skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's quite the line-up, and for what looks like a very sensible ticket price.

I'd definitely want to go there, if I had the chance and means.
Other commodities are volatile for different reasons. Natural gas is volatile because it's literally volatile, so storing and shipping it is expensive. Grains are volatile because of variable growing seasons. Onions are volatile because US Congress banned futures markets for onions. Even so, none of these are nearly as volatile as BTC has been.
Does anyone know the Seagate device they used for their 'Alpha Test Network'?
Yes, and all you need to do to be a great mathematician is to win the Fields Medal. All you need to do to be a great jurist is to become the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS.
Florida Highway Patrol has some seriously beefed up vehicles. As someone who used to run from the cops on my motorcycle semi-frequently I do have to say that I'm not aware of any that could get up to 180 though.
Filed an issue:

https://github.com/kencochrane/boston-bombing-photos/issues/...
I agree. An off-duty cop is just off the clock. By the way the news reads there really is no such thing as an off-duty cop. A cop is always on the job. Describing a cop as off-duty suggests that he suddenly becomes a normal citizen like everyone else once the clock is punched at the end of the shift. But I'm willing to bet an off-duty cop has no issues with using police powers, if necessary, while off the clock.
Space Monkey's seed round was about nine months ago (http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/11/space-monkey-seed-round/). Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
Last time I checked, Udacity was built on angular.
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Sure, HVDC obviously works over considerable distances. The problem jfim is talking about is that each additional length of cable increases the price of the delivered electricity (because a longer cable is less efficient). So given a particular method of generating power, a particular consumption market and a set of cable characteristics, there is a distance limit on viable projects.
PCWorld reports he "hacked IBM mainframes". [1] I would be interested in knowing the details of this. I am a sysprog for z/OS for a financial institution by day, and I have never heard of any sort of intrusion like this. Not that these systems are completely bulletproof, but I expect there is some fabrication in these statements. These systems are usually deep in the backend and obscurely buried in archaic and proprietary architectures. Unless Warg had any experience with this platform or some sort of inside help, I highly doubt this allegation.

[1]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2034733/pirate-bay-cofounder-...
> That's not the inherent value.

Show me your inherent-value-meter, or shut up. Simple, eh?
One of the problems is that the US has so many laws on the books that law enforcement has no choice but to enforce it sporadically. If every law was enforced as written then I would imagine about 80% of the US population would be in the justice system in one form or another at any given moment.

But it does provide a way to pick-and-choose when enforcing laws.
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My knowledge of how the US systems works in practise is limited, but as draugadrotten says in another comment - the penal system of Sweden is in general preferable to US.

But when it comes to legal security it really is much harder choice but I think I would prefer to face the US justice system in all "normal" criminal cases.

If the word terrorism was anywhere near the case I'm not so sure any more.
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Thanks Mark. Still using it and look forward to the updates. Hope it pays for the wedding!

And Joss. Well spotted, but you failed to also spot my two other typos: lass should be less, and bare should be bear. I'll be more careful next time.
A bunch of documents not actually in the linked PDF.

The prosecutor claims that they have chats logs that show Gottfrid discussing the hacking, logs that connects IP address to those owned/bought by Gottfrid, data on a mobile phone owned by him, and computer + old hard drive.

Sadly, none of that is actually showed in the PDF. Only referenced.
There's really no question about whether or not it will get funded in my mind; the early-bird option alone (which is half sold out) will take them to 50K - half of their goal. I bet this funds today.
Peer to peer backup? Reminds me too much of Skype Supernodes.
The premise is sound but in reality you're paying $10 a month to help distribute other people's data via your own bandwidth? This goes both ways, of course, but how long until someone finds a way to make their SpaceMonkey exclusively a network leecher, only fragmenting owner's backup but not delivering other people's data?

I could be entirely wrong, of course, someone correct me please.
We don't know that though, people just say it based on what they think sounds reasonable. The point is, it would be interesting to actually find out how true that is, rather than just assume it based on nothing.
Thanks a lot ! ;-)

What is preventing you to come? Distance?
Also, there's really no reason for this to be a special device.

It will vastly increase reliability, though. I can think of many reasons why having it on a general purpose hard drive is a really bad idea (turned off accidentally, freezes due to bad apps, virus infection, etc, etc).
Well, the chips dont make the money, the software makes the money. Its kind of like why car manufacturers made more money than the car parts suppliers...
Where is the encryption done and who has the keys?

How reliable is the network - will you be able to cope with Sandy style blackout?

Will there be a software component in which I designate a hard drive on my (always on) pc and skip the external device entirely?

