skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my server logs, Google will offer STARTTLS and also use STARTTLS when offered. So there can be MTA<->MTA encryption. Unfortunately, many MTAs don't do one or both, and that includes those run by some of the largest ISPs.

Edit: A test tool... https://www.checktls.com/
No, that's pretty much a summary of the primary criticism of bitcoin as a currency.
I'm going to believe that will happen soon. However, right now, it seems to me that Bitcoin is really just going "SHIFT".

We have countries like Cyprus yanking money out of banks, so you get some people shifting their money out of country. So, what does it matter what a bitcoin costs if you are going to launder some cash out? 1:1 is a fabulous laundering rate.

Buy 200 Euro worth of Bitcoin from an account in Cyprus -> Instantly (or asap) sell for 200 Euro to an account in London. The current price doesn't matter as long as you exchange fast enough or at a profit.
This is a great resource, but may need a bit of an update. It's missing Wavelet Trees for example.
Hello, thank you for your sharing. It's awesome library and I think to use colorific in my project. we don't need to reinvent the wheel.

But it seems to need improvement to support Pillow, latest version of Python2, etc. I still didn't try but I'll examine it. Thanks.
Several of the listed countries aren't democratic in any sense of the word. Even with context the argument is still absurd -- we intend to communicate meaning with the words we use, and the introductory paragraph in the OP and the comment you replied to both highlight cases where what a word means and how its use are unrelated.
Because every car dealership in the country would immediately go out of business and cars would be a decent percentage cheaper.

Not saying that's a good reason, just pointing out there's a lot of money and interest in keeping the status quo, as there always is.
I saw George Dyson give a talk about the Orion project - where they were planning to set off conventional atomic bombs in a series to propel spacecraft - and he had found a paper that had done the math and claimed that the crew of the spacecraft would only feel low-frequency sound, like the bass at a loud rock concert.
So far there's just been mysterious lag every time the price starts to drop that stops people from actually selling...
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Thanks for the idea (and karanbhangui). I'm a little uncomfortable scraping a government website in these litigious times, so I was hoping NIST had a big PDF or something. :)
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Their mileage limit is 90 miles/day.

My car has cost me £0.65/mile for all costs excluding fuel (which would I imagine be the big cost difference between the UK, where I am, and America). I don't believe my car is even terribly expensive as cars go - TCO over 2 years so far would barely buy you a small hatchback - but at $10/day, I'd still be losing out simply based on the valet driver driving it ;)

OK, so maybe if you ignore the cost of the car/insurance/car tax (since I would pay these anyway, whether I hire the car out or not), and focus only on repairs and servicing, because these are roughly proportional to distance driven, the cost is £0.07/mile. 90*0.07 = £6.30, which is pretty much $10.

Perhaps my car is just more expensive to run than average (perhaps due to its age), or I take needlessly good care of it for a second-hand one, or whatever, and/or maintenance is super-cheap in America. But add in the risk of your average rental driver taking less care of your car than normal, quite apart from the bother of sorting out speeding and parking tickets, and it's starting to feel like I wouldn't be earning enough money from it to make up for the potential hassle.
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Serious question: Is that really a fair criticism of BTC? Because afterall, our beloved US currency is fiat based, and often subject to whims of geopolitical games.
Sarah Palin wouldn't stand a chance in hell in mature democracy that hasn't been corrupted by the power of money.

Palin is a sock puppet for those with the money, and the people voting for the likes of her have been deliberately deprived of a decent education. This is a symptom of the same corruption.

The open source movement is a workaround, exploiting a flaw in a corrupted system. It should serve as an example of how much better things can be, not as an excuse to never address the problem, especially not when millions are being criminalized by exactly the same copyright system for the simple act of sharing.

It's not fault tolerant: changes in the copyright law (the laws bought and paid for) can kill copyleft, and whatever license one may prefer, copyleft upholds some of the essential pillars of the open source ecosystem.

Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of pragmatically using these workarounds.

But I'm also in favor of keeping our eyes on the prize: the knowledge accumulated over millennia should not be allowed to be monopolized and exploited by the few.

