skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would also expect the same treatment towards paypal.

They are not licensed as a money transmitter in my state of Indiana, nor are they licensed in others. They also routinely hold funds past the 10 day statutory time allowed by most states they are licensed in.
Maybe this is the best time for Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Framework
Because the internet facing machine could have been infected with malware that allows someone to read the decrypted message, and send it back over the internet.
First, being compromised in the first place is less likely for the machine not connected to the internet, because it is booted fresh from a CD-ROM every time, and the CD is read only, so in order to install something unwanted on the computer the attacker would have to physically replace the CD.
Second, even if it were compromised, it is not connected to the internet, so there should not be any way for it to transmit the information, again unless someone has physically bugged the machine.
Well Haiku makes use of Coverity so they should be part of the comparison, I know FreeBSD used it in the past but I'm not sure nowadays.
It seems odd that it's more expensive to stream music than it is movies. At least you get the latest content, I suppose, rather than movie streamings' limited content.
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There'll be a session about the new tools in a few hours, so there'll probably be more news then.
must be a slow news day, this got picked up by beatabeat:
http://betabeat.com/2013/05/to-hug-or-not-to-hug-hacker-news...
OK, I mis-read the post (I guess "full access to streaming library" implies playlists).
You said it depended on "your" (which I took to mean "ones own" rather than specifically referring to "me") ethical system. If there is an absolute morality, then the morality of any given action is not dependent upon the morality subscribed to by the actor.

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Furthermore any statement about an action being moral or immoral that doesn't explicitly reference a moral system is implicitly assuming a moral system. I find "It is my belief that X is moral" to be stylistically inferior to "X is moral" and clearly the former is a factual statement, while the later is a statement of opinion. HN is a discussion forum in which stating opinions is acceptable, so I use the terser, stronger statement of opinion preferably to the more verbose factual statement.
This. I'm surprised that it's taken Google this long to get around to it.

I just hope the network operators actually bother to sell these devices... For reasons I fail to comprehend, EE, the largest network in the UK, still refuses to sell the flagship Nexus 4, or indeed any phone that ships with a non-mutilated version of (stock) Android.

Edit: I suppose it's because the device is such good value on the Play Store that EE wouldn't be able to make a worthwhile margin on their contracts while appearing vaguely competitive.
The owner of a stock photo can charge any price they want. Canipre is just as hypocritical when they ignore stock photo violations. They should have a receipt for every copied resource on their site, or proof that it's free.
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One populated by normal, functioning human beings, I wager?

In blue-collar workplaces constant ribbing and bullshitting is usually a way of keeping low stress and friendly.

To the rest of us, consider it a form of play.
I have an S4. Does anybody know if I'll be able to remove Samsung's software and go completely google? I'd be happy to ditch touchwiz and the junk Samsung put on the phone to get the full Google/Android experience.
Google turns the Samsung Galaxy S4 into a Nexus phone
I wouldn't say Eclipse is worse for Android dev, but I've defiantly seen 12+ year Eclipse Java developers hanging over my shoulder as I power though IntelliJ saying things like "How did you do that?" and "What IDE are you using?" I would say IntelliJ can make you more productive out of the box, whereas you may need plugins and some config to do the same features.

I have the Ultimate Edition, but I would definitely check out the Community Edition if all you're doing is Java.
That was the very first thing I thought. That is what it seems.
The problem is the same because the basic institution involved is the same: for-profit companies, aka businesses. If bossmen don't pay enough, skilled workers won't sell their labour.
Git commit -am 'My first commit toward software greatness'
This is a great article for people on HN to read because we more normally hear about start ups struggling to find developers. I get a whiff of arrogance from a many developers when they list their demands for employers. They criticize companies techniques or laugh and dismiss recruiters. I understand it, though, when your skills are in high demand you can afford to be more selective.

I'm also a developer, BTW, but I started out just at the first bubble burst and getting jobs wasn't so easy. I struggled to find work at first when only a few years before college grads were being given lavish signing bonuses. I feel a weird sense that karma will have it's revenge on me if I cross the line of enjoying some success vs being a greedy, selfish prick. I know it's not rational but I just feel that this could be a temporary gold rush and I don't want to burn bridges.

This story with developers fighting for cheap bids is a reminder that there is competition out there. Some of those guys are better than others, but companies have choices. We may continue to enjoy this demand, but things may even out too.
More or less what you pay for a regular S4 without contract (at least in Sweden)
To be fair, is not that crazy and it is consistent with making the android platform stronger. One of the reasons I love my WP8 is Xbox music which IMHO doesn't really have a match in Android world.
We did. We took a sleeper train (first mistake) from Edinburgh to London and arrived at 7am, then had to take the tube out to our hostel in Zone 4.
There are two macro trends here:
1. More software is needed in almost every part of life (i.e. think of cars, now over 20% of a car's R&D goes to software for its systems, compare it to the same type of car 10 years ago), and so on.

