skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am aware that they are broad comments. Do I really have to qualify each statement with a disclaimer that it does not apply to all Arabs or Muslims? That is obviously true.

I don't even know what 'racist' means in this context beyond it being a cheap way to shut down discussion (which, coincidentally, is the reason that I chose to make a throwaway account). There is hard evidence that a majority of Muslims hold radically regressive views. I don't know what is gained by denying this.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2010/12/02/muslims-around-the-world...
> Real time

Wow. That is super-impressive.
* How long can bitcoin last until it the satoshi
(the minimum divisible unit of currency)
is greater than a stick of gum?

Let's use a hypothetical 'nfc->btc' enabled gumball dispenser. And keep with $0.25 market rate.

A 'satoshi' is .00000001 btc. You'd need btc to equal $25,000,000 - or 250,000 trillions of dollar in market cap (assuming 100 million current coins) for a gumball to be priced at 1 satoshi.

Even being able to 'move the zero' in code later, we'll be fine for sometime...
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Dropbox and iCloud have the same issue. They seem to be accepted by users. It is also possible to get status information telling you if you are fully synced or not.
Distribution of references still facilitates takedown requests.

Still, this begs the question: how do I challenge a takedown request if MEGA has never seen / can never see the original? What if the takedown request is in error?

On the other hand, if there are protections against that, people could just use something like this:

Protocol for "Deniability" while using SERVICE

Step 0: encrypt some payload, generate x other blobs of random data of roughly equal size (say x = 9)

Step 1: upload the 10 blobs to SERVICE

Step 2: instruct others to download these blobs

Step 3: wait a week, then remove these blobs from SERVICE

Step 4: instruct others to decrypt the blob with hash X using key Y

Note: Deniability is only assured if the monitor, EVE, is unlikely to download and store every random blob offered, "just in case" it may later turn out to be offending. If there are lots of uploaders using this strategy, with downloaders that tend to only be interested in the tastes of one provider, while EVE is interested in EVERY provider, then it scales unfavorably for EVE, and EVE could set herself up for a certain type of denial of service attack.

Of course, EVE could always go after key distribution, but keys are tiny, therefore easier to mirror, so that strikes me as harder.

Disclaimer: This is all just from information theoretic interest. Don't steal movies, don't do drugs.
The recent riots urging the death penalty for atheist bloggers certainly doesn't reflect well on those populations.

"Protesters in Bangladesh rally against atheist bloggers" http://www.arabnews.com/news/447251
What do you think about my idea?
my idea is a advertising platform for facebook : I want facebook page owners to make money out of their pages : they submit their pages for advertisers and advertisers come search the submitted pages they choose one then the page have the submit a link to the advertiser every day twice for example(I am still thinking about this part) or the page give admin access to "adsbot" so it can share by itself then the page get paid monthly/weekly/per click (I am still working on this) so :
1 - is it profitable ?
2 - is there any competition right now ?
3 - should the page be paid monthly/weekly/per click ?
Nice! We're working on something similar in Ruby EM at http://firehose.io/ if anybody is interested.

Glad to see more streaming REST implementations coming alive!
I would also like to know more about this...
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Remember, Apple announced products with Thunderbolt on the same day Intel announced it existed... so they had a 6 month lead time on anyone else.

The same could very well be true here.
MSFT guy here who relates. As a small adjunct project to http://pytools.codeplex.com, we developed some bindings so you can sidestep VBA and use Python with Excel. It works well for what it does. Here's a short video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3QKuFugWk . It's OSS/Apache. You don't need VS to use it.
Now they just need a similar website to countdown to the death of .doc/xls/ppt so we can have (mostly) sane, modern file formats to work with in non-MS Office apps.
If you industry folks knew the stuff we see in scientific software in academia...

It's scary. I complain about this all the time.
I feel pretty good about this given that our biggest source of traffic is the Google Chrome Web Store and use of our Chrome application doesn't show up in Alexa rankings. We're fairing way, way better than Alexa would have you believe.
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Reading the comments here, I think there is some confusion over which channel(s) this is referring to. News Corp owns Fox Entertainment Group, which in turn has a number of divisions. The Fox Broadcasting Company is just one of many TV divisions. The "Broadcasting" in the name refers the Fox channel broadcast over the airwaves. The cable channels like Fox News, Fx, National Geographic Channel, fox Sports, and so forth, are in separate divisions.

