skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Would you seriously defend an article that discusses this as "factually accurate"?

Is it not factually accurate? Could local law enforcement not arrest you for doing it and subject you to a trial or try to coerce you into a plea bargain, if they didn't mind the response from the public or the courts?

Moreover, would you not oppose an effort to remove such a law from the books? How do you imagine anyone would lobby for that to happen without discussing it?
Yes, but most employers err on the side of caution, reducing the likelihood of violence. There will never be no violence until every individual on Earth always acts in society's best interest without any persuasion whatsoever. I think we can all agree that's not going to happen ever, so in order to maintain order, we do need to threaten violence in the right circumstances.
Awesome, thanks! Can this also bounce the subscribe request to an offline reader like RSSOwl? If not, how hard would it be to implement something like that?
This is driving the price up, and is great news. I know of two businesses with FinCEN registration IDs:

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/ziggap/
http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/bitinstant/

Digital cash isn't going away anytime soon.
Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013)
One issue with languages that use smart pointers (as opposed to a global garbage collector) for memory management is circular references. For example, one can create a memory leak with C++ shared pointers by having two objects each of which holds a shared pointer to the other. In C++, the solution is to use a weak pointer for one of the two pointers. This raises two questions: 1) Since the Rust compiler is more vigilant than the C++ compiler, does it do anything to prevent "pointer circles?" 2) Am I correct in assuming that the solution in Rust is to use a reference for one of the owning pointers? In other words, is the Rust reference the analogue to the C++ weak pointer?
Schumpeter: The Transience of Power
I believe this link will give you the text of the bill:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr624/text
Is the iPad Mini a Lemon?
Thanks for all the comments and encouragement. Everyone has a different experience and would love to hear other's fundraising experience.

I bootstrapped Love With Food 6 months before being accepted into 500 Startups. I'm a Rails developer and was able to build and market the product all by myself. At 500 Startups, I hired 2 more people to join the team. We've been very scrappy even after raising $650,000. Now we are a team of 8. The funding has definitely helped our business scale to a different level.
The $100 Startup Contest
Looks like it will be replacing tasks.
In this "attack" the URL was incremented by one.

I've written a lot of loops, and incremented a lot of numbers, and none of them have ever become properly escaped XSS exploits, or malformed YAML, etc. If your bar for "hack" is so low that we're training pre-schoolers to accomplish it, it may lack all descriptive power.

URLs are by design human readable and human editable. Simple discovered usage of these resources is not hacking, it is intended.

Imagine you're reading a story at example.com/stories/bears-part_1_of_3.html and just as it gets good, it's done. Without so much as a "The End".

Do you sit dumbfounded, or do you hack the bejeezus out of the website?

See how silly that sounds. So lets just say you "went to the next page".
The grey 'n baldy club at the Fed decided to shake their cane at Bitcoin and inadvertently made all the online gaming companies (EA, Valve, Ubisoft, Zynga) crap their pants in unison.
It would be safer than a Cyprian bank if BTC prices were as stable as the Euros. For all the criticisms it received, the EUR is more stable than most of the currencies it replaced, and it did not see a single crash in prices as bad as BTC has seen several times. So really, you shouldn't worry about the possibility of the government taking 7% of your money if the alternative is a virtual currency that seen losses of more than 75% in a single day.
I think that is one of the Pace Prints workshops where a number of Chuck Close works were made. Check out this time-lapse video of one of his pulp pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9R7BzJMxfs
> they are occupied by some horrible consulting companies (that is VERY specific to France)

you mean HR/outsourcing companies? yeah, that's true, not only in France.
It depends on your font size, rather than having a font-size-based grid.
I think a lot of people aren't picking up on the biting satire and cynicism of your comment.

Either that, or you're serious and also an idiot.
It might not affect everyone, it's still working for me.
"in an ideal Bitcoin economy people wouldn't need to convert to USD"

So how do you think they will pay their taxes? How do you think businesses will repay their loans? Do you really think the US government will accept Bitcoin tax payments, or that banks would be stupid enough to issue loans in a deflationary currency that conveys no legal protections?

Bitcoin's only real value in its ability to ultimately be sold for a fiat currency.
Yep, sorry. Its my HN username, so footalert@gmail.com. I could no longer edit my earlier typo.
Why is a bitcoin any different to any other alternative currency then - in the UK there are small cooperatives reading their own currencies, Linden dollars etc in MMOs - why is bitcoin wrong?
You have access to your raw data through 23andme. At least I do. It's a text file (sitting in a Truecrypt partition, in my case).
Absolutely ridiculous. From what I've read about "weev", he wasn't really the nicest guy on the 'net. I don't know specifics, but really, I don't think they matter.

Here we have a person accessing publicly available data on a public server. Its analogous to ATT posting customer information in a public alleyway (maybe not intended for public viewing, but within the legal possibility of the public to view), and having someone take a picture of the information.

