skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, maybe I'm not understanding something.

Since you can generate unlimited wallets, lets say I have two, A and B.

Wallet A is known to belong to me. Coins I buy off of Mt. Gox end up in this wallet.

I create wallet B, and then send coins to it.

Using wallet B, I then send coins to a hosting company's wallet for for a server.

The fact that I sent coins from Wallet A to Wallet B is public information. The fact that I own wallet B is not public information.

If I was a government type trying to trace someone down, how would I prove who owns wallet B?

Let's assume I generate a new wallet every time I pay for hosting when the bill comes due. The path is even murkier.

If I was really paranoid, I could create wallet B, hop on Tor, make a post on a bitcoin board somewhere selling some kind of non existent goods, posting my Wallet B address for payment, regenerate my Tor circuit, post as another account on the same board indicating interest in these goods and post my wallet A address.

How does this look to any observer like anything but some guy sending coins to some other guy who ends up using those coins to buy hosting, or any other good or service?
Play Framework 2.1 released
Though valve do the same thing with their games..

I don't think it's necessarily bad to have a few different distributors, after all it was not so long ago that people would get their meat and vegtables from different shops for example.
2 years in, our hardware product, Radfan, is launched
Signs of life from Lake Vostok
Wow! Am I the only one reading this book? No comments so far about the book. I don't remember how I ended up reading this book for past an hour or so. I know Lisp so jumped on Part III after reading the Chapter 1. This really looks like a gem I have never heard of. Anyone already read this? Any comments? Not much in Amazon Reviews.

Thanks for sharing!
>But then the supply chain for something useful like an aircraft, or mechanical digger would be a lot more useful.

By what metric? Please, do explain. What does it mean to be "useful." Is a chef useful? Is an artist useful? Comments like yours get under my skin because they seem purposefully vague, which allows plenty of room for high browing, and faux elitism.

>rather than just selling sugar for the sake of finance.

Ok, so what is your cut off? Should all food manufacturers switch to aerospace engineering so they can finally contribute something useful? Bakeries? We should probably laud them as well. After all, they are, pretty much by definition, sugar in return for profit. Art is probably out too, I suppose. The film industry, despite is fantastically complex tool chain, at the end of the day, isn't really "useful." It contributes a kind of arbitrary happiness. Feel free to let me know if I'm off base, or if you feel as though I'm strawmanning. It's just that "sum happiness" and "useful" are so vague and poorly defined that I have no idea what you mean.

>jsut an interesting deate about values, economics, production and globalisation?

Dismissing something without reason is not a debate. That is the issue I took with your comment. "sum happiness" means nothing at all.
>> "Defendants have published copious volumes of such false statements to many third parties, theoretically extending to every person on Earth through the Internet

...really swinging for the fences with this one.
Cartoon about Work Passion
It's So Meta, Even This Acronym
Cool approach! I'll keep that in mind.
SXSW Linux Showdown
It depends who does the removing. In the past Apple themselves have removed apps from both the App Store and customer devices for malware issues. But if a developer stops selling an app, it remains on your device.
Anonymity has always been easier than it is now. Before sophisticated record keeping, you were anonymous to any stranger or new acquaintance. Moving to a new town was an opportunity to become a new person. Anything you published could be pseudonymous or anonymous. Letters and phone calls were essentially anonymous, unless you specifically announced your identity.

With modern technology, all that is slipping away, or already gone.
Which is something that anybody can do, many will threaten to do, some will intend to do, and very few will actually do.
I use Teamviewer all the time and find it very useful. I need to spend a little time to look at how the connections are made though—I'm not confident that it's secure since you have to enter an ID and password that are (I'm assuming) authenticated by a different machine controlled by Teamviewer. I wonder if the connection is sent through their computers (to get around router issues) and therefore susceptible to capturing passwords, etc. or if the connection is handed off to the two machines after the ID / password is handled.
I thinking that is stupid to make DMCA takedown for this - http://designmodo.com/flat-free/ just check layervault site :)
the difference is more that visible...

I think that Flat UI is 95% unique, and is very well.

say no DMCA ABUSE!
Well I guess the intent is the same but it looks a lot more like Vundle (or Bundler). You just have to define the package name in a textfile (like with Bundler) instead of managing git submodules or downloading plugins another way into their own folder.
You have a more narrow view of what Kickstarter is than most, and more narrow than Kickstarter itself. All they say about themselves is, "Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects." If you don't like it don't fund it, but if it is any consolation, big projects like this bring a lot more eyeballs and money to Kickstater, and will end up helping smaller projects get funded. I had never funded anything until Doublefine Adventure, but now I found at least one thing a month.
... but nobody talks about this! Shamefull.
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How to go viral every time (spoiler: it's luck)
Casper.js is definitely a great tool, with helpful documentation
Substack rants on node http
This comment made me unreasonably happy.
That wasn't the issue in my case. It was foreach (var b in f()). f did not do any allocations, just a loop with a bunch of yield return statements.

