skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not ping google?

Whenever I want a username that isn't associated with any internet persona of mine, I look around on big forums for names and start googling them. I think the best is to find one that's a character in some obscure book/story, and then pick another character from that story - thank Wikipedia for having this type of info for all sorts of things. Best is something odd enough that it isn't likely to be taken already, but still common enough that the search results for it are too noisy to see a few forum posts.

But then, it depends a lot on what you're trying to hide, and who you're trying to hide it from. Keeping bored teenagers on 4chan from finding your home address and keeping whole departments of the FBI from tracking you down are whole different ballgames.
This is exactly what I thought when I looked at it...
Is there any relationship to the schools?
So, one additional way to secure your bitcoins would be to have a "deadman's switch" machine with a copy of your wallet. If you don't enter a passphrase into the machine by a certain date, then it will transfer your wallet's contents to another "bugout" wallet. This invalidates the seized copy of your wallet. Companies that offer this service should also offer a feature that causes "anonymous donations" to appear in your legal defense fund.
I don't think that's the whole story, given that the software that runs on their devices isn't much better...
Enforce everything - Covertly install git precommit hooks
I may not be your target customer, so do take my design comment with a dash of salt.

1. Your site design seems to be targeting young children with the colors overflowing outside the borders, or yellow highlights on the text. Unfortunately it also makes your site seem not very professional.

2. After I choose a date for a lesson and a teacher, maybe the availability calendar could show me the same date I chose, so that I need not scroll to find the date I had already chosen

3. In the FAQ/Support section, do put in some information on payment modes - credit card, paypal etc.
It's important to factor in the importance of reusability. When someone makes a D3 visualization, it is infinitely reusable and hackable. So next time you want to make a map of killings in Chicago, you have it ready to go, and you just plug in the data, rather than having someone re-make it by hand. When you're a news organization, where speed is obviously of the essence, this investment has to be a no-brainer.

As Bostock's incredible skill is deployed on a variety of visualization problems, the New York Times builds a library of visualizations and templates that they can use for the foreseeable future, as long as the data is in the same format. That is incredibly valuable.
Hotmail started out as a unix-based system. Microsoft bought it, and over a period of years moved it all to Windows. I would be stunned if there's any unix, linux, bsd, or oracle left at this point.
It shouldn't matter. NT was designed to be platform agnostic; it was written on the Intel i960, a long-forgotten RISC processor from Intel, by guys who had cut their teeth on VAX and Alpha, and was released on x86, Alpha, MIPS and PPC. There was even a SPARC port which never saw general release. I was running SQL Server on NT on Alpha in '96 or thenabouts, and bloody quick it was too! Porting NT 7 (or whatever Windows 8 really is) to ARM or POWER or whatever is not going to be a big deal.
Perl 5 Internals: Part Four
I would think it's a pretty safe assumption he already had multiple copies of the wallet/private keys stored before he got arrested.

Just from a redundancy standpoint you don't want one copy of your wallet in one location as it could get corrupted or destroyed in a disaster.
This is sort of like the Homermobile, only they gave Homer a news room and said "Go for your life and make the coolest newsroom ever to grace this green earth!".
It's very hard to impossible to really judge based on these short examples but I can totally relate to both of you. E.g. if you see a feature that seems to be free in terms of coding it is very hard to resist offering it. If you do that over and over you realize there are at least two problems with this:

* It's never free. Do you have tests for this? + it will restrict your way you can refactor the code.

* Product features are not always good, product complexity is actually a bad thing and it is unlikely that you don't increase it.

That said, it will make some users happy, so it may be worth it - all I'm saying is that this should be a conscious decision, it isn't a no-brainer.
The title is a bit more literal than I hoped.

Opened link, saw huge list of text links, closed.

You know, it would be cool if the list of d3 examples was itself a cool interface powered by d3.
That's true, but for better or for worse US Attorneys have a very strong track record. Over 90% cases where the government files charges end up in guilty pleas or guilty verdicts.

Particularly given the potential capital sentence, I'm pretty sure he's lawyers -- expensive or not -- will recommend taking a plea if one is offered. Whether or not he'll take it is a different story.
It is a weird claim. Talking Heads, I believe, were squatting in the east village when they came to NYC. Many artists and musicians around that same time (mid '70s to mid '80s) did the same, in the East Village or over in the even more dangerous Alphabet City. (We're talking true post-apocalyptic decay and weirdness here.)

