skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, it begins as an anonymous

That's the thing though right, it's actually never anonymous?

There is a good chance I'm misunderstanding this, but Bitcoin at the very least is pseudononymous, and all that really means is that it's not tied to your legal name-- it's not anominity. What's worse is that (again, maybe I'm misunderstanding) every transaction you make is essentially public knowledge, by virtue of this knowledge having to exist somewhere, and Bitcoin being intentionally designed without a central secret holder.

That makes Bitcoin to me a secondary currency: a tool to make once-off transactions that are obscured e.g, you want to support Wikileaks but all the banks aren't letting you, use some tool to NZD->BitC (presumably into a new wallet so as to be untrackable) and then give those BitC to Wikileaks.

Which is why I'm confused when people ask regular services whether or not they'll support Bitcoin. Why would anyone buy the Humble Bundle using Bitcoins? What possible advantage does that give them?

Like parent I'm a skeptical fan, mostly because I think it's technically cool, and almost certainly useful in less stable regions of the world (in the same way Twitter was arguably very helpful), but I still can't see why I would ever want to use it (except in the once-off style example above).
I would blame the bomber.
Thanks!

Well, I'm not saying it is only for the Pi (took care of adding it into the FAQ recently), just that it's been run and tested on one for more than two weeks now - so I feel comfortable with saying it works great on the Pi.

But yes - I have been building and testing it on OSX and Linux alternatively, before deploying on the Pi for testing, so it is perfectly suitable for any unix device with low resources indeed.

Hope it works well for you anywhere you want to run it :)
Blueberries consist mostly of water(proteins, carbs and fat make total of 7.5 grams per 100 grams, more or less rest is water), so they aren't very rich in calories(44 kcal per 100 grams). Of course all sorts of berries would rather be an supplement than a primary energy source in the first place.

But indeed, kilograms per day? Sounds too much to be optimal, and relevancy for aging or combating it from perspective of brain development is totally left out, which makes the whole claim even more astounding. Sources or gtfo! :)
Brandenburg lays out the incitement exception to the First Amendment. If I understand the allegations correctly (and that's made more difficult by the lack of the actual lyrics) the prosecution claims that the speech would instead be unprotected under the true threat doctrine.

The leading Supreme Court case on that doctrine is Virginia v. Black 538 U.S. 343 (2003)[1], but unfortunately it's neither as clear nor quotable as Brandenburg. Here's the gist of the rule:

"'True threats' encompass those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals. The speaker need not actually intend to carry out the threat. Rather, a prohibition on true threats "protect[s] individuals from the fear of violence" and "from the disruption that fear engenders," in addition to protecting people "from the possibility that the threatened violence will occur." (internal citations omitted)

[1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US...
It's absolutely wrong to use the term Al-Qaeda on here. It isn't the author's blog, it's Hacker News, and they are quite clear in the guidelines that the submitter's commentary shouldn't be added:

> Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links.
Or the King (formerly the Queen) in NL.
The UK is not far behind and using the recent Woolwich incident as an excuse to rapidly catch up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/26/theresa-may-m...
Probably subconscious effects affecting D.A. after pan-dimensional rodents played with us for eons
I'm getting a bit off topic here, but the Dark Ages is a deeply interesting invention. It simultaneously allows for linear, teleological progression, from a dark pit of despair to the brilliant shining world of today; while also allowing for a Roman-ticized past that we can imagine ourselves as having fallen from.

But most people were probably better off in the "Dark Ages" than in Roman times. And perhaps the darkest period of European history isn't something buried a thousand or two thousand years ago but something that happened in living memory.
Yup. Ironically, I'm a big advocate of good naming in production code.

Unfortunately what the git logs don't show is that some of that code was written very late at night (where my spare time lives), and sometimes I neglected to do that out of sheer tiredness.

I will definitely try to improve on that when needed, thanks!
Yup, this kind of thing is one of the reasons I like exokernels so much.
Email clients needs to evolved, what do you think?
Hi, I'm a freelance developer and I have a few clients who email me sometimes dozens of times a day. So each day I wake up and have to parse through my emails to find which are the most importants, which contains PSDs files or mockups that I'll need to check and send feedback, etc.

All of this is very frustrating with only a little panel to see my email list. This whole "view" is flawed IMO.

I believe email clients should have something more of a "file browser" view with medium/large icons (enough to content from/title/date/etc) and easy way to put emails to different folders. So you can have a peek at the whole inbox at once and quickly eliminate non important emails.

