skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it is hard to do, and increases in difficulty as more and more people mine is that it protects the transaction record. If the difficulty keeps up with the current computing power it makes it effectively impossible to forge transactions. Typically 6 blocks or about an hour is when transactions are considered rock solid. No one could have enough computing power to change a transaction 1 hour in the past.
Sure, so it helped (some) people to deal with this; but sit-ups would have done the same, or re-assuring your muslim neighbour that you don't think they're a terrorist. There are so many ways to cope, and many ways that actually are constructive, instead of just feeling that way.

Until you walk the mile to work looking at every single person with a backpack hoping they are not about to bomb a T station, you don't know what that it is like.

Try being worried about the people in Gitmo, hours later worrying that all attention and energy will focused on emotions and speculations instead, and being proven right.
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If you want to learn more about that event than just a ":P", Danny Sullivan's analysis at the time was excellent: http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...
They are in low-Earth orbit. Each orbit only takes about 90 minutes, and half of each is daytime and half is night. Since space walks are typically several hours long, they are typically half in night and half in daylight.
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I completely agree. If you look at the foundation of (in our case) America, it is comprised of a lot of hard work by small businesses and families. They don't dream of "making it big" but they're realistic, offer a product or service that is useful to the community, and try to serve it whole-souled.
the oribital period of the ISS is 92 minutes 50 seconds. Therefore they do not experience a 24 hour day cycle as we do here on Earth. So the term "nighttime" doesn't have the same meaning. However there are orbits that are more heliosynchronous than others providing more solar time. At this moment it seems that the ISS is in an pass that is more than 50% solar time as can be seen on sites such as this one: http://iss.astroviewer.net/.
Please point me to "any kind of loan" that has better terms than my credit card. My credit card company literally pays me money to lend me money for a month at a time. I'd have to be an idiot not to take them up on that offer.
It's nothing to do with the free internet. Accusing someone of murder with absolutely no proof could be considered libel.

Edi: I wasn't accusing Reddit of libel. It's just a platform. The individuals who posted the comments would be the ones committing libel.
Ordinarily this is what "pure python" would mean. Since "pure python" libraries can run anywhere without compiling C code.

But in this case, they are referring to the fact that you don't have to write SQL and write your queries using Python syntax generators.
There's a difference between "papers" and "every other paper". Instead of a consensus, economists are split into camps over the question whether austerity harms or improves economic growth. There's been criticism of austerity even from the IMF, for instance. Discrediting Reinhart and Rogoff's paper (published without peer-review, by the way) in particular is important because they were the first to collect and analyse data from so many sources and their results couldn't be replicated and are now shown to be incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstones_formulation

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer",

...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.
It is worth note that the actual numbers are not generally seen as important, so much as the idea that the State should not cause undue or mistaken harm "just in case". Historically, the details of the ratio change, but the message that government and the courts must err on the side of innocence is constant.
It isn't just work for work's sake. The work done is actually protecting the blocks, the transaction record. It is difficult and the difficulty increases with computing power to make sure that no one could effectively forge past transactions. The mining difficulty is the mechanism that makes Bitcoin transactions secure and trustworthy.
:) This made me laugh.
> When you get a cup of coffee, do you expect the barista to want not only for you to pay for your double whip latte, but to also feel that you're validating her as a human being?

Yes. I go out of my way to do so. I do try to find things to praise because these people have tons of negative interactions everyday. I do my best to make my interactions with them positive.
It's incorrect in American English too...
I see the place where the carjacker escaped, an area I know pretty well. They must have been driving around in circles for a long time. There's no way it takes 30 minutes to get that far at night in Cambridge.
Just floats his mic. No mic stand required. Not sure why that blows my mind. Driving home that he'd in freaking orbit. Something I "know", but is hard to comprehend.
I use Dwolla to transfer less than $500 every month for splitting rent, utilities, etc. I've never once had a problem, they're just kind of slow sometimes.
I don't get this line of thinking. Do you know there are programs written on system/36 machines from the early eighties still in production today on ibm iSeries machines? And even older software/systems in place that are older then that. Business requirements don't change hourly/weekly/monthly. If the business requirement that existed at that point in time, that the software solution put in place at that time met those requirements why would a business be compelled to change if those requirements have not changed and the solution met those needs? I've been a developer a really long time, 25+ years professionally. Businesses demand stability, this absolutely absurd idea that software that is only a few years old must be thrown out and some new flashy unproven shit put in its place is mind boggling. The last job I put a bid on, one of the requirements was that the software in initial form be supported for a minimum of 10 years. And in my experience that is a short life span.
TL;DR: Bing doesn't support SSL on www.bing.com and has never publicized it as a supported feature. The submitter had to manually type https://www.bing.com into the address bar to generate this 'error'.

