jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer, but what's likely to happen here is the following:

Soon, Mark Karpeles and/or Tibanne Kabushiki Kaisha and/or Mutum Sigillum LLC are likely to be charged with at least one violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960 for not having a money transmission license in any state. Even though Karpeles broke state laws, it's a federal crime by extension. He may be extradited from wherever he is to the U.S. to stand trial in federal court.

What's interesting is that Coinbase, BitPay, Dwolla and every other current/former Bitcoin exchange company is in the exact same boat legally speaking, and yet people still trust them because of deliberately misleading statements they've made on a regular basis, such as last night's joint announcement. None of them are operating legally, whatever they may say. But mostly they don't say, because my company is already suing two of the three over this very fact. Many of them can be linked to Mt. Gox; Dwolla has already stopped dealing with Bitcoin as a result of NY DFS's subpoenas to the best of my knowledge; US DHS also investigated Mutum Sigillum LLC and froze its assets.

The irony is that Mt. Gox is most likely in Japan in the first place because of the insane state regulatory structure in the U.S. So our state MTLs push entrepreneurs out, leave consumers high and dry, and make crashes of the sort we're witnessing now more likely. We need a federal regulatory regime; it's a shame that the other entrepreneurs and investors affected--including the ones who run this site--are too cowardly to come out and say it publicly as I have. There's only one exception: Greg Kidd, who is invested in a number of payment companies, including Coinbase, and now works for Ripple.

http://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/wp-content/uploads/Greg_Ki...

Here's my suggestions for what should happen now:

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/20140214.cfpbcomment.pdf
Hitchhiking is unfortunately one of those things that has been completely ruined by a few bad apples. It only takes 0.00001% of the hitchhikers being serial killers or rapists to sour everyone against picking up hitchikers. So few people hitchike because it is a hassle, and now it increases the likelyhood that the person hitchiking is a derelict, a postive feedback loop of national proportions.
I always stop to help someone, partially because I know I've sure needed it myself a few times.

Even simple things can make a person's day. I saw a guy pushing a low cc 1970's Honda motorcycle down the sidewalk in Cambridge a few months ago. I pulled over immediately and ran up to him- it looked like he was having a bad day. He said it wouldn't start after he stalled it. I'd been riding and repairing vintage Honda's myself for about a year at that point, so I was hopeful. Turns out it was just that his battery was dead and he didn't know how to use the kickstarter as he'd just started riding it. A few quick kicks and he was ready to go and now knew how to start his bike without a good battery.

When I have a non-motorcycle I try to always keep a fairly large set of tools in the trunk and anything else I could think to use. My pickup was stocked like a fallout/survival shelter. My motorcycles obviously carry less, but I always try to keep a first aid kit and a blowout kit to get someone to safety.
Also Heliographic Latitudes for the spacecraft:

http://cohoweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/helios/book2/b2_12.html
why use euclidean distance in the function for defining weights? Doesn't it mean cities that are farther in distance with fewer friend connections would get a higher weight than cities that are close by? Not sure how it helps visualize or how to interpret it.
He should have left out that "exactly". The main point is something he highlights at the beginning, J2EE was the triumph of configuration over convention, it had a lot of xml descriptors and interfaces/utility classes to be implemented (this caused by the some architectural decisions that remind me of CORBA).
This stuff was usually auto-generated but you still often had to tweak these file manually.
The polar opposite of modern web frameworks.
They don't deserve a Nobel because the idea has been obvious in medicine for years. They just got very lucky in being able to deliver a confirmed CCR5 delta 32+ bone marrow transplant to someone with HIV in a medically responsible way.

Curing HIV is an incredible thing to have accomplished but the confirmation of a successful surgery from 3 years ago doesn't advance the bounds of scientific knowledge as much as it was might seem when you see a story like this in the news.
It seems like they are embedding some state in these URLs. By I am by no means an expert in this language, so I am only guessing here.
Seems to me this is proof that you can lose an idea by telling someone about it. I hear a lot here that you shouldn't worry about telling people your ideas because ideas are worthless. I've never agreed with that.

