skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that a scroll bar down the right side? Seems poorly placed if you expect people to touch on the right side to advance a page.
Kodable Teaches Kids To Code Before They Learn To Read
> armchair quarterback a two sentence solution

This is the most succinct description of 60% of HN comments I've seen, I think.
Don't use hashing/bitcoinmining/password cracking as your benchmark if that is not your workload.
I'm not sure about Instapaper (haven't used it for a long time), but Pocket has great support for multi-page stuff, and handled this like a champ.

Full disclosure: I'm a big Pocket fan, and a big Instapaper anti-fan.
This is kind of project for which KickStarter was invented for... unlike some others for small apps
Thanks :) I just added it this morning. Now if only coinbase payment callbacks would work, it would be much faster (not manual.)
This is awesome! Makes Coursera easier.
I work for a startup and want to sync my dev machines at home and work and also a build farm. Bt sync is a good solution.

I am a musician and want to sync my tracks with a few producers. Bt sync is a good solution.

I am a political activist and want to ensure my data will be available to my affinity group even if Dropbox is threatened with a state security letter. Bt sync is an excellent solution.
I was agreeing with you, I just was saying that it was the U.S. which often lagged in cell phone standards adoption, so if the U.S. has great conectivity, and even South America has good connections (I have a slower connection but it's at least 1 mbps, more than enough for a CRUD app !!! ), where do they need that cache? Africa? And I've read that they have pretty decent cellphone infrastructure there, having bypassed landlines entirely, so maybe not even there.

Summary: with good cellphone connections everywhere, one of the points is not as strong. There still are dead spots, but enough to warrant the extra complexity of sync?
This looks like tumblr took their hand at making "netchan" (and more). Pretty interesting; I'll have to check this out. I like how they tried to make it similar to Erlang. However, the way they've organized the source isn't "go-get"able which is a pet peeve of mine.
That was a truly great article, thank you.
Scrypt too? Because Nvidia performance on scrypt is bad either.
Octosplit - side by side diffs and word wrapping in GitHub (Chrome Ext)
If a single group controls more than 51% of the mining power they can cheat the system (double spending, things like that). If such a monopoly was created people might lose their trust on Bitcoin and try to leave the system.
>We did this too.

Not even close. I didn't [1][2] and generally don't agree with such discussion, but equating what went on here with Reddit is ridiculous.

The thread you linked on HN is primarily a discussion of the history and potential impacts speculation, not actual speculation. Yes, there are exceptions, but they are just that exceptions.

The situation in the now defunct /r/findbostonbombers was completely opposite with wild speculation, accusation, doxxing and everything inbetween.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573397

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5573505
CUDA is a lot more mature and easier to program for. OpenCL likely has the future, but it takes more work to set it up and if you have Nvidia cards it is harder to optimize.
Why not open source it like most other JS tools? You've built on top of other open-source such as node.js. Just a matter of good citizenship in the JS community.
Ok I admit, I TL;DR'd it. Thanks for the correction.
The Sunlight Foundation may be happy for you to know this is their PR. Not really their fault that the Rebecca Rosen is too lazy to write a proper article.

It ironically drives home the very point of their app, which perhaps was intentional by Rosen!
AP Twitter account hacked, makes false claim of explosions at White House
The problem is that high-end clients would want somebody with stability, resources, and above all HISTORY.

There are too many people who setup hosting companies because it is comparatively cheap to get started; buy a box, fill it, buy another.

But doing it right involves having spare hardware, on-site access to pull out failed drives etc, etc. If you're one person and you have a single machine then I can't even rent two guests/machines from you and do load-balancing which rules you out entirely.
Most people can't vote down.
It sounds like you have planned yourself into a box. Maybe it would be better to take it a step at a time and see how it goes?
Unless you have a tools folder with a ton of files and Dropbox has no way to know which ones are the ones you want now. It can take up to a day to sync a large amount of files in my experience.

If I have to devise some system to zip my important stuff and keep that up to date, then I may as well just use BTSync for free.
> The owners of such internet platforms should reflect on when their platform could be abused by the mass and they should interfere before it becomes a monster which cannot be tamed.

I actually agree, but I'm not sure that I would put that assertion to the force of law. There is then the conundrum of what happens in the face of selective enforcement (and there will be selective enforcement). Can someone then sue Reddit for not suppressing an investigation that doxxed them quickly enough, or at all, given that Reddit has suppressed other investigations?

