skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profiling in Production
As a matter of fact :) : for me, it would actually be more easy to ping one of the local miners in my online contacts (I've traded coins before via localbitcoins), meet with them, hand them the cash, get the coins to a bitcoin wallet, and send them to SDF, were they to accept bitcoins. (The verification could also be automated that way, and would be real quick.) The alternative would be to go to a local exchanger or bank, probably hand in ID even though I'm only buying $1 for local currency, then go to the PO to buy an envelope and stamps, make sure the dollar bill is not visible from the inside, and actually send the letter out.. oh, and wait for 2-3 weeks because outgoing overseas mail originating from here is slow.

..I guess what I'm saying is that, lo and behold, Bitcoin might actually eventually work as an 'exchanger asset'; I've already discussed with a friend in the UK the possibility / advantages of using BTC to send cash [1] to them (bank transfer from this place would cost >= 15 pounds otherwise). They could then use a UK-based BTC exchanger, or -- find a local bitcoin trader (and yes there are some)!

(Also see: [2]) :)

Just saying!

In any case, I root for SDF, Godspeed you awesome people.

[1] Well, effectively cash: if both of us were to use local miners/traders, I would be effectively depositing cash, and my friend would be taking the cash out of the system. (See illustration in [2]) The process could be further abstracted away if my wallet were set up to automatically send all incoming coins to a pre-specified address; that address could my friend's trader's address where they would be sitting, sipping tea and waiting for the incoming coins, or (if my friend were not to care about anonymity at all) an exchanger's address; the exchanger could be set up to automatically make a local wire transfer (so free / very cheap) to a local UK bank account upon incoming coins; et cetera, et cetera.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala ; & a simple image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hawala.png

edit expanded footnote1, etc.
I got an AA degree from Cabrillo College in 2003 for $2000 and then spent only 18 months at UC Berkeley and graduated from there with a BA degree in late 2004. Sure the cost has gone up since then but still..
Xeround discontinuing cloud DB service
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S4 bootloader was cracked
Alright, I'll throw on my hat, though I can't be sure of my schedule.

SEEKING WORK

I know all about large scale selling on Amazon, especially through ChannelAdvisor. Tons of discoveries and unique knowledge, I'll help you match and then beat Amazon's 3rd party growth rate.
So I decide to try Adium again after reading this thread, and quit Messages:

panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff800d2a2a6a):
...
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Messages
Probably for the same reason developers are negative about people coming up and saying, "Hey, I have a great idea for an app/website/..."

They want to fork the project and build a new UI? Cool. Go do it. If people like their changes they'll start using their version of Adium, and other people will contribute to their project.
What are the physics behind this vehicle?
When you stop being yourself
Mozilla says British surveillance firm hijacked its brand to spy on targets
I am kinda sick of titles that suggest someone has actually done something more than just create mockups, when really it's just some mockups.

We can all make some mockups in an afternoon. It's not really worth telling everybody about unless you've done something, IMHO.
With the notable exception of Len, obviously.

(and anon.penet.fi was mostly NOT a cypherpunks type thing, it had very little technical security; it was all policy and jurisdiction, which worked well until Scientology.)
This is another one of those places where analogies hurt more than they help. You can come up with an analogy to mean whatever you want here, so that's not helpful, and it's not like anybody's confused about what happened.

(It's like I was in a car, and I was betting I could make the jump over the bridge, but while I was in midair the police moved the bridge...)
Ob-title-gripe: shouldn't it be "Adium Reconceived"?