Here we have someone who had a really great idea, did part of the work, and then told people about it. Then he sat on it and didn't release. Someone else came along, loved the idea, and wrote it from scratch in a month.

Does the original author care? Probably not. He's probably happy to see it be used. But if it had been a money-making idea, he'd be a lot less happy.

Software development is a very fast-moving field, and if you sit on your ideas at all, someone will do them instead. That's worth remembering.
This happens with ruby and python as well, though not as often. As always, limiting to things from at most two years usually does the trick.
The gunfire was probably of the unarmed woman getting shot and killed: https://twitter.com/ALQadiPAL/status/1346960691278848000.

Highly doubt that it was an armed protester shooting.
Yeah, Tilipia tastes like dirt.
Fruits cost more than $3.

I think the real problem, though, is that the whole "sugar is poison" has gone to everyone's head, and it's now socially unacceptable to recommend anything containing sugar.

The problem is that fruits have a lot of fiber wrapped around that sugar, while soda does not. Have a cup of blueberries with breakfast, an avacado and some tomatoes at lunch, and strawberries for desert. A few servings a day of healthy sugars is not going to make you fat.
There is a horrible trend of sealing homes up tight, and then we start to notice a raft of problems developing - in the fabric of the home, and it's inhabitants.
I am lucky to live in a 1930's building in London, with plenty of ventilation built it. It is certainly not the most eco rated property, but, it is healthy. It might cost a couple of pounds more to heat over the year, but, it has proven itself over time, from coal fires, to back boilers, to central heating, air flows throughout, damp does not get a chance to thrive, nor mould nor fungi nor other related issues.
I'm not sure if $200 in third party software counts as easy. In particular when you could be using RRAS instead, which is built in.
Thanks for taking the time to comment!

I've used Express, and it's great for what it does, it just doesn't do what I'm looking for. I'm wanting a framework that can be a CMS as well as a store, or a brochure-ware site, or a game backend server, or whatever else.

Basically, a plugin-able framework. I don't want to use a package from npm if that means having to hack it just to add something to a form. For that matter, I don't want to worry about the security of a 3rd party module simply because there is no standard way to generate/handle forms.

It's a philosophical argument, I suppose. You can write secure code if you do everything right, but if a framework requires you to use an API everywhere (a la Drupal's FAPI), then you get security for free.

I've written my own login and session handling scripts. I've written my own CRUD routines. It's painful, because it should not be necessary (IMO).
The manufacturer of the hard drives was listed incorrectly by Backblaze. It's as simple as that.

Hitachi (owned by Toshiba) and HGST (owned by WD) are two different companies. You can't say a drive was manufactured by Hitachi/Toshiba when it was actually a HGST drive.
I also decided to use ReactFlux after looking around at the flux implementations. It kind of suffers from the fact no one knows about it but it feels a lot better to use than the other implementations I looked at. I forked the library to support nested objects in the store state and I'm pretty happy with it now.

But I may switch to Marty since I'm not far along with the project and the dev tools look super helpful.
From their marketing material, they pretend they figured a way to fake depth. If true, that would be a huge step compared to classic stereoscopic technologies or other cumbersome devices.

However, I doubt this is the case, else they wouldn't just slap this announcement at the end of a boring Windows 10 presentation. I mean, all I could remember about this presentation was: "Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10 with HOLOGRAMS using Windows 10! Windows 10. Windows 10. Windows 10."
He would, if he'd stood by it. But honestly, after everything that's gone down on 4chan over the years, he decides that gamergate is the line in the sand where he starts banning? That not only undermines any commitment to free speech, it puts the things he previously permitted in a different light - he believes in actively censoring certain legal discussion topics, but he allowed xyz?
Same in Firefox. Quite rude.
Maybe we're counting photons now.
Little known fact: Chris sings an unbelievably awesome rendition of stairway to heaven. Saw it at a certain Utah dive bar. Fun guy.