If you do manage to always comply with a law saying this much it will only be by suppressing otherwise valid speech, which is also problematic. Also, can someone sue Reddit for being suppressed unnecessarily, or is it merely an inconvenience?
>The public still agrees this game is a failure and their sales will reflect that.

The surprising thing is it's actually doing pretty well:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/676456011/

Maybe it's the old, 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' coming true.
It probably would be that the first $1 million is free then after that the tax. I don't want to even guess at how much harder that would be to track on top of everything else.

edit:
Looks like someone else has a better grasp of it. Still would suck all around.
There are some anti-vote ring things too.
As most of the constitution seems pretty outdated nowadays, why does no one ever bring up the idea of writing a new one?
Great point. The navigation between chapters is still being decided.
Dropbox has your stuff stored away in a fairly secure facility, while BitTorrent Sync just syncs between machines you've installed it on. That's worth something. Of course, you can just rent a cheap VPS somewhere and have it sync your BTS folders, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find a VPS with 100 GB storage for less than $10/month.
Does this avoid conflicts in the event that you change two different files on the TrueCrypt volume at the same time on two different computers?
This man is a case study in Statist ideology.
> pardon my french, but you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Uh, I'm the child of asian immigrant parents and know tons of people who are also, so I do kinda know what I'm talking about.

> oftentimes these kids come out socially maladjusted, suicidal and/or homicidal, or somewhere else on the human spectrum other than 'great'.

Kids from all sorts of upbringings come out that way. Those are outliers. In my experience, kids from asian immigrant households are far less likely to suffer from more run of the mill maladies: aimlessness, lack of motivation, drug use that interferes with life, etc.

> this 'model minority' viewpoint is harmful in the extreme.

My super competitive east coast high school, which has a race-blind admissions system, has a freshman class this year that's 65% asian in a county that's only 18% asian. These kids are vastly disproportionately the children of relatively recent immigrants. Asian overachieving isn't an imagined phenomenon, and parenting style has a lot to do with it.

> and for the past 20 or so years the 'restaurant' or 'dry cleaner' is more likely to be 'software company' or 'biotech company'.

My comment was directed at asian immigrants who own dry cleaners and restaurants, it doesn't presume that all asian immigrants own dry cleaners and restaurants.

> go to a University of California campus and ask how many of the thousands of asian kids you see if their parents owned a dry cleaner or a restaurant.

Most of the asian kids at UCB aren't the children of recent immigrants (California has a very large well-assimilated asian population). Most children of recent asian immigrants aren't at UCB.
I think, in general, we should be supporting people to "do whatever they want" as long as they aren't hurting other people. When we start prescribing set paths to anyone, you get these problems. Thus, all the garbage around some people thinking homosexuals don't deserve the basic human right to choose their partners and live in officially recognized relationships with them. Many other examples, too numerous to count, basically all boil down to "Just quit trying to tell other people what to do, you damned busy-bodies."
Unfortunately, EA holds a position where they can ignore the complaints of fans. Fans of Sim City, Diablo, etc are the minority of their customers and they can treat us however they want to.

Let's face it, Madden '13 and NCAA '13 will sell way more copies than Sim City has. Why should EA give a crap about a few stories on the internet?
amazing platform for online students!
Hi I'm one of the project creators and I posted the link on my facebook page asking for the discussion to happen here instead of there. I think the comments are from some of my more enthusiastic friends who are new here!
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I'm writing a puppet module to make it easy to declare shared folders. I'm almost done:
https://github.com/solarkennedy/puppet-btsync

The config file is versatile enough to allow you to turn off the relay servers / dht / upnp, etc and simply declare static peers, which is cool.
Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
> I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?Other than that, adding capability doesn't benefit the network, it burns a lot of power as people effectively just burn electricity to try to increase their share of a fixed payout.

Sure, if you want to efficiently allocate resources, all bitcoin miners could get together as a cartel and limit the overall hash rate to 1Mhash/hr, and collectively the bitcoin transactions network would consume a lot less power.

However, the temptation would always be there to add a little extra hash power to the network and network to claim more of the mined blocks and transaction fees. And pretty soon you'll be back where we are today, with each person acting in their own selfish interest, addiing as much hashing power as they can afford to run to get as big a share of a fixed pie as they possibly can.
I plan to use Unicode plus carefully placed right-to-left marks to overwrite the plant's call stack and take control of the genome.
The level of asshurt expressed by GreatMarko in that thread is actually astounding.
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France Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
Can we just somehow auto-flag the crap trolling links being posted to this site?