Open source is not a "third way". It's a necessary detour.
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Yes, Don't Mess With Texas is an anti-littering campaign. I hope Elon wasn't littering.
Not Sun anymore sadly, but yeah oracle, IBM, HP all still make systems like that.
As others have stated due to the DDOS your trades will have low likelihood of going through (in fact some people may be doing this as we speak).
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The law of client/attorney privilege and the Constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable search have distinct bases and are governed by different law. Attorney/client communication focuses on the whole communication, while 4th amendment focuses on the specific piece of evidence. So if you for example gave your client some advice relayed through your secretaries, you could invoke the privilege if they were questioned. However, if you gave your secretary a note to pass to your client, and she kept a copy, you cannot invoke the 4th amendment.
I just thought about something I'd never thought before:

Could it be said that bitcoins _do_ have an intrinsic value equal to the marginal amount of electricity and equipment needed to produce one?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but dealing with "big data" is still an unresolved problem in Meteor, isn't it?

The leaderboard example (http://meteor.com/examples/leaderboard) works because it is easy to synchronize with a datastore that contains at most a few hundred values. It's so tiny the whole dataset can be kept in the web browsers memory.

Say you have a database with 100k searchable indexed documents. You run the query "foo" to fetch the 10 best matches and also a count of how many documents among the total number of documents searched that matched the query. Now if someone simultaneously adds another document, the whole search query must be run again because the new document might match "foo" and even if it doesn't, the total document count still needs to be updated. Multiply that by a few concurrent clients and performance goes down the drain.

The above scenario or permutations of it is incredibly common in web applications and I don't think Meteor has a good solution to it. I'd gladly be proven wrong though.
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Thought exercise : Would a hosting facility/data center on Native American tribal land be useful? By operating on tribal land a business is exempt from many state specific laws. The business would not be exempt from federal laws.
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So either TBL is an idiot for designing HTML instead of a VM, or he's not and Alan Kay is an idiot for calling him such. Which is true? Maybe you are not defending Alan Kay's stance, but you haven't said that.

Plain text has existed for 50+ years; I'm sure it will exist in 100. I'm pretty surprised you don't think so. Actually Taleb's Antifragile talks about this exact fact -- things that have stood the test of time will tend to stick around. For example, shoes, chairs, and drinking glasses have been around for thousands of years; they likely will be around for thousands more. An iPad has maybe another decade. HTML has already stood the test of time, because it has gone through drastic evolution and remained intact.

Your knowledge of how web standards are developed isn't quite correct. The W3C didn't invent SSL, JavaScript, XmlHttpRequest, HTML5, or HTTP 2 (SPDY), to name a few. Browser vendors generally implement proprietary extensions, and then they are standardized afer the fact.

I agree that the JS developments you list are interesting. JavaScript is certainly necessary for the web because it lets it evolve in unexpected directions. AJAX itself is a great example of that.

I'm talking about HTTP and HTML 1.0 -- they are conceptually dead simple, and both specs still use the exact same concepts and nothing more. I don't know if HTML 1.0 had forms -- if it did not then you could certainly implement HTTP + HTML in a couple days. I'm talking something like Lynx -- that is a valid web browser that people still use.

Lynx can still view billions of web pages because the web degrades gracefully, because semantic information is conveyed at a high level. The problem with VMs is they don't degrade. Suppose everyone gets sick of CSS. You can throw out all your CSS tomorrow, and write MyStyleLanguage, but your HTML will still be useful. If you encode everything in a VM, then the whole page breaks. It's all or nothing.

An analogy is that HTML vs VMs is similar to compiler IR vs assembly language. You can't perform a lot of optimizations on raw assembly code. The information isn't there anymore; it's been "lowered" in to the details of machine code. Likewise the client is able to do interesting things with non-Turing languages, because it can understand them. Once it's lowered into a VM language, the client can't do anything but slavishly execute the instructions. The semantic info that enables flexibility is gone by that point.

If you think markup will still exist in 100 years, then it's not too much more of a claim to say that markup will be transmitted by web servers and browsers. Do you agree with that? If that is true then TBL is not an idiot. Alan Kay's claim is basically ridiculous. A weaker version of it is still untrue.

