skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Bitcoin holds up over time and fulfills it's full promise of a democratized currency immune to the influence of corrupt governmental power (which is a big if) then I'd argue that spending a lot of dedicated processing power is a small price to pay.
Everybody on the American continent come from somewhere else, humans originally developed in Africa after all.
You're missing his point. It's not that people who buy ASIC rigs are evil; it's that the whole system is burning energy on a toy problem, instead of addressing a real scientific problem that needs compute.
I agree, and a problem is that many of the promising companies are sold (for example Dice, Skype and TAT) to large, usually foreign, corporations before they get the chance to grow.
It's more standard to have rails apps run under a dedicated and lower privileged user than not. It's also a common option to use vendored dependencies for a variety of reasons: You (a) avoid conflicts with other installed gems on the system and (b) don't need elevated privileges to install the app. But let's not just talk about rails: There's a ton of tools that use ruby to manage stuff, some of them running as root by default - both chef and puppet are written in ruby and sometimes distributed as gems. In any case, they use gems. So all it needs is to have one binary exploited to start a shell and then you have an entry point from where you can escalate privileges and obtain root. So if you don't trust rubygems you can't install anything in ruby.
A lot of people clearly haven't played a 4-player game on their Nintendo 64. :)
Suppose gold is evenly distributed everywhere and you are the only one with a pickaxe and everyone else has spoons?
Care to elaborate on the red flags?
Show HN: My weekend project, SendMeAReminder
I'm afraid I can't let you eat that icecream, Dave.
Yeah, see, you can't put the name calling aside. That's what i'm telling you.

Regardless of the merits of a discussion regarding security, open source software, and the ruby community, it's clear that you have an axe to grind, and are not participating in this conversation in a constructive manner.

There is no point in engaging you in a discussion about Ruby security, because you just want people to stop using Ruby. Again, that's your prerogative, but don't try to dress it up as your overwhelming concern for security.

The practical matter is that folks are going to continue using Ruby with 100% certainty for the short term.

So if you were actually interested in security, rather than trolling or gloating, you could actually comment on the technical matters under discussion, instead of just telling people "stop using ruby" and that the "proper fixing of these issues would go against everything that the Ruby community stands for."
Is there any confirmation of this at all? Did CBS actually "ban" the ad? This all smells a little like viral marketing, coupled with the "act of defiance" posting of a youtube video, as if that is really a defiance of anything.

(on a related sidenote, each year various ad trolls intentionally submit unairable commercials and then post them online claiming that they were censored by the Man. Not only do they get attention, they don't have to pay for the original expensive timeslots either)
Sorry, I misread your comment in the opposite sense.
This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?
I really love this. Just spent 20 minutes on it.
"Most" families children grow up to be "leeches on the system" ?

Can you please tell me what your definition of "most" and "leeches" are.
crashing the value of what?

Bitcoin price is not tied to computational effort spent on mining. The creation rate of new Bitcoins is already constrained and well defined. Producing more machines would just mean Avalon would get a larger portion of the new Bitcoins.
Another important lesson: obey the same rules.

Nothing is more infuriating than parents setting rules that only apply to their children for arbitrary reasons.
Church is full of deceivers as well. Lying about God, Lying about Jesus. Trying to get your money. We have to teach the kids about deceiving for personal gain. But you treat kids like a member of society as early as they can take it. Overpowering them psychologically is the wrong answer, and is part of the reason why most families are broken. My mom/dad is one of the most tight relationships I have ever seen, and I've seen many relationships. They are built on trust, and what this person is doing is exchanging a little bit of trust for some temporary pain relief, a bad exchange that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The lesson for deception should occur simultaneously on the lesson that your actions have consequences, and if you piss off your friends, they will retaliate. It's complex and I have a hard time describing it, but it's the glue that makes families happy and productive. It doesn't feel right to me at all.

It's teaching the kids to be passive aggressive. Can't get what you want? Work behind the scenes to cause the people you love to do what you want. Do it to the kid, the kid does it back to you. It's not something to trifle with. You're configuring the personality of the kid with these interactions, and these choices have huge consequences about how the kid interacts with society, family and friends. There are only a couple people in the world I would trust with my life, whom I could give them power of attorney over me and I could rely on them not to loot me and leave me powerless. And that relationship is built on one of trust, one of never deceiving. The father is deceiving the kid, that trust-relationship I have may not materialize with the person who plays these mind games.

