skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science discovers there are two general categories of things: sticky things that don't tile, and slippery things that do tile.

Not to be a smart ass, but this seems like common sense, and it's not remotely surprising that things within each category behave similarly.
Just now saw this response. My thought at the moment is that if this would be feasible in the future, it would still be anywhere from 5 to 10 times the cost of (what is currently) a traditional e-reader. But perhaps in 10 years, the equivalent of today's b&n simple touch would retail for $20-30 and the product described in your post (which it looks like you've deleted for some reason) could be made available for less than $200
There exist people who aren't braindead, but who don't have sufficient intelligence to have a concept of "being fair". I don't know where you got the idea that they don't exist. (You may counter that even the least intelligent person will get angry if you attack them, and that's largely true; but the same is true of any animal, so we must be talking about a more complex understanding of fairness than that.)

And you could say that being part of a species gives you special moral standing if other members of your species have the attributes required for it, even if you don't personally have them, but it would be a completely arbitrary thing to say.
Well it certainly matters for the people that are sitting on a bunch of bitcoins.
I like the way you've worded the job post. Very differentiated. Let us know if we can be helpful here at Whitetruffle.
FWIW, those documents are a fantastic start and contain the sort of things that I wish I had known about MongoDB and Riak before embarking on quests to use them.

I hope you do well -- the world really needs a good amalgamation of strong data integrity (ACID, transactions) and the ease-of-life that distributed databases generally give you. Since I don't work in an industry where I need microsecond reads, I'm perfectly happy to pay the cost of "it might take 10s of milliseconds to commit this" if I can avoid having to go down the "okay, now I have to shard my project" path for an eighth time. :-)
Not every felon lives in the state of Washington. And after yet another quick Google search, twelve states permanently revoke your right to vote once you're convicted of (or admit to?) a felony. That means they may not vote for the remainder of their lives.

And what's this "couching in terms of opinion" crap? Where did I opine about this?
I responded to the question in the grandparent post. If Rand Paul is now asking Holder whether the has powers to deploy drones on American soil, then I'd say the answer is Yes, and Holder gave ample clarification of that.
Though very hard swings in short time DOES hinder wide adoption as it can cause retailers to lose money while a transaction is 'en route'.

No one wants to use a currency that swings 20% in hours of trading. Hell, that's prob 4-5x the margin on a lot of computer hardware.
Why is the most up-voted comment here is one that suggests cheating?
Many times they don't. It's usually something like Instagram where they give out a product for free in hopes that piles of people will start using it, and they'll "figure out something later". Worked out great for Google and Instagram, not so great for 999,999 other startups who tried it.

Personally, I like the idea, but it's tough.
Amadeus doesn't know what he's talkin about and hasn't analyzed Meteor. At least add some anecdotes that show you have analyzed the product to give you the right to be so harsh.

Meteor is fantastic and has changed the way we should develop web products forever, and more importantly has opened up a whole new set of expectations for what websites should be capable of. Websites are going to become living breathing creatures as a result. Meteor will lead to a truly collaborative realtime web--one where viewing any website is a group activity, rather than a private one.
If it keeps its promises this will be huge. To be honest it's almost too good to be true (and to have such an open license). Looking forward very much to using this in future projects.
Actually, given how much these programs participate in the formation of the debt and given what the projections are for these costs in the future, it's pretty close. Of course, any debt by itself does not mean that, but this particular one is heavily related to spending (see how state revenues and outlays changed lately) and spending is heavily related to welfare. "Out of control" is a matter of opinion, spending and debt pattern are out there for all to see.
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The question I would most like to see asked and debated (in Congress and here) is whether there is or should be any legal distinction between drones and more traditional weapons. Here's why.

It has long been established that the federal government (like state and local governments) may, in certain limited circumstances, kill a US citizen on US soil without any formal process. Some familiar examples: a gun-to-the-head hostage situation, a mass shooter, and a person opening fire on law enforcement. In these scenarios, the perpetrator would typically be killed by law enforcement.

There are also circumstances in which the US military may kill US citizens on US soil. The Civil War is perhaps the best example. The Confederacy was not deemed a sovereign nation. Its soldiers were deemed US citizens engaged in criminal activity. When the US armed forces killed Confederate soldiers, they were killing US citizens without trial. I say this without an ounce of condemnation. It is just the bleak historical reality.

So it is clear that both federal law enforcement and the military may at times kill US citizens on US soil. But in the examples I've given, drones were not used.

Which returns me to my original question: Should drones somehow be treated differently? What about manned aircraft? Artillery?
Will the USPS still be around after its 10-year pension prefunding period is over?

The short answer is that [UPS and Fedex] can price postage to be profitable (partially why their sites are so complex) and invest in growth areas -- both of which USPS can't do.

The article discusses just how trim the USPS' operations are. Maybe this is part of why?

