skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, on the contrary, keep wondering who are the people for whom charging every day is much preferable to charging every week. Because most of the devices are obviously made for such people.
The GNU C Library version 2.16 is now available.
That works. There are shit loads of open WiFi networks in London as well. You could wardrive 10-15 of them in a few hours.
1. I don't think it was a deliberate choice in the design of Bitcoin. I think Satoshi was hoping for full anonymity. That said, this ability to track Bitcoin payments to the payee has been leveraged by some of the present Bitcoin principals to convince governments that Bitcoin is kosher. (Satoshi is no longer involved in the development of Bitcoin)

2. That said, it is possible to use bitcoin anonymously, you just have to be careful and use some of the techniques described above: buying btc anonymously with cash, buying bitcoins via regular channels and "mixing" them via some online btc mixing sites, and/or generating your own btc but taking care to keep the client on a trusted vpn (like Mullvad, for example). Also, it's interesting to note that -- as far as I'm aware -- none of the perpetrators of the large bitcoin thefts have been tracked down, despite the best efforts of many smart people. And these are people that can be clearly tracked to very specific bitcoins. This may have changed in recent months, but it's certainly not a trivial task to track down even someone who has not used the techniques I describe above.

It's certainly a hell of a whole lot more anonymous than Paypal or credit cards.
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Play2 Simple HTTP API
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Apple should pay. No questions about that.

But how much should they pay? In this special case of patents, Motorola is expected to charge Apple the same rates as other licensees. In fact, they have committed to do so.

But now, they are going back on that commitment and also trying to double dip.

FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory) patent commitment is an essential part of standard setting process. If companies are allowed to abuse FRAND committed patents like this, there will be chaos. We'll go back to the digital dark ages when there were no standards or interoperability.
There are two ways to do this from the perspective of a journalist.

The first, is to do as the author attempted: that is to find every way possible to hide your identity. It's a lot of work, and maybe impossible.

The second is to put yourself out there. Be a public figure, unafraid of what you are publishing. Allow people to know who you are and what you stand for. Use your fame to your advantage. Call me an optimist, but the powers that be will have a tough time keeping you quiet if you represent a populist movement. In fact, it's eventually to their advantage to support the cause if it's meaningful and popular enough; the game of politics is won by catering to the masses.

At the end of the day, if you want to be a muckraker you can't be scared to get in the muck. I realize there can be repercussions. But it's far easier to support a face than it is some anonymous text.
Access is free at libraries in the UK.

Just crack their wep key :)
Ask HN: Transactions over multiple web services
Hi guys,
to make it short: Is there a preferred way/nice solution for wrapping multiple web service calls in a transaction? I have to build a new "integrating" web service atop 2-3 legacy web services, so say for example:

def register(user) {
callWebService1(user);
callWebService2(user);
callWebService3(user);
doSomeOtherStuff(user);
}

Also let's assume I can still make some changes to the old web service interfaces or add some more methods.

Any "light-weight" best practices?

Thanks!
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Google Censors Guns, Ammo & Accessories from Shopping Results
Siri doesn't support Portuguese, or any Latin languages other than French at this time. iOS 6 adds Spanish and Italian, and I assume Portuguese can't be far behind.
Meh…
It's not a good idea, but thanks to camcorders.
On debian, I was able to fix the issue (fix the load issue specifically) with this command

/etc/init.d/ntp stop; date; date `date +"%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S"`; date;
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Fraggles.

The conversation over WHICH muppet various tech-celebs might be would be more entertaining than weather they actually are muppets. This is a conversation that needs to be had.
Same issues here. I had three pairs of amazing Rocksford inear headset with huge bass chamber 14mm drive I believe. Anything after that plugged into the ear sounded dead flat. Anyways, of course the problem is jack and wearing it with ipod it died withn month. What a frustration. $120 headset that are junk only because of broken jack.

