skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have donated cars in New Jersey. Before the tow truck picks it up, you are instructed to remove the license plates from it. After pick up, you need to do two things: call your insurance company and remove the car from the policy then go to a DMV office and surrender the plates, which effectively terminates the car registration and ends any legal liability on your part.
Somebody made the point before, but bitcoin is great for the gov't. Because it allows it to have a complete record of your spending with enough warrants. Because at one point in the chain someone will have to turn the bitcoin into USD. The "anonymity" argument is useless because you'll get linked at the "get dollars" phase.

Obviously the idea is that if everyone uses bitcoins then nobody will use dollars, but in that case the gov't just decides to declare bitcoins currency, and tax things as usual.

In a universe where everyone is using bitcoin, the global economy will be pretty fucked though, considering that everybody would be in a de facto liquidity trap (since inflation would no longer exist). But so long as property tax exists, that issue might not come up.
At least with the use of a digital signature and nonce you can guarantee that the request hasn't been tampered with!
| Only within the last few years have we replaced
| overheads and transparencies with 'smart boards'
| and projectors and even then, few teachers have
| been found to use them in any manner other than
| an even more LIMITED version of the traditional
| overhead.

Back in 2001, my university microeconomics course was delivered via overhead transparencies (rather than Powerpoint like most other classes). But even the usage of transparencies was too much for this professor. All of his 'slides' were just transparencies which he had used a wet-erase marker to write dense paragraphs of text, which was mostly what he was reading back to us. Not only was this worse than most usage of PowerPoint that people complain about, he didn't even take the time to maybe type up these 'slides' and print them on transparencies (or go to a local office supply store / print shop to get it done).

Point being some people will use the tools presented to them (even very basic tools) in the most bone-headed way possible. It's just a fact of life.
They reached their 5000 target.
if you enjoy vimperator I suspect you'll appreciate the tree style tabs mentioned above.. also if you `:set tabnumbers` you can easily switch between numbered tabs, which can be very useful

http://i.imgur.com/3x8nF0J.png
The author Henry Binswanger's personal statement:

>I defend laissez-faire capitalism, using Ayn Rand's Objectivism.

Why not keep an open mind? This sort of personal statement seems more apt for a religious proselytiser than a Philosopher.

Anyway, the article is not worth reading, just a political polemic without any worthwhile thought about the actual issue he raises, what effect will a cryptocurrency have on tax enforcement?
It's the ownership problem that makes garbage collection useful. Tracking who owns which piece of memory at a particular point in time is a lot of work. Every API has to document if and how an object returned as a pointer should be freed and if an incoming pointer continues to be owned by the caller or not. Every single library invents its very own memory management pattern and you have to keep them all in your head or bad things will happen.

Look at libpq for instance. There are several functions that free memory and destroy different types of objects: PQclear, PQfreemem, PQfinish, PQconninfoFree and maybe others that I forget. For some API functions the documentation explicitly states which free function to use, for others it says nothing and for yet others it says not to free anything because another object retains ownership.

C++ tries to solve the problem that libpq has by using RAII and destructors, but it opened a can of worms. Now you have to deal with tons of different types of smart pointers and fancy memory management patterns coming from different libraries and frameworks. And you must never think that smart pointers are really pointers because if you do, bad things will happen:

Can you return the this pointer from a member function? Not if someone else holds a shared_ptr to this. Can you return shared_ptr<ThisClass>(this)? No, because now you may have two different reference counts for the same object. Can you return shared_from_this() after inheriting enable_shared_from_this? Only if at least one shared_ptr already points at this, which depends on how the caller created this. Is SomeClassPtr a SomeClass*, a shared_ptr<SomeClass> or maybe a boost::intrusive_ptr<SomeClass>? Go find the typedef.

