skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Imagine a country where anyone could apply for a state loan for 18 months to start their own company."

Imagine a country where anyone could apply for a federal loan to go to college. Imagine a country where anyone could become a homeowner through subprime loans. Isn't this kind of thinking causing us enough problems already?
You NEED to read the "Shadow of Ender." It is the retelling of the whole story but through the eyes of a different character EXTREMELY well done.
Just an assumption: they had relatively large business case for DNS and user-friendly global networking without site-specific configuration in general as they were selling what essentially amounted to free-standing workstations that did not really need centralized infrastructure. As opposed to many other workstation vendors at that time who either didn't care (e.g. Xerox) or assumed that their product would be used en-masses as part of some existing network and centrally managed (e.g. Sun).
I love the "Test another password?" prompt. I wonder how many people actually use it.
i think your suggestion that bitcoin was created by one or more government agencies is a pretty good bet. it could be some other large, shady organization, but the tech is pretty highbrow and uses a lot of crypto. i have been overseeing the development of the alternative full-node bitcoin implementation, btcd, and it seems pretty clear that there was an enormous amount of novelty, insight, planning and countermeasures included in the initial release. it is unlikely that the initial 0.1.0 code was coded by a single person, but it seems pretty obvious that all the comments were removed.

without having this post balloon in size, i'll leave you with an interesting scenario:

let's say you were a member of some shadowy group and you were tasked with moving funds around the world but you didn't want intelligence services to be able to watch those funds move, e.g. via the SWIFT system. your only alternative is to move funds some other way, using an alternate system. moving physical goods around always carries risks at customs checkpoints and it is slow. this leaves some kind of an electronic value-transfer system. since one of your own group members may be a spy or otherwise untrustworthy, the system must assume everyone is untrustworthy. the obvious way to deal with untrustworthy parties is cryptography. a classic way to pass messages semi-anonymously is to "write on a wall" somewhere that you tell your counterparty to look, but others do not know to check.

if you had such a private / closed-loop value transfer system, the only real caveat is settlements in fiat currency, which all "normal" ppl use to settle transactions. if you aggregate these fiat settlements episodically using a fixed exchange rate, it effectively decouples actual meaningful transactions from the fiat transfers, obfuscating the actual transactions.
They work pretty much like normal tabs, meaning you can close them by middle clicking it, you can ctr+shift+T, ctr+tab, ctr+shift+tab, ctr+1, ctr+2...

you can close multiple tabs that are nested by closing the parent when its minimized.
Another advantage with a liquid fuel is that you can do a continuous reprocessing cycle (pump the fuel through a chemical plant) to remove nasties from the system. With solid fuel pellets all you can do is hope that the pellet doesn't crack and let the nasties out. Having no pressure vessel with ultra-superheated water and a 1000-times-the-size containment building around it in case it all suddenly turns into steam helps too.
I don't agree. I think if I'd read the book as a teenager, I would have loved it. As an adult reading the book for the first time, it's nothing special.
Everywhere I've worked for in London it has been 15% for devs. If you're paying more then you need to negotiate better. The rates may of course differ for bigger companies, where recruiters are more likely to place more candidates.
I would throw money at anyone who made a Culture movie (as ironic as that action would be).

Also, what about a Vorkosigan movie? Though I think it'd actually work pretty well as a TV show, with either hour-long episodes (one per book) or even with 2-4 shorter episodes per book.
It provides better legal grounds to sue.
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Problem with such rule is how would you define "used domain". For example I own one domain whose almost sole purpose is that it is part of package name in few Java systems written 10 years ago (and few hostnames belonging to that domain are in configuration of who knows how many things).
yes it is, actually this one is better ;)
20%-25% is the norm depending on skill set, generally if you go lower than that you need to throw something else into the offer if you want to get good candidates (for example exclusivity periods, super-fast turn-arounds, recommendations, etc.)
From a person involved with this at Cisco:
"All the build scripts etc that Cisco uses will be part of the open source project so that anyone can build it them selves and check that their build matches the Cisco binary and check the code does not have backdoors to send all your video to the NSA."
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg09293...
So what? What is your point?
I challenge John Williams to play the theme to Star Wars on his own! The point bane is trying to make is that the composer can use MIDI to record parts of a performance and then combine it into a form which is then unplayable by a single person [Edit: or any group of people].
unless the "real" cryptographer knew about the NIST/NSA weakening of secp256r1
If nothing else I hope this guy gets to continue what he so clearly loves doing and doesn't have to switch back to hard labour to make ends meet.