Also I think email clients are in great need of a very good filter system with easy access. Gmail filters are amazing but I'm having a lot of trouble using Gmail on a daily basis I just don't know why. I think filters should be more easily reachable. So I'd make a "Contains pictures" filter, a "Contains text document" filter and a "VIP" filter for very specific person that I know sends me email only on a very important basis.

All in all, I don't have a clue about how it should look. Every last attempts at email clients I saw were in my opinion disastrous. There's still a few projects ongoing but I still doubt any of these will change this fundamental problem.

It's not about the protocol, emails are fine I don't want another Google Wave I just need a better way to manage these messages. Sparrow is nice, I use it daily even if it's not in development anymore but it's not enough powerful, it has a lot of wasted potential (since development stopped).

One last thing: I tried several other email clients with power features but all of them have crippled UIs and almost no development updates anymore.

So let's discuss, what do you think? How do you manage these tons of emails? What do you use? Any suggestion for me about how I handle them and what I should use?

Thanks and have a nice day!
He generally does that anyway. See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/01/raising-a-family-o...
Responding to peer review
Peter Sunde on the state of DNS and other bits of the internet.
Wait, it's considered "working for" when there's no employment relationship of any kind?
More on sparse filtering and the Black Box competition
So type 1) then.
As so many do.
Wow, if people like this, then maybe I should post my tiny 32-bit kernel in C++ somewhere. It has a physical, virtual, and kernel memory manager and support for text-mode I/O.
And you can use pretty much anything C++ (even Boost) that doesn't rely on exception handling...
keep in mind that since PHP must preallocate the array() to an arbitrary 'sane' size, it has to 'resize' (create a new one, copy it over, point reference, destroy old one) a large number of times here.

therefore, most of the time spent here will be malloc'ing (mmap, memcpy). the rest of it will be on executing the php interpreter, compiling the script, and cleanup.

the hash search and comparisons are so much faster than those operations (in PHP, especially), this isn't really a valid way to measure your thesis
I think it's well known among Muslims that there are multiple readings of the Quran. Another point of note is that unlike the Christian or Hebrew writings, the main method of preservation of the Quran has been through mass oral memorization, and so Muslims tend not to place much emphasis on manuscripts. All the printed editions of the Quran (known as Mushafs) are, in fact, authenticated by well-known memorizers of the Quran (Hafizs). It's also notable that while Bible literally means book, Quran literally means Recital, indicative of the fact that is in rhyming prose and meant to be recited orally from memory rather than read like a book.
Can they frame the bounty not as a payment? But like some kind of prize etc.
Why's that? Minors can receive compensation for work they perform.
For the curious:

I started the process of trying to cut a door in the wall between my restaurant and nightclub in February 2011. It is now February 2012, and we still don't have the necessary permits and have not yet begun construction. If we have a door in that wall -- and are allowed to let people walk through it -- before 2013, we will consider ourselves lucky.

(From: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/02/confiscating-your-ice-cream-...

Also -- about jwz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz )
DNN: Just launched my .NET version of HN. Any thoughts?
Yeah, that's what puzzled me as well.
Just tell them, if you do it correctly, you might get to know your competitor a little better and over time, there might be a way for you guys to focus on different markets with the same products, discussing difficulties you both have and so on. Eventually you want to look yourself in the mirror and be happy with what you've accomplished, and not be ashamed of what you've accomplished.
I learned the most important business lessons when I was 11
insulted the Holocaust in Germany.

Eh? Deny, yes, but 'insult'? What?

The Holocaust and Nazism are special things, by the way. You can still speak out against Germany.
> I think you are talking about a separate (and identical issue).

Somehow, this reads very strangely to me. Are you saying something like "I think you are talking about the same issue from a different point of view"?
Electric car company Better Place shuts down after burning through $850M
If they still favor ThinkPads on the ISS they can expect a pleasant Linux experience.
Mobile data is still expensive and I fear I'll get distracted in classes (where there is wifi) if I have a smartphone. So yes, I only have a dumb phone. Problem?
"This choice should be considered a career limiting decision by any hiring manager."

Hopefully not forever. When I was young and stupid and the net was a much simpler place I casually fully disclosed the problem with posting your Cisco configs with "encrypted" passwords to Usenet:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.dcom.sys.cisco/WjuKAOQL...

I would not do something like this today, especially not in such a full-of-myself douchey manner.

Sadly a lot of postings to the internet are basically "forever" at this point and combined with the insistence of so many companies that real names be used, we're going to have generations of younger folks who say or do something stupid (because they are young and stupid) that they can never get rid of. And that's unfortunate.
Death knell? Not necessarily. It sounds like the company is pivoting. That's what startups do, if they're not finding traction with their original idea.