So garbage collection is desirable. Unfortunately it seems to be a very difficult problem to solve in the face of large amounts of memory and lots of parallelism, which is exactly where we're headed. I wish Oracle would buy Azul and make their garbage collector available in OpenJDK. The world would be a better place and I would forgive them all the nasty stuff they have done recently :)
Fun.js – Bilby.js
SEO Services Company
| a long train ride

It depends on the train ride. If it was going through a tunnel (for half of a day), I might get restless, but if it was going through the country-side, then you can just gaze at the world whizzing by.
Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk
When I send a message to a room, the others see it as "undefined".
Firefox may be changing things, but comparing it to Safari must be sort of a joke. Just my opinion, of course, but I never found myself as lost in FF as the article describes. Conversely, every time I'm stuck with Safari I am frustrated beyond any hope of redemption by all the tiny things that are weird. It's nice to have things consistent, but to me, in Safari things just don't make any sense.

(Since I'll probably be asked to qualify that, my go to example - The address and search bar. Basic search is confusing already, but typing ahead in the address bar is as if the advances of the past ten years of browser technology never happened.)
Could Big Data spur the development of the semantic web?
> Consider the attraction of bitcoin and the like. People are [...] are willing to try a virtual currency backed by nothing, so long as they believe that its supply will remain relatively stable

Well, Bitcoin may not be backed by anything, but neither is gold.
I'd hesitate to call Skycraft a game geared towards consumers, despite the developer's intentions. It feels geared toward the hacker crowd because of what's going on under the hood.
I've been thinking about this a lot, but I wonder if the ususal affiliate fees would be enough to pay for rent, staff and demo objects. I rather doubt it, and maybe online shops can't pay much more without raising prices.
A Modern C++ Library for DirectX Programming
If you like to learn a lot about the internals of SMTP and mailservers in general and need/want a super reliable, fast and (if the setup is carefully crafted) secure mailserver - I like qmail.

My setup is qmail (SMTP) + vmailmgr + Dovecot (IMAP) and it was pretty easy to set up.

To start with qmail, I would recommend http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
Flipkart, Myntra etc run their own logistics unit Bangalore only and maybe other metros too, but when it's about tier 2 cities and blow the traditional courier firms handled it.
How Live Chat Can Electrify Your Customer Base
Doesn't work on WebKit nightly. It's sad.
Well, gold does have actual value for its industrial and aesthetic applications.
The web stuff is not even soft realtime. A better term for the web stuff would be "live" or "continuously updated" or "clickless" or whatever.
I had the same problem - tree style tabs would make the browser crash constantly. I eventually gave up.
recently sites seem to be inverting the useful info to the beginning of the title, but this is still a problem. Especially considering that even when you only have a few tabs, the space given for the title is way too small (at least in Chrome, firefox is better about it)
> As well as the other similarly named programming language: Go!

This language doesn't even have a home page or a download page.
Hmm...Does using SSL help? Right now the amazon india domain does not get redirected automatically to https://www.amazon.in (on Chrome v.25)
It depends. I've found that coffee shops aren't a panacea. If your mind is elsewhere, or you're on-edge, changing settings usually doesn't do much to help you focus. If the coffee shop is crowded/busy, then you will probably find it difficult to focus. It's also better to stay away from the flow of people between the counter and the door (if the coffee shop is large enough, or structured in a way that permits it).
WTF is this crap. Is the author really implying the government decisions have anything to do with Democrats? I guess the US would be on the "Bitcoin Standard" if the 'pubes had won the election?!
Actually, they did sell a whole pile of them for ride-through power in hospitals and other facilities where power availability is critical.
Zoho hosts custom domains on their free business plan. You get both imap and not-ugly web interface.
They've had this planned out for a long time now. Thunderbird received this UI refresh in August last year(the change log said it was to "match the new Firefox UI"), so I wonder why they delayed adding this to FF for so long.

