skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but probably not as expensive as you launching it in the first place as a percentage of money involved. I'd bet there are a few old birds up there that are still under control, but not serving any particular purpose. Steer it into a collision course, and bam, your server just became a cloud of garbage orbiting the Earth.

On the other hand, that would seriously piss off the rest of the international community, especially if the two satellites were high enough to clutter up existing satellite traffic.
Do you deny that always envisaging programmers as males put female programmers at a disadvantage? Read the usage note here and think for yourself: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/He
Local slang for credit card has occasionally been "plastic" so plastic money would result in infinite bad jokes about already having plastic debit/credit cards?

The old "light a bill on fire and then light your cigar on fire with the bill" thing isn't going to work well as well anymore.

Another local peculiarity is the locals (more or less correctly) don't trust the local plastics industries so we'd get all kinds of push back because the .gov is only trying to switch to plastic to get more BPA in our diet to control our minds and stuff.

TSA agents can't figure out how to make a deadly weapon out of a paper dollar bill, but if they figure out how to ban cash from flights, its going to be a mess. Presumably they'd be smart enough to use self-fire-extinguishing plastic. Despite the fact there's no way you'd confuse C4 with regular plastic, I guarantee you'll have an infinite number of stupid hollywood movie plots about plastic explosive counterfeit bills taking down airliners because they hate our freedumb or something equally idiotic yet politically powerful.

My examples above sound pretty dumb, because they are, yet they're also serious, which is sad. So thats why we're stuck with paper.
What if you use the web version?
Libertarians have no problem admitting that the state may do some good in some regards. In fact, it could potentially be an immensely positive force. I think where libertarian attitude diverge away from the mainstream view is that the state is nevertheless evil. Perhaps a necessary evil to run the world so to speak, but still evil because it must violate rights of people to exist by definition.
"Appears?" It's called Silk Road 2.0 and described as a tool to run black markets without the possibility of state intervention.
What Is Google Dance?
Sharing Is (Still) Hard
People like Malcolm Gladwell and Oprah (her gross promotion of The Secret was pretty bad) are basically snake oil salesmen or con-men. They'll tell you something you like to hear for a small fee, but you'll be no better off for it. In fact, depending on what level of credibility you assign their claims, you may be worse. It's frustrating, but part of the human condition. I imagine it wasn't too long after language was invented that the one human looked at another and made up a story that was credible because the audience was scared or frustrated at being saddled with the human condition.
true fact: I didn't share the images in this blog post correctly the first time. I used the Dropbox links from the shared folder view, not the shared link view. It's obvious what I put it that way, right?
CSS Media Queries Explained
Indonesia and Malaysia aren't part of Oceania, nor are the British Isles.

'Oceania' is a way of saying "those Anglo countries that think they're part of South East Asia, but aren't. And we'll throw in the polynesians as well so it's not so obvious what we're doing...". So many times when I see references to 'Oceania', people are really just talking about Aus/NZ, and sometimes even just Aus.
A title like Silk Road 2.0 makes me think you want attention more than you want a distributed anonymous marketplace. Why not focus on having a distributed marketplace that also happens to be anonymous instead of focusing on the anonymous aspect so much?
> As far as JSON

I wasn't clear on that example. If he's talking about CSV, there's nothing wrong with that (though I wouldn't call JSON "bad"). If he's talking about delimiting text with the bell character, yeah, that's ghastly.

> without context

I feel like most of the examples don't have enough context to make a fair judgement.

If it's just a small amount in one place, simple formats like CSV and JSON can easily be parsed, and especially generated, manually. If they're used all over the codebase, manual parsing would create a huge amount of duplicated code. There just isn't enough context.
When the close button doesn't close
Calling this SR2 might not be the best idea, given the intent of the original.
Whine about hating America somewhere else, you have nothing original to add. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would a distributed marketplace even charge a fee? I would assume all users would be happily compensated by the existence of the marketplace. The lack of fees also increase margins/decreases price
They're very compartmented, as it turns out.

But Snowden was a sysadmin and successfully managed to digitally impersonate persons actually in the right compartments, among other things, in order to get access to the data he wanted.

I suppose it's better to say that NSA is too reliant on contracted systems administrators to handle what should be inherently governmental functions, and that they don't properly compartment sysadmin functions. But then again, is it even possible to completely protect a computer network against an insider sysadmin threat?
I agree. I think the safest bet would be to keep a static image as well. Without a static image would will always question if the rendering engine has even slightly changed the look.
I think the long tail of hardware is becoming more viable just by virtue of the fact that it is easier to presell and prepromote a product without risking a large up front order. That changes the game in a lot of ways.