They could do this because no sane person would live there and pay rent if they could go elsewhere. Were it safe and clean there would have been considerable competition for living there, rents would go up, and the artists would be out.
This one has: http://christopheviau.com/d3list/gallery.html
Thanks! That's sort of what I was afraid of, but if this might be the route I have to go then it'll give me a better shot of getting into a program. By then I'll see how well the current crop of Georgia Tech students like the program and go from there. I'm doing a Machine-Learning class from Coursera / Stanford starting next week to give me a taste of things, too :)
The Return and Risk of Pursuing a college BA
Obama Takes Shutdown Government to the Apple Store
If we limit ourselves to when things got stable in Mid-May, we see that the price has indeed drifted down from ~90 to ~70 then back up to 140, then bounced around between 120 and 140 over a period of weeks[1].

"Relatively stable" is not the same thing as "stable". That's ~40% variance, perhaps more (glanced, didn't do the math.) While not as bad as 260-130, it still ain't pretty.

[1] http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg180ztgCzm1g10zm2g...
It's hard to characterize someone based solely on a series of vignettes but they do seem a bit familiar. I've worked with people that seem similar to Mr. X and, at least a couple times, have had to report to someone like him.

In my opinion it's important to keep one's idealism and practicality balanced. For instance: solving the company's problems first and letting the customer solves their own strikes me as both practical and reasonable. Opening one's mouth and recommending that code be literally cut-and-pasted repeatedly may sound practical, but in practice I've learned that's rarely the case.

I think the perfect mentor is nearly impossible to find. I believe that I've been well served by reporting to a variety of different personalities and striving to emulate those things that, as far as I could tell, where helping them succeed. That's a bit of a punt, but I don't think there's an easy answer here.
Another thing to keep in mind is the political aspect of choosing a tech stack, especially for a startup... As you'll surely notice right here in the comments, MS tools are not what you could call fashionable in many tech circles, and that could hamper a startup ability to raise money, or affect it's market value unless it's a smash hit like Stack Overflow.

It's up for debate whether the bad reputation is deserved by Microsoft in 2013 or not, but fairness is not what's important here...

For my part I once used C# in the past for a couple of projects and I have very fond memories of it. It's a well balanced language with very solid tooling, and the Mono stack seems nice as well. In a way, I'd be happy to use it again on a new project... but at the same time I must admit that being rid of the stigma of using MS tech is a pleasant feeling. And it's indeed expensive, although it has never been my job to worry about that.

In a way, for me, MS tools are like that old out-of-fashion shirt that you I still like to wear from time to time even though you know people will think it looks weird.

To my wife, if she reads this: Sorry, I'm not getting rid of the shirt.
I have been through that in my collage days but recently we developed a quite complex module of large Enterprise application for US client and our head of enterprise department(who has been a programmer in the past) evaluated our work on the basis of the number of pages in the application.
Thanks, that was very kind of you.
Don't forget SR1 was shut down due to a forum post that was linked to an anonymous PHP question on Stack Overflow. [1]

There's nothing illegal in this repo, sure -- but definitely don't even think of implementing it yourself. Or even use it.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took...
>In the end Metro breaks everything

Does it actually break anything? In the sense that programs written 10 years ago don't work.
They are claiming innocence but the burden of proof is beyond reasonable doubt. What his lawyer claims in public is irrelevant to the trial.

DPR has a number of defences available that could render the issue of the wallet moot. Most importantly by denying access to the wallet he has a huge point of leverage, both in settlement and retaining counsel. One of the keys to drug law is seizing all assets so that the defendant has no means of defending themselves.

Perhaps the settlement is no prison time and a $80 million dollar fine. Keep in mind that in order for it to be introduced as evidence a copy must be provided.
This was my experience when traveling in India: "Is this train XXXX going to XXXX?" "Yes."

Four hours later--no, definitely not the right train.
Oh come on.
I have great respect for Mr.Odersky.
C++ was the language that taught us OOP and helped us make so many abstractions that were otherwise not possible.

