skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the black markets are just the first adopters. After that, bitcoin will enable low-cost payment and payout processing and money transfer automation for everyone in the world. This is a great thing.
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You should make a real poll. Unless you are only asking this question for karma. http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
It's impossible to compute the number of treatments that weren't even invented because the inventor saw the FDA barrier as too much trouble for him to manage.

The real question is the unpopular one: by what right does the FDA insert itself between doctor and patient, between drug manufacturer and doctor?

Ah, dogma. It's killing us.
Or maybe something like this drone delivery network:
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-...
Silk Road is a burden. Most serious Boitcoin discussion forums and chat channels will ban you for mentioning it. We're trying to change how cash transactions work, not help teens go to rave parties.
Crypto is probably one of the few types of software patents that I'd support. It's non-obvious in the extreme, and patenting a cryptosystem might be a good way to open it for public review.
To set the context, I think Steve's post is more or less triggered by the Snarky comments that David's article got - http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-comp...
>Another commenter says that the project wiki suggests using qemu to run the x86 code on ARM, and then trap calls into native (ARM) WINE libraries. This approach seems unlikely to yield good performance. I am concerned that different C and C++ calling conventions means some additional work will have to be done to cleanup function arguments at every call, which is just more overhead on top of x86 emulation…

There is already similar project about running x86 windows application on top of Windows RT:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2095934

It will be interesting to compare.
Is this 'SlimBook' guaranteed to be concise, to the point and overall; a fulfilling read? Or is coining it as such just an excuse for the author to skimp out on content? 55 pages does not seem like an awful lot. Although for the price, I suppose it is proportional to a meatier book.
I don't see it as very HN-specific. It's the exact same pattern you find at Reddit and Slashdot, so if YC is mainly attempting to cultivate that property, looking for users with the highest Reddit karma might be a good strategy (and they've proven themselves to a larger audience, probably more representative of average consumers). The negative way of looking at it is that it's most important just to be in the general vicinity of activity and say something with either broad appeal, or provocation.

In academia this is becoming a common strategy with the rise of metrics. Find a hot area, publish a paper with a linkbaity title and prominent keyword placement, and wait for the citations to roll in. In business, it's the strategy of choosing your field of endeavor by picking the places where the most money is flowing around, and then just doing something average in that space.
Really? I read the source and it really is as simple as it looks, although there are some clever optimizations such as SCORE also being used to keep track of your current location.
I think what the authors point is that yes, most people won't truly be able to disable it. But for those that want to (say, to copy and paste the entire article for personal gain), it's trivially easy. And it is. Even if they know nothing of web dev, they can google for five minutes and find out how to disable the security "feature".
Fine for me:

Chrome 24.0.1312.56
Safari Version 6.0 (7536.25)
OSX 10.7.5
Wait, what? There are no transactions that should be blocked?

I'll be a little bit extreme here and agree that there are no voluntary transactions, made between consenting adults, that should be blocked. Any use of force (or threat of force) to try and achieve some social or political end is evil, IMO. Even if the "end" is a noble one, like preventing arson. It's the act of the arsonist which is evil, and intervening to prevent him/her from torching someone else's property is just self defense, which I would consider acceptable.

But, then again, I'm a radical anarcho-capitalist / voluntaryist, so I'm a bit biased.
Here's a similar quote from Jay-Z:

“This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.”
or know c++ to be an expert in metaprogramming.
For a small stream of deliveries, perhaps. And the costs and risks of loss would seem to be fairly linear with an aircraft strategy.

The tunnel has large start-up costs but then tiny marginal costs for bulk transport. Beyond a certain expected lifetime, it'd surely dominate aerial costs/risks for cost-effectiveness.

Subs are probably somewhere in-between.
Monads and Gonads
First of all, it doesn't sound like they are "hiring" anyone; that would run counter to being an entrepreneur =).

Second, I assumed the statement meant that Kamen et al. would be especially receptive to local women running the machines. Remember, that women are likely to be repressed in countries where this machine is going to be useful. Empowering women in developing countries has a history of being an effective way to lift people out of poverty. For examples, I point you to the success that microfinance has had in lending money to women.
Is This a Patent for the Rumored "Budget" iPhone?
What could Twitter have done better? What would you do if your users' accounts were compromised?
New Antarctic research lab has extendable legs, can crawl over the ice  Alt
>Wine and other emulation programs

Wine isn't an emulator (it's in the name!), it's a compatibility layer.

>usually the performance is too poor or unreliable

Nonsense. Wine being a compatibility layer means that, while some apps are quite a bit slower, performance is generally good.
Twilio Powered Superbowl Drinking Game
zarel@Serine:~$ ./YOU_ARE_DEAD -h
KEYS: WASD. YOU ARE DEAD.

