skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why I made this video: A lot of the videos and explanations I read about Bitcoin were vague and mystical sounding. Or, alternately, super long and rambling. This is my effort to explain it in as concise a manner as possible.

I'm relatively new to Bitcoin, so any critical feedback would be very much appreciated, especially regarding my explanations for the rationale behind the block chain, and potential security risks posed by large "mining pools."

After doing all my research, the craziest part to me is that the point of all the mining is just to sort transactions. If this is correct, then it seems like there's got to be a cheaper way to do this... maybe ripple's digital currency?
The software is JGAAP (Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program). [1]

Reading the article makes it clear that it wan't an identification as much as a confirmation of Rowling as the author. The analysis was the result of suspicions triggered by an anonymous tip via Twitter.

The analysis used a corpus of only four authors' works. Rowling was the most likely of the four.

[1] http://evllabs.com/jgaap/w/index.php/Main_Page
If the keyboard was really so predominant Blackberry should have beat iPhone, not the other way around.

Not only are icons easier to grok (picture == 1000 words) they usually don't need to be translated into multiple languages for international use.

The backlash against skeuomorphism was not due to a demand for more text. It was due to overuse and, in many cases, crippling functionality for the sake of inappropriate design (i.e. iOS podcast app).
I grew up with simple interfaces. I came up through the monochrome Macs. I loved the early Apple Human Interface Guidelines. I think the first time I said "whoa" was when I saw Enlightenment. Suddenly excess ornamentation was fun. I even advised Steve Jobs (if he read USENET) that "eye candy rules."

So now maybe we've all been through that cycle, and eye candy, excess ornamentation, over the top skeumorphism, is falling away.

That's probably ok.
The headline sounds like the guy was analyzing texts in general and came up with this match; a needle in the haystack thing.

The story is less interesting. An anonymous Twitter tip said, "Hey I think that J.K. Rowling wrote The Cuckoo's Calling." The result of running it through the software was: yeah, she probably did.
My Interview at Google in Zurich
Never knew this is a "method" worthy of an article.
Every one in India[AFAIK] knows this.
I think that women that get upset on this AD are those whose companies were not proud of having them in the team - they are jealous. The type of women who are wearing generous decolletages, but they feel insulted when someone admires their boobs. The type of women who like their eyes to be complimented, but again, they feel insulted when a man compliments their ass.

I think we, as men, try too much to understand them, and they try too much to keep themselves mysterious.
Basic Augmented Reality using Glass
So when is someone going to start the site progammersbeingcunts.tumblr.com?
Do you happen to have an invite?
Clinkle Opens Waitlists To U.S. College Students - Payment Revolution?
>> profanity as a language tool is meant to accentuate things (like an exclamation mark). If you overuse it, it becomes useless.

I generally associate overuse of profanity with laziness in word selection, but that's just me.

I agree with you on overuse. The only times where profanity has any impact on me is when someone who doesn't normally use profanity uses it for emphasis.
You just gonna leave out Pro Tools :).
we are working on a new app to make it easy to do music together over the internet. working hard to release a beta soon, but here is some prototype/early alpha info/demo: http://getbandhub.com

would love to hear from people that are interested in this - you can reach out directly to me paosinaga@yahoo.com
I absolutely adore Red Bull as a company for anything they do with the exception of their core competence that is the energy drink. The drink is just okay. But it enforces the thinking of the red bull mentality.

To provide an opposite viewpoint: the only Red Bull 'event' I think of is Red Bull Stratos (and I had to google the name, if that means anything) -- the little cartoons are usually the first thing I think of.

I'd love to see a compare/contrast of Red Bull and Five Hour Energy, because those are two entirely different brands that attacked different parts of the market with completely different strategies, and both were successful.

