skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You interpret your hash as a private key. Or as a seed for the private key. Then out of the private key you compute a public key, which when hashed with SHA256 and RIPEMD-160 gives you an address.

Then, before disclosing the document, you transfer some amount to that address and back to your private address. After that, reveal the document: now everyone can repeat the procedure and verify that you have created that document (because you can always prove that you own that "coin" which travelled through the synthetic address).

You can play with keys and addresses here:
http://brainwallet.org
Grew up in the south. His accent is wonderful.

There are thousands of accents in that portion of the country just like anywhere else.

For me it's a wonderful departure from Kevin Spacey being "Kevin Spacey" in just about everything else I've seen him in.

House of Cards is delightful.
That's totally a valid point. I wish more men would speak out against this and, honestly, that it is not used to diminish the equally valid point of sexism in technology.

But we have to understand that in those situations it is not oppression. And that is a key point. Men are not oppressed by society when they are discriminated, because by-and-large, men make more money, have more opportunity, stay within their industries longer, are (perhaps due to last point) promoted more often, tend to be selected with a gender bias to speak about their subjects. Women currently get more college degrees in general today, yet the gender pay gap remains. That's evidence of systemic oppression. That's why we can say men at large are not discriminated against.
Peace out Dreamweaver.
I have read below article many times and recommend this to everyone I know on this topic.

Hope it helps you: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
"This is, however, the bread and butter of shell programming."

This is really old-fashioned thinking. The people who have been in this industry for 10+ years all grew up without computers - and thus had to memorize all of the flags, obscure shell commands, and weird regular expression. What was taught in school back then was to do things perfectly the first time, because CPU cycles were expensive, and bugs were time consuming.

The generation that graduated from college about 2 years ago is the first one that had universal access to a search engine since they knew how to use a computer. This generation (and all future ones for the rest of time) sees memorizing things like this as more of a waste of mental space. What is taught in Universities now is problem solving, research, and larger concepts. There is very little straight memorization, and almost zero programming by hand/whiteboard programming. No current college grad will be able to write a shell script without reference material, but every college grab should be able to write any simple script in less than 5 minutes with Google.
Show HN: whoishiring in angularjs
A weekend hack a made to search who is hiring posts.

If people find this project useful I will put more time into it.

I am also looking for a job.

Thanks.
I think people generally miss the obvious explanation for this. American teenagers have more freedom than kids in other cultures. Here, kids have enormous latitude with regards to how and where they spend their time. They acquire agency at a young age. We don't have strict tracks to various careers or specialized tests to weed people out of opportunities at a young age. We don't have Tiger Moms[1]. We hear lots of stories of uneducated people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps or making it in sports and entertainment. Some other cultures share some of these properties, but not to the degree of the US.

Which gets us to sex and and the fact that sex is an ancient, ancient behavior whose irresistable force will shape the patterns of behavior in any culture. If you want to know why things look a certain way, start with sex.

Teen-agers want the attention of the opposite sex. In America, pretty teen-age girls uniquely have the opportunity to acquire as much attention as they desire and they spend a lot of their time and agency acquiring it. And it is by no means a symmetrical arrangement. The girls seeking attention only want it from a much smaller fraction of the boys.

So, a bunch of girls are gathering attention instead of studying. For most ordinary people--not necessarily Hacker News readers--studying hard enough to be able to program computers or deeply understand maths is a lot of work. And a bunch of girls don't need to bother. On the other hand, a bunch of boys have nothing better to do and can only hope that studying hard will pay off in the attention of girls down the road.

[1] I'm generalizing because pretty much all cognition is for the purpose of generalizing and this discussion is definitely about generalizations.
and oldie, but this is a great interview with a guy who did ports in the 90s, the Lion King segment is the most interesting

http://www.codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/dave-semmens/
Another really important thing Skype can do is terminate calls on regular landlines. That lets Skype plug the gap from old to new, as its network grows.

Google has the infrastructure to make it happen via WebRTC, but it would need to be integrated with accounts and payment.
Automated EC2 deployments from Github
If anyone is interested I just published a Kickstarter project for Mydentity, which combines WebRTC and Mozilla Persona into a non-profit private messenger.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanatkn/mydentity-is-a-...
Maybe, but I'm in my 40s and have been reading and arguing about it as well as experiencing it for my whole life.
Ask HN: What do you think Google will use as ranking factors in 2013?
Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has said that they might use an author's reputation to rank content written by that author. I believe that they might also use other kinds of signals like browsed pages, watched youtube videos, etc etc when signed in to Google+. I would love the input of the HN community on what Google might actually use to "purify" search results.
No, free Wi-Fi isn't coming to every US city
I thought that MS was pushing some form of WebRTC to get Skype working in the browser?
I don't dislike C# or .NET, I dislike Windows.
And yes, I am aware of Mono.
Lorem ipsum is used a lot for typography, as well, so this wouldn't work in many (probably most) cases.

