skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Need a way to hide videos."

Agreed, but even better would be a way to limit users to a certain folder or screen. I keep all the kid-friendly apps on one screen, but inevitably they go exploring. I'm always worried that they'll send gobbledygook to an email, or a status update on twitter or facebook. It'd be great to separate these apps.

For that matter, it's too easy to swipe to another screen. My youngest finds the app he wants, but he'll try 4-5 times to click the icon, and end up partially swiping to another screen.

It's also too easy to go into edit mode. My oldest has figured ou that when it goes all wiggly, to press the home button, but my youngest just gets frustrated that he can't start a wiggling app.
$80-120k based on the salary of numerous people I know and work with here. Why? High cost of living, competition and market demand I suppose.
I was skeptical of this, such low wages for a potentially dangerous job. I found this (in Japanese):

http://job.j-sen.jp/hellowork/job_3373229/

Indeed it seems not far from the what the article says. It's around 1100 to 1400 yen per hour (around U$14~17/h). It's for general unskilled labor and has no education or skills requirements. Above average pay for the countryside, but still seems low if the job can expose you to above average levels radiation even in normal conditions (the ad was published before the disaster).
This could turn into a fantastic recycling program!
There sure seems to be a ton of bitcoin articles that show up on HN, with many of the same usual subjects showing up to comment as soon as they're posted. I know you guys want to drum up as much interest as possible in bitcoin for the obvious reasons, but it comes across a bit spammy/scammy at least to me.

Who's going to answer HNers' questions and criticism?

Besides, if you really want people to set up shop trading things of actual value for BTC you're going to need to get the bullish forces under control so that you don't have this runaway strength in the currency. Promoting it so heavily looking for those slashdot type bumps in the value makes the community come across as just a bunch of greater fool theory speculators.

Maybe Bitcoin is just a very viral idea. Bitcoin prices functuate and they don't alway goes straight up, so it's not always bullish. Corrections are part of the natural part of the market.
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"Wrt to videos, left to own devices, the toddler will often just watch videos, and I'd rather them interact with the apps when it is not video time. When the icon is not there/found, that works fine.
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Ok, thanks. I haven't had videos loaded on the iPad, so this hasn't come up during my field testing.

Maybe there's a niche to make toddler videos? Actually, I think there is something much more subtle and fundamental going on here that I will need to think about. When they are driving the app, the toddler is very 'switched on' and they want everything to be clickable and interactable... yet according to what you're saying they switch over into a totally passive mode when watching videos. Fascinating, but begs the question "now that I know that, what do I do?" :D
I find this a very interesting discussion.

Back in the days I used to live in quite a politically volatile area in a developing nation while trying to get myself an education. It is the kind of place where it is not uncommon to be knifed/hacked/soundly beaten in a public place in broad daylight for being on the wrong end of the political spectrum or even just for being bothersome.

It was eye opening for the young and somewhat naive me that very very few people were willing to interfere in this. Even to the point of not calling the police or an ambulance while someone slowly bleeds down.

I have had discussions with people on this topic. Every time the response was exactly the same as yours. Also everyone believed that nothing could be done about it. It was socially accepted that this sort of thing happen and all you can do is to keep your head down and go about your own business. People survived by holding the magical belief that whatever was happening to their fellow citizens won't happen to them .. Somehow ..

Irrespective of what we were always told (i.e. That the incredible apathy was the result of a lack of education and an issue endemic to poor third world nations), it appears that the attitude is not as uncommon as it was made out to be.
How is remembering the pass-sentences different from remembering passwords?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTioaRXiSps&feature=relat...

The fact that we crushed Al Qaeda in the opening years of the war doesn't diminish the threat that existed at the time. The Treasury Department essentially rewrote the rules of international finance in a matter of months, devastating their financing, and the followup in Afghanistan crippled them.

This hasn't been a "war", it's been a War.

The biggest problem is that we haven't gone far enough yet- security theater in the airports instead of Israeli-style real security. No screening of cargo containers. Virtually all American cities lack plans for how to deal with nuclear terrorism.
I'm confused. Can I get a real-world example out of this?
The complex calculations are used for something. They are used to create a peer-to-peer digital notary service that is very hard for an attacker to defeat. The proof of work is essential to prevent fraud.

Early in bitcoin's life the "miners" (people who contribute CPU time to keep the system secure) are paid using monetary inflation (currently 50 bitcoin per solved block). After some time they will be paid by small transaction fees instead and the inflation will stop.

