skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
..which is interesting when you consider the uproar in Cyprus over the taxing of savings accounts. "Taxing savings" sounds so much worse than "printing money", but in fact it was better in some ways, because the tax could be applied progressively[1], so that wealthier individuals were taxed proportionately higher. It's probably worse in other ways, for example it probably does more to erode confidence in the banking system overall, which is perilous.

* - I realize this wont seem 'better' to everyone, but at-least taxing savings has the option of selective application. Printing money hits everyone the same.
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Venting anger makes people more aggressive (1999) [pdf]
This looks awesome! I'm really excited that Google is starting to embrace IntelliJ over Eclipse (personal preference).
They are publishing there because the rules of the game demand that they publish somewhere.

If I were in such a situation, I would rally up my peers and create some brand new open-access publisher specifically for ourselves (and other people we like). And charge $0 ;-) And do Google searches to avoid plagiarism.
HN is very good for emitting news, but not necessarily built for a meaningful expression or format. HN serves its purpose well, but does not have the provisions you would want in a network - following topics, authors, seeing the top posts in an area, so on.
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Does it matter that they may go to jail when you've had your ass kicked or worse[1] (personal friend). Crazy is everywhere and you don't really know when it's going to pop up.

[1] http://brandonhydrick.com/brandons-death/
I see; deterministic by design then. I guess I'd trust myself without much tooling as well; my background is a hundred of developers hacking on a million of lines of code, hence my love for automated debugging tools.
Am I reading this article correctly, that the IRS didn't sieze medical records but rather a collection of records that included a small number of financial records they needed and then a large number of medical records they didn't care about?
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This isn't new, but it was news to me. Thanks to DGCA (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5712250).
It's worth noting that at least a couple of exchanges have gone through the appropriate hoops with the US Federal government. I think the Mt. Gox thought that they were immune because they are based in Japan.
Actually I have, what are you referring to?
They run about 300 bucks -- the stock battery will last about 15-20 minutes of fly time, but you can upgrade that pretty easily
During takeoff or landing, especially in overcast conditions, there may not be time to isolate the problem.

RF in multipath environments tends to be spooky.
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Sorry but we did not expect such high number of downloads. we are fixing it. thank you for the feedback!
Point taken. We definitely will get a registration page going.

But please kindly note that there is not going to be any connection between your LinkedIN profile and your ShareCred activity. It is used only for login.

The reason we felt limiting to LinkedIN logins was a good idea is that it is one way to ensure quality participation. But now, we understand the concerns.

Thank you,
Source?

Edit: looked it up myself: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732467720457818...
PS in my experience, the existing automated GPU tools for finding race conditions Heisenberg the process sufficiently that the race conditions stop occurring.

So in practice, I end up running the code as usual, but writing all the intermediate data to a buffer, dumping that to a file with a key for ordering it, sorting it, and then diffing an enormous text file to find out what's inconsistent between two runs.
Trying to do something similar here: http://valleyanon.com/ - Let me know if you're interested in helping out with the project.
Yes, I hope though that the pressure on the writer of that software was enough to make him check thoroughly for errors.
You could probably also speculate about the impact of the corporate projects. For example, if the project is over 1M LOC, can we surmise it is very likely that project is their bread-and-butter (and thus gets much more attention and resources)?
Same here. Can't wait to give this a shot.
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This looks interesting. I've an iOS app for a local art group, and they've been bugging me for an android version. I'm going to take this as an opportunity to jump in.
The "Siracusa County" reference refers to this Hypercritical episode: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/15
The first ~$95k of foreign income is excluded from US taxation.
I agree with you that the FAA has done a poor job of explaining what electrical interference there is, and what it's effects are. I also agree that avionics gear is not so sensitive that an iPhone's connection should harm it. But your argument that the pilot should deal with problems like this in-flight is just a tad bit on the silly side IMO.

The typical pilot's mindset is, "Fly the plane but, when a problem occurs, stop focusing on flying the plane and solve/identify the problem. Once the problem is solved/identified, get back to flying the plane." You're effectively wanting to change this to something more like, "Fly the plane but, when a problem occurs, stop focusing on flying the plane and solve/identify the problem except if the problem is 'electrical interference'. If that's the case, ask yet again that people turn their phones off. Hopefully they'll listen this time. Wait for all of the people to comply and, once the problem is solved, get back to flying the plane."

