skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make my point clearer, if we have a one world communist government, and the government can dictate exactly which resource goes where and which human does what, we probably wouldn't need debt for economic growth, right? (And to avoid any confusion, no I'm not advocating for anything like that, not even within a hundred mile close).

And in any case, I'm not saying that finance is absolutely useless, I'm just saying that the focus on finance (and the return they get) might be too much for our society/ market nowadays. Thinks of it similar to the manager and developer situation, you need product manager to make a bunch of developers to work together, but if you have a 10:1 ratio of managers/developers, then you probably can use a few more developers.
Sounds more like some sort of ACH or credit-card transfer to me.

Not as cash-like as Bitcoin.
All I am saying is that Node.JS has solid foundation to support huge community growth. For me as Java/Scala programmer Node.js is appealing for reasons described above. RoR usually means troubles and I try to avoid it.
That was the same with me. I guess it is because the dots are already colored, thus leading one's focus towards the translation. However if you ignore the colors and imagine a 3-petal flower, then you can see the flowers rotate counter-clockwise. Try following the outer edges where the density of dots is sparse and less confusing to form a mental image of the petal.
http://d.pr/i/oEmN chrome banned the request.
Yes evil...we live in a first-world country, for now.
I think you added an extra N.
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Thanks. I'll spend some time with Requests over the weekend. It looks like the person who maintains that library is also behind this http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/#writing-great-code
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I've been thinking about this for some time now. If the browser is really to become the common platform for most applications in the future, shouldn't they be able to declare whatever interaction they desire?

There are long articles on the internet why the right click is a suboptimal way to interact with anything on-screen, but users who need the contextual menu already learnt it. Can't we make those menus more useful?
There is some logic in the conversion as it helps show scale - if you run a lemonade stand it may be true to say you can invest $10 and profit $20, but not true that you could invest $1m and profit $2m, whereas in a car manufacturing business you might be able to invest $Xm and profit $2Xm, but investing $10 is unlikely to give you any return. These two scenarios can't both be explained as "you can invest 1 and get 2 back".

That said, a single quote, even with conversion, doesn't help much here - if a reader wanted to start a farm now it doesn't give them any idea of whether 20 yuan is the minimum or the maximum investment (I presume it's below the minimum anyway).
too late - already moved to pinboard. its clean and works.
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I'm guessing it's a US-only service because Google Play refuses to let me install it, saying it's not compatible with my device. The only reason I think of (I have a pretty recent phone!) is that I'm not in the US.
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Does this mean I can basically use Cloudfront at the root of my site, à la Cloudflare?
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>Before seeing your message, I've never really right-clicked on anything.

Really? I find myself using the right-click context menu all the time; "Open Link in New Window", "Save Image", "Copy" and (appropriately enough) "Search Google for x" I use multiple times an hour during normal web usage. Yes, I use keyboard shortcuts for these things as well, but if I'm on the phone or drinking from a cup then some shortcuts are awkward.

Anyway, the most annoying thing about this sort of feature is that there's no obvious visual cues to help anticipate non-standard behaviour. I get the same mouse pointer icon when I hover over "Inbox", "Sent Items", etc that I do when hovering over my email subjects. Yet I get different behaviour when right-clicking either control. This makes for an unsatisfying user experience IMHO.
No, because it assumes an adversary too dumb to make a backup first. And the penalty for getting caught providing the wrong key is, uh, not good.
Just go with markdown?
Wow the UI feels like an exact clone of the Microsoft account management area // outlook.com
Well actually it is not that hard. The key is in escrow in another jurisdiction with dead man's switch and store it only in ram locally. When the legal order comes you just shut down the service and wait until the key is destroyed.

You can also rig the machine on which the key is used with something nasty that will melt it inside against physical tampering - lets call it SWAT raid protection.

Disclaimer - IANAL
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And yet, they did it for good reason: Overpopulation control What's more humane, asking people to limit the number of children they have, or have the children die from famine?
No the point isn't being missed. How easy that phrase would be to crack is debatable and I don't know the correct answer, but let's assume that it is easy, you might need to make it more complicated. If this is the case, then the fact that a simple easy-to-crack phrase is easy to learn is irrelevant, like saying "it's quick to learn every word of French you'll ever need to speak - bonjour, oui, non". On the flip side, if you're right that the phrase is secure enough, then your argument is valid that it should be fairly quick to memorise. But the question of whether that phrase is good enough is entirely relevant and not missing the point.

(You could still make the point that two months is two long for any phrase, I'm sure, but without knowing how much more complicated it is than your example, and without knowing how different people manage learning things, that's hard to say.)
You seem to be missing that, despite telling the truth (or what I feel to be the truth anyway) in a brutal way, the speech manages to be quite motivational. It is to me anyway.

