skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'd bet my entire Bitcoin wallet on it, but mercifully I don't have one.

Of course you don't, you're talking out your ass. Go troll somewhere else.

Yeah, there's that false sense of superiority that makes no sense and makes you a completely troll --- It'd be such a shame for you to have a Bitcoin wallet, huh?

Especially since they take milliseconds to generate, cost nothing, require virtually no effort. Oh wait, you're probably just another person who is jealous because they think they missed their get-rich opportunity and are mad because they don't understand what Bitcoin actually is or how it works.
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> That's silly.

It is. The rebranding and new interface are a huge improvement and a sign Microsoft is taking there email service more seriously. I don't really get how someone could interpret it as the loss of a service.
NASA study: Rain will get more extreme due to global warming
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A single point of failure for a global currency sounds like an awful idea to me. A federated model, in which each main node has to go through a rigorous appraisal before it joins its peers, and they continuously "trust but verify" each other, is a much more palatable option.
Why don't we developers care about accessibility?
In a prevoius project I became aware of the lack of respect in web development for people with disabilities.

I had the experience to come in contact with users that had reduced visual perception. It was an eye opener in many ways, especially as former sinner.

We needed to adopt our product to meet requirements for visually impaired users and it was a huge undertaking on an old product. Even if we fixed all bad markup, the bigger problem was workflow and page composition.

Too many pages had too much information to usable for user with a screen reader. If the screen reader reports 200 links on page, which one to open if all of them do totally different things? Just "reading" all of them takes a very long time and if the context of the link is always changing to different logical tasks.

And often the workflow to get to the correct context involved popups, mouse hovering, drag and drop and other bad design choices. Even for a normal user.

Usually the argument against making pages accessible is as follows,

* adds extra effort

* complicated

* hard to know correct solution

* screws up the design

I would argue that if you think this thru from the beginning and takes into account when doing the design, your general workflow will improve for all users, because you avoid the complicated solutions.

The irony is that myself is visually impaired with mild colorblindness, but I really never thought about it before that project.

Here at HN the login name in the upper right corner is written in green on an orange background. I can't read that. Its just a blur and cause eye irritation.

In my opinion, accessibility should be part of the curriculum in computes science courses.

But even if you do, you need to get developers to enjoy solving this problem. Most developers don't care when you mention it. Maybe because they don't see it as a technical problem.

What do you think?
>"The most such an attacker could hope to accomplish [...]" //

I think you're lacking imagination there.

"If pressure was lost at that altitude, everyone aboard would have been incapacitated almost immediately. Autopsies will tell if they died before the crash or from the impact."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/golf/stewart/stewfs05....

It seems like a rapid/explosive depressurisation event would be possible to create from inside the cabin with an explosive weapon. I'm not saying that's going to down the aircraft but it seems it would create more of an incident than your imagined scenario.
"Does not exist"
Algerian Hacker linked to SpyEye virus extradited to US | thehackernews.com
From a high level programming in Go looks to me
to be very like programming with Microsoft's
COM. It's interface oriented, no inheritance. You could say that
this is the purest form of OO if you take Alan
Kay's viewpoint that the emphasis should be on
the messages and not the object. In COM you
have QueryInterface and in Go you have interface
matching and casting. QueryInterface or an
interface cast is like a hinge between dynamic
and static typing. You get great flexibility but still
preserve your abstractions in that you never
depend on an implementation.
Of course you can
do this in, say, java by using instanceof to match
against an interface but the difference with COM
and Go is that it is a primary mechanism and so
the code written in the language tends to use this
pattern a lot. i.e. It's encouraged.

See this example from Russ Cox:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-
nuts/Rj5t1h_ztxI/Fgs6HfLqMHAJ
I'm really tired of this thread.

Have you tried not reading it? When I don't like doing something, I find that the symptoms vanish when I stop doing it.
That's another bug in Gmail. If I send two emails to two different people titled "Proposal" they get threaded. Thanks Gmail!
Some marketing math makes Tesla as bad as Enron? o_0 I feel like I'm missing a piece of the story or something.
Works for me on both.
Well, if you start an experiment trying to prove something instead of learning, you are actually running a demonstration, not an experiment. :)
This sounds to me as if you're not really in search of a loosely coupled hypermedia API schema, but an RPC mechanism.
Given the ultimate traceability of bitcoins, would anyone care to speculate how tDPR converts SR's transaction fees into fiat currency without being tracked down by law enforcement?
Wow, that's a damn good/smart policy of them, makes me want to get a subscription.
Man Loses Life Savings Playing Carnival Game, Wins Giant Banana
My point isn't a formal one but rather an observation about software design trends.

More imporantly though, what FP does in both its dynamically and statically typed incarnations is to prefer (and sometimes enforce) immutability.