Facebook dropped the PR ball on this one (again). A simple public acknowledgement of the security hole, $500 sent to the ethical hacker and a thank you note from Mark would have been sufficient.
Because the domain keeps getting listed in various articles as "the oldest .com domain", and keeps getting people visiting it, and so it's passive income for whoever owns it.
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I just want to point out how depressing it is that a comment that has spawned quite a bit of interesting discussion has been downvoted so heavily.

C'mon HN, be better than that!
At first I thought this thing hooked into your blood flow to actively cool down your blood, like watercooling does for computers, it would've been a much cooler idea (no pun intended)

EDIT: fixed autocomplete phone typo
There was no web in 1985.

But there was an Internet. Companies registered domains for email addresses, FTP servers, etc.
It is unsurprising given how we put so much emphasis on learning for the job market, as opposed to learning for its own sake
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It is something special, though. If you read it, you realize where the Bush Administration's foreign policy came from. And by extension, the Obama Administration's foreign policy.

I likewise did not enjoy the book as an adult reader. I thought it was far to apologetic for ultraviolent, genocidal overreactions to be considered healthy reading for teenagers. The end of the book is not "genocide is bad". It's "isn't is a shame that poor Ender had to be tricked into committing genocide?" It's not that "governments shouldn't be given the sort of power capable of genocide", it's that "you can get away with it scott-free if your intentions were good."

Also, the whole "they hate me because I'm the best" wore really thin on me. It's just not a thing you see amongst real kids. In fact, being good at things is a good way to get other kids to like you. The kids didn't like Ender because he was a self-righteous prick, a spoil-sport punk with a Napoleon complex.

The dialog also sucked. Grade A shitty dialog. As a teenager, you might be intrigued by the idea of alternative slang (and that is probably why Buffy the Vampire Slayer was so popular, and by extension why Joss Whedon has such a following now, but can't seem to follow it up). But as an adult, it is really annoying.
Injecting the NSA into absolutely every thread on HN is not clever.
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Loans to start businesses is the basic premise of microfinance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance. It can work well in certain contexts, though it would probably be politically impossible to impose in developed countries the kinds of screening requirements that have proven successful in developing countries (e.g. only making loans to women).

As for "entrepreneur" the concept might seem more practical if you think less of B2B software startup and more of: http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_s....

I would love to see something like this applied in decaying urban neighborhoods. These neighborhoods survive because of the welfare system, but its mere survival. Welfare doesn't provide capital, which means no grocery stores, no restaurants, no shops, none of the basic infrastructure around which neighborhood social structure can coalesce.
Just to add to the chorus of disapproval.

I got a white screen on my phone. Had to switch to my laptop.

Here's the thing. You're building a mainly content-driven site (still the bulk of websites).

If you go down the route of some javascript-based 'app' that squirts all the content in dynamically then you might get everything right and end up with a beautiful, fast website that works across a range of devices, is accessibly, doesn't break bookmarking or the back-button and doesn't kill your SEO.

But you've got to get everything right so the odds are that you'll get a part of this wrong. Debugging and testing are also suddenly a much bigger part of the equation.

So what have you gained over plain old HTML and CSS with progressive enhancement? If you want the possible speed advantages of not re-rendering whole pages then techniques such as Pjax can be used to get the best of both worlds.

In short - with an app-based approach over a html-based approach - there are lots of ways to get it wrong and only a few ways to get it right. You're probably not clever enough to get everything right. Gawker weren't.
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Obligatory warning: API is absolutely not restful.
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thanks for the update, I presumed that no one will choose 'cancel' on authorization through google. But why you decline the request? just because I collect your email address which will be required in traditional sign in process? anyway, I fixed the bug, and remove view email address permission on sign in request.
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Or at least the short story (albeit there be spoilers here). I vaguely remember way back when not being convinced that the novel, much less the entire trilogy (which was IMO uneven), represented an improvement over the original story.
Yes it would be easy, but the flash in these devices is quite slow compared to an SSD. Also what is the impact on energy usage?
I read this as MIT wristband would make 'Atlantic City' obsolete. Perhaps some kind of card counting helper. ;)
It's not my situation, but I've seen it too many times and I cringe whenever I see any action that could be turned against engineers. Even if I completely misunderstand the situation and make a fuss out of it when it's not needed :)
Sensationalist title but there are some parts with which I agree to some extent. I've heard about Meteor over a year ago but never thought about a use case where I felt the need to use it. Last week, we had a last minute project that required some sort of webapp that could allow X number of users viewing a certain page on the browser and editing things off simultaneously with good enough conflict resolution. Of course, I could have done it with Rails on the backend, rolling out my own reactive system with Server Sent Events updating the client. But as curious as I am, I decided to checkout Meteor and it was perfect for my case. In less than an hour (with Meteor) I had everything working as expected. The app was for a big social event and all it mattered in the end is that it worked and impressed everyone involved. No one really cares what you build it with, as long as you deliver. In my opinion, Meteor is worth a shot if you're building a small scale reactive system.
Nice summary.