Pretty cool, nonetheless. It would be useful in some situations, certainly.
Please explain how monetary policy is "stealing money". Absurd tin foil hat caricatures like this often makes any reasonable discussion of the Fed and its role impossible.
Here you can reasonably expect to end up litigating Alexander Hamilton with someone who several months ago said this in an HN comment: "Maybury v Madison contained a criminal action on the part of the supreme court where they usurped power that did not belong to them, under the constitution, and where they correctly ruled that unconstitutional laws are invalid the moment they are signed."
The HN link below contains a great walkthrough for osx and mutt-patched. It even includes a keychain setup process. With homebrew its as easy as:

brew install mutt --sidebar-patch

The link to the walkthrough is: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

There are also some helpful comments in the hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597156
Thanks for these thoughts. It makes me wonder about Jody Sherman. I didn't know the man, yet every thing I've read about him sounds like he would be amazing to be around--and a great friend. He, maybe more so than Aaron, had even more to look forward to (i.e. no federal lawsuit, etc). And yet, Jody chose the same end. So sad.
We're basically on the same page and I agree that there are a lot of questions worth considering; as someone that was rather dismissive of aaronsw's course of action in the first place, I've certainly been thinking about how I expressed those views, even though my views have not changed much since.

The only thing I'd add for consideration here is that it's not really the prosecution's job to worry about a defendant's mental state; as I understand it, it's up to the defense team to bring that sort of issue to the attention of the court (ie the judge). Not to do so, but then to bring the matter up in negotiation, looks an awful lot like an attempt at manipulation instead of a sincere concern. The whole idea of the court as a neutral finder-of-fact is to provide defendants with an unbiased ear for such issues so that they're not dependent on the good will of prosecutors.
Probably a multi week course (not constant), or something that teaches you a skill and gives you the chance to implement social changes. For example, 8 weeks of weekly meetings and 1-2 weekly video lectures, along with a week to practice your new skills.

Are you thinking of doing something like this?
If minification and obfuscation were the only things being done, then your analogy would be sound, but tricks like this also have the effect of degrading the experience for legitimate users with javascript disabled.

Adding a dependency on javascript for static content doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Discuss HN: How can we "unlock" more money to fund innovation?
Silicon Valley is neat. I want more of them.

There's a lot of money floating in the world today. Tons and tons of money. Silicon Valley only get's a small portion of it. The rest of the world gets an even smaller portion of what Silicon Valley gets.

Read Point 14 & 15 on this article: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

14. Investors Are Clueless
15. You May Have to Play Games

Points 14 & 15 should not exist. How can we eliminate that? How can we make it so that the people who know how to invest are the ones who have the funds?
You now, I'm really not sure where I picked that up. It's always been my understanding that it was acceptable to change the short flags on a utility as part of a new major version. Not that you should change 'em capriciously, but that it wasn't the end of the world if you did.

Of course, I can't find any references to back me up on that, so you may very well be correct.
> I think, in this case, being confrontational is the right thing to do (though I don't think you should have to engage in a confrontation if you don't want to).

I can't agree with that. The situation she describes is where she's acting as a representative of her company, and anything she does is as the face of the company, rather than as a person.

The decision to be confrontational about it is her company's decision, not hers.
If you read Aaron's blog, you'll see he posted about his illnesses back in 2007. From his account, it sounds like he suffered from burnout/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). I would suspect that his 'flu' 2 weeks before his death might have been a CFS/burnout episode. Severe depression can be a symptom, and suicide is usually the end-result if you don't know what's happening.

I know this because I suffered from burnout and CFS myself, and had severe depression, and I did quite a bit of research to figure out what was happening.

The bottom line is that people like Aaron and myself who have a high capacity for working incredibly hard also tend to suffer from burnout which can lead to CFS and severe depression. The mistake Aaron made is that you CANNOT push through it. The other mistake he made was hiding it from other people.
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To answer your question: yes, you can sue the politicians for spending your money in a way you don't think is Constitutional. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flast_v._Cohen and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)#Taxpayer_standin....
That said, the best way to fix the problem is to vote the politicians out of office.

(Not really going to touch the rest of this...)
Hi. Author here. Your name is quite famous in the GPGPU community, and it is great to hear that you now work on RSC. My experience does not compare to yours and I do hope my post is seen in a positive light. Would love to discuss the issues in depth sometime.