I would say that in 100 years, HTML will still exist -- i.e. a thing that lets you separate plain text in to paragraphs, make it bold, etc. In contrast, we will have already gone through dozens of more VMs like the JVM, Flash, JS, Dart, etc. Certainly the JVM and Flash will be gone long before that point. They will have lived and died, but HTML will still be there.
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We take security really seriously here at ZenPayroll. This includes encrypting any sensitive/private information at rest, so that no one has access to it. You are correct in that there are some instances where our support and operations teams need access to this information to better help our customers. In such cases, the information is decrypted only when necessary and made available only on a need-to-know basis.

I'm updating the text on the security page to clarify more. Thanks!
The currency itself is very grey, yes, however the transaction network is excellent and high-quality.

It's unfortunate that the currency so loudly dominates the news surrounding it. Personally I find the technological achievement of a major, reliable, and international transaction network more impressive.
It's not just MtGox and bitstamp. Pretty much every other exchange, as well as bitcointalk.org and trackers like bitcoinity are under attack simultaneously. It's a pretty obvious attempt at manipulating the market by causing widespread panic, so that the attackers can buy in at a conveniently low price the moment the attack is halted.
US currency isn't backed by gold- it is in a sense backed by the US government. BTC is wholly unbacked.
No, because you can't go from Bitcoin back to electricity in the same way you could smelt a gold coin.
>> The companies you name generally have low-skilled workers. Google support would have to be high-skilled and expensive.

Not necessarily. Even if Google hired 100 for Gmail, 100 for Adsense, 100 for Adwords they'd probably solve 80% of the problems, given that they'd notice that the algo went nuts on something. Then, there are different levels of support, the expensive ones would be in the single digit %.

Even if Google pushed employees to use their 20% on providing support things would improve drastically. Or less defending of their employer on HN and more customer service :) . "How do I press send on Gmail" and "How do I search" are easily solved via tutorials, the real problem is when you are locked out of your account by an algo.

>> Also, this is not just greed vs empathy. Everything has an opportunity cost. Google can spend $X staffing support lines for Gmail, or it can spend that money on developing features and bugfixes. This is a strategic business decision; either answer may be better for Google and its users.

Google is insanely profitable, their margins can do down a bit. Obviously everything costs money but at some point you lose your reputation trying to pinch your pennies. I do not remember many negative Google posts a few years ago. Now they are everywhere, meaning that their reputation is no longer unquestionable.
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Awesome! I imagine this would allow you to use your own merchant services provider instead of paying fees for companies like Stripe. Although, if I have to do online payments in the future, I may use Stripe for ease of use.

The power of this allows companies to use merchant services available to them without having to worry about PCI compliance!
That isn't an intrinsic value. Waste heat does not have an intrinsic value equivalent to the cost of producing it- it is waste heat.

Intrinsic value is derived from what you can do with something, not what you did to get it.
> However, BTC China is still trading at above $275! That's the beauty of bitcoin, it isn't restricted to just one region in the world.

Bitcoin does have alot of advantages over existing currencies it, but this isn't one of them. I can buy and sell USD/CAD/AUE/GBP in many markets around the world
The same geopolitical games also back the US currency. So it is no longer gold back but ICBM backed.
I saw this hack at MHacks. Its amazing -- future of rap.
This is the same state where car dealerships are only allowed to be open one day of either Saturday or Sunday. There was recently a proposal to get rid of this law, but it failed. Who was one of the biggest proponents of the status quo? The Texas Automobile Dealers Association.

It's yet another example of where government is used to protect special interests.
Your pricing actually looks _great_ for what I'm trying to do.
With your pricing model I'll have to keep an eye on my bandwidth, but it's pretty competitively priced. ( I'd only run a Bulletin board and a Mumble server w/ ~8 concurrent users. So I should easily be in "tens of GB.")

I'm currently running 2x512mb instances at Rackspace. (It's cheaper than 1x1024 instance, sadly, and I don't need the extra bandwidth/disk space, just the RAM.)

I think I'm going to spin up a trial today. Though I tried to do the same w/ digital ocean and my CC is giving me nothing but headaches. Thanks for the link!
I made an inquiry last week and it seemed that only California was supported.
NPR's Planet Money podcast did a good story on how the dealership system works in most places, and how that's hampering innovation in some fronts. Sadly, they had a great opportunity to talk about Tesla's problems but didn't cover it. Still worth it for background learning:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...