2. Due to the low central bank's rates there has been a divulge of money, a lot of which has ended up on startups/seed investing. Most will go no where, but they need engineers, yet they can't afford them as they are not profitable, or really just speculations.

So, more engineers are needed, yet a lot of these companies can't afford to go to bidding wars for them as they don't have solid financial footing, hence you see so many of these "there are not enough engineers" articles, yet salaries are only increasing few percent a year at best.

So, this extra engineering demand is created by companies (i.e. startups) that have a great chance of failure, and will just go away as soon as money starts becoming tight again.

Which means, one the longer term the larger companies (the ones that actually make money) will dictate the salaries of engineers. Since they tend to move slowly, compensation of engineers will do so, only few percentage a year, probably a bit over the inflation, reflecting the long term Macro trends on more software being used everywhere.

I haven't heard any of the crazy 1999-2001 stories yet, so I'd say this feels a lot like 2006-2007 (the Web 2.0 boom), which ended up with a soft 2008-2009 period.
I do not buy the argument that employers simply do not want to pay. That might be true in Europe but not in the US. If that was true then it would not be the case that everyone is having difficulty finding employees; many companies pay very well and are still in that position.

Here are average US regional tech wages in 2012 according to the TechAmerica Foundation:

California: $123,900

Massachusetts: $116,000

Washington: $110,200

And I know at many companies the average is more like $150,000 and still have a very difficult time hiring software engineers. I doubt most of the public will be sympathetic to claims that the only reason these positions go unfilled is that companies are unwilling to pay an appropriate wage.
Why Humans Took Up Farming: They Like To Own Stuff
I feel like there should be secondary checks for things like this. When I was running a MMORPG, I was terrified of duplication bugs (dupes). In many ways, dupes have the same effect on a game economy as this type of theft has on the real economy: it can go unnoticed for a long time, and the victims are primarily the masses (money supply) until someone finds out.

Since we didn't have any network security professionals on our team, I was especially worried. What we realized though, was that we kept a detailed log of all item/money creations/deletions, where trades were just a creation/deletion pair. Thus, we wrote a script to learn what the most expensive items (and thus most costly, if duplicated) were at any given time, and match creations to deletions with a frequency increasing with item value. Whenever there was a discrepancy, we were alerted.

I suppose banks could do something similar. If they separate the money transfer system from the account creation system, they could add an additional layer of security. I haven't really thought out the details, but it makes sense at first glance. Perhaps they already do something like this?
> The response of No only became incorrect after the release of the FinCen document, these forms were completed before the FinCen report was released.

No, while the FinCEN guidance on the application of money service bureau laws and regulations including those specific to money transmitting businesses to participants in various roles with regard to virtual currency systems summarized the FinCEN's understanding of application of existing law to that domain, the applicable statute requiring licensing for money transmitters, and defining what "money transmitting" means (which is the basis for the seizure warrant), existed for quite some time prior.
"In an interview with The Chronicle, Ashok Ram Kumar, a senior lawyer with IP Markets, repeatedly mentioned the criminality of Mr. Beall's blog posts. In India, Section 66A of the Information Technology Act makes it illegal to use a computer to publish 'any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character' or to publish false information. The punishment can be as much as three years in prison."

This is the flip side of the "global citizenship" bullshit people like to prattle on about--people with incompatible cultures in other countries trying to influence how you act in yours.
Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon
Thoughts On Organizational Complexity
Is this to replace Eclipse or just be an option?
thank you ! spent the last 45 minutes just reading the posts by 'jerf', and as he most humbly points out:

Go advocates desperately, desperately need to avoid the temptation to explain to themselves why Erlang isn't as good, because then they'll fail to learn the lessons that Erlang learned the easy way. There's a lot of ways to improve on Erlang, but let me tell you that despite those opportunities, Erlang as a language is one of the wisest languages around, you do not want to try to exceed it by starting from scratch. Learn from it, please, I want a better Erlang than Erlang, but talking yourself into how Go is already better than Erlang isn't going to get you there.
> Swartz's lawyers initial asked for release of information with no redaction of identifying information (including SSNs and Birthdates)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/130617538/Swartz-Motion-to-Modify-...