(I still drink a lot of the stuff, because to me it's the only sugarfree energy drink that doesn't taste terrible.)
Kind of reminds me of hyperpolyglot cheats

http://hyperpolyglot.org/ml (Ocaml, haskell, scala, F#; last update 2 days ago
Didn't someone come up with a blend of things (poison and flower scents) that claimed to eradicate every mosquito in a X mile radius? Whatever happened of that? Why haven't we been able to make something that'll attract large amounts of them and kill them?
There is absolutely evidence that mental acuity is protective against Alzheimer's.

From [1] Education > 15 years (cf. <12) has the lowest relative risk (0.48) of developing Alzheimer's of all investigated interventions

Patterson, C. et al. CMAJ 2008;178:548-556 (for those that can, DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.070796 )
Help at StartUp Seattle
What do I need other then my idea to pitch for Startup Weekend?
As long as Ubuntu ends up running in my Phone, I don't care if any of the 1% that runs Linux on the Desktop loves or hates Unity.

Smartphones and tablets are the market-share growers now.
Because of the use of the slash in the original post, I suspect he meant this as:

((junior||front end)&&(back end)) developers.

I took it to mean some of the developers in question would be senior (non-junior) backend developers.
It isn't bad.

It also isn't Photoshop.
Nice to see a programming book that's more meta. I'm sure that it will be useful; especially for new college grads.
One Year Birthday of Chrome Bug
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

Its been one year since this bug was reported. All workarounds mentioned don't solve the problem in all instances - some only work with small sized fonts. As a designer its frustrating and have been advising all my clients to use Firefox.
I've never heard of Reaper -- I'll have to look into it!

Switching is a serious pain, especially when music is a free-time hobby and you want to spend that time actually creating and not learning new tools and workflows.
Talent of a certain caliber invites imitators. I will not be surprised if people reading through Linus's email think that it is ok to behave abrasively if you get work done. or even worse, that you need to be this way to achieve greatness.
The choice between politeness and honesty is a false choice. If you care, you can have both.
This is a godsend, and so blatant an alternative. It will be nice to not spend the rest of the summer duking it out with these buggers for control of the porch.
Hi all, OP here. You busted my box.

It seems to be working again now, but I've reposted the article on my Neocities page in case there's another tidal wave of visits.

http://bencollier.neocities.org/
IBM has 400k plus people according to Wikipedia, so 3000 is really a drop in the bucket.

Stock chart doesn't suggest imminent death either.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=IBM+Interactive#symbol=ib...
This particular court? Yes. It's required by the law.
Although true, Google is nibbling around the edges. There are a lot of edges. It's enough to put a crunch on M$.
Is 3 paid weeks of vacation really worth $14,000 to you?
Webhook testing tool: Receive webhooks while behind a firewall
Or a few people could read it, review it favourably and it could become recognized as a credible source. I'd suggest either reading it, or letting others read and comment on it. Don't judge a book by it's cover as they say.

I would suggest though that the author should have solicited a few reviews before posting about it here.
Not exactly. Sadly this is one of those instances where a concise point isn't an accurate one.

Sequencers (Logic Pro, Cubase, etc) were originally built to work along side classic studio hardware. And while more and more studios these days go all software, the sequencer paradigm has stuck because it largely works. You're also right that many soft-synths / virtual instruments are there to emulate real hardware, but there's also plugins like tone generators which are quite a departure from the classic studio paradigm.

Aside sequencers, you can get other types of DAWs like trackers which, trigger digital audio projects like one would with a sequencer; except trackers have a completely digital approach (watching a tracker play is more akin to watching a hex dump scroll down a terminal emulator than watching waveforms scroll horizontally across a sequencer). Then there's DAWs based around programming which are as far removed from skeuomorphism as you can get. But those are very much a niche product.