The rest is actually pretty easy to figure out.
Right click disabling is especially annoying because it prevents me from using the context menu to do back->forward->reload which I do out of habit.

And since it's usually implemented as an alert() you get that "thunk!" noise every time you try (unless like me you disable all event sounds).

You don't even need to turn off JS to rip the pages usually, just doing "save as" will do the job.

The way I have heard people justify this is "Even if it doesn't work, at least it warns people" though I'm pretty sure site rippers know exactly what they are doing.

Indecently, I have found that when site rippers rip your site they don't usually bother to change the src="" for assets and will continue to serve JS from your domain.

In such a case you simply need to do a referrer check when you serve up the JS scripts and you can inject whatever you want into the ripped page including a redirect back to your own site (or any site of your choosing).
Life is so much more than being a profitable servant. The Danes have more than enough food to feed themselves and enough houses to shelter everyone. Ensuring those basic needs, food and shelter requires at most 10% of the workforce. The remainder 90% can be allocated to schools, hospitals, retirement homes, tv production, professional athletes, accountants, hairdressers, etc.

There is no shortage of either resources or labor. The only problem is how it is allocated.
And hopefully the creator of the FIRST Robotics competition for HS students.

http://www.usfirst.org

I've met dozens of students at MIT who say the experience with FIRST was the main reason they decided to study science and engineering. (And I've heard similar stories from folks at Stanford, CMU, etc.)

Dean's a genius with an amazing team, but that impact can only go so far. Inspiring thousands of new students in STEM careers is solving the world's problems at a meta level.
It's an interesting dilemma rightsholders find themselves in.

On the one hand, when people override trivial content protection measures, Internet commenters are up in arms about attempts to take recourse in the law. How can it be unlawful, commenters ask, for people to undertake actions that any semiliterate technical person instinctively knows how to do?

On the other hand, when rightsholders attempt to employ anything approaching sophisticated content protection, those same commenters are up in arms about the extent to which they're inconvenienced. To rub it in, they never fail to mention how content protection "doesn't stop pirates anyways".

What's a content producer to do? Give away their content for free, one supposes, and eventually go out of business. The Internet has spoken!

Late edit:

I think we get it, by the way. There's no worse sin that sacrificing convenience. Convenience is such an important principle on the Internet that it overrides practically all other concerns. "I would pay for this content", says the Internet 'pirate', "but HBO won't let me pay $2.99 an episode for it, so I'm entitled to take it."

But that's neither here nor there. I said the dilemma was "interesting", because it is. I didn't say Javascript DRM was a good idea.
After you read Meditations, follow up with Essays by Montaigne and then Markings by Dag Hammarskjold. Thank me later!

PS - don't just read, take notes and write your own reflections. That's the way to learn.
I think this is what I like about running - although as walking would be less physically demanding I'm sure your thoughts may wander a bit more (That being the goal here).
I just stumbled on it in a lambda-the-ultimate thread and thought it looked neat.
There does seem to be a trend toward more distributed and self-reliant production being enabled by improving technology: 3d printing, aquaponic gardening, biofuels, etc.

Still, the lower-level components and building blocks of the technologies that enable these applications still needs to be designed and distributed, and even those who generate their own electricity, grow their own food, and purify their own water are going to find it challenging to manufacture their own solar panels, construct their own pump systems, etc. More and more hackers might be designing homebrew electronics, but we're still a long way from DIY silicon fabrication.

So it's not that the large-scale, centralized economy will go away; it's that as the value of economies of scale in production of consumption goods diminishes, the centralized production systems and complex distribution networks of the industrial economy will pivot, and end up supplying tools and raw materials more, and finished goods less.

I bet over the next century, we'll see a gradual reversal of the economic patterns of the last 150 years or so, with more and more people adopting a kind of high-tech homesteading, fewer people working as employees for others, and finished goods being increasingly produced by end-users themselves or by smaller cottage industries, with the industrial infrastructure increasingly supplying inputs rather than final products.
I get what you're saying. When I initially met with the department manager, he was excited about the potential of what we could do to make the website more progressive. He sees what other competing companies do and realizes that if this company wants to stay in its position atop, it needs to jump the gun on staying with the times.

I think it would be an important and interesting step to see a financial institute actually encourage and stand by the decision to help out the development community. The best analogy I can offer is when Comcast started using Twitter to directly talk to people. It was inconceivable that a large, faceless corporation would do this and now it's mainstream. In a similar regard, it would be amazing to see more large enterprises wanting to reach out to the development community and give back in a public way.