I'm not sure that demand has changed so much as the changing cost going to market.
I would be curious the speed with Typhoeus for the adapter...
Why are we encouraging black market?
I've heard that there are magic pan-dimensional pixies that will destroy the universe and potentially other universes if you post another link to a book on amazon today.

It might not be true, but remember, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and this is a case where risk really is unbounded, so you better be cautious.
There is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the billionaires behind those factories should be in jail, you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.
Amusing anecdote: I was at a pg talk last week, and afterwards someone in the audience came up and asked if SR being gone meant there was a market niche for a new startup.

pg's answer was that it was in no way worth the risk, there are lots of other things you can try without the large risk of ending up in jail.
What's up with using github for what amounts to a text post? It makes the link misleading (implying that you actually have some code), and it's not a great use of github anyway.
Regarding 4), as a thought experiment, I was wondering earlier how you'd authenticate the "trillion dollar coin."

Hypothetically, it's possible to mint a one trillion dollar coin to get around the debt ceiling crisis[1]. It's an absurd idea anyway, but what if that coin was made and then lost. Someone says they've found it, but how do we know they're not lying and have just made a forgery?

Assuming that all details of the coin (its exact elemental composition, dimensions, etc.) are publicly known, I thought a possible solution would be to take an electron microscope and image the grain structure[2] of the coin in a specific region (e.g. the eye of the statue of liberty? if that were on the coin). Then hash that grain structure (in a similar way to how one "hashes" fingerprints), sign that hash with a very-private-key, and laser etch the signature onto the coin. Since it's not possible to recreate exact grain structures, it'd be impossible to forge your coin :)

Alternatively, you could probably introduce some specific radioactive isotope to definitively age the coin, such the time since the coin was minted could be definitively measured, and any attempt at forgery revealed, though I'm not sure how to make that work in practice. There are probably other solutions too, though I can't think of any off hand. There must be things people do already to authenticate high-value "natural" objects such as gemstones? Like a laser-etched serial number? I don't know...

An absurd scenario I know, but an interesting thought experiment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion_dollar_coin
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_structure
Considering DPR presumably made $80 million in bitcoins before he was caught,

>definitely don't even think of implementing it yourself

is not very convincing...
The new webkit srcset attribute explained
You can also use letters instead of TLS
Do Facebook have any rights at all to dictate what browser extensions do?
I'm convinced that one of their goals is to discourage counterfeiting by making our bills as ugly as possible. /s
Several countries have ASATs. There are probably other ways to destroy/disable satellites. How much would it cost?
But the user has no access to file symlinks without escalating to admin every time they want to make one.
Why are you so scared of black market? It's just another word for people trying to make transactions with one another voluntarily.
No, don't let people ever discourage you. That wasn't my intention.

I think I responded to myself and my friends j-school, all poor students with the wrong expectations. Largely journalism attracts and employs careless and self-righteous people, so I was a good fit.

In engineering though there isn't alot of room for that. And the opportunity before us is unprecedented, to build our capacity to do something special with our work.

And there's a risk that because it's so easy to sign up and get started, it'll be just as easy to fail and never try again, or worse get nothing out of it.

I've spoken to some people involved in program at Georgia Tech, and they're advice is to take other online courses because skills transfer. Plus they make us much better at what we do.
Show HN: Poleica, Ruby conversion tool.
You should check Vinnie Falco's work to get FreeTypes to compile like this:

https://github.com/vinniefalco/FreeTypeAmalgam
https://github.com/vinniefalco/Amalgams

SQLite also has an amalgamated distribution for easier embedding.

The only gotcha I've seen with this method is when the debugger (Visual Studio in this case) can't handle more than 32768 (or was it 65536) lines. Usually the work around is to furthermore split into several, not one amalgamated versions.

Game developers love libraries coming this way, since using them right away is much easier, and often there is only one thing being shipped (the game exe).
I hate this knee-jerk response so many have that copy/paste == bad. You aren't in any position to create a generic API until you have at least 3 implementations, so unless it's a very obvious solution service, or you are practising some kind of extreme waterfall, copy/paste could be the best way to go. I'll hypothesise that most of the architectural problems we have are down to the cult of prefactoring.
That may be a very accurate prediction. With the rest of the world afraid of using the US's cloud services for fear of NSA monitoring, something is going to crop up to take its place. First it will be some kind of personal usage, like p2p for trading pirated MP3s and eventually someone will start using it for a business, editing spreadsheets and the like.