The NPR page also references this paper which goes into a lot more detail, but if you can't listen to the podcast it's a good reference.

http://faculty.som.yale.edu/FionaScottMorton/documents/State...

TLDR: Automakers and their dealerships have lobbied to get laws into place over the last century to ensure that those laws favor car dealers and their preferred way of operating. It will be extremely hard to change the status quo.
This really hits home. I had a few emails back and forth with the co-founder/CTO of a fairly successful startup that tried to recruit me back in January. We had a short Skype session, he basically "strung me along", vaguely brought up a homework assignment, and never got back. Like the author of this post, I emailed him back and checked for an update, but never got a response.

And to think I actually referred people to use their service before. Since this incident, I have lost a ton of respect for this person specifically. Not because we were not a good fit for each other, but because of the 360 degree change in attitude once he had no use for you. A bit sad to say this person is probably on HN too.

In contrast, his email responses while trying to recruit me originally were always within 24 hours, usually between 5~25 minutes. Fairly lengthy emails too. It's not that difficult to let someone know if you don't think you (and I) are not the best fit for each other. Show some respect.
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Did you notice the graph in that post? I think you mean to say "I'm curious how they've been differentiating themselves."
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Can someone explain me why this could happen? Large amounts of BTCs moving at the same time? What are your theories?
So, what do you think the intrinsic or non-monetary price of gold is?
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I should have been more clear -- I mean sustained fusion generation, meaning a net energy gain over that required to start the reaction in the first place. That hasn't been achieved.

Yes, it has. Fusion produces energy; the energy you have to put in to initiate fusion does not magically disappear. Thus, if you can do fusion at all, you will end up with more total energy than you started with.

What has not been achieved is capturing enough of that resultant energy in a form (such as electricity) in which it can be used to keep the reaction going. That step, however, is completely irrelevant to a rocket engine. The energy released by fusion is largely kinetic energy, and that is exactly what you want in rocket exhaust, no need to go through a lossy conversion step.

If the fusion reaction produces less power than it requires, the designers would be better off using the source electrical power to drive an ion thruster.

Not so. If the fusion reaction generates any energy at all, then that is better than just using your electrical power source by itself, for exactly the same reason that it's better to use a starter motor to initiate ignition of gasoline in your car than it is to try to run your car off of a weak starter motor. This is true even if you have no way of using the engine to recharge your battery.

If this project were to succeed, it would instantly replace the existing approaches (i.e. tokamak and laser inertial confinement) as the most promising candidate for large-scale fusion power generation.

No, it wouldn't. That would only happen if the additional step were taken of discovering a highly efficient means of capturing the kinetic and radiant energy of the engine exhaust and converting it back to electricity. And research into fusion generators that work pretty much like that has been and is being done.

Edit: The slides at http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/636883main_FDR_talk_NIAC_2012_final.... even say:

It is assumed that initially FDR employs solar panels for house keeping power
Eventually it would be derived directly from nozzle flux compression

I.e., "once we do figure out how to turn this into a generator, then you don't need solar panels anymore." But they don't know how to derive energy from the exhaust stream through the nozzle yet, so they have to keep it going with solar panels. And extracting energy from the exhaust would necessarily reduce the ISP of the engine somewhat.
A rocket only needs to achieve thermal break-even. A power plant needs to achieve electrical break-even, which includes the unavoidable loss from converting the heat to electricity in a heat engine.

In this way a system can be simultaneously useful for space travel but useless for power generation.
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Correct - PCI Compliance requires the holding company to pay for auditing of their systems quarterly I believe.

You also have to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest and in flight, etc. A distributed black box may pose more risks as well.
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I've been using EPD for a long time and it's been a rock solid way of installing the full scientific python stack, especially on a Mac. Very curious to see where this goes, although it seems more targeted at the Matlab crowd who develops in their IDE/computing environment.
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There hasn't been a buying opportunity this attractive since less than 48 hours ago!
Maybe you could give someone a bitcoin and they'd give you x amount of compute time on their cluster equal to the time they'd need to generate a new bitcoin. ?
Intrinsic value doesn't have anything to do with cost/effort necessary to produce something.
And in fact securing something can be interpreted by some as intent to deceive. Only terrorists use PGP and really serious encryption.

"if you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear" -- Eric Schmidt of Google
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