How many times the data will be backuped?If only twice than if my home device get stolen/eaten by a rabbit/simply breaks then it is needed only one hardware failure somewhere else in the system to have stuff lost forever.
The prosecutor document describe the "hack" as Gottfrid testing a bunch of default password at an wireless route, and from there, using the internal networks "automated processes" (ie, I assume they mean that the system lacks any security against the internal network).
> The confusion here stems from the fact that the term QBasic is ambiguous. On the one hand, it refers to the IDE and interpreter included with later releases of MS-DOS. On the other, it refers to the language accepted by that interpreter. Since QB64 is specifically designed to accept that same language (FreeBasic has a mode for this as well), I don't think it's unreasonable to consider QB64 a QBasic compiler. Would you find it similarly unjust if someone claimed to write a game in Python but they really wrote it in PyPy?

But the BASIC dialect that QB64 compiles is more than just QBasic in much the same way that QBasic was an advance on QuickBasic/BASIC.

I'm not familiar with PyPy (from a developers perspective) so I can't comment on that comparison.

> QB64 is not a scripting language.

I didn't say it was. What I said was that it's LIKE a scripting language. And the context of that (which you've kindly cropped out thus distorting the point I was making) was in terms of the way how the language is extended via additional libraries (eg Perl libraries can be Perl modules or bootstrapped from C++ - and QB64 libraries have that same 'feel' to them) and the nature of the language (it compiles to byte code rather than machine code†, the relatively limited scope of the language without the C++ libraries and it's performance, etc).

† It's also mentioning here that most scripting languages compile these days too, it's just that few offer a standalone ELF / PE with the runtime included (there's a limited need for the latter unless it's a niche language).

Just to be clear, saying something is LIKE something else is a comparison, it's not the same as saying something IS something else. And the very nature of comparisons is that there will be elements of the comparison which are not equivalent (which is why comparisons rarely work in arguments as the opponents will focus in the differences rather than the similarities)

> It compiles the QBasic language (with a few extensions) to C++ and passes it on to gcc. It seems like you're making a lot of assumptions about QB64 when you could instead be looking for facts.

I've played around in QB64, compiled and decompiled binaries in it and browsed it's source. Where else would you suggest I "be looking for facts"?
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The authorities could prevent this if they had been more forthcomming with information.

Not telling anything for days isn't acceptable anymore -- the government used to get away with these kinds of things because it used to control the narrative, but it can't do that anymore.
Does this apply to all professions? I.e. can a hacker potentially create value in pattern design or gardening or marketing, if put into the right environment?
Well, I initially read it as Google Outrage. I wonder if that would be a better product name. ;-)
Just some Internet Explorer marketing campaign.
I met these guys when they launched at either Calacanis' Launch.co or Arrington's Disrupt. I remember them winning the event too.

Good idea, but I question the scalability of the solution. How does deduplication work on remote devices if you have a lot of them. Is there a checksum of the file against a central server? Curious.
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There are a police versions of the Dodge Charger Dodge Challenger and a new police version of the Chevy Caprice. When I recently drove across the south I saw many highway patrols had the Challenger. That said, nobody is driving 180mph in a sedan on American roads.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/nyregion/21cars.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-19/chevy-s-cop-cruiser...

http://www.allpar.com/squads/police-cars/challenger.html
Ask HN: Would you support drones that record video to backtrack terrorists?
The US military has used drones over cities to record video and later replay IED attacks in order to trace the footsteps of the person who planted the device. Law enforcement would love to get their hands on this sort of technology. If there were a way to deploy such technology and limit its use to tracing terrorist attacks, that might be nice. However, I don't see a way to prevent the government from abusing the opportunity, in the same way the government has abused the Patriot Act, which was intended to prevent terrorism, but has been used beyond the scope of preventing terrorism.

Before Monday, nearly all of us would have rejected such a proposition. Has Monday's bombings in Boston affected your position? Is this a case of giving up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety? If this sort of attack becomes a trend, would you support such measures?
You gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.
Yes I am. (-;
This sounds like http://www.wuala.com/
We are not trying to be sneaky here. Our engineering team is actually the one that came up with the idea. We are hiring and we are definitely doing it in a fun way.
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Jagex launches HTML5/WebGL game mode for RuneScape (beta)
Jagex, creators of the popular MMORPG RuneScape just launched their beta version of RS3, a purely HTML5/WebGL implementation of their (so far) java based game.

I -think- this might be the first huge implementation of html5 in game form, and clearly marks Jagex as even bigger innovators in both the web and gaming industry.
For a hacker trying to find data suggesting the PTO and possibly some patent agents are not performing due diligence, where would you propose we start?

