skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google.

So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me off too much. Hence, Firefox. It does not annoy me (much). That is all I ask from good software.

Also, Firefox syncing is quite amazing.

Divorcing myself from Google is still in progress though, with maps and calendar being the last holdouts.
"cost of replacing all the card reader infrastructure"

I'm not sure how many PoS are already equipped to deal with chip cards. In the USA/Canada it's hit or miss (most misses), and in Europe it was the standard 10 years ago (but most readers take swipe cards).

Replacing cards is cheap and they can be replaced as they expire

What would be the upgrade cost for each PoS? $100? Some systems are more integrated than others (like card reader integrated with the register as one device) so this may cost more.

Or maybe it's just a matter of issuing the cards to justify the stores to upgrade.
My old account, with 2150 karma, is useless. So I made a new one.
Flagging submissions had been disabled. So had downvoting comments.

After 710 days, I'm starting over.
The fact that you're setting up DHH as a foil to Linus is exactly why the old men are cranky; when it comes to technology, Linus has more qualifications in his pinky than DHH has all put together.
One challenge of getting rid of spam this way is that spam sites are both big and small.

blekko essentially already curates the top 10,000 websites for spam and terrible content. That's not good enough to get rid of marginal content at an overall acceptable website.

I suspect this technique is most useful for finding niche stuff.
Not really seeing why Gruber thinks Win8 "contracts" are "richer" than Android's intents/content providers. They're pretty much identical (though "contracts" has a much clearer name).
Renewable energy themed 2d platformer wins lebanese imagine-cup
Does this figure include people wiring money to themselves?
Sure they make sense if you have it in front of you and want to know what they do. They stop making sense when you want to write them - why do you have to have different way to deal with each type of an object. Either stick to -d/-D convention, or rm/rm --force, or delete/delete --force, or something else... just don't mix up calling conventions just because you operate on a different kind of object. Same goes for listing things, renaming, etc.

My point was about inconsistencies rather than not being able to figure out which command did what.
I hate the economic nonsense as much as you do, but let's not go abusing the word "theft" like the RIAA does.
I haven't thought of the specifics, but I think I'd prefer accessing that from the multitasking view or the pull-down notifications. That way I'm not as interrupted from using my app.
There are some very solid reasons for all the banking regulation, and we're seeing them played out here. People are treating these places like banks, storing hundreds of thousands of dollars with them, but they have none of the regulations, security requirements or insurance and so they are great easy prey for hackers and people keep getting robbed blind.

I hate to say it but what did people expect treating Joe Website like a bank, and this is also what the deregulation camp can expect to happen if they keep pushing for bank and market deregulation.
Oh, as in they realize in theory it's vulnerable but they don't see anybody/anything actually exploiting it. Got it.
Thanks =)
Sorry, pardon the ignorance, but how does past tense imply something that would be affected by rebase? It may not be linear history, but it definitely happened in the past. I guess I always looked at more as: "here's a patch", "what did you do?" If it's just a tomato/tomato thing (yeah, that doesn't come out well in text), just let me know.
You're right. I was imprecise. The transactions themselves are trackable, so with backups you know to "who" your specific bitcoins were transfered. But the "who" is just a number, and anonymous. And you can create as many identities as you want.

Essentially: bitcoins are anonymous because money laundering in the bitcoin world is perfect and free.
Of course there is. Have you actually read that discussion here? If you don't use exceptions in the way he described them, you don't have undefined behaviour (general big exception handling at the end vs granular error-checking, which is of course also possible with exceptions). Everything he described has nothing to do with exceptions, but with the way he uses them in the examples he showed.
Focusing on "low-hanging fruit" (things iOS' competitors already have or that are obviously missing) is important, but after a point Apple's going to need to break new ground and innovate.

Siri is a great example of this: iOS already ha voice control and nobody was complaining about it; it's just that nobody was really using it because it wasn't very good. Apple didn't get to where it is today just by cloning and refining things.
Georeminder does that: http://www.skumancer.com/georeminder
Maybe you're missing the importance of proper commit messages and the fact that github doesn't seem to steer users toward good habits. Given the size of his projects and the number of contributors, I find it reasonable to demand well documented and informative logs. As a developer, you have to be considerate of the time of people who have to decipher your work and intent. Obviously, it'd be better if the UI was prompting you to do so, so you don't have to suffer the wrath of the "opinionated" project owner ;-)
In praise of TomDoc, or: why JavaDoc/phpDoc should die
The convention in the real world is that you are deprived of the stolen property you've received even if you did not know that they were stolen.