No violence, no trespassing. Disseminating information left sitting around == Jail. This kind of crap needs to stop.
To patent an idea, you must publish it. Many firms prefer secrecy
Thank you. I agree with you 75%.

Just because you would make this joke does not mean that someone cannot find it offensive. Adria was offended, and good for her for speaking up.
Not being a picky prick this is a genuine question: What's the point of smart pointers? Seems to me that the #1 reason you would use a pointer is that you're allocating memory on the heap and you don't want the memory deallocated when the pointer goes out of scope.

Seems to me that the only difference between a smart pointer and declaring a variable is data on the heap vs data on the stack and there's not much difference there?
| Accepting and transmitting anything of value
| that substitutes for currency makes a person a
| money transmitter under the regulations
| implementing the BSA

This makes it sound like anyone that anyone
engaging in a financial transaction is a "money
transmitter."
people still use vga ports?
"..if you run a Bitcoin exchange in the United States..."

It doesn't just apply to the United States. See http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2012-A... for info on how entities located outside the US will qualify as MSBs (and be subject to the registration and reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act) if they "offer MSB services in the United States from foreign locations."

None of this is at all surprising and won't have come as a surprise to anyone with an ounce of common sense. The same principle of extra-territoriality has been applied to foreign banks that deal in USD or accept deposits from US citizens, and to online gambling sites that accept payments from people located in the US.
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein

Pro tip: Get with the post-nationalist, internet-enabled program and give up on this line of thinking.
> A source who worked closely with Riccitiello ... said "The truth is that the game industry continues to pivot very rapidly. EA is in a good place but it requires a lot of energy and laser focus... He's been pivoting the company hard for many years, but the industry keeps pivoting faster."

I call BS on techcrunch. There is no "source". That was a Silicon Valley buzzword generator.
Well ring is the clojure equivalent of ruby's rack, nearly every clojure webapp uses it, and slf4j is an extremely common logging facade in java, also unsurprising. Diatomic is a weird choice though, I'd have gone with sqlite and korma
The counter question is how cheaply is Abott's liquid food product produced?

The profit margin on their product, I suspect, is pretty large.

Why aren't liquid foods like this being supplied to under-nourished children in the 3rd world already? Because they are not a profit source.

The world is optimizing to the wealthy. Whole Foods isn't cheap for a reason.
Since it's relatively easy to eat 4000 kcal a day without trying (in fact, just by not trying to not do so), I can only imagine how much you must be eating. 6000 kcal? 8000?
It would be nice if iOS developers could distribute apps on their own the way Mac app developers always have, at no cost to Apple.

But if Apple is hosting an app on their CDN and listing it in their DB they'd be losing money on the amount of work involved for handling all the free apps.
Don't know about 431 but I absolutely do not like them moving the keys around in 420. The PrntScrn is no longer where it used to be. The Home, End, PgUp, Down keys are all at different places.
Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
this is very, very nice, but centering the trackpad to have to align with the trackpoint feels like an awkward mistake
Yet later she posts about playing cards against humanity. So Hitler, dead babies, and afterbirth are hilarious but a sexual innuendo is not. Got it.
Congratulations on your first iOS game!

Have you considered taking it further and monetizing your hard work?

You deserve to be rewarded for the entertainment you're providing.
Here's what dismays me about this. We killed it once. It's back again. Let's say it's bad and we want to kill it, and we succeed again.

What's to say it won't come back again? How long do we have to keep doing this dance? Even if it is worth killing every time, will our attention spans be long enough to keep fighting it every single time for the decades that may still come?
Nice effort. Have decided to move off of Chrome, so preparing Firefox and all.
See also earlier HN discussion on the new ThinkPad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5392298
IMHO, it's more like the car was left running with the windows rolled down. The owner is an idiot, but you're still not supposed to steal the car.
The author isn't just about the one hour of Earth Hour, he's against everything it represents - which for the most part, is efficient use of energy. I'm just saying he should put his money where his mouth is.
Change "100" to "tens of thousands" and "posts them on his blog" "suggests to someone else that he was going to sell them for profit" and you've got a damn good analogy.
I am not sure it is accurate to call Bitcoin "digital cash," given that it does not actually meet the formal definition of a secure digital cash system -- Bitcoin is not secure against a polynomial time adversary.
crappy projectors are everywhere :(

edit: and I've only ever had bad experiences with [X]->VGA adapters
I think AMD and Intel will get rid of chipset support for analog VGA video by 2015, and this includes DVI-I. This was announced by Intel back in 2010.
The main use of video ports is hooking up to random projectors right? For that purpose vga is probably still best.
I don't remember having to show an ID for prepaid SIM in the UK.
My guess is that if you're a businessman travelling around to do presentations at different places all the time, you probably need maximum compatibility. Sort of a differentiating factor. It also has a LAN port, of which one might ask the same question. Just a guess though.
The bigger financial barrier to entry is buying a Mac and iPhone (for those who don't own these).