They will ultimately choose a proprietary, mature CMS platform. I'm crossing my fingers it's not .NET since it's pretty much a nightmare for front end developers. But, hopefully we can find a balance that allows an agile approach to development but also gives us the flexibility to use forward-thinking technologies to improve the workflow.
In OS X (well, Snow Leopard at least), YOU_ARE_DEAD throws an error because `seq` doesn't exist in OS X and brew doesn't have it. This script does the trick: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/step_through_count_numeric_valu...
If you are the sort of person savvy enough to know how to rip and republish webpages this won't stop you.

The fundamental broken thing about DRM is that once you have a single DRM free copy in circulation along with computers that will run arbitrary code/content the barrier is lowered for everyone else considerably.

Same as the difference between knowing enough ASM to beat a copy protection scheme in a game vs knowing how to copy over a "fixed" .exe.

As an aside , I know a few non tech savvy people who figured out how to turn off JS years ago in order to copy porn images from various websites and install browser plugins to rip streams from the free tube websites.
So when you reach a certain (unspecified) karma level, the quality of your submissions stops being judged by HN readers and starts being judged by HN admins? And in twenty-plus cases they consistently found my submissions wanting, every time? Wanting so much that they needed to be filtered out before other HN users could even see them?

If that sounds reasonable to you, you've found a friendly place here, I guess. To me it sounds bizarre.

Find something really good to submit from an obscure corner of the web. Not the usual suspects. Not linkbait. Not blogspam. Then you can test your theory.

My submissions included stuff I wrote myself, which is by definition "not the usual suspects."

Look at this piece, for instance, which I submitted:

http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2012/08/twitter-teaches-a-new-gene...

Is this blogspam? Is this linkbait? I would argue it's an original discussion of an issue that was much debated among HN readers at the time. You may agree or disagree with its premise, but I cannot see how you could classify it as cheap.

And yet it was killed, just like all the others.
That doesn't mean it's not true though, right?

I mean, help me along with this. Bitcoin is like cash, but you need to use a computer. If I'm already using a computer, there are many reasons I might prefer to use another payment system: Traceability, reversibility, confirmability, et cetera. These are generally very useful features that translate directly into me paying less for stuff.

It seems to me like for most people, the only real advantage to cash is that it is anonymous, and the only reason most people need anonymity is if what they're buying is actually illegal, and for most people that means drugs.

So if I'm an average guy with a job, a mortgage, and a credit card, if I pay my taxes, and stop for pedestrians, and I like to drop acid occasionally, what am I going to use bitcoin for?
>But if you explore the ideas fully, how much do you keep of your initial self?

The point of learning is to change oneself. Socrates addressed this by likening the mind to a wax block, upon which ideas are "stamped" (in his Meno (sp) Plato contradictorily claimed that all knowledge is recalled from a separate preincarnate existence, but that's another topic). In learning one seeks to move from one state of knowing to another. Ideas change oneself. The alternative is shunning ideas, and thereby shunning one's growth.

>And how do you do that, if you knows beforehand of the pitfalls, such as the ones you mentioned?

Do not assume one will be inevitably converted by what one reads.

>How can you explore ideas if you already fear them?

Stop fearing them. Be stoic, or use some other virtue to overcome one's trepidation.

>Analysis requires a reference

Correct. The reference of analysis are its fundamentals. Much of Aristotle's Organon and Metaphysics, as well as Plato's Timaeus, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Plotinus' Enneads, etc., concern the fundamentals of thought. The examination of these fundamentals, while in some sense "obvious", are in no way "pointless".

The true pitfall is fear.
Contracts with minors (under 18, not just first graders) are unenforceable (technically: voidable) with very narrow exceptions.

The lesson here is that schools won't do your work for you. They have zero incentive to educate you about you rights. They can tell you the law is whatever sounds convenient for them--they're gambling that people will just go along and not check.
Nothing fishy about her numbers. These are net values. Both men and women contribute in their (best) working years, but as children and young adults, and again at old age, they cost more.
I usually try to step out of the office and walk a few blocks around 3pm every day. It's maximum drowsiness time, and fresh air and a change of scenery does wonders for productivity. Obviously much easier to do in California.
Even with consideration, any contract signed by a student under threat of loss of education (which is a civil right), is signed under duress and therefore invalid.
I like to go running at night. The night is so beautiful and peaceful. It allows me to reflect upon many things.
Just saw this ad from .co domain, (disclaimer: it's not great.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a...
But those "moral rights" are generally not transferable to others.
I thought ECC was vulnerable to Shor's algorithm. Of course we probably don't have QCs good enough to actually do it even for "toy" key sizes, let alone for the 256 bit or higher key sizes that are commonly used.
That statement is true for all first world countries.
Three trends: (1) internationalisation driving revenue growth, (2) digitisation driving margin expansion, and, (3) demography driving changing attitudes towards internet shopping.

