skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But on any piece of paper, you know what the context is. You know if you're designing for a billboard or a business card. You never design anything that gets printed on both without human intervention in the middle.

We don't want that for digital devices, because having text be the same physical size on my iPhone and my iMac would be a usability disaster. But I know that CSS "16px" text on both devices will be readable and a little on the large side.
This. I used to visit digg 20-30 times throughout the day on V3. At the time Reddit looked like a laughable comparison that I could never imagine being as good as Digg. Then V4 came out, Digg collapsed in on itself, a paris hilton news blog shot to #1. I decided to check out reddit again and I've never been back to Digg since. It's still remarkable how drastically the site turned from V3 to V4, I never could have seen that coming.
In the post-9/11 era this is de rigueur and at some level socially sanctioned in the name of keeping us safe from terrorists and social deviants. And I don't think you can argue credibly against these operations w/o first interrogating the various pretexts that have set the stage for them: Oklahoma City, 9/11, 7/7, 3/11 etc.
People still regularly fall for 419 scams, or the emails would stop.

I got one the other day for a "scam victim restitution fund", asking for personal details. The mind reels.
Heh, one of the first web apps I wrote was around 2002 and it ran on an NT4 box without a modification or a reboot until this year.

I left the company 1.5 years ago and got a call from a supervisor asking me how to start it up again after a power outage and UPS failure.
during the finals of the european foosball tournament german legislation passed a law that allows the registration bureaus to sell your data to third parties. how long before they sell our biometric ready passport picture to fb along with our current address, birthday and other data?
even opt out does not work when the third party already has partial data.
Can't find references quickly, but in the past Apple has banned accounts of fraud victims, after they reported their accounts being hijacked. Victims, not perpetrators. Three fraud/hijack reports -> ban.
This book is on my shelf. It's a thoughtful and practical approach to language and writing. The prose in the book is often winking at you as it reveals a principle.
No "everyone" doesn't know that BMI is discredited, the BBC should have put a huge disclaimer on it saying "these numbers are nothing to do with how healthy you are, in fact they are completely meaningless".
If he's already nervous about old code, why send a huge traffic spike there...
A million upvotes for projecteuler. It's a great way to learn some advanced math concepts. It's an even better way to learn programming languages. And I love the challenge/toughness of it.
An illustrator helps me out on those. That was a happy accident; I was going to use photographs, but found that getting permission for all of them could be impossible, so the only way to make it graphical was to come up with original portraits. I didn't realize that they'd change the entire character of the site in a really good way.
I assume 'GP' means 'Guilty Party'? If so, it's kind of telling that a community has to use 'guilty party' enough to start abbreviating it...
But it's unsettling to see that breaches like this don't evidently leave the impression with the Bitcoin community that a believer in the free market might hope they would, that providers in this market might not be driven to produce quality and reliability because somehow there isn't the demand for it.

This time, It's simply bitcoinica users are caught waiting for a refund after the second breach. They ARE NOT using bitcoinica, at all. The site have been offline for months.
This makes perfect sense. What Pinterest offers are not links to products, but a stream of aesthetically-pleasing visual stimuli that are constantly new and interesting, but fleeting.

Their other major product is self-satisfaction. The act of re-pinning is a way to prove your taste to others, and when your pins get re-pinned or liked, the reward in terms of self-aggrandizement is fairly substantial.

Could they do better to convert people to purchasers? Probably. If there was a buy link on many of those images, I'm sure people would click it and consider. As it is, they're not trying for that, because they're not in the business of selling products; they're in the business of providing emotions.
But won't this level of transparency hurt profits?
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How about the Economist (http://www.economist.com)? By far the most intellectual and globally-oriented news website I'm aware of.
Who else had an attack of elitist "Eternal September" panic and checked if HN was on that list ? I admit I did.
I sure wouldn't want my insurance premiums to be calculated on my BMI.
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Note also: If you are very muscular with a crazy BMI despite no fat it's not healthy either.

I hear this claim parroted quite a bit. I haven't seen any evidence of this in medical literature, though, except in cases of really big guys like NFL lineman. Do you have any references for the claim?
I think it's considerably more complex than that, and not at all a red herring. I agree it's a coordination/network problem either way, but you would need actual evidence to argue that some methods of coordination are better than others.

I've read a reasonable amount about currency history, and the U.S. government's stewardship of currency in particular is not bad imo. Its stewardship of the banking system leaves more to be desired. I'm not sure its stewardship of the banking system is worse than what we had in the "free banking" era, though. You don't really have to be against markets to have an ordoliberal-style view (vaguely following Hayek) that markets work best within certain frameworks, as opposed to having a view that anarcho-capitalism will always produce the best solutions (more following Rothbard).
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A lot of commentators missed the point: "Sometimes a cheaper product is actually better. But consider removing price as the default decision criteria."