Do not think of bitcoin in terms of CPU time creating money.
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but Australian Customs and Border Protection agents harass people too, specifically taking business documents, mobile phones, USB drive contents, demanding passwords where there is no legislated power to do so, not keeping records/track of the items seized: http://www.ombudsman.gov.au/files/customs_admin_of_coercive_...
I reworded it to say comes from humans.

Which actually clears things up:

Honey comes from flowers.
Honey is made by bees.

Flour is made by millers.
Flour comes from wheat.

Seems reasonable to me.
$300 worth of Made-to-measure shirts from the UK is about one shirt.
The timeframe for these internships is rolling. I'm sure most of the startups would accept an intern tomorrow, but will wait for the summer as well.
Seen on HN circa late 2013:

Yoctoblogging poised to disrupt Microfacegle (techcrunch.com)
Name: Teens in Tech Labs
Size: 4
URL: www.teensintech.com
Position: Intern (Dev & Business)
Email: daniel at teensintech.com
Skills: Dev (HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript)
I like how none of the comments actually have anything to do with the post, however at the time of this writing it's up to 113 points. I understand that links to the original discussion were posted, however if you're aware of those, why are you upvoting _this_ thread? Does anyone actually peruse the content they're upvoting these days?

I thought the author did good job collecting these algorithms, and certainly can't be faulted for releasing it for free. Now as the style/usefulness/code quality goes... I feel less warm and fuzzy. I'll definitely keep this book lying around and have enjoyed reading through it from time to time, but calling it a 'book' proper seems a bit of a stretch, to me.

Once again... thanks author. Great reference, and etc... just .... y'kno.
almost every HNer has submitted this at least once- including myself! Well done
I haven't heard a decent argument on how Wikileaks isn't a terrorist organization, and why the principal members aren't enemy combatants.

The scattershot releases show that the goal is to hurt the US, not to affect change. There was real legitimate news in the releases so far- hidden in mounds of classified information that had no news value beyond exposing sources, risking lives, and slinging mud at the State Department.

There's HUGE value in an organization like Wikileaks, as shown in Tunisia.

Wikileaks itself, though, has shown that it is blatantly anti-American, risking the lives of our allies and sources. I really, really hope that one of the splinter groups takes off, with a bit more respect for the human cost of these kind of releases.
Argument by Anecdote. Fail.
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here are some of my favorites:

http://diveintohtml5.org

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a simple project I did over the weekend. Nothing fancy.

Thanks to Anton Brand for a cool nerd caricature :)

Oh! One amazing thing I learnt during this project is that .info domains cost only like 2 bucks! :) -- thats incredible cheap for a regular web exposure :)

ps. if you like the idea, please submit it to your favorite social website.
I took a quick look through the mocks and my gut tells me it's a little too ambitious for a first version. Focus on one problem real people have that other social platforms don't solve well, and do it well. Cloning facebook's featureset does not a social network make.
I never claimed nothing could be done about it, or that people who aren't willing to stand up to injustice are deluded. I said that oftentimes, for those who are not committed to a given cause, there are things they care more about that standing up for that cause would imperil.

I don't advocate doing nothing in the face of injustice, but neither do I condemn those who are unwilling to risk their families and careers over causes they aren't wed to. Morality isn't binary, and so we can applaud those with the courage and conviction to suffer for a cause, without condemning those who lack such dedication.
I would suggest Racket, but that clashes with the renamed PLT Scheme project.
Because they tried to make it confidential. I think it is a cultural problem, and the US gov is not the only culprit.
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It's not a first version, I've been developing this for a few years now, there's around 50 sites running the software, and our beta site has around 600 users.

It's probably still too ambitious, though, but that's why it's fun. :)
It's fascinating, in an aggravating kind of way. It's a particularly virulent sort of meme -- one that you spread because the meme basically says "spread this meme and you'll get rewards!"

And unlike a religion, there actually are genuine rewards. If you play it just right, then sometime before everybody loses interest in the game (around about the time people start saying things like "If you mention bitcoins one more time I will shove a very large economics textbook up your ass") you might make a few dollars.

Economic bubbles and religions have another thing in common, too -- I'm only interested in playing if I'm starting it myself.
However, this IS a master password only with a salted hash added on top. From the FAQ it uses a phrase like "Tubby loves tacos!facebook" runs it through SHA1 and spits out Facebook's password. Someone who shoulder surfs your keyphrase can now use this technique to generate passwords for any site, whereas using something like Password Safe or the various other password storage methods would need to both shoulder surf your master password as well as obtain your encrypted password file.
You can spend hours upon weeks upon years talking about it.