(1) 2/5 of Amazon's revenues come from outside the U.S. Amazon has (a) room to grow, and, (b) a foothold to ride rising developing world consumer spending.

(2) Amazon raised its U.S. margins 2 percentage points last quarter YoY. The expectation is that they can export this margin expansion, thought to be driven by digital services.

(3) Proclivity to shop online appears to be, and I say this tentatively, inversely related to age. As people born after 19xy make up a greater fraction of the population online shopping will gain a share of retail activity. Amazon is solidly positioned for this. Further, as the present generation of shoppers gets older and wealthier, its retail, read: online, read: Amazon, spending will increase, too.

Disclaimer: I do not have a position in AMZN.
I think that if your entire business model is based around your content not being easy to copy then you are probably doomed.

We can argue about whether or not this is a good thing or not but the writing seems to be on the wall.

The only other alternative would be legislation governing internet usage that would basically amount to strict enforcement of usage of heavily locked down devices to anybody without a "general computer license" or similar.
I feel that the Ask section has been changed recently. Sometimes a very very old post will suddenly be on the front Ask page. Sometimes, an Ask post never gets to the Ask section and this happened to me once. There was one day when I couldn't comment on many of the Ask posts. I was going to ask a similar question as yours.
Not everything can be printed today...
Different states. Very different states.
I don't know about that, though. The problem is that many people, especially the type who don't already know how to bypass this, will not even know that the solution is one google search away. It could be a day's worth of hacking into their own browser, for all they know...and that is enough to prevent them from investigating further.

The amusing part of this is tha the blogger in question assumes his material is something people want to copy and paste. If it is the case that most of them never wanted to copy and paste in the first place, the blogger will go on thinking that his solution worked, and will continue to stew in his own ignorance
This is currently a well-studied problem in cryptography.

NTRU is one of many post-quantum (pq) candidates. Other ones include McEliece, a very old (1978) asy system that uses error-correcting codes but was beaten in the market by RSA's shorter secure keys, and Lamport-Diffie, which uses hash functions.

Here's a good talk:

http://cr.yp.to/talks/2008.10.18/slides.pdf
God likes elephants.

I like Alexander, just cause he's awesome. I wonder if the gene pools of Greeks, then Romans, then French, then English, then German... If their great soldiers and thinkers got killed-off.

God says...
C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

only at first very high. When the
trade or practice becomes thoroughly established and well known, the
competition reduces them to the level of other trades.

Secondly, this equality in the whole of the advantages and disadvantages
of the different employments of labour and stock, can take place only
in the ordinary, or what may be called the natural state of those
employments.

The demand for almost every different species of labour is sometimes
greater, and sometimes less than usual. In the one
Weren't us tech-savvies already supposed to be boycotting godaddy because of their support for SOPA?
Before I was studying CS I worked in a call center for customer support (I now have an internship, thank God). People are relentless thanks to the anonymous nature of the phone. I learned pretty quickly that if I took a walk on my breaks* that my mood would always improve.

To this day I now walk to school and work, and I like to think it's helped make me more creative and introspective. As always, I know that it helps keep my mood up. I really urge people to try to get outside and walk around a bit daily, it works wonders!
Harassment. Making a scene, also known as disturbing the peace. Refusing to leave, which amounts to criminal trespass. Maybe even assault, if they're really feeling their oats and are willing to claim you made them fear for their safety.
Write one! Use any language. You'll probably learn a ton. McEliece looks like a particularly fun one to do, and its building blocks have a lot of other uses (unlike RSA).
Even distributors probably do not know all the ways that Tor can be attacked. Look at the Hushmail/DEA case: you had a reasonably big steroids distributor using Hushmail, sending mountains of incriminating evidence through that system apparently unaware that there was a major security problem. Is it really so hard to believe that the police might be able to get a Silk Road distributor to follow an off-site link?
What's a content producer to do? Give away their content for free

Build the cost of piracy into your pricing. If your business model buckles under the pressure of copy & paste technology, you're doing it wrong.
It is very hard to say that any patient should be allowed to opt-out of the FDA's regulation because almost without exception every patient that buys into snake-oil thinks it is a good idea that is worth a shot.

How do you distinguish between "this patient is making an informed decision to opt out and use this unapproved drug" and "this patient is an idiot who thinks that throwing money at a "doctor" to mainline bleach will cure his disease"?
Poll: Do you find article title changes annoying?
Recently there have been a surge in title editing. Do you think this is annoying, appropriate, or you just simply don't care.
I did't notice.