Personally, I much prefer the current UI. It's very concise, no space wasted with curves, perfect for people like me who tend to have 10 tabs open at once. I would rather they update the current style with a few of the nice hover effects and bolder colours, rather than change the shape of tabs and the menu location.
Also it's a pleasant way to track changes, view source code, and share code with coding buddies.
I'd like Firefox to give me back the ability to choose "full screen" and have it make the web page itself fill the screen from corner to corner, with no "chrome" (no title bar, no tabs, no menu bar, no URL bar, etc.)

It used to be possible to use Firefox on Mac OS X to do a presentation with HTML and have the web page, and only the web page, fill the whole screen. (It was an option in the "View" menu.) That feature disappeared several versions ago, and now if you want to use it, you have to switch to Chrome.
You jumped from wu-mao to racist bigotry very quickly.

Wumao simply identifies a government shill/apologist, and I never called anyone a wumao, I just repeated their tactics, which I happen to know.

So if the argument matches the wumao argument, why not call it out? What are people afraid of? To be honest, an apologist for any repressive regime would probably use similar relevance fallacies as a way to defend the undefendable. But I'm just not familiar with those.
Those tabs look nice when you have 3 or 4 of them.

But I have 26, and it won't look so good then. (I tweaked my chrome to shrink the minimum tab size, so I can get lots of them without having to scroll the tab bar.)
Wow, that looks really cool :)
Stop learning from gurus
Selectize.js
I develop Common Lisp the same way (against an image) and it only was a problem when I just started. Soon enough it becomes second nature to know which functions have been changed and / or knowing when it is time to start over with a fresh image.

tl;dr it is not much of an issue
> bikeshedding

Not just network libraries; How many cli modules are there now?
Chengdu Travel Guide: Chengdu Attractions, Culture, Food
Offer the helpful information on Chengdu attractions, tours, things to bo, culture, etc. All information of Chengdu travel guide will help you know more about Chengdu.
Yea, They didn't announce (to the best of my knowledge) their support in WebRTC
Yes, but for many people I suspect the value to them is much lower than the auction price. If you were following standard accounting like a business you would probably have fully depreciated the car before the time came to auction it.
same here, although this works already in chrome for android except a minor bug that prevents you eventually getting the file on the device (which should be fixed soon).
Body Labs: We help everybody create accurate 3D Body Models
"allowed"? Paxman doesn't control the mic. Scoble argued badly. I'm not agreeing with Paxman. I suspect Paxman always argues the counter point irrelevant of his opinion - that's his job. If you choose to be interviewed by Paxman you better be able to hold an argument. It's not the Jonathan Ross show.
Hi,

Nice Streisand effect from /r/technology
I'm able to post the link from Turkey too.
Not on my Mac. Am I missing something?
Or even easier, just submerge it without a person inside and see how deep it can go.
I have the Full Screen option in the latest version, on Ubuntu and I don't remember a time when it wasn't there. It's still in the "View" menu. I just press F11, the default shortcut.

Furthermore, Firefox implements the HTML5 Fullscreen API, which gives the ability to websites themselves to request the full-screen mode, with a dialog pop-up that allows you to either deny, or to temporarily or permanently give this privilege to a website: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/DOM/Using...

So basically your full-screen HTML presentation can load in full-screen mode by itself, without the user having to make an explicit View action for it.

I find it hard to believe that you don't have it. If it's true, maybe it's a problem on OS X that will likely get fixed.
Use a tab manager add on like Tab Mix Plus. It is the first thing I install on any new installation of FF. You can rename tabs or set a minimum width to see more of the title.

Plus numerous other customizations.
I use Debian's Exim package. It's not too much hassle, although I'd advise avoiding Debian's magic configuration stuff unless you're sure it suits your needs.

Edit: Oh, and courier-imap. It's so little hassle I haven't touched it in years and forgot how it's set up.
I'm sometimes suprised how good just a 30 minute bike ride feels compared to 30 minutes of mindless web surfing. So I'm all for downtime.