I have wondered since I first heard of thorium reactor why they weren't already adopted.
Since some of the country with the civil nuclear power are those with nuclear weapons, is it possible that the military are lobbying for uranium? (I can see two possible reasons: refining price going down with production scaling, or just to hide their own uranium import in the civil import. If Thorium is adopted worldwide and can't be used to build nuke, seeing who is upgrading its nuclear arsenal would way easier, which can be good or bad, depending on your point of view.)

>The technology development is decades in the future.

Well, that's true for every research domain which isn't funded enough.
Has anyone gotten in early on namecoin domain names? There are still a lot available when I checked. Unfortunately the process seemed really complex so I kind of gave up for now. Any thoughts?
Hasn't there been one of these in SharperImage and Skymall for years?
At the end of the audiobook, Card talks at length about the difficulties getting an Ender's Game movie made.

One problem was that the studios always wanted to make Ender an older teenager and to give him a love interest.

Another was that the screenplay was always challenging because most of the book takes place inside Ender's head. Once he figured out that he could tell Ender's thought processes through Bean, it finally opened up the screenplay.
But why? Meteor is a paradigm shift from the front end. Front end Javascript is asynchronous and event based. Meteor is synchronous.

You're going to take a hit learning any framework, no matter the language. I picked up Rails just as fast as I did Play framework, and I had never looked at Ruby before.

The whole NodeJS appeals to front end programmers thing kind of reeks to me. I think it's an irrelevant argument. I maybe wrong, but an end to end JS stack(MEAN) didn't feel any more right then using Rails.
It's nothing to do with negotiation, if you offer recruiters a lower rate than other companies you're simply not going to be their top priority.

That said if you're offering recruiters 15% and you're getting candidates of the calibre you need then that's fine. But you should be aware that you're not even getting a look in at the best candidates that are on your recruiters books.
The scene where Zakalwe visits the Ethnarch Kerian could make a splendid "cold open" introducing the Culture and Zakalwe in a suitably dark fashion....
Lost in all the America hate is the fact that the tapping of Google and Yahoo was done by the British. The whole west is complicit but only America gets the hate so it can continue easily.
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Former federal IT security contractor here. There's nothing unusual about this event, except perhaps the fact that it's receiving national attention.

When I worked for the federal agency responsible for providing health care services to tribal entities, we would routinely accept and issue waivers for high-level risks discovered in RPMS (called VistA at the VA), the 30-year-old EHR application we used to store PHI and PII. Honestly, I don't know why we even bothered performing C&As and penetration tests -- everybody knew we weren't going to mitigate the vulnerabilities, even before we started testing for them.

It was an incredibly frustrating environment to work in. Federal law required us to test for vulnerabilities, but the director and CIO didn't give a shit about infosec and the CISO just kept issuing waivers for everything.
I recommend not visiting symbolic.com. Tacky advertising and nothing else.
I made a Bat For Lashes lyric generator some years back http://nickboyce.com/bfl/, which will only make sense to people who know her music!
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I'll make a bold claim. Meteor is not the future of web programming. Why? Because JSF, that's why. This has already been done in the Java world.

I believe the future of web programming is REST apis(in whatever the hell language/framework you want) and a nice framework such as EmberJS/Angular on the front end.

I may be wrong, but I have history on my side.
MIT has worked on that as well.
Taking a shit with my iPad before bed, so sorry for not linking, but kudos to (s)he who does that for me and adds the link below.

There is an interview where the autho, Card, admits this novel was just an attempt to cash in on the success of Ender's Game, in a way that his commercially unsuccessful (and pretty awful) sequels couldn't achieve.
Julia: 1-based indexing is annoying at times; a compiler would reduce waits on startup; error messages with multiple dispatch can be confusing.
> As a dotnet developer, you (and me too) put yourself into a position of ignorance. Then you wait for someone more senior to come out with a simple method that you could use

> for rapid prototyping. You rely on that senior person not because you can't code but because you really don't know the nuances of the framework you are leaning on. This

> refusal to learn the bare bones of HTML and adopt some micro framework creates the phenomenon where you are kind of hosed into grabbing the quickest path to productivity.