Also, C++ is not something that people write not critical software with. The browser that I write this reply is written in C++, or the server that processes this may be written in C++.

Scala is also not something that people write "less serious" code. e.g., Twitter frontend services are written in scala.

Every language has solved some or other problem. It is nothing like someone does less serious stuff with it.
Yes, I have started to enforce a policy of explicitly declaring val types, but I would almost prefer it if Scala enforced this instead of me.
I hadn't heard of Typescript, but I think we'll be seeing a lot more efforts along these lines. Despite the pain and inelegance of compiling something to Javascript, I see two inexorable forces that will lead a lot of smart engineers in that direction.

First, running the same UI code on the front-end and back-end will enable the best performing apps across platforms. Imagine being able to run a rich client on a powerful PC that just talks to an API and does all the rendering as a single page app, while simultaneously being able to serve up pure HTML/CSS to mobile devices and search engines. Being able to run code on the server or client as needed solves too many problems to ignore.

But on the other hand, javascript flexibility and lack of type system will inevitably cause problems as the codebase grows unless you have a good lead developer to define standards and an iron-fisted approach to code reviews.

Personally I think coding standards are a stretch with a language as wild as javascript, and a higher level language to enforce certain things is the best way to reconcile these two problems. I can even imagine supplementing with something like (for instance) a Haskell library that lets you generate JS code for interfacing with the back-end in a provably correct fashion, and plugging that into the UI code.
Ugh, I clicked a few of the earthquake examples (did a similar viz in the past) and saw that none of them was working.

Then looking at the curl responses one gets, "Due to the Federal government shutdown, usgs.gov and most associated web sites are unavailable. Only web sites necessary to protect lives and property will be maintained."

One can only wish they saw these and similar APIs as important infrastructure that needs to remain functional.

Otherwise -- this is very helpful! Thanks so much for assembling the collection.
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Available for free download or reading online at Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4600

Or, if you prefer, here's the tl;dr version:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hazard_of_New_Fortunes
Thanks for the promptness. This list is awesome.
I haven't done it recently, but the pain in ASP.NET always seemed to be the deployments. Has that improved? Development productivity is one thing, but what I remember is being unable to push a release to a remote server without having to fly an engineer out to the console.
I just signed up and migrated (manually, as there doesn't seem to be any way to import stuff) my blog from tumblr.

http://kristianoellegaard.silvrback.com/ vs http://blog.kristian.io/

To be honest, I think it is a bit too minimal. With the tagline "own your brand", I find it strange that the site is completely white and generic - what exactly is my brand then? Not even my name or picture is in the header.

I was also hoping for the posibility to write a synopsis for each blog article, as I some very long and technical articles that I don't want to be displayed in its full length on the front page. This unfortunately isn't possible.

Furhtermore, I find the menu thing extremely strange. It took me a while to discover it and I don't think it's very user friendly.

I have to say that if the above things are not fixed, I don't think I would want to move my blog at all. Fortunately I signed up for the monthly plan.

Edit: Also, it would be cool to let me store the markdown documents in Dropbox, so I could use a proper editor (and also for import/export).
Chromebook Pixels continue to drop in price on EBay and they are an absolute STEAL if you are willing to put in the work.

The hardware presentation is better than my rMBP 15. I just don't like having to jump through hoops to get it to do what I want.

They could have sold a lot more had it had a native Linux option OOB.
Not impossible, but not easy either considering PHP is single-threaded and synchronous.
Is this similar to Cryptosphere [1]?

Federated networks/decentralized hosting seems to be the future for anonymous storage and communication. I'm curious to see what will be the first real world implementation.

The black market drug industry always seems to create pioneers of new forms of subversive technology (see narco-subs).

[1] https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere
Good point! Still, I think the best hash inversion I've seen is slightly under 1/2 the hash space (2/5ths?). Using a 512-bit hash like SHA3, even at an ungodly hash rate (1 TH/s), you still get approximately 2^141 seconds = 2^133 years maximum chain length before it becomes more efficient to invert the hash.
> "boring rich"

This anti-rich "occupy" shit is getting real old. We get it, you don't like people who have more than you; give it a rest already.

> Taking away money isn't the plot of Harrison Bergeron, taking away ability was.

