skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How I love crazy interactions between laws and the unintended consequences.

And laws related to children are seemly really prone to that, like the prohibitions in taking photos of naked minors, that had three important results in my view:

One, allow stupid cases, like ones that DO happened in the US, where for example a 15 year old girl was prosecuted for giving photos of herself to her boyfriend (also a minor).

Two, makes illegal to take photos of some real crimes, for example if you take a photo of a guy raping a minor girl in a park and hand to the police, you can still be prosecuted for taking the photo.

Three, meddles with human sexuality in ways that few people understand, although many people now believes that people below 18 are incapable of having sex with responsability, I refuse to believe that my mother (met my father when she was 15, they are still married) or my grandmother (married my grandfather when she was 14, they are still married and VERY happy) were some sort of stupid children that did not knew what they were doing.
Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just make a twitter list containing only your VIPs and check that when you want to find out? If I'm not mistaken, all this service does is email you the contents of a twitter list once a day...?
History of the O'Reilly cover animals
Making accessible icon buttons
> No, more money is needed. 41% of deaths are due to cancer. It really is one of the biggest problems we have as a species and we should spend more effort on it rather than the things we do spend effort on.

The first sentence and the next two aren't at all related. It's possible that the amount of money we're collectively spending right now is all that can be used effectively, and more money will yield at best highly diminishing returns.
StoryWorth (YC W11) Aims to Elicit and Record Family Stories
You shouldn't have to encrypt your data to stop your ISP from actively 1) scanning and 2) corrupting it.

What is the FCC good for?
Bitcoin banks can be full-reserve. Meaning that savings and loans are maturity matched. So if the bank wants to give someone a 2yr loan they have to find a saver willing to make a 2yr deposit.

Demand savings accounts would have negative interest, meaning you would pay to have a regular savings account that you could access any time.
>"The assumption that inflation is automatically better is 'common knowledge' based on theories of economics developed that classify savings as bad, and spending as good, based on the assumption that deflation will cause consumption to be postponed, but which hand-waves away the problem of inflation bringing forward consumption with the trite statement of 'in the long run we are all dead'."

That's only part of the argument.

Another part is that wages also must decrease with deflation (wages are an input price). And that's very difficult to pull off in a modern economy, and leads to unemployment. We are seeing that right now.

The fact of the matter is, we should be indifferent to either inflation or deflation, as long as we can see the changes coming and adjust quickly enough. In reality, we can't. Hence an ever-increasing money supply (to coincide with an ever-increasing demand for money) is the best bet.

>"based on theories of economics developed that classify savings as bad"

I've never encountered that argument.

>My point is that deflation isn't the bogeyman

Look at this thread. Look at Seeking Alpha. Look at Reddit. You think people are over-reacting to deflation? People everywhere are hyperventilating over out of control inflation, when, in fact, our current problems are associated with a deflationary event ($3.5TT wiped from the collective financial sector sheets).
We hope ads/no-ads arms race would end there.
But I could easily see some unscrupulous/greedy ISPs then resorting to setting up SSL proxies to MITM your ostensibly secure traffic, as some private organizations (schools, corporations) already do.
It took 'em a big pile of money to prove a cheap chemical is suitable treatment for a major disease. Who, by you, should make it worth their while to do so? and to do such things more than once?
Awesome, thanks. Now, let the jokes begin. (:
Creating popups without HTML files
What Is Appointment Setting And The Difference With Telemarketers?
I wasn't a fan of 'Strange Loop' either. I'll be buying this one though.
Is there a way to opt out from receiving such emails, for those who are not on Linkdin to begin with?
This is commonly characterized as "knowing what you don't know." You know what's out there, even if you don't know it, but the power is that when you need to, you can learn it.

Contrast this with not knowing what you don't know. You can't learn it, because you don't even know it exists. I think this is a major benefit of an undergraduate education. You get a broad enough exposure to a field that you know what's out there, so you know what's possible.
4 Surprising App-Design Principles, From The Instagram Of Quick Quizzes
Coming Up: The Sapphire iPhone?
Neat idea. Though FAQ links on viglink.com do not seem to work (atleast in Chrome).
http://www.viglink.com/faq
http://www.viglink.com/support/faq
This is a really interesting find.
Another amazing place in the running for the title Gate to Hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell
Prepare Yourself: National Robotics Week Is Next Week
Although JackDB works great as a management and administration tool, a big use case is developers and DBAs running ad-hoc queries and digging deep into their data sources. We don't host databases.

To start, our focus has been on building an interface for SQL databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc). We're still polishing our support for MongoDB and other NoSQL databases.
I believe you have seen this article?
http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus...
Hi, cofounder here. It's not open source. The FreedomCP agent that runs on your servers is written in Python and can be audited but most of the code resides on our side as it's a hosted service.
I make games for children, so I have to track COPPA.

