skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simple, you do it just as for any other freely traded currency pair, like EUR-USD - assign some body (central bank or some dept in ministry of finance) a duty to publish 'official accounting rates' and make a procedure on how to calculate such rates such as average rates of multiple large trading bodies.

It doesn't mean an offer to buy/sell at those exact rates (e.g., EUR/USD spot rates at every second will definitely be different from the 'official' accounting rates), but it's a guideline to evaluate value of things nominated in that currency.
That small margin of uncertainty will keep the global warming denialists alive. In the coming days we will hear several myths from them about global warming. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6456476
Similarly, a size comparison of anime (and other) objects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOXjkO9DXxg
I've heard it as "Vee Follow Roads" since it's VFR where you're more likely to use ground features
While interesting, I don't view it as having much of an impact. Page 6 states that there was a significant training period for their machine learning algorithm that involved sending the bluetooth from the keyboard through the phone to train it.

In the real world, if you have compromised someone's phone and have access to their key strokes through bluetooth, why do you need this method at all? Even in some contrived circumstance where it was more feasible, it would probably be better 100% of the time to try to compromise the phone's bluetooth, audio, camera, or wifi capability before targeting the accelerometer and then hoping that they happen to leave their phone close enough to the keyboard and hope that your algorithm can decode keystrokes on a keyboard that it has never heard before, which may also be a type of keyboard that it has not heard before.

All in all, it's a cool experiment which shows that we can do some interesting and non-conventional stuff with accelerometers, but it's not practical in the slightest.
This is going to be a problem for your users. RFC's are worth following when they represent a superset of the standard implementations, but when the RFC is more restrictive than what people actually use you're doing yourself a disservice by sticking to the spec.
Step 1: Mine bitcoins with plausible deniability.

Step 2: Buy stuff with bitcoins, possibly laundering them.

Step 3: Go to jail for intentional tax fraud. Good luck.

You need to spend those bitcoins to get some use of them - if you do it on a small scale, noone cares about losing 20 cents in tax; if you do it on a large scale, it becomes linked to you. For example - seller reports (for tax purposes) who/where they delivered goods; any bitcoin-money converter links your identity to this income; any bitcoin-vs-stuff barter can be a police sting operation, etc. Denying and laundering income is an old, traditional crime - and the same policing approaches that work with cash laundering will tend to work with bitcoin laundering as well.

Paying taxes costs some amount of money - but saying "good luck with that, tax man" can easily go over to crime/jail category; think twice if you want to go over to that road.
maybe, maybe not they use separate paths in general so its quite a bit hard as you need to be closer to the client, or compromise more hosts. not saying it's the bulletproof solution tho. it's definitely not. its just that some services (like ssh) actually provide that feature.
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killnine: btw you have been hell-banned for the past 18 months. pretty harsh.
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Native American Times reported that Oklahoma has achieved an agreement with state for a tobacco compact. Ethel Cook from Ottawa with Mary Fallion from Oklahoma signed a tobacco treaty on September 12.
So how did that class action lawsuit work out?

And isn't this more something for small claims court? You save a lot on lawyer costs that way.
A minecraft or 3d interior map of each would take this to the next level.
With all that money raised I guess the founders have taken enough money off the table that they couldn't care less about what might happen now ...
Configuring OpenSSH with OATH and public keys (2 factor authentication)
Yes, this is just one example. To OP, if he has bothered to check this deep into replies, does Safari do text reflow upon zooming in? Should I attach screenshots to explain?
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If you do, make sure compiler won't optimize it away:

https://cryptocoding.net/index.php/Coding_rules#Clean_memory...
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In the article is states:

"The company is also profitable, and it has been since about a year after the site launched."
From the article:

> The company is also profitable, and it has been since about a year after the site launched. Schaaf declined to share the specifics on what those profits are, but they are at least high enough to have moved the Imgur team from their roots in Ohio to a snazzy new San Francisco office with 10 full-time employees and three contractors/part-time workers.
I created a reddit for this subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dhacking/
Founders of companies raising series-C have not generally taken a lot of money of the table unless they were explicitly permitted to do so by some investor. Given the nature of this business you'd have to wonder about the trust level between the operators of justfab and their investors.
No one ever has Perry Rhodan [1] ships even though they play in the very big leagues [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

[2] http://www.perrypedia.proc.org/wiki/Raumschiffsklassen (German)
http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dhacking/
what if it's your own phone? Like you place it near someone's keyboard and use it to spy on them?