Harrison Bergeron is about equalization via crippling. If you want to make it just about muscles and brains, then fine, but you are only taking away a very limited message from it. Stripping NYC of it's primary asset over other cities like Philadelphia and Chicago is one way to make NYC resemble those cities in terms of 'housing for poor people', but it is absolutely the wrong approach to take. Don't smooth inequality by tearing people or cities down, smooth inequality by building people and cities up (figuratively and literally, in the case of cities).
Dpadd wouldn't exist without it! Are you still at GB? I've been talking to some folks over there about some opportunities with GB/Dpadd. Thanks for your hard work!

-Clayton (Dpadd guy)
Just a thought: the "Link Rot" link should really be a Mummified link. I know Wikipedia isn't disappearing any time soon, but it just seemed silly to me not to "realise" the use case!

Anyway, very sexy site design IMO.
You are correct that the problem is the manager and not Kanban, but in my experience it has been the case that the problem is always the management at some level. The point of this article is that if you think adopting Kanban is going to solve long standing organizational and inter-personal issues, you're in for disappointment.

I have personally experienced this situation more than once. A manager/team/organization who claims to be adopting (Scrum/Kanban/etc) but when push comes to shove they immediately discard any discipline imposed by any approach their team has decided to commit to, thereby rendering it completely pointless.

If your manager is competent enough to understand the reasons for the rules of Kanban (or any Agile methodology), and has the power to enforce those rules despite pressure from other parts of the organization, then it's likely you don't need to ascribe to a particular methodology anyway. Your team will adopt an approach that works best for them, borrowing best practices from various methodologies, and will get the job done regardless.
You are either crazy or maybe just not a very good programmer, if you think that tons of boilerplate is no problem because sometimes your IDE can generate / hide some of it for / from you.
I'm all in favor or changing laws - but here the case is more difficult than a law that obviously has been overtaken by reality:

* One issue here is widespread tax evasion. There's no way we can have a debate about tax evasion by just stating "that law should be changed, I'm not paying those taxes." And AirBnB was clearly aware of that issue, yet they chose not to do anything about it. Their FAQ even state that you have to comply with local rules and restrictions and now those that didn't have a problem.

* It's not like AirBnB is having this problem only in New York or in the USA - the same debate has sprung up in Paris, Munich, Hamburg and Berlin, indicating that the problem is more widespread and not a problem with common law.

* Registering as some kind of "I'm renting out rooms to short-term visitors" might or might not be a good thing for society. It certainly ties in with the above point - anyone registered would have to pay. However, this is a city regulation, it's not part of the common law system. The city could change the regulation if the majority deemed it appropriate though. Until then, this is not "opt-out" without consequences. You can either comply or bear the consequences if you want to challenge the law in court. Otherwise I could just argue that any regulation is not in the best interest for society and opt out. I, as an individual don't get to make that decision.

> The reason for this is that the cost to those being prosecuted is so high it constitutes a punishment in and of itself.

But that's not the issue at stake here. This is certainly a massive problem of the american law enforcement. I don't know how to solve that though, but that issue is reaching much further than AirBnBs feud with the New York GA. See patent trolls etc. that all leverage that property of the system to their interest.

> I believe it is one of the great political and legal challenges of our time to reverse this trend, perhaps you think otherwise.

I totally agree here, but I don't think that "ignoring any law I personally deem unjust or senseless" is the way to go.
Your proposal is no better than the 3 letter server farm working alone. If the poisoner is not inside the wealthy attacker, then the attacker knowing this scheme is better off not cooperating with anyone, including you.

Even if that were not the case, your scheme relies on your identity being a secret, which essentially is "security through obscurity".

We have to assume that a dedicated attacker knows no greater incentive than breaking the encryption. Anything else is foolish, IMHO.

Edit: clarification
There are only 3600 BTC per day being generated. They can't just generate a few million bitcoins. At best they could do a 51% attack and double spend bitcoin, which would cause problems but it's been done in other digital currencies and the currencies have still survived.

If they did amass a large volume of bitcoins and dumped them on the market the market would drop but like every other drop it would probably be temporary as people love buying cheap BTC when the market crashes (look at the crash after DPR was arrested, bounced back in hours).
I would have never have thought $100 bills would be more common than $20 bills.