Anyway if you were to ignore everything in the post except one item, that would be to please fix gather/scatter in RSC. A parallel computing API without proper gather/scatter is simply not very useful, irrespective of whether it is on desktop or mobile.

I will keep following RSC and look forward to the developments you are hinting at.
His profession? He's not a prosecutor. He's not a criminal attorney. Is he even a litigator?

Do I get to inveigh against all software developers every time armed drone C&C software plays a role in killing a civilian somewhere?
> I honestly wonder how they do it.

Have you ever heard of open source? :)

I've contributed to this project and various others and I frequently had people either hire me to add features to a certain project I worked on/released or bought me a book or so off my Amazon wishlist.

Though one time a company actually paid me to work on open source, this is nothing that pays my rent (currently) and also not my motivation to work on open source in the first place. My main driver is that I use open source and I decided to give back. It also helps my resume though I never really needed that either.

As for RoundCube's design — thank you. I am not a 100% sure right now if "money" went towards the design, but feel free to drop us a line at hello~at~roundcube~dot~net.
Here's full range of what's possible with the CSS content Property in case you're interested:
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_gen_content.asp
I currently work three days a week for a reasonable salary.
Admittedly I live in New Zealand, so possibly the job market is different here (we're a pretty laid-back culture, and there's a shortage of good programmers).

I would suggest negotiating this arrangement when you're changing jobs. Your existing employer will likely be reluctant to reduce your hours, whereas (if you're any good) a new employer will be happy to have you for half of each week if the alternative is not having you at all. And it needs to be clear that that is the alternative. My current employer made me a couple of good full-time offers, which I declined: "I'm currently only looking for part time work, as I need the time to pursue my personal projects and interests."

Still on the theme of "It's better to have you part-time than not at all", you may be able to negotiate an ongoing part-time position at your existing workplace if you are seriously considering leaving (and thus the alternative is your leaving, and their not having you at all). Be careful about this, though. You want to maintain a good relationship. An ultimatum will do you no good. But if you're genuinely in-good-faith considering leaving, they may consider your offer.

You will probably have to try a number of different companies before you find one that will hire you on those terms. And, as with all bargaining, you need to be able to walk away.

DISCLAIMER: This worked for me the one time I tried it, but that may be complete coincidence.
Am I misreading this? You bought a tablet for a little kid's birthday present?
Thank you for your continued work in this field!
It is not reasonable to presume that people are likely to commit suicide over the threat of a 6 month prison sentence. You know that I think the Heymann prosecution was way out of line, but your argument here is a caricature.
Show HN: a conspiracy theory generator
For most ordinary people [...] deeply understand maths is a lot of work.
And a bunch of girls don't need to bother. On the other hand, a bunch
of boys have nothing better to do and can only hope that studying hard
will pay off in the attention of girls down the road.

I agree with a little kernel of truth here that says girls are perversely encouraged to just ride on their charisma, but it's a huge fallacy to believe this is somehow the most natural state since people in America are by definition free. They might be politically free, but social pressures and conventions are enormous.

Do not make the same mistake evolutionary psychologists make all the time in assuming whatever you see culturally is hard-coded into the human mind. This is probably hard to notice until you start looking at a lot of other countries, where some are even more restrictive but others are way more liberal than the US.

Girls being encouraged to do nothing but look pretty and dig for wealthy husbands is not the hallmark of a free society and it is not somehow justifiable by making a hand-wavy statement about the supposed nature of the sexes.
Awesome article and props to him for sharing that, must be hard to pour out something that is really hard for him and for all of us to admit, which is that even though we know not to put our work ahead of our health, we do.

If this can serve as a wake up call for people to stop putting off the burning necessities of health and family then it probably has more value than 99.9% of the stuff circulating on the internet.
> closed

Good 'ol stackoverflow
I don't see anything that makes me think it's homophobic? Are you implying that gay men tend to be beardless?

And yes. Parenting sites that assume that fathers can't be parents are sexist. Parenting sites that assume that fathers won't be primary caretakers because their target demographic's culture is sexist and doesn't understand that male parents are important are fence-sitting and sexist by omission.
In office workers vs remote workers - but I have a dog in that hunt.
:) Great idea. Thank you mate. Any other feedback on the site?
Isn't the S&P rating just an opinion? If I created a subscription-based restaurant newsletter that you relied on and subsequently got food poisoning, would you sue me or just cancel your subscription and tell all your friends that my ratings were garbage?
Coursera's free.
Last I checked everyone was trying to create something better. Google, Apple, Facebook, Tencent, carriers, and many startups.
I have friends down the road in MN and the speeds are amazing! They covered a pretty good chunk of homes at launch too.
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Face it people, Feminism is Evil!

