skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like they are taking a different approach to the problem (though the bill still hasn't passed yet):

> The next legislative effort will likely center around what is known as the SHIELD Act, which has been introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). This bill would require plaintiffs to pay defendants’ legal costs if the suit is unsuccessful. -- http://www.rackspace.com/blog/patent-trolls-make-them-pay/

While this is a less drastic strategy, I think it's a more realistic one. It would have an immediate, deterrent effect on all trolls--big and small--because there would be direct, legal repercussion for their actions. This way, you don't need new infrastructure and new funding to support a watchdog group, and nobody can "slip through the cracks"--trolls paying for all the costs of a failed suit is just part of the system they are using to file the suits. This may not prevent the "big players" from throwing their weight around with patent litigation, but it would certainly help the current situation quite a bit, imo.

Here's the relevant text of the bill:

> [I]n an action disputing the validity or alleging the infringement of a computer hardware or software patent, upon making a determination that the party alleging the infringement of the patent did not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding, the court may award the recovery of full costs to the prevailing party, including reasonable attorney's fees [...] -- http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr6245ih/pdf/BILLS-112...

[EDIT: Link to bill wasn't including the trailing colon ':', linked to PDF]
> 'Yugoslavia is a country'. Are you really going to exclude that?

Yes, of course.

> So, no statements about political geography at all, then.

Absolutely not, you just have to make time explicit.
sometimes productivity is measured as not screwing up

At which point I guess we get down to what is an average developer. Does the average developer make such big screw-ups that simply not screwing up is 100x increase in performance?

I guess when I think "average", I'm not thinking about what is actually the measured average, but more like "acceptable competency". Never destroys shit, but also never advances the project a month with something clever. The sort of standard grade you would hope your rank-and-file would be made of.

What does lines of code really mean? If the messy code has a lower bug rate and is easier to debug, which is entirely possible if the 10-line solution is painfully elegant, it is the more productive of the two. Remember that old quote about how it takes twice the cleverness to debug code as it does to write it...
"monetizing the platform" is probably the main reason it's always on. Heheh.
You can check the logs even with a single web server instance, provided you keep separate access logs for ports 80 and 443. But people don't do that. Forcing the web site to break is also forcing the developers to realize there is a problem, and to deal with it.
Here's the original paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/04/03/science.1...
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why a downvote?
Serious question: does this meet "Show HN" criteria? I mean I value sharing the algorithm, but I thought that Show HN is reserved for entire projects (ie. sites, saas platforms, etc.), not using ones platform to put up a description of algorithm and some numeric data. I'm not trying to troll, just wanted to know how the community understands "Show HNs"? In this case it can be seen as more of a Quantopian show off (which is interesting service, but had already been showcased) than the algorithm or project itself?
this is similar to these suggestions from the following articles

1. http://mysuperchargedlife.com/blog/personal-productivity-acc...

2. http://lifehacker.com/5853732/take-a-more-realistic-approach...
Usually inventing is creating something that does not exist in nature, discovery is revealing an aspect of nature previously unknown

Mathematics is discovered, simply because mathematics was invented elsewhere in order to run the matrix we have evolved on. Apparently in a pan galactic hyper intelligent teenagers bedroom
You know advertisers collect data about what you watch on TV? Certain channels cater to certain type of people so ad buyers would buy ads based on demographics of a certain show (for example, Shark Tank has one of the highest avg income audiences in the country, so it would make sense for Mercedes to advertise when the show airs) .

People seem to forget that it was the original targeted advertising. You subliminally got targeted by demographic specific ads based on the type of shows you were interested in. It just so happens that the way Google and Facebook do it is way more high tech.

The data goes into their platform, they dont' sell it. I think maintaining a healthy paranoia is good and we should pressure the companies to be better with our data. However, as long as they maintain security as a strong value, I think it'll be ok. At least I myself personally don't mind them holding my data as long as it is secure and private to me.
That's not what he said. Also, you seem to think that monetary bases are something that exist independently of government.
I really like the way he adds up the current value of the prospects in his funnel. I think it's a really great way to keep track of how much value each activity you could be doing right now will create so that you can more easily decide what to do next.
you clearly did not visit any of the links i posted. but thanks for sharing
No.

Unless you SMS or call that person. Then maybe.
It's actually kinda easy..

No more xbox for me, after buying the first edition of the 360 and the updated one with Kinect.
i think you answered your own question. There is no job security any more, unless you make it yourself. Building a business is the ultimate safety net for everyone. No it's not easy, but it's easier for programmers (people that can create value) than for people with no skills.
Haskell is by no means perfect. You should try learning a dependently typed language like Agda or Idris in order to understand some of its flaws.
I wasn't arguing for redirecting to the home page, only to avoid redirecting (to the intended destination on port 443) automatically.