> ... redaction of the ... Social Security numbers, and birthdates of individuals ... Defense counsel agrees that redaction of this specific personal information is appropriate.
I share your visceral hate for Eclipse, let's see if this IDE would solve that :)
It's not that simple, which the current economic situation proves. The US government has increased the amount of money several times over since the beginning of the current crisis, but the inflation is still very low. In other words, printing money isn't inflationary in the current situation. The reason for that is that the increased amount of currency doesn't manage to decrease interest rates (since it is already about zero) which normally increase demand, and without increased demand to drive increase of prices no inflation. When the economy is working "as normal" the situation is very different. Then increased availability of currency increases demand which drives the prices up. But we aren't there now.
| guaranteed updates for the near future

Don't iPhone users get iOS updates? How is 'OS updates' a differentiating feature?
A few myths are circulating here. Let me declare 1)Printing money does not cause inflation. 2)We do not have a fractional reserve banking system, banks can and do create money out of thin air as suggested(aka loans). 3) Bank Runs are not a problem.

The price level/inflation level in macro econ is the intersection of supply and demand. So called demand-pull/cost-push inflation. Sure, you can say that printing money causes inflation ceteris paribus. But in the real world things are not ceteris peribus. You can create money and have deflation if supply/production increases at a greater rate that money creation causes increases in demand. If money creation results in balances held in deposit but not spent, then there is no inflation as a result of the money creation itself. This probably explains why the US economy has been teetering on deflation: most of the money created ends up hoarded in the accounts or rich people who do not spend it.

There are two kinds of money: bank deposits and reserves. Reserves( aka hi powered money/vertical money) are physical currency in circulation or in bank vaults and special deposit accounts at the Fed held by banks that are members of the federal reserve system. Bank deposits ("private money" or vertical money) are created by banks when they create loans. The lending process is regulated by the Fed and government agencies( ex. office of the comptroller of the currency). Yes, the Fed imposes reserve requirements on member banks. But these requirements do not constrain their ability to lend. The reason is b/c banks can make loans and borrow reserves from the federal funds market or the Fed directly in the following accounting period. Reserves are used for interbank deposit settlement. So when a check is written from account holder A in bank A to AH B in bank B, the transaction is settled at the reserve level using reserve accounts at the Fed. It is complex and I could go into capital requirements, which are a true constraint on money creation by banks.

Because of FDIC insurance, bank runs are not a problem in our system. Ultimately the Fed can back stop the FDIC as it kind of did during the crisis of 08.
Ha! That totally reminded me of my dog. He begs and begs for a treat, and when he finally realizes he's not getting his nth treat that day he totally "extinction bursts" and starts ramming his head into things.

Stand clear when he does that, he's a big dog!
Yes, the government is the most evil thing in the history of evil, there is no such thing as a justified law, and this is just the parasites trying to leech off of and get power over the brilliant Galt-like geniuses whose intelligence was so inestimably massive that they apparently consciously filed a legal form that said "oh, that thing that we do and advertise that we do? Of course we don't do that".
Thank god, obj-c is horrendous... I'm not sure what the point of using JS would be over something like MacRuby/RubyMotion...
Great concept but I have a few concerns.

1 - how well can you integrate. As macarthy12 asked can you add links or other changes to gmail.

2 - what's stopping google from looking at the products that work well and just copy them. Basically stealing what you spent 6 months or a year to built and then offer it as part of a built-in feature.

Google started as "do no evil" however, it seems like you can't be a dominating company and not do evil.
Yeah, I'm not at all convinced sentience is a safeguard against interspecies competition. Look what we have done to other species...
Seriously. I'm always baffled by statements like, "Vanity Fair is actually really good!" Yes, they do good reporting. They also cover fashion and lifestyles very well too.
This is why you typically want to publish things like this as far and wide as possible - if any single source is compromised, it can be detected by noticing a discrepancy between two publicly available addresses. I'd wager they'll put it in their print edition (same as their physical address and phone number) from now on, because the NSA probably isn't going to everyone's house swapping out their magazines for altered ones, so anyone who gets the magazine will have a hard copy of the address.
PayPal is licensed in Indiana. [1]

[1] https://www.paypal-media.com/state_licenses.cfm
Does your business accept funds from customers and send the funds based on customers' instructions (Money Transmitter)

Seems like this is more applicable (although still a stretch) as they receive USD and then forward them on to BTC sellers.
So, in your comments above you claim that Russia has masterminded a plan to divide and conquer USA using clever propaganda tactics. Here you say Russia doesn't use logic.

So which way do you think it is? Russia is governed by highly intelligent leaders or stupid brutes?
DO actually prep and come up with enough material to fill the time slot, though. One of my professors asked me to sub in for him when he was busy but the material was fairly basic (intro to SQL) and I was an idiot and didn't even bother finding out what they had just read.

