skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The other approach is make the conversion of state currency into BTC illegal. But the implications of that are unclear. Would people adopt a different crypto-currency? Would all crypto-currencies be banned? Could a BTC black market still exist like drugs?

I think more than likely it would be like torrents are now: a large amount of the tech-savvy population uses them and loves them, but a lot of people are afraid they'll get sued or have a letter written to their house from their ISP (which means nothing), and would rather just pay $7.99/month for a worse selection on Netflix and maintain a peace of mind.
Texas state politics aren't big on transparency, especially those involving the current Governor.

I'd like to believe though...
This is actually quite cool. I could see this being a nice replacement of pastebin-type sites when sharing significant amounts of text.

My two suggestions would be:

-Add a few more pre-set color themes, perhaps with font selection too. (Maybe copy some from Textmate and/or Sublime Text 2.)

-Allow other forms of login maybe, perhaps with Google accounts?
Can you articulate how this is different / better than writespace?
Ray differentials are just two extra rays one pixel up and right of the main ray to give the ray width. It's pretty trivial to keep them up to date with the main ray at surface intersections (it's technically more work, sure), but it's doable, so I don't see a problem with it.

BDPT is more concerned with the surface area of meshes and solid angles of hits, so that the light path vertex weightings can be accurate.
that temperatures have dropped (or more accurately, shown negligible warming) in "the past 10 years" is pretty easy to check. Um, try this site:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/last:120/plot/wti/last:...

(Note that the "woodfortrees index" is a composite that combines a variety of standard temperature series, the better to avoid arguments as to which series to use. But if you're especially partial to one series or another, you can select those too. eg, here's Hadcru4 global mean: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/last:120/plot/ha... )

(the samples are monthly, so specifying "120 samples" gets you exactly ten years, starting and ending near the same (most recent) month.)
This would actually be a wonderful case that i'm sure lawyers would love to take on.

Given your actual intent is to get the keyboard working enough to boot from CD (or whatever), not to agree to the agreement, and you didn't actually avail yourself of any of the benefits of the software, any retailer on the other side would have a hard time winning any class action lawsuit.

Among other things, assent must be meaningful
Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time | Simons Foundation
You know, when local rednecks witness slight daily weather change, they proudly attribute it to 'global warming'.
I mean, we track the weather for at most a hundred year. We tend to see any several-year trend as an alarming global tendency. Weather change periods definitely have very low-frequency components, so it's unwise to declare any locality as a global tendency.
Hello Yves, I don't have one, I don't feel my credentials from Paris will get me far enough, so I will go to SF and NYC physically this summer. The VISA can come later.
I really get frustrated when I land on a page, and I can't hit space bar to page down.
There sure are a lot of these now. There's Koi Writer [1], Dark Copy [2], Light Write [3], Quabel [4], Wabisabi [5], Write.app [6], Pen.io [7], (I like this one), Draft [8], and probably more.

[1] http://www.koi-writer.com/editor/
[2] http://darkcopy.com/
[3] http://gun.io/w/yyhegyfn6
[4] https://quabel.com/
[5] http://www.wabisabi.cc/
[6] https://writeapp.me/
[7] http://pen.io/
[8] https://draftin.com/

Then there's also native apps as well. For Mac, there's Focus Writer [1], OmmWriter [2], iaWriter [3], Writeroom [4], ByWord [5], Clean Writer [6], Writer [7], GrandView [8], and Texts [9] (I like this one)

[1] http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
[2] http://www.ommwriter.com/
[3] http://www.iawriter.com/mac/
[4] http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
[5] http://bywordapp.com/
[6] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clean-writer-pro/id478363291...
[7] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writer/id405680527?mt=12
[8] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grandview/id432436025?mt=12
[9] http://texts.io

So I guess, whenever one creates a new distraction free writer/reader, I need to know: why should I use this* app?* Your app looks pretty clean and pretty nice, but what makes it better? I don't mean this comment to put your app down as it looks pretty appealing, but I think the key first step when joining such a saturated market is to differentiate yourself.
As I indicated in my response. Your original question asked what one can do with Facebook login that one cannot with just an email address. Your friendlist is always communicated with Facebook login.
This is idiotic. The requirement should be that the user can disable it entirely OR replace the private key. And it should require implementation of an optional password protection.
Don't be pedantic. It is a figure of speech that the founding fathers used.
> [4] Realistically for patent free greater than 20 years old is the answer so it probably needs to be MPEG1.