This is why I suspected that it was simply worse machine code after JIT. But I wasn't sure of all the details of the code that was inserted on my behalf.
Showrooming: The Challenges and Opportunities
> Do you think that'd be clear to a first-year Clojure dev?

It better be. One of the very first topics that a Lisp programmer must know is the implications of separate read/compile/eval phases.
Hey HN,

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BOLD Entertainment connects companies with celebrities for endorsement and partnership deals.

We are currently working with the following celebrities:
• Mark Wahlberg
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Justin Timberlake
• Ashton Kutcher
• Kid Cudi
• Josh Duhamel
• Fergie
• Nick Swardson
• Jeremy Piven
• Adrian Grenier
• Jim Carrey
• & more

We are currently focusing on the following markets:
• Social
• Local
• Mobile
• Fashion
• Consumer Hardware
• & New brands

Feel free to email me if you have any questions regarding BOLD, I'm more than happy to get on a Skype call and discuss more about your company!

Email: shahedkhan30@gmail.com
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In Japan, Sleeping on the Job Demonstrates Commitment to Your Work
The basic mechanics of this just read awesomely. Viruses generally "attack" cells by having protein sheathes with molecular "hooks" that latch onto cell wall receptors to disrupt the membrane and deliver the viral payload into the inner workings of the cell.

This technique uses a similar mechanism (molecular latching structures) that are scaled and aligned to fit into the viruses outer sheathes themselves, then disrupt the virus structure between host cells (DNA/RNA doesn't last long without protection). It's like fighting viruses with virus-like binding mechanisms, except the attack vector isn't self replicating.
Some of the narco-sub stuff in incredibly impressive given the constraints they're working under. They might spend ~$5M on a single-use vessel, knowing it's going to be maybe 1-2% of the total value of the trip, and the risk of re-use is too great.

I'm curious how UUV (unmanned/autonomous underwater vehicle) tech might change the economics of that; certainly you could improve on the eggs/basket metric if you could bring the cost/size/detectability down.

For your cruising theory; I wonder just how hard it would be to build a magnetic/quickset-epoxy limpet-mine type construction that can hold a few 10's of Kg of payload.
Bonus points for ruggedised GPS+satphone so you can track it, and perhaps even instruct it to detach and inflate buoyancy compensator 10-20m underwater til you come collect.
I'm not sure hackers brought their "A" game to this event. In contrast to earlier events, winners must disclose their methods to participate in return for only $150,000 per exploit. A black hat hacker could make much more from their methods, and a white hat hacker could as well--in consulting fees.
Bill Clinton: It’s time to overturn DOMA
Ask HN: what are the money-making ideas one just can't screw up?
What markets from the web 1.0 era are still making money without a need for innovation? For example, forums, shared hosting, are those still generating revenue if you are just starting out?
So the longterm goal of this would be to replace oh-my-zsh and it's host all plugins in one repository and hope robyrussel merges the change request?

Sounds pretty good if this works out I think. Are there any obvious downsides?
IOW, they are patent holders just like any other patent holder. You can dislike the patent system, but sloppiness in language doesn't help your argument, such as it is.
That makes sense. If you have Click-To-Play you do have Java, so returning true is correct.
This may be naive, but I would be honest and reasonably objective. Not "the mgt sucks". But the "mgt style was not a good fit for me. There was too much micromanagement." Not "the job sucked". But "the job was not what I thought it would be, based on the job description and interviews."
Agreed. I'd much rather play a MMO that included permanent death but the balance needs to be there. It can be a much more rewarding experience, especially the types of conflict that you can create (actually pkilling someone from a league and having that league come after you)

If the entry point is too high (say several weeks of grinding to get even a mid-level player) people will be less likely to venture out and play the game. The reward is very low for the risk. If the entry point is too low then it'll just be a FPS. Striking that balance is really tough.

In my opinion, a permanent death MMO it should take about 20 hours of grinding to reach the top 2%, 60 hours of grind to reach the top 1%, and 400 hours to reach the top %0.01 (and so on).
I backed Torment and Project Eternity but I'm also backing this. I spent a good chunk of the 90s immersed in games by Origin and I'm now interested in seeing what Garriott can do without the shackles of a publisher (EA, back in the day).
Firefox OS and Browser Choice
Full article is available here: http://www.intmedpress.com/journals/avt/abstract.cfm?id=2346...

Abstract is free, full text is £17.50.
I have backed it (and did link it on HN), but let's see how this and Wasteland 2 turn out before rejoicing.
> Sorry, by "gets" I meant gets(3) from C...

Ah ok, that makes much more sense.

