skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Settlement would not be instant - blocks would still need to be validated multiple times before that money would be cleared for a new transaction. So instead of the current system of "net" settlement where the net value of all inflows and outflows is reported to the banks 3 times a day, there would be constant individual settlement.

Settling each transaction individually decreases the risk of double spend and counterparty risk (exponentially with each additional validation), but adds latency between every single transaction to the network. Instead of 3 "spikes" of latency throughout the day, you would have billions of miniscule "drops" of latency added onto the transactions.

It also introduces a new fee structure - how do you decide validation priority when you have billions of transactions to process and check? In the bitcoin protocol, a fee is built into every transaction as a percentage of the transaction amount. The miner that verifies the transaction by performing the necessary proof of work gets to collect the fee. Thus the miner has an incentive to verify larger transactions before smaller ones.

In an interbank clearing scenario there would be no explicit fees because the banks would be doing the validation themselves rather than using a distributed network of miners, but the banks would no doubt prioritize larger transfers first. This would make micropayments hard. I'm not sure how a blockchain would get around this, unless there were multiple different chains for different sized transactions?
The Foreign Legion trains its recruits to learn French very fast. I saw a documentary on it once - they're not allowed to speak any other language (maybe only during training? I don't remember) and from what I recall, recruits were able to take their training in French in a matter of weeks (i.e., take orders, and understand the material they are taught). Then again, the 'motivation methods' are of a different caliber than those used in the average civilian language course...
This is the most annoying thing about ad blocking going mainstream. It was a rare site that bothered to detect us before Apple got into the game.
How does CNN get all this insight on the inner workings of ISIS?
It's based on GitHub's Electron (Chromium) on desktop, and Firefox for iOS on iOS: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172/brave-software
Find my Friends shows where your friends are on a map, as well as who they are with.

Sup uses a non-directional radar, so you know how close your friends are, as opposed to their actual location :)
NPR's Planet Money recently did an episode that analyzed a 1 month budget from a Syrian province controlled by ISIS. The budget was all in USD and sounded very thorough.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/04/458524627/episo...
And the laptop version (windows, macosx, linux) seems to be based on Chromium and Node.js.
In regards to cost of launching a working demo-app or prototype my solutions was a Digital Ocean $5/month box + Dokku

https://github.com/dokku/dokku
The scrolling on this website is janky as hell. Looks like they are using some "Smooth scrolling" plugin that makes scrolling not smooth at all. Not sure why native browser scrolling was insufficient for them, I'm scrolling here in HN all the time and it's perfectly smooth.
Yeah I don't get this part and it has nothing to do with Meteor, just that new users find it hard to do anything beyond Todos. But that also makes no sense. So it's hard for the user to not do something very simple? Maybe the user should take the time to learn what they don't understand.
I wrote a guide on using Softener VPN which I found much easier to use than other VPN software:

http://www.selectedintelligence.com/post/128701492804/softet...

Our prototype used autossh actually but later we needed something a bit easier to manage. Disclaimer: I am not a networking or security expert.
While we're bitching about Skype, let's talk about how it monopolizes port 80, for no good apparent reason.

Super fun when you're trying to do a Skype call with a remote coworker and debug a web server at the same time.
So, in other words, they'll rent your cloud resources for you, and mange all your keys and everything.

Great, so now they can alert you if any of "your" they are managing is compromised. But who'll alert you if their account is compromised?

Way to much trouble to put all your eggs on the same basket. It would be simpler to just get locked-in in a single cloud provider, and cut the middle men.
A really great book about this concept, applied specifically to software, is The Phoenix Project (http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/d...). I recommend it highly.
White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists:Why They’d #Fail
.app was already the file extension of applications in NeXTSTEP in the early 90s. It carried over to OS X (eventually iOS) post-acquisition.

Unless someone was playing an extremely long game, that is just a nice coincidence.
Debian? ipchains?

I assigned IP addresses, installed the Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing Service and called it a day :)

/me retracts the hand and runs away from flying rocks
Yeah, I was an early adopter. As a geek who wanted to quit smoking, when I found there was a gadget that might help I was immediately interested.

As a lifelong asthmatic it was easy for me to detect what cigarettes were doing to my health. I only smoked for about 5 years (I started smoking after a divorce) and easily transitioned to an e-cig. My lung health returned quickly when I quit analogs. Now my asthma is manageable with standard treatment (Advair). I don't even need a rescue inhaler anymore.

I consume 5-10ml/day of 12mg nicotine e-juice.
See also http://trafficwaves.org/
Show HN: Haptic Watch game that makes you “feel” for the right answer
Which organization would you use as an example for which it's not clear whether they are 'organized crime' or a 'government'?
If you're designing your own boards with ribbon cables connecting them, I imagine that you could save a lot of money on parts by using 40-pin connectors with PATA cables--we're talking entire cents, for each of the 2 units.