Also let's not forget that the old studios wouldn't have had anything akin to modern audio editors (Soundforge, Audacity, etc). That's a very modern concept. However because we have adopted the old play/stop symbols that have existed on audio hardware for decades, and because oscilloscopes have made us very aware of waveforms, audio editors often look skeuomorphic even when they're really not (or perhaps it makes more sense to say that they are skeuomorphic, but not out of design - out of necessity due to sound being a wave).
Most Ubuntu Unity nay-sayers are stuck with a Windows95 clone with xterms and fail to see the irony in that.
UPnP on a the WAN is actually VERY common. There are at least 30 million devices out there that have publicly exposed UPnP, see http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A1900

For comparison, there are more public UPnP services than there are HTTPS.

And as a side-note, there are also more Telnet servers than HTTPS servers by a narrow margin.
Ask HN: Should I wait for Tesla?
I want to buy a new car because my used one causes problems and I have plenty of money. My concern is about Tesla changing the whole market in a few years and having this brand new gas guzzler that I'll have to replace pretty soon. Should I wait for Tesla to come out with the Bluestar? Should I go ahead and buy something now? What would you do?
Steady growth over the past 10 years is dying?

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=18241
At least according to snowden, PGP itself is secure , but client security is still awfull.And i believe anonimity(tor) is probably broken by the NSA.

But the question is: is the NSA willing to expose it's hand to spy on some occupy protestors ?
Harmful Communication, Part One: Intent is Magic
We have the technological capability of blowing up cities with nuclear weapons as well. We have decided to create laws and follow moral judgement in order not to do it. We can do the same thing with surveilance.
Yeah, that part kind of bugged me too. What is it about a meta-story (by the article's definition) that makes it neither non-fiction or fiction?
Lessons That Might Have Saved Our Business Had We Learned Them Earlier
Because mosquitos have one of the most powerful cabals of blood sucker lobbyists in Washington. They tend to just swarm anyone left out in the open and drain them of any resolve.
|The only thing I miss is Logic's low latency mode which is useful if your project becomes big and you need to record another track late in the production progress.|

To do this you can "freeze" a collection of tracks in Live. It essentially locks every action you've applied to a track (and perhaps even quietly renders them to temp WAVs) in order to free up computing power.
I have yet to see an instance where salary scaled 1:1 with time put in

Agreed, and I also have yet to see an instance where productivity scaled 1:1 with time put in. So, it works out. :)
Your comments remind me a bit of the interface for the Canon Cat designed by Jeff Raskin. You may be familiar with his classic book...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Humane-Interface-Directions-Intera...
"Seafile"... have we really run out of two-dictionary-word-concatenated-web-2.0 names?
Gophers at Work - A visualization of the Golang over five years
Wow this is really smart. Even in mundane enterprise applications the concept of the Player Model is important. In domain design we often speak of ubiquitous language between developers and business folks for the creation of our application. But we do not discuss how or application layers and builds the player model in a player of our system. Perhaps it is like a story, the player learning the model we have bit by bit, each player picking up the story where they left off.
Looks like a neat project but I would like something that uses Logic.
F1 might be not that popular in the US, but the Red Bull F1 team has been dominating F1 for a few years now.
ProjectLocker (where I work) has integrated exception tracking, so I use that. Especially useful: Twitter notifications of exceptions, which show up on my phone.
If you're willing to spend $300, I've done all my covers through 99designs.com and been very happy.
Samples? Some of us record audio tracks, we don't use MIDI for everything.

For example, if you want to record your band at home, you might have six microphones just to get started (vocals, guitar, bass, snare, kick, and drum overhead). Outboard limiters and microphone preamps are not out of the question.

On the other hand, if you do everything with software samplers and synthesizers, then you just need a computer, Logic, and some headphones.
For non-web, home-made exception handler that dumps the trace to syslog. Then, FATAL and ERROR-levelled entries are forwarded by email (rsyslog's ommail module; http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/ommail.html).

For web, I mostly use Django and Flask and both have [almost, in Flask's case] built-in one features, that sends an email with backtrace and request details when a bug happens.

Should I pay more attention to alternatives?
Don't be afraid to quit every few years. It's the most reliable way to get more interesting work and higher pay.