(I confess, i haven't read the paper yet)

btw would this work for laptops? wouldn't the signal be a bit different?
How can I short this stock?
Mr. VC, great explanation. You blame it on the purchaser for the poor usability & cheap business manipulation. Customer buys a shoe, you added a VIP membership by default & you wanted customer to remove that before checkout.

Why can't you just have a intermediate page saying "Save 50% by subscribing to VIP membership at $39 / month" with all the explanation & have "Yes, subscribe me as a VIP member" & "No Thanks" instead of adding that by default ? JustFab won't do that because they know conversion will be much lower.

In every site I have purchased, I have never seen this experience. So how do you want me as a user to SUSPECT a monthly recurring charge like this ?
My bank provides a virtual card service, and I use it for basically everything. I would be hesitant to make purchasing from smaller or new online stores without it.
What I want from my ideal workplace
Bit of an oversight from the Music.app team, unless they decided that it was time to trim functionality and leave it to third party apps to handle.
I don't see how they could offset reduction of mass in the arctic; they're different systems. Note that loss in sea ice doesn't lead to rising sea levels; it's land ice that matters. If Antarctica indeed has a net gain in land ice, then it would be interesting if that offsets the projected loss in glaciers on Greenland. Also relevant is to what extent it's really long term gain in land ice.
7 things about working in I.T. you don’t learn in school
It would almost certainly depend on the country, but if the structure has some kind of copyright, miniature replicas would likely not be legal without permission.

In some countries, building facades and similar can be copyrighted, which is mostly discussed in the context of photography. Some countries have an exception called "freedom of panorama", which gives some fair-use rights for photographs of things that can be photographed from a public street. How broad such permission is varies: in some jurisdictions it's fairly broad permission, while in other countries it may only apply to photographs of a general street scene that contains the building as one element, but may not apply to detailed architectural photography focused on a particular building.

But that's only for photography, at least so far, not for 3d reproductions. To take an existing area where the distinction between the two comes up, in some jurisdictions you can take (and sell) photographs of sculptures that are installed in public squares under freedom-of-panorama, but still cannot sell reproductions of the sculpture, whether full-size or miniature, if it's new enough to be copyrighted.

The above doesn't typically to things old enough to be out of copyright, like Big Ben, or Rodin sculptures, though I wouldn't be surprised if some jurisdictions have special-case laws about use of their famous landmarks.
Nice read, thanks for sharing.

As an arduino noob, it wasn't clear to me why you need a resonator component, especially since it isn't present in your first schematic?

Also, have you given thought to what happens after the battery runs out? Can the battery be replaced by the customer or does the device need to be disposed of?
I do indeed have a WP account. It redirects as well when I'm logged out.
Seems like a rare case where using this technique gives you much more entropy from a good passphrase than from a good password (although I guess over the shoulder watching is similar)
I get what you're saying, they're not hiding anything - but you're still losing out. Instead I took another contract for 2.5 times as much - and I was working a lot of overtime on that contract.

You have a finite number of hours in the day, and your life. Don't give them to someone else to profit off. That's crazy.
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Creating an High Availability Pool of WordPress in Amazon Cloud
The same as cash income - primary way is that you report it yourself; secondary way is auditing suspected violators, possibly involving policework.
People, please don't downvote this guy so much that his comments disappear.
Is it sad that I knew the name of most of these without reading the text? I feel sad.
No I'm not. I'd love to, but there is none for Safari as far as I'm aware of.
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I will admit Microsoft could do better with their pricing. Sql Server Express and Visual Studio Express are free, but I have licenses to all of my development tools ($50 Sql Server developer edition + $500 Visual Studio + $150 Resharper).

Their partner program action packs are relatively cheaper than buying the individual products ($429 Design and Dev action pack includes pretty much everything) or an MSDN subscription.

Their BizSpark program is aimed at keeping costs low during development and Azure has simplified deployment (1 shared instance + Sql Database + 50GB bandwidth for $25/mo).

I've found Node to be a good supplement for some middleware (but it still has bland RDBMS support especially with SQL Server).
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And yet, 'MrGrim' is still using reddit, namely this nice post last week: "I'm finally going to build the computer of my dreams" http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1mjbvl/build_ready...