(Waiting for the thoughtful and insightful "Steve Jobs had horrifying B.O. - then AND now" post this site is surely on track for).
> In order to fake a transaction, you would need to control 51% of the total hash rate of the Bitcoin network, which is impossible.

Relevant to the article that this thread is linked to, it wouldn't be at all impossible if you are the single high-rate producer of by far the most efficient mechanism for mining bitcoins, and you really wanted to disrupt bitcoin.

(It might be economically irrational for anything that seems to a sane person to be a plausible assignment of utilities, but then, lots of socially destructive acts that actually occur in the real world meet that description.)
Thanks. I think Kickstarter is going to change the way so many things are funded, this project would never get off the ground without them.
I notice you are using the Go Regexp library for extracting log data. Have you noticed any performance issues with the regexps, or any bump in performance between 1.0 and 1.1? It appears to be one of the parts of Go that doesn't perform very well yet, for example - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
For comparison purposes, Intel Itanium 9500 series Poulson-class processors have ~40 MB of on-chip cache, split among the L1 I&D, L2 and L3 caches.
> Hide your versions

> Another super simple, but often overlooked adjustment to make is to prevent the server from broadcasting too much information about itself. Whilst attackers maybe able to source the information in other ways the harder we make it the more likely potential attackers are to give up and move onto a softer target. It is similar to introducing yourself to someone and giving them specific details about yourself such as "I rarely lock the back window when I pop into town".

newsflash: exploits will hit the vulnerability anyway, without asking about your name and version.

could somebody explain to me why these security by obscurity measures are still popular? especially in an age when running bots hitting every public facing piece of equipment is so cheap?
NSFW video!!!

to crackers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i6OrOZwtmA

edit:

Apologies. I feel strongly one should never advocate for political assassination.
I'd think tau vs. pi does far more damage to our kids learning. Radians would be so much easier for highschoolers to grasp if it was 1tau per revolution instead of 2pi.
Unsubtle with a capital B.
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This is a really cool idea. My college roommates made me download a similar app but it was too complicated and it was hard to do the basic stuff easily. Your app is really easy to use and seems to have made this simple. you should look into making the UI better. good luck going forward and great effort.
It doesn't feel like this overlaps with my need for Dropbox. I use Dropbox for file sharing, backup, version control, and the ability to access my files at any time from any computer (through the website). Actually syncing between computers is just a small part of it.
If I remember correctly, this is a lot closer to what the initial technology of bit torrent was developed for: secure, distributed storage.
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Dropbox's core offering boils down to file sync + cloud sync. There's many use cases where that's what you want - access on whatever devices you have the app installed on, and also over the web.

Cloud sync leads to storage limits (which don't make sense as a consumer for file sync, but are necessary for large scale cloud sync) and centralisation (desirable for vast access, not so much for some situations).

BT sync isn't a Dropbox replacement, it's a file sync replacement that's superior in some ways, but lacks the benefits of being combined with cloud sync.
Hey, co-founder here. Well put! That's pretty much our vision here; we want people to be able to self-certify their knowledge/learning/expertise by uploading proof of learning onto the certificate itself for all to see - the learning itself is what we should judge learners on, not a grade. This way all learning can be credible on your CV, not just that which was done within a school/institution. Check out http://www.accredible.com/3 for an example of a Cert I made for a Coursera course I did!
I haven't used a resume in 10 years. Maybe if it was more relevant, that would change.
I seem to have had better than average luck with hard drives; it's been about 20 years since I've had one die while I was still using it. In any case, yes, I rely on a great big hard drive for backup, but it sits on the bottom shelf of a large cabinet; it's not falling any distance onto anything.

What's more important is that I know exactly where it is and who has access to it, and I will continue to have access to it as long as I keep on feeding it electricity.
what are the major feature updates on this release compared to last one?
Having personally attended numerous Bloomberg press conferences in NYC (through his affiliation with the local startup community), let me paint perhaps a more objective picture from which this article arose:

This press conference likely had absolutely nothing to do with the Boston bombing. In fact, yesterday he was busy announcing a new ice skating facility in the Bronx. But using history as a guide, once the Q&A started, the media hounded him for quotes surrounding the Boston situation b/c stories about ice skating rinks are "boring".

And then once the media got a couple quotes that fit their mold, they wove some story around it to meet their biased agenda. Simply strip out Bloomberg's quotes from the article here and see for yourselves: they're not all that incriminating. But read them in the context of the author's story, and whoa, watch out! We're about to lose all of our freedoms.