I can't really speak to what is clear or not for a first-year Clojure dev. When I first learned Clojure, I had already dabbled in Lisps and Schemes for a while. The very first time I ran across `read`, probably in Scheme, it was obvious to me that it was special. Did I understand and appreciate the security implications? Probably not.

Hopefully the security issues will be clear to a new Clojure dev since at least the ClojureDocs site steers you away from read and towards EDN. Maybe the official docs should be more stern and clear about it, but they do make a note of the security issue: http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloj...
I think its not so much user-hated as difference of taste. I love the perma-death aspect of a lot of the games I've played because I get to appreciate all I've earned. That being said, to balance it our, you remove the idea of 'epic loot' (things that take months to earn). Now, the hit of death isn't game-ending.

Games like Realm of the Mad God, DayZ, and Minecraft (its survival based multiplayer) make this perma-death a part of the game (though Minecraft, you keep the character). You feel defeated, but not dissuaded towards playing.

The way to keep newbies is to make the gear they can earn secondary to the gameplay.
If someone buys something illegal, and the cops look up the transaction in the bitcoin network, it narrows things down to just a few wallets where the funds might possibly have originated. If they look back a few links in the chain and the find bitcoin exchange where you initially got the money, they now know that you exchanged just the right amount of money to make the illegal purchase. It doesn't take much work to put 2+2 together.
So this is not intended as a cure, and can not function that way.

Rather it's for use as a protective to prevent someone getting infected.

And it might have value as a treatment (but I'm guessing it will be too toxic inside blood).
You say it is contrary to the stated purpose of Kickstarter. Can you link or quote something to back that up? All I've ever seen them say is that it is a platform to fund creative projects. This is a creative project.

For game developers, even millionaire game developers, Kickstarter offers some level of freedom from real big bilion dollar game publishing corporations. So even if Richard Gariott has a lot of money, maybe you can at least appreciate he is a little guy in the context of the game publishing business.
For something different, here is a soon to be launched kickstarter. From someone not as successful as Mr Garriot but if you played Dark Age of Camelot you might be in love already

http://citystateentertainment.com/camelotunchained/

Here is a long interview describing the goals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

View on what is wrong with MMOs @ 4:16

No more hand holding @ 7:00

Class System - Rock Paper Scissors @ 11:46

Race/Sex Considerations - Choices Matter @ 13:40

Crafting - First class crafting @ 18:18

Random Critical Hits - You will laugh and cry @ 25:17

Randomness for Crafting - Sometimes stuff will go horribly
wrong/perfectly right @ 31:11

Leveling - No PvE, unclear on soft vs hard caps at this stage @ 34:07

Kickstarter - Pick your rewards! @ 40:19
Information obtained after the DMCA takedown request was issued shouldn't affect whether or not the request was made in good faith ex post facto. Currently there are no penalties (specified in the DMCA) for not withdrawing the request once it's become clear that it's bogus. There may be other ways under the law to get punished for a lack of action though. E.g. there may be case-law that states you can be penalized for a good faith action if you don't make motions to correct the mistake once you realize it.
A highlight:

> Nikon, which uses Android in its Coolpix cameras, was the latest manufacturer to agree to Microsoft's licence, which is said to give it up to $15 per Android device.

$15 per device (at least 1% of retail price of a decent smart electronic device) for one map-related patent? I wonder if any patents on FAT are paid for alongside this one.

My guess is, MSFT aims at making the free Android seem more expensive than mobile Windows via patent licensing.
Where exactly is that stated? As far as I know, and according to the FAQ and project guidelines of Kickstarter, there's no rule or implicit understanding that only creators who can't fund their own projects should apply. In fact, they specifically mention that KS is about more than money.

And I find it patronizing because your complaint is about the poor backers who get nothing for their money. Why exactly do you feel qualified to judge that on their behalf? It's up to them to know what they get in return, and if that should or not be important in their decision to back the project.
Bitcoin Core Development Update #3
1) He has been trying to sell a lot of his land and fancy house in Austin for a couple years now [1] [2]. It's hard to say how much he's worth anymore with the money he's spent on other projects.

2) He married an investment banker[3] who I'm sure has a lot more financial sense than he does and doesn't want him throwing his personal money at the game.

3) The company make this game (Portalarium) had some layoffs a few months back[4]. I'm guessing they are trying to get funding to keep the company going as they don't seem to be working under any publisher.

4) Richard Garriott has a following in the gaming industry that he may as well use to keep his project going. Just like he did with Ultima Online back in the day (had to pay to be in the beta as EA didn't want to back his project), he is going to people to help keep the game funded.