The problem with applying that standard to Bitcoin is that Bitcoins get mixed together, so depriving people of money that's only partially tainted is a disproportionate punishment.
Reversible Engineering, Part 2: DevOps
It actually looks like the coins in question haven't moved anywhere yet.

http://blockchain.info/tree/5416502
There are two markets:

1. The programmers, utilizing an Excel+SQL setup for users in an IT setting.

2. The business users who use Excel for more than they should be, or use it in a place a DB would be far more efficient.

Like another poster said, the former probably aren't going to find anything above and beyond what they can't already accomplish with a DB and Excel.

The latter, on the other hand, are a huge market and need help. This is the market who hammer spreadsheets, but are completely in the dark when it comes to databases, and to whom, I believe, PG was referring. As one of those users (okay, I know a bit more about DBs than the "average" business person), this looks complicated. I can't determine precisely what it does, and there seems to be a lot of programmer speak. Apps? APIs? "Development" required? It looks hard. In other words, I want an Excel/DB setup, in theory, but don't really know if this is what I think it is.

That said, as a data dabbler, this is intriguing. I'll be following progress.
what the ....
Funnily enough...DHH's talk is EXACTLY the first thing that came to mind when I saw Torvald's comment.

Who cares if Torvalds has 'more' technical chops than DHH...DHH might be more abrasive, but it is a good abrasive. He is always pushing the community forward and encouraging Rails developers to be a little better. He is not afraid to embrace new technologies and give credit where its due.

Can't tell when last I have seen these older guys do the same.
He is very familiar with the differences between C, C++ and C#. Are there any Germans that can comment of what kind of student would have that knowledge? I thought that advanced engineering the degrees in Germany are too academic for students to be familiar with the intimate details of programming, but I might be wrong.
I never accept the "standard contract" when it comes to employment or consulting gigs - then I always read carefully, propose alterations, and often talk to my lawyer.

Have you ever worked at a large company? Did this work?

I feel like at large companies, this would be like trying to modify the language of a car rental agreement, and the HR rep would just be confused.
Anything that doesn't require you to submit to centralized storage under third party control (euphemistically known as "the cloud") has a shot at dethroning Dropbox.

Especially outside the US, where people, governments and businesses are becoming increasingly weary of having their data stored where US government agencies can get access with little to no legal process.

When companies start using "not stored in the US" as a selling point for their services you have a serious problem.
UH OH: Facebook IPO Seeing "Weak Demand"
This is an intriguing parallel. I'm only personally familiar with World of Warcraft gold farmers, but have read about Eve, Star Wars, even Everquest folks trading goods/gold for real $$.

So computationally, I wonder what the cost to 'mine' a bitcoin is, vs the cost to 'generate 1000 gold' in an MMO that sells for an equivalent amount? I will definitely have to add this to my never ending book project.
You could donate it to a charity, but they wouldnt have to spend it. This is what gates and soros do. Its basically a charity that funds other charities as they see fit.

A charitable trust with pretax dollars would be an even better idea however.
See the Amazing Spider Man release date according to Google here: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

Says June 30th, 2012

Now see the official site:

http://www.theamazingspiderman.com/releasedates/

Says July 3rd, 2012

Clearly I would take Google's suggested release date with a grain of salt.
Less clunky file-management. I'm speaking out of ignorance as to how the API works, but there is such wide variance and unpredictability in how apps handle file import/export and sharing between existing apps.
so the question is 'what does this do?' and the answer is 'fix X' then it makes more sense.

Better to say "fixes" then, so it's distinguishable from the use in a phrase as an imperative. "We need to fix this."
"The truth shouldn't be sugarcoated."

Okay, fine. The way he handled this particular issue seems like a dick move. Being one of the godfathers of computer science isn't a license to act like a jerk.

There's no question he's right, but there's nice-right and jerk-right.

This sort of response seems like it only inhibits people's desire to get involved.
Eventually the money has to come out somewhere, though.
Most regulations aren't about security but that what kinds of business a bank can engage in. This is more akin to giving your money to the protection of your hapless, dimwitted cousin who promises not to let his pitbull eat it.
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Microsoft v. Motorola: using or abusing the legal system?
There is no end in sight to the corporate patent wars in the courts today. A few months ago I wrote about the ongoing battle between Motorola and Apple and Samsung and Apple.
Oh, I get you. Yeah, that makes sense.

Just because the idea is kind of neat: It's possible you're getting jumped on by the lawyers here because "legal proof" itself is such a non-legal concept. There's such a thing as mathematical proof, for sure. There might be such a thing as scientific proof. But you could rarely point at something and say "that's legal proof." You could only say, "that turned out to be enough evidence to convince that particular jury." "Proof" is defined by the observer (jury, judge, etc.), not the object (contract, bloody knife, etc.).
the author highlights the higher interest rate, but neglects to give a mortgage payment as a percentage of monthly income. current rates are as sometimes a third of what they were in the 80s.
Argan Olie is multifunctioneel
A commenter on Reddit points out "I'm Polish and that's not how a Pole would spell Russian words. He's German."
Post tweets: so you can share from the app.
Update profile: We don't do it, but Twitter only has 3 discrete permission levels (read, read/write, read/write/DM).

