skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to ensure your data protection never changed - encryption. Google or not Google notwithstanding.
Facebook Still Reigns Supreme With Teens, But Social Media Interest Dwindling
If you want it protected, don't leave it in clear text in the custody of someone else who may or may not choose to hand it over to the authorities without your permission.

In other news: you can't invoke the 4th amendment if you stash boxes of weed at a friend's house and he hands them over to the government when asked.
Cinegram is Launched for Android Devices
BTC crashed primarily because the market suddenly got flooded by Bitcoinbillionaire :

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/bitcoin-crashes-losi...

This bares repeating...

The value of BTC is in the nature of the transaction; not the currency itself. People have turned BTC into a commodity instead of actually bloody spending it. Their old fashioned thinking still ties it to traditional fiat like a smoker trying to give up the habit.

Look, I don't want anyone to lose their money, but people have to stop thinking of BTC as something that has value. What's valuable is the transaction itself, not the means of transaction. To put it another way, fiat currency is just colorful paper until it gets distributed to banks and into your hands.

This original transaction and all future transactions give it value; without it, the paper means nothing.

Edit: Spelling. Ironically, I wrote "bears repeating" instead "bares repeating". BTC ain't a bear market ;)
Did you build this at the M-Hacks Hackathon?
There are special laws protecting mailboxes. They are actually property of the USPS. A better example is if you left a computer printout in your building's leasing office. That is not protected.
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Way to ignore what's printed in front of you. As the writeup clearly states, the benchmark shows that throughput is based on the number of keys in the DB, not on the size of the values. The reason the 100KB test is faster is because there are fewer keys.
That's ridiculous. Gold is far more valuable as a mammalian decoration than as a conductor.
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Probably a result of the lag of the trading engine. Neither side of the transactions have up to date information and if there is more selling than buying in such a situation then the spread will be great.
Yep, tempted to call it a Seamicro clone (if they build it some day).
Mostly agreed.

There is value in curating HN. People come to HN because it has a reasonably high signal to noise ratio in a certain realm. Highly charged topics tend to drive upvotes, even if it's just a 'like' or a, 'yeah, that's important, I'll up-vote it'. I didn't really start visiting HN for politics or shocking stories; those tend to disproportionately draw upvotes. I'm not in favor of downmodding non-tech articles, but there's something to be said for those who do.

There are more important things in the world than Bitcoin, but I'm happy to see a bitcoin article, perhaps two, on the front page anytime something interesting is happening.
Yeah, Mt.Gox behaves really badly. I made a few immediate orders some time ago and they're still pending. Totally unreliable.
Because, it is at moments like these where new things happen, that old rules have a shot of changing. Everything that lasts is "idealistic", but people settle for "me" and deviate into hyperbole because its easier.
Cleaning your iPad and iPad Mini
the top 1 percent own 40 percent of U.S. wealth,
the bottom 80 percent own just 7 percent of America's wealth
https://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you...
Now the url can be a page, I try to extract the article text using boilerpipe. :) Also added a simple GET endpoint for linking. Try this summary of PG's "Writing and Speaking" essay: http://tldrzr.herokuapp.com/tldr/?feed_url=http://www.paulgr...
My point above about Go (but put somewhat trollishly I admit) was that if rust forsakes the things which make functional programming great, what about it is compelling? I was under the impression that it was supposed to be the functional systems programming alternative.
No, there aren't downvotes. If 20% of users really love something, and 80% hate it (assuming they only use flagging for spam) it will still keep making the top page.
Should bitcoin continue from here as topic of noteworthy discussion, I can say with absolute certainty this will not be the last time it crashes.
The core value proposition of Khan Academy is the content they produce which is amazing stuff. LurnQ on the other hand is a consumer tool that aims to simplify online learning. It helps you manage your learning in the open learning ecosystem. It i somewhat like GitHub for learning and unless you signup the experience can not be delivered.
Well, how could he face the board after that?
The desktop subscription model is to sell the software for a one-time fee and then sell support annually (or monthly.) If the software uses a web service then the service is likely an additional subscription fee, or it might be bundled with support.

The only desktop software model that people will pay for without support or a web service is the frequent upgrade model. Microsoft Office and operating systems are the most famous examples of this model. Starcraft II is a example from the gaming world.
Go Big by Going Home
We are not following any specific methodology such as agile. But we definitely pay a lot of attention to the varios engineering ideas and practices.
Intel releases OpenCL 1.2 driver and tools update for Ivy Bridge and Haswell
"TCO doesn't slow programs down. If anything, it might even make them a tiny bit faster."
right, but i think they were saying that, in this case, because of dependencies out of the rust team's control, they would have to use a different, slower calling convention to support proper tail calls.
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>Just because you have no response to something doesn't make it trolling.