Decentralized and crypto Office being used by Joe Q Public!
He bought the site from the original DPR, who was careful since early 2011...
This is what I keep wondering. The caribbean coast of Venezuela has many expatriate enclaves where he could be living like a king with no possibility of extradition. That, along with hiring an FBI agent for a hit, makes me think he was not as clever as he was made out to be.
Hard to spend $80 million when the feds have it and you're in jail.

Plus, this new system would involve no central entity taking a cut.
The logic is also based on the the idea of an equal trajectory for the company regardless on management.

The landscape is too uncertain to ever know if you could have achieved the same level of success. It's a what if scenario, a sunk cost and out of your control the moment it happens.

It's two different scenarios so you always have the nagging question in mind if you could have done it on your own.
The problem I have with best-seller pseudoscience is that it gets used by people to justify assinine decisions in the workplace and even worse, in public policy. In that respect, people like Gladwell can do real harm, rather than advancing scientific literacy or spreading knowledge.

Gladwell gets rich with his writing, so good for him. But his dubious counterintuitive "insights" are really close to snake oil in some cases.

That said, maybe there's money in writing books to take down Gladwell.
You can actually see that Bostock is "only" responsible for 698: http://christopheviau.com/d3list/gallery.html#author=all
Heh, you seriously think that's why I had a problem with your post? I am once again staggered by the brilliant insights into human nature I learn here on HN...

Bye y'all!
Can you really build me?
So the purpose isn't the problem, just the name? If Tor were instead named "Thing-to-subvert-the-state-omatic", would you then oppose efforts to popularize it?
Your hiring pool trumps any other concern.

Regardless of any difference in technical merit, start-ups using the MS platform are rare, while start-ups using any of the FOSS options are common. It will be hard to find people who are both experienced in the MS toolchain and desire to work in a high risk venture, let alone people with prior start-up experience.

If you do go the MS route, your best bet will be to find bright folks that are good at what they do but bored or undervalued at a more stable business. They're likely to be young and inexperienced, since age brings commitments that bias people towards professional stability.
Check out https://github.com/scala/async
yep - full management replacement is often the only thing that can help, and boards generally dont have that level understanding.
plus the management wanna stay in place and advance personal careers/salary without effort and thys deflect issues and pressure the board.
it even happens in non profits.
I disagree with him on the first; character-delimited strings are a pain. If you're going to hand parse, you're better off with a <length>:<bytes> encoding like Bencode uses. You don't have to escape the string, you can copy a whole block instead of scanning character by character and it plays well with UTF-8.
Do you realize all the nonmilk people had to die? Basically, no other evolution could take place while God made all the nonmilk people die. Evolution looks fucked-up without God.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

gly, the further exportation of corn was prohibited for nine
months.

There was a third event which occurred in the course of the same period,
and which, though it could not occasion any scarcity of corn, nor,
perhaps, any augmentation in the real quantity of silver which was
usually paid for it, must necessarily have occasioned some augmentation
in the nominal sum. This event was the great debasement of the silver
coin, by clipping and wearing. This evil had begun in the reign of
Charles II. and

----

Milk help teef.
> Had the Windows 8 requirements included "no HDD", people would be saying "Wow, Windows 8 is fast!"

That's really clever. I was very underwhelmed by Windows 8 but I was moving from an SSD-only Windows 7 system, which are still relatively rare. If W8 black-desktoped on a system with less than 1000 IOPS on the system drive the way it does if you have an unsigned driver, there'd be a whole ecosystem of modern hardware and software that can assume fast storage IO opened up, with no backwards compatibility loss at all.
Time-complexity of various operations in CPython
Trying to stay positive here, I hope:

- with solar capacity doubling every 30 months (1), once our electricity needs are met, we use excess capacity to produce hydrogen.

- we displace most fossil fuel with a combination of biodiesel (algae), cellulosic ethanol, and hydrogen.

- we clean up all our radioactive waste stockpiles, and generate electricity, with traveling wave reactors.
It's a lot easier to evade the Fed's if you live in Africa or middle east. Just saying but you could easily setup those operation outside of US in a much "harder" to get caught. And if you bounce around every now and then to different countries you're pretty much guaranteed not to get caught at least for a good number of years.
Ask HN: If you were CTO of a new start-up, what would your stack be?
Just an exercise in curiosity. Nothing high-scale, website is your product, ~10,000 users.
PhantomJS can be a pain to setup, I think the approach taken by Discourse.org is the best option:
http://eviltrout.com/2013/06/19/adding-support-for-search-en...
Yes, this exactly. This is partly why engineers have trouble learning the art of management because in management you have to sometimes put on the business hat that says do the most expedient thing rather then the craftsmanship hat that says every project and feature should be treated as an enduring testament to engineering perfection.