I think it is no mistake if one of the most highly regarded commencement speech is that of David Foster Wallace (aka "The Truth With A Whole Lot Of Rhetorical Bullshit Pared Away"): http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in...

Also, I have received the "50% attrition" comments (I'm from Belgium). In our computer science class, it was more like 70% attrition. But consider that a big difference is that in our countries, getting in a university is not "achievement". You can litteraly just walk in there and if you can't afford the 1K euros a year it costs, the government will pay for you. This is a good thing -- but it needs no one will tell you that you deserve anything. Neither should it be the case in the US because most of the time, access to these universities are conditioned by factors that are largely out of the student direct control.
What about deniable encryption, where you can give them a key that decrypts the ciphertext to innocuous stuff while concealing the real key that decrypts to the real plaintext? What does the crowbar do for the attacker then?
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There is the truecrypt binary and truecrypt formatted encrypted volume.The format of the truecrypt volume is known and there exists open source solutions that can create and open truecrypt volumes.

All it will take to have alternatives in windows is for windows based block device encryption applications to pick up the format.It is surprising it hasnt happened yet and this drive is completely ignoring this line of thinking.
>Scientific American Editor revealed as harassing aspiring female writer (monicacatherine.wordpress.com)

Titles wrong, which is a good reason to have left it as is. This is libellous.

He was not 'harassing' her. It was one incident. All other communications was by her.

Also not clear if he was representing his employer at the time. So it also shouldn't have been stated. It's not a witch hunt.
The title makes it sound like a Scientific American editor is a female writer that harasses people.

"Aspiring female writer reveals that Scientific American Editor harassed her" is what you should have named this to be clear.
He was describing the outlines of Nginx2 just the other week at a conference so it is still happening.
Credit card transactions do sometimes have fees attached; specifically I was referring to EFT, which for person-to-person has no fees at all, and doesn't attract fees to the payer at the POS (whereas credit cards can).

Yeah, the real question I was getting at was, given the Australian market is even more insular and stagnant than the US, why do we have much better systems?

What you're saying sounds plausible; a comparison of the US and Australian regulations on deposit banks would be interesting.
They could also already have copies... making the point moot.
Some more details here
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...

I'm curious if the edge receives the full POST/PUT first and then does a complete PUT/POST to the origin, or does it forward as it's receiving.
At least the USV site looks good on mobile unlike the pinch to zoom nonsense needed for HN.
Cultures would reject them until a famine struck. Then the ruler would eat them out of necessity.

It is incredibly rare for the "rulers" to have their personal food supply impacted by a famine.

Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science for (I'm vastly over-simplifying) research that indicates only dictatorships have famines because the rulers are insulated from the effects and so have little motivation to fix the systemic problems that cause famines. The "let them eat cake" syndrome (although that quote itself is historically misleading).

The premise is that in a democracy the rulers still eat well, but there are other mechanisms for them to share in the suffering of famine so it never gets to that point.

http://www.wright.edu/~tdung/sen.htm
This says that debit cards are "online transactions" that could cost 10 cents vs 2% for an "offline" credit transaction - http://banking.about.com/od/checkingaccounts/a/debitvscredit...

I believe the transaction fee is higher and there's a percentage rate taken for non-pin debit card transactions.
I call them linkdumps.
They _will_ bite! Try catching one that doesn't want to be caught.
I just changed it to the title of the page to avoid any misunderstanding.
Angry brogrammer sets up straw men aplenty, knocks them down. There will be no film later this evening.

I don't know, there didn't seem to be any examples, just crying about how the girls were apparently mean to him. No real case seemed to be made. I half considered flagging it but...nah, let him have his day in the SV sun. Hope he brought sunscreen.
No, they just got an email from someone that happened to have my address in the `From` field.

Since we're in the realm of phishing already, let's not forget that people still commonly enter their email address and email password into sites claiming to "Find your friends who are using this service".

The problem with social attacks is that they spread socially, and it's not enough for just "some", or even "most" people to be educated for it to be stopped.