It's simple and good advice.
Great read.

Diaspora has the right idea. The danger of Facebook is that it is a monolith. If you can't see that Facebook is big brother, then your eyes are not open. It is literally that. By decentralizing our social networks, making everything opt-in, and controlled by small, independent, groups of people, we can effectively mitigate the corruption that is inevitable with such a monolithic and opaque service like Facebook.
"It depends."

Generally speaking, your servers will be bound to the same Active Directory domain, so if you're logged in via AD, and AD says you're an admin on the boxes you're trying to hit, you're good. This is called trusted authentication, and is similar to forwarding your SSH agent all over the place.

That opens up what happens if you're not in the domain (say, you're on your home laptop). Many commands take a -Credential parameter, which takes an authentication token available that you create via Get-Credential. If the command you want to use takes -Credential, then you can still avoid actually logging into the remote machine in the way you would for, say, SSH.

If, on the other hand, the command you want doesn't take -Credential, you do either need to use Invoke-Command, or genuinely log onto the remote PowerShell service via New-PSSession/Enter-PSSession, which is an extremely direct analog for SSH.
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Is anyone else having problems with this? I've tried loading in Chrome, Safari and Firefox and each time a js is not loading and my BMI as '0'
I wish they would just finally fix Powerpoint so it doesn't slow down and crash once you have more than 100 slides.
It's difficult to write secure code.

It's difficult to administrate a secure system.

It's a new market where release early, release often is important.

BTC transaction are largely untraceable and irreversible.
> Unbeknownst to us, Tihan was using the mtgox api key as the password for a website called LastPass.

Unbelievable. They decide to use a password escrow service... and use a duplicate password to secure it. This is 100% cargo cult security. Clearly whoever did this had no idea what the value of LastPass was, just that it was what all the cool security kids were doing. The choice of the high-value BtGox key was (staggeringly) unfortunate, but any dupulicate would be equally ignorant.

Just unbelievable.
As the big banks in the USA have proven, government regulation is definitively not the answer to the question "How can you know whom to trust?”

A common sentiment: “Big Government doesn’t work.” No, it doesn’t work. But in many cases, it’s less broken then no government a/k/a The Free Market. I’m reminded of Winston Churchill’s quip: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

It could be that trusting democratic governments to manage a monetary system is fundamentally unsound. I’m listening: What alternative do you propose, and how is it going to scale beyond protecting the few wealthy info-elite that can protect themselves?
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A simple waist circumference measurement is more accurate than BMI at making individual assessments of obesity (> 40" ~ 100cm is bad).

A set of 3-4 tape measurements (height, neck, abdomen for men; height, neck, waist, hips for women) will give a reasonable estimate of body fat. Equipment cost, about $5.
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Your observation of the weakness of BMI is that it tends to misreport true body fat percentage both ways. I'd hardly call that an advantage of BMI.

Note that since official US government policy defines obesity in terms of BMI, technically, BMI doesn't misreport obesity. What it does is fail to correspond to true body fat percentage in any meaningful way.
This is true, but it's impact is overestimate. I used to hover near the 25 level for my BMI. I was muscular, so I thought it was silly.

But I've not lost 6 pounds while gaining strength. I can see my abs. Turns out I was 12 pounds over my high school weight.

I'd now need ~8 pounds of extra muscle to become "overweight". That's a lot.

I think it's hard to go over BMI based on muscle alone. You may have less of a problem is you're BMI 25 and muscular, but you still probably could stand to lose some fat.
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what if it is not real time, but delayed by a few days or weeks? Will it still hurt profits?
I like how I got downvoted. Please read everything that is on the website:

The BBC say it's an estimate, with a link on estimate leading to its definition and a disclaimer about BMI.

They never say that you are fatter or slimmer than the rest of the population but they talk about your BMI and your BMI only, just a quote:

"You have a lower BMI than 88% of males aged 15-29 in your country"

"You have a lower BMI than 54% of males aged 15-29 in the world"

I really don't see anything about weight or any scheme to make you think you're fat if you have a high BMI from the BBC like some imply in the comments. It's very funny how hyper defensive everybody gets around the BMI thing, especially the ones who don't have the "right" BMI.
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If you run a service where you need to pay bitcoins out to users then that means your systems have to respond to user input and send money to them.

It turns out this is pretty tricky to secure.

The current popular strategy is to have hot and cold wallets. A hot wallet is online and can make payouts automatically.