Rather than waiting 20 years, we could lobby for legislation that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement. [1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...
> Actually, if (and I'm aware it's a big if) they cut down the rainforest and plant new trees there, it's actually a net win for carbon dioxide.

I believe it depends on what you do with those trees. A lot of the deforestation occurs through burning. An area is logged (bad for the ecosystem, not so bad for carbon), then its cleared by burning (bad for carbon) to make room for farmland.
Not even EFI, just regular BIOS...
Personally I think this is not a Friedman level article, more like a HireArt advertisement.
It's a very tricky situation.

It sounds like there's considerable evidence that the owners were fine with supporting illegal transactions. So, no one really contests their arrests.

The problem is that the service they created is/was used by many people to store and transfer legitimately earned money.

The end result is that many cybercriminals are no longer able to access the money they illicitly earned, yet many regular working people, often in foreign countries where they can't use Paypal or otherwise, can't access their actual funds. Those people had nothing to do with LR's management, nor the criminals who were using the service.
> near-total lack of workers skilled in post-1950s technology

[citation needed]

>I'm hard pressed to think of a worse place to locate a factory.

How many factories have you placed? Would you put one in Bangladesh?
These gifs are pretty much useless in showing the real destruction because they're only looking back 30 years and showing the changes of little plots of land here and there.

If you compare North America today with what it was before Europeans landed. You'd see a truly horrifying picture. Something like 70% of the forests of North America are gone. Just load up google maps in satellite mode and look at the USA. Farms and settlements are literally everywhere. Brazil too has lost a massive chunk. Entire forests along the ocean are gone. So has europe. And in Australia Koalas are becoming endangered because of the loss of their habitat. In Asia, rain forests are being cut down for palm oil plantations. And don't even get me started on the "Great African Land Grab" in which rich countries bought prime fertile African land for pennies per hectare.

This continues to this day: 6 percent of [the US lost it's] forest cover in just five years time, a total of 120,000 square kilometers (46,332 square miles)

( http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0427-hance_forestloss.html#PuE... )

Let's not forget the enormous swaths of plastic swimming around in all the major oceans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

The fact that more than half of all the streams in the USA are too polluted to support normal life: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300022/More-HALF-U-...

And don't get me started on particles from the pollution in China crossing the Pacific Ocean and entering the US Eastern Coast. As well as residents living near highways have a 27% increase in Asthema. And the list goes on and on.
The question this raises for me is what the acceptance rate is as a function of the number of pull requests, or of the number of stars. A scatter chart would be cool here. I strongly suspect the acceptance rate goes down as the project gets bigger. That's some combination of the developers having less time to field all the requests and the more popular repos getting a lot of junk of PRs (anecdotal observation).
fish shell has some of this built in, such as the git prompt.

Here's a sample of my fish_prompt.fish

function fish_prompt
set last_status $status

set_color $fish_color_cwd
printf '%s' (prompt_pwd)
set_color normal

printf '%s ' (__fish_git_prompt)

set_color normal
end
Let's be honest- that ship sailed years ago.
While writing his undergrad thesis at the same time!
Thanks for the feedback--these are great points. (post author, btw)

> The problem to me seems to be that the interesting problems always come across the case where updates are not commutative.

