skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of long distance through-hikers on the Appalachian Trail here in the Eastern US use hammocks instead of tents. They're gotten a lot more popular due to the "lightweight" craze in backpacking (trying to shave every ounce off your full pack weight) and set up/break down a lot faster.
>The difference is that the BTC being sold were stolen.

First up, who stole the bitcoins from whom?

Second, why allow trades that you know that you won't honour and will instead want to roll back?

Third, rarely the bank loses, why do they get a do-over just because they lost at playing at forex?
I like to imagine your imagination; like what you imagine the dollars in your bank account to be.
I see a real danger of people using false flag attacks to get those they don't like in serious trouble.

They can for example use victim's computer to scan and DoS .mil domains and download a random sampling of copyrighted material from various torrents.
There have always been third-party Apple-centric stores. SmallDog in VT, TekServe in NYC -- they still exist. Could it have just been an Apple authorized retailer?

Before Apple stores, you could go to CompUSA, and there was an Apple section staffed with Apple employees -- they even existed before the Apple stores became more ubiquitous.
At the time, we were talking about developing all sorts of agents. Things that would shop for you. Things that would find parts for you. Thinks that would remember what web sites you visited, and let you search them. Things that would track where in a long set of pages you were (blog, comic, etc.), and let you keep reading from there.

The drive toward semantic markup in HTML5 is supposed to help the web get back to those original ideals. Over time, we'll increasingly expect web developers to conform to a subset of possible HTML arrangements, much like book publishers conform to a subset of the possible random arrangements and orientations of letters on a page (odd poetry excepted).
> There is no magic free Android tablet tree – the economics are completely different.

There's not the same "magic free Android tree" - but there are some analogous patterns. With Android the carriers needed Android to succeed. So they made it succeed. No carriers for tablets (well, that's not quite true, but as an approximation). So who needs Android tablets to succeed? Well, every major hardware vendor and every major retail outlet. The hardware manufacturers are obvious - without a counterpoint to iOS they are screwed in potentially a huge strategic category. But even retail outlets need this. Some of them are lucky enough to be allowed to resell Apple equipment - but they know they are at Apple's mercy. After the warm glow of selling some iPads wears off they will know that they have to foster an alternative or have Apple dictate terms to them and take their margin and eventually even screw them by establishing Apple stores nearby. But that's not even talking about retailers not privileged to sell Apple gear. Those guys are absolutely going to stock Android tablets and advertise and market them heavily.

So we may not see "free" tablets but we absolutely are going to see the same vacuum effect that caused a giant glut of Android phones to hit the market and the same "coalition" of interests rises to compete with the iPad and create publicity, awareness, brand image, and they will eventually compete heavily on price and features - things consumers will respond to.
"Intellectual black holes" help a lot of people, in that it gives them a sense of purpose, security, etc. Religion is comforting to those grieving death.

However, the danger comes when intellectual black holes are propagated within society and thus accepted as truth, resulting in arbitrary notions of whats right and wrong.
The community that for months has been preaching the virtues of the currency nobody can control is suddenly arguing that a middleman should roll back a bunch of free-market transactions.

I decided a while ago that arguing against the "bitcoin has no problems" crowd was futile: people are too enamored with the idea to see problems like this until they happen.
Unless it was the BTC mtgox directly own, that would mean that the BTC you upload aren't the ones that are transferred when you trade (remember BTC are unique). Although I haven't used MtGox, I was pretty sure that it is the case that BTC you upload are the ones that are transferred.
Better yet, basic unit tests that verify passed and failed authentication of test accounts. They should run before and after each code deploy (among other unit tests).

It's very disconcerting that they don't seem to be doing this.
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What, is this not how we've been using design patterns all along? I always used these patterns to simplify the explanation of how the architecture should or could work. I've never referred to some master cheat sheet of patterns I can copy and paste into my source code to save time, you generally need to custom fit your solutions to the problem at hand.
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As a proof of concept he could have withdrawn 0.01 BitCoin, no need to max out on MtGox limits.

He writes he was aware that probably the hack is causing this and decided to take advantage of it.

He should give the BitCoin back to MtGox, who would then proceed to roll back the transactions. Simple as that.
There's nothing that speeds up a website like well-spent unicorn dollars.
Unit tests are a good thing, but could miss problems that crop up only in production; for instance, if they delegated authentication to another server, or if something got deployed out-of-process.
This reaffirms my wanting to buy a house boat and live on it.
> If a drug dealer steels a kilo from another drug dealer he's not going to take it to the courts.

As you can imagine, courts do not uphold contracts where there is an unlawful objective ("I paid him to beat my boss and he didn't!") and in most jurisdictions you cannot obtain property rights in certain things (in others you can, but asking for enforcement exposes you to criminal prosecution so in practice it doesn't happen).

