skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the $1 bill was marked in any way (eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheres_George%3F), SDF might have some clues. If the post office keeps any logs of mail (eg. letter posted from box on X street to Y address) then that might also provide some useful information. Particularly so if the postbox had any security cameras watching it. Of course, these approaches require a few organizations to be working cooperatively to find voidnull.
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Much of journalism has always been subsidized by wealthy individuals.
I imagine that I'll own one in the far off future when they become the smartphones of the next decade or whenever that happens.
You’re right, thanks. Fixed.

It does mean that if you drink 5 pints during a night on the town, you ingest 1100 kcalories. For me, that would mean half of my recommended daily caloric intake.
At least one library/community centre here in South Australia has a 3D printer, I believe. Available for the public to mess around with.
Chrome does block popups and doesn't have problems doing so, it's just that what's described by the OP and the link is a different way of displaying popups. It was apparently confusing to the reviewer and never did ship.
Bitcoin miners running on iPhones / iPads won't make any money, you need a decent GPU these days.
Yeah, the only interest I have in consumer 3d printing is to prove parts will work correctly; anything I care about needs metal. The metal powder stuff isn't really that exciting yet, either.
Thanks Steven! I'll look into it. And thanks for all the great work you've been putting on Rails.
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Can you speak for a moment on how Nkoso compares to Vittana? They are the only other similar organization that I know much about and they have been working at it for a few years now with some good success.
If you publish anything that might concern anyone outside of your family you are already required to add an imprint. A complete address is required information.

A blog, a portfolio, bookmarks, dotfiles or even a simple memorial (if it's for someone outside of family) is enough.

I have not added one to anything I have ever put online nor do I intent to. I neither host in my country nor do I publish in my mother tongue. I think it is ridiculous to be forced to divulge information that allows people to knock on my door.
I don't think so.

Computers had evident uses people craved for even when nobody had one at home: coin-op arcade games for example drove huge crowds. Writers used electronic typewriters with small displays and would be better off using an editor program. And a spreadsheet was a killer app for any small office -- they already used calculators. Add communications and entertainment to that (mail, chat, www, video) and computers had tons of killer uses.

A 3D printer is a one trick pony. It merely prints stuff. (Well, a computer is a one-trick pony too, it just "processes information", but in the realm of information this amounts to infinite possibilities).

People that like tinkering and DYI will love one -- but they are not that many. The general public, not so much.

They can create any thing/part they want themselves? Well, the thing is, generally they don't want stuff created. And when they do, they can also have some factory create them somewhere and buy them. And even if they needed something extra-custom, they could order it to a 3D printing shop down the road, and be spared all the trouble of owning a 3D printing, managing supplies, learning the software, etc.

The analogy with the home computers is interesting, because people are even scaling down on buying home computers. The general public finds that the limited stuff they wants to do, they can do it with a smartphone and a tablet (and maybe an ultraportable, for the more needy).

Heck, tons of normal people don't even like owning 2D printers (and have always had lots of problems configuring and operating even them, as evident by any support forum).
While we're suggesting todo apps - I've been using Clear [1] (Mac + iPhone only) for the past month and love it. The UI is beautiful yet very simple as everything is done with touch gestures.

[1] http://www.realmacsoftware.com/clear/
Thank you for your reply. After all the downvotes I certainly appreciate it.

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Hitler and Stalin wouldn't necessarily be interested in getting power in a society armed through their teeth and Constitution stating that the people have the power to act forcefully against tyrants using guns. Probably, Hitler would become a painter and Stalin would become a pop, or priest. Exactly, like a virus. It feeds and spreads on the weak body. Not on the one that's armed.

Not a Police Officer. A highly feared Gestapo/NKVD. This is not police. Both Gestapo and NKVD were extremely feared and hated. No problem shooting their "officers". There is a joke in Poland from Communistic Times: an anti-communistic movement member goes to the Church because he want to confess. During the confession the priest asks him what sins he committed. And the guy says: Dear Priest, I killed a KGB agent. And the Priest replies: Son you came here to confess or to pride yourself. These guys were truly hated in their societies. General public in USSR would love to hear that someone is finally shooting bastards killing them in millions in 1930s. Are you kidding me?

However, you make very interesting point with our tendency to rationalize away even if it is "bleeding" obvious. That's extremely good point. And my answer to this is: in 300 million people in the US, you will find at least thousands (I think millions) who will see very well what is going on. As they existed in Nazi Germany too. Even when more than 90% Germans chose to follow their leader. What I'm saying is that this is precisely why you make a republican (not possible to take away by popular vote) law allowing everyone to have a gun. So maybe at least one among those thousands or millions will be able to shoot our hipotetical tyrant before it's too late.