Bing does support SSL on ssl.bing.com and publishes various links on that sub-domain, such as https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/home/mysites

The fact that the https://www.bing.com redirects to the HTTP version should be enough to show that this a known, unsupported case on the primary domain. The behavior has been like that for years.
Wait a minute, mob justice behavior on reddit has absolutely zero to do with why the "government wants to take control of the internet". Whatever trends there are along those lines are entirely related to state interests in espionage and critical services, media control, ip protection and interests in mass surveillance.

Most of those people have probably never even heard of reddit yet along give two shits about some collateral damage in an investigation of terrorism.
True, but there is an argument that could be made that mobile ecosystems have become heavily relient on a strong third party development community which is likely to be almost non-existent on a new OS. As well expectation have been raised as far as what a mobile OS does and the level of polish.

There is certainly things wrong with Android and iOS and I'm not saying that a new popular mobile OS is not possible but there are certainly a lot more challenges that need to be over come then even a couple years ago. I am pretty sure that Android and iOS v1 would not have been overly successful if they had been released into the mobile OS landscape that currently exists.
My first impression was that Play related to the framework or just meaning something games related and that accordion meant the UI element e.g. http://jqueryui.com/accordion/. I think the title is fine, but I wasn't expecting music at first either.
Haha no thank Science just a theoretical situation, my word I feel for you man - that sounds horrific. I don't think I'd be able to cope. Games industry?

The point is that edw's comment on hours sits ill-at-ease with the rest of his post. As if overwork isn't a MAJOR factor in burnout.

I don't disagree with his other points, rather we mustn't pretend like working ludicrous hours isn't bad for you.
The problem is that whilst being 'close' to as good as Google is a real achievement, they miss by far enough that it actually matters to most people.

Sure they might be godo enough that if they are a default, lots of people won't worry about changing, but not being as good as Google means there isn't much impetus for Google users to switch.
Resizing a real accordion only influences volume, i.e. the harder you push/pull the faster air flows over the reeds. And you inevitably get no air flow at all when you switch between pulling and pushing the bellows, so you have to time this right. It's a fascinating instrument.
Since the site is having trouble:

MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) is an effort towards enabling the simultaneous use of several IP-addresses/interfaces by a modification of TCP that presents a regular TCP interface to applications, while in fact spreading data across several subflows. Benefits of this include better resource utilization, better throughput and smoother reaction to failures. Slides - explaining MultiPath TCP - are available in .pdf and .pptx format. You can also have a look at our Google Techtalk about MPTCP.
The IP Networking Lab is implementing MPTCP in the Linux Kernel and hosting it on this website for users, testers and developers.
For questions, feedback,... please contact us at the mptcp-dev Mailing-List

http://multipath-tcp.org/data/MultipathTCP-netsys.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V...
I think an interesting question is, what techniques could have improved the crowdsourcing attempts by reddit, 4chan, etc.

Obviously there's a huge amount of training that had the FBI zero-in on the terrorists. Was it different data they had access to, or was it simply the techniques that they used, and if so, can they be taught en masse?

To me, a large, motivated source of volunteer work like reddit or 4chan when looking for a needle in a haystack might be valuable in the future if something like this arises again.
and a very nice choice of accordion music too.
Sensible people like Paul Ryan? Now, that's rich.
Unfortunately, the meaning of "double spending" is exceedingly vague for Bitcoin; there is no formal and precise definition. The systems developed by cryptography researchers invoke a central issuer of currency in their security definitions, which is useless for Bitcoin.
I was wondering when they return to Earth, do they ever just let go of things thinking it will float...? Out of habit I mean.
And then you could map the keyboard to the rest of the inputs, and have a workable instrument....that 'fork on github' link is tempting.
Actual announcement: http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-open-sourced-rendr & HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5577034
> The police and media need to deal with reddit by making better information available faster. Reddit is their competition now and they should recognize it as a disruptive force. Just like Uber, I don't want it regulated away.

Spreading information faster than people could correctly evaluate it is exactly what caused this problem. Doing it more would just end up with more witch hunts.

Your desire to jump to instant conclusions about complex issues is, quite frankly, dangerous and troubling.

No, we should never leap to conclusions or immediately try to solve the case based on the new data coming in the instant it does. There is a reason that police are slow to say things and that they investigate leads before making claims.

