skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's worse, as I understand the algorithm's explanation here previously, flagging stories that are much upvoted counts against the flagger. So if the attempt to flag it off fails, those who tried will be penalized.

Disclaimer: I have no idea if that explanation is true. But if so, then you don't want to be the kid with his finger in the dike.
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DDOS with malicious intent, or does a general usage spike count?

Just try loading mtgox.com -- it's slow. Try using it to trade. Even slower. Service is being denied. Confidence undermined. I would not take this as a vote that once the server issues are resolved, the price will continue to soar, but if I said that, it's possible that later I would be able to "told you so".
There is literally no fundamental value to bitcoins. Spikes and crashes are absolutely to be expected in such a situation.
The "Recently Closed Tabs" menu item (under "History") has been in FF since version 11 or before.
Completely agree. The details and disclaimers you could go through with safe lifting could fill an entire page but to keep it simple I didn't go into detail. I think we all understand the risks of taking on any change of lifestyle
I agree. My intention is to use white space to separate things, vs lines or other graphical distractions. Having said that, I still need to work on the list part of the design.
There are plenty of reference management tools. Papers, RefWorks, Endnote, JabRef, Zotero, colwiz, readcube, and more. Here's a comparison table at wikipedia (probably not super up-to-date but worth taking a look): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_managem...
Secretbook’ Lets You Encode Hidden Messages in Your Facebook Pics
So you don't mind if I wiretap all your phones?

Email being transmitted by 3rd parties is not different from voice calls being transmitted by 3rd parties. Yes, you are trusting a provider, with the expectation that your provider will send the data where you've asked it to send the data, and nowhere else. This is still true whether you're talking postal service, landline voice calls, SMS, cellular voice calls, Skype, etc.
My guess would be that Twitter has had plans to offer the same functionality.
That would seem to confirm what I noted adjacent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5528118

It's rumored that flagging something when the majority don't want it flagged will likely backfire.
The big crash that mathematically had to happen, happened today.
PC Shipments Post Steepest Decline Ever In Q1 2013
There will be less white space and it will be used more scarcely, however I'd rather use a little bit of white space instead of something like a horizontal line. Wouldn't you agree with this? :P
Sounds like a reason to stop regulating taxis to me. If some sort of independent "certification" is needed, there's no reason the free market can't provide such a service. In fact, it such a service is actually valuable, it's almost inevitable that it would emerge.
How does Backlift compare to Parse?
That's backwards. As the value approaches zero, the relative cost of mining grows not shrinks.
But that's just hearsay and conjecture -- we don't know it was turned off for "profitability" reasons or whatever. In fact Ribbon's blog indicates that Twitter was very receptive to the idea: http://blog.ribbon.co/an-update-on-in-stream-payments-on-twi...

Further, we haven't heard Twitter's side to this -- was there a violation of the TOS that the Tech bloggers didn't catch (or bother finding the other side of the story?)

Essentially you're jumping the gun in saying that Twitter is two-faced ("They say they're open but they're really not") all based upon no data or concrete evidence.
Indeed. My friend knows the man behind this. He owns another software company in Utah and gives his employees bonuses in BitCoin.
Why don't they just charge for this? You want to setup an in-stream payment solution? Great here is the API - its .10 each time its called (or whatever).

Further, why does twitter make it hard to pay them for API use?
>"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."

This is a flaw, not a benefit. I want to know what the value of my BTC are. Not what they are here, vs China, vs Canada, vs Australia...

>"Buying and selling an Indian Rupee for example is quite heavily restricted. "

What do you mean, "quite heavily restricted"? It's far harder for me to buy BTC, especially with these ongoing issues, than it is to buy Rupees in my forex account.
Honest question, why sinister? What has happened?

Another poster is claiming the unregulated Amsterdam market has been taken over by organised crime. That actually sounds sinister.
Thanks for the correction. I never downloaded it because it was described everywhere on the web as a browser extension. The existence of the standalone client is not mentioned on the homepage, where in fact it says "It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself."

Is the standalone client decent? Is the meta-data retrieval as good as Mendeley?
Very possibly, but I'm being completely honest with no ill intent when I say perhaps you're also misjudging yourself.

Again, perhaps my perception is wrong, but I find it very difficult to believe the person you describe yourself as would write the words you have written here.