Its shows include Family Guy, Hell's Kitchen, Glee, NFL on Fox, etc. Of all the shows appearing on the broadcast channel, I suspect that NFL on Fox could be an issue. When the NFL sold them the broadcasting rights, I assume that broadcasting the games over public airwaves was a factor.
Just to add, out of 65,000, few visas are reserved for nationals of Chile(1400) and Singapore(5700) due to free trade agreements. These visas are called H1B1 and if unused, apparently they are added to visa cap for next year. Never heard about any increase in the cap (due to unused Chile/S'pore H1B1s) though.
This looks really interesting. We've been using the nginx-push-stream-module to achieve something similar, but the public facing HTTP API design isn't very flexible, so something that lets you configure this explicitly would be great.

https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
The post you cherry-picked doesn't show the whole context. You're ignoring an earlier post where a Heroku GM apologized profusely. Read the 2nd and 4th paragraph:

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/2/15/bamboo_routing_pe...
But isn't even knowing some constraints about the money supply better than not knowing anything at all?

For instance, the M3 supply of USD isn't even tracked by central banks (not since 2006).
Is it read only or can it be read/write?
No board should try to make a major strategic change unless it's willing to disrupt its operations.
And how about employees from other EU countries? Also, does this address has to be an actual place of residence or a virtual address or P.O. Box would suffice?
There’s a private bar in London whose members are nearly all war correspondents.

He must be referring to the Frontline Club (frontlineclub.com). They're just up the road from Paddington. While the bar is private, they host ticketed events that are open to the public.
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I've done a few rewrites, in all cases they were projects that were written entirely by junior developers (company took a while to learn the costs of cheap developers) and with absolutely no tests whatsoever.

If you're rewriting a project then you're probably going to have to bin the unit tests. If you're rewriting it's because you want to make some drastic structural changes and unit tests are just too tightly coupled. Integation tests on the other hand can be an absolute godsend, you can swap out the entire stack and they'll still provide just as much value as before.
I realize http is extremely well known and documented so it's relatively easy for backend communications but I've always wondered how efficient it actually is considering how old the standard is.
Why the Game's Up for Sweden's Sex Trade
I either don't understand your point or I don't understand Kay's idea, because: javascript is Turing complete and runs in a VM/sandbox?
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mirror: http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://blog.fanout.io/2013/...

If you are using wordpress and not wp-super-cache, when a page becomes popular your server is going to have a bad time.

update: looks like they fixed it
I think it's unfortunate that someone with a view different from the popular one is being shut down so aggressively. How can we hope to have a diverse and even discussion if we refuse to listen to any but those that we agree with?

HN is a great place and as long as politics aren't involved we can usually expect an open discussion, but the minute someone says anything that differs from the standard liberal playbook on race or religion he's shoved out the door.

The ironic part is I'll probably receive downvotes for bringing this to light.
This is a political gambit; the idea that "free over-the-air television" is some massive public good still has power as the rationale for FCC airwave-rationing and censorship.

But the content available through that coarse ad-subsidized broadcast model is less impressive than ever, and the Fox and Univision TV frequencies would probably provide more public benefit as 'super-wifi' open internetworking.

They knew what they were getting into... I say, let 'em crash.
What kind of computer do you have?
I checked a few days ago, and had the chance to have one of the "ok" GPU for farming.
With the current prices, you get more value in bitcoins than the power consumption it uses.
You won't sell for 20k for sure, but you can end up with a few bitcoin within months.
Most of all, it will give you some awareness about the whole thing.

I like everyone buying farming stuff right now, because they are part of the huge current valuation of bitcoin.
And as the number of bitcoins is fixed, it can only go up.
Earlier submitted article + discussion here --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514971
What an excellent why of shutting down critique of your choices and protect your self from having to learn new ideas.

Probably why most big companies have such a horrible time getting good people to work for them: who really wants to work in a place like that if you have options somewhere else?
It was an old experiment of mine. See upthread for the Couchbase Lite stuff that has replaced it.
If a hacker manages to get into your online bank account and transfer everything out, you're still out of luck unless the bank decides to cover it for you. As far as I know, unless the bank catches it before a transfer is made (which they very well might with fraud detection), they don't necessarily have any means to reverse the transaction after it hits the hackers account. I don't really have any deep experience with that side of banking so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but in my limited experience I've seen that once money leaves your account it's only reversible in the sense that the bank may decide to cover the loss for you. There might be some tiny window to reverse things, but I don't think it's a terribly large one.
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What discussion? You're not having a discussion, you're just being bigoted. There is nothing in your original comment of substance. And while you complain of 'not needing a disclaimer', you have added exactly zero by saying what you have. How is the cause of peace in the middle east advanced by anything you have said? What new insight or understanding does it bring to the table.

is the reason that I chose to make a throwaway account

That you already knew what you were going to say was worthless speaks volumes. And just as it's 'obvious' that you say 'some are different', it's equally obvious that there's a lot of violence in the middle east, and that there's a lot of difficult cultural politics going on. So why say it?