Also, I'm willing to bet a place like the BBC has boxes filled with spare PATA cables and 16MB SIMMs and 8 GB internal hard drives, and maybe even a room with a bunch of dusty 17" CRT monitors in it. And sometimes, rather than fill out a purchase order, one of the engineers descends into the hoard, returns with a cobbled-together frankenserver, and installs NetBSD on it.

So they might actually be PATA cables using PATA connectors, but the signal between cards is not ATA.
California actually has the 2nd fewest gun stores per capita of any state (New Jersey has fewer). Although even California grew 10% in the last 5 years.
Three year old privilege escalation bug compromises millions of Android phones
Absolutely. There are only benefits in acquiring the support from the local population, specially when people feel "neglected" by their current official government. This happens a lot in Brazilian poorest locations, where drug dealing gangs mix violence with "community support", creating a combination of fear and "acceptance" in the locals, getting them not only to not help the police, but also to "accept" their relatives getting into crime, as if it wasn't "completely wrong". There is also special behavior targeted at children, in order to drag them to crime later (or as soon as possible).
Personally I think it's very healthy and marks the beginning of the next stage of the web - how does it work in a post-advertising world?
I get that. And it's great for work. But at home TV time is primarily family or parent-couple time. The act of browsing, previewing, and deciding is a part of that.

It's the same reason the WiiU app navigation is a big minus for me. I don't ever want to see that Mii lobby thing. Don't know what the hell it's for. Just put the apps on the TV like every other console. Mirror on the gamepad if you want. That's fine. But don't try to force it as the default option to the exclusion of the rest of the party. (Yes I realize you can "cast" it up to the TV, but is it sticky? I don't know, because it still seems to routinely annoy by going back to the gamepad.)

Anyways, yes, the Chromecast has it's place. And it's a nice fall-back when the AppleTV in the conference room is unreliable because you've got a dozen of them around the office, 3 different WiFi networks nobody knows which to be on, and the AppleTV disconnects every five minutes while your laptop doesn't realize and getting reconnected takes a minute or two and ugh it's just so frustrating... Never have that problem at home.
Parent commenter referenced that: "a money depot has been bombed as well"
It sounds like their plan is to block all ads, then sell the new ad inventory created by all the blank space on pages.

Why on earth would users want this browser?
Russians usually target opposition forces such as Al Nusra (AQ affiliate in Syria), FSA et al and hit ISIS sites only when they want to help Assad's militias advance toward Palmyra or any other territory held currently by ISIS.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477726/BBC-face-cut...

That's a small example of what I mean, not the full totality of the threat space.

Building more readership makes them that much more difficult to cut funding to, in a variety of ways (more people to get outraged if the government tries, more evidence to show the government that they are worth the money, etc.). Clickbait headlines create more readership. We may prefer that to be false, but it's obviously not. From there the logic is simple, almost inexorable.

Being government funded does not mean you get to ignore funding issues, it just changes how you play the game. There is no source of unconditional funding in the world.
Storage isn't the only consideration when comparing 'millions' of transactions to 'hundreds'.
Firefox has two settings to help with this problem. On the Plugins page, you can set the Flash plugin to "Ask to Activate." Firefox also provides a media.autoplay.enabled setting to prevent auto-playing HTML5 video and audio, although it is slightly buggy because websites expect media to autoplay[1].

[1]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886
Firefox on iOS is built with WebKit, not Gecko [1]. IIRC, it's because Apple doesn't like engines that are not WebKit. Chromium uses Blink, which is a fork of WebKit, so Firefox for iOS and Chromium are relatives in a sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS.
Sounds more like substituting "clean" methadone in place of heroin.
We're talking about giving time for harmful effects to manifest themselves. If you are going to eat a diet which does not resemble what the human body evolved to deal with, then at least follow something that resembles what has been available to your kin for countless generations. If you start consuming brand new diets (not just in terms of the substances and nutrients they contain, but the concentration and dosage and regularity) you're much more exposed to potential harm.
ISO 8583
The security problem in a Bitcoin world is real though: The "instant" settlement is equally instantaneous, and equally non reversible, when someone has access to a private key. At the same time, if I lose the key, the coins are gone.

So instead of being afraid of everyone else's credit worthiness, we now need Fort Knox level security, and any breach of said security means losing everything, permanently. It's like keeping savings inside a mattress, except people can use automated to try to hack into everyone's mattresses.

You can have a different opinion of course, but seeing how even Bitcoin exchanges get hacked all the time, it seems to me that the traditional banking system is far less risky.
I also wrote a few years ago an "nmap as a service" tool, had some challenges like false positives, how to authorize automatically, slowness, UDP ports, using different origin IPs in case I was blocked etc. OP email me if you want to exchange notes.
This is a statement, we blocked the blockers.

