skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He expressed disapproval that visiting journalists refused to sample the roaches.

On saying goodbye at the end of the day, he added a final rejoinder.

"You will regret your whole life not trying them."

Whenever I travel, I do my best to eat like a local. In my sheltered life, I never ate sushi until I first visited Japan. There I had sushi so fresh it was still moving. I ate Balut [1] when someone handed me an egg in Manila. But I think my cultural adventure would have stopped at the same spot as the aforementioned journalists.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)
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Frankly, if you're that interested in tracking what your children have and haven't bought, online purchases are likely to be easier, in that they come to your home through the mail.

The general categories of things that children are commonly restricted from buying:

- Drugs. These are all black market, so availability of prepaid cards is unlikely to change how they're bought.

- Alcohol. I've never tried to buy this online; I know eBay Now wanted to sell it and concluded that the cost of legal compliance was too high. Even assuming they could find mail-order booze, it would arrive in the mail, easily detectible.

- Pornography. This can be consumed directly on the computer, raising possible detection issues. However, if you're afraid of children buying it over the internet, I've got some very bad news for you...

- Birth control pills? I'm running out of ideas.

Are you afraid they'll buy digital goods? Why?
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Some of their free offerings are so great that i sometimes worry they might be (maybe unintended) in a "embrace, extend" phase, extinguishing competitors left and right. Their uprise is insane.
The article makes some good points, but I don't think goverment involvement is the single most likely explanation for the facts we are able to observe. In my opinion, it is equally likely that Bitcoin is simply an elaborate Ponzi-type scheme.

Think about it. A group of people with probable backgrounds in mathematics, cryptography, software development and economy bands together and creatse a new kind of digital currency. They gain control of a large chunk of the total money supply in the beginning when it is easy to do so. Then they wait and hope for widespread adoption. Thanks to combination of the the hard limit on money supply and general mass psychology their currency hugely appreciates in value. They now have a large amount of money in their hands created from nothing but the work they put into creating BTC. All that is left is to cash out at some point. The latter is admittedly difficult to do without it being detected, but that doesn't mean that it won't happen at some point.
I really feel the need to plug Nearly Free Speech, my host of choice:

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Definitely not aimed at large(r) sites, but for my static sites and a few WP installations it works fantastically. The control panel takes some getting used to, but the "pay for what you use" business model more than makes up for the rough edges. Its all À la carte and I love it, I've been a customer for 5 years with no problems.
I don't know about the costs involved and if three times the previous costs is justified, but that the corrupt politicians and their business friends are feasting on government projects is not a rarity either. Just to leave you an example:

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/11/dod-contractors-cos...
It may be possible to translate Flash bytecode to JavaScript, but an interpreter will almost always be more accurate. In this particular case, being accurate first is important. Performance can be fixed later by adding a JIT-like mode.
I wonder how much this is simply about startups not wanting to rely on Google. Even Apple felt uncomfortable relying on their maps product. So much smaller startups probably hate that dependency too.
Haha, I liked the old title better, "Union Square Ventures' new website is an HN clone". Much more informative and the first thing I thought when I followed the link anyway.
I agree, and certainly have no intention to deny the positive. It's just that the author's experience, as she relates it, doesn't sound unusually positive. It sounds typical. What seems unusual is her tolerance for negative experiences. And I can see how her female peers might interpret her attitude as "Hey, suck it up, I did." I'm not sure that their empathy is the problem.
Here's an idea...

Develop a bot to trawl NSFW sites and hash each image (combined with the 'skin detecting' algorithms detailed previously). Then compare the user uploaded image hash with those in the NSFW database.

This technique relies on the assumption that NSFW images that are spammed onto social media sites will use images that already exist on NSFW sites (or are very similar to). Then it simply becomes a case of pattern recognition, much like SoundHound for audio, or Google Image search.

It wouldn't reliably detect 'original' NSFW material, but given enough cock shots as source material, it could probably find a common pattern over time.

edit: I've just noticed rfusca in the OP suggests a similar method
BPM is something I'm very interested in playing around with!
> Go to your local citizen center (Bürgeramt), register for a "Gewerbeschein" as "Einzelunternehmer". It costs 35€ and then you're good to go and do business. Takes 10 minutes.

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to look it up. As a quick question, do these two forms provide you the same liability protection as LLC?

What about bookkeeping regulations? Is it any simpler than UG/GmbH? Simple that I can do it myself, with only a minimal help of Steuerberater?
I'm not sure it is that easy, even HN discussions on the topic don't come to any particular conclusion and that is within a fairly narrow range of people.

In an old job I had the task of cleaning spam off a forum, this meant looking at rather a lot of porn but it would never have occurred to me to sue on that basis, yet that is still a job that needs to be done.
I don't think any of them ever got a CVE to be quite honest. There's a few that come to mind, my favourite being an integer overflow that lead to the creation of billions of Bitcoin in a single transaction.