It's perfectly fair to not be interested in the new direction of the company. If that's the case, then leave. But if you're just worried that the company is dying because it's changing direction...well, you should ask the founders how much time and money remain to try out the new idea. If they don't tell you, then that is a problem.
I planned on purchasing from here http://rayshobby.net/?p=5339
Hindsight is 20/20.

Agreed that they could have done a lot of things better, but perhaps testing at scale was one premise that would have validated its viability in the long run.

I do argree that they should have perhaps concentrated in succeeding in one market before expanding to other markets, but they had a lot going for them, including tax breaks and other incentives to launch in other cities. Also IMO when you have a lot going for you, it gets easier to make irrational decisions that seem rational at the time.

And I'm glad they weren't cloning the TSLA model because if BetterPlace would have been successful, it would have been pretty "awesome" too.

With any new innovation/technology, there are bound to be some unexpected setbacks, perhaps if they had received another round of funding, or had not forced Shay Aggassi out, they could have fixed some of the problems/errors and become a successful company. I'm just theorizing, but it is possible that in the distant future, this model will come back to life and be successful.
Chinese Government is going to rebalance the economy
The author of this article, Robinson, repeatedly claims that indigenous americans were incapable of and ignorant towards selective breeding. This is false.

He proposes that teosinte spontaneously mutated into maize, which is totally contrary to the accepted history, I've never even heard anyone make this claim.

Samples of maize in its modern form have been found directly dated back 6000 years, and inferentially dated back 9000 years, to the advent of agriculture in the western hemisphere.

Matsuoka showed through molecular dating that maize was likely domesticated from a single source in a single event around 9000 years ago.

Matsuoka Y, Vigouroux Y, Goodman MM, Sanchez J, Buckler ES, Doebley JF. 2002. A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 6080-4.

Robinson's claims here that north american indigenous peoples didn't breed for traits and this was a new thing that only the english did is totally absurd. Various groups developed their own varieties that were attuned to their particular land and territory. Tribes as far north as Manitoba grew vast tracts of land in maize varieties they developed that were frost tolerant!

Boyd recently did an analysis of microfossils from ancient northern pottery to identify ancient maize farming regions and found that nearly every site tested had maize, including multiple sites that were north of the subarctic zone.

http://anthropology.lakeheadu.ca/personal/mboyd/uploads/Boyd...
> keep in mind that since PHP must preallocate the array() to an arbitrary 'sane' size, it has to 'resize' (create a new one, copy it over, point reference, destroy old one) a large number of times here.

Those allocations only happen once in a while (because at each reallication, the size of the array doubles), so the cost is amortized. I think that you only get about lg2(1000) = 10 allocations in total for an array of 1000 elements.
When is a repost justified if not when it comes true? It would still be justified if the prediction was spectacularly off, in which case we can all have a good laugh.
US spy device 'tested on NZ public'
The author (pg) did not post this link, _pius did.
Big-O is just a formal notation for comparing growth rates of functions. You are right of course, that often one might get away without the precise formalism and rely only on a gut feeling - but there are limitations on how many things we can compare mentally.

A bit tongue in cheek one could make the following analogous statement: does anyone use greater-than or less-than or equals signs at work, as in something being "> 5" or "< 10"? In my experience "this quantity is much larger than that other quantity" or "these two quantities are roughly the same" is perfectly fine.
It depends what you mean. There's certainly something to be said for buying stuff that's decent quality if you're going to be using it for a while, but just buying things that are high quality isn't going to free you from a job if you still have bad spending habits.
Five years, still going with the complaints... http://acko.net/blog/on-not-doing-drupal-anymore/
people don't normally get brought up on murder charges for rapping, no matter how poorly.
If you like 12, should definitely check out 60! It has so many factors, especially prime factors.
It's a bit silly he had to say this-- this is made very explicit in the books. I feel like a lot of people missed the point of the whole exercise.
Effective Wrinkle Cream
Effective Wrinkle Cream - Many people love to tell others how to stop wrinkles. However, the difficulty with their pieces of advice is they seldom tell how wrinkles develop on the first area. Most simply embark on a tirade of lectures of what to do or to not do.
I think the statement implicit in your post definitely sounds plausible, but is it true? Can you point to an individual from another group being given similar treatment for similar action, where people did not become outraged?
Are Canonical's code changes not open source? Backporting those changes is not necessarily their responsibility.
But note that that isn't the "real" question, just the incorrect result of the Earth experiment.
My search criteria would suggest not.
Richard had the funnier quotes in the blog post. Thankful he took the time.
PyPI is behind a CDN
How I built running shoes for my whole family in a sunday afternoon
I have an exam in Algorithm Design and Analysis coming up in the first week on July, and have been practicing implementing a number of the algorithm design questions in past papers. They are usually obscure questions around some sort of bin packing or placement. I attempted to implement this question described in the Gist using JavaScript and would like to get some feedback on my attempt. Thanks!
There is value in the pysical copy because you can date it with material analysis and compare it to other sources.