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Feminism...
I thought that at least here in Missouri[1] and in numerous other states[2], the exclusivity contract is no longer a lever the municipalities have, thanks to statewide franchising laws.

AT&T was the main lobbyist behind these laws during their U-Verse deployment. The statewide franchising would let them deploy U-Verse broadly without having to negotiate with individual city councils (and deal with "sure you can sell cable here, so long as there's free cable for the firehouse, free internet for every school, etc").

With 91 municipalities in St Louis alone, this'd be an expensive barrier to entry for AT&T when they can just buy a state law to avoid it all. The law also lets existing incumbents get out of their franchise contracts with municipalities and go statewide if a competitor enters.

[1] http://www.senate.mo.gov/07info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionTyp...

[2] http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/telecom/statewide-video-...
> This post is pretty childish.

How is it childish to call out bad behaviour?

Calling out bad behaviour like this is a pretty good deterrent.
Don't worry, 9/10 reviews are still available for the bargain price of one pre-release copy of the game.
It's not "discrimination" any more than having bathrooms is discrimination against people who have a catheter and urine bag, having a company parking lot is discrimination against people who don't have cars, having retirements benefits are discrimination against people who drop dead at 64, or having birth control covered by insurance is discrimination against the forever alone.

Under 20% of women are still childless by 40-44 (i.e. the practical end of their child-bearing years), and that number seems to have peaked. That means 80% of women (and presumably men assuming things are at least somewhat symmetric) will have children at some point. It's a basic biological function that is relevant to the large majority of the population at some point in their lives that society has unsurprisingly found a way to accommodate.

Not to mention that having and raising children generates a large positive externality. You benefit in the present from the assumption that people will continue to have children in the future. E.g. investment into Silicon Valley is modulated on their being tons of 18-25 year olds to watch advertising 10, 20, 30 years from now. Raising an educating a future taxpayer is literally an investment in the country and in all the businesses that will still be around 10, 20, 30 years from now and need young workers.
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The Ever Changing Focus of a Startup
Really, the knee-jerk response to every single closed question on SO isn't terribly useful.

First off, you can still read the question and vote on answers. Since there are already several answers, adding another one would not be very useful anyhow.

Moreover, it's closed as a duplicate. There's an essentially identical question--with essentially the same answer--that's quite a bit older. It makes sense to point people to it so that there's one centralized resource on the topic.
Thanks for the comment.

A couple of words about "value". Value is a concept. It does not exist in reality like matter or energy. This concept applies to voluntary actions. It does not apply to involuntary actions. If a judge and a policeman force you to accept USD as a method of paying you, it says nothing about how USD is valuable for you. We can only observe that you value your life more than non-complience.

So "legal tender" laws do not create any kind of value at all. I would argue that, probably, the opposite is true: when something must be enforced, it is because of its negative utility.

In the peaceful situation, however, we may discuss different kinds of values.

Certain things can be valuable for your own immediate needs, without much participation from other people. E.g. your pen is useful without need for cooperation with others. You may say the pen has "direct" use value.

Dollar bills are almost only valuable when you can trade them for something with others. Of course, you can do paper planes or use them for cocaine sniffing, but that happens comparatively rarely.

Bitcoin block chain allows not only money exchange (which requires somebody to exchange with you), but also some bookkeeping for yourself, or your friends, or future generations.
If you're suggesting that nerds are incapable of "reading" the difference between fantasy and reality, I'm not really sure what to say. Certainly most nerds I know are capable of doing so. That's such a basic thing that I don't even think that falls into the category of social skills anymore. If nerds think that seeing something in fiction is a good reason to try it IRL then the anti-videogame-violence crowd has a lot more going for it than I thought.
Closed as a duplicate of this equivalent question, which has an equally good answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871505/

Which is, itself a duplicate of this question, which has an even better answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3146798/
Also because when you send high-level executives of major financial firms to prison, you risk creating run-on-the-bank scenarios that harm more people than the prosecution could possibly help.

That this TOTALLY SUCKS does not change the actual facts on the ground, which the DOJ and the President have to evaluate and judge before acting on.
I implemented scatter back in October, but it just barely missed Android 4.2. It's in the next release.
A good point, but climate change isn't an isolated issue. Most CO2 measures also address the issue of how we're going to supply resources to our universally-acknowledged overpopulation problem - increased efficiencies, alternate fuels, so on and so forth. Most of them provide benefits outside the climate change arena.
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