Immutable objects support a much more type centered view of the world. Theoretically, you could have something like a VehicleAtFullSpeed type (dynamic or static) because the speed attribute of an individual object never changes.
The Send button is located above/before the email body. One would not expect that focus is moved to one of the previous elements instead of the immediate next element.
It's a shame we can't go to https://github.com/github/github/issues to report these things.
Experience: I was swallowed by a hippo
This is not default behavior for TinyMCE (http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php) or cKEditor (http://ckeditor.com/demo)

But old Gmail did override this.
Security alert: notes from the frontline of the war in cyberspace
> But it is "good enough".

So is money.
I was so excited to discover that something like this exist - a community that gets on with its business without any stupid organization or agency putting sticks in its wheels. I just wish this spirit of freedom would come over to countries of the former USSR where it is badly needed.
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Hey there,
I'm Philipp from Germany and I've created this web applications to improve my skills in Rails development.

I would really like to hear your thoughts about this site.

Thanks!
I meant "DO have"!
No "About" page? I'm not going to log in without have some idea what this is about.
"Do you want to see this thing go all the way and take the absolute piss out of the power mongers of this world"

Would anybody other than a Brit say that sentence?

[edit] Although I notice a lot of American English spelling in there too.
Idea: each Pi could be placed in some carrying case (with power, external sensors, e.g. GPS), and individually taken out in the field.

Then, when the Pis are back home and networked together, they connect as a cluster and reconcile their individual data...
Why we'll never meet aliens
Brain-computer interfaces inch closer to mainstream, raising questions
Photographer Crafts Mind-Melting Images Without Photoshop
The font difference probably comes from the A/B testing Gwern is doing: http://www.gwern.net/a-b-testing#fonts.
Why does frobes insist on adding page numbers? For page views? It's terrible reading experience having to click every few paragraphs.
Sorry to rain on your parade but I don't think it's a good idea to build a startup around that. Besides, investors with money to invest probably have more than enough money to clone it within days. I don't see any way you could make money with this and I also think that anyone can do it with libraries like pdf.js if they really wanted to.
Doesn't this mean that your employees are expected to be on call for 14 hours per day though?
Sadly the link to the followup (http://www.evilsoapbox.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1612) fails with a database authentication error.
> Would anybody other than a Brit say that sentence?

You mean like somebody who tried to deliberately obscure his identity by using fake clues?
I often write emails in Google Documents then copy and paste to Gmail to get around these quirks.

The problem with that is that Google Docs and Gmail have completely different default styles and features. The bulleted lists are not compatible and bold font gets all messed up when you try to edit it (like the normal and bold switch).

Boooooooooooooooo.
For Their Eyes Only: Commercialization of digital spying
Thank you for your comment!
Lessons learned! Really forgot it :-(
Really appreciate it!
Overall I agree with you.

My current bike has been quite good, but that's because I bought one (a Koga) designed for long-distance cycling trips. My previous bike (a Trek) was indeed a bit of a lemon. OTOH, my wife's, a Hase, is expensive, but apparently uses some crappy, non-standard parts and it's been at the bike shop for a few weeks waiting for replacement parts.

I think an issue is that most people neither need nor want a bike that they use in winter, so most of the bikes aren't designed for that. A $200 bike from Walmart is probably good enough for a few summers of use.

Another is that bikes, because they are human-powered, don't have much flexibility. Someone interested in "relaxing" 100 mile ride isn't going to want the heavy frame and pannier holders that my bike has, and neither is a mountain biker. The field of commuter bikes is much smaller than those two, so I think there's been less optimization for that style.

I don't know much about the biking world, but looking around now it seems that Kona makes a dependable commuter bicycle. There are likely others.

A third problem is that it's hard to figure out which are the good bikes, and it's really hard for me to care about most bike reviews. With car reviews I feel that most care about things that I don't, like "high speed handling", and I think most reviewers are chummy with the manufacturers in order to get access to the vehicles for testing. This is why I have a much higher respect for Consumer Reports policy of only reviewing cars they or their members bought.

Bike review have much of the same feeling, compounded by the much greater diversity of bicycle manufacturers. I had not heard of a Koga before I borrowed one from a friend, and had not heard of a Kona until today.

The is the paradox of choice and the sense of complete ignorance mean that people will tend to buy something "cheap", in the hopes that it's good enough. Which it is, for a while.
I immediately remembered about this story too.
This is pretty hilarious:

"Containing a Harry Potter book, the letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually transcribed the address that he had received by e-mail. The Frenchman's e-mail program was not set up correctly, so the Cyrillic characters encoded as KOI8-R were instead displayed as diacritic symbols from the Western character set (ISO-8859-1). Russian postal employees deciphered the address and delivered the package successfully."
ex·per·i·ment
/ikˈsperəmənt/

Noun
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
Real world software, as you say, with money, clients and deadlines, is written in JavaScript all the time.