I haven't even read your history so I fully acknowledge this is speculation. I'm just saying, I haven't met many people who can't think of several ways their thinking has changed over the years, on a constant basis. This is often referred to as wisdom or humility. But occasionally you meet the odd person who seems to have known it all their entire life. Hopefully you don't fall into the latter group.
If you don't have any interesting control operators like call/cc, prompt/control, etc. then it should be possible to track stack-like control patterns after CPS conversion through the compiler and through DWARF (or a custom debugging format). Unless I am missing something it seems that the control operators are the problem, not CPS.
The preview doesn't look anything like their final implementation. That preview looks like an actual movie player, while the final card screenshots I've seen look like regular content cards with a lot of custom branding.

This looks like a clever hack of the Twitter implementation of the Player card and not the intended use. The stream and content type attributes both are empty, for example. Does anyone know if this sort of implementation is what that card is supposed to allow?
"News story at 11, major roadway cuts off local roadside merchants"
I drove a taxi as a summer job in college in my hometown (small city near Boston). I thought I would share a few observations.

In our city, there were three companies that owned the medallions. An unwritten rule: The city was divided into territories, and we weren't supposed to pick up in the other territories unless we were flagged down. If someone from another territory called our company, they were told to call one of the others and arrange for the pickup.

75% of our business was call-ins or pre-arranged pickups (students, travellers, sometimes people with revoked licenses). Another 20% was pickups at the taxi stands outside the subways stations or hotels. There were a very small number of people flagging us down on the street. In Boston, there are many more street pickups. Note that this was all before the cellphone era.

We also couldn't pick up in Boston, unless someone called us in advance. Even if we were flagged while driving through the city (for instance, coming back from a drop-off), we had to ignore. This was by law, to prevent cabs from Cambridge or other towns from taking business away from the Boston cabs (and Boston cabs from taking business from Cambridge and the 'burbs, etc.). It made airport runs a bit of a risk -- while the fare was higher, since it was almost impossible to be able to pick someone up after dropping off someone at Logan, we were basically losing the opportunity to take other passengers for 30 minutes (or longer, depending on the traffic).

I should also add that rates in Boston were cheaper than other nearby cities and towns. This would make some passengers angry -- "it only cost me $X to come from the airport. Why is it $X + $20 now?"

We got a cut of proceeds off the meter, plus tips. Part-timers had to take the worst shifts, and the worst cars -- old LTDs and Ford Fairmonts that often had major mechanical problems. It was a poor way to make extra money -- unless you had a busy shift (rush hour, or rainy days) there was lots of down-time, which meant fewer receipts.
You say, "it's dishonest to pretend that regulation is strictly driven by parasitic behavior," but I was just quoting directly from the nyc.gov site that explains that's exactly why those regulations came to be.

You can argue separately for safety regulations, but that's not why NY started to regulate cabs - it was protecting an existing industry from competition. Also, put yourself in the 1935 mindset - was there even auto insurances? were there seat belts? The risk profile people lived with was much different.
Regardless of origins, I think there's still an important role for city governments to manage the number of cars on the street. NPR Planet Money did a story about the effect of NYC's planned +2,000 cabs (in additional to the existing 13,200) will have on the city: shorter wait times, but longer drive times for everyone. If the story is correct, more deregulation with more cars on the street without other measures (such as congestion pricing) would be bad for the public. NYC traffic is already bad enough.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157477611/does-new...
Does Google have mentorship as an official responsibility? As an engineering led organization, I imagine it should. Ideally a mentor should be someone politically separated from your people manager and technical lead. They would be an advocate for your development as a professional and would be like a good college counselor (Between two majors and switching majors and schools once I had five college counselors and two of them were indispensable.). If you're good enough to make it through the Google hiring process for engineers, then you are good enough to deserve an advocate/counselor that can coach you and represent your position as an outsider to a conflict.

Ideally a new engineer would get to choose their Google Counselor and they wouldn't be allowed to transfer to work for their counselor without finding a new counselor. If they didn't find a counselor within 2-3 months they could choose to attend "counselor speed dating" events where people who enjoy coaching and advising can show up and meet promising new googlers and take them under their wing. People who are really good, knowledgable and wise are often not only happy to mentor/coach others, but actually enjoy going out of their way to do so.

In the case of a conflict between an employee and manager (or tech lead) like you experienced, the counselor would act as an advocate for the employee and suss out the truth like a lawyer helps a defendant in prosecutorial proceedings where there is a clear asymmetry of power between the prosecution and defense (like federal cases); The counselor provides a system of checks and balances against the types of managers you've railed against in the past. Having been victim to such a manager myself several years ago, I know that such a mechanism is sorely needed as a company grows and certain poor managers become entrenched in a defensible position despite their toxicity to the organization.
In (elementry) school I had the habit of saying good morning when I showed up - pretty basic and I didn't think anybody particularily cared, until my mom told me that the teacher had been told by one of the parents how much that simple good morning meant for their child.