A cold wallet is kept offline (airgap) and brought online by a human being to refill the hot wallet when it is running low. This only really makes sense if your service needs to secure large amounts of bitcoin for a long time without using them.

This recent bitcoinica hack is pretty inexplicable, they were keeping a large amount of coin in an account at an exchange called MtGox. This is effectively a hot wallet.
$130 vs $35 is not a signifigant difference? The difference is the Pi is an impulse buy (when you can get it). For me, anything over $100 gets asked 3 questions: what am I using it for? How much time can honestly spend with it (the most important question)? Is it worth the price? Negative on 1 and 2 and yes for 3.

The thing about the Pi is I don't feel guilty when I don't use it. Nor do I when I leave it on for weeks.
I think this is much more likely to be what he's talking about than pneumatic tubes, as others have mentioned. Seems much more up his alley
I have no idea why their BTC are siting in a MtGox account, online. Any and all bitcoin that are not being used for transactions with customers should be squirreled away into a cold wallet immediately.

If they did that, they will only have 40 K USD gone instead of also 40 K BTC gone.
Hi fellow HNers, I'm releasing to the public my first iPhone app today. I'm right here to answer any of your questions!

I'm giving out a few promo codes, send me an email at adrien@tehula.com, the first 5 will get the app for free.
It seems pretty unnecessary to call such people liars. Surely they know their own minds better than you.

Anyhow, it is not too difficult to understand the “write for yourself” aesthetic, if you are willing to make the effort. I think Jane Espenson describes it best: http://www.janeespenson.com/archives/00000619.php
Does the term bilingual limit itself to learning two language's fluently as a child? Or does it include learning a new language as an adult as well? And does it also demand that the person speak both languages with the repesctive native accent?
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Where are the hardware start-up happy hours and meetups? I'm from the the DFW area and the typical meet ups are filled with a bunch of people (including good friends) doing cool mobile and web apps.

But where do I go to find people doing hardware and wanting to do hardware startups? Only thing I've ever heard of is Solid State Startups, but that's in the Valley (maybe I need to move?). Maybe Makerspaces, but those guys seem more interested in robots and other hobbies then starting their own thing.

I think there needs to be a hardware start-up weekend where hardware guys get together, hack some eval boards and try to get something they can launch on Kickstarter or something worth funding.
Can you see your abs? Serious question.

I hovered around 25 BMI, was muscular, thought it was silly. Everyone considered me "lean". But, no abs.

Now I can see mine, am very strong, and have a 23 BMI.

It's possible BMI effectiveness changes with height though, which would make it even worse. I'm 5'6".
It also has an agenda (basically, globalist, pro-EU etc) which is easy to miss if you are overly-impressed by the intellectual veneer. That said, my favourite Economist contribution to the world of letters is the Big Mac index, which is rather clever.
Like smokers they often believe "it won't happen to them".
Damn averages.

By moving to a city with a lot of S.E. Asian people I'm suddenly above average BMI - I need to move back to Texas.

On the other hand, all those little old Japanese women mean that the average life expectancy here is among the highest in the world - so I should live to a 100 like them
>> You're most like someone from Mongolia
I'll bite: how did that happen?
There is a lesson in this for many programmers. Cool features and complexity are not what's important. What is really important is that the user can do their job.

What's trivial for a software developer can be life changing for a non-technical user.
Looked up his name in the phone book, I assume.
My point is that BMI is ridiculously easy for nearly everyone to measure.

Your point is that a better measurement can be made if everyone goes out and buys some new thing and takes some new measurement.

That seems to be in agreement with my point.

> since official US government policy defines obesity in terms of BMI, technically, BMI doesn't misreport obesity

The US government defining something doesn't make it true.

>What it does is fail to correspond to true body fat percentage in any meaningful way.

It is very meaningful. It's much better than a random guess.
Step 1: Throw together a Bitcoin "exchange"

Step 2: Announce you were "compromised"

Step 3: Profit!
How did http://Edge.org miss the list

Is it just me or is that list a bit too shallow?
I don't believe anything is stopping you from using Flattr.

I don't believe you are stopped from putting Flattr on your home page.

I don't have enough data to say whether you're going to get more money from Gittip over Flattr. I don't have data for Flattr because they're not transparent about who makes a living on their site. I'd love to see data if you have it; I've only been able to find a few anecdotes:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://tim.geekheim....

http://www.quora.com/Flattr/Have-any-bloggers-used-Flattr-to...