I know my SQL reasonably well, but I had no idea what to actually say when confronted with an entire 50 minutes of dead time.
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It's important to note that regardless of whether bitcoin is a currency or not, the specific question on money transmission was "Does your business accept funds from customers and send the funds based on customers' instructions".

This means it doesn't matter if bitcoin is a currency or not. If your taking money from one fiat currency account and moving it to another fiat currency account on customer instructions you can fall into the money transmitter classification.

It's also one of the (many) reasons that if you're running a marketplace startup you don't want to run an intermediately account that does pass-through for the transactions but instead use a service like Paypal X or Balanced which complies with relevant money transmission laws.
I believe it's the current 20,000 song upload limit they have.
Out of interest, what are other potential applications for Dead Drop, beyond journalism?
The Netflix competitor is paid Youtube channels, except it only works in a few countries and it's not as good as Netflix.

Google has bet everything on social and are creating these satellite services to fuel G+ usage and adoption. You won't see anything revolutionary coming out of GOOG for a while.

I currently use Spotify and there is no way I'll be switching to a Google product. In fact I'm trying to reduce my dependence on Google products.
Pointer lag in Mac OS X
Well for one, modern JavaScript engines are considerably faster than Ruby.
The feds have not taken bitcoin down, and they don't even seem to be trying to at this point.

Speaking as an Objectivist, the quote is becoming somewhat apt for the us financial industry, which is (and long has been) by far the most government-controlled industry. But its not yet apt for bitcoin in particular.
> given tremendous power. When they abuse it, they should face harsher penalties than those not so empowered.

I think this is a concept that should be applied with a broad stroke across society. When someone who is empowered by the people (afforded special privileges or abilities by a government that is democratically elected) commits a crime, that crime is inherently twofold. Liability needs to increase in proportion to the amount of power that has been granted.
Same here!
Eclipse feels sluggish after some time. I wish the company I work for moved their IDE product from Eclipse to IntelliJ.
> Literally two years ago in May of 2011 when Mt Gox filled out the forms, Bitcoin was not considered by most people to be a "currency".

But the US dollar has been considered a currency for a long time (longer, in fact, that the "Money Transmitter" rules at issue in the warrant have been in place), and certainly before May 2011. And that's the currency whose transmission is at issue in the warrant.

Further, the issue is not incorrect forms filled out in 2011, but unlicensed money transmission business continuing to be conducted into 2013.
Yes. I guess it's a bit late, but let me be clear: I'm critical of Go, but it is a good language (and from me that's saying something, I have a high bar), it has great potential, and I wouldn't be surprised I still find myself working in it in a few years. It's either at or very quickly approaching "bet your startup on it" status. The tooling is fantastic and there are a lot of other great ideas in it.

My personal experience base is freaking weird, and if you don't have Erlang or Haskell already under your belt, then I recommend considering Go quite strongly. You won't be bothered by some of the things I'm bothered by.

And I will find some fresher story to say this on at some point, to be fair.
Uhh, debatable. IN licence: https://www.paypal-media.com/assets/pdf/license/IN_MT_Licens...

The rest of them are here: https://www.paypal-media.com/state_licenses.cfm
Google announces Asm.js for V8.
It does look eerily the same as the documentaries when you see a monkey being trained to put a ball in a cup or whatever and then receives a treat.

When the treats stop coming, the monkey will start performing the action rapidly and repeatedly for a little while - hoping the rewards will start happening again!
You're right iPhone is too expensive also.
Great point. It really depends on the needs of your project. There are plenty of not great but decent developers out there that will do just fine for many projects.
Somewhat - you can keep generating keys until the characters look like something. SR's address starts with "silkroad" followed by a few more random characters.
I find the term "unified" in this instance misleading - they took the chat feature out of their G+ Android and iOS app and called it 'unified.' It's nothing like iMessage, and it will still require anyone who wants to use it to install a separate app, and likely to get a G+ account.
Money Transmitters have to post a $25 Million security bond in order to be licensed across the entire U.S. That is were the $25 Million would go. But MtGox never spent that money nor claimed to spend that money as of yet.

To my knowledge, they have never made any claims of compliance. They have only said that they plan to become compliant some time this year.
After the Boston bombings it's pretty apparent that the Reddit community alone will jump to some dangerous conclusions without the full story - and in this case specifically that would be a major concern of mine. So where do we actually find the middle line and balance here?
Mark Zuckerberg, political conservative?
The hidden gem here is that "It is all about Trust & Respect" as this alone can make both parts life easy or a small nightmare.