We need a robust 3.5mm jack short cord extention. Something that would be robust in built but protect oryginal jack the same time. I think plenty of people that appreciate quality music on the go would chip in for such a cord. I would definitely give $15 to protect jack of my high quality headsets. If someone starts a kickstarter on this, I will pledge.
Maybe a phone call to communicate a password would be better. Not as convenient of course, but security and convenience don't often go together. That assumes your voice provider isn't recording the call.
I did say that there were other possibilities, including government funding of research. However, it is a strong article of faith amongst the American right-wing politicians that the marketplace is always more efficient at directing money to be funded at the "right" research approaches than letting the government try to do that.

They would point at how (in-)efficiently the Chinese government directed funding of building and roads in 2nd-tier cities where entire city blocks of apartment buildings are empty as an example of that.

While I don't agree with that entirely --- there are more definitions of "right" than just what makes the most $$$: witness the vast amount of money being poured into statin research, which I'm not convinced is the best place to devote time, attention and cash if your valuation function was based on improving the overall health of the country or or of the world --- it is fair to say that it's a bit too easy to just say, "oh, we'll just let government fund the pharma development". This begs the question of whether or not you trust politicians to decide how much money to devote towards R&D, and how the money should be spent. Fundamentally, it's a lot more complicated than I suspect the Pirate Party has acknowledged.
Pretty sure they meant Campari, though choosing to put that in a flask is kind of weird.
Confirmation bias?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/xbox-itc-motorola/

That's a big one.
Unbluring web font icons: Response to GitHub's Octicons post
I know for a fact that this is not true for an MBA student. Maybe it only applies for a bachelors.

Email me if you need specifics.
Ahead of Antitrust Deadline, Google Says "Bring It On"
What else could be going on?

Maybe Apple's case/patents are legally stronger than a lot of people are willing to admit?
Libraries have cameras.
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Oh, I totally agree that there are plenty of legitimate businesses using Bitcoin. I've sent you guys a lot of bitcoins over the past 1-2 years (great service, btw).

I've also paid some very professional developers and designers for high-quality work using bitcoins. Personally, I'd love for btc to take off more, since I'm a freelancer and do lots of work for overseas clients, and get hit with lots of banking fees. Btc is a fast and easy way to pay freelancers, and could be a great way to get paid by clients.

Nonetheless, I an easyjust got sick of all the hoopla surrounding Bitcoin and the constant Bitcoin heists, combined with the cluelessness of so many Bitcoin developers regarding security (not the core developers, but all the devs trying to build Bitcoin-related businesses). But perhaps it's time to give it another try.
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Edit: "a year of OPT" (after graduation).
How is it not about whether you can "resell a book you bought abroad"? Afaict, the rightsholders here aren't arguing that there is a dollar threshold or level of commercial organization he exceeded that turned it into parallel importation, or that it's the importation that's illegal. Rather, they argue that any sale of their book in a jurisdiction where they didn't authorize its sale is illegal. So, even someone who moved would need the copyright holder's authorization to sell their personal book collection, if it included any books that had not already been authorized for sale in the United States.

The European approach, despite being more restrictive in a way, makes more logical sense to me, since it separates legality of importation from legality of sale. Thus customs can hassle you if you're importing a bunch of stuff in violation of the state's trade policies, but if you've legally imported a book (e.g. as a personal effect), you can resell it.
Other Anecdote: I have a triggerpoint and I do not think its that great for my muscles and is certainly not going to help out with knee or other joint pain.
For Europython i wanted something that goes with italy :)
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...OLPC, Android "activation" etc.: very few wonder besides you. Most people aren't concerned, and that is the norm.
Yes, it's different. UnxUtls gives you grep, tar, tr, gzip, and etc. Clink appears to give you shell command completion and history completion.

They are complementary.
How to break into video game writing: advice from an expert
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I don't disagree with your decision to not torrent, but whether the author gets any money from format shifting is determined by each author's contract for each work.
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Would increasing the resistances to something more significant like 1k, 2k, 4k ohm make any difference wrt noise?
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The CHANGELOG is ReST-formatted for Sphinx; might as well view it the way it is meant to be viewed:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/changelog/#version-0-9
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While powershell is a valuable and interesting option, the problem with it is that it changes the basic metaphor.

For 40 years unix shells and their descendants and derivatives including cmd.exe have used files and text streams as the metaphor for interconnecting processes. Powershell changes that, and it means the output of one command goes to the input of another command as "objects".