I don't think Square are ignorant about this, but I'd like to see some confirmation that some measures are in place to counter threats like these.
Hmm, the recommendations at the end of the article still seem pretty pricey to me. I'm personally a fan of LeaseWeb; been renting servers with them for 5 years now and still very happy, at a good price (~€100 for 100MBit unmetered, quadcore xenon x3440, 16GB ram, 2x2TB HDD and ESXi 5.1)
Wow. I just hope their EIR didn't come up with this. Otherwise I would feel very disappointed.
What surprise me is the lack of identity.
Why? Why would they even want to do this? They are USfuckingV. One of the most aspirational and important funds and yet they do this. Meh.
Instead of us posting stuff on their WhateverTheyCallNewsSite we should be reading them and learning how to do stuff.
Amusingly, this thread is the top story.
He was not harassing her, she just had an unpleasant conversation with him (from the sounds of it). If that is reason enough to out somebody on the internet as a sexual predator, I'm sorry, but that's way over the top.
That's an incorrect distinction. The font (i.e. a particular size and weight of a typeface) can not be copyrighted. Only the computer file can.
New features like SIMD and 64-bit integers would not be asm.js features, they would be JavaScript features. If you read his comments more carefully you would realize this, since he mentions how they're being developed as JavaScript features...

Again, asm.js has 'changed' but has not broken backwards compatibility, because it's just javascript and remains so.
Same here. Pinboard had a great site, great design, and just did the 'one job' very well when Delicious misstepped, and took a lot of their users. I've been using it for 1+ years now and love it. #alittlelatetotheparty
Ironically, this post is currently #1 on there.

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Pinboard does full text archiving and searching for $25 a year.

https://pinboard.in/upgrade/
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The "R" and "5" are quite interesting, and the symbols look fun, specially that "@".
There was an article on ArsTechnica just a few days ago about this type of passwords:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
Hmm ... seems like raspberry pi can make a lot of sense in that case. You put the printer behind it. Is it possible?
Until maybe a decade ago, the most common source of red food dye was ground up cochineal bugs which look like ticks. Even today, if the food claims to be made from all natural ingredients, any red coloring is bugs rather than something from a lab.

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/bugjuice.asp
> than what are all this online web-font services like typekit about?

Good question. They are maintaining the fiction that the font can be copyrighted and hope that everyone plays along. Keep in mind the font file itself is copyrighted because font files are actually little computer programs.

> are you saying that i can download any font, edit its metadata, maybe add 1 point to every character and freely use it?

Probably not, that's not a sufficient change of the file. What you can do is display the rendered font on your screen, then exactly copy it using a font editor. You will loose hinting this way though (the program embedded in the font to make the hints is copyrighted, the specific hints at each size is not), so there is some extra work you will need to do to replicate the hinting.
Or you know, he could just publish that the key is not secure. There's no hidden messages here, I would put more money on Lavabit screwing up.
Yeah, this is just marketing. Like when they got all excited that the Linux kernel was being hosted at Github. It was just a mirror that Torvalds set up. Github is/was being used as dumb storage.
At least it's responsive aka mobile friendly.
The most stunning part of this is the "free" part.

The Durbin amendment regulates the cost of debit transactions over the Visa/Mastercard network. It's $0.22 + 0.05%.

Mossberg reports that Square is planning to monetize via "premium options" like international transfers. But still, $0.22+ is a lot to lose every time someone uses your mass-market service.

Good thing they raised $341M of VC money.

Who said the dot com days aren't back??

Source: http://allthingsd.com/20131015/the-money-is-in-the-email/
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Yeah! Other people/cultures are just downright offensive, why can't everyone be just like me, share my values, and think exactly like I do!

Or alternatively, perhaps we can respect other peoples world views without judging them within our own limited set of cultural values.
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I was talking to a colleague about how Dwolla implements a similar pay network. I don't know Square's implementation. It varies with different P2P providers. Some create their own 'rails' in the backend (PopMoney, etc.). Some follow the 'clearing firm' / brokerage model of the commodities / equity markets. They have accounts in all major banks with deposit (debit) accounts and simply do an inner-bank transfer on both ends on your (and your recipient's) behalf.

That got me thinking though. It's 2013. The ideal solution is not to be beholden to any centralized authority or group of 'clearing' accounts for routing. The ideal solution is security but flexibility and distributiveness. The ideal solution is a network of trust with similar 'hubs' / 'clearing firms' that one can choose to route through automatically, have all the routing be automated for you via solid protocols.

There is the chance to create clusters of payment routing networks that are more elegant. It would make money movement so much more liquid in our world. And would be a really great thing.

Maybe Square is the beginning of that solution. I hope it gets even more distributed though. It's mostly companies leading the way for this. And good for them. But there's another possibility: something very open, but given the right protocols and architecture, very secure.

There is no incentive to create such an architecture other than the amazing world that it would mean where you could travel to different countries and authenticate seemless money transactions to whoever had a phone or email endpoint (again there would have to be name servers + some sort of money equivalent of SMTP + TLS / chains of trust + distributed clusters of shared 'clearing' bank accounts + routing algorithms to these accounts, etc.).

