skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. They couldn't effectively operate in the face of a huge trading spike and a DDOS. Hence they're upgrading. But then they get stick for taking too long to upgrade.

Conversely, if they spent $$$ on a bulletproof platform, they'd probably go bust (as seems to have happened to other more technically proficient exchanges)

The underlying problem is: people have too high expectations of what the bitcoin world can cobble together at this point. Its being built by hackers, not bankers.
I don't like them either, for the exact same reason!
Definitely, I'd drop the free plan and offer a trial instead. My guess is that your plan distinctions are lost on most of your target customers who "just need a website".
I'm not interested in American football, but I do like the idea of an MMO where players control some sort of land area.
Maybe only a matter of time.
I feel the same thing about HTML5 with dynamic everything and pointless whitespace and extra borders. Completely unnecessary. To each, their own.
Chris,

As a donator in the Light Table Kickstarter, I'm surprised that its already been a year. You've done some great work on this, I'm currently using Light Table right now to do some light JS work. Keep it up!
Ok. If i want to start a cloud server company, can i use the generic word Cloud Server? if i do, will Rackspace sue me? Even if they are different things, seems like they reach the same outcome.
I think the shapes would make more sense if they represented "do re me" instead of "ABC". The latter might be helpful to students, but the former is genuinely helpful to singers. And in fact, it's been done before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_notes
What are the already-known polynomial time attacks on the protocol? do you have any links? thanks
It's interesting how they did it. I was assuming some javascript trick but it's really quite simple and elegant:

#as1 {
background-image: url('seven_asia.gif');
height: 2110500px;
width: 640000px;
}
> wouldn't you feel shorted if you made the company 10x that in profit on your trades

That guy didn't make the company all that money entirely on his own. Lehman supplied the capital, they get the bulk of the profit. That's how it works.

If he wants the truly big bucks (as if a million isn't), then he should trade his OWN money. But of course he probably didn't have anywhere close to enough to do so.
Reading this post makes me wonder if I have Asperger's...it pretty much described me to a tee.

Extremely uncomfortable in crowds/parties (actually, I pretty much refuse to attend parties at all), always looking at something else when speaking to someone 1 on 1, "rambling" when describing something or telling a story when someone else would only take 1~2 sentences, speaking my mind and a tendency to avoid small talk, and sensitive in terms of how I react to something (I tend to over-analyze and find a reason for everything that involves me).

That being said, does anyone know how accurate his list is?
This article is kind of all over the place. On the one hand it is making a sort of "All entertainment we experience affects who we are." argument which is so broad as to be meaningless -- change on what level? Watching one episode of Jeopardy doesn't change me in a meaningful way, watching Jeopardy every night for 10 years might.

Then it transitions into "Here's a list of questions to help you appreciate games on a deeper level", which is to me, both wrongheaded and insulting.

It's wrongheaded because who are you to say how people should enjoy games? People are different, unless someone is harming you, let them do what they want to do. Maybe someone spends all day as an academic educating graduate students about the deeper meaning of 19th century literature. At the end of the day maybe they're ready to just load up Team Fortress 2 and blow up some people with cartoony missiles.

To me, telling people "this is how you should enjoy games" is much more condescending than a post saying "these are the games you should enjoy, and these other games are bad." It's moving beyond just matters of taste into telling people how to think and how to behave.
As far as I can make out from reading #bitcoin, their whole service runs on a single server currently. The very notion that they could be too big for any hosting provider is hilarious.
IAP is not meant for selling bombs. IAP is meant for selling full version of an app from within a demo.

I would argue that this is what Apple had in mind initially, before it got re-purposed by "inventive" marketers as an in-game milking mechanism. You can say all you want that "it works" and "everyone's doing it", but it's a very tacky and inherently disrespectful way to treat your users. Not too much unlike the gym membership and telco contracts. These works too, but it's a predatory model that everyone hates. I mean... c'mon, selling bombs to nuke zombies didn't work that well? What a surprise.
Polish authorities closed bitcoin-24.com bank account
Clickable link?
There is a fair amount of literature in the field of economics on effective,self regulating and contracting groups that don't require a third party human authority to enforce contracts. In fact, the 2009 Nobel Laureate for Econ was actually in said field.

Many of the solutions aren't perfect, but neither are the human authority alternatives. The question to ask is, on the margin, is having a human authority more efficient than the self-regulating alternatives?
https://github.com/jakiestfu/Snap.js
ikr... and Africans are obviously colour-coded as black. They might as well have coloured Europeans in white (but I guess that wouldn't show up well on the already white background). I think there's a little bit of ethnicity generalization going on here which isn't really appropriate.
I'm particularly glad you highlighted that marketers often underestimate how social developers are. Analogous: tech marketers and BD people often overlook the fact that developers do a lot of business and share knowledge in social settings...just like people in every other industry. I think its important we get away from dumb tchotkes and focus on meaningful conversations.