Among the children product makers, it is known that US government go crazy with COPPA, throwing huge lawsuits even against mom'n'pop shops if they think you are somehow not meeting COPPA fully.

Even my business, that has NOTHING to do with the USA (our dev lab is in Brazil, our headquarters is in Switzerland, and we sell to Russia, Brazil, France, Germany and Korea) we comply with COPPA because we fear USA might find a way to screw us.

When dealing with USA (that I don't know why its citizens still believe is land of the free) it is ALWAYS better to go safe than sorry.
Almost identical functionality appears as part of MochiKit, and I've found it very useful for quick and clean DOM creation:

http://mochi.github.com/mochikit/doc/html/MochiKit/DOM.html
Seriously. I think reading HN or at least some quality development blogs is probably a better indicator of competency than any of these certs. Just don't tell the incompetent people.
Here's mine, warts and all: https://github.com/Ovid

I'm delighted to see someone's github when they send me a resume or CV. I actually get to see real projects and while, yes, those might be "polished" works, I find that most devs actually don't seem to publish code that's significantly better than what they produce in the workplace.

Of course, if I see a github account with no activity at all, then yes, it's probably polished.
Web designer? Programmer?
Minor niggle, but it says "Time spent driving to a gas station and refueling". The nearest gas station to my house would take about 5 minutes to drive to, so 15 minutes isn't that unrealistic.

Having a $222 business tax discount selected by default seems questionable to me though.
> someone could buy all BTC and drive its exchange rate (and thus its value) down

If someone buys it like crazy, why would the price go down?

> Someone could also print more USD...

The use of the word "also" here is wrong since btcs can't be "printed" by "someone" like the dollar.
What is the difference between someone stealing physical dollars from a bank and the bank inventing new dollars through the practice of fractional reserve banking, other than one practice is legal and the other is not?
is www.rackspacecloud.com used for anything? I ask because the certificate is for * .rackspacecloud.com and expired on 4/1.. but https://manage.rackspacecloud.com has a * .rackspacecloud.com cert that expires in July (issued in 2011).

Also www.rackspacecloud.com just redirects to www.rackspace.com
This is really exciting. I'm glad to see rust being used for serious apps. This is actually the first new browser engine that I know of being written in the past 10 years.
I don't mean this in a rude way; I'm just confused: How is your comment at all relevant to this submission?

Also, why are the dates all out of order?
In the past, jail space limitations have forced states to make hard choices about who they want to keep in jail, with the result that nonviolent offenders are paroled.
Bitcoin has the volatility over a month that USD have over half a decade, in other words?
Regardless of what I think about Bitcoin's longterm significance in the world. I feel this spike in Bitcoins's price might just be Russian mobsters making their money back after the Cyprus nonsense. The timing between the two events is just too convenient and this whole run-up smells like a classic pump and dump from my dot-com trading days.
Servo is a "high-risk research project"[1], so I've been wondering what would happen if it doesn't pan out. Rust would still be interesting even without Servo, but would mozilla still invest in Rust if they stopped working on Servo?

So it's nice to see some non-mozilla involvement and momentum in Rust/Servo. Maybe that means that an investment in learning/using Rust is that much less risky :)

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org/msg0...
Bandwidth improvements are always fantastic, but I wish they would have mentioned if this new technology has any effect on latency.
Let's enumerate the grand possibilities filtered by an increasing bitcoin value versus dollars (without predicting small-time-scale changes):
- Bitcoins will grow to a peak and then decrease to a much smaller value

- Bitcoins will continue to increase and then plateau to their real market value (which later on, in hindsight, everyone will claim has always been very rational.) This will make them take a share in between the available global currencies, and then everyone will continue life normally.

- Bitcoins will be continue to increase in value such that no one can ignore them anymore. This will effectively destroy the old notion of currency and push economy into a totally new realm.

I really hope it's at least the second option. I am not sure I want the last option to be true, since I haven't invested in Bitcoins enough yet.