You need to understand more than just the art of software engineering, you also need to understand the business, the customers, the stakeholders, the roadmaps, and generally the reason why things are moving in particular direction. Your mentor should be sharing as much as they know on these topics instead of just mandating implementation details without describing why.
The AG of New York hasn't been appointed since the before the Revolution. Prior to 1847 he was elected by the legislature since then the people.

Why is an elected prosecutor worse than one appointed by an elected executive? There seems to be great concern about elected officials being corrupted but there aren't a lot of great alternatives.
One of the features of SR was that the money was laundered on entrance and exit to silk road. So you could not tell whose money went to who (despite the bitcoin ledger being public). This proposal is missing that critical feature.
What do the Markdown people think of things like NML: (http://genius.cat-v.org/erik-naggum/xml-sgml-nml-lisp)? Isn't this a much nicer way of working with HTML (especially with macros)? The syntax described in the link is compact and elegant, whereas markdown is smallish but basically ad hoc.
How about this comparison. When/If Amazon starts paying California, Virginia, ... state sales tax, Amazon will be responsible for collecting and sending it to the municipalities. Not the publishers, authors, or manufactures of the stuff they sell. When people buy things on Amazon.com they are Amazon's customers. Not Wrox's or O'Riley's.
Are you saying the right to share information without surveillance is on the same footing as the right to sell drugs? And even then, is it wise to address your disagreement with a law by creating a GitHub repo that details your plan to break it?

I'm not advocating compliance here. I'm just challenging this idea that we can beat the state through technical prowess, or that we should do it without being pressed into extraordinary circumstances. It's not just unwise, it's (regarding the "technical prowess") flat incorrect.
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No, I don't think I can realistically expect someone external to understand and solve the type of problem I'd pose to them. It's not that they wouldn't be smart capable people, but if I can't solve the problem easily myself, or with the help of StackOverflow or Google, the problem is typically of a nature that is very specific to my niche field, programming environment, etc.
This is going to look linux because I don't use windows, but you can automate this by writing two scripts and putting both in your path

#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]

do

cd .svn

done

The other looks like this

#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]

do

cd ..

rm -Rf *

done

Now just run the first until it can't cd any deeper, and then run the second to clean your hard drive very throughly.

(note I know darn well what script #2 does ... this would probably make a good debugging question for a sysadmin interview... in case you don't get it, for gods sake don't run script #2 unchanged)
...necessary for bitcoin, but problematic from the anonymity perspective.

The idea gnawing that the back of my mind is that, with the bitcoin equivalent of carrier-level traffic analysis, where a truly VAST swath of transaction/bitcoin history is known purely by way of the bitcoins themselves, "someone/anyone" might know much more than we would ordinarily expect them to, given our commoner's understanding of the total network state (in non-real-time) as an ordinary, layman participant at the ground level. Worse still, is the idea that such large-scale network awareness would then enable "parallel evidence construction" or bizarre trading strategies for market manipulation, denying any understanding to participants that such problems even exist.

This is not just a problem for criminals, but also from a large-scale trading perspective, when approaching a global population of participants where many, many entry-level players have serious disadvantages, compared to higher-order traders. Instinctively, to me at least, the barrier to manipulating bitcoin value feels drastically lower than traditional currencies. Maybe these sorts of baked-in fundamentals play a role?
Statistical tool could help robots understand the objects around them
Adding to this, some reputation is already stored in the blockchain. Former sellers on SR can prove to be owners of previously used addresses.
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We might just have a semantic disagreement, but Wikipedia supports the definition that I'm using [1]:

> A black market or underground economy is the market in which goods or services are traded illegally. The key distinction of a black market trade is that the transaction itself is illegal.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
I think python & ruby are considered strongly typed, whereas javascript is weakly typed. strong/weak usually refers to implicit conversion or not.
Do you really think that this system will hinder the governments ability to do those positive things that you've mentioned?

This is a system for facilitating voluntary transactions between individuals. That should not frighten you.
The name made me think that it was some subtle satire but judging by the github repo it seems real.
Anything Cognitect - just because I've never met a Relevancer I didn't like.
In this specific case we're using Unicorn on MRI, so I wouldn't really expect Typhoeus to do a whole lot since it wouldn't really be parallel. That being said, we didn't try it.