Bitcoin is not a prohibited item and the exchange of bitcoins looks very much like contracts that don't have a unlawful objective.

Put another way: courts would probably enforce rights for trades made on Mt Gox, but not on Silk Road.

(IANAL, TINLA)
From their FAQ: https://www.dropbox.com/help/27

"We have strict policy and technical access controls that
prohibit employee access except in these rare circumstances."

Perhaps they accidentally published an internal version of their authentication code which allows a Dropbox employee to view files for any account?
If you put aside anti-virus stuff and Microsoft Adobe's flagship products (namely Office and PS), you'll see all games on paid PC software chart too, if there was a chart. * In consumer space.
I have a hard time believing 100ms is a serious issue unless the page is already over 1 second to be in a "ready" state.

I think the rarely discussed "time to first render" (for lack of a better word in my head - NOT domcontentloaded) is critical and part of that is the penalty for DNS cache miss which can already be up to 400ms in some cases.

Basically when people click, they want the browser to "do something already".

If you want easy ways to make your page to feel faster then stop loading javascript by default and do it after the page is loaded and don't load images below the fold by default - do all that in the background afterward.

All the CDN in the world won't help you if you have 10+ external javascripts, multiple stylesheets, and dozens of images loading on the page.
They're cynically acting as vultures, taking taxi business and eroding the leverage the taxi drivers get by striking. They know what they're doing. Hopefully it backfires on them.
Another question: what happens if somebody steals my Porsche and sells it to somebody else, but I still have a set of car keys. One day I notice my Porsche parked on the curb, use my keys to enter it and drive away? Is it then a Schrödinger-Porsche that belongs to both me and the person who bought it off the thief?

What if I never even noticed it was stolen?

In fact, as the thief, why even bother with stealing? Why not just sell, say, houses on ebay that don't belong to me?
Unfortunately, the problem with your question is that it assumes that the purpose of prison is rehabilitation.
I don't like to be pedantic but code that tests multiple components and how they interact together aren't really "unit tests" anymore since they are testing more than one unit - it's pretty reasonable to assume that an authentication system is comprised of many modules / classes / etc.
And if they're hackers, then well, they're skilled free labor.
This is partially why it can be frustrating to work with someone who isn't as good as you are. Things that come easily to you doesn't for others. You sometimes have to remind yourself that things that you consider obvious is only obvious for you.
I know a lot of people might read this first and skip it, like I almost did, so I want to mention that it actually worked pretty well for me. There are some shortcuts but nothing to move around to next row, next file, next column, etc. I plan to leave it running on a Space anyway and see if it turns out useful. I think that the larger the monitor, the bigger improvement over Finder. It would be fantastic for a touchscreen.
I thought 4sq is an East Coast thing...

Seriously, I really would like to know how many active users are on 4sq. Is there any data about it?
Somewhat disconcerting that I am a Dropbox customer, yet neither the breach nor the explanation has been communicated to me by email; I've had to find out about it by reading HN.
The journal article indicates that the rocked subjects went from a waking state to deeper states of sleep quicker than than those non-rocked... So that should yield a time savings.
I seem to recall reading that Ubuntu changed its browser policy on LTS releases to upgrade to the next stable version of Firefox when Mozilla stops releasing security updates for the version used by the LTS release.

This is the best reference I could find with a 30-second search (non-authoritative): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1551527
I wish they went into why they fired Peter. It seemed like a passing thought in the article. What was he doing wrong? Seems like Bill was equally at fault...
Interesting. I've been using ddg for several months now, and haven't quite experienced my search results as being "less relevant" or "harder to find things" in comparison to Google or Yahoo!.

Ironically, I do use the ddg bang (!) operators quite often. ...like !gm or !gi if I know I want a map or image (for example)
HOW TO: Create a Geovisualisation Web App with Local Tweets 
The first step was to collect the local tweets during the day of the royal wedding by using Twitter’s Search API and geocodes. Geocodes include the latitude and longitude of a location. The geocode used for the royal wedding was “geocode=51.502652,-0.131493,0.7mi”, which returns tweets located within a 0.7 mile radius from where the royal wedding happened. Over the course of the day, 4000+ local tweets were captured. The visualisation timeline was narrowed down into a 12 hour period, resulting in almost 3000 tweets between the hours of 8am and 8pm.
Not everyone's transactions were rolled back by the NYSE, but there were some people that had bought shares for 0.01 that did get rolled back.
Most of their technology is in location. Such as the piece that listens to your microphone and can identify the specific location you're in better than GPS does.