The relationship I describe is the most valuable thing on Earth, people KILL for it, literally, and I'm trying to comment here about how to get that thing, and I see these articles are pooping all over it, and I have to give my 2 cents. These ideas I have aren't silly, it's the operating principles of the most valuable thing in the world: Love and trust. The only thing worth more than money.
Hmm, that wasn't my experience. There is a huge variation in the family types who are home schooling in the Bay Area, it runs the gamut. Two of the kids in the Reikes class were homeless, their Mom was doing this because while she was homeless she did not want here kids to get behind in their education, and California has some really strict rules about letting your kids go to a public school if you don't have an address in the district. Perhaps the biggest cohort were kids where the parents had an issue[1] with the public schools but didn't have the resources or desire to send their kids to private school. I do know that there was a group who leaned more toward the creationist side of things but that wasn't the groups in our circle so I can't say much about them other than that you could find them if you wanted to.

"It is already known that the most important factor in whether a kid learns or not is their home situation."

My experience would support that hypothesis. Of all the kids I've known over my life those who had parents that were supportive of their educational goals did better than those whose parents were absent or destructive. That said though, it didn't change the fact that for kids who were otherwise nominal (reasonable support from parents, no major mental health issues) learned a lot (and I believe more) in their home school environment than they would have had they gone to public school.

[1] Issues ranged from teachers who were 'bad', district policies (no pocket knives allowed), school choice in their district (gang issues), and 'bad influences' (drug use or sexual experimentation).
Is Twitter downplaying the 250,000 compromised accounts?
>I'd like to think that if someone breaks into my home LAN, they won't beat the rap...

Burglary is already against the law. I might suggest that you don't leave any conspicuous ethernet jacks in your front yard where passers-by might be tempted.
The correlation has more to do with solidarity of individuals in those countries, which supports a concept of very tight linked individuals in a uniform fashion.

The problem is the assertion that it's not correlative is just as baseless as the one that asserts the opposite. You simply cannot measure either one on a 1-10 scale.

Homogeneity states that individuals within the composotion of a greater whole are uniform in composition and character. You state very clearly factors of composition - ethnicity and culture, but ignore all of the other characteristics such as opinion, thoughts, religion, adherence, etc, (this list will go on forever) that you and I simply cannot throw together into a pot and draw a conclusion.

nobody can plausibly argue that Canada is not at least as multi-ethnic as the US

What evidence do you have to support that claim?
I see your comments on every Ruby-related thread and you sound like a broken record.

Many of us Ruby-users see the problems in a similar way and try to fix them. It's a learning process and it happens right now. The ruby community is also not an uniform blob. We are not 37signals and we are not the rubygems team. Many of us disagree with some decisions made at these places. Most of us also use other languages and are well aware of the trade-offs that Ruby implies.

This is all worth discussing and the specific problems are worth fixing. The rubygems-team happens to be working on their problem, which is a hard problem, right now; https://gist.github.com/4696144

Your mindless bashing on every Ruby HN-thread contributes nothing. Please use your time for something more productive, e.g. you could go to your preferred language community and help them fix their security problems, which they also have plenty of.
My understanding of CBT comes primarily from Burn's "Feeling Good", the exemplar for CBT therapy.

The quotes below are taken from the book and are consistent with my previous description of CBT.

"change the way you feel by changing the way you think".

"... we think that the causes [of our bad moods] result from something beyond our control... you can learn to change the way you think about things, and you can also change your values and beliefs. And when you do, you will often experience profound and lasting changes in your mood, outlook, and productivity. That in a nutshell is what cognitive therapy is all about."

Emphasis mine.
Some might argue that decoupling currency from central banks and government is not a useless project (or a toy problem). With Bitcoin, participants invest their own resources. It's none of my business how private individuals or enterprises peacefully allocate their resources, so I choose to not be bothered by how they do so.
Eyes on the Stars – the story of astronaut Ronald McNair [video]
you can just put "cache:" in front of the web address.
> It's somewhat dishonest, but not sure how it hurts job seekers (not advocating it, but seems a somewhat victimless crime).

You see an advert for tasty doughnuts. Oh boy! You jump in your car / catch the bus etc, and head over to the purveyors of tasty doughnuts to find that instead there are no doughnuts, but you're assured that if you're interested in tasty doughnuts you must have friends that are too, so take some flyers and spread the word. You've wasted your time, effort and money to become an uncompensated advertising agent for purveyors of mythical doughnuts, and you might reasonably reserve a new circle of hell for these people before shredding their flyers with particular zeal.

Similarly, to have answered an advert for a job that doesn't exist, spent time considering what compromises in your life might be necessary to take the position, followed sound advice to tailor your CV to the position, crafted a covering letter, and then found that your time and effort is used to stripmine you of your contacts with no compensation for any time and effort put in on your part before moving onto the next mark, once again you might reserve a new circle of hell for these people. It's clearly fraud and exploitation, hand in hand.
At this point, I think Bitcoin just has to survive. If it survives long enough, enough people will have heard of them and start to believe that they're money, it will be a defacto currency. So long as there aren't any disasters that kill its credibility, this will happen in a matter of a few to several years.
a rich, non-standard visualization that people can learn to parse quickly ... showing them exactly what they need

I do a lot of UI work, also mostly for technical users, so I’m interested in both effective visualisations and efficient interactions built around them.

