skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody that I can remember has been able to identify the large bitcoin thefts over the years by tracking the coins, those people cashed out somehow. However the SEC filing on Pirateat40's ponzi scheme was remarkably detailed, they were able to track every single coin he received and prove he spent it on himself.

I would imagine others use JoinMarket to mix up the coins[1], use coin control[2] to exchange for other cryptocurrency p2p, or other obfuscation methods like buying up high demand items with bitcoin then selling them remotely for other bitcoins.

[1]https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket/wiki
http://joinmarket.io/

[2]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144331.0
On HN, who is able to delete comments?
I used the think the same about myself until I started talking to a therapist. While I share some symptoms of autism, I always felt that I was the opposite. Hypersensitive and empathic and whatnot.

But after a long diagnostic process combined with reading up on autism and in particular about the Intense World theory ([quick introduction][1], I became pretty convinced that 1) autism is hella complicated and still not well understood, and 2) it may well be that autism, or at least a subtype of autism we might one day discern, is the opposite of how we commonly think of it. It's not a blindness to emotions or inability to empathize that is autism, rather it's (too) high sensitivity expressed poorly, especially in men with autism. Like wearing night-vision goggles on a bright day.

And the thing is, not only is this much more fitting to how autists tend to self-report their experiences (which is thankfully something that is finally listened to), but there's existing and growing evidence too.

For example, a significant portion of autists score as high or higher on 'affective empathy'. It's the interpretation where they go wrong (cognitive empathy). Or when it comes to eye contact, it's not so much that autists lack the social skills or mirroring ability to understand that this is important, but rather that it's too intense. Mind, I'm not saying all autists are like this, but this is how I would describe it when it comes to my issues with eye contact, and almost every autist I know or have read about says the same (including some who are rather far on the spectrum).

Anyways, the important thing is that you function and are happy. If that's the case, I'd say the diagnosis of autism isn't necessarily beneficial. It can even be detrimental.

I'm reminded of the vulcans in Star Trek. I remember I wanted to be like them because my emotions were becoming too much for me. And only afterwards I watched the episode where their 'true' nature is revealed...

[1]:https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-too-much/201407...
They simply rounded the weights in pounds to the next hundred which resulted in the extra 644lbs.

Python code:

import math
def roundup(x):
return int(math.ceil(x / 100.0)) * 100

materials_in_kgs = [12750000,6090000,5420000,2050000,1340000,86000,18000,20000,59000,2000,3000,1000]
materials_in_lbs = [i*2.204 for i in materials_in_kgs]

materials_in_lbs_rounded = [roundup(i) for i in materials_in_lbs]

print sum(materials_in_lbs_rounded)
As the article states, some dinosaurs were definitely warm blooded, some were definitely cold blooded, but where in the tree the transition happened is very much unknown.
So, binary search? Why did a new name come up for this well known thing in CS?
At least in my setup, a small SSD means that a complete reboot for the router takes 22-24 seconds, and so TCP sessions will not drop.
The thought the latest theory was the entire earth was engulfed in flames from the impact and killed almost everything except stuff underground / underwater

http://www.radiolab.org/story/dinopocalypse/
Yeah, I considered that, and in some cases might take that approach.

But in my particular case the websites need to be server-side for SEO, so it's mostly just that I want to use React for reusability and because I prefer it over wordpress theming with php tags.

Furthermore, I can now use React and still deploy the site on a typical LAMP-stack cheap hosting!
Why do we value gold? (2013)
> if I don't have an IDE that can highlight the line for me and allow to mouse hover over variable values, then the whole experience becomes a lesson in frustration.

What does that even mean in a language with no explicit model for code sequencing?
Couldn't resist:

http://imgur.com/yKarXLK

http://imgur.com/oT3u4fR
Why focus on income gap as a problem rather than the inability to afford or enjoy (for whatever reason) a reasonable standard of living? [ Answer: it rouses emotions and is thus rhetorically useful. ]

Re inherited wealth: let's be clear - there is no country in the world where slavery was not practiced at one time or another in Asia, Europe America and Africa. Incidentally it was abolished by the British who then, with difficulty, brought pressure to bear on other nations. As to inherited wealth, in the main, Marx's recommendations in the Communist Manifesto have been largely implemented for most of us (40% tax in the UK above a fairly low threshold).
This Rolando?

http://rolando.ngmoco.com/
I agree that the games industry has a problem, but I think it's because they're independent developers selling a consumer product. This creates a direct sense of accountability among a large group of end users who know how to get into contact with you.

Maybe it's simply not good business to be a dev who's both acting as the face of a product and writing divisive op-eds. This practice seems unique to the games industry.
I do. Frex, I should be writing a dissertation outline rather than fooling around on HN (and I'm sure you have better things to do also, hint-hint, nudge-nudge).