After that, $99 is not a big sacrifice and you quickly recuperate your money even if you sell your app for 99¢.

I am both an iOS and Mac developer ($99 x 2 per year) and I'm in the black and then some with a couple of apps sold between 99¢ and $2.99.
yeah, people still use vga ports. and when you plug a projector into them, they actually work the first time! even with linux! crazy, i know.

until recently, in our office, the only person whose laptop always worked right with the various projectors was the guy with linux on a thinkpad. macbooks with displayports were reliably unreliable. now the situation has reversed, because the new thinkpads are x1 carbons w/ displayports, and for the macs we hooked up an apple tv to the projector and use AirPlay, which behaves much, much better than the cable ever did.
I may order one when its refresh time. If I dont like it, I know I like the MBP with Retina, I do however like the touch point more than a trackpad.
Textbook authors assume mathematical maturity after a point - rather abruptly, actually, since there's a marked difference in pedagogical style you can't leaven in.
Are insurance companies doing this yet? I imagine a Gattaca-like future when I hear of this kind of stuff. Not that I fear it but I don't trust any company or government to do the right thing with the information...

I am curious how accurate it all turns out to be (it is noted that percentages play a role). I have only basic understanding of the math and biology so I am probably making tons of assumptions but from the post:

"One way of investigating this, is by studying identical twins. Since they have the exact same DNA, any differences between the two can be attributed to environmental factors."

I have identical twin sisters (from a fraternal twin father even, born on the same birthday...the odds). To me they look nothing alike but to outsiders sure maybe.

The points I am curious about:

1a. Doesn't DNA mutate? Even if twins start with identical DNA it could mutate from any number of environmental variables couldn't it?

1b. Couldn't it only mutate in just one, making them have different DNA in the end?

Like I said basic understanding.
Does 23andme give a 'layman' introduction to any of this stuff? One of the other comments says it makes you read some stuff before getting certain results but is it the kind of stuff that 'normal' people can understand without having to read another book of references?

Sorry about the long post; stopping now.
A journey from 10M to 130M updates a second lock free concurrent queue
Node promise-object
Not moving entirely, just 'outsourcing' their US business to Coinlab, I believe.
"Bitcoin's only real value in its ability to ultimately be sold for a fiat currency"
You have that backwards, a fiat currency's only real value is in its ability to ultimately be exchanged for goods and services that you need or want, for things of actual value. So if bitcoin is not directly exchangeable for dollars but it is exchangeable for other things, it doesn't ultimately matter. The no arbitrage conditions of financial markets guarantees that even if bitcoin is not tradeable for dollars directly, it will preserve its value if it is easily tradeable for something of actual value.
The first fractions of a second after the Big Bang
This drives me mad. At least Lenovo kept the buttons. Other laptops like Apple and now Dell have dropped them entirely. And for what? "Minimalism" or "elegance" I guess. I'm going to have to hang on to my aging Dell for as long as I can, just for the keyboard :(
I can't think of any way SatoshiDice benefits from the spam it creates. It's almost like a form of trolling. If this spam benefits no one a rule change shouldn't be a big deal.
It only applies to gaming currencies if they can be readily converted back to dollars. For example, this doesn't affect the 'tokens' you buy to play skeeball at Chuck-E-Cheese's because you don't exchange those back to dollars.
That is correct, and even if you are a bitcoin miner and you only use the coins you mine to procure goods you aren't subject. However if you are an exchange, or it would seem an escrow agent see this:

"In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency."

Which would cover a service where, for a small fee, you accept bitcoins from party A, wait for you to acknowledge a transaction in some way, and then release those bitcoins to party B. As I understand what is written this would apply to Silkroad itself, but not the buyers or sellers on silk road.

It is entirely unclear to me if you are regulated if you trade bitcoins for Laundry Detergent and buy laundry detergent from others for Bitcoins. (see previous discussion of how Tide became a currency for drug dealers)
Simple. You use unique smart pointers if you do not know the size of your data at compile time.
It is the fizz that makes one addicted to soda. So it makes sense you like it. A lot of people do not notice this.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778

Nestle produces something called Modulen specifically for people with IBD. The idea is for people with Crohn's to switch to a liquid diet during bad flare ups to settle things down as digesting food causes inflammation.

It is rather expensive. Luckily for me, my insurance covered it (I'm from Israel, so YMMV). The hard part is that you have to pound a dozen glasses of the stuff every day. Some people can't even drink that much water and this is a heavy drink.

Soylent may be an improvement in terms of price and preparation because Modulen comes in powder form and doesn't mix well with water and goops up quickly. It is simply not easy getting it down.

