skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This point of view assumes that the injected code is harmless and never causes compatibility issues when viewing a website. The moment a JavaScript conflict occurs and Apple loses a sale or the ability to buy a product online is hindered, I think that there will be parties who certainly feel they are being "harmed" by this process of manipulating the content being delivered to end users.
I hear what you're saying however that might not be a good example. I'm sure there are people who have good things to say about Hitler (perhaps he was nice to his mum, or patted a kitten once?) but you're not going to win any arguments on that.

So, bearing in mind the above, I'd say that overall Maggie was a pretty awful leader but she inspired a lot of good (but depressing) 80's music.
Libel for? Cases like this where they are making Apple look bad? I think that would be a stretch. Typically ISP terms of use say they can do pretty much whatever they want (see the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act/The Whole Aaron Swartz Thing). In theory if you don't like it you can take your business elsewhere.

This "take your business elsewhere" competitive environment is supposed to foster innovation blah blah. Many would say this is BS and more regulation is needed because of a duopoly. As a competitive ISP I have to disagree, but it is true that the duopoly providers spend more on advertising so most people aren't aware of alternatives.

One could argue that rewriting pages to insert JS makes a derivative work or something and that gives Apple grounds to sue because of copyright, but that's tough as ISPs are supposed to be finding ways to inflict the Emergency Broadcast System on users and JS insertion is generally less obtrusive than hijacking all HTTP/HTTPS until the alert clears.

My perception is that most ISPs avoid this kind of thing because we don't want to give the FCC any more excuses to mandate things like "Net Neutrality" with poorly understood policy consequences.

On the other hand inflicting one of those DNS-hijacking special offers systems can increase revenue from the typical residential user that wouldn't care by a few percent so there's always a bit of business pressure.
DRY. DRY DRY DRY.
You have errors. 170 blocks have been found so 170*3.3e16 = 5.6e18 hashes have been computed. Divided by 86400 = 64.9 Thash/s (and the site currently reports 65.2 Thash/s, not 6.5).
That’s right. Given the data at hand, the “damaged goods” myth is just that — a myth. It’s a rationale regurgitated by those who remain stupefied by the lifestyle choices of pornstars.

I think that 'myth' probably wasn't a myth 40 years ago when porn was very much on the fringe. Currently, porn is as close to the mainstream as it's going probably to get. It's easier to access than ever, there are nice, clean, well-lit stores in regular shopping areas that sell sex toys, and there are prime-time specials where women walk down a runway in lingerie.
> What raynier is saying (I think) is that if it is illegal to trespass, then it is illegal to trespass for purposes of whistleblowing because that is still trespassing

Not exactly. What I'm saying is:

1) The Constitution only prohibits governments from restricting free speech;

2) What you do on other peoples' private property is rarely if ever considered free speech or free expression.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant
3.2 / 14 years
Steve Souders @ HTML5 Dev Conf 2012... Really great material and I actually _learned_ a ton, which is fairly rare from most of the talks I've seen.
Nope, it's worse than that.

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-April/024...
Problem is that this is frequently the case, because of stuff like syntax highlighting.
Why don't you then just backup your dev machine's code directories to another machine?

Backup is good because it's automatic. Saving somewhere else is nice too, but it's not really backup.
The Four Major Truths in Sheryl Sandberg’s New Book, “Lean In”
"humane slaughter"
Emma Goldman was an Anarchist, so I assume her preference was for the position to be vacant rather than occupied by a woman.
You can't, if the code is hosted separately from the tool.

The solution is to provide the tool and the hosting together. For example, GitHub or Bitbucket could acquire this service and add it to their offerings, and it would fit right in with their existing business model.
We've been using Redis as a primary data store for about two years, and it works great. We have a simple master-slave config and do periodic RDB snapshots -- no EBS. We manually failover from master to slave, but in practice this is rarely necessary (our current master has been up for 9 months).
If I should suggest a more... thoughtful opinion for an idealist -- how about looking reality in the eye, then trying to organise the world, so it is in the self interest of countries to be nice and tolerant?

Start by looking up "the democratic peace theory".

And note that you can make an analogy between this and how societies went all the way from clan warfare to the welfare state. (if welfare states really are workable is another discussion that (a) also would upset an idealist and (b) I really don't know enough to have an opinion.)
The point is not to stop your ISP from showing you ads. The point is to stop your ISP from interfering with your traffic in transit.