[1] http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/8207-Two-Co...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor

[3] http://blogs.forbes.com/people/laetitiagarriottdecayeux/

[4] http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/12/17/portalarium-hit-with...
WORLD WAR 3 FOLLOW UP THREATS, ISRAEL NEWS SAY...
The lead dev at bitcoin addresses the blocksize issue.
We have a bunch of sites that are almost entirely static, but have a php "contact us" email form. Right now they are some bloated PHP CMS thing, and I would really like to switch them over to being static. Does anyone know of a cheap service that provides a form to send email we could have our contact form POST to?
When data hurts design
I find it easier to use Handlebars first, then fall back on _.template() when you need logic in your templates. It's easy : http://brettjonesdev.com/on-templating-in-backbone/
They key is to never pre-order an EA game. You never know what you're getting into DRM wise.
Bitcoin lead dev addresses the issue- https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=135
LOL, Hacker News roulette...

Nice article though and a change from the usual bashing of PayPal that generally masquerades as cogent discussion here. It is clear that PayPal is finally putting some effort behind the "Developer Community" rhetoric they have touted for a couple of years.
Yeah, Apple really should be more attentive to enterprise needs rather than burdening IT departments with deploying annoying 0-day vulnerability patches. The quick adoption of this patch only highlights how intractable Apple's update process is for enterprise. /s
Looks really awesome. Good job guys!
Since that page does not mention Linux, I cannot imagine what relevance it has to grandparent.
The time before a startup
It also means you can't play your game at home on your regular PC if your internet service goes out.
Pimu's Murder - Fascinating 4 minute video story of chimpanzee society
Yes, that's already possible as long as you trust the operating system. But it seems like people are really concerned about the GPS location data.
It's now two months that I'm trying to think how we can solve while(true){} bug in in-browser code editors.

If you don't know what while(true){} bug is, go to jsbin.com and type it.

There is no good solution so far...
Embedded Linux Conference 2013 videos now online
"This application is not supported on this computer. Installation has been disabled."

Not supported on Mint, apparently.
You can't navigate through "the doglegs" by shooting an azimuth to the sun, that would take too long, it would be safer to DR through on a stopwatch.

Either way though, hard to shoot an accurate azimuth when heavy fog miraculously rolls in out of nowhere and limits visibility to ~100 ft from the bridge. :)
Handlebars vs Underscore templates: Why not Choose Both?
You're just using a different (and correct version of popular).

Popular = most prevalent
Popular = liked
Its much worse for female programmers. No matter how you choose to dress or do your hair you ALWAYS get the incredulous "YOU"RE A PROGRAMMER!?" reactions. ALWAYS.

It sucks, I get it, but nothing really comes from letting it drive you insane. The way I see it, the only thing you can really do about it is don't perpetuate the label.

- Don't give other people the "YOU"RE A PROGRAMMER!?" line or or incredulous look based on the way they look. Judge other programmers solely on their ability to code. (You know, the standard "Be the change you want to see" line...)

- Keep dressing however you like and doing what you love. If you're good at what you do, then people will notice and stop caring about how you dress/look.

Changing stereotypes doesn't happen overnight so there's no point in getting upset over it. Wasting time by letting it get under your skin is only going to ultimately hurt you by being a distraction from the things that matter.
Six Good Life Habits and How to Develop Them
I want to do a "I am Spartacus" thing now.
This is common with un-optimized Drupal sites.

I knew it was Drupal before I checked your image.
Their use of a somewhat-known bikini model sounds like the same technique phishers use to weed out their victims: introducing typos/stories that non-gullible people would easily see as discrediting the entire ploy. If anyone continues from that point on, they've already proven that they're susceptible to being scammed, and the job is that much easier.
Yes, really - but it is a matter of taste as tsumnia says in the sibling comment

In Monopoly, I can go bankrupt. In Nethack, I can (and often do) die. In Super Mario Bros 1, I can lose all of my lives. In football, I can get knocked out of the Champions League (by a red card).

In all of these cases, the fact that I can "lose" creates meaning - I care more about the outcome and I appreciate my achievements more. And one never loses everything - the skills stay with you. "Next time I can do better."

Counterbalancing, for a different mood: works like Ocarina of Time are still great, but they sit separately - they're about the journey, not about the achievements.
Harlem Shake for iOS
Yeah, my mistake, I meant it to be in response to mtgx
As far as science is concerned, there's nothing beyond being able to objectively model a phenomenon and make useful predictions about it. If I can fully model the set of brain processes that humans typically call "love", and if I can make useful and accurate predictions based on my model, that's all that I care about as a scientist.

Now, it's entirely possible that reasoning about "love" scientifically requires several layers of new language / models on top of the currently established models in neuroscience, which is why I said it's _theoretically_ possible.
Your handle and your comment are an oxymoron.
I don't see any mention of Opera :)
The people who would fall for that story are the exact people they are targeting. They don't need everyone to believe them--just the one gullible mark.