Re the marketing systems - I think its less about marketers using the right system, and more about using those systems correctly. There are at least a dozen email automation platforms that can delivery responsive messaging, and most companies of any size have one in place. Speaking from experience, they are just a massive beast to manage - the more complicated and responsive your email set up, the more complicated and time-consuming it is to manage (and more likely you are to accidentally spam everyone). Marketing teams have the right systems, they just don't invest the time to do it right.
"There's billion dollar industries being created and supported on manipulating the emotional parts of people's brains into using their products for distraction."

You are talking about beings, (humans), that believe in religion and political propaganda. We are addicted to noise and crap being in our heads.
But it's not just fraud, corruption, and exploitation. It's probably not even mostly that. It's about being able to just run the numbers a little bit better, aggregated over millions of repeat transactions.

That's part of the narrative I'm talking about. We tell ourselves: "It's only because of fraud, corruption, and exploitation" that all this money is flowing from main street to wall street.
That's exactly the issue. Anything that qualifies as not an "idea" patent, like you're using the term, would be an algorithm, which are not patentable. The only thing software patents cover are "idea patents".
CNBC now has a Bitcoin ticker
I could say the same about being enamoured with Google's "Don't be evil" motto to the point as to disregard general management... and accusing me of being childish for recording predictions publically. But hey... if we can't have an adult debate on this entreprenerial forum, you might be right when you say it "doesn't say much about us as a community".

So, coming back to the topic at hand, no this is not "clearly of benefit to the user". If I want my succession to be handled properly, I'll take care of it myself. There's nothing good about breaking a promise they made when they opened the service; that's called bait-and-switch. And breaking promises, to me, is a cardinal sin.

Have they made it the default? I don't know. Will they? I know even less. Neither do you. So please, stay civil if you're going to defend them.
Agreed, zero sympathy. Simply you cannot have the best of both worlds.

You don't really need the insurance of the bank and paper trails if you play it smart.
The connection between SOPA/PIPA and CISPA goes the other way; anti-SOPA/PIPA entities are using CISPA to fundraise and influenceraise, independent of the reality of CISPA.

The only amendments I've read about in 2013 are PII removal and removing the "national security" terms, both of which are civil liberties enhancements. (although I don't know where to find the actual text of the amendments). The 2012 amendments were improvements to baseline CISPA (especially the ToS vs. CTI clarification, which was my only real objection to CISPA originally). I do not think I'd take your bet; the probability of something bad being attached is low, but if something bad is attached, it's high severity, so moderate risk. You'd give odds based on probability and I'd want based on expected-harm.

Re: IHM. Reasonable people don't really win at politics. Look at how AARP/etc. essentially eviscerate anyone who thinks of touching Medicare or SS. Thus, horrible public policy (wealth transfers from the poor and young to the old and wealthy!) persists in the face of all logic. That it does shows how effective their lobbying/rabble-rousing strategy is.

Civil libertarians tend to err on the other side, for "what would be best for society", and end up with all kinds of bad stuff happening to them.

I'm ok with "ends justify means" in this case -- if "means" is "make everyone in Congress terrified of any cyber-laws which aren't explicitly and transparently improvements to individual privacy and freedom."
This is pretty neat! I don't have any meaningful feedback, since I couldn't find a way to break it :)

Just as an FYI, I was checking out Ratchet, and they are looking to add a shelf. Maybe this could be merged?
Another frequent side effect of Asperger's is the impulse to fix things and make sure everything runs smoothly. (I think this is not limited to Asperger's but is common to many people who are uncomfortable with emotion.) A frustrating aspect of Asperger's is that you don't feel the same emotions at the same times for the same reasons as other people. People ignore you or discount your feelings because the logic behind your emotions seems bizarre to them. And the disconnect goes both ways, of course, since people with Asperger's have a hard time understanding others' emotions and responding to them constructively. For many young Aspies it is a simple bedrock truth that whenever emotion and personal interaction mix, it's a clusterfuck, because engaging with other people emotionally ends in failure and trauma. So you keep your emotions inside, studiously avoid responding to others' emotions, and structure your interactions with other people around what you _are_ capable of doing right, which is fixing things that cause bad emotions in the first place.