If I ran a website with ads, and someone was stripping those ads to replace with their own ads, I'd be annoyed. I'd be amazed if that's something Google would tolerate. We've seen plenty of stories from people saying "Google closed my ad account and froze all my money!!!" so I hope they do that to this ISP and or the company serving the ads.
My Netgear Router N600 does exactly that. There's a nice laminated sticker on the bottom with the admin password.
And if anyone has any questions about anything I (Matt @ Stormpulse) said, I'm happy to comment here as well. Thanks for listening everyone!
Seconded. I think this TED talk does a good job correlating income inequality to a lot of disagreeable outcomes.
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
Ending chattel slavery probably didn't seem that feasible to abolitionists in 1820s United States. That doesn't mean they would have gained anything by compromising though. Advocating for welfare reforms rather than abolition sends mixed messages and suggests that there is a tolerable level of (to put it bluntly) exploitation.
Totally. One more to add to this list (for tech employees) - even if an employee writes awesome code at work, there is no way he/she can show it to future prospective employers, as it doesn't belong to them (at max, they can show their employer's website/product and say "I worked on this"). All this makes side projects very attractive
For similar coverage about finding barely-secured devices that shouldn't have ever even been connected to the Internet, check out the Security Now! podcast, episode 396 - The Telnet-pocalypse:

http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

Transcripts are available in several formats:

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.htm

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.txt

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.pdf
That bit of economics common knowledge was also developed before our modern, dynamic, fast, globally interconnected economy. I'm sure there's still some technical truth to it, but I wonder if it's as true now to the degree it was back in, say, the Depression era.

It would be interesting to see how a currency with a set rate of deflation instead of inflation worked now. Say your money gained 3% per year purchasing power instead of lost it, everyone would be incentivized to spend or invest it in ways that returned either ROI or utility worth at least 3% per year, or otherwise hoard it. Spending and investment (or at least malinvestment) would slow, but capital formation would increase.

Too bad there's no way to test such a thing, see how it works out in practice. BTC unfortunately does not seem to provide a stable rate of deflation, at least for the foreseeble future.
OT: CNN broke the back button in Chrome on Windows.
Jason Calacanis: Should You Pay $250k to Go to College?
How is it a Ponzi scheme? I don't see anyone promising returns to previous investors based on money taken from new investors.
Wow.

Currencies are supposed to be used as a medium of exchange where, they
facilitate transactions thus the multiplier effect kicks in and increases
the economies wealth. An example of this, is fiscal stimulus used by the
Obama Administration with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009[15] however, this is not happening with Bitcoin.

So Bitcoin doesn't have fiscal stimuli like regular currencies, and therefore
it will experience depressions and recessions, unlike regular currencies? OH
WAIT.
This is the classic argument you hear a lot, particuarly from Keynsian economists is: bitcoin is bad because it's deflationary like gold.

In the past when we were using gold, like during the Civil War, we couldn't pay soldiers so we went to greenbacks (paper money like today). That allowed the soldiers to get paid so we could continue to fight the war. Gold obviously has a physical practical limit that can be traded and transfered. When a gram becomes worth so much it buys a house that makes other purchases of food and bills become impractical and people stop buying, and when building a billion dollar construction project moving it and protecting it has another set of problems and overhead. Bitcoin does not have the division problem--a single coin can be divided into pieces 10^8 pieces as the code currently works. That can also be changed in future versions to be divided even smaller. Ie, when one bitcoin can buy a house, you can just pay 0.0000001 for your stick of gum. So, we are then left with the argument, "Oh My God people won't buy because of the psychology that 0.01 coin today that currently buys a pack of gum being able to buy a car in the future." But, that's almost true now with savings and stocks and people still spend their money today and go into debt. Everyone knows if you save starting in your early 20s compounding interest it will be worth a ton more in 10 years, 20 years, etc.

Loans clearly have issues in a deflationary system. If you loan someone $10 today and that's worth $100 tomorrow how do they ever have a chance to pay it back? Payback would have to be on some growth rate where you owe "less" the longer the life of the loan with some interest built in. Venture Capital also would have issues, but if the rate of return on investments is greater than growth of the currency price that wouldn't be an issue either and one would expect it to stabilize over time.

Inflation is built into the current model to encourage investment and prevent concentration of capital. Clearly, given the wealth divide that isn't working (blame exploitation of 3rd world or robots).
Google in talks to buy Whatsapp
SourceTree for OS X is great: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
And, in addition to that, I find it very hard to believe that anyone who used both can sincerely say Hg's CLI interface is 'just as bad' as git's. I've used both and switched to git eventually, because from a technical point of view it's simply the better tool. Git is faster, more flexible, easier to deploy. The things it is not: more intuitive, easier, more consistent.

I don't understand why many git apologists continue to try to paper over the atrocious CLI that comes with git by blaming the user for not knowing his tools well enough. The tool is supposed to serve the user, not the other way around. Personally I think everything about the git CLI sucks, plain and simple. The command structure and naming, the switches, the error messages, the documentation, all of it. Compared to git, the hg CLI is a thing of beauty. Yet I still prefer git over Hg. No need to sugarcoat it and pretend git is flawless though.
Kind of a bummer because this affects all existing ShareKit apps -- the fix was just added: https://github.com/ShareKit/ShareKit/pull/692
I expect WebKit to have similar fate as KHTML actually...
I still don't understand how people treating bitcoin as an investment rather than a currency is a fundamental flaw in the algorithm.
Now it is time for Android 2.x :-)
There are plenty of others who grew up in Thatcher's Britain I understand the negative sentiment of many Britons towards her.