It's not like it is a toy language or academic research project. It's the widest deployed platform in the world.
There's a link to this recent redesign at the bottom of the comments:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=4...
He is law enforcement. His interest is the vendors and mapping the network.
For those who haven't seen one of the "tire swing" cartoons mentioned in the article: http://www.projectcartoon.com/create/ and some historical versions: http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm :)
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=56630
The usage of these kinds of icons on forcast.io is brilliant though. I want to see the weather, it moves a little. I mean the only problem with animated icons/buttons like this is that if they get back in style, it essentially opens pandorras box. They make good web design better if used sparingly, yes, but they'll also make bad web design worse. A lot worse. Spinning visual tumor worse.
Hey there,
I'm Philipp from Germany and I've created this web applications to improve my skills in Rails development.

This Project provides a way where you have a profile page which displays all the characteristics for which you are famous for. Other users can view your profile by clicking the "discover"-link (this will pick a random user). If they like to, they can connect with you.

I would really like to hear your thoughts about this site.

Thanks!
> Bitcoin’s got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

Possibly the most salient and eloquent quote I've ever heard regarding bitcoin.
I strongly suggest you have a look at OData. The latest developments define a similarly lightweight JSON data format. It does everything this proposal does, and more (methinks the things this doesn't do will likely be added as time goes, simply reinventing the wheel - e.g. see the discussions above on pagination or rich query support).

To address your issues around defining a standard JSON API - OData is itself the standard API for any OData service. All that would differ between your OData service and mine is the schema and the data inside. How you explore that schema and access that data is what OData defines.
I have nothing to back this up with (just like Kurzweil.) but I have a gut feeling that if superhuman intelligence were to emerge, it would quickly become preoccupied with things only it can think about, and largely indifferent to the needs and concerns of normal humans. It may also become frustrated by not being able to explain things in a way that we understand, and may just give up on trying.

Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, or The Powers in Vernor Vinges "A fire upon the deep" are what I'm thinking of.
There is on open source a Nginx module that streams RTMP and creates HLS segments that looks promising: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module

There are also red5 (http://www.red5.org/) and rtmpd (http://www.rtmpd.com/)
Just donated $5.
thx for your feedback. There might be something unclear about the idea but it's not really something straightforward. There is already a lot of software with similar features, the most famous one would be inDesign server. Pdf.js allow to view PDF file but not to integrate user data at some specific place. You can also code it manually but the aim here is to have multiple PDF templates (like posters, menu restaurant, etc..) and coding it everytime wouldn't be that efficient.
Your Paleofads Are Paleo-B.S.
Startup Brazil is Open to Applications
The traditional Lua API is interpreted only so every call interrupts a trace. You have to use the ffi API to call C code instead. Plus some string operations are interpreted only but that is being fixed. It is all being worked on but there is a fair amount to do...
Candy Box is the stupidest, most addictive thing since Cow Clicker
Brits, Irish and Aussies too I believe. When I read that comment, I thought that Dread Pirate Roberts could be using Libertarian musings (which I've never heard outside of US political discussions) and references to US law enforcement agencies as a smokescreen for his identity.

Interestingly, and coincidentally, there's been speculation that the Bitcoin creator (Satoshi Nakamoto) could be an Irish computer science student called Michael Clear, due to British spelling in his (if it is his) written work: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Either that, or they've spent so much time on the pre-Unicode Internet that they can sight-read Cyrillic characters encoded as Latin-1...
Solar Impulse lands in Phoenix
Pure Python MySQL replication protocol client
Seeking freelance work (Full Stack Dev / DevOps).
Remote Based in Europe, I speak English fluently and French natively

Fully designed http://jib.li from backend to frontend, managing a team of developers as CTO and still working on it.

Most used stack: Python/Django/Flask Frontend: ngularJS/Ember - HTML5 - Coffeescript.

I am however always open to learn new stacks and technologies.

DevOps: EC2 deployment,uWSGI, git, fabric, 10 years linux experience.

I am a true believer in the Information Graphic Design theory by Bret Victor and always try to apply it to my work.

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Thank you; That clears it up :)
Your comment seems unduly negative. But, after reading the article it really does seem like a forced analogy.

I suppose in some ways it's quite surprising that writing code is so much different than writing a novel. They are after all linear sequences of statements. But a novel is always trying to draw you toward the end, to a conclusion. The lasting ideas it places in your mind, it does using indirect means. A computer program on the other hand creates something dynamic and non-linear.

What surprised after reading the article is how little I felt writing code, even narrative driven games, is like writing a novel.
Depends on how you define buggy. IP is vulnerable to all kinds of DOS attacks and weird edge case stuff. Are those "bugs?" Not really, since the spec didn't call for it to be strong against those things, but ... I guess it's a matter of perspective.