Here's the thread for that bug: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823.0
Yes, good catch. join('\n') is wrong though - IO#lines preserves newlines, the default join is the empty string, and you meant "\n" :)
No, and even if it were that wouldn't make f.lux for iOS possible. Even an app running temporarily in the background can't do this on iOS.
This would be very interesting to try -- I don't trust the GPS accuracy of my phone over short distances, so using GPS to detect pace changes could be error prone.

As an extra advanced trick: adjust the stride length for incline changes ... though I don't know how you get that information accurately enough!
Isn't the choice of a version control systema a too low barrier to prevent anyone from contributing? I'd think that actual technical skills required in the VM domain area plus language skills would be a much greater barrier to entry, isn't so? Do we need everything to be so perfect?
And I can appreciate that, though you can see why the sensational title might confuse someone on the intent.

Also, I'd argue that Tableau doesn't require any particular expertise beyond what is required for Excel. Though Tableau isn't my preferred tool, I've seen great results come from total novices. It has the side benefit of sneakily training people to "think beyond the canned" and to develop novel visualizations that may better get to the heart of the relationships present in the data.

I get it that ggplot2 requires some minimal coding ability, however I've also seen good (i.e. superior to stock excel) results come out of never-before-coded grad students in an only nominally quantitative discipline. Certainly the business people who power our economy and command great sums of wealth are capable of such modest feats?
Bitcoin network surpasses 3 PH/s
Bitcoin 0.1 was quite buggy and was fixed constantly with a help of many developers.
For all Microsoft's CEO might have done wrong, he was
right about something dismissed by many (and I among
them): Google.

Ballmer started treating the search and information
company as a competitive threat about a decade ago.
Google as Microsoft competitor seemed simply nuts in
2003. How could search threaten Windows, particularly
when anyone could type a new web address to change
providers?

Ballmer was obsessed, chasing every Google maneuver,
often to a fault. Execution could have been better, but
his perception was right.

Two main points that contradict this line of thinking:

1. The idea that Steve Ballmer's hostility could be recast as innovation is laughable. Microsoft was pathologically hostile to any competition, and it's obvious that this hostility was frequently tuned and recalibrated according to the success of the quarry. If anything, it only reinforces my belief, that if Ballmer were ever permitted to have is way, Ballmer's lifelong ambition is to destroy anything good, and replace it with himself.

2. Very early on, Google was a better search engine than most others, and it wasn't difficult to recognize. Using it, you found what you wanted, and you noticed it when you spent less time searching, and parsing irrelevant crap. Contrast this with the MSN home page (with the earliest form of Microsoft's version of a "web search"), which (like AOL) looks and feels like a supermarket tabloid. Ballmer's recognition can be readily categorized as jealousy, not genius. My hypothesis is that he tried out Google himself, he liked it, realized it was useful, then realized it was not under his control, and set out to either control it or destroy it. It's not inspiring. It's not mere competition. It's simply another expression of greed.
Nope. Harrassment is a legal term of art, not a synonym for disagreeable treatment. Harrassment occurs when a person or group is singled out for distinct treatment, in the U.S. at least. Subjecting everybody to all types of porn is quite lawful. (There is a famous case of a bisexual pervert who indiscriminantly propositioned anything with a pulse. His self-designated victims were bitch slapped out of court.)
hcrypt — Secret program execution through homomorphic encryption.
Recommending this to all my novice running friends. Nothing like annoyance to help set a good habit!
Interview questions for a Java developer
I work for a "regular" company as a developer and am interviewing a Java developer. I prefer the approach where we contract out a piece of work, or work with the person in some other fashion, but that's not the approach here.

So, what types of questions do you ask that aren't silly brain teasers?
Sure looks like one to me. HN is a tech startup focused link sharing and discussion site. So is this. The one claim to the contrary by those involved in this thread doesn't even contradict that, they say it is for sharing the links they are browsing. Basically the same except they have more power on their site than here.
Could happen, obviously.

But whether it's cosmically sudden or self-inflicted, we'll likely be more concerned with the fast or slow moving catastrophe than with future generation, and the Time Traveler's three books aren't going to matter when it's eat or be eaten. Once a collapse happens I think we have to play through the whole cycle.