I agree that many application-level integrity constraints can't be satisfied with commutative updates. However, I've been surprised how frequently they can work for many web applications and how frequently "fuck-it" integrity constraint maintenance is employed given i.) faster database operation and 2.) asynchronous compensation mechanisms (e.g., bank overdraw fees) in the event of constraint violation. But your point is well-taken!

> Here, client B should fail since client A has not committed.

I think I understand your example, though I'm not clear as to whether s and t are stored on both X and Y or separately as s on X and t on Y. But, in general, writes in 'pending' should not block the insertion of other writes into 'pending' (in 2PC parlance, prepared but non-committed transactions should not block other transactions from preparing). This is fundamental to the non-blocking property of the algorithm here (i.e., http://www.bailis.org/blog/non-blocking-transactional-atomic...). So if client A hasn't committed, it shouldn't stop client B from committing. If client A and client B's writes don't commute, then the clients should use a stronger protocol/isolation level than the effective Read Committed that the NBTA algorithm here provides (doable but requires blocking). Does that make sense?
Same content as http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/?p=156334.
Wow, that confirms a few rumors i heard about facebook. This is definitely not a first. Thank you for posting this anon. This will make mine and a few other people's decisions a lot easier.
I am reminded of Kevin Smith, who will often buy tickets to movies he doesn't have time to see, just to support the film makers.
I'm injured. Right arm can lift much more than 5 lbs above horizontal. On Voc rehab, yet disability says it's not one.

Been without a job for 2 years. Before that, fired from wal-mart because I got injured (faulty equipment) and had to go to hospital.

What the hell do I do? I look and apply for jobs. I'm in school for drafting. Every sign and indication says if you're without a job for 6 months, you're screwed.

Do I just start and lie about my credentials? If they catch me, all they can do is just fire me... I'm already up shits creek.
He's actually working on it. You'll notice that the Roadster was super expensive ($90,000), but they rolled the money over into R&D to make the Tesla S ($60,000), money from which they will then roll over into R&D for an even cheaper vehicle. Elon's goal is to bring affordable EVs to the masses, which I think is pretty cool.

http://www.teslamotors.com/fr_CH/blog/secret-tesla-motors-ma...

^--This is from way back in 2006. You'll notice that they've since produced the Model S, and seem to be following the plan pretty well so far.
AWS IAM Now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation
Another vote for convenience. As others here, I've bought games I haven't played and I can't recall any digitally purchased games that I never played.

Even though in this particular case, I can log into humble bundle and see a list there. But, it's still easier to launch steam and see what's the best way to kill a couple hours before bed.
Plus the people who do the paper apps processing probably don't want to have their jobs eliminated and have an interest in refusing new (if computers can be considered "new") technology. Even if it means letting vets die due to the needlessly extended waiting process.
They're absolutely out of their fucking minds if they think this is a good idea. People are already slowly oozing towards better operating systems, and if they actually manage to remove the possibility to run their shitty OS without any cost, they're totally screwed.
Looks like you haven't kept up with the publications except those posted by the conservative foes of climate science like Alex Rawls. There have been many rebuttals of the claim that there is a "game-changing admission" in the leaked document, here's a good one: http://skepticalscience.com/ipcc-draft-leak-global-warming-n...

"Rawls has completely misrepresented the IPCC report."
Gone Skiing - A strategy to develop a more independent business
If you think the IT contracts are bad, you should see the process they have (or in some cases, had) for DoD matters. Absolutely crazy.
Someone should probably update this article with the above finding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows
That prompt can be really slow, as it runs `__git_ps1` multiple times (through several branches of the conditional, and then for the final output). On my git.git repository, running `time __git_ps1` takes about .085s. If I hit the "cyan" condition in the prompt, we run it three times, and doing `time eval "echo \"$PS1"\""` takes about 0.263s, which feels noticeably laggy.

