skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last guy who leaked classified US military information to the press to expose a systemic coverup of abuses was tortured for several years prior to his trial beginning:

His treatment was bad enough that you don't have to be counter-factual about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Detention

Last time I checked May -> April was still 11 months, and definitely not "several years".

> Additionally, Obama himself declared him (Manning) guilty in public before his trial even began. (I wish I was making this up.)

As far as I can tell from Googling, he said in a conversation, in the context of the rule of law, the "he broke the law". And that was it.

Am I missing something?

The rest of the context from the sites Google finds seems to indicate that Manning can't possibly get a fair trial, because the officers who would have to decide his guilt would treat that as some kind of order. Which is simply untrue, as evidenced by Manning's own reaction by asking for a bench trial.

If he had asked for a jury trial he would have had many more people to possibly conceive of his innocence. And the jury pool would have contained enlisted members as well, not just officers.

By asking for a bench trial he's one, and only one, commissioned officer away from being found guilty. That would be an insane choice, if this officer were really that susceptible to finding Manning guilty simply because Obama failed to use the word "allegedly" in a conversation.

Luckily, as Manning realizes since he's actually in the freaking military, that isn't the case at all.
I don't know how familiar you all are with the Montessori method, but I spent Preschool through 5th grade in one and it worked out quite well for me. Basically I had a list of things that needed to get done every week, so I would get them done on Monday and spend the rest of the week researching lasers, learning BASIC in the computer lab, etc.

I think unstructured learning time is hugely lacking in the traditional school setting.
I think the purpose was to ensure existing receivers are compatible and hence the same frequency. I am not sure about how interference will be avoided
Nothing says "future hack victim" like "proprietary security system". These are the guys so notorious for their failure to supervise subcontractors that Hollywood made a movie about it, and now we trust a high-value high-visibility system they just developed?
US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies
Doesn't that also make your sister in law a tattletale?
In the real world, we don't have unlimited time, so we have to try to balance effort required versus the outcomes we desire in order to get the best "bang for buck" out of our time. Your suggestions are incompatible with this imperative.

> Perfectly reproducible deploys and shutting down attack vectors are both very good reasons.

No they're not. Firstly, I already have good enough deploys. Secondly, the attack vector you're talking about - having a compiler installed (!) - is almost not worth mentioning and certainly does not justify the huge extra effort. We're running a business here.

> Only if you're doing `gem install` in production. Guess what? That's not a particularly good idea either.

Says you, and pretty much only you. Anything else is a massive inconvenience. Everyone does this. It may not be "perfect" but again, we are running businesses here.

> If you've got reasons it should be exempt from the best practices that have been learnt elsewhere

No, it doesn't work like that. "Best practice" does not mean a blind adherence to some decade-old set of irrelevant rules ahead of all practical operational priorities. What the ruby community has is a practical balance - workable, efficient, fast. What you suggest rings of a disconnected IT department with no incentive to make life easy for those trying to iterate fast. It smacks of ass-covering and excuses; I know it well.

You've not made any points I find compelling in the least. Anyway, I don't wish to argue about it, I simply wish to point out, to any others reading this, that your opinion on best practise for ruby deployments is controversial, to say the least.

Anyway, I doubt you've actually done any deployments at all in accordance with the ridiculous "best practise" you've outlined. I doubt anyone has. I, on the other hand, have had great success with my approach, as have countless others. As usual, the armchair quarterback has any number of wise-sounding criticisms, but is not actually in the game.
A post now on HN from a forum argument of Jan 2012 has a employee stating that ALL motorola phones use Motoblur, except those hat are not Motoblur use a automatically created login for you instead... So it is still a bad thing...

EDIT: submission I am refering to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5975598
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People have the opportunity to write news, but the will to write news isn't there, yet. With ~9 months of open-beta under our belts and no interference or incentivizing content of any stripe, people just don't cover what's in front of them. Fundamentally, I believe this is because people have a herding instinct and seek to be a member of a larger group. It's also possible that community-level(local) issues are "too close to home" for non-professionals to risk community reputation on.

Many people validate their positions--and themselves--by the quantity of people that agree with them which leads to holding popular positions.

At certain points in time altruism and necessity meet to overcome these social forces, but it's usually only when crisis forces everyone to the table.
I don't know. This particular local news has a pretty good track record for being factual and "uninterested" (an odd word to use). I would trust them over the striking union's web site. But as others have suggested, you might need to seek out the facts yourself. Not many people are going to give you multiple sources for you the form your own opinion.
Just FYI, what Wikipedia is talking about is biased but still random distribution that thus wouldn't have the possible problem of correlation between successive "tosses".