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Serbia - come on, were they armed? Were they? Were the people armed there? If I know they are taking me to the death camp, I'd prefer die fighting with dignity than to be slaughtered in a death factory.

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Yeah, you can't stop people from killing each other. We're talking about the state going crazy because the "Dear Leader" went insane. So not really applicable.
Sometimes if the meter is not accessible by an electricity company they'll just use an 'estimated' reading from past bills. Could be your lucky enough to be stuck with some very low past estimated reading.
i think the annecdote was something like "he approached NASA and they said it was unthinkable. Then he approached the Russian agency, and they said it would be very expensive" so he started to talk with the Russians. I never heard the nuke thing, so i'd be interested if you can find as well.

here's the negotiating part: http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/elon-musk-int...

"""
He was ready to buy three Russian ICBMs for $21 million when the Russians told him that no, they meant $21 million for one. "They taunted him," Cantrell says. "They said, 'Oh, little boy, you don't have the money?' I said, 'Well, that's that.' I was sitting behind him on the flight back to London when he looked at me over the seat and said, 'I think we can build a rocket ourselves.'"
"""
It made $3700 and 14,000 users were affected. I doubt any of the users would care about the ~25-30 cents they might get from this...
The idea didn't really seem that exciting to me, but the execution of this is very impressive indeed. I'm going to be using this to demonstrate what I mean by an effective user interface.

The abstraction of complexity until the very moment its needed is masterful here. Its simple right up until you need it to be complicated. Hat is off.
That 'family mode' is a good start, but to be really useful it would be awesome to be able to specify different constraints/preferences/etc per family member, and yet have the resulting recipes work (or be modifiable) for the entire family. For example, the recipe book The Adaptable Feast is great for families that have a mix of vegetarians/vegans/omnivores. It would be great if your site could handle this type of situation too. Overall, awesome job! :)
man I was about to start building this exact thing hahah. nice work!
I smell bullshit. Sounds like the company tried it, got caught, and blamed it on a (fictitious?) rogue employee.
Strange feature request: I'd love to be able to specify dietary requirements on a per-meal basic. My partner is vegan, so I'll normally cook vegan dinners, but like to get meat into lunch/the occasional breakfast.
This is awesome i am really impressed.
Signed up right now
Meet Drone Shield, an ambitious idea for a $70 drone detection system
Stuff just wouldn't work :p (sorry ... I know this is first year CS grad speak but I can't describe it better than this) In the model view of batarang, I'd just see a bunch of scopes with nothing in there. Clearly, exploratory programming isn't a good idea.
Got a Printrbot+. It's working, but I still need to dial it in for different materials. Tinkering with it is a bit of a hobby for me these days.
What does living cost have to do with the value a developer produces? It doesn't make much sense to me why a developer in a low cost of living area is worth less in terms of what features they develop for the company. I say this as someone who lives in a high cost of living area, so I'd be at the higher end of your scale and this is not a self serving comment.
Could you imagine the reviews about draining battery life?
I live in a 4 bedroom house in Hawaii. My power bill is usually around $200. We don't have A/C or anything other than your typical household appliances. Hot water heater gets a solar credit applied to it. Then again our price/kWh is $0.35 which is significantly higher than the rest of the country.
The material you quote is confusing, but what Stack Overflow and GitHub do that Markdown does not define is allowing auto-linking of URLs without the angle brackets. That is, http://ajh.us/ on SO or GH is the same as <http://ajh.us/>; on any Markdown-based system.
Great point. Please consider this as well: when you receive a card in the mail do you think about the person going to the store and buying the card or do you think it's special because it's a handwritten card?

At the end of the process a Felt card feels authentic. I'd love to write you one if you'd like. Just email me you address.
> what are these people thinking?

Due to humanity's tribal history, people have a propensity to think of things in an "us vs them" situation. The other, the alien, the enemy. It's why people readily look for someone different to blame: Hitler could blame the Jews (Godwin's law FTW!), Marx could blame the rich, and blacks and whites can continue to blame each other.

She's a genius. (A black genius to boot, I'm given to understand.) Not one of us, not something familiar. So it's not hard to view her as both a threat, and not human in the same way that people you know are human. Because most of the people you know don't do things like this. (Where by "you" I mean "a random US person," not "a random HN reader." And by "genius" I mean "the average person's perception of someone who mixes together chemicals and makes them blow up," not "the legitimate inferences that can be made about her cognitive abilities based solely on the fact that she performed this particular science experiment.")