"Why" is difficult to answer. For myself, I guess somehow I can't really recall how bad the previous last-minute rush was, so I can't motivate myself hard enough to avoid it this time around. Or maybe I just enjoy the adrenaline rush, who knows.
> He initially used his real name for a StackExchange account, which was later linked to DPR and SR.

Like I said, terrible at OPSEC :)
Significant barriers due to age also include learning. When it comes to new technologies, do you think you'd learn the most in places where the manager is older than you?

Did you perhaps mean go to places where the manager is a good learner?
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I would be willing to bet they are from Italy. I am Italian and they wrote about some stuff that you would know only if you followed Italian news.

They could be dropping some contradictory clues, BTW. I could definitely see that.
Maybe Google is becoming interested in the lower end of the hosting market? GoDaddy is at roughly $1+B/year of revenue with a 5% market share. The revenue is split pretty evenly between domains and hosting, and there's obviously synergy between the two. A 5% market share netting $1+B implies an overall market of $20+B.

Google has all the pieces, but doesn't seem to have made any notable inroads in that space. They haven't made any real attempts, thus far, to compete with GoDaddy, 1&1, EIG, etc.
That is my thought as well, for a few reasons.
Bisection is also a well-known term, in mathematics as well as computer science.
Uber and Lyft drivers need to obtain business licenses in SF
Context is king. "Kill the man with the knife!" Who? The guy holding a knife? How? With this knife I have right here? We can't say anything at all, unambiguously, without immense context.
I don’t know myself, I’d have to look in the laws, but the rules were written because Mercedes and VW have now a decade of unassisted self-driving experience and plan to release the first fully self-driving vehicles for transport (trucks, etc) within of the next year.
I wonder how well the Turris Omnia[1] will compare to a homebrew solution like this.

[1]https://omnia.turris.cz/en/
Magnetostriction is news now? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetostriction
Probably due to the lack of scientific rigor that I failed to produce in all of 3 seconds, or, just general BS of an online community. Or shills, who knows! Nobody said this was a community of rational beings.
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You comment about spelling and phrases reminds me of the NYT's Dialect Quiz Map. I tried it and it was accurately able to guess where I was originally from. While not useful by itself, I could see it being handy as part of an overall investigation.
But IIUC, if one submits 1000 links and 10% of them get 100+ votes, while the rest get <100, then one's h-index is the same (100) as if one submitted 100 links, but all of them got 100+ votes. So, it doesn't measure "spaminess". That's what the question was about, I believe - is there a way to take this into account, while not losing the good parts of h-index.
Cookbooks repository: https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks
Curiously, the theorem implies all maps on a sphere can also be colored. All 2D maps can be considered to be a sphere, by adding a new 'border state' that surrounds the existing 2D map and extends endlessly in all directions. The 2D theorem says this can also be colored.

That can be mapped to a sphere by laying the existing map on a sphere, and making that border state into the 'rest of the sphere'. You have to stretch things, sure. The colorability of the map is not affected by resizing or stretching the map. The fundamental layout of the map is determined by the vertices and edges, not how you 'look at it'.

This also implies that all 2D maps must be colorable in 3 colors on their perimeter. Because, I can always create a new map with that 'border state' that must also be colorable, and the new state can't be any color already on the perimeter. So, the perimeter can only be 3 colors.

The spherical transformation makes this more obvious: every state must have neighbors of at most 3 colors, and that border state is no different from any other.
That's exactly why I'm afraid to tweet. If I tweeted every stupid thought that flit across my mind, then ever became famous or in the public eye, people could dig up every dumb thing I've ever said and broadcast it out of context. No thanks.
A Little History of the World Wide Web
The problem is there are subtle differences between implementations that bite you in ways you never thought possible, and it's just aaaargh hard to get the same program running in the same way on two different Prologs.

Or even between versions of the same implementation. E.g., I know of one project that sticks with SICStus 3, because in SICStus 4 findall/3 removes blocked goals from copied variables. This system relies quite heavily on blocked goals and working around this change turned out to be too expensive.

(If I recall correctly ;).)

Another example is SWI Prolog diverging from the ISO standard in version 7 (e.g. double quoted strings are now a type on their own, rather than a list of character codes). Luckily, there is a --traditional flag for older code.

In both cases, there are good reasons for the changes, but it makes portability hard.

Edit: wanted to add that this is not intended to be a critique of these particular (great) implementations of Prolog.
Winner! Plus style points for providing code.
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Agreed. Each tweet is like a 'sound byte' and we've seen how they can be used to twist anything by taking them out of context. 'Twitter context' is really an oxymoron.
The author has also written a book entitled "Let's Tell a Story Together: A History of Interactive Fiction", which I'd recommend checking out.