So they don't ruin innocent lives more often than they already do - and reddit doesn't have any such care.
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bing.com doesn't do SSL, never did except at ssl.bing.com (which doesn't actually do SSL anymore).
I find this kind of response entertaining, because to me, your comments about it reek of pretentiousness. Then again, if there's one thing I've come to detest through all the time I've spent reading and writing, it is people who make a big deal of of spending time "interpreting" and "appraising" creative works of art rather than simply enjoying the experience.

To me, that usually ends in something that's the very height of pretension and self-absorption where said person tries to inject their own subjective ideas of what is important into the core of someone elses work, often presented as objective truth, or at least insinuated to be the truth.
SO uses a MS stack so it's not too far off...
Pretty sure those aren't criminal and it's up to the person being demafed to sue.
They only offer their service to companies. We received a contract to sign and in the contract we found this clause.
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The part where they all end up dead ought to have been a dead giveaway.
There is a minimum karma threshold before new users are allowed to downvote.
no, no, no, you're looking at it all wrong.

The crowd is not "Hate America".

The Crowd is "America needs to get better". The first step to fixing problems in to acknowledge they exist.

I don't know about you, I strive for constant improvement in my life.
My benefits include access to lawyers and therapists but the company I work for sells stuff to the insurance market.
I'd file a suit against the people who libelous comments, such as asserting that he factually was the bomber, and ask reddit to disclose such information about the posters as they possess as part of disclosure.

The internet does not give you the right to spread untrue statements about people which you were negligent in discovering the truth of before repeating - such as that they committed a specific act of terrorism.
Wait, Firefox has a special mode for resizing page... In Opera it's just Arrange-Restore in context menu of tab.
In the contract they sent us to subscribe their service.
There are subreddits for that kind of stuff.

In fact, this is the only answer I could thought of that would not potentially spoil you if you have not read the books.
I seem to do my best in total silence or listening to instrumental music that I know well. Sitting on my porch with a slight breeze blowing is a nice enhancement.
Yeah, but that is most likely because it was AH birthday.
>vig·i·lan·te (noun): A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority

I agree that blaming Reddit is ridiculous. It seems like so many people have their panties in a wad about this, and I'm struggling to understand their expectations. Outliers aside, can one really consider the /r/findbostonbombers folks in the wrong? Do they require legal authority (per above definition) to do what they are doing? Are they violating any laws? Sure, they may include idiots espousing falsehoods in "witchhunt" fashion...but isn't the onus on readers to realize the difference between sources (social media vs. legitimate new reporting)?

This is crowdsourcing in action. It's changing the dynamics of news and dissemination of information. I foresee the development of some type of guidelines or protocol for future "Current events of significance," perhaps denoted similarly as on Wikipedia [1]. If not imposed by the content providers themselves (Reddit et. al.), then eventually by legislation. The objective would be to reasonably control (not restrict or censor!) the dissemination of information to minimize adverse consequences inherent with the flow of data.

[1] http://imgur.com/LzEvgqX
To some extent, those that are summarily decrying the "actions of reddit" are judging with the benefit of hindsight. Here's my take:

I believe the people who participated in those threads on reddit/4chan/etc. we're actually, truly, trying to help. (I'm not one of them, but I watched much of this unfold).

Some folks spent hours pouring over any publicly-available images they could find to see if anything stuck out. They looked for patterns, looked for backpacks, tried to match up people to different pictures, etc.

Had this gone the other way -- had one of those pictures been of the suspects and had one of the "Internet sleuths" circled one of the brothers instead of a random innocent person with a bulging backpack, we'd be having a very different discussion about what heros the crowd can be and of the virtues of crowd sourcing in the modern age, etc. and frankly, had that happened our praise would be just as misplaced. Shoot a machine gun randomly around you and kill a bad guy, you're a hero. Kill a good guy, and you're the enemy. Still doesn't meant it was a good idea to shoot like that :)

So now they got it wrong. And that's going to happen. And now we're vilifying everyone.

Here's where I think the line should have been drawn, and the lesson that we all should learn from this: I think, actually, had folks just stopped at the "this seems suspicious" stage and sent that info to the guys who really have details (the FBI), that actually could have been helpful. I know if I were an intelligence analyst, I'd certainly find it even slightly helpful for someone to do even a cursory pre-examination for me. Sure, the kids don't know all the real techniques or have all the real tools, but even 10 minutes saved in picking out some potential people to cross off the list can be helpful.

However -- the line should have been drawn there. Find the "interesting" items, alert the authorities, and let the take it from there. No names. No accusations. And certainly no front-page-of-the-New-York-Post publishing (and that blame lies squarely with the fine folks at the NYP, not reddit).