It just sounds silly, doesn't it? I think we'd all agree that, if there's a problem with electrical interference during flight, we want the pilot to be flying the plane rather than having him/her wait for the passengers to do anything. Again - I'm not arguing whether this is right/wrong; I'm simply pointing out that the logic of having a pilot wait on passenger behaviors before being able to continue doing his/her job is a bit silly.
Maybe the book publishing lobby is behind it
You want pilots to be trying to find someone's iPhone during a critical phase of flight? No thanks.
So is "drone" the new word for RC plane/helicopter?
these are general principles, it's not mandatory to apply them. But not applying them prevents you from claiming to belong to some categories, like "ethical" (or "democratic" if you are a country). But it's perfectly legal to be a business douche, just don't claim otherwise. In that case, I'm not sure being a business douche when trying to appeal to hipsters is a consistent position.
Starting at about 35 min in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM
I thought Google was pretty heavily invested in the Eclipse ecosystem, I think they use it quite a bit internally (at least from what I can gather). Perhaps those efforts were more in the interest of supporting the community of developers which use their API's, though.

I also hate Eclipse, even though I've tried my hardest to overlook its shortcomings. I'll leave it at that so as not to delve too far off-topic.
I live in the Wisconsin, where snow and ice do make safety features that improve handling a bit more important than they might be in the Valley. A safe driving mentality only goes so far when the roads are coated in ice for the several months.

By strong frame I mean a car that hasn't been in a serious collision yet.
I wonder what the pricing will be like for this. I'm excited to see how it competes with Spotify and similar.
>If this was a credible threat for the blogger, I suppose the case would have been brought to a domestic court.

Even in a domestic court, a billion dollar judgment doesn't hold much of a scare to anyone that doesn't have a billion dollars.

In most states, anything you have in a retirement account (401k, IRA, Roth, etc) are partially or totally protected from creditors. Likewise 529 accounts are partially or completely protected in most states. Some states have generous homestead protections where you can protect some or all of the equity in your home. Some states don't allow wages to be garnished except for back taxes and child support.

Suing individuals is not the road-to-riches that some people think it might be.
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When I was a fresh-faced student in London, I had to go from the Strand to Covent Garden. This is about 500 yards.

Or three changes on the tube. Guess which one I took?

Eventually one works this all out, you know which doors to stand at to be close to the exit on your next station, why going up down stairwells is a popular pasttime, that St Pauls and the City are warrens of short cuts, something that is not possible in boringly grid like cities such as Manhattan. Really guys. I have walked across half of Manhatten and just counted the streets and never gotten lost. I can get lost in ten minutes in central London. Stumbling across random streets you have never seen in twenty years of living in London - that's what I call a "proper" city.
This article was posted last night and I don't see any significant price change on Bitcoins from it. This might be the first instance of government getting really interested in digital currency, it will be interesting to see how traders react.
AFAIK there's quite some startup activity going on, but only a handful of 'traditional' internet startups. (including my http://betali.st/)
In my cursory Craigslist searching, there wasn't much of anything that would start for $1,000.
I've only spent a few minutes with this, but so far it looks very promising.

I work in an enterprise envrionment where we have varying levels of design/programming skill. One of our needs is for our designers or business analysts to be able to mockup screens without explicity writing HTML but in a way where nothing gets lost in translation to developers. We've been looking at Axure, but I've generally found it to be disappointing, if not plain annoying.

This looks much better.

Likes:

- It's a native application. We're not always connected when we need to prototype a screen, and, frankly we somehow haven't figured out the whole wi-fi/security balance thing. Native is great.

- I love that it uses bootstrap and provides a few template page options.

- Responsive options, proper element positioning options... lovely

Wants/questions:

- Customizable templates? Is it possible to alter or add to the default styles and template options? I.e. an in-house modified bootstrap or bootstrap-like option? Basically a way for the design lead to create custom elements and styles for use by the rest of the team.

- Ability to add new elements in snippets

- Maybe some basic logic, just enough to allow a simulation-type scenario. Although I would rather go without this than have the option over-complicate the interface.

I apologize if some of the wants are already possible; regardless I am definetly a customer.
$9.99/month, per the keynote announcement.
Ask HN: What do you do when someone gets to market before you?
Was working on an idea for the past year or so, not full time or anything, but I sunk some hours into it. About 75% of the way there now, and things are moving faster. Yesterday an app launched that was essentially the same thing. I'm a little bummed out, but thinking about what to do now.

Has this happened to anyone else? Did you give up and move on? Or did you shift the focus so there were some big differences between competitors?

Thanks
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For starters, I'd like to know how they handled those records. Was it in a HIPAA-compliant fashion?

Regardless of use or potential misuse of such data, us "mere mortals" can face serious challenges just for improperly maintaining it.

Is all this stuff sitting on some agents' laptops, somewhere? Given the security requirements for the IRS's own inherent data (or, I would hope they have such requirements), one might hope that the records are reasonably secure. But I can't help being somewhat skeptical on this point. And... such IRS requirements may not be HIPAA compliant.