Changing it to cache the result, like this:

export PS1=$LIGHT_GRAY"\u@\h"'$(
g=$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")
if [[ "$g" =~ \*\)$ ]]
then echo "'$YELLOW'$g"
elif [[ "$g" =~ \+\)$ ]]
then echo "'$MAGENTA'$g"
else echo "'$CYAN'$g"
fi)'$BLUE" \w"$GREEN": "

drops it back down to the .085s range.
Satirical article of how the policy came about http://www.breakfastnetwork.sg/?p=4850
Well, that't the whole point - if $x of your daily transfers are money laundering, then you are liable for the full laundered amount, even if you don't have the money anymore and took only a couple percent fee. If the laundered money is 0.01% of your turnover, then you just pay the fee; if the laundered money is 10% of your turnover and more than your assets, then tough luck, you were legally required to prevent that in the first place, you didn't, and now owe everything you got.

If a civilian "easy work form home!!!" money mule forwards 100 payments of $1000 stolen money, then he's also liable for the full $100 000 even if he transferred away most of it and doesn't have so much money at all.
Good thoughts. Our own government couldn't be trusted with this today. The US has a recent history of thwarting and toppling democracy, ignoring our Constitution while supporting oppressive governments.
Thank you for the insightful response to a comment that frankly felt a bit baiting. I admire how you're approaching the problem at HireArt, and am thankful that the current wave of disruption in education should hopefully keep society from feeling the full fallout of the education bubble. It will be interesting to see what the world looks like in 10 years.

However, I think the bubble will persist even if all degrees were viewed as equal due to the economics around cheap financing of degrees and disincentives among universities to compete on price and incentives to compete on ancillary concerns like luxury housing, amenities, facilities, and the like. Of course, even without this warped structure of incentives, the university model is one with huge overhead, a rigid and inflexible structure, slow to adapt to change (though they are trying), and not nearly as well positioned to take advantage of economies of scale as the likes of Udacity, Coursera, or even UOP.

This entire topic fascinates me, and I don't think we've even begun to unravel all of the causes and implications of what these changes mean for society and the future of education. Exciting times!
One would naturally assume he was opposed to the bailout. Michaels was opposed to the most recent auto bailout too - here's him being snide about it:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7622306&page=3

It's really weird how many people don't grok libertarianism and assume Cato couldn't possibly be consistent about just not wanting stuff subsidized in general.
I think there's a typo under "good, pending and Invariants"? Isn't the caption supposed to be "not okay / (x=1 should be in pending or good)"
Doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online
"Rawls has completely misrepresented the IPCC report." http://skepticalscience.com/ipcc-draft-leak-global-warming-n...
FWIW I think "Xbox One" is a really dumb name. I would have liked "Infinity", "720", "3", "-NG", "Mark III", etc way more. Calling it "Xbox One" reminds me of Pandora One and RealOne Player :)

It seems like an oddly -aughties convention for something coming out in 2013. Even Apple just stuck with numbers and a simple designation for the iPhone line, though they did something similar to MS with "The New iPad" groan
I find it strange that there is pressure from companies advertising on facebook about this. They signed up for ads on a user generated content site and then are displeased with some of the content?

Why are they even concerned about this? "Sexual assualt 'humor'" is in the extreme minority of posts on facebook. Maybe they don't want their ads next to it but that's what they signed up for. They wanted their ads next to whatever people posted on facebook knowing that the content was out of their control.
I knew once the likes of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times started writing about Bitcoin it was only a matter of time before the Government initiated its plan to discredit and eventually make the anonymous and decentralised currency illegal.

"We need a way to publicly discredit this non-controllable currency alternative without raising suspicion"

"Well sir, I have a plan. How about we tell the public only criminals are using Bitcoin to launder money, criminals are selling guns and drugs to students and paedophiles are using it to sell child pornography. We'll make the public eventually beg us to ban this currency and when people complain we are being unreasonable or have ulterior motives we can proudly say we are only doing what you asked us to"

First and foremost money laundering isn't a new practice. Mobsters in the 20's were laundering money, Laundromats, cafes and nightclubs are perfect fronts for money laundering operations as well. Yes, no doubt Bitcoin is being used for nefarious purposes (look at Silk Road for a perfect example), but lets not lose our cool over this.