Whenever USPS tries to enter a new arena, private competitors bleat to Congress. Examples abound: plans to develop an online payment system in 2000 (Internet industry cried foul);

A public paypal competitor? O_o

public copy machines (office supply stores);

I feel as though this idea has a "negative synergy" -- it's like we're lumping together all these services which are increasingly depreciated. Because you really need to photocopy that email you just printed.

in-store sales of phone cards and money transfers;

Who uses phone cards? No-contract cell phones make calling in the US free, and "everyone" uses Skype or one of the thousand other VOIP solutions (from Steam Chat to WebRTC) for calling foreign countries.

Did the USPS stop selling money orders? Do you trust a government agency more than you trust Paypal?

selling postal meter cartridges (Pitney Bowes objected).

Ink cartridges? O_o

And, of course, rivals such as UPS complained, ultimately leading Congress in 2006 to restrict USPS to mail delivery.

Yet UPS couldn't get a law change to allow themselves to pick up mail. The USPS still has a monopoly on mail pickup.

These "solutions" seem like they'll remain feasible for about the same length of time as physical mail delivery itself stays around.
I have no idea what variables you are using, or how you are reasoning that bitcoins somehow are 'cheap' at a certain price.

Using the only scale we have available (history) $40+ per BTC is VASTLY overpriced considering the previous historical fair market value.
Great work imho !!!!

One thing I may want to add - Porting the game to different platforms would be great.
Advertising sucks because worldwide inventory grows faster than the supply of eyeball-hours to view the ads. So there's constant downward pressure on prices.

Subscription sucks because you have to fight subscriber fatigue ... if you can get someone to sign up at all. People sweat over $5/month memberships; meanwhile they spend $20/wk on coffee.

Micropayments suck because everyone hates the mental overhead.

I have a solution I call "microsubscription". The only problem is that it's been tried by others and failed. Naturally I feel I've got the magic ingredients that the others didn't have, but ... we'll see.
Welp, neat!
Prediction time: 1 BTC under $15 within 60 days and relatively stable around $6-$9 for the next 18 months.
GOTD is giving Amigabit Disk Defrag, hurry up:)
So you say $0 per hour is better than $7 per hour? Somehow hard to believe.
BitPay, for example, absorbs the risk. https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway-api

> The net amount that BitPay merchants receive is equal to the gross amount (USD) of the order submitted, minus our fee.

> It does not matter how many bitcoins we collect, how long it takes to collect them, what we can sell them for, or how long it takes to sell them.

(not affiliated, just said the same thing last time this came up on HN)
Smart approach. Let us know if we can be helpful for your hiring at Whitetruffle (www.whitetruffle.com).
What are some examples of high-drudgery unproductive jobs?
Next step, openssh ported to use Sodium as an alternative?
I am not sure about the district Swartz is in, but I've known folks who went to FCI Lompoc (for non-violent felonies -- albeit ones with actual victims and non-trivial monetary damage, i.e., they did deserve to go to prison fair and square). While federal prisons are it's far cry from California state prisons (which, even at low security levels, are far more violent than state prisons -- it's not uncommon to take a longer federal sentence as opposed to a shorter CA state prison sentence for this reason), it certainly not "club fed". Swartz would have certainly have been beaten to a pulp on a regular basis, would have been treated to diesel therapy, and while possibility of sexual assault would have been low, it would be far from remote.
We just saw an article yesterday.

"Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323867
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Absolutely. 75% of the workstation market had shifted to Windows by 2003, and the remaining 25% were Sun/HP/SGI/etc.

But guess what? Cheap wins. The last vestige of the old Unix workstation market is the Mac Pro.
The sense of the post I responded to was very much that what happened in this case was acceptable or understandable because justice is complicated, which implies that there is little to nothing that could or should be done about it. But complexity doesn't excuse failure. Mistakes may be inevitable but that is no excuse not to learn from them and do better next time.
I can't speak for Parse, but I've come up with something similar in the past. Nginx/HAproxy as a combo is far more flexible than the ELB alone, you might want to use it for rate limiting, better load balancing algorithms, better logging, tweaking headers, handling errors, or controlling buffer sizes for example.
Something else people seem to forget is: This is an unregulated electronic currency without a paper trail.

Can you say "A market that a group of people wanting to rig value would LOVE!"

Nothing (as far as I can tell) stopping a group of large BTC owners to completely run the price on BTC to their advantage. Wouldn't even take that much money to drive prices, and impossible (almost) to detect and do something about.
The whole point of EmberJS confuses me.
As to the Smart People and University Degrees comment, I was told by a Google Recruiter that they rarely interview people who don't have University degrees (though she agreed I had the experience to be put through). I was told that even in sales and marketing positions, a degree is a requirement.
True that, I know six people in the US and myself all tried the moment sales opened last time and none of us got in. Lets hope Google rents all of Moscone instead of just Moscone West this year. Java ONE handles much bigger crowds than they do, making Google look like amateurs.
What part of 'the Administration ... has no intention of doing so' does he (and do you) not understand? Is he asking Holder to make definitive statements about the future?
What do you mean no paper trail? I thought Bitcoin worked by having a master list of EVERY transaction and then hashing the most recent for each new transaction.