If a user's browser ever sends a port 80 request, you've already lost (assuming the MITM is there). On your end you may even never see a plaintext request. But in all other instances, displaying an intermediary page is a chance to educate your users, and possibly get them to change their bookmarks.

Further, with little work you may be forcing the MITM to do some custom coding (a lot of work) in order to make the attack seamless.

I wouldn't do this for just any web site, but if you're running a bank or something similarly sensitive, it would probably be worth it.
An aside, but I like this series of articles on design patterns in Perl, first here:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/06/13/design1.html

"If a pattern is really valuable, then it should be part of the core language"
Inspired me to make http://1-3-5.com/
I'm sure Larry and Sergey would agree.

The what-to-build skill trumps the how-to-build-it skill every time!
I appreciate where the author is coming from but is this really an issue? I mean, how big a problem is this really?

I would imagine most of us have more important things to do than spend our minutes uploading pictures to social media sites. I guess if you are the attention grabbing kind, it works but within my sphere of colleagues and friends I just don't know anyone that does this. And, yes, I am talking about technical people that understand what Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are.

Maybe I'm a minority but I suspect that probably not.
Just to correct you a bit, I was talking about a "low wages country", which is not necessary a "low cost country".

And yes, some companies (including Big Co's) do this - adjust salaries according to local low wages. Since OP refused to answer, I suppose Mozilla does this as well.
Sorry but you really look like a scholar saying platypus don't exist because they can't exist. Or Black Swans...
"The AFP did not give a timeframe for the attacks but said it did not believe any sensitive personal or financial information was stolen."

Each and every day Australia starts to look more and more like the United States (no offence to those who live in the US). I live in Australia and find it highly alarming that a youth who didn't steal any personal or financial information could be sent away for 10 years, comparatively you could rape someone in Australia and if you plead guilty you would get sentenced to basically the same amount of years.

How does a victimless computer crime which potentially only resulted in a little bit of downtime and wasn't malicious in that information was stolen equate to the same as raping someone? It doesn't add up.
Try this App EisenPower - http://www.eisenpowerapp.com/

Nope, I've nothing to do with the app. I'm just a happy regular user.
While I'd love to take all the credit (blame?), the reformed academic in my feels compelled to admit that the idea to look for predictive value in stock loan data is not original to me. The finance literature has some fascinating articles on this dating back as far as the late 80s (look for Desai 2002, J of Finance, Asquith 2005 J Fin Econ, or most recently http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1570451).

The intuition behind this signal as a market inefficiency, or 'anomaly' is that the market sees short sellers as informed investors, the so called 'smart money', and there is a herding effect to follow their trades which generates abnormal returns. The same logic can be applied to disclosed insider trades or institutional holdings filings made public via the SEC's EDGAR database.

Fawce's slick implementation of a 'Days to Cover' signal is a great way to highlight the power of aiming new tools like Quantopian at freely available public data stores (which exist expressly to increase market transparency). And sure, it doesn't go the whole way for you on execution details like borrow costs, liquidity etc. but those aspects tend to be unique to each trader.
One of the paper authors is Adi Shamir, the S in RSA, not just any "PHD holder".
https://pin.net.au/ recently went out of private beta..
Also, given how recent Opera decided to switch to Chromium, surely they knew about Google’s plans?
Gmail Uptime stats at 99.983%
If you were a Microsoft shareholder is that a bad thing? And I use the word "were" with confidence knowing that the stock hasn't moved in ten years...
> That paper you link to uses a trusted third party.

Not according to the abstract.
For most people the deflationary part is a good thing. If you don't spend them they actually increase in value. Or the people selling things for bitcoin who will get more and more value over time without having to increase prices.

It would hurt people who borrow money, but that's not what bitcoin is primarily used or was intended to be used for, and the interest rate people borrow money at could just be adjusted accordingly. (Which would then encourage people to loan instead of hoard as the amount of bitcoins they get back at the end of the day would be the same either way, but this way they would get interest on top of it. So your "hoarding" problem is self correcting anyways.)

If someone was hoarding bitcoins it doesn't hurt or affect anyone else. Your central bank inflating it wouldn't just punish hoarders, but everyone who used the currency. To the benefit of whatever group controlled it or got the newly "minted" bitcoins.