Nice.
If anyone needs a free dashboard tool for displaying their metrics in realtime, I made this one, which is available on Github: https://github.com/Anephenix/dashku
(Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)
It was offered with a purchase as a way of getting free shipping. It was not at all clear to me that I would have to opt out rather than my membership just being cancelled unless I paid a fee. It felt deliberately misleading and it seemed many shared my surprise when I went looking for complaints afterwards.
I can't find the Star Trek ones!
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We use the exact same model but we have a dev branch for our staging server, thanks for writing it down!
[Rails] Services - what are they and why we need them
I can speak for France, there was a nice Lisp culture back in the days, many current teachers did research in Lisp and keep using it in courses (plt scheme was the first language given to students in 2000-2007). Maybe they're too busy on ml/ocaml nowadays I guess.
Mezzazine uses the term "django CMS" everywhere they can. I think it is to get some thunder from django CMS. Or SEO considerations.
What I mean is the setup that works for the majority of users. For example on my iPhone I don't feel I need to customise anything.

Good for you.

However the world is bigger than you and the first thing I would customize if I had an iPhone: Replace the default browser with Firefox, because that's the only browser which has me covered. Except you're not allowed to do that. It can't be done.

That's a score 0 for something which matters a lot to a lot of users: being able to use their preferred browser. And that's definitely a customization.

In fact if given the options I'd probably mess with them and negatively influence the experience.

Pardon me for saying so, but saying anything like that just makes you sound like an apologist, a shill. It instantly makes you 200 times less credible.
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Hmmm so Star Trek Armada (a quite old Star Trek themed RTS) had the size for the Enterprise quite mismatched for a Borg cube: they were roughly 1:2 or even 1.5:2 in size.
> They haven't for the last 15 years, so that may be exactly what he is saying.

I hear people claim that, but I can't find anything that backs it up. From what I can tell, average global temperature in the mid-90s was lower than today. Since about 2000, the rapid rise from before seems to slowing or halting, but it seems a bit early to say that this is a persistent change in the long term trend. The steep climb from before is undeniable.

In other words, the last 15 years have still been a lot warmer than anything before.
Presumably landscapes with gentle gradients and fewer overhangs are going to be significantly easier to print than architecture.
Perhaps I shouldn't have said 'basically the same thing'. They both deliberately mislead users into subscribing, Amazon is just more subtle.
That's why you should use a credit card and not a debit card for online purchases. If you dispute the charge, it's their money instead of yours that they're recovering.
I'd rather have the Ion Frigate, or one of the destroyers. The Ion was a really cool ship in the game!
I am amazed that this hasn't received more attention.
>btw would this work for laptops? wouldn't the signal be a bit different?

Yes, and that's the major problem with its practicality. The researchers had to make use of a long training period on one specific keyboard (I don't believe they specify how many typists were involved in the training process, though). The rub, is that when they take this phone to another keyboard or have another typist at the keyboard, it will need to be trained again, just to reach 80% accuracy. If you want to spy on someone with your phone there are far better/more reliable/efficient ways to do it that do not involve training a machine learning algorithm to process key strokes from a specific keyboard with, at most, a couple of typists on it (hopefully they are all the typists you want). Not to mention what happens if the phone gets moved. A few inches and their training period would probably be borked eight ways to Sunday.
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"Internet of Things" appears to be the next "Cloud Computing" - an executive-level very cool slang term typically referring to something that involves Internet and some things. Either technically trivial or altogether meaningless upon closer inspection.
Thanks for your reply.

The resonator is shown in the 'Eagle schematic', right in the middle of the picture. The first schematic is just for the moisture sensor. I used it as a crystal to run the ATMEGA.

When the battery is gone, you just pop open the enclosure and put in a new CR2032 coin cell battery. You can get those at every gas station or supermarket.
Boating. Unless it's an amphibious model.
I'm listening to an audio book right now - I can select any chapter I want and it shows the chapter length fine. This has been working the second I upgraded to iOS7 the day it was released.
Sure in some cases. Don't forget that patents cover a diverse array of innovations. What exactly is being infringed upon is not always that obvious.
This will be a great sample for the study a few years from now that tries to identify the source of the next boom and bust. I hear the real estate market is heating up globally.
Wikipedia, first hit on Google:

"Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions."

But this is so easy to find that I suspect the details don't really matter to you. Perhaps another wikipedia article might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
What if you pushed your feature branch and then need to fix something in that branch later? How do you handle this case as you shouldn't rebase a pushed branch?
Great write-up, but I have a few questions

1) don't different plants need different amount of moisture in the soil? How do you account for that?