I find it fascinating that few backing climate change mitigation are addressing the 10,000 pound bright pink elephant in the room: Let’s promote making less humans so that human population, the root cause of every single way we’re screwing up this planet, simply shrinks.

Advocating for having less kids is taboo, especially in the USA. And as with Chris the approach is to make more stuff to fix the fact that our growing population’s appetite for stuff is killing the planet.
"IBM does not comment on rumors or speculation. However, we’ll make an exception when the speculation is stupid."

https://ibmhkblog.wordpress.com/
Books answer questions.

Brains conceive new questions.
Yes, unless off-chain systems are developed.

It's also possible that transaction fees will stay low and miners will just stop mining.
Agree. The greatest invention since the printing machine by Gutenberg.
2 and 3 are, but that's about where it ends. Yeah you can do subdivisions of 5 and 7 but it starts to be an academic exercise at that point. So, no, prime numbers don't have any special relationship to music, sorry. Factors of 12 and 16 are actually the most common and useful groupings in most music that people can dance to.
> in an environment where security is important with my present day knowledge of the pitfalls of C it would likely be the last language I would pick

Note however that even the those languages promoted as "safer" and "better" at the end typically use the C implementations of cryptographic routines (or avoid their own "safe" rules exactly when producing such a code which then ends up being "just C in disguise"). I see then some "wrappers" but at the end... it's still C (or assembly) that does the job. As far as I'm aware, nobody managed to produce both the "safety" and everything else necessary to the point to be the "best" solution for real-life use cases.
So excited to see this on Hacker News!

Brief Shoutout for anyone who would like to see a better online experience for our National Parks System:

1. write into rec.gov asking for a booking API!

2. join accessland.org

3. build apps using Rec.gov's availability API

(disclaimer: I'm involved with accessland.org)
This Adam Neumann guy is a living legend. The inevitable HBO miniseries will have an A-list actor and associates will tell tales of his exploits for decades. $1 billion parachute and public investors never got burned. I feel most bad for the employees, but that’s the free market for you. Bernie Madoff represented the worst of the financial crisis villains, and Adam Neumann is the millennial con artist for the unicorn era. A man of the times.

I keep eating up these stories, as I’m sure most of us here are as they keep getting upvoted to the front page. Fascinating
A very interesting article I read (can be found with a google search) was an in-depth look at the corruption with snowplow contracts. People were getting beat up and were greasing politicians palms to get these lucrative contracts in Quebec.

How very Canadian!
I think, Knuth. I think TeX and METAFONT and MMIX and TAOCP and so on is good.
They call an internal message broker to report their start details and report their current state or termination depending on the job type, these details are then batched and pumped into [cloud analytics platform of your choice] which runs triggers for notification of employees for routine processes, exception emails to admins and exposes the whole shebang for monthly reporting.
A few years ago I won a (very small) business plan competition for a company describing a consumer backup service like this one.

The kicker is figuring out what would happen if the company stops trading for whatever reason (e.g. bankrupcy). Although I didn't follow through with it, I think you can build a reasonably safe winding-down process that at the very least returns the data to its owners.
How far have you got, what's your developing background? What sort of widget, what deployment are you aiming for?

Is this a homework assignment?
> What is the quality of music stored by Mixlr? CD quality? MP3 quality?

At present: 128kbps MP3 (near-CD quality), both streaming and stored. This is much higher than most streaming services but lower than SoundCloud. Both numbers may change in future depending on a number of factors.