Certainly not. Posting deliberately inflammatory nonsense is however. Especially when posting it as a complete non-sequitur reply to an entirely unrelated post. Doubly so when you then proceed to act like a response is warranted, and double down on the random nonsense.
I would love to see more algorithms from the signals intelligence field. Any recommendations?
Anything that isn't built in you can add yourself...
The Tyranny of the Taxi Medallions
Completely agree. If I am going to pay an ongoing fee I need to feel like I'm getting ongoing value for the money. I don't like the dynamic of having to continue to pay for something that I already have in my possession in it's entirety, it feels like someone is collecting my money for no continued work.
Thanks a lot for mentioning this, it's awesome !
http://nrabinowitz.github.io/pjscrape/
http://phantomjs.org/

if python is not a strict requirement
So you can either use a really obscure room id #blablablabla so no one can guess your room id, or you can take these plugins and build your own protection to require passwords. :D
elance!
As the other commenter pointed out, the problem is primarily with the supply limit on taxis. Not limiting the supply of cabs artificially would result in more supply for whoever needs a ride, arguably lower the cost of a ride and help with more revenue for policing.

Making sure that taxis pick up in poor neighborhoods is an important, tough, and long standing problem. It would be disingenuous to argue that the "market" will fix it on it's own but then laws requiring cab drivers stop for all customers are routinely flouted, so it is not the case that regulation can fix this problem either.

The problem with supply limits is that once they are in place, everyone involved, other than the customers, has a vested interest in keeping the limits where they are for decades regardless of an increase in demand.
Possible, though rather improbable. There is a far simpler explanation.
Play by the same rules as everyone else and get some dealerships or work to change the rules for everyone. Anything else is just one more rule piled onto a stack that has more "my" exceptions.

> Every other car manufacturer with no dealerships.

The proposed law doesn't say anything like that.
Microsoft actually tend to have pretty good support.
Although I admit that you could use the arguments you put forth to make a case for regulation of the taxi industry I think you'd have a hard time justifying the existing medallion system based solely on those reasons.

The medallion system (like the car dealership system) is made to protect the incumbents. Period. There was no a priori argument that this was going to be good for the people of the city or that every citizen could expect a predictable rate and level of service. In fact, the complete opposite was true -- these regulations were born out of period with a glut of taxi labor and falling rates.
If you want to encrypt something with my public key. You would run the following command (email address obfuscated):

gpg --auto-key-locate pka -ear mike(dot)cardwell(at)grepular(dot)com

gpg then automatically looks up the TXT record for "mike.cardwell._pka.grepular.com" in the DNS. Which gives it:

"v=pka1\;fpr=35BCAF1D3AA21F843DC3B0CF70A5F5120018461F\;uri=http://grepular.com/0018461F.pub.asc

It then automatically fetches my public key from the URL in that record, checks it matches the fingperint, and then imports it.

For extra goodness, the DNS for "grepular.com" is secured with DNSSEC also.

The technology exists for sharing public keys and using PGP. The major mail providers couldn't care less about providing user interfaces for it though.
I went to a boarding school for my A-Levels where it was a rule that you had to say hello to everyone you passed in the corridors, it was enforced by those in charge 100% of the time and it felt weird at the beginning but after a couple of months and a weekend spent out in the "real world" it made us realise how nice exchanging a simple "hello" could be. On top of this it was expected that you would be nice to and treat all members of staff, from the cleaners and laundry staff to the principle and commanding officer (military college), with respect.

This has left a lasting impression on me and I try to always show courtesy to everyone, when meeting investors and clients I always make a point of thanking the person sorting the drinks, having a quick chat with the receptionist/secretary/cleaner, and generally "taking an interest". I also have no problem apologising if I've messed up or caused someone extra hassle.

I'm not sure how much it helps in the grand scheme of things but it sure makes the day more enjoyable and pleseant.
Isn't it more accurate to say that the state mandates the currency by requiring it in payment of taxes? If I start paying people in old Deutschmark notes or silver bullion it's not the Fed that will come at me, it's the IRS.
Just looking at your mobile phone while driving in California is illegal
It only reloads if you haven't made any changes to the file and you can disable it with plugins
Assuming that bit-coin is not passed over for a more useful digital currency at which point the network fails and the total value of all bit-coins falls to 0.
Possibly true. Anecdotally (just from talking to people) it seems like I don't pay much more, if at all, than do friends of mine with cars you might expect to be substantially cheaper to keep running. Perhaps it would be more costly if I went to a franchised dealer.

Anyway, my feeling is borne out by the 2012/13 car running costs survey from the AA - see http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/running_costs/. My car cost £30,000 when new so if we go for that column, expect £0.093/mi for maintenance, servicing and tyres. I bought it second hand, so if we go for the <£16,000 category instead, reflecting the price I paid, that's still £0.07/mi.