It's not on that "ebooks" page; it's on its own page here which has download links for .mobi or .pub versions that can be loaded onto Kindle, Google Books, etc.:

http://maher.filfre.net/if-book/
make an RSS feed, please!
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They are called CEOs
>> GoDaddy as well as other domain shops seem to be stuck in the late 90s

I'm surprised that no startups (or existing vps/cloud providers) have tried to jump into this lower-end space of domains + shared hosting. The market size is pretty big, and the competition is, as you mention, pretty stagnant. At the moment, it's mostly GoDaddy, 1&1, and the various companies owned by EIG.

There also seems to be quite a bit of room for disrupting that market. It's fairly tech support intensive, partially due to things that could be improved, automated, etc. For example, most of them depend on "Cpanel", which is more than showing it's age.

The relative success of Wix.com (close to 1B mkt cap), which only went after a very specific sub-slice of this segment seems to indicate there's room for a bigger play.
"My major gripe with haskell was that I could never tell the space/time complexity of the my code without serious analysis (that among other things involves second-guessing the compiler's ability to optimize). This makes writing good quality code harder than it needs to be."

This problem is significantly worse in Haskell than in most other languages. Usually you lose at most a constant factor in performance if the compiler doesn't optimize as much as you expected, but the lazy evaluation can actually change the asymptotic memory complexity. I have been bitten by lazy evaluation several times by writing code that I expect to run in constant space and then finding it require linear amount of memory because of the evaluation order.
Bankrupt companies also routinely get purchased for $1, with the old owners just glad to get rid of outstanding liabilities.
Megagrams would sound cooler though :)
What's worse is if they don't realise it's a hoax. I mean, how many potential customers might see all this discussion, yet then not follow the link or read the articles debunking it?

For them, he wouldn't be the guy who trolled ServerFault. He'd be the one who lost all his data by running the wrong command, which is a terrible reputation to have in this business...
Who the hell cares?
Triva: IBM Watson uses Prolog for its reasoning.
Because tipping taxi drivers is expected and tipping Uber drivers is not.

I've taken both NYC taxis and Uber many times and always tip in a taxi and never in Uber.

> Does Uber have some kind of policy on tipping?

Yes. Uber does not encourage tipping and cash payments aren't allowed.
Github is the wikipedia for hackers
Do you have any evidence that surge pricing is individualized?
Just switch to the mobile web. Same capability, same interface, no intrusive permissions requirements.

Add it to your homescreen and you even get the glorious U logo back!

https://m.uber.com/
Compressive Strength and Parameter Passing in the Physics of Software [pdf]
U.S. energy demand has actually fairly steady. It was slightly lower in 2014 vs 2008. http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=us&v=81

A wide range of things have been getting more energy efficient TV, lighting, computers, heating cooling, insulation, etc.
When this sort of thing happens to me, I attribute it to a combination of factors.

1. The work is complex and not actively "doing something" lets it simmer on the back burner of my brain.

2. I'm not overly busy.

3. I'm too busy.

4. The work isn't really interesting at a deep down level.

5. The work is so interesting that it sparks curiosity about related topics that might help me do it better.

6. I'm burned out.

7. I'm not in the habit of working on problems that require that particular way of thinking.

Which is to say that if the work gets done and done well, then it's not really procrastination it's just that the process isn't particularly straight forward. Of course, that's not to say that what I do and how I do it is a particularly great model to follow. It's more about understanding myself in the way Torvalds shows in his recent TED interview...and it's an interview not a talk because Torvalds knows his own personality. And if you watch it, you'll probably understand why Torvalds does what he does and why it's sort of fruitless to compare one's own life with his.

Good luck.
> This reminds me of the elevation of Mt Everest as determined in 1856:

Or the joke about the museum guide telling visitors the dinosaur skeleton is 100,000,005 years old, because when he started there 5 years ago, an expert told him it was 100 million years old.
That expecting there to be "your stuff" is already inherently selfish, so trying to argue that particular reallocations of "your stuff" are selfish is kind of ridiculous.
I've posted before about my theories regarding optimum commenting and moderation systems, but one thing I've recently been thinking about is some sort of logic/rationality analysis engine (perhaps through nlp/ml?).

What I really want is to wade through the extra verbal fluff of a comment and get to its real points, so that I can determine if they are rational and logical. My primary method is by looking for fallacies which are tell-tell signs of a bad argument.

That still doesnt "fix" moderation, but I think such a system could be used to get rid of consistently illogical trolls to reduce the moderator workload at least.

Ideally, I imagine exclusivity of posting to be barrier 1, and moderation to be barrier 2. Some strange combinantion of hn Rules and /. Randomized moderation along with /. Tagging styles, would probably be the best.