Add to that the zero-tolerance policies which may actually say in black and white that she needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law, the racial undercurrents which may mean that too many of those involved view the situation in literally black and white, ...

Of course, AFAIK zero-tolerance rules started to become popular after the Columbine high school massacre. So they were intended to protect the community's children from dying in a hail of bullets.

For the federal prosecutor, it's just another day, another felony conviction, another varmint pelt on the wall to advance your career.

This is what they're thinking.
Low level hacking is alive and well; not just with Arduino and Raspberry Pi but also with the jailbreak community - I was fascinated at the speed with which a bunch of kids built an entire iOS tool chain from scratch, with no documentation and against the wishes of the owner.

There are now more hackers and makers than ever before. Good things will come from it.
Sure, but could the work not be distributed amongst many users? How many concurrent users would it take for it to be useful? Would likely demolish battery life and data caps, but I think you could run only when batt > 50% and wifi is on.
I remember software development in the early 90s. Every rinky-dink software development library was very expensive and some even required royalty payments per license sold. Libraries that came with development environments were insignificant. Everyone wanted to charge for everything. Free software was a novelty that nobody could understand because, after all, how where the authors making money on it?
I had the exact same experience. Everything that was even remotely confusing had an explanatory link. How active am I? Link. What is 14% body fat? Link (to pictures!). That's great UX.
I'd rather have a central, native, supported way to block popups, than trust some arbitrary third party JS code that has to run on every bloody page, and look at all my content.
Todoist (http://todoist.com/) is flexible, and can do both of those. They've got native apps for ios and android, and good integration with gmail. It has good support for recurring dates, subtasks, and some other niceities, but is also good as a basic list keeper.
Wonder if it has to do with her skin color. This was nowhere near a real bomb and it sounds like a stupid prank if anything. When I was younger, I had a cap gun that looked like a real gun. I was messing around with it while everyone was taking a test. I thought it would be funny and shot off a bunch of rounds. No one got scared, they just turned their heads to the back of the room and smiled when they saw who it was. The teacher rolled her eyes and said "office". I got suspended for it, and was told that I would have to have a parent-principle meeting to go back to school. I ended up "playing hooky" from school for a month because I didn't want to tell my parents. Nowadays if I did this, I would end up with a slew of felonies. Things have really changed from the 90's....
I'm saying that "At a big company, if you're smart, work hard, and do what tasks are assigned to you, chances are you'll have a long and profitable career" is false, at least at Google. If you're smart, work hard, and do what tasks are assigned to you, you'll top out at SWE3 with a salary in the low six-figures. Getting promoted to Senior SWE requires selecting the right projects and some degree of leadership and organizational awareness. Getting promoted to Staff or above also requires sticking your neck out to promote some initiatives that may be controversial, and convincing people to go along with you. This is not all that different from the skillset required to be an entrepreneur.

That's why I suggested picking a big corporation with more of a reputation for "doing what you're told", like IBM, Cisco, or even Apple. Google in a couple years might be there, but right now you cannot get to the higher engineering levels without sticking your neck out on an initiative that may be controversial at first.

(It's also true that the risk/reward curve is flattened a bit at Google than at a startup: at Google, you're still being paid a relatively fat salary if your high-risk project fails, you just don't advance. And if it succeeds, you end up with a raise and a promotion, not F-U money [usually]. But this article is about the emotional aspects of failure, not the financial ones, and those are still just as relevant at fast-growers as at startups.)
> I didn't notice the browser ads the http.

This is baffling for me. You are not new to the Internet, but until only quite recently, every single browser always showed the protocol is the address bar. Only of late did Google Chrome and then e.g. Mobile Safari remove “http://” from the display to save space; and yes, naturally they include this string when copy-pasting as doing otherwise would result in an incompletely pasted URI (protocols are not optional, except by current convention in non-hypertextual media).
Good on ya! Hope more DC startups would get off the government teat.
We got a MakerBot at my job but it's not working, and support has not been very helpful :(
Something we'd actually (half jokingly) thought about a few weeks back.

Pretty sure you'd need a huge number of users to make it worthwhile, though would be interesting for someone to do the numbers.

It could definitely get past the Apple review process, afaik it doesn't violate any developer guidelines (even though it feels wrong).
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Awesome- I was considering doing something like this as well. After following the Soylent posts (http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424), I'm interested to know if I'm nutrient deficient.