On the speculative side:
The way I see it is, Bitcoin is currently feeding on an open field of existing wealth. It hasn't even started to be used as a currency of exchange, as many have said. When that starts happening on a wider scale, there's really nothing that will stop Bitcoin from eating the whole market of currencies, and becoming the defacto coin of exchange (except the ridiculous large spans of time that are required for verification).
Shock! Horror! Gasp! You mean someone can be accomplished in academics without following the Standard Academic Track That Is Designed By Our Benevolent Government And Their Patriotic Comrades In University To Provide Thou With A Most Efficient And Complete Education?!
Which Bathroom Floor Tile Is Right For You? Yahoo Homes Article
Botnets make a ton more money by just ad-clicks anyway. I bet its more beneficial to fraudulently ad-click with botnets than it is to mine bitcoins.
If your point is, "other currencies suck too", it's not a good one. The entire goal of bitcoin was to be better than these currencies. The writer of this article simply said bitcoin doesn't work as a currency. The fact that there are (unsurprisingly) a lot of failed currencies out there doesn't make bitcoin a better currency. This isn't a school paper where the grade is curved.
There are a couple of core points that this article seems to get completely wrong about bitcoin. I'm certainly no expert, but quotes like:

> the perfect digital currency: they’re frictionless, anonymous[...]

seem to suggest that the author has read a lot about bitcoin (by other authors), but not investigated that deeply. (As for the content: It's bogus mainly because they're at best pseudo-anonymous, or rather: Actual anonymous payment via bitcoin takes a lot of effort to conceal. And it may only be frictionless for now - looking at the way transaction fees develop in the future is one of the most exciting concepts about it, to me.)

> Inflation is bad, but deflation is worse. [...] People hoard their cash, and spend it only begrudgingly, on absolute necessities.

I see how that is very different from the way capitalism works at the moment. But, conceptually, would it really be that bad?

I think an economy that builds on people buying loads of crap they don't need is at least comparatively bad. We certainly seem to have a problem with using more than we need from the planet.

> And they certainly don’t spend it on hiring people — no matter how productive their employees might be, they’d still be better off just holding on to that money and not paying anybody anything.

Again, wouldn't the result just be that you only hire people who create more value than deflation? And wouldn't "nobody paying anybody anything" eventually cause inflation?

Finally, a lot of the arguments employed seem rather shoddy.

This is the argument against being your own bank:

> In Hollywood, if you show someone counting out huge sums of cash, that’s an easy way for the director to say that he’s a criminal.

This is the argument trying to discredit bitcoins principle of mistrust:

> Bitcoin, in that sense, is anti democratic. It’s based on mistrust rather than trust, it refuses to take any responsibility onto itself – indeed, it doesn’t even have a self to take responsibility onto.

So far so half-good...

It’s nihilistic[...].

Nope, does not follow.

> I do have hope that in the future, someone, somewhere, is going to learn from bitcoin’s mistakes, and build a better system.

The author seems to suggest that this is his conclusion, but I thought that was the main idea in bitcoin itself. That it's artificial limit is a rather clear "we will have to come up with something better by then". Not as a "we will never need more bitcoins than this many".

I may be wrong here, but didn't Satoshi set up bitcoin precisely to be a testing ground? Beta Software? The author seems to be a little too occupied putting words in his mouth to actually read the concepts. Instead, he claims that Satoshi wants bitcoin "to be the perfectly anonymous payment mechanism for a digital world". I don't think that's true.
clickable: http://www.pensieve.net

I am newbie founder, also trying to gain traction, so I am trying to share guesses here, not knowledge.

Actually, I am trying to deliver value, not gain traction. "Growth hacking" must be done just after the product/market fit, and I still don't have it. If yours "solid approval" means prod/mkt fit, than you can start to build some features to hack growth. But I would keep it at small scale. I would say, work hard to keep the course creators coming back to create new courses. Use cheap adwords (that you pay) to attract users to their courses (not to your platform).

But for this to work, your course creators must have an audience. Something you can do is attract common people that publish courses on Youtube and already have small, but regular viewers. If you provide enough value for these "amateur professors", they will bring on their audience. This will demand a great effort of research, to cherry pick the right teachers.

Don't try to create a exponential growth from day zero. Don't be Formspring or BranchOut. Think hard about traction, but a solid, relatively small one. Don't compare yourself (yet) to these big names.
If a drug that does what Viagra does wasn't hard to discover, why wasn't it invented before? And why would they bother pursuing the ED applications in the first place if someone could copy the formulation the moment it was substantiated?

Btw, Viagra is effective.
Actually, the "HTTPS Everywhere" plugin [1] for firefox and chrome is
an incomplete solution. The reason is simple; not all sites support
HTTPS, so the plain HTTP-only sites are still vulnerable.

Injecting a script into insecure HTTP is just one of many abuses possible
by ISP's. Replacing images on the fly is another. Recompressing (degrading)
images/video is another. Messing with DNS responses is another, and so on...

A far better working solution is to use a VPN service since when it's configured
correctly, it will encrypt all traffic passing through your ISP. Of course, this
is really just moving the trust problem, rather than solving it, but at least using
a VPN service makes it your decision who to trust. I use Tunnelr.com [2] since by
reputation, similar interests, and years of traded emails, I know the people who run it.

[1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[2] http://tunnelr.com
Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being;

But the author of TFA did. He made a blanket assertion about what the "proper ambition of a tech entrepreneur" ought to be.