However, articles like that are always a bit shallow. It sounds like the solution is to switch off your phoneand WiFi and everything will be alright. If I sit down and do nothing, my mind produces nothing oftentimes. I start to fantasize about having sex, whether I should buy a new gaming computer, what people would say about clothes I bought a few days ago, whether I need to go buy some groceries and if so, what I'd need and so on. There is not always automatically some deep thinking involved.

On the contrary, I even feel like if my mind needs deep thinking (i. e. think about strategic decisions of my SaaS business), I have no desire to be at my computer. I have the desire to sit on the couch and look out of the window and let my mind do the deep thinking.

I wonder if this "issue" is really a non-issue, because most of the time, our minds are simply bored to death and being disconnected makes not much of a difference. And in times when deep thinking is required, our mind finds a way to make it happen.
Gold's value, like anything else, is (only) that people are interested in trading it.

The reason for that can be manifold, as you mentioned there may be other uses for the material. But then, Bitcoin also has some of these properties: you may not be able to wear it around your finger, but you can display your digital wealth online quite easily, which may not be so far-fetched in an age that seems to move everything online.

What I meant to say was "as soon as you declare Bitcoin having no intrinsic value, you'll introduce premises that will make it hard to attribute anything else such a value without a no-end argument".
"the developer is always the customer and user"

My own criteria is that RESTful interfaces should be easy to use from the command line using curl (or any other similar tool) - not that this is the main way an interface will be used, but it helps a lot with exploration and troubleshooting.
It's in the escribanos' interest for the process to be long and complicated - they're probably charging by the hour.
exactly, the integration between Jira and BitBucket is also top notch.
Propel2 "alpha1" Is Released
Bill gates in India Day 2: Making a Better Pigeonpea
Nigeria's Aliko Dangote is now one of the world’s top 25 richest
Would this work?

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2013/05/17/webrtc-without-a-...
bought those ideas from Xerox and then added a whole load of extra stuff to them (icons, pull-down menus)
Why do you have to "figure it out" when it can easily just be made clear. This is one of the reasons why I am very sceptical of the Chrome trend towards absolute minimalism.
Hang on, if that's the rationale for it, aren't VCs essentially defrauding their own investors by forcing portfolio companies to pay what is really the VC's expense out of the money that's just been invested in them?
I fully agree. Fielding warns in his dissertation about design by buzzwords himself.

Almost all web APIs out there aren't REST APIs because they don't respect the "driven by hypermedia" constraint which makes sense because this constraint was put in place for human users driving applications through web browsers, not for machines.

I've started to formalize a new "Web API" architecture style that takes the best of REST but leaves the requirements and constraints that don't make sense. See this blog post:
http://blog.restlet.com/2013/05/02/how-much-rest-should-your...
So this was basically an S-band radar with a home wifi router? Can we make a mosquito zapper lazer with it?
Yes, I thought Netflix was completely cloud located. I realize now that I've been naive in my thoughts. It looks like they developed their own CDN, which makes me wonder what it was about the existing solutions they weren't happy with. Too slow? Too expensive? Not enough control?

Ah, I bet its the control one. The slides mentioned that they actually knew what the customer wanted to watch before the customer did. This allows them to push content down to a local node in advance of the customer requesting it. Wow, that's amazing and scary all at the same time.
Zynga did not steal away casual gamers from other platforms. They tapped the endless realm of social dynamics. As soon as facebook's growth started stalling, they should have created their own gaming network.
Excercise blanks my mind very well. I find motorcycle riding does as well, but traffic sucks where I live.
If Firefox takes away the ability for Add Ons to create several rows of tabs, I would have lost the only reason I stay with Firefox rather than use Chrome.

I currently use Tab Mix Plus [1]. It's awesome.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820590
Aye. Never let a vehicle be taken until the relevant transfer of ownership documents have been filled out in full and submitted. Submit the forms yourself, don't be tempted by an offer of the person/organisation you are handing the vehicle to dealing with the paper work as a convenience to you. If that is inconvenient for the person you are selling/donating to, then tough for them.