I'm going to stop feeding the troll now, which I should have done from the start.
"While not all of its moves or business models have been universally embraced, it is also a hugely relevant, dynamic force in global publishing and research."

That's great.

But I'm still not going to hand over copyrights to my work for zero compensation so they can be "published" behind a paywall that benefits only Elsevier.
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Pretty sure punitive damages is only applicable if they don't do anything about it after discovering they used her artwork.
If your employees/co-founders have a side gig, it's a sign that your company isn't paying them enough and doesn't offer them enough opportunity. If you were truly a great company, they'd see that you really were the next $10-100B firm and they'd be doing 16x7+++. Or that you were such a huge branding exercise that without immediate equity prospect that the 16x7 was worth it for them.

Oh, your segment isn't that interesting? Oh you're actually probably not going to make payroll on Friday? Actually, your employees "side-gig" is called a lifeline: something to talk about in interviews that's rather more pleasant than your crash and burn and a project that has a rather longer life expectancy.

If you want your employees FULL attention, EARN IT.
You make a good point here. The cost of a HD7970 here in Australia is still about $400, so that's a $1600 outlay how long would it take to make back the initial outlay and then you have other factors to take into account like cooling as well and geographical location and price of energy.
Thanks for the tip! I've enabled wp-super-cache now, and the page seems to be working again.
Inside that traffic data concerning Y Combinator companies
Ah, ALEC is behind it. Color me not shocked. Here's some background:

* http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/09/alec-what-it-does-and-w...

* http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-13/why-are-mcdo...
These broadcasters who don't want to be broadcasters are shooting themselves in the foot with this move. If regional cable monopolies no longer have to carry these channels for free, they'll do so for a hefty fee. Any benefit these networks hope to gain from destroying Aereo will be clawed back by the cable companies they're selling their souls to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Must-carry
My granddad always said all it takes to be a great listener is to stop talking. The world needs talkers and listeners, if everyone listened there would be nothing to listen to.
But practically no company could ban you from accessing your savegames with your licensed software, since both were in your physical possession. Now they can.
The reasons why people use Excel are actually simple and reasonable:

- it's easy to use

- everyone has it

- it maps nicely to the skills user have (like moving files around to copy data)

- it's flexible

The last thing is important here. The problem with most database applications is that they are inflexible. Users are not allowed to add another column just to put a small note next to a data field. Or add a datum that is needed only in exactly three cases and no-one thought of it before yesterday. Or color up some particular entries and have it retained. Or million other different cases. They can't do this stuff on their own, without having to contact IT department or whoever, which makes the feedback loop much longer, seriously impacting productivity.

Yes, Excel sucks. But everything else sucks much harder, from user's point of view. Give them something as flexible as Excel, and they'll gladly switch.
The regulations will surely come. However, the ability to hold a private wallet outside of a bank and transfer money to a point anywhere in the world, makes regulations harder to police. Some wallets might be declared and known, others might exist anywhere in the world and be held by anybody. For a law-abiding citizen who trusts their government (the people you don't need to police), all will be (probably) declared. I expect different behaviour from a Russian holding money in a Cypriot bank or someone who pays taxes to a corrupt regime.

Still, if someone is looking to preserve wealth, it would seem smarter to wait and see if and where the price stabilises. Or if governments slam the door shut on the currency.
Congratulations, you are not their primary consumer: Impulse buyers who even if they have a set list of things they are going to buy end up going off-list nearly every time. They need that DVD from the bargain bin, they need that extra box of 22lr ammunition, they need that BPA-free water bottle because the one at work (also impulse bought from Walmart) is starting to crack after 3 months of use.
Now all that's left is commodity usage (and time travel)
Being new to SD from Seattle and the bay, I can tell you that it is extremely hard to find information on SDs TechScene. Meetup doesn't seem very useful and it seems like a number of groups aren't interesting or aren't active. Also, there are very few developers that show up at the mentioned hackathons such as startup weekend. I have seem more at small towns in the middle of nowhere. What is even more sad is the lack of overall talent and understanding of the tech space/startups. What I wonder is if this area actually has the necessary talent that cares to be a place for startup?
I'd probably separate out "bug" issues from adding data.