> Do you plan to convert to a paid service in the future to support yourself financially

It is already a paid service, with free credit for new users. I haven't settled on the exact business plan however. A lot of people have suggested a free option at low bit-rate, which is an idea I find interesting.
In Linux, just switch to text console. :-)
Hmmm. Thanks for reporting. Mixlr uses WebSockets when available (i.e., Chrome) and falls back to Flash, so this error probably means the WebSocket port was blocked for some reason, maybe a firewall. I agree the error message is a bit skewed in this case. I am going to do some more work to minimize this kind of problem, it's not perfect yet.
Bear with us, Windows and Linux support is in the pipeline.
These don't look that bad, but what's describe in a tweet (tracking focus app etc) is much worse, it doesn't seem to be in the privacy policy though (or they masked it?). So where's the information about focused window come from?
Do you plan on this being a registry for US only, or you are planning to have this as an international registry?
For some people it is. It depends on their level in the food chain, and - if they're near the bottom - their willingness to take criminal risks.
That's a good point, I'm really referring to stock market indices.
I've been an avid backpacker for about 20 years now, and my go to for paper maps has always been USGS 7.5 minute quadrangles. As the article mentions, they are the "gold standard" for many.

Recently I've had some fun playing around with making my own in https://inkatlas.com/ which is a great idea and hope it stays viable for the creator.
> Unless it is accepted to have emergency authorian rule, like in this case.

Post socialist seem to understand what a national emergency is and when it's on, you shut up and do as told. I'm a Hungarian, living in England; the brits have no grasp on this scenario. Somewhere deep down it feels like we needed this pandemic to:

a, undestand one's "rights" doesn't always apply

b, to realize we're living in the golden years* - it's cushioned, comfortable, wonderful, and that we should cherish it and value it.

* Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmszv0jpvSY
It looks like a DeLorean.
Like insects? No, thanks.
SMS 2FA is insecure because companies implement it in a way that it becomes one-factor.

Forgot your password - reset your password - get an SMS

When there is no second factor involved, it's not 2FA despite people calling it that.
I live in Eindhoven, home town of Philips, one of the members of this cartel. Philips is extremely loved here. They're the reason this city is a city at all, they're the reason we're a prosperous region with of lots of innovation (mostly hardware though, so not very HN-fashionable). We now have apartment buildings named after their founders ("Gerard", "Anton", etc), lunchrooms ("Meneer Frits"), the local football stadium & club are named after them, and so on. Statues. Statues! Not of a Great Leader back in some totalitarian past, but of CEOs! Imagine putting an enormous bronze Elon Musk at the SF Caltrain station square. That's Eindhoven. We love us our Philips.

They were crooks. The amount of cartels Philips has been in is staggering. They've been working to screw over their customers since the very beginning. Look it up, any infamous technology cartel from the 20th century you can find, big chance Philips was on it. When cartels went out of vogue they lobbied for regulation with pretty much the same effect - Philips will do anything, legal or not, to keep their margins up.

I really don't understand how easily people whitewash this shit.
Facts:
On average rust is 10% slower on the banchmarkgame:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

But they use llvm instead of gcc for c++, and gcc is in average 20% faster than clang.
Therefore, rust is 30% slower, at least on heavily optimised programs.

And hyper is not the fastest http server, but the actix one is one of the fastest yes.
This could still be addressed by not putting the wifi part of the doorbell into the doorbell itself or alternatively using something like LoRaWAN where at worst someone could compromise the device keys (which you can reprovision) so your Wifi isn't compromised at all.

Another solution is to use a second gateway inside the house that manages the Wifi part and secure communication with the doorbell via short range radio.
I can't believe there are so many people in this thread that actually like the design. Just goes to show how insanely nerdy the denizens of HN are.
I don’t think it’s for those markets, at least certainly not the EU.
all the evidence should be inadmissible
Well if I were diabetic, I certainly wouldn't go to my doctor every time I needed to check my glucose. That would get really expensive. I would instead rely upon a home glucose checker, which could easily be integrated with an iPhone using Bluetooth or as an attachment ala Square. Even moreso, if it integrated with HealthKit, I could have my glucose levels over time and have them shared with my doctor using the integration with Epic's MyChart app.