(I haven't had to buy tyres for my car just yet. £0.093/mi is probably closer to the figure I'll actually have by the time I dispose of it.)

So you could re-do my back-of-the-envelope calculations with these figures instead, but I don't think it comes out substantially more or less in favour. Though if I needed to pay $18/day for parking at the airport, maybe that would help change my mind - I suppose I have just always parked at cheap airports, then.
I'm not sure how you can parse a phrase that starts "generally..." and read it as encompassing "all email systems." That's facially not what the IRS is saying.

Google, Twitter, etc, come into play because they are the kinds of communications the IRS is referring to--electronic communications stored on servers controlled wholly by unrelated third parties.
annoyingly this link goes to the home page, not the actual article -- otherwise a good read.
>Except that the mail server gets to see the body of the email, which is not even remotely private.

Privacy should not (and in more enlightened countries and legal systems it does not) mean "others are not technically able to see it".

It should mean: "this piece of information should not be attempted to be seen by others without the owners implicit or explicit permission".

(And then legal formulas could be used to define "permission" (ie the recipient of an email has an implicit permission to read it)).

If we use the BS notion of privacy of the US courts, then copyright should not exist either (because, by the same logic, one can break the copyright protection easily). Even theft would be OK (hey, I can steal your stuff if you left your belongings in a public place).

So, no, whether my mails are in Google's servers or wherever else, it should be illegal to read them for any purpose I don't agree with. Much the same as if the postman delivers my email to the neighbor's box by mistake, he should not be allowed to open and read it.
> You lose it by exposing it to a third party

It's true that this has always been the position of the Federal government, but that argument has always seemed pretty weak to me, and I don't accept it on principle, no matter how pervasive it's become. People don't expect their email to be read by others, especially the government, period. The reality that they are in fact doing this anyway just means citizens have to push harder to affect a change in the law.

This isn't a new fight. The government literally used the same exact argument when telephones were invented. It took years to work in protections for phone calls, I see no reason why the same can't be done for new modes of communications like email.
Yes, it's called Bootstrap =P
Yes, but the implications of not consenting are grossly different. If folks don't consent to taxes and USD, they're essentially giving up on things like Social Security, the value of their homes (both in terms of security and transaction value), the value of their income, etc. ... all kinds of secondary effects. If they give up on Bitcoin, they might lose the value of their holdings (which could be zero) but they don't have those secondary losses.
Is it just me or is Backbone just not that hard? I don't quite understand their data binding situation. You should not need to look at the DOM for elements with specific IDs, unless you have truly singular views at the top level.

I get the feeling that their form re-rendering headaches had to do with parent views that were listening to unnecessary events, like a collection view that listens to individual model events.
The intrinsic value is the bitcoin protocol which provides a framework where transactions become effectively irreversible in about an hour, you don't have to go through a middle-man to pay someone, and it provides anonymity if you need it.
Check out a previous comment thread on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5068489
It's not surprising but everyone sensible was wondering when it would happen.
I had a very similar experience with my Electrical Engineering school secretary - never, ever underestimate the power these people can have, especially if they have been in the role for a long time
> Since JSTOR is a not-for-profit, I don't really see where the money would go besides toward the actual cost of making the research publicly available (which in JSTOR's case is non-trivial, since they are scanning a lot of publications instead of converting InDesign files to PDFs).

I agree with your point. But you are ignoring another major expense that the fees go to:

Paying the actual publishers and rights-holders licensing fees. JSTor is not a publisher. Most of what they distribute, there is a copyright holder, usually the original publisher, that will not let them host and distribute without a fee.

This is obviously not something JStor has a whole lot of control over.

I agree that JStor are the 'good guys'; their fees are more reasonable than most of their for-profit competition, AND their service is _just plain better_ than most of their for-profit competition.

It would be interesting to see how much of JStor's budget goes to paying licensing fees to the rightsholders; I don't know if that information is public.
Thanks, that's perfect. I don't as much care about the nitty gritty at the moment as a conceptual overview of the architecture of git.
Specially since they are being a little shady, creating their app store inside the App Store. Apple can interpret their TOS however way they want and ban their app at any time.
Thoughts about Facebook Home
A new San Francisco-based startup is aiming to kill off patent trolls
Can't agree more with this sentiment. Current software engineering practice has moved from focusing on the software itself to testing the software. Even peer reviews seem to be taking a back seat these days to 'make it pass the tests' engineering.

1) Your tests are just as likely to have bugs anyway.

2) The 'bad' bugs are logic bugs - if your logic is wrong, your tests are wrong, so you are testing the wrong thing.

3) Users often do things you didn't plan for. If you didn't plan for it, you didn't create a test for it. 100% code coverage does not mean you have tested every possible input, only that you've tested every possible branch. You can still go down the wrong branch/get the wrong result.