In this way, having Asperger's is kind of like the opposite of being a drama queen. This is not to say that people with Asperger's are always emotionally appropriate or easy to get along with. What I mean is that some people love emotional chaos because they deal with emotion very well and always seem to come out on top in emotional confrontations. They relish the chance to stir up chaos because to them it's another chance to put their skills on display and come out ahead. Aspies are not like that at all; when they get into an uncomfortable confrontation, it's a mistake, and they don't enjoy it. People who deal poorly with emotion go around fixing things and (some) people who thrive on it go around breaking things. Sounds like a good reason to hire Aspies to me.
If they tried to use AWS amazon would drop them like a stone. I think they also are deliberately keeping their hardware in house for security.
I think the meaning behind "I am so busy" sometimes is just a true statement and nothing more. I don't automatically assume the person saying it is bullshitting me in some way. That said, I never say it. I'm usually the one complaining about how I'm not busy enough, which is probably just as annoying.
Isn't this exactly what leads to the "a lot of people said they'd pay for it" false assumption? Not such a sound advice either...
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This sounds like it could be a good PR move for Rackspace. I've heard from quite a few developers who, for whatever reason, have a negative opinion of Rackspace. Does this action change your opinion of them?

But perhaps it ultimate comes down to their service, the products they offer, and price.
Just somehow when my Galaxy S2 updated to ICS it became noticeably worse. Maybe just a bit more responsive. And what's wrong with Opera Mobile excapt slightly wrong rendering on some sites?

Btw, looking for a new smartphone and still the best option seems to be the same SGS2 without upgrade to ICS.
Of course no software is bug free, but this is a pretty good track record.

As far as I know, none of these vulnerabilities have actually resulted in money being lost (perhaps with the exception of some mining rewards in the forks). Most of these are denial of service.
Yes, it's equivalent to a loan with no interest rate. Whether vendor has to increase prices or not - that's up to the vendor. I just described how Amazon has a potential to profit from lower than common prices and fast shipping - it increases this loan time window.
With proof of concepts, Rabobank learned valuable big data lessons
I'm genuinely curious - if no money ever exchanges hands, how can this be classified as fraud?
Exactly. And further, if you go to war with us and lose, it'll cost you, because we'll go after your patents.
what i really miss in most (all ?) of these frameworks is an embedded markup language (markdown or variants), so that one does not have to bother with html in order to create lists, fonts, tables etc.

In my own "sttp" tool, most of the javascript is exactly for this purpose - the slide deck is just the content of a textarea and is almost readable even without formatting.

For styles, i use braces and css styles e.g.
{style1 style2 style3,some text}
which has the compactness of latex and the flexibility of css.
Maybe it was down because they knew you tried to hack ;)
Did you ever try the google vs bing comparison site? (http://www.bingiton.com/). I tried it and google won 5-0, it wasn't even close!

But I agree that google is not what it used to be. They have a weird hunger for our data. But it's not just them, all web companies have become very aggressive in getting our data, it feels like we're being watched the whole time. It's exactly the opposite of what the internet was early on, it's almost like a change in the philosophy of the web. And not for the better.

It seems like issues that famous people have, that they lose privacy at the price of fame, that whatever they do is public, forever. We all lost privacy and we didn't even get fame!
I've seen security issues given a reserved ticket number and then not disclosed until the vendor is given a certain amount of headstart?

So they are maybe saying it will be disclosed in 30 days.
In other headlines today:

Are cars bad?

Is meat good for us?

Will the world end tomorrow?

Are you a racist?

What's in my pocket?
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What likely happened is the guy in question pissed off a Senior VP and he and all his friends made the first ~$10-15 million. His friends get $2 million and he gets half.

I'd be mad, too. Just because it's a lot of money doesn't mean he should be happy with getting a less proportionate amount.
it's an ill wind that blows no good

Even if we can't count on the honor system, we can still count on occasional slivers of pure poetry. That's something.
The risk is not in governments profiting from adding hashing power to the network, the risk is in them obtaining a majority of the hashing power and doing a 51% attack.
Saw this on tech crunch. Awesome cardgame about the industry 
I backed it! Thought some of you would enjoy :)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philosophie/dev-shop
I know they are different

Increasing build height poses a burden on the road/transport system.

Believe me this is a bad idea. You can't do that with either a good investment in public transport and road work (which is usually not possible since you can't reduce the size of the buildings to make roads wider)

That's one of the reasons for massive traffic jams in cities like Sao Paulo for example.

New York has a higher density, but a very good public transport system.
There's an interesting question about just what an invention is, though. At least in software, actual implementations are covered by copyright, and I can't see any hard and fast distinction between ideas and inventions.

For instance, determining the optimum layout of a mail application for a four inch screen probably takes a lot of tweaking and user testing. But there's no way that you can call it an invention, and your competitors are free to copy the layout, so long as they change the style enough that customers can clearly distinguish the products.