Look - I get it. Some of the thing Bloomberg have done overstep the boundaries of what some consider reasonable. And having open discussion on this is totally warranted. But reading the comments here you would think those who view NYC from the outside think we live in some totalitarian state. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact. The city remains largely liberal from a social standpoint (and Bloomberg seems to be no exception). And in terms of diversity - whether it be religion, ethnic background, interests, etc. - you're simply not going to find a better melting pot.

So everybody please stop panicking for us - we're doing just fine. This is just some underpaid journo looking for a scoop and it seems she got more than a few clicks today courtesy of the alarmist HN crowd, so kudos to her. Now back to work.
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What is wrong with an internet sales tax? If you live in the US and buy something there is a sales tax associated with that purchase.

Why is buying via the internet any different?
What do you think is the best part: being able to demonstrate your knowledge/understanding or gaining a more complete certification?
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I've never seen a bright chemical reaction that wasn't really hot. Can a practical level of light even come out of a test tube?

Edit: Also, just hit me: How in the world would a potted plant in my living room absorb collect even 20 watts of energy? This would need you to seriously redesign almost everything about the modern house if you wanted to use it.
We don't want any gaming - we think it's cool but hate if people would game the system and make us look bad..
>Women are pretty much the only group where people say "well if you believe men and women are equal, why don't you fight for mens' rights?" Nobody says that to gays fighting for marriage equality, or blacks fighting for racial equality.

What? You get pretty much the same argument against affirmative action. "If you care about black children in poverty then what about white children in poverty" etc., and all the (in many cases quite sensible) arguments that aid should be based on need rather than race.
inDinero is hiring Web Developers
Are you interested in being an integral part of a real product? Looking to transform an industry?

Hi there!  inDinero is looking to bring on an additional engineer who will be working on the company's greatest engineering challenges. To be successful in this role, you'll have to be super smart, be well versed in CS concepts and studies, and you’ll need to have a passion for helping small businesses succeed.

inDinero has been hauling for about three years now, growing to over a thousand paying business customers! Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company and Andy continues to focus exclusively on the product development. We're looking for a Senior Engineer who can oversee the product growth as we attract thousands of new clients. We're unlike any other tech startup out there, because we're working to transform an industry that typically moves super slow.  Why work on yet another photo sharing app when you can change the way that businesses think about accounting and tax? This is a true problem that customers are willing to pay for, and we're growing our run-rate by 6-figures month-over-month.

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You got in on the ground floor, and inDinero is responsible for the accounting needs for tens of thousands of businesses across the country.  You're helping lead an engineering team of several dozen hackers, and you're working on developing technology that no normal accounting firm would be capable of building.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN DAY-TO-DAY?
You'll work side-by-side with co-founder Andy Su to work on the most challenging engineering projects in the company. This isn't just slicing and dicing html/CSS and simple ruby features… you're working on efficient ways to manipulate data across a multi-million row data set; you're helping facilitate money transfer between businesses; the list goes on and on, but you'll be assigned the most challenging engineering tasks that the company has.

SKILLS WE'RE LOOKING FOR
•Solid computer science background. Fundamentals in algorithms and complexity theory.
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THINK WE COULD BE A GOOD FIT?
Shoot a note over to jobs@indinero.com with why you'd be perfect for the role!
"In order to fake a transaction, you would need to control 51% of the total hash rate of the Bitcoin network, which is impossible."

Impossible?! The claims about why this polynomial-time attack on Bitcoin is not really a problem seem to get more outrageous with each passing day.

I find it interesting that you simply assume that there is no other attack on Bitcoin. There is no proof of this. There is not even a good enough definition of the security goal of Bitcoin to allow for such a proof.
As always, I'm a bit skeptical. Not that it can't be done, but how effective can these actually be? How many lumens will it produce?
How long will the plants live?
Will they produce more seeds?
Is bioluminescence a dominant trait? Or will future generations of my night light glow dimmer? Oh the botany!
http://developers.memsql.com/docs/2.0/2.0releasenotes.html
May I ask what's relevant for you? Github account, personal recommendation, portfolio?
Thankfully we have 2 attorneys sitting on our advisory board.

Edit: That's not to say we have it all figured out by any means. I'd love to read some feedback from the HN community. Not so much legal advice, but in terms of the overall concept of custodial insurance, (an insurance policy that covers a person's expenses for up to a year in the event they get taken into custody.)