They just need to find a "disease vector" (photosharing? music sharing? sexting?) to get people to use their location technology and make themselves available for tracking and advertising.
If you're trying to make a serious argument that Mobile Safari is slow and incompatible, I suggest you actually use an iPad first.
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Some would say that one world inhabited solely by cars is a film so far the lunatic fringe leftist anti-oil propaganda machine But if you re like me and have been a bumper on the Garden State Parkway for two hours because a man made hazards and shot in the shoulder causing seven miles back
SO if I understand this correctly, by buying the coins at ridiculously low prices and the fact that in the post he said it was weird and he tried to take advantage of it. Would he not completely fail the test?
Give me 1,000 and three months, I'll give you back 995 :-).
Uh, look at something like "bearer bonds".

You are assuming bitcoins are like a negotiable instrument.
They aren't, they are much closer to bearer bonds. Whoever holds the wallet owns the bitcoins. There is no other recorded title.
Xperia Duo maybe First Sony Ericsson Dual-core Android phone
A new Android smartphone called Xperia Duo is being prepared and would be the first dual-core Android phone of the Sony Ericsson company.
It could be, but it isn't, which is part of what's so interesting about it.

(And that's leaving aside the more fundamental point that the very definition of a Gömböc isn't applicable in the physical world, where objects do not have precisely defined edges and cannot be completely homogenous).
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And it depends on the effect of the black hole, as you say. If my neighbor believes in flying saucers, hey no skin off my nose. But when enough of my neighbors believe it that they affect space policy, or my even just that one neighbor starts up a floodlight at night as a signal beacon and thus I can't sleep, now we have issues.
On-the-fly disk volume encryption with plausible deniability
No, I think they're doing the right thing here. A firm hand on the backs of people who would otherwise never upgrade, not a punch in the face. Frankly, I'd be willing to bet there are plenty of people in Redmond that secretly approve this move. Microsoft has to play the role of stabilizer for their enterprise customers (so therefore updates are optional), but I'm certain that they wish their home users could play with the "new fast native Internet."
Nice down vote. I'm serious how impressive is a 35$ tablet? The core component cost on a lot of the technology we use is fairly low most of the expense is in R&D and advertising. Things like 64gb flash drives and so forth can be priced out in bulk for around 12-13 dollars a unit.
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They're a "system" company. They sell you a system (software and hardware).
Why would anyone keep $8,000,000 USD in an account where you can only (according to the operator's "rules") withdraw $1000 USD a day?

It would take 21.9 years to withdraw the full amount of that account.
What's new about this? I think I'm missing something for this submission.
1. I'd expect that a cheap Porsche minus keys would not be seen as "without notice".

If you had multiple sets of keys and some were stolen, then by repossessing the you are potentially a thief if the intermediate buyer was bona fide.

2. Whether or not you noticed is irrelevant, the crime was committed and the Crown or the People will take an interest.

3. Selling things that you neither possess nor own is fraud.

(IANAL, TINLA)
The danger is real. Also don't forget to download some child pornography [0]!

[0] http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-25-wifi-warning.ht...
I'm thinking of doing some bitcoin trading myself. It's like finding a free herd of sheep; eating them would be naughty and possibly illegal, but I'm seeing good opportunities in fleecing them and selling woolly sweaters to keep out the chill.
Since when are temperature increases measured in %?

Comparing with this other article, it seems are taking figures in °Fahrenheit and dividing them.

http://hosted2.ap.org/COGRA/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba38a9ef22...

I.e. 300 °F / 200 °F = 150%, and 356 °F / 200 °F = 178%.
The intersection of "things I thought were obvious at one point in time" and "things I currently think are wrong" is a rather large set. It's hard for me to claim I "understood" those thing I now think I was wrong about.
And now that it's obvious to you, it's suddenly really hard to explain to someone else.

My friend was TAing a freshman calculus class in college while working on his PhD. He clearly remembers that his (and everyone's) biggest problem with calculus was limits. Hands-down, limits were the most frustrating and un-intuitive part of the class. So he sat down to try to figure out a good, intuitive explanation of limits that would help his students avoid the frustration that he had.

He immediately ran into the problem that they weren't hard to understand. They were clear and intuitive. He could not for the life of him remember why he thought they were difficult when he was first learning them. He asked me for help, and I had the same response. I remember clearly banging my head against them and screaming in rage and frustration at those goddamn limits. But I look at them now, and I can't figure out how I could fail to understand something so obvious.

And thus, the cycle of pain continues, with limits remaining the eternal bane of freshman calculus students.
It depends on the width of your window. This is a quite common bug that only shows up when the browser window is too narrow. Since their website is incredibly wide (it doesn’t even fit on my 1440px wide screen) it probably shows up for quite a lot of users.