My main beef is the squandering of Britain's oil. We had a one time bounty of oil in the UK and to deliver temporary tax cuts at the high end of the tax bracket her government sold off as much oil as possible as fast as possible at low low rates (<$10 per barrel) - a policy also aimed at financially attacking the Soviet Union. However as the UK slipped from the fourth largest exporter in the world to a net importer of oil, oil which is ten times as expensive, the UK has serious problems. The tax cuts are long gone, and I'm pretty sure nobody is paying for the UK's oil as a thank you for helping bankrupt the USSR.

I guess the point is while the social effects of her policies are the main focus of criticism for many, her economic prowess was based on a giveaway if a one-time resource wil long term negative strategic consequences for the country.
"Top Reasons I like Postgres over SQL Server as a Database for Web Applications."

SQL Server has some neat features, and yes, it's more expensive than a free tool (and yet, wildly less expensive than Oracle, its main competitor). What Postgres doesn't have is the entire BI suite of tools that comes with SQL Server: Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services. It also comes with MDM, Data Quality Services, a complex event processor (StreamInsight), etc, etc. It's not just a database.

I like SQL Server, and I use it all the time--but again, I do BI. That being said, if I were creating a web application, I'd use Postgres in a heartbeat. SQL Server's defaults are aimed at different applications than Postgres is.
ha ha. Yes. It's good that the USD was backend by the government. Who can bail out the bad credits? You can just print more Bitcoins?
Or much much less, and it has been known to fall precipitously as well.
Do you mind sharing how much data you are storing in Redis?
They can flash a single ROM image, create a random password on the device , and just by adding a led , they communicate said password to a mobile app, when needed.
What is the reason for this method to call itself?
> You need to aggregate some capital for investments to occur, you need rich people for high risk investments to be possible.

No, you need economic capital for high risk investments to occur. However that capital is distributed is really besides the point.

From an efficiency point of view, high risk investments probably shouldn't exist at all. In a production model where goods and services are produced based on what the people need and can realistically attain in a sustainable manner, rather than tricking people into thinking they need things, you don't need to take very high risks.
I use gitextensions as well, and could never imagine using CLI. I don't have the patience to type out filenames or read ugly diffs through the console just for the sake of using CLI. On top of that, I'm an extremely slow typer so CLI is almost always a hinderance.

Staging a handful of files for commit in CLI takes maybe 30 or 40 seconds for me, where with gitextensions it takes a handful of clicks, not to mention I can read the changes I made to the file as I stage, which is useful for commit comments.
That doesn't make them brittle, it does make updating them a potential single point of failure. But that goes for multiple things if you're working from one single IP address, so accounting for those is part of the tradeoff.
Didn't you hear? HN is now a general discussion forum where super intelligent technical people have wonderfully stimulating discussions about every topic in the news, and do it in a respectful and mature way.

/end sarcasm
Real time, it's a 4kb executable.

The demo scene has been around for decades
> The pirates would be a limited menace were it not for search engines that point users to these rogue sites with no fear of legal consequence, thanks to a provision inserted into the 1998 copyright laws. A search for “Scott Turow free e-books” brought up 10 pirate sites out of the first 10 results on Yahoo, 8 of 8 on Bing and 6 of 10 on Google, with paid ads decorating the margins of all three pages.

How many would actually give you a usable copy? If the top Google hits for piracy did what they said they did, I'd have a lot more downloaded books than I do now...
Getting Things Done: A Retrospective
All that is missing in Postgres is materialized views feature. I would happily contribute to a kickstarter project or similar for implementing them in Postgres.
She didn't save the economy for the long term. She sold the family silver, squandered the resulting cash on tax cuts at the top, and left the same or worse structural problems in place.
I was worried that they would expose a fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm, however the post goes on with irrelevant FUD. It s a lot less flawed than even paper currency, and the fact that there haven't been any forgeries is a testament to its success. The argument about identifying transactions is a bit disconcerting, but how much of a real concern is it? After all, even paper money has a trail of DNAs from the hands that touched it.

As for the comparisons with other currencies and commodities, it has been exhausted as a subject; money is a matter of trust after all.

The question is what are the actual security threats to bitcoin's p2p infrastructure/integrity?
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Clay, a Haskell CSS Preprocessor
I chuckled when the author chided the hypothetical closed-minded interviewer with:

"No question you ask should be make-or-break. No single
answer should be the deciding factor for a candidate."

only to follow it up with this:

"[You can ask basic questions from their resume.] The
candidate isn't going to say "RTFM, dude. It's on the
resume!" (and if he does, then end the interview right
there)."