Not that I have any knowledge any given pseudo-random number generator would trouble with long series's of zeros. Still, scheme I had in my parent post was aiming to avoid potential problems with that kind of thing.
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In the context of VC money, this would more like:

"Will you walk all day on a busy side walk
just for the case of coming across a $100 bill?"
This is not what I want in an OAuth provider.

Instead, someone should write a simple daemon I can execute http+json REST functions on to create and verify login cookies and transfer them back and forth to the user's browser using my webapp normally.

The daemon can be written in any language as long as it is not a JVM language.

I would write such a thing, but OAuth is somewhat confusing, and OAuth.io brings up a good point, a lot of the existing OAuth implementations are a bit flaky and if I just copy what they do/use them directly I risk inheriting that problem.
If they've owned this sum for any amount of time, that is actually some argument for their having the proper security skills to run something like this.
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Gee, you completely missed that guy's joke.

Spoiler Alert: A mad neocon would probably want Snowden and Assange dead.

Why am I even taking the time to explain this?
Why would, say, a VWAP order cause more fees than the equivalent limit orders?
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Russia

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:China
Plenty of tortillas in Austin.
I have no problem with that on this end.
Perhaps it's just your install.
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Apparently it was a carrot, as Ecuador spit it back out, didn't they?
Egyptian Protestors Target Helicopters With Laser Pointers
So... if I put a sell order for 1BTC at $10 million, their number would go up to $12.2M?
Slight off-topic question: I want to collect my own metadata at this level (for just calls and SMS)?

From what I can tell I need to collect:

- List of all incoming and outgoing calls and SMS

- Get my location data and match them to the timestamp (?) of the calls and SMS's

- Display this on a map.

Any suggestions on how to do this?
What I hope Amazon is doing in secret
Last weekend I had coffee at the wonderful Uptown Espresso with a friend from a nearby Amazon office. I write "a" nearby office because he's working on a multi-year project so secret that he can't even tell people which building he's in.

Being a good corporate citizen, he wouldn't tell me a damn thing so I made up a story about what I hope he's making...
Sorry my frustration overrode clarity!! the gap across good quality colleges and others is getting bigger and bigger by the day .Unless something is done,these off-center-2% might as well get mixed up and lost.i wanted to mention the sociology-economic gap outside of IIT scheme of things.Its usually expensive if it isn't IIT and when it gets to that it creates all the more gap.Priorities change from educating oneself to undoing ones debts quickly and these very same priories can take one in a very different course.This will only widen the socioeconomic gap and lessen the opportunity for bright minds to come out naturally in times to come.
Appreciate this, good for memory recall.
Are you kidding? I've visited it like 10 times tonight.
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Would anyone be tempted to do this "client-side"? What would that even mean, besides what the browser does automatically? Or are we just saying, "don't trust that the client won't send expired cookies"?
It matters heaps - links submitted by community members with no affiliation to the source have been judged worthy for submission based purely on the content's merit.

Dailydot, extremetech, pcmag, geek, macobserver, betabeat, itworld, bostinno etc have collectively operated dozens of acounts to spam their own stuff, none of which met an actual community member's standards for submitting a story.

Individuals submitting their own blog posts and especially with success are usually so low volume they're not even noticeable unless they overdo it and inevitably get called out for it.
Yep, absolutely.

I was somewhat understating concerns about private companies there to avoid diluting the conversation too much, but I totally agree.

Hell, anyone could put their hands up to blackmail me over my midget donkey fetish, it doesn't have to be the government - but it does reach a particularly nasty level when it is government policy.
Just curious how much you make as a PHP developer? maybe there is still some hope out there for PHP programmers to make good salary.
No, the fault lies entirely with the police and their policies. The police failed, and it's clear to most people who happen on this story.
Pinrose –San Francisco, CA or New York, NY, FULL-TIME

=What the hack is Pinrose???=

Pinrose is a well-funded startup that is bringing fragrance into the 21st Century and online. We reduce the pain from the trial and error process of finding great fragrances by leveraging technology, scent science, and social science. We design and manufacture all of our own fragrances, and we sell them exclusively online.

Pinrose has developed a proprietary synesthesia-based technology that can accurately predict which fragrances each user will love. We can recommend the perfect scents from our collection based on a user’s spotify playlists, instagram filters and facebook activities. This multisensory approach helps us create the scent playlists for our customer’s lives.

=Who we’re hiring=

Now that we’ve raised a fat pile of cash, we are building out our engineering team (contractors, begone!). This is an exciting opportunity to build a novel ecommerce site from the ground up. You will work directly with the founders to architect a solution that provides a new level of customization in a large and exciting vertical.