Bitcoin does have a built in way of inflating the currency by people "mining" more of it, but that was a necessary evil of getting the first bitcoins into circulation relatively fairly. There is no actual benefit of having people wasting vast amounts of computing power otherwise, or making everyone else's money worth less.
From the paper: ('ff' letters missing due to PDF copy/paste weirdness)

===============
Due to the way
bitcoins can be repeatedly moved to fresh addresses, some of which can be very
recent, we can not claim that all these bitcoins are out of circulation. However,
76.5% of these 78% (i.e., 59.7% of all the coins in the system) are \old coins",
de ned as bitcoins received at some address more than three months before the
cut o date (May 13th 2012), which were not followed by any outgoing transac-
tions from that address after they were received.

To be even more cautious with our estima-
tion of dormant bitcoins, we decided to ignore all the transactions which took
place prior to July 18th 2010, when Mt.Gox started its exchange and price quot-
ing services. The sum of the balances of all the addresses which have not been
active since that date is 1,657,480 bitcoins. Clearly, by considering all these bit-
coins as \lost" rather than \hoarded" we are underestimating the number of
bitcoins which are kept dormant in \saving accounts".

By ignoring these very
old bitcoins and repeating the same calculation, we found that 73% of all the
remaining BTC's were accumulated at addresses which only receive and never
send bitcoins, and that 70% of these 73% (i.e., 51%) are dormant bitcoins in the
sense that they were received more than three months before our cuto date but
after it became easy to exchange them. If instead of summing the transaction
values we sum the nal balances of all the addresses that were active after July
18th 2010 but became inactive in the last three months, we get that 55% of all
coins in the system are dormant in this sense.

This is strong evidence that the
majority of bitcoins are not circulating in the system, and since it is based on the
address rather than the entity graph, this conclusion is not a ected by possible
inaccuracies in the way we associate addresses with users. Note that the total
number of bitcoins participating in all the transactions since the establishment
of the system (except for the actual minting operations) is 423,287,950 BTC's
Yeah that struck me too

By extension, that environment is also one where a 1.5x developer is going to repay their salary
Neat !

Small remark: the github link does not work (it has an extra .github.com).
> It could also be an attempt to get Google juice for anyone else looking for info on these jokers.

It's not that. Schoenbaum (who is General Counsel) has been largely focused on this for Rackspace in DC for a while, and vocal on it over the last year.

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/author-post-list/?articlesbyau...
There is NO OpenGL support on games consoles, why the people outside the industry keep on propagating this?!

Only the PS3 has some OpenGL API support, but it is so bad most studios use libcgm, the lower level API.
For the first few years of my programming life (for research) these were exactly my only tools, and indeed they are perfect except when you get into "get something done fast" Then Python wins... Now I know far more programming languages, ideas and abstractions (btw: Prolog should also be a leg in that stool, since it offers things that can blow your mind... Sometimes :)
While this paper is cool, I'm not sure it reflects a real scientific advance. O'Craven and Kanwisher showed in 2000 that brain regions that when subjects imagine faces or scenes, face- or scene-selective brain areas are selectively activated (http://www.pet.au.dk/~andreas/seminars/cog-exp/files/OCraven...). This paper builds on that previous result by showing that this result also holds for hypnagogic imagery. It's interesting but not really unexpected.
It's fun how hard it is for a layperson to buy a Bitcoin in USA.
CCs do not work, you need bank transfer, your funds can be frozen, you have to wait in line, etc, etc.

I live in Russia and it's amazingly easy. First, everyone here owns a virtual money account. It works like this: you put some money into it and then you can pay your bills (especially internet and mobile phone), small purchases over internet and you can donate it to other users of the system. It is denominated in fiat money and that's what you put in. On every corner there is a device with touchscreen that accepts cash.

And that's where it ends: you can buy bitcoins with virtual money at metabank.ru. It probably talks to mtgox, buys some bitcoin there for you and transfers is. There is no trading involved, you buy for whatever the price is. You can actually buy BTC with CC attached to virtual money account, exactly like PayPal works. The catch is 6% fee.

If you want to trade, you go to btc-e. It supports a plenty of ways to move money into and out of the system. Fees are like 2%.
Do you have any indication that this has changed? If yes, how, without runtime code generation?
It's really disgusting that there is a huge amount of teenagers who are capable of racking up sentences of 10+ years like these, while adults who commit rape, arson, etc end up with the same sentence.

Sure we see a few cases like this every month or so, but if all the teenagers committing similar acts were actually caught; whether it be of malicious intent or just pure curiosity, the numbers would be staggering. Things really need to change, and the law needs to put more effort into understanding these breaches, along with how easily obtainable this kind of knowledge is on the internet.
This is a bit exaggerated right? When you buy a car, you aren't racing with it, but the amount of time it goes to 60 mph still matters, even if you're looking for fuel efficiency or something else.
I believe contra is Latin, contre francais?
Google challenges US government's private data demand in court
Does your alexa ranking have any value?
http://idiallo.com/blog/2013/04/alexa-ranking
This is why I like the news over here. Thanks. :)
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Some thoughts on woodworking and programming
> If you 10X the numbers I would not bet against the outcome "Achieve a systemic compromise of the bitcoin client."