My point is, amongst everything else, if the government is going to run around vacuuming up data wholesale, we can also look at whether they are even prepared to... "properly", and consistent with the government's own requirements, manage the data that they hoover.
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This was inevitable. People can wax rhapsodic about the decentralized nature of Bitcoin, but once the feds freeze a few million dollars of a major exchange's assets, as they have done with every single anonymous digital currency since the beginning of time (e-gold,1mdc,Liberty Dollar) and launch a criminal investigation, the currency will be severely destabilized.

Within the next year I expect to see a cottage industry emerge where the true believers cash out frozen bitcoin accounts for pennies on the dollar.
The IRS is an unwieldy animal (I hesitate to say "brute"; YMMV) that will only get unwieldier as the tax code gets more and more bloated. The average IRS agent is, let's face it, not a genius, and even a genius would probably get lost in that code nowadays. I got married last year and was astounded that the joint tax return with my wife this year ran to 50 pages and cost me $1,500 in accounting fees to prepare.

I dream of the day when a simpler system like a national sales tax could replace the whole thing.
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As I read it, they were looking for one guy's financial records, ended up taking millions of health records -- even after repeated warnings they were screwing up.

"...According to the case, the IRS agents had a search warrant for financial data pertaining to a former employee of the John Doe company..."
unaware!

Sixty quid aware as of yesterday evening.

120 quid if I did not pony up right away. 180 if they have to write again to remind me.

Trust me, we are very very aware of the number plate recognition cameras.
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Goodbye Spotify subscription. You were alright while you lasted. Your Android app always felt lacking and your desktop application struggled to keep up with the music. Constantly insisting to publish all of my activity to my Facebook may have had good intent, but it came off as an annoyance.

Maybe we'll see each other again sometime in the future.
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While your friend's death is tragic, like you said crazy is everywhere and you don't really know when it's going to pop up. From the sounds of it, your friend did nothing to purposefully agitate his attacker and had no way of predicting the possible outcome. From that point of view, you may as well argue that you shouldn't merge lanes on the highway if someone is in sight of you, because that could set them off.

Yeah, it's possible to predict a poor outcome from something like this. It's possible to predict a poor outcome from anything. It all depends on how much fear you want to live with.
this does look promising, will be tempted to begin writing android apps to give this a go. Google does seem to be doing a lot of work to get devs to ship apps in android. I really liked the upgrades to the dev console and the new features for optimizing like suggestions for tablet support, translations etc. Good job google
Thanks. I guess I should have also asked where to buy one?
Historical experience with demurrage currency shows that the entire monetary base changes hands very quickly. People do in fact keep on hand just what they need for day-to-day trade. This results in a relatively stable valuation with only long-term trends due to things like GDP increase/decrease.

We got the credit crunch because of "liquidity spirals" causing lending channels (banks) to hoard cash out of uncertainty. This worked for them (although it brought the whole global economy down) because fiat cash is non-perishable. “Cash in the bank” never decreases -- so long as the bank doesn't go under and you don't live in Cyprus, but that's another story. Demurrage, on the other hand, would cause rational actors to seek other liquid investments to put their assets, thereby keeping the medium of exchange in circulation and available for lending.
Pricing is $9.99/month or $7.99/month if you sign up soon (I think he said in the first 30 days).
I sometimes feel that way about the science reporting. The other stuff is top-notch, IMO. Or do you mean like grammatically incorrect?
Completely off-topic, but those (who like me, liked Hypercritical very much, but aren't active on Twitter to learn these things there), Siracusa has a new show here: http://atp.fm

It's not as good as Hypercritical, but is better than nothing!
Functionally, this appears to be identical to JavaScriptCore's longstanding C bridge [1]. If Objective-C isn't your preference, there's nothing stopping you from calling into the C bridge from C++ or just plain C.

On iOS, developers have had to compile their own version of JavaScriptCore to use this API. That's the basis for HTML5 game engines like Impact [2], and some HTML5-to-Objective-C middleware platforms.

Unfortunately, until Apple says otherwise, this version of JSC is still subject to Apple's App Store review guidelines [3]. Thanks to guideline 2.8, you can't have your app, running JSC, execute any JavaScript that doesn't ship within the bundle of your app.

I'd like to see that rule change, someday. Exposing this Objective-C API in a future iOS release isn't going to change the status quo.

[1] - http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Carbon...

[2] - http://impactjs.com

[3] - https://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html
Admittedly yes, but I think the average person would have a different reaction to "Hey, someone's electronics are actually causing an actual problem, shut down everything" rather than ignored much like the safety briefing that any air traveler who has flown more than twice can recite from memory.