Whilst I expect this to plateau at some stage, it's worked out very well for the first decade-plus.
I can't say I see your point. What does switching to HTTP bring you?

HTTP is just piping around ASCII.

I don't think you're getting down voted for talking about the downsides of UNIX. You haven't actually mentioned a downside of UNIX, you've just suggested that we should switch to some other model.
Public High School students in the US can't miss more than a pre-declared maximum number of days per year and often face consequences if they miss class after they've been verified to be in attendance that day.

Truancy is taken seriously in the US.
No problem solving? How to fast from sunrise to sunset, when there is no sunset, seems like a pretty major problem if that sort of thing is important to you. And the solution was more elegant than I expected. Religions generally don't take the logical route to solving a problem.
This is great news.
60% of Dementia is due to Alzheimers whilst remaining 40% is roughly split between Vascular dementia (dementia due to mini-strokes) and Dementia with lewy bodies (a histopathological finding).

Unfortunately Alzheimers is largely a pathological diagnosis (ie. it requires a brain biopsy usually post mortem to diagnose) and I didn't dig up the british study this is largely taken from to see where they thought the decline was coming from but it is very good news and should be welcomed!
There is some things which are totally legal, but morally wrong. Canonical doesn't have a legal obligation to contribute kernel code, but it doesn't make their behaviour right, and kernel developers have every right to criticize them.
Having been on lkml before, I can tell you, nearly everyone does it. And, yes, that includes Sarah Sharp:

Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:04:50 -0700
From: Greg KH
To: Sarah Sharp
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] xhci: Remove useless debugging

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 04:28:51PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
The xHCI driver is what, two years old now? It's high time it put on
its big girl pants and stop crapping out useless debugging information.

You now owe me a wet-wipe to clean my laptop up from the coffee I just
snorted out my nose all over it.

From: https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers/...

The wind was probably blowing South East instead of North West or something on the day Sarah decided everyone needed to be more "professional".
If the servers are hosted in any country which is a member of WIPO or otherwise is a signatory to the Berne Convention, then the servers are most definitely within Nintendo's reach.
Estate design in the colonial and antebellum Southeast, where malaria was a huge problem until the 20th century, was arguably designed to maximize breezes and drafts: be on hilltops, surrounded by mostly open lawns without much shade, with tall, open windows.
And me, 28.0.1500.52 on Debian
This is why. This is why... http://youtu.be/L1JYHNX8pdo
Really cool that they have a RaspberryPi server download.
Although it isn't common knowledge, the recommended best practice for avoiding ticks and other bugs is soaking your clothes in Permethrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3sGvZE3rh4

It isn't very well absorbed through the skin so it has an extremely low toxicity when used in this way, as long as you don't breathe it in or let it get on your skin while it's still wet. It's much more effective and less toxic than DEET, and the CDC recommends it to prevent tick infections. Also don't ever mix it with DEET, because the combination is neurotoxic.

The military actually pretreats all of their combat uniforms in this stuff to prevent malaria and other diseases.
Perhaps soliciting initial reviews was exactly the point of posting here?
why? would love to understand. what type of music do you do?
I believe that this is a new item though. For example, usually you can see the reviews for the previous versions in the app store but there are no reviews for Logic X.
For those of you who were commenting and looking for a local only timetracking , I have a git plugin that supports Redmine timetracking, and is git friendly. Also, works for gitbranches and git repos, tracks by repo/by branch or annotated tag - does some other stuff - got to stop adding random features.

https://github.com/PAntoine/TimeKeeper

(EDIT: correct url/project)
"We are committed to a diverse workplace sharing in the strengths of many points of view."

And that doesn't make you cringe?

Admittedly mine wasn't great but there has to be some middle ground
This is the most plausible and interesting interpretation I've heard yet.
Former fraternity house is now a home for innovators at Virginia Tech
Encrypted Bookmarks in Chrome with Hush
+1 - A great example of open source also generating a good business - for users and hopefully the author :-)
New CarJump App 
After a successful launch at the end of April and over 5,000 downloads, a new version of CarJump is now available in the app stores with even more providers, new features and a redesign.