On the other hand, using a magnet to hold a power connector to a laptop seems like a really obvious idea once you've seen it. You don't have to study detailed documents to see how you could make it. But calling it an 'invention' seems reasonable - and it is patented. And it's perhaps the only thing that attracts me about Apple laptops, but that's not important right now.
I would encourage you to add a LICENSE file to the git repo. I can't speak for anybody else, but when I'm looking at a project and the license isn't immediately apparent, it really diminishes my interest.

That aside, this looks very nice. Good work!
> You're not entitled to my free time.

I would like to volunteer some of my own free time to help. What would be the best way to contact you?
For a second, I thought the fundraising card was a bitcoin haha
“That's the closest thing I can find to a "confirmation" that AppGratis was accepting cash in exchange for a higher rank in their app.”

For what it’s worth, in a previous HN thread, several users reported having received offers from AppGratis:

“We were told $3 per install or $100k flat rate for 1 day.”[1]

“I was also quoted a flat fee of $100k”[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519881

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5519992
I've been calling overbuzz on 3D printing from the outset, and this story does nothing to dispel that. These mostly aren't practical things - they're just tat. And guess what? You can make tat a lot more cheaply, quickly and creatively than with some complex device, custom raw ingredients and a load of faffing around.

A 3D printed clock? Fuck off. It's just a clock mechanism attached to a disc of 3D printed plastic - you can attach a clock mechanism to anything and make a clock. Can the mechanism be printed? No, can it bollocks.

I think there are amazing industrial uses for these things, but there are very, very few items which are made from a single colour of a single plastic. I can't remember the last time I needed a replacement part for something and it was just a monoblock plastic piece.

Edit: The submission's title has just been changed from "Ten Practical things to make with a 3D printer"
Just curious why you've found that people don't like rackspace?

We've used them for a while without any major complaints.
> simply transferring wealth from the less sophisticated investors often teachers’ pension funds and factory workers’ retirement accounts, to the more sophisticated investors...

Exactly. Wall street and investment have wonderful effects -- funneling money towards companies that can use it in amazingly productive ways. It provides an incredibly valuable service.

But the flip side is exactly this, that pension funds, ordinary investors, etc. wind up getting screwed.

I, for one, don't realy see the problem with Wall St. in itself, but rather -- who on earth is allowing the managers of pension funds to "gamble" with their money like this? Why should retirement accounts get invested in anything but government bonds and index funds? Employees get duped because they "trust" their company to take care of their pension, or "trust" their financial advisor to give them good advice.

At heart, I think it boils down to a fundamental misguided notion, prevalent in America at least, that investment is good, that you can grow your money, that you can outwit the stock market -- when the reality is, that for 99% of people, investment is just playing the lottery, and over the long run, Goldman etc. is going to win, because they're smarter than you. Just like, in the long run, the lottery always wins.
Then maybe he shouldn't have pissed off a Senior VP? Sounds pretty simple to me.
Thats how it loaded so dang fast.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...

Basically, someone who has the computing resources needed to do the same work as the rest of the network combined could create malicious forks of the block chain. They could then "reverse" transactions they had made, prevent other transactions from being confirmed, and interfere with "mining."

This is polynomial time in the parameters of the system: it is just the sum of the work done by the honest parties. The constant factor is small, and the attack is not at all impractical; even if we generously assume that it would take $100 million of ASICs to carry out the attack, the US government spent 10 times as much on one NSA datacenter in Utah.
You conveniently ignored "and all your friends at other firms that made 10x got a bigger check than you." People compare themselves to their peers. That's how it works.
Lucid Charts is a tool for website owners and developers. People are going to find them in a completely different manner than someone would find a local restaurant.
"That's the closest thing I can find to a "confirmation" that AppGratis was accepting cash in exchange for a higher rank in their app."

This is the core of their business model. I think a better way to explain is more like Groupon for Apps. You get access to their 12M members, but in exchange, you agree to 1) set your app to free for a day or discount heavily for a day and 2) pay AppGratis for the promotion opportunity.

In terms of whether this is "black hat" or not, I think it's not really black hat. It obviously has the same effect as buying a bunch of paid installs via CPI networks, you just get a lot more velocity given the large audience that AppGratis has access to.

In terms of business model justification, you can defend them on the basis that they do the work of finding app developers who make quality apps (note that most of the apps they promote have high ratings) that may not currently be marketed well and they convince them to make it free for one day only. Users love free stuff and obviously based on their downloads and growth, people found a lot of value in the service. The fact that the side benefit of being featured is that you skyrocket in the app store rankings is not AppGratis's fault, that's something Apple can account for in the app store ranking algorithms if they want to (it's their garden after all). This would be no different than an Amazon Gold Box offer that discounts something heavily and that product rises to the top of the "Bestsellers" list for a limited time.