We never write to your Twitter account unless you explicitly ask us to.
I couldn't help but roll my eyes at this. Yet I have to wonder: who would have to say this in order for me to take it seriously? Jeff Bezos? Larry Ellison? A Washington Talking Head? An FBI Spokesman?

In any case, what's alarming to me is that I can't take Meg Whitman seriously over anything related to hardcore technology. That is disconcerting for me when thinking about HP's future.

Then again, I am biased since I balked at her appointment in the first place.
There is no doubt in my mind that if I had followed the advice in this book, I'd be substantially better off then I am.

I read it when it first came out, and it's an amazing read. Short enough to could get through it in a day; funny enough to make you laugh; information density is great; and lots of supplemental material on his blog free of charge.

Check out http://iwillteachyoutoberich.com - he's got tons of material on there, and if you like his style, definitely buy the book.
I get where you're coming from, but that's an meaningless comparison.

Keep in mind that the same bitcoin can be spent over and over again. And once stolen, it will certainly be spent. (You don't steal bitcoins except to spend them.) Pretty much by definition, the volume of bitcoins being spent is going to exceed the volume of bitcoins being stolen[1].

So basically, the answer is "never", which is why that's not really a useful metric. What might be more interesting is what percentage of bitcoins have been stolen in the past,

[1]: Unless we end up with a situation where a large number of bitcoins are being repeatedly stolen from thieves before they can spend them. That's theoretically possible...but highly implausible.
fair enough to some extent. However since I can't run the software at home, at work, or on my phone, it's still not even on my radar so my point retains some of its validity :)
Are you guys part of the H&FJ web font beta? Or are you using Gotham on the web in violation of your license agreement with them?
I'm still surprised that URL Schemes[1] aren't used widely. Facebook uses them to implement Facebook Connect, and sites exist[2] that try to aggregate various apps' schemes, but it'd be nice to live in a world where they were well-known and reliable enough to use instead of having to integrate individual third-party SDKs.

1: http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-appl...
2: http://handleopenurl.com/scheme
Well...this debate always seems to come down to...do we let geniuses just do whatever the hell they want. The answer is...I am not sure.

Either way, there are many decisions that people make that comes down to style preference and sure the 'purists' might think it is a watering down of programming....but it makes it more appealing to new developers. I can see Torvalds ranting on Ruby as not a 'real' language....I don't know if he has done so...but I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
He's from Singapore and they were not holding 100k in a hot wallet. More like 18K which is still too much. JP Morgan lost $2B US due to some idiot traders. http://goo.gl/fqN3S Shit happens.
1109 days, 13159 karma. I don't have flagging anymore but I don't miss it too much.
Sounds exactly like Oink (built by Milk). It was shut down and the team acquired by Google.
And yet where are the stories of the banks loosing your savings account? Usually it's credit card fraud, not the banks fault but some other site that was storing it and got hacked, and then insurance steps in and pays it and you still aren't out any money.

There are some pretty strict regulations about bank and credit card cyber security and I presume they pay some pretty hefty insurance premiums for our benefit.
While I largely agree with you (and have written as much in my blog) I disagree about the risk with cloud services. I only see two places where "the cloud" increases the risk of a privacy violation: 1) Inherent decreased security of cloud services makes a data breach more likely and 2) an increased risk that authorities could seize a server that contains sensitive data.

Even though the EFF singles out The Cloud for an award they only highlight risk #2 of my list. I'd like to hear why you are singling out the cloud (I'm not trying to be combative, I'm truly interested). I see very similar problems with cloud architecture as I do with VPS or even single owner servers.

In my opinion the real privacy risks (controllable ones anyway) have to do with services sharing information with third parties, not information security risks.
I was thinking the same thing. Then, if you recall, when they were acquired the "5GB of cloud storage" feature was exactly what Microsoft added and called it "Live Sync." Then they merged it with Mesh, killed Mesh, and called the merge "Live Sync." Then they killed all of it and started pushing SkyDrive.

And now SkyDrive is news. And this solution, which is the same as the old solution Microsoft had, is also news. Somehow.
antirez via twitter: "Linus, I'm with you. Preserve your bastion of code quality as it's something rare and rapidly fading away."

https://twitter.com/#!/antirez/status/201065752395124737
IIRC, Facebook ran into performance issues with git.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3548824

Not sure if they have been resolved.
Thanks for the feedback MoOmer :)
How about [item] + [some, list]?
Have there ever been any successful cases of a UNIX philosophy window system which could be used to back up the "really shouldn't be implemented as a part of a huge, monolithic system" thing?