I couldn't disagree more and I would really like it if people would stop spreading this kind of nonsense. Being a .Net developer does not make you ignorant, some people choose to be ignorant that has nothing to do with the technology stack they're using. I am a .Net deveoper and I absolutely do not put myself in a position of ignorance, I actively work to reduce my ignorance on a daily basis and so do all the other good, .Net or not, developers I know.
The linked article is about a decline in the rate of CO2 emissions, not a decline in atmospheric CO2 as the HN title suggests.
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I am curious as to how there are no Culture films
I'm implying his are, based on the fact that his meteor blog is broken.
You completely miss my point. I'm merely saying that because they think it's safe, berating them for prioritizing convenience over safety or failing to respect human life is not going to work, because they don't think they're doing that.
So leaking my private key to somebody is OK if I do so over HTTPS, and even better if I encrypt it with a javascript crypto library beforehand?

I don't think you've thought this through.
Reflecting on the blogger sourced by Arstechnica, you are correct.

The data is present in the URL (queryString) for the page, so there is nothing malicious about the analytics code, which is merely going about it's default of reporting the URL of the page.

Returning that sort of data in a queryString is still far outside the realm of common sense.
Actually, Rearview started out similar to that. We wanted something more accessible to our large engineering team. It has all the advantages of a web user interface coupled with the powerful capabilities you get with a scripting language.
Try "Speaker for the Dead", one of the sequels. I found it much more interesting than Ender's Game.
I've regularly seen:

-- Myfile With Emphasis --.txt

Basically, users will try to use any punctuation they see on their keyboard to adorn their filenames.
I worked at BBN (#2) for 2.5 Years right when I graduated from college. Genius level colleagues; The types of guys that would download computer viruses and decompile them "Just to look at the code."

A funny story is when they called me for an interview, my Mom said "It's BB&T on the line." and my response was "I bank with Bank Of America." Then she said "Just take the call!"
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I live in a small "flat" in India. Without A/C in the summer (only at night), our consumption is ~200 KWhr per month. With A/C only in one room for something like 4-5 hours per day, it shoots up to ~500 KWhr per month. Indians switching to A/C on a big scale will be a disaster for the world.

I believe that the answer lies in architecture, not in more energy-intensive devices which may or may not actually work (this one fools the body - that could be catastrophic, increasing chances for a heat stroke). India was always hot - but older buildings used to be built (1) with high ceilings (2) with cross-ventilation.

http://www.architecture.com/SustainabilityHub/Designstrategi...

This contrasts with buildings in cold countries, where buildings are insulated against winter. In the name of "better" buildings, Indians are switching to sealed buildings working with Central A/C. Blind imitation.

On the other hand, there were builders committed to "environment-friendly", low cost buildings (not the modern scam of "green buildings", which are actually more expensive.) Laurie Baker in South India was one - a real unsung, and now forgotten hero:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Baker

http://www.hindu.com/folio/fo9908/99080300.htm
> .ajax = iframes

I was pretty much in the same boat as you regarding all the other choices, but when i saw this I thought: "Seriously?"

I remember when AJAX came out: I was finishing my iframe-based custom-rolled 'AJAX'. It was such a hack, I can't even believe someone would consider it in 2013.

Why not XMLHttpRequest?
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Ha..ha.
It might be sensible, though, to couple a killswitch to the handbrake, so that engaging it switches the engine off, or cuts off all electronic control, or something.

I don't drive cars, so i have no idea if that would conflict with normal uses of the handbrake. Perhaps it could have a position beyond the normal brake-engaging position that did this? So that if someone panics and yanks on it as hard as they can, they get the result they probably want.
This is awesome, but will it be open sourced so that everyone can inspect the code and verify its sanctity?
I don't think it would be that difficult. I have a set of custom keyboard shortcuts on my main computer, which runs Linux. But when I have to use someone else's computer that runs Windows or OS X, I have no trouble instantaneously adapting to the shortcut setup on those OSes. And there are plenty of reports of people who primarily use Dvorak but can use Qwerty as well when necessary.
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Ask any boater how any interaction with the Coast Guard goes. They wield an incredible amount of power in search and seizure and centuries of court precedence. Unlike the TSA they are pros at security theater, even if you think you are right you are almost always wrong.

The barge is not in a lake, it's in a bay and border rules take precedence.
There are thousands of us who see the subtle implications of comments, and roll our collective eyes at the knee-jerk, replies from people who missed it. The proclivity for this type of boring, predictable reply is the main reason I don't post very much. I tend to get the "you are either stupid or a jerk!!" replies myself.

(Rest assured, it's the latter, not the former.)
Does typescript do type checking at runtime or just compile time? I was really excited about typescript initially, especially for use with Obvious Architecture, but then it looked like it was just compile time, not runtime checking which seems problematic to me.
FWIW Rails did not scale well during that time period. (One word: Twitter.) I don't know what the situation is like now but performance was a serious issue with rails in the early days.