Why? Because anyone who has flown and forgot to put their phone in airplane mode and didn't experience a firey death can attest, the usual warnings lack both urgency and a factual connection to reality. Having them announce "there is a problem due to interference" solves both of these.
I got to try out Glass a couple of weeks ago and (for me, at least) there is a huge problem: the display floats about a foot or so in front of you, up and to the right. That means you have to shift your focus from what's in front of you to see it. And not just look to the side, but actually focus closer, which means the rest of the world goes blurry. It would be very hard to walk down the street and be accessing Glass without running into things - the same problem as looking down and being engrossed in your phone.

In the video demos everything (the Glass interface and the background) are in sharp focus so you don't even think about it being an issue. But when you're actually using them it's extremely distracting to shift your field of vision back and forth. Not to mention that when someone else is wearing them it is extremely obvious when they're looking at Glass instead of you.

The technology is amazing, but for me the interface is just too distracting right now. Have the HUD appear at the same depth of field as wherever I'm currently looking and this thing would be unstoppable. But it's going to be quite an engineering challenge to determine where your eye is focused and adjust the display to match on the fly.
Yeah, but those are just questions on paper! They after me lucky charms!

When you sign a legal form, especially tied to a business, you might want to consider the ramifications of how you complete the form. You probably should legal up prospectively if it deals with money and currencies.

This is not surprising for MtGox. Their platform, communications, and, now, essential business acumen all perform at the same unprofessional level. I guess it's back to trading cards then, eh?
Google announces Android Studio: built off of IntelliJ IDEA
They really need to make it a "Google program" of some sort, where any manufacturer can do this with their smartphone models (while respecting Google's strict guidelines of course). They'd basically be Chromebooks for Android.
Google should really do something akin to Apple's giveaways. It'd give some major publicity and make their user feel special.
The exact same thing happened with e-gold a decade ago. Expect an unsealed indictment with federal conspiracy and RICO charges to follow shortly.
I used to cycle to work every day from around Mile End to Bank. Did this for 2 years. Most of the time the trip was ok but I did have a few scares:

- Transvision bus overtakes me partially and before it clears me completely it returns to the left almost pushing me against some rails on the road. Had to bang the bus with my fist to make it stop.

- Some car makes a U turn in Whitechapel road ( I think you can't do this ) and comes into my lane. Almost crashed into it.

- All of a suden lost control of the back wheel of my bike. When I turn around to check if I had a flat or something I find a cab pushing the bike from behind. I couldn't believe what the driver was doing and told him that he could have killed me. Is reply was: "get out of my way".

- Pedestrians who don't see you coming because their brain is only tuned to cars and buses and somehow you look invisible even when you are shouting expletives to warn people to get out of the road.

- Had to wear a mask to stop feeling sick.

etc...

Finally I realized I was actually getting more stressed out from the bike commute than from taking the tube, so I gave up.
When I lived in Barcelona it was a real pleasure to ride my bike everywhere.
In London it's a struggle, at least for that particular commute.

And on a bicycle it only takes one black swan to make some serious damage.
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Hidden services can't / don't need HTTPS because they never leave the Tor network and are authenticated by the URL itslef.
Seriously, why not just answer the questions on the form truthfully? I hope that was an oversight. Fibbing to the feds will get you in big trouble.
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Honest question, why does google want to get into every damn online market? They are freaking awesome at launching moonshots like Self-driving cars, maps/streetview, Glass etc. why they even care about 'smaller problems' (comparitively) like online music that is fraught with licensing problems and lawyers?

There are so many problems in the world that Google could solve with it's resources and can turn into billion dollar markets. They are pretty much becoming MSFT rather than AAPL in doing so.
I'm very happy to see the Capitol Hill Seattle blog[1] get a nod in this article. Justin, the creator, has been doing a fantastic job of reporting on news that's relevant to Capitol Hill for several years, now, and he's also proving that 'hyperlocal' news can actually work under certain circumstances.

Justin's reporting lacks the hyperbolic nature of TV news, and keeps me on top of things that are actually relevant to me. Plus, he's just a stand-up guy.

edit: crap, CHS is down. I wonder if that's my fault, or the Atlantic and BetaBeat articles. Here's a cached version from yesterday: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P3SuMBN...

[1] http://www.capitolhillseattle.com
The resource preview seems to be the best feature of the new Android Studio - the multi-device layout preview is already available in the latest version of the Android development tools for Eclipse, so I'm not sure why that was such a big announcement.

I'm a huge IntelliJ fan from my days doing server side Java, so I'm definitely looking forward to ditching Eclipse. I just hope it handles Android libraries better than IntelliJ used to.
Critical Linux vulnerability imperils users, even after “silent” fix