Another factor to consider is that sockpuppetry has thrown the democratic balance of such systems off, and Im not yet sure how to deal with that.
But that's what I'm speaking of: an inherent bias.

Silicon Valley has this notion that one can replace hundreds, thousands, or millions of people with "short shell scripts". The base idea is something I'm OK with. However, with no social support structure in place, the ideas/implementations of Silicon Valley (and VC culture) seek to destroy people and families. No jobs == no money. No money == homeless, foodless, resourceless.

A great problem child is Uber. They destroy what little protections employees have, by refusing to have "employees". Powerless people either work for peanuts, or not work at all. They certainly won't sue. And Uber's end-game is "disenfranchise all workers by investing in automatic transportation via autonomous vehicles". That's the kind of endgames Silicon Valley thinks of. And that's frankly terrifying : "Be a serf until we no longer need you"

And, one can have the understood mindset of Silicon Valley and the VCs, and yet not live there. I know of those whom live in Chicago, New York City, parts of the Eastern Seabed in decent proximity of DC, London, and others whom share these notions.

The thing missing from the 'Valley speak is there is no discourse on how to handle everyone when nobody needs to work. That discussion is (not so) mysteriously left out.
Here's a tutorial for doing the same thing with OpenBSD from a few years ago: http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router
Curious stories you've found already...I don't know the Instagram one.
When I think Microsoft services I think more Outlook/Office 365/OneDrive, but you are right. Skype certainly could/should be e2e.
They should given the number in grammes.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11508555
I have a off topic question.
How have you reused your old phone? I've seen some typical lists on the web - but nothing impressive given how powerful these small computers are.
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i'm on marshmallow, updated the app. it popped the contacts (http://i.imgur.com/wNzktdO.png) one when i tried to create a family profile (so i could add people to my family account).

other than that, i could not make these new permissions to trigger.
The median would solve the spamminess, but it'd completely eliminate the high scores.

That's why a lot of people like to look at more than one number when looking at a set summary, but you can't compare and classify these as easily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-number_summary
No that's a us ton converted to pounds. A metric tonne to pounds is 1:2.204.
> "A rented device who's main purpose is to deliver advertisements to me"

You don't own these devices as long as someone else has root. This kind of crap is evidence that we are loosing the War On General Purpose Computation. A lot of people are scared of the power of a general purpose computer in the hands of the general public. Computers (especially internetworked computers) allow people to see throw scams, remove artificial scarcity, and work past propaganda. When middlemen feel their power is under attack, they tend to lash out in stupid ways to counterattack the perceived threat and reestablish their position.

In the end, the general purpose computer must be made back into an appliance, and the internet back into something closer to cable TV. I don't blame the average person for falling for this scam, as they are often ignorant of the underlying technology. However, a lot of people that really should know better have been distracted with shiny baubles and keep buying into these increasingly locked-down walled gardens, when they should be setting an example and working to educate others so they have the information they need when they vote with their wallet.
It depends on the social groups. In some ways Facebook can be worse, because the circle it goes viral in are the people you know in real life and interact with day-to-day. I have seen people make up rumours and publish them on Facebook, with the deliberate intention of hurting and destroying the life of someone they know, just because they felt slighted. Having anonymous crazies from around the world threatening you must be scary - but I can't imagine how it would feel to have friends and the people you turn to for support stop talking to you because of an accusation they read online.
There are plenty of people on HN who criticise Uber and AirBnB.
What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question
Belated response. US Govt forfeited their leverage. They made two big changes. First, they subsidized higher ed, tuition was set mostly by fiat. Second, they stopped handling student loans, allowed banks to raise interest rates, excluded student loans from bankruptcy, moving all the risks of lending onto the borrower.

Said another way, we used to treat education as a public good and mostly paid for it. Now its a racket for Wall St to bind students in usury.

There are so many other examples in our society. Privatizing prisons. The school to prison pipeline. Privatizing water. War profiteering.

It's just goofball Reaganomics run amok, aka Freedom Markets (tm).
The amount of context required here is crazy. There is communication context (am I saying that to somebody in the room, in the neighbourhood, or somebody I am going to visit next week in a different town), as well as knowledge of locality (there are 4 cinemas within easy walking distance of me, so motorised transport won't figure high on my list), and of historic relations (do we actually usually go to different showings and compare notes afterwards, will we share a movie and then head home, is there a bar next door to the cinema we usually end up in, do we usually turn up at the cinema find nothing worth watching and go bowling instead).

For the minute I think NLP systems are best off politely declining and staying home to troll Twitter
What does the CTO have to do with sales and marketing?
Though the current release is more than a year old, the development branch is active: https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml
Yes, but if the data of when the app was last opened is needed to make more network calls, or to just show the user something in general, you're looking at a network call with round trip latency and a success rate <100%, vs. a device call that takes <1ms and succeeds every time.