So yeah, simple curtesy matters -- that said I don't think I would be that happy if every stranger were saying hello to me on the street; it would quickly become overwelling.
Did GMoney withdraw affected employee/execs pays/bonuses?

or is he moving to some other company? opera?
There are related reasons. For one thing, cars might be a decent percentage cheaper, but only in large metropolitan areas, while in the other, say, 90% of the country you would not be able to find a dealer at all.

From what I have heard, many of these franchise laws date back to the Great Depression, when manufacturers were forcing dealers to buy cars that the dealers could not then sell.

(There was a recent NPR Planet Money episode on exactly this issue, but I can't find a complete link. http://www.wbur.org/npr/172402376/why-buying-a-car-never-cha...)
I want to remove the metadata if I can. Would you agree that the titles and "comhead" (the domain name) should be the visually promenant part? My goal is to minimize on the meta as much as possible without removing the usefulness of it.
When obsolete government practices persist, they tend to be pretty sinister.

Why is this true? Perhaps keeping these practices around, despite them being obsolete, implies ulterior motives?
>And you don't want to try to disrupt that market unless you have good organized crime connections...

How much of that is caused by decriminalization of drug use without decriminalization of large scale drug supply?
Twitter wants to validate each domain that has a card so they can approve & exert control. They cannot control what products a ribbon customer promotes via ribbon. If I wanted to sell illegal drugs or child pornography photographs, those would show up on twitter.com & twitter apps in a nice card-like experience complete with a 'Buy Now' button.

That's why they shut it down.
> I was under the impression that it was supposed to be the functional systems programming alternative.

The elevator pitch is "Speed of C++, safety of ML, concurrency of Erlang."
The SMTP protocol is used both from client to server and from server to server. RFC 3207 (2002) complaint MTAs communicate with each other over a TLS (i.e. encrypted) connection.

Complaint MTAs include: sendmail (>= 8.11), postfix (>= 2.2), MS Exchange (>= 5.5). Patches have existed for qmail to add support since 1.01, though they aren't in the main distribution for reasons that I'm sure make sense to djb.
I like the concept of disrupting old industries, and travel has a lot of stupid parts which should be fixed. However, I don't get the economics here as stated.

I can park at Park SFO for $10/day. Off-airport parking at other airports is generally similar.

My car costs me about $0.25/mile ex-fuel to operate (depreciation, maintenance). That's pretty standard; for a new car, it's easily more than that.

I value my time after arriving back from a long flight at $100-200/hr (in general I don't, but in the specific case where I'm exhausted, I do). That's why I drive to the airport, so I have my car waiting for me on arrival. If I didn't, I'd just take BART (and sometimes do).

At 90 miles/day mileage limit, I lose money ($22.50) if someone rents my car, even including free parking ($10) and the rental payment ($10). If I leave my car parked for a month and no one rents it, I'm ahead for sure (the cost of parking). If I had a car with only legal minimum liability insurance and someone destroys it, I'm also probably ahead based on their liability policy (I hope).

Speeding/red light/etc. stuff would be totally obnoxious.

The hassle of having to remove everything from the interior of the car, trunk, etc. and then replacing it after, as well as documenting condition pre and post rental, and any dropoff/pickup hassle vs. the Park SFO or SFO Long-Term Parking options, pretty much kills it for me anyway, but those aren't universal, so I'm not including those. Maybe some people value the free car wash more than the hassle of those things.

The only way this would really make sense for me vs. parking would be if the payment were substantially higher, OR if you got some non-cash benefit for renting out your car -- such as cheap/free rental of an equivalent vehicle elsewhere. I can sometimes get awesome cars from Hertz for $20-30/day, but in other cases, it's $100. Being able to "trade" my car for an equivalent car in another city at little or no marginal cash cost would be compelling. The cars could be other customer cars, but could also be from car dealers trying to demo/sell new models or something.
Are you implying women are somehow different than men? That we should mollycoddle them, lest we hurt their gentle feelings? I doubt that's how she'd like to be treated, but again, I'm speculating.
Reminds me of the Mutiny scene in Band of Brothers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSL4oLkLRUM
We started using Paychex when we had a total of two founders, making almost nothing, five years ago.

It was painless -- and cheap. On top of that, Paychex has had our back with hands-on personal customer service when things went wrong due to the usual paperwork screwups by NY State.