If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").

I agree, 100%. But I don't see how that's even remotely analogous to the point about the author of TFA mandating what a tech entrepreneur's ambition ought to be.
It's the same type of gamesmanship that explains why Facebook was worth 100B at one point: the marginal price is multiplied by the number of units outstanding. There is no guarantee that every BTC can be cashed out at the current price (or even for a nontrivial price) in much the same way as how Dorsey can't dump his entire twitter stake at the current valuation of twitter.
The word "soon" does not appear anywhere in the article. The original title is "Are You A Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the Justice Department, You May Be a Criminal".
what apps? :D

The whole idea behind firefox OS is the "open web", all "apps" are standards-compliant javascript. App portability shouldn't be much of a problem.
I am still waiting for a day when Americans are finally going to realize that it's long past the point when they should be completely fed up with this shit and don't accept it anymore. Breaching ToS a criminal offence? Is this land of the free, or the land of the corporations again?
Interview with founders of Photon 3D Scanner on Indiegogo
Fake Somali Pirates Scam Western Journalists
>for example if you take a photo of a guy raping a minor girl in a park and hand to the police, you can still be prosecuted for taking the photo

well, that is just wrong. what if it is an unmonitored security camera?
Look at it this way: You print 1 billion klapinat0r bills. You're the only one who owns any and they're not backed by any other asset such as gold. What would one of those bills be worth? Why would it be worth anything? Why would there be any demand?
"But trusting someone else to look after your coins requires the very trust that bitcoin was designed to circumvent."

Bitcoin is decentralized and doesn't rely on trusted parties, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't rely on trusted parties if you choose.

I fully expect most people will use a Bitcoin bank/wallet service/whatever, the problem is most of them are amateurs right now. It turns out these are essentially banks, and need bank level security.
We thought that you were going to write: "You're apparently better in grammar then I am." :-)
John Resig's blog posts never fail to impress.

The bit comparing Asm.js to Google's Native Client is interesting.
The first cellphone call was made 40 years ago today
Indeed. What's with the Internet being a set of tubes?
Yes, what you said. Bitcoin is just getting started, so it seems reasonable to think that the slope from "none" to "some" might be both bumpy and steep. Does anybody know of a good source of data for the exchange rates of other currencies when they were in their infancies? That could make an interesting comparison.

I don't know whether bitcoin is in a bubble or not (it does seem likely), but the rising slope of a sigmoid graph can also look exponential until you get out further in time.
Post GDC Rant
All different asset classes. The last gold bubble was in the 80s, 30 years from now.
There is no point in even putting together a botnet with thousands of CPUs anymore, a couple of FPGAs or an ASIC based solution would run rings around that botnet. Ok, an ASIC will cost a bit of money and a botnet is free but the difference in performance is such that only a very large botnet would be worth it and those can probably be monetized more effectively in other ways.
This is really exciting. I'm glad to see rust being used for serious apps. This is actually the first new browser engine that I know of being written in the past 10 years.

Good for Mozilla for attempting hard problems in innovative ways.
MATE 1.6 released
The first book sold was written by the same author the submission is about.

The Wikipedia entry on the professor also mentions this fact from the Amazon history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#In_popular_c...).
The idea that analogy underpins all thought is also argued by Ian McGilchrist in his book Master and His Emissary, which I'd highly recommend to people interested in the sort of epic philosophical undertaking GEB was: http://www.iainmcgilchrist.com/The_Master_and_his_Emissary_b...
I think there's too much wishful thinking in your analysis, first people that are really rich are only interested in two things, one is that their wealth do not lose value, they will go to bitcoin, private equity, platinum, dollars, North Korean wons, stocks, fixed income titles, futures, whatever only to have this as a guarantee. The second is to increase their wealth.

Now your post appears to talk about the first point, which I agree, I only do not see how you jump to the conclusion that bitcoin is more stable than Swiss francs for example, stability is the guarantee that you'll not lose money if you trade all your wealth from one state to another, I do not see how bitcoin guarantees that (no store of value does), the only real alternative to not lose value is diversification, put your money in as many different things as you possibly could, never let a bank have more than 20% of your entire cash money, buy as many different investments as you could, precious metals, stocks, solid bonds and let them be on safes or clearing houses that's not attached to a bank.

And most important stay away from banks from countries with large public debt.
When to Code and When to Lead
That's not true, both Firefox OS and Tizen use many not-yet-standard APIs. Luckily they are collaborating on many of these APIs and they will be interoperable.
Thanks for the insight, interesting project. Would you mind sharing some links about gpu in/as database? I'm very interested in the idea, yet usually find only marketing babble ("yes we're working on it, it's been promising" kind of thing) Would love to dive into some research papers on the topic.