In most circumstances I'm totally cool with accepting the superiority of the UNIX philosophy as an axiom, but I don't think I am in this particular case.
Friends take to Twitter for dying classmate, miracle happens.
Playfic is another terrific tool for doing this. http://playfic.com/

It's a community for making and sharing interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") entirely from your browser, using a crazy-ass "natural language"-inspired language called Inform 7.

Some stuff is broken and missing, lots of rough edges.
The return of Choose Your Own Adventure would be most welcome as well
Cubby does appear to have an iOS(http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cubby-app/id512952416?mt=8 ) and Android(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.logmein.cu... ) client.
Although he opens mentioning buying a car in 1986 what he actually says is that cars have pretty much matched the rate of inflation. Seems to me he is saying cars are about as good a deal today as they were back then. I do not find that ludicrous. The other point to be made about cars is that all those improvements do not really matter that much in terms of the value you are getting out of them, cars in the '80s got you from point A to point B just like a brand new one does today.

(To be completely off topic I would add that computerization in the modern cars has always been a concern for me, when a 2012 car's computer starts acting up in 2032 what are we going to do with them? I have a late-ninties highway tractor and every time I have a wiring problem with it I am pretty worried it will become more expensive to fix than it is worth despite being mechanically sound.)
I’m interested in what you say about Lotus Improv, but I’m having trouble understanding what it has to do with Ragic Builder.

He's old enough that he should know better.

Who is old enough, the Ragic Builder creator or PG? That person should know better than to what?
Can they do that? The "Limitations on Diaspora, Inc." section of the contributor agreement says:

> Diaspora, Inc. will not distribute your Contribution to any third party under any license without also requiring that third party to also make your Contribution available to the public under the same license.

I'm not sure but it sounds like that might prevent them from closed-source dual-licensing arrangements. I suppose that doesn't preclude them from building their own proprietary extensions to the Diaspora software for their own hosted services, although the agreement also states:

> Diaspora, Inc. will distribute the Diaspora™ Software, as a whole, under version 3 or later of the AGPL.

If extensions are considered part of the software "as a whole" then they might not even be able to do that.

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/New-CLA--12-13-10
On the one hand, I get that. On the other hand, many of the people who frequent the site where this is getting prominence use Vim, which is (admittedly indirectly, via vi) a 30-year-old product at this point. I'd hope that we could rise above newness when appropriate.
TenHands Launches Free Browser-Based WebEx Competitor
The site is functionally and visually broken:

- Not cross-browser compatible, completely broken in IE

- UI lacks instant feedback for submitting forms

- Not pixel perfect (icons are blurry, poor font choice)

- Broken links
According to http://bitcoinica.blogspot.com/ they didn't lose any customer dollars in this case either. The distinction isn't one of infrastructure, but of policy: the bank defines the theft as being of their money, not your money, and bitcoinica seems to be behaving like a bank in this regard: "The thief stole from us not you. All withdrawal requests will be honored."
> almost entirely to the popularization of rent-seeking activities and real estate speculation

Interest rates in 1984 were 13+% for CDs, and higher to borrow money.

That should tell you everything you need to know.
While Google & co were still sorting out the Honeycomb mess I got an iPad and here are my day to day gripes about iOS, most of which apply to both iPhone and iPad :

1) Turn by Turn Navigation - can't really think of living without it or paying for it. I've used it on Android quite extensively and it really is a solid product. For mere 29Mb and even with spotty rural data connectivity I got through 750 miles of navigation recently. Priceless thing to have on phone and even the iPad for people like me who hang it in their minivans.

2) Better multitasking - Android 4.0 multitasking is another neat thing - the clearly labeled / visible thumbnails of apps and easy ability to get rid of them comes in very handy. The way iOS does it is complicated.

3) Widgets - enough said!

4) Bigger phone screen - 4" seems like the minimum, all soft buttons will afford more screen real estate.

5) Better memory management - My background apps aren't killed as many times on Android whereas even with the upgraded RAM iPad 3 reloads Safari pages at least couple times a day.

6) App to app communication ability - Intents/Contracts style.

7) Better iPad notifications - eliminate alerts altogether and make the notification window span greater horizontal area on the iPad.

8) Bundle more useful apps with the OS - no alarm clock shipped with the OS, no podcast app for the iPad. Wtf?

9) iTunes sync is still very flakey - wired or wireless. I don't remember when it worked on its own the last time.

10) Swype - license Swype stuff, pretty please :)

11) Constant nagging for passwords for App updates - this bugs me a whole lot especially since I have a stronger password. Once I've setup a screen lock - this is fairly unnecessary.

I guess it would just be easier to stick with Android - by many accounts ICS is very usable on newer tabs, so may be I will try the Transformer TF300 out instead of waiting on iOS 8.
Singapore doesn’t have a capital gains tax.

A 15% long-term capital gains tax rate on $3.84B (4% of Facebook),

He saved $576 Million by giving up his citizenship and moving to Singapore.