I'm truthfully not sure what Paychex could do better. This isn't an area where -- as a tech company -- we want things to be particularly technologically complex. A real person makes all the difference to us, and its not like Paychex is a significant cost for what they do, reliably.

Truthfully, I don't know why you'd badmouth them as "legacy solutions" that "don't really work". They've worked great for us, especially as we've expanded to offices in multiple cities and states, with all the attendant per-locale paperwork overhead.
Twitter really haven't been doing themselves any favours within the developer community. If not for the constant news we hear of APIs being restricted or cut off completely, it's now the in-stream features as well. Why would any developer now want to work with them?

I just don't....get Twitter at the moment. It'd be nice to have some clarification of why they wish to pursue this draconian mindset, but that's asking too much. I'm surprised that services such as Buffer have came so far.
>> "If anything it might be a positive sign for bitcoin that the attackers are keen to acquire it!"

I don't think it inherently implies anything of the sort. There is nothing to suggest that they believe in Bitcoin or care about it. If your suggestions are true, the only thing we know is that they are playing a very, very easy game of manipulation for financial gain. I don't see that as a positive for Bitcoin and think you're reaching with that statement.
Very cool. Will be useful.

One side note is that the registration and login pages don't use https. Sending from the app to your service should be secure as well but not as important as the register and login pages.
> paranoia

MtGox has said they were subject to DDoS attacks: https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/317423311174909954

> If you looked at the log plot[2], it still looked exponential!

Trying to divine future price movement from looking at a graph has been proven definitively, repeatedly to be foolish.
I'm going to design this thing into a Github page, but I need to get HN feed data. Could someone comment on where I could get HN data through an API?
I'm still trying to find time for a writeup of how we use MySQL Galera, but I'll take this chance to note again that any big MySQL houses out there should really take a look at it and see if it will work within your environment. Basically it's a true multi-master MySQL environment with shared-nothing (kind of like MySQL cluster). We've run into our share of bugs, be we're perhaps more of an edge case. We create a TON of temporary tables and were encountering a bug which was eating up memory slowly. That has been fixed for a couple releases now and everything has been groovy.

Basically though, the cluster takes care of ejecting bad slaves so you'll never need to worry about the replication status, etc.

Oh, and feel free to contact me through profile if you have any questions about it. We have a good long use of it now and pretty much know about most/all of the things to watch out for.
I wouldn't touch Twitter without a contract signed by my company and by Twitter. Any attempt to utilize their content consumers for anything other than reading content you produce has been shown to be at extreme risk of termination.

I don't believe Twitter doesn't know how they are going to generate revenue. I'm not convinced they can actually implement their ideas, but, if they had no ideas, I think they would be letting other companies throw themselves at the wall, then picking off the ones that stick via acquisitions. That they just squash them implies they think they know what they are doing.
You can't get in there, but insecticide can.
You can keep the original tokens. The challenge with debugging such programs is really the integration with the rest of the optimizations. CPS transformation turns your program into a ton of tiny functions. Then, any reasonable optimizer will do a huge amount of inlining. Attempting to do trace-based debugging bounces you from one subexpression in one function to another and so forth. Especially when you consider that Manticore (like MLton) is a whole-program optimizing compiler, you also get little chunks of library functions we've duplicated like map, foldr, etc.

Worse, we liberally remove dead code, including unused arguments, branches of conditionals we can guarantee are never called, etc. And since it's a research compiler, there isn't really a "-O0". You can turn off individual optimization passes, but guessing what combination lead to something getting inlined or not requires some careful study.

As to why they've chosen what they have with LLVM, I don't know enough to judge. Doing something like ML compilers do with a custom calling convention internally and then a C convention externally is pretty expensive, and ends up putting a massive penalty on C calls (oh, you want to call C? let me move the GC pointer out of the way, set up a fake stack frame for you, etc.). Further, doing it makes register allocation more of a challenge. Many ML compilers like to "pin" certain registers with their own values (e.g., the GC local heap limit pointer) so that we can write custom little blobs of assembly that get emitted in the right places without worrying about substituting in what the _real_ heap limit pointer is, etc. That pinning interacts badly with LLVM, as you can see from the Haskell/LLVM master's paper - they basically had to give up on it and just add their pinned values as extra arguments and then stop emitting code that relied on it being in a sane, typical place.

Hope that helps! I've been thinking about these problems and talking only with other people who do the same for so many years I'm starting to forget which parts are and aren't obvious (or even published/documented).
I'm not sure if WaveAccounting offers the same thing, and started in Canada?