I wouldn't be surprised if the openings speech at the conference proudly announced this decision.
Honest question, why would you call an Uber to LGA? LGA has massive lines of taxis waiting to take you home. You'd easily get a cab in less than twenty minutes that is legally required to take you to your location.
"Presence" is a weird thing, because you can kind of pop in and out of it quickly.

Was calibrating my DK2 yesterday and ran the demo scene (the desk with the stack of cards and soda can, etc). I tried to reach for the house plant and the can, knowing full well that they weren't there, and there was nothing triggered in my mind. Then I thought "it'd be fun to knock over the cards" and I swiped my arm through the space they would occupy, and my brain switched for a second or two and I fully expected to be hitting the cards and causing them to tumble. When it didn't happen, it was jarring, because it should have happened.

With the DK1 and DK2, those moments come almost randomly for me, and I keep wondering if we'll get to a point where they can be sustained for long periods of time, or if it'll be like those magic eye pictures where you finally see the sailboat and as long as you concentrate and don't blink you can keep looking at it.
Smooth scrolling plugins are vastly more offensive to me than most advertising.
Marvel features Max Levy, a boy with hemophila, in 'Iron Man' comic book
The topic is serious, but when I read the headline, all I could think of is that it seems to come from a Monty Python or Mel Brooks skit:

"We want revolution! But first we have to cut wages for the revolutionaries. Sorry!"
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

To be fair, Firefox for iOS is open source. Take it, remix it, improve it. It is all good. Mozilla Public License.
Well, the logical extension of that is that you actually get paid to browse, that might be a gamechanger.

Keep in mind that the supply side right now ends at the owner of the web property that starts the ball rolling when in fact it actually starts with the person sitting behind the computer looking at the page.

So this is a giant cut-out-the-middle-men opportunity and Eich is fairly uniquely positioned to take advantage of that.

Wonder if that rev-share idea is part of the long term plan.
If you use Chrome, and are not logged in to a Google account, Google Maps respects the Chrome language setting (just tested). Go to settings, "Show advanced settings" at the bottom and search for "Languages".

If you are logged in to a Google account, the language settings on your Google account takes preference.
Jack Dorsey No Longer a Billionaire as Square and Twitter Shares Fall
You forgot Apple News Format which is simply a convoluted way to turn HTML > JSON. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...
Someone has to be a buzzkill :(
Unfortunately it embraces it so much that there are several different variations of connecting the parts together, and even then some important tools don't play very nicely with the rest of the Gulp framework.

Consequently, it takes several lines of awkward boilerplate just to run a simple Browserify job that is a one-liner at the CLI. I've also seen Gulp adapters for popular tools, such as ESLint, that break suddenly when something apparently unrelated in the NPM set-up is updated, even though ESLint itself also still runs just fine with a one-liner at the CLI.

In fact, those were the two examples I used when I put my foot down over build tools on one project I work on a little while back. Within 20 minutes we'd replaced well over 100 lines of Gulp code with about 10 one-liner CLI jobs that did all of the same things. The new version has the added advantages of actually working, which the Gulp-based code used to but didn't any more, and of requiring a total of 0 changes since then to remain working, other than when the tools themselves changed their interfaces.
Yes, if you use subclass CrawlSpider, then you will be able to set rules on your crawls [1]

[1] -http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/spiders.html?...
/dev/xkcdrandom
Social Security in the cross hairs
While I wasn't thinking of a particular case, ISIS is certainly an instance of trying to cross the line.

(Which I suppose also further underlines the point I want to emphasize about how I'm trying to promote a food-for-thought question, not a value judgment. Personally I find ISIS contemptible as an organized crime mob, and I find them contemptible as a government. I have no plans to change my opinions based on which side of the line they fall on. Which one are they on, though? Honestly the answer probably varies by region at this point. You can make a case that Westphalian-style countries are dead in the Middle East, and a stronger case that they are at least trending down. Whether that trend will be permanent is anyone's guess.)
Same here, I was happy to keep smoking and had no intention of quitting. I just thought e-cigarettes were a cool new gadget to try, and I liked the idea that I could now 'smoke' even more places. I fully expected to continue smoking but over the course of about three months, I just stopped all of it very gradually. It wasn't the expected outcome at all, but it's nice. Haven't smoked for at least eight years now, but I tell people (only half joking) that I would start again if medical science advanced far enough to counter the health risks.
Rtc-everywhere: WebRTC on every platform, all with the same code
Products and services for different text mining tasks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10938593
Article text: http://pastebin.com/raw/FHLMzS0a
Travel to and from the Islamic State
You are right, i've used heroku (haven't seen it in a while though, so thanks for the link). Maybe now it's simpler, but at this time last year, it wasn't.
Also, main problem with free-tiers is that meteor is CPU/RAM-intensive and they do not handle that very well. I'll have to check it up again though.