This can be powerful, but it is also very disorienting. Which means it can be hard to learn to do even basic things in powershell, things that would take only a pipe or two and a couple unxutls programs in cmd.exe.

In cmd.exe, easy things are easy and hard things can be really hard. In powershell, hard things are hard (as opposed to "really hard") and easy things are hard.
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You got it. I implemented lazy-loading for the precise case you described: Save bandwidth from people that don't want to read the full article.

I tested it on Chrome, FireFox and Safari: I did not find it annoying....but maybe it is because I tried to put myself in the shoes of someone ready slowly and I have a DSL bandwidth...
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I'm not saying they won't get a flood of resumes for every opening.

But the best people, who know they can get a position at any major tech company, will be weighing Apple against the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon. It's possible that Apple has an edge over those in money/environment/opportunity, but it isn't a clear or solid one. The thought of being looked down on by fellow nerds for working at a patent aggressor could turn the balance.

And building products with 98th percentile engineers instead of 99th percentile is a big deal. Look at Microsoft.
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That presumes you get famous before you start publishing stuff.
Seems to be down, pastebin mirror: http://pastebin.com/5RWeF5qQ or google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sugexp=chrome,m...
Now sure where you were looking, but there were several UK/London based jobs posted in last month's thread.
As a corollary, you don't know how bad of a coder you are until your first thorough code review.
I'd wager it's going the exact opposite direction.

With cloud services, documents/bookmarks/media/apps/settings/etc can all be effortlessly in sync all the time between all the different devices so the question is just one of form factor.

I don't want to give up any of my main form factors (phone, tablet, laptop computer, desktop computer) because there are times when each is significantly better than the other for the task at hand. But I don't want to be having to plug and unplug one into the other to make the whole thing work - I just want to grab/sit-down-at whichever is most appropriate for my context and get right to work (or "work").

It'd be different if a processor+RAM+GPU+enough-flash-storage-to-be-usable-in-a-mostly-cloud-environment weren't all shrinkable to a tiny chip that costs nearly nothing to make.

But since they are [1], why should we have to deal with the hassle of docking/undocking and not being able to use our tablet (as a tablet) while we use our computer? Or have to unplug our phone (and not be able to use our "computer") when a phone call comes in?

The one place I use such a solution is that all my (personal) computing happens on a tiny laptop that I occasionally plug into a larger monitor with wireless keyboard/trackpad. That works really well, but it's still a bit of a hassle. If that monitor had the smarts in it to actually be a computer and it was constantly up-to-date with all the data from my laptop, then I'd rather just have it be separate. Why not?

So I think we'll continue to have separate form factors and they'll all only increase in "smart"ness. Anything else is going to be a tough sell to customers and have marginal cost savings, at best.

[1] How much does it cost Apple to make the A5 chip in the Apple TV and the iPad 2 at this point? How much less would it cost them to make a chip that was just for handling networking/display/user input/etc? Barely any less at all — in fact it'd probably be cheaper for them just to keep using A5s because they've already got full OSes to run on them.
Curious what books the Hacker News community considers must read?
It's an "upcoming change" that Google confirmed: http://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
If something needs long winded comments, I am skeptical. For example, did HTC do something to litigate with Apple that caused Apple to sue HTC? I don't see anything like that.

If you assert that Apple sued HTC because Nokia sued Apple first, that does not make any sense whatsoever. Nokia isn't even an Android OEM.
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Chrome for iOS Slower Than Safari, And We Know Why
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=========

Advantages for you:

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The college textbook market is currently being disrupted. Verba helps college bookstores transform themselves so that they a) understand and embrace the power of the nets, b) become agents of change in the textbook industry instead of agents of reaction and c) continue to make a healthy profit.

We're a B2B company working with just about 200 colleges and universities, and we're looking for people familiar with Ruby, Rails, MySQL and JS who can help us grow faster. We (thankfully) don't have too many scaling problems, but we have a ton of opportunities (product and partner-based) that we could move on much faster with a few more hands on deck. The ideal person has strong Rails knowledge, solid testing practices, a good head for architecture and knows enough JS to help out on front-end.

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