My browser window is usually 700px or so wide which is why I encounter that particular bug all the time – especially on otherwise quite nicely designed websites. It absolutely breaks the website and sometimes makes it unreadable (try resizing the window and see what happens), forcing me to resize my browser window. Why don’t web designers like people like me who like to see more than one browser window at a time?
This reminds me of a story from Feynman where he was with a math friend and they were trying to multi-task. Yet, they ended up going about the two things (counting for a minute while reading or speaking) in completely different ways. (Different enough that one could only count and talk while the other could only count and read.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y&feature=playe...
You sound like you were born in the 90s. It was believed that communists were the bogeyman for a while.
Sure. But here's the thing: people don't usually forgive things like this. People heard about an issue that potentially affected their accounts through the media before they heard it from Dropbox - that's the disappointing bit.

On top of not letting something like this happen (where were their tests?), they should be diligent in talking about something like this immediately so that people know they're not being lied to, ever, and that they can trust the service with their data. By not doing so, we have to wonder about how many other bugs do we not know/hear about that might affect our accounts too?
I don't think there's anything new, but it's a fantastic product.
Ask HN: Taking a sabbatical to somewhere in Asia. How can I make the most of it?
Hi, I'm a 23 year old recent graduate and I posted this last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649888). After a combination of burnout and reading the encouraging comments, I've made the definite decision to head to somewhere in Asia for 3 months starting August (considering Thailand, Indonesia or Singapore) and budgeting around $3000-$5000 towards it. During that time, I plan to do some photography, re-learn front-end development, learn the local language and try out mediation and yoga.

For those who've done something similar:

- What were things you took into account / took care of before making the move?

- What else would you do besides what I listed to make the most of the time-off?

- For those in the region, any tips on how to make the most of what I've budgeted?

- What can I do while I'm away to prepare the best for when I get back?

I've never done anything like this before, and right now, I'm feeling what can only be described as a combination of extreme excitement and nervousness. Appreciate any recommendations and insights, particularly from frequent and long-time travelers. Thanks!
I wonder how this could slow down the internet. As we know, to reach a website, we need to translate the name and find the IP address. But, the DNS is organized in a hierarchy way, that the top level domains are well listed.

If we allow the new names, how could we make a Domain Name Server to reach all over the world? And if we make one that is exclusive for the new domains, and we put in the US, the connection in chine will be as low as if they dont have a domains server at all.

My question is, do they ( ICANN) is taking the technical issues? If yes, how do they deal with it?
I'm surprised to see he posts private logs in public.
I don't like how they basically squeeze around your body, wrapping you all up. It's hard to turn around or even just to the side.

I guess the article was more about the 4 second rocking motion, though, which sounds delightful just from description.
You're right, but notice that adopting a CDN was the last thing on the Yahoo list they'd left undone.

That list includes reducing the number of file loads, paying attention to DNS overhead and so on.

From this I deduce that SO has already taken your advice.
"A dozen adult research subjects" :(
> It has a border and a few buttons. What is every non-Apple tablet? The exact same thing. In terms of other hardware, tablets are far less varied than PCs

> Microsoft and Google don't have to tailor their operating systems to varied hardware -- in terms of interface, all tablets are the same.

This seems to be the logic so often applied to Apple.

1) Assume only Apple endorsed features are important

2) Disregard all non-Apple endorsed features on competitors

3) Declare all competitors are just inferior copies of Apple devices

The reality is that there are extremely useful features on the non-Apple tablets. While it certainly remains to be seen how much consumer interest they get, it's very premature to write them off. I especially think that Google has a great chance to differentiate with its online services - more so than on the phone.
They're supporting the drivers, not the medallion owners, who are the ones renting the cabs to drivers 6 days a week at an outrageous markup and preventing the city issuing any new medallions. The average taxi driver, who does not own a medallion, gets screwed by the current arrangement and would be far better off working for Uber IMO.
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In addition to what jacques_chester has said, never forget the law is adjudicated by humans, not computers. If a judge thinks you've found a "loophole" there's no guarantee he's going to take that too kindly to that line of argument. Yes, we've all heard stories about loopholes that worked, but for every one that did there were a great deal more that did not.
I think this has to do with the structure of the brain. When you are learning something new, the brain is creating new routes and making new connections. It can even creates new neurons (something known as neuro-plasticity).

My guess is that when you finally understood the subject, your brain has completed the route for that particular problem. It's now clear how to solve the problem for the brain, since a specific route exists. It's obvious and very easy for the brain to do that with the route shortcut.

For you, the problem becomes obvious and simple. It's no longer complicated and requires less brain-processing-power to solve. You think you were stupid you didn't figure out that from the beginning, but you are not!
That's what makes guys like Sal Khan special. And why his videos are so valuable.

Sal's "Introduction to Limits": http://www.khanacademy.org/video/introduction-to-limits