I expect to see the result in about 9 months.
OpenBSD will run on almost everything, just the kernel does not contain binary blobs in order to support absolutely everything. You can if you want download non free firmware and install it yourself painlessly if the installer doesn't automagically find your drivers. I have yet to find a machine where I've had to do this though, since I usually buy no-name Taiwanese hardware which is always supported by *BSD because the manufacturers give out hardware documentation to them
It may be illegal, but it's impossible to prevent. It forever will be and always has been difficult, but not impossible, to publish to the Internet in a manner that is approaching pure anonymity. The reason people will wonder if it is legal is because of the negative connotations that anonymity itself brings (ie. the mindset that people with something to hide are usually doing something wrong). Nations may try to outlaw such a thing, however, it will forever be a stop-gap measure, doomed to perpetual failure. The Internet knows no legal jurisdictions. The very idea that posting something 100% anonymously is illegal is oxymoronic anyway. How can you charge someone with posting something anonymously on the Internet if you were able to figure out who they were in order to charge them? Obviously their method wasn't very anonymous.
Most military/contractor DNA is now in a "personnel recovery" database with the government, too.
FYI - gaming regulators in different states deal with card counters in different ways. In NV, the casino is allowed to ask you to leave and ban you from the casino. But, not in NJ. in NJ you cannot be barred from a casino for counting cards. The casino can shuffle the deck after every hand to make the game fair again (or unfair in the right way).
I see more criticism toward Adium and Messages. Just because people don't agree with what was done here doesn't mean they are automatically trolls.

If Dawid and Oskar want to progress from mockup to making this a project, I wholeheartedly encourage them visit http://www.adiumxtras.com/ and learn how to reskin Adium. Their talents clearly show that if they put even a minimal amount of time into it, they would be able to accomplish most of the UI on their own.
Uncharitable summary: "We did a mockup that merged the designs for Messages and Skype, and we want that interface for Adium. Someone please implement it for us."
One of the biggest problems with Deaton & Kahneman's "happiness doesn't increase after $75k" is that cost of living is very different from place-to-place. At least this article points it out.

In the best version I can find (anyone have a link to the original paper?), they don't address this in their study. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...

Money doesn't buy happiness. But it has a role.
1986VE91T: What's inside Russian ARM?
Question for you all:

Why is the ability to post something in complete anonymity onto the internet a worthwhile goal?
http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/ddh5p/the_iso_pdf_stan...
Graph would be possible, but not as clean in Python. Consider switching up drugs. Clojure is way more potent man.
The steady demise of Apple's iPod
Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers
>"Hey, I have a great idea for an app/website/..."

It's not just an idea. It's a considered UI for the community to critique and possibly implement. An open source project thrives on multiple people to help out. If this mockup was so simple and obvious, it would have existed already.
There actually shouldn't be any issue at all with the motherboard testing this. Just set a flag in the EEPROM that your testing the C6/C7 states, and try it, if the CPU exits C6/C7 with the flag set, it passed. If the system goes through a normal boot with the C6/C7 flag still set, it knows that it failed to exit C6/C7 (the supply cut out). This is basically the same procedure many motherboards use to detect if the over-clocking settings you tried were too agressive and caused the system to fail to boot.
I really don't think it's up to them unfortunately. As a non-US student looking to apply for one of their internships, I was burned by that too. The regulation in question is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...
Looks awesome! But not not actually reborn, more of just a concept of how to make it a lot better.

Can we, as a community, stop saying "LOOK I MADE SOMETHING" when it is actually just a landing page or mock up?
Control Onkyo Amps With AppleScript
Google Feud: Family Feud Against Google Autocomplete Results
>When I talked to a recruiter recently, though, I asked them about their flexible work schedule.

I have /never/ talked to a recruiter who knew anything about how the actual company worked.

And how would they? In my experience? how many hours you are expected to work is a complex negotiation that depends a lot on how important you are to the team, and how effective you are perceived as being.

This changes dynamically, too. get something really cool done during the slow times? yeah, slack for a week; nobody will whine. Screw it up during crunch time? you better show up before the boss and leave after the boss for a few weeks.

(the second one can be dangerous... I mean, if you are screwing up due to overwork, then having you work more.... but that's the way it is.)
A cumulative $20,000 in tips has now been sent via the Reddit bitcointip bot
> “These guys kind of kept it a secret,” says Leavitt. “If this had got out… this would have been a bad thing for the casinos.”

I'm sure they would have pulled all the games pretty quickly if it had gotten out. Casinos take analytics seriously.
I have this feeling that the other shoe is about to drop, and we're going to find out something big is missing from the reporting, they they had a friend working at the company.