Speaking of fiction, I've always liked this as an exploration of how society would respond to a collapse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides
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Yes this is true. This is why password crackers will scrape twitter/facebook/whatever for modern slang, common mispellings, neolgisms, etc for their word lists.
Ever heard of Snowden, Manning, or Assange? (names from the top of my head, but the full list is endless) Besides, if someone (a regular person) were to disappear for being a dissident, you would never find out. And it would fit perfectly the US behaviour in every other matter.
And the niche in this case is exactly the same...
It's more about startups wanting to rely on open data and open source vs proprietary.
They used to. My grandfather had ancient color TV when I was very young that used a photo sensor to adjust itself to the room lighting's color balance.
Same for me on Chrome... It seems to either be missing the auto resize part. Or some CSS.
How about GDS? https://github.com/alphagov
Square Cash is definitely some sort of loss-leader, but for what?

Most obvious long-run plan would be for user/debit card acquisition (which has lower interchange rates) to support their bread and butter business (merchant tools) as this would increase their profit margins by reducing processing expenses, especially since Square simply charges a single rate to merchants...
It's true that running on a treadmill is easier, mainly due to the lack of wind resistance (which is a bigger factor for running than you would think), but also due to the artificially perfectly flat surface; you have to make far fewer micro-adjustments to the terrain when you're on a treadmill, and like everything in distance running, those adjustments add up over time.

It's said that putting the treadmill at a 1-2 degree incline can correct for this discrepancy, and there's actually been a few scientific studies on this as well (e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8887211).
Ponzi scheme requires breaking trust in promises. Satoshi was not giving anyone promises or taking anyone's money. Everyone voluntarily evaluates safety of the protocol and decides to mine or buy bitcoins from others.
Migrating to MariaDB from MySQL
"detect certain body parts"

When I was a kid, we had a firewall at school that tried to filter pornography by doing something similar with text. Doing research on breast cancer turned out to be rather tricky.

So let's say you try to detect certain body parts. Now you have someone who wants to know more about their body, but you are classifying images from medical / health articles as pornography.

"certain body configurations"

So now instead of having trouble reading about my own body, I will have trouble looking at certain martial arts photos:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/BostonKe...

I am not saying these are unsolvable problems, but they are certainly hard problems. Even using humans to filter images tends to result in outrageous false positives sometimes:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/breastfeeding-advocates-hold-fa...
Media Temple had to know during the talks that any acquisition would cost them dearly.
Interesting application, but it seems to me that it only really works well if you rely on natural light.

I'm in an office with bright neon lights, does it still help?
A change in white point should interfere less with your colors than those other monstrosities you mentioned.
Underwater wi-fi shows promise
Dual monitors (Lenovo L1951p and L194 on Thinkpad W510 here) seems to work fine, at least on the 24 hour preview (you have to click the sinusoidal wave).
Ah you're right. Hadn't actually tested this. The way that I've actually used it is for `is_num?` and using `Float()`. I didn't consider the fact that `Integer` would cast a float.
GQRX works great, though you do have to dial the sample rate back a bit on older macs (e.g. a 2007 plastic macbook)
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Neat. Flux has been one of my favorite tools for years. There have been times that I have had to use its "disable for an hour" function late at night and the sudden brightness change is actually painful. It's easy to forget just how bright monitors are.
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This is a great idea, but unfortunately doesn't help us runners who find music distracting while running.
How about here? http://startup-stuttgart.de/18th-lean-startup-meetup-stuttga...
by filename ,)
I don't see what's wrong with my argument that choosing a pass phrase will have less entropy...

Does less entropy not mean less secure? Or am I just reasoning about the entropy all wrong?
I mean, if you read between the lines from his class notes, this is basically what Peter Thiel says: Just don't hire these people. Nobody will say it publicly, because that opens them up to discrimination lawsuits, but that's the reality on the ground.
No, you can't just reverse the causal effect by guessing the bias caused by reverse causality :-)

If what you say is true (studies tend to try to account for these things, e.g. they can show that the effect of sitting exists even after accounting for exercise/activity on the job) then the correct interpretation is that we don't know the causal effect.
I haven't found a native solution for trunking though.
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Noob to Ninja in 8 Months
Except airlines don't have SLAs. Since there are limited seats and limited departure slots the guy with gold membership and the guy with the, almost free, jumpseat are getting the same basic service. There is a lot more variance in hosting than price.
'Text' covers a very large domain. Once you get any data to a ordered text form, Unix command line text processing utilities have literally zero competition when it comes succinctness, power and how quickly you can create solutions.

Utility of shell goes down. Not because problems are represented as 'Text', but rather shell languages lack features like exception handling, proper error checking and many other things- Which make it difficult to write large programs in it.

As a next extension, you can learn Perl.

I assure you, after that you will not need anything ever.
Genious! I am still running on treadmills just because of the feedback loop. That app might change my life :)
I think this is just as unlikely as the idea that Facebook is a law enforcement honeypot to track terrorists' social graphs. Your arguments sound somewhat plausible now, but back in 2009 bitcoin was just a cypherpunk's toy and no one had any idea how big it was going to become.