Even if it doesn't 'take off' right away, you'd do yourself a huge favour by allowing people to add their own entries. If you need to add user submitted data to a moderation queue that you have to check yourself, that's still better than you having to enter things in. By allowing people (who maybe can't help with the programming) to add to the database itself, you are then freed up to do things like, say, work on an API ;o)

(edited for better clarity)
Thanks for the comment. At my last job, we were unable to migrate an existing API over to a certain realtime solution without breakage, and that was motivation to create something more versatile.
Can you post a non-quora link?
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Over 15% of the Swedish population was born outside of the country. The largest groups are from Irak, Poland, Afghanistan, Somalia, China and Iran. There are also large groups of second generation immigrants with parents from Chile, Greece and Italy. Not everybody is blonde and blue eyed...
I always tell my girl to shut up. Never works.
Also, everyone pays the same price (through taxes), so big companies don't get any advantage from their stronger negotiating power.

OK, there's also private insurance (for stuff like dental, and private hospitals). But since companies aren't expected to pay it, it's more competitive.
I did a post mortem once about how little traffic resulted from someone posting something of mine on HN. I think there should be more of that. We hear too much about the (positive) "black swan" events here -- the hn equivalent of winning the lottery. I think it seriously skews perceptions.
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This is a great product, thanks for building it.

In a previous project that I had worked on, we were spawning up complex pieces of infrastructure using Chef integrated with fronting Rails app. Realtime updates were always tough to orchestrate with custom Rabbit MQ feedback from the Chef clients pushing out to Rails clients using JS.

I believe a solution like this one would come in very handy for pushing out realtime updates for long running infrastructure requests from a distributed system. Kudos!
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I bought a TV with an ethernet port a few month ago, thinking "hey, I'll be able to stream stuff from my pc or something!". You cannot really stream, you only get some crappy media-center listing of files which fails like 90% of the time.

Now we have a laptop hooked with HDMI.
I sincerely hope it doesn't stop there and counts down to the complete cleansing of the world from the filth that is IE.
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Ask HN: Can I have your couch in SF for a few days in May?
Hi!

I have been offered a spot at App Academy (www.appacademy.io) in San Francisco starting May 13th and I would like to get into town a few days early to explore and attend TEDxStanford. Unfortunately, my funds will be very tight, so I won't be able to afford a hotel.

If you have an open couch that I could borrow for the 10th, 11th, and 12th, I would greatly appreciate it! My email is available in my profile. Shoot me a message and we'll get to know each other!
Does each publish_http_response_async release all pending requests or just one?
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And so? Fork it and start developing! FuelPHP have good core for start.
The front desk at my university's library was lending pen drives to people who needed to get scans off the copy machines (which were not connected to the network, for some reason). Abandoned pen drives were put into a drawer and recycled in this way.

The pen drive I was given was unusually large and had the name of a Chinese university on it. When I plugged it into my MacBook, I was asked to choose a layout for the new keyboard. It turns out that there are pen drives that actually contain two USB devices, a mass storage drive and a keyboard, and the keyboard part can be programmed to type rogue commands at night (I guess Windows doesn't alert you that loudly when a keyboard is connected, so it's more likely to go unnoticed).

I tried to get someone to help investigate this possible rogue device, but nobody cared. I wonder if it was an espionage tool.
Thank you for this post; it couldn't have come at a better time for me!
I think that's probably at least the intention of the legislation. When PETA films some normal farm procedure, they'll add ominous music, show only the most horrid parts of whatever is happening, desaturate the pictures and tar the entire industry with being gruesome.

Under 1st Amendment rights, they're allowed to do this. They're not showing anything that didn't happen so it isn't libelous.

Personally I think the first amendment is out of date. The appeal to it's authority is a prime example of the Historians Fallacy[1]. In many other countries there are restrictions on speech -- and that is seen as a generally good thing. Eg. hate speech, and holocaust denial. Defamation cases are also able to hide behind the first amendment in the USA, where they cannot elsewhere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy
It releases all requests held on the specified channel.
I started to feel like i am falling behind with all these interesting libs, servers, frameworks, protocols, languages, platforms recently.

Especially, if you are a student and trying to keep up with all these new stuff. It is becoming really hard to decide what to learn next or what to focus on.
How to give something as flexible as Excel that is not Excel?

I think that they'll gladly switch is a myth. From casual users I never heard "I sent you a spreadsheet", only "I sent you an Excel". And there is no incentive for them to get better educated in this regard.
Back in 2001/2002, in the Bay Area, I remember when whoever it was that broadcasts the West Wing (NBC?) got into some snippet with whoever was my satellite vendor (Dish? Direct TV) was - and I could no longer get any of the NBC channels on my Satellite Dish. So, not only is there some fee structure, obviously it's high enough that the Satellite Provider I had refused to pay for it.

Aero completely bypasses that model, and I can see all sorts of other businesses coming into this space (now that Aero has done the hard work of establishing this as legal in the courts) - I can see why Fox/NBC/CBS etc... feel very, very threatened.