CarJump increases the degree of urban flexibility and integrates the already existing three free-floating providers DriveNow, car2go and Multicity as well as cambio, one of the largest stationary providers. As an eco-friendly alternative CarJump also integrates the bikesharing service Nextbike.

On July 16th, the new version of CarJump will be released in German and English for iOS and Android. The app is, and always will be, for free.
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/carjump/id632718723?l=de&ls=1&mt=8
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghm.carjump
Open Letter on transparency to President of the European Parliament
First off, congrats! I can only imagine what a good feeling it is to publish a book (let alone two, as it appears you wrote a Ruby book as well.)

I'm going to offer some friendly criticism on marketing. (I can't really comment on the content of the book, given that I haven't read it.)

- Invest $50 and buy a nice Wordpress theme off of ThemeForest, because junior software engineers are picky folk. If it nets you two more sales, then it's already paid itself off.

- The table of contents tells me what I'm going to learn from this book, not why I want to learn them. Often, the answer to "why" is either "to make a lot more money" or "to build a lot of cool things I wouldn't otherwise." The three points you outline underneath the ToC hit those aspects much more strongly, so I'd move those above the fold.

- Throwing up an email list where you send me some snippets and then try to upsell me is advised. I haven't heard of you before, so I'd prefer some credentials before I commit to a purchase (remember, I'm a junior software engineer, so both time and money are scarce resources.) Testimonials would also be helpful here.

- There's nothing wrong with a second call to action at the bottom of the page.
Years ago my buddy took a tour of the Amazon. His guide took them to a tree, ripped the bark off, exposing a den of termites. The guide instructed everyone to grab a handful of termites, smash them up, and wipe the resulting guts on their exposed arms and faces.
XBMC Will Gain Full Wayland Support Before Mir
NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America's Mania
I know I wouldn't so it's not 100% or at least not at least 100% of people.
This is not so much motivating, as in saying doodlers actually doodle to absorb content without letting the mind wander. I don't attend to classes for absorbing content (books are fine for that), I do to think deeply about the subject as it's exposed and interact with the teacher with questions, making the exposition richer. This just confirms the doodler stereotype.
Mind if I quote that sometime? You explained my thoughts on the issues of education exactly.
Absolutely, as I said, "new app" (= new item).

AppShopper also automatically started tracking them as 2 items:

- http://appshopper.com/mac/music/logic-pro

- http://appshopper.com/mac/music/logic-pro-x
> inappropriate to advertise explicitly as "we have three blacks, and two hispanics!"

Advice flouted by every college brochure cover photo in the last two decades.

Doctoring diversity: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/09/02/doctoring-di...
Now I want a Red Bull...
The hurt caused by such aggression varies too. Should this not be taken into account, or should we never consider the affects our behaviour has on others? Some people are more sensitive. Some people think calling someone a "dense jackass" as a reproach is OK.

Fortunately for me, I'm in a position to choose exactly who I work with. (Unlike perhaps this Sarah is.)
I think NSA is cognizant of the fact that they could lose the FISA authorization to collect from endpoints at the internet services sometime soon, while they're more likely to retain access to the backbones.

It's bass ackward, since access to the trunk lines lets you read everything. However, most people don't understand what internet backbones are. They do know what PRISM, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google are.

As such, I can see HTTPS providing some limited security from dragnet surveillance, but it certainly wouldn't help if you caught their attention. Remember, NSA can straight up break weak encryption, and SSL/TLS is probably in that category.
JavaScript vs. CoffeeScript is to Running vs. Cycling
We're using HoneyBadger at Magoosh. It's been working quite well for us. The Capistrano integration for tracking deployments is really handy.

We used to use Exceptional because it was really cheap, but maintenance and bugfixes seemed to have stopped so we made the switch
You should enlist in the military and see how well that works. :)