Surely, there are many ways of deploying meteor apps, but no true simple way (which is why i expected a lot from galaxy). Like a single production line: create > develop > deploy w/ scalable infrastructure and cost. That was the whole meteor attractiveness for me.

There was a meteor based project where i spent 2 weeks developing a prototype and almost a month trying different deploy setups with the client. (heroku, digital ocean, linode, modulus, compose, aws, etc...)

Now, with ember or react + firebase, i can do the same stuff at a fraction of the cost and without having to learn devOps.

Appreciate your answer :)
This largely comes down to the state being primarily defined as a monopoly of force. When non-state actors end up wielding the most threat of force, then collective decision-making is effectively deferred to those most capable of enforcing its will.

This is why I cannot give much credibility to anarcho-capitalist states. Simply removing a visible state does not preclude shadow governments from forming.
1. In the American system, we are biased for innocence, so there's nothing wrong with the documentarians for operating on that assumption.

2. The documentarians omit, while the police fabricate. The documentarians are not mirroring the entity they set out to indict.

3. 3 to 4 days is not a terribly long time for a jury to deliberate on a case like this.
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They most definitely do not have identical components. I am not sure why you think this is the case.
If the various stages of the arms race have been any indication so far it tends to get worse rather than better with every stage so far, which does not lead me to believe there will be a 'post advertising world', only a 'more annoying and harder to get rid of / ignore advertising world'.
China Poised to Overtake U.S. And Japan in iOS Revenue Within the Next Year
It is not biased. While the constituency of the Oscars is ~75% white males we are talking about the _most liberal_ "white" body of individuals on the face of the Earth. This wasnt a vote in the backwaters of the South.

Actors such as Clooney, Angelina Jolie and others are world renown for their Activism. Now the media and black activists seems to be saying "well 50% of the videos aren't Black nominations".

Well, movies have to touch your heart and you have to be able to relate to them. Sorry, I don't relate directly to current black starring movies. I dont care about Medicine or Will Smith. The sum of the years black movies (for me) wasn't on topics I find interesting and which I have difficulty relating too. So why would that engender votes by Hollywood when the majority of oscar voters also aren't black and don't relate to the subject matter of the movie either -- of course other nominations (non-black) will win out.

I love star wars, and the very mainstream movies that were top box office winners this year. Someone do a study of per-month in 2015 what the top 5 grossing movies were, out of how many of were black leading roles, vs non-black roles. Show me a significant stat and that may change my opinions.

Edit:
I just saw Hateful8 and it was a great movie and SLJ did an awesome job, but I assume that will be in next years Oscars maybe .... :P
You've described a hypothetical way things could have gone wrong. But have they? I don't think so. The Mathematica developers have in fact been impressively foresightful. When it has been necessary to make changes that break legacy code they have done so, but it's been very rare.

I really think this is like an Apple vs. non-Apple situation. Sure, the Apple ecosystem is closed and not as flexible and you can think of all these problems that it could get stuck on. But in practice for the large majority of Apple's target audience, these concerns don't pan out. And the benefits of that system are large.
Capital flight from China worse than thought
> what hit do you expect productivity to take

As always: communication overhead. This developer coming in to a new thing after finishing their last thing has to spin up on all sorts of stuff, maybe they don't even know much about what we're working on, but even if they do, they don't know what the current status is. All that spin-up has cost both for the developer and the new team. It is often more efficient to spend that idle time working on lower-priority tasks in their current area.
Agreed on the idea, not necessarily the implementation. I have 2 modes when browsing - reading (docs, news, etc.) or using an application (Gmail, banking, etc.). I do not want to download a >2MB application just to read 1000 words (hence why I wrote this Chrome extension https://github.com/srpeck/readingmode). And when I am using a web application, I would like more say over what it can do and when/if I have to update it - more the Chrome app/extension model.

Plus, as a developer I would really like this model, as it allows the browser to open up even more of the operating system functions, especially the file system, leading to less workarounds.
I think NICAM as a distribution system to FM transmitters is a BBC invention, and presumably all the hardware, physical interfaces etc were designed in-house. So unless they managed to sell it to other countries they're probably the only ones using it. It later found another use for transmitting stereo audio to household with analog TV but that's basically dead along with analog TV and isn't quite the same anyway.
True.. smooth scrolling is only useful for the 5% of users that have a broken or bad touchpad. The dev had one of those I guess :-)
Yes:
US - about 300 million
Europe - about 740 million
'Teens' Who Hacked CIA Director Also Hit White House Official
Dang, so I won't have a career as a robber. But the movie pictures are a nostalgic treat. The article presentation is the best I've seen recently.
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