I would argue that a conventional internet currency (like egold or liberty reserve) would make a far better honeypot (easier to track, shutdown at any time, cybercriminals were used to currencies like that)
Got it. Digging into this now. Meantime, you might try another auth method? There's also this secret page to walk through the questions by hand: http://www.interviewcake.com/all-questions

Sorry about that!
That was very useful, thanks. All pragmatic, useful advice and no generic bs.

Edit:
Annoying that you cannot try practice questions without logging in though.
The webfont used for the boxes down the right hand side seems to render really poorly in Windows w/Chrome.
There have been studies showing pictures with articles increase interest. Even GMail and Google search have been moving that direction. GMail on Android now has pictures next to the emails. Google search now checks the site author information and shows pictures. So USV is inline with modern best practices, HN isn't on this. You have good ideals wanting no pictures and to decide everything on text, but if your ideals make the site only good for techies, it isn't a good change for getting users and interest and contributors in general.
Real-time "Doomsday Clock"Predicts US Default
Uses big data stream analysis on twitter and stock market simultaneously
Machine learning is a field of research, not a magical incantation that you say to solve everything.
Porn detection still has its uses and you're making the mistake of saying that only puritans are interested in porn detection.

For example if you've got children, given your stance on the matter, you may not necessarily agree that a filter is necessary, but how about being alerted when your children are viewing obscene content? How about being alerted when your children are engaging in sexting?

When it comes to children, maintaining their purity is only one side of the coin, a necessity with which not all people necessarily agree. But the other side of the coin that's a pretty objective fact is that children do get the wrong ideas about what they see and sometimes it happens with adults too, with porn being the main reason why men think they need big penises to satisfy women. And there's a lot of weird porn out there. With improper exposure, a child can end up growing with certain ideas about doing sex, with certain complexes and so on.

And I'm not necessarily for censoring that content, as children can find ways around the censorship should they want to, plus these filters aren't perfect anyway. But I would find useful a system that alerts me when my child gets exposed to porn, such that I can take appropriate measures, like having fatherly talks about sex, explaining to him that what he just saw is a really bad idea in case he looked at something weird.

Plus, exposure to porn can happen 100% by accident and that's my personal problem with it. I take my monthly dosage for appealing to my stockings fetish, but you know, I like to be in control of when that happens. Like going to a website and clicking on something can trigger a popup involving ads to either poker games or porn. Sometimes they've got sound too. Imagine hearing in the workplace the sound of a woman's moan. It's totally disrespectful to your colleagues, as it disrupts their workflow. I was searching for something on ThePirateBay once and it happened to me.
>A novel point they make is that some group (probably the creators of Bitcoin) control 25% of the money supply. I have not read the paper yet so cannot comment but I was under the impression 95% of Satoshi's coins have never moved since being mined.

From Table 7 on page 11 of the linked paper:

Entity ID | Accumulated Incoming BTC's | Number of Transactions

A | 2,886,650 | 246,012

B | 2,206,170 | 477,526 //Mt. Gox

Since there were 9 million in the address graph, I assume that the 25% remark refers to unidentified Entity A in this table. However, I did not see any claim in the paper that there was evidence that this unnamed entity was trying to hide this accumulation.

Does anyone know why this claim was made in the article?
In broad terms for a patent to be granted an invention must be unique, innovative and non-obvious.

I am not sure if f.lux is entirely non-obvious...
It seems like lots of YC app advice posts think it's super important to have a .com. I always thought a .com wasn't that important, especially if you have to pay money for it that you could use towards development. Am I missing something?
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> That is a political statement not a technical statement

Just because it doesn't have the particular kind of specification that you are looking for, it doesn't mean that it's not technical. Being distributed is very much a technical feature, no matter how you look at it.

I much rather have a working solution that might or might not be broken in the future (if it was too damn insecure, someone would have broken it already), than be stuck forever with the old banking system just because we don't know how to create the mathematical/cryptological model that you are used to and would grant 100% theoretical security. That would be like not building a website or shutting down a project mid development just because some component is found to be difficult to unit-test.
Digital ship pirates: Researchers crack vessel tracking system
In the maritime business, Automated Identification Systems (AIS) are a big deal. They supplement information received by the marine radar system, are used for a wide variety of things - including ship-to-ship communication - and are relied upon each and every day. Unfortunately, the AIS can also be easily hacked in order to do some real damage, claims a group of researchers presenting at the Hack In The Box Conference currently taking place in Kuala Lumpur.
Startup Metrics: Don't Let Your SAC Get WACC
Neon lights in an office? I'm used to neon in bars/pubs, but I haven't heard of neon being used for general purpose lighting. That sounds painful, neon lights are generally very harsh in my experience.
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