This is from the Bitcoin doc [1]:

We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership.

[1] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
I'm a huge fan of what you guys have done and are looking to do. Let us know if we can be helpful for your hiring here at Whitetruffle (www.whitetruffle.com).
Interestingly enough, in 2009 Keith Braithwaite concocted a metric that can pretty reliably determine whether a system has been written with TDD or not.

See: http://peripateticaxiom.blogspot.com/2006/05/complexity-and-...
Enter each binary output by clicking I/O to get an Easter egg (e.g. click "I" 3 times, "O" twice, and "I" thrice more to for some cats).
Good for him. Maybe more of the general public will actually start talking about it. Right now I think most of the populace is blissfully unaware of the program.
Interview with the Ember.js Core Team
The low revenue is a problem too, but raising revenue enough is very hard - since just raising taxes suppresses economic activity and breeds evasion, and making economy produce more by government decree is a secret not yet unlocked.
This post is an hour old and the price is already back in the $42 range.
I'm actually in the process of putting together a report on Bitcoin for a university computer security course.

It looks like HN cares a lot about the topic, would anyone care to point me towards some informative sources?

I've done most of my research through the official wiki and articles regarding Mt. Gox and hardware development into ASIC
I'm the author of RbNaCl, the Ruby binding to Sodium. RbNaCl wouldn't be possible without Sodium, because RbNaCl is written as a Ruby FFI binding and thus requires a shared library. Sodium builds a shared library. NaCl does not. Let me explain why...

There are many problems that hinder building language bindings to NaCl. See, for example, node-nacl:

https://github.com/thejh/node-nacl

See the giant warning in bold at the top:

"WARNING: This library DOES NOT WORK on 64-bit systems, and there's nothing I can do about it before the next version of NaCl is available."

Much of the assembly in NaCl is presently NOT position independent code which causes many of these sorts of problems. djb has admitted as much and sought to fix these sorts of problems.

Here is what djb had to say in email recently:

"More language support. The real work here is making everything PIC. Of course, if what matters is the API rather than speed, then achieving PIC is easy: just remove the asm."

At the very least, djb recognizes that removing the ASM is a simple and valid option for achieving PIC now without additional work on the assembly code. In the meantime he is doing a lot of that work inside SUPERCOP.

There's also the elephant in the room: Windows. NaCl doesn't support Windows. NaCl will likely never support Windows. Sodium supports Windows.
do the links (pictures of famous news sites like they they actually mentioned your site) link to something? or are they just random pics?
Write the code, or solve the problem?
Aaron's lawyers presented plausible arguments. Maybe he would have been found guilty at trial, maybe not. In no event was the outcome a certainty.
You're right that it is trivial to calculate it myself, but then again, it is trivial to calculate it without using the website. I thought the whole point is that you do not have to calculate anything ;)

Anyway, I believe the site should allow "set custom cycle". As you wrote above, it varies between individuals a lot.
I was really excited when Pin was first announced last year on HN, and judging from the response so were a lot of others: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078334

But since then Braintree launched in Australia and some of Pin's "first mover" advantage has been lost. I definitely welcome Pin's arrival, but I think Braintree's offering has a lot of pluses over Pin's.

I also feel that their announcement on HN 9months ago now feels like it was a "clever" way to gauge demand before building the product. In some ways I applaud them for the move, but I also don't like the feeling of being misled.
Of course its gain has been news.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5262120 (when it broke $30)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5144181 (when it broke $20)

etc, plus the many stories about ability to pay for things like Reddit Gold, domain names, and more with Bitcoin.

1) You may hold Bitcoin, and talk from detractors is always frustrating.

2) Many Bitcoin advocates (I've mined and held Bitcoin, so I'll count myself in this crowd) tend to extoll Bitcoin's virtues, while downplaying or explaining away downturns

3) Even if it were true that the drop were news while the gain wasn't, that's how things work around here. Much has been made of Apple's stock drops, but in every case, Apple was actually up year-over-year, and it's 3 and 5 year price was way up.
Unfortunately, like NaCl, it's missing 2 common and critical functions:

1. Password-based key derivation
2. Persistent key storage

So developers are still expected to work out those 2 problems and will reliably screw them up.
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Then he should introduce the bill instead of filibustering an appointment. I don't trust every future administration not to abuse its powers, but likewise I recognize that the incumbent administration can't bind its successors. Only Congress or the Judicial Branch can do that, and so far neither have seen fit to restrain the Executive Branch on this issue.
Of course, there is absolutely nothing that says this will ever happen.
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I was just offering that while the EITC can be rejected by both politcal dogmas, both parties have embraced the concept. e.g.