More often than not written words aren't as important as the physical material there are written on.
If these activists wanted real change they'd be protesting the NIMBY-ism that prevents San Francisco from allowing the construction of new housing.

That's an obstacle that has very little to do with techie new-comers and a lot to do with soi-disant liberal yuppies who have been in the city for decades and insist that they want to "preserve" San Francisco in a way that totally prices out working class people from life in the city.
This is a no-brainer: tell them. Yes, they're your competitors but when they find out your accountant is stealing from you, wouldn't you rather they told you?
Sky’s Android apps, Twitter account hacked 
British satellite broadcaster Sky is the latest media company to fall victim to the Syrian Electronic Army.

Sky’s Android apps and Twitter account have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. A Sky spokesperson also told CNET UK that a tweet from the Sky Help Team advising people to uninstall their Android apps is not from the company...
ARE YOU A LEARNER?
In my experience, git has that culture of hacking, but it isn't as visible. Things get added to the "contrib" folder pretty quickly; but few ever get the polish to graduate out. On my box, contrib is installed at `/usr/share/git/`.

Just create an executable named git-WHATEVER and put it somewhere in $PATH (or $GIT_EXEC_PATH).
Ted Nelson's ZigZag (2004)
only one party believes that an unborn human has rights and protections under the law regardless of whether or not the respective mother wants them.

only one party believes that two adults in love can be married under the law regardless of whether or not the respective people are of the same sex.

if nothing else just those two diametric positions seem to indicate an important and meaningful distinction between the two parties.
like the pun at the end How hungover can you get?
Is that the same guy? or are we just listing people who bitch about Drupal?
I just noticed Firefox has implemented fuzzy matching, if you type "soft" into a datalist will match "Microsoft".
According to current law they don't owe anything more [1]. That doesn't mean that other people have to like it, even monkeys get upset when they feel like things aren't fair [2] . I think it is an open question about how companies like google will keep up good relations with their neighbors in the longer term.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
[2] http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/26/monkey-fairness-ex...
"This is very discriminatory in nature"

I don't think pg would have any problems adding a waiting period to accounts from San Francisco IPs if they overwhelmingly were responsible for spam.
>Let's assume for a minute that this was a credible threat

It wasn't, which renders the whole rest of your point moot.

The kind of bad logic you're espousing is exactly what gets us zero tolerance laws, that in which any means are acceptable, no matter how absurd, if what it's preventing is bad enough.

It's outsourcing of judgement, something which has shades of grey, to a law, which has only black and white. This is not EVER a good idea.

How far are you willing to go stop a school shooting? Trample all over the first AND second amendments? Put the TSA at the front entrance of every school?

I find it very.... odd, that someone who can grok the nuance that "freedom" is a relative term is unable to understand that same nuance applies to other things as well.
I'm writing a game where I need to sync state between client and server, I think this might come in handy.
Some of the spam filters and scoring mechanisms are not open sourced (from what I've heard).
What if it turns out that 42 really is the answer? :)
Evolution is cleverer than you are: cockroaches avoid poison by rewiring taste
So, the solution is to... write a spec? And then stick to it, and never change again? I'm reminded of "no plan ever survives contact with the enemy".

I don't doubt the author had some interpersonally toxic experiences in the community, but I don't see how the proposed solutions would fix that.

Am I missing something here?
Yes, I thought this also. It's a protocol like email or IRC, except it's privately owned. And it's actually suited to being monopolised by a single company.

I also wondered if you could characterise something like Facebook the same way. If you strip away all the extra functions, you have a protocol for setting up a private network of friends, identified by their real names, who can then broadcast to each other. Other social networks didn't have quite the same setup - not private by default, not real names.
Anon DDOS, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjdBSoIa8k

(j/k :)
You should be aware that while it was bad, it was also used as propaganda. There's no accident that there's multiple clips about the statues on the offical NATO YouTube channel. The event is nothing compared to what happened during the Iraq war for instance.

http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/chp04-12iraqen...
نتيجة ابتدائي القاهرة 2013 الفصل الدراسي الثاني
As far as I can tell, it was the local PD, not the FBI. Correct me if I'm wrong.