I’ve found that customised and/or contextual visualisations and interactions can be very effective if, but only if, they fit how the user thinks about the situation better than any of the standard alternatives.

Put another way, if you’re dealing with a solved problem, using the solution that everyone already knows usually works best. But if you’re dealing with something new and different, and you can’t build what you need cleanly using existing tools, then creating a new kind of tool often gets better results than cobbling something together with the wrong tools for the job.

The hard part is that creating more appropriate tools generally requires understanding your users’ mental model(s) of the situation and the actions they need to take, and even a seemingly small mismatch between what a user expects and what you actually give them can really hurt when the user doesn’t have familiar conventions to fall back on.

In practice, I’ve had some success building UIs around a small number of specialised visualisations and controls (typically making up a single main screen/page) but using only mainstream presentation like tables and histograms for supporting features, but every project is different.
One pattern I've noticed lately is that if some topic gets popular people tend to just beat it with a dead horse (reddit works a lot like this). It's a bit like the 24/7 news cycle.

Hence why I believe HN link curation has become popular.
Read this before submitting a conference proposal (2010)
Can you say more about this? Or can you talk about your reasoning that makes 'home factor' the dominant factor?
You forgot a possible outcome : if the parent prediction about homogeneity is correct, then the nordic countries performance will decrease as the foreign born (or the home born but self identifying as foreign) population increase, and Sweden should be stuck first.

The situation seems to be happening in Malmö - like in other cities in Europe. Yesterday I stumbled on that link : http://www.city-data.com/forum/europe/1278859-good-bye-swede...
This is appalling. Without knowing the OP's life circumstances or much about the dynamic of human relationships for that matter, jumping to this kind of conclusions only make for a witty post, at best.

Raising kids who will want to "call their Dad" once grown up is hardly about letting them make as much noise as they wish at age 4.

I sometime envy how some people view life as a simple If-Then-This-That... Much easier to sleep at night that way.
There are lots of unemployed people out there. You are probably thinking someone has to have intricate knowledge upfront. No. He has to be able to sell. He can learn the intricacies later.
Well, I would expect the OpenBSD folks to think that the Rails folks will eventually get it together or die off. I would also imagine, given it takes no special code to run Rails on OpenBSD, that they feel the Rails folks have more resources to push out releases and OpenBSD folks shouldn't wait on a port.
"I find your response stemming from a false assumption as evidence that you are spending too much of your neural network trying to deal with the deceivers in your life."

Really, you got all that because I assumed your parents lied to you about Santa Claus, just like the majority of parents in the US?

Honestly, I'd love for you to continue ranting. I'm all ears, it's a lot of fun to read. I promise I'll read it.
Right, and not only that, a large number of companies move their headquarters elsewhere, such as Ikea to the Netherlands, Spotify to London etc. If I ever start my own company, I'll make sure never to be that greedy. I see the welfare state as an investment in people and businesses. Investment relies on getting paid by a few outliers. What is essentially happening is that when a company becomes successful it just says "well thanks for all the support and opportunity, but now that we're successful we don't really want to pay you back, so we're just going to go somewhere else, problem?".
Phreaks and Geeks: Before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple
Criminal enterprise or civil disobedience? Does "anonymous" exist for profit or to effect change?
Data is objective. Your choice of goals is the thing that is not.

These two are not independent. Your statement makes it sound like data grows on trees or falls from the sky. Of course that's not so. Someone chose to collect this data rather than some other data. That choice was not objectively given – it's very much affected by "choice of goals", as well as by pre-existing beliefs and no doubt countless other all-too-human factors.

Moreover, the data may be wrong, but lutusp has that one covered.
> He also appears to have just posted a link. Unless he actually uploaded the data, hopefully he's acquitted for that. By this standard, wouldn't Google be guilty of all sorts of terrible crimes?

Intent matters in law.
You would think that, but in practice the effect is weird. You want them to point at the ground outside your window. When they don't its very strange. I guess its why the people in the plane lean into the bank even when they should be feeling it to be unnecessary.

Edit: On thinking about it, it might be double strange because you're "feeling" the bank from what you see outside and feeling the accelerations/decelerations (which may or may not match the plane's pitch which you also get from sight) that big planes do as they fly their patterns. These run together in your brain. It sometimes responds to pitch seen outside, sometimes to acceleration you feel, but never to the roll you expect from what you see. So it seems oddly, randomly broken.
Singapore is not the same size as the Nordic countries.