2) why does moistly check the moisture levels so frequently? Wouldn't hourly or even daily be more than enough? I assume partly you are checking regularly because the alarm shouldn't go off after you've done the watering, but what about checking regularly if the last check was 'dry', but not as regularly if the last check was 'wet'?
I'd say the Prophet would flag such a post.
JustFab is not a 'scam company' (in the sense that they may not be doing anything technically illegal), but they are using DARK DESIGN PATTERNS[1] to trick at least some people into doing things they don't want to do.

The checkout page[2], in particular, seems designed specifically to trick people into signing up for recurring monthly charges. Any person who adds merchandise to the cart and then clicks the big 'Continue Checkout' button -- without stopping to read all the surrounding text -- will unintentionally sign up for the $39.95/month "VIP" plan.

My mom, who is trusting by nature, would never stop to read all that surrounding text, because she has been conditioned by years of online ordering to add items to a cart and then find and click the big checkout button. She would be tricked into signing up for recurring charges.

--

[1] See http://darkpatterns.org/

[2] http://imagesup.net/?di=15138026329215 -- this was posted by one of the company's investors elsewhere on this thread. It's a canonical example of a dark design pattern.
Nice, but wrong
Ooh, I should take a look at it.
ECB is publishing reference rates:
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index...

I don't know if they quality as "official", but probably good enough for taxation purposes.
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They must have unusually low chargeback rates. It doesn't seem like they are that bad of a deal in the scheme of purchasing clubs like this, right?
It seems that you invested in a scam. Hopefully they will be out of business soon.
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Apple’s patent suit shut down by a 2007 video of Steve Jobs
In a nutshell: the debug registers are not part of the set that ends up in the saved tss after a context switch, and accessing them is a privileged operation so after a cold boot (assuming the original source of the keys was wiped) there should be no trace of them in RAM.
Number of apps installed is not what defines clutter.
Completely outrageous for a CMS built with Django.
All right, so I faced the storage problem during last year. I moved 2 times and I will move a third in March. I am single, live in Europe, I change countries a lot.

I would use this service if it were more flexible. For instance, I have a 20kg inflatable canoe that I carried around from Frankfurt to Munich, from Munich to Bruges and in March from Bruge to Munich. I use the canoe only few times a year. If I could pay few bucks per month to live it somewhere and then ship it with UPS (at good prices), it would be big for me.

More importantly, if I had a place somewhere in Germany, I would buy a foldable canoe. The same with other stuff like furniture and all, all stuff I would have liked to buy but I couldn't as I move so much.
Reminds me of BMG Music Club
Do you think that the people subscribing to this are knowingly doing so? Do you think they have decided that $X/month is worth what they are getting?
Just wanted to note that there are frivolous litigation rules that allow for sanctions against the party bringing a bogus suit and allow the target of the suit to recover attorneys fees. It would be standard practice to include within the motion to dismiss a section also moving for these remedies. Thus it is likley that the cost to fight back against the troll would not have been 200k - with or without the pro bono.
> Well, it's not. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooli....

Really? The Daily Mail? And you think a one-year fluctuation contradicts a long term trend?

Had you actually looked into this subject, instead of clinging to some random image that seems to say what you wish to be true, you might have known that 2013 is still the sixth lowest year for arctic icecap size. And the other 5 are in the past 6 years.

You think a random image proves anything, but the only thing it proves is your own ignorance on the subject. The arctic icecap is rapidly getting smaller.
http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#downvoted

being factually wrong in the face of this many comments will invite my downvote.

> "It does not try to position it as anything other than a subscription, and the language is plain english."

In my opinion, that is simply factually wrong.
Here's a question:

Upon learning that many of your customers are unhappy and believe themselves to have been tricked into subscribing, do you:

a) change the process, or

b) defend the process?
Based on those Quora answers: found or die.
I think that's slightly unfair.

The reason a lot of people like Android is that they can customise it to remove even the slightest friction from the things they want to do. They have to make a bit of an investment in time to do that but to them that's a good thing because it will pay off.

Android is absolutely more about what you want to do to your phone than iOS, but I'm not sure it's fair to suggest that it's not about doing things with your phone. That feels a bit like someone just trying to find a comparison to make it into a nice phrase.
Dashing by Shopify is also pretty good https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
Good luck finding a cheap patent attorney. All those admitted to the patent bar must have a technical background. That only raises the price.
Small is not enough, think tiny
a projected increase in average global temperature does not necessarily imply any particular response. you need to benefits at the costs and benefits of global warming as well as the costs and potential effectiveness of 'corrective action'...
You could almost certainly find a away to pierce the corporate veil in this case so that's not really a concern.