But that didn't stop Tim Berners-Lee or the early internet folks....
58 characters made up of English words with spaces between, especially if the words form a sentence, is much less secure than 58 random characters. Of course, good luck memorising 58 random characters.
I think that was the point of the comment: I would stay away from it because of my culture.

Now, technically I wouldn't, but I grew up considering, slugs, frogs, hedgehogs, rabbits and mixed small birds as great food. No bugs.

Yet, even though I tried bugs, I wouldn't want to eat them daily.
If you can eat something once, the "cool story bro" mechanics kick in, but it's not the same as accepting something as integral part of your diet.
On the other hand, I new a girl who came over on a post-Tienanmen visa (they let practically anyone from China in to the US for a while after that incident). She was from a rural town, yet she told me they had a saying about Shanghainese (apparently there is a lot of regional jingoism there). The saying translated roughly as "You can't get that rich without doing something bad."
How do I know which type of "thinking" I have?
I like the creditcard form, where you ask your customers to send their creditcard details + CVV to be sent via mail... is that secure?

http://www.manager.io/invoice
I've been using Diigo [0] for over a year (since switching from Delicious) and it works well for archiving pages and searching.

For me its killer feature is being able to highlight passages on the page and add sticky notes to annotate what I'm reading. An archived page on its own would be useless if I couldn't remember why it was important.

PDF annotation is coming soon.

[0] http://www.diigo.com
Except your UK bank will rape you if you look at it the wrong way. That's how they make money without fees.
Is this to be believed? Does somebody really start reading at 18 months?
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While the guy's behaviour was blatantly inappropriate for a professional meeting I'd hesitate to say he was harassing her in the active sense. That has different connotations to me anyway.

Still, if he can't resist unprofessional misconduct whenever he meets a woman this sort of public humiliation might have been sadly necessary.
Actually, this was irony, as all the systems that I have currently deployed run a classical Linux stack and I would have to think a long time to start deploying a .NET / Mono app if it's worth the integration effort.
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some.distros have the guest additions in their repositories, that makes it easier.
I love the flyer from the previous party: "party like it's 1984"
Wow. So privileged are you to live in a country where you have a choice of banks that provide API access.

FWIW, I'd prefer to have automated transaction importing but since I don't, this service actually appeals to me more than the services which tout it has a primary feature.
> and Ireland's population hasn't recovered since.

This is a somewhat amazing claim. It's bizarre for a population bottleneck in 1852 to have lasting effects (on the size of the population) over 150 years after the cause of the bottleneck ended, much as I don't expect the number of mosquitoes in 2014 to go down no matter how many I manage to kill in 2013.

Census records [1] tell a very interesting story:

Ireland's population apparently peaked in the 1840s at 8.2 million people. By 1851, that had crashed to 6.6 million, and by 1861, 5.8 million. By then it seems safe to assume that the famine was over (for one thing, it's supposed to have ended in 1852), but Ireland's population kept declining into the 1920s and then stayed flat for another 30-40 years (population in 1961: 4.2 million), whereafter it started growing at a fairly quick (indeed, accelerating) pace. The 2011 census shows 6.4 million people.

I can't think of a reason for a famine in the 1840s to cause the population to fall from 4.7 million in 1891 to 4.2 million in 1926. I have to wonder if what drove the numbers wasn't the famine but the demographic transition. Any idea when that took hold in Ireland?

My other guess would be that the mass emigration of the 1840s-50s created a long-lasting easy pathway for Irish to emigrate to the US, and that this proved so attractive that the population stayed low even in the face of high birthrates. But I wouldn't call that a misfortune for the people of Ireland.

[1] http://www.nisra.gov.uk/Census/Historic_Population_Trends_%2...

EDIT:

It's probably worth noting here that 30 million people recorded their ethnicity as "Irish" in the 2000 US census.
Unsung? I have seen posts for the past two or three years of "unsung women of tech" quite often... I think they're.. "sung" now?

It should go without mentioning...but gender shouldn't (and doesn't) matter in fields. This is science, technological advancement. Your addition matters, not the space between your legs.
Nice, but a couple of months too late for me.

I've switched over to Parallels 9 on the Mac, and it is _much_ faster overall (not to mention better USB support).

Also, I highly recommend Vagrant users to look into the vagrant-LXC plugin - that, too, is one heck of a lot faster than using either VirtualBox or VMware providers.

I've documented my setup here: http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Vagrant
Interesting, this definitely positions them as a competitor to CloudFlare. But the CDN-as-full-proxy has some distinct disadvantages: every POST to CloudFront will have to make an extra round-trip to retrieve the data before returning to the user. We ditched CloudFlare because of this -- simple requests would take 500ms longer via CloudFlare. Presumably CloudFront will run into the same issues...