As an early engineer, you will have a HUGE impact on the product, direction and culture of our company.

We are looking for great engineers who can:

- Architect our full stack

- Own our mobile products (iOS)

- Set up the data layer (there will be…SO…MUCH…DATAAAAA!!!!!!!)

- Build custom recommendation tools, apply cool machine learning and analytic techniques, and use a broad range of data sources

- Tackle interesting and meaningful technical problems

- Have a ton of fun and not take themselves too seriously

=What we can offer=

- Attractive salary + equity

- Creative freedom to architect our stack

- Deep impact on company formation, culture, and benefits – you tell us what we can offer!

- Workcations!

- The right mix of good times and hard work

We are data junkies and hope you are, too. If you are interested, show us something cool that you have worked on and our proud of. Side projects are fine.

Email: pinrosescents@gmail.com.

BOOM!
> Though, if it ends up being France, I will run out and buy a TV just to watch the stupidity that will come out of TV news afterward. :D

Time for the "Freedom Fries" to come back ? :)
It's not perfect, but I don't think it's useless. Historical fundamental data are difficult to come by, the only public (not just internally used at a fund) source I know of is http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/Databases/USStocksDatabas... and it costs a lot. The vast majority of algorithmic equity trading uses just pricing though.
Jane Jensen’s Moebius: She ‘just wanted to make an adventure game’
Wow... Embarrassing that this guy was ever charged in the first place. I thought it was some kind of joke when reading the title or that there was more to it, but nope, that pretty much sums it up, chalk. :|
I definitely think it is still possible, in this era there are some great courses online even better than some schools if I must say. Try Udacity, everything is mainly in Python there and HN loves python so that would be a plus. But in all honesty I would start with PHP and MySQL if I was you, mainly because you will not only be able to find a job right away once you learn those two but you can make web sites very quickly and the learning curve is very easy comparing to say Java or C++. Plus with PHP and MySQL it will start you the way to learn about server side programming and building dynamic web applications and be easier to learn Python or Ruby ( on Rails).
The sad thing is that reddit don't even support it. I posted this on r/ideasfortheadmins to fix both problems:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/xmsan/add...
I wonder where Switzerland stands in all that.
It's not normal in the USA (another Britishism apparently?).

In the USA a date is spoken as "July 2nd, 2013" instead of "2 July 2013", which is why the shorthand date is MM/dd/YYYY (as it lines up with the way it is spoken).
Nothing really wrong with wanting to make money, but this should be an OSS library instead.. I guess I am too idealistic :)
> "This particular local news has a pretty good track record for being factual and "uninterested" (an odd word to use)."

The news organization didn't even bother to cite their source. We don't know where they're getting their information from. Seeing a slide doesn't tell us anything. They could be reporting the misleading information that the comment I linked to you goes through. Or information given to them from management over at BART. Especially when there's conflicting information, it makes no sense to trust one side over another. Especially when it's management vs. labor because both sides want to appear as best as they can to the general public.
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The public should have zero tolerance for graffiti and vandalism of public property. This guy should have been fined and stuck in jail for 30 days. End of story.

I heard they were trying to put him away for 13 years. That is gross abuse by the justice system. If I were on the jury, I would also declare him not guilty, even though he is.

P.S. You do not have a first amendment right to write on public property. People who are too stupid to understand that, don't actually deserve first amendment rights (though I will still defend their rights, anyway).
From The MBA Mondays Archive
> States, like us, really dislike giving up their rights and liberties

'like us' ? I don't know who you are referring to when you write 'us' (the HN crowd, maybe) but if you refer to citizens in general it doesn't seem like they care about giving up their rights and liberties that much after all that has been happening progressively since the Patriot Act.
> Providing a counterbalance makes it harder for the government propaganda machine to sway public opinion against him and turn him into Just Another Terrorist.

Maybe he should tell Russian state media to tone it down a bit then. From http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351981/Is-Ed-Snowde... :

"In several rapidly-aired shows on state-run TV, Snowden was flattered as 'a soldier in the information war, who fights, of course, on the side of Russia'."

As far as Russia is concerned Snowden isn't fighting for some pan-national ideal; he's fighting on the side of Russia
Indeed. My guess is that people who are using the word "hipster" in a review are using it pejoratively to describe a place that they think hipsters would frequent, whereas the actual hipsters who are mapping out sources of PBR have long since moved on to places that aren't cool yet.
The justification for the protests was that the crackdown was a "pilot program" that only affected a small portion of students.
Thanks for sharing this tip.
It's interesting to note that across 165 comments, only 2-3 have even touched upon Quality Score let alone attempted to discuss it in detail.