Left: EITC provides relief for the poor.

Right: EITC is workfare, not welfare.

Since both parties have expanded the program over the last 30 years, my version aligns with the facts better.
While the people you've mentioned haven't been keeping an eye on it, Jean-Philippe Aumasson has. There have been a lot of other "mid-level" crypto people who have been keeping an eye on it as well and giving feedback to Frank. For example, at one point Frank switched out the default random number generator to use XSalsa20 instead of /dev/urandom. When this was pointed out, Frank addressed it by switching back to /dev/urandom (and a separate codepath for Windows)

Note: I've talked to Matt Green about Sodium. About all he had to say was as soon as you modify NaCl, you've violated the djb warranty ;)
the ratchet clicks.
> Can we have a civilized conversation please? Criticizing my arguments is one thing, accusing me of dishonesty completely different.

Saying "there is nothing wrong with changing your MAC address" in this context is disingenuous, because it implies that Swartz was being charged for changing his MAC address. That is a false implication. He was being charged for the other things he was doing--the things that necessitated his changing his MAC address.

Trespassing onto a network under the CFAA is a misdemeanor, just like criminal trespass in a building. Trespassing with intent to commit some other crime therein is a felony under the CFAA, and is basically burglary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary) in meat-space.

The problem here is that mass copyright infringement shouldn't be a crime, but rather a civil issue. But the entrenched interests that made mass copyright infringement a crime are probably different than the ones you're thinking of--it was the tech industry, the BSA with Microsoft, Oracle, etc, that turned copyright infringement into a criminal matter in their fight against mass pirating of Windows, etc.
I know you're trying to be a realist about this, but there's honestly no excuse for backing down on your morals.

We are not CONSTITUTIONALLY at war with any nation. In fact, we are not even in the process of congressionally (i.e. CONSTITUTIONALLY) authorized military engagements.

So, then. If we are proper citizens of this Earth and respect the rights of our fellow man, who we all believe to be equal, do we allow the use of pre-emptive force, even non-lethal, outside of our borders?

I honestly don't see any other answer than an emphatic "No". Any other answer leads down a slippery slope, no matter the incline (if you will). I don't plan on supporting any slippery slope that I'm standing at the bottom of.
I guess your blog doesn't allow mobile, so I'm out.
What's up with under construction just le the mobile user view it.
First time it did not load after waiting 32 seconds. Second time it did load, but after waiting 7 seconds.
In my experience if you find yourself wanting to test a private method it probably means it is time to bud off a new class.
Why? There's a normal (nice looking) page for other user agents. You haven't lost anything.
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What makes you confident that you know that the current price is "VASTLY" above the "fair market value?" I thought that markets determine fair market values--which is exactly what's happening at the exchanges.
That's the goal of Sodium. It builds on Windows.
and back to $43

this is not a market for weak hands.
The LaTeX support seems very nice. Nice job! The concept of a paper as a DVCS repository is a very natural one, and it's exactly how I would write my papers back in the day.

I'm curious how the "host the data and the code" comes in. Perhaps you're supposed to clone the backing git repository and add the code to that, but I don't see how to do that yet. Early days.
The only oversight in the use of lethal force in furtherance of either identifying or killing senior al qaeda leaders lies with the administration itself.

What is the legal process for being declared an al qaeda leader? What is the legal process for anywhere outside of the US being declared a battlefield? What is the legal process for summary execution of someone who the administration has decided is an al qaeda leader? In each case the answer is: it is entirely up to the administration.

Yes, as a matter of constitutional law it is certainly possible for congress to declare war on a transnational entity and effectively designate the entire world outside the borders of the US as a potential war zone, under the discretion of the president, but I would say that rather twists the spirit of the constitution rather too far.
The Abelson report is due, let's see if the MIT administration attempts to steal thunder by releasing it that day (or shortly before):

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57565473-38/mit-review-int...
This is great, especially the Python bindings. I've been looking for something similar for a while. I was hoping to package just a reference (portable) implementation of 'crypto_secretbox', but the code seemed to be split up in multiple files and I couldn't understand their build system...
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> I don't even try to use amphetamines for productivity anymore because they don't clear from my system fast enough to avoid interfering with my sleep.

Some people have told me that they prefer cocaine to amphetamine specifically for this reason: its metabolic half-life is something like two hours, if I recall. Have you tried using cocaine instead? I'm not sure if the toxic side effects are more or less severe; maybe you know.

(Myself, I stay far, far away from the entire family of stimulants. The most I take is caffeine, and then only in the traditional drink forms, not in pill form.)