Norway: 148,746 sq mi

Finland: 130,596 sq mi

Denmark: 16,562 sq mi

Singapore: 274 sq mi
Ah, nothing like a good old duplicate Bitcoin mining 101 thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5142021
This hyperbole is very silly! Weaknesses appear in everything when it becomes popular.

There needs to be something like the "app store" and I don't mean specifically apples' own.

But we need some of the big corps using ROR to step forward and provide complete support for this type of project.
Up until 10.6, actually, Apple used to produce very good, generally bug-free software. Starting with 10.7, they've begun to rush their software just because they have, say, 4 new "features". The yearly release cycle is partly to blame, but even then, iOS bugs are much more minor.
On what grounds are you torn? If you don't like the business model of Pepsi / Coca Cola etc, avoid their products. If you don't like what SodaStream does, avoid their products. No one is forcing you to choose?
>"the circumvention of technological access barriers,"

Oh good grief. That's so vague it could mean jumping a queue, or even less. Here, a criminal circumvents technological access barriers. http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/182/549/cPx...
Would you guys be willing to submit the diffs to the Internet Archive in WARC format?

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000236.sht...
This misses out the effect of the tax advantage of being self-employed, which is massive.

I'm actually a little under the salary/1000 rate in my contracting as compared to my last permanent role, but bring home about 50% more.

--edit-- I understand this is because I have no trouble getting work, but that seems a weird thing to include.
A Craigslist listings scraper your mother could use
See also http://typing.io/lessons
Being a citizen in one of those countries, this is very provocative.
Ok, serious question: In which ways is rubygems less safe than .deb packages, .rpms, portfiles or ebuilds, python eggs, jars or composer files? All of those are mechanisms to distribute and deploy code. All of those suffer from the same basic vulnerability: They ship code that gets executed. If that code gets compromised, you have a viable attack. Debian saw its developer repositories compromised at least in 2006 [1] and back then, we had the same problem: In the beginning nobody was sure whether the package repositories had been attacked.

There is one critical difference between OS package repos and the programming language repos: For an OS package repo, signing is mandatory. Programming language repos allow that, but don't enforce it. Python is a little ahead here, but this is nothing that can't be fixed. I actually see that gem signing will be mandatory in the foreseeable future.

[1] http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/417
"You seem like you are interested in this but I get the sense you already have strong views."

I will read the reference, however, to those of us in Europe, please remember that this methodology resembles a group of earnest steam punks analysing flies in amber with brass and ebony microscopes on an ice floe that is breaking up... I'm suggesting that we suspect positivist descriptions do not capture the important values in education. 90% of what children learn is learned outside school I suggest.

I am prepared to be astounded with contrary evidence.
They made a reasoned decision based on:

- gems shouldn't be installed via ports in the first place
- the ports are not being maintained by BSD
- the gems/ports in question would need to be patched

You turned that into "rails sux, BSD rules." Please stop.
ExceptionNotification v3.0.1 has been released
Tinder was made a soft-dependency, custom email headers and an encoding bug fixed.
Don't wait anymore, update now!
The choice of "security as an afterthought" and "never had any security holes ever" is a false choice between two extremes that don't actually exist (well, at least the second). The poster is referring to two very different approaches to software security. OpenBSD's approach is considered to be the most uncompromising in the industry, and goes further than probably most of us would prefer to go, but nonetheless serves as a good example of what's possible. You can read about it here: http://www.openbsd.org/security.html and there's also some good papers/presentations here: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ .
Please do more research. Your views may have been true two generations ago. They are not now.

Sweden has accepted a huge number of people from the Middle East. I live in Sweden. Today I went to a hamburger place owned by someone from Iraq. Another person there came from Lebanon. My wife just went across the street to get a pizza, where the owner is also from the Middle East.

Sweden started opening up to immigrants (as I understand the history) back in the 1970s. They took in people fleeing the dictatorship in Chile. (They also accepted US draft dodgers in the 1960s and people fleeing the Soviet bloc.) There are currently some 126,000 people born in Iraq who now live in Sweden, and 64,000 from Iran. That alone is 3% of the country. The total immigrant (non-Sweden born) population is about 1.5 million out of 9.5 million, or 16%.

That's about the same as the US, where about 12% of the population was born in another country.

And why did you post that link to the NYT? That talks about The Netherlands, which is not a Nordic country. ("Amid Rise of Multiculturalism, Dutch Confront Their Questions of Identity")
Mourning and public-ness
I think part of the problem is that most 日本人 are 恥ずかしい about their 英語能力. So when someone isn't, they don't stop to think that it might simply be braggadocio.
I was thinking something more in line with this Fry & Laurie sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klZ2suVUL7Q