What we are starting to see is a coordinated effort by the US to remove the threat that is Bitcoin. While I have no conclusive proof that is the case, it's not rocket science that too many people benefit from the current monetary system to not want to see it become less relevant or have its dominance threatened in any way, way or form.

The powers that be didn't think much of it in the beginning, but Bitcoin is starting to gain a lot of traction, not to mention we are starting to see the currency stabilise.
volunteer? find a project where you can help someone!

I've suggested folks with interest and drive find a non-profit they can assist. This is the sort of advice I offer folks who are trying to break into web dev, though it is certainly not an easy road to go down. It can be immensely satisfying though...

It's much harder in some ways than it used to be to break into the industry without a degree or formal work experience, but if you work with an organization that has to have "lower" standards due to budget constraints or resources, you can get your foot in the door. I've suggested churches, local social welfare groups, etc. Often times the deadlines aren't as tight or are non-existent and you have a lot of an opportunity to "play" with the technologies and potentially learn from someone there.

good luck!
It's really great to see poor white people considered as people in need. (It would have been even better if the article considered poor asians, too. They're not all rich doctors.) It's a huge demographic that's desperately in need of help, but it doesn't score you any brownie points to help the "unexotic"--just as the article highlights. As a result, many languish in poverty instead of fulfilling their full potential.

I know a lot of people who are poor, rural, and white, and they really struggle while resources are freely given to far more affluent peers of a different color. It's really sad to watch someone's dreams of college die before their eyes due to race based discrimination.
Humas produce on the order of 3.10^13 kg of CO2 [1]

Atmosphere weighs 5.1 . 10^18 [2] so the CO2 we produce is 1/100000 (or 0.001%) of the total weight.

Atmosphere contains 0.046% CO2 by weight [3]. So, next year, it's going to be 0.047%

[1]
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html

[2]
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.htm...

[3]
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-composition-d_212.html
Any/all motherboards serious about gaming with have a PS/2 port due to N-key rollover and interrupt-speed typing.
The point is that a salt would essentially give you a constant speed of cracking versus a speed that scaled with the size of the dataset you have. For example, the guy in the article cracked 10,000-ish passwords in 16 minutes - 600 passwords per minute. If he'd had a dataset of 1.6 million, he would have cracked over a million (assuming the passwords were of the same quality and he has some good way of storing them on his hardware to allow fast lookup), at a rate of 60,000 passwords per minute, all on his single GPU.

However, with a salt he'd be limited to about 1 password per every 27 minutes. And this rate would not increase as the dataset grew larger, which means that even if he had 10x the power as you suggest he could only crack about 20 passwords per hour (more or less). Thus to crack even 1% of a 1.6 million password dataset (16,000 passwords) it would take over a month of non-stop computation on 10 GPU's, versus a single GPU computing 62% (again over a million) in 16 minutes.

So even if a compromised website took a month to realize the leak, it would be able to inform it's users in time such that 99% of them would be able to change passwords and avoid their accounts being compromised in time. With no salt, no such luck since as we can see here up to 90% of the dataset would be cracked within a day.
It wouldn't have been disappointing had DanBC posted it as an FYI - in the sense of "be careful to check this guy's claims; he has falsified data in the past."

But what he wrote was: "Disappointing to see this worthless tripe on HN, and to see it getting any votes."

That is an ad-hominem attack, and disappointing to see on HN.
How can Microsoft prove that you agreed to the EULA? AFAIK, they don't upload your acceptance to a server (accepting works without a network connection). So once you wipe the system and install another OS, you've also eliminated any evidence that you accepted the EULA, so how could Microsoft start a legal action against without evidence that you accepted the EULA?
Well, then the author learned a valuable lesson about jumping to conclusions.