Also, this logic:

“All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.”

is very annoying. You can describe any illegal action as innocuous. I'm not saying this case deserves to be hacking (IMHO if you learn, say, that the sequence of cards resets every 256th turn through, more power to you), but this is a weak argument.
Cool product.... excited to try it out :)
Find the sub-reddit for the bitcointip bot at:
http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcointip
Unless I can print this out and rub it on my screen to create the code and associated elements needed to make this work, I don't see how this is anything other than a mockup...which is an idea.
I was given only 7 days to back up my (free) databases. Sucks. Especially sucks that according to Twitter, people have been charged (and in some cases double and triple charged) for this month already. Sucks further that they haven't put this on their Twitter, Facebook, Company Blog, or even had the decency to update their website to not allow sign ups.
Yes, well I doubt the FBI is quick to publish it's snitches unless it has to.
This reads like fraud to me.

From the article:

"Now when Kane returned to Triple Double Bonus Poker, he’d find his previous $820 win was still showing. He could press the cash-out button from this screen, and the machine would re-award the jackpot. Better yet, it would re-calculate the win at the new denomination level, giving him a hand-payout of $8,200."

To me it seems analogous to placing a $1 bet on a table game, then swapping the $1 bet for a $10 bet if your wager paid out. That kind of cheating/fraud is fairly commonplace (and dealers are trained to prevent it).
Then there is an accomplice. Two people are easier to find than one.
If you're working for a new company, this might be true. However, many established companies (like the one I work for now) have fewer benefits for hourly employees, not to mention the pay ceilings are much lower than salary.

Paying hourly also has a lot of annoying caveats to it. Should I be clocked in for work-related functions? What about ones where I'm expected to be there but it's from 6pm-8pm at a restaurant (and I'm already working 40+ hours with my boss getting hounded for excessive overtime pay)? Does this party at 1pm count as my government mandated lunch break? How closely am I being watched to make sure I'm working "efficiently"?

Point being, hourlies usually end up being treated as second-class citizens one way or another, and it becomes even more apparent when hourly employees and salaried employees work together.
It's no surprise, it's classic middlebrow dismissal that plagues most submissions these days, particularly design based ones. Thankfully 'flat' or 'skeuomorphic' aren't mentioned in the submission to make the comments a real warzone.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to receive some good design advice on HN as there are certainly some experienced design-based folks dotted around, but on the whole it's a bit like asking for database optimization advice on Dribbble.
I am surprised and delighted by this site!

I cannot stress enough how well this nailed the contingencies that may come up when I was just using this. My first thought, I actually don't know how many calories I should eat--BAM there is a button that helps me generate it. What if I want to lose weight? BAM! Button for that option.

Then I see the meals generated and I think, well, I'm a vegetarian so this chicken won't work, but then BAM I see the vegetarian button.

You've got a real knack for thinking like your users.
Glass Might Pose Biggest Challenge Education Has Seen Since Desegregation
You can use Go with Google AppEngine [1], though it's experimental. AppEngine also supports Python and Java. It's a nice environment to experiment with Go, since you'll get quite a bit of free bandwidth / storage [2] to start out with:

> "Not only is creating an App Engine application easy, it's free! You can create an account and publish an application that people can use right away at no charge, and with no obligation. An application on a free account can use up to 1 GB of storage and up to 5 million page views a month. When you are ready for more, you can enable billing, set a maximum daily budget, and allocate your budget for each resource according to your needs."

[1]: https://developers.google.com/appengine

[2]: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleapp...
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Mine are paid for, so I will need to pay for another provider to take them over - not to mention the migration/testing time. They are still listed as a provider on Heroku too.
Eh, that's the same type of argument that could be made for exploiting vulnerable public APIs (pass in some query that isn't sanitized, etc.). I don't know the law surrounding those types of cases, but I would hazard to guess those get prosecuted rather hard.
Which shows the perfect meaninglessness of the netflix slide, the cognitive dissonance of it. "We fire all B performers regardless of effort".

Think about that. Pretend you don't know what netflix does. I hope nuclear reactors are run by people like that. Oh that sounds like a good slogan for an open heart surgeon. Secret service agents? No, you say? Hmm how about space shuttle tile installation specialist? I've got it, sounds like people who guide tin cans full of thousands of gallons of flammable fuel and hundreds of vulnerable human beings, miles above the earth at just under the speed of sound in incredibly crowded skies and they almost never make a mistake. Umm are they the people we trust our youth to, to mold and train their minds, or at the other end, the people we trust to care for our elders? Nope none of the above... dude, they rent videos. No.... you're kidding me! Really? Thats all?