Does that mean you'll take the other side of that bet?
Why does it have to be limited to a single language at all? Exposure to multiple languages should be the norm.
Don't use mirrors too much. In fact, you should do most of your exercises facing away from any mirrors.

A mirror only shows the front of you. If you stop looking into a mirror, you'll find that your ability to "feel" your form through proprioception becomes significantly stronger. And it will tell you things that you simply cannot view in a mirror. Try doing an entire session without using mirrors; if you find it difficult or impossible to maintain proper form, that should be an extremely compelling sign that the mirror has become a crutch, and not a very good one.

There's also the unfortunate fact that, by looking into a mirror, you're guaranteeing that your head is tilted farther back than it ought to be for exercises like squats. You never want to have your neck extended while carrying a significant load. It should be in a neutral position — for a squat position, this will equate to looking at the floor roughly five or six feet in front of you.
I agree that it's enough to know well one low level (or medium level) language and one high level language. For me, I decided a while ago that the two languages will be Java and Javascript. It was an easy decision since I use those languages at work, they both have healthy and growing ecosystems, and active communities.
Even people with nothing to hide can suffer the effects of making a mistake:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57565408-71/teacher-faces-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354515/Teacher-sack...
The RedMonk chart measures language popularity by activity on GitHub and StackOverflow. Top business languages Cobol, Transact-SQL, and PL/SQL aren't included at all in the 84 languages listed so the popularity measurement criteria is flawed.

The Redmonk measurement also seems to be gamed because the second cluster in the chart includes some languages with backers who are heavily promoting the popularity of the language, including using Stack Overflow as their primary documentation effort and creating numerous shell projects on Github.
Chromium (kind-of) supports DartVM. The fact that they're working on Dart will be a big incentive to keep the abstractions between the browser and the scripting language implementations as clean as possible.
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If he was happy with the art that he knew, good for him.

I didn't say otherwise on what made him happy. But when you're an influential public figure making public statements, the rules are a little different for you. If a politician or a leading business figure said "I think latinos are lazy and worthless. I'm not going to debate that, it's just a personal opinion", would you still say that no-one would have a right to ask them to justify the statement or hold them to account?
This will just cause the trolls to set up one shell corp per suit. If they lose, they just declare bankruptcy and vanish.

There needs to be a personal, professional cost to the attorney who represents the troll. Trolling doesn't work if you can't find a lawyer willing to take the risk on your bogus "on teh interwebs" patent.
Yes it is;

There is no powerful entity (violent extortionate power) that taxes people (engaged in parasitism) and requires payment in bitcoin. (the monetary base in question)

It's just in statist apologist clothing. Monetary bases exist on any money, whether that is government issued or otherwise, to insinuate otherwise is to imply that there is no money outside that issued by the state, and that has never been and is not the case.

I don't expect you to agree, whenever I have noticed any comment from you it has without exception been in strident and shrill defense of the state, but just stating you think differently and using this as evidence for calling your opinion as fact proves precisely nothing.
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I write Python & Objective-C most of the day, used to work for several years in a PHP/JS shop and have to code in Ruby and/or C from time to time. I recently felt the urge to learn a new language which is distinctly different from what I know so that I can learn new things. I considered Erlang, Common Lisp, Clojure, Go, Haskell, Scala and Elixir. I plan to use it for server side web development and if possible for command line scripting (where I currently oftentimes use Python). After much back and forth I ended up having to decided between Clojure, Erlang or Scala. I then went with Scala because it seemed to offer the best of both worlds: It has a good actor library with Akka, it has macro support, it is functional, it offers good OOP support (to ease the transition for me), and as a boon it also allows to develop for Android, something I may want to tackle in the future. So far I'm really happy. The only downsides are that the REPL starts up pretty slow (I'm used to Python, which starts up way faster), and package installation (especially of Java packages) confuses me at times. I still may want to go to Clojure or Common Lisp from here, but right now I'm happy with my choice.
It'd be the solipsist's database: "I exist" would be the only entry.
> it is nigh on impossible to understand the pros and cons of these tradeoffs unless you learn the language first

That's because there's virtually no easily accessible objective material decision-makers can use to select between them. Because of the high financial stakes involved, every company and consultant has an interest in promoting their own language memes in businesses, government, universities and schools.
Is it geekery? Kewt though.
Always wink it when it's a joke [0]

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law