How many patent agents are there employed by PTO? Are they all full time?
Some good points "We have but one sample of history." And it's just not a very big sample. ... But this is macroeconomics. It's hard to muster conclusive evidence, and almost impossible to generate much in the way of useful predictive ability.

Main problem with the Reinhardt-Rogoff paper was it was packaged and sold as an influential talking point - over 90% debt/GDP leads to disaster - which was not at all supported by evidence.
I agree, and if you're still dealing with data loss risk in the form of mangled punch cards from a paper jam, something is clearly "broke," imo.
How's that go? Oh right

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Sauce please. I disagree. You could say that some HUMANS see themselves as uglier than they actually are. The gender doesn't matter, and it certainly doesn't apply to everyone.
Maybe that's true in the usual way we'd understand that percentage (the percentage of total users subject to this particular issue). But based on the fact that all seven of my Google accounts were inaccessible via IMAP, I'm wondering if they only had 0.007% of users fail in their attempt to access the service during that window, while many other potentially-affected users were simply blissfully ignorant of the issue.
https://www.netspend.com/

They send you a debit card you can refill, and allows you to create many virtual cards.
I know exactly what you mean about them crippling their devices. Quite a few years ago now I purchased a portable Sony MiniDisc recorder and a good quality microphone with the intention of recording local gigs, uploading them to my computer, splitting the tracks up, and creating a CD that I could give to the musicians.

Imagine my chagrin when I discovered that, whilst I could digitally upload music to the device, I could not digitally download music from it. Unbelievable! I did a few by attaching the headphone to the mic port on my computer and playing the music in real time, whilst recording on the PC. But this was such a time consuming process that I quickly lost interest. A shame, because I did get a few really good recordings.
My reasoning in that speed traps are for revenue generation instead of safety is over the thought that a visible police presence on the road would more likely cause people to slow down and obey traffic laws. Hiding to ambush a speeder is the same tactic used by a highwayman out for money.
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You would probably want to build in some kind of automatic reputation system. You wouldn't want people to be able to use more space than they are making available to other people and nodes that are temperamental or have bad availability would drop in reputation and therefore not be relied on as much (You probably want to distribute data over both high reputation and low reputation nodes).

In general although I like the idea of an open source version of this I think the problem becomes so much harder as you don't have a central authority to prevent misuse of it and therefor have to build that into the protocol from the beginning.

Hmmm, I think this may be one of those wedges that gets stuck in my brain and ticks over for a while. Its quite a fun problem to try and solve.
Is there much difference between bad vigilante justice and bad institutional justice? How about the good variety? We know the criminal justice gets things wrong all the time.

I guess we'd like to say accountability, but even that's not really there. Take Louis Cuen Taylor, who just spent over 40 years in prison for setting fire to a hotel, despite actually helping the police attempt to save people. After all this time, it was finally accepted that there was no evidence whatsoever that Taylor actually committed the crime. He was released after pleading No Contest, making it very difficult for him to get any sort of reparations. So yes, he was finally released, but with 4 decades of his life taken from him.
Won't be able to attend this time. I hope such meetups are organized more often.
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The short answer is: No.

Connect is for marketplaces and does some amazing things to make 3 party payments substantially less painful.

Checkout is for 2 party payments and does some amazing things to make getting credit cards and storing them in a secure vault substantially less painful.

However, neither solution is drop-in zero-code.

Stripe focuses on removing friction at the hard parts of the problem so you can build machines that do payments, Paypal focuses on payments that require no effort on the backend.
In some circles it would be considered negative.

For example, I have spent most of my career using Microsoft developer tools building LOB applications. I think the MS dev toolset is great.

At one point I was involved in building a consumer web app and attended various "startup" community events. I would start chatting to people (generally Rails/PHP devs) and as soon as I mentioned I was building a web app using MS tech they would look at me as if I was mad. Sometimes they would even make excuses to stop chatting and find somebody else to talk to - I concluded from this that there is definitely some anti MS feeling within the startup community.

Anyway, this has gone off topic, but thought it was worth mentioning. BTW, one of my colleagues has just started using Knockout and thinks it is great!
Seriously!? We can't stop being cynical, hyper-analytical computer nerds for 5 minutes?

This isn't a study. There's no academic rigor to apply. It is a commentary. It's a commentary that almost anyone who has either been a woman or been in a relationship with one can probably identify with or relate to.

And yes, it is advertising. I have no doubt that no one walked away from that video not realizing it was advertising. So what? Advertising isn't allowed to say something positive, or dare I say, honest?

What? Is it because they're a multinational and not a startup?
That's because it's not generally a requirement

Is that a new way of saying "I just don't care about it"?