One thing the Internet does show is that a system doesn't have to be perfect to be robust and incredibly useful. In fact, worse is often better in that way too. If IP were orders of magnitude more complex to deal with all its potential edge cases, it likely would not have been as successful.
That reminds me of Stuttgart 21, a project that blocked by Nimbys took too much money to complete, and I think was abandoned. But honestly, it's not as bad as what the Frankfurt Int. Airport has to deal with. Want a new runway to accomodate increases in flight volume? Sorry, can't build that here. You might be Germanys major Airport, but backyards are more important than you.
Bonuses are the norm in the finance industry. I worked at a financial research company for five years and got a bonus of roughly 10-20% of my salary each year, depending on that year's profits.
Can Handwriting Identify Better Employees?
It appears this repository[1] was forked from a repo that also had a bunch of suggestions:

http://letsmake.github.io/bettertogether/

This original repo[2] was made by someone who appears to now work at GitHub.[3]

[1] https://github.com/shurcool/bettertogether

[2] https://github.com/letsmake/bettertogether

[3] https://github.com/gjtorikian
How long has Gmail supported Ctrl + Enter? I agree. It is pretty sweet. Now I can go back and forth between Outlook and Gmail!
Centralisation is the endgame. All transactions will be logged, and all will be instantly reversible in the unlikely event of some kind of security breach.

Money laundering will be impossible, and there'll be no incentive to hack other people's accounts because all thefts will be reversible (even if the thief then went on to transfer said currency to third parties)
Everything is good enough. An evolutionary biology professor said this once, and it struck me as deep wisdom:

"life doesn't work perfectly, it just works."

You could say life works better than dead.
It is probably preferable to the free link being posted a week later as it makes people aware of the subscription.
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Indeed. Communities has made G+ something I read multiple times a day, at the expense of Twitter
"How can you plug yourself into the tax eating, life sucking, violent, sadistic, war mongering, oppressive machine ever again? How can you kneel when you’ve felt the power of your own legs? Felt them stretch and flex as you learn to walk and think as a free person? I would rather live my life in rags now than in golden chains. And now we can have both! Now it is profitable to throw off one’s chains, with amazing crypto technology reducing the risk of doing so dramatically. How many niches have yet to be filled in the world of anonymous online markets? The opportunity to prosper and take part in a revolution of epic proportions is at our fingertips!

I have no one to share my thoughts with in physical space. Security does not permit it, so thanks for listening. I hope my words can be an inspiration just as I am given so much by everyone here."

Definitely a cop.
Here you go:

http://www.chimerasaurus.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-vs-aws-v2-...

The dynamic link, ie. ?p=1234 has to be served dynamically but the static slug can be served by supercache or similar.

What I find far more fascinating:

EXT3: 329.83 requests/sec
EXT4: 484.27 requests/sec

ext4 is 30% faster than ext3? Really? What's going on there...
> It also makes it possible to cache things locally indexed on their IDs, and to form URLs that make requests for just the precise documents that aren't available locally. In order to achieve this, it's necessary to have both (1) IDs, and (2) a way to convert a list of IDs into a single request for all of the documents at once.

Couldn't the id column contain a canonical url then? E.g.:

{
"posts": {
"id": "http://example.com/posts/1",
"title": "Rails is Omakase",
"rels": {
"author": "http://example.com/people/9"
}
},
"people": [{
"id": "http://example.com/people/9",
"name": "@d2h"
}]
}
All articles are also available free of cost one week after the initial publication.
The GitHub Octocat
Sounds awesome - I think some MIT guys are working on something similar with a liquid polymer that hardens with a laser. Are there any inherently very expensive parts of dmls, or is the expense due to low volume/high markups? What are the big barriers to a consumer-level version?
The top 5 selling Super Nintendo games of all time
So we have another addition to our “Top 5 Selling” series. Today we bring you the top 5 selling SNES games. The SNES or Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released by Nintendo between 1990 and 1993, depending on whereabouts in the world you were back then. The console took on various names such as the “Super Famicon” in Japan and in Korea the “Super Comboy“, but its most widely known as the SNES. The appearance also differed depending on the region.
Not my favorite but some of my friends are currently trying http://www.colwiz.com/
Starbucks is a business, and people go there to relax and have peace of mind. If you are just asking them, you are interrupting them.

Just put a note on your table, and if people come to you it's fine. If you are afraid of false positives, offer the coffee giftcard after the review.
Managing Risk in Video Game Development
ICBM:s do have obvious synergy for space launch, they are _ballistic_ after all - that is an acceleration mission. Hypersonic air breathing propulsion is for _cruise_ in the atmosphere. Totally different. High dry mass, bad thrust. What good have cruise missiles done for space launches?

(Actually, if you look at Navaho, rocket engines and navigation at least, but that's a whole another story...)