To those of you suggesting this sort of thing can solve world hunger - doubtful. I'm the only one my doctors know of who actually was able to adhere to a liquid only diet for a stretch of multiple months, people simply don't have the willpower.

You miss food quite badly and are never satiated. What I think Soylent could possibly be is an ultimate supplement, like a protein shake - in fact, fitness companies like Beachbody (P90X) hawk all kinds of dubios concoctions, it is a lucrative market. One that actually works would be neat.
Reading the bill it does seem like the purpose of the bill is less about private companies sharing any old information with government agencies and more about making it easier for businesses to share information with government agencies when they have been victims of "cyberattacks".

Also, this section does suggest that the bill is not about making it easier for the government to request information about specific people:

(3) ANTI-TASKING RESTRICTION- Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the Federal Government to--
(A) require a private-sector entity to share information with the Federal Government;

But I am not a lawyer, so am not an expert at interpreting such things.

If this is being misrepresented by the people over at The Internet Defence League, it would be very disappointing. I don't like spin and I don't like being manipulated.
Service Locator is an Anti-Pattern (2010)
I will second this. I have the same machine, the aspect ratio is completely obnoxious for anything productive. Not wide enough for two decently sized windows side-by-side, and cramped vertically. UGH.
>If your bank were open to an XSS attack that "only" required crafting a particular URL to allow access sufficient to transfer funds, I don't think you'd be consoled that the "hack" that drained your account was, at heart, only a matter of visiting some URLs.

But it's not the "hack" that you're worried about, it's the stealing. And stealing is separately illegal. Not all stealing is hacking just because a computer is involved, and something that isn't otherwise hacking shouldn't become hacking just because it involves theft or some other malicious activity that would itself be against the law.
What pain-points of Leiningen and Compojure does this framework aim to solve?

I'm sure its an excellent framework, but there way too much for me to consider using it right now. My concerns:

How difficult would it be to switch out Datomic for PostgreSQL?

What if I don't want ClojureScript at this moment?

What happens if I want to switch X with Z or drop ABC?

How hard will it be to minimize and erase all the things I don't want?

Why are there so many extra words needed for the routing templates?

I've always felt Clojure would get a boost from a Rails-like framework, but I'm concerned that a large, opinionated framework will break the very promise of Clojure: flexibility and easy DSL creation. Once we are faced with something that needs to be reverse-engineered or broken, then this promise is ruined.

I'm all for new frameworks and ideas, but its a little funny to think that Noir was dropped, in part, for being too large and complicated.

Despite my "not-for-me" criticisms, I do hope that you have some nice success in this framework and it attracts people to Clojure.
Its real value is being a medium of exchange. For example selling X widgets for Y bitcoins and exchange those for Z months use of a VPN.

There are many, many ways people who wish to deal in bitcoins can find a way to convert them into USD. Even if that means buying prooducts from overseas using bitcoin, importing them, then selling the products on ebay for USD.
How does this affect bitcoin startups like CoinBase? Do they have a money transmission license? Can you even get one for Bitcoin?
If Famous Websites were People (Absolutely Hilarious) 
Oh Bing..
> If you own Bitcoins, you should prepare for the very real possibility that one day, depending on arbitrary state or USDOJ enforcement actions, you may never be able to convert your Bitcoins back to dollars.

You mean USD. Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies outside the United States.
Amazing: a landing page full of information but not one single picture of the final product.
Do you think she would have been offended if she overheard the same joke coming out of my mouth?
So does a web browser. Is it now illegal to change your user-agent because a broken website is checking for a specific browser?
Ask HN: What would you use a Print API for?
I haven't seen any good API's for printing - on paper, that is.

With the Front-Page launch of Pantastic (http://www.pantastic.co), I wonder: what would other developers would do with access to a professional printer (via an API)?
Or sell for other currency and not convert to USD, as one reason for holding bitcoin is to avoid USD exposure.
Doesn't the gem command obey your Gemfile.lock? If your Gemfile.lock mandates an old version, it would install that.
My company uses Drupal for developing a lot of it's projects, and I find it to be a great platform. It is * definitely* quirky, and does have a high learning curve. There are 5 ways to do any one thing, and it isn't always clear what is the right way to do something (frustrating to new devs).

I will say that it is very easy to develop apps with bad performance (doing 500 queries on a page load) and are not very scalable. It takes a lot of dedication and attention to detail to ensure your app/website is running at it's full potential. At it's core though, Drupal is just a beefy PHP framework, with a very robust hook system and APIs for doing a lot of things. It's node/entity system are very helpful when used properly, and is one of the reasons it remains popular.

Obviously, it's popularity is completely driven by the extensive theme/module development community that helps support the CMS. Without them, Drupal really would not be worth using.