If your country's system is such that the buyer has responsibilities that are beyond your control (i.e. they have to submit the final forms, you can't), make sure you take good copies of everything you fill in and sign so if there are questions of ownership later you can prove you are acting in good faith (otherwise you risk being seen as trying to hide behind grey parts of the process to avoid tax, registration fees, or whatever you are required to do/pay in your current legal jurisdiction).
I found the django docs to pretty good for starting up. Especially as the app they make for the tutorial is for making simple polls. That good be a nice jumping off point for a social network for the kids, ability to make and vote on things.
Buttons with built-in loading indicators
Did you notice Github's Spamming?
Silicon Valley Funding Map
Exactly the opposite. None of Zynga's games are original. They wait until a new type of game becomes popular, make a copy, promote the hell out of it and then dominate the competition.
Action <-> Reaction.

Was Germany humiliated after WW-I ?

Were public and self-identified jews, extravagant enough to warrant hatred ?

Let us take Cuba, South America, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq for example. Both points hold true in each. We have a new, successful Anti- movement.

Isn't it pretty darn obvious where the hate comes from ?

The solution, popular since the 60s is sadly the only way out.

"Love Not War"
IFrustrations
> I haven't really been using Firefox all that much mainly due to how busy the interface is, so maybe leaning it out will make me a regular user again.

Those mockups are busier than the current interface, at least for OSX. The new OSX UI gains some vertical space in exchange for losing horizontal and making the UI more cluttered.

EDIT: Actually it only gains about 4 pixels of vertical space despite all the downsides, including the loss of the title.
I was there today. The emotion was shared and felt by everyone in the room. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like this could ultimately become a serious free speech issue.

Edit: I ask a very dry question at the 45 minute mark. I'm pretty easy to spot because I'm wearing Google Glass.
That gives the data point for 2012, and the sum from 1981. one need to compare that data point to the previous year of the 2011 report, found at an archive like: http://ptolitigationcenter.com/2010/02/historical-uspto-reex...

It would be interesting to make a graph of the issued certificates, and see if for the last ~5 years, the error rate have been improving or worsening.
Postfix and Dovecot work fine together. It's a one-time effort to set it up and it will work for many years. Most of the work will go into setting up spam filtering (Spamassassin), some virus-scanner if you want to bother (Amavis) and perhaps the Anomy Mail Sanitizer, which has served us well over the years, as well as the task of setting up SSL/TLS for SMTP, unless Ubuntu has taken care of that already (Debian Squeeze hasn't ...).

Unfortunately, all Open Source webmail clients I know of (including Redcube, Horde) are cumbersome if you have used Gmail and Fastmail.
Free privare Repo! I am in!
PR Advice for Start Up Businesses
Desk that's perfect for coworking by Miguel de la Garza
If it's written by the federal government, it is not protected by copyright.
But that does not mean it will necessarily be released. If you can't get your hand on it, the lack of copyright protection won't do you any good.
I never used Chrome because I hate those tabs. I also hate them in Thunderbird but I don't use them much.

The rest seems fine, although I didn't see the personal bar ?
Anti-government protest in Iran
I agree, but only partially. Since the sdp mechanism only defines the message it self but not how it can be transfered. a node can bootstrap first via a server to connect to the first nodes, and then continue connecting to more nodes via those nodes that it already is connected. That is if there's a path of links between nodeA to nodeB they can connect via that path and not using a server.
But RSUs are taxed at grant, aren't they?

While there's no tax surprise later on, a company like Facebook can't offer a new employee "an RSU now worth $400K" vesting over 4 years, without triggering over $100K in taxes that second.

Or am I misunderstanding how RSUs are taxed?
Ask HN: Segment.io Backend Stack?
I try search on Google and HN but nothing came up. Do anyone know what are Segment.io using for their Stack? Node.js?
That is very cool. I agree though, the description could be a little misleading, as there is the requirement for the centralised sever.