I guess it's subjective after all.
And you have set the last sale price of APPL at 1 Tablet. If the current price of APPL was higher than the sticker price of a Tablet you have just gotten ripped off and vice versa. Some of the value just evaporated until the next sale, AKA arbitrage.

The point was that you can't do that even if you wanted to as the 'stock' is completely electronic without a way for you to transfer it's value to your seller of Tablets without first converting it to USD. The current system has no convenient general way to transfer their wealth in AAPL stocks from yourself to any person without going through an intermediary, which is the USD and the stock market itself. When you actually held the paper stocks you could give them to someone, now that value is stored in bits in a trading system.

I think your are confating my argument with 'giving' money to Bitcoin, which is a bit odd since nobody controls Bitcoin. Buying Bitcoin mean you are putting faith into the system, much like buying AAPL means you are putting faith into AAPL in hopes that the value of that stock with increase or at least not fall. If a large shareholder lost faith in AAPL and sold all their shares, the flux of money out of the system would devastate the investors, not APPL. Or at least not financially...the lack of faith might be quite devastating for APPL though.
the US constitution provides a means for the citizens to fight back against the most outrageous of offenses

Did you, by chance, mean "voting"?

How quaint.
On the contrary, I think it's simply a snake enthusiant with a maritime affiliation.
Interesting. This makes me think about the Airport Test as a former consultant. The Airport Test is whether or not you could spend a day (or however long) delayed at an airport with someone. It's more for recruiting.

However, I do like this Orange Juice Test. It's different, and not one that I think about very much. I think oftentimes, people make a decision for others. I believe we can influence, but not make the final decision.

You could only lead a horse to water, but can't force it to drink...
"However, they are wrong because converting $100 into 10 x $10 bills or even 100 x $1 bills does not make you feel richer."

This was also quoted in a Forbes article but I don't get it. Can someone explain what this means? What does lack liquidity or limited supply have to do with feeling richer by funging your bills?

I'm not joking I seriously have no idea what this has to do with anything...
you're thinking of the wrong sort of pirates. The pirated copies of XP that are running IE6 are computers that are sold on the street in china. the people operating them have no idea that their OS isn't legit (nor do they care) and whoever sold them the computer turned off automatic updates so the end user wouldn't get the message that they were running a non-genuine copy of windows.
> and the fact that there haven't been any forgeries is a testament to its success.

There has been a successful double spend.
Summary: deflationary spiral.

Good job repeating what's been said by like everyone since the start, and not adding the slightest bit of new insight or information.
While I don't disagree with the author I would say that the finite supply shines a light on an even more direct problem.

What happens to 'lost' coins? The BTC supply is not only finite but in fact dwindling over time, as inevitably the amount of currency is going to diminish due to digital loss.

I have personally lost a few BTC due to computer crashes, wallet file lost etc. (In the early days) and considering this the total supply of bitcoins will be diminishing over time at (maybe already?) higher rate then they can be mined.

I haven't taken the time to do ANY form of math on this but I can guarantee that already 10.000s if not 100.000s BTC are lost forever due to people simply not having access to them anymore and the data being destroyed.

Over years of loss this is probably more likely to kill the currency than anything else in my opinion.
I emailed these to him. I'll let HN know if he has an interesting reply.
Yeahhh, I don't think that's what he was suggesting. You were proving Godwin's Law, right?
There are many legitimate arguments for the existence of flaws in Bitcoin that could prevent it from becoming a legitimate currency. Unfortunately, this was poorly written, poorly formatted, and has a set of premises that do not lead to the conclusion in the sensationalist title.
I've been lurking HN for awhile now, and complaints about HN's decline were going on even years back when I was first introduced to the site...
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Good news! It's slated for the next release. :) http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-...
Sounds like they also attempt to authenticate using default user/pass combos.
By 2140 we'll probably have a new currency that we can replace Bitcoin with.
Ah oops, you are correct. Looks like I cannot edit my post otherwise I would fix it :/
I'm seeing Money Sent: $0.00 too; Iceweasel 10.0.12, Debian Testing
Keep in mind I've been a SQL Server DBA for the past 10 years, and while it does come with builtin tools like SSIS/SSRS and stuff, it isn't all sunshine and lollipops. For example, how well does SSRS works for people that don't use Internet Explorer? Or any type of reasonable debugging in SSIS. Yes, there are tools that come with it, but many of them feel like crap thrown together by an MS intern. and yes, some are really nice and refined as well.

That being said, this post was intended for the web app crowd.
Windows 7, at least the 64bit version, will not run Win16 programs. Ran into that limitation trying to install some old software from the Win98 days that was still using essentially a Win3.1 installer.