Yes, kiba, you can. We've noticed.
Here's a different take on "Israeli-style" security: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1909154

Nuclear terrorism is not a realistic scenario, if only because it's much easier and much more terrorific to have a bunch of quadrotors dropping poison-tipped darts on a city.
Oh hooray, now I can pay ten cents a pop for what I used to hate getting for free!
While working on a sinatra app recently, I noticed
that sinatra has no rails equivalent to rails console.

racksh (Rack::Shell) is a console for Rack based ruby web applications. From the README at https://github.com/sickill/racksh :

"It's like script/console in Rails or merb -i in Merb, but for any app built on Rack. You can use it to load application environment for Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Camping, Ramaze or your own framework provided there is config.ru file in app's root directory /.../ It loads whole application environment like Rack web server, but instead of running the app it starts irb session. Additionally it exposes $rack variable which allows you to make simulated HTTP requests to your app.".
Noted. Consider my point undermined.
"I haven't heard a decent argument on how Wikileaks isn't a terrorist organization"

That's not how the justice system works.

"Wikileaks itself, though, has shown that it is blatantly anti-American"

So fucking what?
> I saw (for instance) one toddler who could spend hours making the angry birds fly the wrong way.

My two-year-old does the same thing. He loves the sounds the birds make, but he gets very upset when the pigs "fall down," so he'll throw the all of the birds the wrong way, go back to the main screen, choose the next level (that I've already unlocked), and fling all of those birds the wrong way too.

Rovio should come out with a toddler-focused game that just lets the user fling an unlimited number of birds into random targets. I'd buy it.
More of a problem: the edge of the observable universe is simply the edge beyond which light hasn't yet reached us. If the universe is flat and infinite (as it currently appears to be) then in a universe with an infinite speed of light there would be no edge to the observable universe. We would see everything, and the whole night sky would shine like the sun. This would seem to be a hindrance.

edit: On the other hand if the universe just wraps around, then... actually I'm not sure what happens, but I guess every ray of light emitted from a star gets absorbed by something, which would still make the Earth (if planets could even exist) far too hot.
My two-year-old asks every day to play Angry Birds. He's terrible at it (in the traditional sense), but he spends lots of time flinging the birds off in the wrong direction.
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Generally speaking, it's easier to remember a sentence that makes sense to you than an arcane sequence of letters, numbers, and symbols.

You can even this up, of course, with mnemonics and such, but a sentence like "I have got to get me one of THESE!" has less "mental entropy" than "aem1eePe{a".
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BTW - I dont mean to take away from Appleseed or what you're doing - but I just have a gut reaction against all things facebook. I have never had an account and never will and I have a very dystopian view of what that service really is.

See my post here on the subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429993

I believe in social networks, their value and need - but the current execution in the area is clearly leading us down a dark digital path.

I recall when appleseed was first announced, Ill need to look at it again...
the encryption used to store passwords is rarely the problem, the strength of passwords and users remembering them is.
I am under the impression that public libraries in the US will often place signs in their windows saying something to the effect of "The FBI have NOT yet visited us". When they get served with a warrant and a gag order, they simply remove the sign (but are unable to actually mention anything).
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I've often thought that for the exceptionally bright but really technical hands on programmer that some of these startup incubator or shared workspace environments might be the ideal place to work.

The problem is that at any one company there aren't enough challenges to keep you interested, you're the heavy hitter, the impact player. You can come on the field, and in 15 minutes score more goals than everyone else put together, but then you get bored and need to go off and do something else. I think there is an analogy to science - there is the big glamourous science with its breakthroughs, and then there is the 'janitorial' science of the guys who coem along behind and tidy everything up.

The problem with trying to create a 'floating' programmer type position is how do you compensate them? But that will come back to a much more fundamental (and unsolved) problem, how do you measure the input of programmers.

Additionally, if we buy into some of the recent discussion about personality types and programming, it may be that the best impact players are the manic/depressive types. They might come in to the shared workspace for two weeks and flit from company to company solving an amazing quantity of problems... and then they go and hide under their bed for four weeks and you don't see them again for a month. Someone's got to keep the momentum going in that time (so we can't all be impact players).

Additionally, thinking back to the times that I've been the guy to walk into the room, take a quick glance at the other programmers source code and say "there's your problem" and then ride off into the sunset, you really need to have some kind of base level of understanding of what they're trying to do.

For me I think I also have 'language snobbery' issues. I'm not going to want to help some 20 year old MBAs put some scammy B2B together by coercing two fundemantally different PHP frameworks to talk to each other (and even if I did the compensation would be even more of an issue, because they'd never believe just how difficult it is).