4) If you design first and test later, you're more likely to have designed real logic into your system. TDD will let you re-factor more easily - DDD (design driven development) will make it so you don't need to spend months re-factoring in the first place.

Basically: software engineering in general needs more architecture and less ticking checkmarks - we are building space escalators here, we are not building chair legs. There is no need to re-invent the chair leg, "but this time with more tests".
> For almost 20 years the best we've been able to do are things like Infiniband that are far slower than on-board DRAM

The SGI shared-memory big iron machines (Origin & Altix) are more recent and can have memory-only nodes. The most recent NUMA Altix was launched in 2009, I'm not sure if the later machines managed to keep the Origin 2k era goal of having as much remote memory bandwidth as local.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMAlink
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Perhaps a pseudoanonymous currency's value is correlated with the oppressiveness of the local govt? I can imagine circumstances where someone might be willing to pay a premium for BTC solely based on their desire for the privacy of their transactions.
I'd like to point out that this is the same for just about every country.
Thin market. Market depth is easily overlooked.

Imagine you have 1M shares of your smallish company's "public" OTC stock, last traded at $0.10. Nice, you've got $100K right?

Usually that is until you try to sell. Your first sale might go off at $0.09 due to the spread, 1000 shares later and it's already $0.08, 10,000 shares later $0.07, etc or worse. You've chewed through the bids quickly and ended up with a lot less money that you thought you were going to get. The solution of course is to use a limit order - it won't guarantee you get a sale, but it will guarantee your price won't be compromised on any sale that occurs.

This can quickly happen on the buy side too; an increase in demand can lead to a rapidly increasing price. That's why "penny stock" newsletters are fertile ground for pump and dump schemes.

As a currency, bitcoin fits the "penny" category. Major currencies transact perhaps trillions of dollars per day. Bitcoin market participation is microscopic in comparison.
> nothing like this has ever happened in it's history

Completely false. The curve mirrors the speculative run-up from $0.50 to $30 pretty closely... the LAST time bitcoin's market scaled an order of magnitude.

It's happened before. It will happen again.
User interfaces matter. Optimization matters. Design matters. The same software that's ideal for a laptop or minicomputer isn't always ideal for a touch-screen mobile phone, whether they are both running "Unix" or not.
>We put doors on restrooms. Claiming that unencrypted email should carry a legitimate expectation of privacy is like claiming that people should expect privacy when they go to the bathroom on the side of the highway. People may want their email to be private, but that does not mean that we should pretend that email really is private.

Why not? It's just a law away for this to happen.

We can fully well pretend that email really is private.

It doesn't matter if it is technically private (ie if someone can access it or not). What matters is for accessing it to be illegal.
Thank you very much for this.

I have been reading ecommercefuel.com and Andrew(webmaster) says you can get around the low margin by choosing a niche that requires a lot of additional information,e.g something technical and then pricing yourself higher than competitors. He argues customers will pay for the additional information and good customer service. E.g. help installing etc.

As someone who has been there and done that, would you agree with this?
Google is trying to kill off the CC and BCC. I support this to a degree.

In the future, expect to be able to write email from Gmail to your Google+ circles, though. Fuller integration is coming and I don't like this as much.
Sorry, this site really doesn't like pinch to zoom. I'm having a little trouble - the post wasn't even supposed to be posted, but oh well.

I was doing research and apparently I was wrong too, depending on a definition of fusion breakeven (which I was unable to find)
Care to explain what is yours?

If you achieve even smallest amount of fusion, technically you have more energy than you started with.
Electrical break even would be the holy grail of fusion research, but even then you have to reach economic feasibility (produce enough power to pay back the cost of a plant)
What you are saying is fine, but that's not why taxi's were regulated, at least in New York. The regulations go back to the depression and were put in place specifically to limit competition in order to keep prices high and protect employment of existing cab drivers. The history is right on the NYC gov page:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/totweb/taxioftomorrow_history_...

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quoting from the NYC site:

"Widespread poverty prompted many New Yorkers to opt for less-expensive forms of transportation, decreasing the demand for taxis. This put many companies out of business and caused many cabdrivers to lose their jobs. The situation was made worse by the tactics of “wildcat” (unlicensed) taxis who used what some considered to be “underhanded tactics,” such as drastically lowering fares, to get more business."
Policing cabs is vastly cheaper than the cost of a medallion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1650659

Cities therefore have a powerful interest in making sure that whatever else happens, there is a strata of taxi service available to all residents of the city at some predictable rate.

Limiting the supply of taxes reduces the likelihood that this will occur.

Not that NY has anything like the "universal service" you are hinting at, taxes rarely go above 125th st.
The thing is that most C and C++ compilers actually do TCO when applying -O2 or similar, if they see the possibility to do so.