Based upon personal experience (worked at a company that spent 8 digits on Google Ads on an annualized basis, profitably and successfully over a long period of time) I can assure you that Quality Score does NOT mean very little.

It is also a falsehood to state that Quality Score is entirely about "how a site looks". Google actually even measures how quickly users come back to Google after clicking on an Ad - and if users come back too often in too short a period of time (signal for poor quality ad landing page), the advertiser's Quality Score can be penalized (to what extent, exactly, is of course unclear).
As you have said, the creation/redemption mechanism will enable fair price discovery. The inability of shorting the underlying doesn't matter here, because if the ETF can be redeemed freely, an investor can buy the underpriced ETF and redeem immediately and sell in the spot market.

The only difference of this from actually shorting is the time. During the time of this operation, there may be adverse movement in the underlying price making the arbitrage too risky. It's true that fully efficient arbitrage may not happen.

But saying that there's no mechanism to maintain equilibrium price of the ETF is entirely wrong. If the ETF price is $60/BTC and the spot is $85/BTC, there's a huge incentive for investors to buy ETF and redeem and then sell in the spot market, even if it takes days. People who already have both BTC and USD in their hands can also quickly increase their BTC holdings, for free!

Therefore, the ability to short underlying simply doesn't matter, as long as ETFs can be created and redeemed fairly freely.
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I understand that the limited amount of data can make for some easy false positives on trading algorithms, but how relevant do you really think market movements from over 11 years ago really apply to today?
The wider internet community needs to know about this.
It's pathetic that they trumped up the offense so that writing in chalk would amount to almost the same amount of time as if he had robbed the bank.
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At Hipmunk we're hiring full-stack web engineers (a backend/frontend specialty would be okay if significant), an iOS engineer, and a devops engineer.

The position is in San Francisco. We offer the standard health benefits, in addition to an annual personal travel stipend. Plus we're awesome to work with :)

More details: http://www.hipmunk.com/jobs

Drop me an email at david at hipmunk dot com or use the link at the bottom of the jobs page above
Strange, I'd previously been under the impression your username was intended to be ironic.
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It still looks like crap. Just less crowded crap.
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What do you mean "judged worthy of submission"?
> A True Entrepreneur

Ha. You don't remember Distinctive Software I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinctive_Software#Notable_g...

A company specialized in (not so good) ports on virtually anything they could port stuff on. There were tons of companies doing ports at the time, and Distinctive Software wasn't the best one, that's for sure.
Their website: http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/
30 days for chalk that washes off the first time it rains? Gum on the street is more disruptive IMHO.
The price of ETF and the price of underlying are simply correlated as a result of market forces. There's no "tracking" between the two. The only "tracking" happens to the Net Asset Value of the ETF, which the quantitative fund manager must aim to follow the underlying as much as possible. In this case, by holding 100% of asset in Bitcoin in this trust, the NAV tracking can be assumed to be perfect.

The liquidity doesn't matter if the ETF has a fixed pool (with regular creation and redemption). The volume of the ETF can exceed the volumes of all Bitcoin exchanges combined, because the investors are actually trading paper - certificates that represents some units of the trust, which holds Bitcoin.

If creation needs to happen, the investor needs to give the underlying to the trust in exchange for units. In this case, only BTC changes hands.

If redemption needs to happen, the investor will receive the underlying from the trust. In this case, only BTC changes hands.

So, at the trust's side, it's entirely possible to eliminate all fiat transactions after the ETF is issued. All future changes in units will happen with the underlying only, which is Bitcoin. This is similar to and consistent with most of the stock indices ETFs out there in the market.

An analogy: The liquidity of gold ETFs can obviously exceed the liquidity of physical gold. Actually it already does (for retail investors).
I don't see why you have to store the hash of the token. You know the key you used for HMACing, why can't you just check that the cookie contains a valid hash of the rest of its data (which is as extensive as you need: session id, expiry, IP, whatever)? To prevent the use of old sessions just make the session id a counter. A single session counter per user is probably less hassle (and more useful) to store than the whole hash.
expensive, licences sold to the armies around the world.
It's like Oracle for geography: overbloated, expensive, you need loads of DVDs to install it, when at last the guy you hired to install it is done, you can't do anything with the GUI (assuming to clicked a .exe at random), because you need weeks of training for a "hello world" equivalent.
A submission from a real user implies one of us thought the rest of us might like this. They judged it worth submitting.
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That was indeed the word I was searching for. Thanks!
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Beside the point, but

"a 40-year-old man" "He was a civil rights activist in the 1960s"

doesn't really add up.