I don't have data for Gittip because it's only a month old. That said, Gittip is much more transparent than Flattr. On the Flattr homepage (http://flattr.com/) I see one piece of data: "Flattr clicks so far: 1,055,458." That doesn't tell me anything about who's making a living on Flattr. A little digging uncovers this Toplist:

http://flattr.com/catalog/everything/toplist

There I see that the top ... 30(?) projects have received between 919 and 5,184 "flattrs." When I click on the top project, WikiLeaks' Afghanistan War Diaries, I'm told it has "10 145 flattrs received from 4169 people." I'm not sure how this relates to the 5,184 flattrs mentioned on the Toplist. Whether it's 5,184 or 10,145, I'm not able to find a conversion rate to a real currency, such as euros or dollars. From reading the About page and the FAQ, it sounds like there's actually an inverse correlation, since more flattrs mean each recipient receives a smaller slice of each budget. Moreover, I don't know how many individual people and which ones are behind a project. Are those 5k or 10k flattrs shared amongst 10 people or two? Who are these people? How much do they want to receive?

Gittip is more transparent about who's giving and receiving what, and why. Sure, the design isn't very fancy compared to Flattr. But there's data right front and center on the homepage, and it's in a real currency, dollars. When I click through to an account, I see a statement about what that person is doing to improve the world, and their personal funding goal. I can compare their goal with their current level of funding.

Personally, I'm not interested in playing games with fake currency. Let's move real money for real.

You glossed over the fact that I'm drinking my own whiskey, which I see as a crucial difference. I actually find it a little distasteful that Flattr takes a 10% cut. If the Flattr developers believe in Flattr, why don't they make their living using Flattr? TipTheWeb strikes me as a more self-consistent implementation of the "one-off tips for content" idea, in that they represent themselves as being a non-profit "supported by Tips from our users":

http://tiptheweb.org/

But, of course, Gittip is not about one-off tips for content. Gittip is about sustaining people who are telling a compelling story with their life. Tell me a story!
You probably input Height in centimeters. Try inputting 1.xx (or 2.xx).
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Thanks for point that out. I honestly thought it had IDE, and seeing that, even now, new MBs ship with LPT and serial it wouldn't be out of place.
Ok? What's your point?
I think it goes beyond that. As an anecdote, I'm getting married in April and my fiance is using pinterest to collect and organize all our ideas for the wedding. We'll end up buying probably 10-20% of what she has pinned, but over the next 6 months. By internet click-through funnel micro-measurements, when we buy it will look like a direct purchase rather than attributed to the channels we discovered the product on. Unfortunately, being able to determine the source and measure return on it is roughly the same as TV advertising and I don't know of any company that provides that sort of analysis for internet campaigns.
I hate BMI too (moderately lean according to body fat, but nearly obese according to BMI).

But whether you're muscular or fat, this scale is a pretty good reminder of how well nourished we are compared to everyone else.
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They messed up median and average. I'm above the global "average", but if everyone were like me, the world would lose weight!

They clearly mean I'm heavier than most people, but lighter than the average BMI. Very large people skew the average upwards.

Edit: I am wrong. See the comment below. I thought average referred to arithmetic mean.
Speaking as a parent of two children who we have spoken exclusively Spanish to, and who picked up English from their environment, friends, and school. There has not been any impact. And this is coming from the teachers, who are usually extremely surprised to learn that we speak only Spanish at home.

You underestimate the ability of children to absorb knowledge from their environment.

As a matter of fact, if anything, it has been a net positive. Kids at a young age have a huge curiosity about languages and having bilingual kids in the classroom encourages the other kids to learn. My first graders class begged to have my daughter teach them some Spanish, and the teacher set aside some time for her to do so. The other parents heard from their kids, and thanked the teacher for it!
While most people are looking for the next {x}-illion dollar opportunity (me included), the positive charge one gets when hearing that something they've created is actually useful to someone else is a great feeling.

Such a great story, makes me want to go fulfill those umpteen other ideas I've got hanging around to see what sticks. (I keep all these ridiculous domain names as kind of a skunkworks project task list.)
Perhaps this is the work of an insider.
You should probably put in a disclaimer that you created QRAuth, it looks somewhat spammy.
It's OK if you filter out the Neo-classical economics and free (unregulated) markets are good bias. I haven't read it much since 2008 though so it may have changed tack but I doubt it.

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

I've been reading Steve Keen's blog and he makes much more sense than other prominent economists. He was one of the few to predict the crash with a model which can actually generate crashes unlike many of the standard economic models. If anyone can point me to some well argued criticism of his theory I would be very interested. I'm not sure about all his proposed remedies to prevent bubbles though, jubilee shares at least feels wrong to me at some level.
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