Since EatThisMuch already shows the micronutrients per meal, is there a way you could show daily deficiencies as well?
Absolutely.

I'd be really interesting in seeing if the energy cost is lower than the average long term output. I'd be perfectly fine with leaving my iPhone plugged in all night if it meant it could generate me $x/night, where $x is greater than the electricity hit I get.
Given first name and birth date (from age down to seconds), any authorities worth their salt can find him in a minute.

edit: well, unless he was not born in a territory under the authority of the authorities in question, and is an undocumented resident of the territory in question...
Fitting convex pentagons in a triangle.
I think it's at least a little hyperbolic. Even the article says explicitly "There might be a bit of hyperbole in that statement."
It's not clear to me how Graph is better than just regular pure functional programming. In theory, you could implement graph/par-compile for regular functions by examining the dependence graph in their code, right?

Is the special-purpose declarative syntax useful in its own right?
The entire casino business model relies on bugs in the human mind.
Early American Settlers turned Cannibal.
Yes, that first method is hideous. Async is a necessary speedup and the `if (jQuery) ` slaughters that optimization.
The nation just has become more paranoid because of certain events in the past decade.
My impression is that he came up with a design successful enough that it has well-known imitators. Can you say a bit about what you mean by “iteration”?
Thanks for mentioning this. You're right that the beta book has been out for a while, and I've tried updating the Rails Tutorial for the release candidate as well, but the new RC breaks tons of tests in the sample application. I probably won't have time to figure out the cause of the breakage until after RailsConf is over, but I'll plan to get to this ASAP next week.
Honestly this is the first Forbes article I ve read in months that had actual, real content in it. Reporters in the ground and not just trolls making polarizing statements to generate web traffic.

I thought it was pretty good. By Forbes usual standards, stellar.
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Do you mean how do we ensure government is conducted transparently, openly and accountably to the people under that government?

Yeah, the reaction to wiki leaks clearly shows the greatest democracy on earth is down with transparent accountability
Rupert Murdoch dumped about $30 million into project Alesia and shut it down due to no scalable way to allocate/share revenues. Aka the cross-publisher deals couldn't be made.

Music and video are different in that the monetary values are greater than individual monetary values of news articles. It's easy to win damages on a/v DMCA violations, but not so on articles from a bundled periodical.
> In just a couple of weeks, he netted close to BTC30, or about $3,700.

You honestly think the company would risk something like that for such a small amount of money?
Huh? Through a specially designed switch back and forth between games, he manages to multiply a preexisting payout by a factor of 10. It is absurdly obvious that this was a bug.
I was amazed at how much you can do. I need to start collecting BTC.
Why not post your whole gemfile as a gist? People in the HN community could definitely go through and start to check some of the dependencies for you :)
increase the price

The creator is drastically underestimating how much removing this pain point is worth to people.
They weren't all expensive, many were very affordable for commercial developers. But you had to pay the money up front without very little idea about the suitability or quality. Then if you went with the library, you had to live with the author's own personal ideas about what your business relationship should be.
I agree quite much.
I'm going to print 3D every day. Plus, the tech will advance fast and theres no point for me to buy a new printer every year or so.

So for the few things I may want to print each year, I'd rather go to a print shop/library/work/etc.
Aren't there already a million of these apps? I know that Postcard on the Run gives you the option to scribble in your own signature, and the results are as expected: crappy.

I was hoping that this would be a service that provides real handwriting, as in, hire some professionals with beautiful handwriting and streamline the postal service. I'd use it all the time.

Also, kudos for making it iPad only :[
It would be very interesting if you could easily convert a graph into a Storm[0] topology. An example of the Storm Clojure DSL is available in the storm-starter project[1].

[0] http://storm-project.net/

[1] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-starter/blob/master/src/...
The Politics of Javascript
That was a privacy violation. PII is a bit of a different fish.
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Honest question: aren't the concurrency primitives in Go largely intended to make concurrent memory accesses like this an anti-pattern? If so, why are so many races cropping up that a detector tool is necessary/very useful?
90% of high students don't know the consequences of putting certain household chemicals together. When I was a student I would put anything together that can cause a spectacular reaction (mentos in coke). It is school's responsibility to make the students aware of the dangers associated with it. If not, kids will always run around trying to blow shit up because they don't fully understand the explosiveness of certain chemicals. Science classes should have more 'safe' explosions.