It boils down to knowing the limits of your abilities. The crowd is good at scanning a lot of data and raising its hand at things that stick out.

The crowd is not good at being an actual intelligence analyst.
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Is this not common in other industries too? Not just software? The frustration level is probably higher in creative/logical work (software, advertising etc) but I'd guess the situation is probably worse in other industries.

Is there any solution to this?
Listen to the uncle of the bombers, he has more sense than you.
I'm tired of trying to meet new people. So I've built another social network
Can you clarify what that digets per kilowatt-hour means? If I own 1 million Joules, then how is efficiency specified? Since 1 million Joules in oil has a different worth/value than 1 million Joules in hydrogen, I don't understand how one can trade Joules. The point of currency should be interchangeability.

If people don't actually own money as joules, but money as "widgets" or "joules of oil"+"joules of hydrogen".., then you can just abstract away the energy stuff.

I'm not impressed by the energy as currency concept. Money should reflect all resources, including energy, human labour etc. Binding currency to something (like gold) doesn't seem to be useful.
SQL is declarative, statically typed but with an incredible type-inference system, and does an amazing amount of optimization behind the scenes. If it weren't so domain-specific, it would be the holy grail of languages. It amazes me how many developer hours of effort has been put into this global quest to completely avoid SQL. It is starting to remind me of all the people I work with that would rather write 10k lines of VBA for some unmaintainable Excel spreadsheet than learn to write 300 lines of Python/Ruby/Lua/Whatever that can accomplish exactly the same task.

I can understand some hesitation to learn something new, especially when there are so many new things to learn and the value of learning them is not always apparent...but I would assume that the benefits of knowing SQL would be readily apparent. I'm not even a developer and I would feel like a quadriplegic without it.
> I'd love to understand better how things like the overbled text were created. A photocopy of laser printed text, then scanned perhaps?

The typed parts looked like a combination of a typewriter and a low-ish resolution inkjet to me.
The new meaning is a lot more useful (in the sense that I find lots of opportunities to use it).
> it's useful for when hosting statically.

You can configure your webserver to add those headers, when hosting statically. There is no need to include it in all your pages.

nginx: add_header Content-Security-Policy "...";
Indeed it does. Thanks for the heads up, we'll change that.
Faulty generalization: Paul Ryan is not sensible, so everyone who agrees with him on anything must also be unsensible.
He is using a knife really UNcarefully?!?
but aren't we creating a giant look up table to the MD5 encryption function? And couldn't that be used to decrypt as well?
Why disable pinch zoom for iOS devices?
Have you sought out a mental health professional? In my experience, most incidents like the one linked have little to do with the amount of work or the politics involved, and everything to do with an untreated emotional condition. A lot of your writing above rings true in the same fashion. Please be careful.
If you're interested in the (imagined) implications of always-on recording devices, I'd recommend watching The Final Cut (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343). Although it deals more with memories, the issues of privacy and behavior of those doing the recording are confronted.
Last time I checked, the find Boston bombers subreddit had ~5K subscribers. r/humor currently has ~3.6 million. Please check your facts before making any more claims...
All people giving downvotes to this comment, I think you are being unfair to this person who just seems to have a bad English. He probably meant "message".
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If you look at the data, QE announcements and expectations have caused interest rates to rise, probably due to implied inflation.

It's alarming how people think low rates -> loose money. This has never been true in the history of central banking. Nobody would suppose Japan has loose money, or that the 70s had tight money.
Why not use the word "summary"?
In the beginning, "crowd-sourcing" should have been limited to anyone and everyone that had video and photos from the scene to upload them to a central DB. Then everyone can sift through and look for stuff... but instead of spewing their speculations all over the Net, let the FBI know so someone at the FBI can continue.

Once the FBI had photos of two people they needed help finding... THAT is when the crowd-sourcing really helped. There was a focused mission so it was easier to stay on target. Before that, it was just a (partially racially charged) cluster fuck.
Maybe the site should be using MultiPath TCP?
> and ask reddit to disclose such information about the posters as they possess as part of disclosure.

Too bad Reddit will surely be too busy not collecting such information just in case the evil government happens to ask for it, eh? You can never be too cautious about that government, you know.
Replace it with "humans"...
Following that logic, if I open a Google Apps for Business account that must mean I run a honest and ethical company.

To become a 'member' of Google for Nonprofits, non-profits only need to show that they hold current 501(c)(3) status. That's a pretty weak filter.
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My judgement was based on the dozen or so news agencies reporting "killed early Friday in a violent standoff with the police." But you're right, maybe they're all incorrect.