidental use of spray can for the surveillance
cameras were 'accidentally covered with black paint'
and the cell phone of the suspect was accidentally dropped
into puddle of water.

Obviously, there is no cover-up in this fictional story
protected by the Constitution.

Zero Tolerance for any BAD quality. and this starts
with YOU
WinRAR was a good example. There were free utilities to compress files. Yet, theirs had better interface, features, and performance. The file splitting feature was particularly compelling when dialup, floppies, and CD-R's were common. So, people kept buying them. They've declined quite a bit and we have excellent alternatives such as 7-Zip today. Yet, the product is still selling because they do a job well for a reasonable price.
My guess that Michael is (in git terms) committer, not patch author. Would be interesting to see table for authors.
> But I guess what we're arriving at is that this is essentially a functional design using imperative code? I can live with that.

Yep. That's precisely what it is.