Every corporate mythology has some kind of self congratulatory mythos about being the elite of the elite, perfection on earth. Lots of kool-aid get drunk at these proclamations. It sounds absolutely hilarious to realistic outsiders not drunk on the kool-aid.

I know this is HN where only binary thinking is allowed therefore making fun of them for not being the 1% elite means I'm implying they must be the bottom 1%. Nope. Not at all. They're probably good average people doing good average things, just like every other average company out there. Key word being average. Dude... they rent videos... I hope to god for the survival of our species that the intellectual elite of our civilization are doing something slightly more important. And I think they are.
Not that I agree with it in the slightest but when incrementing sequential user IDs on a website is "hacking" then the courts will find this is "hacking" just the same.
Graph is currently just in-process (no cross-machine distribution), although it's definitely a possibility down the line. The currently released parallel strategy is also just a pedagogical example, not really meant to be used.

Here's some WIP on a more practical parallel compilation: https://gist.github.com/w01fe/4710008
Once the kinks get worked out this will go into the OSS project. Presumably concurrency level will be controlled by a parameter, and/or passing an appropriate ExecutorService.
I understand that but you can have a macro wrapping a goto statement to a predefined label which will do that for you (and potentially set some errors). It's debatable whether this really gives you anything but I kind of like this style since you can replace the whole if statement with a single line something like check_memory(pointer);. The goto's become particularly useful if you want to have some cleanup done at the end of the function even if something during the function fails.
Fast JavaScript Base64 decode is 2x faster, 3x smaller than JSON.Parse.
So I was just hacking today around trying to introduce the ability to Base64 encode binary data within JSON for ThreeJS.

The performance of the final result is actually pretty good, many times faster than JSON.Parse for arrays of floating point data. Here is the data:

http://jsperf.com/json-vs-base64

The ThreeJS pull request to adopt this into the core library is here:

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/3420

I think the applicability of this for speeding up JSON is quite wide, much wider than just ThreeJS.
I think it's partly a by-product of our annoyance that the end user had to seek our support in the first place. Kind of "we fixed it, this is what happened, it's not my job to explain the memory subsystem to you"
Man, that is an example of graceful degradation, just not what we usually understand this to mean.

- Bubbles. Seriously? The 2005's want their failed metaphors back. Thanks, the list-and-icons Adium presents are way more useful

- stamp-sized images to disturb the text flow. Great idea, please forget about it right now.

Adium is completely unsexy, and this is a good thing. I don't need a chat application to take over my whole screen, this is not Facebook Home.

Next up: Terminal.app reborn: output of Unix commands grouped by "conversation" - because is looks so much nicer. Icons for every shell command - much sexier looking.
Super cool story.

Though, that wasn't my reading of "Kane didn’t collect the last win." I read it as "the casino didn't pay him for the win because they suspected him of hacking/cheating."

It could be either one though. Now I'm not really sure.
re: the morality of the situation. this guy lost a million dollars in one year playing video poker. That's an addiction and it is certainly amoral to allow someone with a gambling addiction to play in your casino. In my opinion, any moral obligation goes away when the other side is taking advantage of your addiction.
Sorry, recruiter was the wrong word. This person was recruiting people, but they were a developer on the web team talking about their experience in the workplace.
If You Want to See How We'll Live In the Future...
The IP method won't work since he's using Tor to access SDF.
What happened to Chrome's popup confinement feature?
Several personal experiences. Its not a universal happening, of course. I'm glad you had a much better experience.
so, if it is considered "hacking" to do this, what about the first time he found the exploit? He didn't intend to do that he just jumped the gun to get back to playing. Was that mistake a crime?
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TechCrunch - Mobile Payments Move into Europe
“SumUp’s technology is aligned with ours because it’s lightweight, secure, and speedy. SumUp is a natural partner for [Revel Systems],” -Revel iPad POS CEO Lisa Falzone
If you read the article, you'd see it wasn't a post seeking advice. It was a post where a mockup was made, some pie-in-the-sky new features were recommended, and it concluded with the poster saying someone should do this.

This wasn't an invitation to join their project or even any mention that they would spend any time on it themselves. Hell, they didn't even include the source graphics to start anyone off.

So...what's the problem?
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