So, not as silly as you might think.
Messages need to be encrypted by default.

No more cleartext protocols on the network anymore please, for obvious reasons.
Or fix the underlying problems that causes vandalism and theft.
Just because it has a name doesn't mean it's wrong (or right).

As for valuing revenge - no need for emotions. Like many other things we sometimes attribute to emotions (like loyalty), revenge has a perfectly good game-theoretical explanation. That's what GP's argument is based about. If an AI could somehow precommit itself before being created to exert revenge on you for not helping its creation, now you have an incentive to help its creation, to the extent you believe in AI's precommitment. That sounds to me like classic Schelling.
If you think that is bad, did you every try the Amazon Unbox video downloader? Horrendous performance to this day.

As for the Kindle app for the PC, Mac, and iOS, love it.

Amazon is capable of producing high quality products, but they really need to be careful about letting crap be released. It can do irreversible damage to your brand.
I wish Google would find a way to undermine the music industry instead. Actually Amazon may be better positioned for such a move.

I am not an expert but it seems the basic trade the music industry offers artists is, recording, publishing, distribution, and promotion in return for ownership of the artist's work and a huge cut of the revenues.

It's always irked me that artists are forced to sign over the fruit of their labor, talent, and passion. I wonder if there's not an alternative deal where the artist gets the same benefits but also keeps legal ownership of their music, perhaps in exchange for an exclusive license or increased revenue share.

It would be cool to see something like that pull the proverbial rug (the artists) out from under the music industry.
Professional poker players can only safely risk 5% or less of their bankroll at any one time (due to luck factors -- there are many ups and downs), players typically keep their bankroll as large as possible so that they can play as high-stakes as possible. The higher your stakes, the higher your hourly rate.

Where do you keep your cash? If your business deals in dollars and cents, you probably keep it in a bank account. Your clients pay you, making its way into your account, and you pay bills out of that account.

Poker players do all their business with their poker accounts. Rakeback sites deposit directly into the accounts, player transfers are often used to facilitate real-world transactions between friends, and things like concierge service can even be provided by the poker sites themselves.

For a poker player, their online accounts are both their cash and their capital. There's really no way around having a large amount of money tied up on these sites if you're a high stakes player.

And it's not irrational. These sites make so much money in rake every day that it would never make sense for them to run off with everyone's money. At least not until the government steps in, seizes their cash, and threatens their business model when it's not even clear that the act of hosting poker games is against the law.
Sony bought out their equal partners, Bertelsmann, for 900MM. [1]. That puts Sony Music's valuation at $1.8B in 2008. Global spending on music seems to be around $26B.[2] Although it's difficult to project a valuation from that, it's not unreasonable to assume that any of the tech giants could afford to buy a significant chunk of the industry.

[1]http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/14/business/fi-sony14

[2]http://mashable.com/2007/11/14/music-industry-decline/
Does this work for anyone other than the top few posters?

I have quietly accumulated 13k rep on electronics.stackexchange, but I don't think it's much use to me.
The price is now public.
I always walk in with this in mind: "Let's see if I want to work here".
At the point where I'm really convinced and want to work there I get a little nervous ;)

I also insist on doing some work there, to prove myself of course and see how things work. how they are organized, tools and frameworks they use etc. And most important to get a feeling about the people there. I know it's hard in just one day but you get an impression. I left my last job because I wasn't feeling good there. No team spirit and a "cold" atmosphere. Why should I spend 8-9 hours a day at a place like that?
You need to use "verbatim" mode. It's under "Search tools" and then in the dropdown starting with "All results".
Do we actually know if this is a different closed source branch with all these features baked in the app itself or is it a service offering bundling other systems/scripts into a nice platform on top of everyday nginx? (i.e. can be re-created with the proper recipe, just lacking the support)