So it'll probably always be a pipe-dream for me...
I think the idea is that you remember a pass phrase, and the encryption type...at which point the program spits out a large hash string. The hash string gets used as your password wherever you need it, but all you need to remember is the pass phrase.
This makes me sad. I feel like the author is a smart guy who should probably be finding something better to do with his time than to write Harry Potter fan fiction.
I'm aware of racksh but it's not sinatra-specific. It has no knowledge of a sinatra app and thus can't give you sinatra-specific goodies that tux does: metrics for your sinatra app (routes + settings) and commandline interaction with your helpers and view rendering
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Clearly, you didn't read what I wrote.

If you're going to debate an issue, at least do the courtesy of considering the comment you're replying to.
second deadlist in the natural world, not overall.

a person who was poisoned had an opportunity to figure 'oh i dont feel well', went to a hospital, made it to the hospital, and survived

the real deadly biological systems don't even give you a chance to ask if that is a missile coming over the hill
> I haven't heard a decent argument on how Wikileaks isn't a terrorist organization, and why the principal members aren't enemy combatants.

Terrorism involves violence or, at least, the threat of violence.
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There were some threads on this several months ago, but I think the state of SSD cost/technology has changed significantly since then, so I figured I'd ask the question again.

I'm thinking of purchasing a new 15" MBP (2.2 GHz), and upgrading it to a 256 GB SSD. Apple charges $500 for the upgrade, and the cheapest I found on Newegg was still $450. Is it worth it to do the upgrade? Will I get significant performance gains over an HDD? Does the fact that SSDs have a limited number of reads/writes have a significant effect in real-world use? If so, what optimizations can I do to minimize the effect that they have?
And Sinatra is the name of a musician!
Yeah. Tell that to my kids who are learning Algebra from Sal, and are learning it quite well.
People who operate against society always get screwed. That's the cost they take on by operating against society. They have the right to work against society- but that doesn't mean that they aren't watched, closely. KKK and neo-Nazis have the right to say whatever they want, but life is made difficult for them, and the ATF watches the shit out of them.

In the same way, when someone participates in an organization that's going out of its way to acquire and distribute classified stuff, regardless of news value, but rather simply because it's there, I'd hope that our government would make life hard on them.

Wikileaks is not engaging in journalism- it's engaging in infowar against America. That's not legally defined yet, and the legal ramifications have not been decided yet- but I hope that it is defined, and there are severe legal ramifications for it.
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Fear mongering much?
It probably exists in a practical sense after the copyright on Harry Potter expires and before the copyright on the fanfiction hasn't.
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I really think that incorporating the +1 button into their actual rankings would cause Google more grief than it is worth.

It would be like a built-in spamming vector for any less-than-legitimate site out there.
I not sure if the lessons there are applicable either. There are a ton of differences. For one thing the coupons 'value' was fixed to an amount of work and they were not divisible.

Also don't miss the sidebar at the end of that article. I was firmly in the "inflation is always bad" camp until I started thinking about it a bit. Inflation is definitely an incentive not to hoard the currency. It causes money to flow back into the economy. Now I'm not sure where I stand on the issue other than I know that I don't understand it enough.

Suppose a Buffet-like successful person was able to hoard up 10% of bitcoin. This money is effectively out of circulation because he's a scrooge that will never spend it. Because bitcoin is divisible, it doesn't really matter much and the price reflects the amount in circulation. Then let's say he died and passed it onto his kids who were irresponsible and spent it all in 3 years. The amount in circulation would be increased by a huge amount (assuming that most people have some savings) relative to the amount in circulation before. The liquidity of the bitcoin would change significantly but the underlying value of it doesn't. I believe that's what you were talking about with monetary deflation and price deflation, no?

Based on that, it means I would expect the price of bitcoin to fluctuate quite wildly. Then again, I guess gold has the same problem.
If I'm a cat owner and a Cowboy Bebop fan, would I have two profiles? Would I choose one site to "own" my profile?

In this Ning-like scenario, what's the value of the distributed protocol you spent so much time on?
"it's engaging in infowar against America. That's not legally defined yet"

So what you're saying is that you're a fuckwad who's just making shit up?

"Wikileaks is not engaging in journalism"

In Your Opinion. There is a reason they haven't brought the law down on them, and have to resort to Mafia like tactics.
It's a much smaller risk to the side with money. If you didn't have that much money to begin with, you may not even be able to afford defense, or you have to rack up huge lawyer bills for an uncertain outcome. And in the case of companies you can't even represent yourself, you have to have a lawyer. Also, awarding costs may or may not happen and is separate from the outcome of the case. So it might discourage _some_ abuse, but not much.
That was very helpful! Thanks Dino!
Wait, who do you have that it's only ten cents?
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