The idea of a single-page app is to make it feel like a desktop application, not to make it highly linkable

I've heard that before... from ASP.NET WebForms developers. Incidentally, I've seen quite a few ASP.NET WebForms applications that were literally a single page with changing panels and hidden controls. Needless to say, they were a bloody mess. Thing that normally could be achieved by linking required code changes. Integrations that could be performed via a simple HTTP post were done using complicated web services.

Links are the essence of the web platform. Calling something an "app" doesn't change that.
Letting activities flow instead of managing people is what Kanban (and, arguably, Trello) is all about, right?
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Bitcoin users don't call the shots; they have no say whatsoever. Bitcoin miners control the network. What matters for them is their return on mining in BTC, and the exchange rate to their local currency to pay their capital expenses and electricity bills.

If the miners think that they'll get more value out of the system by creating new coins forever, they'll make the change. They have to be careful not to destroy confidence in the system; this will be part of their value assessment.
Doesn't need to be "hacked" - you just need to constantly churn your 1TB while someone else puts 500MB up and adds a photo a month. Effectively you are leeching.

Correct me if I am wriong but this is storing data as torrents and each device is a torrent client and store box?
I'm sorry, and I don't mean to be rude, but what do 90 people at a company that has 2 games in production actually do?

HR department (2 people?)
Sys admins (1? maybe 2?)
Design department? (4 or 5?)
Programming? (4 or 5?)
Management (4 or 5?)
Marketing (1 or 2?)
the website is nothing special, but lets call it 1 person (or a programmer takes care of it on their down time)

maybe a team prepping the next game to be release? another 5 or 10 there (half design, half programming)

I'm counting 40 or 50 max.

Love Clash of Clans though - perfect time waster - not happy you have to buy gems ($50 spent in the last month that I've been playing it and it takes to long to earn them otherwise) but thats why games are free and they have in app purchases...
This meetup makes sense for non tech person? if Yes am in too :)
This has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4123941

Is there anything new or notable about the project these days? I haven't kept up on the news.
This is a well-known type of handedness (people are not simply right- or left-handed). When I began guitar lessons my teacher informed me that, although I wrote with my left hand, since I threw a ball with my right I would need a right-handed guitar.
I don't get it. How does it work?

How big is the hard drive in there? Judging from the price, the disk inside can't be much bigger than 2TB. That means if I have 1 TB of data and all the other have 1TB of their own data, it can only "replicated" exactly once (unless there are dedicated "cloud" servers involved), Which means, if my device breaks all devices which received a portion of my data need to be online for me to restore the content.

How does the encryption work? Surely the AES key can't be stored on the device - if it breaks your data is lost. If it's stored in the cloud it's not any safer than cloud storage.
> "Perfect stores of value" aren't natural, they're a wholly artificial construct with huge ramifications.

That's not true, there are plenty of natural examples that end up being rewarded by evolution. This is not a comment about the topic under discussion, only a correction.

As one example, bears put on a lot of weight in the fall, a behavior that allows them to survive the winter. It's a perfect store of value. Studies show the hibernating bears (strictly speaking, it's not hibernation) don't waste anything -- the scheme nature has worked out is very efficient.

Certain species of cicada hibernate for between 13 and 17 years between mating rituals. Their ability to survive in dormancy for so long is remarkable but true. They do it by not wasting anything.

Examples abound. Again, this isn't a comment on the immediate topic, only the argument that it's not natural. It is natural.
I'm a lefty and never have a problem knowing which is which.
OMG dint know that... Thank you sooo freaking much!!!
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I would have to see a study that shows that the speed limit is the source of traffic congestion. I seriously doubt it is. Most sources of congestion seem to be more along the lines of disabled vehicles, accidents, several roads converging in the same area, merging issues, and just stupid drivers at any speed. Increasing the speed limit by 10 or 15 MPH doesn't address any of that and in fact would likely make it worse in some of those examples.
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People here are saying over and over again that there is no such thing as "real value". That's bullshit. Economists have great ways to measure real value. For example, for financial assets real value is net present value of future cash flows. For currencies, real value is parity purchasing power. (Bitcoin is not a currency in this sense.) Things have real value.
Wow, you are totally shameless in lying about what I write!

>>You are saying "Hooray for throwing out the rule book! That keeps us safe and stops the towelhead terrorists!".

>>The difference is whether the population get hysterical, as you are advocating

I have written that terrorism against democracies is generally to influence/scare the population. See quote in what you comment on, troll.

You are fully aware that I have never discussed the motivation for (/morale of) that reaction, just noted that it is the usual outcome.

(I only read a few seconds until I saw a couple of quotes to show that you lie, troll.)
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